y -vs 11 ';tkv • 1 (SSaseste* PHILADELPHIA\ - ■ Wednesday EVENING, DncEtfn*'/?'■>.■% From tie Columbian Ccntir.e. Mr. Ruffe!!, If none better are offered, please to pub lish the following aiifVvtrs to PILATE'a enquiries after " truth." PAUL. TO PILATE. QUKlibn i. " Why is it that Dc'tfli fqmi ti&es become Christians ?" Aufwer. Because some Dei/is enlightened and influenced by the divine spirit, perceive and embrace thc^-uth. Q. 2. " Why do the latter (i. e. Chrif tiaqsj never change fides i" A. Because theydo not choose to change a good religion for none at all, or that which yields them tortifort and hope, for that which deprives them of both. tiec'i'.-*' vr.jtariati} ?" A. All trinitarians are unitarians—i. e. Thev believe! there is but one God. Uni fifru'tt, therefore, is not a proper term of diftindtion. But tn ; adapt the answer to your mftning—THe-reafcri why fomc trini ta'ri ir.s (or those who believe the dextrine of Chri/i's divinity) become unitarians ; —viz. deny awl rejedt the doctrine of Chri/l's £- ' vinity, i>:ay be, either because such trinita rians have never been fettled and established in this branch of icriptural faith, and are, therefore, proper fubjedts to be borne about b'y every wind cf dodtrine ; or, because t iicv have profidly disdained to believe what they could not comprehend and explain ; or'becaufe, like a great part of the world, they prefer error to truth, or for the fame reaforir that our Lord assigns for men's loving tlarLntfs' rather than Ugh;. Q. 4. " Why do these rarely become those P' viz. Why do unitarians rarely become trini tarians P A. Because men who have imbibed so dangerous and inveterate an error as unitari anifm, or the rejection of Chrifl't are seldom cured of it. PAUL. Extract from the speech of Charles Pinck ney, Governor of the State of South-Ca rolinn, to tbel.egiflatureofthat ftateatthe opening of their session on the 23d ult. On the fubjeft of our intercourse with foreign powers, it is my duty to acquaint you, that on the President of the United States being informed, the French republic hadrefufed to receive out minister, and that their a;»ents and cruisers continued to seize the vessels of our citizens, he cotifidered it as his duty to call a fpecia! meeting of con gress—that they did convene, and after hav ing agreed in opiniory with the president, that another attempt fliould be instituted to fettle our differences, by negociation, had passed some adh : among the most important of which, are the aftß for prohibiting far a limited time the exporta tion of arms and arjimunit/cn^—for prevent ing the citizens the United Stales from pri vateering against nations in amity with us— providing for the further defence cf the ports and harbours of the United States— authorifing a detachment of the militia of the United States—for registering and en rolling, (hips and veffeh—for making certain appropriations for additional expenditures, and laying duties on (lamp vellum, parch ment and paper. On the laws for authorising the president to call out a certain proportion of the mili tia, I have a&ed as far as reded with mc, by issuing the necessary orders to the adju tant general, fdr apportioning their quotas on the refpeftive brigades, and ordering them to hold themselves itl readiness to marclSi at a moment's warning, and he has issued orders to the brigadiers for their re turns to enable him to do so. Most of these a£s have keen passed by Congress with a view to place us in a state of prepa ration, fliould the republic of France still continue unfriendly, or refufe to assent to an Amicable adjustment of our differences. I trust, however, that from the arrival of our envoys, and the manner in which our government have again attempted to adjust our differences, the moderation and justice of both nations will prevail—that they will repair recent injuries and recolleft former mutual fufferings and services—that they will remember, it is always the true interest of republics to aid and protedl each other, and that the present negociation may termi nate in producing as harmonious a connec tion, as has hitherto existed between the two countries. Convinced as lam from the most deliberate reflection, that considering our original conneflion, and the nature and principles , as to commercial views ofboth go vernments, •white tve can do it with honor, it is our interest to be upon tke most friend ly terms with France, it has been with as much concern I have viewed our differences, as it is now with pleasure I find myfelf enabled to communicate to you the appointment, during your recess, of three gentlemen of known character and talents, to repair to Paris, invefttd with proper pow ers to terminate them. As I have already observed, the solemn manner in which this embassy was formed, is a proof how highly our government value the friendfliip, and how important they conceive the intercourse with France to be—and as there can be no doubt of our envoys being vested with am ple powers, I have been led to expedt the most favorable consequences Should our differences with France be amicably fettled, those with Spain, her ally, will of course be more easily accommodated. It was my wish, and I had some ground to cxpeiSt, it would have been in my power, at the opening of fhjs session, to have con gratulated you oa the termination of differ ences among ail the belligereDt powers ; and .thct to the unexampled horrors and diftrciT es, produced by. a contett, extending thro' afynoll every part of the civiii/.ed world, a period was to succeed, when liberty, with the gcujnl arii of peace and coinm<rf«t might «ft:iblim-lic!* mild .dominion —.when From the w.fe and proper uie of these advantages, you j may have b-.en enabled torccoHeft, without ; regret, that the sacred ilame you fir it kin ■ died had-fuccefafully extended through the faireft parts of the earth, and that wc had repaid the benefits derived front thcoid world in their discovery and fettlemcnt of the new by an example, and by light and infti uftion upon qqeltioris of all others the most inter eiting to them. It is with the deepest con cern, therefore, I am to announei to you, that the negociatiotis for peace between the powers at war have ended without fuceefs j and that it is yet uncertain what will be the future fituacion of Europe, and of the na tions with whom we are most .connected. ImpoflibLe as it must be for us, at this time, and at this distance, to form an accurate o pinion of the events which have ptoduced these late and important cl.'jges—lament ing 83 we must do, the continuance of the war, and its attendant calamities, let us still hope they may soon fee their true' inter est in the establishment of a general peace, and that the mcafures produced by our ex ample, maybe followed by the fame mode ration which accompanied our revolution— that they may really prove a bleffmg to the people who have imitated us—that when the heat, which must ever accompany the deftrudtion of ancient despotisms, and the eredtion of republics, is subsided, the change (hall operate so beneficially, as amply to re pay the ravages of the contest, and that the time is nfct distant, when such proper and liberal fyllnms, in the intercourse of nations (hall be generally established, as will be the means of preventing wars, and ensuring to the world the blefiinga of peace, and an un disturbed and general commerce. COMMERCE. An exaft lift of the (hips of different Nati ons that have passed the Sound in the Yoars 1790 and 1796. The navigation of the Sound has been » considered as an objeft of so much import ance in a political light, that the following account of the Trade of two years, at a considerable distance from each other, must necessarily be received with interest and at tention. Ships that passed through the Sound. In 1790 In 1796 American, 44 169 Bremen ers, 177 177 Courlanders, 2 2 . 10 Danifti, 1559 2157 Dantziekers, 248 249 Dutch, 2009 1 Englilh, 3718 4445 Flemings, 6 I French, 132 o Hamburghera, 194 40 Lubeckers, 89 70 O denburghers, 24 110 Papenhurghers,*" o 232 Portuguese, 30 14 Pruflian, 598 1773 Roftookers, 339 193 Ruffian, 6 7 Swedish, 420 2 5°5 Spanish, 32 25 Venetian, 6 o Total, 9734 >2113 The foregoing lift must give rife to im portant reflections and remarkable compan ions. The annual revenues arising from the toll levied upon vessels palling through the Sound, has been generally estimated at between J and 600,c0c rix dollars :fo that the Royal Treasury must have received near ly 150,000 rix dollars in the year 1796 than in the year 1790. It does not belong to this place to enter into the caufe3 of so extraordinary an encreafe in the navi gation of the Sound, which for the most part, depends upon political circumstances, upon enctcafing speculations, and the spirit of commerce. It is fufficient to remark, that this navigation has encreafed about a fourth in the interval of the time between the years 1790 and 1797. Thefubje£ts of one cotmtry (Denmark) must observe with the fentiment# of patriotism and gratitude hew much their trade has been promoted by the wife measures of their government, and what sources ofprofperity have been o penedto them. The encreafe of Prussia and Sweden has been aluioft incredible, the trade of the former being encreafed to near ly a triple,fand the latter almost in a quintu ple proportion. Great Britain, whose navigation has en creafed with the present war, is also a consi derable gainer by the encreafe of her trade to the East Sea. But the French Revoluti on, and the war which fuccceded it, har« produced themoftmelancholyconfequence* to the tradeofFranceandHolland,andha*e been no less deftrudtive to their Baltic trade than to their commerce inother partsof the world. j France, whose merchantmen formerly passed 1 the Sound in considerable numbers, cannot s reckon a finglc (hip in the year 1796 ; and . Holland, that country so famous for its , wealth, the commercial rival of Great-Brit ain, and which before the Revolution had j drawn to itfelf a considerable part of the 5 trade of the East Sea, saw that important r branch of its commerce reduced in the last 1 year to a single (hip. The trade of the U ; nired States to the East Country appears to > have received a considerable iucreafe ; but . Hamburgh, whose trade according to thff : most general received opinion, has risen to r an aftonifbing height in the courf* of the * It may be necessary for the information of many readers, who £may be unacquaint -1 ad with thi3 appellation, to state, that in , the Danifii (hipping lifts, all vessels clearing . out from' any ®f the commercial places from the Wefer to the Ems are diftinguiflied by I ! the abort <V'fcription. pr<foot war, has experienced a considerable ra diminution: of its trsde to tlw i>tH)nd. 1 hat pi of Bremen has atfo ditninilhed ; Lubec on- ce ly has maintained its former proportion, b; though with some considerable decroafe. " le -err 2 ' it jC. 0 N G R e s s - ni HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, t'c TUESDAV DECEMBER, 1 0l The Speaker informed the ffinife that he I as had received a letter from the diredtor of the a« mint, inclosing a report, in purfuanee to the te order of the house pafled yesterday. This t'c reportftates, that it is not deemed prudent at to.take i.ity the mint mote bullion than can pi be worjced\in one mafa, when it comes from le any oFtlie batiks of the city, from whence E it can be had ia a very (hort tioiewhen want ed ; that deg,of)ts qre now wm'ting till such m as are in hand are finifhed ; that it is ex- ri pedted the banks of this city and of New- 01 York will'make deposits for about 300,000 er dollars, in French crowns, bt.it that these oi deposits are kept back until prior ones are 01 paid off; that when there is fufficient bill- ol lion in the mint to keep one press striking, lii this will be done at the rate of from 18 to t« 20,000 dollars weekly. Th? gold coin en creafes in amount according to its addition- tl al value. It is stated that the gold bullion c< deposited in the mint, since the 29th No- ti vember, 1796 (<he time at which the lalt b report was made) to the ißt.h instant, was 'I 5997 oz. rj dwts. 9 gr. value 106,626 dol- y< lars and 95 cents. Th« quantity,of silver re bullion deposited, during the fame period, y has been 42,15 1 oz. 8 gr. value 48,635 dol- tj lars 76 cents 5 mills. The quantity of fil- al ver coin iflued fiuce the last report is stated tl tohavebeen 12,546 dollars, 3918 half-dol- ft lars", 252 quarter-dollars, 25,261 difmes, ei 44,527 hqlC difmes—amounting in the f: wholif tp 19,320 dollars cents. That tl «!ere nearly ready for delivery in the h mint 34,d60 dollars in silver coins. It is ti also stated that the quantity of gold coin ri ifftied, during the fame period, has been ri eagles,' 6406 half-eagles, 1756 qr. b eagies; equal to the value of 128,190 dol- p lars. n Mr. T. Claiborne moved the usual order b for printing this report. . t Mr. Nicholas had no obje£tion to the re port beinrr printed ; that it might be taken I into consideration when the fiibjedt of the t mint (hould come before the house ; but t hoped it would be fuffered to lie on the ta- f ble until the bill, with which some gentle- c men had fuppofedit to be connected, (hould t be pa(Ted, in order that it might be referred to whilst on the table by those who wi(hed r it, as he trusted they (hould not delay the a consideration of the bill relative to foreign c coin until this report (hould be printed. Mr. Thatcher could not fee the use of < printing the report, after the fubjedt to t which it alluded was disposed of. This I would be like executing a man and then I trying him. The printing of these papers, he supposed, could not .delay the business 1 more than 24 hours, or 48 at most. He ' thought, therefore, it would be much bet- ] ter that they (hould be printed, than that 1 the clerk fnould be frequently called upon 1 to read them, or that the members (hould 1 coljefl in clubs, as on a former occasion we suppose, on the Qua ker*'petition) to read them, in different parts of the house. The motion for printing was pw.t and car ried. Mr. Harrifon presented a memorial from D.M. Randolph, mar(hallofthediftri£t of Vir ginia, complaining of the ruinous state of ] the prisons in that quarter ; dating the ut ter impoflibility of confining any person, un der proccfs of the courts of the United States, for debt, who wiihed to be at liber ty, and that on account of this defeat seve ral persons had made their escape from him, and he was fu«d by their creditors for their debts. He prays relief in the premises, re ferred to a feleit committee of five. Mr. Baird presented a petition from Si mon Cogler, a soldier in late war, pray ing for compensation for nie services ; and Mr. Sewall one from G. Pomeroy, Rat ing that he had not only loft his house and furniture, but several certificates of public debt, for which he prays reeompenfe. Both these petitions were referred to the committee of claims. Mr. Harper, from the committee appoint ed to prepare and report a bill prescribing the mode of taking evidence in cafei of con tested ele£tions, and to compel the attend ance of witnesses, reported a bill according ly, which was twice read, and committed for Monday. Mr. D. Foster, from the committee of claims, made an unfavourable report on the petition of John Black, which was concur red in by the house. i Mr. Harper called for the order of the day on the report of the committee of ways and means, on the petition of William Tom linfen and others, citizens of the state of Virginia, which being agreed to, the house resolved itfelf into a committee of the whole accordingly. The petition states, that in consequence of the conftniftion put by the Treasury De partment on the aits for laying duties on spirits distilled within the United States and on (tills, persons desirous of obtaining licen ces for diltiliing, pursuant to the aft of the 3d of March, 1797, on that fubjeft, are required to make their eleftion, as to the length of time to which the licence (hall ex tend and the time of its commencement in the month of June, the time fixed by law for making entry of stills. From hence they alledge that great inconveniences reftilt to the dilliller ; itiafmuch as it impossible to forefee, so early as June, what quantity of fruit or grain, the year will afford, and, fequently, for the owners of stills to judge j when, or for what length of time, they ought to take out their licences. This conftruftion, the committee fyid, has heen adopted by the Treasury Depart raent, and they coaceive that it lia3 been property adopted" ;tkit though they con- t!| . ceive the conilruftion put on the aft, i"97» by the Treasury De|?&rtnient, to be (triftly . (v , legal, they are nevertheless, of opinion, that p r for the reafbti set forth by the petitioners, m it mult, in its effeft, prove highly ineonve- la nient and detrimental both to individuals and the public. And they have the fatisfaftion to find, that the Secretary of the Treasury, j with whom they thought proper to confer p, on the fubjeft, agrees with them in opinion eft as to the expediency of altering the law so as to' permit owners of stills, having duly en- ft tered them, to make their election both as b< so the time, and the extent of their lieences th at whatever period may suit them belt. purftiance of these ideas, the committee beg of leave to present, for tha consideration of the House, the following resolution : B " Refolded, That it is expedient so to a- tli mend the several afts refpeftingdutieson fpi- cc rit« distilled within the United States, and hi on stills, as to permit owners of stills, duly as entered, to make their election, at any time p of the year, both as to the time of taking h out licences purfnant to the said aits, or any rr of them, and as to the period to which such c< licences (hall extend—and that the commit- f« tee have leavetobring in a billaccordingly." ti Mr. Gallatin proposed an amendment to c the report. Besides the duty paid'on licen- si ces taken out for a (horter time than a year, there was a duty of 54 cents per gallon paid o by those who choose to enter by the year, a This duty wasnb other than a licence by the year, though not so called. The proposed b resolution would not reach licences by the year, tho' he thought it ought, as person! f taking outalicence for a year, were as much t at a loss to know in the month of June, whe ther their crops would enable them to distil r for so long a time as to make it their inter- f eft to do so, as. those who took licences out t for a shorter period. The consequence was, r that, in the part of the country from whence he came, scarcely any person ventured to t take opt n licence for the year, but rua the 1 rilk of taking out a licence for a (horter pe riod. This-was inconvenient, as it proba- ) bly left their stills for several months unem- i ployed, and had an effeft to injure the reve nue. He hoped therefore, the report would 1 be extended to yearly licences, as well as to ] those for a (horter period. Mr. Harper seconded this amendment.— He said it would have been introduced into , the report if the committee had thought j themselves at liberty to do so ; but as the ] petition referred to them did not complain of this part of the aft, they did not think themselves authorized to touch it. The motion was agreed to, the committee rose, the hoS'e agreed to the amendment, and a bill was directed to be brought in ac cordingly. Mr. Coit called for the order of the day on the report of the committee of claims, on the petition of Anna Welfli; which motion being agreed to, the house resolved itfelf in to a committee of the vvhfteon the fubjeft. The petitioner asks for as allowance of the seven years half-ply, promised to the widows and orphans 0? certain officers killed in the ser vice of the United States, durfng the late war. It appears that Mrs. Wellh's hulband was a cap tain of marines —that he served cn the expedi tion to Pennbfcot, ai.d wjs there (lain ; but the resolution of Csrigrefi, promising seven years half-pay to the officers who fell in service, did not extend to the widows of officers of the na vy. The petitioner, as executrix of the I aft will »nd testament of her brother, George Hurlbut, deceased, further asks for an allowance of the conamuta. ion, and land warrants, to which flic apprehends she i« entitled, on the principle that her brother continued in service till the end of the war. That gentleman was a captain in Sheldon's regiment of light-dragoons : he was wounded by the enemy, in the performance sf his duty, at Tarry town, in thefummer of 1781, and langui(hed of his wounds until the Bth of May, 1783, when he died.—By the afl of Con grels of the aiftof Oflober, 17X0, half-pay for life was promised to the officers of the army, who should continue in the service to the end of tbeiuar. This was afterwards, on the aid of March, 1789, commuted for five years full pay. If captain Hurlbut i : ved to the end of the war, he was entitled to commutation, and in his right ■ the petitioner, as executrix of his will, anil le . gatee, would be entitled, otherwise not. The [ question then arising is, when did the waread ? ■ or in other words, was there an end of the war . before thu Bth of May, 178J, the day of captain Hurlbut's death ? On the solution of the quef : tlop, relts the claim of the petitioner for com mutation ; it being plared on the ground of con : f?afl only. The provrfional articles of peace between the United States awd Great-Britain, were ligned November 301 1781, and the treaty between France and Great-Britain, on which ' the efficacy <.f thrife articles was conditioned, np ' on the acth of January 1783. The firft infoT ■ mation Congress appear to have had of them, - was on the 24th of March 1783, when the ar r tned velTcls, cruising muter commiflions from the United States, were refilled. Oh the nth p April 1783, 5 reflation of hostilities was ordered by proclamation of Congress. On the 2;, dof " April, Congress, by their resolution of that " date, declared thsir opinion, that " the time of' tie men engaged to serve during the zvitr, dies e nst expire until the ratification ef the definitive s treaty of peace." By the atfls of May i 6, June it, Jvuguft 9, antl September 26, 178.1, Con s grefs direfted parts of the army tobe fnrloughed, and by their proclamation on the 18th OiSlober e in the fame year, tiiey discharged abfolutety, as s ter the 3d November, thtn enftung, fnch part of the federal armies as hid been furloughed by i the several aits aforriaid. On the 25th No . vtmbrr, New-York was evacuated hy the Brit n ifh troops. The definitive treaty of peace was, 1 in faift, (igned on the 3d September, 1783, but not received by Congress till about the middle " of January 1784. In the. i itlements made for e pay, Sic. by the commillioners 0} Congress, with e the officers and men engaged to ftrve during e the war, and furloughed as afai efaid, the 3d day . of November, the d.iy when the troops were difi harped by proclamation, has hten regarded as the end of the war, and they have been let" v tied with, and paid to that day accordingly. Y 'fhecptnniinee. ft,ite, that had they found no 0 resolution of Cungrefs, which seemed to have 0 determined the question when the war ended, if they might have been induced to lix on a peri _ od, antecedent to the death of captain Hutlbn:, e * and consequently have been of opinion, that the L petitit ner was entitled to relief; but as Congrpft Y It em to have fixed 011 a later leiiod, by their refolutim of the 13d of Ap: il, and by continu !, inr in fei vice, the troops engaged to fcrve during .- the u .r, .iiid paying the officers and men till the ,?d ofNpvemher 1783, as .ijjjey we--, IftVieti! that time, to be called into lervice, am! in cafel of difuhebtence, would havS b«en fubjidled to the penalties of the rules and articles of war ; and as the Ho«fc of Rcprefentatives, under the preisnt government, rejefled a petition for com mutation, • onrnkxl on principles, exjflly simi lar *itl) th« prefmt, bytheaclmifiiffrjitor to the eftateof Major Torrey, who died in Sepsemher, '783, the committee conceive they are not at liberty to contradiA authority and precedent, so rcl'peilable— therefore report, that the prayer of the petition of the laid Anna Welfli, cfbght n''t to he erantect. Mr. D. Foster said the cafe was so fully stated in the report,that he helieveditwould be unnecefiary to fay auv thing more than that Mrs. Welsh had obtained the T'ind war. rant to whick she was entitled from the war office. This report was oppofedby MeiTrs. Coit, Brookes and Dayton, Who infilled upon the widow being entitled to her claim of commutation on account of the services of her brother, as the war must be considered as terminated, when the preliminaries of peace were signed, which was previous to his death, and if cootraty decisions had been made, it was time they were reversed. In confirmation of wlhat was asserted of the de serts of captain Hurlbut, a letter and cer tificate of General Wafliiugton effete produ ced, which spoke of him in the highelt pot fible terms. The report was supported, on the ground of precedent, by Messrs. D. Foster, Macon, and Nicholas. It was finally negatived, there being on ly 21 votes for it. Mr. Coit then moved attfolution to the following effeft wlkich, after a few observa tions was agreed to. " Resolved, that provision ought to be made by law for allowing to the legal repre sentatives of George Hurlbut, a captain in the service of the United States, the com mutation to which he i 6 entitled." > The committee rose, andthe hortfe agreed to the refolntioo, and ordered a' bill to be brought in accordingly. Mr. T. Blount prcfented a petition from sundry inhabitants of North Carolina pray ing that a post road may be edablifhed from Washington to Woodftown. Referred to the, committee already appointed on this fubje£l. Mr. Livingfton pvefented the petition of William Dixon and Pierre Anpoix, mer chants of New-York ; the former praying for the reimbursement of duties which he had been obliged to pay on a velTel, consid ered as foreign, for want of a proper rtgif ter ; the latter to be allowed a debenture on a quantity of goods exported, the drawback on which had been withheld, on account of, some informality in bis entry. Both were referred to the committee of commerce»and manufaflures. On motion of Mr. Pinckney, the bouse went into a committee of the whole, on the bill for the relief of North and Vefey of Charleflon ; when Mr. Coit moving to a - mend the bill, by leaving the allowance to be-made to be afcertaiaed by the proper offi -1 cer», inllead of faying what it (hould be; Mr. Swanwick called for the reading of the petition, as he belifved there was annexed to it a certificate from the colledtor of the port of the quantity of sugar consumed ; 1 but the clerk not being able readily to find ! the petition, a motion was made for the com- I mittee to rife and report progrtfs, which J>e ing agreed to, the committee had leave to ' fit again. Adjourned. t PENNSTL VAN IA L EGISLATURE. f 1 House of Representatives. s December 18. f A petition from a number of the c itizecs of Montgomery county, si a ting certain uteonvemen ce> irom the present airaogement of ion dif triAs, and praying two new election diftriclsmay \ he laid out, was prcfented, read and referred to c the members from Montgomery county. A petition signed by a committee of the direc tors of the hank of Pc.nnfylvania, praying t-hat the ' cnihier and his fiicceffor in office, may be appoint. 1 ed a n»tary public for the special business of the * hank, was prefen ted, read and referred to a com e mittce. : A petition from Benjamin Chamber*, praying r that if Chamberiburgh thould be incorporated his n property may not be included in the a6l of incor f- was prefentcd, read and referred to 1- members from Franklin county. 1 Several Other petitions were presented and read, e The committee on the petition from Berks , county, praying an alteration in the Kith ele.'tion y diftriif, made report in favor of the petitioners. )i The bouse proceeded to the fui ther confidcratinn of the report of the committee on the governor's address. , That on the election laws was referred to a com mittee confiding of Messrs. Wain, Leib, Carpen n ter, Whitehill, Wei's, Ireley. and Palmelr. That on the organization of the militia was re , ferred to Messrs. Gurney, Worrell', Lewis,Rhea, n and Marlhall. \ That ori the expediency of a toll on theConr '' wcg" canal, was referred to Messrs. Kirk, Hopkins, W. Soyder, and Heoderfon. J That on the insolvent laws was referred to, a ve committee already appointed. le That on the territorial controversy in Luzerne, was refcrrsd to Messrs. Forreft, Hemphill, Kelly, Weaver, S. Marclay. Hendricks, and Wallace: r That 011 the ruMic buildings in Ninth street.was f- referredto a committee already appointed, t I'Haton marriage and tavern licences wasreferr )y ed to MeiTrs. Bull. Pow.-r, Grofcup. Finleyt a.i.t 0- Kraus. A djeuruetL it- December 19. s, Petitions from a number of the citizens of Atonf- M l goinery' *countv, pruning a mw cieilion diftriiit [ e may be allowed tbfnr, was prefented,'read and re or f'' r 'cd. ,| 1 The committee on the petition of John Gihfon . praying p rrr. i;Ti011 to erect a dam actoU lie river _ VoughiageDny reported in tavo of the petitioner. The hoate rcfolved itfelf into a committee of r< j the whole on thu aufwer to the governor's addreis, L Mr. Ball in the chair—the answer asrsportedhy "" [ht committee, was agreed upon without amend inept. 10 I he ari wer was t iken up for a feeond reading ve intl ehouf;, and wa»adopteO with the following r -|' addition whifh was mpved by Dr. Leib. 1- h 'j'o eftabKlkour political mftirntions upon a '*» republican foundation, ws heartily agree ~e with you, was the great chje<S of osrrevolutior 'fs ary contrif, arid **e also trust. that poOerity will ir never the day, when, by infioi u- ©us machination!, or by open force, so glorion= :c ;g fcufillatiqp fha'l be updermincd tr overthrown." he " Atijourne^.
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