r On motion ef Mr. Smith, the House went into a committee of the whole on the ' bill W the relief of James Yard—Mr. P*_ r * ker in the chair—when the blanks therein having been filled up, the eomraittee rose «id reported their agreement to the bill as am.uded—and it was ordered to be engrof fed and read a third time to morrow. Mr. Livingfton said, if no gentleman wi(h J ed for a farther delav, he would r*w call up the confidetation of th: refo utions which he laid on the tabic yesterday. No cbje&ion appearing. Mr. L. frid he would) on the fnggefti'io of some gentlemen who otherwise would vote sgainft the firft refolutioo, propose a flight modification of it ; so a» to read as follows i Refclved# That a committee be appoint ed to enquire whether any legislative pro *ifion is l.cseflary to be made for the purpole of carrying into < xecution the 27th article of the Treaty of Amity. Commerce and Navigation between the United States aod the K.ing c.f Great-Britain \ and that they report by bill or otberwife. The n Motions were then agreed to with out debate ; and a committee rf two mem bers appointed to wait on :l.e Piefident with the fecund one. Mr. G>il'"'Old, from the committee of reTtfsl and unfimfhed iufmefa, rrporced a bill i».trt»kd' " A» Ait rffpefling the Mist," which was read a firlt and (ecor.d time, and committed to a committee of the ■whole House to-morrow. Mr. Harper called up for codJderation the rcfoluiioii which he laid on the table, for extendi* g the benefit of the aft intitu led " an Ad to promote the progrefi of the ufrful arts," to foreigner* who shall have re tided for a limited period within the Uni ted States—whenr Mr, L.ivingflon moved tfl amend the re solution by aiding " ai.d to the Eateucor* and Adminifiratora of the inventor! of life sol aru and inventions, who may have died before a patent was obtained for fueh in gestion"—which was agreed t&'byfhe hoilfe *nd the l-efoluti«n, as amended adopted. A meflage ns received from the Presi dent of th« United Sta.es, by his Secretary, Mr- Shaw, informing the hnafe,. that he hid approved and signed • resolution autho* rifii'g the Secretaiy ot State to traufmit a certain number of copies of the laws of the United Statea, to the Governor of North Carolina. Mr. Harper, from the committee of Way» and Means, reported a bill intituled " An to eftablifli a General Stamp OCce," ■which was Trad a firft and second time, and made the order of th« day for Friday ntxt. gCT* THE holders of Unstated Lands in the County ct Lytomin;-, i" this Rate, are requeued to meet on Wednesday next, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at Dunwoody's Inn, in Market Street, on business of im portance to them. February 3. Ji. To alleviate th« raiferies of Prifo»s, doth in no wife leffcii, but promote the ne cessary delign cf such places. Cloathing, tfpecially at this fcafon, is extremely need ed by many of the unhappy tubjects of con finement. The meicifui and confid'rate in habitants cf this chy, only want lo be re minded of this. There are articles of cloath ing, chiefly old, which, in several families, can be spared. Any of these, and particu larly linen, which contributed eflentiaHy to clear, linefs and health, will he thankfully received at the public jail, and'diftvibuted jn the most filitable manner, by those who have a (Turned it as their duty, for the time bring', to be the organs of such clianty. r t"iHAT the eo-partiierlhip of tlie Subscribers X heretofore trading under the firm of Wit ter, Price and Wifter, it this diy diflalved by mutual content. All perfoßt who have any de mands against the said firm, are desired to bring them in for settlement, ind those who are in debted thereto above fix months, are rtquefiid to make immediate payment to N B. The bo!n«f» in future will be eirritd on by WILI.IAM WI3TER Mi JOHN WISTER, under the fitni of WILUAM Ifl JOHN WIS TER t ■who have TO hand an affortmeot of dry goodi as ofual. Feb .5 1o William Wills & John Arnutrang. CEttTltMtir, I HAVE seen your advertifcment " To the Public" whereby you offer your fervicea to locate Uijitfd State* Military Land Warrants, and in which yow affcrt that you " possess fu'pe rior information to any others" and that y*«itre will open as* qinrter pa& J, and the ng of corn, all of proved good quality, vx rked by overlhot water wheels and double gears, with all the late improvements for flcreenir.g, cleaning, bolting an 4 tlivating the wheat and Sour, all executed in the b«ft manner and of the bed materials and quite iiew —The mill house 'n large and convenient, be ing 46 feet by ya feet with fi»e (lonrs, the two lower stories are brick, the reft framed work executed in the most substantial manner; the house and machinery of the milla will be found unexceptionable, and they are lo (ltuated »» to be free from *ll risque from the treftes or inun dation of the water courses—There is a very convenient briek bake houfo two stories high, with two large oveas; a very good lioufe for the proprietoi or manager, a (lore room, coun ting room, kitchen, &c. alio suitable bouses for milleri, enopers, and bakers — The tide water from lames River Bows to the wall* o( the mill, where beats of three tt> four hundred b?!h:lj burthen KNfil Josd'-fJS. o} the mill, and in one miles dittance, flupj of any 6m that navigate James River, can load in great fafrty. » The neighborhood is healthy—very refpefl able as tainhabitants, being raoflly independent farmers, and the foil is in ;;-eneril very justly eltccmed equal to any on James River, for the | growing ot wheit; upon a moderate calcula tion, the average* annual crops of the neighbor hoed eqially convenient if not more so, to the Norwich Mills, than to any other market, a mount to between thirty and forty thoufjnd bushels of wheat. Mr. John P. Gordm who lives on the preimfe* at present, will fbew the whole to thoft who may incline to view it. 1 would prefer a purchaser who could pay down the principal part of the ptsrttufc- money, a .d wonld give a vtsy advantageous bargain or I will fell on a credit convenient to the pur chaser, the interest being paid annually. I will wait for a purchaser til", the 15th day of March next, and if not then fold, I will be glad to treat with a tenant fir a lease, on terms which may be mutually agreeable. I bav* «ffered the whole of tbii estate for I'ale, on a prrfumption that the purchaser of the milU would inclin* to have the land also, for a supply of building timber, oven wood ana hnrp pole!,' Hut if it betnore tgrerabU to him to tike the mills and a few acres of land* he (hall Im accommodated accordingly. Richmond, Ffhr»«ry 5. TO THE PUBLIC. WITH the mod humbUfubmiffion I return my most fiacere th»rks to M*fTr». and Dt[an, of thU city, owners of the lhi;> Farm er, in which I got a passage, together with my wife, from spain, without any configuration to the above gentlemen,—as ha« WillimmGAfn, com mander of said ihip generotifly given me his (hare of cabbiu gratis, and to whose kiadnefs and liber ality both in Spain and diirinj a te.liotu partake, I am eteroatly indebted, in juftiee to the above gentleman—His abilities and attention to the du ties of his fhtion reflefls the highell lu!lrc on his character. Having unfortunately been taken by a French privateer bound frorh Liverpool to' this country, and carriedtint* St. Joan de Lujin, France, where I was dripped of every article eueq my cloathet, I afced one po»nd ef tea for the use of my yetfe, «f the lirft judge in the above place, but to no pnrpefe. The following American gentlemen, who were then in St. Sefcaftijn, on feeing myGta ation, geaeroufly came and put into my hands, a fufficiency to keep we genteelly while in that country. Mr. John Lynch, of Philadelphia, Mr. Daniel Murgatroyd, »f do. Mr. Robert Andrews, of do. Captains Reilcy, franklin, Cox, IVatts, Fulltr ton, Hughes, Heieit and Ljiden. 3a jw Wh*t a ■'iffcr*. l ce between American and Fi each feasibility. | No. 180 North Second- ftrect. •• . Would engage as CUrk, un lerftandi buy ing and felling—would prefer writing in a public office. Letter or application .attended to No. 180 a« above. . MuM.Pcb.4. Mr. Gallatin's Speech . ON THK REDUCTION of the STANDING ARMY Brfi're he would take leave of those ex- I traneous hiltoricai dii'reflions, Mr. G. said that lie could not help noticing one of the ohfervations of the gtntlem?.:i from Seuth- Cari lina. TVat gentleman had remarked th t the French conlcripts, carried, as he said by force and chained to the amy fought with uncommon bravery againlt a foreign enemy. Thus it appeared that Frenchmen living under the worst ty anny, even that of Robcfpitrce, and at' a" tithe when their country was torn hy the mod inveterate and bloody internal fattiom, did uothefitate, al though dragged in chains to a camj>, 'to fight and had succeeded in repelling an in vading foe, or ercn in prpfecutidg war in foregn countries. Why did not the gen* tic(»>• apply that inft«>ce «lfy an# en*>its proper deduAionas applied to America ? If the French people in that fituatian, and atniJft those diviflons, had been found equal to the talk of combating foreign nations, could it be supposed that the free citizen*, of America wotlld on account of some di visions merely of opinion be lcfa williig and wo(l |,] fin a p nrt of that deficiency ami Ihonlr! less capable to defend themfelve9 and their be aided to the amount of 4 millions llatee independence at the time of real danger deficiencies by the gentleman. He had nlfi a fereign invader ? neglected to insert several items in his elli The arguments given- in support of the of expenditures ; the moll import.'!', joflihility < ffa mvafion were not certainly omiflfon wai the necessary difburferoents so ufceptible of being abfolotely disproved by the building of the feventv-fours; which eafouing. They were grounded not on bv the Secretary of the Treafyry ; were ef jrobabihties, but 011 p ffible events. And titrated at 1,300,000 dollars, here was perhaps nothing which could be The deficiency, is however, acknowledg )r.ven to be altogether impotfible. 13ut ed to be at le.ifl 4 1 ji11 in•: ; making Q n h iiat kind of argument did not apply parti- these few corrections to the ft.itemeut of thi :ularly to the present motio» or to tbe pre- gentleman Iron) S. Carolina, it appears tt cnt time. For there could be no polfible be 5 millions. Our revenue is fluted by al ime, r.or any poflible situation of Europe, of us to be only nine millions ; and undei ifhich would net juftify some hipothetic those ctrcumftances, Mr. G. said, he woulc Utement as plat.fible as that given by tbe nfl:, whether a laving of two millions anc ;entleman from South Carolina At any half, which would ime and under any circumllances whatever, of the motion, would be call, d contempt! hat gentleman or any other might afTert ble ? But we are flattered by expectation, hat it was cot altogether rmpoffible for of an iucreaGng revenue, even without ad ome European nation to attempt an isavafi- dltional taxes. The very ntverfe, a diini in on this country ; and on as solid ground nutisn, inrtead ot an increase, appears pro. uftify a permanent military eftablifhraent of bable. Ihe gentleman ot S. Carolina ha; :onliderable magnitude. The suppositions , compared the proceeds of the impost of 1795 if that gentleman, if they would prove any 1 with those of 1799 in order to prove an 111 hing, wou'd only prove that it was necef- ! crease. But he forgot to state how iiiucl ary for America, at all times, and as a ! was due to a real increase of importation neafure of caution, to keep oa foot a large and mueh to an increase of taxation. Tlx landing army. They would only prove faft was, that the rate of duty on many ar hat this army ought Dot to be disbanded, tides had been confidently increased in tj( :ven if the negociatioa witb France Ihould and' 97 , and that an additional duty or "uccsed. • fait had been laid in '9B : all of which were Amongst other inducements which we of. blended together in bis statements. Bui "cred to it valion, that gentle nan h?d, how- the fair way of computation would hav« :ver, mentioned one of an extraordinary to compare the proceeds of the impofij lature. In his enumeration of the objeAs for 1799 these of j 79 8 *ud 1797. J ,f plunder, which might attrad French ra- that comparison would (how a defalcation ir pacity, he c.unted our/undtd ssfital. A. >799 of 800,oco dollars from the aver, jur funded capital is the toe thing with age proceeds of 1 7 »7 and 1798 ; for thof, }ur funded debt, I must confeff for my two years had given ,4,400 000 dollar, foi [hare, said Mr. G. that I hate no objeflion the impost aud tonnage, equal to an averag. .0 give it to the French, or to an, oth.r na- 7-^^o [ dollars and the year ,799 hnc ioM that will take it. It would be the most given less than 6,5=0,000 dollars. Wai »»f «*,r ™«•»-• zgstfz zzszs meat on aaother. „ ~ . r -. f ■ a .. . • ing year* that the amoont of impost toi The gentleman from South-Carol,na had wcu)d exccfd the lmoul ., of 1799 ; indulged himfelf.n a number of.bferva.ion. Wc ; tin prODOrtif)n to our confump. Dn a supposed. party,-whofe views he bad and our co „f umpt i on , nu ft beUmiteC represented at time to be J.o .carry elw- . ou( . means of nt- Thofc ni „ HS ol tions by means of tnfurrea.ona, at another, ' are jn proportion t0 oljr ex . to estrange the people from their gtxtrn- and anotpm i OTt i<»n of these will ftiovi I MS/. He seemed indeed to have altogether thgt the quantitit . s of artk | es of our owt confounded evidences of diffat.staftion at j.. s hays n;l{ eßCrt -.,f,J, but on thi certain mtafures of admrniflratim. witn a de- whole> ~ ) atncr f u fferrd a tlecreafe withit tided hatred against a government ot 1 thrff past yt . ar> ]t ; s fol( .| y t0 the eiiciel n fervation by an unexpefted conclnfiou. For urc for any increase in the valui after having stated the ttrc gth of that party ;pf t ,. gt part our cxport3 w (,ich confifh as extremely formidable ; finct he had drawa rt | £ ] es c { ol , r own prudjee. The prodi proofs of itsexiftence, from the legiHarive ; &loiIS fa! , ? c f f- v . „ t ' # ]j r s at least per bun proceedings of some lari>e and refpetiable ; n t , )f prlCc . ~f tonacco W il| make ; dates, from the declarations of the governor j;ff rr . rce 0 f several millions of dollars in tl« ot another poweiful tlate, and even from value of our exports, will so fur diminilh ou the fnppofed opinions of the second official nl f a Qs of payment soi 4 article* imported charaAcr of the Union, after hayTiig repre- w y| ( n f ar tcnt J :o diminilh our importation; our revenue. not lef. indeed tkan to the people of this c.untry, that tK«y . But tWQ ml || lon . i j n order to p4y t |ie interest or :ht gentleman from Delaware vicW» this sub- an( ] rf [l c ein the principal itfelf in 20 years jest in a different light. His Corclufion whether to add 25 per cent, to our debt am was, that knowing the exillence of such a ti , xrs t an be considered as trifling, Mr. G party, it was necelTarj to have an army, in y LC xvou U leave the committee to judge ardcr to defend this country pgainll an in- g ut w . !5 not a nioil extraordinary and ho rafion, in as much as a coi.fideiable part of V( .| mode Q f ta lculating, not on the prefer' the militia could not be truiled with its de yefotirces of the country, hut on those Peace. poflcrity might have ? Are we then so fur< If a party does exist, so irimical to our that our poflcrity will have r.o dangers o fa' Older to subvert it, they must be fuppof- expenditure* which will require every .addi td disposed to subvert it without an iuvdfion. tional refomce tliey may p< (Tefs ? Let u It is impoffiblc to miflak* the meaning of provide, out of our own resources, for ou the gentleman. Whin they ground the own wants j instead of mortgaging not onl] leceffity of an army on the supposed exist- our aftual revenue, but ev n those wl icl tnce of a party, let themeiprcfs tliemfelves ,nay hereafter be ruifed by poflcrity. 1* they please either they mean nothing, Much had been said by tbe gerstleman fron »r they mean that an artm is necefTary not South-Carolina, on certain new financia jeople. Let thd gtntlemn be silent about finking fupd, which, had they been known party, or let them candilly acknowledge to JJritifli minilleri, Tfty or one hundred :hat this army is intended .0 suppress party, j ycars a g o , as well as they were to the prefcm Mr. Gallatin then pro«c«Ud to makefoine • administration of that country, would have he gentleman from S. Cirolma. He laid Great-Britain. hat he had avoided mating any detailed Were we t9 judge of the merit of that latement of that kind, bec.uie he knew that pretended new application, of a linking fund, ill the official documents, necefi'ary to form by it* etTetts, we would not be disposed to loule. And he had llatel in the grot's that, tten years ag3 the debt cf Grea, Britain did' DAVID ROSS. \t V [CONCI.tiDSD.] . J* - our jevenUe was afe.-uit nine millions, oarex pendiuue* aij?ut. 14, and the dtGticy, therefore, about five. The result ot' the gentleman from S. Carolina wM to mow a leGcieniy of only a millions. It wasim'MA .erial to the prefer.: quellion whether that Icficienr.y was 4or millions., But the d'- :ails 0:1 -which the gentleman from 3. Car ilina hail grounded his result were in f- fn - I legree inc 'freft. He bad eflimated the iett proceeds the land t?x at 2 millions >f dollars. Rut he had forgotten to deducl "rom that sum th« expenses of collection, which l.rir..;- and 3-4 per cent, would 1 mount to i ij,ooo dollars. He had tilted ivhat w-s true, that the whole of the nett proceeds ot that tax could not be received n the treasury during the present year. Yet ie infilled that the whole amount Ihould be ;onfidcred as part of those receipts, becanle in anticipation for the deficiency might be ibtained bv way of loan, from the bauk. Fh»t anticipation certainly could not be onfidered as pah of th- receipts arifmg Voni revenue. I'nftrad of being credited t» :he pcrount of revenue, it ru?;ht to be char ged as part of the debt that would be eon rafted during the present year. An anti cipation was as much a debt as any other oan. The amount of th.t anticipation .s >- * M W not exCccd iio «illions During jliat period, .tUf.t country had enjoyed *e«| years cf peace and I 1 <* d seven years of wir-j during that period, the years of war did tjr.t exceed {'tic average proportion cf time- for which England had been involved in warier the lad 59 years. At preftnt her debt is aimofl ;c 0 million*. Curling. The present adminiflr ition ot O- Britain, notwithftimdijig all the bonded me rit of certain modifications ol the finking fund, had ir.oie than doubled the public debt during that period- I know, ftid I\Tr. G. but one way that a nation has of paying her deOt, ar,d that in preeifely the fame which individuals praitife. " Spend i.sss than you receive." And yoii may then apply tbe surplus ot your receipts to the dilthar;;c of your debts. Rut it you fpena mors than you receive, you may have recouiTc to linking funds, you inay modify them as you please, you may render yourac fcientific'appearance to-additions and fub your debt. If yon lpepd more than you loans ; audit out of thole receipts you have have so mortgaged or disposed ot that lutn chat you cannot apply it to your iiiital ex penditure. If vour revenue is nine millions you mufi boi tow, voti i"uft create a new debt of Gve millions. But it two millions that revenue .nr. under the name ot link principal of an old debt, and pledged tor it ; :hen,. the portion of your revenue, applicu >le to difcbiirgin;.;- your current expenditures )f millions, ij reduced to 7 And r.ftead of bsrrowing live millions, you must borrow seven ; voti create a new debt . sf seven millions, tird you pay ail old one ot :wo. It is (hi! the fume increase of five niil ionsofdebt—The only ditTerenee th:itcaobc jrodticed, ariles from the relative price yon five for the eld debt and rate of interest you >ay so» the new. At present we pay yearly » part cf a domclije debt, bearing lix per :ent. interest, anern drawn, from a wiUi to reply to lorue >arts of the fpoech of the gentleman from South Carolina. It was true, indeed, those jbfrrvationa cauld have 110 weight with gen 1. men who supposed the liberty and iiule ■eduiftion of the military eftablirtiment To him it wai only a qu.-fticn cf oeconomy, ,vhich could have no possible cffeA on the •xternal relations of America, which had nc mportance except as a qurftion of oscono y important, and hoped it might be *iewe< n the fame light by the committee. Law of the Utilted States. t>V Slutjority. Sixth Corigrefs of the United States At the Fir ft Seflion, begun and held, at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, en Mon day, ihe feeond of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety - nine. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of tbe United States of America, in Congress assembled, Thai the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby authorized and divetted to procure and trans mit te the Governor of the State of North Carolina, a number of the copies of the Law» of the United States equal to the numbef which the Secretary was heretofore autho rised, to transmit to the Governor of the said State, by an aft, intituled " An act for the .more general promulgation of the. laws of the United States" to be depofijed and diflri buted agreeably to the provisions of the laid aft. for tbe use and information of the ci tizens of the United States, within the (aid State. THEODORE SEDGVTICK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Vict, ('resident of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved February 3, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, President of the Ujuted States. PRICES OF STOCKS. Sir per Cent. it/ Three per Cent. deferred 6 per C«nt. lif I per CmW Stock—» P«r Cent, advercc. 1 5 per L«IU totocß —» per i_em. lowmc. B\NK United States, «4 > —— Pcnnfylvania, 20 I «* _ North America, jo > lnfura3»c tomp. N. A. fliare*. S 13 —-{•tfmfylTama, (bamj, 2* J " * Raft India Company of N. A. par. Land Warrant*, 3a dollt. per 100 acres. COURSE OF EXCHANGE London, 6a at 30 days 60 at 6c a 90 dayt 3J 37 a-too per florin Hamb'Jfgb jo »3 i-iao MarkSaneo. V % } v * ~ , 7 - ti . X-,- '* v ••• '• * 1 w r