LONDON, October 23 A letter from the Hague, of 14, " Refyedti ng the late Isa-engageui c;it bet wee. the Kufiians and the Turks, we learn that they met in stormy weather ; that the Turki.li com mando having hat) notice of thefigning of llie preliininaries,reiii ed ; but being followed by the Rulijai.s, and lev e. ul Turkifli Hups being damaged by the llorm, they tied to Coiiltantiii»]>le, and uccafioned gi eat alarm in t!ia( capii al ; but no fliij'sfell into the hands of the Ruffians. " We learn from the rendezvous of the French Princes and their party, on the frontiers of Ger many, that the news of rlie King's having tor riia]i y accepted the French Conilitution, has cnufed great sensations among the.n, insomuch that they hardly know what to resolve upon : nay, it ii even laid to have thrown such a damp upon their intended plans, as to make it djubt ful :f they wiil put them in execution, and its e(Ft«sis in the different courts of Europe, mull oc casion some alteration in the proceedings of the ai iftoeratic party." 1 he liberal and handsome conduct of Lord Petre, on a lare occasion, and the general beha viour of the whole bod)' of Roman Catholics, mufl fpecdily root out every prejudice that has been entertained againit them. The JVlinifters of il.eir profeilion (hew no ill-will to the Miuif ters of the Ellablilhed Church, but appear to ue, as vre think they really ai e, zealous to promote unity in the nation, and to forward every thing that may tend to morality and good order FiomGlafgow we understand, that trade has been very brilk there the last tS months. The exports of mullins, and other Scots and English es, of late to America, has been very so that wages, in all branches, have been rising. About ten cotton-mills have been eredted, or begun to be erected, in the neighbourhood of Glasgow ; and above a dozen of blaft-fiirnaces have been creeled in the well of Scotland. Nei ther is the improvements in lnanufacftures con fined to the weft of Scotland ; for, at Aberdeen. Dundee, &c. in the north, they have lately e icdted several cotton and lint-mills to go by wa ter. In fljort, never was Scotland in fopiofpe lous a Hate ; yet, from the great advance of ' ems, the turning many small farms into large ones, the emigration to A merica has been greater this year thsti at any period since the year 1774 EDICT pu~blifted by the Supreme Council of CafU on the lot/, 0] September, again/} ,he Circulation % ' ,tin £ s which have a Tendency to propagate *he 1 rmciplc> oj die French Conjlitution. " Hie King, informed of the distribution of ■ceitain writings, full of falfehood and dangerous maxims, capable of diftnrbing the tranquility and of endangering the fidelity of his fubjetftj ,e;it c "rcular letters, the sth of January J79°, to prohibit tbe entry of tliefe libels, to en courage informers, and to give the utmost lati tude, ooth in difcoverjrig and punishing such ac trocuies. Thtfe precautions have produced the e - Majesty's Council had " Ihe King is again »!Tured, .tiiat attempts ate making to introduce a.id difFufe throughout ns dominions fim.lar writings from France, con taining seditious principles, contrary to the si. ;„V ty r Ue t0 , hIS r ° ve,ei g» power, to public anqu.hty, alu ] t j le profperily of his faithful uLjeJs; .i,s majesty has resource a second time •to tUe lame precautions, which were before luf' went to prevent the evil . he .has renewed the prohibition of those writings in his States, and ordered that every per son who ihall find or seize in the hands of any person such productions, ei ther printed or written, fhal] be obliged to erne them up to the tribunals, rendering an account of the motives which excited them, if t-heyknow ?,v V 1? u aim€d WUh then, ' on failui e which U L ',P r 'T Cded aS wdl « ot ber delinquents for the crime of disobedience ■ th u the tribunals (ball be obliged to tranfmic to the have been° Un r the , W,!tin g s wllicl » may .. .• , f 1" efented or denounced to them, or Th" f h3Ve ; and to Proceed in «?,,reKr t th, h . aU ,hE Vi e i!ailCC 3 » d 1 such important cases. to of ,!lC mA is "commended ... p- fiord 1 and monorchia! zeal of the Mod fecullr "liops, Bin,ops, Prelates, as well Spain. ' ' egll!ar > throughout the kingdom of FOR THE GAZF.TTE CF THE UNITED STATES. TO THE RESPONDENT OMr«dn.Ryoar piece. I take it that a man ho ,s llot ot your opinion, is an ariftocrar I !hnr/ n h OP V I,On tof> ~ ,nay 1 be f cail those who deny Ir, aristocrats, In this afF,i r I taxe Dean Sw,ft for an aiiihoritv—Oirhodox v is niy D*xy, Hecprmloxy is another ,nan's Doxy— theretore yon and I aie in the rijrht ; we Inte an ltocrats _ ye vvon](l fai . and fe S he; l-.e ,4keof POLITICAL TOLERATION.' fays, rIIILAD E L P H I A HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY, December 13, 1791. Dcb.lt! on the amendments prcpofeil by the Senate to the Repref.ntation Bill. SOME debate havng taken place, refpefting the regularity of a resolution moved by Mr. Benfon, for apportioning among the different slates (according to their refpeJtive numbers) the whole number of Representatives, produced by (lie gross amount of the aggregate populati on of the United Scans ;— Mr. Sedgwick moved, to amend the Senate's amendment, by infering two members for the (late of Delaware, instead of on:. In favor of this motion it was observed, that the injury, arising from unrepresented fratfiions of population, is morefeverely felt by the small er, than by the larger flares, as in the cafe oft be ftateof Delaware, to vhich the bill allowed but one reprefencative f0r59,000 inhabitants, whilll the larger states wouU! be much better represent ed, as their fractions vould be divided among a greater number of representatives—By the a mendment proposed to the Constitution, a lati tude, it was said, was given to Congress in this particular, allowing tieni either to apply the ra tio to the aggregate amount of the general popu lation, and then to apportion the representation to the different states, as nearly as they could ap proach Hie ratio once eilablifhed—or to apply the ratio to the population of each Hate ; and if in cafe of applying the ratio to the aggregate number of the inhabitants of the United Slates, the number of reprefetjtatives was found to be exaiftly one hundred, it appeared doubtful whe ther Congress could wtll avoid adopting the for mer mode : otherwifeit would be impossible to apportion the representation to the population with exac r t pi ecifion ; Hen it the United States were to be divided into diftridts of thirty thou sand inhabitants each, there would still remain a fraction, and inequality f<yne where or other mud be ilie consequence : ' In the bill, it was said, a manifeft inequality appeared, as it nllowedVirginiato eleifi twenty, one representatives, whereas, according to the proportion which her population bears to that of the United States in general, fl lc j s entitled only to nineteen : the constitution has said, that " representatives and diretl taxes shall be ap portioned among the several states, according te their respeCtive numbers but iftaxation were to be apportioned in the fame manner as the re presentation is by the bill, the inequality would be finking, and such as never would be submit ted to lUiode-Ifland, for iuftauce, being re presented by two members, would have to pay 60,000 dollars, whilst Delaware, having but a single reprelentative, would pay only 30,000 al though the difference of population is so small between those two ftatei—R,hode Island having only about 68,000 inhabitants, whilst 50,000 are found in the slate of Delaware —the time may come, when the fafety and good order of govern metu will require the imposition of direct taxes • ij.it how can any such taxes be laid, without a Eew census, and a just apportionment of the re prcfentation ? before these steps could betaken the measure might be too late ; and it would be 1111 wtie in the present Congress to pass any law that may at a future day, deprive the House of Oivc-O.i jts conliitutional powers, the power of laying direct taxes—lt was further observed that the Confbt.mon itfelf did not seem to exaift so rigul an observance of die ratio, as to require that any state should be deprived of a reprefem ative merely on account of a trifling deficiency «n the number of inhabitants ; it appeared vifi- I Vf° contemplate such deficiency, and that there might be states whose entire population would not amount to the ratio that might betfxed on : ihll it had provided that such states should not reman, u„ represented ; but that, however small the population may be, << each state shall have at least one reprefentat.v e :"_the convention them ehes who framed the Constitution, were not such fcrnpulous observers of trifling fractional differences, when they apportioned the repre fenta.ion ; for altho, by the estimate of popula ,hre g ;° Und uf " r ' ,e a PPortioninent, the itate of New-Jersey, was, ftriciiy fpeakin-/ entitled only to three members ; _yc t a large traction remaining, she was allowed four In oppofinon to the proposed amendment it was said, that the constitution never contemplat ed a minute attention to fractions; that the weight ° 10 lhe in the r«„ le l 274 CONGRESS. ccnecffion, (o compensate for anvJr.- i they might be fubjert to in the W h?k ythat the ieg.flaiare j that the oouftitu.i o '„ of the apportionment according to ,l le : r P i r out numbers of the feverai Hates"- thar t Vi P e P r f Tentative to be chosen bj a "re thirty thousand, would be an open Zhri "■ the express words of tl.e constitution • „ were not uncoiiftitutional, ye; it nev' er ! sicf ic a permanent rule, answer the purpofc 7 d ' n was intended. The fame difficulty wouTl tU recur on other occasions ; for if it wer J •'"S a,n as a rule, that an additional member 7" allowed only for a fraction above so Der 1(1 be ui.ght happen, that there would bcflL"'"' K state a fraction of ij.ooi inhabitants and" ° nC ther the precise number of i c 000 '« ano " state of Delaware to be in the latter predic she would have a representation of ber for j.rty-five thousand inhabitant S™' noiher (late, whose fraction were i/oor « m be represented in the ratio of one , . 1(1 less than thirty thousand ' " le '" b " f or The constitution direrts, that taxation fl, in apportioned among the individuals in ' / ral states, whereas representation is to be tioned to clafles of thirty thousand in each and this according to a census firft actually ta] ' hence as the one apportionment was ' operate upon st ates , and the other upon i„ di vi v ual Citizens, any difference in the aun ( ,r.' ' ment could never curtail the authority Tf theT' vernment with rtffpcct to taxation. As to the equality, laid to arise from one large state ing as many representatives as fix smaller It- * pi e.onatives) whereas the large state havin only two members, can pollefs but i-i 4 th part of red-f X1 | fIUC ' Ke : r l '" circ »™fl"i>« ope rates to the disadvantage of the largefl state i ,d ■n favor of the smaller ones, whicf have the/e fore no leafon to complain of an inequality tha exifts but in idea ; or if it does exill at all bears lieavier on the larger state, to which a f,„all at ) vantage: the House of Representatives can hard y e deemed a lullicient compensation for the loss it in nil neceflanly fuffer in the Senate the piopofed amendment would but encreafe that in S'l'"S a greater portion of influence to the smaller states, which already pollefs mo.e tape fni'mth" 6 C 0! ir ' a " <! ( ' ei ' ve thisadvan , y yey y circumstance which is com plained of as productive of inequality in the House of Repi clentatives. On a former occasion piopofition had been made to correct that fup po ed inequality, by allowing the state of Dela ware two members in the house ; it was made at a tune when no local lnterells could be supposed to influence the decision ; and it was then de ciaiedtobe unconstitutional. nnlefs that state fliould be found to contain sixty thousand in ha bit ants. The qneftior. being taken on Mr. Sedgwick's amendment, was loft. The question was then put, on agreeing to the senate s amendment, and parted also in the ne gatne : after which, the committee rose and res ported accordingly. WEDNESDAY, December 21 , ~ 6 c ° m,n ' !:le e of enrollment, presented t» the Speaker an enrolled bill, " making appro priations lor the support of government for the yeai 1792. The Speaker signed the fame, and it was prelented to the Prelident of the United States, for his approbation. A report from afelect committee, to whom was referred the report of the Secretary ofthe Trea sury , on the petition of Comfort Sands and o thers, was read, and made the order of the day for Friday next. The committee appointed, reported a biJl for carrying into efß;<st the contract for the purchase of a ti act of laod bordering on Lake £rie ; which was read a fir ft time. T ne rloufe resolved itfelf into a committee of the whole (Mr. W. Smith in the chair) and re sumed the consideration of the port-office bill. After haying proceeded through all the re mainder of- the bill, except the Bth, the 22d, and twenty-third feciions (refpetfting the carri age of i.ewipapers) which were poltponed for future consideration, the committee rose and re ported progrefi. Adjourned. THURSDAY, December 22 A bill for carrying into effert a contract be tween the United States and the State of Penn sylvania, was read a second time, and referred to a committee of the whole house, to-morrow. Mr. Goodhue presented the petition of Law rence h urlong, praying compensation for Cervices as a pilot in the navy of the United States during the late war, which was read and referred tothe Secretary of the Trcafury.
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