8 fathoms ; but the wind hauling more to the eastward, and the sea rising, the ship dragged her anchor and again (truck on the ledge ; short ly after the fVern gave away, and the i'alt empti ed itfelf into the lea ; they then cut the belt bower cable, and their main and mizen malts, in order to getting on shore on the beach and fav. ing their lives, but night coming on, and after they had beat over the reef, the tide of flood set ting in, they could not effect it. Their situation was truly deplorable. The vefi'el, by the vio lence of the sea was so rent asunder in many places, it was dangerous to pass : one of the lea men in endeavouring to get forward was entan gled in the wreck, and was nearly cut in halves. The captain, two paflengers, a feamanandthe cabin boy were forward ; in that fituariovi they remained until about 8 o'clock A. M. when the seaman proposed to the captain to get ast for the {hip went on the beach Hern firft, and attempt gaining the (bore ; but the captain replied, that " he was unable ro attempt it," and gave his papers to the cabin boy : He then resigned him felf to his f3te : The feamai. and the boy left him, and jumped into the sea, and had the good fortune to reach the shore. Wet an and fatigu ed they crawled up among the bullies, w.here they would have perifbed but for the exertions of the two Mr. BurgelTes, who early in ihemorn ing found them. The remains of the wieck were spread on the beach for 4 miles in length, and perhaps the molt di final that was ever seen on this coalt. The following is the lift of the unhappy crew that perished in the wreck, and whose remains were found on the fucceediug Monday, and decently buried at Duxbury meet ing house, except the captain, two palfengers and one of the seamen, who were buried at Marsh field. Isaac Chauncey, captain. Charles Roberts, mate. Joseph Heldridge, Philip Heldridge, bro thers, paflengers of Birmingham. George Dun nells. John Sidney. Charles Hicks. Daniel Buffit. Charles Humphreys. Timothy Harris. James Floyd. Harris. James Weaun. Au gustus Jenney; a negro. John Charles Martin, seaman, and Jacob Tuck er, cabin boy, were Paved^ Much credit is due to the people in favin-g the things out of the wreck; a laudable spirit of emulation appeared in them to preferveihe pro perty. Their humanity to the little remnant saved, does honor to them as men and as christians, and will no doubt be returned to thein double fold, by that being, who, the father of compafli on hjmfelf, admires the imitation of this exalted attribute in his offspring :—Nor were the liv ing alone the objects of their kind solicitude, No ! they became interested iti depositing with reverence and refpetft the remains of the unfor tunate crew with a sympathy which none but the virtuous podefs, and none but the good will imitate, they paid the last fad offices to'departed nature.—Like the Samaritan they bound up the wounds of the unfortunate living, and like the founder of their religion, they wept at the tomb of their deceased friends—for friends they es teemed them. CONGRESS. PHILADELPHIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THURSDAY, March 8. Debate ou the resolution reported by ast left commit tee—That the Secretary of the Treasury be direct ed to report hit opinion to the Heufe, on the bell mide of rai ftng ihtsfi additional supplies which the public service may require for the current year TWTII. SEDGWICK (aid that when the law was -L J- palled, confirming the department of the trealury, and making it the duty of the secreta ry to report to the legislature, plans for the in,, nagement and improvement of the revenue • he had fondly indulged the hope, that a great prin ciple _ in the administration of the government had been so far fettled, that it would not have been called in cjueftion at so early a period. Th.s principle he then and still nnderftood to be, that a great officer fhonld, by appointment for that purpose and an adequate salary, be re ipoiiiible to the community, to produce to the consideration of the national legislature, s uc h lylttniatic arrangements in the intricate bufmefs O; finance, as should give the highest afliirance n (Vn lf P T C ° ' ,ÜbhC credit > with the least polTible burden to the citizensof America. Thar if this great principle remained still to be de termined, he ardently wilhed that we might pro fit by the experience of other nations, and by ou; ovn that he knew of no nation that fuffer- Ed under the weight of a public debr, but had found it indispensable to its welfare, to appoint some officer, whole duty it (hould be to superin tend this important branch of bufiuefs ; and that without such appointment, it was impossible for hiin to conceive that an orderly administration of the finances could be effected. It was not long since, that all America had attempted to provide for the public exigencies, by the indigeited schemes of legislating financiers. The effects are remembered by nil—the revenue was incom parably less productive, and yet the people infi nitely more burdened than at present. These tacfls would render any other arguments fuper fluous, with those who believed that experience was the belt guide to well founded political con clusions. But on the oilier hand, if gentlemen were disposed to calculate 011 the data afforded by imagination, and to build systems on argu ments a priori, not only unfan<ftioned by expe riment, but in opposition to all experience ; we might render the debts we owed, which had been juflly ftiled the price of liberty, and for which therefore we were under the highest obli gation to provide, an intolerable burden. For he would run the venture to pronounce, that the nieafures which-would reftilt from such a desul tory mode of procedure, would create grievous exa<fliojis on our conftkuents, disappoint the ex petftations of government, and prove inadequate to the support of public credit. By these observations, he did not mean to de rogate from" the responsibility of the character of the House colleiftively, or of any individual member of it. There might be many who had fufficient talents ably to pi efide in ' the manage ment of our finances, provided their minds were confined to the contemplation of that fubje<ft a lone. But it Should fee remembered that while separated in the recess of the legifl.itnre, the avo cations of profeffions, or other business, left to moll: of the members but li ttle leisure for the in vefligation of political questions. That while in session, they were obliged to pay attention to e very fubjeift of legiflaiion .committed to the na tional government. That considering the limit ted faculties of the human mind, he'did think gentlemen (hould feel themselves wounded in reputation, by the supposition that they were not colledively, minutely acquainted with every branch of feience, a knowledge of which might be involved in the fubjecfts of our legislation. Without such aii extent of information and fci ence, a.man might be an excellent legislator. Otherwise the business of popular legislation "muff altogether cease, or be very badly managed. It would not produce the fmalleit uneasiness in his mind, to have it, oniverfally known, that he pre tended not to the deep knowledge of jurispru dence of the Attorney-General— the acquaintance of the Secretary of State with the political inter efls and relations of the community— or the pro found knowledge of the Secretary of the Trea fury, of the intricate fubjedis of finance. Yet he felt Tome degree of confidence in the ability .W'hich he pofTefl'ed, of judging of the expediencv of adopting such measures as those officers should recommend. " > He observed that the House, ever since the organization of the executive departments, had conduced as if convinced of the justness of this reafoniHg, by their frequent references to the heads of those departments. That particulaily when it had been suggested that the judicial fyf tem required amendment, the fubjetf had been refered to the consideration of the Artorney- General. That when the commerce ofthe coun try came under deliberation, it was refered to the Secretary of State. That these fubjetfts com prehended the molt important and dearest inter ests ofthe pfeople. That he heartily concurred in thole references, and would take the liberty to add, that they had the support of the »entle men who were now so strenuous in oppofnion to the present motion. That if the House was i hen right, those would not be wrong who were in fa vor of this question. He observed that gentlemen in the two cases which in argument they had fupported,had'given very opposite opinions of the collective character of themembers of the House ; when they were confideringthem solely devifmg the ways and means neceflary to supply the deficiency of the revenue, they gave them all the qualities of pro found financiers. But when they were to confi tlle re P°> ts of the Secretary they became at once transformed into resistless dupes, incapable ot manly investigation and quietly failing down the llream of ministerial influence. Did o-entle men feel, he aflced, in the latter in fiance the w.int oi that independence of /pirit which is ne ceflary to enable them to investigate and decide for themselves ? If so they would want much of that greatness of character which would enable them in the former cafe to afor the public be nefir. r H e observed that it appeared by what gentle men had fa id during the course of rtie debate that members were not to be abfolutelv rellritf. e ,? m receiving every species of information on this interelUng fubjecft, from the man who 394 was constitutionally felerted, a, the befi „ uali fied to give ,t, and amply paid bv the li," d<.o, e ,11 hi. ,i.„„ .nd P uV D « „ JS" 1 !" " communicate refpetfting it. I t Wiis however c „ nous to obferye the narrow limits within which wasjo be r.ftridted.and , he „ comprehenfibJe Mode by which it w'as to £ 2 Thegentleman from Virginia "(Mr -ho had heretofore approved tie which he had mentioned to the Attorney-General and ri*-Secretary of State; and who had oiv en efficient aid in making it by law the duty o g f 2 Secretary of the Treaty to repo, c plan's for h management and improvement of the .even" had on this occasion taken some pains to fl.ew ,£ confidence of his political conduct, by attend! ing to prove that management and improvement implied neither project nor appropriation. Thi gentleman had given in. detail :he several nro ceedings which ought to take place to obtau on one hand the benefit of the knowledge of theSe ci etary, and to maintain on the other the inde pendency of the House. Thus according t0 hi ,' plan was the business to be pursued. TheHoj - was in the firft place to call on the Secretary for a Irate of fads ; it was then to resolve itfelf into a committee of the whole to form opinions these opinions were then to be referred to the Secre tary, for him to report, refpeding them a fyf rematic arrangement. Let this scheme.so far as it is intelligible,be examined. Fir (I the Houfeis co obrain from the Secretary a Itate of iVt; The House had been left to conjetfure to what fubjeifts those fads were to relaie—we already knew the deficiency to be provided for—thefub jeds of revenue—fucli as were pre-occupied, and -Inch as dill remained untouched—we also knew how far those which had been occupied were productive. These fads were already known ; we must not receive any opinions or argument*', jive deductions refpetfting them ; this would go in deftrudion of the independence and parity of the House, and some gentlemen feetned to sup pose to the subversion of liberty. The facts whatever they might be were to be referred to a committee of the whole, who as financiers were to form opinions refpeding them —and those opinions were to be sent to the Secretary for a systematic arrangement, and this systematic ar rangement was to be made without any opinion. How this was to be 1 done tiie gen tlemen had not been pleased to declare ; we on ly know that no opinions were tobe recommend ed to the adoption of the House. This was the dreadful enemy to our independence and free dom that, was to be avoided with the utmolt cau tion. He himfelf had hitherto supposed that a systematic arrangement for ihe execution of a complicated and intricate fubjed could not lie made without fuggefiing many opinions. That he helieved this lingular and as yet inexplicable scheme of forming systematic a rrangements with out opinions would be as cut ions as it would be new in pradice. He (aid no gentleman could doubt but tliat the plans of the mini Iter would find their way into the House, if regularly introduced as they bad hitherto been ; the officer whoever he might bt, would be responsible at lead in reputation to America and to the world, which alone would form the strongest motives to industry jind integ rity, in the various plans he (hould recommend. That it appeared to him that gentlemen who so ftrennoufly opposed the present motion, would, if they fliould succeed in their wilhes, destroy mod of the benefits intended by the iuftitution of the office of Secretary of the 1 realury, and wholly screen the officer from every species of responsibility. Mr. Goodhue supported the reference—he ge nerally remarked that in his opinion the mo.t eligible mode to be adopted for raising the fop plies on the present occasion would be by way of loan. He then entered into a confederation o the various obje<fts which ought to be wihin the knowledge of every man who pretends to manage the finances of a country —here lie iaid that he did not think it any derogation from the c. a rarter of anv member of the House to fuppoie that they were less competent to a thorough in veltigarion of fifcal arrangements than an in' l vidual who had made the fubjedt the par tit" a object of his study and attention ; the mischiev ous consequences of committing these nirange ments to numbers had been Severely ielt in 0111 of the States—in the the House do» not however commit its judgment !t ' s ac . '" er , ty to approve or rejert-nnd the meafute in fa« is only taking the belt means to get tie | information. (To TUESDAY Ayes and noes on the motion to amend solution for a further all jmprion of" r ( ■ debts, by adding ♦' whether difcharyed by dates reVpedtively fmce ihcpcn or uiidifcM . ed." MrflVs , April 3 vvti, Findley, Gil«- , Livermore, Mar
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