CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SATUKDaY, Nov. to. Mr. Hartley, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Sylvelter from New-York, took their feats this dav. After referring a petition, the house went into a committee of the whole on the address in answer to the Frefident't speech to both houses at the opening of the session. Mr. Lavvrance in the Chair. The committee went through the dif cuflion of the address, and agieed to feve ial amendments, which the chairman re ported to the house : these were taken in -10 coniideration and agreed to. Oil motion it was resolved that the ad dress (hould be prefe*ted to the President by the Speaker, attended by the members of the house. A committee confiding of Mr. Madi son, Mr. Benfon and Mr. S. Bourne, was then appointed to wait on the President, to enquire at what time and place he would receive the address. The report of the committee on the pe tition of the merchant*' of Charlcllon was taken into couiideration and agreed to— A committee was appointed to bring in a bill pursuant thereto. Mr. Dayton proposed a relolution to the following purport —That the Secreta ry of the Treafilry and Secretary of War be notified that 011 Wednesday next this hoiile intend to take into consideration the report of the committee relative to the caul, s of the failure of the late expedition limitr tiie command of General St. Clair, to the end that they may attend the house to g.ive fueli information as the house may ft'. ■ ier to requiie. i moved that the motion should be i i tie table agreeable to the prac tice , , - noufe. r.e nbers urged the propriety of tak' immediately.; but others ob j'A - ,> D iyton confeiited that it ' !i ' "i the laSle 11 IT Monday. I .le were again fliut, on a motion to tofunie the reading of the con fidential papers received from the Presi dent. MONDAY, Nov. 12. Mr. A Hie took his ft at this day. By the nn tutes of S.ituriay'sproceedings read this day, it appears that the committee appointed to wait on the President of the United States, to know at what time and place it would be con venient for him to receive the address of the House, in answer to his speech to both Houses, imported that the President had appointed Mon day, (this day) at 12 o'clock. A communication was received and read from theTreafury department, containing an account of receipts and expenditures of public money to the end of the year 1791. The memorial of Joseph Warrington, refpec fing a demand on the estate of the late Major General Greene, was read a second time and re ferred to a feledl committee, confiding of MeiTrs. Giles, Livermore, and Findlcy. Mr. Giles laid the following resolution 011 the table.— That the secretary of war be diredled to cause to be laid before the House an account of the disbursements made by his department in the years 1790, and 1791. At 12 o'clock the Speaker accompanied by the other members and preceded by the Ser jeant at arms, waited on the President of the United States with the following address in an swer to his f )eech. Sir, Tht house of representatives, who al ways feel a fatisfaftion in meeting you, are ffuich concerned that the occasion for mu tual felicitation afforded by the circum ftjinces favoiable to the national prosperi ty, (hould be abated by a continuance of the hostile spirit of many of the Indian tribes j and particularly that the reiterat ed efforts for effecting a general paL Jilica tion with them should have iflued in new proofs of their persevering enmity, and the barbarous facrifice of citizens, who, as the of peace, weie diftinguifh '"g thfemfelves by their zeal for the public service.' In our deliberations on this important department of our affairs, we fiiail be dif "ofed to purftie every measure that may pe didiated by the fincereft desire, on one and, of cultivating peace, and manlfeft g by every practicable regulation, our nevolent regard for the welfare of this '• fgb.ukd people ; and by the duty we feel, on ilie other, to provide effec tually for the fafety and protection of our iellow-citiz:ns. ' ,ulc vvlt| i legrtt we learn that symp toms of oppolitiou to the law impofnig duties on fpuirs didilled within the Unit ed States have inaiiiicded themselves, we icfle& with confutation, that they are con fined to a small portion of oui fellow-citi- zens. _ It is not more effcntial to the prcferva ti°n of true liberty that a government (hould be always ready to lillen to the re presentation ot its oonltituents, aiid to ac, commodate its meafuies to the sentiments and wishes of every par t of them, as saras will con fill with the good of the whole than it is that the jult authority of the laws (hould be (tedfaitly maintained. Under this imprtffion, every depart ment of the government and all good citizens mud approve the measures you have taken, and the purpose you have formed to execute this part of your trust, with fiimnefs and energy ; and be allured fir, of every constitutional aid and co operation which may become requisite on our part. And we hope that while the progtefs of contentment under the law in queftior. is as obvious, as it is rational, no particular part of the community may be permitted to withdraw from the gene ral burthens of the country by a conduct as irreconcileable to national justice as it is inconfillent with public decency. The productive Hate of the public re venue, and the confirmation of the credit of the United States abroad, evinced by the loans it Antwerp, and Amfterda'm, are communications the more gratifying, as they enforce the obligation to enter on fyftematif and effedlual arrangements for discharging the public debt as fact as the conditions ofit will permit ; and we take pleasure in the opportunity to assure you of our entire concurrence in the opinion,, that no measure can be more definable, whether viewed with an eye to the urgent wi(h of the community, or the intrinsic importance of promoting so happy a change in our situation. The adoption of a constitution for the state of Kentucky is an event, in which we join in all the fatisfa&ion you haveex prefll-d. It may be considered as parti cularly interfiling ; since, besides the im-; mediate benefits resulting fiom it,it is ano ther a'ufpicious demonstration of the faci lity and success with which an enlighten ed people is capable of providing, by free and deliberate plans qf government, for their own fafety and happiness. The operation of the law eltabliftii ng the poft-office, as it relates to the tranl-, million of nevvf-papers, will m«iit our particular enquiry and attention. The circulation of political intelligence through these vehicles being justly reck oned the surest means of preventing the degeneracy of a fiee government, as well as of recommtnding every salutary public measure to the confidence and co-opera tiori of all virtuous cirtizens- The several other matters which you have communicated and recommended, will in their order receive the attention' due to them. And our discussions will ia all cases, we trust, be guided by a pro per refpeft for harmony and ftabilily- in the public councils, and a defite to con ciliate more ar.d more the attachment of our constituents to the constitution, by meafutes accommodated to the true ends for which it was eltablilhed. To which address th« President made the following Reply. Gentlemen, IT gives me pleasure to express to you the fatisfa&ion which your address affords me.— I feci, as I ought, the approbation you manifeft of the measures I have taken, and the purpose I have formed, to main tain, pursuant to the trust icpofcd in me by the constitution, the refpedt which is due to the laws, and the afiurance which yon, at the fame time, give me of every conliitutional aid and co-operation, that may become requifitc on your part. This Is a new proof of that enlightened solicitude for the eftabli(hment and confir mation of public order, which, embracing a zealuus regard for the. principles of true libei ty, has guided the deliberations of the Ho life of Representatives; a persever ance in which can alone secure, under the divine blefiiog, the real and permanent fe licity of our common country. G. WASHINGTON. The House being returned, the above, reply was read. The reading of the confidential papers being resumed, the galleries were cleared. 191 TUESDAY, Nov. 13. Mr. Hugsrand Mr. Barnwell from South yarolina, t<v>ft their feats this dav. ( Gin. v/ard pre fen ted petition:, from the fol lowing per:ous, viz.—Kufu,* 31odget, Henry "Co-i, and Thomas Davidfon, which were read, and ieveraily referred to the Secretary at War. On motion of Mr. Tucker, the petition of l). Leyman was referred to the committee 011 t.ie petition cf Tnomas Jorinfon —the petition of Simeon Keith, on motion of Mr. Leonard, was referred to the fame committee. Tne petition of Patrick Knox, on motion of Mi. W. Smith, was leferred to the committee of the whole iioufe to whom the report of the Secretary of the Treaf'ury on the subject of 101 l certificates was referred. Mr. Condinof-, of" the committee on the re port of the Secretary of State refpedling the boundary between the irate of Virginia and the Territory of the United States South of the Ohio—brought in a report, which was read. Mr. Dayton's motion, laid on the table last Saturday, relpecting the Secretary of the Trea sury and the Secretary of War, attending the houie, to give information relative to the cauies of the failure of the expedition under General St. Clair, was taken into conlideration. Mr. Williamfon moved that the latter part of the refolutioflj wjiich required the attendance of the two Secretaries on the houie, fliouJd be ltruck out. This motion, after a conliderabie debate, was carried in the affirmative—the fir ft pai t of the resolution was also disagreed to. Mr. W. Smith then moved, that the commit tee of* the whole on the report of" the leic6i committee, relative to the cauies of* the failure of the la t*; expedition, be empowered to fend for persons, papers and records. This motion was agreed .to. Mr. Giles's motion, requiring that the Se <;rQtaryof theTreafury cause to be laid be fore the House an account of the difourfements made bv the department of War, i n the years '7 9 a and 179 1 ~~ was taken into confide ration antLagreed to. Adjourned. Philadelphia, Nov. 14. Late accounts from South-Carolina inform, that there is no doubt the ele&ors of that state will ge nerally vote for Mr. Adams, as Vice-Prcfidcnt. A weak attempt, it is said, has been made by a fifler ilate, to create an antifederal interest in the back country in tavor of Mr. tlinton, but that state is too much attached to the tcdcial government to placc in so high a ikjtion a pd son profeflTedly. hof tiietoit, and who, fbould he be ele&ed, would become the head ol a party tooverthraw it. On Tuefdav, last week, Mr. Jones made a motion in the Senate of New-York, for the pro test of the minority of the canvairers, at the lateeleftion, to be entered upon the minutes of that house, but a meflage coming from the As- : fembly at the instant prevented the confidera-; tion of the motion—and Thuridav Mr. Tillottfon moved that the en try of Mr. Jones's producing a protest aga'mft the determination of the major part of the joint committee appointed to cativafs and estimate the votes taken at the last election, be erased from the journals—debates aro<e, and Mr. Pre sident having put the question thereon, it was carried in the negative—Nays 16—Yeas 7. In 1788 when it was moved in the Legiflatuie of South-Carolina to call a Convent ion lor the adoption of the federal government, a member, who had been a Virginian, proposed that South- Carolina (hould wait until lhe f.iw what (leps her elder filler, Virginia, would pursue ; but this pro portion was universally reprobated by the Legis lature, arid it was immediately rcfolved that as the people of South-Carolina could think and ast for themlelves, a Convention (hould be called, with out regard to the mea Cures of her elder filter. At thai time a letter was received from the Governor of Virginia, proposing a kind of league of the Southern States againlt the new Government, but it was taken no notice of. A correspondent fays, that every patriotic citizen mull be pleased at the conduct of the Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth, in re gard to the unlawful combination in the western counties against the law of the United States for collefling a duty on distilled spirits— More particularly as (it is said) he has taken these de cifivc steps at the instance of the Prelident of the United States. A con,efpom 4 ent observes, that (hould Mr. Adams not have a large majority of the luffrages of the ele&ors for Vice-President, it will confirm the truth of the ingratitude of republics. When the great, eminent, and long continued exertion's and fcrvices of that virtuous itatefmari are remember ed, can Americans requite them by a difinifTal from an honorable station ? Forbid rt, Pairioti Jin. Ought one vote*, on a doubtful question, to cancel a whole lite ol fcrvices—arui blot out the remem brance of John Adams, the Haunch whig, whose labor and abilities have been unremittingly de voted to his country's freedom from the com mencement of the contell with Great-Britain, to the prcfent time ? * The tifling vote on the reprefotatioti bill lajl ftffion \ the bill went up Jtorn the houje ofieprejenta tives ajtth a ratio of one to every 30,000, which would hive given Virginia 2.1 memberand more in propor tion than other Jlates ; the Senate, by the cajhng vote oj the Viie-Prejidert, altered the ratio to 33,'>00, as the bill nsw Jlands—for the house of representatives afterwards thought that latio the mojl proper; but Virginia has only 19 members; and Mr. Ad dm s, for having exertifed his judgment on a speculative que [it on, if to be per/ecuted and disgraced f'h/it Jlute, it is [aid, is enraged againJl him, and will never Jor give him fur that vote. On Wednesday evening last, was married at Gerinantown, by the Rev. Doctor Blair, Mr. Isaac Robcrdeau, to Miss Susan Sbippen Biatr. ; Tl.e fliip Diligence, Capt. NeiJl, is arrived at [New-York, and brings t-» the 28U1 <»i September : By vhich ,it that the mob nad bro;;c open the jewel-offico in Paris belonging to the Crown, and ftoieall the jewels and re/,alia. Some of the thieve ; were cakei , but others got off with an immense booty, va lued at ieveral millions fterjin^. At Lyons a flmihir icene ot inafTacre has been exhibited with that at Paris. M. pumourier's army nas retired with great precipitation and loss of bayga fV6m t i.:t of the Auitrians. "I his, lays the JSruiiels account, gives the combined army the key of Paris, a,i dilticult paliages being now forced. It is (aid that the Coinmiflioners appointed to fettle the accounts between the ieveral States, will make their report to the Pretident early in the prelent I'eiHon, in order that pvovifiou mav be made by the Legislature for the balance due to particular States. Maliaehuietts and Souti - Carolina are the two States who are expected to have the largelt balances. The Duke of Cumberland Packet arrived at N'ew-Yoik lall Saturday night. Accounts lioui London by this vessel are 1101 later lhau the 8 n of September. The Chetlerficld (August) Packet arrived at Fal mouth the 4th of September Iroin New-York. We hear thai the lower house of aflembly of Connecticut have palled a bill for conihtuting a bank in New-Haven. COMMUNICATION. The partisans ol faction have frequently cem~ mated themselves in pretending to be friends to a representative government: The purity of their lentiinents on this ellential principle of lepublicanifin may well be lulpeaed, as they are now exerting every method to vitiate til t only lource of legitimate authority ; sensible that the people, unhiaffed and unprejudiced, will elect and re elect their bell men, their tri ed and uucoirupted patriots, this party have lor a long time been indefatigable in difTemi nating the most peltiient poilor, principles and lies among the electors ; and men who ilood ai firm as pillars of adamant,in the darkest hour? our country ever (aw, have been represented as conspirators against: the public liberty, because they happen to be in office through the free and unbialTed choice of their fellow-citizens ! It was the necefl'ary effc-ft of the funding sys tem that the public creditors lhould be beiii fited thereby ; and the circumstances of every man in the country are rendered more eligible by the operation of the government of the Uni ted Stater,; so that after alljthe sophistical de clamation against both, the greatest grievance to their enemies is, that they enforce the prin ciples of justice, public and private. I Public and private justice are the only bafu 'ofgeneral confidence—and it ought to be se riously considered bv the citizens of the United Stares, what will probably be the consequence ill a very short time of throwing an odium 011 the measures which have wrought fj favorable a change in the affairs of this country, by ex cluding from the cdminiftratiou the firmeft and 1110 ft independent patriots of the country. SHIP NEWS. ARRIVED a! the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Ship John Bulkley, Bordeaux Sclir. Nancv, Newfon, New-London Annabella, Hare, Weft-Indies Ranger, Gladding, Newport Industry, Elmy, Rhode-1 Hand Driver, Gardner, Sloop New Forge, Cufiling, PRICE OF STOCKS 6 per Cir.ts, 3 per Cents, Deferred, Full Iharcs Bank U. S. 45 Iharcs, Unfunded debt of the U.S. 21/6 on the principal, And on the lntereft up to Ift Jan. 1788, 13J. ADVERTISEMENT. G~T This Gazette is pubtijhed in North Fifth-Street, A'u. 34, between High and Mulberry Streets—where the Editor now resides. A LARGE CELLAR TO LET, Sufficiently capacious tojiure Jtveral hundred barrels* Enquire as above. At a General Meeting of the Sublet ibers to th c UNIVERSAL TON! INK, held by adjourn ment at the Siatc-Houfe, in the City of PSnla dclphia, on Monday, November 12. 1792. The Committee appointed at the lglt Meeting, Reported, THAT, in their opinion, it will be for the in terest of the concerned, to change the Uni verfa! Tontine into a general Jnfuiance Company*— and submitted a plan tor that purpose to ihe con sideration ol the meeting. The plan having been lead, it was Refohed unanimovjly, That the Universal Tontine Affectation he, and it is hereby changcd from its original oojedls, and converted into a Society to be called The Injuranct Company oj North-America. Rejoined, unanimoujly, That the Secretary of the late Universal Tontine Affoc'ation procure one hundred copies ot the aiorcfaid plan, to be lor the use of the Subscribers, and that the fa.id plan be further conlidered at the next meeting. Resolved unanimoujly, That if any ot the original Subicnbers to the Universal Tontine Allocution, his, her, or their aflignre or affiances, (hall noi,on or before the twelfth dav of December next, be come Subscribers to the Jnjurance Company oj North- such Subscriber, or his, her, or tneir as signee or aflignees, (hall recive from the Agents of the Universal Tontine Afi~>cidtion, the dcpofit monies paid for his, her, or their shares lv, togiiher wiih the proportion ot intercft, or piofit>, if any, acctucd on the capital, deducting iheiefiom their proportion of the expencts in curred. Adjourned, to meet at the State-Hoiife in the City ot Philadelphia, on Monday ihe 191b ii it. at 10 p'ejock, A. M jbxtra£fc from the Minutes, EB£NEZ£R HAZARD, Netv-London M^flachufetts VJjl ( Int - ° ff 1 3j3 per cent, prem
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