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.
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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.
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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
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