CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVEt.
MONDAY, December 17.
The bill received from the Senate on Fri
day last, in addition to, and for altering the
for fettling the accounts between the
United States and individual states, was read
t i ie letond time, and referred to a committee
of the whole Houie ; to be the order of the
day oil the second Monday in January.
A report on the petition of Simeon Thayer
was read ; this report was in favor of the pe
titioner, and was referred to a committee of
the whole for ta-morrow.
In committee of the whole, Mr. Sedgwick
in the chair —The report of a feleft commit
tee to whom the petition of the Executors
•of Edward Carnes, aad the report of the Se
cretary of the Treasury thereon, had been
referred, was taken into conlideration—After
some difcullion of the fubje<X,the report of the
feleit committee was agieed to by the com
mittee of the whole—this being reported to
and adopted by the Houle, a committee was
appointed to prepare and report a bill in con
formity thereto.
A mcflage was received from the Senate,
by Mr. Secretary Otis, informing the House
that the Senate recede from their amendment
to the bill for regi/lcring ani recording ojjhips or
vejjth, which bad been dilagreed to by the
Houl'e —[See the lalt Gazette] —We hear that
the votes of the Senate on this occafi in were
equally divided, and that the Vice-President
gave the calling vote to recede.
The consideration of the confidential mes
sage recurring, the doors of the gallery were
»•»'!! closed.
ESDAY", Dec. 18.
,c presented a memorial from
the i'uium..iioiied officers of the New-York
line of the late army, in behalf of tlieml'elves
and of the privates of said army, ftatipg their
services, the partial coinpenfatioil they have
received, and the balances they conceive
to be still due to them.—This memorial was
read.
Mr I
Mr. Muhlenberg presented a memorial on
the fume fubjeft from the otticers of the Penn
f/lvania line—whioh was also read.—These
memorials were laid on the table.
The petition of John Saidler was read, and
referred to the Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr. Sedgwick, after some preliminary re
marks, stating the iituation of the Report of
the Secretary of the Treasury, containing a
plan for the reduction of the public debt, and
for reimburfmg the loan made of the Bank of
the United States, suggested the propriety of
crating these two objedts; and in order to
l . * moved the following Resolution in
juollmce—
'* Tnat tue Committee of the whole, to
whom was referred the ibbjeft of the rejm
burfcnieitt of the loan made of the Bank of the
United States, be dilcharged from further
considering the fame—and that a seleCt Com
mittee be appointed to prepare and,report a
bill, kujfhoriijng a loan for the purpose,—laid
on the table.
T hs House took into consideration the
Coasting bill, in order to its being engrofled,
but after a few remarks, —on motion, it was
voted that the bill be re-committed to the
Committee which reported the fame.
Mr. W. Smith moved that the House ihou]d
refimie the consideration of the bill to afcer
tam the fees demandahle in cases of Admi
ralty proceeding, in the Courts of the United
States, and for other purpofej,—this motion
was disagreed to.
On motion, the confederation of the confi
dential bunnefs was relumed, and the galle
ries cleared.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
'TMOSE wiio reason against federal measures
A and principles may be met on fair ground
— The federal cause cannot fulfer by fair dif
cuilion. Being ued to defeat on this field,
and the people being well fettled in their refo-
Jution to maintain their own, which is the fe
deral eaufc, tiie enemies of government have
resorted to art and cunniug to obtain what
the solemn decUion of America has denied
them.—Tiiey could not prevent the adoption
of the constitution ; they have therefore put.
inpraftice every artifice to mar it in the ad
ministration.—He is a novice in the history of
parties who does not know that by doing so,
they a (ft according to the laws of their na
ture.
It is probable that a few well-wifliers to or
der and the constitution have co-operated
with men of a different ftanip in some of their
late manoeuvres.—To such men, it is proper
to address lome reflections, to induce them
well to consider the pernicious nature of" the
schemes which they have been drawn in to fa
vor, and kmay be hoped they will not fail to
renounce them.
The papers for more than a year past have
been ftuffjd with infmuations againil the go
vernment and its nieafures ; every thing has
fceen doue to alarm the fears and jealousies of
the people. Direct charges would not do—
they might be disproved—but dark hints are
given, men in oxfice are blown upon by a lide
wind—-prejudices are hunted up and heated
all the greatfyftems of Cj.igrets. The
excise, the funding system, the bank, the ex.
ceilive rare for {peculation are inide to fur
iiiili fubjefts of complaint or alarm.
This mil's of invective against the govern-
cannot have escaped tne notice of every
reader—and t'l2 influence of the newjpaoers
public opinion is too con-iderable and di
to fivTir us to believe that these incen
diary writings h.;ve bsea w noHy without ef-
I.
■foft. By reviewing the conduct of parties
Mole woo have been deceived in iy be unde
ceive;!.
The writer, against govsrnment'have l*c»
accufrdof the ninft fcditious antifcderaiiiin
-t ney complain heavily of this charge, a„d in
turn accule their aecufcrs of aj.r.iij" at mo
narchy ami arirtocracy; they dare°not find
fault with the constitution—the people would
not liftifn to mifchief makers who fiionjd '-e
so impudent. It is neceli'ary to alarm the
people for the fafc-ty of the constitution, and
to persuade them that ill defi-rns are harbored
by its bc-ft friends—thofe who introduced it
and who ifoxv' administer it. Accordingly
they have played upon the multitude, cau
tioning thera au.ainit the arts of the aristocrat'
and the monarchy men. But who are tbev i
They tell us, they are the high flying fede
ralifts—the supporters of the corrupt monied
systems of Conor-Is. Now who are thole sup
porters of the measures of Congress. The
The President, the Governor of Pennfylvariia
and the great body of the people. The pub
lic has fern the Preiident's speech ; his lan
guage agrees with that used by the supporters
of the measures of Congress; he cxprefs'v
tells them that he will do every thing ip his
power to support thole measures—in parti
cular the excite which the iucendiaries have
pretended no free people could or ought to
endure. The governor expressly ascribes the
happy fitnalion of Pennsylvania to the opera
tion of the national government, and fpfcnks
of the confidence placed in th«t government
as well merited. Indeed, the Lcgiflature in
stead of being employed to raise taxes on the
citizens of the State, are chiefly concerned to
apply discreetly the surplus revenue wliiph
they draw from the Treasury of the National
government. The people of this State may
well be supporters of the federal caule as well
as of the government- The body of the peo
ple are in peace and (we have it on the high
est authority in our country) appear to be di(-
posed to support the laws of Congress It is
a poor trick to mention the ill designs of the
supporters of these laws when it thus appears
that the President and the body of the people
are included in this description. It foliows
clearly from a flight view of the conduct and
writings of the lall year that there is a partv
—it is to be hoped, not a large one, opptjfed
to the laws of the union aad to the sense of the
people—who have tried by blackening the
government to make it change hands—riap
pily for our country they have tried in vain.
FROM THE NATIONAL GA7.ETTE.
Mr. Freneau,
THE State of Kentucky having encreafed the num
bcr of the emblematic (tars, and a]}aided an op
portunity of arranging them in a veto foim —/fend
you the following ti'fle on the J'ubjeft. Ihe Na->
tional Motto, which I mijh to include, mi/1 he a. juj
jiticnt apology Jor writing in Latin.
Yovr'tj
Philad. Dec. 10.
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Barbara Pyramidum filcat miiacixla Memphis."
Hen male fervili marniora ftru&a manu !
Libera jam, ruptis, Atlantias ora catenis,
Jaftat opus Phario marmore nobilius.
Namque Columbiadx ,faiH monument* parantrs
Vulgarem fpernunt fumere materiam :
Magnanimi coelum fcandunt; peritu^aquefaxa
Quod vincat, celfa de Jovis arce petunt.
Audax inde cohors ftellis E Pluribus Unum
Ardua Pyramidos tollit ad aftra caput.
Ergo, Tempus edax, quamvis dui i/Tima fsevo
Saxa domas morfu nil ibi juris babes.
Dumque polo folitis coguata nitoribus ardent,
Sidei a, fulgeb t Pyi amis ilia fuis.
TRANSLATION OF THE ABOVE.
NO more let barbarous Memphis boast
Base rear'd by flavilh hands—
A nation on the Atlantic coait
(Fetter'd no more in foreign bands)
A nobler Pyramid displays
Than Egypt's marble e'er could raise.
Columbia's sons, to extend a proof
Of their bold deeds to future years,
Disdain to uie such vulgar {tuff;
But, soaring to the itarry spheres,
Materials seek in Jove's blue sky
T' endure when I:rafs and marble die.
Arriv'd among the lhining host,
Fearless, the proud invaders spoil
From countless gems, in asther loft,
Some stars, to crown their mighty toil :
To heaven a pyramid they rear,
And point the fabric with a star.
Old waftful time ! though still you gain
Dominion o'er the brazen tower,
On this your teeth lhall gnaw in vain,
Finding its strength beyond their power —
While kindred stars in heaven lhall glow,
This Pyramid will shine below !
EXTRACTfrom a QUAKER MEMORIAL,
latch to the Lcgijlatu)c of Virginia.
" YOl/R memorialills being informed,
that a chaplain is hired by the aflembly to at
tend the houle during the lefiion, and paid out
of the public trealury, they believe it right
for « iem to express their uneasiness at the
continuance of such a practice ; as well trom
conscientious scruples, as a beliei that it is
inconilftent with the spirit and intention of
the present constitution : they are however
far from wifh ; ng to discourage any from rhe
exercise of religious duties ; but being fully
persuaded that such a&s of devotion would
be as acceptable in the fight of the great ob
je& of adoration and worfliip, were they per
formed at the proper cxpence of thole who
may believe ir necefiary to hnve the alfiftiince
of a chaplain ; so they conceive no inconven
ience whatever can result from its becoming
a private instead of a public expeiiCe."
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Philadelphia, Dcc. iy.
The electors ot" Proficient and Vice Prefi"
. "t ior the State of Ntw-Hampfhire ha-, iag
e,'ven an unanimous vote fur George Wain
lHgton and John Adams; it appears that tbofe
gentlemen are re-elected Prelident and Vicc-
President of the United States
Benjamin Talliaferro, John King, William
Gibbons and Seaborn Jones, efquirc*, are tlje
Lleftors ot' Prelident and Vice Prelident of
the United States for the ft'ate of Georgia.
The House and Senate of the state of Geor
gia, do 11,>l in the .node of St
nators of the United States,—the Honl"e insist
on 'A joint and the Senate on a concurrent vote.
The latelt accoants from Cape-Francois,
to the I jth Nov. fay that M. Rochambean,
tlie newlv appointed commander in chief, has
lately taken from the revolted negroes their
strongest and mod important posts, and there
is now a profpeift of a complaat reduction of
the Hb.nci.
INSURANCE COMPANY
The fublcviption lor conliitilting the capi
tal {lock of tlie Insurance Company of North
America, amounting to Six Hundred Thou
fiind Dollars, was completed on the 13th inft.
pud the firfi inftallnient paid into the hands
of the Secretary.—The Company being or
ganized agreeably to the constitution, have
commenced the bulinefs of Insurance ; and
tlie Directors intend to petition the Legisla
ture ot the state, for an act of Incorporation.
M. Blanchard, the celebrated itronaut who
lately arrived in tins city from Hamburg, we
hear intends to entertain the public shortly with
an serial excurlion, Ihould fufficient encourage
ment be given to defray the expence.
On the 13th Nov. last the corner ft one of
an Orphan House and asylum for orphans, and
the children of poor and distressed parents,
was laid, in Charleston, South-Carolina, by
his honor John Huger, Esq. Intendant of the
citv.
Ext>ad of a Utter from Bojlon, November 16.
" We have now one of the newly invented
patent Wind Mills ere&ed in this town—it is
30 feeet high and 1 8 feet diameter—it carries
two large grind-il -n.-s, and a laihe for turning
~il forts of iron work.- One hand can grind
eight dozen of axes in one day by means of this
invention.—Our Glass Works are going on ra
pidly—the specimens of window glass already
produced are, if poflible, superior to London
Crown."
A writer in a late New-York paper, fay?
<( I find that a certain'author, under the fig
,natnre of Luciuc,would persuade the Electors
for President and Vice-Preftdent, that Gov.
Clinton, ill consequence of the amendments
the new constitution, though an antif'ede.
;* M> c-w«rai4v-aiul
that the spirit of antifcderalifm is extinct.
A. B. ;
u If that good man had after ted, he saw a
whale on hoffe-back, in New-York or Phila
delphia market, he would be entitled to much
about the fame degree of credence. Sophistry
njay gratify the appetites of some political
gudgeons ; but fads are itubborn things, and
speak louder than words.
"fxempli gratia.--The legislature of thisftate
have lately appointed twelve antifcderalifts,
ele&ors of President and Vice-President of the
United States—This is our whole number of
ele&ors, and all Clintonians."
Saturday last the House of Representatives
of this commonwealth, determined that the
choice of Senators to the Congress of the
United States, (hall be by a joint vote.
A correlpondent observes, that Ihould the
Senate concur with the House of Representa
tives, in their resolution for a joint vote in
the choice of Senators, they would so far an
nihilate their integrality as a branch in the
government—Should they non-concur, it is
probable the state will continue unreprefent
ed in the Senate of the National Legislature—
this appears to be the dilemma—a precedent,
consolidating the two branches of the state
legiflaturo into one—or a partial representa
tion in the Senate of the United States.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Writers who pretend to be believers in the
public infallibility, have repeatedly compli
mented the people, bv faying that while they
jveie ajleep rheir enemies ttole away their pri
vileges.—-Again theie confident writers fay,
that the people being lulled into insensibility,
luffered every species offraud, injustice and
predatory speculations, yea monarchical tares
to be sown among their pure republican wheat
—and from thcfc have sprung up the fafhiona
ble do&rin?, that the people are not the pro
per keepers of their own liberties ! Time
with his scythe ran ft: surely make fad havoc
with such confident principles.
A distant correfpondrnt has noticed with no
tl* of failsfaftiou, tlh>t the Legislature
of the Union has at lengih entered upon the ar
duous bnfincfs of ft aming a bankrupt Juw ; and
he feels strongly perluadtd thai a spirit of genu
ine patriotism, and a god-like sympathy for the
unfortuate and diftrcfTed debtors of the ftveral
Siat« s, wii! Annulate to exrraoidinary exertions
in maturing the fvilem, so that the present ses
sion <>f Co ngrefs, though Qiort, may not c*pirc,
and leave thofc who have little or no hope jiom
any other quarter in a state of übfolute despon
dency.
Thnfc who have turned attention to this
fubjeft, would aid the c,»ufe <»' humani; y hy fub
mittiag the result of their tcflefti ns arid enqui
ries to the public.— Some of the difficulties and
perplexities (and which are conceived to be ve
ry numerous) that will pr( sent tnemfrlvea ; n
difcuiimcr the buiincfc may happily
obviated.
*vcry writ wilher tn the liberty ami happ .
llefsot mankind will r'joice to fee n, e p r<n i.
lion !or fiee pno'ic (chools made oneol the fpe
. iali.l jeci* of attention lor i e Lcgiflaiu.e of
Ptnnly ivjimo, during their preient fdiion It
IS r-rri <tlvtx> 4>e w.,lt>cd, that difputcs about
ibe bitt niorieol advancing this gnat nnpnnc.
men»«i legislation, may nor preeiiu ,- I;v tliin»
bemg ctfeCUd. Certainly ttiort art m»;, v w ., v "
a'id probably many light wa\s toff :>«».,'
tile fame dclign. It is better 10 pegm ti, '
even on ,11 wnpLil.ct and except i'»iw;.ie ,
than to delay it. For eveiy \,n's d y a
wrong don. » i«bl.ay cnmmi.ied «...
posterity. Ti .• law eltabluHing w f, t
luve no fli.bliorn principles winch it will be
bard 10 reform,a» tirncatid expei icncc-niay (hew
•'"'r d«-tc6 On the contrary, ,tis to i H I\-
ptttert tiia' lie inoft matuie lyiteni <*.iii
freqiuni amendments.
7 lie go al putpofe mud be to put tie mean,
of inllmfiion as generally as poHible imo the
hands of the people. Knowltdge like the light
ol In-avrn llioitld be common to all.
This bufintfs is in New-England chitfly l^ft
to the management of the town corporations
which corporations inclnde the inhabitant® liv
ing in a certain diilnft, commonly ?bout fix
miles Icfnare, and amounting to one two or three
thousand persons. The towns are obi iard by*
law to provide fchool-malter s and fchool-nrf*
tresses, of approved chaiadter, and who arc ex
amined and certified to be well qualified. The
time which a town is to provide fc hoofing ij
longer or (horrer in proportion to the number ot
inhabitants. In cule of negled, the towns are
liable to be prelented and fined, and it is the du
ty of all grand-juiois and Ynagiftraies to fee tins
breach of the law duly profecutcd.
In Mafidchuictts, any, number of per foes, ac
cording to their.ronvenience, are formed into a
fchooj diltrift and they draw their part of the
f hool money.—But the diflntb in fume itillan
ces have been so iubuivid d «s to produce ill
e e£ts.— Instead of one two or three i'chools in
a tow»> Tor a Long term. hx or eight. Lave h <n
annually opt nat once, ana in confrquerice the
fcbool money is soon expended aiul the cly -
drcn are leh destitute oi teaching. This deleft
will perhaps be amended in that State, t;nd the
divifiori and the Ichool money so f;*r rcftraimd
that it may not depi ivecbildren of one halt their
fchooliug as the cafe is at piefeut. Id framing
the law in this Siate no doubt an eye will be hiid
to this delefcl. I: will be mccffary to study
the systems of th- States where fchoolj, are esta
blished, and, what is more, to learn the attu.il
operation of thoie fyltems. Bv a due attention
to this iubjeft, fntuie enlightened gcneiations
will call us blcffed.
In No. weinleued a paragraph refpe&ing
a treatise on " King, Loriis ana Commons," &r.
—In No. 56, a paragraph beginning "The zAcn
influenced by poll:ica 1 and and avaricious views,#
&c.—the above, and the lollowing appear 10 be
the productions of the fame hand :
i( NO irtun ffjys the Hartford correfponde nt) who
knows the attachment which the great mas of sub-
Jlantial Americans have for that fyftcm (the piefent
fyflcm ej finance) and their iklerown-ifion uj ivett
as power to fnpport it, would venture upon the ha
zardous experiment (of changing it/' —lilt avo. —
Thii probable fpecuiator talks as if the Joldiers had
been cheated out 0) then couragr* as well a t thr
pay. Others will think it more the language of tnr
pudence than heroijm 1 hat the dealers in certifi
cates and scrip fhouid be attached to J)ferns that have
made then in their own conceit the onlv fubflantial
Americans, no man will doubt. That if theii power
were under no check but their own will, thev would
ufc it not singly in thecaufe of avarice, but in ano
ther that lies near their hearts is equally believed.—
Money is their /do/. Their extravagant zeal and
incenfi to monarchical charaders /hew what is the
fecund object of their prayers and adoration. But
it is well for these /peculating monocrats, who thus
dijiinguifk themselves by all the infolevce of upjlurt
ill-got wealth, that their favorite system rc/ls hot ei
ther on their determination or then power.—lt is
supported by the disposition of the real ma Is of sub-
Jlantial Americans to bear th - ffiem, bad us it is,
as a less evil than tofhake the public faith or flabili
ty with which it is now implicated. T!ii t% ye dror.es
°f f ts the true security ye enjoy for your fu
perciHous fplcndor and lazy affluence- If you desire
not to weaken it advised by your prudence in /lead
of your arrogance and vanity. Forbear to adi the
insult of menaces to the injuries which flill affli J the
ruined patriots whose earnings have enriched yett %
injuries which flill implore the fymapthdic indigna
tion of a virtuous and grateful people.
It is often Jaid the government and not the spec -
lators are to be blamed for the tnjuflice* if any h
been done, to those vjho lent their blood and propc
tv towards eflablifh'ng the liberties of their county ■ '
But what rnufl be /aid if the government has b<en hn
much in the handj oj Jpecu!ators s or too much und
their influence,
SHIP NEWS.
ARRI VliD at the PORT oj PHILADFJ PHI A
Brig Kitty, M'Allilter, St.Euftatia*
Isabella and Ann, Hampton, dit't •
Nancy, Hathaway, Ilifpaniol •
Sch'r Juno, Norton, Bofto.
William, Knox, Halifax
President, Carhart, Virgini.
Sloop Merrimack, Lowel, Newburyport
The brig Ann &: Mary, Sweetman, is u •
rived in the river from Cork, 70 days.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
6 per Ccdcj, 20/2 '
3 per, Cents, 12/
Deterred, "J*
Full fliirei Bank. U. S. 37 per ccm. prem
i lharcs, 46
To make room jor the important French in
telligence publijhcd this d&) t Catullus is further pcjl
poned, till Saturday.
Insurance Company.
THE OFFICE of tbc Insurance Company of
North-Aaici »ca commenced bulinefs on
Saturday lad, and will continue open every day
Sundays (xccpied, at No. Ix 9, south Front-Street
where orders, foreign and domcftic,will be duly
attended to.