CONGRESS. MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19. A letter was read from the Secretary of War, aommunicatiag, pursuant to orders from the iprefident of the United States, dispatches from Brigadier General Wilkini'on, containing an ac count of a recent attack from a party of Weft ,crn Indians, on an encampment of American troops under the command ot Major Adair, near Fort St. Clair, in which the Indians were repulf cd —and a letter from James Seagrove, Super intendant of Indian affairs to the Creek nation, giving an account of a favorable termination to a treaty or interview held with the Chiefs ot that nation. Ivlr. Sedgwick called up his motion, laid on the table yesterday, for discharging the commit tee of the whole on that part of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury which relates to reimbursing the loan made of the Eank of the United States, and to appoint a fele& commit tee who should report a bill making provision in the cafe. This motion was agreed to, and a committee confiding of Messrs. Sedgwick, Lawrance and Murray, were appointed. In committee of the whole on the bill to regu late trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. Mr, Dayton in the chair. 1 He "bill was read through, and then eonfi dered by paragraphs. Sundry amendments were made. The committee proceeded through the discussion ; they then role and reported the bill with those amendments, which were laid on the tabic, and the house adjourned. THURSDAY, Dec. 20. A Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petition of LudwicKuhn, was read. This re. ort was against the prayer of the petition. Mr. Murray presented a memorial of sundry of the Officers of the late Maryland line of the Army, in behalf of themselves and the privates of tht fa id army. The objeA of this memorial is iinidar to those from the Officers of the Penn sylvania and New-York lines, whieh is, compen fition for tl:e depreciation and loss fuflained by them 0:1 t! - certificates received for their fervi a . This menforial was read and laid on the tubl., with the others. t. Steele laid a resolution on the table, to the foilv>win.- purport, viz. Twut lrv.irtee be appointed to prepare and brin; '1 io reduce the military eftablifti- .t jd'States""to liietn or corj.. , iingeachof non-com mi (lion ed 0. ;srs,privates and i®nficians, with such proportion of comtfiij/Loiied officers as the President may tnmk proper to continue infer vice.—And to repeal so much of an a<st palled the sth Marc!?, 1792, entitled, "An ast for making further a;:d more etfrftual provifiun for the protection of the Frontiers of the United Stater," as may contravene this in tention. This motion, Mr. Steele said, he was influen ced to bring forward, from two motives. The firfl was to afford more effectual protection to the frontier?—the other was, that by this reduc tion a sum of money might be drawn from the War Department, to be applied to the reduction of the public deht, so that a necefiity for new taxes, to that objeii, may be fupercedeci. The fele& committee, to whom the coasting |>ill had been re-committed, reported sundry a- Aendments, which were taken into eonfidera tion by the House, and all of them agreed to. Mr. Clark objected to a clause in the I 2th fe&ion, which enjoins that every change of the matter of every packet or ferry-boat, shall be reported at the custom-house the firtt oppor tunity. Mr. Dayton stated the inconveniencies to which the matters and owners of the small copfting craft and packet boats belonging to the ttate ofNew-Jerfey would be particularly expo sed by this injunction, where the mailers are very frequently changed. To remove this ob je&ion Mr. Goodhue proposed to insert thele words, ferry-beats excepted. This motion wai adopted. It was then ordered that the bill be engrofled for a third reading. The amendments reported by the committee of the whole to the bill to regulate trade and in tercourse with the Indian tribes were taken into consideration. Objections were made to the fifth fe<sKon, which contemplates legiftating, and punilhing crimes committed within the boundaries of the Indian countries—it was contended that the ca- mentioned were fully provided for by trea ties, or by the laws of the refpe&ive states; the whole ground, it was said, is covered by these provitions; and therefore there appears an im propriety, if not an absurdity, in ena&ing, in a Jubfequent law, that certain punishments lhall be infli&ed for certain crimes, which are fufiici ently recognized by the several treaties already formed ; that the attempt would operate unjust ly, the provifious may reach our own citizens, but cannot affedt so fully as they ought the Sa vages. It was moved that the whole fe&ion ihould be struck out. Inoppofition to this motion,it was said, that the power of the general government to legis late in all the territory belonging to the Urnon, not within the limits of any particular Hate, can not be doubted : if the government cannot Wiakc laws to refuain perfens fioni going out cf the limits of any of the state?, and commit mur ders and depredations, it would be 111 vain to expeil any peace with the Indian tribes. The power ol Cougrefs to legislate, independent of treaties, it wa: also said, must be admitted for it is impossible, that every cafe Ihould be provid ed for by thofc treaties. The question being called for, Mr. Glarl; rose and observed, that he conceived it "w as of im portance that the house Ihould vote with th.'ir eyes open; and to enable them to do this, he said he Ihoultl read the ordinance of the late Congreft pasTed in 1787, refpe&ing the fettle nient of the wtillem country. He observed that he believed very few of the members had turned their attention to it. He accordingly read fueh parts of the ordinance as'he thought essential to the point, which was to (hew that the clause of the bill now toiler consideration, would is it. operation violate the solemn ftipulatiom with the settlers contained in the ordinance, as full provision is contained in the ordinance to insti tute all civil and criminal proccfTes.-The motion for striking oui ihe fe&ion was negatived. The amendments of the committee of the whole were agreed to with some amendments.—Various i'ub fequent amendments were moved with various success, some being agreed to and others reject ed. Without fimihing the diicuilion of the bill the house adjourned FRIDAY, Dec. 21- Mr. Hartley called up the petition of Capt. William Maekay, tor second reading—i 6 was aecoidingly read, and un motion of that gentle man, tefened to the Secretary of War, to report theieon. A bill making appropriations for the ftipport of government i'or the year 1793, w b'<"h was re ported vefterday, was this day read twice, and referred- to a committee of the whole Houfe-4 Mr. Steele proposed 'hat the bill Ihould be polt poned to the fuft Monday in Januiy—He oH fcrved that he bad laid a motion on the table ftff a commiticc to report a hill to redu< e <hq mili tary tilablifhmcnt of the United States—This appropriation bill makes provision for the pre sent cftablifhmrnt, and if it is a&ed upon, and pa (Ted immediately, it will prtclude an oppor tunity sot difcufling the merits of the proporti on contained in the motion which he had made. The motion for the firft Monday in Janua ry, was negatived—-Mr. Steele then moved, the last Monday in December, which being put was carried. Mr. HeKter and Mr. Moore were appoint ed as the joint committee on enrolled bill-., on the part of the House. A meflage was afterwards received from the Senate informing the House of their con currence in the resolution for the appoint ment of a joint committee on enrolled bills, and that they had appointed Mr. Brown on their part. Mr. Sedgwick reported a bill providing for a re-imburfement «»f a loan made of the bank of the United State-?, which was twice read, and committed for Monday next. 'The House re funwd the con fide rati on of the bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian Tribes ; a motion to amend the fifth fe&ion by altering the clause which make«? it felony for any citizen, or citizens of the United States unlawfully to invade any Indian settlement, to fine and imprisonment for that crime—occasioned conliderable de bate.—This motion was finally fuperceded by one to recommit the bill —which being car ried—it was recommitted to the fele<st com mittee which reported it ; on motion, Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Murray were added to the committee. regiments Mr. Gerry moved the followingin —That the compiittee be inftrufted to report a chufe making additional provision for the ellubliftiment of permanent agents to reficle among the Indians which now are, or may her-after be at peace with the United States; alio tor carving on trade with such Indians, U'lrier tie direction qf the President of the 17.1: ted State-;—and for an adequate supply of nr-ccfiarv articles 00 jull and reasonable terms; a> J under such regulations as to guard them a;;ainft inipolitiiß »rd extortion. This mo tion was hi.tfw the ta.Ue.—Mr. Gerry gave notice that he flfcllild'Call it up <m Mondiy ncxf A ; ""T:ori <A-a4read Iroin R.obert Ralfton, af figrit ;Ti n.,s Bjrcfuy—and referred to the S.v; :uiy <jl Irrafui'y. In ton.;-. ofthr wholr on the bill to af eertair. Nif lees .1 -u 1 i in cast'S of ad niit alty proceedings 1: to couitsot the United States, and for oih r ;,ui p..:.'..—Mr. Dayton in the chair—The Coir.', .. farther prognft'in the'difcuffion ps the Ui: - .. i. rnfe without fimlh ing it, and hid Icuve to hi. ngain. Adjournrd, Philadelphia, Dec. 22. Extrafl of a letter from. Mr. Fenwick. Cartful of the United States at Bordeaux, to the Secretary of State, dated Bordeaux, 11M 179 2 * 44 It was decreed the 6th in ft. that, after the firfl: day of October, all Tobaccos tuat were fubjeft to a duty of iSliv. 1 \* r cei't fliould pay roli.per cent, and such as paid 2511. per cent, duty,fliould pay 1211. All other lo baqcu of whatever country, fliould be admit ted 011 paving a dutv of 15 P er quintal. Tims American Tobacco stands favored in the duty sfi.per cent-imported in French vel fels, and 3 livres if imported in Amen can bottoms direst from America. " The administrators of the liripoit <iave given general orders to the Directors ot the Cuftorn-houfes, to admit no merchandize or productions whatever, to the payment ot the duties, without a certificate ot their origin. This certificate mnft be from the French Consul in the port of the expedition; or m cafe there ihould be no Consul, by a Nutu. ->i Justice of the Peace. " This information is lntereftmg tot. Merchants throughout the United States. 235 By accounts from Pittlburgh, it appears that the Indians with whom General Putnam hud fnade a treaty, had arrived at Legion ella, the winter quarters cf the army under th«command ef Gen. Wayne. i no fnbficription lor the Bank of* Alexan ti ia, in Virginia, was filled in less than two hours. We hear that the electors of Pnefident and Vice-Profident for the ftatc of North-Cai o -I'na, gave a unanimous vote for George \Vashin3ton aud George Clinton. An account from Cape-Francois, of Nov. 15, f.\"s—Yeitcrday two whites, one a deserter of tlx? Cape regiment, and ten negroes taken prisoners in the attack of Ouaminthe, arrived here at about four in the afternoon, guarded a company of horse guards. They were conduced to the national commifliorrer, who ordered tliem to prifou. An immense crowd accompanied tliefe twelve unfortunate peo ple, and notwithstanding the efforts of the guard, they had scarcely turned the firft cor ner, when a band of soldiery enraged by the fight of the deserters, ft ruck them with their fwords—thcfe Wows were the signal of death for all the others, who were butchered on the spot. A Conne&icut paper fays—A person lately from Canada, informs, that a few nights pre vious to his leaving that colony, three Britifti soldiers deserted their post, and took with them their fire-arms, dec. that they werepur fued by four Indians, who overtook them the next day, when the deserters firing on the In dians and killing three of them, continued their route. The Indian who escaped, we learn, is a Chieftain. Drury-Lase'New Theatre measures 198 feet in length by near 150 in width. It is to be finilhed iq September J.793—and the lirlt performance will be there the last day of that vs-r.r. A writer in a New-York paper, addressing himielf to Mr. W. Willcocks, a writer of a number of political efTays, supposed to be le velled at Governor Clinton, and the antifede ral party, politely advises Mr. Willcocks to 44 extract the political louse froin his ear," which makes such a scratching on rhe tym panum, as leads the patient to suppose all the world to be in arms, and every one a rogue that does not believe as he does. The audience the Theatre in Boflon, being enraged at the unseasonable interrup tion of the entertainment by the Sheriffs ar rcfting Mr. Harper, broke the Arm? of the Governor's to pieces, whichhad been fixed on one of the fide boxes. COMMUNICATIONS. There are some of our party writers who appear to have veryjhort memories—the men in Congress who have formed the majority on all the great questions, are called Jpccu<'ator'i— but these writers forget that these .'peculators have repeatedly received the luffrages of the people; they forget that all their slanderous epithets bellowed on the majority of both houses of Congress, and on the adminiflxation, headed by the President of the United States, fall ultimately on the people ; they forget that while they pretend to be republicans, and yet revile the organs of the public-will, they ex pose the most detestable of ariftocratical sen timents ; they forget, that while they pisfefs to be superior to the influence of avarice, by maligning those who poflefs more property than themfelVcj,' they discover more than one bad passion—Envy and Avarice united ; in short, they Jorget that, this one opinion is deeply rooted in the mind of every confident republican —That the leader: of parties, ar? in general, Tyrants in disposition. The National Gazette gives us to under stand that the mate to a party, is loft in the late contest for the office of Vice-Prefident.— The fact is agreed, and it is not hard to fuel's who the losers are. A mate is certainly a convenient thin? and contributes not a little to the free enjoyment of liberty of speech.— For instance, how could anv man without a mate fay Governor Clinton is a good federal, ift, and on that account to be preferred to JMr. Adams. If a p ; vfician should iccoin mend ratsbane to a sick man he would have need of a mate. A man that has occasion to Say—Do not trull the conftitutior to its friend-, its enemies will serve our turn better, would find his utterance greatly aflift ed by a mate ; But if his argument fliould take another turn he might get along without a mate. There is for example, no propri ety in uiing any difgui'e when a man would infill that the bodv politic is a monster, and it is proper to cut off an arm or a leg or even an head, if it has more than one—or that it is lethargic and a little rats-bane would give the nerves a gentle twinge. That would be speaking out plainly and with a becoming boldnefsT—They might even go farther and urge that for such an operation on the Confli tnt'ion no friend or admirer of it would be a fai'e performer or surgeon. A fal'e tender ness might prevent the proper i ,-:afures of decision. Where then was the u.-fitnefs in r this known desperate ftatc- of the constitu tion in turnin.s our eyes to one who could be relied on to do the needful—who like Hanni bal has vowed eternal hatred to Rome, and who is of a tern; i that neither time nor con descension can change. A certain fort of people, if old f.'yings arc true, (hould have good memories The writers for iiie laflion 3re afraid r.f a monarchy and no b.Mtv, and a dcfpotiftn-Libcityi«goin -to fuf icr robbery, and maiming and rape. "liicv hear the poor virgin'# cries,and turn om very punctu ally like, a watch to keep the r>cace when it u not broke, and billow no frcail ptaife on th:m ft,*cs for making so much diflurt»nce order. 1 hey (ell us too they have found <hie and charged ibe ofK-f»d< rs-—and whe are tbev > The Irdci -illits, ihe idolaters of the conftmuiui , the believers in its abfoluie perfection. These i-dolater*, itfeenis, are in amhulh for an oppoiuinity to throw down and dcltrov 1 heir own idol, ai>d to commit wliat *hey derm facnlege»-Whil« the unbelieving .eim's, who lay that <his id>4 is not divine, but men; wood and ctay, arc -{hacked at die very Thought of this intended impiety. It is to be hoped inr the fdke of our country, that its frame ol govtro men: it betier put together than this fiory. There is perhaps do opinion in which mankind are more generally agreed than this, that know ledge and virtue arc the only durable basis of a free government. An ignorant and ferociou* people, irom a strong sense of perlonal or gen era! injury, w$ often be induced to roufc from a stupid apathy under the power of despotism, and in a paroxysm of their frenzy may hur their opprefifors to perdition—but like men in a storm who have thrown their compass overboard after effecting the deftrusjon ol their oppreflors they are perfectly at a los» what course to (leer next — s he consequence has been, almost invaria bly, that thole who have diftinguiihed them selves the most in the work of deftru<stion, how ever incompetent to contrive a system for the security of the freedom thus acquired, are vested with powers, which theyfeldom fail to exercise for their own particular advantage, and in the end establish a worse despotism than the people have just demoliihed.—Thefe reflexions may enable us to account for the nnhappy issue of ma ny revolutions which have taken place in the world — Ignorance can destroy what is bad, but it can never effetf what is good. The general light and information of the peo ple oi the United States enabled them justly to estimate the privileges they enjoyed previous to the late revolution—these made them alive to every attempt oc the part of Great Britain to abridge and deilroy those privileges. The pa-, triota and" lV~es of our country let .before the people life and death, blefling and curling—but their labours would have been in vain, their writings a dead letter, if the public mind had not been properly prepared to receive and justly to appreciate the words of truth and found rea soning had the people been ignorant, they would never have conquered their local prejudi ces, their almost inveterate habits, and by a An gular magnanimity, which nothing butfuperior wisdom could have inspired, have formed that bond of union, which proved the rock of their fafety, enabled them to brave the ft or me that beat against their freedom, and finally carried them to independence, peace, liberty and fafct). On knowledge and virtue then are taifed the pillars of this rising republic—these mull i'up port the edifice—and it is the firft of legislative duties to make provision to encreafe, as our num bers encreafe, and to perpetuate the means of knowledge among the people; and he is unwor thy the name of patriot, let his pre tendons be what they will, whodifcovers a luke-warmnef* on this lubje&.—lt ought to be a perpetual ob jed; of attention to our civil fathers—and till the business is began in earned there will remain a most unpardonable deficiency in the dilchurge of legislative duty —Let a beginning be made, if it is on the fmaliell scale it will be a begin ning—and the feed once sown it will take root; the bleflingsof knowledge once enjoyed, become asneceffary to human happinefsas the light and heat of the fun are to human existence. LOCAL PREJUDICES. Some years ago a gentlemen who came from the higlands of Scotland, was invited to dine with Mr. , in the environs of New-York— eveiy thing, as a was (hewn to him ; * pear tree on which there was fame lemarkdble large fiuit, fc« med to attnft his notice; Mr, aflked him il ever he had ften any of ih«»t fi7C before, he answered decidedly that they werg nothing tike equal to what grew in the Duke of Argyle'sgarden at Jtrverary. Nettled with thu reply he went out after dinner, while tiir bottle was lall ply ine round the'-able, and deurcd bis gardener to cuf some of ihe Urjjt ft gourd.% oi pumpkins, which He could find, and to tie them neatly with packthread, upon the brancho of a trre which be pointed out ; (hit done, whtu twilight'approached, he told hi* guest, that hg had forgot to shew some pears that weie certainly largei than any Scotland —he look, ed up at them with aftonifhinent, and ex claimed, J dinva douU kut what they are nearly aj bi£ at t/if Duke's. A Londoner being lately at Brillol, was shewn every thing remarkable there, whether the production of nature or ait. but as every thing in that city was, in his eiiimaiion unequal to any of a fnnilar nature n London, he wat at length led to St. Vincent's iocki ; being dik ed what he thought of thele ttupendou* monu ments of natural magnificence ? he replied, " they was hvartmg enough—but they wcie no thing to ihr I " " k bulk* ARRIVEDa' the PORToj PHILADELPHIA. Sch'r. Weympuih, Lcincdcau, N. York IlaLella, M'Keevir, C. Fiaucoi* Sally, Loverirtfl, do. "PRICE OF STOCKS 6 per Cents, 3 per Cents, Deterred, >ul 1 iharet Bank U. S. 35 per cent, prem TO SUBSCRIBERS. THE Editor hjormi his Suhjcribers on the Eajt trnjhou of Maryland, that jncc tht provision made by the roJl-MuJUr General for tranjmtting neuj pjpers wrckly to that quarter—this Cazrtte hat leen pmiQmlly depofitei in the fojl Office o) thn city, et<er\ Saturday. Suhfirtbers, wlii'fe accounts are r,J a year's Jtand tng, and upwards, ere tnjormed that unlef, their ar rearages are paid in one month fravt this Editor will be under the faiijul necejfity 11J dijUn tinning their papeis. 20f 1 1/10
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