Late Additions to PEALED MUSEUM. A SPECIMEN of Sf ir, and v.. - " ie K roWl - this cunuub - jirgf chryflal (hool. i.uerm.tttf wirfi b «y ath a cuitaw, in the apartment «i lead ore. This beautiful piece was paintings. found 300 Yards below the level of the Ihc h " ci , ° f tle >/' rra ' oo f "5?" ground, at the Pe.k of Derbylhie, b,rd > one of the large ft birds of Our Great-Britain.. Presented Sy Cap- aa > beln S ab ° ut f,x fc s l U S h " 1 ~e? tain Truxton 1 ~ I are great dellroyers of the enormous A young 'shrew Mcujr of Pennfrt. ' [ n / ke « of tUat , country.—Presented by vania, which 4< seems to form the fhadc s Miv Wm? JjS€t. »' in the ordtr of small animals, and t« A grape (hot, cut out of a tree on "fill up the vacuum between the rat | the * hcre General Braddock was » and the mole." Alio, an American defeated. N. B. rhere were 39 years species «f the Jerboit, commonly call- ! S r » wth " ver the where the bal led the Jumping Mouse.—Presented by firft 'truck—Presented by Mr tinnier. Doctor Barton. I And > th, S h hone from the famt Indian leggtne, garter., arrows, and sicW ' Panted by Lieutenant I.ees. mockafini.—Prefented by General Ir-\ . Beautiful pearfy Cltorjlells, from the • nc • ! nver Ohio, where they an: found in A piece of the Shield of Edward the K reat abundance. Illd. which it preserved in Weitmin- ! Na,ive founJ ln S reat P 1 ™ 1 ? iter Abbey.—Preferred by Mr. Comfy, {our m,les < rom Po,t P,n > 111 thc crevl of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. A pair of Chincfe Boots, made of whl<:h whe " ukt- » off > a g ain ,n " c » l " fattin.—Prefented by Mr. I. E. Howell. by the heat of the iun. The people A well formed Stone Ax, used by tl,ere llfe tll,s al,um »" tll « lr dyes—Al the Indians previous to the Euiopeans an ° l^er beautiful specimen of allum coming to America ; ploughed up in f,om tte sams P ,acc ' incircling a piece thc vicinity of Philadelphia!—Pfefent- of verdigreafe.—Prefented by Mr. £1- ed by Captain George Siater. he nit. A Calculus found on ".he Commons A modc! of a Telegraphe*. Mr. of Philadelphia, fuppefed to be form- St - George Tucker, of Willi.-.mfburjjk, kd in thc body of a horse; the nail in Virginia, invented this from the newf the center lerved as a nucleus to col- P a P c, s general reports, of military left the extraneous fubttances taken in event « bcin g of late communicated wit! with the food.—Prefented by Doctor g rcat f P eed > between the French armiei fl'hitf, on the Rhine, and the .government o! A beautiful specimen of JJbefio, Paris, by figne. A particular defcrip from Latrcafler county, Pennsylvania: tion of this machine is recorded in i And some Tin Ore, from Cornwall, book in t,ie Museum, appropriated t« (G. B.) called grained tin ore—Pre- receive proposed improvements & hints tented by- . wl,b intention to preserve them frotr Steel-grained Lend Ore, taken from obljvlon - ° ther valuable difcovcrie the lead mines of Mr. Stephen Austin ar . c to be perpetuated in this book and Co. in Wythe county, yiiginia.— with the names of the authors, irtilef Presented by Mr. Aujlin. when (ball be preferred to enjer thi Petrified Clams, collected on a hill nam es in a private book—kept so n the vicinity of Nafliville, Cumber- 'H 3l P llr P°fe b y tl,e Proprietor of th. and river, Western Country.—Prefeut- v;ufeujn. rr y The Toucan, or Bill-Bird, alive.— Ed by Mr. James Vatiuxem. A piece us the root of a walnut tree impregnated with iron ore ; found on the land of Gen, James Chambers, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania. The walnut tree falling down, presented i bed of by X Genera Chambers. A shell, found in a quarry of inieflonr, near Beard'* towii, Kentucky. —Pr r ftiitcd by Mr. I I'm. Chambers. Pe .rifled (hells, found near Milforc town, North hampton county, near tin Delaware.—Presented by John Bidtlle Esquire. A stone- Calumet, "found in plough tig a livid in York county. —Picfeuted by Mr. Matthew M'Glathery. The Grinder of an Elephant. This tooth, compared with thoft grindeis found at the Salt LicK?, on the Ohio, tlearly proves, that tliofe animals which formerly inhabited America, were not Elephantt.—Prefented. by Mr. Baku, New-York. - Fruit of ihe wild Tamarind, from the Weft-Indies; a bone, from the Bay of Honduras; some Dcrbyfliire spar ; and a specimen of fofli'e full, from which the Liverpool fait is pro duced*—Presented by Mr. Bembridgt. A beak of the Saw Fish (very large) caught at the bile of Benin, on the coatt of Africa.—Prefenttd by Capt. W. Montgomery. Ore, from General Schuyler's mine, Second River, Baibadoes neck, in the State of New-Jerfey.—Prefenttd by Mr. S. Coates. The cuticle of the feet and hand* of a negro boy, 16 years old ; exfoliated by ;he Feb.ls Scarlatina Anginofa.— — Presented by Doftoi* Eliner. The skin of a Galfj having the ap pearance of a turtle's back j from Eaft to»<n, MarylarU.—>-Prefenttd by Doc tor Cooper. A species of Coral, Which grows On a rock at Cape Franco's.—Picfcnt cd by Mr. P. Ozeas. A piece of a Horn, weighing four ounecs, fa wed off the breast of Mr. Ga ]away, who is now on a visit to this tity. Mr. O. relates* of this extraor dinary production, that he was born at Dublin, in Ireland, atld when he was 16 years old, he entered on board of a ship of war* and was at the siege of Carthagena, wh«rej by an accident* four cartridges to«k fire, which burned him ; especially about his breast, in a terrible manned This burn was, for many years, a bad fore; however, at last it had neatly healed up, when his breast was again Unfortunately hurt, by being jammed betiveen a boat and a ship, which bruised his breast feiely. When the bruise began to heal up, a small horn appeared en his breast, the sue of a thumb-nail; which has fmce continued to increase, and has been twice sawed off before: Its curving form, the end of it prefling against hi bread, ha» made these amputation ne cessary. The portrait of Mr. Gala way, with thebreall bate, to (how the manlier >f the growth of f 1- * • Horn, if of Mr. Boudinot considered the cl> 1 his extracranial▼ bird is from Cav- i_r ,» <-~, .11. ji c -v o.a- . > •,, 7- ■ I°> Mr - "lies as totally groundless. io\ ■nne, South-America. Its bill, which ! m ; ght well sty that the tonnage of . s aimi/ll as large as the body, is not i ship is a direcfl tax, for thv (hip and thi nore extraordinary than its tongue, carriage have bothjperhaps been in'pofleffi which rcfc rubles a feather; therefore, on °f their respective owners, before the jy some of the Brazilians, it is called existence of the tax. If he had iimaginec Lhc Feather-Tonijued Bird Present- «he tax to be ancoriftitutional, he -would ed by Captain Ne-vi/L I «rt.»ly fcmve opposed it all hi, ' ' might. He c«nlidered it as a popular tax. T'pe Soft Shell Tortoifc, from the Mr. Hillhoufe recommended brevity Western country. It it described in a "d dispatch. Bartr;.m's Travels in Georgia Pre- i Mr " wondered at hearing his rented by Mr. Mlum. ' co, 1 i "6'i £ that the . canl fg c u ? was Po pular, lince it was quite otherwise among A Female Eli, preserved, and plac- their constituents in New.Jersey. ?d in the Mufcmn. The idea which the Mr. Boudinot explained. That part hunters have of its breathing through of the tax which regarded carriages of the holes near the eyes, when ruu hard, J****V? but L tbe colleclor ° f •II 1 .l- r .• 1 • the tax in New-Jerfer, by a conftrudlion 6 VA?V tl | ,, , P Ps"7 f "" ~on P ,aln - whirh never came i/ t o the head of any ly thews. Altho these holes are large body except himfelf, applied the law to it the entrance, thsy reach only about the waggons of farmers going to market, jne inch in depth, and end in around This part of the tax was very unpopu x>ttom, with no vifiblc opening fur- ' ar > and j'Jftly* but the other part was a :tfer. When this idea of its breathing re s?^' c j. ... , hrough the holes, was fugeefted to dlvldin S'. of Mr. :he proprietor, he applied a small mir- wa * ne g atlvtd * Ayes 29—Noes ■or over and near the holes, holding ... 55- he nose and mouth closed, to (lop it, ' * made b y Mr - Sed S" jreathing Jon which no dampnels ever ™ ck f°, r , ftrlkln g ° ut ano 'h" part of 1 p pea red on the glal"., in several trials. ' thc ,. refohlt L ,on - lhe . yeaning was not I'he proprietor had learnt that the Elk I,m " appropriation of the pro ia. no Gall Bladder; which induced ! duce of these taxes » the difchargeof »!m to attend clofelv to infpeft this j debt exclusively. He had been ap- Elk, \Vhen it was killed and dressed ; P. o,ntcd on a committee, when the galle >..t no Gall Bladder, or any thing as a n " WC £ and lt wa * the buf ' nefs übftitute, appeared. ! ® f the House to P rovld e money for the . j humane and national purposes referred The Cow w.th 5 Leg., 6 feet, and to . Thal monty muJ} bf w He djd wo tails, which was kept at the Muse- not think himfelf at liberty to speak tm tor some yea:s alive, is also preferv- more pla ;, l!yf bat the fJoufe knew that J ; but as such objects are not agrees- ; t wat an ; n( ]if p enfable object. lie to the fight of every one, that limb M r. Fitifimons said that if the gen s covered with a curtain. tlemsn meant any Qther purp<)fe s han Some curious Shells ; a fpetimen of what had been all along profeffed, for 4inbcr, with a Straw and a Fly inclof- 'he application of the money, he wilhed din it.-i-Prcfented by Col. "Ttufard h' m to speak out. The committee agreed to all the refo lutions as reported. The committee rose and leave was gran ed t» fit again. The House also agreed to the Refo utions. * Telegraphe, from teloi, the end, and graph o, to •write so Tele/cope, fnm telos, and J'copio to fee ; as if to describe Juch an Injlrumcnt, Ifhuuldfay it -would enable *ne to fee to the end; or ulmojl ex tent of the d'tjlance between me and the objeß ; So Teleg raphe means to write to tke end, or extent of u great d'tjlance. CONGRESS. ftOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES. Friday, 6th February. Debate conduced. Mr. Giles h»ped that fomc of the tax es would be continued. His opinieft had 'uniformly been, that the taxes all toge ther were infulficient for any formidable operation ou the national debt. The sur plus of revenue, by the most favorable llatemcnt, was not supposed te be more than three hundred thousand dollars per annum. He did not think the excise sys tem the bell far making an impredion on the dt.t. He wished for an apportion ment an ong the states. As to the refoluti o» before the Houle, he approved some of the tax - and other« ' disapproved.— therefore wifticd that the rsfolutioi ould be divided, uiat he might not bi ibliged to vote for or against five taxes al it once- He hoped that a plan for appor lornng taxes to discharge the debt would, icfor* the rife of the feCion, be l .idoc he table. If it was nut dune by iu-ne >o(Jy elfe> he would do it himfejf. H« had strong objections to several of tht ie taxes, to which jie would give his cori- I'ent, rather than that nothing Iheuld be done. lie wilbed that fotne better pro position could lie brought forward than a tew petty excises. Such a thing might be laid on the table, and betwixt his aud the next femou, the House could found their constituents upon it. He wilhod for some modification in the of Mr, S.' Smith. Mr. Kittera was for a 'iv ""en immedi ately. Mr. Dayton, Mr. Page, Mr. Fitzfimons, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Hart ley also spoke. The Uft gentleman fear fel-that he would nevtr fee an end of l'uch a difcuflion. The question for ftrik'mg out the reso lution was put. Ayes, eilly 21 The motion being thus loft, Mr. G>'es said that, at the r fk of popular odium, he would move to flnke «ut the tax upo>: carriages. He knew this to be the moli pojHilarof the taxes, but he believed it tc be again!! the Confl.tutidn. It was not 3 voluntary but a compulsory tax. To lay a tax on a thing already in a man's poilef fiou, was a direift tax ; and though a po pular one, the fear of giving offence would not deter him from doing what h< believed to be his duty. A gentlemar from South-Carolina (Mr.W. Smith) hac and had said that the ConJl.tuUun lou'4 a, covreHed,. He thought this a very yn guarded mode of expreflion. We hav all fwaru to support the Ccnflitution ; an; if it inult be altered, we know very we' that this House has no authority to that ef feiSl. Th re Hiuft be an authority of 1 different kind* As to the tax now before the u oufe, so firmly were several gentle mei erfuaded of its illegality. thst th«' had etertnined to make an oppefition t it, not a» in Pennsylvania by an infurre£li oa, but by a trial before a court of lav A committee were then appointed to bring in a bill. It was then Itovtd by Mr. Tracy, that when this House do adjourn, it fhsll be till Monday. Mr. Sedgwick obje&ed on account of the approaching close of the feflion and weight of bufi nef» before the House. To this it was answered, that the feled committees had so much buftnefs upon their hands as could not be gone through without an adjournment till monday. The tuo tiom far adjourning till that time was then agreed to. Adjourned at balfpaft three o'clock. Monday, gli February. "Mr. Harper, a member fiom South- Carolina, was qualified and took his feat. Mr. Sedgwick brought in a motion for appointing a committee to bring in a bill to amend aa aft authorizing the Prcude.t time cr to fill up for a short limited rea!;>n to. — rtain occasional vacancies in pub- i tin- carriag-s in ulc in this city ■«. I this defcripti<,r., and now it committee w*re named according- ! some new definition of the •! i:i a report. j not one in four are of tlia' galleries were cleared at half carriage ; but arc returned tc eve» o'clock. Ictfor anil pay a tax, or/A of lai s, on the fame '.ale with tlie TuefJay, February 10. waggons of New-Jerfcv —But .notioß of Mr. Sherbourne the I>e-'6. iibfer*ed was rnatenall went into a committee of the l ' v e in another point—ln cases t m the iiinerwlmcnis reported to carriages are within the for ext- ■' ng poll roads. As- in 8 dcfcription, there is no time Mt thereon the com- mutjC of deteiraining, whl' lie officii. ly to The past e. VT On rloufe whole, ou the bill tcr fume i .pen onittee rofeand and repcrted the amend mcnts. The amendments of the Senate to the bill for licinfing and enrolling (hips or vefiels were read, and, on the mo tion of Mr. Giles, referred to a fcledt eommittee. Mi. \V. Smith brought in a bill for repealing the aft impoling & duty on fnuff, and some new regulations. This was made the order of the day for Thurf dav. The House then went into a com mittee on the redu&ion ofthe national debt. This produced a very long difcuflion on the bed means of commencing the, payment of the national debt. quarter past tjnee o'clock the commit ter rose ; the chairman alked leave to (it again. AJjnurned. Wednesday, 1 ith February. A bil' for the recovery of debts due from individuals to the United States, was read a firft aud fecund t'me, and made the order of tne day on Friday. Mr. Goodhue, from the committee to whom had been referred the amend ments of.the Senate, on the bill fupple mtnlary to an aft for regulating and licensing (hips and vessels, reported, that the committee dilagreecTto the amend ments. There was ordered to be ap poi nt</d a committee of conference. It waS then moved that the House should proceed to the order of the day, aod resolve itfelfinto a commjttre, on the rtport of the committee of the plan for the reduction of the national debt. This was done accordingly, Mr. Cobb in the ehair. The House went through t'«; reso- ] 'lutions, which were agreed to, and re- j porjed with amendments. The House ; went upon the report, and a cori; nittee I are appointed to bring in a^bill. It was next moved by Dr. Beatty, ' that a committee ftiould be appointed t to report whether any and what altera- ' tions are necefliry in the aft for laying | a tax on carriages for pleasure, and to : report a bill with such alterations as may be necessary in the fame. Agreed. A committee wete named to report. On this occafioii Dr. Beatty obferv cd, that he had, some few days pall, | when the refolutisn foi extending the ! time of limitation to certain excise acts paflVd last. feffioi), was under confeder ation, contradicted whit fell from hit colleague (Mr. Boudinot) that the law " laying duties upon carriages" was popular in the state of New-Jen fey; it was he laid the very revei fe of that, and of coiiftqucnce he could by no means aflent to the prolongation of that aft to the year 1801 ; the House having however agreed to the extenlion of this aft to a diftaat period, he now thought it was a duty he owed to his conttitu ,fnts, to bring forward a proportion for th« revision of that law. This he was now deflrous «f submitting, and he re peated, that the aft in qurftion was ge nerally disliked by the citizens of the state from whence he came, and in some parts, it was so obnoxious, that were it not for the pat riot ifra and love of order, which his conftitnents had at all times manifelted in their conduct, he would not have been anfwerahle, tfee du ties arising under that law, could have been collected ; he was ready however to admit, that jjreat part of the diffatis fiiftion had anfen from the injudicious mode of execution adopted by the fn pervifor; who tad perhaps difeovered more zeal, than tfnderftanding i« the conftruftion of this law. Di. Beatty, had no great objection to the of the law, but he thought it was de fective in two points, and was suscepti ble of amendment, so as to render it more agreeable to his constituents ; the enacting clante is not fufficicntly minute in the description of the carriages fub jeft to a taxation, and in some instances the terms used, were c r an equivocal na ture ; to prove the full he need only mention, that rotivithftanding the pro tection afforded by the proviso, in the firlt feftion, to carriages for " domrf tic purposes yet the market waggons of New-Jersey, had pietty gene,ally been fubjefted to the duty ; and as all inllance of the fecjnd, he said, that the term " coachee" used ii. the law, ap pears to have no appropriate meaning Before the palling of tbit law, he had f * r " lunimary are " ufunl'y" and " chi,j{\" « cm. puted cafe mult be the lubjrct of a iuit in all the legal iui ms. This wa• highly objectionable, boih on the grounds of delay and expence ; and (tad no occvfioned the payment of the tax in a variety at init a tires, where the paitiei were conscious they were within the exempting clause but had pteferred, to pay the two dollar* ratlwr than to con tend with the collector in a suit at lavr. readily agree to remedy thrfe defetta and wuuld appoint a committee for that furpofe. A few minutes before three o'clock, on the hiotion of Mr. Sedgwick, the ga!icvie» were cleaied. UNITED STATES. NEW- YORK, IV - cbruarj 13. A Further Trunflatlans from Pn*i t ixif'n received per Capt. Cart/utr from Cherbourg. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Npoemlcr 29. Dufoy informed the convent ion of a writing or paper publiflled by G«ult, containing general remarks on thetokj nic*. .He complained ijiat were impolitic, anri-focial am; ami. ; republican. Gouly maintains tl at he i colanies belong to the colonills. What . then becomes of the natioiial'luveie. 11- C' | ty? It would be mure natuial to lay, I the property ot the colonics beh.nfjS 10 1 the entire niafs of the people of St. Do. ! roingo ; and then the fovereigntv of | the nation would be annihilated. H« | moved that the Convention fhmild de : clare that paper not to contain their ; opinions, but only the opinions of an individual. Charpenticr. The title of the w >rk alnnc is contra! y to the Fiench govern, ment. It is calkd " Reflcftirng, on the means of giving to the loioniet 1 a constitution proper for them 5" » whiuh iuppoles that the colonies r-ilgbt not to he to the con 11 i tut ion of the republic. It contains alio this phrase, " Sr. Domingo his the sove reignty over itfelf. The legiflitive. pow er beloiigs to it—it mav (veil receive thecovncils of Fiance, bin not her 'awn." This is an attack on the unity ana iudi. vilihility of tie lepubh'c. After fume further debate, Dufi v'i motion jn fuhftance was ariopt.d. Pe let iufoimtd the Convention that the report of the committee of Public Safe ty on the colonies, would be completed in ten days at farthrft. In debate, on the propriety of con tinuing to fend deputies into the de partments, a member nbferved, that " we cannot now dnTemble that every part of the republic' l%s been dilhirbed; industry and commerce are palsied; propr.co s and merchants have been opprefleti. impri Coned, and even facri ficed. We mull feck the means of re pair! Ilg-lhsfr" c iHts," oF ifflTShf!Dj£ evil" dilpofitions, and lend a helping hand to the opprefled." The proportion of Bernaid, for suspending thele missions, was rejected. The prefulent of the criminal tribu nal ot Paris informed the Convention, that sentence had palled againil the twelve members of the revolutionary committee of the fe<?tion of Bonnet Rouge. Ten of them conviflcd of rob bery, tumults, cxaCffons, and fpcculati ods, are condemned to he expofied fix hours, and to be imptifoned in chain* twenty yearj. The other twotare ao quitta. Tn the c«mmi!i>e ps Bedouin, in France, during the reipn of lhe Jnco. bins, the liberty pole was taken down, in some dark night. An order wnsif fued by the rep>eft nta'.ive Ms : met for the people to deliver up the offender— this they could sot do, as no ytie could tell who had done it. The defpotie commissary, in a raj;e, oideied the " Vole commune, consist' > of joa fio«ie», to be laid in ashes, and the or dei was literally executed. The wretched inhabitants were dora« pelle<! to ferk (lic)ter in the moftiita'm and cavci, from whence they fviit a pe- - * - +- - -• K-.',.. y* k s ipccies zi • f-C ♦ f2 I' 'i ' - v \ v * • -I
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