L A \V S OF TKK United STATES. ThirdHoHgrefs of the Ui.ilea Sfotet ■ S A T rm SIC - S SSSJI.ON : Begun and held at the city ot" Philadel phia, in the date of Pemifylvania, on Monday, the t'.ird of Kove'iAber, cne thouiandfevcn himdredand ninety-four. An ACT f.ir T*living cqitiin (nits and pn>cef» which liavi heeti difcontitiued in the Diltriift Court of Feimfyl vauia. ik&K- 1 B,E it enaficd liy the .Scnsre and House of RepYef: maiives of the Uffited ' Stales of Amer;; a, in Coiigtefs tfflem- ] bled, That all fiiiif* ami process which w-«tc pending in the Dilhift Court of , Ps r;ij'lrani», which, hy law, ought to t havebrisn holden oil the third Monday ' of November lad, and which were dif- a continued by ihe failure to hold the fame ; and all suits and process whit !. tvere commenced for the said Court, or / returnable thereto ; and also all suits ,s and process, which were pending in any 1 special Court of the said diftridt, and a difcontiiiued by failure to hold the ad- c joiir.nment thereof, 011 the day ;ppoint- " ed, at any time since the lall day of Ju- n ly lall, be, and ( hey are hereby revived ; . and hereby day is given to all the suits t< and process aftitefauj, in he Dlliria n Court next by law to be holden in the f ' fame, dirt rift ; and the fame proceedings f mav'be had at the fame lait mentionid ' Cntirt, i'i all the suits and process afrrc Jj' said, as by law might have been had at n the Courts, refpeftively, in which the o J fame were pending, or to which the <~' fame weW returnable. ■**' Frederick Augustus Muhieufcig, Speaker of the Hon ft of Representatives. fr JoJAAdasU, Vice-Pneddent of the a - Unlfrd Pates, and Pi eiident of the fll ' Senate. Approved, January the twenty eighth, n ( *795- G°; Vv aswikgton, Prefidentof the hi United States. cu Deposited among the Rolls in the Office w tof the Secretary of State. , #£dm : Randolph, ? t Secretary of State. f 0 An ACT further extending the time for h.i .receiving on loar. the domefiic debt of Ir the United State . 'o Sect. i BE it enacted by the Se nate aid Home of Representatives of du the United States of America, in Con- to grefs aflcmbled, That the teim for re- th« ceiving o:i loan that part of the domes. co ' tic debt of the United States which has f not been fubferibed in piirfuance of the j g 0 provisions heretofore made by law for ! w ° tint puipofe, be, and the fame is here- the by further extended, until ihe thirty, bet fi.fl day of December next, on the fi°' fame terms and conditions ac ai v rT^7» tabled w» the enticed, "An adt ■ rf ikiu« provision for the debt of the J,"* Unite^ States." Provided, That the f or books for receiving the said fubicripti- He on« (hall be opened only at the treasury deb of tjie United States. ' n °t Sec. i. And be it further ena&ed, That such of the creditors ot the United ' ' States as have not fubferibed aid (hall " r^3 hot fubferibe to the said loan Ihnll ne- He tertlWlefs receive during the year one tyr thpufand fevcu hundred and ninety- det five, a fate per centum on the amount. crf of such as their dt mande as have been r " regideved or as (hall be regillered at the treasury; conformable to the drreaions in the act, entitled, " An aft making hib provision for the debt of the Unitetl wh Stales," equal to the interefl which l Y Would he payable to them as ftibfcribiug lin< creditors. v ' lor Approved, January the twenty. V*' ! eighth, in j An ACT ti authorize the fetilement of Icu I the cLitri of Samuel Prioleau. f- lr ' He BE it enaSed by the Senate and ly ]Houtis of Representatives of the United m( V States of Airerica, in Coiigrefs afTem- cit > bled, That tile accounting officers of f a " the treasury department bej and they n^t are hereby authorized to adjud and pi,, fettle the claim of Samuel Prioleau' for he property taken frotn him at CharlefWn pap foi the use of the United.States. Pro- P l ' l ' •aided, That tilt said Prioleau fliall ad- f " u duce proof to the fatisfaaion o'f the Accounting offiiers aforefaid, of the con -trad on the part of the United States* hu't to pay f° r tl,e fame< and Jikewife of; woi the value of the property applied to wh public use. fket Approved, January tile twenty J ust eighth, 1795. 1 ■■■!■■ mi 1 niu PRICE OF STOCKS. ma: —1 ■ fpo! 6 per CfflU cry* J per Cents ~/g I Deferred ~f Bank "f the Ui'ited State* ir ¥ ,°' Pennl/lvan,a 3J she l\orth America, to >o the CONGRESS. ei'. HOUS'. or REPR2SENTATIVES. SATURDAY, February. on The bill for continuing and regiilatin!? ! cne the Tttiilitiry eftablirtiment 01 the ifmfkd f "our. States, was read a third time and p.ii>e<i j The hill making further provision for ! ah j the luhport of public credit and the re-j (Bed dertiption of the publicdebt, was reada firit s fyl- and feeond time, and referred to 1 Com;]*" mittee of the whole house on Monday. | ] an( j A refclutioii of t'ae house relative to the 1 ited i'M'ty »f certain laws pasTed 111 the dif- ; triiit, North Weft of the Ohio, was read : 1 a feeond time. " The ho use on motion of Mr. Hath, ' ' tof weut into a committee, (Mr, Cobb in ' [ to the chair,) on the hill for the more efftc- j r lay tuol recovery of debts due from individu- j p j t 'f_ als to the United States- i'l ,j lr , Tlie firft fe<f\ion which produced a de- ! ( , bate of lame length, was in thelit words : 0 K " Sec. I. UF. it enabled h" tpe Senate and -, , or House of Reprrfen. utiles of\ the United ' J uts States of America .in ajfembled, my That the Comptroller ofihitTreafury he, a md and is hereby authorized to ifflie a» notifi ti ri4 j. cation to any'perfon, who has received jr< nt mon ' e s, for whirh he is accountable to the I : , United States, or to the executor or adini- niilrator.of fueh person, if he be deceaf -7 • fd, requiring him to rend rto the Audi its tor of the Treasury within i£t months, all his accounts and vouchers for ' he th(; expenditure of the said monies, com- tl ,g g prelienfey a schedule of all claims of ere- at dit, or m'dfc'anlt th-reof, to remain charg- ul ed with'tf.e monies so advanced ; and fa.ts 1 k (hall be commeßeed for the fame, .with- • at oot further notice : And the party sued as ,n be aforefaid, Jhall he Jubjetf to the eofls and ' lie charges of such suits, zchefbertbt ultimate ht d^fonf all be in their favor, or againji '<1 tb. ct. ;11 G ' It was moved to strike our the words in t ;. Ttalirks ; and to insert in their place at amendment fignifying that the defendant flijl! not recover costs. w Mr. BouHinot Hated the great '"ifficulty rCi h, of getting a.settlement at the Treaftlry .of cr the TTnited States, on which account he th lumfrlf hati been put to the utmost diffi- f u cullies, as well as many ether person* witli n" ce whoni he was a- qdain'ted. This clause re- . quired that all vouchers (boijld be lodged e at the Treasury. The persons again called ml for with the official receipts, but in a! ihe course of years could not get th m ?r h.iek again. It was on this account entire- f-J f W tyrjNßieal to attempt to malfe people t ; t , 10-Ve vouchers in such a place, where, by r the loft.of the papers, or being mil- . '' laid, the ptrties concerned might be re- m » 'f ducedto ir He was equally a-vei A I- to the making of a new law for debtors of bel - the state. J his ohjeflion referred to the 1 vei f. concluding cla -fe of the fedlios, . ( | K is Mr. H'Ulioufe vindicated the character | , jof the officers of the Tre.ifury. Mr c j Bondinot expla'ned that hi«/comp'aints 1 j went only to blam' the management under - the old conllititfi n, but things hat •- been lefr in a tve r fion. opt \ ?.Tr_ 11 xiruiflrt.il . bill aUogcther, becxtrCt' he w„s very will ing tflat public money (hould be, if poffi- !" c ble recovered, but ht could fee no occaflon e for new and arbitrary aws,'to recover it. K° i- He believed that out of every twenty falc y debtors found in the books of the treafurv wh not five would lie found to owe a farthing, did I He knew many persons who had received nrv difchatg-s in full at the treasury, and who . as he tiad no doubt, were flill (landing charged with large sums in the books.— . 1 - He conficffred the clause to be a clause of ''' n t tyranny and violence. He entered ihto a detail of the frauds cotnmitr e «| on the htm t creditors of the public during the war, hiti n from the villainy of agents and speculators t u t . -who crowd 0- er Congrejs itfclf. At the fl ' treasury, clerks were changing every day, s and such a fdene of book-keeping was ex ai i hibited there, ;,s never had been Teen anv n T n whereelfe. Office-« had come to this C i- by si ty with claims ecnfiflinp of but a single , line, and had to wait a long time, ane nea 3 bon ow money to fujiport themselves, and • | could not" get the plained account fettled. Many honest men had been furred to fettle me: in such a w ay, that they were reduced to tilc beggary and sent to jail j and from parti to . { cular ihe mod honest men tbn fared word. He hsd fecr all These things.. He had felt them He had paid very ful 1 ly for this part of his knov ledge. He [) mentioned a person wh» was sent from this ' . city to New Hampshire to get fifty thou f sand dollars that were due to him. When 1 he went there he was told that there vas lit r nothing in the treasury. He camt back to !) Philadelphia,and at the end of tvvo yell's, <• i r he I*as forced to accept of depreciated wP 1 paper, and the payment was dated to th e public as made in specie. Mr. Wadfworth lt P' . follld belp proteding againd this Cht f clause, whet, he knew of so many people who had been ruined by their connexions with the treasury. He had efeaped ruin, ! i but Others were not so lucky Mr. Wads- E fj 1 worth made a variety of remlrks of > which the present is but an incomplete (ketch. It is at any time difficult to do judice to hi* interediilg fimplieity of ex- C predion, where nothing can be added with- Fra out fupeifluity, or retrenched without nf„ mutilation. U 'H Mr. Hillhoufe did not approve the p, ' b manner in which the gentleman Ud , lp mtr , (poke of the trealury, nor of the h irdfliips to 1 said to be irapofed by this law. C°' 5 Mr. Heath had the highest refpe<st for P ub r the gentleman from Conneaicut, and . wondered how he could think it possible f > that an aft of tyranny could pass under > the present m:ld government, which was I J the admiiation of tke world. His faXs tnft, . 1 i te T ■ raDQ| g#^ '^'fc^r*.; 1 - ¥'•* ■ .'- •-•>* %*s& -OT^t j- Viy * 1 ' ■--' _ *'- f : '" A-. ; --■' <' ' •awn tion of 179 1 > has teen lately reprinted • in that metropolis, and has met wiih a I did very extenlive fait;'; that the l)uchrfs • an of Orleans has been ftt at liberty', anil ent > occupies the Hittcl de Toulouse (a pa noft l ace vvhich she inherited'from her father, ; g° the late Iluke de P«ntliievre, son of the < to a Count de ToiilouP.) and that the chief 1 ty- motive which a&uSted the Convention 1,0 to grant a Reneral.iWnelly to the infur- 1 i J PI" gents of La Vendee, was, that they I '" s had I,ite!y received intelligence, that ne- f °P* gociations were e on bei ween i t r - the British CJovi rnrnent and thole in- a frc ' surge.its, having foi tlieii 'objrdt a de- (I ' feent to be made hy the Englifli, for h ottl the support of the Tiinch Royalists."' c wn 3 Foreign Inteliio-ence. * 0 a ,ci! NATIONAL CONVENTION. " ;.d ra _ Detrmhcr 2. , ■JUS .M ithle \ 1 ' !n of the Committee ! 0 Safety—come to conrradibt in ° the most formal maimer, the folkuvino- Ca- ' ar lie lumny inferred in the Courier Univ;r('el of to the 26th of November. aci on i-' oll^9 XIV, will also deriv rr advantage from th revobtion o: the i7 th r ' of July. We know thmhehad been ab,ui- ! L ne doned 'O 'he care of the ft* m Aer Simon, the '« worthy follower of whose pu- ib' on Difhm nt lie has Ibared. Ihe Committee of be • rt Gene" l Sjfety, periuadci that, for being the : .... [ on of a Kin g. one ought n.t to Ik- degrad d c below humanity, have ..pjbinted three com at m iTaries, men ot probity nd knowledge, in tei ii the room of Simon. Iyo of them are ve ;t- Charged with die eduction of the Orphan, ho ; tg and the third is to take care tl at he want -rot l 1 common necessaries as formerly." '^ r "To refute this fable »f itoyalifm, it is wt e, only necefTary to recapitn .te the meufures trj ill which your Committee h;ve taken. A ter ti the »7th of July anew guattiian wasappoint- t[i _ j ed at the Temple t.y the (Wmiittn: of G - .. ' ' neral Safety. It was thought 1 y ,' c the Committee of General ?ifrty,that a iingle wo e - guarnian was not fufficiem. '1 he Committee <1« at ot Police was desired to reconnien'd a eitiz-n 'as i,. of approver: Republicaniim, is an aOiflant to i p cl tiie iormerguarc. lan : ccntinuarce ' of two persons in the lame ofcee might be ! ?" thought to afford an opportunity sos" J. d«c- ' f- tion, it was orde edth.it the Civil Committees »bl m of the forty-eight feAions of Paris, ftould as i fend one of their memneis in tnrn to do duty he for twenty four hours with the two conflart ' guardians at tVTempi-, and f „ rc as much « as pofhble the detention i,f the chil, ren of the : l g tyrant* The Committee concerted meafr.r s I dei i- with the mi itary Committee, for died., Fr - ! in. i- formanee of the mi itary duty o thc 'I em- .' II P ,e \ 1 h " s y° u rec> there was no ( nt.-r.t. -n'to !, i mitigate the captivity of the childrenot C;.- J pet, or togive'them inftrudlors. The C. m- vat tn'ttee and the Convention know how to rv y ftnke off the head, of King... but not low in (, to educate tbeir children. For feyeril days l it has been rumoured, that the 0-r . -Utw » - I recover >- Ftf of credit. 11■ : There can be no doubt bat thefc rumours, e the one relat ve to the offspring of an abhor- tva . red "ce, and the other t f lgns 0 f roya |i (Ul> withdrawn from circulation, proceeded from Pk t e ume source, and wcr. intended so/ the • fame end. But in spite of all plots and ex- trc ' s the national credit tviir.c .ftabhlh- ten t "'he moit fojid .bafts, the public ton- all f qudiity Will be maintain, d, and the son of Capet as little restored to credit, as aflignats ■ E with the Royal Head." civ Cambon—" I too mull contradi>sl the ru- co " , mour circulated over all Paris, and perhaps I ' ru? t x thc R 'P ublic - Jt betu Hid that abf, I that .he National! r.afury is buying up all .u . the gold ana silver, and paying ,00, ,5 of and , h '' 200 hvres in paper, for 23 livres in gold or !?? 1 t Giver. I declare that since the law of th- Bth P " " r ;93. prohib ting the (ale of money, for ' Bullion " ' ,las iP uri; hafed neither money nor had • mcr [The Debates in the British Parliament 'j'* ! '"terefling. They fuinift, great 1 information on the various events ! C< "l occurred, and which are dailv occur I ring , n Europe. We therefore, con ceive thc apportio„ ment 0 f a ver > i °, f " Ul , M«rcury t« the publication of !°, those last received will be gratifying I. t to our readers.! ' | OH t house gv commons. 5 the ADDRESS. fona d HE Speaker reported to the house ! at>,t the answer which his Majesty, in the ) that ulual terms, had been pleased to give w^e •to l " e a<^^r efs, when it was prefcitted lo him yellerday. : fupj HABEAS corpus. | 1, - v ' Mr. Sheridnn said. jiiat on the firil ■ 1 1 oay ~f the fefuons he had brought for- : " ot «ard a fubjedl which appeared to him i Vvas to involve objefls of no less magnitude, I Sllb than whether the benefit of the Habeas ' h C,) fus afl was ever again he refortcd ! tWe< to by the fubjefts of this countrv • i a vo Whether the wonted ,ef P e£t to the trial ' by Jury was m futwie to be entirely fu iptileded. He had then been induced, J 1 how ; cve ''. f " «ave thc consideration of f" h thele important matters, aid therefore ,aVlt now took the opportunity A s nami „„ the day, Monday „rxt, as the men day on v ~tch he meant to mate the „ mo-.on that on the former occasion he , R "/ had alluded to. ' had state OF THE NAVr. II" Mr. Maurice' Robin son wiflied to rail the" thea.t f fce ((oufc t) a J' Ae uhtth a ruck him at being of the great' f or ; * £* itedefl importance, vi 7 Ti-i ■ ' V I lin '* >'f'l ht rlT«a of „„„ h ' " ■ ind became quitftdy pa- vy and requi.cd immediate'" * at 110 time cpuld the lubjcftjv the dcr t'o»itempla,i ull w ; t |, "***'« !"f *y. M«» wi, c „ r aa „ S ,cr P' on '• lir- | into office. vvjy , ey I Unlcfs, therefore it u • • it- | by a Lord of thc en , that W ffaj n ;;; - ■ r <*' p«™. 41 supply On the m. 1,,,, „f Mr _ R f houfc-reiolved iifc]f into a '• ■„ C <* <«PPI» Mr. Hobait hi f .nd j,i, M aj< »y i fpcctH WM rdt , ot to It When u was n,„v„. a f be granted to his May fly. :h 1 Mr - J'"*' <<" the lmpei - lH,d - ,h wa, a fuhiect ■ ie 111 eh importance, that the .|, ou fc v J- lull tied to 3 longer notice than us S M or <; 11 c'vnfidcrati ri t , ,ul: ' c He My aj>p r i ; . ° f \ he fub J f6 > ■ «hat a nrwuous-,". n tendance lie obtained ; vfrom V, ■e very oucufiomary period ai whict tint hoitfe now afle.nl,k,;, it wa . not v niily attended, 4 „d f | |T ' is wmild fuort be ciljediiito the to ,, 8 try, cither on private affaiis, or to a', r tend the Gei e hi Qo*,ter Sdfiwtf f the Peace. He Ittitped, therefore, ti, t " the corifidejation of th. Imperial I e would be protracted till the period h} e their convenient return, if it were 11 3 j as he fliouid prefer and think mult p J j pel to relay till a M of'tlm ho. L I j would take place. Howevei that mi, t 1 : he, lie w/fhtd that Mr. Pit f, w f| .... , absence he, iheiviole, tegreued, woi i as soon as p. fliMr, n. me tlieiigywh . f he had fixed upon for that fubjedt, t ( , gentlemen might, before they m\ „ of town, be acquainted with it, in s i der to talculate their return acco V - | inrdv, - ; Mr. Rcfe could not take upon hi 3 | felf to h ply, pofitivel), lo this obi > vation, Lut conceived, that the nti/. • , ry totms of the houle would render r in pofiiLile tor Mr. Pitt to »"'ri iw"" ' ! the p ""i 1 '—' } would -—iuui -irrTuhjed alluded to, fooi than a or three wctks. Mr. Sheridan tb<rt.»W na ithai ■ was to be placed 01 Mr. Pfa'i ufp.. ..t • to the fomis of the hottl'e, when, ' Chancellor of thr Pxclitqun, he hi.e . tresiled" "tlicffl with fmli fl igrai t (xo . ten j)t,«s to abhiit himiclf, contriiy a'l uiage, on the hril opening »>f til Committee of .S'lipply,- a! ,d had nego cinted a Joan before Paili.mem ».h| convened. Mr. Rose said, that so far sri m tl t absence of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer being unciiftomary, it had i variably fallen to his lot, ever fi'nee M Pitt was in office, to make ihe motii * lor Committee of Supply, whici. had been urder/lood always as heir merely formal. It occurred to liln that possibly Mv. P'tt might chuic day, previous to the Budget, for th consideration of the Imperial Loat, and therefore What he had said befon j might not be fatiifyftoiy. All, liowt ' ver, that he could do at present, wj to fugg'eft, that Mr. Pitt would, pro b .bly, have so far conlidered the sub jtft by Monday, as to be able to give on t hit day, the.information 1 eqoi ed. MrTS:ecle rose principally to notic the indi corutn of Mr. Sheridan, in per fonal'y arraigning a gentleman who wa abfem.'at tlie fame time he admitiei j that he was n«; sparing of his attack when his right lion. Friend was prelent He could not but remaik the fallacy o j fuppi (lug the egotiation unwariantei iby cuflom. In fad, it always preced ; ed the vote of the hotife, though it was ; not ratified till that pafled. , I he fame j was the cafe of all Treaties relative t« : Subsidy Mr. Fo* saw a flrong diftinflion be -1 tween a negotiation sot a Loan, after ■ a vote of supply, and ferviccs had pass ed, and previous, a« in the present cafe. Nor could he agree, thatth'- power liis Majefly was invelted with for the pur poses of Foreign Treaty, had any fu'>i larity. At this period, however. h( ftionld decline entering into any aigu* ment upon the fubjeft, Mr. Sheridan conceived th?!; i- r. R ( >fe, so £ir from excnlpaTtrij; Mi.- ;,t i bad confefTed and extended the charge* He was inclined, be said, lotan) te disbelieve the report of the gnaiantee to the Imperial ban of fix mil';i»ns was a thin? be thougl t too fca»' • "J for any aian t» dare te «o»>e h ■ « - *: ■
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