CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF RLPK. ESENTATIVES,
Monday, May 30.
Continued.
The question being thus decided in favour a'f the
fitting member, Mr, W. Lyman proposed the sol <
lowing resolution, whieh was adopted i
" Resolved, that Ifiael Smith is entitled to a feat
io this house as one of the Repcefentatives from the
state of Vermont."
The Senate informed the noufe, by their Secre
tary, that they had resolved that the bill aßthori
•fKig the Secretary of State to lesfe certain fait
fpiinjJS in the north western territory do not pass;
ilfat the bill authorising an experiment to obtain an
uniform principle for the regulating of weights
*'ml measures, be postponed till next session ; and
that they recede from their amendments to the bill
for admitting the state of Teneffee into the Union.
A message was received from the President, of
the Unitea States, informing the house, that he had
approved and signed an aft providing for the pay
ment of certain debts of the United States.
A bill from the Senate providing for a more ge
neral promulgation of the la.vs of the United States,
and for repealing a former aft, wa3 read and refer
red to a {cleft committee.
On the motion of Mr. W. Smith, the house re
solved itfelf into a committee of the whole, on the
bill autho ifing the President of the United States
to lay, regulate and revoke embargoes during the
recess of Congress, which was agreed to, and order
ed to be engrossed for a third reading.
The Secretary of state, made a report on the me
morial presented yesterday from Sometfall and Son,
and John Price, Charleston, which was, that in cafe
due proof was fqnt to the office of the Department
of state, or to Mr. Bayard, in London, of their ves
sel and cargo being illegally taken, and an appeal
entered, they would have the fame redress with
other fufferers.
The Speaker laid before the house a letter which
he had received from ten American captains now
laying with their vessels at Jamaica; complaining of
the illegal impre{Tm«nt of their seamen by British
(hips of war, in which they are kept like slaves,
and fubjeft to infectious difeales, with which the
vessels of war are now visited, and stating that un
til their men are fat at liberty they cannot return
home. They pray for the interference of govern
ment since it had considered the cafe of their bre
thren in Algiers, whose situations were not worse
than theirs. This letter, and papers accompanying
it were referred to the secretary of state.
Wednesday, June I.
The bill authorizing the President of the United
States to lay, regulate and revoke embargoes, du
ring the ensuing recess of Congress, was read tbe
third time and passed.
Mr. Tracy from the committee, to whom was
referred the bill from ths Seriate, to amend an aft
for the more general promulgation of the laws of
the United States, repoited, that they found on
enquiry that the Secretary of State had contrasted
for the printing of the laws, a circumstance they
supposed with which the Senate were not acquaint
ed ; and it was their opinion a speedy promulgation
of the laws would overbalance the objection of the
Senate for wishing the printing of the laws to be
.postponed till after the next feflion, the reasons
for which were, they understood, because the
next session would complete four Congrefffes and
, two Presidencies.
The repott was agreed to, the bill read the third
time and rejected.
Mr. Gallatin moved a resolution to the follow
ing effect, which was agreed to :
" Resolved that the Secretary of the Treasury
be directed to lay before this house, within the firft
week of the next session of Congress, a statement of
the monies expended for the military establishment
for each calender year, from the establishment of
the present government to the ift of January 1796
diftinguilhing the sums expended under each head
for which fpecific appropriations were made, and
also a statement of Ihe expence attending the ex
pedition to the western counties of Pennsylvania un
der the several heads for which fpecific appropria
tions were made."
Mt. W. Smith said it would be recollcfted that
when the bill relative to paying the Bank of the
United States by creating a 6 per cißf. stock for
that purpose, wasunder consideration, thegentle
. man from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Gallatin) went into
a very long review of our financial situation, in
whith he endeavored to prove that there was an in
cieafe of debt of five million dollars. Mr. Smith
said, as he had not then an opportunity of replying
"to that gentleman (the business of the trreaties ha
ving been entered npon the next day) he proposed
to the h@nfe a resolution to the following effect, in
-order to draw from the proper department a con reft
statement of the finances of this country, and to
(hew the errors into which that gentleman had
fallen : •
" Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treafnry
he directed to report to this house the next session
of Congress, a statement or ftatetnents, exhibiting
l. The amount ofthc foreign and domcftic debt
of the United States, including the assumed debt
. on the ift of January, one thoufandTcven aundred
r>nd ninety, and ninety one tefpeftively.
3. The amount of the said debts on the ift of Ja
'jojaty 1 796.
3. The amount of the anticipation at the close
<■>( each year, from the year 1791 to the year 1795
jr.clufive,
4.. The amount of the fpeeie debts incurred by
tint late government and paid at the Treafuty of
the present governrr ent, and of the monies arising
from balances of accounts -which originated ander the
late gevernmmt, prior to the firft ot January 1796.
j. The amount of debts extinguished by tbe o
■>eration of the Sinking Fund to the close of the
Vcat-T 795, diflinguifhing the sums placed under each
-f the heads «/ appropriation f«P that purpose.
'(■>. Ad of the lums expected to be re
vised tMHn-jhf bonds which accrued from the du
ly an impofts,to the tlofc of the year 1795, after
deducing the drawbacks and cspe cm of cull « <
tion. . I A
<£j- The words in tbe above rcfoliitton P™* teu '
in italic, were words introduced on. motion of ilr. ,
Gallatin. ..
Mr. W. Smith after proposing the above relo
lution, sis a reafcm for his bringing it went
into an examination of the statement of Mr. yf' a '
■tin, and endeavored to prove than nit ead of there
being an increase of debt of five millions, there-was J
an excess of two millions in favor of government. •
Mr. Gallatin infixed upon his statement being right
and, that the difference between them a rose from
matter of opinion. Mr. W. Smith replied, and '
denied that they agreed in their calculation in the
way mentioned by Mr. Gallatin. _
Mr. Swan wick proposed the following resolution <
which was agreed to. '
Resolved, that ths Secretary of th? Treasury be ■
directed to lay before this house a statement of the 1
drawbacks paid on the sundry dutiable articles ex
ported from the United States, in the years 1793, ;
'94 and '95, compared with the amount ot the du
ties solicited on the fame refpeftively.
Mr. Sitgreaves, from the committee to whom
was referred the message of the President refpefting
the posts of Detroit, and Michilimakinack, report
ed that he had not been able to get the necessary in
formation to make a report, therefore moved that
the committee might be discharged ; which was ac
cordingly done.
The Senate by their Secretary informed the
house that they had resolved, that the bill for alter
ing the time irfholding the next session of Csngrefs
do not pass.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill for
making appropriations for the Military and Naval
eftablffhrncnts for the year 1796, were read and
agreed to. One of the amendments was to reduce
the sum for the purchase of horses from 7>s°°
lars to 3,750 ; another was to reduce the ium for
the defence and protection of the frontiers from
130,000 to ioc,ooo ; the other was to conform
the whole amount of these amendment, milking it
instead of 1,352,623 dollars, 1,318,873 dollars.
Their amendments to the bill indemnifying the
estate of Major General Greene from a certain bond,
were agreed to," without debate.
The President of the United States by his Se
cretary, informed the house that he had approved J
and signed an aft for fatisfying certain demands oc- j
cafioned by trials during the Western Infurreftion,
&c. an aft granting passports to (hips and vefTels of
the United States ; an aft for suspending the duty
on fnuff j and an aft limiting the time for allowing
a drawback on iomeftic distilled spirits exported See.
Sundry /efolutions were proposed and agreed to,
making additional allowances to the Sergeant at
Arms, Clerks and Doorkeepers of the house for the
present feflion.
The house on motion, adjourned till 5 o'clock
this evening.
Wednesday Evening.
The Senate informed the house, by their secreta
ry, that they had resolved bill authorifmg
the President of the United States to lay, regulate
and revoke embargoes during the ensuing recess of
Congress, do not receive its third reading to-day;
Alio, that the President of the United States
had informed them that helratj appro/ed and sign
ed a bill originating in their haufe, for admitting
the (late of Teneffee into the Union.
The President of the United States informed the
house, by his fecretay, that he had approved and
signed an aft affording relief to distillers in certain
cases, an aft for regulating the grants of lands for
military services ; an aft making additional appro
priations for foreign intercpurfe for the year 1796 ;
an aft making appropriations for the military and
naval establishments for the year 1796 ; and an aft
to indemnify the representatives of the late Major
General Greene from a certain bond given in behalf
of the United States.
Mr. Jeremiah Smith, from the committee ap
pointed to wait upon the President of the United
States, to notify to him the intention of both houses
to adjourn on this day, reported that they had per
formed that ftrvice.
The business before the house being finifhed, a
message was sent to the Senate to inform them, that
the house was ready to adjourn ; whereupon after
waiting some time to receive any answer, that might
be sent thereto, without receiving any, the speaker
adjourned the house, until the fitfl Monday in De
cember next.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, April 2.
Dr. T was ealled upon the other day to vi
sit a mercenary nervous old lady, who said " Doe
tor, 1 can't tell what's the matlei with me ; my
head is so bad, I seem to fee double.'' " Then
- connt yonr money, madam," far'd the doctor, " it
will comfort you."
The following quantities of grain from different
foreign parts have been imported from the ift to
the 15th ult.
Oats, 17,920 quarters.
Wheat, 5,610 do.
I Peaefe & beans, 883 do.
Rye, 550 do.
A larger importation than ever was .known be
fore in tbe space of fifteen days.
There are people who wonder that Ms. Pitt has
loft the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade,
' especially, as he looked so companionate while he
was making his humane speech in favour of it.—
' Did these wondering gentlemen never observe the
mode by which a waterman rows them down the
. river? He/a#ij one way, and rows another.
Mr. Rose boafli of his independence, as a mem
i berof parliament, since he voted against Mr. Pitt,
' on the question of the Slave Trade.
A great dealtias been said about the vote which
Mr. Rose gave on the Slave Trade question, be
■ cause he happened to vote.differently from Pitt,
r But there is a proverb, something about giving a
certain nerfon. his due, winch «c flioc . • P
plv in this cafe. Mr. fitt vote J aga.ntt SUery, th
Mr. Role for it. Now which was the moll eonfil- cl
tjjiu vote , p AR j Sj April I. lc
Pichegru's Resignation.
Pichegru is known to be that one of our Gene- tti
rals who has the belt military talents. It even seems br
that his abilities are hurtful to himfelf.—-The oh- ed
jeftionshe made against thepaffage over the Rhine al
—the animated difcootent he manifefted,vwhen,
under the pretext of the law of 3d Brnmaire, they b=
suddenly carried off from his army marching :n re- to
treat, all the officers whose promotion had btca
polterior to the 12th Germinal, Year lit;—all
these made him irreconcilable enemies, and created
disgust, which several times made him apply to be
allowed'to retire. At la It a leave of abfenee ot
feveial decades was granted to him. It was believ
ed that be wished to protit by it, aud to go to Paris, p'
where he might have been irfeful in concerting the gi
operations of the next campaign ; but he has not p<
been formally invited to it. He employed a long ai
time, in order, with infinite care, to make arrange- so
rnents relative to the Army which he commanded : fc
then, no longer thinking <»f Paris, he went to his
place of birth, Arbois; frn>m thence he has again cl
sent his Resignation, which, the Directory lias ac vi
cepted. The Letter of Acceptance had been dil- S
patched, when the Dire&ory began to think, that I v
the retirement of a man who had served the Rcpub- 1
lie as well as Pichegru had done, required some
symptoms of regret and of esteem. An extraor- p
dinary Courier was difpatcbed, which carried to b
him an extremely flattering Letter, in which he was u
told that it was only the interelt which was taken <='
with refpedt to his health, which could have deter- 1
mined it to accept of his Resignation ; but that the g
Directory reckoned (till upon his zeal, his talents, v
his intelligence, and his courage, as soon as he u
(ho>ilU be able to use them. His rank therefore is o
retained for him in the army, as well as his pay in r;
the quality of a General of a division and of artil- e
lery.
The pain which Pichegru felt, from the expnl- e
fion of such a great number of officers from his n
army, and their having been replaced by others t
whose courage, however great it might be, could C
not supply the want of capacity, is found jultified t
by the operation which has jult taken place in the t
army under Jourdan, where there were reformed a
eleven hundred and seventy officers who could nei- 1
ther read nor write. '
LONDON, April 5. t
A denunciation was made on the iofh Germinal t
(March 30,) in the fitting of Five Hundred, against
Ifnard, Rouhier, Cadroy, and Chambon, who had t
been on million in the southern departments. This c
denunciation was qua(hed by the pievious question. 1
It was considered as intended to throw a thicker <■
cloud over the adlual Hate of these departments and 1
to opetate a diversion in favor of Frcron. '
It is particulatly worthy of remark that in the <
council of Five Hundred, in the fitting of the Bth 1
Germinal, a refelution was ptopofed similar to our I
law againd seditious meetings and afTemblies. The <
substance of this resolution, as stated in the Courier
de Paris, L'Eclair, and several other papers, is as 1
follows: 1
" Every afiembly which (hall discuss political <
queltions, and which (hall not thrust from its bosom 1
every seditious mover of a queftior, is contrary to
the Conditution. i
" The Police (hall exercise the fevered vigilance
towards the clubs.
" Every society is contrary to public order, if it
imposes conditions of eligibility, if it has a Presi
dent, or a Secretary, if it forms committees, if the
number of members exceed fity, and if it corres
ponds with other forieties.
" In cafe of the infrß&ion of the ibove articles,
imprisonment (hall be incurred.
" Every citizen, who in these aflemblics (hall
propose the re-eftab ilhment of Royalty, or (hall
demand the cotrftitution ot 1793, lhall be judged
according to law and condemned to two years im
prisonment in irons.
" The Council ordered the printing, and the
diflribution of fix copies of this plan to each of
its members."
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, March 31.
" Arrived lad night in Cawfand Bay, the Spider
of 12 guns, Lt. Lauyon, commandcr, from Mount's
Bay, and brought in with her a fmal! fehooner-rig
ged French row boat, about ten tons burthen, which
(he captured at five o'clock yelterday evening, a
little S. W. of th? Edyftone light-house. -She be
longed to Mor'aix, and failed from Rufeoff the
preceding evening, but had not taken any thing.
At the time (he was captured, (he had on board 18
very (tout able bodied men, who were well equipped '
with blunderbusses, muskets, catlaffes and toma
hawks, and one large swivel gun, fixed on a (lider : i
we have »ot learnt her real name, but (he is marked
on the stern, Polly of Jersey There are three lieu
tenants on board the row-boat, and it is said, se
veral members of the convention, who were going
from Bourdeaux to Brest, and had (luod over on
t coast to lookout for a prize or two.
" The Spider cutter had a large brig under her
protection from Mount's Bay fiom this port, to
which vefTel the privateer gave chace, intending also
to take the cutter, which they mistook for a (loop,
nor did the Frenchmen discover their error, until
they got too near to escape. > '
The followiug letter wasyefterday received from
Falmouth, dated April 1.
" This morning arrived two more prizes taken
s by Sir Edward Pellew's squadron. We have now
nine prizes in our harbour, and several more are
| carried into other ports. This afternoon a fre(h
| prize was brought in from the fame squadron. The
. prize matter, an officer of the Revolutionaire, cre
; dibly informed me, that Sit Edward's fqnadton had
fallen in with a frelh convoy in the Bay, 75 of
. which were taken they are expeftcd here very
soon, and the RevoUitiooaire with them, as (he was
obliged to part with so many hands towards man
, ning and conduding the said prizes, that (he had
. orders to make the best of her way to England.''
LONDON, April 4.
By a gentleman just arrired from Hamburgh, we
, learri > ,hat " was generally rep»rted and ,
there, that Field Marshal Clairfayt is restorers t i
chief command of the Austrian army. °
By a gentleman just arrived from Corfir,
learn that Sir Gilbert Elliot, is buildintr a f '• We
mansion for his residence. We are also infnJ 9 ".*
that the island is diftraded thronghout bv int,ft
, broils, occasioned by female feuds which have J'7
ed for centuries back, and fecm to acquire additin
al venom from their antiquity.
AJmolt every banking-house in Paris has become
bankrupt, in consequence of the Executive Dirt
tory forcing them to take their paper money. *"
From the Glasgow Courien
March 2y.
EXTRACTS
Fiom the latter will of Profeffor
John Anderson.
I John Anderfon, profeffor of ilatural philofo.
phy in the University of Glasgow, hereby jji, "
grant, dispose and convcy the whole of my p r ''.
perty, of every fort, to the public (cxcept acheft
and its contents, whi.h 1 bequeath to my brother)
for the »ood of mankind, and the improvement of '
science,, to be managed by eighty one trustees.
These trultees (hall confilt of the nine following
claflts, and nine from each class, viz. Liftmen, Qj
vines, Natural Philosophers, Doctors of Medicines"
Surgeons and Apothecaries, Lawyeu, Artists'
Manufacturers or Merchants, Agricultuialift s
Tradesmen.
Belides these 81 persons, in whom all my pro.
perty of every kind, (except what is in the cl.eft
bequeathed to my brother) is hereby verted for the
ufeot the public, there shall be nine visitors of the
eondud of the (aid eighty one trustees, viz. the
Lord Provoftof Glasgow. the eldest BaillieofGlaf.
gow, the Dean of Guild there, the Deacon Con
vener of the Trades' Huiife, the Prefes of the fac
ulty of Phyfitians and Surgeons there, the Dean
of the Faculty of the Procurators there, the Mode
rator of the Synod of Glasgow and Aire, the Mod.
eritor of the Prefbytcty of Glasgow, and the Mo
derator of the Prc(bytery of Dumbarton, all and
each of them for the time being. Any fix of these
nine, all the relt being duly summoned, (hall eonfti.
tuUr a quorum, who are hereby veiled with the pow
er of calling for the records of the eighty one trus
tees, and of the commit ee of ordinary managersaf
terwards mentijned, of infpeding tha. apparatus
and property belonging the Inflitution ; and,where
they obserVe any thing.managed n6t agreeable to
the intention ofthe Founder, or to. the advantage ef
the Intlitution, to corred the mismanagement by
their orders, and to enjoin and enforce faithful ad
ministration.
There (hall be four general meetings of the whole
trustees every year, upon t.ic longed and (horteft
; days, and at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes.—
When any of these days shall happen U> be on S in
day or the Lord's day, the relpedive meetings
I be held upon the Mondays immediately fallowing.
And at these four meetings, evety thing rthtiyt to
: the interest of the Inftitutiori, (hall 'be considered
and debated upon ; and an order or resolution M
be entered in the minutes according to the opinion
: of the majority of those prefest, taken bj^ballot— J
: Thus every three months, there will be aII
i neral meeting ofthe whole trustees, without .t lja.Mfg
cefflty of any summons ; and, in the meetii ./i Hp*
1 (hall be held annually on the longell day, i.eEx. •
i mittee of managers, to be denominated, t orqN
> nary managers, nine in number, refidetlt n Glas
gow, (hall be eleded by ballot from the whole truf
; tees, by'the majority of those prcfent. They (hall
be elected for twelve calendar months only, from
t that date, and then their office (hall be at an end;
. but they may be re-eleded as often as (hall be tho't
e proper by the general meeting, provided they are
re eleded for twelve calendar months only, and by
ballot.
, These eighty one trustees are appointed by me
in order to manage a Literary Institution, for the
[1 improvement of human nature, of science, and of
il the country where they live.
& I appoint the said trustees to observe the follow
. ing lules and regulations in th; management o£
this iltitution.
e First Rule. The teachers of natural pliilofophy
if in this in(titution, shall give ledures in the city of
Glasgow, to be called, " -the Mathematical
Courle," every year from the firft day of Novem
t ber till the fir It day of May, according to the plan
's whiih I have long carried-on in Glasgow college,
r and I hope not without some success ; the Mon
h d-.ys, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturday?, being
a appropriated to the m ithematical part of phyl
its, without any mathematics j the hours ot h' c *
,e. Turing and examination, to be regulated by the
r. trustees, as well f.s th- honorarium, or fee.
8 Second Rn!t-. Besides the above mentioned
d ! courfcof phyfival ledures, another courle shall like
i- wife be given by the fame teacher, at least once ev«
; ery year, to be called, " the Ladies Courfg of p>y
d fica) Lectures,' in which no mathematical rea on
i- ing shall be used; and it (hall be ftmilar to t «
course on the Tuesdays and Thursdays above men
g tioncd ; but with this difference, that the an tence
n (hall confilt of both ladies and gentlemen ; tle time
of the year, the days ofthe week, the hou's o
sr day, the honorarium, and every thing relating to i ,
o shall be appointed by the trustees, under t e ir "
"o tion of the ordinary managers. The irtennoii
j, this course of leduies is, that the ladies in
il gow may have an opportunity, f»t » u ™' 3 ,
in the early part of life, of being at fevera o
n courses of ledures, by which their ucst '° n , l
demeftic affairs will not be interrupted, we
n aft ock of general knowledge will be acquit
iv cannot fail to be highly ufeful.
,-e I ordain and appoint my said trustees, an
Ti utors, or such of them as shall accept, to a PP -
ie the city council of Glasgow for a charter, oi _
j. caule, ereding and constituting the ai
id and ordinary managers and visitors, into aco
3 f tion and body politic, for the more
v ing in the trustees the property of the .
as by conveyed, and bequeathed ; and commun
Z to y them and to the viiito.s legal powers of
id tration, and of check and controul, or
and advantage of the Institution.
SubtcriK-'d at G1 >fgow, the 7thday
i'e thousands ft ven hundred and ft** 1