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fctr. l!?V<r«iore, of tlve committee of confer ee on the disagreeing votes of the two Hou'fes oil the bill for fixing the time of the next annual meeting of Congress, reported that the con ferees.could not agree. The bill being 1011, the time of the meeting of the next Congress will be the fir (I Monday in December, according to the constitution. Another message from the Senate informed the House, that they have pafitd the bill for the relief of Simeon Thayer, with amendments. Al so that they have considered the bill, directing the officers of the treasury to pass to the credit of John Banks the sum of dols. and have re solved that the fame be referred to the next fcf- A resolution for compensating the witneflVs on the enquiry into the causes qf the failure of the expedition under Gen. St. Clair, was agreed to. • , , . Mr, Smith called up the motion for a resoluti on authorizing the President of the United States to caufeprovifion to be made for the accommo dation of the next' Congre/s. The question for taking this resolution into consideration was ne gatived. The amendments of the Senate to the bill for the relief of Simeon Thayer, were taken into Confideration,and disagreed to. Ayes i7,noeS2l. A'nother message from the Senate informed the House, that they have paflcd the bill making appropriations therein mentioned ; that the bill for returning to Jacob Bell certain duties on yielded Fish, having been eonfidered, the Senate had resolved that said bill do not pass. The Secretary also informed the House, that tie Prefidant of the United State* had notified the .Senate, that on Monday next, at l» o'clock, he would take the oath prescribed by the consti tution in the Senate chamber. The engrofled bill, making addition to the compensation certain officers of the treasury, was read the third time and passed. A bill, providing for the compensation of _gl,enezer Storer, was taken into consideration in committee of the whole, and mit amendment. A motion was made in the House, to postpone this bill to the next session— this-was aprced to. Mr. Findley moved the following resolution, in substance, viz. Resolved, that the Secretary of the treasury Report to Congress, onthe firft Monday of Janu ary next, the number of the stills in the respec tive di'tri&s d.ftinguifhmg those employed in distilling spirits from domestic materials —the nets produce —amount of drawbacks the num ber of officers, and amount of their salaries—• Tim resolution >vas agreed to. Adjourned till 7 o'clock P. M. SATURDAY EVF.NING, March 4. A communication was read from the Secreta ry of the Ttvafury, combining a report from the Coramiflioner of the Revenue refpertir.g the fti in the several diftrivtsin the United States, the quantities of spirits diftijled, See. &c. o*r(ier7ed, thAt 100 copies of thi9 report be tot the vfv rrf iii" member*. j- A niefTHge from the .Srnate, hy Mr. Otis, in formed the House that rhey recede frpm their amendments so the bill for the relief of Simeon Thayer; that they have confkiertc the bill to authorize a grant of land to the inhabitants of Galliopolis—and have resolved that the fame do not pass. The report of a felert committee, on the me morial of William Crowe, refperting a difcove ly or improvement in fire-arsis, was read—and on motion, referred to the consideration of the next Congress. Another mefTage was received from the Se nate., informing the House that they have pair ed a bill entitled, " an art making addition to the compensation of certain public officers.' On motion of Mr. Williamfon, the purport of the following resolution was agreed to : 1 hat the Clerk of this House be directed to allow any person or persons, who conceive themselves in terested, to take copies of such statements rela tive to their official condurt as were by them £i- Ven in to the committee appointed to enquire in to the of the failure of the expedition un der General St. Clair. A mefTage from the President of the United States, by Mr. Secretary Lear, informed the House that the following afls have received his approbation and signature : viz. An supplementary to the a A providing for the support of light-hotffes, &c. An a& to provide for the payment of the firft instalment of a loan made of the Bank of the United States An a6t for extending the time for receiving on loan that part of the domestic debt which lhall not have been fubftribed prior to the Ift day of March, 179.;; and An a& for the relief of Elijah Boil wick. The committee on enrolled bills reported, a» truly enrolled, an ad making certain appropria tions therein mentioned; an a«st for the relief of Simeon Thayer; and, an a& making addition to the compensation ot certain public officers.-- These were figncd by the Speaker and laid be fore the President. In committee of the whole, on the bill mak ing further proviffon for securing the duties on ditlilled lpirits and ft ills, wines and teas. Some progress was made in difculfing this bill, but a motion being made that the committee fliouid rife and aflc to be discharged, the fame being put and carried, the committee rose and were Jifcharged. The fubje<sf, in consequence, must reft till next Congress. Ameffage from the Senate informed theHoufe Hilt the President has approved and signed an •A Aipplementary to the a<sl to provide more effe&ually for the colle&ion of the duties of im post and tonnage; and an a<St to provide an an nul allowance for the education of Hugh Mer cer. A meflage from the Prefulcnt of the United States, by Mr. Lear, notified ;h: Houf: that he had approved and signed the three adls last reported-by the committee on enrpiled bills. Another message from the Senate informed the House, that the Senate having finilhed the bufmei's before them, are now ready to adjourn. On motion, it was resolved,. that a commit tee of the House be appointed to join a commit tee t)f the Senate,, ro wait on the President of the United States, and inform him* that Con* grefs is ready to adjourn without day, unlefshe ihould have apy communications to make; and meflieurs Boudinot, Sedgwick and Hindman, were appointed the committee. Mr. Murray then moved the following reso lution, and that those who approved thereof would {hew their assent by rising. Resolved, that the thanks of the House of Representatives beprefented to Jonathan Trum- , bull, in teftifaony of their approbation of his conduct in the chair, and in the execution ot the difficult and important trust reposed in him as Speaker of the said House. The resolution was agreed to nem. con. and the Speaker made the following reply, Gentlemen, You have made me very happy by this teftrmony of your approbation of my conduct in the chair. 1 feel at the lame time an additional pleasure in this opportunity of rendering to you my sincere acknowledgments for the kind candour and indulgence as well as the constant aid and support which I have ex perienced in the performance of the duty which you were pleased to aflign me. Be assured Gen tlemen, I shall ever retain a grateful sense of your goodness, and you will fufFer me to add, thatmylieft wifhesfor your welfare and happi nefsin public and in private life will attend each member of this honorable body. A message from the Senate informed the House that they concur in the vote for a joint committee to wait on the President of the Uni ted States, and have appointed meflieurs John fton and Rutherfurd on their part. Mr. Boudinot, ofthe joint conrunittce, report ed to the House, that they had waited on the President of the United States, who informed them that he had no further communications to make. On which the Speaker adjourned the House, fine die. Philadelphia, March 6. CONGRESS. Saturday last the second House of Reprefen atives of the United States closed its second fetficjn, and adjourned without day.—ln the early part of the feflion, business moved with no great celerity—but towards the close, a number of very ellential and important acts were pafled—the benefit of which, will he ex perienced bp the Agricultural, Mechanical, and Commercial Interests of our Country while the public Revenue will be encreafed without any additional public burthens. Two of the great Departments of State have been scrutinized in the courfeof the ses sion-—and tho' at this early period in the. exift enceofthe Government, the best feelings of the human mind revolt from thp idea of cor ruption in its administration, or the fmaMeft deviation from the ftrirt line of rertitude and honor, on the part of its pubiic functionaries, yet, it must afford heart-felt fatisfartion to every lover of his country,, and its glorious Conflitution, to find on the severest investiga tion, prosecuted by the firft abilities, that in the opinion of a very large majority, not a spot or wrinkle was found to fully the official conduct of the high and responsible chararters concerned.—May the day be far, far distant, when similar investigations, even tho' insti tuted by the sacred jealousy of patriotism, shall terminate in a less favorable result. Thirty-two Arts were palled during the session. OATH OF OFFICE, ADMINISTERED TO THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. Monday last the Senate of the United States convened in the Senate Chamber pursuant to summonses from the President of the United States. The Speaker and Members of the late House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, tho Secretary of War, the Attorney-General, the Judges of the Supreme Court, and other Officers of Govern ment; the tmeign Ministers, and a number of private citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen, were al so ptefent on the occasion. At twelve o'clock precisely, the Ptefident entered the Hall. Mr. "Langdon, Prflident pro tempore of the Senate, then rose and said : Sir, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States is now present, and ready to adminiftf r to you the oath required by the Constitution, to be taken by the Pieftdentof the United States. The Prrfident then addressed his " Fellow-Citizens" in a short, but comptehenfive speech. Judge Cu(h'fig thin read the oath, which the Piefident repeated after him, sentence by sen tence, as follows : I, George Waflimgtm, do folemrlv swear that I will faithfully execute the office of Prejidct tf the United States ; and will, to the bejl of my ability, pre feroe, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. This finilhing the solemn ceremony, the Pre sident retired. The fuow Alexander, Capt. Carnagie, arrived here last Sunday from Lisbon, in 32 days— Ai he fame out of the he met a British Packet going in—the Captain of which, sup posing the fuow to be a British veflel, informed Capt. Carnagie that War would be proclaimed in England against France before he could ar rive there. The accounts at Lisbon, refpefling Louis XVI. were, that the trial was not coropleated. Accounts from one extreme of the Union to the other, announce the celebration of the Birth-Day of the President of tbe United State-., with circumftaoces of uncomiqoq.fci 319 hvity, fentim*nt and eclat.-»-Any thing m the " National Gaiem" to the contrary, not ' withstanding. . The following gent'emcn are eteftcd Re fcrejfentatives in the 3dCongref; <>f the United StaJtes, for the State of North-Carolina ? Thomas Blount, JCfcj. in diftH<st No. 9 V/i 11 iani "foilniton Dawfon, Esq. in No. 8. Nathaniel Macon, Esq. in No. 5. Si las Talbot, Esq.'——added to the lift pub liihed in our lalt, completes the Representatives in Congress for the Slate of New- York. The #61 to extend the powers of, the Justices of Pe-ace in jhis State, pafled ihe House of Rc prefcnUtives the 23d ult.—This gives Jaftices .cognizance of suits to the amount of 201. ' Tfcis is the way to mend the flaws, *i usage make in laws ; Since justice is a foe to learning. We Artayers make without discerning ; And without a Jury— Of liti&iing itch to. cure ye— This law the \frarmeft efforts chills, To (hut Pandora's box of ills— Since we, our wijdom to dtfplay, Now fairly throw the lid away. .Mr. Thomas, of" Woreefter, has in the press, ait edition of the Holy Bible, in octavo. He has fometjme since printed two editions of that-work, vjz. one in folio, with 50 copper plates; and t,he other in large royal quarto, with marginal notes and references. He is also preparing for, and will speedily put to press, three other editions of the Bible; one of them a demy quarto ; another in twelves, or the common school Bible ; and the third a Quarto Bible, with arguments prefixed to the different books, and moral and theological ob servations at the end of every chapter, by the Reverend and much celebrated Mr. Ofter wald, profeffor of divinity at Neufchatel, in Switzerland. The priilting apparatus for the variont sizes and qualities of the Bible nW in common use, will be very large and exceedingly expensive. In this un de taking he hopes for the encouragement and support of the public* Extrafi of d fetter from Co/. E. Ofwdld, Proprietor ef the Independent Gazetteer, dated Liege, (Ger- many) Dec. 5. 4 * After a few days stay at Paris, I puifued my route to the army, which was then 120 miles diflartt. On my arrival at General Dnmou rier's Head-Quarters, I was appointed fall Co lonel iri the Corps of Artillery. My notunder ftifrjding the French language has hitherto been a great disadvantage to me—however, I have made great progress in acquiring it, and hope to be able to speak it fluently by the Springs— France is a glorious country, worthy of the Free dom it enjoys.—Since I have been in the army, have been almost in conflant motion. I have been in two altions—one at Mons, on the 6sh November, and the other about a league from this place, on the 28th. That at Mons was very fevtfe, having been engaged in a cannonade a boat 5 hours—l had four 24 pounders under my direction, in the open field, and engaged three redoubts : (This action I think was not quite.as.severe as that at MonmouthVr-The army of France being ordered to the chargc, they rushed on the enemy, and carried every thing before them—We have been pursuing them ever since till within these three or four days past, that the army has been halted here, for refrtfh ment and pay : We expect to proceed to Co logne, which is about 20 or 30 leagues farther, in a day or two—when there, it is generally be lieved the campaign will close.—Whether I (hall p*fg another in France, is uncertain—lt will depend altogether on my having a proper command. The combined enemies of France have been beaten in every quarter —The Pruflians, Auf trians and Sardinians, have fled before the French army, even in their own territory.—The Artil lery of France is certainly superior to any in the world—lt is a noble corps—and I consider it a great honor to have been placed iii it in the fiTft instance." Extratt from Mr. Burke*s Speech in the Houje of n '•> Commons, Dec. 29. " The French, in all those countries into which they had entered, had put that which was highest at the bottom, and vice versa. He took notice of the resolution of France never to Ily down their arm l ! till they had given liberty to alt those countries which they had entered, and until that liberty was se cured. He here made a number of severe remarks on Le Brun's hypocritical letter to the Na tional Convention, relative to the meeting of the Britirti Parliament, See.—He observed, that thro' the whole of that letter there was not one word of the King, not one word of keeping well with the Court of Great-Britain j but he mentioned the nation of Great Britain as free and generous- He separated the na tion from the King and his ministers, and ap pealed to the nation from the King. Mr. Burke asked whether the good people of this ccuntry could believe one word that such a man fa'd f He next adverted to Dupont confeffing in the National Convention, that be was an Atbeift, and that he sincerely believed that there *ya* no God. He said, it was nnne ceflary for him to touch upon this extraordi nary cpnfeffion, after it had been divinely handled by a Noble Lord (Lord Lougborough) W another House. It had, he said, been stated, that nineteen aflaffins had come from France. —These were seven more than were fufficient to murder the Royal Family. There were only two hurdred murderers by trade who had com mitted all the enormities in France in August and September lafl—but there were tbou fands connected with them, and who were aiding and a/lifting. Some thousand daggers were befpeke at Birminghan. ; how many of these were to be sent abroad, and how many used for home consumption, he could not tell. Here Mr. Burke astonished the House by drawing a long dagger, brandifliing it iu bis band, fcnt! then thuowipgU violently r»n tl»e floor. There, laid he, is tijc French frater nity lor you. This is a dagger made exact ly according to the directions to jtl e gentlemen at Birmingham. When theFrcncfi had thrown any nation into coniufton, h«?d destroyed their government, and plundered them of their property, and had piuuged a dagger into their bof'om, thejF fuid they had frate.nifed that nation. He was extremely obliged to the King's ministers for tiie pieient bill, which he trusted would preserve his life a? well as that of many other ot A>is jnajefty s fubjedts." COMMU NICATJOK. If it is a mark of dtgrneracy in a republic to pav difttnguifhed refpett to one citizen, lliuiln oos more by ni» virtues than his office, u mutt bit of confequencc very anftocrattc and aifctmng in any one citizen to cultivate the virtut-s whicb naturally infoite that refpedl ; such a citizen is no other than an usurper of a distinction over his fellow-citizens. - Rcfpcft is the shadow that follows virtue, and where the iubftance is there will be the shadow. It the shadow be anti-re publican, more so is the fubflance. Nothing therefore is so anti-republican as eminent ce publican virtue ; the very potion of aristocracy lurks in it. The pieces in fevtral Gaieties of this city aimed at the magistrate of this country have exhibited m various lorms this ex cellent mode of reasoning. According to their theorv we should keep on an exa£fc level—as vir tue riiei above equality and ohtains diftio&ion, so vice, and especially that mean one of offering outrage to virtue and dignity, finks below the level. Indeed to fink one is raising another. It follows therefore that our contempt for the wri ters of those pieces is anti-republican, Alas thefc are flrait laced times when the most natu ral emotions of our minds are eileemed viola tions of our political duties. ILE Ul* & 4 L 6 per Cent*, iSfi 3 per Cents, 10/3 Deferred, itjs Full share« Bank U. S. 12 per crnt. pretn in the Insurance Company 75 ADVERTISEMENT. NOTICE is hereby £»ven, That' the Corfl miflioners appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina,, will attend at the town of Hillfborough, on the 18th, 19th and 2*th days of April next, for the purpose of receiving propofalt from fach p^r ions as may be disposed to undertake the Build ings of the University. FREDERICK HARGETT, Chairman. An Ordinance for ft curing the punCluai Payment of the Monies due on the Subscriptions to the Society for eft a blifhing Ufeful Manufactures. WHEREAS doubts have heretofore arisen with regard to the power of the Society to annex any penalties to the non-payment of ih« instalments, agreeably to the terms of the sub scriptions. And whereas the Legislature at iheir last lefiiotis, pa'flVd a supplement to the original law of incorporation, removing the said doubts,.; and futty rutffortfctWjg the Dirc&ots to pass any ordinance they may think proper, to compel the pun&ual payment of the said fuhferiptions. Sec. i. Be it ordained, therefore, by the Governor and Directors of the Society ~Jor ejlablifhing Ufcjul Manufactures if any fubferiber or (hall neglettto pay the second payment of hi*, her, or their refpeftive fubferiptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, either to thecafhier of the United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit, at New-York, the cashier of the Bank of New-York, the ca(h,ier of Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, ot John Bayard, Esq. in the city of New-Brunf wick, in the state of New- Jerky, on or be ore. the thirteenth day of April next : That tljcn and in that cafe, all and every (hate or (hares of fiich. person or pe» sons so neglecting to make such pay ments as aforefaid, and the monies by them pic vioufly paid, (hall be forfeited, and forever thcr©» after vested in the said Dire£Vois, and their suc cessors, for the common benefit of the said So ciety. Sec.-2. Andbe it further ordained by the authority aforefaid, That if any fubferiber, of his afligns, (hall neglect to pay the third payment of his, her or their refpe&ive fubficriptions, together with the lawful interest arifing-thereon, on or before, the thirteenth day of May next. That then and in that cafe all and every (hare 01 (hares of fuel) person or pet Tons so negle&tng to make fuclt payments as aforefaid, and the monies by them previously paid, (hall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, soT the common benefit of the laid Society. Sec. 3. And be it further ordained by thi authority aforefaid, That if any fubferiber, or his afligns, fhali neglett to pay the fourth payment of his, her,or their refpe&ive fubferiptions,on or before the thirteennth day of July next, that then and in tjiat cafe, all and every (hare or (hares of such person or persons, so negletting to make such payments as aforefaid, and the monies by theia previously paid, (hall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Dire&ors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society. NICHOLAS LOW, Governor. PaJfedat'Ncw-Ark, 20th February, 1793. (Counterfignedj ELISHA Secretary pro tempore. BE IT KNOWN, that the proportion of spe cie which may be paid on the rcfpe&ive pay ments of every original share, by such Stock holders at prefer paying a moiety of said (hares in specie, in lieu of deferred debt, is as follows : Dots. Cti. On 13th of April, 1793, with in tereftfrom i3?h July, 179 a, 7 63 On the 13th of Mav, 1793, with in terest from 13th January, 1793, 7 86 On the i3>hof July, 1793, 8 09 Stockholders in the laid Society are hereby notified, that I, the fubferiber, am duly autho rized to make the requisite indorsements upon the certificates of (hates which they may respec tively hold, and that books of transfer are open ed at my office, in Front-ft fret. New.York. February* i, 1793. NICHOLAS LOW. jawti3M