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A Petition of P. C. L'EnfVsit wis read.
The Senate informed the hftufe that they
had piilled the bill for the relief of Samu
el Lewis fenior, with an uniKinlnient ; to
which the houfe immediately agreed.
Mr. G. Goodrich made report from the
committee appointed to enquire into the
official conduft of Winthrop Sargent,
which was referred to a committee of the
whole on Mond'iv.
The report is lengthy, andconrjud. r, with
fecom men ding the following" resolution :
Refolve 1 that there does not appear pauft
tor further proceedings on the matters of
complaint for m al-admirdftration againft
Winthrop Sargent, as Governor of the
Mifiiffippi Territory.
The Committe appointed on the 11th.
inftt to wait on the Prelident of the United
States and notify him that Thomas Jeffer
fon is elected Prefident of the U. S. were
inltrucled to notify the Prefident ele& there
of.
Mr. Gallatin moved the following addi
tional rale in relation to the powers of the
Speaker.
The power of t l r>e fpeaker or chairman
of the committee of the whole in .ill not
br conftrued to extend (in Lis by content
of the houfe pre.viMillv obtained, or in the
cafe of diford. rlybehaviour) totheexpuiiion
of any perfon, either from the lobby when
introduced by any member of tlx houfe.
or from the gallery, when the fame is ge
nerally opened.
Mr. Hill, from the committer appointed
on fh'tft biT.nc.es, repo-ted ft bill releafing
t e 'ftates from the payments of the ba
-11 ices due by th mto the U. States, which
w s ooftpor.ed till the 3d ot next March.
Mr. Piatt, f-v, the committee of re
vifal and unfinifhed bufinefs, reported a
bill for continning the n't generally deno
minated the Sedition Law, which was
Ivad.
A motion was made to rejeft the bill,
on which a deb te endued. On the quef
tion being taken by ve.is and nays, it was
reji-tfl-'d ; there b li-.i; Teas 50—Nays 49,
and the Speaker declaring himfelf in the
negative.
The Yeas and are as follow :
Y E A S.
MeiTi-s. Allfton, Bailev, Bifhop, R.
Brown, C^kbc-11, Chriftie, ( lay, Qaib-rne,
Condit Davis, Dawfon, Dent, Egglefton,
E niendorf, Gallatin, Gray, Gregg, Manna,
'Heifl' r, Holmes, Huger, Jacl fon. Kit-[
chell Leib. Lincoln, Lyon, Linn, Livinr
fton, Macon, Muhlenberg, New, Nicholas,
Nich. lfon, Parker, Randolph, Snnlie,
J. Smith, S. Smith, Spaight, Stanford,
Storie, Steuart, Tali ferro, Tboumfon.
A. Trigg, J. Trigg, Tazewell, Van Cort
tandt, Varnum, "H. Williams—so.
N A V S-
Melfrs. Baer, Bartlett, Bird, J. Brown,
CShamplin, Cooper, Graik, Da >a, J. Da
F.*Davenport, Dennis, Dicktbu. j
Eiir.ond, Evans, Fofter, Freeman, G1 n,
G Goodrich, F.. Goodrich, Grifwold
Grove, Harper, Henderfbn, 11. 11, Iml 'y,
Kittera, H. Lee, S. lee, Morris,
Mattooii, Otis, Page, Pinckney Piatt,
P .well, J. Reed, N. Read, Rutledge,
Shepard, J. C. Smith, Sl.eafe, Tenney,.
Thatcher, J. G. Tlianas'; R. Thomas.
"W f o.th, Wain, L. Williams Woods.
—-49.
City of Washington, Feb. 17 th 1801.
Immediately after the election of a Pre
fident was announced, a number of the
Citizens of New-Jerfev Avenue aflembled
and unanitnoully Rcfolved to lluniinate
their windows at Sunlet; and at nine
o'clock an entertainment was given by a
Republican at his own houfe. When the
following toafts were drank.
lit. The Sons of Columbia. May thev
ever enjoy Liberty, and Virtue to pro-
te« it. Sixteen cheers.
2d. The Federal Conftitutio* —and
Thomas J effehson. Ten cheers.
3d. John Adams, May his country
♦err.ember his fervices with gratitude. i
Four cneers.
4'h the Memory of Washington.
TVT.iy it'rHuain without the help of a mau
foJeum until the Sun itfelf fhall be extin
gui flied. a S .lemn paule.
sth. The Memory of thofe heroes who
have fallen to fecure American Indepen
dence. Sixteen cheers.
6th. The memory of John Wksly, and
thofe who eroded the Atlantic to illumi
nate the weftern world'with the light ot
the Gofpcl.
7th. The memory of Bfnjamin
Franki.in. May the Sons of Science find
another in Dr. Prieftly. Three cheers.
ti. U'm. C. C. Claiborne, v ho with his own
Ki'nd Ivas the firft to illuminate his lodg
}Vgs. Miv Ins talents and virtues long ll
"jnmlnAie the teiwi-of liberty.
* cbwjsp.
9th. General Samuel Smith, the friend
of American Commerce and manufactures.
Nine cheers,
i !oth. Maihew Lyon, and the liberty of
the pre fa. 16 cheers.
11th. John Nicholas of Virginia, win
patriotically brings to light the works ot
darknefs. 16 cheers.
12th John Randolph, the man who dares
to l;>eak what he thinks, and writes to
Prefident in his own ltile. 9 cheers.
13th. The Representative from New-
York. May aliens never want a Living
' * ton to defend their Canfe. 16 cheers.
14th. Albert Gallatin. M'ny the United
States long enjoy his Financial talents.
16 cheers.
15th. The City of Wafhington. Max
! it flourifh till the Globe itfelfdifff Ives.
16th. The American Fair. May they
inflrmft their offspring to remember the
• feventeenth of <. ebiuary, 1801.
16 cheers.
From the Baltimore American. i<
February If!, 1801.
JEFFERSON PRESSIDENT ! .
BY FX PR ESS.
The following letter was laft night re- i
ceived by eXprci's from General Smith to'l
the Mayor: jl
1 o'clock, 17th Feb. 1801.
Sin, ji
Knowing the folicitrude of mv fellow 1
citizens on the important qneltion of l
the eleftioh of Prefident of the United v
States, I have deemed it a duty to give i
them, through you, the agreeable infor- I
macion by exprel's, of Mr. J kkkkson 1
biing this inflant elefted by the follow- £
ing tUtefi,to wit: Georgia, N. Carolina,
Virginia, Kentuckr TenuelTee, Pennfyl- t
• ania, Jerfey and New-York. MSiyland t
has given but 4 votes, the other 4 blank
.►apers—Vermont by Mr. Lyon on4v
South Carolina and Delaware declined •
voting. r
With the highelt efteem, |1
I am, Sir, |a
Your friend and j\
Fellow Citi/.tn, it
S. SMITH. it
James Calhoun, Efcj. r
Mayor of the Citv of Baltimore. t
— !{
Immediately on the arrival of the a-1
hove hijrhlv pleafing intelligence, Gapt.
Porter, at the ObferVatory, (with a 1
promptitude which did honor to his p; - i
triotifni) announced it to the public cy a t
difcharge of fix teen cannon. Nothing v
could tlmn equal the general joy which '
our citizens exprefled. Huzzas rchied.<
through the .City until morning ; many '1
huufes were illuminated, and the accla- '
mations of the citizens anfwer-d through
the nig t, iy a diicharge from the Obfer-.
|v-atory, oi iixteen guns, at two hours in
jiervai, between each f-.lute.
At no period, and on no event, during
.he courfeof my Ihort life, did 1 ever wit- .
uefs more general joy and latisfaition than 1
was difplayed on the above occafion by my •
fellow-citizens.
It is propofed by a number of citizens
i of the firft character, that a general illumi- !
nation take placv this evening, in honor '
nf H'KPUBI.IC AN I SM. ]
Extract of a letter from a respectable liter- '
< ant He house, to their Correspondent at
Philadelphia, dated
" Liverpool* Dec. Bth, 1800.
" It is with reluctance we now conimu- '
nicate to you the lituation d? a great num- 1
her of the poor inhabitants of this place—
It is a fart, numbers are almott in a ftate
of ftafvation.
" Our markets are generally extravagant*;
ly high—Flour is dill riling—Rice is worth
from 40 to 44s—Sea lliand cotton from
3.-3 to 3*6, none at market—Upland Ij9
to 2s.
" Happy muff be the ftate of America,
when contrafted with the convulled and
wretched lituation ot Europe.
MASS A CHVS S 7'Ts 7 'KEASUR T.
It apjiears by the report of the treafn
rer, that the cafh on hand, and debts due:
> to the Commonwealth, on the 31ft day of
■ December 18&0, amounted to 2,014,976
dolls. 18 cents; arid that there was then
1 lue from the Commonwealth 1,692,264
toll's. 41 cents—leaving a balance in favor
t of the Commonwealth of 302,711 dolls.
•nd 77 cents. The cafh on hand amount
ed to 119,726 dolls. 29 cents—The efti
-1 mated expences of the ftate goveriimen
for the year 1801, amount to 119,24c 1
i lolls, and 45 cents.
Extract of a letter from Rhodt-lslanil.
dated February 5, 1801.
K Yefterday saune on at the oUiki£t cout:
'iere, the trial of Mr. J. Woffe, of Briftol, "
vho was fued for all the fines and forfei- -
ures of a voyage to Africa, and bringing '
•T a cargo of flaves. It lafled sll day "
iiid then adjourned to this day, when the <
ji.iry went out, and in a fhort time returnee t
i verdhSt for Wolfe, tiic defendant. h,
he evening of the firft day, Mr. Howell,'
i he attorney, with oik- captain Leonard, 1
lately captain of a revenue cutter, who
came oh here with Jo me evidences in th< ~
c.ile, walked out of the cciirt-houffc, am: (
• on the parade Leonard was attacked b\ J
fome perlons unknown, >vas r,oughly han- f
•Jled, knocked down with flit ks of wooc. fl
and brickbats, but elcaped with life to a |
lioule near the court houfe." ,
Extract of a letter from on board the U. p
States frigate Constitution, ojj Capt 11
Francois, January 2. '■
<4 We arrived here December 29. Cu »
pillage was lengthened y running to th
e aft ward as far as long. 37. We parte,;
with the Beverly febooner we had unde
■convoy, the 3d day after we failed. Dcc. 1
j l < r , we loft William Gray, an Knglilhman. '
'ovt(hoard, the beft efforts to fave him were 01
ineffectual. We juft hear that the Tram "j
bull has had an engagement with a priva- 0)
iteer of equal force—The latter elcaped. j e
jWe hear alio, that the fchooner Experi di
Intent, of 12 guns, has had a fmart a V.o s
'with a privateer of fixt^en—the la er fi
na lv running away w h d mage. The 1
Scammel was in a fever eg 'le on tue coaft
in coining our—cut awav her anc. Mrs an
threw two guns overboard. We fear tr
Inlurgent -oicl Pickering fuftered in the la
gale. The forlner was fpokrn in hit. 32. v
There are now on the St. Domingo Itatim
the Conftitution, (Mongrel's, Adams, Au
gulla, Richmond, and Trumbull.
The Stftnirigton (don.) paper of the 10th
inft. informs, hat advices from Gu.ulalOupt.
received by the Ihip Di fiance, in 16 days
jpalfage, announce, that a French frigate
arrived at the latter place from France,
with orders for the governor to uifthifs all
the Americans in confinement, and releafe
their vefTels, if captured after the figning
of the convention, and to order the priva
teerfmen not to capture any more, in con
sequence of which large numbers were re
leal d. *"
It is alfo ftated, that a French gentle- (
man by * he name of Jubertv had arrived at
;Martha's Vineyard, ill the brig Franklin, ot
from Guadaloupj, who was appointed c
miniftcr reft dent, by the French govern- m
m. Nt, to the United States. Monf. Jubert
confirms the above account of difpatches <n
being received at Gnadaloope, and the re- J"
leafe of the American prifoners there. r ,j
NEW-HAVEN, February 12.
v
A letter from Norwich, dated Feb. 9,
lt>ol. fay — 44 A (hocking fire broke out
in this city ! ft evening about 9 o'clock, in
JolVph and Charles lloi'e, _
which was deftroyed ; alfo the meeting- J
houfe, and the houlV formerly owned bv t)
Mr. Woodbridge. Mr. Brown's ftore wa ; b:
torn down in order to preferve his dwell- \
ing houfe. It i> fuppofed the fire was pur- j.'
pc fely communicated." %
Gapt. I. Smith, who afrived here a few
days lince from New-Providence, in palling
one of the Bahama Iflands, difcovered a b
lliip on the rocks, which he found had d
b'cn left by the people; Ihe was copper- *'
bottomed, and had a valuable ca -go, fome ' h
of which he took on board his veflel. The t(
Ihip was blged, and had leveral feet water v
in her hold. 1-
NEW.YORK, February 12.
' jo
A French Comtnifliorier from Guada- t
, loupe to our government, We are informed. ()
.paired through this«itv veftertbv morning, j
on his way to the city of Wellington, t
j He c;.me via Ne-wpOrt, (11. I.)
: » J
r
RANAWAT fr*m the Suhfcriber, llvmg in
the uij.pt r end of Orange County, a Nfgrn 3
• man named RODERT, formerly th>' property o' j
j" Pu.fon Buckcus of Stafford County arid v him j
- fold to Mr. James Patten of Alevsihdrta, and
the faid Patten fold him to William HVo<?k bar
keeker from whom the Snhfcriher purehafed him
' —He i* l'omewh.t pitted with the fmall px.is N
r about Five feat pine inrht* kigh, ind hetwee (
. 21 and 24 years of age; haJ on wh'R he went
_ away, cotton Jatk*•" apd Overhaul*, and ere»n
\\ r aiftco;vt—he has been feeu in the employ of Mr.
James R. Dermot and fuppofed to he concealed
fry faid Dermot.
Whotver will fecnref- : Negro in lexaad.aa
•ail, fhall receive TEN D«>l'arii reward.
RICHARD BANDF )RD %
Feb: t-) y
N. B Any prrfon barb'or ingor employing ft'H
egro will be dcivlt to the utnio" rigor of
the law. R_ •.
y Viftlie of a (JirrTec Hf the "fiigli "Cotirt (f
. ii Chancery, will be Sold at public audtion to
the higlieft bidder on the 10th day of March
next, on the premifes, Lot No. I. in .square No.
744 in the City of \Va(hington, with the Sugar
Houfe and material*, and the other buildings on
• the faid JLot ere<sted.
Such part of the purchafe money as (hall be
, (ulficient to pay and latisfy the debt, intereftand
colts due by mortgage from J3me9 Piercy to
: hor.ias Law (the amount whereof will be made
known on or before the day of Sale) is to be
paid d(-wn the day of fale, or brought into the
Court of Chancery on the twenty-fifth day of
June next, at the option of the purchafer; and
. tor the rtfidue of the purchafe money, with ih
; ferefl, the puichafer is to give bond payable on
( rhe aoth day of June >802 and upon the ratifica
tion of fuch tile by the chance lor (which ratifica
•oll if made at a i willbe upon the twenty-fifth of
June next) and upon payment of the wh»le of the
. purchafe money (and not before) a title will be
made to thepurchafer e'earof all claim of the
faid Law and Picrey or either of them.
J MfiS D. BARRY, Truftee
January s6, 1801. tmio.'
Robert Greenhow.
Merchant in Williamsburg, Virginia.
BEING defiro'us to withdraw in a great mea*
lure from the further purfuit of
offers for fale the whole of his wtll known Ge,
neral and \ aluahle Aflorfment of Merchandise
amounting probable at their prime eoft, to Eight
or Ten 1 houfand pounds (lerling, of which an
idea ni3y be formed by referring to a printed lift
depolited in this office—Not wilhing to divide the
Stock applications by letters poft paid will be hy
him receive ! as te the purohal'c of the whole of it.
Feb. 2, 1801. tAp
nalls;
LL K nds of Hammered and Cut Nails, and
. \ Brads. .Sold at my (lore in this place, be
r ween the Frefident's houfe and the Six buildings,
.it the folV'wing price* lor £»lh only.
■Hammered, Nails and Brads.
I3ycwt.nri.icwt byretailunder >6.
2ody Nails 12 i-zd.perlb 13 i.2dpeil&>.
miy do 13 Ij 3.4
1© do 13 3*4 14 iii
8 do I*s ij 1. a
Dctfk and Spike Nails, 11 n%
Cut Nails and Brads.
2ody Nails 9 1.2 iom
ic do io 11
8 do ii 13
6 do 12 13
4 do 13 t.l 14
3 do 14 1,2 15
SAMUEL M'INTIRJv
l*'eb. f>, 1801. tf.
I «i iii 1 1 - ' .. ' - ■■ J— -
FOR SA L In.
IHE Subfcribcr will (ell at private-fale, two
Three ltory Brick Houles. adjoining eadh
nther, 28 feet front each, by forty-feet deep, on
Capitol Hill, Lot No. 6. Sq. 686—a fine com
modiouslot 61 feet front, by 196 feet deep, run
ning back to an alley 30 feet wide, and may he
occupied as one or two tenements, they arc finished
in a plain, but l'ubllaiitial manner, and built o
the bell material?—a credit of three, fix, and
nine months, on giving approved ootcs, nego
tiable at the bank of Columbia, or Baltimore
—applv to Daniel Carrol, or in Baltimore to
HENRY H. CARROLL.
Vpjifh'nntor, Jnn. 5, iffoi.
x iiii, ÜbbCKiiiiiiv,
H'ill Sell or Exchange
FOR approved lands r.epr the Blue Ridge, a *a*
luahlc tr id of land in Northumberland Coun
ty, two miWs from the Court Houfe and near the
bank of the Potomac, containing 1163 acres.
This tra<3 is divided into two plantations, cfi
the one there is a brick dwelling houfe 50 by 33
feet conveniently divided, and two brick < ffices,
24 by 16 feet. Framed houle 20 by 1-6 iect
defignedfdr an Overfeer, and oilier out honfes.
The conveniences of thh, plate are equalled
by few, and the profped: excelled by none in
| the (late.—The houfe is fituated on a high hill
and commands an extenfive view of the
and the Chel'apeak Bay There is a Creek a*
bounding with the limit Fifh and Oylters, which
terminates the flat land of this trad, that is na
' vigahle for bay craft, and affords tin excellent
landing place within half a mile of the hou «.
On this part of the trait there is an excellent
earing Apple and Peaeh orchard, and a variety
of other fruit trees. It has agr at fufliciency of
Oak ?nd Hickory timber, for the ufc of the plan
tation, befidesa large quantity of pine. On the
r other plantation there is a framed dwelling houfe
. 32 by 16 feet, and a few out houlen, fuch as
. tenants generally have about them. This
of the trad is as weil firu.ted for farming a*
any lands in Virginia. It is well watered, has
a fufficieticy of timber for its fupport, and floci
rifhing yourig pea>h and apple orchards.
As it is preiumahie thai nopcrfonwill make
I fuch a purchafe without viewing the premifes,
' ail that is liccefß.ry to ado is that Mr. SpenceT
Ball living thereon will lhe\v the whole, and h
II fully authoril'ed to m.ike lale thereof.
JAM KS V. HALT..
( N. B. Any perfon purchaling may be fupplied
■ s with (lock, of all kinds neceffary and lufitcient far
the plantation
lt January 28,1801. Iwt'A
n TT is the wtth bf the-brother of RICHABjJ)
r I D! MPSEY to know what ha* become «jf
, 4 { him, and where herefnjc». Richard
arrived in this country from Irtlard in the conh
ia ty of Artrim, near Bavrymanock about 9 years
ago. He is fuppofed to be in the Wcftern part
[) of Pernfylvania. v
* liiforniation will be thankfully received
iti JOHN DF.MPSEY, thr.ngh the Office mi the
of VJ« i.v«rlal Gazette
Walhuwton, I«b. 18. 1801. -3*