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Jfbvszor RsrjtE szHfA fins, :, V; Friday, December 7, . Mr. Thnmns sairt. ri rr with ft Vietr to propose an, enquiry relative - to the duty on salt on this article a duty of six cents per bushel was first laid; in the year 1797 it was "itiiacu iu iwciyc i cms, aim 111 uic hji fight cents more, were added, making the 'J..... 4 ..... 1 F clk. umjr iw.cmj veins jjcr. uuaiici ui yiuo ov : which rate, it now stands But as every mea sured bushel of 'trood'strone salt which i imported into thiscountry, will eigb 80 or 90 lbs. thi is jn' reality a duty of about 39 cents per bushel.' Three years ago, when 'the repeal of tth 'Stamp Act, excise and gress, an attempt -was made to reduce the duty on salt, and retain a part of that system. mi mat ume, aimougn ne.waa conscious me tluty on this article of real necessary con sumption was loo high ana tell extremely Heavy on trie agricultural part p. tne commu nity, particularly those Trving back from the se.i boardV tho were-obliged ta use large vKitnitks of . it, fdr their black cattle and bthef'.bea'sls of pasture, notwithstanding .the increased price at whicli Mt came to them, in consequence of the transportation, and the profits charged on' the 'amount of duty as well as ' original costs by the several mer chants or traders through whose harms it 1 passed, yet he did brieve it better to allow this dutyWo remain as it vizi, a while longer, ... rather than hot '.be enabled to abolish that expensive 'inconvenient and atili-republican - sysiemoi liiiernai vaxuuun. Mr.,. 'IV went at considerable length into arguments to shew the policy of encouraging rthe importation of other than Liverpool salt, which v:as found on experience not to be fit for preserving meat. He concluded with moving ihe fbllawing " testation : .' ". .' ' . Resolved, that the committee of wfys'ahd mean: be instructed .to enquire into the ex pediency of reducing the duty on salt, and also into , the propriety of making, a dis- . tiCitron in the duty, so a to encourlg' the importations' of. salt front the dominions of Denmark; " tyvcSen, tli&Uiriied NetherlHnds, ' Hpa'n, France, Portugal and ths Oriiish ... . ...... i : W eni- mates, in prcicrcuic r.i mu ui any other pUce or places'; ami that the' report by bill or otherwise- ; Mr. J -Randolph said that the Ttlution which ths gentleman from NeVYork had IftbmiUed, aivd in relation to which he had. favored ths Hoiiij with such copious dtni!, embraced two objirts the reduction .'oF the duly on silt, ge.ierally--.nntl' the encourage-, "mint of 't're import itioii of si particular des tription of that article. Ths last subject bebnging to a ctasS whrcVwas consigned to tits corn-.ilttee of coirffnerce aiSmanifac-,, tW, he should confine himself to the first bra:ich of the resolution : nor tdiou'd he have tniiMed tlu Jlouse at ull were not the mo ti 'i of tlu genllenun f.-nm New. York cal culated to e-.'.'itc an expectation, which he wiih'jt to rcp-;,; lKCrt:;c he f;arrd it vomI I !iil b ,;ri'iri"'u "It was not to (p pi;e the ;vj Miry, but ti apprize th mover and, tire vc ilvit the result was likely to Y.rova u.ipropithttt tf Ins wishes, that lit hA iseii rho cf-ur.iry in which th- salt d ry Uil .with peculiar f.ice.was thaffid h Ti-io-o, n.ar en?'i tt )t snpp'itd alioge thc"i"hy im;vit.iii!i;i, b.it tPi e?.oteto have its consum'.iticvj dini'nihcd by vici'iae to th: sea. Those whose Mock had access to -At water f. lt tlr: dutv but pirtially thl'e sr'n; sir.n'i vi (,die. them to use fc.dt of fam; manuficture' only. n.t at nil. As an 1r'it.v.t cf that district of cov.nry by wiilch the duty fras prinripilly paid, and as a f:isn I to agriculture, he lu-l nt an early u'riol or the SfS,'iftn, in conjunrtion with Ills friend the S;i,;.ker, iirnc l h-U attention to the practicability of retiring the. duty nn .dt m 1 you well kno-.r, Sir, (s'nicl Mr. H.) tint f-e rcsidt of o-ir enquiry tatikficd us th.tt this dcVrr?.fc!c olwect w - not at present ntfin.i'lr. Hi tnenViortH this to shew that .othLtjjicmhcrll'H.an InU reiVia'lhis sub j.!Ct.m well as the sc-i:TnpnfromXcw-or it," r.lhoij;'i t'-.ry lud not brought it'be t'ti tfc.c lli'iic. Mr. H. thcii kheved that thj treas.i7 MaUTinnt na'irl.ich that pen t'.e'naii Hied hr tt mpwrtof Ms noition. lint wc en ilipcnc; wrh a portion of 6ur 'kxls-;n;,j r:c',' et.bli.hc the opposite, opl lion, tk7nn rrh'tvrttrf. , " The ho isj w i.r. l n. -'Htrt thit by o:r list 'tco inil our fl'Hllli mtjs bni'ur.in.; Triwli. ii.A'h rouM Answer fir its fte? Who r V,d f rf-r"W to y lln, -before tlr; t7Vistini ho'r.Myi1nti!icnrcroigT tK.t ie rfj-ivrd finm that 'inrtvr f.wM the cas? list y;ar) which would rrn-f-r U mcctsary ".o iososj p...f Uuthens instead of tAin 't'"n ':K. lie wm at itisth 'mtereste'd m ,li.vi ri i . thi inp it on salt, OS any mem li t 1 1 thM hoie cul l b, hut ,ie filt it J t d nr cirViMMr to mic Mut the o'i. 1 J c 'A ki ib rtnue atnt'-s4S i:tu- f;r o n farmer o'ls-rvi'i'ins diiiion ' tv.: qirsMoo wu rail .-4 for, shc-iiivm the r.,A p"t risi o'vr the itptil ff the Ifs is trfrri cd to ths coitimittte of w.-y f er ilH'a?v.i.i, l.s ,.ot)! pn mn!H tuV.hcr.'bs 'ir-i i-n amnJct)-aiid a jo. toi o n fr it l-.st. .... Th- Uwnse r. ilfd itself into a commit '9 i.t t'n w'l'ds' m ihi I -port l; fiviif of P.r.C;: tUimnti of lanl Ijln South i f f i uo'i'. hvo ; li.i.t rrisrr tc ' C.I.'.Vj .f thttf I'.ibslfl tf.c f(T.ce i f th -la r tt Hi-.'r.-t-Oit tft''ion i-f Mr, ,!,,, U.r.c i.iwiit',1 were aJhc4 Lr ih tK-YheomtnTUee anu rcpuricu anu inc nousc.agreea to ttift .:, fenort.- : - ' "'',' '.: -V, . A..ineisage was received front the' Sen'ate informing, thut ther woultr be ready to' re- leiv-4he-artileWmpeachnieiagaifisLL r-amuel L.hase ohe of the associate .Judge of the Supreme Court, this dav at I o'clock. ' Mr. J. Randorpli froro the managef ap- J poinieuon the part ot the House, to cbnauCt "the impeachment against. Samuel Chase, an associate Justice of the United States, report ed that the managers did, this day .carry to -the Senatehearuclea of, inipeachmentlj agreed to., by. this House, "on the thiftieth , ujtinao;- and thaf the said managers were . informed by the Senate that their House would take proper jjieasures' relative to the said, impeachment, of1 which Wiis Houste ihould be duly notified. . " . 'w--'s Monday, DecI-iO ; ; . Mr.. J. Randolph from the commttee 'of ways and mean's brought in a bill authorising -the completion of - the- valuation .of houses, lands, and slaves . in . Soirjth-Carolina which : had , been inaccurately dona under the Urw of t7!?a.v The bill was jead. twice. and refer red to a cotnmittee'bf the whole on Thursday , -nexL. -- ., . ' Mr. J.. Clay, presented a mtmoritil from : the chamber of Commerce at Philadelphia remnnstrating agairtsf the bjll intended to restrain merchant ye'ss from armirig. " Re ferred to a committee of the whole on the bill regulating the clearance.of armed rcer Cmint Vessels. - '. . , ' .. " Ml. X,0wndes" presented a petition in be half (f the claimants of Georgia lands in the uppci TvIiKsisippi country, praying Congress to tale up the' subject and decide thereon '. during the present session. ..Referred. . - t , Mi Rodney called for the order of the day pi the bill fof establishing a court .for the aijudication of prizes-m" certain cases. After sometime spent in discussing the bill, filling up the blanks arid amending some of the section, the committee rose and reported the bill with amendments. They were im mediately taken up in the house, and gone through, and the house adjourned. TuesdayDec. U. . , Mr, Speaker laid before the hotise a letter , enclosing sundry resolutions' enteritT into by the "inhabitants of the county of Alexan dria? against a l'e-'. -s -'-'n of that part of the district of Columbia to the state'of Virginm, which, on motion of Mr. Lewis, was refer red to th; committer .of the whole on the subjett of a rtcesstfcn of ths district, except th; ihty of -.Washington, to Ihe'ttales of Maryland and Virginia. ,. , . Mr. Ecily observed that the laV aiifKor ising the claimants of (Teorgia lands Kduth of Tenncisee to' register the evkknee- of theTr titles under Great Britain or.Spa1n. in the ofiice of the Secretary of Sta bad .ex pired List month,"ar.d thereupon he mosed that a committee be appointed to revive the same, allowing further time for that pur pose. A committee of five' was" appointed accordingly. . TIkj order of. ths .day on the'unfir.isld business .of yestenlay, being the rrport of the committee of the sshole on the bill establishing a court for the adjudication of onz causes in'certai i'caiies, was taken into toniderttion, end the last ilauie of the bill, on motion of Mr. Rodney, was recommitted to tlie select cominittee of veft,v ho reported the b'll. . " " it The Scnpte of the United States 'haio fixed the scrond of January for the appear anr.e of Samuel Chase to ansv. cr to the ac ti.-lcs &L impeachment preferred against l:im and have directed nnufic"tion thrreofto be nude to him fifteen diy previous thereto. , Ltr.LRIT Oti DEATH. J Acquis, Empefor of Ita'yti, directs the f'dlowingOrdinancelobe tariicd into effect throughout his dominion. . i All vrssels, to whatever nation.they belong, that htr lAiroduce spirituous liquor intu -this island, shall be luble to-pay a-duty .ofJ2. dollv per gallon, on the liquor thus impor ted. Ths r.cnenl Minister of he Fintfhcfa is 1 sptUlly charged with the esecuiion oft.Vn decree, and the Generals ind other military authorises ar directed to aid and assist in carrying the nlntn effect. ' Jhre at the Imperial VtlvtvJ Dtsialhfulf 2 U dit fif Srptimbc, in the Jinljtut clh: ''imlt'tr.Jtttriftvurrtign. , By the tlmpcrur, nolironl Tctmcre. NOUFOLIC, Dec. 18. Out !atc Freotb pipen fiy, iley write from Soiri, that th-: it-Genrfat Mvreiu, cA, I of pforcJing to Ameri. cj, 'retire i li tli5Coaf:nt of 'hcVrtnch lo-efiimeiit m l the cuil of Siiit, to the Iihr.d'6f Minyrca." ; Sfversl r',f tmt late French paperi hie th- fol!oh coriou rrflidi !: ' The ? rter'.in (5jcHi olteri mile rn"Mloi ol ti Vifr. ofleiiHe Boom- mrir. It U PM.TibU ilul M. lfo.ne r i s t lii"ij;urtt, ot yet twenty years olO, has a Mtittli but U it rut r-rohahltf he hit a W I H .Title the law l or Frinlt are Tucli! thali ntnor e4 twenty, orcrcnof twenty. five ttari, nnrot rniny sniilr. out the cuntent n Ml fsrenti ct Cr vJiaii, ind nil tout hji::g plTcJ in Fftntt "Jerome Buonaparre (vas born. jo- Dec : 1784t nd it is a'readv.a vear Cnc'e thel American papers arrnoflr-ced his Ma a- I 'iAftB 1 1 v ' v -? . 4 Statifiical pccittnt pf-Avfina A ttfl ria " may be regarded, after France, a the fi'rft power in Enropr, as well from Uie exient of her territory as of her population. Tb't , extent of her territory is cftimated at 158, 840 geographical miles, arid -her popbia tipp at between 25 and 26 nnirons 6fi7" Hub itants. Her army ip ilie tioip of peace is fixed by a regulation of I a ft year, at 2'7,dod men, & in time war it amotin'S to 365,000 men. The revenues of Atif tria amount to about ten mil lions year -; but during the late wjr lheTmadc confide rablc loans, and her public debt atnciints now to,about 40,oo(,oco1.. The prioci-. pal cities, are Viei-na, which contains 254, oco inhabitants, Venice (8oab, . Prague 380,000 r G ra fz35, o'oo r-Pj efb u r g hi2 0s,! 600, Biula 38,000, Cracovia 24,cco, Lemberg 2b, 000, Sa'fbnrgh' Co.oto, . Triefte ioool The .. piihlib'Vfdi'tvces at Vienna, JJtida, arr! above alf, Venice, me rit the atteniion of travf-llcrsr'. ; 'The no ble Hungarians have cajiles whir h tori ef- pond with iheir richrs, but not vKviys with ou r'rr. inner, In tlie caftte oV Eilere " hary, a few miles itom PitTjnrgh, and whicTi the Germans compare with the oaf. -He of Verfilles, there vcre svljen Ftirtin vifited it in 1792, ' 400 clocks, snd .iio't one .bock,, -Jnirnatde Corrimene, ' . .' WILMINGTON, N C. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, I80S. Oppression, fnie(y and .iSji:iuce!.-t-r.... (riified in the t-h'nrarter-siTii cr-ftduct n' Br.--; naparte. than is t-fh"d;ittd in the two No; , which M. D'Ouliiif presented to thr h Overnmen. (revtbuIy to his departure fnmi Jraris. t ' GMARLEStflN, DlC. 19. By Capt. M'Neill of the ship Two Friends. whoarrivedyesLerdayin47dviys from London, and who left Cowes the 29ih of October, we have ' been, favoured with London papers to the 27th of the same month. -J From the. subject matter' of" the notes presented by the Russian to the French Minister, M might be inferred, that war be tween Russia ant! France 'would sorm com mence ; but some of the English papers think that the former will not begin hosti lities unless new aggressions' take place on the part of the Corsican. No neAv.form of Govetriment is 'yct give'n to the 44 Batatian Republic" but, from ap pearances, a change in name, is contemp lated (- No declaration of war by England, against Spain, has taken place but the fchips of the former are authorised to capture those of the latter. . . Attacks by lh& English -vessels ot war con tinue to be made upon the Bologne flotilla but not any thing of great importance has resulted. ., Lokbov,' Oct. '25 ' On the Sd in'st. the city of ttremen paid their first instalment of lOO.OOx) dollars to the French. It is said to be ascertained that Schimmtlpenniek. will enter on his office of President of Holland on the 2oth inst. wjih extensive powrrs and authority, and that he is for tins elevation to pay to IJuooipartc's family in the course of ten ytars, fifty mil lions of- florin Entire new relations with Ffance are to be immediately promulgated. ; , , , Tlie three Hamburgh "Malls, all that were due. . arrived this morninc 1"he French and Dutch paper have, a uiunf, anticipated ' the intelligence brought by them. Discontent is making rapid strides m for.starttinople, and'.has becn'Tnaniftstrd in the usual way, tetting fire to pant of the capital. .; An arti'.le'froin Const antirorle of the loth 'ult. says, A lire or eight hour continuance ' has lo-day tdd i:i ashes five mosuxirs, and above one thousand houses. In the mnt of Ihe 7th a large tillage In the tcinity of the ca7it!rp."-i'cipidtyMnhabrrcrt'by-JewTr sras nkewiie burned. An article of the 27th tilt, adds, the lat destructive "fire which laid the village 0 J pluno, the artillery tarracks, in atbet, is at tribiited'tolhe tliiconteot of the popc, on crount of the icarcity of brd. l mi lan i.sstics TiVevkNc have not received their pay for artne time. ' " The IhrsibV.i are ranidlt rncrtasincr their force tn the Seven Isunds.. A Hussion 64 with rroops, arrived in the Dardanelles en the 37ni 01 ejt. The journey of therope, (ho is now re. covertd from hit hrdispotition) to l'arit, will be by Horence, Bologna, Alexandria, bt. Where all the necessary preparation! rrc made for hit leccption. The adrountt from Venice state, that the rtutiiiht are collecting a great quantity of artillery and tau'let, not Us than 1 5,000 in number, in Iht He public tf the Seven 1. nds, where five generals, besidet the oflicer who ha the principal command, have alrea dy arrived. Of the tutor "of The points m dipnite be tween Russk and lVtfnce, ar.d cf the de msrids wade by fheTormer, our rradrtt art .Imii Xtit.n kitA- It aiiiI ie flifTirirtt. trr. B(S inillinr! if imiiuiii an miiuhi tvrrtiiotif the tentimcntt and -vattm of any 1 tfcrmnenl,' more dignity with more for ! Wranre, more firmne with more mfx'erif lion, it VriMild b dllucUlt trjr, 10 flrpllt in itronrror more animated coburs, atnbi'.ign, the' Russian govern rnent cgainst F,-'nce : -. Tti vint.-itTnti t'i fprrilorv rf Uiiflen.. . The interference, in the affairs of ijjxa-,. tipns, wishing to take no part in the pesent 1 troubles, ' .. '". - 7-' 7 , 'The refusal of thaefrL-r 6 Russia trtmiedi- rp ; :i .i .. I '.l ji i ... . . Denmarki ' '.' 7 , V - . ' The persecutions- of the' emigrants ir foreign countries.' ' " '''The" seizure of -a riatiiraliid Russian at Rome. '.. : - ; ? ; .." ...... The accusation. against Russia of pro tectirig conspiratbrs-y which France upon lic ing desired to prove, declined. . , The forcing Portugal to. pay for- her neu-': trality. .. .,; . ' "' The 'hurthcning-Napfts with he' mainte nance of French troops.'. The treatment of Switzerland arid Holland '"as, 'French Provinces; :'''; Ihe seizure of rlaTiover, in violation os every nntion'jof right janVl jifstice. ; 'i The iwsstssion of Cuxhaven. .r.'-. The Insulting conduct to the Riissicn am bassador at tiiu Thnillerie. Th retusat t give a satisfactory explana tion with respect to the seizure of the Duke d'Enghicn at Ettenheim.' , The violation ot the solemn pledge to in- demnify hisSardiaran JVajes'y. The innovations introduced into Italv. The Russian Notes touch unon the inhu man" and Indecent "mariner in which the Trench government recurred in one of its answers to t!ie Russian ambassador to the dealli of the Emperor Paul. ; The chnrge adduced. against his imperial Majesty with respect to tie occupying' the Seven hlands is most victoriously refilled. The Russian note states, " that the Repub iic, whi.".h had beetl first evacuated by. the Russian troops, was occupied by those drawn from the "state of Naples, with the consent of "the Porte', by the request of the inhabitants. ana in consequence ot a previous arrange--ment Vith France." ' " - It would b6 impossible to collect a greater 'oody of evidftice' and proof against France than has'beeft- coricentrated in the compass t)f these two Russian Notes. His Imperial "Majesty conclude by declaring that the odi um of the" war shall rest upon Fi ance. ' As it is the Ffprrrh ffrvprniuent alone which ha 'given rise to the 'present Ktate of alfuirs, it will also depend Upon it to decide whether wcr is to pllcw or not. In case it shall romp? I Russia, eillie'rJUy Fresh injuries ' or by pro vocation aimed against her or ogainst her al- lies, or by still threatening more serious!? ' the security and independence of Europe, hi Maje?ty will then "manifest as much tnergy ' in employing tlAise extreme nicasiiri:, which a just defence requires, as he has given 'proofs of his patience, in resorting to the umt of all the means of moderatiou cnsistcnlly Vith the maintenance of 4he hopour and dig nity of Ms 'crown." , . We reteived this morning ihe Paris paper "o the 21st, and'the Dutch to the U4ih. Bm r.aparte na 'deterred" l.'rs coronation to the 35th of November; the ptvparations couM not be completed on the 9th, or the liU Ili umairc, the day on which it was at first irv tended that the ceremony should take place. The Legislative Body has been convoked lr the 22d of next month, to assist at the toro- nation, and .Uuonaparte it to go to Fontaih Idcau to meet the Pope, and conduct hnn t Paris. The Moniteur that nv.ounres the posfpone-' ment of the Imperial coronation at Par'n, 'cantains the accourt of the eeremnrTy to be observed at the thanksjivinn tt Vinru on the'Iat of next month, an accoun of tfie ac-. 'cession of his Imperial Majesty to the here dita'ry Imperial dignity of Austria. COM to i 8 C iTpc" trade raaic;! -cir between this country and Amerka it im ippufe At Livcrfool, fddom left ,thar 6o vcfiVt are loidinp atone rime for tint quarter ind the commerce carried on Itnm LondortjUullyr'd'Gbfgost, it pro. p'fvinnally great. From lle latter" port two vefTels freJ m the hA week of Au' fufl for New. York, which among oilier tting, had on hoard 184,15 yards of cottout ami imiflM i ; 141,849 y'' cf printed cortoni an l linens ?S5735 yards of Pritirh ind '$8,975 of Iiifh pLui iiiii.en.' Kxcepting in the mtdft of win. tiT, here frlJom palfet a week bot on or two vtfoU fair from Greenes k i the v ellern world; and at the abuv tro. lioneJ peiio4t ten or twelve TelTeli were loading or Arbctica. The raw maicila'r, of which the aV'ove mentioned cargoes ' were cinr;t Ted," would not roll the na tion more than 5,000. and ihejr are wotth above I c 0,00c. The total talue of. the viporit from Great.&iuatn 10 America amourtel to between er,h and nice mil lion tr annum, tbough in 1774 they ti4 rt'teicevd on militon arl a hall In cluding thofe from the Uii'ifh fetilcmcr.it in the K.Q fd Weft Indiet, they will be little. Ihuii of twelve million. ' ' Gi!oa, Sift. ?i. An tarecment hn het e.v.ereiiuto be , twecn UnifljanJ KulTu, to foiTcft tha
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