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Igj lion 0F THE( UNTED STATES. question Tiowr far the - House of -Represen-assesses a constitutional power to bind liters to secrecy in respect vto public is tiow open or exauunaiion.-, - , -merits, communicated by ' the president Ijr take no other view 01 tnis "subject man lcj communicauuus ic , inauc hi , pursu- f that part ol tne .constitution . wnicn ;T the iutv of the president, tf roth time to the congress information orthe state of inn ' In discussing the president's power jiis point, it has already been remarked power to give inionnauon 10 congress I mean the same as to withhold informa linthe people. 'We maf go farther, and m perfect confidence, that rthe framers iconstitution expressly contemplated pub I --.. .Li ii ii iifi :f . 1. r the essential cnaracicnauc ui uus ati 01 Ment. The constitution is imperauve. hut,' from time to time, give to the con- kc. this proTission is coniainea in a of the constitution which prescribes the rather than the ' fiowera of the executive!! bt section of the second article regu- he election of the president; the second. im the p6.wer of military command, of 5 and pardons, of making treaties, - and : ntments: and the "third 1 commands him defence HALIFAX, n;S ) May 22. F'V " tyc pi curusnjiia uu:it upon promptitude ind dispatc.il in conveviner from Sara- logUoPhiladelphia. the caDitulation of Burtrovne.! - Yesterday arrived -tlis Majesty's Packetrt)uke by which he acquired the immortai tiiTeof iTnf "M8r of the JSiur? Or, U his fame more suspicibusly. brigs Castor and Elizra from Liverpool;' G, B. referreld to iht marfauvre bi the Sabine ? It is well ! 1 ne Castor had a? days -.passage, andisrought understood. diat on this fatter occasion he had the , London ' Papers to the 25th', ult. with which we- 1 ' i f . . i 1 I -LI' ' i r 1 ... aaaressio procure trom a number ot officers un--i I,avc uccu wugi"gy lavourea. tion of them, ?lthout?h they may have taken place wihlosed-door refused to1 publish the '-journal of of cits proceed-1 ings .upoh' the. secret proposition to buy Arabia the Sandy (Florida) anyf m ember bad a right to state what was said 'pro and con upon the sub ject generally-;- if he "'stated no motion or vote. Ine distinction-is obvious. :--Motions and V votes are entered upon the journal, argument and' e-' tdquencefare noU ll seems thatA in England the exclusion of the "populace from the calleriei has Lnot been considered as involving a denial1 of the right of the members to pibhsh even ' thV pro ceedings,, as we learn, by theollQwing curious t services for the traits of a great general, and find j 18.000 French Troops have been i placed, at the f i iiv.iv "urn a iau iiumuti ui uui tcicj' Jicii uuu-iuiuy iuhluic auu uuiii. it i us loiinw mm in Ills lat . vnimnus ui 111c juivii ijui i iu urcccm ine lm ekly Amacnger, We. rememv ter operations, where his fie W i der b command, their signatures to a most ful-1 i he cause oi thejfatrwtpajftiardii-appeavi 2 : some" and Indecent panegy rid ' written by his own to e reviving they have Jatterly harrassed the hand. tMo trwtinsoh at our-head 'what connoitt'''Pi)ch:veiy'' much, and their fetreat from tli " wc jficrf'jiftiij wrote this most unblushing general of j cinity of Cadiz was expected, himst. If.'. - : " j Swedenr has joined the Continental league a r If therefore, Ve fearch the historyof his former- ginst England. : ; , :' 4 lication, eWa Weekly ield has been more ex. , portatiori of British Produce 01 Manufactures. ber a time, during- the administration fof Lord 1 tended, and his command more unfettered. To I The Atlantic and Unity sailed from Portsmouth" North, when the, 'gallery was once shut. - Only! get al once a,t the object in view, I sliall pass oyer on the 27th ult. wiihupwards.of40f;sail of mef'f ipncfeVift the reign i of the Great Tory,' North I fin iilenr.e those -stiftpteioasr "tVanimen for Quebec, &c. under 'cbbvby of u m. Odr Whigs of the West are not so" scrupulous. the Vltssissiiiprdurinjhe't war'i which Were- sOwen Glendoweri Capt. Selby. ! .' "; '"'; ; TheTeport-of-theproceedings, however, went: ingvniouslj taken either for the destruction -of the - - Lok-dow- Anrif 2 a ' on inthenewspaoers as dsualThey were-fur from Lisbon arrived this morniue- with Dished by, members themselves. Till at length! fear or unjust miijht preponderate on a corrupt accounts to the 2tli insl There harbecTi tiO the good humoured Lord in the blue ribbon,jand timorous mind. I pass directly into! his ap battle between the British and French, nor docs sieppea across tne nouse to ,ivir. fox and said,, pointment to tne command ot the army 0, the anyone seem to be exptcted- Lord Wellington's " Really, Mr. Fox, , since we hasve turned reporters Mississippi in 1809. - - ' ' head quarters are still at Viceu. The most im- ourselves, the speeches are so clumsy, there" is so l Behold, then, another period in the history of portant articles in the Lisbon naner relate i,. i h- ' I 1 wWW information to the legislature, to re com ceasures .to tlieir consideration, to rftr mbassadors, and to . execute the laws. Ml rive to the congress" What ? In w. Kespectme what f .- I he , state oi ioa.' ,It is worthy of repeated remark,' the 1 arrangement of executi ve powers lies this duty of communicating informa- carefully kept distinct from the power of treaties. 1 he framers of the constitution ed no connexion,- between thtm. . ITiose m sages and patriots did not contemplate khase of an Arabia Deserta, or even an Felix. They did not mean to make it of the executive to make treaties to buy or to buy peace. Yet if is only upon Iwnd of an imaginary, but clearly extra iional, connexion between the treaty power, arid the communication, by the pent of the government which possesses w, of ' information' to congress, in -the diplomatic documents, that the friends wstratioipretend.- to justify even the Representatives in imposincra" perpetu Iction of secrecy in relation to the contents documents. The present writer does not to deny, wtth , at least' equal , boldness, hopes more cogent reasoning than what nc Burdett has displayed in questioning tot trie British house ot commons to im British subject,- the constitutional and le- pr of the house of representatives to impose fjraionrrHe hasalready; totallyndenied 'of the president to exercise , this power. ' v.mc9 us existence in ine nouse pi repre v as the constitution the" laws, and the at house, have hitherto stood. But not affictto be wiser than acven .men . who ft return. He will not resort to uinp tWare unintctligabie, . - a myjienti nice of quirk and quibble: 'fiiTe- the reasons for, the political faith mhira upon this subiect, with his usual i . , . - -.t: . -si - "asang simplicity. .1 . ": rtain that there are but twoXconstltuti pistons which . bear unon this Doint : iich is contained in the second clause of section of the first article, in these words. oouse may determine the rules of its pro- F i punish its members, for disorderly be- nun me concurance ot two iniras, member:' 'And that which follows in II next clause, ' each house shall keep a its preceedines t and. from time to Wish the 'same -excepting such arts as "htir iudgment reouire secrecv -And r fd naval rf;" tK : mi'mN nf '"UhAv fla"y question shall, at the desire of y ,tnose present, . be entered on the ' ow, as the houseXnught do business "y.-seuied rules except perhaps that -of tOe Speaker 'With anW nf nhsnlnl-o rmnr.r.'' Permitted tn Vlt aings it is clear as light that this jr- Vh the f pmmakd to keep a journal, J f substance prescribed by the .. itself, iBftrl- nf. r.nurse ' a nerresBArw P?ensible one, The" rules , of proceeding p. - "c,nueni oniy, ana only "wnue mem "s. 1 gnt to keep a part " of the-jbtirna bind all' men t n tirw Wormahly to the constitution, it must rain of the. Hduie to purloin" or copy LLrPunwl for publication. "But it is C ,Bloa'B"' at - is. -held sacred.. It I, wittie lournal onlv whirh th.' knnae iitould f seem' b arf e'ipresH v t . 10 De t published, and not rr. wnaiever, which are not enter much misrepresentation, and so much nonsense, (.America, when her liberties are thought endan- opera' ion of Ballastero's division He has reached that we '--'must open the gallery door in our own' ct :'red, and her sons are called forth to a distant Ronouillo. from whenre a hot!'Ret;y; '1a-- ice.' Thisi' remark was better calculated quarter to ansert her character and support her in- to the Magistrate' of Seville trv'nrenstre ft man he sons, of America are ever ea- rations for his troops which would arrive' there .' pie. But as he announces exp.licitly,! as the re suit of long and deep reflection, that he conceives himself entitled to, make use'of at. least the sub stance of tit the documents upon which congress has acted, Sc ot the whole ol the debates ot the house of representatives, be they now public, or be they yet'private, even the i unintiated" will in a moment be.,satisned that the field before him is "voluminous and vast.' The torrent of popular passion is now so resistless, that if any good can ever.be expected to result from these pages, it must be of a date at least as distant . as the pro bable termination of them. ' The responsibilty of the writer may be a tiemendous one, but . he as sumes it.with all the cheerfulness of principleluid wUl meet its consequences with all the firmness of patriotism. - -fat 4? , U ' arc inua protecicuoy uie Vulojif im..'. -ti..i v heilhef1 mnre nor fill '" A fte nouse m Pania .. prtceed f aanBider' tlus'er qua dependence. Tl ger to obey her call. Flushed with the glory of the next day (Id.) We have no accounts how- his father, and like him. with the standard of free- ever 'of "their having reached, that- city.. The dohi to defend, ..the young soldier felt no other French about four thousand in number, retired sentiment and knew no other 'objecf.,: See hrn.s- fromlt on the 27th ult. and proceed to Chap sembkd with his brethren in arms at some port atre. We cannot find that'the progress of B&l on the Atlantic, ajteaily embarked and waiting Iasteros has yet produced any change in the 'posi-' the first wind that will waft him , to his destination tions or intentions of the French, who had ad far from his'native home. He hears not the wail- vanced to Chiclana, to invest the Isle of Lton. ingt of parents ; he is even deaf to the voice 6T The lajt account represents them as busily em love, borne on the whispering breeze now setting ployed upon an intrenched camp . -in rrom the eoeding shore. " Nor horoe, nor Junothas advanced jvith between 10 and 1 2,U00 friends, nor mistress fair, can stay the young war- men to Astorga, which he has invested, rier whose breast is fired with the love of glory,'! Joseph Bonaparte left Mibga ift great haste, in and pants impatient, to redress this country's consequence oft he re capture by the Patriots of Honda, Osuna and Marbtlla- Some Paris Faptr havt been receied to the 17ih Buonaparte, who was going to St. Quinten on the r tn.u u u 1.. . ir u: t. tuiii, iict3 suuucmy JUl Ull lllajJU' Ucy IS SU- for the meridian of London than it would now be for that of Washington. The majority of eurlr gis lators must either be silent, or speak with closed doorsj if they mean to be respected by the peo ple. They can rieyer be under the necessity of opening the galleries in defencec-f their own re putation as men of intellect. Enough however of this. . Nor is it clear that we are obliged to a- dopt the common law of parliament. But if that body, which is sometimes, with a species of pro. faneness, fcaledM omnipotent,' does not presume to consider its unquestioned right to hold secret sessions TSS involving that of preventing the publi- cation of its secret proceedings, it would seem to ndicate a little arrogance in, a legislature whose powers, are so limited as those of congress, to presume to say that documents which form no part of its journal are Pot to be . published, be cause it is permitted ifit keep a portion of the jour nal itself secret I . '-:J'! And fix final eal upon his duom. 1 posed that he remains 'ill the i i incr of the Leeis. : - . - - - - - I ..- ..... W D The task which the writer has undertaken raay4i Such is the short and melancholy history of lative Assembly -on the 21st, intendinp to close be a. task of years. He hopes to be enabled re- more than eight hundred citizen soldieis. buried the Session by a Speech of which the war with ugiousiy to perioral nis- engagements to tne peo on tne oanKsoi me mississippi ny genviikinson, tins country will piubably aoi m a prominent fea- m-the. summer and' tail ol 1809, 1 wo hundixd ture wrongs. AUs! no noble foe . K . Ite e'er shaH find ; no Uureh crowrl bis brow Or decorate His tomb. Disease and death Wait his arrival on the laul shore, And fix a final seal upon his doom. A of the survivors are wrecked and destroyed in constitution forever. :-;;' .., "...,''.. , To fix on the causes, of so serious a disaster, Letters from Movbix, received yesterday, com muuicate the" arrivalat that portend departure From the Natchez Weekly Chronicle, It is aTause of real regret to every reflecting republican, ''that the ministerial prints should not confine- themselves to the illustration and support of the many great qualities by which the present administration is honorably distinguished, but, that they should furthpr feel it their duty to give a like support to every measure and creature, of the gov ernment, however objectionable in principle, or odious and;rdjfestable in character. The practice of therrepublTcan editors of the day, leaves us to apprehfsnci, that if it were possible for a time to ar rive, when the two great parties of this nation shall have; so completely changed complexions,, as for each' justly to become the object of those re- ntarks now thought applicable to. the other, ty the sate editors mat nevertneicss, uiese venai syco phants would still continue the same dull . round of panegyric ana aouse, regaruiess 01 me qc renew on of principle '.on the one side, pr of the renovation of character on the other. They are too blind to discover a fault in those "whom they worship,' or rather too weak to expose the putrid existence, if founct attached to any, the meanest wretch in pow er.'';.. : - r ,.' . Else, whence the repeated outrages offered to this nation by the servile Duane and others, in re lation .to that miserable old man general Wilkin- son.- Why are ive insultmgly;told, that jn the e vent of a war with Great Britain he1 is the only man whose courage and tactics can ; with' safety be relied upon' ? ColDuane is ,no doubt partial to the courageCof his friend and patron, ,when he cori trasts' it with his' own . destitution of that quality. And by the help of another contrast, he has de rived the opinion' of the, other high attributes of liis herW'he-'mortificairKe' must have felt at .: - . t- i- -,!.r, l . '"V I 1 1' f '.i nis own naicvnous oispiay ui uic neaa 01 ine rm ladelphla militia, put . him in attemper to think contemptibly of 'the- tnilitary genius of his coun trymenj or rather of those who have adopted him j and as & further relief fof his mortification he as cribes a monopoly of those qualities in his friend, which he cannot in decency claim to himself. for Paris of Messrs. M Kenzie ajid Dickson, who. (which surpasses in its consequences any defeatsailtd some time ago from Flymotitrrto negociaic- sunered during the revoiiition; it is necessary to an exchange ol prisoners ot war. They also add-, look a little nearer into the circumstances connect-, that they were received with every mark of respect ed with the evtmt. ,. ' on their landing, and proceeded on their journey NearlyaU theijsew levies ordered to N. Orleans to the capital without meeting with the least dit- ahnnf tufpnfir.fi v hlinrtinn api-ivml h - ihc'trrsf if firnllw np lplji;. 0r" " .j. .'.'V "i. . T V..i ...i.i..M.,.. Mlll'UW -V.Jil . tiVy. " i . Tl1 . . - ' -. April..; On the third -of June, the whole dropped j The Master of an American vessel, which' has ' down the river about 10 or 15 miles, and occupied been" condemned at Christiansatulin Norway, ar !a a low piece of ground partly covered with water, j rived in town yesterday. He states, that between even before, the rainy season had" commenced.- j forty and fif.y American vessels had been seized 1r' The-hole effective-st rengt forthwith employed in cutting ditches and' counter) The.; slightest pretexts Were made use of to cover i ditches ;' from which occupations the- soldier had ; these pi racj.es. Some Vessels were : seized because no relief but in death and no respite but to bury j they had been overhauled by British ci uisers ; 01 the dead. The incessant application of so nuchrthers for irregularities in i their papers; and in one 1 1 ., .1 1 ' 1 . . . I 1 . ' . . 1 ! . ' . . I 1 . 1 1 lauur, pruuuecu wunucra t lopjon ureaKing up ine , instance a -vessel, vas conoemnea oecause the su ehcampment at Terte aux Jlqeuf, one of the foul-: percargo -was empowered to djspose.of a share-!!! est swamps, on the banks" pHth'eJVIississippihad ', her to an American citizen residing,at liiga A become arable for the cultivation of the sugar j vast- number of privateers were fitting out in the cane.jTis said that the owner of the soil has ! ports orNorwayf made, or intends to make, to the proper persoiivj" Nothing had arrived when this paper was put a suitable return for the benefit his property has to press respecting the 'firing' heard along the received. - . , i rtnch toast yesteiday mcffhinsr, as mentiolred ....... .... ... - - - - - - w - . . Urders having been issued in April, trom Jhe ; in our iover letters. m x-:..i - ;V - H. But the people of the Uaited States are under war office, directing -a moverot nt of the troops up the river to the " Heights," or the vicinity of Nat chez, where the ground was elevated and the wa ter good, no doubt was entertained but that gn Wilkinson, would take his measures accordingy-4utw)ot rigour, ordering that no neutral vessel la It was, therefore, wtth considerable surprise, that the secretary of war received the intelligence that: an-opposite movement had been made,' as he could hot but foresee' the fatal consequences" that ensued. On the -receipt of thatlnformation, another order was issued, more peremptory than the former, requiring the movement immediately" Jo be made Which the secretary,' till then, supppsed already executed, orin k traiSbf execution. GenJ Wil kinson must have received this order by the 10th or 15th July ; yet we' find him at Camp Ten e aux Bcejiona-Mie montitjoi August, and still nn gering cin the Mississippi, in the latter part of Oc tober.'"; ;--' . -" ' - .- , .' . . Here' then we haVe e'eHTopmeritf fthe: ruin of. an army f which may fairly be attributed to the position it occupied during the rainy and summer seasons and to its continuance in the low country the two succeeding months, while in a state 01 inaction. : Yet ' we shall be' told by editors, - " great and srciall," of the " falerks, expience arid resources of general Wilkinson.'' Let-us'resalnToljtjn dignatioh for- a 'momenttill it"isseeTi,i for what pnrpose. he is lecalled.lT, with all his." filthy 'deeds' upon him he is .'brought before a tribunal; whose powers are commensurate with his crime, the . people, rniay rest assured, that he will find a most comiorianie aiacmy in sinKing. jia j thick it will net be found in the courage f col Letters from Koriingsberg of the 8th inst. state, that . in.penuance of the system to be adopted thrtmghcjut he Baltic, the Court of Denmark has issued a decree, which is to be enforced with the 1 ,1 den with colonial produce shall be allowed to pass the Sound, or to land her cargo en the Danish ter ritory, which shall not haye come frcv-strmeport : of America, or direct from the -West India Islands. A private letter has been-reeeived from Faiis, dated the. 13th instant, which repeats that ' lha common, topic rof conversation - in-that -citywas,' the re-establishment ot a general peace, through ' the mediation of the Emperor of Austria. Letters from Malta state tha'this. Neapolitan Majesty, Ferdinand the IV. intended to dispose of a large tract of land in the way of lottery ; the tickets to-be sold. at nearly three guineas each. Several of the prize's will jjut the holders in po--"session of ft pnncifiatiiii A letter from on board a transport in the bar. boUr ; ol. Messina, dated Feb. 5, says" Ve have, had dreadful "weather here, and , at Malta -nine ships sunk in the harbour. - On Friday night last three .shipsitan on shore here, and. were - dashed to pieces i there v. err. 200 women oti. "V,-. :'f - : ' ... f bord one of these, sbrj, wh Were going up to . CeUta to their husbanqyfi'Uinattiy iey-'were- v all saved.'",- ''.f;- ' r'": "r-.' .; ;'.".' ';. The ofETcor. sent tb command -the. important garrison of Centals Cenerwl Var, jpf the'Roy- -al Africah Corps, a disiiiiguished ; officer, who' lost his leg in the'service. Ifernas "with hfiii ; : battalion ;of Lofd Chatham's Uegmient, 1C siiong: a very fine. body f men. - -. '
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