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coa'gr r:ss. SEVENTEENTH CONG HESS FIUST SESSION. rnOM THE SATHiWl I.NTELtl "IENCER. JJY SF.S'iTE Tvcsn.1T, feu. 19. The proceeding's tbi day run out to a greater length thai n u pre-.iou arrange ments leave ream fui They shall be giv en hereafter. The principal business of the day was the bill for apportioning Representatives according to the Fourth Census ; said the result of the proceeding was, to reinstate the ratio of 40,000, leaving the hill in the same shape as when it came from the House of Representatives. And in this shape it was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. Wednesday, Feb. 20. The President of the Senate laid before the Senate a pe tition which he had received from Mar cds de Villeir'n and Arnaldo Guillemard, representing themselves ancient inhabi tants of Pensacola, who have been ille gality imprisoned by the acting governor of the territory of West Florida, and praying the interposition of Congress for their relief. The petition was accompa nied by sundry documents, embracing an appeal from the petitioners to the acting governor for their release from imprison ment, and his refusal. The papers were ordered to be laid on the table. The bill to apportion representation a mong the several states according to the fourth census, was read the third time, and parsed, (by yeas and nays, they being requested by Mr. Rodney, who said he would not take up the time of the Senate in stating his reasons against the passage of the bill with the ratio which had been agreed to, as the minds of the members were made up on the subject) ayes 26, noes 18; and was returned to the other House for concurrence in the amendment made by the Senate. Thursday, Jed. 21. Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, submitted the following reso lution : Resolved, That the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads be instructed to inquire into the cause of the frequent failure of the mails between the other cities of the United States and New-Orleans, and that they further inquire into the expediency of providing for the conveyance of the "mails to and from New-Orleans, in covered carriages. Mr. Lloyd presented certain proceed ings and resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce of the city of Baltimore, re commending the repeal of the restrictive system ; which, on motion of Mr. L. were referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. Lloyd submitted the following res olution for consideration : Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign lieiauons De instructed to inquire into uie ex - c i pcdiency of removing the restrictions on our commerce which are imposed by the act con-; rerninP- navigation, nassed on the 18th Anril. 1818, and an act supplementary thereto, passed the 15th May, 1820. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Smith, (who remarked that the petition from Pensacola, which had been vesterday presented to the Senate, would shew the necessity of acting on the bill without de lay) proceeded to the consideration of the bill to establish a territorial government for the territory of Florida. On proceeding to fill the blanks in the hill, a good deal of debate took place on y - r M - the duties to be discharged by the several officers, the expenses they must necessa rily incur, the responsibility of their offi ces, Jcc. Mr. Smith moved to allow the Govern or of the Territory a salary of 3,000 dol lars. Mr. Eaton thought this sum insufficient a Governor might be got for 3,000 or for 2,000, or, doubtless for even 1,000 but if a man properly qualified for the office was to be appointed, a higher sum than 3,000 must be given. The salary of the Governor of Orleans i erritory was 5,000, as well as that of the late Govern or of Florida, and the expensiveness of the place would justify this as the future allowance for the governor of Florida. After some debate on the subject, in which Messrs. 0., Smith, Lloyd, 117 liams, of Tenn. JMorril, Pleasants, and Van Tturen, took part, the sum of 3,000 dollars was agreed to. Some discussion also took place on the sum proper to be allowed to the Secretary of the territory, (S 1000 and 1,500 being severally proposed.) In the end the blank was filled with Sl500. The next blank to be filled related to the salary of the Territorial Judges. Con siderable debate took place on the sum which was just and proper for these offi cers in which, as well as cn the prece ding question, Messrs. Smith, Edwards, Johnson, of Lou. Morril, Chandler, Macon, Talbot, Holmes, of Maine, llllliams, of Mississippi, and Lcnman, joined the de bate turned principally on the extent and labor of the duties to he performed, the cost of living, the talents and learning re quired, Sec. and comparing the sums pro posed with the salaries allowed to other territorial judges, the difference, more or less, proper in the present case, Sec. The question on filling the blank with 2,000 was negutiv&d ayes 16, noes 18. The sum of SI 800 was then tried, and carried Ayes 19 Noes 17. The per diem to be allowed to the members of the Legislative Council, while attending to their duties was proposed by Mr. Johnson, of Lou. to be four dol lars ; which was negatived, and three dol lars wjs agreed on; and three dollars for every twenty miles travelling to and from the scat of government of the territory. On motion of Mr. Williams, of Mis. the act to prevent settlements on the pub lic lands, passed in IS 17, was extended, with the other acts mentioned in the bill to the new territory. The salary of the district judge was fix ed at S2000. Ayes 18 Noes 12. Several other amendments being otter ed, and some debate ensuing ; 1 he bill was, on motion, recommitted, For the purpose of incorporating, with precision, some amendments relating to the collection districts, &c. " HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, FEB. 21. On motion of Mr. Walworth, it was Resolx-ed, That the Committee on Commerce be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so modifying the provisions of the first section of the act, entitled " An act further to regulate the entry of merchandize imported into the United States, from any adjacent ter.itory," ap proved March 2d, 1821, as to substitute a penal ty of four times the value of the merchandize imported subject to duty, instead of the present penalty, in all cases where the value of such merchandize shall be less than one hundred dol lars. Mr. Cocke laid on the table the follow ing resolution : Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this house a statement, showing the amount of ,n..c nrrin.r.,i fitiw. ...Afti,,.,,,. ing the vears 1H2J and 1821 ; of whom the pur chases were made ; at what prices ; and what proportion thereof was of American manufac ture. The House then resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the unfinished business of Tuesday, (the Bankrupt Bill) Mr. Taylor in the chair. Mr. Woodson rose and addressed the house in a speech of nearly two hours, opposed to the motion to strike but the first section of the bill. He was followed Mr. Lowndes, in favor of the motion, who occupied the fioor until nearly 3 o' clock ; when Mr. Nelson, of Va. moved that the committee rise and report ; which was a greed to,aiul the committee obtained leave to sit again. In the House, the further orders of the day were, on motion, laid on the tabie ; md the house took into consideration the bill making appropriations for the military service of the United States for the year 1S22. Mr. Tracy remarked, that the rapid manner in which the bill had passed thro' the committee must be his apology for ! . ,i ,t-, 'not presenting, at an earlier period, tne . . , . 1 , . ' objections mat now occurred to him to the ! final DJSS'iOC of the bill. He had remark- I ed, on a former occasion, that he was dis posed to think that greater amounts would thereafter be called for than were con- i templated in the report of the Secretary of the '1 rcasury. On a cursory inspec tion of the documents that had been so recently laid on our tables, there was, un less the short time allowed him had led to mistake, an essential difference be tween the appropriations included in the bill on the table, when taken in connex ion with the other appropriations that must be inevitably called for during the course of the session, and those estima ted in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury ; and he went into a detailed view of the subject to shew the correct ness of his position, and that the bill in cluded a sum greater, by 8500,000, than had been estimated to be necessary in the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Smith, of Maryland, was somewhat surprised that the gentleman from New York should have found by intuition such very correct and detailed information on the subject, and brought that intuitive perception of figures and estimates to gether in a manner, (and that too without time to examine them; so perfectly calcu lated to defeat the bill. Mr. S. explained the views of the committee at some length, and observed that the Committee of Ways and Means were influenced in making their report less by the estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury, than by the existing laws of the government, which required distinct and definite appropria tions to the full extent of the amounts proposed in the bill. Mr. Tracy rejoined, and said that the estimates of the Treasury Department had reference to the sum total of the ex penditure, and of course had nothing to do with the unexpended balances which could not in his view be with propriety, superadded to the amount reported bv the c,a uv Mr. lockc, caning mr a statement Secretary of the Treasury. ' of woollens purchased for the arvnv in Mr. Smith remarked that the difiicul-! 1820 ancl S21 which, after a modifica tiesof the gentleman from Ncw-Vork, i tlon proposed by Mr. Rich, which was would probabl v vanish, bv reflecting that the Secretary of War was different from the Secretary of the Treasury ; and he thought the gentleman had unfortunately blended them, for that the requisition of, the former was in a good degree made) through the latter. Mr. Baldwin observed, that he had nev er known a bill like the present to have been pressed through the house in the manner in which this had been done. The estimates of the Secretary were in the hands of the printer, and we arc call ed on to pass a bill to which those esti mates relate, and after the passage of which they will be entirely useless. Mr. B. went into a detailed view of the sub ject to shew that this appropriation ex ceeded the estimates by 5 or 600,000 dol lars. Was it not then worth a day or two's consideration ? and this, too, at a lime when there were actual, not to say acknowledged, deficits ? Mr. B. extended his remarks to a considerable length, and concluded by calling for the yeas and nays on the question of concurrence ; which were thereupon ordered. Mr. M 'Do well said it would be admit- ' ted, that this was an ordinary appropria tion for the standing establishments of the country. He thought, therefore, the House might safely pass the bill without being alarmed by the statements that had been made in respect to the revenue of the country. The danger that had been pourtrayed, he thought, arose from the peculiar circumstances and train of thought and feeling in which the gentle man from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Baldwin) had been placed. He said it was but fair and correct, to place some confidence in the reports of those heads of departments to whom the project was peculiarly confi ded ; and he was perfectly satisfied, that there would be more than two millions found in the Treasury at the close of the year ; and to establish this opinion, he re ferred with particularity to the reports and estimates already presented to the House bv the. Treasury Denartment. He ! contended, from the 'documents before , , Ir - , . . - . , f lh House, u was evident that, instead of there being a balance, floating in the air, as the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Baldwin') had yesterday described, it was actually in the Treasury, or secured to entire and perfect satisfaction. The dif ficulty he explained to be in blending the revenues and disbursements of the differ ent years. The balances of one year were to be weighed and off set by the balances of the next, Sec. Mr. Baldwin wished for a tangible state ment ; for it would be found that when the question of appropriation was up, re venue would be one thing, and when the tariff was up, revenue would be another. He thought if any perturbed spirit was allowed to arise from the nether world, and haunt and disturb the repose of the living, it was that of the tariff. If he, (Mr. B.) went into the lobby to smoke a cigar, the question was how goes the ta riff? If he rode through the avenue, he was assailed from the right hand and the left how stands the tariff? If any other person on that, or on almost any other question, should ask for a day or two delay, it would be granted unless the tariff is interposed. Mr B. replied to the re marks of Mr. M'D. at considerable length, and expressed tin anxious hope that the subject would be more fully examined, and at all events he begged the house to believe it possible that other than the sickening subject of the tariff could oc cupy his mind, in respect to sentiments and propositions he thought it his duty to advance. Mr. Cambreleng moved to postpone the further consideration of the subject until Monday next, which motion he subse quently withdrew ; and, thereupon, Mr. Cannon moved to lay the bill on the table. He would, at all times, be wil ling to appropriate the sum of money which the public service required, but he thought the house was not at this time prepared to say how much was requisite for that object. There was a bill before the house for the reduction of the milita ry establishment and the re-organization of the army, and he thought this bill should be postponed especially that part of it which relates to the military estab lishment, until the sentiments of the house could be expressed on the other. He believed the people of the United States would not be disposed to support a military peace establishment bv taxation. It was therefore expedient first to ascer tain whether we could support such an establishment without taxation, before we proceed to appropriate. House adjourned. Friday, fed. 22. Mr. Floyd, from the Select Committee . appointed to inquire into the expediency of making any alter ation of the law in relation to the subject of vaccination, made a report, concluding with the following resolution : I Resolved, That the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the subject referred to them by the resolution of the Gth in stant. The report was agreed to, and two thousand copies thereof were ordered to be printed. The House then agreed to take into consideration a resolution offered vester- asscnica to oy me mover, was acioptcu. MILITARY APPROPRIATION BILL. The house then resumed the consider ation of the unfinished business of vester- day, (the Military Appropriation Bill.) Mr. Chambers moved to recommit the bill to the Committee of Ways and Means, with instructions so to modify the same as to limit it to such appropriations as are indispensably necssary, and he enforced his motion by remarks at considerable length. A debate ensued thereon, in which Messrs. Ftrrsliy Randolph, Smith, Ud ramsorh Buchanan, Wright, and F. Jones, participated ; of which a report may be given hereafter. Mr. Nelson, of Va. then moved to a mend the amendment proposed by the gentleman from Ohio, (Mr. Chambers,) by striking out the special instructions to the committee. The ground was stated by ' r. N. to be, that he thought the course adopted by the Committee of YV ays and Means a departure from precedent. It had been usual for that committee to re port either general or partial appropria tion bills but this was neither. It was rather a general appropriation bill split into parts, all of which ought, in his opin ion, to be brought together. A debate arose on this motion, in which Messrs. Stewart, Ramdolfih, Edwards, ot N. C. Smith, and Farrelly, took part, when'the qustion was taken on the amend ment, and decided in the negative Ayes 50, Noes 80. The question then recurred upon the original motion submitted by Mr. Cham bers. Mr. Plumer, of New-Hampshire, mov ed to divide the question, and thereupon it was first taken upon a recommitment generally without instructions, and deci ded in the negative ayes 50. Mr. Randolph then moved to postpone the further consideration of the subject until Monday next, and accompanied his motion with an interesting speech of con siderable length, of which, together with the other debates of the day, we may give a report hereafter, when, at half past 4 o' clock, the question was taken and deci ded against postponement, ayes 59, noes 74 and then The House adjourned. INTELLIGENCE. lie comes, the herald of a noisy world, News from all nations lurmVring at his back. Latest from the Continent of Eurofie. The ship Frederick, which arrived on Saturday, sailed from Havre on the 6th of Jan. We have received from our corres pondent Paris papers to the 4th of that month inclusive, being 3 days later than the accounts through the late London pa pers. Thev contain St. Petersburgh dates to the 9th December, Vienna to the 24th, and Madrid of the 25th, but nothing au thrntic later from Constantinople than be fore received. The intelligence is not decisive, but goes to confirm the prospect of a war between Russia and Turkey. 1 he last advices from St. Petersburg say that since the commencement of hostili ties between Turkey ami Persia, the in terchange of Couriers between the latter power and Russia have become more fre quent, and but little doubt remains as to what will be the final result. Extract of a letter from Havre, 6:h Jan. 1822. " The present political state of all the Powers of Europe, and their Colonies, must have a great influence on commerce in general, and to venture an opinion as to higher or lower prices is not seasonable. The consequences of the war, which is now almost certain to break out between Russia and Turkey, are incalculable.' The debates in the French Chambers are even less interesting than those of our own Congress ; although they are more amusing, they are not so soVd, and indeed scarcely admitted of a comparison, unless occasionally some of the sprightly effu sions of Mr. John Randolph approach the beau ideal of modern French legislative oratory in want of sense and -superfluity of fancy. The amount realized by Mr. Alexander Barring in two years, by speculations in the French Funds, is stated to have been 170,000. Among other curiosities noticed is the following work, which is fairly entitled to the character given it of extraordinary It is published at Manheim, and is enti tled u Historical writings of the Count de Wackerbarth." According to him, the world has been in existence 475,000 years. The antiquity of the German nation goes back to 20,000 years before Jesus Christ. It was then a population of giants, who hurled rocks at their enemies, and even had thunder at their command. The val iant Tent, one of the first chiefs of the nation, was the author of 36,525 works, of which several are still extant in the University of Oxford and in India. The Teutonians civilized the Egyptians. Ni nus, king of the Assyrians, was a German. Bacchus, Orpheus, and Prometheus, had also the honour of belonging to the Ger manic nation. In short (adds the journal) the persons who are desirous of knowing more of the Count's Teutonic ancestors, would do well to consult his work, the conceptions of which are even more 57 gantic than his portly ancestry whose feats the Count details. The Zurich Gazette of the 28th Dec. contains the following statement of the events which led to the insurrection cf the Greeks, which was sent to one of the Societies formed to afford them succour: " For a considerable time Greece had been secretly preparing for a more pros perous future. The most wise and well informed men of this country perceived the necessity of instructing the people, and rendering them worthy of liberty. In all the towns were established Lyceums, Gymnasciums, Athenxums, and Libra ries, for preceptors and pupils ; in the smallest villages schools upon the Lancas trian plan were formed; and young Greeks were sent to the Universities of England, France, Italy, and Germany, with the design of employing them, upon their return, as masters in the various schools. The Greeks, who at that time were occupied with this object alone, were surprized by an event totally unex pected. A secret society of half-taught adventurers, and rash spirits, at the head of whom was Prince Ypsilanti, gave the signal for a revolution in Moldavia and Wallachia. This measure took place in dependently of the people's knowledge ; a measure as unexpected as ill-timed, from which proceeded the most direfu! consequences to thegreat citiesof Greece, as the Turks immediately disarmed the inhabitants. If the Turkish government had proceeded with justice and prudence, it would have stifled in its cradle this rev olution so highly disapproved by the whole nation. The Patriarch of Con stantinople, a respectable ecclesiastic, e qually distinguished by his intelligence and virtues, as well as the high- clergy and the principal persons of the nation, united their efforts to take, in concert with the government, the most efficacious measures, in order to stop, by solemn protestations and promises, this revolu tion ; to re-establish order, and put an end to the complaints of the Porte. This was in vain ; the government punished, by the most ignominious death, the propositions and offers of these well intemioned men. The greatest part of the higher clergy of the Morea repaired to Trippolizza, to concert with the authorities, in order to prevent the insurrection which the agents of Ypsilanti proposed to organize there, and to insure the maintenance of the pub lic tranquility. But all these respectable men fell victims to their zeal, and their love of the public good. It was not until after this conduct of the Turks, that the Greeks found themselves in the sad ne cessity of defending, with arms in their hands, their honour and their life. It was at Palras that the insurrection commenc ed, and there again the Turks were the aggressors. After the Morea, the islands of the Archipelago raised the standard of liberty ; their merchant vessels were changed into vessels of war, and it was with such feeble resources that they at tacked the Ottoman fleet. The Turks? although with superior forces, could nev er dispute with the Greeks the empire of the sea. The Epirots and Greeks of the continent gave to the Porte unequivocal proofs of their fidelity, when it commen ced the war against Ali Pacha of Janina. They united themselves to the army of the Grand Seignior, attacked with much cour age and impetuosity the partizans of Ali, drove them from all the advantageous po sitions which they occupied, dispersed them, compelled ,li to retrench himself in the fortress of Janina, and then retired quietly into their own country, in pursu ance of the orders of the Generals, who believed that they had no further need of their services. But the Ottoman govern ment, alarmed at the superiority of the Greeks, instead of recompensing them, formed the resolution to disarm them af ter the capture of Janina, an impractica ble enterprise, and one which had never entered into - he idea of the Pacha of Ja nina, even when his power had attained its highest pitch. Such were the secret orders that the Porte had given to the chiefs of ihe army, when the Suliots, who were still in active service, proposed to them to return to Suli, their country, to collect their families, who were dispersed abroad, and to live there peaceably under the dominion and protection of the Turk ish government. The reply was in the negative. The discontent of the Suliots was then carried to its height ; they rose against the Government of the Porte be fore the expedition of Prince Ypsilanti The other Greeks of the Continent re mained quiet in their country even after the events of the Morea, because that the Bishops and Primates were unwilling to engage with unequal forces, in a war a gainst the Government, the consequences- of which they could not foresee. Their prudence and good intentions, however, would not have secured them against the traps laid for them by the Turks, if let ters had not fallen into their hands which the Government had addressed secretly to the Local Authorities, and the contents of which proved to them, that they had no alternative between arming, or suffer ing themselves to be attacked unawares, and losing every thing. A numerous as sembly convoked in Acarnania, examined the contents cf the Turkish correspon dence, declared that war was inevitable, and resolved upon it unanimously Such are the natives which have constrained the Greeks to take up arms -Can they then be regarded as rebels, and could they avoid the war?" Peraia The population of Persia, very much diminished by the civil war of 1722, (the epoch of the overthrow of the dynasty of Ismael Sophi) and of 1743 (the year of the assassination of the cele brated Schah-Nadir) is estimated at 22 millions of souls. The number of prov inces is 5S. The reigning Sovereign as-
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