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I r X f 1:: "v i I 4- i. . r v- V.; ir i ht 1 ' ' - P-: " l . . . ; " i- ns - , Ml ' dental t6 tWsrcral power winch are in any degree : jtlii Houfe of reprefentatlves, ToijmaUng prbvifionor , iffv its prosperity upon ' Scftcd with it, and as incideutal to tins they lye the defraying of expences attcntiog Indian treaties, other nations, to railc y do . . t : I ,i.;,.l, kill T.",., .. c r... i -.o f- A'.vi.nr, iterttmTfrhatthttVtt&? i and wwctu atoning to tne ao claimed participations in the treaty making power ; they now claim a contrail tor our diplomatic eitaoum-ment,-and may with' equal propriety take into their halsTtlTitrnrT teicourfe and conneftions. So of , their claim under th right of appropriation what the war righf.leaves the appiopriating right takes, and thus the houfe of reprefentatives drips the other departments of the go vtrnmerit, The- gciuleman ; iu remarking upon what he calls a resell, and he- might of faid ifi many in ftances as an api quotation from a favourite author, viz. the tenancy of certain meafurej to Jlop the wheels Cernmemly obferves that the denial of the right which is claimed in the prcfent indnnee to the houfe of reprefentatives is (lopping one of the wheels of go Vernment. Ii.it is a wheel, it iff a fiflh wheel which doe3 not helong to the political carriage, and which he is attempting to clog it with contrary to the ori ginal defiga ef-the buik!er,-aud -I-wilLfuylagujjd .my. confent,' fj'r I declare I am no! fo much -attached to the famiouable novelties of thfc day, or to new fangled which bilTcontaineda claulcdiecting-thatiowTni lionrs, not exceeding three, fhoiild; be appointed, and allowed compensation, &c. .When the bill cane wil der the . confideration of the Ixmle, a member, . Mr.. Sedg wic1c7TriTde out tlt part of the claufe, reftraining the numlxr of commifiioners to three, on the ground that it was an Mnconditutional interference on the part of the houfe, with the exe- "Jfit rf fainu''howm;inv mmm.'ffl..uv.nv.MU kvlr rw " nt . Manned i a. J imwraiVovVcrs ; it hits tati fed to be lcrzct' tlieprovi lions, Tram ana comnioanics, wuicn u iuw w u invention? as to receive this upon thebaic recommend ation of the.projsctors. I believe it may do harm and carrdo no good; it may impede the motion and pro grefs of the vehicle to which it may be attached and may eventually oyetfet and deflroy it. This gentleman hasaifo-followed the example of all thofe who. contend that power enn be trufled no where but In ik houfe of reprefentan'rts, and his arg.iex' ; ig"arn 4,.he exi cuti ve's 7,'e xFi 'UK T". It "Trim IT 'jt'1Tps.t-'-auuie of it. He has contended that it would be dan gerous to give the power to the executive to "create officers, becaefe he might ab'tife it with a "vY,tn the -lirvicejjXJjilfruR (late- govern mer.ts to Ihcw the vxircme jealoury aid "caution with which they have dch gated the power of appointment to office, he has al i- urged the-opi iionf of rrsenTjf talrnts in the convention of thisdVte whicli actrpted the pvefcnt-ccinllitution,-to fupport the plen- titQdrof power in tliislTrnife" LFittlcr lhrngli(lTflejedVirij.T money bills. In this iuilance a'fti the gentlema.. has fallowed the common error of all thofe who have at tempted changes ji the conditntion in any other than the co'iltitutiuual mode. They undertake to n ake a conftitutian aril not to execute one they enquire where power ought to be lodged, when they Oi'iuld be t xamiuiisar wheie. debofitcd we are not now. in Convention to pafs Upon this government.' we are not difeuffiMg the queftio.n where the power of creating and. appointing to offices would be bed and moil fife ly entruiled but we are limply to determine where it is to be found I believe it is wifely placed where i contend 1 fee it. ' It has been infinuated in the courfe of the debate, that the-execntve Irad exprefltdn-opinioivfhat tht " fight of crea'tinjr the offices of f ircign minillers, &c7 "was in the legiflature. I fee nothing to . tTfttfyth"ur conclufion -the practice of the executive funn the coinmencemtnt of the government to the prefent day, has been expu-fsly againft a coucefHon of this rifit : and the pradlice of the legiflature hab ' beer- equally . oppofed to the claim. -Can gentlemen, fhow in iii-' -ftancewljcre-the leiiLiture have created an . ofScc of thrkind ? f las northe uniform -pracliee-of ;thtf txe cut ivc been, to appoint to office, and then call upon the honfe not" for a creation of ;he office, but for an a fpf opria f ioi for- theT)fficeT fn ythe- late- miilton ' to Parfs. did the executive' confult this houfe before heJ made the appointment, to know whether we would have one or three cbmmiffiouers ? . And 'as n,s right " to ..determine that, -que ft ion difputed, when we were called upon tQ af propriatc for. three commifTi liters ? Ts it propofed to qlTellioOhls right which the"PreU A4.4frHrwrf wl-hor,i tf ,rl h pxrrf ili riur- ing-t h 't-pe fenrrfe ffio'nTl'rTl he appoint men toft h ree co'mitiiffi oners to treat with the Cherokee .'Indians';? The appointrficnt'has been made without confjilnng 1TTtrTrdl"hwH the txecutive alone i .nrul that tliitj houfe have nothing; to do with It. The ,que(lion (or ftriking ou;tl)c claufe after debate, was-ca.iied. Mr. Craik obferv td, that the mover ofthat amcjidment, for ftriking out the claufe, was well known to Lane al.vays main tained a Heady and uniform opinion upon this Itibjefl';' and Mr." Craik oBferved he was raithoiiied to f.iy, that amemberthen from Virginia (Mr. Madilen) wlrore oMnicns the fupporters of the pieL'nt ainendmcnt, ge nerally refpecYed, TecoSded the "ulouo'ii pi "Mr. Sctfg-" wick, which was then the iubject of diiciifijon. Mr. UraTk took iioticeof a parFot ihe debate vTli'eVe MrT Smith, then a member of the houfe, when (peaking upon the queilion, aflced the houie, 44 what was to be done, fuppofnig the United states weie at -war with a nation from whom ovcrtuies. of peac e were. received Suppofe it was abiolut-ly neced iry'tiuiitig the next recels of congreis to fend a miniitei or an envoy to the Dey of Algiers; would it be proper to delay fo litrecdarv" a biiknefj, Urail this houle eouid be conven ed." ' N'r. C, obferved, the extrah t)f th- law, .md jcoate thereon wh'ch he had uied, -rcquind oo comments, but he would propofe the, fame quedion now, which was the i) put tor t h e conlidcr&tiun of t he com mi t leer Mr. C. toiicluded with an expielhon of his decided and unequivocal oppofitlon to ihe ajneti4jineht nodcr difcuffion ; obiet veo Iria dieegth was txhautted, biit not the 1'jl.jc.t. -. Till L A D E 'h P 1 1 1 A, larch 5. 1mb.or.tan T. - -The following imp;rtant meffage was "read in Houle of-'Repreftntativ-ts this day. C,ru!t i,en ofthe jetiaii-; avd ... GtH:tmrn of li.u houfe c, ' repreffntatives, Th6"1irf L"ri i f pat ches-f rom - utir-t tiy o ys ex t raordin 'Sty""t Gnce tl.tir arrival at Paris, were received at- the fecie uiry of date's office, at a kt; hour the bill evening. They are all in -a'-character, which will requite fome day- to be decy'phcicd, excep4.the laft, -which is dated the 8th of Tanuarv, 17. The contents of this let ter are of fo much importance re be immedbifcly made kno-vh to congrefs, .Mid to the public, efpecially to the hi e.r ca 1 1 1 ; !e . o art. of our feii w cuizens , tlrat I nloii-iht it mv. dutv to comiituiiicat'e iliem to-both honi'es with out. lols of time. - - -:vr JOHN .ADAMS. -Utthcd$taiefittnh--i&jxH. , '.' . ' ' f.-.nn jf.muary 8, i 7S. -" DFAR SIR. , ' ' Wf r-mhtace an unexoefied opportunity to fend ynii iKr' -RrHla&eur." of the fifth inft; containing t he med.tgc of the directory, to the "council of (i ve hundred, urging the ncceffity of a law to declare as ood nrSzssdl neutral 'hips 'havuip on board merchan- ' million of the feas, wifties to introduce, every where; articles, of its own manufacture and to receive nothing from foreign indultryt any longer to crjoy the truit of its culpable fpeciilations. . . . The E-iglilh government has kept in pay, during the w ar, the coal.efced forces, . ith the produce or her nianufaclorie?. .It has violated tdl" the principles of the law of jnatious, in order to fliackle the relations of the dhts and cohthw4u iejUw-protliian oFIEhglanct, or of the Engh'ih pofkuions, that the flag as they term it, may no longer cover the propel ty, Ai:d;dw. daring fiirtlier that, the ports of Fr?n-e, CNcept in cafes of ditl'refs, H'.ali be flint ag iiiid U neutral (hips, whichrin "tlie-eout fe of their voyage, (lull hayejeuch prl at an -E'i'.rl.ifli nm t. A comn'.ifljon has been rp. Btrrra damecxtrTdii-f i-rrnrthe-'f precbes af-rhe m- bcfS -formerly of this houfe were read to the commit tee, by- the tnovtr of the amendment, with a view taJh jasllmderftand, that the ground now con tended for -by the opponents 'to the prtfent amendr meht, was not taken early in the-government- And as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Brent) has ex- d great, uneafmefs and alarm to hnd trom the ni.iiiLeij to icinjiL on nit ;i;L..;tii e. inu iv. i i:.:reui-i that a decree will be pafled irf confenmity to it; Nothing -hew 'has occurred tlnce our laftf in date of th ultimo. Vv e can only repeat .that reading of thefe extradlc, that the opinions now ex prefled by Tome gentlemen, are but. of a late date, that . they have changed with a chainge of views, and that there fhould be fuch aanLof confiltency in their condncl. I ihall beg leaveirj conclufion to read to this committee a few extracts from the congreffional regif "fcffhr'teibatca grefs, as a compleat refutation of thofe inilniiation. As I was not in the hbufe : when the extracts erc of- Jertdiy-lijem o vc r of J t he . a m e nd m e n t and they-wcre not priftted-with-big-jobfetygtions-:. 1 have net had an. opportunity of examining them. ITToTe ,"li owe vc"r7 .which. I fha!l -ifTer, are diredly to'thepoint ; and prove incirhftabTy,'thaFthc"prtfent qfteil ion was'fet tled early in. the government, in the fir it cafe in which it arofe J and that if there is any inconfiftency of coii ducl in gentiemenj upon the prel- nt TobjeA, it rather aches to thole who bate mice contended tor the -tte 1 govern m e'utyor-that .tlic-objecis aluurnuluo il. will be in any way aecmrujlilhed. , . ' . We haveihe honour to b:, with great refpeft, Your inoft obedient fervants, '. " . " QarlYs CoT tSWCrRTHP J. Marshall, ' E. Ge RRYi ' ' Timothy riclerin Efq. .' . ,TR LXSUTION. ' " Meffae of thc"executive dirc(:tory'"to the council pf '.five luiridred, Of tht: 15th Nivofe,-Gttf year (4U1 " January, ITyR.) GilizenSrrRcprejerit.itivci --To d tyrthe "5th-Niv,anAat JhevejyJiouraL whichthe txecutive dTrc dory addrtflcs this meffage.. to you, the municipal adminiftratoj-s, the jullices of. "the peaertheommin fuperviforsqf the endoms, are proceeding, in all the cWef-pkcesHhcep Prin cipal communes of the--republic, io Jciaie the Englidi merchandize now in Francef or-introduced ,tipon its territory" in' contravention of .-the law of the loth Bru mahe, 5th year (Ov. 31, 1 796 ) , - . , I Such is thefirft ad by which, when peace 1; given to the continenU t he war dechrcd a iongtime-tince ,. right now claTmedrrMfr Craik then read the extraa againft England iiabout toaffume its genuine cha of the proceduTgs and debate on V bill' brought into rader. The French' will not fufter a power, which dettin'cd for Erancc--it has declared contraband every thing. which it thought ufeful to the republic ; it de firecl to ftarvc it. All the citizens demand vengeance. - upon it. -- - --- - ' "' When it has to fear capture of veffels failing under its flag, it corrupted foreign capt;.ins to induce tlicm to take on board their vefiV Is Eirghih merchandize, aad'lhusto inttodiice it, by tunning,' by fraud or o Thejrwite into (oreigrt; Hates and -ejp'fcially .jntutUe Fieuch republic. . TiH?TiTtttTnfptrtvWtm this conduit ll'.cir merchants took a part iu the wa.-, and they lent jfittauce to oneJialf of the belligerent powers. . 'We fcri's' a party as W'.U wbeh we procure for him the ;.. means of dUgineiuing-firs forces, as when we unite -oui (elves' to tlioly- which he' has. The neutral powers (hbuldhave perceived, that Englat d, by flopping the veffels of otlie'i powers, laden in their rclp.etti.vc porta,, aiid i1-v;-T for Franf- nfrnjittinfj" artidf s r ing from her own manufactures alone circulate, aimed at an ex'enfive commerce,' and that it would be necel faiy tofctk reparation tor fuch an attempt. 'The ordinance ot the marine and the regulation of 1794, havin g dcclarded to be good prize, die veffels juici their cargoes in which i found Englifli merchan dize belougiiig to enemies.' -Thefe pr..vifious (hould b e e X t e iidl d . The iu tire d of Eu ropeQeniands it. 7 The diieft.ory 'thinks it urgent and mm ffary,.to pafs a law declaring that - the condition! of vtffeis io what concerns their quality of neutral or enemy, ihall be determined by their cargo, df d that the cargo (hall be no'ionger covered by the flag ; in confequencej t!ut every vclfel found at fea, having on buarc Eng lillv rnerchaudize and commoditu s, ttu -her caigo, in whol? or in part, (ball be declared to be good prize, ' !wht)Iueyeri..ffiay ::bje:theproprietor t)f tiicte commodi tits of mercandize ; which? Khali be" reputed" contra-" band, for this caufe alone, . that they come from Eng land or her puff fli oris. It w ould be ufeful to declare at the fimc time, that except in cafe of ditlrefs, the ports of the' republic fli'alf be (hut to all foreign vefLls which, in the courfif of the voyage (liall have entered thofe of England. Tnetxccutive directory r que (Is you cit:?.ens repre- fe qt a t i v e sf to adopt thefe n.eufui es. No neutral or aHfec 1 po wer'can mill ake iheir'ohjl-ft, norconipiain of' ihem unlefs it. be .already delivered up to. England. The infallible effect of the meafuie. is 1 0 enhance the value of tlie product of their fil. and of their indus try, to-incrcafe the prolperity of their commerce,-to repel every thing that comes from Eng'aiid, and effenn 1, tialiy to influence; the conclufion of the war. r " 8uch a rtrt he - in o t i w s --wh ich-i nduce the exec at ive ' directory to incite ydii citizens 1 reprefentatives, to take the object of th-i'iiieifa; into the mod prompt con fideratib-n ; I . J3 Ask V. prefident. La Garpe, iec. gen. CHARLESTON, March 13. Yeilerday . arrived the brig Aurora, Cpt. Wood man., from BoHrdcaux The Aurora left Bourdeaux the 2 i.otJnmvary ,aTicTtT!e river thej 3d, as it was" eXpeded another embargo would belaid on. . . Accounts from Paris as ltc as Januarr 18, had been reeeive"(Tar"13nrdeaux which -dated that ibc'-A imrm-conwm-fiWi eria d mitt ed to a n a u dience , - nor vvere t hv notiird It was faid to.be tlreit intention to remain in Paris "until thcy were received, or nrdered" to depart, in whicli cafe they woul l retire to Holland until the fpring. .. The talked 6f Jnimfwn of England ' was (fill purfucd. and vefltls of all defcription-s were placed in iequihti on for,lJie purpofe. ' ' I he report of the day m Bourdeaux, was, that England was declared in a date- ot blockade ; that Buonaparte's brother, the French minider at Rome, had been affalfinatedj that General Berthier had march- . ed witt his army into that city, and that the rope had fled. .' - - ' Captain . Woodtr.an jnforrns that the councils have i CC! i t d tl 1 e c on fifcation of all Bi itifli manufa bj red- gocds in France, and that the Cuftom-Houfe officers , had proceeded to fearch, and had feized a great quan- liiry i-iyf-thefs-nm!?.- They hare alfo declareet-alfvef- leis good pr.ize wnicu may oe captui eu, naving on board. Kngl'di mamifaftured goods. -This "decree was fonudeel on the ufTage of the Dicefiory. 'Letters were received by the Aurora, from Gen. Pinckney,-but we have not heard their' dates nor con- ? tents. . ; v i - -; .- ... f - - P A"R I-S",- ' Jimmy-fl;1 - The Encdifli merchandizes, which have lately beea confifcated, are valued at nearly three millions. Dux - - -.-.:;.,itiv;.::.,7-:- .-l.l-':::;';;;.:".,;-.;:::7' ':ca.:.: 2 y-yj- -v --.---;. ;- 1 ..;.; :-'::-v-' ' 1 l:i..'-:v;-: J
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