ly suits itself to the effectual demand, and constant- an annuity of £80 15s. 8d. If he lives 28 years, he ly aims at bringing the precise quantity thither will have received at the end of that time a sum total that is sufficient to supply the demand.36 The of £2.263 6s. 8d; and the stock transferred to the money, then, annually applied by the commission commissioners will for the same period yield an ers to the increase of their capital, by the purchase amount of £4000 by the compound operation of the of stock, is an abstraction of demand, in the same sinking fund. The following table will exhibit at a proportion, for commodities of British growth or single view the various appropriations which have ufacture and it necessarily follows, that this been made to the sinking fund from its revival by Mr. diminution of demand must occasion a similar di- Pitt in 1786, to the commencement of the year 1809. minution of the productions of the country. The Annual charge by act 26th George revenue is the groundwork of a government's ex- III. (1786) pence. It is necessary that the whole of it should Ditto by 42d. George III. (1802) be expended, that it may return into the general Annuities for 99 and 96 years excirculation; for every ving in the revenue will occasion a diminution of expenditure, and by direct Ditto for 10 years expired in 1807 pired in 1792 consequence a diminution also of production, the Life annuities unclaimed for 3 years source of future revenue 37 Dividend on £135,636,033 at 3 per cent. If this reasoning be grounded on correct princi. ples, and the most eminent writers concur in maintaining them) then the conclusion is obvious that the rapid increase of the nation's capital, by the progressive augmentation of the sinking fund, at the expence of abstracting annually so large a sum from expenditure in consumable commodities, must inevitably tend to produce very serious injury, if not ultimate ruin to the country. £. 1,000,000 0 200,000 0 0 S. d. 0 54,880 14 6 25,000 0 0 51,277 16 10 171,828 0 0 4,069 080 19 9 7,100 0 0 Ditto on £4,295,700, at 4 per cent. cent. on account of do. 1807, lord Henry Petty (now marquis of Lans-Do. on £165,951 transferred for e) proposed a scheme of finance to the parlia purchase of life annuities at 3 which appeared well calculated to produce social results, as it provided for the prevention per cent. 626,255 10 5 52,031 9 9 13,978 10 7 £9,898,159 6 1 of the Irish sinking fund on the Annual 1 per cent. on the capital debt Annual interest on stock redeemed Forming the grand total, of the in- redeemed on the 1st. May 1810. 128,652 2 1 228,847 11 1 £10,255,658 19 3 fazer for thirteen years of the twenty during Total income of British smaking hich it was intended to operate. But his plan, fund atis ctory as it was to the country generally, was To which may be added the income adopted, in consequence of a subsequent change the administration. In 1808, the prime minister, Ar. Perceval, offered some alterations to the conaeration of the house, which, like every other 19xson of the minister, were ultimately sanc one by act of parliament. The principal object fact, was to allow to the stockholders in the per cent. consols, the liberty of exchanging their ock for life annuities; to transfer it to the comissioners for the reduction of the debt, who were thorised to give for it such an annuity over and The operation of these funds had the divider as with the dividend should be gral to the value of the stock so transferred. The Of the capital debt of G. Britain £159,606 15-4 fort was to be valued at the current price of the Of the capital debt of Ireland 2. and the ity calculated according to the are of the party; to be confined, however, to per sons above the age of thirty five years, and not to be given for less than 100 capital.38 This plan appears to be alike beneficial to the individual annuitant, and to the nation; in as much as it affords to which is £3, making the whole annuity £17 13s the former a more abundant income than the com for every 100, stock transferred. mon interest of his stock would yield, and to the latter a speedier means of reducing the national debt, by the increased force given to the sinking r fund. For example, if a man forty years of age transfers stock to the amount of £1000 to the commissioners, when the funds are at par, he receives 45 5 36 Nature and origin of public wealth, pass im. 37 Maximes générales du gouvernement econo 7511 1112 mique, by Quesnay. Also Smith's Wealth of Nations, passim. * The interest,&c. added on this sum from 1st May, 38 The following table, copied from Bristed, will 1810, to the 1st August, 1811, will bring it nearly shew the annual amount of life annuities, granted to the amount as stated in the Weekly Register, vol. on the continuance of single lives, according to the 1. p. 22. We have found so much difference in the average price of stocks, and the age of the holder statement of different writers, that we were obliged at the time of the transfer. To understand it pro to bestow considerable labor in our endeavors to perly, suppose a person 75 years old wishes to come at the truth. In the present calculation notransfer his stock when the price is at £80, he re thing is added but what belongs legitimately to the ceives from the commissioners £14 13s to which sinking fund: and so far as we are able to judge we is added the yearly dividend upon the capital & 100, believe the statement correet. eighty millions, leaving a deficiency to be borrow-isting inhabitants, can by no means be counterbaed equal to the income of the sinking fund. Several lanced by the consideration that the numerical attempts have been made in parliament to apply this breach in the population will be rapidly repaired.--income to the current services, to avoid the necessiWe can have no other right moral or political, exty of recurring to new loans and new taxes; but hither- cept that of the most urgent necessity, to exchange to every effort of the sort has been violently opposed. the lives of beings in the full vigour of their enjoyHow much longer the government will continue to ments, for an equal or greater number of helpless borrow, while they have an idle capital of such mag infants. nitude in the hands of their commissioners, it is not In England our author seems inclined to think, very difficult to foresee. The calculating dreams of the preventive checks to population operate more Pitt and Rose cannot for ever deceive the people of forcibly than in any other country, and among all the kingdom. When their eyes are once opened classes of the people. In the large towns, of which to the real prospect before them, the ministers will there are many in this country, the higher classes be compelled to abandon their fanciful reveries of are deterred from marriage by the facility afforded endless accumulation; and the capital thus hoarded to them of indulging in illicit intercourse, and those up will soon find its way into the various channels who have barely the means of supporting the rank of active employment. Malthus on Population. of gentlemen, with too much pride or too little industry to turn their attention to business, will not readily consent to abridge their enjoyments, by incurring the additional expence of a wife. Those [CONTINUED FROM VOL. 1, PAGE 261.] who are in the class of servants may be said to be An analytical review of the " Essay on the principle governed by the same motives; they, in general of population, by T. R. Malthus, A. M." with some live well, receive high wages or perquisites and are remarks more particularly applicable to the present too fond of imitating the conduct of their masters, and probable future state of the United States. not to contract habits of idleness and extravagance The only circumstances with regard to the popu- which must exclude every idea of burthening them. lation of France that deserves to be noticed, and selves with other expences than such as tend to which has excited some surprise is, that notwith-their own immediate gratification. By the registers standing the immense losses of men by the revolu- returned in obedience to the "population act," it tion, her population was found to be increased at appeared that the proportion of marriages to the the end of the war. Previous to its commencement, whole population of England and Wales was as 1 the population was estimated by the constituent as- to 123 1-5, a smaller proportion than is found to ob sembly at 26,363.074, which agreed very nearly tain in any other country, Norway and Switzerland with the calculation of the minister Mr. Neckar, excepted, and which is also smaller than it was in who estimated the yearly births at one million, and England in the early part of the last century, acthe proportion to the whole as 1 to 25 3-4. At that cording to the estimate furnished by Dr. Short in time the number of persons to a square league was his "New observations on town and country bills of reckoned 996. In the vear VII of the republic,the po-mortality." This diminution in the proportion of pulation was 33,50,094, and the number to a square marriages, notwithstanding the more rapid increase league 1101. an increase of more than seven mil of population now than formerly, our author su plions. During the first six or seven years of the poses to be partly a cause and partly a consequen.ce republic, married men were exempt from the milita- of the diminished mortality of late vears. In those ry conscriptions; the consequence of which was countries where the proportion of the inhabita ats that a far greater number of marriages were con- of the towns to the inhabitants of the country is tracted during that period than at any former time; greater than 1 to 3; the mortality, according to the a circumstance which would certainly increase the best statistical writers, should be about 1 in 32, but number of anal births. Before the revolution in the whole population of England, in some pai ts the number of illegitimate children made up 1-47 of of which this proportion is supposed to be even all the births, and during the period spoken of this greater than 1 to 2, the mortality appears to be only number was raised to the astonishing degree of 1 in 49; this astonishing smallness of mortality 1-11th owing to the general depravation of morals when compared with that of the generality of other occasioned by the excesses of the revolution. Ano-states under similar circumstances, is attributed ther cause which contributed to supply the waste of both to the habits of the people with respect to population created by the war, was the division of prudence and cleanliness, and to natural healthiness the large domains into small farms, and the taking of situation; both these causes, no doubt, prevail into cultivation the parks and pleasure grounds of to a considerable extent, but we are inclined to bethe nobility, which gave to the peasantry and la- lieve that the whole calculation is incorrect. In bourers opportunities of supporting families, which estimating the mortality of large towns, each obdid not exist before. The high price of labour also server appears to have been governed too much by created by the continual drain of effective men to the particular end he had in view, to attend suffiprosecute the war, offered to the lowest classes of ciently to the simple facts which presented thempeople strong inducements to marry. From all these selves. In London, Dr. Price calculated the morconsiderations it is not wonderful that, though the tality to be 1 in 20 3 4, and Dr. Short, 1 in 31.active population was so greatly diminished by the Taking the average of all the calculations that have war, the numerical population should be increased. been made, it appears very clearly that large towns That the births, however, in every country, con are much more unfavorable to life than the country, stantly tend to fill up the vacancies made by death, In small villages and country places hal of the born cannot, as our author very justly remarks, afford live to 30, 35, 40 and sometimes to 50 years, whereas the slightest shadow of excess for the wanton sacri- in most large towns half of the horn die under 2, 3 fice of men. The positive evil that is committed in and 5 years. If therefore in England the proportion this case, the pain, misery, and wide spreading de of the inhabitants of towns to those of the country solation and sorrow, that are occasioned to the ex be, as our author supposes it, greater than 1 to 3; the mortality must necessarily be greater than the registers make it appear. The proportion of births Resources of the British empire. to the whole population of England and Wales has find fewer marriages, and fewer births. The bills been estimated as 1 to 30; a proportion so much of mortality would be lessened by the direction of smaller than what has been observed in every other the checks to prevent, instead of, as now, to remove country except Switzerland and Norway, that our the excess of increase. author has thought proper to account for it by an Here our author concludes his review of the assumption directly in contradiction to every other state of population in particular countries. The political calculator, and certainly not founded upon two next chapters contain an inquiry into the fruitthe data furnished by himself in this review, namely fulness of marriages, and the effects of epidemics the superior excellence of the government and the on registers of births, deaths and marriages. The consequent greater happiness of the people. He first is a mere string of calculations rather serving would be hardly willing, we presume, to allow more to shew the indefatigable industry of the author merit to the government of Norway than to his than tending to instruct the reader. We profess own, and yet the proportion of births to the popu not to comprehend them, nor can we indeed clearlation in that country is 1 to 48 only. In most of ly see the necessity of the conclusion which appears the savage tribes of Africa, of which we have any to be drawn from them, that the most healthy counaccount, the number of children to a marriage is tries are the least prolific, and the most prolific the represented to be very small and the proportion of least healthy. That population increases rapidly births to the population must of course be still small- after severe and desolating epedimics there can be er; but the people notwithstanding are miserable no doubt: the admirable tables of mortality collected in the extreme, and no one will contend for the by Sussmilch sufficiently prove this. But as the merits of their different governments. In some of partial occurrence of epidemics cannot be taken as the parishes of Scotland where the mortality is not proof of the unhealthiness of a country, so neither greater than I in 55, which evidences a most extra can the rapidity of the succeeding increase or the ordinary salubrity of situation, the proportion of greater fruitfulness of marriages be considered as births is found to be at the astonishing height of the effect of unhealthiness; but rather as the neces1 to 12 Six children to a marriage is a frequent sary consequences of that natural tendency in poaverage in Scotland and in the parish of Nigg, in pulation constantly to maintain an equilibrium with the county of Kincardine, as instanced by our the means of subsistence. a thor, the average is nearly 7 1 2. In these parti The great difference to be observed between the enla parishes, it appears than an emigration annu- past and present states of society is, that the posially takes place of nearly one half of the population, tive checks to population prevail less and the prevenwhich is sufficient to account for the enormous tive more in the present than in the former and ave age of births. Upon the whole we conceive more uncivilized state of the world. Wars are less o a hor would have been more consistent to frequent and less exterminating even taking into the have attributed the small proportion of births in account the many sanguinary revolutions of modern England immediately to the infrequency of marri-Europe; and plagues and pestilence certainly visit age, and remotely to the very great licentiousness us less frequently now than formerly owing to the manners which prevails to so great a degree in superior cleanliness and improved method of cona The large towns owing to the facility of sexual structing large towns. in tercourse. きな The general deductions which our author has Of the poor degraded country of Ireland, but drawn from the preceding view of society are that in itt le said. In that little, however, we are sorry every country the women are by nature alike fruitto perceive the influence of prejudice on the reason-ful; that population is governed by certain invariain, of our author. The depressed and miserable ble laws; that its increase is necessarily limited by the people is attributed to the cheapness of the means of subsistence; that it invariably increases joined to their ignorance and barbarism; when the means of subsistence increase, unless prompting them to depend upon the forprevented by powerful and obvious checks, and that apport, have encouraged marriages to such those checks and the checks which keep the poputhat the population is pushed beyond the lation down to the level of the means of subsistence are moral restraint, vice and misery. resources of the country. But whence arrive this ignorance and barbarism of the people? May they Wherever moral restraint* is wanting, population not be fairly charged to the conduct of their English will push itself beyond the limits assigned it by namasters? to the ignominious bondage by which ture, and must invariably encounter some of the they are chained to silent and passive obedience? barriers interposed to the transgression of her laws. It is not our province, and less our desire to become Famine, says our author, seems to be the last, the the champions of one country or the accusers of most dreadful resource of nature. The power of another; but as we conceive the state of the popu- population is so superior to the power in the earth lation in every country to be materially influenced to produce subsistence for man, that unless arrested by political causes, it would be impossible to com- by the preventive check, premature death must in bat the erroneous inferences deduced from the some shape or other visit the human race. The actual state of Ireland, without some reference to vices of mankind are active and able ministers of the nature of her political situation. Permit her depopulation. They are the precursors in the great to assume that rank among the nations of the earth array of destruction, and often finish the dreadful to which she is naturally entitled, and the ignorance work themselves. But should they fail in this war of of the people will soon disappear. That facility of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemics, pestilence obtaining the means of subsistence, or in other words, the cheapness of potatoes which now contri The author uses this term in its most confined butes to their wretchedness, would then contribute sense intending to be understood as meaning a to their happiness. The preventive checks would restraint from marriage, from prudential motives, be found to operate as in other enlightened coun with a conduct strictly moral during the period of tries, and instead of the numerous deaths arising this restraint. It cannot be considered to operate as from civil war, martial law, and the diseases necesa preventive check to population when followed by sarily attendant upon poverty, damp and wretched the vice of promiscuous intercourse, or the irregu cabins, filth and insufficient clothing, we should har gratification of the passions, and plague, advance in terrific array and sweep off what more does he want of me !" He appeared to be much agitated and retired to his room. Mr. Bagholt returned that night to London their thousands and ten thousands. Should success be without taking leave: But the wind being fair the next morning, still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks the ship sailed. Mr. Edward Hire and Mr. West, both of Boston, in the rear, and at one mighty blow levels the popuHenry at first appeared very low spirited, took a cabin to himself and Mr. Thompson, of London, were passengers in the ship. lation with the food of the world. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Twelfth Congress. IN SENATE. and mostly dined alone. In good weather he employed himself in shooting pistols, at which he was very expert. One dark night, about ten o'clock, the witness was walking on deck much dejected, when Henry accosted him, “count Crillon (said he) you have not confidence in me; you are unhappy; confide your sorrows to me." He spoke so kindly that deponent made him in part acquainted with his situation-He replied," one confidence deserves another; Iwill now tell you my situation-I have been very ill treated by the British government-I was born in Ireland, of one of the first families in that country, poor, because a younger brother-I went to America with expectations from an uncle (Daniel MCormick, esq, of NewYork) who posseses a large fortune, is old and unmarried. French families of France. I married a lady of that description, who died persecution had driven from that country many of the respectable and left two daughters without fortune; I applied to the American government, and through the influence of the British minister I was appointed a captain of artillery during Mr. Adams' administra tion--I had the command at Portland and at the fort near Bostou, and while in commission I was employed in quelling and meeting au insurrection among the soldiery, and during my continuance in office I gave general satisfaction. But perceiving there was no Mr. Smith of Md. made a report from the committee of confer-field for my ambition, I purchased an estate in Verinont, near the ence on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the quarter-Canada line, and there situated lived five years without stirring from home. I detested republican government, and filled the newspapers with essays against it. Tuesday, March 24, 1812.-The vice-president being absent, as on yesterday, from indispositionOn motion by Mr. Lloyd, the senate proceeded to the choice of a president pro tempore, as the constitution provides; and William H. Crawford was elected on the first ballot. The secretary of the senate was directed to wait on the president of the United States and house of representatives and inform them of the said appointment. Mr. Pope reported the bill from the house "for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the late campaign on the Wabash," amended. master's bill. The report of the committee of conference on the navy bill was taken up, concurred in, and the bill amended accordingly and sent to the house. Mr. Campbell of Ohio, obtained leave of absence for the remain der of the session. Saturday, March 14.-Count de Crilion in continuation. Deponent says that Henry told him in the course of his interview, which he mentioned yesterday, that the severity of his strictures in the public prints against republican government, attracted the atterWednesday, March 25.-The senate resumed the consideration of tion of the British government. Sir James Craig, continued he the report of the managers at the conference on their part on the became desirous of my acquaintance. He invited me to Quebec, subject of the disagreeing votes on the bill establishing a quarter-where I staid some time-hence I went to Montreal, where every master's department, and for other purposes; and it was thing I had to fear and all I had to hope was disclosed to me. I went Resolved, That they recede from their disagreement to the afterwards to Boston, where I established my ual residence. I was amendments of the house of representatives, so far as to agree to surrounded by all the people pointed out to me by the agents who the report of the managers, and that the bill be so modified. were under my orders. I lived at the exchange coffee-house, gave The bill relinquishing to the corporation of the city of New-large parties, inade excursions into the country, and received an Orleans the use and possession of a lot in said city was, after being order extraordinary from sir James Craig, to dispose of the fleet amended, ordered to a third reading. at Halifax, and of the troops, to further the object of my mission, The senate resumed, as in committee of the whole, the considera-if required. My devotion to the cause was extreine. Lexhausted tion of the bill for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served all my funds. I spent many precious years in the service; and was in the late campaign on the Wabash, together with the amend advised to proceed to London. The government treated me with ments reported by a select committee; and after debate, the fur-great kindness. I was received in the highest circles; was compli ther consideration thereof was postponed till to-morrow. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [The following document accompanies the report of the committee Committee of foreign relations. mented with a ticket as member of the Pitt Club, without being balloted for. And when I had spent all my money and presented my claims for retribution, the government attempted to cheapen my services, [merchander] to beat me down. My ckums were to the amount of 32,0001. sterling. I was told, however, that I should be provided for, by a recommendation to sir George Prevost, in case E would return to Canada, and continue my mission and services as before; and to exercise the same vigilance over the interests of the Briush government. At the same time the government appointed a Friday, March 13.-Count Edward de Crillon sworn.-This de-friend of mine, an Irish gentleman, attorney gen. for Canada through ponent knows Mr. Henry-he dined with him at Mr. Wellesley my influence. [Deponent saw this gentleman at Mr. Gilbert Ro Pool's, in September, and afterwards at Jord Yarmouth's; met bertson's in New-York.] Heury continued, "Disappointed in my with him also at different fashionable clubs; deponent fell in with expectations, I was anxious to proceed to Canada, to sell my estate Mr. H. subsequently by accident; deponent had ordered his ser- and library, and take my revenge against the British government. ! vants to procure him a passage for America, they met with captain knew that if I went to Canada, I must deliver up my dispatches, Tracy, of the ship New-Galen, of Boston, at the New-London and that I should afterwards be put off by the governinent. coffee-house-after agreeing with him on the terms of the passage, therefore determined to retain the documents in my possession, as captain T. applied to deponent to know if he was ready to embark the instrument of my revenge-Determined to extricate myself" the next day, as the ship would sail the following morning; depo- from my embarrassing connexion with the British government, I ponent said no-that he should send his servants on board, but refused the offer of a passage to Halifax in one of their ships of should take a postchaise for Portsmouth and pass over to the Isle war; and determined to live privately and retired at Ryde, and of Wight where he should wait for the vessel. On the day follow-take passage in the first vessel that should sail for the United States, ing he went accordingly to Portsmouth, but before his departure he This is the canse of your meeting me at Ryde." received a letter from captain Tracy, concluded in the following Deponent represents to Henry That England was his legitimate terms: Sir, you must go to Ryde, where you will find a gentle-government, that he would render himself the most odious of all man called captain Henry, waiting for the New-Galen, I shall characters by betraying it; that his (the deponent's) government send a boat on shore for both of you." Deponent went to Ryde, had treated lúm harshly, and that he then labored fuider its dise but did dot find captain H. there; thence he proceeded to Cowes, pleasure, but no consideration should induce him to act against it; and enquired of the American consul" if the New-Galen had pass-that we must not resent a parent's injuries. Tells him to have pas ed?" fearing that she had sailed without him. The consul inform-tience and wait for his reward." Henry then pleaded in his justified him that the ship was detained in the Downs by head winds; de- cation, the wrongs of his native country, Ireland, inflictesi by the ponent returned to Ryde and remained there three weeks before British government. captain H. came to him and told him that the ship was badly found, Henry came down to Washington, and stopped at Tomlinson's and advised him to go to Liverpool and take the packet; de ponent where deponent saw him. He afterwards removed to Georgetown refuses, having paid his passage and his trunks being on board-to the house of one Davis, an auctioneerer, where the deponent captain H. three days after his arrival fell sick, he kept his bed twen-visited him every day and found him always writing-Deponent ty-two days, during which time he was often delirious, frequently waited for his disclosures, not having any disposition to pry into attering the name of lord Liverpool. The deponent having two his secrets; but Henry was entirely silent and sighed incessantly servants one of them attended on Mr. H. during his illness-he was very deeply. On the day of general Blount's funeral deponent visited by Mr. *owell of Philadelphia, a Mr. Wilkinson, or Dick- took Henry down to Alexandria, in expectation that he might son, of the British army, and a Mr. Perkins, of Boston-he re-communicate his projects; but he was still reserved-After diner cived above 200 letters from a Boston house [Higginsons] in Fins- they returned, and whilst in the carriage, Henry tells deponent ley Square, that had lately stopped payment. He refused to take that he has great confidenec in him; that he (deponent) has been the letters, giving them to the captain. Mr. H. was also visited by here some time; and asks his opinion of Mr. Mouroe? Deponent a Mr. Bagholt, who brought him letters from sir James Craig-answered that he was very little acquainted with any body, but Henry refuses to receive those letters-he recovered from his sick- thought Mr. Monroe a most virtuous and respectable man. ness, deponent occupying the most agreeable house in the place.Henry's physician asked the favor of an apartment for him till he was ready to embark. Deponent remained several days without hearing any thing more until one morning at 7 o'clock Henry came into his apartment and said Crillon you must sell me St. Martial (an estate of the de por After eight weeks detention the wind became fair and the vessel nent's in Lebeur, near the Spanish frontjes) you have the title yar sailed. The day before her departure Mr. Bagholt arrived at Ryde pers with you; my name will be rescued from oblivion by living with letters from lord Liverpool to sir George Prevost, and to Mr.near Crillion, the habitation of your ancestors, pro of a man who Henry, who, when he saw the seal of the letter addressed to him, has been my fiend." Deponent answered that he had no objeesaid, throwing it on the talks that is a letter from Liverpool, Ition, and if Henry on seeing the property, was not satided he 68 constitutional ground as was occupied by Mr. Lacock. would give orders to his agent in France to cancel the bargain, appeared to be entirely relied on, without regarding the constitue » The conveyance was accordingly made; Henry left deponent, tonal question, he thought it absolutely necessary that the ques when Mr. Brent, to whom Henry was not introduced, came into tion should be taken by yeas and nays. deponent's apartment. anonymous threatening letters, and was advised by his friends that About this timne deponent received four he was surrounded by spies, but he told them he had nothing to fear, that he was sans peur and sans reproche." By one of their by yeas and nays, and carried, 69 to 40. Jetters I was advised to leave the city before 12 o'clock, as a person The question on the first clause of the amendment was decided bad just arrived from London with orders to arrest me. Mean-part allowing the judges 10 dollars per diem while so employed, while rumors circulated very generally to the deponent's prejudice, was negatived, yeas 47, nays 61. The question on the remainder of the amendment, viz. that and he was under the necessity of vindicating his character, and of correcting the author of those reports. The message of the president gave the depoñent the first intelli-such as should be appointed by the senate on the said bill. The house agreed to insist on their amendments to the quarter ruaster's bill, and to appoint conferees on their part, to confer with gence of the true state of the transaction. Henry told deponent that a Mr. Gelvary or Gillivray from Quemittee of the whole, Mr. Talmadge in the chair, on the bill mak bec, had come to him at New-York, to persuade him to go to Cana-ing provision for certain persons claiming lauds under the several On motion of Mr. Morrow, the house resolved itself into a com. da, but Henry said he would not go, that the Rubicon was passed. | acts for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Henry kept the first company at Boston. house, and ordered to a third reading. Canada and Nova Scotia; which was amended, reported to the to who was referred the petition of the representatives of Beau Monday, March 23-Mr. Gholson, from the committee of claims Adjourned to Monday. marchais, made a long detailed report thereon, concluding with the following resolution : Being questioned if Henry had mentioned the names of any person with whom he had conferred, deponent answered “none." Deponent landed at Boston December 24, 1811, staid there 10 or 12 days, visited governor Gerry twice. "Resolved, that the prayer of the petitioner is unreasonable Question-Do you know where Mr. Henry is now? Answer-No: by report, I hear he is in New-York. Deponent left Boston in the public stage, Henry was also a pas-and ought not to be granted." senger. But at New-Haven deponent took a private carriage to himself. STATE OF LOUISIANA.-On motion of Mr. Dawson, the The count Edward de Crilion. house again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Basset the chair, on the bill for the admission of Louisiana into the union, and to extend the laws of the United States thereto. documents, ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson's amendment, for giving four representatives to the part of West Florida proposed by the bill to be annexed to the state how formed of the Orleans territory, again came under consideber to such as shall be necessary for repairing certain vessels, and And after some argument thereon was negatived-37 to 39.] reported the result of the conference with the senate, each house Mr. Cheves, from the committee of conference on the navy bin cede from their amendment, confining the appropriation for tim having conceded a part of the positions on which it had insisted. The committee of conference recommended that the senate rechase of timber suitable for rebuilding the frigates Philadelphia, in lieu thereof to insert the following words at the end of the see tion: And that the first appropriation thereof be made in the pur And provided also, that the people of that portion of West from their disagreement to the section for laying up the gun-boats, General Green, New-York and Boston." Florida reby proposed to be made a part of the state of Louisi-striking out of it the words," in aid of the land fortifications."That the senate recede and shall before the election of senators and representatives to That the house of representatives agree to the section respecting Se comnts of the United States, be invested with and enjoy pursers, reducing the amount of the security required from twen gal rights of representation and equal privileges in every respect ty to ten thousand dollars, with the addition of the following faith da nesple of the residue of the said state." words: "excepting pursers on distant service, who shall not remain in service after the first day of July next, unless nominated and appointed as aforesaid." The report was committed. Whebatier some remarks was agreed to without a division.] mmittee then rose and reported the bill as amended. ever amendments made in the committee were agreed to popes, and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading 1 a division. the session, 49 to 26; and Mr. Saminons obtained the same leave. Mr. Richardson obtained leave of absence for the remainder of Fort, March 20.-Mr. Poindexter, after adverting to the diffi-bill for the organization of a corps of artificers; to consist of one Mr. Wright, from the committee on military affairs, reported a ogeng northern troops to march to the southern extreme superintendant and a number of blacksmiths, carpenters, masons, on, and remarking that the bulk of the military force sadlers, &c. &c. The bill was twice read and referred to a com Aected to be raised at this session would receive a different destina-mittee of the whole. and notating out the consequent necessity of giving the great- The bill making provision for certain persons claiming lands un if ་ ་འ house. le efficacy to the militia in that quarter, offered the folder the several acts for the relief of the refugees from the British solution, stating, at the same time, that he felt confident, provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia, was read a third time, and, sulton was agreed to, in his ability to present to the mili-after some discussion on particular claims it involves, passed by this că moätere such a system as should meet their approbation. had that the committee on military affairs be instructed forejena sebe organizing the militia of the western and southern Mr. Ridgely offered for consideration the following resolution: tritories, for the defence of the southern frontier of the before this house a statement shewing the quota payable by each Resolved, that the secretary of the treasury be directed to lay sepgestion of Mr. Jennings, the words" and western" collect a direct tax within the United States"-the amount of said state of the direct tax laid by the act entitled “An act to lay and din the resolution, to precede the word "frontier."tax that has been paid into the treasury from each state respectively be admission of the state of Louisiana into the union, and the respective sums and dates of payment-the expences of the laws of the United States thereto, was read a ench state of collecting said tax-the losses that have been sustainassed, without debate, by yeas and nays as followed in such state and the cause thereof, and the balance of each Anderson, Archer, Bacon, Bard, Bassett, Bibb, state's quota of said tax now due. Breckenridge, Brown, Burwell, Butler, M. Clay, word, Davis, Dawson, Dinsmoor, Findley, Fisk, FrankOrdered to lie on the table. lin, Gholson, Gold, Goodwyn, Gray, Green, Grundy, B. Hall, O. Macon in the chair, on the bill to authorise the secretary of war to Hall, Harper, Hawes. Hufty, Hyneman, Johnson, Key, King, La-exchange lands with the Ursuline Nuns, in the city of New-Or The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. cock, Little, Lowndes, Lyle, MCoy, MKee, MKim, Metcalf, leans; which was gone through, reported to the house, and orderMitchill, Morrow, Nelson, New, Newbold, Newton, Ormsby, Piced to be engrossed for a third reading. kens, Pleasants, Pond, Richardson, Ridgely, Ringgold, Rhea, Roane, Rodman, Sage, Seaver, Shaw, Sheffey, Smilie, G. Smith, statement and representation, on oath, of captain Samuel Chew J. Smith, Stanford, Taggart, Taliaferro, Tracy, Troup, Turner, of New-Haven in the state of Connecticut, which he would beg Tuesday, March 24.-Mr. Pitkin said that he held in his hand a Van Cortlandt, Whitehill, Williams, Wilson, Winn, Wright-79. leave to present to the house. Captain Chew states, that he was NAYS-Messi. Bleecker, Champion, Chittenden, Ely, Emott, supercargo on board the brig Thames, and on the 19th of January Fitch. Jackson, Law, Lewis, Livingston, Milnor, Moseley, Pear 1812, sailed from St. Ubes, bound to New-Haven, with a cargo of son, Pitkin, Quincy, Reed, Sammons, Seybert, Stuart, Sturges, salt and fruit; that on the 2nd of July following, the brig was Tallmadge, Wheaton, White-23. On motion of Mr. Gold, the house resolved into a committee of gates of 44 guns each and a sloop of war of 16 guns, under the the whole, Mr. Roberts in the chair, on the amendments of the command of commodore Forretin, and that he was told by the taken possession of by a French squadron, consisting of two frisenate to the bill from this house providing for the removal of caus-officer boarding him, that the brig world be burnt the next es pending in the district courts of the United States, in case of the morning. That the officers of the squadron informed him that absence or disability of the judges thereof. they sailed from Nantz on the 8th of January. That on board the [The bill, as sent from the house, provides that so much of a French vessels were the crews of the ship Asia from Philadelphia, former act on this subject, as requires the application of the dis-bound to Lisbon, and of the brig Gershom of Duxberry, last from trict attorney or marshal of the district in writing a preliminary to Boston bound to Oporto, both laden with corn and flour. That the removal of the cause to the circuit court, be repealed. The senate proposes to strike out the whole, and insert a gene-23d of January, they had captured and burnt the ship Asia and ral provision that in all cases of disability, of the district judge, brig Gershom. He also states, that he enquired of the commodore the officers of the squadron informed him, that on the 17th and ecrtified to the satisfaction of the president of the United States, the reason of burning them, and was informed by him that he had the circuit judge shall hold the district court, &c. in the same man-orders from his government, to burn all American vessels sailing to ner as the district judge; and allowing to the said circuit judge or from on enemy's port. That on the 3d of February the cominoa compensation of ten dollars for every day which shall be necesdore put on board of the Thames the captains and crews of the sarily employed in such service.], The amendment of the senate being under consideration— The committer rose and reported their agreement to the ment; which were immediately taken up by the house. Vessels burnt, being 37 in number, to be landed in the first port, amend-released the Thames, he gave him a document or writing, sub and that on the 16th day of July, he landed them at St. Bartholo news. Captain Chew states, likewise, that when the commodore scribed with his own hand, and written in French language, and Mr. Lavock suid, that as on this important question, precedent) which is annexed to his statement. This document contains a |