"Resolved, That the Committee on the Suppression of the Slave Trade be discharged from the further consideration of the several documents referred to them, in relation to the slave vessels Mariano, Louisa, and Constitution, and that they be referred to the President of the United States."

On this resolution, a brief debate arose.

Mr. FORSYTH objected to the latter clause, which refers the subject to the President. He thought there could be no facts in this report which were not obtained through some one of the Departments; and, if so, the President could obtain them as well from the Department, as by having this report referred to him.

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part of the evidence in possession of the Select Committee, had abandoned the cause of William H. Robinson, since he had seen the additional testimony obtained by them.

Mr. COCKE supported this view of the subject; and, the question being taken on the amendment, it was nega tived. The resolution in the report was then adoptedAyes 85-and the report ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. TOMLINSON, it was

Ordered, That a message be sent to the Senate, to inform them that this House, having completed the business before them, are ready to close the present session by an adjournment on their part; and that the Clerk do go with the said message.

Mr. MERCER explained. Many of the facts disclosed in the report, are not yet in the possession of the Departments. He was assured, if the Treasury Department was apprised of them all, the remaining moiety of the money which yet remained unpaid in the Treasury, would be retained there, and saved to the United States. The Treasury will be guarded by this knowledge from any unadvised proceedings. The question resolves itself sim-gress, they are ready to adjourn. ply into this-Shall the documents referred to in this report be distributed among the several Departments, and the President left to collect them from thence, or shall they be sent collectively to the President at once?

Mr. WRIGHT offered the following:

Resolved, That a Committee be appointed, on the part of this House, to join such Committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and notify him that, unless he may have other communications to make to the two Houses of Con

Mr. FORSYTH said, if the facts were already in his hands, through his several Secretaries, why should they be sent back to him? He moved to amend the resolution, by striking out the latter clause.

Mr. MERCER rejoined, and opposed the motion, stating that a member from Alabama, who had furnished a

The resolution was agreed to, and

Mr. MERCER and Mr. TOMLINSON were appointed a Committee on the part of the House.

Mr. MERCER, from the above named Committee, reported that they had waited on the President, and informed him that the two Houses were ready to adjourn, and that he had informed them that he had no further communication to make to either House.

When, on motion of Mr. BASSETT, the House adjourned, to meet on the first Monday in December next.

END OF THE DEBATES.

AT length we have reached the end of the Debates of this Session of Congress, after surmounting, besides its great length, other formidable obstacles to the completion of the Work. For three months, in the Summer of 1826, soon after it was begun, the work was suspended by reason of our daily expectation of receiving reports of some Speeches, which we wished to insert in their proper order; but which reports, though so long waited for, did not at last arrive. Unable to complete this Volume, or even to approach its completion, before the meeting of Congress in December, 1826, the work was necessarily laid aside until after the close of that Session. After it was resumed, in the last Spring, it was again unavoidably suspended for another interval of three months, in consequence of disappointment in the receipt of paper for the work from the mills. These circumstances, with the unimaginable volume to which the Debates, &c. of this Session have extended, will serve to account for the lateness of this publication.

In regard to the plan of the work, we hope it will be considered an improvement upon the first volume, that we have separated the Debates of the two Houses, so as to place the Debates of the Senate in a consecutive series, which are followed, in the same order, by those of the House of Representatives In other respects, there has been no essential variation from the original plan. The Register is strictly a Register of Debates, with such incidents in the two Houses as form a material part of the History of the Session. Of the Journal of Proceedings, in either House, no more is attempted to be given than is necessary to explain the manner in which each Debate began and ended.

This Work lays claim, not exclusively, but above all things, to impartiality. There are indeed some Speeches deficient ; but it is from no fault of the Editors, who made every effort in vain to procure them. In some of these cases, the Reports have been furnished by the Reporters, to the Speakers, for revision, and never returned; in one case, indisposition on the part of the Reporter prevented the Speeches from being reported at all: and in another, some one or more Members have declined reporting their Speeches, where all other Members voluptarily prepared such reports, (as in the case of the Senate Debate in secret session.) The Editors have made every exertion in their power to render the work complete. They have so far succeeded that it is, perhaps, more complete than any work of the same nature that ever has issued from the press. Wherein it is yet incomplete, they ask the usual indulgence of the Public towards those whose failure of success proceeds from causes beyond their control.

NOVEMBER 1, 1827.

ERRATUM. In the Law to authorize a subscription of Stock in the Louisville and Portland Canal Company, (Appendix, page xiii,) the reader will omit the third and fourth sections-they not belonging to the Act as it finally passed, though forming a part of the bill as originally reported. VOL. II.-170

APPENDIX

TO THE REGISTER OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS.

NINETEENTH CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION.

List of Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.