bargo, viz. from October 1, 1806 to September 30, ¡dles, soap, wax candles, hair powder, cuff, tobacco J607, a period during which your commerce of ex-unmanufactured,bricks, essence of bark, linseed oil, portation was in full activity. I annex this table to spirits of turpentine, wool and cotton cards, maple my letter. Coffee, sugar and cocoa are not includ and other brown sugar, bar iron, nails, castings, ed in this statement. These articles of merchandise canvass and sail cloth, cables and cordage, spirits have always been ranged in the class of colonial from melasses, refined sugar, chocolate, gunpow products; and whatever may be their origin, his der, co per manufactured, medicinal drugs. majesty, while favoring in his states many branches of culture, and many new establishments, with a view of supplying their places by indigenous pro-(Signed) ductions, could not encourage indefinitely their ex portation. Vessels arriving with permits, by means of which the importation of merchandise is authorized, will be admitted.

TRUE COPY,

The minister of foreign relations,
DUKE OF BASSANO."

History

Of the Invasion of Spain by Bonaparte. ABRIDGED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. CHAPTER V.

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 171.) Description of Spain, geographical, moral and political,-Circumstances tending to encourage the Spaniards in their resistance against the French.

"The introduction of tobacco is not prohibited. It forms the first object of culture in some of the states of the union; and his majesty having an equal interest in the prosperity of all, desires that the relations of commerce should be common to all parts of the federal territory; but tobacco is under an administration [enregie] in France; the administra. tion is the only consumer, and can purchase only the quantity necessary for its consumption. It be- Spain, in ordinary language, is considered as came necessary that measures should be taken on consisting of one extensive state or kingdom, and this subject, and they have been conformable to so it is in its foreign relations, and sundry other the common interest. Tobacco will be received in points of the greatest importance. But under the the ports of France and placed in actual deposit [in crown of Spain are united many states or kingdoms entrepot real and if more arrives than the adminis- which have gradually coalesced into one montration can purchase, the transit of the surplus will archy; each kingdom,formally so called-rebe permitted across France for Germany, and the taining still, together with many particular laws other states of Europe, in which the American mer- and usages, a peculiar and distinct character, chants may find a sale for it. and some of them, separate, local interests:

"All the vessels of the United States which may circumstances, which, no doubt, presented to such arrive in France, will have to discharge the custom-a mind as that of Bonaparte, hopes of being able to house duties, to which the merchandize they bring call to his aid, the destructive power of division is subject; and their return must be effected by ex porting an equal value in French wines, silks and other articles of French manufacture, in the proportions determined by the regulations.

and discord. The northern districts, containing the kingdom of Navarre, the three provinces of Biscay, and the principality of Asturias, enjoy peculiar privileges; being governed, in some sort, by "Merchandize of the growth of the United themselves, and by far the greater part of their conStates, composing the cargoes of American vessels, tribution appropriated to the expenses of their own must be accompanied by a certificate of origin, de- municipal establishments. These provinces conlivered by the French consul from whence the vessel departed.

"I flatter myself, sir, that the communication of these dispositions of the emperor in favor of American commerce, will be as agreeable to your govern ment, as it is to me to be the means of making it. "I have the honor, sir, to renew to you, the assurance of my high consideration.

The minister of France,

Mr. Monroe, Secretary of State.

SURURIER.

“Productions of the soil and of the manufactures of the United States, exported October 1, 1806 to September 30,1807, [and the exportation of which is now allowed in France:]

sisting chiefly of prodigious tracts of mountains, produce a race of hardy, active and industrious people, who, for want of sufficient employment in the cultivation of the ground, or in the iron mines with which their country abounds, have naturally devoted themselves to the sea service in various branches; and from those tracts of sea coast, the Spanish navy draws the most energetic portion of its mariners.

The other parts of Spain are very unequally distributed into those belonging to the crowns of Castile and Arragon. To Castile belong the kingdom of Gallicia, the provinces of Burgos, Leon, Zamora, Salamanca, Estremadura, Palencia, Valladolid. Segovia, Avila, Toro, Toledo, La Mancha, Murcia, Guadalaxara, Cuenca, Loria and Madrid; to "Salt or smoked fish, dried or pickled do.whale these are added the four ancient Moorish kingdoms, and other fish oil, whalebone, spermaceti candles, composing the provinces of Andalusia, namely, Sestaves and heading, shingles, hoops, plank, timber, ville, Cordova, Jaen and Grenada. To the crown Jumber of all kinds, masts and spars, manufactures of Arragon belong the kingdoms of Arragon and of wood, oak, bark and other dyes, tar, pitch, rosin, Valentia, the country of Catalonia and the kingdom turpentine, skins and furs, ginseng, beef, tallow, of the island of Majorca. The states under the hides, horned cattle, pork, hams and bacon, lard, crowns of Castile and Arragon, had their several hogs, butter, cheese, pot and pearl ashes, horses, cortes or assemblies of representation of the differmules, sheep, poultry, mustard, cotton, wheat, ent orders of inhabitants; but those of the two flour, rye meal, buck wheat meal, biscuit or ship crowns were never united into one body; and, bread, Indian corn, Indian meal, rye, oats, barley, indeed, since the days of Charles V. who resigned buckwheat, beans, peas, apples, potatoes, rice, in the government in. 1555, the cortes were seldom digo, tobacco, flaxseed, hops, wax, household fur-convened.

niture, coaches and other carriages, hats, saddlery, The government, however, though in appearance boots, silk and leather shoes, beer, porter and cider despotic, and independent of the will of the nation, in casks and bottles, spirits from grain, starch, can." was, as is the case in even the most arbitrary Euro

pean states, tempered by a complicated system ofjaversion from their neighbors on the northern side councils, in which, if judgment was tardy, it was of the Pyrenees, with whom for ages they had been commonly just.

in almost continued hostility; from whose in-roads The great and important peninsula of Spain, and devastations they had often severely suffered, including Portugal, naturally a part of the same and whole revolutionary doctrines, moral, political country, and at various periods subject to the same and religious, as well as their actions, were calcusovereign,-is most advantageously situated belated to inspire Spaniards with aversion and horror. tween the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It com- Another feature, strongly characterising all the mands the narrow straits of Gibraltar, the only provinces of Spain, and indeed all the subjects of communication between these seas, and occupies,in his Catholic majesty in any quarter of the world, some respects, the centre of the habitable globe. was an absolute devotion not only to the doctrine, This peninsula, a name by which the Spanish fre but to the policy of the see of Rome. In this absoquently designate their country, extends, where lute devotion to the church, the Spaniards, with broadest, from west to east, about 640 miles and perhaps the exception of the Portuguese alone, exfrom north to south, about 540 miles. The popu ceed all the nations of Europe. The church or selation of the whole peninsula has been computed at cular clergy in Spain possessed immense revenues, between thirteen and fourteen millions; of which even the third part, it has been computed, of the Portugal is supposed to contain two millions. The whole land. But it would be extremely erroneous remainder, distributed over Spain, will afford only to conclude that these were appropriated to the sole about 7 persons for every square mile, while the enjoyment, application or accumulation of the inhabitants of England are computed to exceed 150, several incumbents. Of late years, it became the and those of France 170, on a similar extent of ter policy of government to grant pensions on the richritory; many parts of the interior being almost fest benefices for the support of various public estabdestitute of springs and rivers, and others beinglishments; so that even the metropolitan of Toleexceedingly mountainous. Indeed, on the first do, the most exalted dignitary of the kingdom, alglance at the map of Spain, it appears to be a coun-though nominally enjoying a revenue of perhaps try shaped, and in a very great measure consisting|590,000 dollars, could not in reality dispose of more in, belts of mountains, ramifying from one another than a fourth part of that sum. The opening of and leaving intervals of various breadths between roads, the construction of bridges, the establish, them, yet all of them linked to the same mass or ment of inns and schools, the reparation of churchstock. The sea coasts of Catalonia, Valentia, es and chapels, and various other works of public Murcia, Grenada, and Andalusia, present scenes utility, are often imposed in Spain on those who of active industry, amazing fertility, and crowded enjoy large ecclesiastical possessions; and where population. such duties have not been imposed, the incumbents, from zeal to the public good, or even from a desire The hardy, industrious, and adventurous mounto imitate the conduct of their predecessors or cotaineers of the north; the sedate and solemn in temporaries, have often charged themselves with habitants of the broad and arid plains of the two that performance.

Castiles and La Mancha; the pensive and taciturn

Estremaduran; the volatile and talkative Andalu The attachment of the people to the church and sian; the laborious cultivator of the shores of the its ministers, was also warmly cherished by the exMediterranean-these different descriptions of the emplary deportment of the episcopal body, who from population of Spain, resemble each other in so few the day of their appointment, immediately repaired points as to appear to be of very different descent, to their respective dioceses in which they uniformly and indeed the production of very different coun resided, there devoting themselves entirely to the tries and climates. In one important particular, various duties of their station. however, the national character of the Spaniards The abbeys and convents over Spain, appropriated might be traced in every corner of the kingdom.-to the reception of females, were some years ago calEntire and respectful submission to the authority of culated to contain about 34,000 persons; while those the sovereign, was every where predominant. For for the accommodation of monks and friars, of all while the Catalonian was proud to think that the descriptions, were inhabited by nearly double that king was not king, but only count of Catalonia; number. Of this last description of persons, by and the Biscayan that he was only lord of his mounfar the greatest number might certainly be considerLains; they both agreed in yielding most implicit ed as lost to the prosperity of the kingdom. But obedience to his mandates, when promulgated in the Benedictine, Bernardine, and some others of the customary forms of each respective district-monks, might, in many respects, be considered by that the Castilians and the Arragonese should glo the population around, as eminent benefactors to ry in their submission to the royal authority, is not the country. Continually fixed to one spot, in the surprising, as from the union of the sovereigns of Castile and Arragon, sprang the family which in the course of time became masters of the whole country. Arragon and Castile had likewise em braced the interests of the house of Bourbon in the dispute with that of Austria in the beginning of the On the other hand, the great nobles and proprie last century. That the Catalonians, however, tors of lands with a very few exceptions, abandoning should have evinced in 1808 a decided attachment the care of their vast domains to agents and intendto the reigning family,against whom they had obsti-Jants, drained the country and its cultivators, to supnately and long contended, and from whom they ply the exigencies of an idie and often dissipated had received no favors, but many marks of dislike,life in the capital and other great towns. This inju having been disarmed and experienced various other rious dereliction of the country is, no doubt, to be proofs of distrust from those in power-that the attributed in a great measure to the introduction of Catalonians should manifest now a decided and deFrench manners, and a frivolous taste, and above termined attachment to the interests of the house all, to the jealousy entertained by the first Spt. of Bourbon, can be attributed only to an inveterate'nish kings of the house of Bourbon, of the old

midst of their possessions, they were naturally led to cultivate and improve their common heritage; and being destitute of the power of accumulation, they regularly expended their income in the quartes whence it was drawn.

nobles of Spain, who in the war of the succession no nation came so near as the British to their own, had very generally and very naturally manifested a in probity, punctuality and fairness of dealing. prediliction for the house of Austria.' On the subject of religion, the Spanish sincerely

A great and opulent lord, residing constantly on lamented the defection of the English from their his own dominion, was an object of displeasure to ancient professions of faith. But this sorrow was the court; of discountenance and even molestation. Jattended rather by a hope that at some future period The noble spirit of the Spanish grandees, in ge- Britain might return to what they considered as neral sunk in luxury, indolence and vice, suffered a the right way, than by any aversion from their gradual depression. They were neither invited, company, or their opinions on other subjects :-nor ambitious to share in the employments of the whereas, the natives of Ireland, formerly more nustate; so that with the exception of a few ancient merous in their service than of late years, who pronames in the church or the army, and still fewer fessed to be in communion with the church of in the navy, the great body of the Spanish nobi- Rome, were, in many instances, subject to the suslity ceased to be of any political importance in the picion of a temporising policy.

kingdom.

The frequent wars between Britain and Spain,

It is extremely remarkable, that it was not among unquestionably kept alive a spirit of estrangement the great landed proprietors, who had, in the com- in the Spanish nation. But that great portion of mon phraseology, the greatest stakes, that the pa- the people who pretended not to enquire into the triotism of the Spaniards shone forth with the secret cause of political events, were in the habit of greatest splendor; but among the commercial class attributing those public enmities rather to the pre. whose property was in some measure moveable, dominating influence of the French consuls in the and the clergy, who at best were only life renters. administration of national affairs, than to the exist The nobility in general did not seem to feel the amor ence of any just cause of complaint immediately patria, the attachment to natal soil, so strongly as between Great Britain and Spain. The epoch and the clergy of all ranks, who resided in their own the manner, however, of the commencement of the dioceses, parishes and monasteries, nor even as that late hostilities had materially affected the general of the poor peasants. feelings of the Spanish nation with regard to their ancient ally.

The deep rooted aversion to the French, already noted, was not confined to the province of Catalo nia, but pervaded all the northern and middle pro vinces of the kingdom.*

It may appear surprising, that a nation once so distinguished as the Spaniards in science, and in arms, for so considerable a lapse of time as that From the earliest periods, down to the beginning between the abdication of Charles V. of Austria of the last century, the Spaniards were engaged al and Charles IV. of Bourbon, should have been conmost without intermission in hostilities. Another tented with a system of government presenting so reason for the peculiar dislike of the Spaniards to few positive advantages, and producing so many their northern neighbors, is found in the national real evils to the various classes in the state. The character and deportment of the French, who not Spanish nation, however, had been for more than only affected or really felt some degree of contempt two centuries in a state of gradual decay, so that the for the Spaniards, but commonly took very little deterioration was scarcely perceptible in its propains to conceal or disguise their sentiments towards gress; and it was only by comparing the situation them, In this national dislike,persons of all nations of the country at different periods, that its decay who entered Spain from France, were involved, un-could be ascertained. It is not by any single act, til their real country was known. but by an accumulation of facts, examples, customs,

As the Spanish had their national aversion; so precedents and laws, that a nation loses its liberty. they had likewise their national attachments. It What is considered by the present generation, at would, at first sight, be difficult to account for any the worst, only as a mist, as seen by succeeding partiality they should entertain for the British na ages as a dark and portentous cloud. Lion. But such a partiality they certainly did pos- The personal character, too of a sovereign, or of sess and were eager to demonstrate. The two couna minister, has a very powerful influence in even tries, it is true, were formerly connected closely by the best organized constitutions on the happiness various ties, political and commercial; and those of a state. The general dispositions and conduct ties, notwithstanding the dissolution of the ancient of some of the late sovereigns of Spain, had conseIntimacy by the accession of the house of Bourbon quently a strong tendency to attach a people, natuto the throne of Spain, still retained a firm hold rally honorable and loyal, and of great sensibility, of the steady and honorable character of the Spa to their government in general, and to incline them niards. As men are never more intimately united to attribute what hardships they endured, to the than by a community of sentiments or feelings, and malign influence of corrupt counsellors, rather as the Spaniards believed the English to have no than to the dispositions or intentions of the prince. greater respect for the French nation than they These observations, however, are applicable only had themselves, this wa m-hearted people looked to the mass of the Spanish people; for an improv on a Briton as in some measure a sharer in his ed system of things, both civil and religious, had own existence. The Spanish traders, in general, been long and carnestly wished for by many of the had an opinion that in all commercial transactions, ablest and most enlightened individuals in the state. Others there were also, who, infected with the *We could not read the following note to Mr. philo-ophism of modern times, secretly longed and Walsh's letter, p. 21, without a smile at the exceswaited for a general dissolution of the administra sive vanity which characterises the French nation. tion in church and state, in order to raise in its "Favier, in his "Conjectures Raisonnees," constead an edifice more conformable to their conceptained in the Politique de tous les Cabinets," com tions of a perfect government. mences a chapter on the subject of Spain in this When we reflect that all public discussion of mat way: "De la haine nationale contre les Francois," ters relating to either religion or government, was and dwells with great indignation on the "blind and almost entirely prohibited throughout the Spanis stupid hatred" entertained so universally by the dominions; and that men desirous of information Spaniards against his countrymen.” en these points, had no other source than secretly

to avail themselves of the writings of authors living tropolis and the greater part of the interior, and the under more liberal systems of government, we can adjoining kingdom of Portugal were occupied by easily conceive, that an aversion, and a degree of 100,000 veteran troops, commanded by able and hostility too, must naturally have been produced in experienced officers. The Spaniards, without arms, the minds of even good men to an administration without amunition, and without a public treasury, by which such restraints were imposed on the ex-were abandoned by their government, and left ercise of the human faculties on subjects the most wholly to themselves; and not a few of the grandees congenial and important to his nature. Such men and other persons of high distinction, to whom may, for various reasons, carefully observe the rules they might look up for bringing the resources of of exterior submission; but their wishes for a the monarchy into one uniform direction, they had change must, in the end, produce an alteration in reason, though not quite so much probably as they their language, and also in their conduct. In such imagined, to consider as traitors to their country. a case, how happy it is for the country of which the The bands of society were broken asunder. There established constitution acknowledges the duty, was no visible mode of combining their separate and allows the means of improvement, and where force into any regular plan of co operation. Yet, reformation may supercede the necessity of revolu junder all these circumstances, they did not hesitate tion! to enter on a conflict with the most numerous and The dread tribunal of the inquisition in Spain, most warlike nation of Europe, their neighbors, had been for many years back, gradually withdraw under the direction of the subtlest politician, and ing from public notice. Its powers, however, first general of the age. Nor was this an arrogant though seldom exerted, were not diminished. The and blind presumption; a mere fit of passion, or unfortunate Olavide, the founder of the establish frantic enthusiasm. An act of phrenzy may be ments for peopling the SIERRA MORENA, Sunk committed by a single person; not by a great naunder the power of the holy inquisition, though as tion, widely spread over different and distant remuch probably for his political as his religious of gions and countries, and least of all by the Spafences. In the beginning of the French revolution, niards, renowned for circumspection, foresight, when neither pains nor cost was spared, clandes- patience and perseverance in designs formed on due tinely to introduce and disseminate throughout deliberation. Though deserted by government, Spain, publications calculated to excite disorders in they had confidence in the justice of their 'cause, the state, the formidable weapons of the inquisition and in one another. It seemed to be deeply impresswere actively and successfully wielded in defence of ed, or rather inborn in their minds, that however the established system of government; for any as sault on the rights of the temporal sovereign of the kingdom was regarded as a direct attack on the paramount authority of the spiritual head. The alliance between church and state in Spain, was extremely close; or rather, the political and ecclesiastical authorities were, in a great measure iden tified. The kings of Spain were the great cham pions of the church, and the most brilliant era in history of the Spaniards is that, when they proceeded by degrees to take possession of the munifi cent donations of the pope, with the sword in one hand and the cross in the other.--And, in fact, it was not less by the religious zeal of the missiona ries than the heroic valour of the military order, that the vast transmarine empire of Spain was established.

severe the conflict might be, and how much soever protracted, the star of Spain would gain the ascendant at last, and ultimately conduct her to national independence and glory.

The confidence of ultimate success, under circumstances so discouraging, is one of the most wonderful, if not the most wonderful feature in the whole of the origin and progress of the general rising of the Spaniards. It was not confined to one class, sex or age. It was universal. It pre. dominated in the breasts of old and young; of tillers of the ground, shepherds, shopkeepers, monks and women. The enthusiasm of the Spaniards though exalted was deliberate. It was the confidence of men who had calmly surveyed the mighty power opposed to them; who were prepared to encounter privations, defeats and disasters; and who were persuaded, that by bringing constantly into play all their means of annoyance, they should be able to exhaust and weary out, at last, the enemy whom they were unable to subdue by a direct encounter.

The steady devotion of the church is not there fore founded in a greater propensity to piety than is felt by other nations only, but in part, by a recollection of former times when they were exalted to so high a pitch of glory by the sword of the Lord and of Gideon. The high-minded pride of the The first circumstance of encouragement, that Spanish nation, finding no support in recent, turns would naturally occur to the Spaniards, was the to the contemplation of events long past: to the geographical position and great extent of their counvictories of Pavia, Lepanto, and St. Quintoin, to try. Its peninsular form,-for Portugal was not their contests with the Moors, and with the Romans. only a congenial and friendly power, but part of the They had suffered many indignities and insults at same country-secured it on all sides except that of the hands of Bonaparte and his agents, when the the Pyrenees, a natural rampart of no inconsidera. massacre of Madrid and the captivity of the royal ble consequence, from being invaded by land, and family kindled the accumulated combustibles of combined with the naval power of England, the indignation and revenge into a flame, which spread sworn enemy of the emperor of Franee, opened a into every part of the empire, with the rapidity of safe and sure communication with her colonies, lightning. There is no instance of any nation, so with Great Britain and Ireland, with Sweden; and widely scattered, rallying so unanimously, and with in short, with every nation on the face of the earth, so much alacrity, around the standard of their that might be disposed to espouse and maintain the country. Their motto was, “The Spanish blood cause of political freedom against unprincipled am, shed at Madrid on the 2nd of May, cries aloud for bition and aggression; although the continent of vengeance?" Europe might not dare to give any direct aid, by The flower of the Spanish army was serving un-declaring war against the common oppressor, yet der the banners of the enemy in the north of Eu infact they would, even France herself not excepted, Tope. The iron frontier of Spain on the north east contribute assistance in an indirect and passive was in the hands of French garrisons. The me-manner by obliging him to employ a part of his

armies in watching and keeping them in subjec-, tion from Matthew Lyon, of Kentucky, stating

tion.

that he had been prosecuted and convicted, under The principal towns and seaports of Spain, the sedition law; that one part of his punishment isolated from one another, by vast distances, were was the payment of a heavy fine, which he prays not all of them to be occupied by an invading army, may be refunded, &c. The petition being read, however numerous. In the interior, and particu- Mr. New moved that it be referred, with the aclarly the north of Spain, the ground in many parts, companying documents, to the committee of claims. is hilly and broken, rising into lofty mountains, Mr. Basset was opposed to this reference. If the with defiles here and there, and in some places, even petition had any claim upon the United States, it towns, inaccessible to artillery. The plains of the must be on the ground that the law under which he two Castiles and Estramadura, are scarcely less was convic.ed was unconstitutional. A claim of favorable to invading armies than the rugged re-this kind could not be recognised by that commitgions that separate them from the rest of Spain.-tee. He thought, therefore, it would be more pro

The excessive heat of the climate, and the conta per to refer this petition to a select committee.gion of intermittant fevers, would be more fatal to This was desirable also from the consideration that an army of strangers, than detachments of natives. the committee of claims is generally overburthened The French would have to encounter a great scarci- with business. ty of provisions, of forage, and a difficulty of transporting these from one place to another.

Mr. Randolph, after reminding the house that a committee had been appointed in 1809, "to enquire In the other countries Bonaparte had supplied whether any, and what prosecutions had been inhis magazines from the depots of the countries stituted before the courts of the United States for he invaded, improvidently suffered to fall into his libels at common law, and to report such provisions hands. In Spain no such depots were to be found as in their opinion may be necessary for securing Out of evil sometimes arises good. In former the freedom of speech and of the press," which had times there had been in every village of Spain small not reported, and making some general remarks granaries, called positos, where the farmers were on the subject, moved to amend the resolution by obliged to deposit, every year, a certain portion of adding to it the following, which was agreed to, their harvest as a security against famine. In the and the petition referred : last war with Portugal, government had drained "With instructions to enquire whether any, and those positos for provisioning the army, sent against "what prosecutions have been instituted before the that power, in 1801, and failed in its promise to re-courts of the United States for libels, under the plenish them. Nor could the farmers ever be per suaded to confide thereafter any portion of their grain or forage to the public granaries.

"sedition law or the common law, and by what "authority; and to make such provisions as they "may deem necessary for securing the freedom of "speech and of the press."

The Spaniards, of proper age, might form them selves at first into small bodies, and take every Thursday, November 14.-The following memadvantage to be derived from local knowledge;bers form the committee to which Matthew Lyons and when they should be under the necessity of petition is referred, viz. Messrs. New, Troup, quitting one district, or province, they might retire Cooke, Randolph, Whitehill, Wright and Moseley. to another. They could break up roads, cut down Mr. Rhea, from the committee appointed on the bridges, incercept convoys and intelligence, fall subject, reported a bill providing for the governupon the enemy on his flanks; and, in short, har-ment of the territory of Louisiana, which was rass him in all possible ways, without allowing twice read and committed. [This bill provides a him a moment's repose by night or day. By degrees government of the second grade for Louisianna.] smaller would be organized into larger masses, and Mr. Rhea moved the adoption of the following duly trained until a local and raw militia, would be resolution :-Resolved that the committee of comcome equal, at length, to a regular army. It was a merce and manufactures be instructed to inquire fortunate circumstance, that the Spanish armies into the expediency of laying additional duties on had always been recruited upon limited service; all coarse manufactures of flax and hemp." by which means there were spread over all the pro- on the table. vinces of Spain veterans who had been trained to Mr. Condit laid the following resolution on the arms and who could now train others. Nor was it table :- Resolved, that the committee of comthe least favorable circumstance to the cause of the merce and manufactures, be instructed to enquire patriots, that both their kings, the old and the new, into the expediency of encouraging the manufacwith their courtiers, and so many suspicions chature of hemp goods, either by protecting impost racters, were dancing attendance in the anti cham duties, or by prohibiting the importation of all ber of king Joseph, at Bayonne.-Add to all these hempen articles into the United States, with leave favorable circumstances, that the Spaniards were to report by bill." patient under hardships and privations, and many of them accustomed to make long journies on foot. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

CONGRESS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Laid

Friday, November 15.-Mr. Rhea proposed the following resolution for adoption :-"Resolved, that the committee on Indian affairs be instructed to enquire into the expediency of extending the laws of the United States over those parts of the states and territories of the United States to which the Indian title is not extinguished, in such manner Wednesday, November 13.-Mr. M'Kim presented as that all white persons residing within any of the the petition of James H. McCulloch, collector of said parts of the United States may and shall be the port of Baltimore, stating the insufficiency of liable to the operation of these laws." his emoluments, owing to the operation of the laws restricting our commerce, and praying for relief.Referred to the committee of ways and means.- Mr. Rhea called up the consideration of the resoLike petitions have been received from some other flution which he laid upon the table yesterday, proCollectors, posing an additional duty on coarse hemp and The Sueaker communicated to the house a peti-flax manufactures.

After some remarks on the resolution it was laid upon the table.