peal, certainly none during the continuance of the along our borders to the north. These provinces present war, authorising the capture of our vessels were not only immensely valuable in themselves, bound to and from ports where British commerce is but almost indispensable to the existence of Great not favourably received; and as that nation is at Britain, cut off as she now is in a great measure war with most of the civilized world, the effect was from the north of Europe. He had been credibly (as he understood) from those who had much better informed that the exports from Quebec alone information on the subject than he could pretend jamounted during the last year, to near six millions to, to cut up, at once, about three fourths of our best of dollars, and most of these too in articles of the and most profitable commerce. It was impossible first necessity-in ship timber and in provisions for that the mercantile or agricultural interests of the the support of her fleets and armies. By carrying United States, which on the question of a right to on such a war as he had described, at the public exthe direct trade could never be separated, could sub pense, on land, and by individual enterprise at sea, mit to such impositions. It was his opinion that we should be able in a short time, to remunerate going upon the ground of a mere pecuniary calcu- ourselves tenfold for all the spoliations she had com. lation, a calculation of profit and loss, it would be for mitted on our commerce. our interest to go to war to remove the orders in council, rather than to submit to them, even during the term of their probable continuance. a It was with a view to make preparations for such war, that the committee had offered the resolutions on the table. Whether the means recommended But there was another point of view in which were adequate to the object, or whether they were the subject presented itself to the committee, and best adapted to the end, it would be for the house, that was as regarded the character of the country when they came to discuss them separately, to deWe were a young nation, and he hoped we cherish-termine. For himself, Mr. P. said, and he presumed ed a lit'e pride and spirit, as well as a great deal of such were the feelings of all the members of the comjustice and moderation. Our situation was not un-mittee, he should have no objections to any modifilike that of a young man just entering into life, and cations of them which might be agreeable to the who, if he tamely submitted to cool, deliberate, house, so that the great object was still retained. If intentional indignity, might safely calculate to be these resolutions, or any other similar to them in ob kicked and cuffed for the whole of the remainder ject, should pass; it was then the intention of the of his life; or, if he should afterwards undertake to committee, as soon as the forces contemplated to be retrieve his character, must do it at ten times the raised should be in any tolerable state of preparation, expence which it would have cost him at first to to recommend the employment of them for the pursupport it. We should clearly understand and de- pose for which they shall have been raised, unless fine those rights which as a nation we ought to supG. Britain shall, in the mean time, have done us jusport, and we should support them at every hazard. tice. In short, it was the determination of the comIf there be any such thing as rights between nations mittee to recommend open and decided war--a war surely the people of the United States, occupying the as vigorous and effective as the resources of the half of a continent, have a right to navigate the se is, country, and the relative situation of ourselves and without being molested by the inhabitants of the our enemy would enable us to prosecute. little island of Great Britain. The committee, Mr. P. said, have not recomit was under these views of the subject that the mended this course of measures without a full sense committee did not hesitate to give it as their opini- of the high responsibility which they have taken on, that we ought to go to war in opposition to the upon themselves. They are aware that war, even orders in council. But as to the extent of the war in its best and fairest form, is an evil deeply to be and the time when it should be commenced, there deprecated: But it is sometimes, and on few occa would of course be some diversity of sentiment in the sions perhaps more than on this, a necessary evil. house, as there was, at fir t, in the committee. For myself, I confess I have approached the subject That we can contend with Great Britain openly not only with diffidence but with awe: But I will and even handed on the element where she injures never shrink from my duty because it is arduous or us, it would be folly to pretend. Were it even in unpleasant, and I can most religiously declare that our power to build a navy which should be able to I never acted under stronger or clearer convictions cope with hers, no man who has any regard for the of duty than I do now in recommending these prehappiness of the people of this country, would paratory measures: or, than I shall ultimately in reventure to advise such a measure. All the fame and commending war, in case Great Britain shall not glory which the British navy has acquired at sea, have rescinded her orders in council, and made some have been dearly paid for in the sufferings and mise satisfactory arrangements in respect to the impress ry of that ill-fated people at home-sufferings occa ment of our seamen. If there should be any gentle. sioned in a great measure by the expense of that men in the house who were not satisfied that we stupendous establishment. But without such a ought to go to war for our maritime rights, Mr. P. navy, the United States could make a serious im earnestly entreated that they would not vote for the pression upon Great Britain, even at sea. We resolutions. Do not, said he, let us raise armies, could have, within six months after a declaration of unless we intend to employ them. If we do not war, hundreds of privateers in every part of the mean to support the rights and honor of the counocean, We could barrass, if not destroy, the vast try, let us not drain it of its resources, and profitable commerce which she is constantly Mr. P. said he was aware that there were many carrying on to every part of this continent. We gentlemen in the house who were dissatisfied that could destroy her fisheries to the north; we could the committee had not gone further and recom depredate upon her commerce to the West Indimended an immediate declaration of war, or the islands which is passing by our doors; we could adoption of some measures which would have inannoy her trade along the coast of South America;stantly precipitated us into it. But he confessed we could even carry the war to her own shores in such was not his opinion. He had no idea of plung Europe But, Mr. P. said, there was anothering ourselves headlong into a war with a powerful oint where we could attack her, and where she nation, or even a respectable province, when we uld feel our power still more sensibly. We had not three regiments of men to spare for that sereprive her of her extensive provinces lying vice. He hoped that we should not be influenced by the howling of newspapers, nor by a fear that Mr. M'Kee said the parties had joined issue, the the spirit of the twelfth congress would be question pleadings were made up; the case was now to be ed, to abandon the plainest dictates of common decided by battle and not by jury. He therefore sense and common' discretion. He was sensible desired to retain the sinews of our strength, and that there were many good men out of congress as moved an amendment contemplating AN EMBARGO well as many of his best friends in it, whose appe-for ninety days on vessels in our ports, &c. The motion was declared to be out of order. The house took up the report. The question was put on the first resolutionMr. Randolph, wished time, moved that the report lie on the table. Motion lost 65 to 50. tites were prepared for a war feast. He was not The question was then taken on the first resolu. tion in the following words: 66 Resolved, That the military establishment, as authorised by the existing laws, ought to be immediately completed by filling up the ranks and proMr. P. said that this was the time and occasion longing the enlistment of the troops; and that to on which, above all others, within his experience, encourage enlistments, a bounty in lands ought to we should act in concert. If the ultimate object of be given in addition to the pay and bounty now althe great body of this house and of this nation was lowed by law." the same, and so far as he had been able to ascertain the sentiments of both, it was- -there would be no difficulty in attaining it. But we must yield something to the opinions and feelings of each other. Instead of indulging in party reflections and recriminations in this house, he hoped that the whole of the house and of the union would form but one par ty, and consider a foreign nation as the other. The following are the yeas and nays on the question: YEAS. Messrs. Alston, Anderson, Archer, Avery, Bacon, Baker, Bard, Bartlett, Bassett, Bibb, Blackledge, Blecker, Blount, Boyd, Breckenridge, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Cheeves, Chittenden, Clopton, Cooke, Condit, Crawford, Davis, Dawson, Desha, Earle, Ely, Emott, Findley, Fisk, Mr. P. said he had risen merely for the purpose Fitch, Franklin, Gholson, Gold, Goldsborough, of explaining to the house the opinions and views of Goodwyn, Gray, Green, Grundy, B. Hall, O. Hall, the committee in relation to the resolutions now to Harper, Hawes, Hufty, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent, be discussed, and he should be satisfied if he had Key, King, Lacock, Lefever, Lewis, Little, Livbeen so fortunate as to succeed. ingston, Lowndes, Lyle, Macon, Maxwell, Moore, M Bryde, M Coy, McKee, M Kim, Metcalf, Milnor, Mitchill, Morgan, Mosely, Nelson, Newbold, Newton, Ormsby, Pauiding, Pearson, Pickens, Piper, Pitkin, Pleasants, Pond, Porter, Quincy, Reed, Motions were made to strike out "ten" and insert Ridgely, Ringgold, Rhea, Roine, Roberts, Sage, fifteen and thirty. Mr. Alston wished to leave it Sammons, Seaver, Seybert, Shaw.Smilie, G. Smith, discretionary with the president, not exceeding J. Smith, Stewart, Stow, Strong, Sullivan, Tag50,000-at length the word "ten" being stricken gart, Tallmage, Tallman, Talliaferro, Tracy, Troup, out, on the suggestion of Mr. D. R. Williams, the Turner, Van Cortlandt, White, Whitehill, Willi motions to fill the blank created by striking out "10,000," were withdrawn ; and The question was taken on the first resolution for filling the ranks of the present army &c. and carried. The second resolution for raising ten thousand regulars being under consideration. The resolution, thus varied, was agreed to. The 3d, 4th, and 5th resolutions, authorising volunteers, militia, and equipment of our little navy, were agreed to by the committee of the whole. The sixth resolution, to permit our merchant vessels to arm, in self-defence, against all unlawful proceedings against them, being under considera. tion Mr. McKee spoke against it, conceiving it at va riance with the system comprised in the other reso lutions. He had no idea now of merely resisting; if attacked, he would retaliate. Mr. Smilie supported the resolution. If we were not now in war, he said verily believed we SOON should be. ams, Widgery, Wilson, Winn, Wright-117. NAYS. Messrs. Bigelow, Brigham, Champion, Davenport, Jackson, Law, Potter, Randolph, Stanford, Sturges, Wheaton--11. Mr. Goldsborough, after expressing his readiness, should war be once determined and declared by the administration, to go all lengths to support it, but wishing further time for reflection on so important subject, made a motion to adjourn which was carried. And the house adjourned. a December 7.-Mr. Pleasants presented a remonstrance and petition of sundry inhabitants of St. Louis, in Louisiana territory, praying that no alteration may be made in their present form of government.--Reterred. Mr. Rhea presented a petition of a directly opposite tenor to the above which was referred in the same manner. Mr. Wright took the same ground with Mr. McKee, and moved to amend the resolution by add- Mr. Condit presented a petition of sundry inhabiing thereto words similar to the following: And tants of Sussex county, New Jersey. praying the if attacked by any vessel contrary to the law of na aid and patronage of congress in the culture of tions, to capture and bring them in for adjudica-hemp-Referted to the committee of commerce and manufactures. tion." Mr. Porter explained. The proposed amendment would make the resolution an act of war, which it was not the intention of the committee to declare in this report, or to commence until they had prepar ed for it. Mr. Wright's motion was lost. · The house resumed the consideration of the re port of the committee of foreign relations. The question being on the agreement to the second resolution, authorising the raising an addi tional regular force. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. 5, 1811. SIR-In behalf of the committee appointed to consider so much of the president's message of the 5th November, as relates to the Spanish American provinces, I beg leave to inquire whether it is Mr. Grundy, as a member of the committee, known to our government, that any of those prostated his impression that this was the vital part of vinces have declared themselves independent, or the report; and although he had no desire to pro- that material changes have taken place in their polong debate, invited those who were opposed to the litical relations. It is not expected, however, that report now to come forward and state their objec-my request will be understood to extend to those communications which, in the opinion of the executive, it would be improper to disclose. Be pleased, sir, to accept the assurances of my high consideration and respect. SAMUEL L. MITCHILL. tions to it. Mr. Randolph took the floor, in order, as he said, to call up some member of the committee in sup port of the report, as it lay with them to state the specific object of the force proposed to be raised.Until this explanation should be made, he said it could not be expected that those oppo ed to the re port could combat it otherwise than on the disad vantage ground. Honorable James Monroe. Washington, Department of State, Dec. 9th, 1811. SIR-I have the honor to transmit to you, in Mr. Grundy then explained at some length his compliance with the request contained in your letter views of the subject. He considered the passage of of the 5th instant, a copy of the declaration of indethis resolution as passing the Rubicon, as pledging pendence made by the provinces of Venezuela. This those who supported it to a war against Great Bri act was communicated to this government, by order tain. He called upon all those who had a different of the congress, composed of deputies from those abject in view to vote against the resolution; for provinces, assembled at Caracas. It is not ascerafter that was passed it would be too late to retreat. tained that any other of the Spanish provinces have, Mr. Widgery next spoke in favor of the report. as yet, entered into similar declarations: but it is Mr. Cheeves followed next in debate, and advo-known that most, if not all of them on the continent, cated the report at some length. are in a revolutionary state. The progress made in that direction by some of them will best appear in the documents which have already been communicated to you. Mr. Randolph commenced some observations in reply, and Mr. Grundy rose to explain. Before Mr. Randolph resumed his speech. A motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Grundy, with a view, as it was understood, of giving the op ponents of the report time to prepare fully to rebut what had been to-day advanced by its supporters.And the house adjourned. December 10.-Mr. Mitchill from the committee appointed on that part of the president's message which relates to the Spanish American colonies, made the following REPORT: The committee to whom was referred so much of I have the honor to be, with great respect, sir, your obedient servant, JAMES MONROE. The honorable Samuel L. Mitchill, &c. §c. §c. Which was read and referred to the committee of the whole on the state of the union. The house resumed the consideration of the re port of the committee of foreign relations. Mr. Randolph spoke for about two hours and a half. the president's message, as relates to the Span- Mr. Johnson proceeded in reply, but had not ish American colonies, have, in obedience to the gone far before he sat down, to afford Mr. R. an oporder of the house, deliberately considered the portunity to explain, after which an adjournment subjects before them, and directed a report, in part, to be submitted to the consideration of the house, in the form of a public declaration, as follows: Whereas several of the American Spanish provinces, have represented to the United States that it has been found expedient for them to associate and form federal governments upon the elective and representative plan, and to declare themselves free and independent--Therefore be it Resolved, by the senate and house of representa tives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that they behold with friendly interest, the establishment of independent sovereignties, by the Spanish provinces in America, consequent upon the actual state of the monarchy to which they be longed; that as neighbors, and inhabitants of the same hemisphere, the United States feel great soli citude for their welfare; and that when those pro vinces shall have attained the condition of nations by the just exercise of their rights, the senate and house of representatives will unite with the execu tive in establishing with them, as sovereign and in dependent states, such amicable relations and commercial intercourse, as may require their legislative authority. House of Representatives, 10th December, 1811. was moved and carried December 11.-Mr. Dawson reported a bill to amend the act providing for persons disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war: which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole house, Mr. Newton reported a bill to authorise the refunding of the duties paid on the importation of certain copper articles-Twice read and committed. Mt. Randolph from the committee of conference on the subject of the census bill, submitted the following REPORT. That the committee had held a conference with the managers appointed on the part of the senate. That the following propositions were submitted by the committee to the managers of the senate your committee, the conference was broken up, Mr. Calhoun, after stating his desire to give his FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER. Philadelphia Society FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. November 12, 1811. EXTRACT. "The whooping cough has been the prevalent disease in this neighborhood, since the first of June. It has been very mild, and required medical aid only in a few cases; and in those a free use of the lancet was all that was necessary. There have been a few cases of Typhus, within two or three weeks past, on the high hills, about five miles from this place. Blisters, bark, wine, &c. were successful. The persons attacked were under 20 years of age. An inflammatory disorder has appeared among the horses in the neghborhood of these cases; which is generally mortal, principally from their being generally wrong treated. On the first appearance of the whooping cough amongst the human species, an inflammatory sore throat was epidemic amongst the horses throughout this country: attended with loss of appetite, fever, inflammation of the tonsils, suppuration and a very severe cough. I found that bleeding and purging was the remedy indicated in the beginning of the disease, or at any time before But after suppurathe suppuration of the tumors. ORDERED, That the following communication be published in such newspapers as are best calculated to forward its circulation; and it is hoped the editors of such papers will assist the society in their tion, Peruvian bark, steel, asafoetida and tar, were views; as well for the purpose of giving, as inviting useful-and bleeding, &c. injurious. This disease information on a subject peculiarly interesting at has been generally called the throat distemper. this time;—when efforts, highly laudable and use- "I never was more forcibly struck with the simiful, are making to encrease and ameliorate our larity of the diseases of the human and brute creaflocks of sheep, as well as other domestic animals, tion, than last winter; of which the following is a throughout our country. Extract from the minutes. history, from my note book." JAMES MEASE, Sec❜ry. "January 12, visited six patients. Disease, PneuBELMONT, Oct. 7, 1811. monia-pulse tense and quick;-remedies-bleedDear Sir-My friend, Dr. Rush, having been so ing, cathartics, and blisters to breast ;-Called in a obliging as to communicate to me a letter (to him) visit to Mr. W. B. Montgomery. Several of his from Dr. David Petrikin, of Danville, in Northum- SHEEP have died of disease. Upon dissection I find berland county, Pennsylvania, containing some in- considerable inflammation of the membrane lining formation apparently important, on a subject which, the thorax; and effusion of water around the lungs; in this country, is most lamentably neglected-to in one of them the lungs do not appear to be inwit-the diseases of domestic animals. I extract a flamed; in several others the lungs are inflamed; part of that letter (dated 1st Sept. 1811) for the in and upon cutting into the substance of the lungs, formation of the society. Any thing relative to ve- the cells appear full of a frothy liquid. The rest of terinary subjects is desirable, in our present dearth the body appears healthy; as also the brain. Exaof information, but this seems peculiarly worthy of mined several alive;-symptoms-cough, the falling attention though I have before observed very of both ears backwards, vertigo; so that in attemptstrong facts proving the similarity of diseases in ing to walk they stagger. Prescribed bleeding and horses, cattle, and other animals, with those afflict purges of molasses and yeast. January 16th, called ing the human species; originating in like, or the to see Mr. Montgomery's sheep. Several had recosame cause, and requiring similar treatment.vered that had been bled und purged the first day of the Whether the symptoms or exact description of the disease. Mr. maladies existing at the same time, and in the same "The similarity of the diseases is evident; and place, both in men, and the brute creation are alike, Mr. Montgomery asserts, that bleeding alone saved I will not determine. But I have repeatedly observ one or two valuable half blooded merino sheep in ed diseases appearing to me to originate in the same this disease, The blood was taken by opening a causes, and existing at the same time, in the same vein near the articulation of the lower jaw. place, in our domestic animals and the human spe M. had at that time about three hundred sheep; of cies. No doubt this has been observed by others which be lost about thirty of this inflammatory dimore competent to turn the circumstance to useful sease; and chiefly the fattest of the flock." account. And it is very desirable that those qualified I copy no more of the letter; because it concludes in such subjects should promulgate both facts and with an apology to Dr. Rush, for the trouble given opinions. Dr. Petrikin has set a laudable example to him by the writer. The society have had the to professional characters, who cannot employ their most satisfactory proof, in the excellent lecture deanatomical and medical talents to more advantage, livered by Dr. Rush, and printed in our first volume, than by exerting them in enquiries of this nature. that he requires no apology; but takes an interest in Some of the most respectable men of their profes all such communications of information :-I mension in Europe have deemed the subject honorable tion, with not the most distant idea of reproach, to them; and have devoted their acquirements in but with serious and sincere regret, that until this the medical art, as well as all branches of know communication, we have no instance of the good ledge connected with it, to the great benefit of their effect produced on medical men by the important country, by developing the causes and cures of di example set in that lecture. So that our domestic seases in domestic animals; whereof a most valua animals are either, from necessity, placed in the ble part of the property of all countries consistshands of indolent and fraudulent quacks, and low Your very obedient servant, RICH'D. PETERS. pretenders to veterinary knowledge, or abandoned to Dr. JAMES MEASE, Secretary of the Philadelphia their fate. The latter is, in most cases, the safest alSociety for promoting Agriculture. Iternative. R. PETERS. The Chronicle. LOUISVILLE, Nov. 15, 1811. The legislature of Pennsylvania met at Lancaster on Tuesday the 3d instant. The senate unanimously re elected PRESLEY CARR LANE, esq. of Fayette Arrived at this place on the 28th ult. Mr. Rose-county, their speaker. JOHN TOD, esq. of Bedford velt's steam boat, New Orleans-we are informed county, was unanimously elected speaker of the she is intended as a packet boat, between Natchez house of representatives. governor and New Orleans. Her burden is four hundred and George William Smith, esq. was elected five tons, and can accommodate from sixty to eighty of the state of Virginia, by a joint ballot of both cabin and steerage passengers, in a style not inferior houses of the legislature.-For G. W. Smith, esq. to any packet in the union. She arrived at this 100.-James Barbour, esq. 97.-Majority 3. place in sixty-four hours sailing from Pittsburg.-Frequent experiments of her performance have been made against the current, since her arrival, in the presence of a number of respectable gentlemen, who have ascertained with certainty she runs thirteen miles in two hours and one half. ST. FRANCISVILLE, (W. F.) Nov. 7. The legislature of Ohio met on the 2d inst. Thomas Kirker, was chosen speaker of the senate, and Mathias Couvin, speaker of the house of representatives. The legislature of Tennessee have incorporated a state bank, with a capital of 400,000 dollars. INDIANS. We have received information from a highly respectable source, that the men engaged in cutting a road from the Tennessee river to Mobile, have been attacked by a party of Southern Indians, (said to be Cherokees) 17 of them killed, and the balance compelled to fly.-Reporter. I have been informed from a source which is respectable, that two hundred Americans have crossed the Sabine near Nachitoches, and are The British king's malady has been pronounced marching against Nacagdoches, a garrison town of incurable. On the meeting of parliament (January the province of Taxas, now occupied by Spanish 7, 1812) it is supposed that the restrictions on the troops. It will be remembered by my readers, that regency will be taken off, and a new ministry of about twelve months ago, there was some severe the "whig party," come into power, Wellesley, fighting between the Creoles of Taxas and the only, to be retained. Spanish troops, when the latter succeeded in crushing what they were pleased to call rebellion. As far as I can now learn, a Creole officer named Manchac, in the patriotic cause, came to Nachito- from certain inhabitants in New York, praying the ches lately to recruit for the republican service, and succeeded in getting two hundred of the finest rifle men of our country, who have marched in high spirits, flushed with the love of liberty, and panting for glory.-[Times. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday, December 12.-After reading a petition liberty to import coal from Great Britain (we premanufacturers of the said city, praying for liberty sume as ballast,) and another petition from certain to import brass wire. The speaker laid before the house a petition from the legislative council of the Mississippi Territory which was laid on the table. praying to be admitted as a state in the Union The house then resumed the unfinished business Baltimore, December 14, 1811. THE FINE ARTS.-Sixty-five small paintings [Landscapes] by Guy, were disposed of a new days since in this city, at a very short notice, for of the preceding day-the speakers were Messrs. $1600. It is thought that the artist mi ht have Calhoun, Smilie, Key, Dana, Troup and Macon; received nearly double the amount of then, had he with some explanatory remarks from Messrs. Rannot been disposed to make a compliment to his dolph, Grundy and Potter. The house adjourned patrons in Baltimore, by putting them up on such -moderate terms. The bill for appropriating 5000 dollars a year for three years, for completing the Baltimore Hospital, has passed the house of delegates of this state, and been sent to the senate. The house of delegates, have also unanimously passed a bill to appropriate some portion of the rich funds of the state to the relief and comfort of the sure record it. at 3 o'clock. We intend to publish a few of the speeches the general spirit of the members, republicans on the report of the committee of foreign relations and federalists, appears friendly to positive and enerthey will be adopted. getic measures; and we cannot hesitate to believe 26 surviving officers and soldiers of the Maryland NOTE FROM THE EDITOR.-Many interesting arline." When it becomes a law, we will with pleaticles in manuscript are postponed. During the ensuing week the first four numbers of the Register will WILLIAM PINKNEY, Esq. of Maryland, our late be forwarded to such of our subscribers as have not minister to Great Britain, has been appointed by received them, the second edition being finished. the President of the United States, with the con The editor has the pleasure to inform the sent of the senate, Avorney General of the United friends of the REGISTER that he is now in possesStates, vice Mr. Rodney resigned. sion of a complete and official copy of the proceed The following is the amount and species of mili-ings of the congress of 1765, in the hand writting of tary force proposed to be raised by the bill reported John Cotton, esq. clerk to that illustrious assembly; in the senate by Mr. Giles, chairman of the perhaps, and probably, the only perfect account of committee raised in that body on our foreign their transactions now extant. Though in these relations: Artillery Infantry Light Artillery Cavalry General Staff Hospital 20,702 1,158 1,182 21 50 . 25,001 proceedings we see nothing calculated to excite surprise, there is much to admire; and as an antiquity, immediately connected with a history of the struggles of our country for freedom, it is inestimably valuable. The whole, every line and word, shall be speedily published in an extra number of this paper. If any are anxious to see the venerable manuscript they may gratify themselves by calling at the office, |