which could come before the committee; | there, they, without affigning any reafons, Mr. Dana. The honourable gentleman from Maryland (Gen. S. Smith) has expreifed one fentiment in which I perfectly acquicfce. It is that he and his political friends have taken great pains to obtain the pofleflion of power. Mr. Macon (Speaker) remarked that a committee of the whole houfe was one committee, and a committee of the whole houfe on the fate of the union another But, Sir, permit me to exprefs my recommittee. They were diflin& committees. gret, that on the prefent occafion there The laft was never formed for fpecial pur. fhould be any recurrence to the diftincpofes. He did not recollect that this had tion of politicial parties. In deliberating ever been done. Whereas the other com on a fubject which peculiarly affects the mittee was always formed for a fpeciali hab tents of the western country, and is purpofe. The difficulty in this cafe had arifen from refering the confidential meffage to a committee of the whole on the ftate of the Union. He believed it would be well to rife and feparate the two fubjects that had been referred to the committee on the flate of the Union. Mr. Grifwold could not understand what was faid by the gentleman from Mafs. (Mr. Euftis) relative to a priority of motion. He knew of but one motion before the committee. One motion had been made, and had been decided to be out of order. Another was then made and was now under confideration. He knew of but two fubjects which had been referred to a committee of the whole on the ftate of the Union; one of these was of a publicnature, and the other of a private nature. A fubject of a private nature could not be taken up by a committee fitting with open doors; of courfe there was but one fubje&t extentively interefting to the commerce arm. Mr. L. Morris did not agree with the hon. fpeaker, that the committee of the whole on the ftate of the union never fat on a special fubje&t. He recollected last feffion, that a propofition to amend the conftitution was referred to that committee, and the chairman, when the committee rofe, reported that they had difagreed to the refolution. He remembered that he objected at the time, to that form of reporting; the cuftom had before been to report that they had come to no resolution: This was decided to be the correct mode. Confequently if the committee now rife, as the refolution of the gentleman from Connecticut is under confideration, it will be a rejection of the refolution and a denial of the information. The queftion was taken on Mr. Smith's motion that the committee rife, and carried in the affirmative. in the affirmative. They accordingly rofe, and the chairman, reported, That the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the ftate of the union under confideration, but had come to no refolution thereon. Mr. Griswold asked if there was any fuch meffage before the houfe? and if not, whether the refolution was in order. Mr. Speaker decided that the motion. was not in order, and Mr. Dawson carried his refolution back again to his feat. A motion was made that the galleries fhould now be cleared. The house divided upon the queftion, which was carried in the affirmative by the cafting vote of the fpeaker, there being 41 on each fide. The house remained with clofed doors. during the remainder of the day. FROM THE ALBANY CENTINEL, OF FEBRUARY 4. On Tuesday the legislature male choice of Theodorus Bailey, of the county of Dutchefs, for Senator in Congrefs, in the room of Gouverneur Morris, whofe feat becomes vacant in March next. The votes on this occafion were, for Mr. Bailey 59, for John Woodworth, Efq. 57. It is generally spoken of by the members of the Legiflature, that Mr. Woodworth would have been elected, had it not been for the officioufness of the A-y G! in his behalf. Some of his party had firmnefs enough to fhew, by their vote, their difapprobation of his coming within the bar of the Houfe, writing ballots at the defk, and diftributing them among the members; and to fhew alfo that they do not confider him a legiflator, ex officio; or that he has any bufinefs to attempt an interference in elections devolving exclufively upon our reprefentatives, until we, the people, fhall write upon our ballots, "TURN THEM OUT." We are told that his chagrin at Mr. Woodworth's defeat was fuch, that he offered a guinea a-head for the names of thofe of his party who had pledged themfelves to vote for Mr. W. at a Caucus previously held, and who had now proved treacherous. What an odious thing it is, in the eyes of fome folks, to change fides. following Royal Order was tranfcribed, I fufpicions and detect the perfons engaged in this nefarious procedure, a party of perfons furrounded the fhop on Friday lafl,The shop was found clofed. One of the party approached near the door when he diftinctly heard the jingle of money. They demanded admittance--the demand was not complied with-the door was then forced open, when four men apparently much difmaved, were difcovered; thefe men were Compfey, Dowfon, Streithuff and the far-famed and well known Shockey. Many bafe dollars were found, together with a number of crucibles, a quantity of the neceffary ingredients for preparing the metal, and all the implements for coining dollars- The four perfons were then arrested and brought to Martinsburgh jail. "The Minifter of War has commuicated to me the following-" In a letter of the 15th inft. Don Pedro Cevallos, informs me as follows: Whereas his majef ty has ceded to the French Republic the colony or province of Louifiana in all its prefent extent, and AS IT WAS HELD BY THE FRENCH WHEN CEDED TO HIS MAJESTY, I advife you thereof, by his Royal Order, that you make the neceffary arrangements for the delivery of it to the French Commiffioner or commiffioners, who being duly au thorized by the government, may prefent themselves for the purpofe. Which royal Their trial came on yesterday before a determination I have made known to the court of inquiry in this town, when the Captain General of Louifiana, informing court, after examining the witnesses and him at the fame time, that it is his Majef-hearing the pleadings, against and in favor ty's pleasure with refpect to the regiment of the place and the military that garrifon the province, that individuals who voluntarily wish to remain under his majesty's dominion, fhall, after delivering up the colony, proceed to the Havannah, where oth er posts will be allotted them. Of this I advise you by royal order, that you may comply with that part of his royal determination which relates to you. God preferve you many years. SOLER, Minifter of Foreign Affairs. To the Intendant of Louisiana. Madrid, July 30, 1802. [We conceive the foregoing to be a very interefling and important document, inafmuch as it confirms the apprehenfion already expreffed, of the retroceflion of Louifiana being accompanied by a condition. alarming to our rights on the Miffiffippi, and in flagrant violation of our treaty with his catholic majefty. The province, as has been predicted, is to be given up to the French as the French gave it to Spain ! Hence our future participation in the ufe of the Miffiffippi will depend on the generofity or the justice of the Firft Conful, a tenure both precarious and humiliating. Good God, with thefe facts fcreaming in the ears of our adminiftration, will they have the tamenefs to perfift in an attempt to negociate!] [Philadelphia Gazette.] MARTINSBURG, (P.) JAN. 14. For fome time paft fufpicions were en- of the prifoners, adjudged them to be fent to the diftrict courts holden at Winchester for further trial. The Knot. MARRIED, At Franklin, in this state, the 19th ult. Mr. NOAH O. CASE to Miss LUCRETIA TREADWELL. To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and fifty cents, payable in quarterly advances. To Country Subscribers, who receive their papers at the office, Two Dollars, payable as above. To those who receive them by the mail, Two Dollars, exclusive of postage, payable in advance. A handsome title-page, with an Index or Table of Contents, will be given with the last number of each volume. Advertisements inserted in a conspicuous and handsome manner, in the ddvertiser which accompanies, and circulates as extensively as the Balance. Complete files of the first volume, which have been reserved in good order for binding, are for sale -Price of the volume, bound, Two Dollars and fifty cents-unbound, Two Dollars. The whole may be sent, stitched or in bundles, to any post office in the state, for 52 cents postage; or to any post-office in the union for 78 cents. FOR THE BALANCE. THE WOODMAN. You ask, who lives in yonder cot No friend his frugal meal to share ; From wealth and power he lives secure, Soon as he views the rising sun, He eats his crust of coarse brown bread, Shoulders his hatchet and his gun, And thus, by constant habit led, In that recess where oft he's stood, He still continues-cutting wood. To him indifferent seasons roll, He values not the lapse of time; He only seeks to mould his soul, And fit it for a happier clime, Where pain and sorrow ne'er intrude, Where soon he'll cease from-cutting wood. Does not this peasant happier live Than those who "follow wealth and fame ?" Can these bestow what peace can give, Or raise to health the sickly frame? He's blest indeed who poor and good Earns his brown loaf by-cutting wood. JULIENNE. Kingston, Ulster County. [There is much point in the following epigram.] A COCK, within a stable pent, Was strutting o'er a heap of dung, And still as round and round he went, The mettled courser stampt and flung. Bravo! quoth he, a decent noise, DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE EXIST ENCE OF NOAH's DELUGE. O N the fuppofition of the truth of the icripture hiftory of the flood, it might reasonably be expected that, altho' that event happened more than four thoufand years ago, the marks of it would be plainly apparent, in the various quarters of the globe. A rain of forty days and forty nights, conftantly rufhing down with af tonishing profufion and impetuofity, ...e cataracts, which is denoted by "opening the windows of heaven," muft have fo loofed the furface of the earth as to change it almoft into a fluid. The furface and even the deep beds of the earth, being thus loofened and mixed with the waters, muft have been driven by them, hither and thither to great diftances. At the fame time, the breaking up the fountains of the great deep," or opening the " bars and doors" of the vaft ocean, fo that their waters were made to rufh over the continents, must have greatly augmented and multiplied the ravages upon the face of the earth. Now, if the hiftory of Mofes concerning the flood, wherein thefe wonderful circumftances are related, be true, it would be reasonable to expect that the face of the earth fhould ftill difcover the marks of a moft terrible convulfion. It would be reasonable to expect (provided Mofes gave a true hiftory) that there fhould appear, in fome places, horrible precipices, confifting of bare and rugged rocks piled upon rocks; and, in others, frightful caverns, feemingly yawning to the centre of the earth: that the foil fhould be utterly fwept off from fome large diftricts, and nothing be feen but barren fands, as in the deferts of Arabia; and that in others, the bodies of large foreft-trees fhould be found under a rich foil and at the depth of twenty or thirty feet-that bones of animals, which are peculiar to warm climates, fhould be found in the moft frofty regions; and that there fhould be frequently difcovered beds of fea-fhells, in elevated fituations and at great diftances from the waters in which they were formed, &c. &c. Thefe and fuch like phenomena were, I fay, to have been expected, on the fuppofition that the fcripture hiftory of the flood is true. Of their actual exiftence I fhall treat in my next. W. Agricultural. FOR THE BALANCE. SUBSTITUTES FOR THE SUGAR CANE SOON COON after the commencement of the revolutionary war in this country, all commerce with the Weft-Indies being obftructed, attempts were made to obtain molaffes from the ftalks of Indian Corn. The corn-ftalks, while full of fap, were ground in a mill, like apples, and the fap or juice that was preffed out, was boiled to a fyrup of the confiftence of molaffes. The fubfequent fupplies of fugar, by the capture of a large number of British WeftIndia fhips, prevented this experiment from being carried to any confiderable extent. The fugar-maple is the indigenous fweet cane of North America. If this valuable fpecies of trees were to be raised in nurferies and tranfplanted and diftributed over the country, like the apple-tree, it might produce vaft quantities of fugar. There has been found another fubftitute for the fugar-cane, which, perhaps, may prove fuperior to the fweet-maple. Mr. Athard, of the kingdom of Pruffia, has difcovered a method of making fugar from the root of the white beet. This procefs is faid to have been already bro't to a high degree of perfection in Pruffia; infomuch that coarfe fugar, refined fugar, molafles, &c. are now obtained in large quantities from the white beet, and at a much lefs expence than that of the fugars of India. As beets are eafily raifed, the time may come, when the farmers in the northern climates of this country, and efpecially thofe who live diftant from navigation, will fupply themfelves with fugars and molaffes, from the produce of their own fields. APHORISM.-The wrangler, the puzzler, the word hunter, are incapable of great thoughts or actions.-Lavater. PUBLISHED BY SAMPSON, CHITTENDEN & CROSWELL, The COLUMBIAN AND Balance, PAGE 49 REPOSITORY. Political. "HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D! FOR THE BALANCE. ATTENTION! 66 HAIL SACRED FREEDOM, WHEN BY LAW RESTRAIN'D!" BEATTIE. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1803. & DEMOCRATIC PROPHECY OF THE YEAR 1797, PARTLY FULFILLED. IN N the New-York Journal and Patriotic Regifter, of June 28, 1797, is a remarkable publication, which tends to throw fight upon the politics of the prefent day. This publication begins in these words: "The French, if they are wife (and the "French Directory is at this moment the "wifeft and most enlightened executive "in the world) will never conclude "peace with England but upon two con"ditions. Firft, that free bottoms will "and fhall make free goods, any thing in "Mr. Jay's treaty to the contrary not"withstanding." The writer, after a number of observations upon this head, proceeds as follows: "As a fecond condition-France will "have Canada and Louifiana. The firft "the British nation muft grant to her; and "the fecond the Spaniards will fell to her "for a valuable confideration. The "French will have Canada, because it was "taken from them unjustly, by the mif" conduct of her Kings; and it is the duty "of a Republic to correct thofe errors, or "faults in the adminiftration of affairs " which their former rulers have occafion"ed. Secondly, More than half the pre"lent people are Frenchmen, good and true; and ought to be as free as their "brethren in the Commonwealth. 66 Thirdly, Like the Romans they might "provide for twenty or thirty thousand "veterans in this growing fettlement. Fourthly, It would open a fource of lu"crative Commerce, for those Manufac"tures which might there be confumed. "by the mifconduct of their kings; and "it is the duty of a republic to correct "those errors, or faults, in the adminif "tration of affairs, which their former ru "lers have occafioned." I have no French maps, nor can I, at this moment, precisely afcertain the limits of the former claims of the French Kings. confident I am, however, that thofe claims included nearly one half the prefent territory of the United States; namely, almost · one half of the fate of Georgia at the South; large portions of the flates of NewYork and Vermont, and of the diftri&t in Maffachusetts, called the province of Maine, at the North and Eaft; and all the vast tract of land Weft of the Ohio river.Exclufive of all this, the French claimed all the lands within the prefent limits of Canada, which is fourteen hundred miles in length, and five hundred miles in breadth; and alfo all the lands within the "The common advantages of Coloni-prefent limits of Louisiana, which extenfive and fertile country (according to "zation, would make this fertile country "a valuable acquifition to the Republic; Miffiffippi, South by the Gulph of Mexi Morfe's Gazetteer) is bounded Eaft by the co, Weft by New Mexico, and North by undefined boundaries. Thus ends the chapter of democratic prophecy and it is indeed a "preciously extenfive to fupport a hundred milconfeffion"-a clue, that will lead us into the labyrinth of the projects of the French party in this country. It is plainly the meaning of this writer, that the French republic has an undoubted right to, and should and will obtain actual poffeffion of, all the territories in North-America, which had been formerly claimed by the kings of France. "Canada (he exprefsly fays) was "taken from them (the French) unjustly lions of people, and at the fame time to awe and fubjugate the British American colonies, the French, befides their ftrong holds at the Northward and Eastward, began to establish about the middle of the laft century, a chain of fortified posts, from Upper Canada to the Miffiffippi ;thus furrounding the colonies on all fides, excepting on the fhores of the Atlantic, and menacing their speedy fubjugation., fame, who for his gallic attachment and pufillanimity was formerly recalled from France by Wafhington ;-the fame who advised a loan to the French directory, and expreffed an high opinion not only of the talents, but of the integrity of the directors ;---the fame, who declared, in fubftance, to the French agents, that, if their fyftem of depredation upon the American commerce were really for the intereft of the republic, the people of the United States, would bear it not only with patience, but with pleasure." By the confummate policy and redoubtable energy of this man, our grievances are to be rediffed, and the infulted honour of the nation will be vindicated! Thefe audacious measures of the French awakened the jealoufy and roused the indignation of Great-Britian, and caufed the war between the two nations, that ended in 1762. In that war, the policy and energy of Pitt, aided by the prowefs of the British and Provincial troops, completely triumphed. Canada and Nova Scotia were wrefted from the French: the two Floridas were ceded to Great-Britain; and the French government was conftrain-French ed to cede to Spain all its territories to the Weft of the Miflilippi, together with the town of New-Orleans :-this ceffion was inade, the day before the preliminaries of peace were figned between France and Britain. This procedure," forfooth, must now be corretled. France muft be inflated in the full poffeffion of all her former claims. "The French if they are wife," will reclaim all the territories in America, which were taken from them unjuftly by the mifconduct of their kings. "Like the Romans, they might here provide for twenty or thirty thoufand veterans." 66 This common advantage of colonization (lays our prophetic writer,) would be a valuable acquifition to the French republic, and might afford a convenient office to Bonaparte,-or fome other general, as governor or prefident." Now I folemnly call upon the citizens. generally throughout the United States; I folembly call upon-ony brethra in the Weßen country, to confider and weigh thefe things. Can it be doubted, that vipers have been nurfed in the bolom of our country, which have gnawed upon her vitals and fattened upon her blood? Can it be doubted, that it has been the zealous object of a party to proftrate the United States at the footftool of France'?-For the accomplishment of the aforementioned prophecy, Bonaparte is now full tide of fuccefsful experiment." He has obtained the cefion of Lonifiania, and his ultimate objeƐt it is not difficult to conjedure. in the My country! "If thou beeft he; but O, how fall'n! how chang'd!" 44 SIDNEY. FOR THE BALANCE. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." AN ACCURATE STATEMENT OF FACTS, CONCERNING Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL SPENCER's LATE ATTACK ON THE Liberty of the Prefs, IN THIS COUNTY. Written by a gentleman who was at court during the whole transaction, and who pledges himself that the detail is substanstially correct. M [CONCLUDED.] R. SPENCER began his reply by faung, that he could not avoid believing, that the declamation of the gentlemen who preceded him, was addreffed more to the ears of the fpectators who furrounded the bar, than to the found difere tion of the court. They had made fine (peeches, and travelled through the whole field of invective. They had invoked all the powers of liberty and independence, and attempted to prefs them into their fervice. But thele, he said, were delufive founds. At a diftance they appeared enchanting; but when clofely wifp, calculated to bewilder the judgment infpected, they proved to be Jacks o' th' and lead it into error. The gentlemen, he faid, had indulged themselves to a great extent, in reproaches. and bad, not very politely, impeached his motives. As to his motives in this profe. cution, he faid they were pure. The torrents of flander which pour inceffantly ་་ from the preffes opposed to government, must be checked, or all that is dear to man would not be worth preferving. He said, he had been urged to this profecution more particularly by what fell from one of the Judges in his charge to the grand jury last feffions. [Judge Sylvefter here interrupti ed Mr. SPENCER. He ftated, that he had, in his charge to the grand jury, alluded to, turned their attention to all immoral pub lications, and had particularized "The Temple of Reason," an infamous deistical paper publifhed weekly at Philadelphia;. but that he had never alluded to the Walp," or to any other particular, pa per.] Mr. SPENCER replied, that he did not fuppofe that his honor had done so. He could not believe that his honor would conduct as a certain federal judge once did. He then related to the court, that falfe and infamous flander about judge CHACE, which is believed to have originated with DUANE --That when he entered Richmond, he fent for the public profecutor and advised him, if there was any democratic printer in the city, whom they could get hold of, to profecute him immediately under the fedition law. But, Mr. SPENCER faid, his motives had nothing to do with the queftion. The court were bound to pronounce the law. And whatever might be faid about freedom, liberty, and the rights of man, if the law was as he contended, it must have its courfe until altered by the Legiflature. " If. Mr. SPENCER then reviewed the authorities which he had before quoted. He faid that Blackflone and Hawkins concur red in the doctrine, that any one who fpeaks words tending to fcandalize the government," who fpeaks "words of contempt of any officer of juftice," or who publishes an obfcene book, may be bound to their good behaviour. He afked, if Mr. CROSWELL had not publifhed words tending to fcandalize the government. faid he, a man may be bound to his good behaviour merely for writing an obfcene book, for which he cannot be indicted at common law, is it not abfurd to fay that for an indictable offence he cannot be fo bound? A libel is an offence of a very heinous nature. And he contended that,. from the whole courfe of the authorities, a libeller was fubje&t to this recognizance. But, faid Mr. SPENCER, the gentlemen have told us that this man is not a libeller; that, he cannot be fo confidered by the court until he is pronounced guilty by a jury of his country. But here is an in dictment found againft him for libelling THOMAS JEFFERSON. This is prima facie evidence of guilt. Befides, faid Mr. SPENCER, read the words which he is charged to have publifhed. Mr. JEFFERSON is charged with violating the conftitution, which is, in fact, a charge of perjury. He is charged with having paid a villain for li |