The following are copies of the letter of the general republican committee to the venerable John Langdon, announcing the determination of the republican party to support him as vice-president, together with the patriot's reply thereto : To the honorable John Langdon, of New-Hampshire. We are dircted by the general committee of correspondence ap pointed by the republican melabers of congress at their meeting held on the 18th May, for the purpose of recommending to their filow-citizens suitable persons to fill the offices of president and vice-president of the United States, for the term of four years from the third day of March next: to inform you that a large majority of that meeting have recommended you for the office of vice-presi dent of the United States. At a meeting of the republican members of congress, convened in the senate chamber this evening, for the purpose of recou mending a proper person to be supported for vice-president of the United Stat. s, at the ensuing election, agreeably to notice given by the committee of arrangement appointed at the late meeting: Mr. Varnum stated the object of the meeting to be to fix on a candidate to be supported in lieu of John Langdon, declined, for office of vice-president of the United States. Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, read the letter from Mr. Langdon to he general committee. ry. On motion of Mr. Ringgold, Mr. Varnum was appointed chairman and Mr. Johnson secreta On motion of Mr. Wright, the names of those present were noted, and are as follows: Senators.-Messrs. Cutts, Varnum, Howell, Smith, (of N. York) Condit, Brent, Giles, Turner, Franklin, Taylor, Tate, Crawford Campbell, (of Ten.)-13. Representatives.-Messrs. Bartlett, Dinsmoore, Harper, Cutts, Carr, Turner, Widgery, Richardson, Fish, Shaw, Sage, Boyd, Coir dit, Maxwell, Morgan, Anderson, Bard, Brown, Crawford, Davis, Findley, Hyneman, Lacock, Lyle, Piper, Roberts, G. Smith, Ringgold, Wright, Bassett, Burwell, M. Clay, Clopton, Dawson, Glolson, Goodwynn, Hawes, Taliaferro, Nelson, Newton, Pleasants Roane, Alston, Blackledge, Franklin, King, Pickens, Butler, Calhoun, Earle, Moore, Winn, Bibb, B. Hall, Troup, Clay, (speaker) Desha, Johnson, Ormsby, Grundy, Sevier, Morrow, Poindester.-63. On motion of Mr. Findley, the meeting then proceeded to ballot for a person to be supported for the office of Vice-President. Messrs. Condit (of the senate) and Crawford (of Pennsylvania) being appointed tellers, on counting the ballots, it appeared that there were, For Elbridge Gerry Scattering 74 Resolved, That Elbridge Gerry be recommended to the people of the United States as a proper person to fill the office of Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th day of March next. On motion of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, a ballot was opened, for such persons as were not present at the former meeting, for a ca didate for the presidency; when the following persons voted, viz. Messrs. Roane, Clopton, Catts. Widgery, M. Franklin, J. FrankAll of whom voted for James Madizon. On motion of Mr. Taliaferro, This recommendation is the result of a deep conviction, that unanimity, not only in ourcouncils, but in the nation, is indispensi ble to the success of the measures which the government has adopt-in, Carr, Crawford, (of Penn.) Maxwell and Blackledge-10. ed, and intends to adopt, for the vindication of the national rights and interests against the lawless aggressions of foreign nations. In this awful period of arms and calamities, when the whole system of nature appears to be convulsed, the republic has a right to the service of its citizens. When the nation is imperiously called upon to exchange the garments of peace for the habiliments R. M. Johnson, secretary. of war, there is a peculiar fitness in your presiding over the de-. liberations of the senate of the United States. The same committee of arrangement, &c. was appointed as at the last meeting. J. B. VARNUM, chairman. Having felt the throes which preceded our national existenceministered to the wants and weaknesses of our national infancyand participated largely in forming our national constitution, which is the admiration of the wise and good in other nations, and the object of the most ardent attachment in this; you will, we condently trust, attend to the call of your countrymen, and by Your exertions, secure to remotest post rity, the blessings whichthat Constitution, faithfully administered, is calenlated to confer. We cannot but hope that the motives which influence your feling low-citizens, to require your services at this time, will furkish with additional inducements to comply with their wishes. With senjonents of the highest respect, we subscribe ourselves your fellow-citizens. Gentlemen, [Signed by the Sub-Committee.] MR. LANGDON'S ANSWER. you Portsmouth, May 28, 1812. Presidential Nomination. At a meeting of the executive, and democratic members of the legislature of Maryland, in the senate chamber at the city of An napolis, on Thursday the 18th instant, for the purpose of supportharmony and unanimity among the republicans of the state, were present, His excellency Robert Bowie, (governor,) John Stephen, Thoas W. Hall, Reverdy Gheislin, James Butcher, William Thomas, Levi Hollingsworth, Frederick Holbrook, Edward Lloyd, James Brown, William Hollingsworth, Elijah Davis, Moses Tabs Thomas Hawkins, Nathaniel Williams, William H. Marriott, Joha S. Bek, Zacharial. Duvall, Tobias E. Stansbury, Samuel Stevens, junior, Jaines Wainwright, Samuel Tenant. James Dooris, Frederick Bennett, Thomas W. Veazey, Thomas Williams, Jolm Groome, John S. Moffitt, Dennis Claude, Lewis Duvall, Samuel Burgess, Tlamas Emory, George Little, Joseph Swearingen, Thomas Jones, Lear Shriver, John Sanders, John Forwood, John Street, Peter Wifis, John Tillotson, Per grine F. Bayard. William Pechin, James L. Donaldson, John Bowles, Thomas B. Hall, Willam Downey, Ben jamin Tomlinson. By the mail last evening. I had the honor of receiving your letter of the 224 inst. which informs me that at a mesting of the republican nacubers of congress, I was recommended for the office of vie-president of the United States. This mark of attention and confidence shown me by honorable gentlemen, demtods my most grateful acknowledgments. I wrote to the honorable Mr.Ring William Thomas, president of the senate, was appointed chai gold the day befory yesterday, giving some farther reasons why man, and John Sanders, secretary; when the following resolutio Could not consent to be brought forward as a candidate for vice-mo ed by governor Bowie, and seconded by Edward Lloyd, oi, ipe president of the United States; to which I beg leave to add, that senate, was unanimously adopted: I am now 71 years of age, my faculties blunted, have lived the last Resolved, That we have the highest opinion of the integrity. forty years of my life in the whirlwind of polities, and am longing triotism and ability of James Madison, of the state of Virginia, for the sweets of retirement. I won, therefore, under the paintul and Elbridge Gerry, of the state of Massachusetts: and that wed necessity of declining the honorable offer of my friends of being it our private and individual capacity, earnestly recouneral to brought forward as a candidate for the office of vice-president of the support of the people of Maryland, JAMES MADE: SON as the the United States. My advanced age forbids my undertaking long next president, and LLBRIDGE GERRY as the next vice-pre journies, and renders nue incapable of performing the duties of the sident of the United States. important station vie-president with any advantage to our he Loved country, or honor to myself. To launch again into the orcan of politics, at my time of life, appears to me highly improper. I JOHN SANDERS, secretary. By order of the meeting, WILLIAM THOM AS, chairman. Roads in Spain. The following table represents the number of leagues between all the capital towns of the provinces or kingdoms, and the metropolis or court of Spain, Madrid. If it is desired to know the distance between Badajos and Madrid, the angle of the column under the former, and immediately opposite the latter, gives 63 leagues, or 252 English miles; if from Badajos to Saragossa, we find 113 leagues, or -452 English miles; and so with all the others. 113 27 125 125 62 45 Saragossa 52 52 134 100 105 92 85 50 80 111 N. B. The distances in this table are taken on the carriage roads, and not the bridle roads, which are shorter, more mountanious, and generally impassable to any thing but asses, mules, sheep, or black cattle. Paul Jones. (Continued from page 251.) nister of the marine, and the difficulty was not diminished by the intelligence brought by the Prince, who asserted that the Dutch would not permit the Indienne to be equipped. I had no sooner arrived at Brest, than admiral the As M. de Sartine had written to the three Americount D'Orvilliers transmitted an account of my can ministers, and obtained their consent for my expedition to the minister of the marine, in conse- remaining in Europe, I offered to serve on board of quence of which it was intimated to Dr. Franklin. the grand fleet; I also communicated several plans that his majesty was desirous that I should repair to for crippling the power of England, such as that of Versailles, as he was resolved to employ me on a se destroying her trade and settlements on the coast of cret expedition, for which purpose he would give Africa, and in Hudson's Bay; of annihilating their me the Indienne, with some other frigates, with fisheries in Newfoundland; intercepting their East troops, &c. for the purpose of effecting a descent. and West India and, above all, the Baltic, fleet, I was instantly informed of this by the ambassador, which was escorted by a single frigate, as I learned who observed to me, at the same time, that this by certain information from England. The minis must be considered as a profound secret, it being of ter adopted the last of these plans and I accordingly so important a nature, that it had been deemed pro per to withhold a communication of it even to his colleagues. repaired to Brest, to take the command of one of the frigates of that port, with two others, and a cutter, &c. then at St. Maloes; but I found on my M. de Sartine received me with the most distin arrival, that the admiral had appointed a French guished politeness, making me, at the same time, officer to the vessel in question, and as there was the most flattering promises; and the prince de Nas not a single moment to be lost, the senior officer of sau was sent into Holland to give instructions for the frigates at St. Maloes was dispatched against the the necessary arrangements for arming and equip- Baltic fleet, which he missed, by not steering suffiping the frigate intended for me. But, in a short ciently near to the coast of England to intercept it, time after this, hostilities took place between France Being greatly disgusted with a series of delays, and England in consequence of the action with La that ensued during nine months, I at length repairBelle Poule. This not a little embarrassed the mi led to Versailles, with an intention of returning to America, if I should not immediately obtain a com- the channel, with sixty-six ships of the line, I remand; for I recollected the saying of Old Richard, ceived a carte blanche, during six weeks, without By this time, I reif you wish that your affairs should be prosper-any other restriction than that of repairing to the ous, superintend them in person," &c. This in-Texel, by the 1st of October. duced me to pro:nise, that if the minister should at ceived intimation from England, that eight East Inlength comply with my request, I should call my diamen were soon expected on the coast of Ireland, near to Limerick. This was an object of great atown ship "Old Richard. tention; and as there were two privateers at port l'Orient ready for sea, Le Monsieur of forty guns, and Le Granville, of fourteen, the captains of which offered to place themselves under my orders, I accepted the proposition. But the French commissary who superintended the naval department, acted with great impropriety on this, as well as on many former occasions. where the. Accordingly, on obtaining Le Duras, until a bet ter vessel could be procured, I called herShe was a very small and very old and infirm vessel, that had made four voyages to the East Indies. As proper guns could not be procured at L'Orient, -lay, I repaired, first to Bordeaux, and then to Angouleme, where I made a contract for such as I wanted. On my return, I found that the Marquis de la Fayette, who had returned from America, was desirous to join me in the expedition, it being intended that he should command a body of land forces, he having obtained the king's command for that purpose. The little squadron, at length, set sail from the road of Groays, on the fourteenth of August, 1779; but we had no sooner proceeded to the north of the mouth of the channel, than Le Monsieur and Le Granville abandoned me during the night, and Iwas While the necessary arrangements were making Le Cer/ soon after imitated their conduct. at court, a naval commissary purchased at Nantes extremely anxious to cruise for a fortnight in the a merchantman, called La Pallas, of thirty-two latitude of Limerick : but the captain of the Alli eight-pounders, and a brig, named La Vengeance, lance, after objecting to this, also left me during the of twelve three-pounders; but neither of them was night; and as I had now with me only the Pallas calculated for war: to these was added Le Cerf, a and the Vengeance, I was obliged to renounce my very fine cutter belonging to the royal navy, carry. original intentions. I took two prizes on the coast of Ireland; and ing eighteen nine pounders; with the Alliance, a new frigate, belonging to the United States: but, within sight of Scotland, came up and seized two as the guns had not as yet arrived from Angouleme, privateers, of twenty-two guns each, which, with The Good Man Richard was armed from an old bat-a brigantine, I sent to Bergen in Norway, accordtery of twelve pounders; and, as the expedition ing to the orders I had received from Dr. Franklin: was intended against the enemy's ports, I mounted these prizes however, were restored to the English six old eighteen pounders in the gun room, so that by the king of Denmark. forty gun When I entered the North Sea, I captured seve she might, in some measure, be called a ship. As it was found impossible to procure a suffiral vessels and learned by my prisoners, as well as by cient number of American sailors, I determined to the newspapers, that the capital of Scotland and supply the deficiency by enrolling English ones, the port of Leith were left totally defenceless. I who happened to be prisoners of war in France; also understood at the same time that my informaand in addition to these a certain number of pra- tion relative to the eight Indiamen was correct; they sants was levied, so that we may be said to have had having entered Limerick three days after I had been as bad a crew as was ever shipped on board any ves-obliged to leave the neighborhood of that port. sel. I was given to understand, however, that the chosen body of troops, under the command of the Marquis de la Fayette, would serve as a guarantee for their good conduct; but, no sooner was the little squadron ready, than I received a letter from the Marquis, intimating that, the object of the expedition having been divulged at Paris, the king had issued orders to prevent the embarkation of the troops, in consequence of which he had joined his Begiment. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Twelfth Congress. (OMITTED LAST WEEK.) IN SENATE- Monday, June 15, Mr. Smith of New-York, presented the following petition of sun. dry inhabitants, merchants, and others, of the city of New-York, praying that the embargo and non-importation laws might be con tinued as a substitute for war against Great Britain: MEMORIAL. Thus the project, which was no less than that of putting Liverpool, the second town in England, un To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the der contribution, failed, in consequence of having been indiscreetly communicated to ****** Tought also remark, that according to the first arrangement, my little squadron was to have been joined by two fire-ships, and five hundred men of Walsh's Irish regiment, but the minister did not keep his word, for he neither procured for me the fire-ships, nor the soldiers, so that it became im possible for me to fulfil the plan I had concerted, although it was still more important than that of seizing on Liverpool. I now received orders to escort a fleet of transpouts and merchantmen from l'Orient, destined for different ports, between that and Bordeaux; and after that I was to chase away the English cruizers from the bay of Biscay, and then to return for fur ther orders. After executing this commission, on my repre senting how necessary it was to make a diversion in favor of the count D'Orviliers, then cruising in United States of America in Congress assembled, the memorial of the subscribers, merchants, and others, inhabitants of the city of New-York, respectfully showeth: That your memorialists feel, in common with the rest of their fellow-citizens, an anxious solicitude for the honor and interests of their country, and an equal determination to assert and maintain them. it That your memorialists believe that a continuation of the restric tive measures now in operation will produce all the benefits while prevents the calamities of war. That when the British ministry renewed, but by the repeal of the orders in council, the distress of become convinced that a trade with the United States cannot be their merchants and manufacturers, and their inability to support their armies in Spain and Portugal, will probably compel them to that measure. Your memorialists beg leave to remark, that such effects are even now visible; and it may be reasonably hoped, that a continuance fourth day of July next, will effect a complete and bloodless triumph of the embargo and non-importation laws a few months Beyond the of our rights. Your memorialists therefore respectfully solicit of your honora ble hody, the passage of a law continuing the embargo, and giving to the president of the United States power to discontinue the whole of the restrictive system on the rescinding of the British orders in commeil. The conduct of France in burning our ships, in sequestrating our property entering her ports, expecting protection in conse quence of the promised repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, and attention which he now moved it should receive. He moved that the delay in completing a treaty with the American minister, has the petition should be printed. Which was agreed to. excited great sensation, and we hope and trust will call forth from your honorable body such retaliatory measures as may be best calcu lated to procure justice. John Slideil Isaac Heyer John T. Lawrence John Kane Amasa Jackson HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [The following paragraphs, from the National Intelligencer, are so aptly fitted to our own condition this week, that we copy them entire, as immediately applying to it-] The public proceedings of congress for some days past, have been rather uninteresting (and we on that account the less regret the Frederick Giraud, jr.necessity which compels us again to defer a detail of them) with the exception of the bill authorising the issuing of Treasury Notes. Robert Roberts This bill was considered in committee of the whole in the house of representatives on Tuesday, and opposed at some length by Mr. Randolph, and also by Mr. Talloadge and Mr. Key, and supported by Messrs. Cheves, Nelson and McKim. A motion made by Mr. Randolph to strike out the first section of ve bill, was negatived by a large majority, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time. The bill was yesterday accordingly read a third time, and on the question of its passage was opposed by Messrs. Stow, Gold and Pitkin, and support by Messrs. Wright, Bibb, Mitchill, M'Kina and Cheves, and was passed by a vote of 83 to 43. Congress-Secret Journal. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. After the same was read, Mr. Taylor said, "That the respecta bility of the subscribers to a petition presented to this body, and the importance of the matter therein contained, had on various occasions been used as inducements to us to give such a petition a respectful disposition in the course of our proceedings. He recollected a case in point. It was the case of the petition of an emai Monday, June 1.-A confidential message in writnent merchant of Massachusetts, presented by an honorable senator from that state, and which at the suggestion of that honoring was received from the president of the United ble gentleman was by the senate ordered to be printed. He was States. by Mr. Coles, his secretary, which he deof opinion that the petition just read ought not to be treated with less attention. That he had seen the petition, and had enquired into livered in at the speaker's table. the character of its subscribers-and had been informed that the fifty-six siguers to it were among the most respectable, wealthy and intelligent merchants of the city of New-York. There are to be found in that list the names of two presidents of banks, three presidents of insurance companies, thirteen directors of banks, besides other names of pre-eminent standing in the mercantile world. [Here follows the message of the president as pub They had all united in the sentiments contained in the petition, notwithstanding that there existed among then a difference in polished on Saturday fast.] litical opinions-for he understood that of the petitioners 42 were federal and 15 republican. Mr. T. added that he considered some The house was then cleared of all persons except the members, clerk, sergeant-at-arms and door keeper, and the doors were closed, and the said message was read, A motion was then made by Mr. Randolph that of the sentiments contained in the petition as of the highest impor- the said message be referred to the committee of the tance. He hailed it as an auspicious occurrence, that these honora lale merchants, in praying that the evils of war might be averted whole house on the state of the Union. And then the house adjourned until to-morrow morning 11 o'clock. Tuesday, June 2.-The house met, and from them and from the nation, had nevertheless held fast to the principle of resistance to the aggressions and unhallowed con duct of Great Britain towards our nation and had exercised the candor and firmness to bear testimony to the efficiency of the restrictive system for obtaining a redress of our wrongs, and of course the integrity and honor of those who had imposed this sys tem for that purpose. He hoped that the example of these petitioners would tend to counteract those strenuous and unremitting exertions of passion, prejudice and party feeling, which had attempt ed to stamp upon the majority in congress the foul and unjust censure of being enemies to commerce. That however unfashionable and obstinate it might appear, he still believed that the embargo and non-importation laws, if faithfully executed, were capable of reaching farther than our cannon. We are at this very time tendering an urgent argument, an argument to be felt by each city, village A journed until to morrow morning 11 o'clock. and haulet in England. This touching to the quick the vital interests of that empire, would demonstrate to the people at least Wednesday, June 3.—Mr. Calhoun, from the comthe folly and absurdity of the orders in council. The ordeal of the mittee on foreign relations, to whom was referred twenty weeks of seareity which the people of that unhappy country are undergoing, to relieve which, but for the madness and folly the message of the president of the United States of their rulers, every yard of American canvass would be spread of the 1st inst. made a report, stating at large the to the gales.-The thousands of starving manufacturers thrown out of employ for want of our custom, which custom, but for the in- causes and reasons of a war with Great Britain, justice of their mastere, we were willing to give, nav feel the effi- which being read, ciency of the restrictive system. These matters of fact arguments M:. Quincy moved that the doors be now opened, want no sophistry nor long speeches to give them weight. But Great Britain is proud and will never yield to this sort of pressure. that the injunction of secrecy on the said message Hunger has notar. Where was her pride during the last year when be removed, that the same be promulgated, and she exported to her enemy on the continent more than eleven millions of pounds sterling for provisions; and meanly truckling that the subsequent proceedings thereupon be had to her enemy, consented to buy the privilege of laying out her gui- with open doors. neas for bread; and actually submitted on the compulsion of Napoleon to buy the wines, brandies and silks of France, which shej did not want. This restrictive system, when commenced under the former embargo law encountered every opposition among ourselves which selfih avarice, which passion and party rage could suggest; and so successful were its assailants, that while it was operating with its fullest effects (which the prices current of that day will shew) some of its greatest champions in the national legislature abandoned it ;—yes, sir, in the tide of victory they threw down their arms. How were the mighty fallen and the shield of the mighty vilely cast away. The disavowal of Erskine's arrangement was the consequence of this retreat. But it may be said that the sentiments in the petition were extorted by the ap prehension of a greater evil-war. In all our trials, those who had not predetermined to submit to Great Britain must have an ticipated this alternative. Let those who by their acrimony, sneers and scoffs have thrown away this chief defence of our nation, be held responsible for the compulsion they have imposed on us to take this dire alternative. He said that although he was unwilling to abate a single pang which we might legally inflict upon our enemy, and might at the proper time oppose any thing like the wap proposed of one system for another, when we had the power and the right to impose upon our enemy both the one and the other, he nevertheless thought the petition was deserving of the! And the question thereupon being taken, YEAS.-Messrs. Baker, Bleecker, Boyd, Breckenridge, Brigham, NAYS.-Messrs. Alston, Anderson, Archer, Bard, Bartlett, Bassett, Bibb, Blackledge, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Cheves, Cochran, Clopton, Condit, Crawford, Davis, Dawson, Desha, Dinsmoor, Earle, Findley, Fisk, Gholson, Goodwyn, Green, Grundy, B. Hall, O. Hall, Harper, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent, King, Lacock, Lefever, Little, Lowndes, Lyle, Maxwell, Moore, M.Coy, MKee, Kim, Metcalf, Mitchill. Morgan, Morrow, Nelson, New, Newton, Ormsby, Pickens, Piper, Pleasants, Pond, Ringgold, Rhea, Roane, Roberts, Sage, Sammons, Seaver, Sevier, Seybert, Shaw, G. Smith, J. Smith, Strong, Talliaferro, Troup, Turner, Whitehill, Winn, Wright--76. A motion was then made by Mr. Randolph, that the proceedings upon the said message of the presi mend the said bill by adding thereto a new section as follows: Sec. And be it further enacted, That from and It was determined in the negative-Yeas 45-after the passage of this act, that the act entitled Nays 77. "An act concerning the commercial intercourse YEAS.-Messrs. Baker, Bartlett, Bleecker, Boyd, Breckenridge, between the United States and Great Britain and Brigham, Champion, Chittenden, Cooke, Davenport, Ely, Emo France and their dependencies and for other purpoFitch, Gold, Goldsborough, Hawes, Jackson, Key, Law, Lewis, Ma Wheaton, White, Wilhas, Wilson-45. con, M Bryde, Minor, Mostly, Pearson, Pitkin, Potter, Quey, Raises," passed the 1st day of May, 1810, and also the dolph, Reed Richardson, Ridgely, Rodman, Stanford, Stewart, act entitled " an act supplementary to the act enti Dearges, Sullivan, Taggart, Tallmadge, Tracy, Van Cortland, led" an act concerning the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purpoes," passed the 2d day of March, 1811. And also the act entitled "an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States for a limited time," passed the 4th day of April, 1812,be and the same hereby are repealed." NAYS.-Mrs. Alston, Anderson, Archer, Bard, Bassett, Bibb, Binckledge, Brown, orwell, Butler, Calhoun, Cheves, Cochran, Clopton, Condit, Crawford, Davis, Dawson, Desha, Dinsmoor, Earle, Findley, Fiss, Gholson, Goodwyn, Green, Grandy, B. Hall. O. Hall, Harper, Hufty, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent, King, Lacock, Lefevre, Litti, Lowndes, Lyle, Maxwell, Moore, MCoy, M'Kee, M'Kim, Metcalf, Mitchill, Morgan, Morrow, Nelson, New, Newbold, New ton, Ousby, Pickens, Pip r. Pleasants, Pond, Ringgold, Rhea, Roane, Roberts, Sage, Sammons, Seaver, Sevier, Seybert, Shaw, G. Smith, J. Smith, Strong, Talliakrro, Troup, Turier, Whitehill, Winn, Wright-77. The said report was then on motion of Mr. Cal huun, ordered to lie upon the table. Mr. Calhoun from the same committee, on leave given, presented a bill declaring war between Great Britain and her dependencies and the United States and their territories, which was read the first time. An opposition being made thereto by Mr. Randolph The question was taken in the form prescribed by the rules and orders of the house, to wit "shall the bill be rejected?" And determined in the negative, Yeas 45, Navs 76 The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members pie-en', Those who voted in the affirmative are: Those who voted in the negative are, Messis. Alton, Anderson, Archer, Bard, Bassett, Bibb, Black 3dgy, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, Cheves, Cochran, Clopton, Condit, Crawford, Davis, Dawson, Desha. Dinsmoor, Earle, Find Jey, Fish, Ghobson, Goodwyn, Green, Grendy, B. Hall, O. Hall, Harper, Hawes, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent, King, Lacock, Lefever, Lättle, Lowndes, Lyle, Macon, Maxwell, Moore, Coy, Me, M-Kim, Morgan, Morrow, Nelson, New, Newton, Ormsby, Pickens, Piper, Pleasants, Pond, Richardson, Ringgold, Rhen, Roane, Ro berts, Sage. Sammons, Saver, Sevier, Seybert, Shaw, G. Smith, * Smith, Strong, Talliaferro, Troup, Turner, Whitehill, Williams, Wright-76. The said bill was then read the second time and committed to a committee of the whole house to day. The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on the said bill; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr Bassett reported, that the committee had accord -ing to order had the said bill under consideration and made some progress therein, and directed him to ask leave to sit again. Ordered, That the committee of the whole house have leave to sit again on the said bill. And then the house adjourned until to morrow morning 11 o'clock. A motion was thereupon made by Mr. Nelson, that the bill and the proposed amendment be recom mitted to a committee of the whole house. And the question being taken thereon, The question was then taken on the amendment proposed by Mr. Quincy, And passed in the negative-Yeas 42-Nays 82. The yeas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members, Those who voted in the affirmative are. Those who voted in the negative are, sett, Bibb, Blackledge, Boyd, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, NAYS.-Messrs. Alston, Anderson, Archer, Bard, Bartlett, BasCarr, Cochran, Clopton, Condit, Crawford, Dawson, Desha, Dins moor, Earle, Findley, Fisk, Gholsun, Goodwyn, Green, Grundy, B. Hall, O. Hall, Harper, Hawes, Hufty, Hyneman, Johnson, Kent, King, Lacock, Lefever, Little, Lowndes, Lyle, Maçon, Maxwell Moore, M Coy, M'Kee, M'Kim, Meteall, Mitchill, Morgan, Morrow, New, Newbold, Newton, Ormsby, Pickens, Piper, Pleasants, Pond, Ringgold, Rhea, Roane, Roberts, Sage, Sammons, Seaver, Sevier, Seybert, Shaw, G. Smith, J. Smith, Stanford, Strong, Talliaferro, Troup, Turner, Whitehill, Williams, Widgery, Wii, Wright-82. No other amendment being proposed to the bill, the question was taken, that it be engrossed and read a third time; And passed in the affirmative-Yeas 78, Nays 45. The veas and nays being demanded by one fifth of the members present; Those who voted in the affirmative are, Those who voted in the negative are, NAYS-Messrs. Baker, Bartlett, Bleecker, Boyd, Breckenridge, Brigham, Champion, Chittenden, Cooke, Davenport, Ely, Emott Fitch, Gold, Goldsborough, Hufty, Jackson, Key, Law, Lewis, Maxwell, M Bryde, Metcalf, Milnor, Mosely, Newbold, Pearson, Pitkin, Potter, Quincy, Randolph, Reed, Ridgely, Rodman, Stanford, Thur dg, Jine 4, 1812.—A motion was made by Stewart, Sturges, Sullivan, Taggart, Tallmadge, Tracy, Van CortMr. Milnor, that the doors be now opened. And the question being taken, It was de ermined in the negative. landr, Wheaton, White, Wilson-45. Ordered, That the said bill be read the third time this day. The said bill was engrossed and read the third time accordingly and the question stated that the -ame do pass? Whereupon, The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on the bill declaring war between Great Britain and bei denendencies and the United States and their territories and after some time! A motion was made by Mr. Randolph that the snent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and farther consideration of the said bill be po-tponed Mr. Bassett rep rted that the committee had accord-until the first Monday in October next. ing to order had the said bill under consideration and made no amendment thereto. A motion was then made by Mr. Quincy, to a 81. And the question thereon being taken, It was determined in the negative-Yeas 42 Naya |