on Thursday, the 2nd inst. to have gold medals to transportation of munitions of war, and the more be presented to generals Carrol, Coffee and Desha, complete defence of the United States-Also a for their good conduct in the late war.

statement of the works of the above description, The character of those gentlemen was represent. which have been commenced, the progress made ed in the most honorable light--and it seemed pain and the prospect of their completion. The ques. ful to any member to oppose the passage of the re. lion on their passage was taken and decided in the solutions. But it was thought that such rewards affirmative--yeas 76-nays 57.} would lose their value by being made too common, The bill to enable the people of Illinois to form and that if congress did not stop in bestowing them, a constitution and state government, was considermany others would be asked for, &c. The resolu. led and amended in committee of the whole, retions, by a vote of 58 to 54 were finally laid upon ported to the house and ordered to be engrossed the table.

and read the third time, nem. con. (Passed next Friday, April 3.- Many reports from committees day.) were received, and variously disposed of. The The house then went into a committee of the bill to enable the people of Missouri to form a con. whole, Mr. Bassett in the chair, on the bill respec!stitution and state government was twice read and ing the organization of the army. It was amended, committed.

reported to the house and ordered for a third read. Mr. Cobh submitted for consideration the follow. ing. ing resolution:

Monday, April 6.- A great deal of private busiResolverl

, That the committee on military affairs be instructed ness and many minor matters were disposed of to enquire into the expediency of increasing the pay of the milicia this day, and several bills were passed, among now in the service, or which inay hereafter be called into the ser. vice of the United States, in the war now prosecuting against the them a bill respecting the organization of the army. Seminele tribe of Indians; and of affording additional pay to those who have been in service in said war and have been discharged.

The report of the naval committee on the enquiMr. C. gave his reasons for this proposition and ry into the propriety of changing the discipline of stated the excessive sufferings that the militia had the navy, was taken up, and, after debale, agreed experienced from almost incessant rains and the 10. want of a sufficiency of food—that they had been

The speaker laid before the house a letter from reduced to the allowance of half a pint of corn per

the secretary of the navy, transmitting, in obedience day, &c. He thought that for the failure of food to a resolution of the house, the proceedings on they ought to be partially compensated by money, the trial of lieut. col. F. Wharton, of marines, &c. The motion was agreed to.

and was ordered to lie on the table. Among other proceedings—the house resolved

On notion of Mr. Forsyth, it was itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill for m enquire into the expediency of limiting the allowance of draw

Resolverl, That the committee of ways and means be instructed the relief Loring Austin, which gave rise to much Iwek of duties upon

merchandise, to merchandise imported into debate.

states, and exported therefrorn in American vessels. The bill proposes to relieve major Austin from

The house went into commitee, Mr. Desha in the effects of a prosecution against him for false the chair, on the bill to provide for erecting addiimprisonment in a case in which, by orders from tional buildings for the accommodation of the exegen. Píke, that he was bound to obey, he seized cutive departments, and the bill making appropri. certain persons at Ogdensburg suspected of trea.

ations for the public buildings, and for furnishing sonable practices with the enemy. After the de.

the capitol and president's house. bate,

Much time was spent in the details of these bills, The bill was reported to the house and ordered. Finally, one of the bills was ordered for a third to be engrossed-(and passed next day.)

reading, embracing the follo:ving appropriations

For the completion of the wings of the capitol, in addition to the Saturday, April 4.—Mr Johnson, of Kentucky, sum of 200.000 dollars, already appropriated, the further sum of

80,000 dollars. from the committee on military affairs, reported a For procuring materials, laying the foundation, and other pre bill to increase the pay of militia while in actual parations for the centre building of the capitol, 100,000 dollars. service.

For finisbing the prrsident's house. 15,!14 dollars.

For offices to the president's house, 7000 dollars. On motion of Mr. Slocumb.

For the wall north of the president' house with gates and railing Resolved, that the secretary for the department of war, be di- the width of the house, 3,518 dollars. rected to prepare and report to this house at the next session, a sys. For contingencies, 437 dollars. tem providing for the abolition of the existing Indian trading es For graduating and improving the president's square, 10,000 tablishments of the United States, and providing for the opening dollars. of the trade with the Indians to individuals, under suitable regula. For erecting a temporary building for committee rooms near tions.

the capitol, 3,634 dollars. Mr. Bassett, from the committee on the public For furnishing the representative chamber and committee rooms, buildings, made a report, stating the probability

For furnishing the senate chamber and committee rooms, 20,000 of the wings of the capitol being completed for the dollars. use of Congress, before the next session, but the For furnishing the president's house, 30,000 dollars. deficiency of the wings in cornmittee rooms, and Tuesday, April 7.- Mr. Seubert, from the cor. recommending the erection of a temporary build. mittee of commerce and manufactures, made re- . ing for that purpose, until the centre building of ports unfavorable to the petitions of sundry cork the capitol shall be erected.

cutters of New York and Philadelphia and manu. Bills for the relief of gen. Brown and to establish | facturers of paper hangings, which were read and a port of entry at cape Vincent, on lake Ontario, concurred in. were passed.

The house then proceeded to the consideration The house then proceeded to the consideration of the bill to reduce the staff of the army, and to of two resolutions reported on the 30th ult. requir substitute a commissariat instead of the present ing the secretaries of the war and treasury depart. mode of subsisting the army by ontract, ments, to report to the house at the ensuing session, After some amendments, the bill was ordered to plans for the application of such means as are within a third reading. the power of congress, to the purpose of opening Several private bills were passed, and sent to the and constructing such roads and canals as may de. senate. serve and require the aid of governinent, with a The engrossed bill making appropriations for the view to military operations in time of war, the public buildings, and for furnishing the capitol and

30,000 dollars.

president's house, was read the third time, and put | on its passage; when

Mr. Trimble's motion was ultimately negatived, and the report of the committee agreed to. Mr. Herrick moved to recommit the bill to the The Niagara claims then occupied the attention committee of the whole house, with instructions to of the house-after debate, the motion on ordering amend it by striking out the clause making an aphe hill to a third reading was decided as follows propriation for commencing the centre building of the capitol; which motion was negatived by yeas and nays-yeas 53, nays 85; and the bill was then passed.

The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, Mr. Smith, of Md. in the chair, on the bill for the relief of Miller and Baker, and a bill for the relief of the sufferers on the Niagara frontier during the late war.

The bil first named having been gone through and the second taken up, a motion was made by Mr. Slocumb, to strike out the first section, in ef fect to destroy the bill.

Mr Spencer spoke in favor of the bill-the commitee rose and reported the bill for the relief of Miller and Baker, which was ordered to a third reading-and had leave to sit again on the other

YEAS-Messrs. Baldwin, Ball, Bateman, Bloomfield, Comstock,
Cruger, Culbreth, Drake, Ellicott, Garnett, Harrison, Hasbrouck,
Herbert, Herkimer, Herrick, Holmes, Mass. Hubbard, Irving, N. Y.
Johnson, Ky. Jones, Lawyer, Little, Merrill, H. Nelson, T. M.
Nelson, New, Ogden, Palmer, Peter, Pleasants, Porter, Reed,
Ringgold, Robertson, Lou. Sampson, Savage, Schuyler, Scudder,
Shaw, S. Smith, Spencer, Strother, Stuart, Md. Tallmadge, Tay-
lor, Tompkins, Townsend, Trimble, Tyler, Westerlo, Wilkin-51.
Barber, Ohio, Bassett, Bennett, Boden, Butler, Campbell, Clagett,
NAYS.-Messrs. Adains, Allen, Mass, Allen. Vt. Barbour, Va.
Cobb, Colston, Cook, Crafts, Crawford, Darlington, Earle, Ed-
wards, Ervin, S. C. Folger, Forney, Forsyth, Gage, Hale, Hall,
Del. Hall, N. C. Hendricks, Hogg, Holmes, Con. Hopkinson,
Huntingdon, Johnson, Va. Kirtland, Linn, Livermore, Lowndes,
W. Maclay, W. P. Maclay, M Coy, Marchand, Mason, Mass.
Mason, R 1. Mercer, Miller, Moore, Morton, Moseley, Mumford,
Murray, Jer. Nelson, Ogle, Owen, Parrott, Patterson, Pawling,
Pindall, Pitkin, Rhea, Rice, Rich, Richards, Rogers, Ruggles,
Sawyer, Sergeant, Settle, Seybert, Sherwood, Simpkins, Slocumb,
Bal. Smith, J. s. Smith, Speed, Stewart, N. C. Strong, Tarr,
Terrill, Terry, Tucker, S. C. Upham, Walker, N. C. Wallace,
Wendover, Whiteside, Whitman, Williams, Con. Williams, N. Y,
Williams, N. C. Wilson, Mass. Wilson, Pen.—91.
So the bill was rejected.

The senate was busily engaged on the 7th them that to increase the salaries of the judges (re8th and 9th inst. many bills were passed-among jected by the house) 19 to 14-and the bill with its amendments, respecting the staff of the army, &c.

CHRONICLE.

The vice president.-By an account of the balances due to the state of New-York, as reported by the comptroller, in pursuance of a resolve of the legislature, it appears that Mr. Tompkins has a ba lance of $53,851 81 remaining against him, "totally unaccounted for"-but, the comptroller adds, "there is reason to believe, however, that he has vouchers which he has not yet rendered," &c.

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Speech of Mr. Clay,

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 24,

serted, have excluded many articles that we should On his prop sition to make an appropriation for the

have been glad to have laid before our readers.We could sometimes, very conveniently, fill two sheets a week with useful matter, and we wish that there was an ability to give such augmentation

outfit and one year's salary for a minister to Buenos Ayres.

The house being in committee of the whole on

MR. CLAY rose, under feelings of deeper regret

at discretion But the accumulating stock of materi- the bill making appropriations for the support of als, among which are many original articles, pro-government for the year 1818mises an unusually interesting paper after the rise of congress. We shall take care to "gather up the than he had ever experienced on any former occasion, inspired, principally, by the painful considefragments." ration that he found himself, on the proposition which he meant to submit, differing from many mittee of the senate, in relation to an application highly esteemed friends, in and out of this house, of the president and directors of the Bank of the for whose judgment he entertained the greatest reUnited States, for permission to issue bills and spect. A knowledge of this circumstance had induced him to pause; to subject his own convictions notes signed by other persons than the president to the severest scrutiny; and to revolve the ques

BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. We have a copy of a letter from the secretary of the treasury to a com

and the cashier of that bank.

tion over and over again. But all his reflections The secretary details the "mechanical labor" of had conducted him to the same clear result; and signing such bills and notes and states inconveniences that have resulted from the want of time to much as he valued those friends, great as his deferperform it, and to attend to the other duties of the ence was for their opinions, he could not hesitate, when reduced to the distressing alternative of conpresident and cashier, &c. all which it seems neces sary to obviate. He decidedly opposes, however, forming his judgment to theirs, or pursuing the the design of giving to the presidents and cashiers deliberate and matured dictates of his own mind. He enjoyed some consolation, for the want of their of the branches the right of signing bills and notes, for reasons similiar to those which have been offered co-operation, from the persuasion that, if he erred on this occasion, he erred on the side of the liberty in the REGISTER; and recommends the appointment of certain officers whose exclusive business it shall and the happiness of a large portion of the human be to sign said bills and notes-thus their unifor- family. Another, and, if possible, indeed a greater source of the regret to which he referred, was the mity may be preserved, and a part of the evils aputter incompetency which he unfeignedly felt to do prehended will be avoided. A bill passed the senate to authorise an assis. any thing like adequate justice to the great cause of American independence and freedom, whose intant president and assistant cashier to sign the notes; terests he wished to promote by his humble exeras not being liable to any of the objections which offered themselves to the preposterous, if not wicktions, in this instance. Exhausted and worn down ed, proposition, in its original shape. But is has been as he was, by the fatigue, confinement and incessant rejected in the house. See proceedings.

When we get the figures expected in the report of the secretary of the treasury, in obedience to the resolution of Mr. King, we shall publish Mr. Lloyd's letter to a committee of the house of re presentatives about the bank, (Jan. 1817) and see how the facts as they appeared to him tally with the facts that actually happened.

application incident to the arduous duties of the honorable station he held, during a four months' session, he should need all that kind indulgence which had been so often extended to him by the

house.

He begged, in the first place, to correct misconceptions, if any existed, in regard to his opinions. He was averse from war with Spain, or with any power. He would give no just cause of war to any Mr. Horsey, in the senate, has submitted a most power-not to Spain herself. He had seen enough important resolution respecting the state and proof war, and of its calamities, when even successful. ceedings of the bank of the U. States, which has No country upon earth had more interest than this passed-See "Congress." Such things will do a in cultivating peace, and avoiding war, as long as it great deal of good to the public-let the result of such investigations be what they may, useful and necessary truth must be elicited.

was possible honorably to avoid it. Gaining additional strength every day; our numbers doubling in periods of twenty five years; with an income outTHE BILL CONCERNING THE NAVIGATION OF THE stripping all our estimates, and so great as, after a UNITED STATES, noticed last week, has passed the war in some respects disastrous, to furnish results house of representatives, with singular unanimi which carry astonishment, if not dismay, into the ty. Speaking on this bill, Mr. Clay said "The bosom of states jealous of our rising importance, other day, in debate upon another topic, I said that we had every motive for the love of pe.ce. He there existed in the counsels of this country a tone could not, however, approve, in all respects, of the and a temper which do not become the country. manner in which our negociation with Spain had They do not correspond with its rank among na been conducted. If ever a favorable time existed tions. Adopt this measure, and I will withdraw for the demand, on the part of an injured nation, of half of what I then said. Adopt the other mea- indemnity for past wrongs, from the aggressor, sure that I proposed-recognize those governments such was the present time. Impoverished and exof South America which maintain their indepen-hausted at home, by the wars which have desolated dence and I will withdraw the whole of it." the peninsula, with a foreign war, calling for ih VOL. XIV.-9.

nitely more resources in men and money, than she wrong? Let us command the respect which is can possibly command, this is the auspicious period never withheld from those who act a noble and ge. for insisting upon justice at her hands, in a firm and nerous part. He hoped to communicate to the decided tone.' Time is precisely what Spain now committee the conviction which he so strongly felt, most wants. Yet what were we told by the presi. that, adopting the amendment which he intended dent, in his message, at the commencement of con. to propose, would not hazard, in the slightest de. gress? That Spain had procrastinated, and we ac- gree, the peace of the country. But if that peace quiesced in her procrastination. And the secreta were to be endangered, he would infinitively rather ry of state, in a late communictaion with Mr. Onis, it should be for our exerting the right, apperta in. after ahly vindicating all our rights, tells the Spa ing to every stale, of acknowledging the indepen. nish minister, with a good deal of sang froid, that dence of another state, than for the seizure of a we had patiently waited thirteen years for a redress province wbich sooner or later we must certainly of our injuries, and that it required no great effort acquire to wait longer! He would have abstained from Mr. Clay proceeded. In contemplating the great thus exposing our intentions. Avoiding the use of struggle in which Spanish America is now engaged, the language of menace, he would have required, our attention is first fixed by the immensity and in temperate and decided terms, indemnity for all character of the country which Spain geeks again our wrongs; for the spoliations upon our commerce; to subjugate. Stretching on the Pacific ocean for the interruption of the right of depot at New. from about the 40th degree of north latitude, to Orleans, guaranteed by treaty; for the insults re about the 55th degree of south latitude, and ex. peatedly offered to our fag; for the Indian hostili tending from the mouth of the Rio del Norde (es. ties which she was bound to prevent; for the belli. Clusive of East Florida) around the Gulf of Mexico gerent use made of her ports and territories by our and along the South Atlantic to near cape Horn, it enemy, during the late war-And the instantaneous is about 5000 miles in length, and in some places liberation of the free citizen of the United States, near three thousand in breadth. Within this vast now imprisoned in her jails.. Cotemporaneous region, we behold the most sublime and interestwith that demand, without waiting for her final and ing objects of creation; the loftiest mountains, the swer, and with a view to the favorable operation of most majestic rivers in the world; the richest mines her councils, in regard to our own peculiar interest, of the precious metals; and the choicest produc. as well as in justice to the cause itself, he would tions of the earth. We behold there a spectacle recognize any established government in Spanish still more interesting and sublime-the glorious America. He would have left Spain to draw her spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling own inferences from these proceedings, as to the to burst their chains and to be free. When we ultimate step which this country might adopt, if she take a little nearer and more detailed view, we longer withheld justice from us. And if she per- perceive that nature has, as it were, ordained that severed in her iniquity, after we had conducted the this people and this country shall ultimately connegociation in the manner be had endeavored to stitue several different nations. Leaving the Unita describe, he would then take up and decide the so ed States on the north, we come to New.Spain, or lemn question of peace or war, with the advantage the vice-royalty of Mexico on the South; passing by of all the light shed upon it by subsequent events Goatame la, we reach the vice-royalty of New Gre. and the probable conduct of Europe.

nada, tbe late captain generalship of Venezuela, and Spain had undoubtedly given us abundant and Guyana lying on the east side of the Andes. Stepjust cause of war. But, it was not every cause of ping over the

Brazils, we arrive at the United Pro. war that should lead to war. War was one of those vinces of La Plata, and crossing the Andes, we find dreadful scourges that so shakes the foundation of Chili on their west side, and further north, the vice. society; overturns or changes the character of go- royalty of Lima or Peru. Each of these several parts vernmenis; interrupts or destroys the pursuits of is sufficient in itself, in point of limits, to constitute private happiness, brings, in short, misery, and a powerful state, and, in point of population, that wreichedness in so many forms; and at last is, in its which has the smallest contains enougb to make it issue, so doubtful and hazardous; that notbing but respectable. Throughout all the extent of that dire necessity can justify an appeal to arms. If we great portion of the world, which he had attempted were to have war with Spain, he had however no thus bastily to describe the spirit of revolt against the hesitation in saying that no mode of bringing it dominion of Spain had manifested itself. The revolu. about could be less fortunate than that of seizing, tion had been attended with various degrees of sucat this time, upon her adjoining province. Therecess in the several parts of Spanish America. In was a time, under other circumstances, when we some it had been already crowned, as he would enmight have occupied East Florida, with safety: deavor to shew, with complete success, and in all be had we then taken it, our posture in the negocia. was persuad:d that independence had struck such tion with Spain would have been totally different deep root as that the power of Spain could never from what it is. But we had permitted that time, eradicate it. What were the causes of this great not with his consent, to pass by unimproved. If movement? we were now to seize upon Florida, after a great Three hundred years ago, upon the ruins of the change in those circumstances and after declaring thrones of Montezuma and the Incas of Peru, Spain our intentions to acquiesce in the procrasi ination erected the most stupendous system of colonial desired by Spain, in what light shouid we be view. despotism that the world bas ever seen-the most ed by foreign powers, particularly Great Britain? rigoros, the most exclusive. The great principle We have already been accused of inordinate ambi. and object of this system has een to render one of tion, .d of seeking to aggrandize ourselves by an the largest portions of the world exclusively sub. exiension, on all sides, of our limits. Should we servient, in all its faculties, to the interests of an not, by such an act of violence, give color to the inconsiderable spot in Evrope. To effectuate this accusation? No, Mr. Chairman, if we are to be in aim of her policy, she locked Spanish America up volved in war with Spain, let us bave the credit of from all the rest of the world, and prohibited, undi interestedness; let us pat her yet more in the) der the severest penalties, any foreigner from en

tering any part of it To keep the natives them-maintained that an oppressed people were authoriz selves ignorant of each other, and of the strength ed, whenever they could, to rise and break their and resources, and several parts of her American fetters. This was the great principle of the Engpossessions, she next prohibited the inhabitants of lish revolution. It was the great principle of our one vice-royalty or government from visiting those own. Vattel, if authority were wanting, expressly of another; so that the inhabitants of Mexico, for ex-supports this right. We must pass sentence of ample, were not allowed to enter the vice-royalty condemnation upon the founders of our libertyof New-Grenada. The agriculture of those vast say that they were rebels-traiters, and that we are regions was so regulated and restrained as to pre-at this moment legislating without competent pow. vent all collision with the interests of the agricul-ers, before we could condemn the cause of Spanish ture of the peninsula. Where nature, by the cha-America. Our revolution was mainly directed racter and composition of the soil, had commanded, against the mere theory of tyranny. We had suf the abominable system of Spain has forbidden, the fered comparatively but little; we had, in some growth of certain articles. Thus, the olive and the respects, been kindly treated; but our intrepid and vine, to which Spanish America is so well adapted, intelligent fathers saw, in the usurpation of the are prohibited wherever their culture could inter-power to levy an inconsiderable tax, the long train fere with the olive and vine of the peninsula. The of oppressive acts that was to follow. They rose; commerce of the country, in the direction and ob. they breasted the storm; they conquered our freejects of the exports and imports, is also subjected dom. Spanish America for centuries has been doomto the narrow and selfish views of Spain-and fet- ed to the practical effects of an odious tyranny.tered by the odious spirit of monopoly existing in If we were justified, she is more then justified. Cadiz. She has sought, by scattering discord Mr. Clay said he was no propagandis'. He would among the several casts of her American popula- not seek to force upon other nations our principles tion, and by a debasing course of education, to per and our liberty, if they did not want them. He would petuate her oppression. Whatever concerns pub. not disturb the repose even of a detestable despotlic law, or the science of government, all writers ism, But, if an abused and oppressed peo le wilupon political economy, or that tend to give vigor, led their freedom; if they sought to establis' i ; if, in and freedom and expansion to the intellect, are truth, they had established it, we had a right as a prohibited. Gentlemen would be astonished by sovereign power, to notice the fact, and to act as the long list of distinguished authors, whom she circumstances and our interest required. He would proscribes, to be found in Depons' and other works. say, in the language of the venerated father of his A main feature in her policy is that which constant- country, "Born in a land of liberty, my anxious re. ly elevates the European and depresses the Ameri- collections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best can character. Out of upwards of 750 vice-roys wishes, are irresistibly excited, whensoever, in any and captains general, whom she has appointed country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the ban, since the conquest of America, about eighteen only ners of freedom." For his own part, Mr. C sai!, have been from the body of the American popula. that whenever he thought of Spanish America, the tion. On all occasions she seeks to raise and pro-image irresistibly forced itself upon his mind of mote her European subjects, and to degrade and an elder brother, whose education had been neglect. humiliate the Creoles. Wherever in America her ed, whose person had been neglected and mal-treat. sway extends, every thing seems to pine and withered, and who had been disinherited by the unkind. beneath its baneful influence. The richest regions of the earth; man, his happiness and his education; all the fine faculties of his soul, are regulated and modified and moulded to suit the execrable purposes of an inexorable despotism.

ness of an ungatural parent. And, when he con. templated the glorious struggle which that country was now making, he thought he beheld that brother rising, by the power and energy of his fine native genius, to the manly rank which nature, and nature's God intended for him.

Such is a brief and imperfect picture of the state of things in Spanish America in 1808, when the If Spanish America were entitled to success from famous transactions of Bayonne occurred. The the justness of her cause, we had no less reason to king of Spain and the Indies (for Spanish Ameri- wish that success from the horrible character which ca had always constituted an integral part of the the royal arms have given to the war. More atroci. Spanish empire) abdicated his throne and became ties than those which had been perpetrated during a volunteer captive. Even at this day, one does its existence, were not to be found even in the not know whether he should most condemn the annals of Spain herself. And history, reserv. baseness and perfidy of the one party, or despise the ing some of her blackest pages for the nime meanness and imbecility of the other. If the obli- of Morillo, is prepared to place him along side of gation of obedience and allegiance existed on the his great prototype, the infamous desolater of the part of the colonies of the king of Spain, it was Netherlands. He who has looked into the history founded on the duty of protection which he owed of the conduct of this war, is constantly shocked at them. By disqualifying himself from the perform the revolting scenes which it pourtrays; at the re. ance of this duty, they became released from that fusal, on the part of the cominanders of the royal obligation. The monarchy was dissolved; and forces, to treat, on any terms, with the other si le; each integral part had a right to seek its own hap at the denial of quarters; at the butchery, in cold piness, by the institution of any new government | blood, of prisoners; at the violation of flags, in some adapted to its wants. Joseph Bonaparte, the suc- cases, af er being received with religious ceremo cessor de facto of Ferdinand, recognized this right nies; at the instigation of slaves to rise against ther on the part of the colonies, and recommended them owners; and at acts of wanton and useless barbari to establish their independence. Thus, upon the ty. Neither the weakness of the other sex, ground of strict right; upon the footing of a mere the imbecility of old age; nor the i mocence Tegal question, governed by forensic rules, the colonies, being absolved by the acts of the parent country from the duty of subjection o it, had an indisputable right to set up for themselves. But, Mr. Clay took a broader and bolder position. He

fants, nor the reverence due to the sacerdot
racter, can stay the arm of royal vengeance
subject he begged leave to trouble the

•Washington's answer to the French minster"

presenting the colors of France, in 1796.