Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

ALEXANDRIA:
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1819.

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT WASHINGTON
Saturday, January 17.

The house of representatives yesterday was about to adjourn over to Monday, when Mr. Tucker rose and opposed it, stating, as his reason for doing so, that the gentlemen of the bank committee who was then absent had requested him to signify to the house that it was their wish to bring in their Report on Saturday. The question of adjournment to Monday was therefore negatived by 54 to 50. The whole result of the inquiry at Philadelphia, therefore, under the resolution of the house will be unfolded this day in congress, and will appear, probably, at full length in the papers of Monday.

The following proposition which I consider as no less laudable and honorable to the propounder than singular in its nature, was offered the house for its adoption by Mr. Sergeant. "That the committee on the judiciary be instructed to enquire into the expediency of enacting a general ordinance whereby the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty shall be guaranteed to the inhabitants of territories exterior to the original limits of the U. States, and make the basis of all governments to be hereafter established therein."-This brought up Mr. Lowndes, who said that he saw into the object of the gentleman, and wished the proposition to be laid upon the table that it might be generally understood before it was acted upon. To which Mr. Sergeant replied, that the gentleman was very right-that he had an object in it; but did not care to introduce it into the resolution at that time: he had, however, no objection to its being laid upon the table.