Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser

CONGRESS.

House of Representatives.

Wednesday last the bill from the Senate, for granting 2000 dollars to the widow and children of Robert Forsyth late marshal of the state of Georgia, who was killed in the discharge of the duties of his office, passed a committee of the whole but was rejected in the House, ayes 37, noes 40.

The bill to compensate A. St. Clair passed this day.

Yesterday Mr. Sherburne obtained leave of absence.

The bill providing for an excise on tobacco, snuff and refined sugar was taken up in committee of the whole, Mr. Trumbull in the chair. The duty on tobacco was struck out. It was moved to strike out that on sugar, but lost--31 to 45.

A message was received from the President, communicating a letter from Mr. Hammond, in answer to that from the Secretary of State, communicated confidentially yesterday, also a letter from the same officer, alluded to in the minister's letter. The message and papers accompanying them were read and ordered to be published, together with the letter at first communicated in confidence. The importance of these communications require a publication of them at full length; this shall be done as soon as it is in our power.

It will be some satisfaction to the public, however, to know immediately something of their general tenor:

The Secretary in his letter makes mention of the speech of Lord Dorchester to the Indian tribes, in which an idea of war is held out, and which he considers as bearing marks of authenticity. He then adverts to intelligence received by the President through a channel of real confidence, of the progress of Col. Simcoe, to be followed by three companies, in order to establish a post near the falls of the Miami of the lakes, in the territory of the United States -which he considers as actual hostility. The Secretary requests an explanation on these points, mentions the impossibility that our commander in that quarter should distinguish between the Indians and any other invading force,and contrasts these professions & conduct ofthe British with the peaceable measures pursued by this government towards that nation. The minister does not deny the authenticity of the speech, but endeavors to explain away the most exceptionable passage. He complains of the conduct of the Vermontees to those inhabitants in their neighborhood under the protection of the British, and intimates that the establishment of a post on our Territory, by the British, may be necessary to repress such conduct and preserve the status quo during the pendency of negotiations.

He concludes by enumerating certain measures adopted by our government relative to maritime concerns which he deems grievances. He also adverts to the late transaction in Newport, in which four American seamen were liberated from British service, and which he terms an insult on the British flag.