The New Hampshire Gazette

EIGHTH CONGRESS.

HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES

MONDAY, NOV. 7.

Mr. Dawson presented a resolution, in effect to continue the salaries of the public officers for two years longer, by filling up the blank &c. as heretofore.

On the question, there were yeas 53 -Noes 55.

This motion being lost. Mr. Dawson moved another resolution in the following words:

"Resolved that provision be made by law, for fixing the salaries of the officers of the several departments of the government."

Agreed to.

Tuesday, NOV. 8.

The following resolution was moved and passed: Resolved, that a committee of Commerce and Manufactures be directed to enquire, whether a drawback on duties ought not to be allowed on loaf sugar, exported from the United States to foreign ports.

It was observed, that the present duty on loaf sugar is nine cents per lb. and on brown two and an half cents-brown sugar is entitled to a drawback on exportation; but when manufactured it is not. A great deal is now manufactured in the United States, and a considerable quantity would be exported, if entitled to drawback.—Adjourned.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 9.

Some private and local petitions were read and disposed of. They can be best particularized when decisions are made on them.

THURSDAY, NOV. 10.

Mr. R. Griswold presented the petition of David Valazza, who stated himself to be a merchant, an inhabitant of Venice, and a subject of his Imperial Majesty; that he embarked on board an Imperial vessel about the close of, the year 1802 with his whole property consisting of Merchandize, and was taken by a vessel of war belonging to the United States of America, and ordered into Malta. That at Malta he met the Commodore of the fleet of the United States, who declared his certificate to be a forgery, ordered him back to the imperial vessel, seized upon his property and proceeded with him to Tunis, where he laid his case before Mr. Eaton, who released the Tunisians, but detained the petitioner, and ordered him on board the Chesapeake frigate, in which he arrived in the United States in June last, and immediately repaired to Washington, in order to sue for redress for the injuries he had sustained. That through the generosity of Mr. Stille on the Capitol Hill he was afforded protection and relief from want. He therefore prayed that the House would give him relief.

Referred to the committee of Claims.

The petition of Thomas Ketling of Philadelphia Merchant, one of the owners of the ship Washington presented and referred to the Committee of Commerce, &c.

Mr. Randolph, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported, by bill, to repeal the act allowing a drawback upon goods exported from New-Orleans.

Remonstrance of Sundry inhabitants of New-York, stating the grievances they laboured under and the losses they sustained from the conduct of Collectors of the direct tax, and praying relief.

Referred to a committee of Ways and Means.

Expiration of part of the British Treaty —In the last article of this treaty, it is provided that the first ten articles shall be permanent, and that if the 12th article should not be renewed, or an arrangement upon the subject of it agreed to, before it should expire by. its own limitation, (neither of which conditions has taken place) that then the whole treaty except the ten first articles should expire together with it. This limitation was to two years after the signature of the preliminary or other articles of peace, which took place, on the first of October, 1801. Consequently all the articles of the treaty, except the ten first expired on the first ultimo—N. Int.

A federal print of New Jersey, after piteously deploring the infatuation of the people in voting for persons friendly to economy, justice, civil and religious liberty, and expressing the most afflicting regret at the governor's turning out a few of the well-born, piously concludes "but there is another and a better world" it were to be wished that this had been tho't of long ago, in which case we. should not have witnessed such shameful means employed to procure "the good things of this world as bribery and corruption—it is remarkable too that the federalists forgot there was also "another and a worse world" if they do not repent very soon they will only have been displaced and disappointed in this uncomfortable world the better to enable them to suffer in the next.

Aurora.