also be deemed a hardship to ftrip another of a Property, which length of time had fanctified as lawtul. The report was agreed to, ordered to be printed, and the copy fent to the marshalses. Sir Richard Heron delivered his excellency's anfwer to the addrels of the house of the 2 ift intt. that he would give directions in conformity to the defire of the house. Ordered to be entered on the journals of the houfe. The Recorder (poke as follows:-I beg leave to call the attention of the house to what paffed on the last day of its fitting. On that day, in a very thin houfe, and without any previous intention, refolutions were paffed, which involve in them confequences of the most momentous importance. I do not rife up the advocate for fedition, or the fupporter of libels; I abhor the one as much as I deipife the other. I have been often libelled, but I have ever treated thofe impotent effects of malice with a filent contempt; and I could with that what I conceive to be proper in an individual, was not deemed unbecoming of parliament. Permit me, Sir, to say, that if the publications alluded to were improper, our refolutions were premature and hatty, and unworthy the deliberative decifions of parliament. There is not a gentleman of the long robe in this houfe, who does not well know, that if a profecutor fhould, previous to the trial of the offence, prejudice the minds of the public by writings, declaring the offence of the party accufed, fuch perfon would be guilty of a contempt, and would be attached in the court of King's Bench. And Jet we, who are the acculers, and who think ourfelves offended, pronounce upon the guilt of the accused, and by our refolutions anticipate what is to be the decifion. Instead of refoluti. ons declaring fuch publications feditious and libellous, the proper refolution, as I conceive, would have been, to address the lord lieuteSant, to lay the publications before the law fervants of his majefty for them to report their opinion, whether they were libellous and merited profecution. Sir, we should make some distinction between a fettled plan to raise fedition, and the hafty and unguarded effufions of young minds anxious in the caufe of their country, and who have armed in its defence. Our gallant volunteers have been the boast of this country, and the terror of its nemies. Why have hoft lities not been made en this kingdom, but that it has been united in itfelf? And why have invafions of England been meditated, but that it has been rent by inSernal diffentions? Is it prudent theo to put an end to this beneficial unanimity? Let us not forget what we owe to the volunteers of Dublia in particular. When a tumultuous number of perfons furrounded this houfe, interrupted its deliberations, and dictated to and infulted leve ral of its members, the interference of the mis lisary was rendered unneceffary, by the prudent, well timed and fuccessful efforts of one of the corps, confiderable in its rank, and poffelled of great profeffional knowledge. Permit me, allo, to remind this house, that, when the city of London was almost in an upis versal conflagration, a number of perfons on the day the account came having affembled in the park, the volunteers, to the number of eight hundred, quitted their usual avocations, and ap peared in arms, determined to fupport the public peace at the hazard of their lives. And, fhall we alienate the affections of these men, on ac count of a few hafty sparks of paffion? In a free country, public queftions are a fair object of difcuffion: I with ever to fee them fuch; and, where our actions are pure, we should not fear an investigation. I acknowledge, this parliament deferves well of the people: in it we have obtained great advantages in trade; it vot ed new taxes to be inexpedient; it passed a short money bill; and it relieved the tenantry of Iree land. On fome of its late decifions, there prevails a difference of fentiment; but furely difference of opinion on fpeculative points of trade and conftitution may be entertained, without any man's thinking the worie of the perfor who differs with him, even though his opponent should express such difference in the warmes and most unguarded manner. Let me call upon my right hon. friend to whole office the painful task of profecution belongs, for his affiftance on the occafion. I know his mind revolts as the idea of prosecution; and if it must follow, the world will, I am pers fuaded, as in juftice it ought, impute what steps he fhall be obliged to take to his official character, and not to his private difpofition. His fentiments are truly a literary tranflation of a Neli Profequi, He will confider conlequences, and will, as well as the boule, permit me to remind them, of what our countryman, major Dennis O'Flagherty, fays in the play, "That quarrel well made up is better than a victory hard gained." I have therefore, Sir, without interfering with the refolutions of Monday last, drawn up and wish to propose fame refolations as concili atory on this occafion, and which, or fome fubPantially the fame, I wish to fee adapted, and they are these: First, to refolve, that the decent conduct and fpirited exertions of the volunteers of Ireland merit the public approbation. Next, to resolve, that we confider the publications, alluded to in our refolutions of Monday laft, to have originated in a hafly and unguarded, though well ins teaded zeal for the advancement of the trade and the fupport of the conftitution of this king. dom. And, laftly, to refolve, that an humble address be prefented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, expreffive of our wishes, that he will be pleased to give directions that no further profecutions be had relative to the subject matter of faid publications. In what I have faid, I fhall, perhaps, please neither party. In the time of warmth and refentment, moderation finds it difficult to obtain a patient hearing. But I have discharged, as f think, my duty; if I am fuccesful, I have spent my day we l; if not, I protest against the confequences of protecution, and tremble to think of them. 1 Mr. Conolly faid, that what he bad done o that day fe'nnight he thought his duty. He did not mention ang fet of volunteers, or individual volunteers Volunteer; but he was certain that no parliament ever deferved more respect than the prelent. The hon- member alfo faid, had the publication of fuch papers been difcontinued, or any apology made, he would have been glad to have feconded the motion; but, as they had perfifted, as a member of that house, and a lover of his country, he could not think he acted wrong in the course of his conduct in this refpect. The relolutions were paffed in a fuller house than the prefent; the parliament deserved praise for fuch resolutions; and he had the pleasure of finding many volunteer corps of the fame opinion with him. If government and parliament were to be attacked day after day, it required to be ftopped, and the deligas of their enemies pre vented. The Attorney General faid he could appeal to right honourable gentleman then in his eye, for his opinion of the volunteers early, when they were but few, and at the beginning of the feffion; he appealed to him, if he did not declare it as his opinion, that they were the falvation of Ireland? But were the volunteers to be afperfed with treason and fedition-No. It was not the fierling, it was fpurious volun teers, who delerved to be called Bermingham va lunteers. It was like a perfon putting on a fchoJar's gown to counterfeit a fcholar, for there were many who pat on the uniform of volunteers who were not of them, but went about to inflame the minds of the people at all hours, and particularly in the Liberty. Were the feditious paragraphs that had been published to be fmiled upon, and fay that they had been done in hafte. It would be an insult to the volunteers to say they originated with them. The queftion was within a narrow compafs. The refolutions of the house carried nothing in them against the volunteers, but against the authors, printers, and publishers of thofe improper paragraphs, but of young giddy, thoughtless people, and fome defigning emillaries of the commos enemy. If it appeared that any volunteer was concerned in them he would appear so object of deteftation, even to those who refpected the honour of his corps. As both houles had onanimously agreed to the refolutions and addrefs, he could not confent to give up the honour of parliament; the guilty ought to be punished, though no man felt more than he did for the #ran greffion of an individual. In respect to publications in the newspapers, he remarked, that many of them were inflam matory, one indeed had been published in the Freeman's Journal, figned Junius Brutus, which wis, he faig, written with ability and moderasien, but it could anfwer no parpole so fuggeft any doubts upon the prefent occafion. Mr. Willon faid, that, as the Attorney General had, with his ufual liberality and good fenfe expreffed a wish to accede to the substance of all the refolutions which the Recorder intended to move, he thought it might be expedient to poft pone the confideration of the fabject for a day or two, as in that time fuch fteps might be ta ken 18 would fanction the boule, without any derogation from their dignity, to remove the caufe of any coolness or animofity between them and the people. Mr. Foter made a fhort reply on the fame ground with the Attorney General, and did not impute the feditious paragraphs to the volunteers. 1 Sir Lucius O'Brien fpoke in favour of the volunteers, particularly those of Dublin. The Recorder agreed to poftpone his me. tions. Adjourned till to-morrow. Aug. 29.] Sir H. Cavendish's bill read a fe cond time and committed for to morrow. Infolvent debtors read a fecond time and committed. Houfe in faid committee; Mr. Chapman reported faid bill, and ordered to be engruffed. Bill relative to making a provifion for con verted priests, read a fecond time, and committed for to-morrow. Bill for carrying corn coastways, read a first time,-to be read a fecond time to morrow. Sugar bill read a first time, to be read a fecond time to-morrow. Adjourned till to-morrow. Aug. 30.] The houfe in a committee, Mr. Chapman in the chair, went through the bill for making further provifion for papith priests conforming to the proteftant religion. The like committee, Mr. Mafon in the chair, went through the bill for vefting a competent part of the real and perfonal eftate of the late teller of the Exchequer, ja trustees for the payment of the debt due to the crown, and other purposes. Both bills reported and ordered to be received to morrow. Read a second time the bill for the encouragement of tiltage, and rendering the carriage of corn to the city of Dublia less expensive; and also the fugar bill. Which were both committed for to-morrow, Read a third time and paffed, an ingroffed bill for the relief of persons in actual cuftody. Or. dered to the lords by Mr. Chapman, defiring their concurrence. A meffage from the lords by doctors Walker and Veley, that they had agreed to the tenantry bill, and the bill for granting bounties on expor tation of certain fpecies of linen manufacture, and for railing of flax-feed. The right hop. Sir Richard Heron delivered a meflage from his excellency the lord lieutenant, that it might be neceffary to cancel debentures to the amount of 65,000l. part of 166,000k granted in 1777, and requesting the house to take the fame into confideration. Mr. Fotter moved that the house refolve it. felf into a committee of the whole houfe to morrow, to take his excellency's message into confideration. Mr. Ogle after a fhort but just eulogium moved a refolution that doctor Thomas Ellis has acted as chief affiftant clerk, to the entire fatisfaction of the house. Agreed to Nem. con. Mr. Chapman then moved that an humble address be prefented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, to request his majesty will make fuch provifion as he shall think proper for the faid Anthony Sterling. Mr. Fofter requested the above motion to be poftponed until the wording of the addrefs was properly confidered, which was agreed to. Mr. Gardiner, after a short, eloquént, but juft and true eulogium on our excellent chief governor, moved that an addrels of thanks be, prefented to his excellency the lord lieutenant, for his wife, juf, and prudent administration. Ordered Una Voce, and a committee was erdered to prepare and draw up the fame to morrow. Sir John Blaquiere moved, that goo copies of the naturalization act be published. Mr. Clements moved, that the report of the committee on the petition of feveral perfons who had neglected to nominate the lives for their fubfcriptions in the Tontine Loan be read, which was done; he then gave notice be intended to make a motion to-morrow on that bulineis. Adjourned till to-morrow. Aug. 31.] Colonel Clements moved a refolution, that a number of proprietors for thares in the Tontine (which he head) fhould have leave to nominate lives. Paffed accordingly. The houfe in committee on his excellency the Jord lieutenant's melige, Mr. Fofter in the chair. Reported that they had come to a jelolution on the debentures as required. Ordered to be reported to-morrow. Mr. Chapman moved an addrefs in favour of the reverend Anthony Sterling. Agreed to, and to be prefented by fuch members as are of the Privy council. Mr. Gardiner reported from the committee on the addrefs to his excellency the lord lieu tenant. The fame being read paffed, Nem. Con. Mr. Ogie and the Recorder faid, they were happy to concur in the faid addrefs, as benefits had been received from Great Britain hitherto unexperienced in this country, through the faithful reprefentation of his excellency. Sir Henry Cavendish's bill read a third time, paffed, and ordered to the lords; as was alfo the bill for relief of conforming priefits. Sir Edward Newenham moved, the thanks of the houle to the Speaker. Agreed to Nem. Con. The houfe in committee on the fugar bill. Mr. Fofter reported, and ordered to be engroffed. Houfe in committee on the corn bill, Sir Lucius O'Brien reported, and ordered to be engroffed. The house and fpeaker, at four o'clock, went up to the caftle to prefent the addrefs to the lord Treutenant, Adjourned till to-morrow, September 1. The fagar bill, and the bill for the carriage of corn ordered to the lords for their concurrence. Mr. Folter reported from the committee ap pointed to take into confideration the meilage from the lord lieutenant, that whatever fums of money, not exceeding 65,000l. thall be paid into the treasury, at the inftance of his excel lency, or other chief governor, towards dif charging debentures which have been inlued to the amount of 65,000!. being part of the fum of 166,cool, which was provided to be raised by an at palled in the laft leffion of parliament, the houfe will make good the lame, with an inte reft of four pounds eleven Chillings and three pence per hundred, for two years; and faid de bentures to be cancelled as ioon as discharged; which refolution was ordered to be laid be ore his excellency by fuch members as are of the privy council. Adjourned till to-morrow. Sept. 2.] The Speaker reported that the house had attended the lord lieutenant with the add eis of thanks of the houfe to his excellency, A meflage from the lords that they had agreed to the feveral bills fent up by the house. A mellage from his excellency the lord het tenant that the house do attend him in the houte of peers; accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the houfe, went up to the houfe of peers, where the royal aflent was given to the bills following: Public Bills. 1. An act for regulating the fugar trade, and granting to his majesty, his heirs and fuccellors the duties therein-mentioned. 2. An act for the relief of tenants holding under leafes for lives, containing covenants for perpetual renewals. 3. An a&t for granting bounties on the export of certain fpecies of the linen and hempen mamufactures of this kingdom therein enumerated, and for repealing the beamics on flax-feed m ported, and for encouraging the growth thereof in this kingdom. 4. An act for explaining an act, made in the eighth year of the reign of her late majelly queen Anne, intitled an act for explaining and mending an act to prevent the further growth of popery, fo far only as the fame makes a provi tion for the maintenance of popifh priests con verted to the proteftant religion. 5. An act for the relief of perfons in actus! cuftody for debt. of 6. An act to continue and amend an act, pale fed in the feventeenth and eighteenth years the reign of his prefent majelly, intitled an a for the encouragement of Tillage, and rendering the carriage of corn to the city of Dublia les expenfive And then his excellency was pleafed to make a speech to hoth houfes of parliament, which is as follows; My Lords and Gentlemen, I AM happy at length to congratulate you on the conclution of this feffion of parliament; though the important measures under deliberation must have made your attendance leis irkiome to you. If your long abfence from your feveral counties has been productive of any inconvenience, fuch inconvenience is fully compenfated by permanent and folid benefits, the fuccefful confe quences of your labours. Gentlemen of the House of Commons, ITHANK you, iù his majesty's name, for the Jiberal fupplics you have granted; your chearfulness in giving, and your attention to the eafe of the fubject in the mode of raifing them, must be very acceptable to his majesty; on my part I affure you they shall be faithfully ap plied. My Lords and Gentlemen, THE fatisfaction with which the heart of every Irishman must exult at the fair fcene of profperity now opening to his country, may equal, it cannot exceed, the plow of my private feelings: And whilft you applaud the conduct of Great Britain in removing the restrictions upon the trade of this kingdom, you cannot but particularly acknowledge the unequivocal demonftrations of her fincere affection, in admitting you, upon the most liberal plan, to an immediate, free and equal intercourfe with her colonies. ་ The wife and falutary laws which you have framed, naturally lead to the moft beneficial enjoyment of that intercourfe. And when I refect on thofe great objects, and on your merito rious attention to the trade, agriculture and mapufactures of this kingdom, to conspicuously manifetted by the laws pafled for granting ample bounties on the export of your corn, your linen and your fail cloth by the premiums for encouraging the growth of hemp and flax-feed, and by the judicions provifions for the better regulation of your manufactures, I feel a confcious fatisfaction, that the commerce of this kingdom" has been eftablished upon an extended, firm and lafting basis; and that Ireland muft, in the courfe of her future profperity, look back to this era, the labours of the prefent parliament, and the diffufive indulgence of his majesty, with a moft grateful veneration, Your own difcreet judgment will naturally fuggeft the expediency, when you return to your feveral counties, of impreffing upon the minds of all ranks of men the various bleflings of their prefent fiuation. Demonstrate to them, that every effectual fource of commercial wealth is now their own, and invites that indaftry, without which the wifeft commercial regulations remain a dead letter, and the bounLies of nature are lavished in vain. Cherish fuck a spirit of industry, and convince them of the effential advantages they derive from their free and excellent constitution, the maintenance of every branch of which in its juft vigor and jutherity, can alone fecure their liberties, and preferve their happiness. And then the lord Chancellor declared, that it was his excellency the lord lieutenant's pleafare, that this parliament be prorogued to Tuef day the 10th day of October next. AMERICAN NEW S. Philadelphia, June 1. Extract of a Letter from his Excellency General Wafbington, to Congrefs, dated Head Quarters, May 10, 1782. [UST as I am closing thefe difpatches, a let "JUS ter from Sir Guy Carleton is handed to me, covering fundry printed papers, a copy of which, with the papers, I have now the honour to enclose to your excellency, together with copy of my answer to him; and I flatter myself my conduct herein will be agreeable to the withes of Congrels." Head Quarters, New York, 7th May, 1782. HAVING been appointed by his majesty to the command of the forces of the Atlantic Ocean, and joined with admirat Digby in the commiffion of peace, find it proper in this manner to ap prize your excellency of my arrival at NewYork. The occafion, Sir, feems to render the communication proper, but the circumstances of the prefent time, render it alfo indifpenfible, as I find it just to tranfmit herewith to your excellency certain papers, from the perufal of which your excellency will perceive what difpofitions prevail in the government and people of England towards thole of America, and what further ef fects are likely to follow; if the like pacific difpofitions fhould prevail in this country, both my inclination and duty will lead me to meet them with the tof zealous concurrence. events, Sir, it is with me to declare, that, if war muft prevail, I shall endeavour to render its mileries as light to the people of this continent as the circumitances of tuch a condition will pos fibly permit. In all I am much concerned to find that private and unauthorized perfons have on both fides given way to thofe paffions which ought to have received the ftrongest and most effectual controul, and which have begot acts of retaliation, which without proper preventions, may have an extent equally calamitous and difhonourable to botha parties, though, as it should feem, more extenlively pernicious to the natives and fettlers of this country. How much foever, Sir, we may differ in other refpects, upon this one point we muft perfectly concur, being alike interelled to preferve the name of Englishmen from reproach, and individuals from experiencing fuch unneceliary evils as cam have no effect upon a general decifion : every proper measure that may tend to prevent thefe criminal exceffes in individuals, I shall ever be ready to embrace; and as an advance on my part, I have, as the first act of my command, enlarged Mr. Lesingflon, and have written to his father on the fubject of fuch exceffes as have paffed in New Jerfey, defiring his concurrence in fuch mcafures, as, even under the conditions of war, the common interests of humanity require. I am further to acquaint you, Sir, that it was my intention to have fent this day a fimilar let ter of compliment to Congress, but am informed it is previously neceffary to obtain a paffport Fom your excellency, which I therefore hope to receive, if you have no objection, for the paffage of Mr. Morgan to Philadelphia, for the above purpose. I have the honour to be, with great refpect, your excellency's mott obedient hamble fervam, (Signed) GUY CARLETON, His Excellency General Washington. Head Quarters, 10th of May, 1782. SIR, I HAD the honour laft evening to receive your excellency's letter of the 7th, with the feveral papers enclosed. Ever fince the commencement of this anna tural war, my conduct has borne invariable reftimony against thofe inhuman exceffes which in too many inftances have marked its various progrefs. With refpect to a late transaction, to which I prefume your excellency alludes, I have ale ready expreffed my fixed refolution—a resolution formed on the most mature deliberation, and from which I fhall not recede, I have to inform your excellency, that your request of a passport for Mr. Morgan to go to Philadelphia will be conveyed to Congress by the earlieft opportunity; and you may ret af fured that I will embrace the firit moment to communicate to you their determination thereon. Many inconveniencies and diforders having arifen from an improper admiffion of flags at various pofts of the two armies, which have given rife to complaints on both fides; to prevent abufer in Future, and for the convenience of communication, I have concluded to receive all flags from within your lines at the polt of Dobbs Ferry, and no where else, fo long as the head quarters of the of the two armies remain as at the prefent. I have the honour to be Your excellency's, &c. (Signed) G. WASHINGTON. His Excellency Sir Guy Carleton. By the United States in Congress affembled, May 14, 1782. bout four hundred people, under the command of governor Franklin; the point infifted upon by thefe men, who had their commiffions from Sa Heary Clinton, was, that they fhould be coo trouled by their own laws, fubject, however, in their military fervices to Sir Henry Clinton. A mong other exploits, which these people per formed, was the attack of a Block-hoofe, which general Washington had erected, and which they carried, killing every man found in it, except three, whom they brought away as prisoners of war. Among these was a captain Huddy, whom they carried at first on board a "veifel, where he was closely confined for upwards of three weeks He was then taken on fhore, under pretence of beftig exchanged, but was in fact forced to the Gra tree that could be found, on which he was Hung till he was dead, without any trial, a charge made again him. Upon this being re lated to geners Washington, he immediately wrote to Sir Henry Clinton the following letter Head Quarters, April 21, 1782. SIR, The inclosed representation, from the in bitants of the county of Monmouth, with tel monials to the fact (wich can be corroborated by other unquestionable evidence) will bring be fore your excellency the most wanton, cruel, and unprecedented murder that ever dilgraced the arme of a civilised people. fhali not, becaule I conceive it altogether unneceffary to trouble your excellency with any animadverfions on this tranfaction, candour obliges me to be explicit to fave the innocent I demand the guilty. Captain Lippencot therefore, or the officer who commanded at the execution of captain Huddy, must be given up; or if that officer was of inferior rank to him, fo many of the perpetrators as will, according to the tariff of exchange be an equivalent. To do this, will mark the juftice of your excellency's character. In failure of it, I hall hold myfeli juftified is the eyes of God and man, for the measures to which I mall refort. beg your excellency to be perfuaded, that if cannot be more difagreeable to you to be ad dressed in this language, than it is to me to offer it; but the fubject requires franknefs and dey eifion. I have to request your speedy determination, as my refolution is fufpended but for your an fwer. I have the honour to be. &c. G. WASHINGTON. The letter of the 10th from the commander To which his Excellency General Clinton returned in chief being read, inclosing a copy of a letter to him from Sir Guy Carleton, dated head quarters, New York, May 7th, 1782. Refolved, That the commander in chief be, and hereby is, directed to refufe the request of Sir Guy Carleton, of a paffport for Mr. Morgan to bring difpatches to Philadelphi Published by order of Congress, A difpute has arifen between Sir Guy Carleon and general Washington, and is as followsA board of refugees, it leems, has been for fore wie pakk formed at New York, confisting of a SIR, the following Aufwer: Your letter of the 21ft inft. with the enclof ed teftimonials, refpe&ting captain Huddy's exthough I am extremely concerned for the caule, ecution, was delivered to me yesterday; and I cannot conceal my furprize and displeasure at the very improper language you have made use of, which you could not but be fenfible was totally unnecessary. The mildness of the British government does not admit of acts of cruelty or perfecuting vio lence, and as they are notoriously contrary to |