ther, that the House demanded, the Senate should take an order for the appearance of Mr. Blount, to answer to the said impeachment.

After a considerable debate on this motion, Mr. Blount entered into recognizance for his appearance, in the sum of 20,000 dollars....Pierce Butler and Thomas Blount, esquires, were accepted as his sureties.

On July the 8th, the motion was proposed in the Senate for expelling Mr. Blount. Messrs. Dallas and Ingersoll took their seats at the Bar of the House, as his counsel. Mr. Dallas commenced his defence in a very able address, which occupied more than three hours....Mr. Ingersoll followed him in a speech of nearly two hours. These gentlemen had recourse to every precedent which could be produced from history, and to every argument which ability and ingenuity could suggest. They particularly relied on the ground, that the punishment of an offender, should, in no case, precede his trial, and that to expel Mr. Blount from his seat then, would be to do what could only be done, provided he was found guilty on the impeachment preferred, which, however, they denied the House of Representatives to prefer.

The defence being finished, Mr. Ross rose, and, in a very luminous speech, examined all the arguments which had been adduced by the counsel, in order to shew their want of solidity. He justified the expulsion of Mr. Blount from his seat, on the evidence which they had of his unworthiness

to fill it, and appealed very forcibly to the feelings of the House as to the nature of the crime of which he stood charged, and as to what might have been the consequence, had his plans been carried into

effect.

After some of the other members had delivered their opinions on the subject, Mr. Bloodworth moved to postpone the decision till Monday....the yeas and nays were taken upon the question, and it was negatived 19 to 7. The question was then put on the expulsion, and carried by yeas and nays, 26 to 1; the negative vote was Mr. Tazewell's.

After this decision had taken place, Mr. Blount's bail delivered him up, and he was taken into the custody of the Messenger of the House.

Mr. Blount was then held for his appearance, in a recognizance of one thousand dollars in himself, and 500 each in two sureties. Both Houses afterwards adjourned until the 2d Monday in November.

The following are the titles of the acts passed during this session of Congress.

1. An act for prohibiting, for a limited time, the exportation of arms and ammunition, and for encouraging the importation thereof.

2. An act to prevent citizens of the United States from privateering against nations in amity with the United States.

3. An act to provide for the further defence of the ports and harbours of the United States.

4. An act authorizing a detachment of the militia of the United States.

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5. An act, in addition to an act, intitled, act concerning the registering and recording ships and vessels."

6. An act directing the appointment of agents in relation to the 6th article of the British treaty. 7. An act providing a naval armament.

8. An act to ascertain the time for the next meeting of Congress.

Titles of Bills postponed till the next Session.

1. To prevent the arming of private ships, except in certain cases, and under certain regulations....rejected in the House of Representatives.

2. For raising and organizing an additional corps of artillerists and engineers....rejected in the House of Representatives.

3. To prevent citizens of the United States from entering into the military or naval service of any foreign Prince or State....postponed in the House of Representatives.

4. To enable the President of the United States, under certain restrictions, to raise a provisional army....rejected in the Senate, where it originated.

5. To authorize the President of the United Sates to lay, regulate and revoke embargoes....rejected in the Senate, where it originated.

6. To suspend, in part, the operation of an act, intitled, "an act for raising a further sum by additional duties on certain articles imported, and for other purposes"....rejected in the House of Representatives.

7. For arming, organizing and disciplining the militia of the United States....postponed in the House of Representatives.

Titles of Bills brought in, and not decided upon.

1. A bill laying duties on licences for selling foreign wines, and foreign distilled spirituous liquors by retail....passed in the House of Representatives.

2. A bill to continue in force, for a limited time, the act and parts of acts therein mentioned....passed in the House of Representatives.

3. A bill to authorize the President of the United States, during the recess of the Congress, to provide gallies and other vessels, for certain purposes therein mentioned.

4. A bill making additional appropriations for the support of government for the year 1797.

5. A bill authorizing a loan of money.

6. A bill laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper.

7. A bill providing for the more effectual collection of certain internal revenues of the United States.

8. A bill respecting Consuls and Vice-Consuls. 9. A bill allowing an additional mileage to the members of both Houses.

10. A bill for laying an additional tax on salt imported.

Remarks on the meeting of Congress....History of the Algerine Treaty....Blount's Conspiracy investigated.... British Piracy.

THE Convention of Congress at this period, appeared to impartial men of every party, as one of the most extraordinary occurrences in the infant history of the American Republic.

When the treachery of Great Britain hurled upon us the fury of the Barbary powers, and, by bribery and corruption, stimulated the peaceful Indians to hostilities....when English pirates plundered our vessels, insulted our flag and impressed our seamen, a war with Britain was cried down by the trumpet of federal proclamation. In place of Congress being summoned to listen to the thundering accents of a war-speech, a messenger was dispatched to the Court of Britain, robed with dignity, and armed with the power of forming an alliance, at the remembrance of which posterity will blush, and the virtues of Washington will sink into contempt.

The administration of France viewed with justice the duplicity of our proceedings, but with ▾ their usual magnanimity, they overlooked it for a considerable time. Finding themselves, however, despised in the esteem of our men of power, and deserted by the Executive, they remonstrated in