Indiana Republican, Volume 2, Number 66, Madison, Jefferson County, 14 March 1818 — Page 1

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Congress.

IN SENATE.

WD AT, FEBRUARY 9.

Sanford from the commit-

commerce and minutac-

fcported a bill for the relief

jm Warner, wnicn was

0 a second reading. Goldsborough, from the tee to whom the subject

ti red, reported a bill regu-

he transportation or per. ; color for sale, or to be labor, which was passed

iond reading.

report of the committee

ximerce and manufactures

jrable to the petition of

Swain, was taken up and to. resolution submitted by illiamson the 6th, directjudiciary committee to en-

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prig the promulgation of js of congress, was taken up, kred and arlnnlwL

following motion submit. Mr. Williams of Miss, on h inst. was considered and d:

flved, That the committee

F public lands be instructed

uire into the expediency of

ing by law for the reserva- ' such tracts of land with-

several land districts of the States, as mav in the onin-

the president be suitable

)r the laying out and estag towns : and for the sale

- ts therein. Allowing resolution offerj Mr. Morrow on Friday P agreed to. fhed, That the committee jnted on the memorial of the I or Tennessee respecting

V 10 lands in that state, be kted to enquire into the

propriety of making a reservation of land for the establishment of a military dep-jt, armory, and foundary on the waters of Shoal Creek, in the state of Tennessee, The joint resolution respecting the distribution of the late edition of the land laws was read the third time, passed and tent to the house of representatives. The various other subjects, made the order of the day, were successively postponed, and The senate adjourned at an early hour. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, February 9. Mr. Rhea, from the committee of pensions, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Mary Sullivan : which was read and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Rhea, from the same committee, made unfavorable reports on the petitions of Abijah M'Clain and John Simson, which were read and concurred in. Mr. Rhea also made an unfavorable report on the petition of Thomas Mills; which was ordered to lie on the table Mr. Williams of North Carolina, from the committee of claims, nude an unfavorable report on the petition of John G. Bogert, who prays that he may be indemnified for the failure of certain property bought at Marshal's sale to answer the description under which it was sold. The report was concurred in. Mr. W. also made an unfavorable report on the petition of Jesse Lincoln, who prays for certain relief from loss sustained by a contract for making a part of the Cumberland road, in consequence of the alleged failure of the superintendant, to pay due attention thereto, &c. The report goes on the ground that the claim has no foundation. It was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. W. also made an unfavorable report on the memorial of Zachariah McGirt, who asks 5,300 dollars for indemnification for the loss of his property during the late war with the Creek Indians; and it was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Newton from the committee of commerce and manufactures, reported a bill " to contin. ue in force, from and after the 30th of June 1 8 19, until the 30th of June, 1826", the fourth paragraph of the first section of the act " to regulate the duties on imports and tonnage;' which was twice read and committed. Mr. Newton also reported a bill " to increase the duties oniron in bars & bolts, iron in pigs, castings, nails and allum ; and to disallow the drawback duties on the exportation of gun powder. The duties to be substituted for those now existing are, on iron

pigs, fifty cents per hundred weight, on iron castings seventy five cents per hundred weight, on nails four cents per pound, on iron bars and bolts exceping iron manufactured by rolling, one dollar per hundred weight ; and on allum, two dollars per hundred weight. The bill was twice read and committed. Mr. Ciairbome, from the select committee to whom was referred the remonstrance of major gen. Andrew Jackson, as one of the representatives of John Donelson. praying for the allowance of a certain quantity of land granted by thestate of Georgia outof the land , ceded by that stare to the United States, at a period long anterior to said cession, reported a bill " for the benefit of Thomas Carr and others; which was .twice read and committed. The speaker laid before the house the annual report of the commissioners of the sinking fund (the president of the senate, the chief justice of the U. States, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general.) The amount of the public debt on the first day of the present year stands at dolls. 99 ,004,800 51-100. A report was received from the secretary of war in pursuance of a resolution of this house, transmitting a statement of the accounts of maj. gen. Arthur St. Clair with the government. A report was received from the commissioner of claims for the loss of property, of the facts in the case of John Chalmers, of the city of Washington, with the evidence accompanying it ; which was referred to the committee of claims. And then, probably on account of the excessive cold, which made it inconvenient to attend properly to business, the house adjourned at an early hour. CASE OF MR. MEADE.

CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS. Petition cf Mrs. Meade, and papers communicated by her in relation to Richard W. Meade. To his excellency, the president of the United States the following case is respectfully submitted: Richard W. Meade was born in Chester county in Pennsylvania, in June, 1778. He went to Spain in 1803, to claim restitution of property detained at Buenos Ayres, in which claim he was unsuccessful. He then established a commercial house at Cadiz, where he has ever since resided, in the character of an American citizen; and having held from 1806, till the present year, the station of navy agent of the U. States for the port of Cadiz Mr. Meade has a wife (the undersigned; and nine children now residing in Philadelphia,

In their late struggles he rendered essential services to the people of Spain, as repeatedly and publicly acknowledged. In 1 8 1 2, being in actual advance to the government of Spain, to the amount of near eight hundred thousand dollars, and being satisfied that the treasurer Don Victor Soret, was using the fun . which by contract had been app. priat,ed to repay that advance, he appealed to the regency against the conduct of the treasurer ; and, receiving no satisfaction, published a pamphlet, containing a statement of his .contracts with the government, and its injustice towards him ; tin consequence of which publication, he was imprisoned for three months, and then released on bail. On an appeal tothecortes, Mr. Meade obtained an order for the payment of his advances, which order has been but partially complied with, and that under enormous sacrifi. ces, amounting, in mai y instan. ccs, to one-third of the capital, besides several years' interest for which no allowance has ever been made. Mr. Meade also appealed to the cor res against the unjust proceedings of the regency in imprisoning him : the cortes reported the proceedings as illegal and unjust, and decreed the constitutional penalties against the minister who gave, and the judge who executed, the order. The dismissal of the regency by the cosres & the subsequent dissolution of the cortes itself, on the arrival of king Ferdinand, prevented the report of the cortes against the regency being acted on, and, the affair being revived by the supreme council of war, composed of men subservient to the old regency, (who are all now in high offices round the court) it was lately decreed that Mr. Meade should pay a fine of two thousand ducats for the publication which they termed a libel on the late regents. It is to be understood that the affair above related, of the imprisonment of 18 1 2, is altogether distinct from the present confinement of Mr. Meade and its causes though often erroneously blended with it : it will clearly appear, however, that the rancor produced by the events related, has operated with many now in power in stimulating the present persecution, the circumstances leading to which are as follows: In 181 1 Mr. Meade was ap-, pointed assignee to the estate of James W. Glass, of Cadiz, declared bankrupt in England, in consequence of his connection with the house of Hunter, Ra ney, & Co. of London, agafast whom a commission of bankruptcy had issued: the appointment of Mr. M. was mads by the tribunal of commerce of Cadiz, with the approbation of