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dent and vice-president, upon this subject there can be no diversity of opinion, seeing that nine of the eleven
electors are chosen as the avowed supporters of James Maddison for the presidency of the union, and that se-
veral of those counties, now represented in the house of delegates by federal gentlemen, gave large majorities
to the Madisonian electors. They view the embargo as a measure of a wise, efficient and dignified policy, ren-
dered indispensably necessary by the unprecedented and unsettled state of the European world and the only al-
ternative between a ruinous and destructive war and the abject surrender of our honour and dependence, and
that so far from being the cause of that multiplied and aggravated train of national evils, with which, by the
resolutions, it is charged, it has protected and promoted the present and permanent interest of our country by
withdrawing from the rapacious cupidity of the plunderer, of the ocean, our property of more than one hundred
millions of dollar, in amount, by rescuing from seizure and bondage our citizen manners, and by diverting a por-
tion of our wealth and attention to the establishment of those manufactories which are necessary to our subsistence,
and are essential to our independence. That the jealousies and discontent, distrust, suspicion and alarm, which the
solutions portray as flowing from the embargo, may, with more correctness, be attributed, to the specious
misrepresentations; and insidious exertions, of the habitual opponents of the present administration, the
friends of the great belligerents of Europe, and of artful and designing men who seek their own aggrandize-
ment through the distresses and commotions of their native country. That the late insolent and taunting com-
munications of one of the great invaders of our rights, originate not so much from their disregard of the opera-
tion of the embargo, as from a confident hope of its speedy removal and a desire to promote the interests, and
verify the predictions, of those whom they conceive to be most friendly to their views, and compliant with their
wishes The senate are under a conscientious belief, that the adoption of these resolutions, though most assuredly
not intended to that end, (for the house of delegates are too enlightened and too patriotic to act from any im-
pulse against the real interest of their country, ) but by some unfortunate occurrence of circumstances, without
any hostile intent, will come in aid of the system of measures adopted by the belligerents of Europe, to embar-
rass the government of the nation, and effect its humiliation, precisely at the very moment when that system
of measures, if it can succeed at all, this interposition of the legislature of Maryland will most effectually con-
tribute to its success. They, moreover, feel the most unequivocal conviction that as soon as the honour and
interests of the union will permit, the constituted authorities of the nation will remove the embargo, and in
their wisdom to discern, their patriotism to adopt, and their courage to execute such measures as are most
conducive to the safety, honour and welfare of their country, the senate of Maryland hereby declare the high-
est confidence.

By order, T. ROGERS, clk.

Also a bill authorising Thomas J. Pattison, late sheriff and collector of Dorchester county to complete his
collection, and the bill authorising the appointment of commissioners to review the public road leading through
the lands of Elizabeth Charlton and Mary Sim, in Frederick county, severally endorsed, " will pass with the
proposed amendment; " which amendments were read,

A petition from Capt. Jacob Walters, of Baltimore county, praying he may have power to enforce the pay-
ment of certain old debts due him, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Randall, Mr Chapman, Mr. R.
Steuart, Mr. Harryman, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Spencer and Mr Bland, to consider and report thereon.

A petition from Joseph Green, late sheriff and collector of Charles county, praying further ume to complete
his collections, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Chapman, Mr. P. Stuart and Mr. Parnham, to consider
and report thereon.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, praying for a bridge across the Susquehanna, was pre-
ferred, read, and referred to the committee appointed on petitions of a similar nature.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Harford county, praying fora bridge across the Little Falls of Gunpow-
der, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. Forwood, Mr. Streett, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Davis and Mr. Harry-
man, to consider and report thereon.

Mr I H Thomas, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act authorising a lottery
to raise a sum of money for the purpose of repairing the parsonage-house and the church belonging to the Ger-
man evangelical lutheran congregation in Frederick-town, in Frederick county; which was read the first time
and ordered to lie on the table.

A petition from Samuel Smith, of Harford county, counter to the petition of William Smith, was preferred,
read and referred to the committee appointed on the petition to which it is counter.

A petition from sundry inhabitants of Belle-Air, in Harford county, praying that a law to prevent swine from
going at large in said town may be repealed or further extended, was preferred, read, and referred to Mr. For-
wood, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Streett, to consider and report thereon.

Mr. J. Thomas, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to open a road in Fre-
derick county; which was read the first and second time by especial order, and passed.

The amendments proposed to the bill for the relief of Mary Connerly, of Anne-Arundel county, and the bill
authorising the appointment of commissioners to review the public road leading through the lands of Elizabeth.
Charlton and Mary Sim, in Frederick county, were read the second time, agreed to, and the bills ordered to he
engrossed.