WEDNESDAY, February 21, 1810.

On motion of Mr. M'Bryde, and seconded, Resolved, That the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of discontinuing the present post-route between the towns of Fayetteville and Salisbury, in North Carolina, and of establishing two separate routes, viz. from Salisbury, by Henderson, Spring. ville, Allenton, Steele's store, Wadesborough, Rockingham, Nall's store, in Moore county, and by Randolph court-house, to Salesbury; the other route from Fayetteville, by Tysons, Nall's store, Moore court-house, Drowning creck bridge, and to Fayetteville aforesaid.

Mr. Roane, from the joint committee for enrolled bills, reported, that the committee did, yesterday, present to the President of the United States for his approbation an enrolled bill, entitled "An act authorizing the discharge of William Hawkins from his imprisonment."

Mr. Roane presented a petition of Batram G. Hipkins, commander of gun boat No. 5, praying, that the Secretary of the Navy may be authorized and directed to audit his accounts as commander aforesaid, his receipts and vouchers having been lost with the said gun boat in the Chesapeake bay, in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Secretary of the Navy, with instruction to examine the matter thereof, and report the same with his opinion thereon to the House.

Mr. Newton, from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a report on the petition of George Armroyd, referred on the eighth ultimo, which was read and referred to a committee of the whole House on Friday next.

Mr. Newton, from the same committee, presented a bill for the relief of William Weymouth, which was received and read the first time.

On motion,

The said bill was read the second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Friday

next.

Mr. Newton also made a detailed report of facts relating to the case of William Weymouth, which was read and committed to the committee of the whole House last mentioned.

Mr. Mumford presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Rockland, in the state of New York, praying for the establishment of a postroute from Hackensack, in the state of New Jersey, through Toppan, Clarkston, to Haverstraw in said county.

Mr. Hufty presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Capemay county, in the state of New Jersey, to the same effect with a petition of sundry inhabitants of Port Elizabeth, presented on the twelfth in

stant.

Ordered, That the said petitions be severally referred to the Committee on Post-offices and Postroads.

Mr. P. B. Porter presented a petition of sundry inhabitants of Niagara county, in the state of New York, praying, that the town of Portland in the said county, may be established as a port of entry.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.

Mr. P. B. Porter also presented a remonstrance and petition from sundry inhabitants of the territory of Michigan, expressive of their approbation of the form of government existing in said territory, and praying, under their present system of government, to be allowed to elect and send a delegate to congress. Ordered, That the said remonstrance and petition do lie on the table.

Mr. Gardenier presented a petition of Henry Malcolm, collector for the district of Hudson, in the state of New York, praying that a law may be passed to authorize the accounting officers of the Treasury Department to credit his account with the sum of one thousand dollars, which was lost in transmitting the same by mail from Hudson to the bank in New York.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to Mr. Gardenier, Mr. W. Alston, and Mr. Lyon, to consider and report thereon to the House.

Mr Findley presented a petition of Andrew Pinkcrton, of the state of Pennsylvania, praying to be placed on the pension list of the United States, in consideration of wounds received whilst a soldier in the P.nnsylvania line of the revolutionary army.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. Morrow, from the Committee on the Public Lands, made a report on the petition of the governor, judges and secretary of the Illinois territory, referred on the seventh instant, which was read and the resolution therein contained, concurred in by the House as follows:

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioners ought not to be granted.

Mr. Morrow, from the same committee, also made a report on the petition of Sarah Meredith, referred on the twenty-fifth ultimo, which was read, and the resolution therein contained concurred in by the House, as follows:

Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted.

The Speaker laid before the House a letter from Edward Livingston, expressing his desire of a speedy determination with respect to his claim to the bat ture in the city of New Orleans, which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.

A motion was made by Mr Bibb, and seconded, that the House do come to the following resolutions:

Resolved, That the interest in, or title to the batture fronting the suburb St. Mary, in the city of New Orleans, which may have vested in the United States, by the treaty of cession between the United States and France, concluded at l'aris the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and three, be tranşferred to, and vested in the corporation of the city of New Orleans, so far as to enable said corporation to defend any suit or action which may be instituted for the recovery of the whole or any part of said batture, in any court having competent power and jurisdiction to hear and determine the same, and if no suit or action shall be instituted and prosecuted to final judg ment or decree, within years, all individual claim, right or title to the said batture, shall thenceforth be forever barred.

Resolved, That the said batture shalt be used and enjoyed as a public highway and landing place, as well by the citizens of the United States as the inhabitants of the city of New Orleans, who shall continue to use and enjoy the right of digging and carrying earth from the said batture for making and repairing public streets and levees and other purposes, which they were accustomed to use and enjoy under the late Spanish government.

A motion was made by Mr. Bibb, and seconded, that the said resolutions be committed to the committee of the whole House, to whom is committed sundry papers in relation to the said batture.

A division of the question to refer the said resolutions was called for: On which,

The question was taken to refer the first of the resolutions to the said committee of the whole House, And resolved in the affirmative.

The question was then taken upon the reference of the second resolution,

And resolved in the affirmative.

On motion of Mr. Quincy, and seconded,

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to inquire into the state of the ancient public records and archives of the United States, with authority to consider whether any, and what provision be necessary for a more safe and orderly preservation of them, with leave to report by bill or otherwise.

Ordered, That Mr. Quincy, Mr. Van Horn, and Mr. Swoope, be appointed a committee pursuant to the said resolution.

Mr. Gold, from the committee appointed on the seventeenth ultimo, presented a bill to authorize the Secretary at War to ascertain and settle, by the appointment of commissioners, the exterior line of the public land at West Point, with the adjoining proprietor, which was received and read the first time. On motion,

The said bill was read the second time, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next.

Mr. Weakley presented a petition of Joseph Brown, of the state of Tennessee, praying compen sation for sundry negroes and other property, plun. dered from his father by the Cherokee Indians, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.

Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee appointed on the petitions of Alexander Scott and John Motlow.

The House proceeded to consider the amendments of the Senate to the bill, entitled "An act making appropriations for the support of government during the year one thousand eight hundred and ten :"

Whereupon,

Ordered, That the said bill and amendments be re-committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.

An engrossed bill making appropriations for the navy of the United States for the year one thousand eight hundred and ten, was read the third time.