one federal vote from that state have made him President.

At 12 o'clock on Friday (this day) the 29th ballot was taken, which produced the same result.

At one o'clock the 30th ballot was taken, the result the same.

It was then determined that the next ballot should be taken to-morrow (Saturday) at 12 o'clock,

The preliminary measures that preceded the counting the votes, have all been detailed, excepting one; which is that on Tuesday, on motion of Governor Morris, the Senate decided that the counting of the votes for President and Vice-President should be with shut doors.

The following articles are from the Philadelphia Gazette.

Latest from Washington.

66 1801, FEB. 12, 4 P. M. "The question of President is still undetermined by the House of Representatives. The balloting will continue to-morrow 11 o'clock."

FEBRUARY 13, 1801,

"The ballot was continued this day at 12 o'clock, and the same result produced. A motion was made to postpone the ballot until the 3d March, but was unanimously rejected by the States. A motion to postpone to 12 o'clock, to-morrow, agreed to,

"It is my opinion that Mr. Jefferson will be elected in the end; but how long the ballot will remain in the present state, it is impossible to conjecture. This opinion is not founded upon any conversation I have had with any individual member, but merely an inference drawn from certain facts and circumstances which have come under my observation.' A letter

A letter from a member of Congress, received yesterday by a gentleman in this city, enables us to give the following correct statement;

The writer adds-" Thus you see, although Mr. Jefferson has eight votes, and Mr. Burr six, yet the majority of the members prefer Mr. Burr."

FROM A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

Washington, Feb. 13, 1801, "The balloting for a President is over for this day; and as yet no election. The result still the same. The next ballot to be at 12 o'clock to-morrow. No symptom of yielding on either side. All other business suspended."

In addition to the above, we have received the following information, on which we think we can

* One member from Georgia dead.

rely.

rely. A passenger in this morning's mail from Baltimore, saw a gentlemen there who had left Washington on Sunday morning, and who said that the ballots were taken on Saturday, as usual, and with the usual result,

EXTRACT.

Washington, 2 o'clock p, m. Feb. 14, 1801, "This day the House of Representatives met and balloted twice, each time producing, as before, 8, 6, and 2. The counties bordering on this city, composed principally of Federalists, have presented addresses to their representatives, Thomas and Craik, instructing them to vote for Jefferson; but as yet they are far from having complied with this request-nevertheless, such is the scandalous conduct of certain members, that were the Federalists themselves to disapprove of it, and loudly say Jefferson must be elected-and in spite of every effort of the party, this will be the result of the election thus the Federalists, by their own conduct, will equally lose their point and the little popularity they might have preserved."

WASHINGTON, SATURDAY EVENING, 14 INST.

"No President elected as yet; both parties seem determined not to yield: what the result of this obstinate conduct will produce, God only knows, but it seems to me that much evil will arise in the non-election of a President, the votes eight and six without variation.

"We are just informed that John Chew Thomas, representative in Congress from this district, has been addressed by his constituents, requesting him not to oppose the election of Mr. Jefferson, consequently he will either stay from the house, or

give his vote agreeable to the general wishes of those who have appointed him. You may therefore depend that Mr. Jefferson will be elected President of the United States, on Monday the 16th day of February, 1801.

"You must know that the people here are damnably afraid that there will be no President, and consequently a dissolution of the government, and then to Hell goes the Federal City.

"This, with all their federalism, has alarmed them, and Thomas, who is their representative, has been instructed, by an unanimous address, to give up his opinion for the general good.

"DUANE."

"We are respectably informed that information has this morning been received from Washington, which has excited extraordinary felicity among the Democrats; while at the same time it reflects most wantonly on the principles and integrity of a Federal representative. The latter circumstance warrants us in suspecting the purity of the source from whence it has originated. The information is in substance, that Mr. Chew Thomas, who has hitherto voted for Mr. Burr, has received from a very influential character in the district which he represents, instructions to change his vote, and thereby determine the contest in favour of Mr. Jefferson. Admitting the fact alleged, and that he may have been thus advised by one who can bias his future election, we should reluctantly believe that any member of Congress, associated in a cause of patriotism and duty, could be awed into a timid dereliction of principle, to the sacrifice, or at least hazard, of the highest interests of his country. If Mr. Thomas's should indeed be changed, we shall be happy to hear that the transition has been effected.

by

by a more honourable influence than that of a

wealthy patriot.

"Long have we predicted that the greatest curse of this country would flow from the irritated and menacing language of certain restless characters and prostituted public prints. Their clamours, for five years past, though incessant, have had some bounds, but during the pending election for President and Vice-President, they have assumed a menacing tone, unprecedented on all former occasions, and ought to convince the people that attempts are making by them to rouse the passions of some daring mob, to overawe the proceedings of the constituted authority, to Septemberize the nation and to crush its liberty. The Parisian game is to be attempted, and DENUNCIATION is thrown out as the master-trump.

"How far a letter in the American, of Saturday, is calculated or intended to usher in the bloody game, and how far an editor is justifiable in giving currency, at any time, but especially the present, to the ravings of such a restless blood-brooding revolutionist, the public are competent judges, from the following specimen. It is parts of letters from Washington to the editor.

"After sitting up till three in the morning, expecting a final decision, and exhausted a little by irregular repose, I began to question whether this is not a dream; but unhappily this is not an unreality —it is a deplorable and disgraceful link in the long chain of injuries and contumelies which the same party has heaped upon our country.

"Where will it end, or what is meant by it? you will ask.

"I most seriously believe that it is meant by it to dissolve the government; and to excite the Republicans to violence. I conjure you to use all means in your power to repress a spirit of anger

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