Monday, January 22.
Josiah Tattnall, from the State of Georgia, attended.
Friday, February 2.
John Sloss Hobart, appointed a Senator by the State of New York, in the place of Philip Schuyler, resigned, produced his credentials, and, the oath required by law being administered, he took his seat in the Senate.
Monday, February 5.
French Outrage.
The following Message was received from the President of the United States; which was read:
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives:
I have received a letter from his Excellency Charles Pinckney, Esq., Governor of the State of South Carolina, dated the 22d October, 1797, enclosing a number of depositions and witnesses to several captures and outrages committed within and near the limits of the United States, by a French privateer belonging to Cape Francois, or Monte Christo, called the Vertitude or Fortitude, and commanded by a person of the name of Jordan or Jourdain, and particularly upon an English merchant ship named the Oracabissa, which he first plundered and then burned, with the rest of her cargo, of great value, within the territory of the United States, in the harbor of Charleston, on the 17th of October last. Copies of which letter and depositions, and also of several other depositions relative to the same subject, received from the Collector of Charleston, are herewith communicated.
Whenever the channel of diplomatical communication between the United States and France shall be opened, I shall demand satisfaction for the insult and reparation for the injury.