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Anr. 19. The present treaty shall be duly ratified, and the mutual exchange of ratifications shall take place in London within six months from the date hereof, or earlier if possible.

Resolved by the senate and house of representatives in for from contemplating or authorizing the applicaencrat comt assembled, That the public lands of the tion of any part of the proceeds of the sales of the United States, whether acquired by conquest, ces public lands to the expenditures of the national adsien, or purchase, are emphatically the property of ministration, was presented to the president togethIn faith whereof, we, the respective plenip, tentia-the Union, and that they ought, therefore, to enure to er with another act for distributing all the net prories, have signed this treaty, and have hereunto affix- the use and benefit of all the states in just propor- ceeds of the land sales, among the states, for five ed our seals. tions, and cannot be directly or indirectly appropri- years. That act emanated from the same source, ated to the use and benefit of any particular state or and was sanctioned by the same congress, at the states, to the exclusion of the others without an in-same time with the compromise act; and although on fringement of the principles upon which cessions another roll of parchment, as a system of adminis from states were expressly made, and a violation of tration, formed a part of it; and to tell us now that the the spirit of our national compact; as well as the seizure of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands principles of justice and sound policy. to supply the deficiencies of the horizontal twenty per cent. impost duties, carries with it a moral obligation of reverence for the compromise of 1833, is no better than an attempt to bind our eyes in the act of picking our pockets.

Done, in duplicate, at Washington, the ninth day of August, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun dred and forty-two. ASHBURTON. [SEAL.]

DANL. WEBSTER.

[SEAL.]

And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, aud the respective ratifications of the same having been exchanged, to wit: at London, on the thirteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, by Edward Everett, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States, and the right honorable the Earl of Aberdeen, her Britannic majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, on the part of their respective governments:

[L. S.]

seventh.

By the president:

JOHN TYLER.

Resolved, That we deem it the duty of congress. immediately, to adopt some permanent and equitable system for the gradual disposition of the public lands, having due regard to the interests of the whole Union; and providing for the distribution of the proceeds of these lands among the states, in obedience to the conditions imposed by the terms of cession, and the obvious demands of equity.

Fellow citizens, I had long entertained and cher. ished the hope that these public lands were among the chosen instruments of Almighty power, not only of promoting the virtue, welfare and happiness of Thus you see, fellow citizens, that the distribu- millions upon millions of individuals and families of Now, therefore, be it known, that I, John Tyler, tion of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, the human race, but of improving the condition of President of the United States of America, have is inseparably connected with the means of reliev man, by establishing the practical, self-evident truth caused the said treaty to be made public, to the ending you from the burden of your state debts, and of of the natural equality and brotherhood of all man that the same, and every clause and article thereof, enabling your legislature to discharge, faithfully, kind, as the foundation of all human government, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the every dollar of those debts, principal and interest, and by banishing slavery and war from the earth. United States, and the citizens thereof. without imposing, ultimately, one dollar of burden The extent of territory, the fertility of soil, the saluIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, upon you. And this immense, uncalculated value of brity of climate, the intersection of mighty rivers, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. your property in the public lands is thus important, with the numberless multitude of their tributary Done at the city of Washington, this tenth day of not only to you and your children, for ages to come. streams, were all signal indications of the purpose November, in the year of our Lord one thou- but to the whole people of nineteen states of this they were granted to accomplish. The admirable sand eight hundred and forty-two, and of the Union, most of them more deeply involved in debts system of territorial government provided for them Independence of the United States the sixty-contracted for the same purposes of internal im- by the congress of the confederation, the unfading provement, than yourselves. Nor less important to glory, not only of Nathan Dane, but of Thomas the people of the seven states, whose parsimonious Jefferson-and especially that fundamental principle policy has kept them free from debt, but cast them of their constitution, that there should be neither propertionally behind their sisters, in the progress of slavery nor involuntary servitude throughout the internal improvement. They are all entitled to land, seemed to me like the voice of the precursor their portion of the property, in the distribution of in the wilderness, announcing the advent of the Sathe proceeds, and although the legislatures of some viour of mankind. Was all this an Utopian dayof them have been so infatuated as to declare they dream? Is the one talent, entrusted by the Lord of would refuse their portion, should it be tendered to the harvest, for the improvement of the condition of them, the example of Georgia has furnished edify-man, to be hidden under a bushel? Is the lamp desing proof, with what graceful resignation this stub- tined to enlighten the world, to be extinguished by born virtue would melt under the radiant sunbeans the blasting breath of slavery? The project first of a real distribution. By receiving their portions of proclaimed by Andrew Jackson, in his annual mesthe proceeds, those states may, if they please, aile- sage of December, 1832, of giving away the national viate the existing burdens of taxation on their own inheritance to private land jobbers, or to the states people; or constitute a fund for internal improve-in which they lie, and to renounce forever all nament within themselves, which will repay them and tional revenue to be derived from them, was the contheir people, to ten fold, aye, to a hundred fold, their summation of the Maysville road veto policy, and amount, in prosperity. the substitute for nullification to perpetuate the institutions of slavery and its dominion over the North American Union.

DANIEL WEBSTER, secretary of state.

ADDRESS OF JOHN QUINOX ADAMS.

TO HIS CONSTITUENTS OF THE TWELFTH

CONGRES SIONAL DISTRICT, AT BRAINTREE 17TH SEPTEMBER,

1842.

(Concluded, from page 175.)

You are aware, fellow citizens, that my name is not among those which voted for, and finally carried the tariff bill, which at last obtained the approval and signature of Mr. Tyler, who thus succeeded in extorting from you, the portion of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands-a portion, to all intents and purposes, your property. as much as the dwelling house, which any one of you has inherited Fellow citizens, I have opened and exposed to from his father, or purchased for a lawful convey- your view the dark chambers of the motive of Anance in fee simple. The distribution of these avails drew Jackson, who first broached the doctrine of The contrivance of Mr. John Tyler, to waste all the of your lands would enable your legislature to dis- giving away those public lands to speculating adven- proceeds of the land sales, by absorbing them in the charge the principal and interest of the whole debt turers, or to the states in which they are situated, gulph of the annual expenditures of the federal gocontracted by them for those inestimable rail roads, and of John Tyler, for adhering, with such unre vernment, is a more insidious, a more plausible, but which are pouring into your state treasures beyond lenting tenacity, to the system of squandering the equally fatal expedient to direct the unparalleled "all the wealth of Ormus or of Ind;" which are giv- whole of this exhaustless treasure in the current an- bounties of providence from the cause of freedom, to ing verdure to the cultivation of your fields; weight, nual expenditures of the national administration; in the cause of oppression; from the improvement, to the fulness and multitude to the garners of your har doubling armies, quadrupling navies, and filching degradation of the condition of man. The proviso vests; comfort and competency to the industry of funds to buy up popular newspapers, and hungry to the 6th section of the act of Sept. 1841, to approyour farmers, your mechanics, your manufacturers, sycophants, to pander for presidential electioneer-priate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and your merchants; skill, science, invention, to your ing. The motive is one, though the means are not and to grant pre-emption rights, suspending the dishandicraftsmen; hardihood, energy, self-confidence the same. It comes from the store-house of nullifi- tribution, whenever the impost duties should. upon in danger to your mariners and fishermen; courage cation. Twin-brother to the forty bale theory, and and conduct to your warriors upon the ocean and the the outlawry of domestic industry, already disclosed lakes, the best defenders upon the seas of your to you by the letter of my friend, Mr. Nathan Apcountry upon the land; and wings to the expansion pleton. It is of the same family with the war against of your commerce, to every harber of the habitable Mexico for the annexation of Texas; with the war globe-which give facility and speed outstripping against England for the Island of Cuba; or to burn the winds, to your communications with your friends, at the stake the self-emancipators of the Creole. Its your families, your fellow citizens, your connections most dreaded foes are the self-evident truths, the in business, and your excursions of pleasure, till the right of petition. the panoply of the habeas corpus, obstructions of time and space almost vanish before the trial by jury, the freedom of speech, of the press, you, and till, by progressive approximation, the and of legislative debate. The first founder of the teeming myriads of your population, spread over family is SLAVERY. Its ultimate aspiration of two millions of square miles, promise to cluster into destiny is, the dominion of the slave-ridden over the one great consolidated family of brotherhood. These, free. Its antipathy to the African slave-trade is for and all these, are but a part of the blessings secured the monopoly of the market in human flesh. Its to you and your posterity by the debts, which the fearful but remorseless foreboding of the future, is wise and intelligent foresight of your legislature has the freedom of all mankind-and its abhorrence of contracted, and which you are not the men to think all internal improvement by the mighty arm of the can be paid by repudiation. No! Sooner would you Union is to rivet forever the manacles and fetters stint your children in their bread. But in contract- of the slave. ing these debts, your legislature knew that your proTo wrest from the people of the free states the perty in the public lands, if honestly paid you, would property which would enable them to pursue, withbe amply sufficient to repay you every dollar of out over-burdensome taxation, their own ardent imcharge, which the contracting of these debts would necessarily bring upon you. And on the 30th of January, 1839, they adopted the following resolves, which, on the 13th of January, 1849, were presented by Gov. Lincoln to the house of representatives of the United States.

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pulse to the improvement of their own condition,
Mr. Tyler concived the device of diverting all those
funds into the muddy stream of the daily national
expenditures, with which they would run down and
be lost. Mr. Tyler vetoes the tariff bill, because it
departs from the compromise, to which he attaches
some mystified moral obligation, and because it
clashes with a condition which he had tacked to it,
in direct violation of the compromise itself. For I
have shown you that the compromise act of 1833, so

any article, exceed 20 per cent., was a tack, added to the bill in its passage through the senate, after it had passed the house-added at the dictation of Mr. Tyfer, upon the usual intimation, that without it he would veto the bill. It was equivalent to a fraudulent nullification of the distribution itself, in the very process of enacting it. For no one knew better than Mr. Tyler, that a horizontal impost duty of twenty per cent. could not possibly supply the indispensable necessities of the treasury, and that a suspension upon that condition, was in fact a repeal of the distribution itself. I voted against concurring with the senate, in adopting this tack, which was carried in the house, by the whigs, against their own opinions, as more than one of them avowed to me, and in compliance with their overruling propensity to yield to the humors of Mr. Tyler. He therefore was the very individual who linked the two subjects so incongruous together; the very reason which he assigns, in the fore front of the veto of the second tariff bill. The real motive was to snatch from the people of the separate states the means of paying their debts, and accomplishing their great undertakings of internal improvements, forever, and the primary sur to the motive was the supremacy, present and prospective, of the slavery over the freedom of the union.

The persevering and unremitted exertions of the whig majorities in both houses of congress, at the recent session, to rescue this treasure of the separate states from the grasp of the spoiler, and the convulsive struggle with which he clung to his hold upon it, have been witnessed by you all. The whig majori

ties concurred with me, to the last moment, in the slavery petitions. And lastly, by laying on the table, Even after the treaty was ratified, the democrat of opinion that the enactment at that time, even of a at the second session, the report of the select comprotective tariff, indispensable as it was, to the ur-mittee, after fixing a special day for its consideration, gent necessities of the treasury, to the unctuality of and thereby leaving the original gag-rule in force, as the national good faith, and to the suffering industry if it had never been set aside. of free labor, was yet but a secondary object to that of retaining unimpaired the birth-right of the people's inheritance-the proceeds of the public lands, the best gift of God, to them and their posterity, for all future time. To this opinion I finally adhered; nor have I yet yielded it to the event. But when it became apparent, that the beggary of the treasury, the glaring wreck, not only of free labor, but of all the great interests of the nation, and the good name of the nation itself, crumbling into ruin under the repudiation of state debts, were as nothing in the eyes of Mr. Tyler, compared with the glory of seizing upon the property of the states, to pay the daily expenses of his administration, then their hearts relented, and in view of the agonizing distress of their country, to use the beautiful allusion of the truehearted Stanly, like the true mother, in the judgment of Solomon, they surrendered the darling child to the false pretender, rather than receive the half of the mangled corpse as their own. They passed the tariff bill without repealing the suspensive proviso, and surrendered, for the moment, the property of their constituents, to the rapacity and extortion of Captain Tyler.

the Five Points, who had told the house how easily, in the event of a war with England, we could burn the city of London, and perhaps spunge two hundred millions of dollars of debt, and who had so kindly This is the management by which the gag-rule of instructed Lord Ashburton, how, by stipulating rethe 26th congress has been fastened to the staple of paration upon all the five points of British aggresthe 27th, and it has so thoroughly prostrated the sion, he could go home and be rewarded with an right of petition of the whole people, that I myself Earldom-after the treaty had been ratified, told the was compelled to move, that all petitions might be house with great emphasis that the treaty had yet handed in at the clerk's table, for the speaker to de- to undergo the ratification of that house, and very cide whether they should be received or not, and that significantly intimated that it never should receive those which he decided to be received, should be re-that ratification with his consent. So we must not ferred to the appropriate committee. yet be too confident of the final ratification of the Thus stands the matter now. Your enjoyment of treaty, while the five points democracy, repudiation, the right of petition to the congress of the United and Tylerism, have combined their forces in the States, and that of every freeman in this union, rests house of representatives, against its ratification by upon the arbitrary fiat of a slave holding speaker.-that house. As the constitution of the United States Would to God I could give you any encouragement is understood to be an instrument of limited powers, to expect a better order of things in this respect. if you are disposed to enquire in which of its artiOn the first Monday of December next, congress are cles it grants to the house of representatives the again to reassemble. I or some other member will power of ratifying treaties, you may be assured that move to rescind the gag-rule. But we have to deal you will not find it there; but it may perhaps be inwith the same congress-the same president, whose ferred from a dissertation on the veto power, in miname, and patronage, and influence were so fatally nority report number two. from the select committee used against us, upon the struggle to restore the rule; on the second tariff bill veto. and the same house, which, after a thrice repeated These indications may well justify some 'istrust of majority had testified their reprobation of it, by a the real dispositions and purposes of captain Tyler, compromise between the loco foco democracy of the with regard to the faithful execution, if not to the raI cannot share with them the honor of this great Keystone state, and the slavery of the south. fell tification of the treaty. We are yet to see how it sacrifice, but I freely yield it to them. The tariff as back to the worship of the foul idol. That house will will be treated by his partizans, when it comes before it is, has given some relief to the exquisite suffering have but three short month to live. And as notices the house of representatives, for the appropriations of all interests throughout the union. I fondly hope were given at the close of the late session, of the to carry it into execution. The treaty has been made that it may definitively yield more, much more re-intention of several of its members to call up for public. though not in official form, and has been so lief, though I have no expectation that it will supply discussion several subjects of transcendant impor-universally approved, that even the cavils of the the indispensable wants of the treasury. Notwith- tance you will not be surprised, if, when any mo-Madisonian and the Globe, though not their causties standing the large retrenchments made at the late tion shall be made to rescind the rule, you should against the negotiator, have been silenced. To him session of congress, of the expenditures in the war hear of its being met by objections of order, previous the whole credit of the negotiation and its result has and navy departments, and in the civil list, instead questions, and motions to lay on the table, which will been ascribed-I believe justly; but I yield to Mr. of the enormous increase, recommended by Mr. Ty-be supported by the whole slave representation in Tyler's administration, and to him personally, the ler and his secretaries, it appears by an official pub- the house-by the northern Five Points democracy, credit of having confided the whole responsibility of lication, by the clerk of the house of representatives, the consistent Swiss guards of southern slavery.-by the negotiation to Mr. Webster, and of having ratifithat the actual appropriations amounted to a very the balancers of the Keystone state, and even by ed the treaty when concluded." trifle less than twenty-five millions of dollars. the languid, compromising non-resistance of the hazard nothing in saying that the tariff, even with | north, afraid of answering a fool according to his Fellow-citizens-Among the animadversions upon the superadded plunder of the public lands, will not folly and flinching from the attitude of defiance, my public conduct which have occasionally been yield twenty. The national debt is yet unprovided flung in their faces by the bullying threat of readi-brought to my notice, and for which I am accounta for, and is daily increasing. The democracy of con- ness to meet them "here or elsewhere." And if all ble to you, is the charge that in the controversies gress have been complimented for what they cer- these expedients should fail to stifle a full debate on which I have been constrained to hold with other tamly never have claimed, their share in the enact the motion to rescind, it may be turned into a motion men, I have manifested a harsh and acrimonious ment of the tariff with distribution; while the trum- to censure or expel Mr. Joshua Giddings or me, for temper, and have used violent and passionate lanpet sound of repeal is wafted to our ears, on the presenting a petition, and after spending ten days of guage. There may be some foundation for this charge; wings of every southern breeze. But the whig ma- debate upon that, lay it on the table and set the and if there be, an apology for it is due to you, from jorities in both houses of congress, when they sur- newspaper reporters of the south, ay, and of theme as your representative. Self-control is a jewel rendered for the moment, the dividends already due north, to charge him and me with wasting the time of inestimable price, and to their states, of the proceeds of the lands, had no of the house and of the nation, by stirring up incen- Thrice happy are they who master so their blood, intention to surrender or abandon the principles of diary abstractions. With that approaching short as never to lose it, But so far as any friend, or imtheir right. One half year of their dividends was session of congress, my term of duty in your service partial person, may have thought me blameable in already due and payable to them, and they passed a will close. How the next congress will be compos-that respect I would ask him to consider that the adseparate act to repeal the proviso, suspensive of the ed, who can tell? But look well to the firmness and versaries with whom I have to contend, face to face, distribution. Mr. Tyler stiffering in his resistance discernment of the candidates who are to represent have pursued me with a virulence and rancor unto them, in proportion to the humility of their con- you in the councils of the nation hereafter. I am paralleled in the history of this country. That twice cessions to him, neither approved and signed the bill, unwilling to name all those who share the responsi- in the space of five years, I have for the single ofnor returned it, with his objections, but smothered it bility of the restoration of the gag-rule; but it will fence of persisting to assert the right of the people to with a pocket veto. never be rescinded so long as any of your reprepetition, and the freedom of speech, and of the press, sentatives will listen to compromises for a single ses sion.

The tariff act is eminently protective; far more than it is financial; and its approval and signature, by any other than the accidental president, might be considered as a formal renunciation of that religious veneration for the compromise of 1833 which he has recognised as an article of his code moral obligations. But little reliance is to be placed on the steadfastness of the tariff, and as to the currency, the circulation of exchanges, the fiscal corporation, or the exchequer of issues, the first step is yet to be taken, to redeem the prostrated reputation and credit of the

nation.

endured.

been dragged before the house in which I was your representative, as a culprit, to be censured, or exThere is one part of Mr. Tyler's administration, pelled; and when, after ten days of the most unreupon the management and result of which, thus far, lenting persecution, I have barely been released from we may all join in congratulation and applause-and its fury, I have been still denounced as the cause of it is precisely that part, the whole responsibility of this waste of time consumed by my persecutors, in which has rested upon other shoulders. For if his their struggle to accomplish my ruin. On one of feelings and intentions are to be inferred from the first these occasions, the leader of the associated legion manifestations in the house of representatives, as well banded against me, has had the candor to avow his as from the ostensible head of his corporal's guard, motive for hunting me like a patridge upon the as from his auxiliary democracy of the Fiv Points, mountains, and I take the liberty to read it to you in they were far from being favorable to the treaty con- his own words. Mr. Thomas F. Marshall, after the Fellow citizens, I am requested to say something cluded between the secretary of state and the late failure of his magnanimous campaign against me, to you, upon the right of petition; the topic, upon special minister from Great Britain. On the day published in a pamphlet his eloquent speeches, dewhich your approving resolutions are most peculiar-when the treaty was transmitted to the senate for livered to obtain a sentence of condemnation against ly gratifying to me, as it is that upon which the seve their advice and consent to its ratification, a double me, and dedicating the pamphlet to his constituents, rest of my trials, as your representative, have been movement in the house, from the repudiating demo announces to them his purpose for the future, and cracy and from the captain of the guard, who had his motive for the past, in the following words:I have informed you how, at the commencement labored so hard to turn me out the chair of the com- "Though petitions to dissolve the union be pourof the present congress, the gag-rule, excluding all mittee of foreign affairs and who failing in that welled in by thousands, I shall not again interfere on the petitions touching the institution of slavery, from be-concerted manoeuvre, had sounded and led off the floor of congress; considering as I do, that the house ing received, after three successive votes of the house retreat of the whole slave dealing detachment from have virtually decided that there is nothing contempto discard it from the rules, was restored; first by two that post, indicated that the co science of Captain tuous or improper in offering them, and unwilling motions for reconsideration, made by members from Tyler was by no means reconciled to the treaty again to afford to Mr. ADAMS an opportunity of the key-stone state, holding the balance between the concluded by his secretary of state. The indications sweeping all the strings of discord that exist in our north and south in their hands, and in the common of Captain Tyler's feelers of the public pulse, the country. I acted as I thought for the best, being worship of God and Mammon, adhering in theory to Madisonian and the Globe. coincided exactly with sincerely desirous to check that man, who, if he could the true God, and to the demon-idol in practice.-tias joint movement of Mississippi repudiation, and be removed from the councils of the nation, or silenc Next, by the yielding compromise of excluding all of Albemarle slave dealing. The movement wased upon the exasperating subject to which he seems petitions for that session, with the humbug appoint-arrested on the spot, by Mr. Horace Everett, of Ver-to have devoted himself, none other, I believe, could be ment of a select committee, of five slave holders and mont, as you may all see by referring to the reports found hardy enough, or bad enough, to fill his place." four of the free representation, to revise all the rules. of the debates in the house, of that day, and the mem- Besides this special and avowed malevolence against Then by staving off the report of that committee ber from Albemarle reserved himself for minority re-me, this admitted purpose to expel or silence me, for till the last day of the session, and then smuggling port number one, from the committee on the second the sale of brow-beating all other members of the into it a new gag-rule, against the reception of anti-tariff bill veto. free representation, by establishing over them the

reign of terror. a peculiar system of tactics in the country. That if he should refuse that signature, invocation, but in deprecation of any resort to the God house has been observed towards me, by the silencers congress could do no more than return to their of battles. As to the pretension of Mr. Irwin that the of the slave representation, and their allies of the homes, and leave the people to provide a remedy by mere presentation of the idea of civil war was shocknorthern democracy, and of the guard. You re- the ballot boxe-unless, which might heaven in ing to his nervous sensibility, I think those of you member the desperate struggle at the late session, mercy forbid, the last resort should be to the God who were conversant with what was then coming to of the slave representation in the committee of fo- of battles. My colleague, Mr. Cushing, some days pass in Rhode Island, will be of opinion that these reign affairs, to turn me out of the office of chair after, in a speech against me, said that my first ob- qualms of Mr. Irwin may be classed with those of man of that committee, to which the speaker had jection againt a tariff bill without a land distribution the preacher who "never mentioned Hell to ears poappointed me; and that, when that effort failed, five section, had been "an appeal to the God of battles.”lite." members, constituting the majority of the committee, From him it passed like a watch-word to half a I must do many of the members of the House of four slaveholders, and one Tylerite of the guard, de- dozen other members, all gravely charging me with Representatives from the south the justice to say, clined serving any longer in the committee with me, having "invoked the God of battles"-and one of that their treat.nent of me is dictated far more by and that three other slaveholders, appointed by the them, Mr. W. W. Irwin, the Pittsburg member of the passions and prejudices of their constituents than speaker to supply their places, declined in like man- the corperal's guard, not content with joining in the by their own. Were it not for this curse of slavery, ner. Not one of these eight members had ever had chorus in the house, published it afterwards in a there are some of them with whom I should be upon one word of personal difference with me, upon any pamphlet, which I have in my hands, and from terms of the most intimate and confidential friendship. subject their purpose was exactly that of Mr. Mar- which I take the liberty to read you an extract: There are many for whom I entertain high esteem, shall, to remove me from the councils of the na "He (Mr. I.) had been pained and shocked to hear respect, affectionate attachment. There are even tion, or to silence me, for the sake of intimidating the idea recklessly suggested, as to the danger of civil those among them who have stood by me in my trials, all others-an ostentatious display of a common de-war growing out of this conflict of opinion between and scorned to join in the league to sacrifice me as a termination to serve with no man who would not the legislature and the executive-a conflict antici- terror to others. But I have been so often painted submit to the gag, and would persist in presenting pated by the framers of the constitution, nay, autho-to the South with the horns of abolition upon my abolition petitions. rised and provided for by that matchless instrument. head, that if I were to step South of the Potomac, the CIVIL WAR, indeed. Why, Mr. Chairman, the peo- people would be looking down for the cloven foot. ple of this country will permit no such thing. They All this I endeavor to take in good humor as I may; will not suffer it, sir. The breath of the PEOPLE, like and in that spirit, and as a sample of the feeling of a whirlwind of wrath, would sweep from the face of respectable Southern constituents towards me, I will God's earth the wretch who would dare to rear the read you from a Charleston newspaper, a toast drank standard of civil war! It is idle to harbor such with unbounded applause, at a public patriotic dinner thoughts. It is wicked to express them. at Walterborough, on the last 4th of July. in celebration of the 67th anniversary of our National Independance.

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"The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good George Washington, not forgetting Generals Marion and Sumter, who assisted in reliev ing us from King George's slavery, arbitrary power, stamp paper, and compulsory tea-drinking. May we never want a democrat to trip up the heels of a federalist, or a hangman to prepare a halter for John Quincy Adams. (9 cheers.)"

[At this point Mr. Adams' constituents greeted the toast with a hearty shout of laughter.]

You can readily conceive, fellow citizens, how powerful the effect of such movements is to overawe the members from the free states, and to frighten them from their propriety. Every member naturally wishes, apart from sectional or partizan feelings, to stand well with the other members of the house. To stand well with the southern members, is a ruling passion with many member from the free states, "Mr. I. fully reciprocated the honest sentiment of and there is nothing so sure of obtaining their good reprobation expressed by the venerable patriot from graces, as a yielding temper and disposition on this Kentucky, (Mr. POPE), at the idea of invoking an point of anti-slavery. Where the south cannot ef-appeal to the God of battles on such an issue. Infect her object of brow-beating, she wheedles. The voke the God of battles! Better far better, would it restoration of the gag-rule, after it had been three become them all to invoke the God of mercy and of times rejected, was effected in this manner. Two love; HIM who sent his only Son into this cruel, vinmembers from the state whose motto is virtue, - dictive and remorseless world, to reach peace and berty, and independence, and who had voted against good will amongst men; that He might infuse a little the rule, moved and carried reconsiderations-to of the spirit of moderation and wisdom into their keep the balance between north and south in their councils, and strengthen and enable them faithfully own hands. Then came another notable device-the to do their duty. their whole duty to a suffering appointment of a select committee, composed of country. He hoped no more of such language would course of five slaveholding members, and four from be heard in that hall." Friends and fellow citizens, let me end as I began, the free states, to report a revisal of all the rules. by tendering to you all my thanks;-thanks for the Fellow citizens,-Have you enough of this over- honor you have conferred upon me, by repeated reThen a proposition to exclude the reception of all flow of benevolence, patriotism and Christian chari- elections, of being the sole Representative, in the petitions, till after the report of the select committee, ty? How pious! how loving! how full of the milk of Congress of the United States, of the 12th Congres (except on subjects specially noticed in the presi- human kindness! Mr. Irwin while grasping at the sional District of Massachusetts;-thanks for the lident's message.] This committee never reported till thunderbolt of the PEOPLE, to hurl it at the wretch, beral and candid support which you have given me, the last day but one before the close of the session, whom he would sweep from the face of God's earth, in the general discharge of my duty as your Repreand then nothing could be done but to lay the re- does not name me as the intended victim of this po- sentative;-thanks for the special kindness with which port on the table. The good nature of the free re-pular revenge- he would have acted a manlier part, you sustained and cheered me with your approbation presentation, circumvented by this show of a com- in brandishing the besom of his wrathy whirlwind, if and encouragement on two several occasions of severe promise, yielded to the exclusion of petitions for that he had named me-but if, in reading this racy para- trial, one in February, 1837, and the other five years session, and never recovered the right. The yielders graph of his speech, you will stop to enquire what is after, in February last-occasions, on both of which commended themselves by their concession to the the meaning of the words "them all," you will im- the fury of the whole mass of Southern slavery was good feeling of the south, and she patted them on the mediately perceive that they stand there as the sub-concentrated on my head, for the avowed purpose of back as good honest fellows, albeit abolitionists, and stitute for my name, which the wrath of Mr. W. W. breaking down whatever of good name I had to leave laughed in her sleeve to find how easily yankee cun- Irwin lacked energy to pronounce. ning could be outwitted. This compromising with as an inheritance to my children, in order that my I had no opportunity in the house of replying to prmciple, to appease the south, is one of the means this charge of Mr. Irwin, that I had invoked the God Signal ruin might strike terror to the heart of your of obtaining personal influence with southern mem- of battles, to decide the contest between Captain Ty-lord of the ascendant for all future time throughout every other Representative, and leave slavery the bers. The refusal to serve with me upon the com- ler and the whigs in congress; nor to any other of the the North Americau Union. The touching memomittee of foreign affairs, was another sprig of the "race-moutoniere," who caught up and repeated the rials of your generous sympathy, on the first of those same stock. I do not believe there has ever been, same charge, one after another, till it went from the occasions, remain fresh on my heart as on the day since the existence of the general government, ano- reporters to the newspapers, and was rung like a when they were displayed. But for that generous ther instance of a comb ned squad of members re- tocsin throughout the land; but you see that it was fusing to serve on a standing committee of the house, a gross misrepresentation of what I had said, whether conflict, would have been the fairest destiny that sympathy, to have perished without dishonor in the with one member of the house, because they could originating in the obtuseness of intellect, which can- could have befallen me-for dishonor, and the indig not remove him from the councils of the nation by not discern the difference between an invocation and nation of my countrymen, was the professed penalty expulsion, or turn him out from the chair of the deprecation, or in the wilful purpose of misrepresenta- which the patriot conspirators of the manacle and the committee, without a shadow of assignable reason tion. Mr. Irwin and his coadjutors may settle for fetters had prepared to inflict upon me, for speaking themselves. I leave with Mr. Irwin my hearty com- in your name, and in the Representative Hall of the mendation of his invocation of the God of mercy and people, the language of freedom, in defence of the inof love with the exhortation that in his next paroxysm alienable rights of man. of piety he will remember that his God is no lover of slander, nor likely to be propitiated by the devo-! Then, too, as upon the present occasion,a convention tion of a worshipper who invokes him in the act of of delegates from the several towns of your District, bearing false witness against his neighbor. met and favored me with an interview like the pre

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This communion of south, sectional, and locofoco antipathy, has given rise to another practice peculiar to their treatment of me. I never can take part in any debate upon an important subject, be it only upon a mere abstraction, but a pack opens upon me of personal invective in return. Language has no word of reproach and railing, that is not hurled at me, And I leave with you, my constituents, this narra-Sent-thanked me for the fidelity with which I had and the rules of the house allow me no opportunity tive: first, as a sample of the cominon mode of warfare discharged the duties of my trust-cheered and ento reply, till every other member of the house has and kind of weapons used by my unrelenting adver-couraged me to proceed with the same persevering had his turn to speak if he pleases. By another rule, saries in congress against me, and to apologize to and undaunted spirit and pledged to me their aid and every debate is closed by a majority, whenever they you, for to you I hold myself strictly accountable, it, support to every exertion to which I might be called get weary of it. The previous question, or a motion in having to deal hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, with in pursuing the same career: a pledge nobly redeemto lay the subject on the table are interposed; and I such adversaries, in the use of such weapons, there ed by you through all the perils of my latest trialam not allowed to reply to the grossest falsehoods, have occasionally escaped unadvisedly from my lips and gloriously consummated by the distinguished and most invidious misrepresentations. These often words unfitting for your representative to utter, reception which you have been pleased to give me pass from one member to another, in their com- though not unfitting for those my adversaries to hear. on this day. bined assaults against me in debate, are then caught And secondly, to assure you that I never did invoke and circulated by the reporters, and letter-writers or appeal to the God of battles for the decision of any from Washington, to the newspapers, and re-echoed contest, foreign or domestic, of my country-that far through all the party presses of the union. I give from it, all the most arduous and unremitting labors you an example. In a speech that I made on the of my life, for the last seven years, have been to avert morning when the second tariff bill was sent to the from you the imminent dangers of war with Great president, I observed that he then had it in his power, Britain, and with Mexico, to which you were, and by the single word "approved" and the signature of yet are-thank God, in a diminished degree-exposhis name, to heal the breach, large as it was, which ed. And finally that the very words which have had unhappily been made between him and congress, been thus distorted from their true meaning, to bring to restore peace, happiness, and prosperity to the upon me this foul reproach, were used by me, not for

We are now to part-and, after another short tour of duty at Washington, the relation between us, the affectionate relation of Representative and constituent, will cease, at least with a very large portion of you, for ever. I can never again be the Representative in Congress of the Plymouth Rock-but the me mory of it will remain with me while the vital blood shall circulate from my heart; and with it my still repeated thanks for all your kindness to me, shall ascend in the form of benizons to heaven on you and your children, to the latest generation.

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CHRONICLE.

POSTSCRIPT-LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. Our paper was prepared for press when Boston papers reached us with accounts of the arrival there on Thursday last of the steamer Acadia, with Liverpool papers to the 4th instant. Fifty pa sengers were brought out, of whom eight stop pet Halifax.

There have been tremendous failures amongst the mer

chants engaged in the corn trade, especially in the Mediterranean, which produces great distress and excitement; so many houses at home and abroad are overwhelmed as to spread difficulty on every hand;-numbers of firms that for a long series of years have maintained influenual positions, have been brought to the ground.

The colonial market is exceedingly depressed;-despondency amongst commercial classes increased; gloomy prospects;-nothing can exceed the dullness of every departinent of business,"-Manchester gools never

The new coiton is now daily mir dog nad the re
otsiti
ceipts am aunt to about twenty bases per day.
standing the ravages of the worn, the dioagle, and the
wet weather, the amount of corton suppe i this year fowa
Houston will, in all probability be fully equal to the amount
shipped last year.

Later. Prices had improve i, and demand brisk in the
Liverpool marketa: 1. advance, before the Acadia left
there on the 4 h inst.

DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES

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IMPORTANT SUIT. The Cincinnati Gazette states that in the suit of Sirader & Gorman vs. Rogers, which has heretofore occasioned several junes to lang, has been that city, and a verdier rendered for the plaintiffs for 20,000. The suit was brought to recover the value of the agam tried before the superior court now in session "He who is now against steamboat McFarland, owned by the plantiffs, which was domestic manufactures must be for reducing us either to sunk in the Mississippi by being run into by the steama dependence on that matio, (Eaglard,) or be clothed boat Danube, owned by the defendant. A judgine at for in skins and live like wild beasts, in dens and caverns. I the same amount was recovered some time since against JEFFERSON. am proud to say, I am not one of them. Experience has the pilot at the wheel of the Danube. The case has been tual labor in court in the different trials. The tangot me that manufactures are now as necessary to offrwarinly contested, having occupied some sixty days acindependence, as to our comfort."

EARTHQUAKE Several shocks of an earthquake were felt at Three Rivers, Sorel and adjacent paris, on Monday morning the 7th instant, about nine o'clock. They were preceded by a noise like that of an explosion, and the shocks were sufficiently strong to excite some appreAmer can pork and beef were making a powerful di-hensions. Something of the kind is said to have been versi in in the provision markets-getting quite in demand perceived in the neighborhood of Quebec about the same and starting their provision men.

so low before.

Parliament will not assemble until February.

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LOUISVILLE CANAL Tux on western produce. tolls on seamboats passing through the canal around the falls of the Ohio, at Louisville, are perfectly outrageous, A boat in the St. Louis trade makes two trips a A boat of 216 toasis charged $147 60 to passing through Allowing a once. month, and the toils amount to 8590 40. pay in five years $26 569, which is about the original cost The canal is company pro boar to run eight months in the year, she would have to of river boats of 250 tons. perry, but it should belong to the general government; [Cleveland Heruld. in repair. and the tolls collected should only be sufficient to keep it

LETTERS FOR EUROPE. I is stated in the New York come to the determination that they will not take letters papers that the packet ship owners of New York have from the post office for Eng and unless 12 ceats is paid news rooms and their own offices. for each, being the same amount as is charged at the

[Quebec Gazelle, Nov. 9th ELECTIONS. We have not yet received entire returns A disastrous gale occurred on the 29th and 30th ult. Boark's (V B.) majority as governor My lives and much property lost on the coast. Oliver from New York. The general result was accurately Wingate's great warehouse at Glasgow, with immense given in our last stores of inerchandize was barnt on the 23th; the exten-will be something over 18,000. The senate will stand sive mills of Eccles, at Blackburn, damaged by fire to 22 Van Buren, 10 whiest par s in the house stand preCongressmen, 24 Van Buren and 10 whigs. the extent of £10,000. The American ship Havre was cisely as they were last vesus 95 Van Buren and 33 burnt at Bordea ix, three blacks of her crew arrested on whigs Massachusetts. We have partial returns of the ele. Buspicion of the crime. The Belgian governinent has concluded to make re-tion held on Monday last in Massachusetts; so far, 272 prisals on American trade, by imposing countervailing towns give MORTON the V. B. candidate for governor, duries in consequence of the charges made on the ton- 52,683 votes, where bist year he had only 47.860-and DAVES, (whg,) 51,023, where last year he had 52,055. age of their British Queen steamer at N. York. From the east, there is information that Go. Pollock There are 570) "scattering," or abolition votes taken; consequently, the towns to be heard from cannot elect had invested Cabul, and talked of storming it. The French government insists up an abandoning their either of the candidates by the people. The choice de slave trade treaties with England, and a iping the plan voives upon the legislature. The house will co isist of The British min 356 members. Last year it contar el 159 whizs, and adopted in the treaty of Washingto ister hold them to their trevies til they shall expire-say 78 V. B. As far as ascertained, the whigs have elected next year-laut accepts their proposals to enter into a 97 and the V. B 37 members. In 76 towns no choice was effected, and new elections will be held. Toe Whigs have elected 7 senators, the V. B. 14, and in 19 treaty of commerce. BANGOR. The Bangor Waig estimates that more lunt di- mis no choice. For congress, 5 whigs, viz A. Ruck.! poin's of law was taken up to the supreme court of Alawell, W. C. Winthrop, J. Q. A lams, B. Bir tell, and A Baker, have been elected. Williams (V. B.) is also Whether Parmenter, (V. B.) is or not, is elected. In all the towns excep! Roxborough, he has 6.47 Lar, (whig) 5,716, and there are 805 scattering three districts no choice has been effected.

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ber, especially sawed lumber, is samped from that city
than from any other place in the world. The amount
Fa vei bimber surveyed for shipinear, the present season,
has reached to one hundred and six milions of feet
The amount shipped without survey is es im ved, at
the lo vest, at fifcen millions of feet. The average price
of this lumber is about tea dollars a thousand, and the
total value of all kinds, for a year, is estimated at
million six hundred and ten thousand dollars.
tion of this sam that goes to the owners of de
about five han tred thousand dollars, leaving the
to be distributed among the other owners and
ratives. "fnis," says the Whig, "is one of our sples of
business and commerce, and, when taken in connexin
with our ship building, bark, wood, leather, spars, cedar,
posts, bricks, barrels, pita oes, &c. helps to give so.ne
faint idea of the business of our cny of the east."

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CLEVELAND, O. Few of the interior cities of the Union exhibit a larger amout of, xports than Cleve land. A statement furnished by the collector of the port of the value of three staple articles, flour, pork, and wheat, exported during seven weeks pas by vessels alute, shows an average of $105.242 51 per week. In addition to the articles mentioned, a large amount of lard, butter, cheese, &c. has been exported during the period, and the frht taken by steamboats is by no

means incon-iderable.

Value of exports of flour, pork, and wheat in vessels from

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The vote throughout the state for member
Cres (V. B. 9,413, Cummings (W.)
The senate stands
15.315; Ev..
cena pendom: 1,686.
15 Via Bu
6 wing the house 46 V. B. 20 whigs
V. B. mg at tj dat baltor 35.
Mich gun has gone for the Van Buren party as
last year. Particulars not yet received.

Middle Florida, the whigs have carried.

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Of the elections which have as yet taken place for re-
presen wives to the next congress, only forty-three have
been chosen according to the districting enactments of
the apportionment law, viz: thirty-four in New York,
seven 1 Massachusetts, one in Delaware, and one in
Of those chosen, twenty-seven are Van Bu-
Arka. sus.
ren and six'ee whigs The elections held in Louisiana,
Georgia, Mass u and partially in Pensylvania, were
held under the general ticket system.

LYNCH LAW. There was a most horrid tragedy enacted by a body, said to consist of not less than 130 of the cruzens of Earbour county, Alabama, on the 4th inst. In the year 1810 a certain Henry Blake was found murdered on a private road in that county. George W. Lore, a citizen of the county was arrested on suspicion An appeal on of being the murderer. Twice he was put on trial and . the jury in each case could not agree to a verdic. la April, 1942, he was tried and found guilty in Henry county to which his case was removed.

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Lore in the meantime escaped, but was recently discovered in am and a new trial was directed by that court. the eighborhood, nere ted, and marched to Gleanville, where a mob collected, and the Moderator says-“Wẹ learn that two out of one hundred and thirty-two voted to deliver him over to the proper authorities, and that the residue declared for summary and capital punishment He was accordingly marched out by the by hanging nob Fun G. novice to Spring Hill, and there, on the 4th ins, metinner of all law, divine and human, and in the tare of his protestations of innoce ce, hung by the neck an it he as dead, It is a foul and damning blot upon the character of Barbour county! Every friend to the laws-every friend to order and regulated liberty, shulu raise his voice against the authors of this Whether Lore was guilty or inoutrage, and hold them up to that reprobation which they so richly nocent has uw become a question of no interest to mankind. The majes y of the law has been overthrown, and personali na rty and personal security are at an end when Ife self becomes the sport and plaything of a sanguinary mob.

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ROMAN CATHOLICS. The Roman Annual Almanac says-'04 18 September next our holy father the pope EXCHANGES at N. York, bids on London in demand will accomplish his 77 h year. He has occupied the O Philadel-chair St. Pe er 11 years. The sacred college is coalCardinal Ruff is the phia; Baltimore 4; Virginia 14; N. Carolina 2; Charles-posed of 60 cardinals, 6 cardinal bishops, 43 ca dinal at 6; 6) per cent. O France 5 46.5 62 Ton 14; Sivannah 14: Union, Florida 60; New Orleans pries s, and 11 cardinal deacons. burg, who is 33, the younges!. 14; Male 16117; Tuscalo sa 17; Nashville 4a5; Lou- most aged, being 57 years old, and Cardinal Schwartzen

Total.
Canadi
30,015 72
31.532 53

I8 957 35
8231 03
18 455 85
15.355 90

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Cleveland, Ohio. isville 2; Clacinnati 3. US ports. FLOUR 121.281.69 Prices at Bis on 4 41; New York 4 25; Al91.265 96 119 693 37 buy 4 25; Buffalo 3 25, Cleveland S 12; Pinhadelphia 89,220 79 106 777 94 913: 72 116.212 66 4 31; Baltimore 4 00; Wilmington 4 12; Richmond 79 313 70 4 18; Alexandria 4 09. 60 356 25 59 322 33 The New York Express says, If the rece p's of flour 81.043 33 36 190 61 in this marker exceed a million of harrels, as they un 17,734 75 The Acæon British steamer was rendered unfit 171,570 23 questionably do, the am sunt realised on his important 153,215 23 iem, in the pocke's of the farmers and manufacturers, Eight dolars has been a very common further service by a heavy gale off the northern island 601,662 30 135 035 22 736 697 55 is very great. Now it is a httle over four, making a STOCK. United States six per cent. 100; fives and {Cleveland Herald. price for four. difference of four milions of dollars on this one article. halls 99; New York sixes 93; lives and a half 85 and Arrived during B every art.cle, the production Ohio sixes 71; fives 60.65; Kentucky sixes 77: Ilha COTTON ITEMS. Savannah Nov. 12. the week 7 953 bales; exported 7,832 bales, viz, to Liver. If the Loss to the fariners stopped here. it would be great New York late sevens 102; Corporation sevils I of the farm, bears a relative reduction in price. If an es pool 4 334; to Havre 1.223; to New York 1,039; to Bal satisficion o them. timate of the difference in prices could be made, it would sixes 18; Indian bonds 20; Arkansas bonds 30; Pen timore 432; and to Charleston 813; leaving a sock on hand and on shipboard, not cleared, of 22 303 bales In this general and unusual fall of produce, we may trace The market this week opened dull, and slight concession astonish even those who ar familiar with the trade.sylvania fives 45. Treasury notes 99 a 100. was make on the part of se lers, in order to induce the the depreciation of very description of prosperity. Farms, buyers to operate. Quotations are reduced to the pre-houses, stores, mills, have all sunk in value, and kept Bent state of the market. Interior 5a543 ordinary 55; middling 6.6; middling fair 6a6; fair 7.74 and fully pace with the decline in produce. The present is a state The inspection at Baltimore for the week, consists of The sales of Upland amount to 3,633 of things never before known in this country. 20 at fair 7a73 ceus. bales, as follows; 23 a 5; 37 at 51: 99 at 54; 28 at 5; GERMAN INDEPENDENCE. 54, 290 a 6; 761 at 61; 132 at 6; 431 at 6; 53 6; 353 14,129 barrels, 213 hall barrels. at 6; 143 at 61; 553 at 7; 81 at 7; 136 at 74; 100074; We understand 102 at 7; 8 at 7; 203 at 7 ceurs. sunie sales have been made below 5 cents though none such were i pored. There have been no sales of Sea Island, and as the market has not fairly opened yet, our quota tons are nominal.

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A great festival
from Berlin says: "I the month of August of the nex:
year a great festival will take place in our capital and
probably all over Germany, That year will be the thus
andth anniversary of the independence of this country,
it being in the month of August 843, that the celebrated
Texian cotton. Six hundred and eighty-three bales of treaty of Verdun was concluded by virtue of which Ger-
cotion have been shipped from Houston since the 13 h many was separated from France and Italy, to which it
of July laet. The Byron took away 203 bales on the 23, had been joined since the time of Charlemagne. It was

SUGAR Fig cacus is coming into competition w the beet root. Selligot, professor of chemistry, has ins a report to the French minister of marine on the cou said to be well worth the attention of those who th rison of sugar cane, and the fabri ation of sugar tha of manufacturing sugar from the cornstalk and b root, as well as from the sugar cane. There is quite sugar war raging in France-the domestic agatust Prince Luis Napoleon has pu West India interest. lished a pamphlet in favor of the domestic products, subjected himself to the hot hostility of some of the op

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PRESIDENTIAL Whig national convention sugges ed. Letter of Mr. Van Buren. Gen. Scotts letter to the Diy:n barbacue. Mr. Calhoun. General Cass uo. minated.

POLITICS OF THE DAY.

FOREIGN ARTICLES,

GREAT BRITAIN.

AMERICAN PROVISIONS. An opportunity has been in the hall of the palace allocated by the king for afforded the inhabitants of Newport, during the past that purpose. As soon as the members of the assemweek, of testing the quality of American beef and bly had taken their places, a deputation composed of pork, a large quantity of both having been received several members waited on the ministers of state to by Mr. Fieldhouse grocer, of that town, which he apprise them that the members had assembled at the commenced selling on Wednesday last, at 3d and palace. Count Armin, minister of the interior, then 4d per ib. Several parties who have made pur- proceeded to the palace, and opened the session with chases have pronounced it (especially the pork) ex- the following speech:

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Princes and gentlemen-His majesty has appointed me to open the session of the committees of the AMERICAN PRODUCE. Extract of a letter from a states, conformably to the cabinet order of the 19th mercantile gentleman in Greenock, dated 25th ult. of August last. Two years have elapsed since you ALLEGIANY & AL REGION OF MARYLAND-letter from. The ship Caledonia, capt. Allan, arrived here on assembled around the throne at the king's invitation, CHRONICLE. Saturday from Montreal, having on board 730 barrels to renew solemnly, in the venerated capital of ancient of beef and pork, a quantity of hams, butter, &c.- Prussia, and in this same place, the bonds of the The duty on beef is 2s per ewt; on pork 5s. being king's love, and of the unalterable fidelity of his subcolonial. These are of very fine quality-the latter jects. You have responded to this appeal joyfully, particularly so--and both are offering at 40s per barrel of 200 lbs. duty paid; or 36, per barrel for ship's and there is no one amongst us who has not preserved to the effects of the dreadful storm which raged durat 3d per lb. The butter stands 74 per 1b, duty paid. and united them by the indissoluble bonds of love The accounts from the coast of England relative stores, so that salt beef and pork will now be retailed the most lively recollection of those days when the legitimate sovereign addressed his faithful people, ing Saturday and Sunday, are of a most distressing Those prices are facts, and capt. Allan tells me Ca- and of respect. He has at present again summoned description. The loss of life and property has been nada is able to send any quantity. A friend of his the representatives of the provinces, and they have immense, and it is feared many vessels foundered has taken out some men from Belfast to cut up the again cheerfully assembled around the steps of the that will never be heard of, the unhappy crews pe- meat in the same inammer as the Irish do. In Monthrone. The unanimity with which Prussia, at the Fishing with them. treal, best beef, pork, veal, and lamb, sell at 2d moment of taking the oath of allegiance, repeated to per lb." its king the sacramental affirmative, which had a long echo, and which was heard in the most remote The Moniteur publishes a royal ordinance, dated; provinces of the kingdom-that unanimity which, the 29th ult., appointing Lieutenant General Sebas-with the Divine assistance, has so materially contri tiani to the command of the first military division,buted to the maintenance of peace--that same unity in place of Lieutenant General Count Pajol placed forms the element of your present meeting. The en disponibilile. The Moniteur adds, that General provinces of Prussia are united in their love for the Sebastiani took the command of the first military king whenever it may be necessary to protect the division on Monday last. national independence.

The caisson erected on the Goodwin Sauds, from which so much benefit was expected to shipping on those dangerous sands, has, we are sorry to see, given way to the late gales It has caused much regret in the mercantic circles, who looked to the result with considerable interest, although many pe sous have all along doubted the practicability of the plan.

The rev. Solomon Hershell, (Jew), died in the 82d year of his age. He was 40 years chief rabbi, and during that long period was beloved and respect ed by all classes of persons, without reference to religious opinions.

The pasha of Egypt has forwarded to sir C. Napier a medal, splendidly enriched with diamonds, and a sword, the hilt and scabbard of which are nearly all composed of solid gold.

does not exceed 5s.

English private banks,

FRANCE.

with the dismissal of General Pajl from the milita-mity will attend the deliberations of this assembly at
The "Liberal" opposition journals are taken up
The king confidently expects that the same unani-
ry command of Paris, and unanimously condemn

the letter of Marshal Soult to him as brutal and

wanting in consideration for so heroic a soldier of
the republic and the empire.

The Courier Francais publishes the following re-
ply of General Pajol to the marshal:
"Monsieur le Marechal Sult. You have made

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time when his sagacious will, through pure royal ment of the institution of the states by assembling grace, has carried into effect this important complethe different councils. On those points where the opinions of the provincial states are divided, the sessions of the committees will unite and conciliate what are the wants of the country, the committee them. Whenever it shall be necessary to determine will point them out. Whenever it may be necessary

An apparatus has been invented for preventing known to me that the command of the first division chimneys taking fine, and also for preventing the acI was not prepared cumulation of soot. ing of a case containing a number of sheets of wire for this decision; but it is a satisfaction to me to re- for the king's government to consult the states on It is extremely simple, consist- was about to be taken from me. gauze, which is introduced into the chimney a little flect that it is, after order and the greatest tranquil questions of administration by means of an organi, above the fire. No flame can pass through the box, it have reigned in Paris for more than three years. the committee shall be the medium. No doubt, difMy sense of my own personal dignity has never al ferent opinions will be displayed in this assembly, and as the sheets of wire gauze have a cooling ten dency, all the carbon which may ascend is stopped for a moment I call your attention to them, it is conviction, and the general good requires that it lowed me to set any value on my services, and if and they will, no doubt, be debated with force and by the box, and the soot thus prevented from accu-not-I earnestly beg you to believe-to protest should be so. minating in the chimney. The cost of this apparatus against an unmerited disgrace. Having been a sol- opinion arises, this fraternal contest should be conBut, whenever such a difference of dier for 52 years, of which I have been a lieuten- ducted with a view to the general welfare of Prussia, The following is the official statement of the ave-ant general for the last 30 years, I was, in the which is common to all, and with a recollection that rage circulation and bullion of the banks described, three last campaigns of the empire, so happy as to for four weeks ending October 15. politic, as far hful subjects of the same king. On we are assembled here as members of the same body Bank of England, this, the first day of your assembling, the king's wili has, from the height of the throne, offered you, with full liberty, a gift of the most noble confidence. For that reason, this day will be ever remarkable as the most glorious of the reign of Frederick William IV. It will like wise be remarked in the annals of Prussia, recollection for the king who has given it to us, and as one of the most happy. It will be a day of joyous it will afford a flattering pledge to those who, by the confidence of the king and that of their provinces, have been for the first time invited to assemble round him. We have a sure guarantee of this in the tried zeal with which you will devote yourself to the acconscientious subjects, in the sacritice of your pri complishment of your commission as faithful and it and by the unanimity of your resolutions. A vate interests whenever the public good shall require vast field is opened to you-may it, by your honest zeal and, the Divine benediction, produce happy

Do. Joint stock,

Scotland, chartered and private,
Bank of Ireland,

Private at Jomt Stock,

Bullion in the Bank of England, On the above, which was published London paper remarks as follows:

obtain signal successes at the head of numerous $19,503,000 corps of the army, and it is well known that I was 5,468,661 in the first line of generals in chief for whom the 3 064,539 great captain destined the baton of marshal. I might, 2,743,795 perhaps, have been warranted in hoping that the 3,041 150 government of July would grant me this reward, 2,002,784 and thus realize an intention openly manifested by the emperor. Far from acknowledging these claims, £35,843,784 M. le Marechal, you seem disposed to deprive me 49,801 000 suddenly of a post in which I have, during 12 years, October 29, a passed through great difficulties. A retreat, thus preceded, has nothing redoubtable in my eyes. Compared with the account published in Septemhave already known adversity. My long career will ber, the above return shows an increase of 15.000 not have been without glory. My fellow citizens in the stock of bullion, and an increase of 4894,335 constantly served my country with the most disintewill ever do me the justice of testifying that I have in the total circulation of notes The circulation of rested devotion the Bank of England has decreased to the extent of be the lot which awaits me, I shall meet with resig Therefore, however rigorous may £111,000; but all the other issuers in England, nation the sentence with which I am threatened. Scotland and Ireland have increased to the extent of 41,395,335. This fact proves, we think, a greater am, with respect, &e. degree of activity in the internal commerce of the country; whilst the decrease of Bank of England notes may arise from the large payments made to the bank for account of the revenue at the end of the financial quarter.

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There has been a large export of the precious metals to India and China, and to France and Hamburg, All the members of the committees of the proviu treaties with every country whose vessels visit our during the last three months. The amount of bui- cial states having arrived at Berlin on the 17th, the ports in any numbers, by which these vessels are eulon, however, in the Bank of England was abundant. solemn opening of the session took place on the 18th,titled to the benefit of being subject to no other ton

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