FRANCE, CONCLUDED.-Proceedings of the Chambers.-The new Charter.-Duc
d'Orleans King.-Settlement of the Government.-Conclusion.
NETHERLANDS.-Opposition of the Allies to Republican Governments..
Kingdom of the Netherlands.-The creation of the Congress of Vienna.-Uni-
ted Provinces, Islands, &c, of German origin.-Walloons of the Gallic race.-
Contests of the fifth century between the Salians and Saxons.-Conversion of
Witikend to Christianity.-Conquest of the Country by Charlemagne-Corpo-
rate Trades.-Charles, the great-grandfather of Charles Fifth.-Marriage of his
daughter with Maximilian of Austria.-Connexion with Ferdinand and Isabella.-
Charles Fifth. Reformation.-Inquisition.-Philip.-William of Nassau.-The
obnoxious Minister Granville.-Gueux or Beggars, the title of the opposers of
Government.-Division between the Protestants and Catholics.-Union of the
Seven United Provinces.-Power of the Dutch in the Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth Centuries.-Conquests in the East and West Indies.-French Revolu
tion.-Batavian Republic.-Kingdom of Holland.-French Province.-Belgium
annexed to France.-Revolution of 1813.-Restoration of House of Nassau.-
Constitution.-Belgium united with Holland.-Assembly of Notables.-Amend-
ed Constitution.-Public Debt.-Situation of the Netherlands as to Foreign
Powers.-Internal disputes from the Catholic Religion and Education.-Free
Trade and Restriction.-Ordinances as to Language.-Budget.-M. de Potter,-
His Trial.-Session of 1829.-Ministerial Responsibility.-Law on the Press-
Revolution of 26th August, 1830.-Demands of the Belgians.-Meeting of the
States General, 12th September, 1830.-King's Speech-Provisional Govern-
ment at Brussels.-Attack of Prince Frederick.-Recognition of the Belgians
by the Prince of Orange.-Return of M. de Potter to Brussels.-Character of
King William.
Condensed View of the Tonnage of the several Districts of the United States
on the 31st December, 1828, Abstract of the Tonnage of the Shipping of the several Districts of the United
States on the 31st December, 1828,
Quantities of American and Foreign Tonnage entered into, and departing from,
each District of the United States during the year ending Sept. 30, 1829,
Recapitulation of the Tonnage of the United States for the year 1828,
Summary statement of Merchandise imported into the United States, in Ameri-
can and Foreign vessels from Oct. 1, 1828, to Sept. 30, 1829,
Summary statement of the value of the Exports of the Growth, Produce and
Manufacture of the United States, during the year ending on the 30th Sep-
tember, 1829,
Statement showing the whole amount of Indian Annuities now payable under
treaty provisions; dates of the acts of oppropriation; names of tribes to whom
payable; the sums which are permanent, and those which are limited, and the
terms of limitation,
Treaty between the United States and Prussia, Convention between the United States and Denmark,
Circular to the Collectors of Customs,
Correspondence in relation to opening the Ports,
Order in Council opening the Ports,
Present and proposed Import Duties in the American Colonies,
Address of the Chamber of Deputies,
Report of the French Ministers to the King,
AMERICAN ANNUAL REGISTER,
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
Inauguration of General Jackson. - State of Affairs. - Political Principles of President. - New Cabinet. Removals. - Opposition in Senate. - Post Office Department. - Dissentions in the Cabinet. Controversy between the President ant Vice Presi dent. Cause and Consequence thereof.
On the 4th of March, 1829, in
Nor was the aspect of the po
the presence of the Senate, the litical atmosphere less propitious. members of the House of Representatives and a vast concourse of people, General Andrew Jackson took the oath of office and entered upon the administration of the government of the United States.
A long train of fortunate events had prepared his way for a happy and prosperous career in his new character as a Civil Magistrate. His military success at a peculiar crisis had given him a strong claim upon the country, and the energy, decision and self-devotion manifested in various trying emergencies had obtained for him a large share of the public confidence.
The administration of his predecessor had been arrested by the popular will in the midst of its career, before the merits or demerits of its policy had been fully tested, and with so decided an expression of public feeling against its continuance, as to leave its members no ability and apparently little inclination to offer an early opposition to the new Executive. The community was tired of political warfare, and a general disposition was evinced to give the measures of the administration a fair trial. Some uncertainty of course existed as to the policy which the new President
might feel bound to adopt. His political experience had not been great, and the inferences which the public had drawn as to his principles from his declarations and votes when in the federal Senate, had been rendered somewhat uncertain by the contradictory assertions made by his supporters in different sections of the Union and by the decided political character of that portion of his adherents, who had been ranked in the previous contest among the friends of the late Secretary of the Treasury (Mr Crawford.) That class of public men was regarded as contending for a strict, or what was denominated a narrow, construction of the Federal Constitution, and their support was given to him upon principles of opposition to the policy that governed the administration of Mr Monroe. All the other candidates in that contest were sustained upon a contrary principle. The construction given to the Federal Constitution, by which Congress was deemed to be empowered to protect domestic manufactures, to appropriate moneys for works of internal improvement, to create a United States Bank, and generally to regulate and control all affairs strictly national, had become the settled policy of the country. Strong objections were still urged to this construction, by the Representatives from the Southern States, and by some of the leading friends of Mr Crawford in other sections of the Union. But it had been too long and too generally acquiesced in to permit the hope of a successful appeal to public opinion in behalf of can
didates offered upon principles of opposition to that construction. All the candidates consequently were understood to be in favor of that construction. Mr Calhoun was an early and ardent advocate of that principle, and had efficiently contributed when in Congress and also while in the Cabinet to the adoption of the principal measures, which had provoked the hostility of those who contended for a literal construction of the constitution. Mr Clay had long been distinguished as the eloquent and uncompromising supporter of the American System, a system whose characteristic features were the protection of domestic industry and a liberal application of the public treasure to purposes of internal improvement. Mr Adams at an early period of his political life had manifested his attachment to the cause of internal improvement, and he made no secret of his opinions concerning the powers of Congress in all matters of national concern. General Jackson had not occupied so conspicuous a station in political life; but while in the United States Senate he had been no less decided in his opinions on the long disputed question as to the constructive powers of Congress. During this short term of service the following bills providing for internal improvement came under consideration: 1st. A Bill authorizing a road from Memphis in Tennessee to Little Rock in Arkansas. 2d. A Bill for making certain roads in Florida. 3d. A Bill to procure necessary surveys for roads and canals. 4th. A Bill to improve the navigation of the Mis
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