tioner. An indemnity as consistent with policy as, at all. Will the oath you have taken bind you to with justice, inculcating an instructive lesson to speak the truth, or do you know of any oath more the oppressor and to the oppressed. Successful binding?

usurpation yields indeed to but few checks: among The Turnstile General, [attorney general? objectthe few is the justice of posterity, who take ed to the question; upon which a discussion arose cognizance equally of the crimes of the usurper as to the nature of the oath likely to bind the witand of the sufferings and the virtue of his victim ness, who appeared to be playing with a thread. -condemning the former, and administering relief The witness was accordingly asked, by way of ilto the latter. And what more consolatory to the lustration, to what degree he thought the thread * suffering patriot, what better calculated to inspire was binding, and whether he knew of any thing else constancy and courage, than a conviction, founded more binding? on fact, that his wrongs, on the restoration of sound The Lord Precedent Furthermore (lord chancelprinciples, will attract the regard of the success- lor,] said, if the witness believed the thread he ful assertors of freedom, and who will cheerfully held was binding, that was sufficient. indemnify him for the injuries he has sustained? The Lord Precedent's opinion gave rise to a long Such examples are not wanting in governments less discussion as to whether more binding was binding, beneficent than ours-that of England is replete and binding was more binding; which ended in with instances of this kind. Acts of parliament, reference to the erminians, [the judges] who delipassed in times of heat and excitement, are frevered the following solemn opinion:-If the witquently reversed, and the individuals on whom ness shail answer that he thinks the bit of thread. they had operated, are restored to the rights of is binding, there is no doubt it is binding; but be which they had been deprived. Succeeding par cannot be asked if a cord is more binding, because liaments do not hesitate to indemnify the victims he, in fact, says that the thread itself is binding. If of oppression, because they had suffered under the witness twists the thread round his little finger the forms of law. Acts of dieir legislature, whose he is so far bound by it, and it is binding; and havpower is omnipotent, form no obstacle with those ing done that, it is unnecessary to inquire whether to whom their injustice is made manifest, in grant a cord, round another part of his body, would be ing relief. An American congress will not suffer more binding. Question over-ruled. itself to be exceeded by any government in acts

Cross exumination resumed.

The Turnstile General, [attorney general] protested against the consequences of this mode of examination.

of justice or beneficence. You are a master tailor, I think? I was cut out The committee have only further to remark, that for a tailor, [alluding to his passion for dress.Į the executive interposed its authority in various You have been a tailor, then? I only follow tailor cases, and granted a full pardon to those convicted ing as a mere amusement.-Fond of goose I supunder the act in question, by which their fines pose-but pray Mr. Mere amusement what is your were either remitted, or restored: relief, there-business? I was brought up a cabinet maker. What fore, to the petitioner, would be only a common can you get at it?-are you a good hand? I can't say measure of justice. According to the information I am; I'm badly off; my tools are worn out:-What received from the department of state, no money is your place of residence? (Order, order.) has ever been paid into the treasury by the officers who received the fines imposed under the sedition act. It is submitted to the discretion of the senate whether provision shall be made by law to indemnify the petitioner, by directing the amount of his fine to be paid out of the treasury, or to reclaim it from the delinquent officer, or officers; and, in the latter event, to be at liberty to use the name of the United States in any prosecution to Awhich resort may be had, with a view to that end. Inasmuch, however, as the relief proposed to be given in this case is on general principles, the committee are of opinion it should be afforded also to every sufferer under the law.

They therefore beg leave to submit the following resolutions:

Resolved, That so much of the act, entitled an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, approved the 14th of July, 1798, as pretends to prescribe and punish libels, is unconstitutional.

Resolved, That the fines collected under that act ought to be restored to those from whom they were exacted; and that these resolutions be recommitted to the committee who brought them in, with instructions to report a bill to that effect.

"Non Mi Ricordo!"

Lord Juryman?-Why does not the interpreter give the witness's answer.

The Lord Precedent Furthermore, [lord chance!: lor]-Because the bench objects to the question. Lord Muddlepool, [lord Liverpool]-Does the turnstile general object to the question?

The Turnstile General. [solicitor general] I do object to it, my lord. This is perhaps the most important question that ever occurred. By this dealing out, the party is placed in such a situation as he never was placed in before.

Mr. Besom, [Mr. Brougham] I ask him where he now lives, and the turnstile general objects to this, because I do not put all the questions I might put, in a single breath.

The Lord Precedent Furthermore, [lord chancellor] I feel great difficulty-I doubt.

Lord Wheelbarrow thought there was a great deal in what the noble lord had said; and he doubt. ed.

Cross examination resumed.

How much money has been expended on you since you were born? Non mi ricordo. What have you done for it in return? More less than more. How do you get your living? I was waiter for some years at the hotel de grand bretagne, and succeed

OR, EXAMINATION OF GEORGE IV, AT THE BAR OF THE ed my father as head waiter at the crown inn.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

What wages have you? Non mi ricordo. Have Cross examined by Mr. Besom.-[Mr. Brougham.] you any perquisites? Veils. Are you head waitWho are you? Non mi ricordo. What country-er, or by what other name than head waiter you man are you?-a foreigner or an Englishman? Non may be called at the crown inn? I am after buildmi ricordo. Do you understand English? No not ing a new place called the Wellington arms, and

trying to be barrick-master; if I don't gain the! that he was told it was his duty to encourage the trial I shall be glad to remain at the old crown.-vice society, because it professed to diminish the This answer appeared to excite considerable sen-influence of bad example. sation.

Have they ever prosecuted you? Me! (with asThe Twister General, [solicitor general] thought tonishment) they like me too well. What do you the meaning was, 'if I don't gain what I attempt to mean then by suppression-is your society to pregain.' vent little vice from being committed, or great vice from being found out? More yes than no.

[The short-hand writer was desired to read the answer, and the word trial was retained as the correct translation.]

I do not ask what you are to be hereafter, but whether you are still head waiter at the crown? The head waiter is dismissed occasionally. Are you married? More yes than no. Do you live with your own wife? No. Is she in this country? Yes. Why did you marry? To pay my debts. Then why did you part? Because my debts were paid. Were you not up to the eyes in debt? Si signor. Are you not bound to manifest some gratitude towards those who have paid your debts?

It was here moved by lord le Cuisinier, that 4 o'clock, the hour of dinner, was arrived.

Another, in a maiden speech, said, that during his long silence in that court he had had leisure to observe that 4 o'clock in the morning was a more usual hour of adjournment.

Another considered that lord le Cuisinier's suggestion ought not to be entertained for a moment. We only exist in our formalities. If we suffer ourselves to be put a stop to by the motion, we may find that we are travelling round again into the obsolete usage of our early ancestors; which will The interpreter said the witness was a mere fan-be to describe a circle that must be generally confaron, and that he found it difficult, if not impos- sidered as nothing less than a revolution! I theresible, to explain to the witness' understanding fore deprecate the least innovation, and move, as what was meant by gratitude. an amendment, that 4 o'clock is not arrived.

Cross examination resumed.

The master general of the black barracks at ExDid not you write to your wife a licentious letter, eter rose without his wig, and declaring, upon the called a letter of lioense?-Order, order. I ask memory of his whiskers, that he had just heard it you again the cause of your separation? She left strike 4, he inquired whether the clock was in orme. On what account? I did not like her, and I der. Cloud and continued cries of hear, hear.) told her I'd have nothing to do with her any more. After that what did you do? Oh, I rambled about. The Home Doctor [Lord Sidmouth] felt his pulse Where did you go? To Jersey, [lady Jersey] and alarmingly quicken one and a fraction in the mielsewhere. Well, sir, go on. Non mi ricordo nute, and nervously said, that the clock was clearly Do you mean to say that you never went to Man-guilty of a barefaced libel, and ought to be inchester square? [marchioness of Hertford's resi- stantly held to bail for breach of the peace. The dence.] More yes than no. Were you in the house simultaneous action of all the clocks throughout on the footing of a private friend? No, not as a the nation, and their open communication by cirfriend. You mentioned your father just now:-culars, was an index to the existence of an orga. you did not go in your father's cart, I presume; in nized correspondence and a systematic affiliation. what sort of carriage did you go? In the old yellow He trembled at the "positive intelligence" he had chariot.-How long did it take you to travel from received, that millions at that moment held their Manchester square to Richmond? Non mi ricordo. hands in an attitude ready to strike; but it was How many other places did you go to? Non mi ri- the proudest day of his life that he had so far succordo. Is the marquis of C. a married man? (Or-ceeded by a circular movement of his own, as to der, order. After you parted from your wife, on enable his workmen to hold them to the peace for what terms did you live? I've been trying to get an hour together. rid of her. Did you know what Matthew says Lord Bathos (lord Bathurst] assured the Black(c. v. y. 32) Matthew? Matthew? (trying to recol- Barrack-master-general that the clock was out of lect what Matthew?-he's no friend of mine. In order, and he congratulated the Home Doctor on what light do you consider your oath at the mar- his efficiency; but he thought they had not sunk riage ceremony? A ceremony. If your marriage low enough into the subject; for he had strong oath has not bound you, can you expect people to doubts whether the striking might not be construed believe you if ever you should take a solemn pub-into an overt act of high treason, and if he saw any lic oath? More yes than no. By the Roman law, a probability of being supported, he should conclude divorce was granted for drunkenness, adultery, with a substantive motion. Did not the lord Preand false keys: [Alluding to those, perhaps, used by Ompteda] what is your opinion of that law?

cedent remember a clock case, in which, imme. diately after the chain had been locked up, a prinThe twister general, [solicitor general] said, that cipal link suddenly disappeared? and whether, afit was contrary to common sense to ask the wit ter the most minute inquiry, there was not every ness' opinion about any law. How many wives does season to believe, from the best information that your church allow you? Non mi ricordo. How ma- could be obtained at that time, that that link had ny have you had since you separated from your been prigged? [A cant phrase for stolen.] (Hear own? Non mi ricordo. Are you a member of the hear.) Take even the very last clock case, where society for the suppression of vice? Yes, (with great the chain was kept together with the greatest energy.) pains and the utmost care. If the smallest link The cross examining counsel said that the inter- in that chain had been prigged it would have been preter had materially altered the sense of the last fatal to the works; and yet, in that very case, two question; he had in fact asked if the witness was a days after the chain was locked up, a link was ob. member of the society for the suppression of wives, (a loud laugh,) which witness had eagerly answered in the affirmative.

The witness' answer was expunged, and on the question being repeated correctly, he answered

tained, which, if sooner discovered, would have lengthened the chain to the necessary extent, and brought home in the most conclusive manner the guilt of the clock. He therefore moved that the clock be examined, and the chain kept in their

own custody, with liberty to add to the number of had not entered the court till five seconds peten links.

Lord Ratatail, [Lord Redesdale] with bis usual animation, seconded the motion.

by his stop-watch, in consequence of consulting with his wife upon a motion-of-course which they had contemplated; and their further deliberation Marquiz Boudoir moved as an amendment that had been postponed until after the adjournment tothe clock being in contempt, the Black stick be day. It was impossible to know what questions ordered to walk him in to-morrow:-Seconded. might turn out to be doubtful or doubtless; yet ad. Upon this amendment the following amendment journing at five o'clock would gain a delay of six was moved and seconded, that the word "to-mor-hours in the week, and the gaining of any thing he row" be expunged, and the word "yesterday" be considered very material in the present case. inserted in its place. Ordered. An adjournment then took place, the witness re. maining in the Grillery.

Cross examination resumed.

Does the witness recollect whether he was at B Non mi ricordo. Who usually closed the pavilion? I did. Was it so close as to exclude. any person outside from seeing what passed within, or it partially open? It was quite closed-when I could not close it with C******** entirely, I did it with other pieces. What do you mean by saying with other pieces? I mean with other pieces of the same quality.

Miscellaneous.

Andrew Gregg, esq. has been appointed secreta. ry of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

—, at Harper's Ferry, on the 24th ult. col. Wil

Died, in Charlotte county, Va. col. William Morton, aged 78-an officer in the revolutionary war, in which he bore a distinguished part; a man of such upright morals and so much respected for Symptoms of impatience were now expressed, his virtues, that it is said no one that knew him had with loud cries of withdraw, withdraw. the presumption to use profane language in his Do you remember any thing particular occur. presence. on the 17th ult. at Pittsburg, William ring one night? No. Do you not recollect whether a new wing was added during the time you and Bonniface, aged 72 years-a native of England, your mistress were absent? Non mi ricordo. Do who arrived in this country at about the time when the tea was destroyed at Boston. Proceeding west, you know a certain colonel Q? Yes, he has too Little mustachios. Are you a sober man? More he was in several of the most famous battles with no than yes. How many bottles a day do you drink? the Indians; he enlisted in the regular army in Non mi ricordo. Do you drink six bottles? Non 1776, and served to the end of the war. Though in mi ricordo. Five bottles? Non mi ricordo. How humble life he was much respected, and committed many nights in the week do you go to bed sober? to the earth with military honors, by the two volunteer companies of Pittsburg. Non mi ricordo. Are you sober now? More no than yes. Where do you spend your mornings! at Curacoa. Where do you spend your evenings? At the Cat and Fiddle. What is your favorite dish? Trifle. What is your favorite game? Bag-at-L. What is your favorite amusement? The C. After dressing, drinking, and dreaming, what time re. mains for thinking? Non mi ricordo. I hold in my hand a list of immense sums of money that have been advanced to you, how much have you left? None. Well, but you have something to shew for it? No. How do you live? I have a doll shop, "Murder." A late very respectable citizen of and a large stable in the country, and some cow. Baltimore, pursued a runaway negro into Pennsyl houses in different parts. Are not your favorite vania, and attempted to force a door to get posfriends horn-boys and flashmen? (Order, order.) session of him; when the latter shot his owner Can you produce a certificate of good character dead upon the spot, and most unmercifully beat, from those who know you? Yes, from the minister. with the butt end of his musket, a person who st Pho! pho! don't trifle; can you from any respectable tended to assist in his apprehension. The black person? More no than yes. I understand you have fellow afterwards gave himself up, and is secured the scarlet fever, do you know that it ends here in in jail for trial. The assistant died few days a putrid fever? Non mi ricordo. You have many after the master, it appears, had no legal process companions and advisers, but have you to your by which to arrest the negro-the hut inhabited by knowledge one real friend in the world; and if not, the latter was invaded at a late hour in the night; why not? Non mi ricordo. By what acts of your and it is probable that he will be acquitted of of life do you expect you will be remembered hereaf- fence in the premisses.

liam McGuire, in the 55th year of his age-superin tendant of the United States' armory at that place. He was "a brave soldier, a good citizen and an hon est man." When but a strippling, he entered the service in the revolution as a volunteer, and was commissioned a lieutenant. He fought at Eutaw, and there received a wound which rendered him unfit for future duty. He filled many important civil offices.

ter? I shall not answer you any more questions; West Chester, (Pa.) Dec, 6. On Thursday, No. you put questions to me I never dreamt of. Supvember 30th, 1820, at half past two o'clock, P. M. pose every man in society were to do as you do, there was on my table the New York Daily Adver. what would become of society; and what right have tiser, of Thursday, November 30, 1830 There you to do so, more than any other man? Witness was no magic about it. It neither came by an exgreatly agitated.) press or a carrier pigeon, nor in Mr. Guille's balThe witness from the Grillery asked whether the loon; but by the United States' mail. The paper Cross examination was nearly concluded? Cries was probably struck off the preceding evening, and of keep on! Supposing that the business would had travelled all night, (distance 117 miles.) Still close to-day at 4 o'clock, he had made a private the thing may justly be considered wonderful, assignation, although he was quite ready to stop if

when we reflect that no longer ago than Benjamin Franklin's time, it was thought pretty clever that the mail to New York, went once a fortnight.

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FOREIGN NEWS. We have not received any fo-ment; and we earnestly desire that Mr. Tanner reign articles during the week which it seems necessary to publish at present, except to say that a letter from Pernambuco, (Brazil), dated the 29th Nov. last, is published in a Philadelphia paper, which gives some account of a partial insurrection of the people there, with a view to the recovery of their liberties-They fought a hard and bloody bat- to say to those who read the annexed letter to tle with the king's troops, but were defeated and some of their chief men taken. But all such proceedings will probably be stopped immediately, because it is reported that the king has sanctioned the acts of the people in Portugal, and will freely give to all his subjects a liberal constitution.

In speaking of the Brazils, it might be curious to know why the king remains at Rio Janeiro rather than return to Lisbon? His dread of the water, and natural imbecility, have been assigned

as the cause.

THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. It will be needless the editor that it was written by a man who thinks;' which, unfortunately, is not the case with every one pretending to consult the interests of the nation, and, indeed, to legislate on its most important concerns. It does not exactly appear that it was written for publication, but it contains so much prac tical good sense that we cannot withhold it from our readers. To the editor of the Register.

DEAR SIR,-I have read the remarks on political economy in your last "Register," with much satisfacAnother account intimates that the revolution; and the more so, because I have perceived that, tionary spirit at Pernambuco was not suppressed, and says that the king had positively refused to sanction the proceedings of the people of Portu. gal-which we rather wish may be the case; in the hope that it will make one king less than there are: a sort of animals that we are willing to get rid of, on very easy terms.

We have also news from HAYTI. President Boyer had returned to Port-au-Prince from Cape Henry, with 16,000 troops, among whom were the body guards of the late king. The new order of things seems to meet the almost universal approbation of the people-and all was rejoicing. A letter from Jacquemel says that Boyer found thirty mil. lions of dollars at the Cape. This is not probable, hardly possible, perhaps,-but it seems much treasure was discovered there, from the fact that the tin, or other base metal money of Hayti, passes as silver for the amount which it was intended to pass for. That is-Haytian money is at par with Spanish dollars.

These events in Hayti are of no small importance to us-and the manner in which the revolution has been conducted and consummated, shews a degree of intelligence which we must admire-though existing in the minds of black men.

NEW AMERICAN ATLAS. We have just received the 3d number of this truly splendid work, which is publishing at Philadelphia, by Mr. H. S. Tanner. It contains four sheets, viz:

in your usual manner, you have served up to your readers a little meat, rather than "feed them with milk." I admit, however, that the people of the United States will, on such subjects, generally relish milk-and perhaps herbs better than “meat;” but, unless the latter shall be occasionally served up, I fear they will never become sufficiently strong to bear any thing but milk, and that, under such a regimen, they will finally sink to the lowest degree of effeminacy. Whatever may be proposed or effected by individuals, it is to me quite evident that the government will not, at present, adopt any strong or efficient measures for the protection of domestic industry; nor do I expect that during the present session of congress, the people will even "be fed with milk." Nothing, to me, is more evident than that the measures of the general government, are not only influenced but actually produced by strong currents in public opinion; and that those currents are produced, or rather moderate and wholesome ones made strong, through a want of foresight in the government. Proof of which, I apprehend, will be found, in a reference to a few short periods of our history.

During the administration of Mr. Adams, some favorite measures were carried so far, that, for a few succeeding years, the current was sitting back with such force, that the building of a ship of the line, or maintaining an army of even five thousand men, would have been thought wild and extravagant. And there is but little doubt that, such was

1. A map of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, the reaction in public opinion at the period reMassachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.ferred to, as that some things really useful, were

2. Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. 3. Louisiana and Mississippi.

4. Africa.

We never saw any maps more beautifully drawn or more neatly engraved-and there is a delicacy in their finishing which shews the highest perfection in the art. We are assured that no pains have been spared to make them correct; and, from our own examination of them, we must believe that they are as nearly so as it is easily possible that such things should be,

When the elegant arts of drawing, painting or engraving, are devoted to objects really useful, there is a double inducement to wish their encourageVOL. XIX,-23.

prostrated. Again, during the embargo, and other restrictive measures and war-the necessity for a reliance upon our own resources, and the practicabilility of their development to the full extent of our real wants, were so manifestly and universally felt, that few would have thought of objecting to any measures, however strong, which might have been necessary to afford complete protection to domestic manufactures. Nothing was more common at that period, than for the manufacturers to have a conspicuous place assigned them, in the annual message of the president; although in the last message, there is not the most distant allusion to that class of our citizens, or the employments in which

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the causes which will give it motion, and by the adoption of prudent measures, prevent its violence and give to it the character of a mild, wholesome current, rather than permit it to assume that of an overwhelming torrent.

they were engaged. And it is a remarkable fact, that | And we shall then see an administration organised it had become so much a matter of course on refer- under a state of public feeling, which will sustain ring the message to the appropriate committees, to it in sinking the ships of the merchants, and in defind in it something on the subject of manufactures, molishing their wharves;-in laying waste the fields deserving the consideration of a special committee of the planter, disregarding "state rights," or in the -that, at the commencement of the present ses-adoption of any measures which shall be thought sion, and after the message had been printed, a dis- necessary to effect the favorite object. My views tinguished member, [Mr. Cobb], actually submitted upon this subject may be thought extravagant, and a resolution, for referring so much of the mes- possibly they are; but I am willing to hazard the litsage of the president as relates to manufactures, tle reputation I possess, in an avowal of a belief, to the committee on manufactures," and it was not that, unless the policy of the government is soon till he had been informed by a member from North changed, or unless there shall be a revolution in Carolina,that nothing on the subject was to be found the condition or policy of other countries, my prein the message, that the resolution was withdrawn, dictions will be so far verified, that our next presiand an apology offered for the intrusion. dent will be of the character I have suggested; and Unfortunately for the country, there was a com- that there will be such a sudden transition from bination of circumstances at the close of the war, one extreme to another, that some of the great intewhich caused the current to sit back with great rests of the country will be made materially to sufviolence;-rags, of the most inferior kinds, had fer;-interests which would be essentially promotbeen converted into money;--more than thirty miled, by a gradual prospective change, seasonably inlions of which, were annually received at the trea-dicated by the government. sury from imports, and extravagance was every I am very far from believing that the government where the "order of the day." This current must should attempt to carry measures in opposition to certainly have been felt in the house of represen- the will of a majority of the people; but since it is tatives of the United States, when one of its most known that public opinion is capable of acquiring experienced members, and certainly one of great a force as irresistible as the current in "the gulpla research and one of no indifferent mind, [Mr. Pitkin stream," and that its force will be in proportion to of Connecticut], in his speech on the repeal of the the obstacles it has to overcome-it is certainly the internal taxes said, "the government would expe- first duty of a statesman to endeavor to anticipate rience more difficulty in finding employment for its it-to ascertain beforehand the direction in which revenues, than in obtaining sufficient for its wants.' "it must naturally flow; or, in other words, to learn Under the influence of this adverse current, mea. sures were adopted which, ten years before and in the most prosperous period of our history, no one woul, have had the boldness to recommend. Such was the act for the rapid increase of the navy,' [pardon the term, for I believe the title of the act is It is certainly known to all, that a strong current made to say "gradual increase:" I am of opinion, is now sitting in favor of retrenchments in the pubhowever, that to build nine ships of the line and lic expenditures, and some are already alarmed, lest twelve frigates in eight years, must be rather a ra-things needful, if not indispensible, shall be "carpid than gradual increase.] The army, fortifica-ried away," which will certainly happen, unless, in tions, arsenals, pensioners of all imaginable de- the exercise of a sound discretion, and at the pre scriptions, members of congress and all the civil sent session of congress, a retrenchment to a condepartments of the country, were made to partake siderable exten'tshall be effected. Had a system of of the general profusion, which characterised about retrenchment been commenced two years ago, and three years immediately succeeding the termina- steadily persevered in, though but to a moderate tion of the war; and during that period, every thing extent, the current could not have acquired such connected with the political economy of the country force as to have put any thing at hazard. Unless was nearly lost sight of, except by a few faithful then, my views upon this subject are incorrect, it centinels, whose warning voices were about as much will require but a little further delay, and a few regarded, as that of the boy in the fable, when he more loans, to produce the sinking of the navy, the had falsely cried "that the wolves were among the blowing up of the fortifications, or the adoption of sheep." Fortunately however, that current has any measures however strong, which shall be deem. spent its force, and is again flowing back; but, un-ed necessary to effect retrenchments. And if the less the government shall take advantage of the views I have adopted in regard to domestic industry early indications of it, both government and peo-be any thing like correct, that portion of our citizens ple will, at no distant day, be shocked with its who cry out so vehemently "let us alone,” and who violent reaction. It is evidently sitting now, with rest all their future prospects on the possible favoraan increasing velocity, in favor of a reasonable and ble change in our foreign commerce, must, to say fair protection to domestic manufactures; and if the least of them, be extremely unwise. They only the influence of the merchants and planters, shall be such as to prevent the adoption of protecting marks of our correspondent that we do not primeasures but a few years longer-such force will vately approve of, because we do not wish, at prehave been acquired, that neither an Adams, a sent, to approbate or depreciate the claims which Crawford, or any other prudent calculating citizen, any one may make to the presidency. It is meawill succeed Mr. Monroe in the presidency; but, on sures only that we would look at just now. But the the contrary, will be filled by a bold projector of part could not have been well omitted or modified internal improvements and professed patron of in- so as to have expressed the ideas of the writer, and dustry, from the north; or by one from the west, it was, therefore, necessary to give them in his own whose imaginations are no less bold and prolific-words. The time may arrive when we shall be less one whose known avowed maxim is, to give to the delicate on such subjects-but hitherto, we have constitution an enlarged and liberal construction."* preserved a strict neutrality on all such matters, and nothing but great apparent necessity will cause ED. REGISTER,

There is something in this section of the re-us to leave our old ground.