[Here follows a statement of the exports of the produce and manufactures of foreign countries for the year ending on the 30th Sept. 1820, which it does not seem necessary to give at length.] The aggregate amount of such articles is given at Die. 18,008,029 Of which the value of 15,114,417 dollars was entitled to drawback, and 2,893,512 dollars not entitled to drawback. By a subsequent statement it appears that these goods exported (not entitled to. drawback) yielded in duties collected the sum of 380,290 06 dolls. 117,902 96 of which were on sugars alone and 94,484 on pepper. Some of the chief things exported were as follows: Goods tree of duty, 1,697,036 dolls.-at 15 per cent. ad valorem, 2,304,33 do. at 25 ditto, 3,111,813 do. Spirits, from grain, 53,194 galls.; do. from other materials, 357,111 do. Teas, various, about 1,094,500 lbs.-coffee, 11,656,274 do.-sugars, 31,399,072 lbs.-pepper, 2,783,866 do.-cocoa, 1,094,706 do.-indigo, 650,284 do.-cotton, 3,184,772 do.-gun powder, 50,230 do.--iron, in bars, bolts, rolled, hammered, or cast, and sheet, rod and hoop, together, 12,303 cwt.-steel,1,192 do. SUMMARY of the value and destination of the exports of the U. States agreeably to the preceding statements. (power. nions of each to the domiTotal value Product of wood lumber, (boards, staves, shingles, hoops and poles, hewn timber, 4,8.0 3,203,000 4,539 oak bark and other dye 108,000 85,878 450.015 11,354 99,619 646,866 Ashes, pot and pearl 952 000 Danish West Indies 83,560 154,694) 1,589,519 641,865 4,555,000 5,304,000 2,469,638 1,160,000 pork (pickled) bacon, lard, Ireland 1,143,406 7,387 live bogs. 1,179,000 borses and mules British East Indies 85,000 23,000 British West Indies British American colonies Hanse Towns and ports of Germany 1,714,196 877,079 wheat, flour, and biscuit 5,564,000 Indian corn and meal all other (rye, oats, pulse, po tatoes, &c.) 843,000 1,715,000 279,000 10,848,000 9,111,215 Tobacco 7,959,000 249,468 68,408 30,785 49,918 •Cotton 22,309,000 All other agricultural products 76,638 61,637 flaxseed 276,000 992 107,924 7,914 24,207 hops 13,000 MANUFACTURES 2,019,000 Fayal and the other Azores Cape de Verd Islands Domestic materials Other African ports Coast of Brazil & other Am. colonies 667,501 224,995 soap and tallow candles leather, boots, shoes, saddlery hats 585,000 212,000 24,000 1,325,751 Hayti grain, spirits, beer, starch, 83,000 525,921, 118,437 113,746 127,447 77,117 1,134,073) wood, (including coaches and 644,358 other carriages] 337,000 cordage 54,000 241,193 1,211,190 Trieste and other Austrian ports in the Adriatic 30,778 556,794 537,582 Foreign materials Turkey,Levant, Egypt, Mocha, Aden spirits from molasses 207,000 31,369 661,817 693,186 sugar, refined . 4,000 chocolate China 1,000 Asia, generally West Indies, generally Europe, generally Africa, generally South Seas Northwest coast of America Morocco and Barbary states Total, Dolls. 63,427 2,508,956 965,024 76,909 403,000 2,019,000 26,961 $324,000 301,000 625,000 234,431 190 4,381 Summary of the value of exports from each state. Maine. New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts New Jersey States. Domestic. Foreign. Total. 1,082,568 25,463 1,108,031 3,861,435 7,147,487 11,008,922 Delaware Maryland *District of Columbia 1,156,468 Virginia 4,549,137 807,944 8,690,539 6,525,013 Total-dollars *GeorgetownAlexandria tainly more specious than solid, I should be disposed to give the banks their own time to resume specie payments, provided that time was a reasonable one; but to tell them, in plain terms, that if af240,800 ter this you will not profit by the knowledge you 395,869 have gained from experience, you shall be disfran chised and razed to your very foundations, to which 421,931 should be annexed the heaviest legal sanctions 8,250,675 4,912,569 13,163,244 known to our laws. 20,531 20,531 "Their charters, it may be thought, already pro2,948,879 2,794,670 5,743,549 89,493 89,493 vide for the payment of their notes in specie; but 4,681,598 1,927,766 6,609,364 it is manifest that, from some cause or other, the 48,447 1,204,915 8,830 4,557,957 legal obligation, if any, is treated with derision, and the omnipotence of the banks has become al69,610 6,594,623 most proverbial. If in this particular I am wrong, 2218 I should be gratified to be convinced of my error by practical demonstration: if right, the sooner it 73,408 is known the better, in order that the people may no longer be deluded by the vagaries of a wild fancy, but may in due season render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's. I am not disposed to assert, neither do I believe, that the banks have been the sole cause of our difficulties; for the people themselves, by the indulgence in prodigal and extravagant habits, are justly chargeable for a full portion, and grievously are they sustaining the de le-mands of retributive justice; for they may be said, under the distressing pressure, to have shed, and to be still shedding, drops of blood. But, is it equifer for their own misconduct, but for the miscontable, I would ask, that they should not only suf duct of others? I apprehend not. The farmer must not only give up the profits of his farm, but the 96,636 51,683,640 18,008.029 69,691,669 Total-dollars 1,156,468) Legislature of North Carolina. Extracts from the message of gov. Branch, to the gislature of North Carolina, 22d Nov. 1820. "Allow me, primarily, to solicit your attention to the cause and character of our pecuniary embarrassments, which have for the last twelve or eighteen months elicited more feeling, and, I might say, more intemperate discussion, than every other subject combined; for it is but too manifest, that The same may be said of the merchant, and infarm itself, to meet the demands of his creditors. we have at this time a conflict of sentiment, gene-deed of every branch of industry, save that of the rated by that inveterate hostility which has ever stockholder, and the stockholder alone. been found to exist between creditor and debtor, "But, by some species of legerdemain, incomthe one striving not only to maintain and extend the influence to which they consider themselves prehensible to a plain man, the banks, when hard fairly entitled, but, through the agency of banks, pressed, instead of making the ordinary sacrifices &c. making vigorous efforts to bind their victims their vaults, and tell the holders of their notes, to meet the demands of justice, indignantly close hand and foot, that they may be the more ready with ineffable contempt, that it is true they have and obedient sacrifice. The other equally inordinate, and, regardless of the obligations of justice, and, in addition thereto, have such funds as might some half a million or a million of specie on hand, seizing with avidity and impassioned zeal the most trivial pretexts to avert from their shoulders their probably answer as well as the specie, and that aldue portion of the distresses of the country, in-though their funds have cost them little or nothing duced as much by their own imprudences and extravagances, as from any other cause. customers, for the purpose of obtaining additional the premium having been advanced by their needy accommodation at bank, that they nevertheless "That much, yes, very much, of those embar. rassments may be fairly attributed to the unreason- and enhance their dividends, and that, upon a full have it in their power to make a profit thereon, able multiplication of banks, and the excessive is-view of all the circumstances, it will be to the insue of their paper, far beyond their capacity to re-terest of the bank to decline payment altogether. deem, will not be denied. It, therefore, becomes your imperious duty so to regulate those monied institutions as to give stability to their issues, and prevent, as far as practicable, the ruinous consequences resulting to the community from the versatility of its character and the fluctuation in its value. This obligation is surely as strong as though the power to make money and to regulate the value thereof had been expressly delegated; for, un less something is done, what will prevent the recurrence of similar embarrassments even after we are temporarily relieved from the present pres sure. Suppose an individual was to be guilty of the same conduct, would he not be universally stigmatized, and would he not deservedly incur the epithet of swindler? By what species of sophistry, then, or in what system of ethics can it be found, that an individual shall be thus degraded and stripped even to the last cow which gives sustenance to his family, to meet the demands of his creditors, that does not equally apply to an association of individuals under the character of bank stockholders, bank directors, or what not?" Legislature of South Carolina. "I anticipate that it will be said that it is hazardous to press the banks, at this time, or to attempt by the adoption of energetic measures, the corColumbia, Dec. 8. rection of the abuses of those institutions; or, in The following report of the committee appointother words, that we had better wait, until the pa-ed on the resolutions referred to, was on Wednes tient is restored to health, before we call in the day reported to the house of representatives, and physician. To obviate this objection, which is cer-adopted by the house. The committee to whom was referred the preamble The court decided that the district attorney should prosecute; yet, as individuals were interested in the event of the prosecution, a soliertor should be appointed to assist, with the proviso, that if the district attorneys should enter a nolle prosequi, the court would stop him. Mr. Clay was appointed solicitor. the supreme court of the United States, and obtain a reversal of that decision; and that the court were disposed to continue the cause till next term. That although your committee do, in common, they believe, with the great majority of their felPending those proceedings a writ of attachment low-citizens, and particularly those in the Southern was served on the state treasurer, commanding and Eastern states, entirely concur with the honora-him to return into court, a description of every ble member, so far as the general principles of note, taken from the United States' office of dispolitical economy involved in the resolutions, are count and deposite. The treasurer made his return concerned: Although they most earnestly de- on Thursday morning. On Thursday evoning, the precate the restrictive system attempted to be legislature adjourned until Saturday, to furnish the forced upon the nation, as premature and pernicious court with their hall. as a wretched expedient to repair the losses On Friday morning, judge Todd stated that incurred in some commercial districts, by im- counsel had received a letter from Mr. Philip provident and misdirected speculation; or as a still Doddridge, requesting the court not to proceed more unwarrantable project to make the most im-with the interrogations to Mr. Osborn, until next portant interests of the country subservient to the term. He stated that he conceived the object of most inconsiderable, and to compel those parts of Mr. Doddridge was, in some way to bring the the union which are still prosperous and flourish-decision of the circuit court of last term, before ing, to contribute even by their utter ruin, to fill the coffers of a few monopolists in the othersYet when they reflect that the necessity at that time, universally felt, of regulating the commerce of the country by more enlarged and uniform principles was the first motive that induced the calling of a convention in '87: When they consider that among the powers expressly given up by the states and vested in congress by the constitution, is this This was demurred to, and the court sustained very one of enacting all laws relating to commerce: the demurrer. The jury, after some altercation, Above all, when they advert to the consequences was sworn, and Mr. Bond stated to court and jury likely to result from the practice, unfortunately the nature of the plaintiff's action. Mr. Hammond, become too common, of arraying upon questions for the defendants, objected to the plaintiff's going of national policy, the states as distinct and inde-into proof of the loss of the money, until they had pendent sovereignties in opposition to, or, (what is established their character as president and direcmuch the same thing) with a view to exercise a tors of the office of discount &c. He then made to control over, the general government-Your com- the court these two points of objection. mittee feel it to be their indispensable duty to protest against a measure, of which they conceive the tendency to be so mischievous, and to recommend to the house, that, upon this, as on every other occasion, on which the general welfare of the republic is in question, they adhere to those wise, liberal and magnanimous principles by which this state has been hitherto so proudly distinguished. United States Bank of Ohio. The court then proceeded to trial with the actions of trespass. The defendants had pleaded not guilty; and Harper had also pleaded that the second instalment had not been paid according to charter. 1st, That the plaintiffs must prove their legal organization, as constituted by the bank of the United States. 2d, That plaintiffs must shew that they were in legal possession of the close, for the breaking of which they had brought their action. These facts, he insisted could only be proved by sworn copies of the orders and proceedings of the bank at Philadelphia. Mr. Clay, in answer to the objections, insisted that the organization of the bank under the char The proceeding of the circuit court, of the Unit-ter, was matter of public notoriety, sanctioned by ed States, at Columbus, in the famous case between the bank of the United States and certain officers of the state of Ohio, is thus given in the "Monitor" of the 6th instant. In consequence of bad travelling, his honor judge Todd, did not arrive in town till Tuesday, nor judge Byrd, till Wednesday evening the 4th inst. The case of the most general interest, before the court, is that of the United States bank against the state of Ohio, virtually, as we conceive, but nominally against Ralph Osborn, auditor of state and John L. Harper, on criminal prosecution; for contempt of court, and against Osborn, Harper, M'Collister, Wright and Hammond, in an action of tresspass, quare clansum fregit. many public acts of the government, of which the court might and were informed without particular proof. And to the second objection; merely observed that the breaking the close was mere matter of inducement, and the taking and carrying away the money, the gist of the action, and that, the party might recover for the latter, without proving that he had a close or house in which the trespass was committed. As evidence that a bank was established at Chilicothe, and a banking house occupied by them, he offered in evidence the law of Ohio assessing the tax, the warrant of the auditor for collecting it, and the return of the warrant by Harper, also the bond given as security for Har per. An attachment, which was awarded last term, To these it was objected for the defendants, that was served on Osborn and Harper, and [Friday] they were in no shape admissible to prove the facts yesterday, was assigned for the trial of the defend-required, which the plaintiffs were bound to make ants, by interrogatories. Mr. Wright, the United States attorney for this district, contending for his right to prosecute, the criminal suit, ex officio. Mr. Clay moved that the court appoint a solicitor. out by other proof. These questions were urged by Messrs. Hammond, Wright, Swan, and Goodenow, for the defendants, and by Mr. Clay for the plaintiffs. The court decided upon the first point against the defendants, conceiving that the existence of the bank was matter of public history. Upon the second point, they decided that the plaintiffs must prove the establishment of a bank, and the possession of a house at Chilicothe. Upon the question whether the papers offered were admissible to prove these facts, the judges were divided in opinion. One judge considered that they ought not to be admitted at all; the other, that they might go to the jury as one item of evidence, and have such weight as the jury should give them. Mr. After this opinion was stated by the court, Mr. Hammond suggested that the plaintiffs had better withdraw a juror and continue the cause, as it must evidently proceed under embarrassment. Hammond suggested that possibly some law might be passed during the session of the legislature, for paying over to the bank, 90 or 95,000 dollars of the money, and retaining the balance as a tax, and stated his intention to support such a measure.Upon this a juror was withdrawn, and the cause continued. t From what we hear, Mr. Hammond's suggestion is not very well received by a great majority of the members of the assembly. But we do not pretend to anticipate what may be done. CONGRESS. SENATE. January, 12. The president communicated to the senate a report of the secretary of the navy, made in obedience to a resolution of the senate of the 1st of May last, requesting the secretary of the navy to cause to be revised the rules, regulations, and instructions for the naval service; which report was ordered to be printed. Mr. Otis, from the committee on the public buildings, made an unfavorable report on the petition of Julia Planto, who petitioned congress to purchase an allegorical painting, representing the treaty of Ghent; which report was read. Mr. Trimble laid before the senate a report and resolutions of the legislature of Ohio, requesting the senators and representatives in congress from that state to endeavor to obtain the construction of a road from the Miami of the Lake, to the western line of the Connecticut Western Reserve; which document was read and referred, The resolution submitted yesterday by Mr. Lanman was taken up and agreed to. only in the states and territories in which they are made payable, and in the states and territories in which no office of discount and deposite shall be established; any thing in the fourteenth section of the act incorporating the subscribers to the bank of the United States to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided, That all notes of the denomination of five dollars, issued either by the bank or any of its offices of discount and deposite, made payable on demand, shall be receivable at the bank or any of its offices. And provided further, That it shall not be lawful for the directors of the said bank to establish more than one office of discount and deposite in any state, without the consent of the legislature thereof first had and obtained. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That so much of the second and fourteenth fundamental articles of the constitution of said bank, contained in the 11th section of the act incorporating the subscribers thereto, as provides that no director of the said bank or any of its offices of discount and deposite, shall hold his office more than three years out of four in succession, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the directors of the said corporation shall cause a list of the stockholders of the said bank, together with their places of residence, to be kept in the banking house,at Philadelphia, open to the inspection of any and every stockholder of said bank, who may apply for the same within hours of business, for at least ninety days previously to every annual election of directors; and no person who may be entitled to vote at any election for directors of said bank, as attorney, proxy, or agent, for any other person, copartnership, or body politic, shall, as such, give a greater number than votes, under any pretence whatsoever; and no letter of proxy shall be of any force or effect longer than years, or until it shall have been revoked. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That, whenever the said corporation assent to the provisions of this act, and certify such assent to the secretary of the trea sury department, by writing, duly authenticated, this act shall be of full force and effect and not otherwise. Some debate ensuing on this proposition, as well as on the bill itself, a motion prevailed to postpone the bill to Wednesday, that the amendment might be printed; and The bill was postponed accordingly. Mr. Sanford, having laid before the senate sundry The senate took up the bill reported by the papers connected with the subject of this bill, committee on finance, to amend the act to incor-which had been communicated to the committee porate the subscribers to the bank of the United of finance by the bank of the United States, to States, (proposing penal enactments against viola-enforce the expediency of granting the objects tions of their trust by officers of the bank or its prayed for in their memorialbranches; and authorising the appointment of two officers to sign the notes of the bank, instead of the president and cashier.) Mr. Sanford laid before the senate, in a speech of some length, the views which operated on the committee on finance, in recommending this bill; the reasons in favor of its provisions, and those which induced the committee not to recommend the other two objects petitioned for by the bank. Mr. Roberts moved to amend the bill by adding thereto the following sections: Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the bills or notes of the offices of discount and deposite of the said bank, excepting those of the office in the Dis. trict of Columbia, originally made payable, or which shall have become payable on demand, shall be receivable in all payments to the United States, Mr. Otis moved that these papers be printed for the use of the senate. Mr. Barbour moved that all the papers submitted to the committee on finance by the bank, be printed. [This motion was understood, by the debate which ensued on it, to refer to a particular paper which had been communicated to the committee by the bank, with a request that it might be received confidentially; which paper is understood to contain a statement of frauds committed on the bank and the names of those persons or officers who committed them.] A good deal of discussion took place on this motion and many gentlemen entered into it. The debate turned principally on the propriety of making public, information of this personal character, which had been confidentially communicated to a committee of the body to whom the subject had been referred, simply to shew the expediency of granting to the bank the security of penal sanctions against violations of trust by its officers, and the reason which existed for asking of congress this additional guard against such treacherous spoliations-some gentlemen being in favor of making the information public, as a just punishment of the offenders, and a warning to the world against them; and others being opposed to disclosing it, under the circumstances in which it came to the knowledge of the senate. In the course of the The subject was postponed-ayes 21; and motion for consideration: pre Resolved, That, the better to enable congress, in considering a bill "to amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of the United States," to apportion the punishment to be inflicted upon the presidents, directors, cashiers, or other officers or servants of the bank of the U. s. and of its several offices or branch banks, the sident of the bank be requested to transmit to the senate, if any such exist, a statement of any and all fraudulent conversions, by the said presidents, directors, cashiers, officers or servants, or any of them, of any moneys, bills, notes, securities for money, evidences of debt, or other effects whatsoever, belonging to the said bank, to his or their own use: And in what offices these frauds have been practised, and to what extent, and by whom committed, and at what times: And likewise to state what facilities each of those several officers have, by means of their stations, respectively, to commit frauds of this character. Mr. Trimble submitted the following resolutions for consideration: Resolved, That the committee on roads and canals be instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing by law the employment of the topographical engineers, under the direction of the president of the United States, in surveying roads and canals through the lands of the United States at such places as would best promote the general interest, and improve the military defence of the United States. Resolved, That the committee on roads and canals be instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing by law the employment of the topo graphical engineers in surveying, under the direction of the president of the United States, canals to connect the navigable waters between Boston harbor, in the state of Massachusetts, and Pamlico Sound, in the state of North Carolina, in such diretion and on such plan as will best promote the interest of the military and naval defence of the United States. 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. The resolutions having been read, Mr. Barbour rose in support of them, and spoke about two hours; when, not having finished his ar gument, he gave way for a motion to postpone the subject until to-morrow; which prevailed. After spending a short time on executive busi ness, The senate adjourned. January, 16. The bill to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy was, on the motion of Mr. Van Dyke, made the order of the day for Monday next. the report of the select committee on the case of Matthew Lyon. The senate then resumed the consideration of Mr. Barbour concluded the argument which he left unfinished yesterday, in support of the resolutions. Mr. Walker, of Georgia, next rose and spoke some time against the resolutions. Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, replied to Mr. W. and advocated the resolutions. The senate then adjourned. January 17. The resolution relative to extending the laws of the union over the state of Missouri, being taken up in its order, it was, on motion of Mr. Eaton, ordered to lie on the table. The senate proceeded to consider the motion made on Friday by Mr. Sanford, to print sundry papers connected with, or illustrative of, the bill reported by the committee of finance to amend the charter of the bank of the United States—Mr. Barbour's motion to print all the papers communicated by the bank to the committee (includ-' ing the private statement of frauds and the names of the defrauders) being the first question for decision. Mr. Barbour's motion was negatived, and the original motion was agreed to. The senate then took up the resolution offered by Mr. Sith, on Monday, to call on the president of the bank for a list, as far as it could be furnished, of all frauds committed on the bank by any of its officers, the names of the defrauders, at what offices, committed, the facilities possessed by the officers for committing them, &c. On motion of Mr. Sanford, the resolution was amended by adding a request for "a statement of the number of bank notes issued by the bank, signed by the president and countersigned by the cashier thereof, of every different amount or denomination; and also a statement of the amount of notes heretofore issued and made payable at the principal bank, and the amount of notes made payable at the different offices." The question being then put on the resolution as amended, it was decided in the negative, and the resolution rejected. The senate then, according to the order of the day, proceeded to consider the report of the select committee on the petition of Matthew Lyon, who Mr. Thomas, from the committee on public lands, prays to be indemnified for the damages which to whom was referred the memorial of the general were inflicted on him under the former sedition assembly of the state of Missouri, representing the law. The report concludes with the following re-injurious operation of the act of congress, requir solutions: ing prompt payment for the public lands, on the |