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acknowledged to be the first in wealth, in commerce and population, and in no respect inferior to any state in the union, affords a satisfaction which I cannot undertake to express.

The cloth being removed, after many excellent toasts, the following were given:

The American commissioners at Ghent; the ne. gociators of an honorable peace; their talents have It is well known that the precipitate retreat of the gained a reputation for themselves, a respect for British troops from Plattsburgh to their own terri- their country abroad, and a proud recollection at tory, prevented the citizens and militia of the states home. of New-York and Vermont from coming to a close and severe conflict with the enemy: had it been otherwise, I am persuaded that the volunteers from Vermont, who felt no discouragement in flying to the relief your state when suddenly invaded, would have faithfully performed the duty which one member of the union always owes to another.

The memory of the lamented Bayard; the able statesman, virtuous patriot and amiable man. Henry Clay; he now possesses, may he long enjoy, the respect of Europe, the honors of his country and the affections of the west.

Mr. Clay then rose, and there was a burst of applause-As well as can be recollected, with much impressiveness, he addresssd the company as fol

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I accept the sword, gentlemen, and request you to communicate to the lieutenant governor and the lows: legislature of the state of New-York, the high sense That he begged leave to offer to the president I entertain of the honor they have conferred-and and gentlemen assembled, his thanks for the kind you will permit me to say that the manner in which and polite hospitality with which they have had the you, gentlemen, have executed your commission, goodness to receive him in Vincennes-a distinhas added much to my gratification. You will please guished honor, as unexpected, as (they would allow to accept the assurance of my respect and esteem." him to say, with unfeigned sincerity,) it was y The hon. Ralph Hascal made some observations merited. He placed a higher value upon it the to the citizens, complimentary of the reception the the reflection that it was bestowed by one, first towas established on the western wa The sword presented was of exquisite workman. one, with whose name, patriotism and votedness ship; its hilt and scabbard of gold. On the scab to the country, were always associ ed. He was bard was the following inscrption :-"Presented happy to see so near him, yet pre erved in the enby his excellency DANIEL 1). TOMPKINS, governor of joyment of health, a venerable tizen of the place, the state of New-York, pusuant to a resolution of [pointing to col. Vigo] who daring the revolutionary the senate and assembly the said state, to major-war, in which you, Mr. Fresident, bore a gallant general SAMUEL STRONG, of the Vermont volunteers, as a memorial of the seise entertained by the state of his services, and those of his brave mountaineers, at the battle of Platsburgh."

committee had met with.

After the presenation of the sword, the general and the delegation from New-York, with the citizens, proceeded to Painter's inn, where they partook of a diner provided for the occasion.

Mr. Clay-Treaty of Ghent, &c. Vincemes, (Ind.) June 6.—At a meeting of many of the citizens of Vincennes and its vicinity, held at Jones's hotel, on the 28th May, the honorable Janes Johnson was called to the chair.

it being announced to the meeting, that the object for which it was convened was to notice the arrival of their distinguished fellow-citizen Henry Clay, the following resolutions were submitted and unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the chairman to wait on the hon. Henry Clay, and inform him that the citizens of this borough and its vicinity are highly gratified at having among them a person, whose talents and services have so frequently and so much conduced to the honor and welfare of his country.

Resolved, That they particularly invite him to partake of a dinner, to be given on the occasion, so soon as it may suit his convenience.

Resolved, That the same committee also invite our worthy representative, the hon. Waller Taylor, and the hon. Stephen Ormsby, to attend the enter tainment given to their meritorious companion and friend.

On Mr. Clay's return from Fort Harrison, the 4th June, a dinner was accordingly prepared at the Vincennes hotel. At three o'clock most of the gentlemen sat down at an elegant collation, in the large ball room; many being excluded, on account of the impossibility of being accommodated.

Governor Posey officiated as president, and judge Johnson as vice-president.

part, when this post was wrested from the hand of the enemy gave, as he did on all other occasions, signal proofs of hs attachment and devotedness to the American caue.

He had also for himself, and his late colleagues, to return his thanks for the fiattering manner in which their names had been mentioned in relation to the negociation at Ghent. The history of that negociation is short. Great Britain having, in conjunction with her alles, overthrown the power of Bonaparte, was freed from any European enemy. At liberty to apply the immense force which she had accumulated to the prosecution of the American war, she sent her commissioners to Ghent, vainly expecting to dictate the conditions of a peace. The terms which she proposed were rejected, and after much useless consumption of time, others, in the outset substantially tendered by the American commissioners, were ultimately agreed to, which compromitted the honor of neither party.— The rejection of her extravagant propositions was a duty so obvious that it was impossible for any one, partaking in the smallest degree of the American feelings, to pause in the discharge of it. No skill was requisite in the management of such a negociation; and if its final result was so widely different from what was indicated in its earlier stages, that the result must be attributed to the knowledge which the enemy had acquired of the determined spirit of the people of this country and to the conviction which had been forced upon him, that they were not prepared tamely to assent to the violation of the integrity of their territory, nor to the surrender of one single national right.

Since he had been gratified with a view of the delightful country traversed by the Wabash, he had been more than ever satisfied with the rejection of the conditions proposed by the British commissioners which was to subject to barbarism, and to put out of the pale of civilization and cultivation, one of the finest portions of the globe-a country to which nature has been profuse in her choicest bounties, and in which she has left noth

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ing for the industry of man but immediately to Herkimer, (N. Y.) July 24-Mr. Henry S. Whitstrike the plough into the richest of soils, and ting of this village, has in his pssession the followscatter the seeds and gather the fruits of agriculing remarkable record of Theas Taylor, one of his ancestors, who was descend from the celebrated If here you have occasionally to drain, and Bishop Jeremy Taylor, of Eyland: place under salutary restraints, the superabundnt "Marble may tell posterit that Mr. Thomas Taywaters of the land, you are more than compenstedtor, a first settler in Danbry, 1676, died January by the entire relief from the labors of the axe wich your beautiful prairies afford.

With respect to the undeserved compliment paid to him in the toast just drank, he felt himself entirely unable to find language to do justice to his grateful feelings. He would not, therfore, attempt it, but, with the permission of the president, would content himself with offering, seati ment, with which the growth and welfareof Vin cennes were intimately allied. He proposd, Prosperity to the country of the Wabasi.

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Statistical items, scraps,&c.. The white wild Sheep of the Rocky Muntains. The beautiful skin, presented by John Jacob Perhaps the inals of latter times do not record Astor, esq. to Dr. Mitchell, turns outo be one of a more singul instance of longevity than the one the rarest productions in North Amrica, It be- before us-Te nited ages of the father and his longs to a species of Sheep, or possiby to an animal ten children,by one wife, amounting to almost one connecting the Sheep, Goat and Antelope, running thousand year! When compared to the ordinary wild on the Rocky Mountains. The present speci- duration of human life at the presen: day, the ba men is the only one ever seen in New-York, and lance agains us must give rise to the most alarmwas brought with other furs, by the way of ake Su-ing reflectios. To what cause can his difference perior, from the region beyond the sources of the be attributd? To change of climae? If our cliMissouri. mate has mdergone any change, has certainly It is covered outwardly with a sort of baggy been for the better-The air of every new country hair, and within the hair with a fine wool eqalling is renderel more pure by the altivation of the the most delicate merino.-The whole is aswhite earth. Hs medicine lost its wnted power over the diseasts incident to the humn frame? Has the as milk.

It appears to resemble almost exactly the leece science of nedicine declined amog us? Neither the brought by captain Lewis from the Columbiaiver, one nor the other-Every encoragement has been and described by George Ord, esq. in the Jurnal given to the healing art, and is improvement has of the Academy of natural sciences in Philadephia. amply repaid its encouragerent. But still the The specimen of this highly interestingqua- physician, with his pestle an his mortar, has not drupted was exhibited to the Lyceum at late been able to blunt the sharing edge, or retard meeting; and has been since deposited in th Cathe quickening swing of th scythe of death-Does binet of Natural History, at the New-York Intitu- life then in the aggregate turally and anavoidably diminish in duration as te world grows old? We tion. COTTON-Account of cotton imported into Iver- have no reason to suppe it does. But to what pool during the first 5 months of 1816 and 817. cause, then, must it besttributed? Among many

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44899 bags. April 1917, to the 5th of July 1817. All that pasTailoring.-By a statement from a "journeyman sed previous to the first of April, are not taken actailor," in Boston, it appears that there are 25,243 count of. Five Arks, and ten or twelve Rafts passtitches in a coat, viz. basting, 782 stitches-in the sed by since the above was drawn off. edges of the coat 5,500 do.-felling the edges, We have no doubt of the general accuracy of faces, &c. 7,114 do.-out of sight in the pockets, the above statement, and feel thankful to the gen&c. 1982 do.-in the collar alone 3,056 do-seams tleman who communicated it. 5,359-holes, &c. 1,450 do. The cost he says was made in two days journeymen's hours.

*The Blue Rock is about three miles below Columbia.

CIRONICLE. provisions of this statute; when, on advice of an at Freshets. From the east, north and south we have torney at law, a petition was laid before a circuit distressing account of freshets. Cape Fear river, court judge, praying for a writ of habeas corpnis, North Carolina, ros 50 feet, in 18 hours, and 70 upon this ground-that the petitioner was a citizen feet in two days. of the state of Rhode-Island, had been enrolled in er militia, &c. and that by the 2d sec. 4th art. onstitution of the United States "The citizens of ́ ech state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states:" which, it was contended, was a sufficient guarantee

Mr. Russell, our mister to Sweden, with his family, sailed from Boon on Thursday last, in the ship Persia, for Amstedam. Mr. Edward Wier, American Consul at Haburg, is also a passenger in the Persia. The governor of New York has issued his proof the right of the citizen of one state to move inclamation to enforce the st to provide against the introduction of infectious diseases, in respect to the arrival of persons from Charleston and Savannab; who are not permitted to enter the city and county of New York in les than twenty days absence from those places.

to and settle in another; of course, that the statute of Virginia, was unconstitutional. The habeas corps was awarded, returnable to the next circuit court of Matthews county; when, of course this queston will be discussed. The provision in the constiution of the United States ought to be interpreted for several state laws liave been impeached, (latly one from the state of Louisiana,) as contravening this very provision.

Episcopal Clergy-The folving is given in the Christian Messenger, as a corest statement of the Episcopal Clergy in the difesent states of the Union. In New-Hampshire 4 Massachusetts 13; Milledeville, Aug. 5--The Indians have agreed Vermont 4; Connecticut 35; Tew-York 67; New-to cede tothe United States for the use of Georgia Jersey 11; Pennsylvania 25; Deavare 3; Maryland (if the compensation offered be acceptable,) the 36; Virginia 33; North Carolina 3 South Carolina 17.-Total 225.

EMIGRATION. The two weeks eding yesterday gave us accounts of the arrival of 1 vessels, with emigrants from Europe-viz.

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tract of lard lying between the Ocmulgee river and
the line run under Jackson's treaty, and east of a
creek empting into said river, called by the Indi-
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said creek and running up the same by the mo
southern branch to the head thereof, and thence
a linedue south to the line of Jackson's treaty. This
creel it is understood falls into the Ocmulgee be-
twee Hartford and Blackshear's road, leading to
Traers-Hill on St. Mary's.-The tract of country

Of these one hundred and seventyone reached thatwill be acquired by this cession is about 60 the United States via Halifax, though great induce-mils in length, and from 12 to 15 wide, bordering ments are held ut to settlers there As for in-on te Oakmulgee and Altamaha rivers. stance, a Dutch slip which arrived at Philadelphia, Sles of Alabama lands-The public lands now put into that portfor provisions, when the governor offered to the assengers 10,000 acres of land, gratis, in fee simph, and farming utensils, if they would stay there; bit they refused it. Many settlers, as they are alled, arrive in Canada, from whence hundreds of them pass up the river, &c. and cross into New York and Ohio. It seems to be discovered that its more convenient to reach our country through the British colonies than to come on direct. Facilities are afforded for the former which are denied to the latter.

selhg here have brought, so far good prices. Prime rive low ground averages from 40 to 50 dollars. A action of 170 acres, part of the Big Bend of the Albama, sold as high as seventy dollars the acre. Oter parcels adjoining were bid off above 40 dollar and 50. A large fraction containing several hudred acres of high land, on the Ten mile Bluff wich lies opposite the Big Bend, and is said to be anxcellent site for a town, sold for 50 dollars an ace. In that township (no. 16 in range 17) purchases it is believed were found for every section.

Washington, August, 28th. Those best acquainted with the choice Alabama An unusual number of our most esteemed offi. lo-grounds, assert, that its fertility is inexhausticers have been lately drawn to this city, and are b, and that it will produce for almost an indefinite now here, on public business Amongst them, we tem of years, in constant cultivation, 100 bushels observe, of the army, Col. lawrence; and of the the acre! This assertion is repeated by so many navy, Captains Stewart, Jones Sinclair, Warring-rspectable persons who know the land, that great ton, Angus, Elliot, Henley, Rallard, Carter and a the product may appear, we cannot suppose there Kennedy. isany exaggeration.

We understand that the Nary Court Martial, Banks of New Hampshire. From the returns of which was convened in this city, for the trial of the state of the banks in the state of New-HampLieut. Col. Wharton, of the Marine Corps, on cer- slire, made in May last, it appears that the whole tain charges exhibited against hin by Major Hen-amount of the capital stock of the ten banks is derson, of that corps, has determined that it has 999,356 dollars; the amount of bills in circulation not the proper jurisdiction; and that, on application from the Navy Department, a court has been detailed from the army, to meet in this city on the 10th of September next.

LAW CASE-Richmond Aug. 22-A care of some interest has been started under a law of Virginia, and the constitution of the United States. An act of assembly forbids the free people of cobor from other states settling in this state, and points out the method by which an intruder may be removed. Some persons of this description, who had settled in Matthews, were about to be removed under the

and deposites was $867,101; the specie on hand was $272,451, including 82,525, belonging to the Coosand Cheshire banks, deposited in Boston; the amount of debts due the banks is 1,403,561 dollars; the amount of bills of other banks, on hand, about 160,000 dollars; and the amount of real estate about 46,000 dollars.

Our readers will hardly complain of a want of variety in the present number. Accidental circumstances compelled us to resort to matter in type (often postponed,) to make out the paper in season.

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The Index for the last volume will be sent out with the next number of the Register.

The editor would again respectfully caution gentlemen as to the receipt of paper passing for money. During the present week he has been com pelled to return counterfeits, and paper of the bank of Somerset, Md. and Merchants' Bank of Alexandria, to the amount of $100. The last "shut up shop" a long while ago, and the other is about 30 per cent. dis. Indeed, there are no purchagers at that rate, that he could hear of. The editor is con

tent to receive the best bills circulating at the residence of subscribers. The ruinous multiplication of banks has opened a door to frauds unparalleled.

The present is a very proper and convenient period for new subscribers to cominence, as we have just entered upon a new series--which will give them a complete work so long as they please to receive it: and the editor respectfully solicits his friends to take a step out of their way to serve him,

on this occasion.

Ancestry and Heraldry.

Laying my hand upon a volume of biography the other day, the first words I noticed were, "he was descended from an ancient family. Really, this is what might vulgarly be called "pedlar's news." From the time of Adam until the present day, we have not heard of any, save One, that came into this world without a mortal father and mother; ergo, every man must be of an "ancient family"-this is a species of nobility common to the chimney-sweeper and the king, and as much belongs to one as to the other. There is some use in saying "he was descended from honest parents," for it prepares a hope that the person spoken of may be honest himself, through the force of example and by education. The word "ancient" 10 50 conveys no distinct idea-I saw a pig this morning who, if he could have spoken, might $44 50 have boasted that his ancestors inhabited the The sheets of this work are folded, gathered, and collated, and may be sent, unbound, to any part garden of Eden; which, I am told, is as far as of the United States by mail, at 14 cents per sheet; the most of the Weish genealogies go!

The complete files are going off very rapidly; they may yet be had on the following terms:

For 6 years, or 12 vols. to Sept. 1817, $30 The extra supplements to vols. 5, 7, 8 & 9, 4 If desired bound

Binding 12 vols. at 87% cents,

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which, for the whole 12 vols. costs only about 518. Then again we have-"he was descended But they will be sent bound, or in sheets, to many from a noble family." This gives us an idea; of the sea-por's of the United States, free of cost and we expect to find a weak and imbecile to the purchaser, as directed, the price therefor creature, or a wicked and depraved man.being paid. The work is disposed of only for cash. Titles have sometimes been conferred for great The editor of the WEEKLY REGISTER has been and good actions; but ninety-times in an huncharged by some, to whom it seemed easier to find dred are the result of accident, or bestowed for fault with his way of expressing himself than to con- deeds worthy of exaltation in another way. trovert his opinions, as being vain and full of self- The history of the nobility of every country, confilence-such persons do not know him, or justifies this remark. Catharine, of Russia, he, after "heaving the lead of self-examination," made princes of her male prostitutes, though does not know himself: but, really, the events of the week are enough to make him feel proud-the they were the meanest of mankind; and so it kind, affectionate and generous manner in which has been every where else. In England, permany gentlemen of the highest standing have at [haps, there are as many great men among the

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nobility as in any other count y-but, it is ad- committee was appointed to settle it, The mitted by all, that the house of lords"the parties preferred their claims; one told of the hospital of incurables," has less of talent, and wealth of her pa, and the other

"for cousins,
"Counted congressmen by dozens.”

less of honor and integ ity, than any other legislative body in the world. And we may Further observe of this body, that, with a very When they retired, the referrees after serious few exceptions, perhaps not more than five o enquiries, came into the room and made a grave six. if so many, it is only the newly-made report lods-the creatures of yesterday, that exhibit apy talents at all. The fact is that the nobility, so called, of every country, are a degenorated race.

"While at the wondering misses cried out "goodies!"
"That Mimmey's grandfather had been transported six weeks
before Miss Judy's."

And this is the result of a very and, if the circumstances of the noblest faminatural cause--they put their rank in society lies in urope were as closely searched into, in the place of endeavors to deserve distinc-we should find among them murderers, assas sins and robbers enough to have consigned their

tion.

A custom is growing up in the United States race to infamy to the end of time, if the that I regret to observe has received the sanc- crimes of fathers ought to be visited on the tion of president Monroe. I am perfectly aware heads of sons, from generation to generation. of my want of weight of character to oppose "An honest man's the noblest work of GOD," any thing supported by such a man as he is, his and the only real nobles that there are, are personal influence being superadded to that of the honest men. Now; is Mr. Monroe---one his dignified office, and that I may subject my- of God's own nobleman, beloved by a great naself to ridicule for attempting it. but this is of tion of freemen, elevated to the most dignified no consideration if I feel that I am right in what office in the world, and every where receiving I have to say. I have lately observed, "great the homage of the heat, due to his private vir effects may flow from little causes"-and I be- tues and public services, to obtain lustre from lieve it is a fact yet susceptible of p: odf, that a thing, which (though it may really belong to the independence of the United States was his family-name) any one, the greatest vilist seriously projected at an accidental meet-lains as well as the best of men, inay buy the ing, over a bowl of punch. I allude to the like of, for a couple of guineas, at the wholeintroduction of coats of arms, on carriages, sule ware-house in London. It is "dog cheap plate, dishes, cups, &c. Every body knows too cheap to have any value; and is not fitted that any one that will pay for it can get a coat to the genius of our country or its institutions of arms at the he, ald's office in London; the--which disavow it.

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price of this "honorable distinction" is somewhere from two to five guineas, according to the finish desired. I know a person that once was an oysterman, in the Delaware bay. It is an undoubted fact that the crops of now rich, who has his coat of a: msthe herald grain, grass and other vegetables, for the use of has properly given him a sail for his crest, as man and beast, have been, and promise to be, he since was a captain of a merchant vessel. exceedingly abundant in almost every part of The original of my name was Nile-the's has the United States, the present year. Honored been added to it within the last hundred years; with the transient company of gentlemen from the person who first bore it probably had visited many sections of the union, who are polite Egypt, and I am very certain, that if I were to enough to answer the many queries that I comapply for arms of my family, I should find a monly put to them, as to the state of agricul pyramid, a crocodile, or a sphynx, to make a ture, manufactures, &c. in their several neigha part of it. And again, every one of the same borhoods-a belief seems justified that the me is entitled to the same arms-at a distance sent year's crop of vegetable food, "take it all from the legitimate" possessor, if they are gein all," may be considered as about one-third nuine. In the highlands of Scotland are many greater than à general average. Some intellithousand men of the name of Campbell-whole gent and observing men have given an opinion regiments of that name, (and of the MGre that (from the larger quantity of land cultivatgors, &c.) have been in the British service ate ed and from its common productiveness) the a time. Every one of these, in the United excess may amount to an half more than usual. ted States, might assume the ams and claim a But let us suppose it a thirds and, by the help kinded with the duke of Argyle, &c. and pos-to interest and amuse the curious enquirer. of a few figures, attempt to bring out something sibly prove themselves of royal blood! So the Steuarts might at once seize upon those of the The present population of the United States. Scottish line of kings. I never see one of these I have assumed at rather more than nine milthings without recollecting Freneau's laugha- lions; and have ventured the opinion, founded ble poem about a quariel for precedence in on the result of my own experience and considancing, between two young ladies at a ball, in *Whether it is so or not, does not affect the dea certain stats. The dispute was sharp, and a sign of this essay.

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