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house of a copy of the president's message, printed on silvered sheep skin, for the manufacture of which he had obtained a patent.

Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before this house information of the number of states which have A resolution was offered and ordered to be en- ratified the 13th article of the amendments to the grossed for a third reading (69 to 58) directing, constitution of the United States, proposed at the at the commissioner of the general land office second session of the 11th Congress, prohibiting should cause to be engraved a plate of the survey any citizen of the United States from accepting or of the official map of the military bounty lands retaining any title of nobility, pension, office or cause to be emolument, without the consent of congress, from in the territory of Illinois, and printed six hundred copies thereof, subject to the any foreign prince or power, &c.] future disposition of congress.

Mr. Edwards stated, that his motion was induc The amendments of the senate to the mint billed by some doubts whether the article referred to had been ratified by a sufficient number of the were agreed to. Tuesday, Dec. 30. Mr. Miller of S. Carolina sub-States, to make it a part of the constitution, almitted for consideration the following resolution: though it appeared as such, he perceived, in the Resolved, That a committee be appointed to en- copies printed for the use of the members of the quire into the expediency of so amending the fourth house; and it was desirable that a fact so importsection of the act passed on the 3d of March, 1817, ant should be placed beyond question. The moentitled "an act more effectually to preserve the tion was agreed to without opposition. neutral relations of the United States," as to em brace within the provisions thereof the armed ves sels of a government at peace with the United States, and at war with any colony, district or peaple with whom the United States are or may be at

peace.

On motion of Mr. Colston, the house took up for consideration the bill in addition to the act for the relief of John Thompson, [authorising a review of his claim formerly adjusted and settled, and the payment of such interest as may appear due.]

Some discussion took place on this subject. Mr. [Mr. M. supported his resolution on the ground Hopkinson doubted the propriety of the procedure, that the act alluded to did not bear equally on the and alluded to the case of gen, St. Clair. Mr.Johnson, parties-Mr. Forsyth hoped that the matter would of Ky, was of a different opinion, and cited the case be left with the, committee on foreign relations; of the widow of the late Alexander Hamilton. Mr. and stated that the bill had been returned to the oiston replied to Mr. Hopkinson.-Messrs. Sherhouse at 10 o'clock, on the last night of the ses-wood, Bayley, Wm. P. Maclay, Livermore, and sion, from the senate, and that a verbal inaccuracy Ogle also took part in this discussion favorable to had been overlooked. The resolution was laid upon the petitioner; the two first named gentlemen and the last speaking also or the subject of the case of the table-79 to 50.

The resolution proposed to have a map engraved Gen. St. Clair, which had been incidentally introof the military bounty lands in Illinois, appearing duced. Mr. Ogle, particularly, protested against as if it would incur an expense and cause a delay the present occupation of the house, spending that would render it, practically, useless, was netheir time, he said, in hunting for some statute or gatived, on its third reading, by a large majority. some bar to the just claim of a man, who had, in The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the revolution, given all his worldly goods and a the secretary of the treasury, communicating, in part of his blood in support of the independence obedience to a resolution of the house, a state-of his country;-and now, in 1817, and on the very ment of the receipts into the treasury from imports last day of the year, after the lapse of so long a and other taxes, within the District of Columbia, time; he was sorry to see the house engaged in since the year 1801; also the amount of registered searching for precedents to keep this veteran out tonnage in the said district; which was referred to of his just claim. For his part, Mr. O. said, if there was a statute as strong as brass itself, or as solid as the committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. Mercer offered for consideration the follow-the pillars of the capitol, he would blow it to powder to do justice to a soldier of the revolution, and ing resolution:

Resolved, That the committee to whom was re- that soldier, too, such a man as John Thompson. ferred the memorial of the American Colonization As to the case of the aged St. Clair, Mr. O. said Society, be instructed to enquire into the expedi-that was a subject which ought not to be mentionency of making such further alterations in the laws ed in this house in the face of day-the treatment prohibiting the citizens of the United States om of that man ought to be spoken of here only in the engaging in the African slave trade, as may more effectually secure their intended operation; and that the said committee have leave to report by bili or otherwise.

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The bill was finally ordered, nem. con. to be engrossed and read a third time.

On motion of Mr. Hunting:lon, it was
Resolved, That the secretary of war be directed

The "commutation bill" was then taken up, and an amendment being proposed by Mr. Robert.to lay before this house a return of the arms and military stores furnished to the respective states son, it was ordered to be printed, &c. On motion of Mr. Cobb, of Geo. the house then under the provisions of the law of 1808, appropriaresolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr.ting annually the sum of 200,000 dollars for furPiikin in the chair, on the bill providing for the nishing arms and military equipments to the whole payment of the claims of certain detachments of body of the militia of the United States," and also the militia of Georgia for services in defence of to inform this house on what principle the distri. bution hath been made. That state in the years 1793 and 1794.

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Mr. Cobb ably supported these claims in a speech of considerable length-but on the suggestion that more time was required to consider the subject, the committee rose without coming to any decision.

Wednesday Dec. 31. Mr. Edwards offered the following resolution:

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On motion of Mr. Huntingdon, also, it was Resolved, That the committee on post offices and post roads be instructed to take into consideration the expediency of providing by law to authorize the governors of states and territories for the time being to receive and transmit through the post offices, all official communications free of postage.

The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Pitkin in the chair, on the bill to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States in the state of Mississippi.

The committee rose and reported progress— and after some other business of not much importance, the house (as well as the senate) adjourned until Friday.

Foreign Articles.

RUSSIA.

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the marble is unique in point of purity and color.
[The fortune of war may yet cause a return of that
statue; strange things have happened:]

It is expressly denied that Bonaparte made any communication to the prince regent of England, through lord Amherst. We thought that he had disgraced himself by doing so.

SPAIN.

A letter dated at Madrid, Aug. 1. and published at London, among other things states, that the bishop of Queypo, in 48 hours after he had been apPeters-pointed minister of justice, was snatched away by the inquisition--and that Yondiale, who was nomi

The great house of Iwac Mehaclo, of St. burg, has failed for 1,700,000 rubles. Petersburg, Sept. 24.-Letters from Tobolsk, Si-nated minister of finance, was almost hurried from beria, dated Aug. 1, (old style) state that the in habitants of Beresow have had no summer this year. The cold continued to the 2nd July, (o. s.) the period at which the summer ordinarily terminates, and it had already began to snow. There fell at Oddorsi, on the 18th July, (os) such a quantity of snow, that the earth was covered with it to the depth of two inches.

SWEDEN.

the king's chamber to the dungeon and put to the torture as a traitor to the king! What affection can any honest man have for a government that tolerates, or for a people that permit such a state of things? Ferdinand and his monks to the gallies, and Spain might have our sympathies in her distresses.

Clemency! Ferdinand, resolved to celebrate his marriage by some signal act of clemency, has grant It is intimated that France will probably acknow-ed his royal pardon to all persons in America that ledge Bernadotte and his male heirs as legitimate may have rebelled against him, provided they legi possessors of the throne of Sweden. But Russia timately give in their adhesion in six months. will settle that as she pleases.

Three banks have stopped payment, and appear to have given so severe a blow to credit, as to have required a convention of the states of the kingdom.

GERMANY.

Mentz, Oct. 11. Disputes respecting the naviga. tion of the Rhine still prevail, notwithstanding that the congress of Vienna declared the river free. The Dutch claim a right of levying a duty on German vessels coming down the Rhine, and yet insist upon going up as far as Mentz without paying any duty.

The king of Saxony has made a demand on the king of Prussia of 18 millions of rix dollars, for expenses during the year 1805 and 1806, when the greater part of the Prussian armies were stationed in Saxony,

PRUSSIA.

Accounts from Madrid pretty explicitly state that Ferdinand has purchased sundry vessels of war of Russia. They are to be manned with Spa-" niards to subdue the pirates of South America!These accounts also speak of an expected war with Portugal.

The Spanish cabinet is very active in its corresPondence with other powers-supposed to relate to the revolted colonies.

A junta, appointed in Spain for the purpose of enquiring into the state of the finances, have gravely recommended a national bankruptcy, as the most salutary measure that can be adopted!

Damages, estimated at $600,000, have been sustained at Alicant in consequence of an inundation and a gale from sea.

PORTUGAL.

LEGITIMACY! Lisbon Oct. 16.

Yesterday, the English goods have been subjected to a duty of court of Inconfidencia passed sentence upon the 30 per cent. Yet associations were forming for individuals concerned in the conspiracy of May

their entire exclusion.

NETHERLANDS.

last, and condemned It. gen. Gomez Freire de Andrade, col. Manoel Monteiro de Cavalho, ens. Mr. Eustis, our minister at the court of the king Jose Joaquim Pinto da Silva, ens. Jose Ribeiro of the Netherlands, having concluded a treaty on Pinto, Maj. Joze Francisco das Neves, Jose Cambehalf of the United States, was about to visit Pa-pelo de Miranda, Henrique Joze Garcia de Moraes, ris. Mr. Appleton remains at the Hague as charge d'affaires.

FRANOE.

Portugal has ceded a part of Guayana to France. The French council of state has been occupied with discussing the project of a law respecting the liberty of the press.

and Antonia Cabral Calheiros Furtadoe Lamos, to be hanged by the neck until death ensue; after which the heads are to be severed from their bodies, both burned, and their ashes thrown into the sea. Capt. Pedro Ricardo de Figuiro, capt. Mangel Jezus Monteiro, Manuel Ignacio de Figueiredo, and Maximiana Dias Ribeiro, also to be hanged A Paris paper of the 22d October, noting the until death ensue, but without the severing of their determination of the allied powers to keep up the heads, &c. Francisco Antonia de Sousa, a civil army of occupation-occupation, in France, is servile architect, to be banished to Angola for life. Lieus enough to intimate that if that army were with.Antonia Pinto da Fonseca Neyes, to Mozambique drawn the dreadful result might be that the people for 2 years-Francisco Leite Sudre da Gama, to would eject the legitimate race and chose a gov- Angola for five, and Baron d'Ebea to be expelled ernment for themselves! This is an act of mean for ever from the united kingdom of Portugal, ness that he hardly expected of a Frenchman.

The colossal statue of Bonaparte, (says a Paris paper) by Canova, now in the possession of the Duke of Wellington, has been erroneously stated as a present to the duke, by the prince regent. It was directly presented to his grace by the king of France. This grand piece of sculpture is worthy

Brazil and Algarves. The forfeiture of the wale of the offenders' property, generally makes part of the punishment. The Baron and Sudre da Gama, however are excepted, and Lieut. Pinto de Fonseca only loses one half.

Verissimo Antonio, Ferreira de Costa and Ens. Christovao de Costa were acquitted.

October 18. this day, the sentence, mentioned in the foregoing article, has been carried into execu

tion.

Paupers maintained, monthly average for the year, 366 men, 394 wonen, 108 children-average number maintained 868.

Expert Navigators! A Portuguese ship of the Paupers in the house at the beginning of the year line, with 500 soldiers on board, which sailed from 743; admitted during the year 2653; discharged or Pernambuco for Bahia, also in Brazil, in conseeloped, &c. 2632; remaining 764. quence of contrary winds, has arrived at Lisbon! The sick and surgical cases during the year The following official article has appeared in the amounted to 1806, of which 1219 were cured; 111 Lisbon Gazette-By command of the supreme au- relieved, 12 eloped; 211 died; and 253 remained thority, the merchants of this kingdom are apprised, under care. Of these, 288 were of ulcers; 221 of that the truce, lately prorogued between Portugal Syphilis; 147 Rheumatism; 105 various fevers; 93 and the regency of Tunis, will expire on the 11th consumption; 55 gonnorrhea; 59 wounds; 51 small of November next. pox; 33 pneumonia; 51 typhus; 59 obstretric cases; 36 intemperance; 31 dropsy; 43 mania; 47 mania a potu; 30 catarrh; 32 contusion, &c &c.

BARBARI STATES.

An Algerine corsair has arrived off Gibraltar in distress, having attacked a patriot privateer which mauled her dreadfully. Lest the plague might be introduced, any communication with the shore was

denied.

It is said that the Algerines have lately captured a French and an English vessel.

WEST INDIES.

We have a detailed account of the slave population of Barbadoes-the several amounts are as followsunder 1 year 2600; from 1 to 10, 20,389; from 11 to 20, 16,669; from 21 to 30, 19,534; from 31 to 40, 10,561; from 41 to 50, 6653; from 51 to 60, 3641; from 61 to 70, 1541; from 71 to 80, 544, from 81 to 90 132, from 91 to 100, 19, from 100 to 114, 10, ages unknown 10. Creoles of other islands, 345; Africans 5496; Barbadians 71,432-total slaves 77,273.

BRITISH AMERICA.

There was another dreadful fire at St. John's N. F. on the 21st of Nov. Itraged five hours, and consumed the greater part of the town that the late fire had spared. Many were a second time burnt out in fourteen days! Subscriptions have been opened at New York for the relief of the sufferers. A few days after the preceding, a third fire had like to have happened, but by early discovery was checked before much damage was done. Persons were taken into custody, suspected of causing it by design.

FLORIDA.

Through the Washington City Gazette we have the report of a committee appointed to frame a plan of a provincial government for the republic of the Floridas. P. Gaul, V. Pazos, and M. Min der were that committee. The plan is liberal.

Pauper Statistics.

The population of the city and districts above mentioned, may be assumed to be about 100,000therefore, 1 of every 114 persons were paupers during the year. Cities are always over-charged with helpless and diseased individuals.

Mechanical Association.

The "Association of mechanics and manufactures of the state of New Hampshire" lately celebrated their 15th anniversary, at Jefferson Hall, in Ports. mouth. After dinner and the removal of the cloth, the following technical toasts, were given, intermixed with patriotic and sentimental songs. While the hardy laborers of our country-the agricultu ralists, mechanics and manufacturers, in whom is the "bone and sinew" of the republic, hold such sentiments, liberty is secure in her asylum.

[Blacksmiths.] The Day-May the prosperity of the Society increase with each returning anniversary, and no link in the chain of our social compact feel the effects of the cold chissel.

[Joiners.] The constitution of the United StatesA finished piece of workmanship, well plained and jointed-confusion to the man who would attempt to hack it with the hatchet of discord.

[Printers.] The president's tour-A good token well worked off

[Bakers.] All societies similar to this-A good batch well set-may-it neither be burnt nor slack baked.

[Cabinet Makers.] Mechanics.-May they never be veneer'd with scycophancy, nor varnished with hypocrisy--a becoming self-respect is their genuine polish.

lect.
[Coopers.] The government of the United States
Its heading has been been examined and pronoun-
ced sound.

[Shoemakers.] Our country-May it wax stronger and stronger, no thread of its union be broken, and should its liberties be hereafter attacked, "pe. The following i ens are taken from a detailed re-rish the man whose sole is backward." port of the "guardians of the poor and managers [Tailors.] The heroes of the late war-The man of the alms-house and house of employment" for who would attempt to cabbage from their well earnBe city of Philadelphia, district of Southwarked fame, is a buck-stitch in honor or a goose in intel, and ownship of the Northern Liberties, for the year ending the 26th of May, 1817. Total expenditures for food and cloth ing, medicines, and attendance, salaries to officers and nurses, &c. &c. $85,606 261 Sundry receipts for manufactured arti cles sold, and on account of paypatients, &c. 7,859 62 Stock of provisions, raw ma terials and manufactured *** goods on hand, machinery, &c.

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[Watchmakers.] Agriculture, commerce and manufactures-The mainsprings of our independence; may they ever be well regulated and keep time toge. ther. 200 totalog [Saddlers.] The legitimates of Europe-May they never be in want of curb bridies, should they become restive, and wish to saddle themselves with the ex21,628 60-29,488 22 pense of a feuilless attempt to destroy the liberties of mankind.

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The proposition to establish a penitentiary, which had passed one branch of the legislature of the state' of North Carolina, has been rejected in the other,

CHRONICLE.

Department of War, Dec. 29, 1817. ORDERS. As a general rule, all orders will issue, in the first instance, to be commanders of divi sion.

passage of 77 days, with a cargo of specie and cop. per. Report gives to this voyage a profit of more than $150,000.

Rapid movements.-Skating on the Middlesex Canal (says the Boston Centinal) is becoming a very In cases where the nature of the duty to be per-popular amusement. We are told, that on Thursformed, and the public interest may require it, or-day some lads glided (before the wind) three miles ders will issue directly to officers commanding de-in eight minutes! partment, post, or detachment, and to any officer Missouri-4420 votes were taken at the late elecattached to a division; but in such cases a copy of the orders shall be transmitted to the general of division, for information.

By the president,

J. C. CALHOUN.

Appointments by the president, with the consent of the

senate of the United States:

tion for a delegate from the territory of Missouri. Intercourse.-A Detroit paper estimates that 15,000 dollars were paid for the passages of indivi duals between that city and Buffalo, from the 10th of May to the 10th of November last. A steamboat is to run on the lake next spring.

Potomac fisheries.-A meeting of the persons interested in the fisheries on the Potomac river, has

Robert Sumard, of Virginia, attorney of the Unit-been held for the purpose of petitioning the legisla ed States for the district of Virginia.

George G. Barrell, of Massachusetts, consul of the United States at Malaga.

John Williams Walker, secretary of the Alabama territory.

William Jones, Pierce Butler and John Connelly. of Philadelphia; George Williams, of Baltimore; and Walter Browne, of New York, to be di: ectors of the U. States' bank, on the part of the United States, for the year ensuing.

tures of Maryland and Virginia to forbid the use of Tide or Gill nets, which obstruct the passage of the fish, and kill and destroy a great many of them to no purpose. These nets appear to be a real grievance and a serious injury, and ought to be disused. The memorial also remonstrates against the passage of steam boats during the time of the spring fisheries-from the first of April to the middle of May.

The Ohio made a perpendicular rise of thirty feet above common low water, in the course of three We have a letter from gen. Gaines to the gover-days, about the 20th of November last. Much danor of Georgia giving an account of a little skirmishmage was done.

of col. Arbuckle with a party of Indians, in which INDIAN FIGHT-Information of a Shawanee chiefwe had one killed and two wounded-the Indian The Cherokee sand their, and their allies, with the loss was greater, and they were dispersed; con- loss of 1 man killed and a few wounded, have killed firming also the report of the massacre of lieut.83 and taken upwards of 100 of the confederacy Scott's party, as mentioned in our last. Gen. G has left the army and arrived at St. Mary's, to be present at the taking of Amelia; so that he doubt less feels confident as to the strength of the troops collected to accomplish the objects in view. The letter shall be preserved.

formerly mentioned, with much plunder, and have destroyed the crops and burnt the town of the Osages of Arkansas. It is also said that a number of scalps taken from the whites were found with the baggage of the Osages.-St. Louis Nov. 15. Fires. We lately noticed the destruction of a Gen. Ripley has arrived in Washington city. large manufactory in Massachusetts by fire-anoMediterranean squadron. The U. S. frigate Con-ther has just been burnt in Rhode Island-the loss stellation, capt. Shaw, has arrived at Norfolk from by those two factories is estimated at between 50 Gibraltar. Passengers capt. Creighton and lieu-and 60,000 dollars. It is not believed that either tenants Watson and Nicholson of the Navy and of them happened by accident. Captains Hall and Breckenridge, late of the marine Something novel.-Yesterday morning, seven corps. The Washington, com. Chauncy, United young warriors of the Seneca nation of Indians left States, capt. Crane, Peacock, capt. Rodgers, and this village in the stage, under the charge of Messrs. Spark, capt. Nicholson. were left at Gibraltar.-A. C. Fox, of this village and W. Brigham, of The Erie, capt. Gamble, had sailed for Marseilles. Chautauque, for New-York-from whence, we un Health of the Soldiery. It is stated in a Boston derstand they are to take passage for Liverpool, paper, that in all the forts, &c. from Castine to New England. Their object is to exhibit themselves in London, in which are 1019 men, only one has died in the last six months, and that one of a lingering consumption.

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all the important towns in England, whence they will proceed to Paris, and afterwards, probably, complete the grand tour through Europe. The Ad valorem duties and auctioneers.-At a meeting Indians are all fine looking active young men, of the merchants and traders and manufacturers of will undoubtedly afford the Europeans a very the city of Baltimore, a memorial to congress was and interesting exhibition.-Buffalo Journo drafted, and deposited at the coffee house for sig A letter from Detroit, of 28th November last, natures, giving an account of some of the frauds on says, that nearly fifty miles of the military road the revenue committed by the import of goods pay. have been made since August last, by the troops ing ad valorem duties, to the great injury of the re-stationed at that place. This road extends from gular trader, and of great loss to government, be- Detroit to within about ten miles of the Black sides what is suffered by plain honest smuggling.-Swamp. Notwithstanding the obstacles which op They recommend an inspection in all cases of certain posed, many good bridges have been built, and the portions of the parcels entered; and also petition for immense labor performed is said to reflect much a tax upon sales of auctioneers of dry goods as in credit on the officers and soldiers who were engaged jurious to regular traders, sellers or purchasers.- in the arduous undertaking. [Nat. Int. The memorial, with Mr. Sanford's very able speech A resolution presenting an elegant sword to the on those subjects in the senate,ought to have a place infant and only son of the late col. Benj. Forsythe, in the Register, and we shall endeavor to give an in-who fell at Odletown, in Cadada, the 23d June, 1814; sertion at least to the latter, though it is long. and appropriating $250 annually for seven years, The brig Savage of Baltimore, has arrived from for his education, was passed at the late session of Coquimbo, on the coast of Chili, in the very short the legature of North Carolina.

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THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

Compensation of Congress. best qualified to serve us. Your high minded, The writer of the following is known to me by his dashing, loquacious men are by no means the manuscript, though he has not given his name. safest and surest representatives of a republiHe is an old whig, of high standing--and I sub-can people. The writer is very much of opimit his reproof fairly to my readers for their nion with col. Barre, the best friend we had 'in judgement on the subject. "A difference of opi- the British house of commons during the revonion is not a difference of principle."-EDITOR. lution-that the only danger to be apprehended, A constant subscriber for your useful Week- as most likely to mar the peace and prosperi ly Register, has been frequently gratified and ty of the United States, was changing the simimproved by your editorial observations on na-plicity of their habits and manners into an imitional and economical subjects. But in altation of the pride, extravagancies, and prodilate number, he has arst worded that thegality of the high minded Europeans. And the compensation dess with arep regret the 14th congress have given us a sad sample and serious alarm. You say, "the late compen of what vain and avaricious men can do to con sation law was rather objected to on account taminate our country. Notwithstanding you of its manner than for the amount of compen- aberration from correct principles in this insation which it allowed." Whereas both the stance, the writer is still your friend and well manner and the matter of that law was repre-wisher.

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hended by most of the serious and virtuous

part of the community. Can you seriously contend for ten dollars per diem to the mem- Case of an American seaman. bers of congress, as a reasonable compensation! The following seems to be the amount of a It would appear from your remarks, that you circumstance that has lately excited considerthink this necessary to induce a man of talents able sensibility at New York. The British to attend, and enable him to live at "Washington as a gentleman." Ah! what a fascinating weeks ago, with a large quantity of specie for sloop of war Esk, arrived there two or three epithet! is is not to be feared, that the efforts the United States bank and sundry individuals. making to enable our members to live like gen-The butcher who supplied her with fresh meat, tlemen, will, in the end, destroy the morals, brought up a letter from a certain John Wiland ruin the republican institutions of our hap-liams, addressed to his sister, in New York, py country? As we disavow all family dis-claiming her interference for his release, stattinctions, the term "gentleman" with us can ing that he had lost his protection,* &c. She import nothing more nor less than a man of carried this letter to the Recorder of the city gentle, easy manners, and of useful qualifica- and supported it with such testimony as induc tions. Ten dollars per day may be necessary ed him to issue a writ of habeas corpus, which to support a gambler, or a prodigal, but neither was served on the captain on the 12th ult. But of them are even conterminous to a gentleman. The neglected to appear, and it seems that no One "precious confession" you have made in timely measure was taken to prevent the desaying their compensation ought never to parture of the ship until the writ was respectbe so great as to make it an object worth con-ed, and she sailed with Williams on board.-tending for. Now, sir, in many parts of the This produced some remarks in the newspaUnited States six dollars a day was sufficient pers, when Mr. Buchanan, the British consul, to produce great competitions for seats in con-felt it his duty to explain the affair, saying, gress. And it is well known that many who "although the writ was not addressed correctdemeaned themselves so as to continue in thelly,t either as to the name of the captain or of confidence of their constituents, and retain the vessel (as the name of the vessel is the their seats for a number of years, have, with

any

six dollars a day, grown much richer than *We repeat what we have said an hundred times of their grade and prospects in life. Many that before, that the practice of granting "protec one? have declined on account of not being able to right to search for men, and is of no sort of use so called, ought to be abolished-it admits a semi attend or make the sacrifice, were previously when "his majesty wants them." It is degrading. persuaded that they could not retain their what!-is the American to be compelled to carry seats. A man's family, however, may be in about him a voucher to set forth that he is not a such a situation, and his professional business slave? Let the proof rest where it ought-with the in such a state, as to preclude his attendance opposite party, and let its operation be confined to in congress for any "reasonable" compensa-theirs!-no, verily, no! places within their dominions. The ocean is not tion; but at the old allowance we shall never +The writ was addressed to captain Lenox, of the be at a loss to find members, and such as are Elk

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