English one navigated for 660£; makes as many voyages and is as safe in port. This causes a ruinous competition in English ports. In 1822 the number of Prussian ships entering from Prussia was 77, Swedish 20, Norway 4, British none. In 1824 Prussia 99, Sweden, 38, Norway 5, British 1. TURKISH JUSTICE. The following extract of a letter, from Constantinople, shows with what ease a Turkish court of inquiry can settle a doubtful question. "On Friday last, the 23d, the grand seignior having gone to perform his noonday prayers at the mosque of the Bombardiers, two vessels of war anchored in the neighborhood, saluted him as he passed. A ball, discharged from one of the cannon, happened to wound one of the rowers of the boat which followed immediately bejectures. It is not known whether it was the result of accident or of a criminal intention. The captain of the vessel has been strangled with all his crew." Between 1822 and 1825 the British shipping in the colonial trade increased relatively from 221 to only 333; while the foreign rose from 142 to 494. In 1826 there was a diminution of 1,556 British vessels. The princi-hind that of the sultan. The event gave rise to many conpal ships at London are deeply mortgaged. The corn trade if open would only encourage foreign shipping. But the building trade was now deserting Great Britain; one third of the shipping being built in Canada. Only 117 ships were now building in the country-20 of which, alone, were by order. 800 commercial vessels, out of the whole number, which is stated at 24,000, annually become unfit for service. SPAIN. A London paper says-To shew the total incapacity of the Spanish government to liquidate the just claims upon it, we shall merely mention, that a very large and respectable meeting of gentlemen interested in Spanish bonds, was held at the London tavern, the latter part of May, when resolutions were adopted, which declared, BRITISH COLONIAL TRADE. A late Halifax paper in substance that the bond holders, having waited until says "Captain Howey from Antigua, informs us, that seven dividends had become due on the bonds, without the island was suffering severely from drought, at the any arrangement being made for their payment-and time of his departure. The cattle upon many of the es- having allowed ample time for all prejudices formerly tates were dying for want of water: and the average crop entertained to subside-feel it their duty respectfully and of, 17,000 hĥds. of sugar which the island usually yields humbly to submit to the consideration of his Catholic maannually, would be reduced this season to 5,000 hhds. jesty's government tl.e ground of their claims, and the The operation of the order in council excluding Ameri- consequences, both political and moral, which would folcan vessels from the island is not much felt. Supplies low their rejection. A committee was appointed for carare received in abundance through the neutral islands,rying them into effect. A copy of the resolutions was although the price of them is somewhat enhanced." directed to be transmitted to the Spanish charge d'affairs. [The West India demand for our products will not be a great deal lessened, and the planters in the British islands must pay the "enhanced" price of them. How does this stand with the logic of the senate?] IRELAND. Much distress continues to prevail among the poor Irish. Seven bags of flour were taken from carts passing in the road near Dublin, by a party of half starved wretches, consisting of about 30 men and 70 women and children. The bags were immediately ripped open and the women and children filled their aprons and hats. Some of the children began to eat it most ravenously. The Morning Chronicle says, if it were not for the steamboats which convey the Irish to England, typhus fever, and diseases caused by want of food, would soon do the business of the plague among that unfortunate people. A SNUG FORTUNE. A German journal says, that the late king of Saxony has left to the princess Augusta, his only unmarried daughter, a fortune of 18 millions of dollars, (3 millions sterling), from his own private fortune. [What a very industrious man the king must have been to have earned, by honest labor, so large a fortune for one of his daughters!! But-hundreds of thousands of times have the honest and deserving went supperless to bed, that this fortune might be accumulated; and yet the late king of Saxony was among the best of the big leeches which PROVIDENCE permits to fatten upon the sweat and blood of mankind. ] LONDON. Places of worship in the metropolis. Epis copal churches and chapels, 200; independent chapels, 66; Wesleyan Methodist ditto, 36; Baptist ditto, 32; Calvanistic Methodist ditto, 30; Presbyterian (Scotch and GREECE. Since the reception of the news from Greece, Unitarian), ditto, 16; Roman Catholic ditto, 14; Quainserted among the foreign articles, an arrival at New kers' meetings, 6. Total, 400. Calculating the average York brings the following highly gratifying information; attendance at 500, and that one in three only can be preit is extracted from the London Courier of the 8th June. sent at divine service on account of age, sickness, &c. the The Algemine Zeitung, of the 2d June, states that the number of persons provided with accommodation in that British ambassador at Constantinople had sent off a de-way in London, will amount to no more than six out of evespatch, announcing the entire defeat of the Turks before ry 13 of the inhabitants! The churches of the establishment are calculated for only three out of every 13. Athens, on the 29th of April, loss said to be 10,000 men. Ratisbon letters of the 29th of May, confirm the above, and state, that the Turks were successively driven from all their entrenchments, and forced to abandon all their artillery and baggage. The lord high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, on the 5th of May, despatched a courier from Corfu to London, with another confirma tion of the above. Wm. H. Crawford, as judge of the superior court of GEORGIA. It is said that the appointment of the hon. Georgia was without his knowledge, and that he will not accept the office. It was conjectured that Mr. senaMr. Crawford would, probably, be appointed to fill his tor Cobb, might receive the appointment; in which case place in the senate of the United States. [Charleston Patriot. It is also stated that a great European power has addressed a circular to its allies, in which it is intimated that in consequence of the latest declaration of the Porte, AUGUSTA, Geo. suffered much by a fire which broke there remained scarcely any hope that it would ever list-out on the 2d inst. It consumed seventeen houses. The en to the dictates of justice and moderation, unless coer-loss is estimated at $55,000, of which $45,000 was insive measures were adopted, and proposed that a cer-sured. Thus the chief part of the loss is divided among tain time be peremptorily fixed, within which the Porte many, instead of falling on a few. must declare itself, and which period was fixed for the middle of June. INDIANA is speedily to become one of the "great states. The following sketches from the "Indiana Journal" are interesting: BRAZIL. A letter dated U. S. frigate Macedonian, Rio Janeiro, May 22, says-There has been a great many The state of Indiana contains $7,000 square miles and of our merchant vessels involved in difficulties with the 23,680,000 acres, ranking with the other states, as the Brazilian government; but, through the assiduous exer-tenth in size and the fifteenth in population. Its greatest tions of commodore Biddle, they have all been cleared, and we have taken all the American seamen who requested protection out of their service, some of whom were impressed. length from north to south, in its west line, is 281 miles, and its length, on the east line, is 186, averaging 256 miles. Its breadth from east to west is 144 miles. The state is divided into 58 counties, of which, all but two have beca organized. The population in 1810 was 24,520; in 1820, 147,368; and at present from the returns of taxable polls, must amount to at least 260,000. The militia in 1821 was returned at 14,990. It now consists of 7 divisions, 16 brigades and 61 regiments. vanced on available securities; there is an actual surplus, in the four years, of £1,000,000 after allowing for the sinking fund. So much for the last year taken by itself, and in conjunction with the preceding years. Come we to 1827. The receipts, estimated after 1826, amount to £54,600,000. The expenditure, exclusive of sinking fund, £51,700,000; but including it £57,464,000. This leaves a deficit of 2,100,000. Mr. Canning proposes to meet the anticipated deficiency by an issue of exchequer bills. The most striking feature in the appearance of the state, is its uniformly level surface. It has no mouncains, and no part of it can be called broken except where the river-hills border on the Ohio, or are continued along some of the streams that empty into it. These hills must be of nearly the same elevation with a great Another leak has occurred in the tunnel under the part of the interior of the state, for no sensible diffe-Thames. Various attempts have been made to stop it, rence in height appears in passing along their ridges, nor but without success. is there a perceptible ascent in going thence on the sources of the streams, that form the White river and the Wabash. Near the Ohio the streams generally run in deep channels, but they are nearly on a level with the adjoining country in the central parts of the state. "The Knobs," or the chain of hills that extends from the Ohio a little below the falls, to the waters of White river, are also nearly on a level with the country lying south west of them, though the descent thence to the Ohio is more rapid than the declination of the country in the interior, for as you advance towards or down the Wabash, the descent is scarcely perceived. The same may be said of the St. Mary's, St. Joseph's and other streams that fall into the lakes. [Indiana Journal. [We have calculated that Indiana will contain more of the people of the United States in 1830, (see vol. XXII, page 345), than either of fourteen of the present states to wit. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Missouri; and, judging by what is above stated, our calculation will be very nearly realized. The gross population, however, of Maryland, South Carolina or Georgia, will be greater, we suppose, than that of Indiana, in the year 1830, though, probably, much less at the next census thereafter.] DULL TIMES. After some remarks upon the subject of dull times in Boston, the editor of the Boston Courier thus concludes:-"We cannot pretend to unfold the cause: it is sufficient for us to know that the times are duller than they ever were before; business is going to New York, and enterprize is entirely at a stand. We have no doubt of these facts; for we have been a constant resident of the city for more than twenty-seven years, and there never has been a day in all that period that we have not heard the assertion made. Certainly, if a cloud of witnesses can prove any thing, it is incontestibly settled that such a dull season for business as this, was never before known. FOREIGN NEWS. An amendment to the corn bill was adopted, 8 to 74, in the house of lords, on the 1st, proposed by the duke of Wellington; the effect of which is to prevent corn from being taken out of bond, till the average price of wheat shall be 66s. The Globe considers this either a mischievous blow at the warehousing system, or a trick of the duke of Wellington's to get rid of the bill altogether. The debate on the bill was to be renewed on the 6th. The lords to be specially summoned. In consequence of the duke of Wellington's amendment, the price of wheat in Liverpool had advanced 6d and some say 1s. a bushel. The Globe says, that the alteration made in the corn bill in the house of lords on the first of June, by which the prices of grain in Ireland were required to be included in striking the averages, would reduce the average prices by from 3s. to 5s.; an alteration which would endanger the bill with the commons as much as the duke of Wellington's amendment. Heretofore, the average has been struck from the prices of the maratime counties of England. The bill annulling the marriage of Miss Turner with Wakefield has passed the house of lords. It is presumed that it will also pass the commons. The queen of Wirtemberg, sister of the king of England, arrived at Greenwich on the 4th June; where she I was met by the duke of Clarence. The duke of York's cook has been in great distress for the loss of his master, and does not know how he will do without him, in the place he has gone to. Capt. Parry arrived at Hammerfest, in Norwegian Lapland, on the 19th April. France. The ministry are loudly censured by the opposition journals for not submitting the budget, according to repeated promises, in time for its discussion in both chambers. The chamber of peers, it is said, are obliged to vote in the dark. Flattering hopes are entertained by the liberals from Mr. Canning's elevation. Much damage had been apprehended from the rising of the Loire, to a height unprecedented since 1789. It had, however, begun to fall. The Etoile mentions, 'among the lies of the day,' a statement in theQuotidienne and Journal des Commerce, that a naval expedition was preparing at Brest and Tou lon, to enforce the execution of the last treaty with St. Domingo. Great Britain and Ireland. Mr. Canning made an expose of the financial state of the country in the house of commons on the 1st of June, which is acknowledged by all parties to be a fair and candid statement. In the debate which ensued at the conclusion of Mr. C's speech he was ably supported by Mr. Brougham. The follow-the president of the bureau of commerce made a report In the sitting of the chamber of deputies, on the 29th, ing is an interesting notice of the subject. London, June 4 on the agriculture, industry, and commerce of the nation. The Budget. The budget is not now so exciting a sub- The complaints against the government, from the hardject as it was during the war. This year, however, cu-ships of the times, he ascribes to the superabundance of riosity to know how Mr. Canning would acquit himself produce and cheapness of prices. in his new character of financier, and the peculiar cir- Greece and Turkey. Paris, June 2. The journal eumstances of the country, made the budget be looked de la Belgique, of the 31st of May, contains the followforward to with more than ordinary interest. Last year ing note: "It is rumored at Brussels, that Russia, wea(1826) there was, after defraying the expenses of the ried with the eternal tergiversations of the divan, and country, only one million over towards the sinking fund justly irritated at its refusal to listen to the proposals of £5,500,000, and the deficiency was, therefore, four which the English and Russian ambassadors have repeatmillions and a half. But this was an apparent deficiency. Jedly made to the Turkish government for the pacificaCertain advances were made which would be repaid, and tion of Greece, has resolved to have recourse to arms as payments were made for expenses incurred in former the only means of deciding a question which interests all years, which, deducted from the four millions and a half, the civilized world.” left a real deficiency of £2,100,000. Taking the four An insurrection has broken out at Constantinople Jast years, in round numbers, the income was 250 mil-among the Jannissaries, in consequence of the removal lions, and the expenditure 210 millions, leaving 20 mil- of the aga pacha, who was a a great favorite among that lions, applicable to the sinking fund. The amount ap- horde of licensed plunderers and murderers. plicable by law for these years was 21 millions and a quarter, and the apparent deficiency for the whole was £1,260,000. But against it was to be placed money ad Private accounts from Greece confirm the intelligence that the executive authority, for seven years, with the title 'of governor, had been tendered to count J. Capo D'Istria whom the authorities of Mendoza were fearful of displeasing. The commissioner appointed to present the coastitution to this province, reports, however, that he was received with decorum, and that the general character of its inhabitants, who are laborious and enlightened, and friends to a regular government, renders likely the peaceable acceptance of the constitution. San Juan has been invaded by Quiroga, who has placed his brother at the head of it; and in Santiago, Ibarra, who is in alliance with Bustos and Quiroga, has been guilty of many law. well disposed towards the congress, will be over-awed, it is feared, by their turbulent neighbors; and the legisla ture of Reoja has entrusted to Quiroga the crusade against the enemies of the Catholic religion. It is reported that there is to be assembled at Cordova a congress of depnties from the dissident provinces, a measure likely very "A letter from Corfu, of the 7th May, states, that, ac-in order to watch the movements of Quiroga, a chie cording to the reports in circulation, the Seraskier, Redschid Pacha, had been attasked by the Greeks before Athens, and after an obstinate engagement, forced to quit his entrenchments, and retreat to the distance of two hours march from the city; it was then easy for the Greeks to completely provision the citade'. See page 345. "A letter from Zante of the 3d May couliems this news, and fixes the date of the attack made by the Greeks on the 19th, 20th and 21st of April. The latter were commanded by general Churchi, Karaiskaki, colonels Gordon and Horlegger, and Colocotroni. The same let-less proceedings. Tucuman and Catamarca, which are ter states that brain Pacha, after having, in his excursions from the 20th to the 25th of April, ravaged the country, was then besieging Castel Toruse, (opposite Zante.) It is said to be garrisoned by 600 men, under the son of Sistini, who made a brave resistance. It was feared, however, that they could not long hold out. "The captain of a vessel which has arrived from Mo-much to embarrass the government, as the insurgents, don affirms, that on the 29th of April, the Egyptian Reet of 27 sail, of which four or five were frigates, five schooners, and the remainder transports, had arrived at Navarino with troops, whose number was not known." Lord Cochrane was in the vicinity of Poros, and had purchased 40 Greek vessels, which he was furnishing if they once establish a centre of power, will be able to carry on active hostilities against Buenos Ayres. The treaty with Chili had not been concluded, the connatee of the Chilian congress having advised the posĽUNELUTĖ of its ratification, till the Argentine govern heat shɔikl be sufficiently consolidated to guarantee its fulfilment The Indians, who are very troublesome neigh jors, jal lately been routed, and many of them made pesoût 19, Buenos Aures. The whole naval force of Baes with rockets and other instruments of destruction. was asserted that this armament would be ready on the 15th of May, and that lord Cochrane would then sail for Tenedos, to wait for the Turkish fleet. Meantime cap-Ayres, consists of 2 corvettes, 4 brigs, 12 schooners and tain Hastings has taken, in the gulf of Volo, six Turkish vessels Inden with ammunition, and has burnt four others. He thus has placed the Seraskier, who depended on these supplies, in a very embarrassng situation. All these accounts have considerably irritated the sultan and the divan. 13 gun-boats, in all 31 vessels, mounting 186 guns. The largest vessel is the corvette Chacubuceo, which mounts 25 guns. The Brazilian squadron consists of the Don Pedro 74, four ships of 64 guns each, one of 62, six frigates, the largest of which carries 54 guns and the smallest 36, four corvettes, 16 brigs, 12 schooners, and 14 gun boats, in all 58 vessels, mounting 1,127 guns. On the other hand, it is said, that a Tartar is gone to the Dardanelies, with orders to the fleet not to quit the Mexico. A proclamation of the governor of Vera Hellespont. After several meetings of the council of Cruz, dated 12th April last, invites natives and foreignstate, the Porte is said to have caused Mr. Stratforders to offer plans for the projected canal between Vera Canning to be asked if it was at war with England, since Cruz and Alvarado. Each plan offered must be accom its troops had to combat fewer Greeks than English? panied by an estimate of time and cost. The third part Every thing appears to announce a crisis which must lead of the estimated expense of that which shall be adopted to a decisive result on the question of the affairs of Greece. will be advanced as soon as its execution is begun; another [Augsburg Gazette. third when it is half finished; and the remainder will be paid on its completion. Egypt. It appears that the pacha in addition to being a cotton grower on a large scale, carries on business as a manufacturer to a great extent. ile has at present in MEETINGS ON THE WOLLENS BILL &c. Alexandria and the neighborhood, not less than 18,000 We have along "circular" from the "chamber of comweavers engaged in the manufacture of ticks and other merce and of the citizens of Charleston, against the ta kinds of coarse cotton goods. They are natives of the rition woollen goods, passed at the second session of the country, and are in an equally degraded condition as the 19th congress"-that is, we suppose, that which passed rest of their countrymen. They weave the goods in the house of representatives and was defeated in the sehouses belonging to the pacha, and are tasked to the nate; but having already inserted the memorial to conproduction of a certain quantity of cloth daily. As a re-gress from the same souree, it does not appear necessa compense they receive subsistence, clothing, and lodgry that we should give place to this, but prefer Mr. ing, but nothing more. For the sale of his goods the Buchanan's speech, at Lancaster, explaining his views in pacha has agents at several towns in Sicily, and at Leg-opposition to that bill. horn and Florence, to which places they are sent and from whence they find their way over the greater part of the continent. For the purposes of this trade he had lately a vessel built at Leghorn, which is said to have cost upwards of $130,000. A meeting of the citizens of Colleton district, S. C. has also been held on the same subject, col. William C. Pinkney chairman and B. I. Fishborde secretary, at which a long memorial and certain resolutions were adopted. The memorial concludes thus, (the parts marked in italic, being so marked by us) China. A rebellion in western Tartary has given the Chinese emperor considerable alarm. The leader of Your memorialists, whilst exposing these truths of pothe rebels is represented as a Maliomedan, the head of litical economy, will candidly acknowledge to your honthe descendants of a former rebel. The scat of the re-orable body, that they state them less from the expectabellion is in lon. 78, E. lat. 46, N. and the territory sur-tion of producing conviction, than from their anxiety to rounding. Twenty thousand men have been ordered to advance from the north west province of China. Absolute power has been given to the commander of the army, who ten years ago was governor of Canton. Pardon is offered to the rebels who submit. discharge to the uttermost, their duty towards you, and towards themselves. Our representatives have repeatedly urged such arguments in vain-and urged them with all the energy of truth and eloquence combined, whenever the resort to the previous question, did not The Argentine republic, is in a state of disorder and preclude them but by "ayes" or "noes," to express their confusion; in Cordova the anarchists are headed by Bus-sentiments. With the same diffidence of success, we tos, the chief of the province, whose plea is, that the con- would again press on your consideration, the evils of prostituent congress has violated the laws of the union; buthibition, to which this system infallibly leads; and which he is no doubt actuated by ambitious motives. A disaf-its advocates have not scrupled to avow. Must our shipfected spirit also prevails in Salta. The national forces have been defeated by Gorritti, who, in the flight of the governor, was elected his successor. There is some reason to doubt the favorable disposition of Mendoza to wards the government, with which it found much fault -on account of an order to some troops to remain there, ping, which is one of the main sinews of our national defence, be confined at home and left to rot at our wharves -our commerce, that bears the evidences of our power to the remotest nations of the earth, be swept from the ocean, and the desperate alternative of direct taxation be resorted to? We know that you will not advance to these legitimate results of the manufacturing prohibitory Resolved, That the laws of congress have from the first, assumed the principle that revenue is so to be levied as shall most encourage or at least impede the various branches of commerce and of internal industry; that this principle may be, and ought to he, carried out to a more full and extended application; and that to enact laws in disregard of it would be an undue exercise of power. Resolved, That the laws of the United States which have tended to protect our interests of navigation, manufactures, farming and planting, against the exclusions, monopolies, restrictions and bounties of other nations, have been one main source of whatever prosperity this Thus have your memorialists endeavored to prove the country has enjoyed; and that in every instance where proposition, with which they commenced their memori-the protection has been efficient and complete, the real-that a tariff framed for the encouragement of man-suit has been beneficial, not to a part only, but to the factures, is contrary to natural equity and their consti- whole community. Do Resolved, That the exclusion of the principal agricul tutional rights; and in direct hostility to the general interests of society. For the first time smee the establishment of our union, we approach you with remonstrance.tural products of most of the states from the markets Do not believe that we would condescend to complan, if of the nations whose manufactures we receive, operates we did not deeply feel, and as deeply respect the hand most oppressively upon our interests, and subjects us to that afflicts us. Our community is involved in debt. a disadvantage in trade, which has seldom been experiOur staple commodities can scarcely afford upon our euced by any well governed nation; that it calls loudly for a remedy, and that remedy is the protection of our capitals one half of the legal interest of the state. not add oppression to embarrassment, and aliende our own manufactures, and a cotemporaneous protection to affections from the home of our fathers together raised, and the growers of American wool. whose fostering protection, it is our fondest hope to transmit to our posterity. Nor is it because we suffer, that we complain. For our country, and our constitutional rights, we have never been accustomed to fix even in thought, any limit to our seifices--for these our fathers braved death, and worse than death, in a glorious cause; beggary to themselves, and to their children. believe us degenerate from our sires, and that we will either bear or dare less, when the time for suffering or resistance comes. Do not Resolved, That Ambrose Spencer, Jesse Buel, Samuel M. Hopkins, Benjamin Knower, Rufus Watson, Stephens Willes, and John H. Burhans, be appointed delegates to attend the state convention, to be held on 16th day of July inst. At the meeting of the friends of American manufactures at Trenton, N. J.] on Saturday last, the following were appointed delegates to the convention, which is to meet at Harrisburg on the 30th inst. Charles Kinsey, Isaac Andruss, Philip Pine, Jolm Manning, John Colt, To appoint delegates to the state convention at the ea-Wm. Godwin, jr. L. H. Stockton, William Halsted jr. pitol of New York, meetings of the people, as before Jas. Matlack, Robt. G. Johnson and L. Baker. [We have just received an account of the proceedings observed, have been held in many of the counties. That Delegates from ten at Albany on the 10th inst. at which Stephen Van of the New Jersey convention. Rensselear, was chairman and Jesse Bucl secretary, more counties were present, and among them we recognise especially claims notice because of the attendance and names of some of the most enlightened and patriotie proceedings of Mr. Van Buren, one of the senators of the persons in the state, well known for their long devotion to United States from that state. After gen. John S. Van the public good, and the confidence reposed in them by Rensselear had delivered a series of remarks on the im- the people. The resolutions adopted-1st, express the portance of the protection sought, "the hon. Martin Van opinion that domestic manufactures should receive adeBuren, (says the Argus), rose and addressed the meet-quate protection, by legislative provision-2d, that an inIn the course of his crease of the duty on wool and woollens would greatly ing in a speech of about an hour. remarks, Mr. V. B. alluded to and fully explained, his advance the manufacturing and agricultural concerns of course in relation to the woollens bill; the character and the United States-4th, very handsomely presents the effect of that bill, as well as of various measures, adopt- thanks of the convention to Mathew Carey, of Philadeled and discussed from time to time, for the protectionphia, and Hezekiah Niles, of Baltimore, for the views of our home industry; the magnitude and vital import-which they have disseminated, and 5th, appoints the deance of the subject, in reference to every section of the legates to Harrisburg, as above named. Isaac Andruss, union, and every part and every citizen of the state; the esq. was chairman, and Edward Smith, esq. secretary.] obvious necessity of extending to the wool grower and We have a report, in part, of the proceedings of the manufacturer, and to every branch of domestic production and industry that may require it, ample and liberal convention of New York. The list of members shews encouragement; and to render such encouragement ef-that many persons of the highest standing in the state are fectual by the adoption of sound, careful and wise mea-among the delegates. Jesse Buel, esq. was appointed sures, salutary in themselves, and disconnected from the president, and Edward H. Pendleton, esq. of Dutchess, feverish attempts of designing partisans, and the artful and David E. Evans, esq. of Genessee, appointed secrecontrivances of those who seek to pervert a great nation-taries. Col. Young, of Saratoga, general Van Rensselal question to their own personal and political advan-ner, of Columbia, and other gentlemen, addressed the It was a full and very able view of the whole convention, all hearty in support of the purposes for tage. ground; and, intricate and difficult as the various bear-which it had assembled. A committee was appointed to ings of the question are, they were stated in a manner prepare resolutions, which had just been reported at the so clear and perspicuous, as to bring them within the moment of the latest accounts that we have. They proposed to send twenty-four delegates to Harrisburg comprehension of every hearer." The following resolutions were unanimously adopt cd shall take pleasure in inserting, at least, those of gen. V. R's. speech, if we can make room. Sketches of the remarks of gen. J. S. Van Reselaer, Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Chandler, delivered at the inecting Resolved, That meetings of the people in their indi- for Albany county, respecting the wool bill, &c. are be vidual capacities, or in assemblies of delegates, to con- fore us. They ably maintain the great principles for suit upon matters of general interest, to address the pub-which the friends of domestic industry contend, and we lic and the legislatures by temperate statements of facts and arguments; and to bring the just weight of their opinions and interests to bear upon the national councils, are no more than a reasonable and salutary exercise of an unquestioned right, and that in accordance with these principles, this meeting cordially approves of the propos-you believe that the members of the society for th ed convention at Harrisburg. The editors of the National Intelligencer have published the following note addressed to them. Gentlemen: In one of your late papers you state, tha promotion of manufactures and the mechanic arts ar opposed to the administration, or something to that effect. This is a very great error. As far as my know ledge extends, I do not know of a single Jacksonian in the society. But we have been studious to avoid the introduction of politics. also, as far as I know or believe, to be untrue, and without the least foundation. Gen. Jackson having at last voluntarily placed himself in the attitute of my public accuser, we are now fairly at an issue. I rejoice that a specific accusation by a responsible accuser, has at length appeared, though at the distance of near two and a half years since the charge was first put forth, through Mr. George Kremer. It will be universally admitted, that the accusation is of the most serious nature. Hardly any more atrocious could be preferred against a representative of the people in his official character. The charge in substance is, that deliberate "propositions of bargain," were made by my congressional friends collectively, through an authorized and distinguished member of congress, to general Jackson; that their object was, by these "means of bargain and corruption," to exclude Mr. Adams from the de I am myself decidedly in favor of the administration: but can never consent to be instrumental in amalgamating the question of the presidency with that of the protection of manufactures. The former question I consider as comparatively insignificant. It is, in my opinion, deplorable, that twelve millions of people are almost ready for mortal combat, to decide who shall administer their affairs, when there are probably five hundred men in the nation fully competent. And this propensity is as great when the candidates are of the same politics, as when they differ, toto calo, on that subject. The polities of four of the candidates at the election in 1824, (Clay, Calhoun, Jackson, and Crawford), were confes-partment of state, or to secare my promotion to office; sedly the same; and those of Adams, as far as fully ascertained, not materially different. We realize the truth of Swift's maxim, "party is the madness of the many for the benefit of the few." Yours, respectfully, Philadelphia, July 12, 1827. MATHEW CAREY. MR. CLAY'S LETTER. TO THE PUBLIC. On my arrival at Wheeling, on the 25d inst. I was informed that Mr. Carter Beverley, then at that place, had received the preceding night, by mail, a letter from general Jackson, which he had exhibited to several persons, and left with my friend col. Noah Zane, for my perusal, and which I was told formed a subject of general conversation, and had produced much excitement in the town. The captain of the Reindeer having kindly detained his steamboat for my accommodation, and as I was unwilling longer to delay his departure, I had only time to obtain a hasty, but I believe a correct copy of the letter, and I now seize the first moment, after my arrival at home, to present it to the public, together with a copy of another letter addressed by Mr. Beverley to colonel Zane. and that I was privy, and assented to those propositions and to the employment of those means. Such being the accusation and the prosecutor, and the issue between us, I have now a right to expect that he will substantiate his charges, by the exhibition of satisfactory evidence. In that event, there is no punishment which would exceed the measure of my offence. In the opposite event, what ought to be the judgment of the American public, is cheerfully submitted to their wisdom and justice. H. CLAY. Lexington, 29th June, 1827. In respect to the person who communicated with general Jackson, the editor of the “Washington Telegraph" says "All that the public will require of gen. Jackson, is, that he shall give the name of his distinguished friend, through whom the views of Mr. Clay's friends were communicated to him. Immediately upon the receipt of gen. Jackson's letter to Mr. Beverley, we enclosed a copy of it to that distinguished member of congress, and received the following reply: 11th July, 1827. Dear Sir-I received yours of the 30th ultimo, on the 1 purposely forbear at this time, to make several com- morning of the 5th inst. In answer to it, 1 can only, at ments which these documents authorize, and confine my-present, refer you to my answer to your's of the 12th of self to a notice of the charges which general Jackson October last. I have a very distinct recollection of the has brought forward in the letter. only conversation I ever held with general Jackson, concerning the last presidential election, prior to its termination, and, when compelled to disclose it, I need not say that I will speak the truth. These charges are, 1st. That my friends in congress, early in January, 1825, proposed to him that, if he would say, or permit any of his confidential friends to say, that in case he was elected president, Mr. Adams should not be continued secretary of state, by a complete union of myself and my friends, we would put an end to the presidential contest in one hour; and 2dly. That the above proposal was made to general Jackson, through a distinguished member of congress, of high standing, with my privity and consent. To the latter charge, I oppose a direct, unqualified, and indignant denial. I neither made, nor authorized, nor knew of any proposition whatever to either of the three candidates who were returned to the house of representatives at the last presidential election, or to the friends of either of them, for the purpose of influencing the result of the election, or for any other purpose. And all allegations, intimations, and inuendoes that my vote, on that occasion, was offered to be given, or was in fact given, in consideration of any stipulation or understanding, express or implied, direct on indirect, written or verbal, that I was, or that any other person was not, to be appointed secretary of state, or that I was, in any other manner, to be personally benefited, are devoid of all truth, and destitute of any foundation whatever. And I firmly and solemnly believe, that the first of the two above mentioned charges is alike untrue and groundless. But if (contrary to my full belief) my friends, or any of them, made any such proposition or offer, as is asserted in the first charge, it was without my knowledge, and without my authority. The letter of general Jackson insinuates, rather than directly makes the further charge, that an arrangement was proposed and made between Mr. Adams' friends and mine, by which, in the event of his election, I was to be appointed secretary of state. I pronounce that charge, Every thing in this state, at present, looks well for the general. We have been making great exertions in his behalf. The character of the proposed convention of states at Harrisburg, seems now to be pretty well understood. I hope that nothing may occur to mar his prospects here, as a doubt about the vote of this state might have a serious effect against him throughout the union. From your friend, CLAIMS UNDER THE TREATY OF GHENT. Board for the adjustment of claims for slaves and other property taken away in violation of the first article of the treaty of Ghent. WASHINGTON, JULY 11, 1827. The board ordered the following rules and regulations to be observed in conducting the business before it: 1. The board will sit with open doors each morning of its meeting, for the purpose of hearing motions and other communications from the claimants and their agents. All motions shall be in writing, and if supported by arguments, the arguments also shall be in writing. 2. The board will on a day which shall be hereafter appointed and announced, proceed to call over the definitive list, in the presence of the claimants and their agents for the purpose of ascertaining what claimants are ready to submit their cases for examination and decision. 3. When the claimants announce their readiness for trial, they shall submit and close the testimony on which they mean to rest their cases, with such arguments as they shall think fit to submit in writing, and the cases shall then be docketted for final examination and decizion. |