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,.— .. .- . .- L.tn11«:s’ I.I1‘EltARY CAIlI2iE'I‘.
THE .N'EW' YE./L72.
Tim. 'd pace, has brought us to the
commenc .. another year.“ On this day,
reflections Jrtlinary l‘1.1ttll‘t: pt‘t.'s€;11t them-
selves. WK ._a1a'»c taken a last adieu of the year
mas; .. pz;..s'sct1’; it has gone to join itself to the
9-_ 9. g, . nit have preceded it. With it, it has car-
"-tucs and our vices. VVe enter upon
— _. «.-'.1r with melanclioly sensations. Like
_..,—. -‘.1 destined to t1‘1cperl'ormanc«: ol it long and
.- '3'.-.u's voyage, who knows not whc11 (if ever) he
; 3.-all return; so we enter upon the new year. It
is to us the commencement of another period of
existence; it tells us that anotlicr year of our life
has gone to return no more fo1'evei'; that a por-
tion ofour destined existence is finished, and tl1at
we are one year nearer to our end I \Vl1ctl1cr it
has been spent as it ouglit to have been, is now
too late to rectify—--it is registered above. If pass-
ed corrcctly. to us it will be a year of honor; if
not, a year of disgrace.
On this day, we should seriously reflect on the
year that is finished. \Ve look around us, and
perceive nature divested ofall its bettuty,l'1'ag1‘ance
and delight. No longer are we gt'£t'tIll'.:(l by the
harmonious sounds of birds ; no lantlscape alfords
us pleasure ; no soothing breeze cours our atten-
tion. Stern winter reigns ;——sp1in-,;, summer,
and autumn have passed by ; we have l‘L"c1t;llt:(l the
winter of the year. The b"a.sons represent Life
in every situation, and convey to us lessons of use-
ful itistruction. Each season has its pleasures
and it its pains; each commences the new year
with tliFl'e1'ent sensations. Childhood, youth, man-
hood, and age, each al"fords instruction. The
summer has passed, the autumn succeeded, and
winter reigns. Like the last period of mortality,
it tells us time must have its tend: it exhorts us
to the performance of our duty, the proper em-
ployment of our time : it is the season oi all oth-
ers, best calculated to fill the mind with serious
A few fleeting weeks, and it will dis-
appear : again will spring shine forth with redoub-
lcd splendour and charin us by its approach. Na-
ture, again clad with all its beauty, will cheer and
revive us. Not so with life. M-an dies, and is
forgottcn ; his spring once past. for him ‘ no sun
again shall light his eyes.’ -\Vhat though he has
ever abottndcd wi..h the fruits ofvirtue and god-
!-ioess——shc now withers like a blasted fig-tree.-—
As the lcafof the autumn which falls and dies, he
seems to have gone forever. But, no ;--glorious.
thrice glorious hope I Though departed from
t/zis world, he has become an immortal inhabitant
of another. Cheered and supported by religion,
for him the tomb is stripped of all its terrors;
light breaks through its dark passages, and death,
deprived of all his stings. has- ceased to be victo-
rious. I-lis winter indeed has passed ; his desti-
ned course on earth has been completed‘-. But
an rv'crla.vzz'ng .9/Iring awaits his coming; when,
joining the innumerable choir of those who have
preceded him, he can with 1'aptt11;.c 8lld'CXtlll8l1'(')D
excl-aim, ‘ O grave, where is thy victory ?-O death,
where is thy sting 3'
In casting a retrospective glance over the year
that has passed, we recallits pleasures and its-
pains, and the Val‘iOuS’OCCul't‘CnCt‘.S with which it
If we have been ‘c;Ql_et-l
= t-lisappear.'
~ ceived during the past year, and that our lives
'cot1ntry, inllaming the minds of the people. The
to sustain the loss of friends, it is with melancholy
reflections that we renew the year. The old
year has passed—it has carried withit many of
our companions and_ our friends ; they have ceas-
ed—-they have gone-before us. When we shall he
summo'ned‘to~folloiv th_em, we know not ; but it
is our duty alwaysto be ready. Like the careful
gainst foes, we should be also watching, sojthat
when our destined haven appears in view, we may
be found preparedto enter. M
On commencing the new year, we should look
back and survey the des_t1;uctive course of Time;
before his approach all full prostrate. The ClTtl-
sions ofman. the -productions of art, the noblest
monuments of genius, crumble, ‘ fade, deca_v,-and
Society resists not its attacks; gen-
eration succeecls generation, and ages follow ages
to the tomb—-‘ nothing is permanent.’ Transient
as the clottd on which the sunbeam of the mom-
ing played, has been the glory of the preceding
age, nor will that of the present, or of the follow-
ing, be more abiding.
‘ I/zcessant ra/zzirl roll (/26 to/mels of time.
Year after y.".'ar in s-wt‘/Z succession s/zeérls‘;
Ilazv s/tort marz’.s race from irg/imcy to jzrfme,
To prime /tow quick dc:c1°e/21'! age succeeds.
God kinrlly gave, in fair‘ .crcatz'on’s /2/an,
,./I/1/zrofzriaic charms to every season, clz'mc--
'l"/ze circling your, .s:'mz'.’z'ludc’ of man,
Dis-closes fair (3 list of zru:/is sublime.
S/zrz'ng’s zcmler clmrms man's early morn /zortrays,
Summer dis/zlays /zis brigizt meridzmz bloom ,-
./iutumn in/brms /rim of/Iis swi I (Icca_z/,
Cold W/'z'ntcr’s index jzoin/s /rim to (/26 tomb.’
On commencing the new year, it is not old)’
our duty but our privilege to offer up our grate-
ful praises to our Preser-oer, 13671:;/ézctor, and DUI
Friend ,- to thank him for all the comforts of lift:
that we enjoy, for all the blessings we have re-
have been spared to the commencement of anoth-
er. “"6 should enter upon the new year with a
determination to spend it with more improvement
1l1-an the one ‘which it has succeeded. Soon,
a11d it will disappear 5 again another and a11-
other will follow it ; the heart whcih now beats
high Wiill hope and expectation, will soon cease
to vibtute ; the pulse which now flows in pure and
rapid currents, will cease to flow for ever; and
the tongue which now speaks, and the voice,
whose eloquence and sweetness now inspire, will
soon be lost in silence. Thou who reignest over
the universe, who commandest the tempest and
the ultirl-wind, who tliffttsest life and happiness,
who speakest and all obey. grant that we may so
pass through things terrestrial, that when this
life shall pass away, and eternal regions shall 0-
pen to the sight of 0111' t‘c':p‘.tl'ill1§1_’ '-:pit'll.S, support-
ed by religion, animated by virtue, and cltecretl
with the consciousness of a veil spent life, we
may be received uith the 4 well dot-e, good" and
faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord.’ A
‘ lViu'e as the ‘world is 1.‘/1y comm.-ma’,
Vast as eternity I/ly [mt ,-
Firm as a rock my trur/1 .~;/.01." -Hana‘,
T/mug/z rolling yr:ar.s- .2/'z».7:ld Cr-use to movv.’
————-<3-:29 QB 69 -::'.-
Summaryfrom Lozzdozz /zu/m‘.s=_/‘ram tire is: c_1f.’V'o-
vembcr to the So’ o_/‘D-rt’:/zber.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
The following E1l)Stt‘;iCll of the debate in the
House of Lords, on the second rt-atli11;; of the bill
to ])Tt‘.\‘€l‘li Drilling and 'l‘1aini11g, and the bill so-
thorising the search ofarms, is given in the Bos-
ton Patriot. .
Lord Erskine l'CI)'l2ll‘l{t‘(l, that when he looked
at these bills i11 the aggregate, he could not help
saying, that he saw how little like Ettgland would
ling-laiid be, whenever they passed into '-~ws ;‘ and
the1‘et0t‘c he felt the utmost disgust at them.
The Lord Chancellor asked in reply, ‘ what
would England’ be unless‘ the present bills were
passed, and that speedily too ?’ He declared that
the armings and trainings among the people were
overt acts of treason. If any set of men were
aiming by a display of ‘ physical force’ to intimi-
date the government, in order to bring about an
alteration in the Constitution, that it was in reality
an overt act of treason.
Lord llolland objected to the principle of the
bills. He thought they went too far, and he knew
that more terrible ones were yet ccming on.-—
Even Lord Sidmonth had confessed that the sec-
ond bill was a departure from the true principles
of the British Constitution; and sorry was he to
assure the noble Lord, that he, although the anta-
gonist of innovation, had made greater attacks
and inroads on the Constitution of this country,
than all the Radicals put together. He could not
help viewing the whole system as more likety to
aggravate than assuage the evilsthey were aiming
to cure. Difficulties, it was to be feared, would
occur i11 disarming the people. If the attempt
should fail, their Lordships’. situation would be
in'li11itcly worse, while the laws must necessarily
be injured by it. He objected to the entire pol-
icy.
' The Earl ofDarnley declared he should oppose
that-clause in the second bill, which gave a pow-
er to search for arms by night.
tering houses at night to search for arms, might
lead, in the exercise of it, to gross abuses. How
was a subject to know, when called upon at an un-
scasonablc: hour, whether the persons were duly
autl)01‘izL*d to search for arms 3 lie might take
them for robbers, and act accordingly, if they at-
tempted to force an entrance. To this part of
the bill he had strong objections. It could not be
denied that there were dangerous and alat‘n1‘i‘t1g‘_
symptoms abroad". Demagogues went round the
people were distressed ;- they had nothing to eat.
It was natural therefore that they should be dispo-
scd to listen to those w lio pointed out any mode,
of relit-f, however fallacious. He tliought, liotvlij
ever, the people had no ideas of arming until the
occurrenc’e of the affair at Manchester; and if
ministers had permitted a proper inquiry into that
subject, there would not now have been any occa-
sion for measures of coercion. V ‘
Lord Strathmore stated, that to such an extent
had the disalfection arisen, thathe was cotiiident
there were at present 1-4 or—- 15000 men on the
banks of the Tyne and VVéar, almost in a state
of open rebellion, many of whom carried pistols
concealed about their persons, and unless depri-
ved of arms, he apprehended a general risioir.
id
pilot at.his watch, guarding against danger and a- ~ '
A power of en- -
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that whatever might bathe state of the Northern
pacts.of Durhamltho-Southern were no .ll taint-
ed by the ‘same principles. Most of: inhabit-
.ants would be ready ifnecessary, to come forward
in defence of the laws and constitution. The
same might be said‘ of .the Northern parts of
Yorkshire. 2 ’ '
committed. The Earl of Darhlev wished to‘
know whether ministers were det'erinined to per-
severe in that provision of-the Search for Arms
Bill, which gave a power to enter houses at night.
The Earl. of Liverpool said, there iivould be an
opportunity of discussing the point alluded to in
the committee. The noble Earl might then
statehis objections. ’ _
A debatesimtlar in spirit lo the above, took
place in the House of Commons. The de-
bates in both. Houses occupy upwards of four-
teen columns of the London Courier in small
rint.
The Grand Jury of the County of Lancaster
state publicly, that training and military drilling
of. large bodies of men under regular leaders,
have for some time been carried on to great ex-
tent ; principally in the night, or at, hours calcu-
lated to elude public observation. l"/Iarching and
other military movements, are practised with
great precision, and the words of command are
promptly obeyed. The disaffected have resorted
to a system of intimidation which prevails to an
alarming degree. Persons and property have
been threatened, and combinations have been for-
med to ruin those publicans and shopkeepers who
have come forward in support of the civil power.
To such ancxtcnt does this prevail, that the well
disposed are deterred from declaring their senti-
mcnts, "or from giving information of the oli‘cnd-
ers. The magistrates who act in the disturbed
districts, harassed by continued attention to their
duties, state themselves to be unable to preserve
the public peace under any circumstances of po-
culiar agitation. . '-
A letter received at Liverpool,'Dec. 3d, from
Leeds. says, ‘ This town is just now thrown into
great consternation by the u11c:xpected ariival of
ten thousand colliers, with six bands of music
playing, &c.’
— Accounts from Leeds state, that a large num-
ber of Pikes, of a most dangerous anddeadly con-
struction, bad been manufactured and distzibuted
in the manufacturing distticts. Six pieces of ar-
tillery. and a proportionate number of men, and
four companies ofinfantry, were expected there.
Numerous meetings oftl1e Reformers are held,
who commonly attend armed, with large sticks,
fittt-d to receive pikes, which they carry in’ their
pockets; others carry pistols. There does not
appear to be any diminution of their numbers,
but much more ardor and method than hereto-
fore. Two persons had been at'rested on cliarge
of high treason._
The reformers strenuously adhere in refusing
-the use of any taxed article which can be dispen-
sed with, especially liquors. This has a very se-
rious effect upon the revenue. '
Strong gates are making for the several entran-
ces to Chester Castle ; and twenty pieces ol'ca11-
non have been mounted 011 the castle.
The locks and bayonet: of the Kent militia had
been ordered to be removed to‘ Dover Castle for
safety.
Lord Sidmouth has issued a circular to the sev-
eral Lord Lieuten-ants, calling their attention to
the cannon which arcl; ing about throughout the
kingdom, and directs that immediate steps be
takct1 for rendering such caution useless, or for
. removing them to a place of security.
All the English oflicers it1 foreign countries
have been ordered to join their respective corps
and regiments without delay.
Numerous meetings had been notified in dif-
ferent parts ofthe kingdom, as well as with a view
to Reform, as to give cfi'ectu-.11 aid to the Civil
Power, in‘ ‘case ofa disturbance of the peace.
The Magistrates at i'vlanchcste1" haxe ofll-rcd a
reward of 5001. for the discovery of the person
who fired at the high constable in Nov. the ball of
which passed through his hat.
Twenty warrant eflicers were ordered to the
Lakes in Canada.
The King of France has placed on active ser-
vice >.-0,000 conscripts ofthe year l8l8. '
A mayor of acommunc in the neighborhood of
Paris, has been committed to prison, accused of
having murdered two females.
An outrage has been committed at Brest by
the populace on some Roman Catholic Missiona-
fries, who were obliged to withdraw.
Germany, in general, stillscems unsettled, and
great anxiety apparently prevails. There is
much dread of secret societies‘. and many tcports
of bands of robbers. A new Congress of Envoys
from the several Princes, was to be held at Vic!)-
na iu November. .
V The King of Saxony has made the Duke of
‘Wellington 21 present of a most magnificent des-
ert sctvice of china. On the plates, nine dozen
in nu‘mbc1', are painted the victories and trinn1-
phal pi'0ce5‘si’ons of the duke; The edge of the
plates is ornamented with a goldenwrcath of lau-
rel and oak, Scc.-and cost $40 each.
The plag.ue has ceased at Algiers‘, but still ra-
ged at Tunis, where it had carried oil‘ 60,000
persons. .1 - -
‘ The King of Spain has requested of the Em-
peror of Russia, to send him lorty Priests from
the Jesuit Colleges, (particularly Italians and
Germans) for the good of his States, and for the
umes.
quest, and the Priests have started for Madrid.
I Interesting advices have been received from
China’, through Mr. Milne, ofthe London Mis-
sionary society, resident there. That extensive
empire is greatly agitated, and apparently on the
eve of revolution; the country is filled with se-
-cret societies, which numerous executions can-
not put down. One lzundrcd/zer montIz'z'.s- c.z'ccy'ted
in tlzc single /zrblvince of Canton. The names-of
some of the societies are ludicrous enotigh, viz :
Vi/liitc Jackets, Read beards, and Short tswords !
A dreadful earthquake and famine lately oCctt1'1'ed
in China, and which the superstitious natives con-
sider as portcndimg the fall of the present dynas-
ty. ~ ‘
Th‘e Northern Expedition had reached the 76th
degree of lat. as far north as Capt. Ross was able
to penetrate. They were of opinion that there is
no passage outof Baflitfs Bay ; but will prosecute
would be the consequence, He added,.howevt¢r,
’.
, tltcir inquiries in the spring.
The -two’ bills were read a second tiine,‘and_
foundation of new schools and colleges in his col--
The Emperor has complied with the re-'_
.4 _I-0flClQu'iiapei3 slates, that ‘ two pauper fain-
1!lC3;_S€nt out to America, by the parish of Ash-
llng, in Sussex,‘ at the charge of nearly 1001. have
returned in a pitiaible plight, and been sent back,
be1l’S P'dPer, he gives the following accountgdlilfs
Plan Of -bringing over the body of Paine from 1(-
America to_England : , ,_
‘ I have Just done here a thing which I-have a];
ways, since I came to the country, vowed that I
Would (103 -1111“ is, taken up the remains of our
f3m°U5 C°lmU'yman-. Paine, in order to convey
them to England. In his old age and last days‘,-
he was most basely treated by the republican rut.
"5: am] many besides. The Quakers--even the
Q_0alU_:1‘s'-—1'efused him a grave 1 and I lound him I
lying in a corner of a ragged barren'fie1d3 The
history of the last seven years of his life is full of
Interesting matter. I have got togetlicr all the
authentic materials for a complete history of his
life, labottrs, a11d death. I have examined all the
manuscript that he left behind him, and which are
in the hands of an excellent person‘, to whom he’
bequeathed them. Several works remain to be"
[)ubliSl1<:<l: but these she does not choose to have
PUl34’l5h€(l just yet. lam, however,in possession
of every thing necessary to my undertaking. VVc
will let the Americanssee, that— we Englishmen‘
know how to do justice to the memory of our fate‘
mous countryman; this child of the * lower or-
ders ;’ this man who gave the ‘ Boronghmongers’:
their name ; who gave them the first heavy blow ;
who first cried aloud, ‘ Resist Taxation without‘
'I{ep1'csentation ;’ who first exposed the mischief;
_ol the lunding system ; who first called the sink-
ing fund a Humbug; who firsttold the people to
go tothe Bank, a11d that, if they did, they woultf
show the Bank to be insolvent ; whose principles
of political economy are, at this very moment, all
proved to be true ; and whose predictions are, as
to the banlcand its terrible effects, now proved to*
be prophecies. V17: will honor his name, his rc-
malljsa and his memory, in all sorts of ways.--‘
VVhlle the dead boroughmongers, and the basé
Sl_aVeS who have been their tools, moulder away
under utmoucetl masses of marble and brass, -tlté
tomb of this _‘ Noble of Nature’ will be an object’
of pilgrimage with the people. Our expedition
set out from NcwYo1'k in the middle of the night;
got to-the place (twenty-two miles off) at peep of
day ; took up the colfiri entire; brought it off to
New-York ; and. just as we found it, it goes to
hnglantl. Let this be considered the act of the
Rcformers of England, Scotland and Ireland. In
their name we opened tlicgrave, and in thcirname
will the tomb be raised. VVC do not look upon
Ourselves as adopting all Paine’s opinions upon all
subyects. lie was a great man, an Englishman,
a friend to freedom, and the first and greatest en-
emy of the borough, and paper system. This is
enough for us.’ '
A
NORWALK GAZE’l"I‘E.
WE mv-Eszmr, J./IN. 5. I820.
Accountsgfrom England generally prove that
the country does not yet experience the blessings
of repose, nor are there anyindications that it
speedily will. On the one hand, the reformers-
selves, and on the other, the government are a-
dopting stronger measures to quell them. Ac-
counts from the manufacturing districts, state that
large quantities of pikes. of a most deadly con-
struction, had been manufactured and distributed.-
It was thought the government would have rc-
course to very severe and arbitrary measures.—'
From present appearances, the COt‘1tebt must ter-
minate eithcr ‘in a revolution. or in the tbtal sub-'
jucation of the peoplc.—-JV‘z.’cs’ 1€rgz'ster.
Congrcss.——Notlting of importance has reach-'
ed us, from this body, since our last. The Na-'
tional lotelligencer, of the 29tl1ult. in bt‘icfl)' no-
ticing their proceedings, observes :
‘ The House of Representatives have accidcn-'
tally gotten, much earlier in the session than us-
ual, into the discussion of questions of finance,
and of the mode, rather than the measure, of
public expenditure. This has happened from the
fact that some of the appropriations for the ser-
vice of the current year have fallen short-—that
in the Navy Department being of the la1‘gest'a-
mount, fromthe circumstances of utiarticiputcd
expenditures being made necessary, in fitting out
some of our vessels to cruize for pirates, and
slave ships, 8:c. “ ~.
‘ Little as has yet been done by Cong1'ess1. en-
ough has appeared to indicate that the present
session is likely to be distinguished by closeness
of calculation in the app1'op1~i.1tion of public mo-
nies, and sttict examination into previous ‘dis-A
bursements of them. The first, i11 the present
state of the treasury, is a course to be approved
rather than otherwise ; and the latter laudable
at all times‘, - thougli it is not believed that any
'di5l)tlIscn‘1cms will be found to have occurredbttt
such as Congress have expressly authorized, or
have made indispensable.’
By far thegrestcst item ofthe national expen-
. (litt1t'e,i0r the current year, is the militiiry branch.
For the 3‘ lirst quarters
it has been
And the estimate for the
last quarter is 1,530,000 00
, $9,195,951 71*:
This amount is enormous for an army which
is nominally 10.000, but which probably does not
exceed'6000 effective force. It averages $919
59 cts. among 10,000 men. It is properlto state,
that under this head is cmbracedthe expenditures
for fortificatiotis, which have been heavy on out‘
southern and Atlantic frontiers, and also the dis-
borsemet1t’s for the ex peditions on the Missouri-
and Nlississippi‘ rivers. The expedition onithet
Missou1-i- must have been enormously,ifnot-waste-
fully, great. Of the four steam-boats employed,-
but one, we believe, reached Council Bluffs. This
ag,;regate' expense, under the military head, is
so large,_as at least to render some‘ explanation
proper.—a.rJlbany ./Irgus.
The Secretary of the Treasury has transmitted
to Congress, an estimate of the appropriations
proposed for the present year, which amounts to
$15,417,553 72; of this ‘sum, $3,056,400 is for
Revolutionary l’en'sioners.
t_o their p‘-arish by the Magistrates at C~hesteij.‘l.%' .‘r
In the postscript of a letter to Hunt, i13;Co'b.3
:5
appear to be consolidating and preparing them-‘-
$7,665,961 72 '
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Norwalk Chronicler