nu us win
JEFFERSON AND ADAMS.
A few months s'i_n"ce, a most wicked effort
was made, by ‘the treacherous publication of
the Cunningham correspondence, to destroy
the merited popularity of John Adains-,
from an expectation that the friendsliip,wliich
‘ Mr. Jefferson had so long entertained for his
venerable father, would be converted into re-
~senm'i‘ent, in which the republicans would not
oiilyparticipate, btit visit the supposed wrongs
‘ct.’ the father upon the son. So far from this
desired result being produced, the people re-
coiled with horror from the deed, and their iii-
dignation has been lotid, deep and uiiive_rsal.
But to show, still farther, how impotent has
been the malignant blow aimed at an aged
patriot, who is trembling on the verge of the
grave, permission has been granted to publish
the following voluntary coiumuiiication, from
the illustrious sage ofMonticello to his distin-
guished compatriot, in the glorious career.of
the revolution, which iiitist overwhelm with
shame and [1i0‘.'l.lfiCZlIl0D, the participants in
that wanton outrage tipoii confidential inter-
course, and blast forever their desperate hopes
to send to their tombs as iiiiplucable etiemies,
two of the only three surviving signers of the
Declaration oflndependence. W title the ho-
liness of friendship is thus preserved from vile
profanatioii, the citizens of the United States
will rejoice at the triumph of virtue, and learn
how to appreciate, those lofty sentimentsand
that exalted friendship, which neither time,
political dissensions, nor private enemies can
obliterate.--Boston Patriot.
O
MoN'rici~:LLo, Oct. 12,1u~2.,
Dear Sir—I do not write with the ease
which your letter of September 18 supposes.
Crippled wrists and fingers make writing slow
and laborious ; btit, while writing to you I lose
the sense of these things, in the recollection
of ancient times,whe-i youth and health made
happiness out of every thing. I forgot for a
whgje the hoary winter of age, when we can
think of nothing but how to keep otirselves
warm, and how to get rid of our heavy hours
until the friendly hand of death shall rid us
of all at once. Against this tedium vitae how-
ever, I atn fortunately mounted on a hobby,
which indeed I should have better maiiaged
some 80 or 40 years ago, but whose easy ani-
ble is still sufficient to give exercise and a-
musement to an Octogeuary rider. 'I‘liis is
the establishment of an University,oii a scale
more couiprehensive, and in a country more
healthy and cetitral, than otir old William and
Mary,which these obstacles have long kept in
a state of languor and inefficiency. Btit the
tardiness ‘with which such works proceed,may
render it doubtful whether I shall live to see
it 0 into action.
utting aside these things, however, for the
present, write this letter as dtie to a friend-
ship coeval with our government, and now at-
tempted to be poisoned, when too late in life
to be. replaced by new afiections. Iliad for
some time observed, in the public papers,dark
hints and mysterious iuiiendos of a correspon-
dence of yours with a friend, to whom you
had opened your bosom without reserve, and
which was to be made public by that friend,
or his representative; and now it is said to be
actually published. It has not yet reached us,
but extracts have been given, and such as see-
med most likely to draw a curtain of separa-
tion between you rid myself. Were there no
other motive, than that ofindignation against
the author ofthis outrage on private confidence
whose shaft seems to have been aimed at you r»-
self, particularly; this would make it the du-
ty ofevery honorable mind to disappoint that
aim, by opposing to its impression, a seven-
fold shield of apathy and insensibility. With
me, however, no such armour is needed. The
circumstances ofthe times, in which we have
happened to live, and the partiality of our
friends, at a particular period, placed us in a
state ofapparent opposition,whicli some might
suppose to be personal also :_and there might
not be wanting those who wished to make it
so, by filling our ears with malignant false-
hoods ; by dressing up hideous phantoms of
their own creation, presenting them to you
under my name, to me under yotir’s, and eti-
deavoring to iiistil into our minds, things coii-
cerning each otli€.‘l‘, the most destitute of truth.
And ifthere had”beeii at any time a moment.
when we were off our guard, and in a temper
to let the whispers of these people make us
forget what we had known of each other for
. so many years—-and years of so much trial;
yet all men who have attended to the work-
ings of the human mind, who have seen the
false colors under which passion sometimes
dresses the actions and motives of others,
have seen also these passions stibsiding with
time and reflection, dissipating like mists be-
fore the rising sun, and restoring to us the
sight of all things in their true shape and co-
lors. It would be strange indeed, if at otir
years, we were to go ati age back, to hunt tip
imaginary or forgotten facts,‘ to disturb the
repose of afi'ections,so sweetening to the even-
int: of our lives.
‘Be assured, my dear sir, that I am incapa-
ble of receiving the slightest impression, from
the efforts now made, to plant thorns on the
pillow of age, worth and wisdom, and to sow
fares between friends who have been sticli for
near half-a century. Bcseechiiig you then
not to suffer your mind to be disqiiieted by
this wicked attempt to poison its peace, and
praying you to throw it by among the things
which have never happened. Iadd sincere
assurances oflmy unabated and constant at-
tacliment, friendship and respect.
TI-I OS. JEFFERSON.
U. S. NAVY.—-I-Extract from the Report
of the Commissioners ofthe Navy, Nov. 13.
Vessels of War in coimnis.<n'on,JV'ov.10,1823.
Franklin, Ship ofthe Linc, Pacific.
UnitedStates,44, preparing to relieve theF.
Constitution, 44, Cyaiie, 24, Ontario,18,~Erie
18, and Nonsuch, 1-Q, Mediterraneaii.
Congress, 86, carrying Miiiisters to Spaiti
and to South America.——Dolphin,l-‘l, Pacific.
John Adams, 24, Peacock, 18, Hornet, 13,
Spark,l4,Grampus,12, Shark, 19., \V.Indies.
Porpoise,12, surveying Florida Coast. To-
tel, 16. And in commission, specially equip-
ped for the stippression of piracy, 1 steam gal-
liot, Sea Gtill, and 8 scliooners.
Vessels in ordvinary.—-Independence,sliip of
the line, Washington, do. Coltitnbtis, do. The
hulls of these ships are in good order.—De|a-
ware, ship of the line, North Carolina, do. 0-
hio,do.; have never been in commission : hulls
in good order. Guerriere,-14, requires re-
pairs. Java, 44, very much decayed. Coti-
stellation, 36, requires some repairs. Mace-
donian, 36, do. Fulton,steani frigate, used as
‘ai'ec‘eiv'ing vessel. Alert, in ‘good; order as
such. Asp, -mucli decayed and useless.
Ships of the line on the stocks.—l at Ports-
mouth, could be latinched in 60 days.‘ 1 at
Boston, in S0. 1 at do. in 90. l at Philadel-
phia, in 130. , 1 at Gosport,Va. in 197.0.
Frigates of the first class.-1 at Washing-
ton, could be launched in 30 days; and 1, in
90. 1 at Philadelphia, in 80. 1 at N. York,
in 80. 1 at Portsniotitli, in 30.
These vessels are building under the law for
the gradual increase ofthe Navy; and the fol-
lowing were also built under that law :——Co--
lumbus, Delaware, N. Carolina, and Oliio.—
Making the number built and building as fol-
lows: 9 ships ofthe line,&z. 5 frigates,1st class.
Tari:fi;&-c.——A letter datedWashington,Dec.
9.8, says——‘VVe shall soon have the Tariff from
the Committee on Mantiftictnres. I think the
bill for 10 sloops of war (which will probably
be reported soon) will pass the House, and
from present appearances it will become a law
this session.
Great preparations are making for discus-
sing the Greek questioii——I think it probable
this will be a more interesting qtiestion than
the mild cliaractei of Mr. \Vebster’s resolu-
tion would authorize its to expect. It is liigli-
ly probable a resolution will be submitted ei-
ther as an amendment to or substitute for Mr.
W. ofa much more formidable character.
It is my opinion that Mr. Clay will pffer
such a one. Sliotild this be the case it will
produce an animated discussion. Iam not yet
decided upon this question, that is, whetherl
should not prefer Mr. Clay’s proposition to
Mr. Webster’s. Ishall however wait to see
what these propositions are.
We are persuaded that our government has
the resolution of Great Britain to oppose any
aggressions which the Allied Powers may
make upon South Auierica—-and propositions
to join her in that policy. We are persuaded
that the committee of Foreign Relations are
in possscssion ofthis information. We anti-
cipate a prompt and energetic report fromlllr.
Forsyth,the Chairman of the Committee. lVe
anticipate a corresponding tone on the part of
Congress, the fitting otit ofa squadron, 8:0.
$I.c.-—R~t'c.’tniond Enquirer.
Front the Quebec Gazette.
Pi>.i'.siDr;N'r’s MEssAoi:.—'1‘liis Message,
which is always ofiniptirtaiie to us,on acconiit
of ourproxiiiiity to the Aiiiericati Union, be-
comes more so from the new attitude which
its Government assumes in this State paper.
Forty years ago the United Colonies con-
tented themselves with wresting the right of
Government from the Mother Country. 'l‘eii
years after they began to lay claims to Louis-
iana, and in a little more than another ten
years they invaded Canada and took posses-
sion of the Floridas. They now say to all
Etirope ‘set not your foot on the Continents
of North or Sotith America. We will suffer
you to retain the Colonies which you still pos-
sess; but you shall no longer colonize; those
Colonies which have withdrawn themselves
from their allegiance, we take under otir pro-
tection. We know that they cannot be regai-
ned by the Governiiieiit from which they have
withdrawn themselves, and none other shall
interfere.’-—--Will the Holy Alliance take up
the gauntlet which is thus boldly thrown down
by the United States, at a moment when the
whole Continent of Europe is subservient to
its power, or prostrate at its feet? This Dec-
laration ofthe United States is almost a gua-
rantee of the Independence of the South A-
merican Colonies, whose poptilatioti it will
powerfully infiuence in the support ofthe ex-
isting order of things. England, however
much she may be astonished atthe boldness
and we verily believe, the ambition of her
young rival, is, we are inclined to think, fa-
vorable to the separation ofthe Spanish Col-
onies from Spain, anti their being laid open
to British trade. She also is almost pledged
to support the young Republics ; and she can
do it effectually. If she remains firm, we
doubt, if the Holy Brotherhood of Despots,
and the still more Holy Brotherhood of the
Inquisition, tiniteftl, will be able to put down
the ‘scandal’of oiistittiiitiiis, civil and reli-
giotis liberty and public prosperity on the A-
merican Continents. There is a part of
Mr. t\lonroe’s Message which concerns this
Country more nearly than tlie-Declaration re-
lating to South Aiiierica. It seems thatNego-
tiations respecting Bonrrdaries,~ anti the free
Navigation of the St.LZlWl'1BilCe from itssource
to the ocean ‘have beenopcned’ between the
United States and Great Britain, ‘ which it is
hoped,’ says the Message ‘ will have a satis-
factory result.’—-—We hope so too. The
manner in which British interests have here-
fore been looked to and maintained in Ainer-
ica, however, leaves us but a poor augury for
the future. VVe trust the ‘ every thing is worth
what it will bring’ Statesmen will have no iii-
fiueiice in the pending negotiations. England
if she be so disposed, will, no doubt, have a
fine opportunity of disburtltciiing herself of
her North American Colonies.
FROM CADIZ.-—C:ipt. Le Craw arrived
at Marblehead from Cadiz, (sailed Nov. 11)
informs us, that the U. S. frigate Constitution
and schr. Nonsticli, sailedfor Gibraltar same
day—that the French ships did not appear to
have any intention ofleaving Cadiz very soon,
many of them having hauled into the Carac-
cas to repair, while a sufficient number were
left in the bay to keep the Spaniards in awe-—
that several others wei‘e'enip|oyed in taking
away the brass cannon from Cadiz, (among
them some not bored otit) for what purpose
tinknoivn'—btit most probably taken in barter
for their services in favor ofthe Spanish King.
[Salem Register.
FROLVI MEXICO.—VVe learn of Captain
Boyer, of the Cato, who arrived last evening
from Alvarado, that the Castle of St. Juan,
reconiiiieiiced firing upon Vera Cruz on the
‘Id of December. News was received at Hex-
ico, that a fleet from Havana, ol'.'i sail, lllClll_-
ding a frigate and a schooner of War, arrived
offthe Castle on the Qlst Nov. with provisions,
troops, &Lc. Capt. B. saw vessels of war ly-
ing at anchor about 12 or 15 miles from Alva-
rado on the 4th ult.—.Mcrc. fldverliser.
The London Cour-ier is now printed by a
uiachiiie constrticted by a Mr. Napier, which
is capable ofthrowing offmore than 2000 an
hoiir-—on one occasion it produced at the rate
of2380 per hour. ' No new steam apparatus is
employed, but two men alternately turn a fly
wheel which acts as an impelling power.
received the most conclusive information of
FROM FRANCE.——By an arrival at Bal-
timore from Havre, advices to the 17th Nov.
have been received. By these We learn: ‘hm
Baron de Kleigelsteiii, Atistrian Minister at
Lisbon, has been charged to transniit to the
Emperor of Brazil, a letter from his f:ither-in-
law the Emperor ofAiIslrla, urging him 10
acknowletlge the aitthority of Portugal!
It is believed that the declaration of the
.N'orlltcrn courts, relating to the rion-a_cknowl-
edgment of the iiidependenpe ofthe ct--devanl
Spanish and Portuguese Colonies will spee-
dily be published.
Since the commencement of the Spanisli
war the number of French vessels of war has
been increased from 90 to 150, and the ina-
rines from 8,000 to 19,000.
Barcelona was occupied by the French a-
bout the 5th November. The late governor,
Rotten, embarked on the 6th for Genoa,‘ to
proceed thence for Switzerland, his native
country. Mina was to sail next day for Gib-
raltar and England. *
The Constitutional of Nov. 15, says that
the Ordinance of Dissolution is about to be
piiblislied—-tliat the Electoral Colleges will
be convoked for the 15th of February. The
Correctional Tribunal produced itsjiidgmeiit
against the responsible editor of the Courzcr
Francois, for having copied from a foreign
jotirnal an article, as omcial, which had not
previously been itiserted in a French Official
Journal, condemning him to three months
imprisonment and a fine of two tliousaiid
francs.—Balt. Fed. Gaz.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 81.
FROM NGLAND.—'I‘he ship Orbit, fr.
Liverpool, ar. yesterday, with London papers
to the 14th Nov. 'I‘ht-y contain no intelli-
gence of importance. The subject which ap-
pears to engage the whole attention of politi-
cians, is the views ofthe Allied powers will?
regard to South America. The London Cotir-
ier, in replying to an answer from a French
Ministerial paper to an article respecting S.
America, saysv‘ It seems strange, that the
simple declaration of the inteiitiou ofourMin-
isters to watch over and protect British inter-
ests should excite so much alarm and so I‘.‘:uCli
spleen. The time is now arrived when those
interests may be consulted without offence or
injury to the only government entitled to feel
the one or complain of the other, were we,to-
inorrow to acknowledge the independence of
the South American Republics. If Spain
were in a condition, which she notoriously is
not, to attempt the recoiiqucst ofher colonies,
our recognition oftliein as independent states,
might be considered as a violation of good
faith towards her. But Spain has not resour-
ces within herself, to despzitch a single regi-
ment, or equip a single vessel; and if, there-
fore, she does send troops and ships, can there
be a question as to the means by which she
will be enabled to do so? But we are prepar-
ed to contend that France herself is deeply
interested in the independence of South A-
merica ; next to ourselves, the most interest-
ed of any European Power. Whether or not,
in her present position, she may feel herself
at liberty to pursue her interest, upon princi-
ples as free and unshackled as those which
will direct our own policy, is a question we
cannot solve. Our interests are obvious e-
nough. We are at peace-—we desire to re-
main so, and to cultivate all the peculiar atl-
vaiitages which peace ought to secure for a
great commercial cotintry like England. This
is the first duty of Ministers, and to this their
most anxious labors are directed. They Iiave
shewn it strongly in their past measures by
firmly resisting no ordinary temptation to
draw the swortl ; they will shew it as strongly
in their future ones; On this question, too, the
whole country is with them.’
The ships now'on commission are fully stif-
ficient to protect the freedom of commerce in
the new American States, and there are five
times as many ready to be brought forward,
should M. Cheateaubriand require it. There
are now in commission the Britannia, 1910
guns, (well known to Frenchmen); Prince
Regent, 120; Queen Charlotte, 19.0 ; Ocean,
10-I; Ganges, 86; Rocliford, 36 ; Cambridge,
:26; Albion, 82; Btilwark, 8°} ; Gloucester,
89.; Rami|ies,78 ; Revenge, 78; Snperb,78;
\Viudsor Castle, 78; Spartiete, 78. There
are also in commission five ships of one deck,
carrying 00 guns each; there are 91 heavy
frigates of4-L guns each; there are also 9.!
ships of24 to 32 guns, 56 sloops, 926 gun brigs
and scliooiiers, and 5 _vaclits.--Londonpapcr.
From the Paris Con.stz'tutz'onnel, ./Vov. 9.
Our tiiinisters now certainly do not medi-
tate any distant expedition, unless they think,
as has been said, of re-conquering the Spati-
ish colonies. But they have great interests to
contend with. The speech of Mr. Canning
on receiving the freedom ofPlymouth, is al-
most threatening; the refusal of the British
govertiiiieiit to take part in a new Congress,
where the affairs of South America should be
discussed,rc.quires also important negociations;
some determination or other nitist be taken
respecting the Peninsula, particularly what
must be done with respect to its iuteriial af-
fairs; dissentions are not appeased in eight or
ten months; the time at which the 40,000
men who are to remain at Cadiz, at Madrid,
and on the Ebro are to be withdrawn. Our
ititernal affairs will also require some atten-
tion, a determined part must be taken on the
dissolution of the Chamber, the integral ren-
ovation, and the means of procuring a pliant
majority. It seems that the plans in coiiteIu-
plation are not easy of execution, since the
Ordinance of dissolution has not yet appear-
ed, and we read to day in the fanatical paper
the following paragraph :—
‘ \Vill the Ministerial plan receive the Roy-
al sanction? VVe dare not affirm it: but what
we may venture to reveal is, that Royal wis-
dom seems to hesitate, to wish to keep the
Ministry from the abyss.’
PARIS, Nov. ll.-—Certain London papers
have neglected nothing to convert into it very
serious matter the refusal of the French Ad-
miral to let a ship of the U. States entcr Ca-
diz during the blockade. This case, say the
enemies of France, is so mncli the more criti-
cal, because the said ship had on board an A-
inerican Envoy. The National lutelligencer
contains, on this subject, a very prtideiit arti-
cle, which aiitiotinces that some explanations
had been _reqiiired from the French govern-
ment, and requests, uieanwhile, all considerate
persons to abstain front iniprtideiit conjecttires.
From the London Courier, Nov. 11.
In France, they are already speaking ofthe
vessels of war which are about to sail from Ca-
diz. They will be augmented by two frigates
and three corvettes, and the necessary trans-
ports will be procured in the diffei'cnt ports of’
Europe for Twenty Thousand Infantry and
two Thousand Cavalry. It is said that_ Gen.
Morillo will conimaiid the expedition and
those troops only will be employed which have
already served in South America, and who
are accustomed to the climate. The expedi-
tion will repair to Havana to unite with Mo-
rales, whose army it is said amotiiits to twenty
five liitndred men. Cuba being the centre of
operations, it is supposed that tlie.Geiieral in
Chief will first attack Mexico, because ofits
vicinity to Havana ; and that Spain will there
find powerful atixili:iries in the aristocracy and
clergy. Spain intends to publish a manifesto,
in which she will annouiice to the nations of
Europe, that she will permit strangers to par-
ticipate to a certain degree in the comuierce
of her colonies, coiitenting herself with the
recovery of her sovereignty ofthis part ofthe
new world.
The health ofthe King of France is repre-
sented as contiiiuing in a very precarious state.
The iiiqtiiries in relation to this matter, and
the probability ofliis speedy dissoltition, are
the general siibjer:tof conversation, and it was
reported that the rcttirn ofthe Duke (l’Angou-
leine, froiu Spain, had been hastened on ac-
count oftlic very uncertain state of the King.
It is said there were two classes of bankers
at Paris, who were disposed to contract fora
Loan to the King ofSpain. One set insisted
as a preliminary, that he should recognize the
former loans; the other, that he should not.
The latter was finally accepted.
In regard to the rtiinors of hostility, and op-
position to the Royalist party, on the part of
Ballasteros, and others, the British Traveller
reuiarks—“ That the Coiistitutionalists are
highly exasperated at the faithless condtict of
the Royalists,_will not be doubtecl—but it were
inconsistent to cherish even a hope, that the
party which has so unequivocally submitted,
as to deliver up the fortresses, by which alone
they were protected, sliotild now vciittire to
brave the power beneath which they made
such feeble resistance.‘
The Liberals, who return to their homes
with passports by virtue ofthe King’s decree,
are ptit in prison on their arrival, in spite of
the Royal word, which is less strong than par-
ty hatred. The soldiers who were taken pris-
oners, and have been disbanded, are in such a
miserable state, that they are oliliged to beg
aims in the streets of Madrid.
'We have on a former occasion mentioned
the terrible inundations in the Tyrol and
Voralhnrg. Those accotints, it seems, have
not been exaggerated. The,Austrian Obser-
ver of November 52, says——The whole ofthe
country which extends from ObcrDratibnrg
to Brenner has been the theatre of disasters
without example ; the three principal rivers
ofPiistliertal united a multitude of torrents,
the roads, bridges, and edifices were all carri-
ed aw:iy,and the people with difficulty saved.
TurIcey.—-—Another insurrection is said to
have taken place at Constantinople. The
plan for destroying the power ofthe .Ianissa-
ries, has been frustrated by the influence of
their friends in the Divan. According to
several commercial letters, the plan ofthe
Sultan, which was to disband the janissaries,
or to reorganize them, and to take from them
all influence in political affairs, could not be
put into execution, although it was the wish of
the opulent people.
The Grand Seigiior has exiled several of
his confidential servants, which had caiised a
great sensation al Constantinople, particularly
amongst the diplomatic corps; and it is be-
lieved it has some connexion with the negoci-
atioii of Lord Strangford, which was the cause
of the dismissal of the Rcis Effendi. A-
mongst those disgraced is Ibrahim Pacha,wlio
has rendered great services to the Stiltan.——-
Up to this date the Porte has not taken any
steps to put into force the decree proliibiting
the navigation ofthe Black Sea.
Lord Byron, at the last advices, was in the
Island of Cephalonizi.
The exports from England of British man-
ufactures, the last year, to Bnenos Ayres and
Chili, are stated to have exceeded 7,000,000
of dollars in amount.
Sir Robeit Wilson has arrived in England.
_ New-Yoitx, Jan. 1.
FROM FRANCE.—’-By the Stephania,
which arrived last evening, we received otir
files of Paris papers to the 520th, and Havre
dates to the 21st Nov. The papers announce
that the King of Spain arrived at Madrid on
the 13th Nov. ; that on the 12th, at Aranjcuz,
he made souie important decrees.
A new Spanish Ministry was to be formed,
and SAEZ was reinoved.—-The Duke ofAii-
goulcme was expected at Paris on the lstDec.
The extracts from London papers of Nov.
15, contain nothing new. We find no partic-
ulars in the papers respecting the situation of
the ship Paris, except under the Havre date
of the 5th Nov. which mentions that the peo-
ple were then employed in landing the cargo,
and it was not then known wlietlier the ship
would be got off. We regret to learn from
Capt. Macy, that all the crew, exceptCapt.
Robinson, and the mate, were stihsequently
lost, on their passage from Cherburg to Havre
in a French sloop.
Extract of /1 letter from .7.‘«Ictdri'd, JVot*. 7.
‘The report ofaCongress which Iiiiention-
ed in my last, gains ground daily; litit it is now
said that it will not be composed of Eiivoys
Extraordinary of the Powers, btit of the Am-
bassadors accredited at otir Court, and that it
will be held at the Convent of the Escurial.
The 1st of December is mentioned as the day
for its first sitting.
‘ It is given out as certain that the Minister
ofForeign Affairs is to be displaced ; and the
possibility of a total change of Mitiisters is
spoken of. To day it is positively said also
that M. Herro, Minister of Finance, and M.
D’Elisado, Director General of the Treasury,
are to be removed.
‘ It is stated that Riego, when his sentence
was read, discovered much calmness and sang
froid, and that he replied to the Judge who
read it to him, ‘ inay my death restore c:-ilni
and happiness to Spain.’
Ballasteros is said to liave been arrested,
while nieditating ati escape.
A member ofthe Cortes, who voted forthe
Regency at Seville, has been arrestetl and
hung at Grenatla.
Gen. Morillo has also been arrestetl.
The French Consuls and Spanish authori-
ties in the ports, have disagreed concerning
the French vessels taken by Spanish priva-
teers, which the Royalists refuse to give tip.
The ecclesiastics are tleniandiug the re-es-
tablislitiieiit of the Iiiqtiisitioii.
Nizvv-Yoiiit. Jan.3.--By"ilie ship Uniou',fr'.
Liverpool, (whit-.h was cast on the south side
ofL. Island, 40 miles from Sandy Hook, on
the Slst ult.) intelligencé froin'England-to the
22d Noveiuber is received. The papers con-
tain no news of importance. A cabinet conti-
cil was held at London Nov. 18, but nothing
had transpired ofits deliberations. The Brit-
tisli Parliament is ftirtlier prorogued in the
Bad February. The Mexican gov’t has iiego-
ciated a heavy loan with the house of Barcfav,
secured by the custcin house revenue. ' I
We learn that the cargo of the ship Paris
was all saved, part of it (l!llliagt’.fl.' 'It \\';l.s
feared the ship would not be got off.
sons, incltitling the seamen of the Paris and
some other wrecked vessel, were on board the
sloop lost on her way fromClierburg to Havre,
L0-‘D05’. Nov. E.’0.——Bra7.il Letters men-
rived froin Lisbon at Riode Janeiro. dis:
patclied by king John VI. and his new Minis-
‘CV5: glvlllg ‘"1 account of the overthrow of
tlic Ctitistitiition, and the re-establishinetit of
‘ll’-‘°l‘""' l’°""'€“; ‘Hid Ipvtling the Braziliziiis to
return to the state of modified Colonies, as‘
"'50 “"‘_~5'”g ‘he E”'P9T0r to return lioine and
Monarchy. Several conferences had been
l{;_ltl_ between the Emperor, attended by his
. inisiei_s,and the Porttigtiese (.-0|lill‘llS'sl0n8l',§»
the precise result of wlich was not known.-1
The circtinistziiice, however, had excited seri.
ous anxiety anioiig the reflecting pan of the
Brazilians, as well as the European residents
in We °""”"."s.\vlio are generally Constitu-
tionalists, and have hitherto compelled their
new Sovereign to retain the distiiictive title
of C-oiistitutional Emperor. It is tiiiderstootl
that the Portuguese Couiniissioners were pm-
videtl with papers indicating that it Wasthe
wish of the High Continental Powers ll,“
Portugal, now that she had returned ti) her
duty, should not be dismembered, and iiiq
added, that private letters from the A..§ma;,
Court for the Enipress(\vlio, it will be remem-
hered,is a younger sister of the widow of B0-
naparte, I‘-laria Louisa) were also entrusted to
the Coniiiiissioiiers, telling her to use all her
influence with the Emperor, inorder toizi.
tlnce him to return home and join his faintly.
The Queen ofI’ortiigal, a trite Bourbon and
deep in the plots of the late invasion, ls,;|l5()
said to have written pressing letters to her son
and it was understood that the two 1.‘,c,,cj,'
frigates in the harbour ofRio de Janeiro, had
private instructions to offer their services to
convey the Emperor and his family across the
Atlautic,should he deem it expedient to return.
Tm: Gai:i:i(s.—Smn.’i'ii, Oct. Q3.—Since
the death of the heroic Marca Bozzari, his
brother Constantine has made liinisclfknown -
and, according to a letter from Tino, daterl
out 13: and Wliicli has been received :it Nis-
sa, he has avenged the death ofliis brother in
a manner worthy ofliini. He is said to have
completely defeated the I’acha of Scnrnrin
who had advanced with fresh troops, townrrl
the end of September, and to have destroyed
the greater part of his army. Among the
prisoners were 600 Latin Christintis, whom
Bozzari sent to their homes, after reproach-
ing them for having fought againsttlicir Cliris-
tian brelliren. iliay all the ‘Clll‘l$tlnn.s ofthe
west appreciate this coiidnct. Accorrlino it,
the latest private letters from Macedoriia band
Thessaly, we learn that as far as the Pelop-3-
nesus is concerned, the Greeks have nothing
more to fear. It is true that bags full of liti-
nian ears, stated to be those of slain Greeks
atid for which the Porte, according in angle”;
custom, pays a certain sum, are sent from
time to time as trophies to Constantinople.—-
Btit the Franks are no longer deceived by
iliis, as it is a certain fact, that the Turks our
offtlie ears oftlieir own dead, which they do-
liver to the Porte as those of Cllrlslluns,
From GIl)I'(lll(ll'.-—-L0liE‘l'S from Gibraltar,
to Nov. 7, mention that it French sqiinrlruii
had sailed for Malina, Sic. to demand, in the
name ofFerdiiiand, the stirreiider ofthe Bal-
earic Islantls ; and also the death of Toivnsend
Smith, Esq. of Virginia, the U. States Consul
at Tunis. The Ontario was left that the of-
ficers might siiperintend his funeral at Gibral-
tar.——Boston Cent.
-osgg-49¢-..
CONGRESS.
The National Intelligencerof Monday coti-
tains the Rcportofthc Select Committee. ap-
pointed on the 5th inst. in the House of Rep-
resentatives, to take into consideration the
subject of amending the Constitution ofthe
U. States, in respect to the election ofa Pres-
ident aiid Vice President of the U. States,
The Report is of enormous length, being a
general and diffuse dissertation on the sim-
ject. In some parts, it appears to us objection-
able both as to doctrine and diction : btit we
have not space, at present, for a critical ac-
count of them. The following passages de-
serve to be pressed upon the attention of the
country.—-.N'ational Gazette.
‘Pre-existing bodies, sutiiciently small anti
permanent to be exposed to the tampering
and seductive arts of intrigue and corruption,
ought to have no agency in the election of rt
President of the U. States, upon any ground
short of absolute necessity. State legislatures
are bodies of this description, and there is no
pretence of a necessity for interposing them
between the people and the electoral college.
According to the true conception of our po-
litical system, the people exercise the elective
power. VVhen, from considerations of con-
venience, agents are appointed for this. spe-
cial purpose, itis not, as in the case ofa legis-
lative trust, to exercise their ownjudgments,
but simply to execute the popular will. The_
iissuniption, that the legislatures would make
a better choice than the people, involves the
admission that their choice would be different
front the people; an adinission which, if the
foregoing views be correct, fnrnislics, in itself,
an unanswerable objection to the interposition
ofstich an agency. Iniproportion, tlierefore,
as tlicntiiiiber of intermediate agencies is in._
will of the people will be defeated, in the
choice ofCh'icf Magistrate. The coniinittce
have no confidence in that sort’ of artificial
antl complicated iiiacliinery, through whicli
some suppose it necessary to filtrate the pop-
ular will, in order to purify and enlighten it.
The stream ofelective sovereignty is no where
so ptire as at its source. Every remove from
this, is an advance in a course inevitably ciid-
ing in corruption. Indeed, it is apparcnt,tliat
the framers of this cotistiitition, by oi‘da‘inin9;
that ‘ each state shall appoint, in such manner
55 per-\
tioii that Portiigucse Cntuinissioiiers had Ell‘-
.l-csuine his station of heir tothe Portucrnr-so"
g -.
creased, the chances are multiplied, that the I
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