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From the .MarcantiIe Advertiser, D66. 30-
ONE. DAY.LATER. V
The Packet Ship Hibernia,Cant. Max-
well, arrived last night from LlV8l'|t0"Io
whence she sailed on 2d Dec. By lief
we have received our regular tiles, Lon-
. don papers to 1st and Liverpoul’lu“‘2tl in-’
Lists,'&c. to latest-daies.- The report of
a p:i.-sctr;zer- that Russia had declared war-
itgaittst France turns out to be premature.
.-it lialfpast 3 o’clo't-lt, A. ‘M. on tho ls!
DBC. aniexpress arrived in London I,.l:lIl'n
Paris bringing dates to the ow.-.nirig‘_of,29_tli,
Nov. wltich states that in addition to 148.-
’000 rien already called out,and ordered to
‘Y‘llal'CI‘l c.i lst and 15th‘ Dec. tht.-_ Govern-
- nent has determined tofmake an extraor-
’inary levy of 80.000 nieii-and tlrat on
-in 6a:I_V d;ty‘,tli'e (:.h'-lnlbtffl will be ap-
ltr-d in, for the necc-ssa‘r'y',t'trnds,. In tho
II&tmI)t*.l' of,Dnpu:ir-.s,no zbusiiicss of mo-
" slelll was transacted, but it was said that
re ministers retircd_at an early, hour, to
gvoidgreplying to any qrresiions. In tho
l3liamber of ~Peets—“ The report of the
."ln’tllIl~'~‘It)n was presented _nnd read in a
J 't‘.t‘t*t .-it iug, but the only thing that has
't:ans’p"ircil is, that it agrees with the act of
rccusation with regard to the nature of
the crime imputed toihe ex-ministers, and
recommciids the House to proceed accor-
dinglv.. _ ‘_ .' I __ .
ltr Paris every subject, i_t scenis,va-risli-
,etli ‘bi-to.e (li’e“qr'icst’ioii of peace or ufar :
even the trial ofllio cx rniriistois, of which
ts‘ rt-r;.ort was to lrirve been undo that day,
"was for-gotton - as will as all other niatleis
’..—x.;..t'-do_ntcs'i_c buiifort-ign ?Ifl.IIl‘S,_'_8t9e'l’ll to
h iv... burn the all engrossing topic oftlic
Piltlslrnii . . ‘ .
A letter from the interior of RUSFI I. dd‘
'ti>d November to, confirms what has bfleli
already announce-.d respecting the nrarclt of
thc ‘utssian army towards the frontiers.---
The rminwer in wltich this It: ter is expres-
sad it is said leaves uodoubt thattlie move-
ment is ilie..c-rrrsr-qin-t_ice of a pl‘L co»,-ccrtcd
plan bt-iwr-on the Ca'.)lneis"of St. Petals-
burg aiid'Bt-.tlit'i’. V - ~ -
'l‘lte I_.ond--i; Tinins of lat Dec. abstains
from anv ft-..trs on the subject of war.-
Tltcir sources of iaforniaaioti are better
tlian our.» and-'nrore_io be rt-.liwl’oir.
The siiltju-r i.t'Sl;iv¢-.r_-viii the West In-
dies 5 ill ciairns attention of PEl|'lIil'.Ill‘nl.'
Sr ollarrd is uiakiug lteetfsr-ll'lro-aid on the
sulrjr-ct of Patli.rrneti‘tai‘y rcfo~ or; from Va.
Ylottsshites in that country pr-riiions have
been serit to Lonilori on the subj ct.’
.
A question has .--p ring up on the sub-
ject ol the nboli.iou ‘oi roitori b0.'0ll2Il$,
wlrr-ilter tho pl‘0;)l'lt-‘.l0l’S of such places
‘ought not to be llttlt3lllnlfi(‘(.I on their dis-
-pursuance of the powers in him vestedby
the said Act, grant the privileges aforesaid
to 'the‘ships nit’-the "United. States ; {but did
therocy pro~.ido"and ‘declare, that sttclt pr!-
vileges=shn'uld absolutely ceaseand deter-
mine ‘in’ his Majesty's possessions ln '_the\-‘l .-
Indies drid'Spdt‘|i‘Ariiei'ica, 55 certain other
ut“his‘Majesiy’s- possessions abroad’,-upon
"'.‘ind_from certaiiiday's"in7itli‘e said Or'd'er for
,.
. I t
. A ‘
position in -.whicti‘~iliey might have stood,
ibetore ilie.Act of 1825. In forming this
schedule, it warnecessary to I07‘-It-». to-tlie.
North Attie:i'ic-.iu Colonies, and ifsuch'ii‘r~
I‘ai'lget1lttllISIt1juI't3(I;Oll‘t6:l‘ ititeifcsts,’ those
that purpose‘appointcd,arid which are long
since pnsysc-.d._ ‘ '
is said litre Majesty in Couircil,
date the 16.h July,1897,tlrn said last mett-
,tioned order was confirmed: and-wliereris,
in prirsuance,ot‘,tlie-Acts of l‘tit'liumr-nt in
that behalf made and ~pt;ovtded, his A said
late Majesty, by a certain order in Corin-
cil, bearing dam tho 21st day ofJuly,l 8:38,
and by the said ordeer.in Cmlncil, bearing
date tlie,'27'.li day ofJu|y, I.82G,vi'as pleas-
ed to order that there should be cliargvd
--n all vessels of the said United Statics
which should enter any ofthe ports of his
l\l.-«rjt-sty's p issessious in glio \V. Indies or
America, will: article-s of the growth, pro-
duce or nianutiictrirti _oflhe said States, cer-
tain duties ofroiirt-rge and ofcustenis lIlt'.rL‘-
in particularly >3|i(’Clfir!t'I. 7
Anti wltercas, it hath been made to ap-
pear to I‘ll:- Maj:-stiy in C=iunci_l, tltgit the re-
str_-ic.i_orrs Iicrctoforeimposed by the laws
oftlic U. Stairs, ziforcstiid, upon British
vi-it-t-ls navigated I)tZlWt.t‘n the States and
hiii I\'I«~ji=sty’s.posst-ssioirs, in the discrimi-
nating duties oftoiitiage and of custotiis
liorelofor_e iniposed by the luv: of the U.S.
upon British yessvls and lllrll‘ car_g-res on-
toriiig the ports ofthu saitl United States
from III: M tJ"sl_V'.~ said pm:-cssiorts. havi-
also be-en rapvaled, and that the ports
oftlieU.S.are now open tr-Briitislr vessels &.
tliei cargoes coating tinliis tn ijt~sty’s posses-
siousaforesaid, his m ijt-sly doth, tltctcfore,
wi!h the advice: of his I’- ivy Council,,:rud in
pursniiice and oxmci.-9 oftlie porters so
vested IlI'IlIln,a$ aforesziirl, by the s;tid.»\ct
so passed in tlu.-.5tl'r year oftlic reign vfliis
said lat:-.'l\I:=jesty, or by airy other Act or
Acts of Parliaiirt-iii, declare ili_a_t the said
mcired Orders li'tCotincrl ol the 21st day of
Jiiiv. 1323, and oftirr-._27t|r day of July,
1826, and the said Order in Council of thr-
l6.lr day ofJuly, 1827, (so for as such last
oietitroncd --rdier relates to this said United
States,‘,‘- sh ill be-, and the same is hereby
rcspr-ctivcly revoked‘. '
A -d his Maj:-.ty doth‘ further, by the ad-
vice afores-itd, and in pursuance ofrhc pow-
«rs af-twstiitl, declare =h;it the ships of and
belonging to the s.iidUI-i ed Slams ofAme-
rica ui-ty imp-iri front th--. United States ti-
goods the produce of those! S air-s, and ui'-iy
e-xport goods from the British possessions
abroad to be carried to any foreign coun-
tiarrcliitsenrt-nt. \Vo have been ftvqiir-nll_v‘ trv \\llal(‘.Vt-I‘.
called rtpori by It‘?-l(.‘f to give our opiiiiott
upon this point, and shall therefore givi-
it fr.-rtikly. \Ve -itrswer, yes; they ought
to be iritlt-mntifted ; and we will give an in-
stance in point. A Noble Lord is said to
li:ivt-_§trst paid to an Hon. Baron-it upwards
;if£150,00_0, for a rotten borough, not far
front town. Tire :r,t’f-air I5-ln(I€‘_Ct.I no public,
that the House of C_ntnuions' is at once
'di-gracedifir does not tal.e it up. And
the proper way to indl~mtiify‘his Lord.-hip
and thoso of whom he has bought the ho-
rough is, by scndirig them all to Nawgatn
for a lireacli of pi ivilege. This is the way
-in wltich -.-.e'_woultl indemnify all the deal-
-ers in the rights of the people for the loss
of their infamous tiade.- [Tinies.]
WEST INDIA Ttuorz.
' The ship WIl‘CI1 carried out. the President's
proicl-aination for opening our W. India trade-
errived at l’__.iverpool about the 2d Nov. and
the I3,ri!,ish .Gotv‘t immediately repealed their
-Order in Council which proliibltcd that trade.
This repeal was published at London on the
6th ult.
Supplement oi‘ the London Gazette of Nov. 5.
Snruaoav, November 5.
At a Court of'St. James’: the bin day of
Nov. 1830; present the King‘: Mott
Excellent Majesty, in Council.
Wlte-ens. by a certain Act ofPatliamont
passed in the 6 h year oft|re' reign of his
late Majesty King Goorgel V. entitled “An
act to regulate the British possessions a-
broad," after rticiting that, “by the law of
mivigsttioti foreign-ships are permitted to
inrport into aity"of the British possession
abroad from the countries to which they
belong, g.iOdS, the produce of those couri-
tries,and to expor: goods from such posses-
siotis to be carried to any loicign country
whatever, and that it is expedient that such
prrmis-don should be subject to certain con-
ditions,” it is therefore enacted, “that the
privileges thereby granted to foreign ships
shall be liniitvd to the ships of those coun-
trit-s wltich, having colonial possessions,
shall grant the privileges of trading with
those possessions ioB- itisli ships, or which,
n II having colonial possessions, shall place-
the commerce and travigatiott of this coun-
try, and of its possr ssiotis abroad. upon the
footing oftltc tnost favurednation, unless
And the Right Hon. the Lord Commis-
.-iomirs of his Majesty's Treasury, and Ill!‘
Right Hon. Sir Giro. Murray, one _of His
Maje.-ty’s prtncicpal Secretaries of Static,
are to give |h0- neces-u-y'direclion's liereiii,
as toihem may respectively ripnertain.’
JAS. BULLER.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. N037. 3.
Tiuinz tizrwr-:tr.rt 'rn-c U. Srnas ttsn
tar. Wcs1' trvnu Cot.ot~'rr~:s.-Mr. Hort‘i‘cs
having moved that the Speaker do leave
the Chair, the House res-‘ lved itself into a
C-vmmivtc-e oi the Whole House».
Mr. Her’-ics said that the suhjr-cts upon
which the House had resolved to go into
Comtrittce, were the relations of f--reign
t.a'le with the British “lest India Islands,
and aisysrcni of regulations upon the sub-
ject founded upon the principles adopted
by the British Governnicnt and Legisla»
lure in 1825. He should have to submit
to the att_cutiotI of the Committee, a sche-
dulc, frame-d, after mature deliberation, for
the protection oftho mother country, and
for the protection of her crvlotries, wi-h re-
ference to the import- from foreign States
intothoso colonial possessions. He necd
tint explain to the Committee, that the ar-
rangements now ctfected had been fora
long tiriic pending between the U. States
of America, which had prosccuiod their
Great B-itain. This intercourse was now
placed upon a permanent crisis by the close
of one oftho longest and most interesting
controversies which had over occurred be-
tween the two ‘nations. The acljirsttiir-n.
had taken place upon :he basis ufrlie Act
of the British Legislature passed in IS2:'it
an Act which laid down dc.-fiiiitivcly the
principles upon which this State would unr-
mit a participation by foreigners in ilmt
trade, wlitcli, by the Eldn-llsillllt of all par-
ties, It belonged exclusively to Great Brit-
ain to rt-gultite.
the last war, Great Bri ain had endeavored
to effect, by negotiation, an Il'll!t'nilllUllilI
srgrcenieut oftlie principles upon wltich
tho inter'ciiui'se sliou'd be coriductctl, and
incessantly attempts had been made to il-
-cliieve this obj.-ct, but always unfruciuous-
ly.- By Mr. Robinson's Act,a free pa.--
stage was given for ti cotiiniercizrl inter-
cou-se between the U. States ofNot-rh A-
his Majesty, by his Order in Council,-. nierica, and the British West India Isltltltlb’.
shall in any case deem i. expedient to grant
the whole or any of such privilr-ges,io the
ships of any foreign country, altliotigh the
conditions aforesaid shall not inTall_ respects
be fulfilled by such t'oi'uigrr.cot_rn.iry.”
And whereas, by a certain Ordoriofltis
said late Mijesty in Council, bearing date
the 27th day of July, 1826, after reciting
that the conditions mentioned and referred
to in the said Act of I’arlianicnt- had not
in all r('SpEClS been fulfilled by -the Gov’:
of the United States ofAriictica, and that,
therefore, the privileges so granted as';,.
forcsaid by the law of nztvigaiiorr to for-
eign ships, could not lawfully be exercisgd
or enjoyed by the ships oftltcUirited Slims:-_
aforesaid, uulvst his Majesty, by his__().-dc;
in Council, should grant the whole or an
of such privileges to the ships oflhe United
States aforesaid : his said -.‘riaj:~suy did, in
Tliat Act, lroqvever, was not passed solely
for the pnrpoitc of ti trade with «be United
Slates, but for it trade with Arriorica in
general. America had Glllll‘t'I_y and un-
conditionally witlidrawn all her pretentious
and England HOW stood upon tho footing
on which she legislated upon this subject
in-I825, and to which she had declared her
detcrniiriatioti to adhere. But he should
rrot.dojustic.: to the American g()Vt‘l‘|Hnf,'|)l
ifhe did not sta e that it was impossible
for any party to have conducted at nego-
ciaiion, involving such iiirportant interests,
in amorn friendly, chi‘, straiglrtforward,
conciliatory. and tlicrofor-9, as he should
say. in a, more wise and prudent tnanne-.
(heat) The measure of suspending the
intercourse oftho Colonies with tho: United
States must have a tendency to create new
chmrmzls ofTtadi‘_,nnw ititefetits in the Co-
« -. .‘-;
forusaid into the British possvssii-n:‘ab'-oiid,
intercourse with the colonial possessions of
From the conclusion of
ititcrus'i_s had been created solt-ly'by re-_
. Ana W119.-,_.;.,_by 3 cerlzslll other order of it-cling il'.t- principles of the Act of_l825_,
hearing which tne Urrited.Staios atil-2'_ll0_\V,I_e.Cl_ge(I,_l_()
be just. 'I"ho schedule of duties for pro-
tcciirigtlrc Colottit-s was entirely in ‘our
owtr power, arid-~miglit_bc varied to suit
the interests of this couiiry, It-had been
nccess;-ry to iuiptess_tliis forcibly upon-the
American Governnront to pl8\'(‘tlI any fu-
ture (.‘Omplttll}l, and no objection _litr:l be'ct'i
made to the p_tiitr:iplc,:is America IlaLI"llI-
ways raised or lowered her dirties as she
thought pi'ope_r.';.§l The object of the sclie-"
dulc was to give‘ an etrc-iurageniorit to a
North .~\uioi'ican Colonies of Great B itain,
iirsttiad ofby the United Slams of :\'rnerica,
or by any other country. This was to be-
duiici by a perfect freedom of trade be-
tivecn the Co,lonit-s. Ii \\0llItI bu neces-
sary also to take ufftlutins on ships of for-,
eigtl countries .ir-riving in the port ofN»irtli
A_iiieiican Colonies, and wltich had IJf‘L'lI
levied to the present time. A drvy had
existed to the pr:-st-.irt time upon American
.-lii1-is, it having been the policy of Etiglaitiil
to encourage a circuitous trade ; but now
ihcobjocr was to create :r_ direct Ilt;(.lt',
and every objection of this nazuie ought
to be t£'mt)V't.-.tI. Flour and grain had he-
ver 3-‘ct passed to tI'lt'. West Iudcs if-‘o_m
ho North Aurericati Colonies, and there-
fore grain was not grown in any sItl'elfllI-
__t_lllS quantity for the supply oftlrc I.-latilts.
In all tliow articles itr which the North
Arirnticztn Colonies did not reqoi e stip-
po-t, the utmost fteedotu of trzrdu was to
be coticretlr-d to the United 5 sites. W'licri-
the duty had been 75. on 1.000 SIil\'£‘--‘i, it
was proposed to fix at 105. G.l. in all cases
ofdirt-ct iuiportaliun hour the U. St.itt'S.
In all proba iility, the West Indies would
coritirruu to be supplir-d by our N-I'll] A-
uwrican Colonies, on terms as i¢”a~omiblo
as could be expected. The mode in Will! It
Ill! prrtpir:-all ti prticeetl was in I-Iy I)bIi)l't3
he Commiitt-e'a printed st-lit.-dole,showing
tho [irw-HIIL and the pioposvd duties : the
8tll)jt'Cl would lI’llS be placed fairly before
the IIvilI.\‘t§,?‘lll(I the lion. Mt-inbors would
be in asituation to come to a correct cou-
clusiori up--n it. He cotisidered that a
' face iittercourse would be productive of
gm-at advantage to all parties. Ho .,,trus.-
sr-d that tlie-re would be no (ibjcction to
receiving the schedule now, the rfailrer as
Il'WUt|l(I be cxplttiiwd by coll-paiaivc ra-
blcs, and opp ittutiity should be ztfforded
to consider ilic PIICCI of the proposed rt'g-
Ul_i'lII0llS'pl't‘-\'ItlU$Iy to hrirrgingup the re-
_ port on I liursday. Tliefliglit lion. i’3c_u-
'tio‘mnrt coiicluded by riiovirig a res-'-lutiori
to the otter c :---That it was the opiniougof
the Committee, that in lieu oflhe duties:
now payable-, the follo-wing duties (cori-
rained iii the schedule) be lr-vied on .arti-
cles not the manufacture of the Uni-‘ed
Kirigdom,itiipor.tcd into the British Pos-
sessions ofNortl1 Aiiierica. - .
Mr. G. R.--binsou assured the Commit-.
tee that lhcre was a par-y materially" in-
terested in the measure who would learn
with regret the great change which it -was
now proposed to make in an, important
braticli of our colonial policy. He asked
whether it was a proper time to- make this
inrportatrt concession to Atiierica, without
dcntanding from them, as a Ctim[)PDStlll0tl,
perniissioii to introduce Briti.-li niarrul'ac-
-ured goods into the United States? The
cousr-queitco oflbts measure would be to
-hrow into the hands of the United States
an uridtte proportion oftlie trade which we
ourselves at present possesscd,aiid to_gi.ve
a preporideranco to their shippirig iritercsts
would be bcnefittcd, as the right Honora-
ble Member appeared to suppose by the
alteration. Front the mulllelll of the‘
tneasirre coming itilo t'ITlfCI, the itrterc-inrse
llelwccll the United Start-sarid our West
Itidia Colonies would be free, and as no
rise could trike plaice til tho West Irtdi.r
market of wltich the Aiiioricatis would not
be aware one monlli before our merclrarits
here could be apprized of ii, Auieri-ca
wot. d reap all the advatitago, and our nun-
clranrs could not be expected to undertake
the long voyage, as it was c..Ilc-tl, from
Englutid to America, and tlir-rice to the
West Indies (yet by such voyages alone
was it prctr-ndcd that Biiiisli slit. pingin-
ruresls could be assisted in coirsrqirencu ol
the cliango)—our inercharrts would not do
this when they tvoresure that Arircticii, by
the proxiri.i.y of llttl‘ situation, could _ defy
all our competition. The fact was, ‘Ill!’
competition would be bctwt.-en the Uni-cd
States and otir North American colotiti-3
He argued that our stripping l:lIUl‘tt$lS in
Nova Scutitl and l\’r.-w Brunswick would
be dc-siroycd—it appeared that the loit-
ringe eirgaged in those qu=trtcis had, with-
irr at single year, I‘-llCl‘ea$t:tl lo the extent of
60,000 tons. The auiorinr of British tort-
nagu now ougzrgr.-d in the North .-\ntt-a icatr
trade was little short of 1,000,000 roiis.——
He argued that the gl't'ilIe.~l itijury would be
inflicted upon this interest by the change
—that our shipping ll)lei'c()ul‘S6 with N,
Arr_icrica and thc West Indies would be
supplanted ; and that the slrippirrg ctig:i-
gcd in this trade would be laid up and
sustain the same Itlt‘0n\'L‘lll(.‘lICO and logo,»-
as had already affuclcd the shipping in.
,.
I\lttgtItim.
to-our colonies, but would not admit Brit-
Ionial,’ Trade, and to raise ttpnew ‘cl_a9sés'beitctit by this change.
ofrlairnants iii the future d'rstribu'tion'of ’say.tlia‘t they would not derive some,
the protecting duties.‘ It-‘was nor.v_"neces-., believed that rnuc_'tr'of what they would
sasy to"repai,r former errors, and to lettlic ‘gain in one wayt
North Aniericrin__ Colonies stand in that .tht_{r,
kets
for if they went to the Ann.-ricari uiar- ly.
instead of out‘. North Ainerican C lo- vine"
5*?-‘v
Ila would not he wanders not after l-.iurels i..to the wil-
but dcrness of politics".-
under the clear, presiding eye of Marshall
hey‘ would lose in’ tino- and his great bench. ‘He studies profound-
And iliougli “ the humane face di-
He practices his gifts
may wear a paler hue than that ol
supply oftlts W'osI Iridirrlslands by the '
nios, they would lose the custom of the
latter, for certainly those Colonies would
not take the Tull],-ttlttl sugar ottlie West
Indies, excc'i-t. in e'.\'cli'-ingi: for flout‘ and
,otltct‘_arli¢:lc's wltich they were in the hub-
it of supplying. The Hon. Mcnrbcr then
went on to_ depiccate the basic “III! which
this measures was to be carried through.
'I‘his arrarrgemeiit by couvt-Jrrtiou rather
than by iiegoiiatioti was cotitrar_v to the
policy of Mr. Czrririing, who had recum-
nicmlcd lltat,- ncgoiizition having so often
f;rlIC(I, any future I'€.'IitXdlIUl". of our coloni-
al rcgulaiionssliould be by legislation ra-
ther than bv couvcutiori wi.li other states.
II this lradibceu the case in llro present
instance, all parties would have had fair
and r-(pin-l notice of it. -
[_'I‘lio resolution was adopted.]
CONGRESS.
CASIS OF JUDGE I’ISCK,-
W ro—.\‘r.snAv. I)r.c. 2-2.——In our last paper we
gzi ve,a' brief outline of the iu'gtim.‘nt of Mr. Mc-
Duffic in the case of.ludgc Peck oit the first day
of thetriril, and a passing notice of his second
day 's effort. . Tue loiioiving notice of the closing
part ofliisaililri-ss on the second day is from the
Washington correspondent of tlic No.-iv York Ob-
server, and will be rt ad with touch interest : _
After Mr. M’Dirfli«*. had concluded his
zzrguur nip:-opcr, alrtl bi-fore he came to
his per--rrrtiot.-, he called for a l‘P.‘atIll'l,_"_’ of
tho lil.ir.~lons arti-:14‘, wltich cntistilttltetl ‘tho
~-ft'i:ncc ofill Lowers-—wliicli, to be sure,
appeared to be a \‘(‘.:‘_V sobvr and l:iw_ver
like I'l‘VIUW ofajudicial opinion of Judgo
Peck, i st-ll‘ pulrltsliod by the Judge in his
pm,-;m3 c;;',)at'il_\’, in the satire, or sonro
other paper, some iv-.atks 0' ii or its after-
he had acted upon and pl)I)Il~‘It8‘I it in tlin
Court, and after the wl,to‘.c affair ll}-(I i as-‘ed
from liisjirr'isrlic‘ioii into a ltighor Cour’.
It appeared, tlit-.rcl'ou-. that the published
opirriou of the Jurlgc was in truth rxlrti
judicial—a pl‘lV:l'£: traiisactiovi. "And tho’
it hail been oflicial, an aittivtrey might law-
fully take l‘.\'C0piIull r-vr.-ri'in his own Court.
But the offence was not taking cxcoption
professiortally, as he might have. done with
perfect impunity (so far as the right is con-
ccrnetl} in face ofilie Court; nor was it
l‘t!V.6Wlng thn public acts of ti public func-
tioiiury, out ofCwurt, and before the world,
as any main may do; lint it was Luke E,
Lawless vmsus Judge Peek in a newspa-
)--r. Nor was the stiictrzr s nfMr. Law-
less strikingly distcrspectftrl. And what if
they hzrrl been I--I10!‘ dcclamzttnry-hut a
single train of some fifteen or twvnty chu-
secutive propositions, or posili -us--some
heirig Sltttt'll‘lt‘lit,s of facts and 3 sure doc.t_rin-
al--all very brief. but in oppugrizition ol the
opirriou -If Judgri i'eck. And for this he
uas impri-oned and disfaizcliiscd.
‘Mr. M‘Dutiie’s peror--t'iort,of.i' halfliour,
was, I suppose, a real ctfor t. ' Nor with me
did he fail of making an impression ofa
higlior-ler of talent. Some of his strokes
‘wt':r'c masterly. Assuniiug his 0'-Vfl,pl't‘ITl'
isc,s—(for the testimony is not yet recoi-
vcd, nor has Judge Pt-cl»: been hcard)—it
was liberty HLLI despotism in a cairn of fiict
—-tho former writliing iii aziguisli and ex-
piring in the suliduing and tiituciloss grasp
of the latter. His historical allu.-iori.-, an-
cir-rittind modern, f-reign and donivstic,
were a, p o, r are and tor ching.
them wort: such as the following: ‘I is said
of one of the wire uteri of ancient Grot-cc,
(the S.:Vt)l!, he said) wlwn ‘:tsked—-—\t‘l1:tt. is
the bust slate ofsociciy? That said he, in
-.——.—_...
the liuntblc.-t and the mt tiricst, as his own.’
The zipplicrrtiiri is obvious. ‘The Wl)flCIt'l
is,’ said Mr. i3I’Dutliv, ‘that M Lm-less,
when ho received the niaudriie of the Judgi-
for his incarceration and (li.sl'-atrclii.-'cn1i-.rrt,
did not (as I would have done) like Vir-
uinius of old, make his way to the throne
of Appiu.=,nnd drag him from his uriwortliy
and inrpious ell.-Va-i0'n'. ' I ll" not ttrtifcss
to give the set terms of Mr. M'Dull‘ic’.~
riliraseology-but the sciitirncnt iii an a-
-bridged form. t-\Vliat.’ said Mr. Dr.-fli-.,
‘wlrilo one ofthe proud»-st and most port-til
‘kings of "Europe is hurls-d front his throne
by an itidiguaut people, bi-cause he darted
to lay h 3 hand Ut«0ll‘Illt’. freedom of the
Prcss, shall tlitrsc UllIiPtI States stiffer one-
of lwr own fir-e citizens to be robbod cftliis
piivilt-gt-, \\‘llll0lll trial or Jury by a petty
proviticilil jtitlgc, &. iliruwn into it dungeon
with common‘ felons I That ow-r amtju-sly
l‘t!trl't)I)3li(.‘(I .-crliriorr1:rw,rvlriclivirtually «to-
nind to the (‘lllZ!‘tl the right of pro:-.o-.nr..n,r_i
upon lIlr~. otTr.;ialiact< of tho Pro.-ideut and
Congress of the UnIlt‘tI States, was high
anal pure as lresrvt-ii, Ctilllp'oll‘t.'tI with thr-
tisntpatious ol'tlris.lut.lgc. The Prcsitlténi
oftlie U. S. riiay be tiadtitzctl, and dela-
iitcd, and asp:-rsod by r-vi-ry ncivspaper in
the land, =ill lie is clo bud and stulfo-d with
vices enoutzlt to send lriii to the regions of
l’lu‘o—and all this with iriipuriity--but.tlt_c
sacrerl person of Judgc Pt-ck is too high,
too Iflll'll«l(‘ltltlI(', for a deriizcu of earth to
qua-stion ct-cu the iofallibility of liisjrrtlgr:-
it in any form, does it at his peril.’
The following observations from the pen of
another }Vnslririgi'on Lt-tit.-r Writer, refer to the
same case, hint to another ofthe promincntaciou
in it, viz MR. WIRT. and will be read with no
less iiitcrest than the foregoing.
Mv.,Wirt with his usual suaviter in mode
ieressts generally in all parts of the United and fortilcr in re, took occasion, a day or 1
two since, to advert to the latitude of plan
While we were acting on HVIIIJIGHII poli- ding in which the opening gvntlermm hm; ,
"Yo A""""f=*! Wits _lH'0C<=c‘dmg_ dtlliireritly. irrrlulgtidpand slit-tied.‘-If I_lm acwetir-ss of report»-d a bill relative to, the inrprovenreur
I lri:Ariicrrcirns desired to obtain adtirrssiott iris forettslc powers with his usual felicity. of tlt(tC0,,,,, ,;,.,,,._ N,,,,,,,,.,,,,, ,“,,,,,,i,,,,_~ ,
were offered and agreed to, and the House a suitable reward -
To me be his ulwavs been the exam tli
- I
isli lllalluftlclurcd goods, against wltich tication ofthe beau ideal of the bar. His .
they had enacted a; scale‘ of prohibition. field, youknow, is the United States. Hi; i
It is said that the nest IndiaColmii:=s would t‘.-tine is ‘coextensive with that field. But gress » A iesqltition offered by Mr Hnyngg p ck
. .- . ‘ “V - ,. . . . 3
Some of
which cvr ry cirizteri adopts the wrongs of
younger years, and Time has slightly im-
pressed his image on the tullatrd manly
form of the dis itiguislied advocate-, tho in-
tcllect is still ft in and bright, and the im-
agirrttioti--alt! upon riliorn has the Geri-
rtis ofAmciica, or rather the Autlror ot
mind, lavislred n more beautiful one? IIH!
irriagiiiation still glows wi'h its primitive
prisriiatiiE‘radiuricc,just enough cltastened
and softened to admit, but not bodizzt-tr the
solid creation of his ttridorstaiiding.---—
Tliongli the Il1dl\r'I(I€ldICZ1$i.3 wltich now on-
gagcs his talcrits be, porhsips, tr corupar-.i-
tivoly small affair in itself; though his
clir.-trt he a petty Judge of at small district;
his antagonists have liittde tnuclt oflhc cast-
and the crime, and conscious of his high
ability, he seems prepared to meet and
niatclt them all, rcttiiiiitig a y-.ungct' assis-
tant at his side, as mucli peril-tps to im-
prove him iii the art of forensic war and
legal :irgumcnt,as occasionally to relievi-
li3nisulffi‘otrr the burden oftlm defence. I
know not wh -in the Clierokees could liatvo
enlisted in their cause, better adapted to
vindicate their rights than Mr. Win,
whether we take into view his talents and
aztainmcnis or the dot-p siriccriiy-—-the
sp--tit-ss ititegt'il_v of his private cliriructt-r.‘
When the able and lcarlted liuinagers
rcpt-ati~:dly object to the questions with
wltich he probes the adversary ofhis CIlt’.t)I,
and enforce their objoctions with such
power and rcsourct-s as you may well sup-
posc they possess, lie quibblcs not, evades
not, but with an open and manly address,
the very mirror of his lieart-—-enters into :i
justifit--.triori oi his course, and by a series
ofttitrsiurly rca.~'oiii‘rig, unimpeded in its
orrtrnciati-in by a vet bal rnistake or jumble,
unfolds part ofwlizit you see to be a null
arr-ariged plan in his own niiud; a plan
wli. is soon to be necessary to the success of
his side of the question. Tltcsr-. 8X3(‘l'np0-
raucous rejoindcrs are delivcred without
-he least euibarizisrnent ufmirrd or tiittnricr,
in a tone ufvoice full and universally audi-
IJIP, in larrgn:-ige wltich could scarcely bi-
mended even by a captions critic, and with
at force ofargunient, which none hrrt such
antagonists as his whole probably venture
on repelling, at least, Wlill any hope o'l'suc-
cess. Happily for them, tltcy seem to
h.ivc the best side oflhc questiurr; for this
is considered a d:ingt-r--us impeachment for
the rt.-spotidt-ni. While the probable guilt
ofthe arraigned Judge may furnish sortie
color ofreasori for the almost vindictive sc-
ver-i=.y.,ol:,l\_1‘r. I\IcDiifli:', it might have con-
tributed to-the very impressive remark ol
Mr. Wirt,.uttcred as explanatory of the
particular course of his defence ; that,“on
the result of this trial depended not only
the continuance in, or loss of his office by
liercaficr, with all the painful coriscq-rert-
ccs incident to’ a conviction." Should the
ox-Attorney General fail, perhaps he will
not say “I ought to hzivelgaitied the case,”
as he once said to me with an air of re-
grelfiil seriousness (like that which might
have shaded the countenance of Napoleon,
when he said he “ought to have gained
ilic field of Wateiloo,") “I ought to have
gziine-rl the D.irtmouilt Collage case against
Mr. \Vt:bsler-—I had the bust of lllt‘ argu-
uwnt." Quote, cnpassrtn!,—-\Vas not the
loss fully made up in that czilnptrigti which
the Sourlicin barrister prosecuted at the
(!t1S'\var(I, st-me 18 uionths ago, when if
the Yankees_ aye, the Yankee ladies too,
speak Il'llt~‘,I‘lO uiastercd the Northern Lion
oti his own fit-ld in tire presctice ofliis own
worslrippt-rs of the good city of Boston?
Ittvz.-sting the edge and point of his argu-
ment with the blaze of his imagination, he
is said to have carried all br~{ore him;
Mr. Lawless, the aggrieved paitv, an
Irislinian by birth, appears to be ,,,,i,,, ,,
gentleman in uranncr,and auswt-rs tho qrles.
lions of the cross-cxaniioirrg counsel wi-h
tli;_rn'rt_v, abiliiy,:rnd apparent coriscit-csness
ol'br'inr__g in the right. I moan strcli ques-
tions as he chooses to answer; f r every
now and then he appeals to tile Court to
sanction his refusal of certain qtiesti-ms, 6:.
is--ft:-ii -iisiaint-d—r-rice I rctrionrber by 23
ii-it-s to 19 ayt-s—\\’r-bstcr among the av.-s.
\Vlio is right in such at decision? The
tn.ijot.ity ofcour-st: I
Dr-zc. 23.-—'I'lio Senate met at 11.0‘.
clock. S: veral periiioiis wore prest-tired,
and bills put in prtrgrtess which have IJt_‘l!n
livterofote iiztriiculsizxetl. A rm-ssage in
writing was l‘t‘C8iW.‘CI from tlit.-Ptesidetit of
the U. 5., on wltich this Si.-irate went for ;,
short time in'o Ext.-ctriive business. 'l‘h.-3
Court for the inipearclturcrii ot'Jtidge Peck
was as usual,‘ organized at 2 ti’clock, and
the trial proceeded on. Mr. I;‘invI(-53, ,1“,
first wiztress on the part ofthe nizriiagers,
was all day, till the court adjourned, nude,
crosscxatriiiirriion by the re-spondc-iit’s cuun
st-el, Mcsszs.bIcrt:di'lraird ll/irt. The sub-
ject main-r of which collsislcd for the mus;
part ofa review of the at-gutnerits and pro-
tectliiigs had in the “Soulard Case,” ;mi__i
.hat of 0lIlt-'r claimattrts of lands in utvpei
-vcitrcss of Mr. Lawless in itiipuguing im-
questiotis put to the witness b_v.IutJgePt-ck’.-
In the House of Rcpreserriatives Mr
Clary rt-ported a bill from the Conitnitteu .
lands ; and Mr. Blair, of'I‘t.-nncssev, from 3
sickness ofone ofhis family. 'rI‘)t'.."$c.11'ato'
rm-tit. A id lre,,wlio slr:-ill presume iu.do Lotiisiarizt, with a view to show the lncrii- "'ee‘5 '°‘m°"°“'s 3“ 12 O'clock. “:‘i7‘ "
.Iutlge’s decision. Much time was occu i- ~ 5 - - - »
,.,j 5,, d;,c,,_.5,,,g ,1“, ,,,,,,,,,,_.,,. of ,.,_.,,,i,’;,, §rl'i“'_:le:«:’srt:r|i’t‘3, li|yvt;lJ;)g:ll, I-l;tl)lnlIl(3lll:;I.
“ , ’ ' 9 ' ‘tug iat a gm 3
I 3 ' I i I - - '.
counsel, and olijecti-d to by tho Managers. ?..t,'.'|';:.':,...'.t,]-i,(.:,':i.‘i,:°;',?,l3j'°d’ “aha .(‘,m,""d‘
‘ ' ' -1 ., passe mt siip.
_ crrduates of th . ‘ ' . .
on Public Lands, supplemental to the bill pain, -3. W", ,‘:f:,T,l:,',j"'¥ “:00. '" ‘.‘'‘’='
"F "'8 '°'i'*t"°" ll-6 vurelitt-"er! "T public on Naval Affairs -and or; I)VaI\rIc0$m'"en
' ‘ ' ~ ' I’ arnum
he Corirnriitee on internal Iruproveuieni, each... so c,,,;,,,.,,c,,d ,h
' El 9 -- l -
etused ‘to consider a resolution relative to a 39]“; 0 -
ho pity and mileage of members of coli- was spoilt iidfiilidiriding the trial of 3
. rt
it ’
was agreed to, that the House from day to
day attend the Senate during the 'I‘ritiI_for
hnpeachnjenl, and meet during that time",
at 11 o'clock. The House at 12 o’cIoclt
resolved itself into a committee of the
W hole, and wenr_,up to the Senate, in pur-
suance of the sztid_resolu_tiou.
FRIDAY, 24th —_-In the Senate, setting
as a Iligli Court at Itirpcaclirnent, the trial
-il'Judge Peck was coniiriur.-d b_v the cross-
extirriiuutioti ‘of Mr. Luke E. Lzrwlt-.ss,
which occripiud the Court until IN‘7ll’ for-tr
-i'ciuclt, when it adjourned over to Muticltry
next. _ ,
I_n the House of Pvt-.pruscntarivcs, a va-
riety of petitions and resolutions were pre-
sented and approprizitelv di.-posctl__ut. A-
mong the latter‘, was out: to rcs'cirid'tlm ro-
solution that the House should atitr-nd the
St.-r-..att-. Cliatirbor during the trial of.Iudgo
Peck, the consideration of which was how-
ever, pospotied until Mmrdtty. The II-trrsu
-.tfrcrward wont iirto a Coriiniiltco of the
Whole, Mr. Canibrclorrg in the chair, and
proceeded to tho Senate to prosecute the
iiiipu;rt:lrt,ricnt. On their return, they re-
putrid progress,-3 ‘and atIjl)lJ:'l1L'LI until
t\Ir:ll(Ilt)'. ,
I\1o.\'t>.-t-v, 2Tth_?,__—'~Iri the, Senate, Mr.
Flt!Illlgl'lll_\’SC‘n pré-sié-"ntc‘d a niettiorial from
sundry clot ks in the tdilforeut -navy yards
in tho Uni'ed - Stair-',_ pr:i_',‘_itrg an in-
crease ofttoin,rt.:ti's:ili--ti.- Mr. Holmes prt--
sr-trcd a p£>‘IlllOtt.ft‘Q,tll sundry sliipnrusters,
praying the cstablislinrent of a light-liouso
on Sivari’s Island, in Jericho. On motion
oftllr. Foot, and by urianitnuus cons:-tit of
the Seriatc, the bills for the relief of Henry
Becker, and‘Saniurel NU\\'UI'I, wcro "sover-
ally road ti lI)ll'(.I‘:lltlt‘, and passretl. The
bill iricorporaritrg ll!!! Potomac Fire Iusu.
rance Conr;ran_v 0I‘G¢.‘0l"L’eIO‘\iVlI, was recei-
ved fto:ii the H--ust-., read twice,» and re-
ft.-rre~l.io the Comnrittce on tlie—Drstrict
of Columbia. In the Senate, acting as at
High Court-of Impeacltmcnt, for the trial
M r. Luke Edward Lawless, was concluded
by the counsel for the respondent. It is
presumed that Mr. I... will be further ex-
amined to-day, by the mzinagers.
In the H--use of Rt.-preseirtalives, after
the usual prescritntion of petitions and re-
solutions, thte resolution submitted on a for.
rm-r day, by Mr. Taylor-, respecting the
ptirmtig of the iildiccs to the .Ii.ur'rialsoI
Congress, was, upon the ntotiouof Mr.
Polk, indtfinilely postponed. The trio.
tiou oflllr. Jones, to rcscind the resolution
but the House aftctid the Senate charti-
bcr, during the trial of Judge Puck, wag
then taken up; and Mr. Irwin, of Ohio,
moved that its consideration be deferred
nriiil Monday next.‘ On motion, however,
of Mr. SI8l'lgel‘t', the resolution ' was laid
noes 79. The House then rPsl)I\-'etI itself
iiilo Cotiinrittoc of the whole, Mr Cornbre-
leng'iri the chair, and proceeded to the
his ciivnfi, but his capacity to till any otlicc"'Sen‘ztte chamber, to prosecutetheinipcacho
merit. At half past 3 o'clock, they re.
turned and reported; and the house ad-
jounctl.
Tuesday, Dcc.28.-The Senate passed
the greater part ofthis morning, tifrera
few petitions had been presented, and
iii executive business. The trial ttf_Ju(.igo
Peck then prticccdccl. The second wit-
ness, Mr. Henry S.. Gtrycr, _t Int:-Veir ofS;_
Louis, was produced and ex-atniniid. He
was followed by the Rnv. _'I'honiris Hut-lo,‘
both of St. Louis’. Tltteir tcstiirioriy coli-
S'I3Ilfd '-I u for that‘ detail of the r-ccurren.
touching his conduct towards Mr. Law-
less. The Couitatljournéd at 4 o’clock.
In the House of Rt-prcseniatives, after
the pre.~entation ofpoaitinns, several re-
ports were made by the various commit.
tee.-',.~rntl it bill w s l'I'pt)l‘lPlI to extend the
Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road within the
DLstrict OI. Colombia. (rile resolution;
otfcrt-d were ofa private character. ex-
cept otiosubniittcd by Mr. Iloward, nela.
live to the piiu ing for the use otthe me-m.
burs, ofllic tt‘pHI‘lS of former cmm,,i-,¢',.,_.__.,
on the subject oftlre tarifli This rcsolu.
tion produced some S6llSflll0ll- in the
House, and a debate coninrenced wltich
was interrupted by the nit-.~s._i,«,re front llio
Senate anriouiicitig that the Senate was
settirig as a Court of I-iipericlirricrir. The
{louse accordingly adopted the usual mo-
trori, resolvt-rl iisc-ll‘ into :i C0n1n|in3u of
ill!‘ \Vlrole, and proceeded iu the Spm,“,_
‘V-''1’NE>'Da\\': 1366- 29»-In the Senate
M11 DlClH¢|S.gin, in piiisiiatice of notica,
given, asked I3-_‘ vi.-., and imn,.d.,¢ed.,,j .3,“
rf‘St)ltllIt)t), ptov'tditrg"f.,r 3,, ,,,,,,.,,d,,,,,,,, ,0
the Ci-rrsliuition, sn that no person who
shrill IliIVt-' twice been elected to the uIIiQe- of
Ptt"sidr=.nt ol the Unite-d Statics, shall again
be eligible to that «office, In [Ira S,,,,,,”,.
sitting as :r high court ofinipeaclinioétit for
the trial t)fJutlgt: Peck, the feslltniiny ‘on
illt-. part ofrhn U. S. was concluded. The
court then adjourned over ltil\‘It)l|(_Ia_y"i r.¢-xii,
at the rt.-quest of Mr. i\IeretIitb;.-niadl-' in
COllS‘.’-qtlelllic ofthe HIJSPIICC of --M.-._ IV],-f
who was siidduttly called lirttm,‘-“?.[,i,,..,,,;
In the House among the petitions lprol‘
"9" '"".V b*’ lllilctftl on a footing with the
'roui Elisha Bigolow, buildornfa steam
,, ., . __
o tlia ordinarv at-cidentslof ‘Mu;
Wrptising to make his discovnr_y.pu[,§:,,a"
, _ ur
o Wlticliwas ret'o..;-d ,0
The rust of the day _
dgg 7.
l
of Judge Peck, the cross-cxzrniirration of’
upon the table‘ by a vote of ayes 5"
s(_)IlIt,'l'0ptil‘lS on bills. had been received,
\
and Ms-. A-thirr L. Magennis, a lawyer, , I
cvs th:it took place in Judge Puck's Court,
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