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"SPEECH OF MR. INGERSOLL
ON THE TARIFF,
In the House of Representatives, Jan. 10.
Having gone thus far with the other
members of the committee, we have now
reached the point at which 1 am sorry to
part with them. In saying, as I do, that
this is not the proper time to change the )
established revenue system of the coun-
try, I have no allusion to what is taking
place elsewhere. Icome to this part
of the subject in the way in which it was
put to me, as a strictly financial, not a
political question. Thisis not the prop-
er time, because you will receive under
the present system of duties for the two
years to come, at least. In the report
put forth, it is taken for granted that now
is the time, and now the hour, most tit
and proper to redce the Treasury re-
ceipts ; and this the committee are at-
tempting to accomplish by their bill,-lest
the dreaded surplus should overtake u_s,it
we delay it a little longer. is not
the first time we have lien,” about “a
surplus in the Treasury,” ii‘-'nd;’tlie em-
barrasments it might produce in our di-
vising ways and means to get rid of‘it.—
Why, sir, I have heard about it, and read
about it, ever isicce I was old enough to
read the newspapers, but have never
been able to find it, except in the ima-
gination, for the last quarter ofa centu-
ry. I remember reading about it, as far
back as the administration of Mr. Jr.-ffer
son ; the evil had been anticipated at that
day, and Congress had been called upon
to devise some plan for disposing of it.-
Tlie profound statesman, Mr. Jefferson,
then at the head ofthe Government, ad-
vised Congrcss,_ that . when a surplus
should really b_e found in’ the Treasury,
it should be expended in-works ofluternal
improvement, either under the present
constitutional powers, or under such
new grants as might be imparted to the
federal compact. But we have grown
wiser than Mr. Jefferson, or think we
have. No one is now so unfasliionable
as to propose that the surplus revenues
should be so used : in our estimate of
fifteen millions we do not mean to have
any of it distributed in that way. And
lest we should happen to have an excess,
1 r honorable man in as sacred alight as'
the funded debt. Instead, therefore, of
the much talked ofsurplus, there is now
an actual deficit of nearly a half million
of dollars, and outstanding demands a-
mounting to almost five and a half mil-
lions more : making, together, not far
frcm six millions to be provided for be-
vond the means new in the Treasury.—
Then in addition to these six; millioizs,
there is owing to the pubiic creditors on
the funded debts, seven millions more,
making, on the first day of the persent
month, a i'ound sum of about t/’zirtccn
mz'li’ians ofdollars. This being the con-
dition oft he Treasury at the time, we
need not trouble ourselves about dispo-
sing ofthe suplus.
Butit probably -might, and will be said,
by the friends ofthe bill, that to meet all
this we shall ‘have an immense influx
coming in from the customs during the
current year; and though we are now so
‘ far behind, there will be, on the first of
January next, certainly a. large “surplus
in the Treasury.” Let us see. The
Secretary has informed Congress that
the whole receipts. for the year 1833,
from the Customs, from the public lands,
and irozn the stock held by Government
in the U. S. Bank, and from all other
incideritul sources, will amount to ‘.24
millions ofdollars. VVith this s-.im what
have we to pay "l Take the Se'cretary’s
on ii statement to answer this question.
He has told you in his oflicial Report,
that the expenditures of the nation dur-
ing the year will be, exclusive of the
Danish claim, $l7,G38,000. Deducting
this from the ‘.24 millions, and also allow-
ing for the payment of the Danish in-
indemnity, which must be taken from
the receipts ofthe present year, and you
will have left about $5,600,000, and
will at the same time,owe to the holders
of public stocks seven millions, and
have another floating mass of unsatisfied
appropriations at the end of the year,
which, if they should be as large at the
end ofthis year as they were at the end
of the last, would leave you still about
seven millions to be provided for. There
can be no surplus, therefore, on the 1st
ofJanu:-iry, 1834 ; but we must then, as
now, lag still behind the sum of our in-
debteducss.
we are perplexed as to the mode of a-
voidingit. It was the burden of coin-
plaint at the last session : it met us dur- .
ring the recess, in starting capitals, in
the re-publications oftheday ; and since
we have been here this winter, it has
been rung and echoed in our ears, in all
the sameness of the cuckoo's note— “sur-
plus-snrp1us—surplus l” ' Gentlemen
will insist upon it that the body politic is
in danger ofiinniediate death from pleth-
ory, and the political doctors who gath-
er round in consultation, instead of tap-
ping a vein, are for cutting the arteries.
. Let me advise them to stay their hand,
before they use the knife thus freely.—
Let us see how the truth is about this
much talked of surplus-—-this moneyed
plethory, that threatens so many ills.—--
The examination will no doubt be dull,
dry, and uninteresting, but it is one
which the statesman must make before l.e
can be prepared to vote on this bill.
The Secretary of the Treasury in his
annual Report has informed the House,
that there would be on the first of the
present month a surplus, speaking in
round numbers, ofS~_’sl,600,000. Taking‘
this Report ofthe Secretary in our hands,
let us open his strong box and count its
contents. If you will do so,you will find,
that of this amount of $1,600,000, the
sum of $1,400,000 consists of what is
called “unavailable funds.” These un-
available funds are principally made up
of the billls of broken banks-—local,
banks which have failed years ago.——
You received them when the State banks
were used as places ofdeposit, for the
national funds, and before, the incorpor-
ation of the present bank of the United
States. And permit me to add, if some
ofthe present schemes of the day should
take effect---if we should withdraw our
deposits from the vaults of the United
States Bank, and again trust them to
the safe-keeping of the local institutions,
whatever may become of our‘other funds,
we shall at least havepne, the fund “un-
available,” that will be always on the in-
crease. However, it may not be worth
‘while to dwell upon that topic just now.
My business is with the surplus. If
these rotten bank notes are taken out of
the account, we shall have left in sound
funds but two hundred thousand, instead
, of sixteen hundred thousand dollars.-
Nor does this give us the true state of
the case. Turn back to the Secretary’s
Report, and you will find that to make
up this excess he has reckoned in the
money which we received from the Gov-
ernment of Denmark for spoliations
on our commerce, amountingto not far
from 700,000 dollars, every dollar of
which belongs to our merchants,’ and
may be by them, either now, or in a few
weeks, drawn out. This money makes
no part of the legimate funds of the
Treasury; it is merely there in trust for
others, whose private property it is. Al-
low for this, and instead of a surplus in
the treasury, we are deficient," on the
1st ofJanuary, to the amount of nearly
halfa million of of dollars. But if we
0 a little deeper into this business we
shall find, that besides the deficiency
just alluded to, there are of the appropri-
ations of the last Session and former
Sessions of Congress, now remaining
unsatisfied, but which will hereafter have
to be paid,-nearly five and a half millions
of dollars, or to speak with mathemati-
cal precision, the sum of $5,475,202 26.
Then claims must be regarded by eve»,
But perhaps there will be a surplus
two years hence, that is in Jan. 18:3".
This too shall be looked into if the com-
mittee will but have patience to go through
the examination. It is a dry subject -
very dry ; and can only be elucidated by
speeches offigures, not by figures of
speech. During the year 1834, the act
ofJuly last, reducing the duties, will be
in full operation, and the receipts from
the customs under it, are estimated by
the Secretary of the Treasury to be 18
millions ofdollars ; in addition to which
we may receive from the public lands and
from the United States Bank stock, three
millions, (if the bank should not by that
time stop payment,) making the whole
revenues of the year 1834 amount to 21
millions. The expenditures of the
same year, exclusive of the debt, are es-
timated by the Committe of VVays and
Means at 15 millions ofdollars, and that
is putting them a million and a half less
than they were during the last year, and
two and a half millions less than the es-
timate for the curent year—but say 15
millions, ifyou please, exclusive of the
debt. As however, it has been shown,
that we must commence the year 1834
with a balance offunded debt, and the
usual floating mass of unsatisfied appro-
priations, amounting together to nearly
seven millions against us, you riiust, to
ascertain our,true condition, add this a-
mount to the 15 millions required for or-
dinary expenses, making not far from 22
millions to be provided for in that year ;
to meet which you can have but 21 niil-
lions of receipts, thus leaving a balance
still against you on the first of January,
1835. .
To all this it may be, and probably
will be answered—that the government
owns stock in the Bank of the United
States to the amount of seven millions;
and 'this stock may be brought under the
hammer, and should we get par for it,
then we should have the glorious surplus
completely within our grasp, perhaps, in
some two years hence. The proposi-
tion is, that we should sell our stock in
the Bank of the United Sates, which
now yields an interest of seven per cent
for thepurposeofbuying our own debt not
due, the greater part ofit, till'lS35; and
on which we are paying but four and a
half and 5 per cent. —The bank stock,
seven millions ofit ifforced into the mar-
ket in a mass,must go at a great discount
if sold at all; while the public creditors
would not part with the scrip which they
hold against you, unless you paid them
in advance. And yet the proposal is cool-
ly made, that we should sell our seven
per cent. bank stock at a discount, to buy
up our own debts at a premium,and on
Wlllcll We Pt‘-Y but four and a-. half and
five per cent.
This would be a grand financial ope-
rationindeed !_—VVould any gentleman
pursue such a course, in his own private
concerns? If he did it in the part of
the country from whence I come, he
would have a conservator put over him,
as an insane person. And dare we do
that with the People’s money which no
individual, in his senses, would do with
his own 1 But suppose you should send
this bank stock into the market, are you
_quitc sure that it could be now seld at a-
ny price. Must not any man who has
watched the thermometer in 'Wnll Street,
know that the moment the Government
seven millions, there would be a general
panic, and arush from all the holders
to get rid of their shares also 'l Let the
Bank be ever so sound, if the Govern-
ment should thus send its stock to be
sold, ‘it would necessarily enter a glutted
market, with the death mark upon the
face of it. In a market thus glutted, it
could not fetch the half of its original
cost. ‘Who would buy it? Capitalists
do not desire to buy up the stock of
banksihat are about to wind up their
concerns. They do not wish to buy
debts scattered all over the Union.——
'1‘heir object is to get interest regularly
zin
whfch sound policy repuircd longbefore
the war. And how it is to coal, protec-
ted by a duty of 47 per cent,’! ‘is tliat, too,
one of the things necessary to oui' inde-1
pendence in war? There is mucli of it
used among us “Yankees ;” we are prob-l
ably the best customers for this artical,
for we live in a cold climate. It goesinto
all our factories and work shops,and in-
to most ofdwelliiigs on the sun-board, on
the banks of our rivers, and the margiiisl
ofcanals, wherever you can penetrate by
water. Vife take immense quantities of
it from Pensylvania, and pay her well
paid for their investments. It was the
mostidle thing in the world to suppose
that this stock could be sold at pleasure,
unlessiat an enormous sacrilice. A gen-
tlemaii near me says we could sell our
canal stock ; surely,the genlemau must
be injest. In regard to that species of
property, if we continue to be the liol-
ders of it, my own opinion is, that it
will be eventually productive ; but you
might as well throw it to the winds, as
now to throw it into the market. The
U. States Bank must begin to wind up
itsconcerns at farthest in 1836. It will
‘probably require from five to ten years
to bring its affairs to a close. ‘Va should
not receive the principal sum in a lump,
but by instalments of a million or a half
million ata time, and this put into the
mass ofthe national funds never would
be sufficient to cause a troublesome “sur-
plus in the Treasury.” Besides, there
is no proposition yet before us to sell our
bank stock; and,till one shall be presented
in a tangible form, it should not be ta-
ken into account. True, the President
ofthe United States has reeonnnended
that “provision be made to dispose of
all stocks now held by the Government
in corporations.” ‘nut we should do
injustice to the President to suppose
that he mentby this to hurry the bank
stock to a forced sale, without any re-
gard to the price it could command ; no
such thing could have been intended,
nor do the words of his message justify
such an inference.
But suppose the views which have
been presented in reference to the fin.'.in-
ccs are all .wrong—-suppose there is, or
shortly will be, the much talked of surplus
—that it is necessary, therefore, to re-
duce the revenue, and that this is the
proper time. Then] have to say that
this is not the proper bill. It is partial,
unjust, and inequitable in its hearings on
the diversified interest of the country of
fectcd by it. Aside from this, no per
manent system should be settled, by
which we are to rely on the public lands
after the payment of the debt for which
they were originally pledged. The
scheme now offered does so rely on the
lunds for a large pO!tl0l1 of the ’I‘reasury
receipts. .Thcre is to be sure in the re-
port some qualification about purchasing
Indian titles, and paying Revolutionary
pensions, but that limit as to the land iii-
come, does not amount to much, for I
presume. we shall have Indian titles to
extinguish,-arid annuities to pay to the
tithes, to use on Indian comparison, “as
long as water runs, orgrziss grows.” And
then as to our Revolutionary worthies,
who have at last received their long dc-
fered dues: it is to be hoped that death
will not have disposed of them as soon as
the report seems to apprehend. I hope
they may remain among us many years
longer. And if, as some perdict, and
many fear, the fabric of our Union which
they assisted to raise is to be destroyed,
then, with the good Lafayette, I pray,
that the evil hour may be at least delayed,
till not one of these venerable men shall
be left to mourn over the ruins.
The Secretary of the Treasury, in his
report a year ago, which 1 have not now
by me, also recommended another mode
ofgetting rid of the lands. But the plan
of the present bill is still to draw two or
three millions annually from them. A re
the VVestern gentlemen ready for this?
Do they think that the present land sys-
tem is the best that can be devised, and
are they anxious now to rivet it on them-
selves? For such will be the efil-.ct of
their votes, if they are recorded in favor
of this bill. This is an objection which
strikes to the root of the present scheme.
Let us, when we come to fix our perina-
nent system, draw our fifteen millions,
or whatever other sum may be necessary,
exclusively from the customs, leaving
the public domain to be equitably dis
posed of as the wisdom of Congress may
devise, or the wants of the People may re-
quire.
The president has said, and the Com-
mitte of VVays and Means in their report
admit, that on articles necessary to our
independence in war, it is proper to put
higher duties than on others. But is not
the blanket of the soldier, and the cloth-
ing which he wears, necessary for him in
time of war 'l How was it in the. last war?
Ask any man who was on the Northern
froiitier—ask my honorable friend from
Peiinsylvania, (Col. VVatmough,) who
was there, and who amid the snows of a
Canadian winter, bore the hardships, as
he now bears the honorable scars, ofthat
trying service. He will tcllyou that the
men were more distressed from the want
of comfortable woollens than from any
other cause. VVhy, sir, it is notorious
that you had not blankets to give the shiv‘-
cring savages who sauglit y our protection.
VVe had iron enough and lead enough :
it is true we occasionally wanted some of
the well made manufiictures of iron, well
finished muskets, but we had thcraw ma-
terial, and should‘ have had no difficulty
as to muskets at any time, ifyou had giv-
should enter the stock-market with thcsslen that encouragement to your enterpri-
for it. ‘Vs do not object to the duty be-
cause it is a part of the entire systcni.—--
But, sir, there are immense beds of the
richest coal in the ncigliboriug Britisli
province of Nova Scotia, convenient to
water, and which would supply to a very
great extent the demands of tliel\’ewEiig
lnnd States, and a considerable part of
New-York, ifthis duty were removed, or
even if it shouldibc put as low as you
have by this bill put the duties on wool-
lens. As to spirits, no one thinks that
“tlic'ardent,” in this form at least, is ne-
cessary as a war article. The Secreta-
ries of “far and of the Navy, have adop-
ted the best way of promoting national
independence in regard to that, by dis-
continuing the allowance of grog to the
rank and file ofthe army, and the sailors
of our public ships, and subsisting more
substantial comforts in its stead. There
is one general remark that applies to
the bu ky articles of iron, coal, salt, su-
gar, und molasses-it is this, "hat a given
rate of dhty on either of them affords e
mucli gizcatcr protection than the same
rate assessed upon the light dry goods,
such as cottons and wollcns, or on paper
and forthe obvious reason that the freight
cartagc, wliarfage, and other cxpcnces of
such heavy ::rticlcs, are of thcinsclves in
great protectioii, compared with wliich
the foreign light goods pay but little when
brought from iibrgzicl. Let me not be
understood as objl'ictii'ig to any or either
of tlicfe clntics~-I go for tliein all: I
would not pull them dowzi to the bum
hle tevcl assigned ,th the wo.iii»~;is, the
cotions, and paper, but prefer rai.-:ing
these last towards the more favored rank
of the first. But if you insist upon giv-
ing us wliatyou call free trade give it with
an impartial liniid-—wli_viiot give it in iron
which enters so largly into the con.-:ruc-
tion of those gnllent ships that swell their
canvass in every quatcr of the globe?
Vfliy discriminate in the long list of oth-
er til‘l.lCl(‘S wliich we have just been ex
aniining?
It is intimzitcd in the llcport, that the
act of 1816 has been takcii as the basis ol
this bill; and it may be said, that, inas
mucli as there were inequalities in the
former, they had been adopted here. But
there is a great liilsluliu in this: Thetruth
is that iron and some other articles‘, are
' more highly protected by this bill than
they were by the art of l8l(3, whereas
both cottons and woollens ate put matc-
rinlly lower.
Fir‘;-t, as to wollcus.
1816 all woollens were to pay 7.5 per ct.
for three years, and then come down to
530 per ct. ad V'.ll0l‘L‘ln. But Congress in
tcrposed before the three. y(‘tIl'S, and held
them up. How is it with them in this
bill? All \V0Oll€‘.: goods costing in the
foreign nmrkct not over 35 cents the
yard, arcto be put at 5 per cent. and all
others at ‘.20 per cent. in two years from
next lfnrch. Say not that no w-iollcns
can be imported costing 35 cents or less
the yard, and tlicre:"orc the 5 percent. is
of no consequence. You will find on
looking at the Treasury returns, that
there were imported during the lust your
one million of dollars worth of this very
description of goods; and that, too, un-
der the old rates of duty. It is a class
of goods which interferes directly with
our sattinets. ‘A nd who can calculate
the amount that will be crowded in upon
us by means of false invoices and other-
wise, when they can be 6JilCl‘Ctl at the
nominal duty of 5 per cent? No such
discrimination as this was made in 1515;
on the contrary, it was under that act
that our sattinet cstablislimcnts began to
take root. Some one near me says it
was the act of ’32 that opened the door
to the cheap woollens at 5 per cent. to
favor what are called the negro cloths.
It did so; but the bill of ’32 protects the
other woollen interests; it does not put
them at ‘20 per cent‘ wliere’tliey are pla-
ced here. That was a bill of compro-
mise; much was given up; but we will
abide by it as it is, entire as to woollens,
though you cannot expect us to he satis-
fied with it, after you have mutilated its
most important features. It is a remar-
kable circuinstance, that in this bill there
is not an article, in the whole list of im-
ports, on which a duty is assessed at so
low a rate as the 5 per cent woollens,
except one, and that is straw matting,
which we trample under foot, and it pays
a duty of 5 per cent on importation.
Now for the cottons. Compare the
protection given here, with that in the
act ol"’l6. By that act, it is well known
that the minimum principle was first ap-
plied as a regulator of the duty on co‘.-
tons. It was of immense service—it
drew millions of capital into that branch
of manufacture, and has given us a
cheaper and better article than we ever
had before. But it is stricken out of the
bill now before us, and ofcoursc leaves
that manufacture at a lower protection
than it had in 1816. Is not the gentle-
man from Tennessee now satisfiid that
woollens and cottons are put lower in the
bill than they were in the act of’16’l
Has it not been demonstrated? And
By the act of
“ C-llizeilfi ‘engaged in making tllemdwhy has this invidious distinction found
a place here? The protective tariff was
not put upon the country by New-Eng-
land votes—tliey stand recorded against
it, at the beginning, though they have
since sustained it. It was first adopted
when commerce was the idol of the East,
and free trade the motto inscribed upon
her banner. The policy of others, and
the votes of others, drove the people of
that section of the country from their
ships to the workshops, ‘where they have
invested their property, relying upon the
public faith to maintain the system as
the settled policy of the country; and
you are now for turning them back to
their ships, to learn something of free
PORTUGAL.
Advices from Lisbon are to the 12th
‘of December only, 1\'liguel’s Gazettes
contain numerous letters of thanks
for patriotic donations, further lists of
gifts for the army, and numerous promo-
tions. ,
From Oporto, the accounts come down
to the 15th, inclusive. From these state-
ments which rencli us through the Eng-
lish Tory papers, the situation of Don
Pedro and his followers is apparently
hopeless. \Vithout money or provisions,
hemincd in on all sides, and exposed to
the cannonading of the batteries con-
structed by Don Miguel, his men dissat-
isfied and threatening to throw down
trade again. Such injustice surelv can
be sanctioned by no portion of the House
or the country.
FOR EIGN .
Capitulation of the Citadel of Antwerp
——({estrztct£on of the Dutch Flotilla --
re-establishment of traizguiltty at Ant-
~ warp.
By an arrival at N. York on the eve-
ning of the 29th, London dates were re-
of the capitulation of the citadel of Ant-
werp, which took place on the ‘.?3d. The
Commerce.
Loivnoiv, Dec. ‘27—-(Evening)-Tlic ac-
counts from Antwerp, contain some high-
ly interesting details of the terms of the
capitnlation, and ofthe ocurrcnce which
afternoon.
of the Citadel on Monday afternoon, Lin-
der the command of General Favange
(Cliassc linnself being unable to move,
made to the Hague is received.
5
Ypres.
were they under l’.l‘:C()l't.l(-:'t'S ofGen.Chussc
their commander, Capt. Koopman
Sovereign. They were not, therefore
of either French or Belgians, by whom
ceived to the 27th, bringing intelligence
followiiig we copy from the Journal of
took place up to 1 o’clock on Tuesday
The garrison marched out to the quay
from an attack of rlicumati::iii,)aiid laid
down their arms according to the ternis
agreed on. They were then escorted back
to their quarters, where they will remain
until the answer to the communication
If the
E‘?.i.i.-'7 of I-folland should refuse to surren-
der the other forts on the Scheldt, (of
which the fullest expectationis entertain-
ed at i‘:.iitwcrp,) these gallant menare to
be subjected to the. treatment of prisoners
of war, and confined at Bleiiin and
But the conduct of the French and Bol-
glans. with regard to the gun-boats sta-
tioned between the Citadel and the»Tctc
dc Flanders deserves to be designated as
atrocious. The gun boats were in no de-
- gree rlepemlciit upon the Citadel, nor
acted under instructions direct froui his
included in the capitnlation of the Cita-
tlcl,:1iidt1ctut1lly_l«;cpt from it. Never-
theless, in defiance Oftliis‘ distinct under-
standing &.in violation ofBelgic neutral-
ity, wlicri Capt. Kooman, on the cessa-
tion ofliostilities, thought proper to drop
down the river with his little fleet, the
Bclgiaiis, from some of the works on the
banks, with the assistance of French ar-
tillt.-ryinen, opcnt-‘d a heavy fire upon the
gun-boats and their gallaiit Conimzinder,
iinding that it was next to impossible to
effect 11 passage by the opposing batter-
ies, blew up and sunk his Ves;-'t:ls (with
the exception of one which escaped) rath-
er than zrllow them to fall into the hands
they might have been subsequently used
their arms, the Ex-Emperor of the Bra-
zils S'(i(3IllS_tO have no course left but to
sue for. permission to escape. At the
same time a circumstance is mentioned
which, if foundc din fact, would lead
to the supposition that some ncgociation
is pending between the brothers. After,
and as it is said, in consequence ofa
conference between Sir J. M. Doyle and
General Santa lllartlia, a steamer was
despatched to France for the declared
purpose ofbringing Dona Maria to Por-
tugal. llas Dou Miguel consented to
marry his niece’! inquires the London
Albion ; and is her Father so humiliated
in his principles and views, to have sup-
plicated for his unnatural alliance i
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From the Journal of Commerce
THE CASE OF AVERY.
A great and most extraordinary ex-
cite mciit has been raging for some weeks‘
in Bristol, R. I., Fall River, Mass. and
the iieighborliood. On the morning of
the ‘llst ofNoveinber, a girl by the name
of (‘.ornell, was found hanging by the
neck to the stake of a stack-yard fence.
Among the few papers in her trunk, was-
this memorandum: “if I am inissing,”
enquire of Rev. Mr. Avery, Bristol: he
will know wlicrc I am gone.” The first
announcement of the catastrophe in the
papers of the neighborhood, proclaimed
the Rev. Mr. Avery, a Methodist preach-
or, as the murderer, and adduced evi.
denceiu confirmation, which appeared
satisfactory. Mr. Avery was arrested,
and in the midst of a great ferment, ex-
amined before two magistrates, the exa-
mination extending to fourteen days.
The iniigistratcs Howe and Hnile, gave
their opinion in an able manner af the
close, and discharged the accused, there
not being, in their opinion, probable
cause to suspect that he had coniinitted
the murder. The whole proceedings
have been well reported by Mr. Drury,ia
very respt~ctuble attorney, and couiisol
_ for the accused. V‘/c have performed
’ the sort of olficial labor, of rc.idin_g the
’ pamphlet, and must say that we think
the Justices could have had no difficulty
’ in coming to the conclusion they did.
These does not appe ar to us the least
reason to believe that any murder was
comiiiittcd. The wretched girl had lived
for several years in a course of abandon-
ed vicc, as was proved by numerous wit-
nesses-". Her wickedness was about to
proclaim itself and involve her in new
troubles, among agquaintanccs’ who had
not yet found her out.
or seemed to be, deranged repeatedly-—
and here in the stack’-yard, she closed
with her own hand hcrpoor existence in
this world. She had associated with tho
Metliodists, and hjvpocritically endeav-
oured to hide her crimes under their
mantle. At Lowell, Mr. Avery found
her a member of the Methodist church,
and becoming acquainted with her prac-
Shc had been,‘
n'\
agjziinst Forts Lillo and Licfl:e::sliock.—--
This spirited conduct ofthe Dutch corn-
mander provoked the disappointed feel-
ings of the llelgans, who were "base
enough to pelt and hoot at him and his
tices caused her to be expelled. From
that time, she repeatedly threatened
vengeance, and from expressions used
some \vecks before her death, it would
appeared before them.
necks of such wrctches.
an independent nation.
ble people.
Antwerp.
somewhat checked by the accounts from
mcnts.
The letter of our correspondent pos-
scsses much matter of interest.
opiuioii we have expressed in another ar-
ticle, that the return of the French Ar-
my will be postponed until the principal
forts on the Sheldt are in their possession,
and the King of Holland will not deliv-
er them up until compelled to do so by
force of arms.
In addition to the public advices from
that a general continental war is not far
distant, we have received private infor-
mation from Germany of a vei'y impor-
tant nature, which greatly strengthens
this opinion.
g-:illaiit comruds as they passed through
the streets as prisoners ofwar. No doubt
many of these valiant a'ssailants of dis-_
armed prisoiicrs were the same pitiful
scoundrels who threw down their arms
and ran away when armed Dutchmen
No wonder the
French should put their feet upon the
The people
who are capable ofsnch conduct are sure-
ly unworthy to be raised to the station of
King Leopoltl, who arrived at Antwerp
a short time after this disgraceful scene,
was received with coolness by his igno-
The French papers of Tuesday con-
tain no articles of importance beyond
those relating to the fall of the Citadel of
The Funds did not advance materially
on Tuesday; notwithstanding the Ant-
werp news and the pacific cliaractar of
the intelligence from Prussia, the effect
which would have been produced being
Vienna mentioning the intention of the
Austri-—in Government to raise 32,000
men to complete the Huiigarian Regi-
His iri-
formation seems to correspond with the
the Continent which lead to the belief
seem slic contemplated representing her-
self fts the unsuspecting victim of the
wiles of some one, in whom she had a
right to place great confidence. In the
language ofJustice Howe, “she appears
to have been addicted to aimost every
vice, and to have been for years going
about from place to place and staying
but a little while at any.” Of Mr. Avery
the Justice remarks, “He appears from
the testimony of persons of the highest
respectability who had possessed ample
means of knowing him most intimately
and for many years, to havealways su-
taincd in perfectly unblemished reputr
tioii, and by the distinguished purityof
his moral, christian and ministerial (nar-
acter, to have been eminently entitled t0
' 19
A After the sentence of acquittal, it
the Court and the audience, that he stood
ready, if any one on the part of the pro-
secution desired it, to give bonds for his
appearance before the Supreme Court of
Rhode Island, ‘to answer further to the
charges, and to remain in custodv until
one of the Judges could attend to the
rccognizances. No one accepted the
offer. The excitement however broke
out with new fury afterwards; another
warrant was obtained for his arrest, and
placed in the hands, ofthe Sheriff. Upon
this Mr. Avery decamped. It is not
strange that his friends advised him to
do so, though it would have been better
to maintain his ground and brave the
storm.
VVe do not think that to be a clergy-
man makes a bad man a good one,‘ or
lifts him above the scrutiny of his fellow
citizens. At the same time we do not
believe, that because a man is a clergy-
man, or a Methodist clergyman, he
hanged.
The expenses of Albany city, grow-
ling out ofthe cholera amount to 819,119.
proclaimed aloud by Avery’s counsel, to «
lshould therefore, and ex ofiicio, be"
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