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3'r In thin paper the Laws of the United Slates are
published.
m m r* m mmtm.
From the boston Daily Advert, • .
BRIEF REM \ RKS,
On the Appendix, dated July 27, 1 S2-J, ot
Mr. John Quincy Adams,, to the new
edition ot Ids Letter of March 31, ISOtf,
to Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, on Presi
dent Jefferson's Embargo.
In my Review of the extraordinary Cor
respondence belwen President Adams and
his relative and friend, Mr. Cunningham, 1
was obliged to recur to Mr. Jefferson’s em
bargo of December, 1S0“, and the zealous
agency of Mr. John Quincy Adams in im
posing that pernicious measure; because
the steps 1 hud taken to exhibit its real cha
racter to my fellow-citizens, with ihe view
of obtaining its repeal, had been made the
ground of his father's wanton and bitter re
proaches against me: otherwise, i should
nave been silent on ihe subject of the em
bargo, and of the son’s agency in effecting
it. In that Review, I have given the his
tory of the embargo, by an exhibition of all
the I'm ts iiecessay to enable every impar
lial reader to lot mu correct judgment of its
merits or demerits. Without a knowledge
of those facts, such a judgment v ill no: be
attainable ; certainly not from the account
given of it by Mr. Adams in his A ppeiidix,
1 regret the necessity ot repeating any part
of what is so fully detailed in the Review:
but that being it large pamphlet, will not he
seen by great numbers who will read the
Ai'l'kndi;.; which, being compri .e,l jnlwo
columns of a new paper, will probably ap
pear in newspapers, all over the (’oiled
States. Such Editors as-publish that Ap
pendix, and desire their readers should m i
at least what is briefly staled on the other
side ol' the question, will also publish, in
justice to them and to me, ihe following
Remarks:
Mr. J. Q. Adants'says that Mr. Jeffer
son, in hia confidential message of the liSih
of December, 18</7, recommending an im
mediate embaigo,enclosed two documents,
one ol which was a recent proclamation of
the King of (.real Britain, authorizing amt
commanding lire impressment, In his naval
officers, of British seamen, from neutral
merchant vessels; and the other a corres
pondence between General Arm (nme.then
our Minister in France, and ihe French
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Champ igns
Mr. Adams calls the paper enclosed with
the message, “I no documents hut there
were lour distinct papers. One was the
British king’s proclamation, requiring his
“ natural horn subjects, sea-taring men,”
serving in foreign vessels, to return, to de
fend their own country, then menaced and
endangered by the arms of France, and of
the nations subjected to hei power and at
her disposal ; and also requi ing his naval
officers to lake, from neutral merchant ves
sels, all such British seamen. The second
document was ar extinct of a letter, dated
September I l*o7, from the French Min
ister of Justice, Regnier, communicating to
the advocate general of (lie Coum il of Bii
r.es, (he Emperor Napoleon’s decision, that
hi> Beilin decree of November 21, I80(i.
should without any exception, he carried
into execution. That decree authorized
“ French vessels of war m seize, on hoard
neutral vessels, either English property, or
even all merchandise proceeding from En
glish manufactories or territory ’’ —w hether
belonging to enemies or neutrals. The
third document was a letter dated Septem
ber 2-t, I 807, front General \ rmstroug. to
the French minister (.'hampngny, inquiring
whether such was the Emperor’s decision
relative ta Ids Berlin decree. And the
fourth document was Chanipagnv’s answer
of October 7, I Mt~, in these words ; « |Jj s
Majesty has considered every neutral vess, I
C'hit! from English pons, with cargoes ..1
English merchandise, or of English origin.*’
[that is, of the manufacture or produce of
tiie English dominions) “ as lawfully seized
by French armed vessels.”
Mr. Jefferson, at the close of his message,
says “ 1 nsk a return of (he letters “of
Messrs. Armstrong and Champagny, which
il would he improper to make public. '
But wherein was this impropriety ? The
re-ter sees that t|„ two letters of the minis
ters of justice ami of foreign affairs, ref, 1 to
one and the v,mi* d. cisi.,ll of the Emperor,
respeejmg the commerce ot neutiuls with
the Rntlsh done nil ns. Vet, while Ui. r N
was allowed to ;,e published, rhamnagny’s
' ' V,S ,0 1,0 returned to M r . J^e.-son.
. secret, wi ,h Arms,long’s let
ler. ,0 Which 11 was an answer. In mv
Ke- lew, 1 have suggested reason, which
was. mat .0 render Nap..!. Ws , Wn)
rmnmg the commerce of Kuylaud ..fl'ectu d
it must. assChampagny s.i t .. c
piete; nil cm.,,, ri e of, with the
ln-.sh dominions must cease; n „d the v:,„
commerce ot,he . ni.ed States with those
doni.oma.co.il ,e prevented only tv an
embargo. Hence the inference was ob
ous, that the embargo was a measure of
co-operation with the French Emperor, to,
distress Great Britain, and, as far as possi
ble, to ruin her co nmerce, on w hich her
revenues and means of defence essentially
depended. I have supposed there might
be another reason for concealing from the
public eye those two letters; for the people,
believing in the President’s patriotism and
paternal care, would be led to think that
those two papers, exhibiting some things
improper to be made public, contained the
substantial grounds for the embargo. It is
true that they were subsequently, in the
course of the same session, transmitted to
Congress and published; but it was with
a mass Os other documents, composing a
thick volume, without a particular reference;
to the letters, whose original object, no one
not in the secret would imagine.
Mr. Adam’s Appendix contains a num
, her of very exceptionable statements and
intimations, the requisite comments on
which would occupy too much rooni for a
newspaper. Ills principal object in wri
ting it, seems to he (lie vindication of him-1
self from the reproach attached to a senti -
ment which 1 had stated as having fallen
from him when zealously advocating the
enacting of the embargo law. '{’hat semi
, ment was uttered in opposition to a nigthm
for time to he allowed to consider so mo
mentous a measure as that embargo, which
would lay waste the whole vast commerce
of the • nileil Stales. The sentiment, ac
cording to my representation, was thus 1 x
pressed M The President has recommend
*• ed the measure on his high responsi -.iiii y :
■ •* i would not consider—-I would not deli
berate : I would act. Doubtless the
President possesses sue It thriller infoniM
• “ ti<tn as will justify the measine. ’ Ul’ihK
1 sentiment, .Mr. Adams, in his appendix,
says, “ It was impossible to have formed .1
■ charge more destitute of foundation ; more
i easily refuted ; or more open to the chas
tisement of severe retaliation. Vet I took
■ ho public notice of it ; nor shall 1 now go
further beyond the simple declara-tion, that
1 I never expressed or fell the sciifinn nf. im
■ puled to me by Mr. Bickering, than to ob
serve, that if I had uttered it, and h el been
understood in the sense which he has given
to my words, it was his duty, and the duty
of every Senator present, who so undei-
Aloud me, m l only to have hud my winds
taken down tit the tint *, but instantly to
have called me to order for using them.”—
Mr. Adams (lidh adds, “The words, as Mr.
P'u.kei ill g profivscs to have understood them
were 1 » 11 .1 1 *ul;:• 1 !v in the highest degree dis
orderly—and u decisive proof that they
were not gem rail y so understood is found
in the circumstance, that no exception was
taken to them at the time.’’
I do not agree with Mi Adams, that tin
words, as 1 understood them,.« eie *■ lit or
derly” in any degree Extraordinary, iu
■ deed, they were ; but rendered the speaker
no more liable to be cal! 1 to order and
1 nsured, than any other imp,roper oral,-
Mird sentiment which any member udvan
es in debate. Besides, the subject before
the : eeate was of a magnitude to supersede
and put out of sight all nice questions of
order.
On (he above quotations from Mr. Ad
aim’s Appendix, 1 might remark i. That
1 am not used to make professions aside
from what I really think or believe. 2. 1
re assert, that Mr. Adams did utter the sen
tiupeiii 1 imputed to him, hut which lie now
says “be never expressed or felt.” I wrote
it down at the moment after he had express
ed il—and merely because it was a most
extraotdinuiy one: so extraordinary, in
deed, that no one would have conceived it
possible to have been altered, in a liee go
vernment, by any man of common sense,
unless when actuated by an unwarrantable
zeal, or powerful feeling of into:ost.
On my own declaration hoiiditleave this
question; confident that, with all those who
have koig know n me, no collateral evidence
will be required. But 1 will now offer the
testimony of Mr. Adams himself, and from
his Appendix too, in evidence o| the cor
rectness of that declaration.
1 have never said that Mr. Adams,orany
other American legislator, would coolly and
diTdierately avow, as a principle or rule 1 I
action, such a subserviency to, or, il
the reader please, such an implicit reliance
on, the wisdom and knowledge of the Exe
cutive of the Eniied Slates, as Mr. Adams
manifested in the case of the embargo
t here are few men, extremely few, so. to
tally depraved as to adopt and avow an oh
vionsly immoral principle as their mie of
action. Ihe murderer and the thief, for
instance, will readily admit, that murder
ar.d theft are crimes; yet in particular
cases, w hen urged by violent passions, or
tempted b\ the hope of gain, the same per
sons will commit those very crimes. With
infinitely greater facility w ill the aspirin"
politician, with little regard to principle,
take the course which may conduct him to
(he object of his ambition. 1 stated a par
i titular fact, from the odium of which, and
| its natural inference as to motive, Mr. Ad
| inns has now attempted his vindication.
I ('I, his statement actually corresponds
! j with mine; and furnishes a tact, which ao
-1 ‘ counts for the phraseology of a part of the
obnoxious sentiment 1 ascribed to him.
. The entire sentiment in question was ex
l pressed by Mr. Adams, in the Senate, in the
1 terms 1 have already stated. And now let
-1 ns look at Mr. Adams’s own account of it.
■I m his Appendix. “I admitted (says he'
-(that the tiro documents” [so he chooses to
1 denominate the four papers communicated
, | hy the President with his message recom
-1 j mending the embargo] “ would not have
< ; hern of themselves, to my mind, sufficient
'|<" w arrant the (treasure recommended;” but
■ “ i observed, that, the Executive having re
■ j commended the measure upon his responsi
/ j bility, had doubtless other reasons for it,
1 w hich 1 was persuaded w ere satisfactory :
r that with this view, convinced of the expe
diency ol the bill, I was also impressed
- with the necessity of its immediate adoption
e —that it was a time, not for deliberation,
a hut lor action.” 1 now pray every reader
e j to compare the two statements, and to point
n - out, it be can, any material difference be
-- J tween Mr. Adams’s and mine. But the iiu
poitnnce of a dear elucidation of tins ques
tion induces me to place tlie Uvo statements
side by side.
11< kkri.vu’s Adams's.
“The Preaiclfii. Iras “1 observed, that,
1 l ecoauiicii.led the mea- tbs Exculive having
sure on iii.- high refpoa- re'ipmmeniied the fea
sibility.” s ire on his rcapous.bi
lily ”
“ I would not contid r “Convinced of tin
—/ j/j eitd not d'liue- expedient yof the to! ,
rule: J would act." 1 was. also iiuprer-'.
with the ue essity of 0
immediate nduptiau
that it was a time , tv !
fur deliberation, but fur
arliou
“ Doubtless the Pre • 44 I observed, that l/it
| siJeiilposse.sK i such fur Executive, having re
j iher informal inn ns will cmxjinrn !e 1 the men
j justify Ihc measure.'* sure on hi- respond ab
ly, bail douhl/.iatr other
reasons for it, which I
war pert undid were i a
tiifndory ”
Every reader will now easily judge, whe
ther Mr. Adams's own statement will bear
him out in the assertion “ that ho never ex
i pressed or felt tiie sentiment imputed to iiim
by Mr. Bickering. ’ Mr. Adams also now
stands convicted, !>y bis own showing, of
resting his vote for the embargo, on reasons
possessed by the President, and not com
municated to the benate. Tor lie says he
told the ronmiitlee (himself a member of ii j
who brought in the I,'ill for the embargo.
“ that the two documents [the four papers]
witli the message, were not sufficient to jus
lily so strong and severe a measure as an
embargo.” )et lour papers were of
fered by Mi. Jefferson to Congress, as the
sole mounds on which he recommended an
embargo.* .
1 remarked above, that Mr. Adams liar)
supplied information which accounts fora
par tof the sentiment I ascribed to him.—
lie says he objected, in the committee, that
die documents with the message were insuf
(icient to justify so strong and severe a mea
sure as an embargo; and inquired whether
the executive had oilier reasons for the
measure, which it might not he convenient
to assign. lie was answered by the Chair
man, that “it was exp >cteri and hoped that
die act Would have a favorable r fleet, to aid
the Executive in tiie negotiation with Mr.
dr. Kose ; and also dual it was intended
as a substitution for the non-importation
act, wlii h passed on (he IStb of April
I !;(■,.•’ Here we see some of the secret
masons looked up ill the President’s breast,
or cpmmimicated only to a few of Ids most
confidential partisans, for recommending the
embargo—and Hie origin of Mr. Adams’s
■xpn a- 1- .n, an hour afterwards, in die .Se
nate, that “ doubtless the President posses
ses such (uniter information as will justify
the ni' '-sure ’’ Thus he admits, that the
-in 1 i .-bill passed in the .Senate, not for
do - a.ises presented to them by Mr. Jefi’er
oit, Cut for reasons which he did not think
it coi lent to assign; and Air. Adams
contributed all that was in his power io pro
mote this blind legislation.
Hut Air. Adams suggests that, in advo
cating the embargo, he had reference to the
existing siaiept tilings, of public notoriety,
and denominated in the message « the pre
sent crisis.” I ask him to look once more
at (he President’s message; and he will see
that, in regard (o (he recommended embar
go, it contains no reference („ « (he present
crisis; ’ hot that, in (Ids phrase, the Presi
dent refers to some ulterior measures re
specting events which “ might groin out of
the present nlsis.”
Mr. Adams says, “ this bill was opposed
in tiie Senate very feebly on its merits, and
exclusively by tiie federal members, then
only four in-number.’’ This is true; (hey
were taken by surprise ; they were astound
ed li y dm solemn President! d recommenda
tion, and the lull presented in pursuance of
ii.to impose an embargo which was to p- os .
n.ne the .whole commerce of the United
Stales. Then fore, they urged the allow
once of time to consider, to deliberate: and
this Mr. Adams vehemently opposed. \|.
though about four hours were occupied in
fie whole afi.tir, hot a small portion of that
short space was given to the discussion of
the bill, hi that shut space, the Presi
dent’s message and the four documents were
fad they were referred to a committee
eiiosen by ballot—the committee retired
drafted and reported the hill-—it was read
once—it was moved to read it immediately
a second time—this was objected to. as con
tnirv to a standing rule of (he Senate,
which required every bill to he read three
times on three several clays, ' Unless other
wise unanimously agreed) before it could
pass to he enacted. Ami the impression
tests on my mind, that more than half the
lime occupied in debate, was spent in dis
cussing the question, whether that salutary
standing rule should or should not be .sus
pended. in order instantly to pass the em
bmgo hill.
It in v not he amiss here to remark, in
cidentally , that Mr. A dams, in saying the
federal membeis then in the. Senate Mere
only tour in number, fGoodtich, Hillhouse,
Pickering. \\ hit-vj of course excludes him
si It. His present fulcra! friends may no,
lice this it they please: John Quincy A
dams now avows (and the avowal at this
, ,iim ’’ is no ‘ without an object) that, on the
I Sth of December, 1807. he was not a fed
esulist; and limn justifies the new title gi
. veil him alter that mischievous measure,
the embaigo. expressive ol Ids renunciation
of federalism, to which he had formerly been
zealously attached.
, n, A l-i view of the Adams and Cnn
! ‘finghain Correspondence, I stated that Air.
. Atl.iuis, tiie fathei. had earnestly condemn*
. p H the embargo, on Tost hearing of its im
, Pillion; but that when, afterwards, he
i i*’ ,,r| !eil w hat a conspicuous part his son
. jawen in imposing it, ho also pronotin
cod it a wise measure. Put the son him
self soon became alarmed for tbeconse
; quinces: alarmed, 1 presume, by letters
. ,ronl some »f bis friends in Boston, shewing
I the mischiefs with which the embargo was
, pregnant, and probably suggesting a snb
> stitule, to authorize the merchants to arm
r their vessels for defence. Em, on the 11 th
t of Jan. ISOS, only 20 days after Mr. A
. Hams had displayed such Jlagrant zeal to
. effect the passing of the embargo law, he
.’offered a formal resolution ftr the consldcr
j utimi of the Senate, for the appointment of
a committee to consider and report when -
that law could be repealed—and on the ex-|
, pediency of authorizing the merchants to:
■ arm their vessels for defence. But he found ,
at once, that it was easier to impose, than
to obtain a repeal of the law : “My resolu
tion (says lie) met no encouragement.’'—
, He himself also abandoned it; and in less
than three months afterwards, published
his pamphlet letter to Mr. Harrison Gray
/ Otis to justify the embargo.
r Mr. Adams says, “ that, but for the em
bargo, the British Orders in Conned would
f have swept three-fourths of the tonnage of
die United States into the ports of Great
Britain for confiscation.” Surely, every
, merchant in the United Stales, if he can
/ suppress his disgust, must smile at this
strange declaration. In affected retaliation
for the orders in council, the t rench Kra
- peror issued his Milan decree,pit the 1 ~tli
1 of December, J SO?'. This decree was dis
tinguished by its outrageous provisions.—
• One was that, if a neutral merchant vessel
suffered herself to be searched by a British
I armed vessel, that alone subjected her to
' capture and condemnation. Yet, with this
- <• cree, the Beilin decree, and Hie orders in
■ council, all in full force, the American mer
) chants were weak enough to remonstrate
. against the embargo ; and to persist in their
j opposition until it was repealed. And then
■ —so great was their folly—they repaired
i their vessels, and pushed them out with all
practicable expedition, to renew their so
■ reign commerce ! Or, to adopt the favorite
i figurative style of Mr. Adams, “The
spirit of desperate adventure rushed to sea
1 with every plank that could be made to
i float.”
Air. Adams introduces tiie name of the
t lately deceased Mr. Cabot, and sneeringfy
repealing my words, “ my excellent friend
■ George Cabot,” adds, in the popular slang,
• “ since President of the Hartford Convmi
-1 (ion for the dishonorable purpose of fix
ing a stigma on an eminently enlightened,
• accomplished, and most virtuous citizen.
Air. Adams, in his vain attempt to damn
Hie character of Air. Cabot, could not have
forgotten (hat Air. Harrison Gray Otis, to
whom, as his friend, he addressed his long
embargo letter of I 808, which he had just
caused Jo be repiinted, wax also a member,
and a conspicuous one, of the Hartford
Convention, whose proceedings lie has late
ly very ablv vindicated.
TIMOTHY PICKERING.
Salmi, August 24, 1824.
* for l!ii eoiivrjjieiire of (!io rentier I here
present bun with tiie entire mp - r .
“ To Pie. tit note and House. of lit presentatires of
llu ’Uniled Elates.
“ Tiie communications now made, shewing
I!ib great and inta ea-mg Onagers with which
our vesfeis, our -oame.i, and merchandise, are
threatened i n ibc high seas and else where,
from tiie helliger ant powers of Europe, nod it
being of the sfreato i im Orinoco to keep in safe
ly there essentia! rosotna e , I deem it my duty
ii roeoinmcnil (lie -u’ Jiict to Ibo con --ideral to i o.*
i who will doubtless pen cive all tin
elvnntagos which may lie expected from nniu
liiliition- f Urn dep'iviin-c of our vessels from the
(ioi t- ofllifi r.ut' d Stales,
1 41 ’1 heir wn-diM - will at. o ?e.o the necessity of
. mnkiug every preparnliou for whatever events
may grow out ol the pro.eol cri.-ia.
44 las a return o! the loiters of Messrs, Ai-iii
'itroPg ami Ctiampagiiy, which it would be im
proper io make public.
Til. JEFFERSON.
Dec. I 4!, 1807.
+ Mr. Ro-e .was appoint, .1 a special minister
lo'be Fnitod States, to make formal amends for
the attack on the American Irigale Chcsapc;.ko.
Air. Adams, now Ilia Secretary of State, fdlow
hiiu elf po ltivr ly to assert, tint 44 the British
v Jovernnieut had appointed Mr. Ro=c to coin'
out on a mission of subterfuge and previnieu/ion
concerning it.” This charge I he'ic.ve to be
1 as groundless as it is indecent It was, perhaps,
Mr. Bose’s first diplomatic mission. An old
diplomatist mighi have masked his leering?; Mr
Uo«c an l.igounous character) could
not conceal his mortili alien and chagrin on ih
failure of his mission : the accomphshm. ut o! i!-
ol'jert would have promoted his claims to fa ur
• public employments. His*father, 44 01 d Georg
Rose,” had hmglni ii an important member of
(he House of Commons in supportin '- Mr.
.. ndminisl.ratioii; his son would no hive been
deputed for the dishonorable purpose most uu
■ w'aiTimlabiy suggested by Mr. Adams.
THE BKEACHER.
11 What is your life /’’—Ask the aged
to look back upon the scenes through which
they have passed, upon tiie years which,
they have spent; intreat them to tell you in
, what light they see them— attend to their
. aio-weis, for with the aged there is wisdom.
! Wliat is it they reply ? 'They confirm the
, oracles of God. The weaver’s shuttle they
. say, is not more swill, the shooting star is
not more momentary, evanescent and un
real. Some of you may consult your chil
. dren instead of advising your fathers ; and
all may ask ymu brethr n, if time le not
very short. The registers of the dead are
. hint unfaithful; they cannot err; they are not
. interested ; consult then the register of the
: dead. Look upon the tombs—are their in
. habitants all old ? INo ; not all. Alany r
. No ; not many. The dead are a very few
, scattered number.— Babes there are, who
. have been born to weep and die; babes
s there are, who in ail their sportive inno
. cence, have gone down into tlie grave :
. youth there are, who in their gayest hours
and amidst the most pleasurable scenes,
. have been recalled to lie down in darkness
, and thedust. Numbers too are there, who,
i m the pride of manhood, the maturity of
life, in the full career of business and of
. hope, have been eased of all their anxieties
, and defeated ol all their expectations and
. fast bound in the fetters of death. The
. young lie thick as dew drops on (lie ground,
< here and there only do we find a monument
i erected upon years and wisdom ; we won
- tier when we find it, and yet this our ivmi
. tier does not cure us of our security and
. confidence. Perhaps even now the scythe
. o( time is lifted up to cut down those who
little think of ir, who are expecting the de
i parture ol their friends or preparing to car
. ry their lathers to the tomb. To-morrow,
i that idol deity, in which the world have
i agreed to place their trust; to-morrow that
. hair-spun thread on which they hang the
i weighty concernments of eternity ! What
1 is to-morrow ? No part of oar possessions,
no part of our inheritance ; it is a part in i
' the great chain ofduration, but perhaps no
1 part of uur present being. —Clear, and j
bright, and steady, as it sidnes to-day, some j
j sudden blast may blow out the lamp of life ;
] and to-morrow may have convened ns into j
i other company anil settled us in other j
scenes. Boast not of to-morrow, till you,
have unrolled the book of fate, and learnt
what to-day shall bring forth. Last night,
it is probable, many a gay youth threw
Himself on the bed whence lie shall rise no
more: and many a busy head reposed itself
upon that pillow, where it shall sleep now
and take its rest. How sad and serious are
many now, who, but last night, were giddy,
thoughtless, presumptuous and vain : how
terrible has this to-morrow proved to many,
who but yesterday said unto themselves,
that it was yet soon enough to repent and
be converted. Thou fool, this night thy
soul shall be required of thee I was a severe
yet a gracious warning. In every breeze
that blows there is a flight of human fates ;
in every breath we breathe, we may drink
in the deadly poison ; every hour we stand
in jeopardy ; when every man in bis best
estate is altogether vanity.
In every walk we take death treads upon
our st ’pts; lie watches us in our retirements,
lie follows Us in our business ; hd mingles
with the angels that stand round our beds ;
in that very moment when our hearts are
more attached to this wot Id; in that very
moment when we tire least apprehensive of
fate, then the tyrant springs upon his prev
rejoicing to-add to his native horrors the
necessary terrors of surprise.—ln (he midst
of life we are in danger ofsome fatal blight;
in the highest health, we may be nearest to
some mortal malady. What then is your
life ? !s it not a fleeting cloud, an evapo
rating smoke, an exploding meteor, a pain
ted bubble. Break, the bubble must; in its
greatest beauty it will break, audit may
break*ere night.
United Slates Ship Franklin, }
New- York, Sept, l, ]M24.
TO THE GMTORS OF 7’HE AMERICAN.
Gentlemen—i observe in yonr patter of
yesterday, some remarks on the arrival of
the 1 nited States siiip Franklin, under my
command.
Ihe estimation in which you profess to
hold me, as there declared, entitles yon to
my acknowledgments and thanks; as also
that you are among those who have ab
stained front assisting in the “ circulation of
those discreditable rumours,” to which you
allude. However much i may lament the
public and private circulation of such re
ports on my own account, through male
volence, envy, or ignorance, during an ab
sence of three years, distant front the point
of circulation lour or five thousand miles,
boiu as respects my own personal and offi
cial reputation, as established through a
course of arduous service, in a period of
twenty-six years, through three wars, and
fifteen battles, I cannot but regret still more
as a native patriot of the United States, the
injurious effect of those reports abroad, on
onr national and naval character* as well as
the exhibit it will make of the want of com
mon justice and candour in our fellow citi
zens, (the editors) in thus representing a
national officer in highly repousiblo com
mand, on difficult and delicate foreign ser
vice.
The rumours to which you allude have
never before leached me; but they are, j
understand, of such a nature, that if only
one half of what is charged had been com
mitted by me, I assure you this country
would never again have borne my footsteps,
or you have been troubled with these re
marks. Should, however, there appear an v
just grounds ofcomplaint .against my official
duties or conduct during my command in
the Pacific, Hiey on lit to he exhibited to
i he executive bi auclt of t he government, who
has the power, and knows too well how
much it compm-ls with the interests of the
nation, and the honor of the government
not to institute such inquiries, nr require
such explanations asshall satisfy themselves
and the country of the justice of the allega
tions, or the, innocence of the officer.
i me it belongs to tarnish, when called
on. (if not done sufficiently already) such
explanations and evidences as the nature of
the case may require. 1 have the honor to
to be, i espt cl fully, yonr obedient servant
CHS. STEWART.’
Singular RnLheri/. —Sometime bet ween
the night of Saturday ihe22d, and Monday
morning the 24th hist, the vault of the
Branch Bunk of the state of Missisvppi at
this place, was mysteriously entered, and
tfi bank notes taken tlterelrom, amounting
to 605 dollars. All the fastenings both of
the vaults find the banking room seemed to
have remained untouched, and but for a
small paper of value having been misplaced
by the perpetrators of litis villany, perhaps ,
no due would ever have been obtained by
which either to discover them or regain the
money. '1 his paper had been moved from
the money drawer deposited in the vault, i
and lodged near the vault door; it was *
found to be slightly torn, or cut, with some ,
-sharp instrument, resembling the tooth of a ,
mouse or a rut. An easy communication j
(rout the ground floor to the vault, for ani
mals of this size was discovered ; and upon
tearing up the floor and tracing a mouse
hole to the hearth of a chimney, distant
about IS feet from the vault,the money was
found (to the no small satisfaction of the 1
officers cd the bank) underneath the hearth. 1
and about six inches below the surface of 1
the ground, formed into a mouse nest.
Fori G. Correspondent, Man 1524. !
L -, i
“ I Considerate. Kinsman. —The late :
.Mr. George Stackpole observing that every 1
set of servants cheated their masters, said 1
that as he could not expect better luck than !
bis neighbors, and did not wish any of his
property to go out of his own family, he !
would hire his from among his poor rela
tions; he did so—and it was not uncommon
to hear him call out, when his table was full t
of company of the first respectability— I
" Uncle Tom tell cousin Dirk to go down *
to tile kitchen, ard acquaint aunt Betty t
that she has roasted the mutton to rags.”
1 nSOM France. K
N R W- Yn p t*
! By the arrival of the packer J ■ EI A >■,
; Quesnel, Capt. Hawkins, i„ 7; “f
Havre, the editors of the A,. w y : !r if *
j Advertiser have received ihWi'n* IV; 1
1 papers to the3lst of J„J V ‘ * £ ofJ V* j
j pers to the same date. ’ J * avi '*tjn.f )
We are thus furnished 1
one day later tli m we have belh^ 0
but without any political news. ■" leceiv^.,j £
r
I seems that it was at Cass,, J
I enedos, where massacres were ri a! I
Two or three thousand IN v , Jti ' I; inill,Cu ' I
which landed on that island .1' ‘-Pl’*' 1
May. butchered the inhabitants 11 of a
tinction ; but letters from Santori.,' 1
I I th state, that a Greek corps from t' * Ule a
has surprised and beaten the fV v , ,• ,iia I
Several (.reeks who had j ' I
capital after having taken refuge a o ''' * : j
have been duped by their confidercn ‘
promises of the I’urkish gov. j, n . ." 11 ‘ 1
their arrival they were taken *
into a dungeon, and it is feared iIJV' '
unable to purchase their liberty. ' i
The preparations for defence' Jt- I
among the inhabitants of Ipsara lei «h7 I
Ol ancie.lt times All the men lvi ,| lllu J I
ception have taken up arms. The 1 '
p.iosts, the women and children lane S j
shut up m a castle under the
corps ol Albanians, who have orders u'LiJ-l
them tl the Greeks tire /breed to vii-b’ I
I he w omen, after partaking 0 f the cC I
mumon cm the iJTh of June, entered ,1, -|
lolly into the fort, which perhaps i s d.is'C J
ed lor their tombs. G 5 Jj
Some letters speak of the l, lncilll . r jl
Egyptian troops m ike island of 1 "
wl.ete a heavy. canonadc was heard at V! |
tonu on the XCth.
rp, . , SMYRNA, JCXBjr, i
1 he passage of the Aria.ic I, J
created a great many excesses.-?;, fl
Gieeks have lullen victims of these *,7 J
das, which stopped all business. 'i'fl
Luropean consuls have made mm*,,-
nous to the Facha, and f„ r 2 '|;.vs T
Christian merchants dosed tiieir store I
We are not yet secure, as the cml,;,w~ 9
ol the Asiatic troops may give occasionlo I
new disorders.
T , , BERMS, JU.V T, I
Letters from P. tersbnrgh sav that ■!,. I
conferences commenced in this tat it,II
(lie affairs of Greece Have produce,l 1 , r. 9
suit. The emperor Alexander had prop... fl
od to place Greece under the care G i, 1
Luropean powers, by giving it a cuvm- fl
tnent similar to that of \\ ulhtchia Hm | .W fl
dnvia; but Lngland has warmly
tliis (flan, desiring lor an organization .siaiifl
lar to that ol the lonian Islands. 1; i;|> ; 9
bable that (lie execution of either of jj..- fl
propositions would meet a strong opposin' fl
among the Greeks tmd even the Turks, fl
Letters from Madrid to ihe I'iiln.f L'flfl
contain little of interest. M. CUalia’i I
mission is not yet mentioned in flu* flludri: 1
Gazette*, although he lias been in Paris nor* fl
than a week.
According to reports made to (la* Pciiii 'I
pa 1 ilament, the number ol merchant vrswltifl
belonging to that country is 2-5,54 alfl
mounting to 2,606,760 tons and enmlnyirifl
iC5,474 sailors.— The military ibms 1:1
the empire in time of peace mut ant t 9
0 20,000 men ; the marine counts 400 ve 9
sels til war and transports, and 23,000 si jjfl
lors. J lie revenue in time of peace vflj
near 90 millions sterling, and I lie e.vpens fl
II millions. Tin? exports are about fl
millions and (lie imports 44 millions. dfl
Anecdote. —A few weeks ago a M't.jfl
smith Catmahray proposed marriage 1 ’
young manluamakor, to whom he In*,lk "rm
paid Ids attentions. Being a good limk 7fl
youth, Ids‘offer was accepted, the net;
sent lor, and the marriage contract tlnr'jj 3
up ; hut one of the articles not liapper
to please the* lady, she expressed her tils
probation with so much asperity, that
son ol V ulciin taking her by the arm, 1 • ■/.-
her to the door, declaring he was ilcteiu,
ed not to marry a spitfire. The 1
complained of having been called nr. re
purpose. —“ Stay a while,” says the G
hrasian, “i'll try and find a wife,”an.L.'
mediately departed. W hile going ui fV,
the ramparts lie met a pretty servant ',
with whom he commenced the foil"" '
conversation :—“ Are you good leim
ed “ On, yes I yco.i may inquire on ;
mistress?” “Are ybu ‘ prudent'
have never yet had a sweetheart.’’ ‘O' j
you inclined to marrv ?” “ Yes, if!flue
man to my likeness.” “ What do } i
think of me ?” “ Oh, you are very »d’ 'M
“ Come along with me, then ; the conin'.Mgj
is ready : we have only to sign it.” "■ Abl
at least till J leave put myself i n inilttle. jr
“ No, no, you will do very well asyeuafl
and I :nn afraid the notary will be 11 '' BpJl
patience. Apropos, what isyonnwnrfl |
—“ Annette,” “And mine* Fraiu'kfO|
i ake my arm, and let us make haste.'!
1 liey arrived at the house together, st.
the contract, and in a few days wen r t
ried ; and we arc assured tins singular
ion lias not once been troubled by a
pute. —English paper.
A Dutiful Son. —A jocky in tlih :
wishing to make an advantageous (In; I
a horse that he was desirous ofsellu 1 . ■
bystander, placed his boy upon the bn.
the beast, ordered him to ride him nrow
short distance. The boy, though
structed in his trade, unfortunately i ll 'Vi
instance, knew not whether the burse
already his fathers, or yet to be bang
for; being anxious therefore to learn tli f l " m
ol his fatliei, lie stopped after riding ll
distance, and inquired with a loud '
“ I atlrer, shall I ride lids horse tu bu;
to sell ?”— N. Haven Beg.
A letter from Paris, of a late <’»•**» •;
lions the arrival of Mr. John Band' '; 1
Roanoke, in that capital, and ''y 11 ,, , t J
strange costume attracted as linn'' 1 J
lion as a Sandwich islander would. , .. M
f Boston CeiAt 1