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rv»Listnt D BT JTE.IJry CHiRLTOtf. From the Obsevfr or Nov. 2G. «>\t. l \i\Ups^ £ Delivered at the Anual Meet! nr of the London Hibernian School So ciety, held at Sligo.} Sir—l have very threat pleasure in ac ceding to the request ofyour zeal ous S-vretary, and proposing a reso lution of congratulation on the suc cess of this institution, and of appro bation of the the sacred principles on which it has been founded. 1 con fess, that until I perused the report with which he was so polite as to furnish me, I had a very imperfect i f. a of the value of this institution, or nf tie great gratitude which we owe to our generous English brethren, who have so nob.y and disinterest ed ly established it amongst us. 11 is an emanation of that glorious spir it which has spread their name am ong the nation of the earth,and made that na ae synonymous with every virtue. I had no idea tint no less a number than 50,000 of the infant population of this kingdom, inclu ding two thousand children of our own country, who now crowd this hall with pious gratitude, who were thus gratuitously receiving from them tae blessed fruits of education ami religion. How gratifying it is to turn |Voin the abominable and infer nal perjuries by which the public in.ml i- now hourly polluted, and the public heart alli.cted and the public moral* insulted, to the contem|ilati»/i of such a subject! Fifty-eight thou sand children, raised from the mire of ignorance and superstition - redee med from a state of utmost brutal barbarism, and led through the temple t.f knwoledge, even to tne very altar of God is i spectacle which I envy not the man who can behold i; with out entliu liasm. in tins country it ho: rows from circumstances even an adventitious interest, for surely there never was a country more ripe for its exhibition—never was there a land more full of fine intelligence, Ob-.curetl and darkened, or for nobler impulse, more miserably perverted. T ie mind of Irek >d baa oy no means hitherto lud fair development. Acute but inactive—magnificent but unrul tiv itcd, the passing stranger toeholds the people us he docs their country, With admiration u is true, but stni with mournful admiration, at ttieu liegiected grandeur and their unpro ductive loveliness ! It lias been to lit tie purpose that the genius of the na lion has occasionally burst the bond nge that enthral led it; tout Nature as it were to vindicate lier»elf, has s.iot some spirit ol light athwart thegloom, iu vhosc lustre the land became for a moment visible —it was bat lor a i.mii-nt, and the cloud it touche he rcely ret lined a tinge of the profit less piieronvinnn. I’fiere was n>- permanent source whence its ratli vacr could e fed; and the mere glimmerings of nnassisted natu. struggled but faintl | thro’ the dense ness of tne atmosphere. To rescue the country from <his foul disgrace - to dispel the mist of barbarism and ignorance, with their attendant tram of vi es and of crimes—to elevate the peasantry from vice and super s'ition, to a moral practice and an holy c miempUtian, your institution has been founded. A glorious work, mid worthy of a Christian! A ioik charade"ix dby the glowing benev .olein e, and not less replete, even in .. worldlv sense, with the wisest and the soundest policy, for you may de pend upm it that, sooner or later, nuHonui good cannot fail to flow from a moral regeneration. The sobriety, the temperance; the good faith, the in lustry, mlurally consequent upon early culture, Will, in time, “like a rich stream, run uack and hide their fountain. ” The principles of Tec dotn, by being better understood, will become, of course, more iundfy cher ished; the impolicy, as w. II as the impiety of crime, by being more dearly proved, wid be, of course, more sedulously avoided An edu cated slave—an educated criminal, are moral contradictions. In the ve ry dawn of knowledge, the phantoms that ass igld,and the vices that des poil us,gradually disappear; and it fso.dv hen its light has vanished, that you will find ignorance and su perstifon r.iawiing from their cavern, and amid spectral shapes and horned apparitions, taking their incubus sta tion upon the bosom of society. If truth- tike these needed an example, ail History is eloquent on the subject. No peasantry ever yet became edu rated without becoming compara tively virtuous —the spirit of inquiry consequent upon literature, and the spirit of genuine freedom, have been iu gene: a co ext tent, and flourished ami decayed together. Turn your eysto Athens in the ancient t me— tlr temple ty and letters— the sml of the arts the mount of the mis- —dm , u irtal shrine of all hui cbuid constitute the heathens immor- tality, where even battle smoothed his rugged front, and the warrior’s I sword was garlanded with roses! Behold her now ! her sages silent, and her temples fallen—an Ottoman slave enthroned amid her ruins, and adeg#it|hite people crouching to the |Tnt ks even, oh shame! even within -ight of Marathon! Yet there, where Mahomet now revels in contended ignorance, Socrates was heard and Solon legislated, and echo listened to the thunder of Demosthenes. Look in our own day to a part of our own empire, the once neglected Scotland —the country from whose lake and moor and mountain the imperial c-m --quorer strode without a thought. What is she at this day ? A land of less crime, because of more intelli gence, than any in the world; wher ever her name is mentioned, litera ture hails it; wherever her people tread, temperance and industry at test their presence; a primeval piety consecrates her church; peace and plenty meet upon her plains, and the laurel, which her genius and her he roism has won, is intertwined with the palm leaf of an imaculate moral ity. Let Scotland then, even if she stood alone, prove the advantage of an educated peasantry; and should the sceptic awake not at her voice, m.y the spirit of Burns pass across his slumber, and burst upon him in the blaze of its refutation. But 1 feel I am injuring the cause of this institution when 1 view it either in the light of temporal pol licy, or the temporal fame. Ves, though 1 am conviheed that the most permanent found tions of a peoples’ prosperity are « ly to be I .id in the popular civilization— though I am convinced that crime decreases, and industry advances in exact proportion to the progress ofwMWkledge, still 1 acknowledge in y'iu r ambition a much noble ob ject, in comparison of which the fame ami wealth and dignities of this world are but as (he rain bow’s gem th M sparkles and disap pears. Oh! you are right when lighti ig up the torch of knowledge, to invoke no flame but that of hea ven in illumine it. The lights ol earth are transient and uncertain —vapours «hit only dazzle, to mis lead and shine the brightest on the eve of their extinction; but the beam of heav. n is steady and eternal—it. entTS the soul—it extamls and rat ifies. and I fts it to the region where ha. a vanity has no voice, and hu man splendours are but darkness. You are fight in making the Bible d<e primer of the infant—place it .n ids hand by day—p.ace it on his pillow by night Full of glorious thoughts and glowing images it will inspire the fancy— full of noble sen timentaud virtuous precept, it will form the principles—full of holy zeal uid heavenly inspiration, it wilt exault. and purify the faith; ao it is a ise philosophy which as oclates it " ith the season wh se impression fade ut even in nature’s winter. When .the darling infidel interposes its mys teries, in order to rob those children ‘fit- morals, ask him. What is >hits world utamistery? Who can tell how nature performs her simplest operations? Ask him to tell you how the flower acquires its perfume, the eagle Ins vision, <»r toe comet its resplendence ? \sk him to td! vou how those glorious planets roil around us in their lucid circle, or how that miraculous order is m ini tested which holds throughout creat ion ■ ven for the minutes worm that grovels in the dost, up to the pinion that plays amid the lightening! These are misteries, and y t we sec them; and suiely we m.v trust the word of him a ho, in his own good time, will (eacii us their solution. Mean while, amid the Ingot’s cant, and and the polemiok’s railing, sulfr these little children to come unto the Lord. Ttiey will bless you with tips, ard in their deaths—the God to who o you have turned them will bless you -the country to which you have restored them will less you; and should vou own little ones ever mouni a parent, ‘he Grand Spirit will recollect the dead, and surely save them from the perils of their or phanage. In the discharge then of this sacred duty which you have thus voluntarily undertaken, listen not to the imputation of any unwor thy motive ; remember that caluini nv is the shadow of merit, and that though it ever follows, it near over , takes it. Were the solitary charge which hospitality has flung on, even , true, it is. in inv mind, under your 1 circumstances, not a crime hut a > virtue. You use no weapon but the f 'o dless gospel—you assume no ar , mour hut the nakedness of truth; . and in a good cause, and with an earnest conviction, 1 would rather ■ court than avoid this accusation of proselytism. The foreign and pious i potentate who made the charge i should be the very last to utter it; I for debased, as I admit and deplore, that the Iri -li peasa t politically is. - still h> and has predecessors, as far - as in they lay, have left him illit ierat«*. imbnited, and d based fal len in his mental debasem nt even below the level of his political de » L f gradation. But the accusation is un true. You have not borrowed even a raz from the establishment—the word ascendantly is not heard with* in jour walls. You have rejected no one on account of his creed, and you have invited every scrutiny of every pastor of every persuasion— you have introduced the Bible un spotted by a single pen ofthis world. You have allowed the saints, the sages, and the martyrs of Christian ity, to unrol with their own hands the records of their wisdom; their sanctity, and their fortitude. Yoa have expunged the commcmt whether of council or synod, o conclave, or convocation, and left the sacred historians to tell, in the phrase of an inspirated simplicity, the miracles, the sufferings, and the triumphs of the gospel, from the conception to the Cross ! Sir, If this produce pro selytes, such convertian can have its „rigin only in the truth. In one sense, indeed, you do profess to proselytize, but it is from ignorance to knowledge, from sin to salvation. Go on then, and may prosperity at tend you, and when your enemies are clamorous, be your only answer this ; “Behold—fifty-eight thou sand subjects restated to the state - behold sis s y-thousand souls intro duced to their redeemer!!” Fro ceed and prosper* Let the sacred stream ofyour benevolence flow on, an 1 through momentary impediments may oppose its progres, depend up on it, it will soon surmount them—- the mountain rill and the rivers of the valey will in time and in their turn become tributary—the rose of Sha ron will bloom upon its bank—the maid of Sion will not weep by its waters—the soil it has fertilized will he reflected on its surface, and as it glides along in the glory of the sun beam, the sins of the people will be come regenerate in its baptism. From the Philadelphia Union. ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY OFFI CErt GONE. DlfllD—At his seat, at Bowman’s Folly’s in \ccomack county, Va. at 16 m nutes past 2 o’clock, on the morning of Monday 15th January, 1821, General JOHN CROPPER, In the 66 year of his age, after an illness of eleven days, fie embark cd early in the cause of his country, and was e msen a captain in the 9ih Virginia Regiment, on continental establishment, when only 19 or 20 years of age. and marched in Dec 1776, to the north, to join the army under the command of the illustri ous Washington. Gen. Croppt r was promot'd from a captaincy in t’.eDthtoa major in the stb Virginia Regiment, He was at the battle of Brandywine, when the sth Virginia Regiment was nearly cut to pieces, and from which du.inz the action, his col and lieut. col. both ran off*. He retreated with the remaindei of the regiment, and lay concealed in some bushes on the field of battle, until near dav of the same night of the engagement, and then stole away and marched to Chester with a re*' handkerchief lashed to a ramrod for colors. On Chester bridge, he was met by the illustrious George Wash • ington and general Woodford; the .latter alighted from his horse, em braced him. and pressed him to his bosom and exclaimed ‘he whom we thought was 'ost is found.’ General Cropper was then promoted to a liv'Ut. colonel, in the 7lh Virginia Regiment,and was at the battles of Germantown and Monmouth Court house. From the 7th Virginia re giment, he was promoted to the command of the llth regiment, by the Marquis de la Fayette, which regiment he commanded until his re turn to Virginia, on the 30th da> of Nov 1782, the day on which the preliminary articles of peace where signed at Paris. General Cropper was engaged with commodore Wha ley. in the barge victory in the Ches apeake Bay, agifnstS British Barges, under the command of commodore Perry. At the commencement of the engagement, there were attached to commodore Whaley’s squadron, three other American barges, all of which escaped as soon as the engage ment began, and left commodore Whaley to contend alone with five British barges, full manned. Com modore \\ holey had on board his barge, 69 men, principally citizens of Accomick and Northampton. About the middle of the engagement, commodore Whaley’s Magazine took fire, at which time several of the men were overboard, hanging by the rigging. Twentv nine men o«t of sixty-nine, were killed onboard com modore Whaley’s barge, together with the commodore himself. In this engagement. Gen. Cropper had to contend with two white men and one negro, all armed with cutlasses and boarding pikes, and defended himself with a musket and bayonet. One of the general’s antagoists struck him with a cutlass on the head, which nearly brought him do" , n. In the middle of this individual conflict, the negro discovered his young mas ter to be the pprson with whom he nd the other (two men wereengaged, crying out, ‘save him he is m j mas ter’ The general afterwards set his faithful negro free, and settled him in the city of Baltimore. Gen. Cropper was in the service of his country about 45 years. Those who were acquainted with him, know how he discharged his duty in every station in which he was placed. He retained to thd last hour of his life, the love and veneration he bore for gen. Washington, the saviour of his country. He tried to imitate him in his conduct as a soldier and citi zen. The deeds of this great, good tnd illustrious American, were the theme of Gen. Cropper at all times. He could not bear to hear the least whisper derogatory to the character of the best of men, and more than once has Gen. Cropper been per sonally engaged to defend his fame. Gen. Cropper had the honor to die possessed of a written document from the pen of this beloved person age, which evidenced the high opin ion he entertained of the worth of the deceased us an officer. During the life time of Gen. Cropper, the document was treasured up as a mis er would Ids gold, and hut lew per sons were ever permitted to read it, or hear it read. It was the more highly prized by Gen. Cropper be cause this illustrious general and statesman, was cautious in discover ing bis opinions or shewing his at tachmentto individuals, least it might produce a jealousy or uneasiness in others, who might consider them selves entitled to equal or superior claims to Ids favors. Gen, Cropper has left a widow, 7 children and 10 grand children, to deplore his loss. The writer of this was well acquain ted with the deceased. May the warrior whose spirit has fled, Reach the mansions prepar’d for the blest, For his country he suffer’d and hied, Heaven’s Angles conduct him to rest. United States and Spain* From the National Register. We have at length received the King’s Message closing the first session of the Cortes of Spain It was commenced on the 9th of July last, ;md ought to have terminated on the 9th October. The constitution requires that the Cortes shall assemble once every year, for three months. It provides, however, for its continuance for one month longer at most: —First, if the King shall desire it; secondly, if the Cortes deem it necessa >y, and two-thirds of the members con. cur in the resolution. The King did re quest, as he states in his message, its con. rinuance, and it was on the9th November that the session closed. The King’s mes sage, (a copy of which has been publish cd,) is dated from St. Lorenzo, common ly called the Escuriat, a royal residence annexed to the famous convent of Jero mite monks, established by Philip the 3d, who founded the convent in celebration of a vow made by him on the day of the battle of St. Quintin, (Saint Lawrence's festival,) falling on that day This convent is situated in the-moun tains of Guadarama, about twelve or four teen leagues from Madrid, and is the depot of the Royal Family at their de cease. The result of this first session of the Cortes, as relates to the United States of America, is most important, and well de serves the attention of the people and Congress of these slates. Spain has es tablished a regular navigation act, taking for its basis that of Great Britain; and it becomes a subject of serious meditation, how far this measure can be met by a cor responding on the part of the United Stales, to prevent the total destruction of our commerce. Spain, by her acts, and we have them officially before us, has, in the first place, precluded us fram carrying to her Euro pean dominions, as also to her colonies, all goods of every description, that are not the produce of our own soil; and even of these products, so carried, which it will be seen presently is impossible, they are to pay a duty of one third more in A merican than in Spanish vessels. But the regulations do not stop here—almost eve ry article of our staple commodities are prohibited in toto, or placed* under such restrictions as amount to prohibition. For example: wheat can only be imported into Spain when the price of afanega in that country exceeds four dollars; five fanegas make eight bushels; of course when the bushel exceeds two dollars and a half: the barrel of flour can only be im ported when its price exceeds twelve dol lars. Rice, Indian corn, and pulse of every descriptiou, is under equal restric tions; and cotton, though allowed to be imported from Pernambocco and the East Indies, is prohibited in toto from the U. States. On a thorough investigation of the re gulations adopted by Spain, it will be found i that our commerce is reduced to two articles—staves, which they cannot do without, for preserving and shipping their wines: and tobacco, which is admit ted under a duty of twenty cents per lb. weight, and which privilege will exist only so long as will enable the planters inth? islands of Cuba and Porto Rico to furnish the quantity necessary to supply the mo ther country, and which, as they declar ed the cultivation of it free in those is lands, must and will be the case befon two years* Thus, we may truly cay, that we are •ut off from all commerce with this na tion. We have perhaps no right to com nlain, inasmuch as any and every country possesses the right to make its own laws and regulations for commerce, but does it not become a most serious and impor tant question for Congress to consider, how far it is the interest of the United States to stand by passively, and permit Spain to reassume an authority over co lonies with whom we have been so long struggling for liberty & independence, & who have, in fact, in one province, ob tained it, even by the public acknowledg ment of one of the most blood-thirsty royal tyrants who ever held a command there? f* *l!dde to Mor'ilV* late treaty with the President Bolivar, in which he acknowledges the Republic of Colom bia. * Is it for the Republic tjje United States to look on with qj|ppjl iudiffer ence, and see the efforts Tifmose brave men not only neglected, but treated with contempt? And for what? That Spian m;.y reassume its ascendancy and shut out our citizens from all commerce and ccm munication with those extensive regions, so much the more important and interest ing to our country as we have now had for many years a free intercourse with their inhabitants—have formal relations of commerce and friendship equally be neficial and pleasing to our citizens, as they have been advantageous to our coun try. We talk and boast of our sympathies towards those men who are situated pre cisely as we once were ourselves, with re gard to Great Britain We talk of hu manity, and we shudder at the horrid de tails so frequently detailed in our public papers, of the cruelties practised by the royal commanders and armies employed in those countries; but is it sympathetic or humane to remain any longer idle spec tators in a cause which is, in fact, as much our own as theirs? I say no. Spain has drawn the veil; Spain never was ‘a friend to the United States; and Spain, free and independent herself, will still continue as great a tyrant as ever, as regards Ame rica. She will, in fact, be more rigor ous than ever she was. She has told us so herself, Read her decrees passed by the Cortes. What do they say? “ You shall have no commerce, not only with the Spanish colonies, but you shall have none with Spain herself." Spanish America has long looted for ward to the United States as to a govern ment in which they hoped and expected to find reciprocal feelings They have extended their arms towards us as bro thers. They have offered, and still offer, to make with us any and every treaty we may wish for as to our commerce. They asfr nothing from us hut to be friends and shall we refuse to admit them as such? Spanish America dots not wqnire from us to ent< V into her quarrels. She is anle, thank God, and of which she has given ample proof, (notwithstanding the ridicul ous stories fabricated by the agents of old Spain, and published in our papers, to the contrary,) to defend and etahlish her independence. She asks and re quires no more than to be an independent nation, and to be placed on the same footing as others. The time has arrived when it is all im portant that this serious question should be examined with more reflection than we have heretofore given to it. A mo men ary spirit, which has given employ ment to some few of our vessels, to visit the port of Lima, and extract from thence th* property of some royalist officers, and persons addicted to their party, who dread the issue of the contest—covering the property under false oaths and affir mations, may, possibly, draw forth obser vations from those few roncerned in this illicit commerce, from one or two ports of the northward of our country; but I would ask, what would have been the opinions of the establishes of our Inde pendence, with regard to those persons who wouid hare assited the British in carrying away property at the evacuation or surrender of our own town, during our conflict? Would they not have beer looked on, and, in fact, if met with, beer, treated, as enemies to our noble cause? And is the situation of those who hav.; been, or may yet be, employed in cove.. ing properly from Lima to Old Spair, different in any respect? No; there is n difterence, and no defence can or -will h'- attempted,i-except by those most interest ed with them in that unjust and illici; commerce, as regards the Independents of America. Have we not also to apprehend that the Independents of South America, who find all their endeavours to be friends with us unavailing, and treated with indiffer ence—have we not, 1 say, to fear, that they will make arrangements with other nations, and eventually with Spain hep self and form treaties, excluding us from all the benefits to be derived from their commerce? I consider this latter measure as high ly probable, if we remain much longer as we have been, idle & indifferent spec tutors. I have heard; from good authori ty, that it is the opinioa of some of the wisest men of Old Spain, that they ought to recognize the independence of their colonies, and form with them treaties of commerce, which, being free and recipro cal, would be more binding; and I am convinced that the day is not far distant when that event will take place, and that it will be hastened if we obstinately shut our eyes to our own situation. And then what can we hope for or expect? Who can we blame for our own folly in refus ing what was tendered to us, and which we rejected? To the Representatives of the nation I address myself. Reflect well on the pe culiar situation of our country; its distress at this moment proceeding precisely from the measures adopted by Spain, and other countries in Europe, to curtail our com merce. The door is open to yon to be come the warmest, first, and best of friends with our own continent; and do not, I pray you cast from you the golden pportunity, which, if lost, is lost, in all probability, forever. AN AMERICAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Ha« opened an office in Washington Street, midway between Ellis and Oieen Streets. Augusta Feb. s——-1 m 810 Reward. ANAWAY from the house of Mrs Sandwich, in Augusta, about two months since, an African negro woman named NANCY. She is about 30 years of age five feet, three or four inches high, am. has the marks of her country on her face and bosom. She it very talkative and impudent, but speaka the English lan guage very indistinctly. The above re ward with all reasonable expenses will be paid for her delivery to the subscriber in Augusta. J JE Kean. February C 5 ts 11 > r We pressed with '■id proeessloT^” P always , *■ ral obsequies 'll en,n >f JIB worldly tbollpfc*, «y. Ruti, the ceremonies were peculiarK N It was a (» ie ». ■' , s ’4i( whose remains attention was first invited W 1)11 roll of the muffled for the purpose of viewing th.?** as it passed down Broad ~S scene presented itself, whirh at the time, almost prevents The ~lem V Cw» therhood, in a long ex*endprt i e^ro burning tnpert, lighting J n * companion to the grave—thl Z ' ,hei ;he..crc,i (,«*. her—together with the tieet ii.fl?" ganf ornaments and dresses of th, 1 altogether so H we concluded to follow ii, e "f! thl the place appointed Z if our attention was attracted byVo der of procession—the silent’ march—how much mor* an atthegtw.e. ed the tapers burnt no more-- dU. calm as .f the hand of death had.uil fallen upon those around us—we were In in reflection. Our attention washov/»vi not permitted to rest here-the broke .hr .Hence with .I.L Jnp “ here behold stance of the uncertainty of life, M( i ,1 vanity of all human pursuits. The Is offices paid to the dead are only iissful lectures to the living.- He continued! some time, in a very impressive manner when he made an invocation, to which ti brethren responded. The march ro« ♦h» grave, with masonic formalities not so immediately strike our atten’tlc until we perceived the etergretn castiij the open grave, and the look (uiwlitje ven, as if they said—fresh be thy memo: for ever, in the breasts of thy brethra Tlie master then continued his addrcssi some length, when his voice sudden changed, and he pronounced in the mi feeling manner—- Unto the grave we i sign the body of onr deceased frier there to remain until the general rest rection, in favorable expectation that I immortal soul may (hen partake of jo which have been preparing for the right ous from the. beginning of the world,"- The deputy grand master then east ontl first earth, and our minds had become! full of the subject, that we could netsvo mentally saying— Requiescat in pace. The joining of hands round the pin concluded a ceremony the most impre sive in all .U parts that we have ever*i nessed. If.WCo. The committee to which the Minon subject was referred, has not vet made report. The committee has had sever meetings, and, having obtained leavet hold its sittings during the sessions of tl House, it remained rlosetted yestni until a late hour, but. we understu ■ ithout agreeing definitively on the hs of any report. The committee wil i s me its deliberation* this morning, si from its assiduity, we may anticipate i "mrly term to them. Nat Int M 11A On Wednesday next, will take pb he ceremony of counting over the vot ">f the Electors of President and Vj President of the United Slates. A jni committee of both House* has been s pointed to devise the proper regulatio for conducting it. The constitute provision on the subject is in the Win ing words : “The President of the Sena “shall, in the presence of the Senate >' “of the House of Representatives, nh' “all the certificates, and the votes s™ “then be counted.” The practice' no® this provision, has not been uniform. - the last election, the Senate came, o' body, into the Representatives’ Cham ( the House being in session: fc, the. ?oes er presiding jointly with him, the Pre dent of the Senate opened the w There is some diversity of opinion, * ther, as the President of the the Officiating Officer, be ought nn ( i to be the sole Presidium Officer will be said, is a mere point of etiqne We grant that it is little more than n but whatever one does, properly, and even gracefully. «* f admit of it. Beside*, though it | fortn now, perchance it may be r<s hereafter. We have a singular illustration consideration which is dim. fVC .. publican governments, to matters o, ■ in the present situation of Missouri, act dectering the admission of a rc , into the Union it is said was 0 £ but nn (ffleial and solemn a ” m " irl ‘ , nfaetf insomuch that the Sen*■ , Representatives of some states j mitted to their seats, and to tie ■ ■ of their various functions, ‘ JP ‘ nP sage of such declaratory aCt5 '~ A absence of rich an act is denial of the admission of the confederacy. Wedono- ’ ever, to meddle with that B'i I*. than to shew, by illustration, are occasionally of some >mpo -■ The r Tnm and Meant. -rT us the House of Representatives, has charge of this subject, ' which there has been sue p C calculation, yeaterdav made a" rs , in compliance with the reap ...b. resolutions required of th enquire and report wheth . „,! are necessary to increase i and if so, to report thwe ® pro to enquire into the ex PfA j duties biting or imposing aHd’tionftl ° the importation of foreign P On the first as their opinion, that the govc adequate to the expenses r hsn jffb« ment; and further,• stl f pfe<i pen, it will be sufficient, vears, fully to repay, h« jut ye planuary, 1825, the oa " nee and any loan which may be , i ng the preset / i k .