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VUroiikle. cuid . * SUITED BY JOSEPH VALI/ENCE RET AN pVHLtSfltrpt.VHlT Monday £5 Thursday. *T live nottillis rr.R aitsum, paubu is advasc* TiirtFr. uoiiins r*R a«»wm, »atabl> a;s6 w advasce. Address to the Mummy at Bd zimi’s Exhibition. The’f'flowing lines atv from (hi- pen of a muster. We never recoiled to have In<• 1 -with any thin)? in the same strain, which pleased ua so much. [Liverpool Mercury And thou hast walked about, (how strange a story 1 )• In Thebes’ si reds three Ihousandjycars When the'liemnoniuin was in all its glo •And tune had not begun to overthrow Those temples, palaces, and piles slu pundotts, which the viry ruins are tremendous Speak ! for thou enough h«»t acted Dum- Thou hast a tongue—come—let ua hear its tone; . Thou’rt standing on thy leg a above ground Mummy! Pet isitmg the glimpsi s of the moon, Not, like thin ghosts or disembodied crea- HUM'S, * But with thy bones ttnl flesh, and limbs and features. Tell trs-for doubtless thou const recol lect, ... To w hom should we assign die Sphinx s , fame; Was Cl enpg or Ccprcnes architect Os eifh.*r Pyramind that bears his name ’ Isl’ompey’s Pillar really « misnomer ? Had Thebes a Imndred gates, as sung by .Homes ! " i Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbid ■den „ , tJy oath to tell the mysteries of thy trade; , Then say what secret melody was hwiden In s.emuon’s statue Which a* sunrise played. perhaps thou wert a Priest; if so my struggles Ate vain, for priestoraft never owns us juggles. Per^h'.hceThat very hand, now pinion'd flat, ■ Hash 'h-a-noh’»l with Pbamoh, glass to l"l»SR! , Or dropp’d * halfpenny mjlomei s hut: Or doff’d thine own to tet Uueen Dido pss*l , Oi btvld by Solomon’s own invitauoa, • A torlh at the great Temple’s dedication. I need not ssk thee if that band when arm'd 'Has any Roman soldier msul’d and i, knuckled, for th >u wert dead, and buried, and c balm’ 1 F..e ttomulus and Uemus had been suckled; Antiquity appears to have begun, Lo \g after thy primeval race was run. Thou could’st develope. If that wither’d tongue Might roll us what those sightless orbs have seen, How the World .ookM when it was fresh and young, . And tin- grea* deluge which had left it ■grim n: ' • Or was it then-so old that History’s pages Contain’d no record ol its ages f Still silent, unrommunicittive elf f Art sworn to secrecy i then keep thy TOWS | Dm pfydiee tell us something of th/svlf He veal the secret of thy pr ison house; Since in th* world o* spurts thou I uai shimber’d What hast tlm.u seen—what strange ad ventures number’d? Iknc- first thy form was in this box ex tended, Wt have, ab jve ground, seen some strange mutations: The Itotnsu empire has begun and ended. New wo Ids have risen -we have losi - ohl nations; And countless kings have into dust her humbled. While not a fragment of thy flesh I;;, o unibled. Didst thou hot hear the pother o’er th> head When tue great Persian conqueror Catu hyses Match’d armies o’er thy tomb with thui dertng trend, O’ertlirew Owrri. Orns, A iis, Isis, Ami shook the Pyramids with fear am! winder. When til gigantic Munnon fellas nder. If the tomb’s secrets may not be confess’,! The nature of thy private life unfold: A heart has ’hrobb’dbeneath tbalieathci n bi> sst. And tears adown thatdutky cheek have roll’d; • Have children climb'd those knees, an,. kiss’d that face ? What was thy name and station, age and race ? SFatue of flesh—lmmortal of the dead ! In.pc isu ible type of evanescence ! Posthumous man, who quit's! thy narrow bed. And siandeituudecayed within our pre sence, . Thou vsiit hear nothing till the Judgmen. morning. When the great trump shall shrill thee ■ with U*warning. Why si ould this worthless tegument en dure. If its undying guest be lost tor ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed and pure In living virtue that when both must •ev.gr, _.. - Although corruption may our frame con sume, Th’ immortal spirit ux (Ac skies *sf bluoa. mm* Prom the Virginia tferald. Reply of the \luramy to the foregoing tldreHS. HE dumb, thou Questioner! dost quake to hear me Call up a tone beneath the ribs of t Compose thy startled ser.r.e—thou needs’! not fi ar me, ’Tis but a fleeting, unsubstantial breath! i am not angry, tliou Should’sl thus be peering. For it brings back my voice, and sight, and hearing. ( And since this withered tongue can move once more, ■And unto earth lam revisitor. Now that so many years have roll’d it , ~ -o’er. Til talk with thee, thou strange inquwi ! tor! Come then, respond to me, thou thing halt frantic, Say art thou man, once boasting strength gigantic ? Thou hast his lineaments! yet, dwarf abor tive ! Thy frame belies thy title to hi® name— Art thou some prodigy of nature sportive ? What are thou lit for? let thy longue proclaim; Tell me ; perhaps I’ve heard an infant’s prattle, Thou Iwst no strength to gird thyself to r battle. In those heroic times tlmu’st touch’d upon, What would*) have done in combat with tin toe ? Could’st lift the shield of Ajax Telamon ? Or bear tiie weight of mighty Memnon’s 1 blow ? t;ould’sl thou the king of Uashan’s brand have wielded ? Or had to thee, the sons of Anak yielded ? What is thine age ? some fifty years or un der ? i Jus* stepping on the threshold of a world ? Aitd yet such knowledge doth excite my In one whose beard upon his chin’s un curl’d! Ofpld traditions, so complete a master. Thou art sump Magus, Priest or Zoroaster Hast Iravell’d unto Thebes, that tliou wouid’st. know Jf Hecatorpylos b' a misnomer ? Hast -een her hundred sepulchres that show What meant the words of blind old Homer? When acted I, on sublunary stages. Ah knowledge was lock’d up in breast of sages. But why dost ask of me, th’ imposture palm’d In Pompey’s pillar, on the world, I pray you, If I wore dead, and buried, and em balm’d. E’er flonmlus and Ilemus liv.cd, as say you ? If founded they, that empire, vast you CQfntion, Os which thoiv’st lived to sec the great declension ? Pompey ? unknown that name to memo ry ! Time’s early records give, it unto no man— Doubtless, some hero, of more modern story The same thou hast denominated Un man— Was he illustrious then lor vict’ries won. Shrined they his bones in Temple of the Sun? ( Who did unmask for theo, the priest of Isis? And told the - * of the trick of Memnon’s • S'at if ? Thousecm’st to know, they chuckled ai their guises, While peeping from behind some oop hoh-alyou; t They laugh'd to sec credulity’s confusion, And hugg’d themselves in man’s absurd delusion ? What art hath been invented to disperse What once was known but to the wise of old, That thus, with so much case, thou can’st r« hearse What then was precious as the fleece of gold ? . Queen Dirti ! Solomon and his great deeds* Cephalitis, Cheops and their pyramids' \ . 4 * Hut list, thou chronicle i f ancient days! Thou cofnpend of a woild's»rausuc ions! There is ave il through which thou can’st not gaze,' One, w here no human effort makes infrac timis: *’he shroud that’s placed hi fire the grave's dominions, •’he. boundary of man—the field ofdaik opinions ! I’hou hast not guess’d, and I can never tell thee. What was my-age, my race, or name or station. Fur Ishmaelitish merchants did sell me, Nor was 1 ruler of th’ Egyptian nation— i never hob-a-nob’d with Pharoah, in my life, Nor fled from Poliphar’sinsonstant wife. Why gazest so with eye indicative, 'if wond’ring horror at a mummy’s sea Hires ? Hast lost th< a*t, with drugs desiceative, Tt, stay putridity in human creatures 1 How now are paid the last sad acts of du ty ? Are the worms left to prey on cheek of beauty ? Candidate for death to snanglo and de tnrro! Prey to corruption, sin and bitter sorrow ! Offspring of the dust and bai quet for the worm ! Let me in turn thy solemn warning bor row: Thou wilt know nothing till the resurrec tion. When thou shall put away sin's curstin- Xectaon. Why dost thou waste on vanities thy skill? Why dig amid the rubbish of past ages ? Uufild the volume of Jehovah’s will, D ; vote thyself to his prophetic pages Which guide the way to those eternal pleasures. Transcending human thought, by bound less measures. I 1 Extracts from an Article in the I** l Sup percent to the Encyclopadia Ur 'an nica.—Article Beggar, Vol. H. P 2l>l . ~ 7 ’ •- ■ Os the class of persons to whom, in the common use of language,; be- termt . gar is with propriety sssigm-d, then; is , one distinction which is obviously and commonly made •, that is, into those who beer from necessity; andthoun who *> e J, from choice. In each of these dm sinus, there is great vanety For a <le scription of the* id of nftndicty we de rive helps from the Import of a totmmUec of the IToiife of Common,, appOtHed mtte year 1815, to enquire into the state of menclicity in the metropolis. |*bc enq'ii-, ry is very imperfect; the interrogation of the witnesses superficial and unskdiul; ’ the information which they Rive not fob ~ lowed up, hy exploring oUier and better ' sources, wjiich they indicate ; but, as . ‘people had been left to casual observation, to f-noy, and conjecture before, the facts and .conjectures which that Report lays belore ... are still the best information we possess. ■ Mr. Martin, the conductor of an inquiry j into the state rtf mendicity in the metropo lis, iinder instructions from his Majesty s ' Principal Secretary of State far the Home „ Department, which inquiry extended to about 4500 cases, staled, as “ kite general , result of hi. information, that beggary is, in very many cases, perhaps in about hal. the cases of those who beg, the effect ra ther of real distress, than of any voluntary '• desire t. impos.. So far from him g f >U;.d, • amongst those wlio have attended at the , office:any reason to think that the whole was a matter of imposition, I have (ssys 8 he) found cases of the most acute sujlew , ing, which have long been concealed, ■'/ some of the beggars, Who belonged to p> , rishes in the metropolis, who have mi maile their cases properly known to tHf i parish-officers, and who have ventured *o • slip out of their parishes, not so much be cause they wished to impose, as because f they were driven by distress to bl£. Y Mr Martin i;rw (led this conclusion also upon the general sact 9 that the number of women was much greater than (bat ot men, and that of married women greater „ than that of single “ Men,"■he remarks, r “ are stronger than women, h ive more resources, ami arc better able to provide i ‘hr themselves; and single women art more eligible for s« rvlce than married, and usually have only themselves to main I tain-” The Rev. Henry Rudd, who had been ? fourteen years Chaplain to Bridewell Hos pital, to which the gicater number ui the f persons take) up for begging in the streets of London are committed, was ask ed. *' Have you ever known a worthy per ; son begging in the streets ?”—“ Yes ; I have gnowii many that I should call wor ' tbv; and, I think 1 could mention spnrn who have commnp from the country dis ■ tressed for want of work They think London is paved with gold, or presents opportunities tne country does not •, and they find themselves here without friends i I have met with many whom I considered very worthy ” l Promother witnesses however, of whom the experience was also great, the com mittee received affirmations of an oppo • site import. Mr. John Hougbtry, a gentleman Wmch - in the habit if visitingthe habitations of i the needy, was asked, “In your opinion, do many worthy, honest, industrious per - sons have recoil se to begging, or does this class of society consist chiefly of the. idle and profligate ?”—.-?«? “The install • res in which worthy, honest, industrious persons have recourse to begging are ex ‘ 'remelv rare They will, in general, ra f titer starve than beg A person of vera ci-y, whq sometime ago visited 1503 poor i families in the neighbou-hno lof SpltaV field, affirms, that, out of full 300 cases of abject poverty'and destitution, an 1 at least lOu of liters 1 want «» d starvation, hot a • dozen had b-en found l» have recourse to begging Many of the most wretched of the above cases had b -en, noi long b.-fore, 1 able to support tlu-mic.lves in some com fort, but want ot employment ha 1 com pletely mine 1 them. They were, at that moment, pressed by landlord, baker, and f tax-gatherer; bad pawned and sold every thing that could b« turned into money: were absolutely without a morsel of food for themselves or family but sirll had (’ not recourse to hegg ng. As a general fact, tlv- decent poor will sniggle to the 1 uttermost, and even jxrish, rather ,than . turn beggars ” ,r' According o the experiment imnlion ed by Mr. Honghtrv, a id it is upon a large scale, and a part of Ui • population (the t circumstances of die people in Spiialficds are not favorable to virtu which mr.y be reckoned below rather than above the common standard, out of 40f indtvid ; uals, of the lowest order, 388 will consent to perish by hunger, rather than beg , In confirmation of this testimony, an extraor dinary fact has come 'o our knowledge. We have been i -formed by a gentleman, 1 wliose knowledge of the circumstances and behaviour <tf Hie journey men of the r metropolis may be regarded as in< a very unusual, or rather an unexampled d 'grce, minute and-correct, that, oftlijs important • proportion of the labouring population, / no one ever begs; tiiat such a thing as a journeyman tradesman, or any of bis fami ly, begging, is almost unknown ; and may with certainty, he pronounced as one of the-rarest of contingent events. When it is considered to what an extraordinary de gree most of the employments by which these men earn the means ot‘subsistance are liable to fluctuation ; that thousands 1 - of'hem are for months together deprived | of work, as was the case with (housinds, 1 F for example, of ihe carpenters anti brick- t layers dering the winter of 1815; 'hat ajf ! those the whole must be reduced to the 1 . most cruel privation, and a pi'ppt proper lion actually starve uf, I ! and unknowns the I’esohitiqo. py whicJi. S ; th y abstain from begging, should be re- t gatded as one of the most remarkable t . phenomena in the history of‘‘the human mind., 1 2. Os the number of beggars La the q»e<; a tropolis (and no attempt has by ea ma le to t . discovei'it in the rest of the country,) the h labours of the Committee Kaye ascertain- g ed hardly any thing. At the time of the a first inquiry, which was made bv Ur, Mar- .n tin, 2000 cases presented themselves p This, by a vague estimate, he supposed a might be about one third of the who ; a and allowing at the rate of a child and a b half to each principal, he conjectured -duo • the whole number might be about IS.uOO ft U tkis be supposed & tolerable approxt- u mtion. with regard 4a the metropolis, a comparison of the popula-.on of the m, - tn,polls with that n{ the whole count.y, will give an approximation to tire nunwer of beggars in the kingdom 3 With regard to the number of oepT ears, an important fact appears to be as chained: Mat it dimimsb ing Mr. Martin said “I do think that the number of beggars has something de creased since -he first inquiry, nine y ays ago ; and 1 am very much c onhrmcc. m tllat opinion, by what persons have loW me,'that they have not seen so many as they did. I really think there are not so many by one-fourth.” Sir N- Conimt, of the Police-office in Bow -street,, saia, think the number of beggars was greater thirty years ago than now, I have acted as a magistrate for more than thirty years —Do you mean greater in proportion to the population ?—Greater in fact. * nm sure, on my own recollection and o rserva tion, that mendicity is a lotss nuisance now than it was thirty years ago. 4. This is the little which appears to be known with regard to the proportion between the beggars from choice, and the beggars from necessity, and with re grrd to the number of the whole. We shall next speak of the arts by which it is undr rstood that the trade of beggars is curried on This appears to be tue grand subject of curiosity. The Uev. William -Git ncy said, “Tam rector of St Clement Danes, and minister of the Free Chapel in West-street, it. files’s. In the course of my ministry tlere, I have had a good deal ot occasion to visit peisons in very great distress. I i have ascertained that there arc four dd- ferent wnys of begging Some are by let- i ters, which arc sent by post ; and some are 1 what we call knocker beggars, who go from house to house, knocking at every ■ door. If they get a knowledge of any icspectablft person ift the street, th r *y pret« nd they have received money at his house, to make a siitn to pay rent, or t!ic postage of a letter from a son who has been six or seven years at sea, and from whom they expect a .remittance ; or for other purposes. On these occasions (hey have generally some written statement in their hands. Some beggars are sta tionary. They come to their stand at a ■certain hour, where they remain all day ( or alter so many hours repair to another Os these beggars, those who are blind, or maimed, or have children, succeed the In st. There are others, women and -chil dren, who are moveable beggars, follow ing not the street but the people. For instance, at the time of tire play, they are always very near the theatres ; and it they see a young gentleman and a young -lady walking together in deep conversation, they will pester them, and run bt foie them till they give them something to get rid of them. Those people, at other times of the day, if it is a Sunday for in stance, will be found near chapels where there are large congregations; they know as well where the large congrega tions are as possible. There are others who are continually begging from house to house; they go through a great num ber of streets in the day, occasionally tak ing a ballad, or a bunch of mutches, and pretend to be picking up bone* in the street, and early in the morning kneeling down to areas, tormenting the nook when she is busy in the kitchen, until they get some broken victuals, ns they call if, but they actually sell this victuals; that I have found out. In St. Giles’s there are some eating houses for the very poorest mendicants, where they go and sell this victuals they get from different houses. He mentioned a set of applications fre quently made to him, by persons who pre tended that prize-money, or benefits of some other sort were due to them, of which, however, being deprived by want of knowing the steps tube taken, they entreated a letter to somebody who would instruct them ; but their object was to get a letter with my name to it, with which p'obabi) in a short time they could get 20/ If I have written to any body m the uflice of the Treasurer of the Navy, whom" I knew, for instruction or counsel how they ought to act, recommending the beare" to this person for any information he could give upon such points; if 1 only said, I beg leave to recommend the bear er to your notice, they would paste this to another sheet of paper, cutting offtbc bottom part (and one person was detect ed in doing this,) and then (hey would take the name at the bottom,and so past it together, making a kind of a re corn mendation of this pe>son:: knowing who I was._ acquainted, with, some other clergy man’, perhaps -silting me down a-i giving them Ila , that clergy man is induced to give'the in Ids also, and to send them to 6 mao benevolent >cson in liis congrega tion : and so ill ygo oo till they have gm 20/ ; i i that has frequent y been done, I do not mean always by imposition Hu, in many cases, where persons have been in distress, through providential circum stances, 1 have written t- another clergy . iva-i, saying, such a woman was d ; stres»- ed, and had so many children, and that her husband was mu of work, and that tins I knew to be the fact, for 1 had in quired. I have given half a guinea, and have giwn iL.- names of others ;aid by this nitons s -fficiem relief has been pro cured without coming to the parish at all. Hut the impositions on the subject oi re commendations are very great ; I have hail betters from *ll part* of die country, inquiring whether I gave a general re commendation to such a person ; and they have said, we saw a letter put porting to be in your hand-writing; we were pivtty confident it was not written by you, but it was a very good imitation. One man in Staffordshire, where I had lately been, i got a great deal of money upon such a , letter I conceive the beggars in the ( streets are mere numerous a: one time of the year than at another ; and it would be sup used tlie lime cf the year when they wfcre most numi roos, would be in tie ear- i ly part cf the winter; but that is n>>t tin £#»e, for now they are ss thick as a> any lime of thq year. I have been endeavour ing for a long time to a-certaiu th<- reason if this ; and the first obvious reason for thepinflux of beggars into the metropolis, at this season of die-year, is, witli respect * lo put" class of beggats, those who do it 1 by letters or recoitunernations, and not 8 going from house to house, that they take c advantage while Parliament is stil sitting, 11 nr particular persons being in town ; they ll peihaps are pretty stationary in London s all the ye«r ; ; but they are more anxious V at this time, and therefore more heard of, *! because peop t an going out of town, ‘ •■id therefore the.' ar taking ime hy the * t'lrelocfe. and wmk double tides; tha< is 11 me reason I very frequently have letters Cl E< . n t ly friends of mine In nfHiier.ee,. Mi', Wilbeforoe and others, requesting me to inquire into particular cases, and if I found them to be a a represented, to give them so and so. 1 have generally been troub, led more at this season of the year than at an* other. As to those who knock at the door to beg, the reason of their being so numerous at this time of the year, I ap prehend, is, that many come out of the country with a view to take the early hay tifne about the metropolis, but they bring always a large suit with them. It a man comes to mow in the neighborhood < f the metropolis, they mow their way back a* gain, the harvest beginning sooner near the metropolis; they bring with them a wife and six ot seven children. I have «een hundreds coming up through Stan-, more, Avhen I resided there. They gene rally come ton soon, and the streets are tided with these poor people: One says, if.(could but get money to but a fork 1 could get work; and another, if 1 couid get money to buy a rake, 1 could get em ployment, I have had half a dozen with me since Saturday, stating that the* came up to get a job of work, but the market is overstoeke i: there are so many lii>h here. The c' nscqimnce of these people coming is, ‘.heir children are immediately set to begging in the streets, and with the dust upon them, having travelled a great way, .and frequently in rea' want, they move the compassion of people very much; they are frequently sitting with papers stuck in their hats. • In the course of six or eight week* great numbers of i those will disappear; the husbands will [ get to mowing, their wives will get a hay ■ fork, and their children will get to weed • I, »T*l ... i I »..t n ilru'itl. in" the gardens! TJien they Reta dread- i fill habit, by coming to the metropolis, a i habit. of idluness and drinking and of course lying; idleness is Mire to bring on i lying and theft. I div e say there are ve ry few of these mendicant children who are not trained up to pilfer as well as to heft; they come principally, I believe, from the mannfiticluri'g counti-s, Onn journey from Birmingham to London two years ago, I passed not less than two hun dred with their wives and children, who were beggingasl passed ” Mr. William Horrid, inspector of the payment of St. Giles’s and St. Gem-gs, Uioomshury, said,-—“One-evening ! was coming down Totenbit-n-eourt Koa.l; a man and s woman, bodt btggars, were quanvclLiup. The man awoie at -the wo man very much, and told her to go down to such a place, and lie would follow her. 1 said to myself, ( will see this opt. She appeared to he pregnant, and very rear her time. I went down to Sheen’s I think In sent her there. There was a quarrel, and he said, “ I will do for you present- Iv j” and he up with his foot and kicked her, and down came a pillow stuffed wit h : straw, or something of that kind; she was very soon delivered. I have been in informed of a circumstance respecting a man of the name of Butler, that went a bout ; lie had lost one of his eyes. lam told he had been to sea He had a dog, and walked with a stick ; the dog went before him ; he bit the curb stones. Peo ple supposed he was blind of both eyes; he turned his eye up in such away that he appea-ed blind. When he returned to his hotel, he could see as well as 1 could, and he wrote letters for his brother beg gars. This man has been dea ’. two or three months ” The following is a curious fact, testified by Mr. T. A. Finnigan, master of the Ca tholic Free School in St -Giles’s —“ About two years ago, there was an old woman who kept a night school, not for the pur pose of learning childern to spell and read, hut for the sole purpose of teaching them the street language, that is, to scold; this was for females particularly. One fe male child, according to the woman’s de claration to me, would act the part of Mo ther Barlow, and the other Mother Cum mins; there were the -fictitious names they gave. The old woman instructed the children in all the manoeuvres of scold ing and clapping their hands at each o tlier, and making use of the sort of info mous expressions they use. This led them into the most disgraceful scenes When these children met, if one entered the department cf the other the next day, they were prepared to defend their sta tion, and to excite a mob,” t-Vc shall next consider the estimate which ought to be formed of their get. tings. On this subject also exists a great bias to exaggeration. Bo'h the Committee and these witnesses, with certain excep tions, i.pptar to have been led by it. Mr Gurney had heard of ore idividual who boasted thafhe could with -ase earn Si a day; that lie would go'(trough si.vty streets, and that it was a poor s'reet that would not bring 1i n a penny. Sir Nath aniel Ccnant, however,beingasktd, -‘Did it ever come to your knowledge, what any of the mendicants got ?” wade answer, —“ I hive heard very large sums stated, hut I disbelieve many of them; I have not known of money being found about them ; there are a good many very im pudent fellows certainly about the street , who are very troublesome; those who have been taken tip hare been seldom found with more than a shilling or two, but I believe some of them had naan-led at home. There was a woman before me. when 1 acted at Marlborough street, who. had a erd ly in which there were nine or ten guineas hoarded.” Joseph Iluiterwnrth, Esq. a member of the Committee, stated as an inference from credible information which he had received respecting their mode of spend ing, that their daily acquisitions could not be less than from 3s to 5s ea> h One particular girl, however, whom examined, stated that Is 6J was the common amount pf what she was able to collect, though on some days she made as much us 4s or ss. We recuini.,eud the foil iwing estrset! ' from the Message of the Governor of- , Virginia, to the serious and attentive ' consideration of our readers;- The commonwealth -has undergone the i humiliation of having endeavored ill vain ] to vindicate and assert iher rights and her i sovereignty at the bar-ofthe supreme court 1 of the United Statu, and now endures the < mortification, notwithstanding the greit ! , talents, learning and efforts of the conn. ( sel employed, of having altogether failed ! < to nrocure a disavowal of the riglw, or the ! < intention to violate .that Sovereignty, and t hose rights, by the procedure which was t iimouuced to th>- iaai letris’a* tire, and what r tas been consequent thereto in tliQ .usual | : nurse. jj 4/ The supreme contt of the United Elate, K has asserted in the broad.st Urns. t‘h e § nght ot that court to exorcise a'qielhitc jurisdiction in cases where a state* - ;,» jar'. IN ty, and where it is brought hetore t!'t>!> I by a writ of error to reverse the sentence Kj ut one ot its court'} indicting a penalty m> I I some of hs citizens for a. violation of ■.l penal code. It is asserted the riqht, inW cases where a state is a panv, "to 'cn.H force within that state,laws r.f t , .on -v l . B *l formed for the District of Colundua, 'n the - limits of which. Congress has exH cessive jurisdiction, [>y supervising contmiling the decisions ‘of the st.v* courts upon mimic, put regntsiiopaol' tlieifl own, intended to preserve, the mtjials their citizens. Although it *i» admtf**9 ■flKtt under the provisions' of the'pm, loiikJ act of Congress atuborizi -g a lottery, thß the brnefit of the District of CuluLbi:® th'e venders of the tickets were not , J lected from a liability to ponirimien l sisl 1 inf ac ions of the state Ia us pmhihiVu'g ■ sale oi' them in the respective states, ,i iuH' intimated its opinion ir. a mariner’ admi's ol little doubt, that even in so-B port of regulations framed by Congress huH : tne District «f Columbia, it may chsr with, or overreach the municipal laws a state widen are in conflict with thi-m. The principles thus coot,mldl f, r bl 1 the supreme court, are manifestly ctilcnllH' od io irnpairmi.si essentially the soven ijßf rights retained hy the males, and .ilunutH 1 i ly to change die character of the g flj ; eminent from n constitution of limited 'rß' f defined powers, to one inve-ting noliiS 1 ' I ited auttic.rily. T!»e supreme court H the U. States has long attributed to I'nH 1 gross a discretion to one any meam thfl' may judge-expedient to earn a :,o <1! specifi- <1 in the constitution into cited l 11 arrogates to ilseti', always, lii, authority to judge exclusively in tuc resort, how far the federal compact ril’ luted, and in arraign before it not decisions of the state courts, but the themselves. H As the States are parties to the pact, it is tin ir duly to exercise s tlegiee of vigilance and energy to -ds violation. In a difference of as to the authority conferred by tin- i' ral constitution, it surely cannot lie tended to be an exclusive right of the parlies to decide whc'lua- a conferred or not, and portion arly party who claims it. If the principles plainly upheld by opinions and decisions are maintained, it is ■•■■aaifi-rt that the meat to th -.-• constitution in’ ended lo the sovereignty of die states ha*«« any f >rce, and the adoption of it huspHg. ed a vain measure. The ihfinitiim of |iH> (:• sis no longer of any use; the of those powers and the reservation remaining powers to the slate moots which before possessed the v-Hf are no longer of any avail If can pass ail laws which it may ever occasion deem necessity to carry anv or imputed to its government into it is evident that that govern ratut of unlimited powers by construction, ever may appear on the face of din tution to the contrary. If it can go outer limits of the field of sented to it by the states, it will ally soon occupy the whole field so that no decision can be made in * court, which may not be cors.iml volve some law of the U. Stalt-e, therefore reversible at tlie v i II oi oral judiciary. T'he state courts i he virtually annihilated,for J i -gs will be subjects of jealousy ua il S become useless ceremonies S The cunslitu‘M>i' of the Units 1 a durable monument ol th>* it harmony of times past. Its very n v Sj lections constitute an impressive rial of the necessity for good l.utb iuWik passing and in future times. It is mystic writing given in charge to •ual judiciary as to a priesthood to velopftd in a studied obsuntt, through mazes, and made to give rr ponses as may suit the peculiar utß in political expediency, cfitictiißbe.'iVs v P 1 political sect, at any period. Bat gue against the uuconstitutiensb-ty oHj th jurisdiction asserted, and. pi* teß«f conservative powers assumed, da dignified and emphatic declaration by the last legislature, i" useless, produce no good consequence ■■ The only legitimate reioedv, sttre and lasting, time will shew, the certain effect of this oi judicial ambition, which if p the present enlightened emigres-,■ to hereafter be tolerated or e’lconragi* t|i some other, is unqueslionab n(, - a ' h meat to tlie constitution, tb power claimed d; •hi-.inrisda-inni fi e'l within such well delined h" J ' ls *!' rn .ketbe state governments seen' c " !i the fatal consequences of a •'itrii' v-B L in other tribunals, to reverse tin- d '■ of theirs, upon mutters of their ow n >■ ual policy, and in a tribunal created u| oi, party to the compact, to -ie.;Un; .n ■ a what that cornpa t iutended. ■ ™ Anticipations fill of despair 'or ' t j, tine welfare of die Union m ist unav* & bly accomnnny th" barsli stipoosi' --iiH the alarming ossumritioiis m can have had their origin in -i 1 " 1 -, •d Itv motives of p-»l t:c*l exnfy nee'ed with view of government * .Mr.-rent from 'hose of I lie 'H ttj .;oii*titnti(in. Thev mnet Inin liaddn-™ 1 MKleiS'anding of the diilcrcu' c-c the instrument at tha' tim .“ n S '^H intentions svhen they assemble > ,u p f in the discussion. JtUthengA' r a p. pledge to sn;-port it. as it cam-’ 1 , v bands All declared it to be tie > trivsnee they could make- ”> jj ( whole power and infl ie ice "I • - ' ],. to bear, in mass, upon foreign n Bj t peace as well »s in w.»r, witho'i ' ‘ na ing their internal means of j' g( j tranquility, of encouraging '' ar knowledge, an! promoting pr any of them. If a I did no consolidation, as much as uo . -b cause a few had not the r- l^H discover that a corrupt, mag' vagant, impoverishing and e |S .* *er ernment, must be the cons 1 J^ If t be s.iid that th- mno'i’y » » .H come majority nom, let it o« I test, by another coiiveoMo"- '« -o distinguished cinzi-i" w, *° c< ' is aupremo court at tit!* tune, ai the imputation of bad fat h, e I’M p, defended by any consideration o» fl , ency, but they are ad certanny ■p to have unintentional j error c j them without pairt"! dnub ■ fa of this prospect is not a i ( by the reflection .that th- p • ' tt judgea aro vcy jikexy ■ e