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I apotota cmoincMk OFFICE CORNER OF Jackson & Elus-streets. AUGUSTi, (GrA./ WEI)\ESf) AY, FEBRUARY 1532. VOMJME 46.--MO. 31. PUDLISHF.D LVF.RV ■ WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY MORNING. BY A. If. PEWftEKTOH. fBHMS: I ‘'wmav'p VPER. THREE DOLLARS per ■ £*£<££ or FOUR DOLLARS a. I lh No n p!Wcr' vviUbu discontinued (except at the choice ol nnhllsher.l until aU arrearages ure paid. . P AttVEBTISEMESTS are insertedMmiWtv at IWI-2 cent- per sqimr.', for the tir-t m-ei non, anti-Jo 3-4 for each succeeding inßcrtion-*-«MWy, at «- 1— & *',] per square for eaclt inst rtion-tual mmlMu (whoa i ev?eedite? one equare) ttl «l for each insarUon— None however email, is charged less than onetquare. Those Intended to be limited must have tire number o. i irnfr’jon- semi-weekly or weekly, written on them, or ■ they will he inserted semi-weekly till forliid, and char % *'fhe miWisfiCT takes upon himself tire risk of all remil | Sf money made to him by Mud-Urn person remit & hub first paying the postage, and obtaining fi uni the Fost llt , ifaer a wri’ten or verbal acknowledgement o. tlu W a'nomtf and iw deposit* in ids office, which shall be given I post paid, or they I OF THE UNITED STATES L are published in tins paper. & To Executors. Administrators, nnd Guardians. I a72tS of LAND or NEGROES.by Administni ■ A<*cmor«, or Guardians, arc required, by law, to ■ i or i'h' a the lirsl Tuesday in Hie mouth, between the I |;r, ' 4 ca n he forenoon, and three in the afternoon, m B 1 ~nu-e of the county la vvliich the property s I < o " U 3,o“re at these inns, he given inn I-abhc P SIXTY lays previous to the day ol salt. m VAti.iu of tin* sale of personal property, mnsi he given p , r,?. o-mner FORTY days pi evimi* to the day of sale. * C Notice to Ihe’deliiors and creditors of an estate, mast ht P )„■ paid died fir H ■* h fiiO v I I»KOI’OSAIiS Tor Publishing the I ssasey. BV A. H. PKMKRRTON. HiVtMl determined to Isatio tl“' M liVS VX CHRONICLE l ath,. B tiHMU "bout tilt* business |.dH.nn ot Uit I ve ir «t least, anil to commence the daily I Juaii’citlion ns early as a sufficient quant i I ly ol new type, tied other materials can be I obtained, from the North we beg ka' *, I respectfully. to oiler the project to n f friends and the publicgenm ly**><" I ,M„ron.are. The semi-weekly amt u 1 | K puhheations will be continued us u*a *' til ir ,..l.siMisiitle that ihedWt/ paper, niiw 1 in contemplation, will besupporlw ] , ii.allv liv the Alercantdo portion ol tin , community, wo shall ta.heavor to re.uler , ii vahn’fie io lit at class ol om citwi ns. ; ), v (-filing into action every possil k i i.iv.l l l > *.i Commercial nitellqjem** ; aim f xvitii ti|i> aid ol’ tin able mid ialcilin.cn j I i; ..sht;)i)i editor, well skilled iu coinmer- , I ii n Re'rs. whom wo design to engugt, i I „:,dlha exertion ol’ the utmost possum- . | -srv mill industry, the latest and ms’ * i.ii i-nitti < commercial and outer news. ,rvvlil always ho presented, and at »“• ? Panic lime the interests ot our Apm.uHu jat. Political, Literary, aim pen.-rat lea - tiers, most .T w hom ttro also Mrt«l na-PC or less, in Ike commercial ,td< Hi- i gneo of the day, will be duly ,‘dtem ed to. And the numerous kite "“P. 0 ' 1 meats in the mail arrangements ol the* city—giving us n daily nun Irom esei v quarter. Hast. West, North. arA N J i tly the Charleston, New-Or.euns V - I pen ami Savannah stapes, present put a | Jiar Ihciihies thru daily paper, am men is , I „(■ rendering it continually vanu b.o , a | iiiiereslinp. The patrons ol Hus P«P^’ E may rest assured that it snail not be t x » polled by any other similar publication, i determined as we are, to spare no int ' ll,l: ' I of eHeotinp that end. mu! sensible, l.i.d, i„ this community, as in every ‘dlrei, a liberal feintelliirent public wille\ti Keep j,ace. in its ptilronape, with any Uselnl and valuable enterprise that may be pre sented to it.-SVe will leave it to n ma,,o rity ..film subscribers to tins publication, to determine whether it shall be punli-Iu -,ed Ditilu throughout the at. 1 i-a tlOiJiAltS UF.R ANNUM, or Until) diirins \r hiifimw months, and *rm the rcmuintli r of Ike year, at LlUii 1 Dul.- L A us PF.It annum. . * (Tr*To render this paper as valuable as possible, each No. will present a u material commercial and other news, from Xcw-Vorh. Hoston, Baltimore, Washington, Mobile. Neu- Orlnans. and every other quarter ol the lotion, received by the daily papers ol the preceding evening. And. as .he pa per will be published regularly by suit vise, every morning, subscribers will g< ■ the news so much earlier than by the lo reiga daily papers they receive Irom the J’ost ollice. when it opens therealter, on the same mornings. JN offering this project to the patronage of the public, wo Img leave to be understood as appealing solely to their interest, as the <tu \y solid and proper basis of such an under t iking. Our own interest prompts ns to die «n --tnrprhso, from a belief that it tnuy be profitable to ourselves, as well as useful to the public; lor, sinless it ho usefu , and therefore profitable, to the public, it ought not to be, and we are sensi -4,1.1 cannot and will not be, profitable to us; and | we therefore desire no one to patronize it, hut I from aa expectation of “ value received” for [ the, money, or to continue their subscriptions thereafter, should they be disappointed in that expectation. The correct principle of all bust oess Minsactiins (and ibis is, of course, as roue,, a hnwipcss transaction as any other) nnd l.»o OMI > one on which they can be safely, honestly, pio fit-.blj, or permanently maintained, is mutual Kr-. til and self interest. Ami, relying upon this, - in tie. ’iresent enlerpri/.e, wo shall look closely and actively to the interests of our subscribers, as the best means of promoting our own—sensi ble tbi t whether they like or dislike us oerson -1%. ihcv will patronize the paper, if we make it to their interest to do so, and that the more in dustiiousiy and pcseveringly we laboi for them, the m_. ■■ gene al and valuable will be their pa rronan And, should we nt any time, become forge*' T of them and our duties, the best way of con. nag the evil, and arousing our energies and ■ u sense oftho source from whence we derive vu- profits, will be to withdraw the.r ' patron.,ge, till itsiiallbe to their interest to re . n--w U. Tins will be due to themselves, and T>l . , nothing more than just to us. And, while no 1 editor has the right to enquire of a subscriber the cause of a withdrawal of his subscription, to com plain of him for it, would be to attach to others,the blame, which, in nine eases out of ten, is due on ly to ourselves. Ifuman does not consider it his interest to continue his subscription longer, whether right or wrong in his opinion, ho is just as free to do so, as to withdraw his patronage from any Store—and to enquire of him the cause, is impertinent, while to blame him for it, is arro gant and unjust. The patronage of a paper should always he given, or withdrawn, from a sense of the value of the paper to the public, or to ones-self, without any reference whatever to the editor personally, whom one may like or dis like, without liking or disliking his paper—and therefore an editor should never consider the withdrawal of subscription,as a personal matter, in the least, or feel the less respect or regard for the individual who withdraws it. Its only efi’eet should bo to prompt him to an examination of ids conduct, and the correction of any errors he may discover, and to stimulate him to greater exertions —determined, at least, neither to deserve censure, or loss of patronage, so far as his honest etlbrts can avail to prevent it. As to the w ithdrawal of patronage for a dilfercnre o political or religious opinion, that is a thing which should never pain, or move for a moment, any honest and independent editor, as, amid the endless variety oflmmau opinion on those sub jects, the same expression of opinion which would induce one man to withdraw, would in duce another or more to subscribe—at least, so we have loand it. Commercial patronage, however, has little or ' nothing to do with personal controversy or con flict of opinion; hut is founded,principally, on in dustry, energy, honesty, and persovc atce, in llte quick publication of all important fuels, and able and intelligent comments upon them, cal culated to devclope (heir true nature and eonsc- J qunacos. And, commercial men, undivided and unprejudiced by party,will,as all others ought to do, always carefully examine both sides of every , question, lookingjnore to the intrinsic value ol j the opinions .St arguments themselves,than to tire persons who utter them. However, then, we ■ may ilitfer from any of our merchants politically, while we shall continue freely to express our po- j lilical opinions, uttinlluenced by any man or any j party, we have no doubt*they will patronize ns, , so long as wo may make itto their interest odo ! so, commercially; and the Daily paper will he devoted chiefly to their interests. And they can not be unaware, that no paper can honestly a- ’ greo witii them altogether, ami that while they diller from us in some things, they will probably ( agree withns*in others, and the same also with i any paper that boldly and honestly expresses, as ; evuiy one ought to do, its own opinions, and not i those of a parly, or of any oilier paper or person. 1 Wo believe that a first-rate Du Hi/ I‘n/icr, such as we a e determined that ours shall tie, w ill be highly valuable to the place, and profitable both , to its patrons and to ourselves. The great oh- , juet of commercial men, in patronizing papers, is ( to obtain the earliest commercial intelligence I from all quarters; and to effect this, many suh- • sci ilie for several daily commercial papers, puli- j fished in different quarters. \et still, as few, il , any, can aiford to have one from every sea-port, ( or commercial town,intelligence will often arrive | by papers which they do not take,which will give i those who receive those papers, the advantage < of them. And beside this, many of them have | scarcely time to look through all the comnier- .1 eial matter of every paper they receive (and of- ( tun to no elfectjjto find such us concerns them selves or the particular business of this city. ; Our object will be to have every commercial f paper that is desirable, throughout the I niim to i get them from the Posl-otiice, each evening, the j the moment they are received there—and to se lect from them, sot in type, during the night, and publish by sunrise, next morning, all the ita tant commercial intelligonco they contain al so, the important political and other news, so tar as the time will permit—giving the preference, always to the commercial, and all that mostly , concerns the commercial community. Thus lay- j ing before the Merchant, each morning, before! fie leaves his residence, all that valuable in-; formation which is calculated to govern his| transactions throughout the day. To effect i all this, Ihc paper will he considernly enlarged, I the best of workmen will ho engaged, and the I commercial department placed exclusively tin- ! dcr the control of a commercial editor. By thus j concentrating all the valuable commercial intei-; ligeuco from all quaiters, the Meichanls of this place may bo saved the great expense in curred in dailys from abroad, and the onerous trouble of searching through a bushel of coin mercial cliafi, lor a grain of wheat, and often not j oven that*— and will receive it also some hours j earlier than they could obtain the foreign papers which contain it, from the Post Ollice.—lt will bo both an expensive and laborious enterprise; but, neither labor or expense are to bo cared for, in any undertaking, so long as they can bo suc cessfully and profitably employed; and of ibis wo have not the slightest doubt in the present enterprise—at any rate we have determined not to spare them, in the effort for success; and some generous friends, who entertain sim ilar opinions of its success, and confidence in our exertions, have had the kindness to step forward voluntarily with oilers of pecu niary assistance, should we need it.—We arc in ! ) treaty with a gentleman of extensive commercial j a s well as general intelligence and information, for a sale to him of one half of the establishment the commercial department of il. But, should ( not this arrangement he made, an able, intolli-, eent, and capable commercial editor will be en-1 gaged.—VVe shall stake every thing upon this enterprizo, and wo trust the community is suffi ciently acquainted with us to believe, that we arc not disposed to do tilings by halves. The question, then, is, Will such a paper be valuable to them—worth the price of il ? All we ask, is, Eire ns a fair trial, nt the start, and if you an disappointed, withdraw your patronage, at once, tcithout the least hesitation. V 6 R E Ali. DEBATE l-\ THE SENATE, (Continued, from our last.J SKETCH OX’ M«- FORSYTH’S SPEECH On Mr. I 'an Burcn s Nomination. [Mr. Forsyth makes no apology for tho rough sketch he presents of the romaiks made by him in the Secret Sessions of the Senate, on the nomination of Mr. Van Karen. Tho speech es against a nomination having been, for the first time in the history of this Government, thrown upon the people, it is duo to tho person assaied, that what was suggested on the ollnr side should bo known. Mr. Forsyth is well a ware that, in executing his part of this duly, he has done justice neither to the subject cor to himself. J 1 regret, Mr. President, Hint the Sena tor from Mississippi, [Mr. Poindexter,] tins been so long niis. nl IVoin'his seat, not only heennse lie has been sulloi ing' pain, hut heeanse had he been here, he eonhl have escaped the commission of numerous errors into ivhie.lt he Ims been led. The friends of Mr. Van Karen have not oltslriubcil inquiry into his conduct; they have elialleug'ed investigation, of lered it in every and any liirni consistent with the obligations of the Senate to its own eharaeer. The Senator From liable, [Mi*. Holmes,] shrunk from his own resolution. It was laid aside by voles of those opposed, contrary to the votes uud wishes of tin* friends of those friendly to the nomination, !or was distinctly invited by one of Ihc ■Senators of Now- fork, [Mr. Marey,]fo specify any net dishonorable to the ehnr icfi-.' ~f ali*. Van Biiren, und a pledge given that the inquiry into it should be made in the amplest manner by u (!om aetieo bus ing all the powers necessary to the establishment of tni.h. The Sen ator from Maine was distinctly fold by lie. Senator f'oin South ('aroliini, [Mr. layne.) ui what terms he could com mand his vote. He was told to cover die ground indicated, hy proof, and lie would join in (ho condemnation of the home of the President. The Senator fr Maine deliberated on this oiler, and, after deliberation, abandoned his re u .mi. leaving ail to grope their way 10 a conclusion, as accident or prejudice night direct them. A promise was .nadc. that ho should have a Committee if he would venture upon it. and the of fer was deliberately and most unequivo cally declined. Vet, after all this, nt this eleventh hoar, the Senator from Mississippi says, if the friends of .Mr. Van Hiiren wiil solicit a Committee, he will giro us what he has collected, while confined to his sick chamber, and on which his own opinion is formed, and if the Committee is not raised, he will, with ibis mutter in his pocket, v ote against the nomination, in order to preserve the morality of the nation, endangered by »he bestowal of a new office on u ffim dtii/r politician. As the friend, personal and political, of Mr Ann Bnrcn, I reject the liberal of !\r of the Senator, in delhmce of his threatened negative upon the noniina ton. — Hot him unite with those who. like him. are so anxious to preserve the morality of the country by rejec ting a mini whose most odious crime is his ris ing popularity ami transcendent ability. The friends of Mr. Van IJiiren will not degrade him by asking a Committee, to free* him from tho suspicions engendered in the Senator's mind, in his search after correct information, from sources wit Inn his reach. His character wants no such justification. Hoes the gentleman wish ‘to justify his vote f Let him propose ft Committee: lie shall have our conctir ence, Hoes he desire to comuiee die .Senate! Lot him produce the private source. Information which, I venture to say, like the only one he speaks of oprnly, is woi thlei sin the eye of any man "ho : s not so embittered by prejudice (hat he can not see truth. This Idler, by n tor mcr partisan, a paltry editor of a paltry newspaper, mid to prove whul f that Air. Van Hiiren said that the late Cabinet was dissolved by the conspiracy of the Vice President to drive Maj Eaton from the I Cabinet, and that he withdrew to escape i the consequences of the dissolution. Sir. ! Hr. Van Huron holds no such conversu -11 ions with persons who were once his par \ li:nns, and now his enemies. Hu! supposing h * had declared, or docs entertain, the opinion imputed to him.— Is it a crime which disqualifies him for a I high cilice, that he believes the charge ! mude and sought to be e-bablisiied by ; the laic Secretary ot War! It stieli be i the Senator’s opinion, can he tell ns bow I far the exclusion extends! The Sena tor’s letter story is contradicted by his previously expressed opinion. W hat. Sir, the most artful man in the world, proclaim L-a paltry Editor that he acted in the manner indicated, to escape the storm . j consequent on the dissolution of the Fa- j binct! If it bad been true—if such hud • be. u Ids motive, he would have sought I to conceal it from hunself. No degree of confidential intimacy could have tempt ed an artful intriguer to such a disclo sure. The story if true, proves a man, whose extraordinary prudence, under nil circumstances, through a longlife in the stormy politics of a vexed und turbulent Slate, has gained him the confidence of his friends, and called down tq.on him the charge of consummate artifice from his enemies, to lie a silly driveller, —a simpleton, opening his budget of petty motives to one whose trade was, thrive by making himself important hy confidential and oracular disclosures in his unknown journal. Mr. Van Huron stands in a strange condition before us; from the beginning j of this Administration, before he came to ! the post assigned to hint, until the pro-I !sent hour, h< is held aecoinituble by n icertaiu description of political men in! I this country for nil the evil that has been I I done and all the good that lias been o-j milled. .. Now, Sir. if he is accountable tori every thing, il bis hand is to be traced! every where, let him have credit for Hicj good that has, anil the evil that has not, j been done. Balance the account of fhej admitted good and evil imputed,and the, result will till the hearts of his enemies] with the bitterest disappointment. But ( j , sir, this is not |fce justice intended for him. He is responsible for all that is complained of. Let us see the Senator from Mississippi (Air. Poindexter’s) ca talogue. There were no Cabinet Houn [ cils—Did the country sutler from tuis Ini hire to follow the example ol’li.te udinin , istrations. from (his adherence to tho ex . ample of General Washington. But there was one ('iihinet Council culled to set - on a Lady's reputation, indeed: and this Mr. Van Hureu is also answerable for; and is it true, Sir, that the honorable 1 members ot’lho late cabinet, who remain ed so tranquilly at their posts enjoying all their emoluments and honors with becoming gratification, suffered them selves to lie deprived of their accustom ed rights of a seat and voice at the (loan ed Hoard oi deliberations on great mut ters of vital interest to the public, nnd yet obeyed the beck nnd call of Mr. Van Huron, to set upon a Lady's reputation! . Os what stuff’ were they made, that, they ilhl not distinctly ascertain it'(llls restric tion of claimed right, and this insulting cull upon them to step out of their appro priate spheres, was the work of Air. Nun Hureu or the act of the President. If the first, why did they not demand his dismission, und. if refused, indignantly throw their commission in the teeth of the ('hint'.Magistrate.—The omitted Ca binet Councils, and the single call, were no such dreadful offences until obliged to follow Air. \ an Huron's example mid re sign.—The history of the last year es tablishes (he wisdom oftlie President in calling no Cabinet Council to deliberate, as (lien* could have been no harmony in their consultations, and on the single question said to have been submitted the Ex-Cabinet have shown themselves in competent to decide. He is not competent to decide on a Lady's reputation, who throw's out of view, on the question of how she should be treated, tier gn.lt or innocence. 1 will not condescend further to refer to the trash with which the pub lic press bus been loaded and polluted for mouths, und a dess the Senator from Mississippi has better evidence than the public lias yet seen, the hope of implica ting Air. Van Hiiren in the disturbances that preceded the dissolution of the ('abi nel ,is forlorn. Let us see the next crime io the catalogue of the Senator from Alis sissippi (Air. Poindexter.) Air. Van Bo ren intrigued the dissolution of the late Cabinet, taking care previously to secure a safe and prominent retreat in the Alis sion to England.—lt is known to every well informed man in this District that Air. Van Huron, by his admirable tem per, bis conciliating manners and un wearied exertions, kept (he Cabinet to gether long after its discordant materials w ere so well ascertained that its dissolu tion sooner or later was a mutter of com mon speculation.—JSir, nobody doubted (hat tlie parties could not get on togeth er, nnd dm only surprize was, that the President did not proceed to restore liar- , mony liy ‘lie removal of those whose disagreements produced the discord. — j Hut Air. Van Hureu had the unparalleled I effrontery to resign on motives of deliea- 1 ey nnd disinterestedness, and ns (his mode of conduct was so unusual it. has excited a vast, deal of surmise and won der. The Senator from Alississippi. ; ( Air. P.) has however satisfactorily to himself solved the mystery.—Air. Van 1 Hiiren arranged himself into a promi nent place before he resigned, and n new Cabinetto suit, Ids ambitions views.— Now, Sir, ns to thoproofol’this pvecon- 1 eertoil arrangcini nt for his necomimidii , lion and elevation. The » icsident told! somebody who was a late Secretary, that Air. Van Huron was to go to Eng I hind, and named to him the iSecreturies, ] ti lu> ivi ro to come in . but this ivna after i Air. Nan Hiiren had resigned. In the in j (erview, it is acknowledged that Air. Van Huron's letter of resignation was handed to this volunteer repealer ol’ron- ' lideidial conversation with the (Jliicf Ala- j gisti .de. Hoi the (Senator says it was j hr/'ore the letter was published —thence he | concludes Air. V. 11. had made a cat’s paw of the President, for the pi emotion of his own views: a most logical infer ence, truly. And tills new Cabinet ar ranged to further Air. \ . Il'» unholy am bition. ‘ there man, woman, or child in the country, who does not know and feel that the change has been beneficial! to the public, that, there is now more strength, more virtue, and more harmo ny than there was Imbu e ! Is tin re any ] man who will hazard bis reputation, hy asserting that the present (decretaric* arc , capable'of being made the instruments i of any mini's ambition, or so subject to! the undue bias of indii idaal infill* nee, ns | the lute ! Parli/.ans are not substituted: for (Hire, di.-inicrci t.'d patriots ; and let Die say, fiir, that more pin liznns lime I gone out Ilian have come in. Hut this I mission to England was not sought by | Air. Van Hnren : bi-s friends know that i il whs pressed on him by the President. J ami that it was reluctantly accepted id the earnest solicitations of friends who were satisfied it w ould promote his own reputation, and redound to the honor nnd welfare of *!m nation. I will not follow, further, the .Senator's lead. Long known to me as a politician ;md as a man, acting together in the hour of po litical adversity, when we hat! lost all but, our honor —a witness of his movements ' when elevated to power, and in (by pos session of llie confidence of the ( ’I. id’,'Ma gistrate, and of the great majority of the people,! have t.evcr witnessed aught in i*dr. \ an Hiiren which requires conceal ment, palliation or coloring—never any thing to lessen his character as a pair ot and as a man—nothing which lie might I not desire to see exposed to the scrutiny of every member o. this body, with the ' culm confidence ofmi-allied integrity.— | lie is called an artful man—a giant oi’ar-; | tilie**—a wily magician. I‘Toin whom j | does he receive these opprobrious names'! j \ From open enemies & pretended fre-nds. j | In the midst of all the charges that have ' been brought, against him. in shapes ■ more varying than those of Proteus, and | thick as the autumnal leaves that strew i the vale of Valambrosu, where is the j false friend or malignant enemy that has I fixed upon him one dnhunorabL or degrad ! ing act! Il’innocent of artifice, if gov l i- erned by a high sense of honor, and *r« 4 giduling his conduct by elevated princi f pies, libs is not wonderful; but, if the it suit of skill, of tho arm celare arlctn, h - must be more cunning than the Devi liiinselt] to have thus avoided the .snare -of enemies and tho treachery of pretend ■ e*l friends. t It is not possible, (r-fir, that be slionh ! have escaped, had h«* been otherwis* I limn pure. Those, ignorant of his iiuri ' | vailed knowledge of human ehnraeter ’ his power of penetrating into the designs and deienting tho purposes of his adver saries, seeing his rapid advance to putili* honors, and popular confidence, impiil* to art what is a natural result of ihosf ■ simple eauses. Extraordinary talent untiring industry, incessant vigilance (he happiest temper which success can not corrupt nor disappointment .sour; i these are the sources of bis iiuexnm; ,, e(l success,—the magic arts—the artifices ol ' intrigue, to which only he has resorted ■ in his eventful lit**. Those who envy hi; success, may learn w isdom from itis ex ample. i Having disposed of tho catalogue ol the (Senator from Alississippi, let me ad 1 vert to the grounds occupied Ly u little army of objections on the other side ol this (,'humber: How many sacrifices ot feeling to duty, are we not about to wit ness : if all the honorable .Senators, of Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, Alas saclaisolts, Ohio and Kentucky, are con strained by duty to vote against Ins nom ination—and all, *m public grounds—no private feelings; Oh no! nothing like il: public, duly against private feelings, is the order of the day. And what is the dremlful public crime lie, Air. Van Huitii lias committed! Hear—(Sir, hear. He lias degraded the country by giving in structions to the late .Minister to Brent Hrilain, Air. AlcLune, about tin* West India trade. What instructions? Can it lie those on w hicli (lie net of 1 S:»i> pass ed—those which have been mining our printed documents for these twelve months, forming part of tin* President's eoinnmaiealion to ((engross of.lan. f*v'i! Have those honoralile gentlemen who are now so shocked at tin* public ilegr - datiou, so eager to punish the author •>) this national disgrace, been sleeping nt their posts—no one to cry oat to ring the alarm at the dangers to which the public aonor wns exposed—no one to interfere to prevent the United Mutes from being place*! at tho foot-stool of the Hnlisb throne? Quietly w itnessing the e.onsum ■nation oftlie erime, passing an act with die know ledge of these instruct ions, to cure the I o at, which they now see was beg ged in the inline of party from the Hrilisli crown; we are now electrified by bursts of indignation at this first act of degrada tion in tin- history of American Diploma cy. What a spectacle is here.—How long is il since lie who was the instru ment to ho**'ns dow n h-Tore (•rent Ln ; lain, was unanimously confirmed in a | post of honor und important trust! Hid j the instrument, hy whom he was ordered jtoml. I- to hear the punishment. The author of (lie instructions, he hy w hom | they were given, is too high to be reach ed at present: tile mitlicr of the crime, he 1 who ordered it, escapes—he who com ■ mils it, by order, goes free :be who eon j veys the order, answers for bolli.and up on Ins head fails all the indignation of • these incensed Senators, acting upon public grounds, and reluctantly perform ing a r MMM'i,—r u.mtt.- — duty!!! Well, sir, to this degradation. It is found in the instructions t.o Air. Ale Lane; and to make out their ease, the ilonora ! bit; Senators Irom Aiassncbiisctts unit I Kentucky have given as a sketch of the ! history oftlie West India negotiation I Both brought down their narratives to | the taunting reply of Air. t (milling to Air. ( Gallatin, given during I tin tale adminis tration. From this point, Lot Ii these • Honorable Senate's fomal it convenient to slid*—no, sir, to leap, over all inlcrve j niug events to the instructions In Air. Ale I Lane. With permission, 1 will (ill up this little unimportant chrism, 'i’ll** terms of the British act of Farbameiil not hav - ing been accepted by the I’nin d Stales, American vessels were excluded, by an order in council, from (lie British West : India pol ls. Why (his important inter eat, vv as neglect** A, vv e have been just told I by (beSenator tV-n.i Kentucky, • lb*; laic administration were ignorant of the net ofi’arlianicnt until il was casually seen !by them.” ,- ll ,vv as not officially com mu ! ideated by (be Englisb Government to I our Government.’' “Even when we i were colonies, wn were not hound by i’rilisli nets of Parliaments, unless t-peei I ally named in tlicnr” Indeed: is it (ms j sible that the lute administration did not know an net of I'm liameiit. affecting ini ■ portant interests. Where were till our accredited .Ministers and commercial agents in Brent Britain, that this govern ment was not. iiil'oniied of this measure, ■ known to nil Europe, and taken advan luge of by most oftlie powers interested < in il. Hut. it was not officially roininmii i caltul to ns. Well, (sir, vv as it officially • communicated to any oilier Bovermiicnt, interested in its contents ns we were. Tin* Hrilisli Bovermiicnt, I apprehend, i would have considered such a commu nication a gross reflection upon our uc- L credited agents. It would Imveeompell* • cd them to say, in effect., wo communi cate to yon an act, supposing your agente are 100 negligent of their duty to send ii ' to you. V* lint, were our .Ministers and i ageiils about; bow were they employed that they did not send to their Govern ment this important information! t Hut the last excuse is worst than all i even when colonics, vve were not bourn by nets of Parliament in which vve w er* ' not, named specially. What a discovery and il is concluded from this wise recol i lection, that we are not now hound to tak*; notice of acts of Parliament not specially ' and ijjlciully communicated to us. I imagine? j vve are not bound by them, eommunicat -1 ed to us <»i’ not, but vv e are bound to know all those touching our interests, and any administration is severely reprehensible for ignorance of them, and for tailing to • attend to those that hear injuriously up -1 on the interests of the people. The net was. however, at last known, nnd when Air. Gallatin presented hinisell'to negoti e- ate, with instructions to waive all claims :i- that wore formerly presented, and had e- prevented an arrangement, he was tnun le linaJy told, you have lost your day lit ’ll court—the privilege, the. bum' ofli red, had us not been secured by accepting the cotuli 1- fions; we have taken our course, nego tiation is not our plan. Well, Sir, whut d said the administration, of which the ic honorable Senator.from Kentucky, form i- od u port. There was an act of Congress, r, requiring, on the shutting of the British s, West India ports against tie, nii interdict r- by Proclamation. Smarting under this c taunting refusal to negotiate, what was e done? the execution of nn act of Con e gress positively directing the (-rocluma- I, tion, was suspended by Executive au >, lliority for two months before the mce i- ting of Congress and during the wh.de ; succeeding session, to sec if Congress, d who had been prevented the preceding >1 session from legislating—the iMiminisUM d tion preferring lie- ed it of a negotiation is —could not legislate the Executive cut c of the ditliculty into wiieh he bad ptae the country by negligence, or. if t ,e .‘ter d ator from Kentucky pleases, ign. rai. !- of the act of Parliament. Weuhkie e bow that cllort icrmiualcd 'J’h 1 •f Mouses disagreed about the a. I' footing the purpos -; hil , bo’ e - ling to takelhe privileg ■ : hi I proposed by Great Itrita i: '.i * passed a bill —the Units *t• ■ iliiciico rs tin* Necutoi f ,, ini ■ setts, amended it, and fin* <. > whether one or the othei ■ i should be trodden. Th - * nated without legislative ein.' then, not (ill (hen. (In* pro j, :< •• > interdiction was issued 'J’n.wts. t* . inor ' ting under the taunt of; ho British •*- ler, our adunnistrdidr. left the v n o 1 trad*'in the hand" of tire. Britain f r I six or eight months,—*satigh* t;- enter i itself from censure by inVn!, lug 1' i islo live interposition. and (her. was coin ’ oelled to act on (he mi-ivi ■( statute.— i The interdict being proclaimed, the trader ' stood nponlhe ’ rv ndvuntag*ons so t big, aeeoi'iliiig to the Senator s juoginent, 1 which wo Ini'e lost hy llie negotiation. .Xotwithstand ng we wore rnjiiyini> -cell I emimnl tiilruntaet-, ll>*- late ail'. .oi (rniion t in spile of the taunt, directed 'dr. Gallo-* (into try again to procure whi 1 is now ' disparaged, liy opening the if r of i.e --' gutiution after it had been shut it 1.,- lace. ; ile whs iigaiu repulsed, But tins htuntl i iation was not enough; Mr. Iturln ill* was sent to Londn, mid tv too had ills i instruetiuns, and went, cap in licud, knocking nt the closed door for in gotiu lion. Sir, he knocked at thu door if the i British Minis! y,. nndei circunibtnnces s hninilivtiiig in tin* «xtr me. If a gentle man should go a second time to u house, - the proprietor of which, speaking from v his window, h-.d dim ted his purler to * deny him to th visile', Ids visit would have been Bolivwlia' l.ko itlr idl.'coil' r) i sceo.il i ml. V< S .’j yet tiic h ooilia -1 ti so was vain—the second us I’m it Ices as * the <lrs(. > Much was the ronililion of thi ques i itoo wliea Gen. Jackson was placed >.it the hea<l of the country. One ol’llse first * objects nl’lns administration was the re covery of the Brbish West India Trade, •in tirrangeineiil ol'if upon terms ot just reciprocity, satisfactory to both parlies, I’ and, therefore, promising to be permit- I neat. Mr. McLain-wus selected to go to England, and these tin.eh abused in structions prepared by the lute Secretary -of Slate. Lot it be remembered, Sir, ; (liese are instructions from the President of the United Slates, to the American I Minister, never intended for the. eje of * the British Government, and which ine —*■ - other country but ours, would ever In*" > seen the light. xt, The opening of this negotiation o j* t | lP the chief difficulty. To leinovc i.* ou ,*l of grounds arc taken. It will be ri "orordi- I ncic i tlint our refusal to iieeedc lowing terms of (ho net of Furl lament, w*"' - ■ (ate of the ground of refusing to treat .mm. ’ . > Galhitin and Mr. Barbour, both oi . i ' ” - went prepared to oiler an Miraagvn ■ by reciprocal legislation; taking'.; . of Parliament us the lirilish Legn. > To obviate the ditliculty, tiller a fab ■ • i lull history ofthe trausuctioii iln y e lions are pre;-ented to Mr. IllcL. r.c , i la) pressed so far as In: augvi/ <ltem il ■■ ■ J * mul]irii]nr su to do. It’tlic Bntieli p i in refusing to hear you, v n this on 1 y i remind them of the circumstances that - have occurred: ofthe difference oi’apr. * icn nmongourselves on it; ol the hlm ;- u ilocinciit by the admiliistrution o.' 4 1 e J > pretences that hud prevented nn i'.;' r ment of it ; Unit they are not to . • . f ■ brought forward; that, the una ' t (ration wus not umenalile to Uv (•overninent, nor to any other, !• .-e <i r people of tlic United Wtutes, wh < him il passed upoir nil tlieir acts'. Way , to the - British, if it makes pretensions formerly '■ advanced the pretext for still declining to negotiate, the sensibility ofthe Atnu >nn d people will ue deeply awakened. That i- the tone of public feeling, by a course so V unwise and untenable, will be aggru. o t, led by (he known fact that Great Britain hud opened her colonial ports to liussia I, and France, notwithstanding a similar - omission on their parts to accede in time, ■ to the terms tillered by the act ol Pnrlia 1* meat. And this, Sir, is represented us i- the language of entreaty, as tbe beg -6 ging of a boon. , ii M'his menace of tlic* public ind|^nalior»| ‘1 this declaration that the iutc adhnnlstra- I. lion was neither lo be censured of pi rns i- eti by foreign nations; mis amenable for their conduct to no earthly tribunal but I. tin* people ofthe United Mates, istortur <l ed into a claim of privileged, on party e „, otinds for party purposes, and as u dis :: graceful attemjit to throw upon a pre -- vioas adininistrntian unmerited disgrace, e (or the sake of currying favor with a fo j | ( .ign power, &. that power of nil ©them, i> (ireat Britain. Great Britain could not ■ resist this frank ami open and manly a;>- v peal. Goinmittcd by their concesson in i favor of.France and Russia, ami the ‘ Alinislry distinctly told Mr. McLnne, 1 that he would not remain il theydoelin ‘ ed negotiation, or placed their refusal up I en any other ground than iin open tiecia »’ ration, that tlieir interests could not per - mit them to eater into a reciprocal en- I