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From tin X. Y. American.
Less than a year ago, a girl appa
rently about 19 years of age, of mild,
modest, and interesting deportment,
made application to the District At
torney of this city, for assistance and
redress, under the following ciruin
stances: About a year previous, she
had arrived a stranger in this country
from Switzerland, with a brother about
16 years ol age. They had inet with
disappointment in obtaining the assis
tance they had been led to expect;
and although her family was respecta
ble, but notaflluent in her native laud,
she was induced to become a govern
ess in a respectable private family,and
her brother was bound by indentures
to a shoemaker in the city. She com
plained that her brother was ill treat
ed by his master, who not only refused
to pav the amount stipulated in the
agreement, hut had otherwise abused
and injured him. The District Attor
ney inquired into the matter, and ha
ving reason to believe the statement
well founded, caused an indictment to
be preferred against the shoemaker,
who was brought to answer at the
Court of Sessions, lie employed
counsel and resisted the claims ol jus
tice and humanity. He was cast, how
ever in the suit, compelled to pay the
stipulated pittance to the boy, ami the
indentures were cancelled. Much
gratitude was expressed at the time
by the sister and brother, for the in
terference of the public authorities in
rescuing a helpless and unprotected
stranger from the power of his op
pressor. Nothing however of a parti
cular nature was heard from them un
til yesterday, when the young woman
presented to the District Attorney a
written testimonial of the gratitude of
the father and of the magistrates of
the Canton of Vaud, for the protec
tion afforded to one of their youths in
a foreign land. She had stated the
circumstance in a letter to her fattier,
and the document alluded to was en
closed in his reply. It is written in
French, and we have obtained permis
sion to translate and publish it, as an
indication of the simplicity of charac
ter, the strong love of justice, and the
paternal solicitude felt by a little
political family among the mountains
of Switzerland, towards each of its
members, wherever they may be dis
persed. -Although the act of our pub
lic officers of justice was only perform
ed in the regular discharge of their
duty, for which they will neither ask
nor expect peculiar commendation,
vet such an expression from a distant
country, and from those who among
the nations around them have been in
the habit of seeing the weak crushed
with impunity by the strong, cannot
hut afford gratification, at the same
time that it confers honor upon our
judicial system, whose independent
regard for impartial justice, is thus
publicly testified in an interior pro
vince in Europe.
Vaux sur Morgues, Canton of Vaud. }
Switzerland, 15th Aug. 1823. )
Air. Advocate. —I hardly know how
to express to you my thanks and my
gratitude for the goodness you have
show n to my son anti daughter, res
pecting a law suit they hid in the U.
States',in which you were good enough
to be their adviser and protector; and
in the conduct of which you have not
only exhibited admirable talents, but
the goodness, the zeal, and the disin
terestedness, which characterize u per
fectly honest man.
I also beg to thank the gentlemen
Judges and Jurors ofthe Tribnnal.who
rendered justice to two young people
without friends or protectors, and far
from their country. The blessing of
God will be extended upon a country
which produces magistrates of sucli
integrity, and who exercise justice
with equal impartiality justice
and kindness towards foreigners.
Accept, Mr. Advocate, the sincere
wishes 1 make for your continual pros
perity, and that of the Judges and Ju
rors of the Tribunal of the United
States. LOUIS BRIANT.
The Municipality of Vaux, met un
der the Presidency of the Syndic, con
siders it a duty and a pleasure to thank
you, Mr. Advocate, for the act of be
nevolence which you have rendered to
two young people, natives of our‘Com
mune.’ W e express also our just gra
titude towards the worthy magistrates
nt New-\ ork, who did such good jus
rice to these young people—which is
not only engraven on our hearts, but
of which the official record shall be
deposited among our archieves, as
an eternal memorial of our lati
tude.
We pray you to accept our respect
ful salutation,
In the Municipality,
Francis Panchacd, Grejfer.
J. Lot is Panchacd, Municipal.
The Judge of the Peace, of the Cir
cle of t'ollombier, Canton of Vaud, in
Switzerland, certifies as true the above
signatures.
Dikared, Judge of the Peace.
Colloinbier, 2Sd Aug. 1823.
This document is also under the seal
of the Canton.
Indian Antiquities. —Gen. Coving
ton has handed us some specimens ol
Indian Antiquities which he has dis
covered at his salt W orks on Drake’s
Creek, twelve miles from Howling
Green. As his hands were digging
away the earth for some purpose a
few davs ago, they came to numerous
fragments of salt boilers, with the
remains of furnaces, great quantities
of c inders, coals, &c. There was every
indication that our predecessors used
the spot for the same purpose for
which the General is now using it.—
Among the specimens which lie
brought us are two pieces ot boilers. —
They are made of clay, mixed with a
shining substance, not unlike the com
position cT common crucibles, as hard
as our best potter’s ware,about a quar
ter of an inch thick, and from the
curve of the pieces we would judge
that the vessels were from two and a
half to three feet in diameter, with
fiat bottoms. The ashes in vast beds
have turned to a stony substance res
emblaing pumice stone. The Gen
eral intends further excavating the
place and examining the whole ex
tent of this ancient salt manufactory,
lie informs us that trees of the largest
dimensions grow upon 1 lie spot.
The Indian antiquities scattered
over this portion of our continent
have not excited our attention in the
same degree that they have many other
persons, Our views and enquiries
have been generally confined to the
affairs of the living, and of those na
ti*is which have been sufficiently con
spicuous to attract the historian’s no
tice or sufficiently enlightened to be
their own annalists. Hut incurious
as we are on the subject of the nbro
igines of our country-, occasionally
some evidence of their ancient civili
zation obtrudes itself upon our view
in such a way as cannot fail to arrest
attention and excite enquiry. That
those people who inhabited this part
of the American continent when first
examined had greatly deteriorated
from the arts and civilization of their
ancestors, or that this continent was
many ages ago, inhabited by a race
entirely distinct from the present In
dians, is so frequently and fully de
demonstrated as to leave not a shad
ow of doubt. We do not pretend to
suppose that they ever approached
the ancient inhabitants of some coun
tries of the old continent in arts.
Had they ever built Romes, or Car
tilages, or Palmyras, we should have
discovered the ruins. Ilad they sculp
tured marble, or brass, or gold we
should have found some specimens.—
But that they ir excelled the misera
ble hunters that overspread our vast
wilderness, is extremely evident. We
hope that men having a taste for such
enquiries may pursue them, and we
do not despair that a clue to the mys
terious history of our tawney prede
cessors may yet be discovered. Cer
tainly it is an interesting subject to the
antiquarian, the philosopher and the
historian.— Howling-Green, lCy. Cur.
Bear Encounter. —On the 27th ult.
as Mr. Wm. Fisk and his son were
hunting in Rockland county in this
state, they discovered the tracks ol
three bears, which they pursued about
three miles to a den. They urged
their dog, but in vain, to enter and
attack the fericious beasts. II being
near night, a fire was built, and they
watched until the next morning, when
thev collected a number of the neigh
hoi s, and about twenty dogs, three on
ly of which had courage to enter and
attack the bears ; and after a serious
fight two cubs presented themselves
at the mouth of the den and were shot
while the old bear kept possession of
her fastness. The dogs, satisfied with
their partial conquest, could not be
prevailed on to renew the fight. Mr.
Fisk got his Green Mountain courage
up, and determined not to give up the
victory. He accordingly, assisted by
another with a light, entered the cave
and after crawling in more than fifty
feet, discovered the glaring eye and
heard the threatning and gnashing of
of his potent adversary. He discharg
ed two rities when the smoke drove
them from the cave. On entering af
terwards, they drew from the extrem
ity of the cave (sixty-five-feet,) an en
ormous sjie bear. JS\ Y. E. l’ost.
“ She that bridleth not her tongue,’’
shall pay five thousand dollars ! A
lady bv the name of Mary Patton,
has been sentenced to pay 85000 at
Clarksburg, (Pa.) for slandering
the character of Mr. Eskridge
Hall.
General Felix Buckley, the oldest
officer in the British army, who enter
ed it in the reign of George Ist, died
on the 14th September, at the age of
114 years.
ffcrrian JiUcUffltncr ♦ I
From the London Courier of Xov. 10.
It seems strange that any per
sons should view our sentiments
upon the South- American States as
Loathing either war or defiance. —
It is a policy upon which, we con
tend, other European powers have
no right to imetlere with us—nor
do we pretend to interfere with
them. They may or may not ac
knowledge and treat with those
States; that is their business. —
But they cannot justly complain ol
our exercising the same privelcge.
And here; in order to clear away,
in limine , the ground ol some ob
jections that have been urged, we
must desire the public to bear in
mind—that it Is not the case ol an
incipient insurrection of the Col
onies against the parent state —that
it is not a struggle in which the
power of one side is balanced by
the other and, the issue doubtful —
it is not a case in which a third
party stepping in turns the scale
and decides the conflict in favor ol
the side to which it carries its
weight.—lt bears no resemblance
to the case of our American Col
onies, when France and Spain in
terfered ; the conflict is decided. —
the issue is arrived—and Spain is
not more divided by the seas from
her ancient possessions, than she
is by the difference of their respec
tive institutions ; nor has she more
sovereignty over them than we
had over France, though we con
tinue to bear the empty title of her
King. The question has been well
put by one of our cotemporaries—
“ As to independence, the question
is at rest —the states are free—
the acknowledgement by Spain is
not worth a straw to England —all
colonies are dejure sovereign states
the moment in which they achieve
their independence, de facto. T his
for the clearest of all reasons, be
cause the foundation of their alle
giance is their enjoyment of pro
tection from the parent state. When
the colonists cease to want protec
tion, they are no longer bound to
pay the price of it; and this is
one of a class of cases in which
power becomes the eveidence of
right.”
This is what we wished to lay
down in limine. The South Amer
ican States are to all intents and
purposes free and independent
States with which any other State
may act and negociate, and form
alliances without any violation of
treaty or good faith towards any
other Power.
But it is said, Spain has not ac
knowledged their independent.,
and therefore, you are guilty of an
attack upon their sovereignity.”
Indeed ! Let us see the absurdity
to which this porition would lead.
The South American States might
have, their independence—might
exercise all the acts of a sover
eign and independent power—
might have entered into commer
cial and political relations with
other nations—Spain would not be
able to take any step to do any act
calculated to resume her former
authority over the States, or to ar
rest for a moment, the inarch and
exercise of their independence—
nay, might remain totally inactive
and supine ; yet, because she re
fused to acknowledge them as free
states we are to refuse all inter
course, all political relations with
them whatever ! Why, does not
every one see the utter absurdity
and childishnees of such reasoning,
if reasoning it can be called ?
But we are told of a congress of
European powers to settle the fate
of the American colonies. We
should like to see what sort of
preamble such a congress would
draw up to their deliberations.
“ Whereas a certain tract of coun
try some thousands of miles dis
tant fro*i Europe, containing about
470,0CX) square leagues and a pop
ulation ol 17 millions, has deter
mined that it will be governed by
its own institutions, and will no
longer continue in dependence
(which they do not want and which
is injurous to their best interests,)
upon a nation containing 25,000
square leagues, and ten millions
ol inhabitants ; We, the Powers
of Europe, are assembled in Con
gress to devise the best means of
putting an end to so unsatisfactory
a situation of affairs, and of conclu
ding some arrangement that shall
be more congenial to the policy,
&c. ike. ?” Congress may deliber
ate, pass protocol upon piotocol,
multiply confcrrence, upon confer
rence, but what would the seven
teen millions on the other side of
the Atlantic say ! Or. what means
could the congress possess of en
forcing their edicts ? To frame re
solutions which you have no means
of executing, or, to use an old pro
verb, “ to show your teeth when
you cannot bite,” is, in private
concerns, not a very wise proceed*
ing : hut in public matters, in the
intercourse between nations, not
only idle, but positively dangerous.
We think the continental powers
will pause before they hold any con
gress : but whether they do or not,
we shall neither be a party to it, nor
send a Minister to it. We shall
leave the continental powers to act
as they like, whilst vve shall act as
a\c think best for our own inte
rests. The American states have
achieved their emancipation—a
chieved it by their own efforts,with
out foreign aid, foreign councils,
or foreign encouragement. We,
w ho, of all nations; could have ren
dered them the most powerful as
sistance, did not, through our gov-
ernment, express even a wish in
their favor. They fought the fight
they gained the victory, without us.
Their independence is established
—the tide cannot be rolled back.—
The American states are free sove
reign states, with w hich any nation
is at liberty to treat, without afford
ing any just grounds of offence or
complaint to any other pow er.
We have sent consuls and Com
missioners; other powers may,and
probably will, do the same. We
call this step a de facto acknowl
edgement of the sovereignty of the
American states —and we may ex
pect further, that a higher diploma
tic character will either he sent out
or that someone of the commission
ers has, or will have, the power of
taking upon himself that character,
as soon as the different Consuls
have made their reports upon the
situation and feelings of the states,
to which they have been respective
ly sent.
The execution of Riego, is an
event, w r e believe, without a paral
lel in modern history*—He has been
tried and hung as a traitor. The
circumstance which constitutes the
singularity, and the atrocity on the
part of the present Spanish govern
ment is, that Riego has acted al
along up to the time of his capture
under the authority of the country
—the very government under which
the king himself acted during the
same period. Spain had no other
government at the time. The mock
Regency established by the Duke
d’Angouleme, was not clothed with
the least authority derived either
from the people or the laws or
usuages of Spain. The evidence
of this fact is drawn from their
own declarations, when they were
called upon by the Duke to nomin
ate fit persons for the purpose.—
They replied that the case was not
provided for in the old laws of the
kingdom,and peremptorily declined
the act. The Duke then appointed
a Regency of his own. Now against
this spurious government treason
could not be committed, because it
had no legitimate authority. The
king from the first acknowledged
the constitution ; he solemnly swore
to observe it—he acted under it for
three years —Riego acknowledged
his authority, and acted under his
orders ; and yet he has been bro’t
to an ignominious death on a charge
ot treason against this miserable
puppet ot foreign powers, when
they were both engaged in the same
cause. If there were no other
charge against the King of Spain
this alone would stamp him with
the deepest infamy.
The King of Erunce. —A correspon
dent of a morning paper gives the fol
lowing portrait of Louis XVIII, w hom
he saw during the lute celebration of
Te lieum at Notre dame:—
“ 1 had heard that he was very much
fallen off of late, but before 1 had the
near view of him which my position
yesterday gave me, I could not have
believed the report to the half of its
extent. 11 is torincr enbonpoint has
entirely left him, or fallen down upon
his legs and lower extremities, which
are proportionably large and unwield*
ly. His eyes were sunk, hollow, and
troubled, retaining nothing of their
former vivacity ; his cheeks have fall
en in, his lips have lost their round
ness and tension, and his whole coun
tenance had an exhausted and cadave
rous appearance, which betrayed a
state of health more fitted for tile qui
etness and retirement of his bedcham
ber, than the bustle of a public cercnio
ny. For the last eighteen months, he
bus entirely lost the power 0 r B
his lower extremities, but
the the countenance re n , ai „
cl,a..g<-.i *,ll lately. Tl,” R
age or disease are now, B
l.v extending upwards, and it
file that Louis Will, will n ‘
keep the sceptre from Charles v'"“W
The arm-chair in which he u d
up the nave of the cathedral, *B
name which he had occunii-il
coach. He had been let
the latter without leaving the i
or at all changing his ii
kind ot slope covered, with r,. ’■
like tlte .Vote*,,,,
tunned at the great gate of the cl, B
so that he could be rolled in>ao.l B
without the necessity of hVirnr ifß
over the steps. This chair, w|ij c J te ß
placed within the frame that
ed the canopy, was so extremely | B
that in passing along the
guards, lie was looked down nnJB
them, and by the spectators whii.tl B
behind them. His legs jvere extuntlß.
at lull length—his feet were cov er 'B
with black cloth shoes; both
preternaturally swollen, unwicSH
and torpid.—His hands onbothsid'B
had a firm hold of the arms of the cjß
on w hich his elbows leaned, Ids he
was a good deal sunk between n S
shoulders, and his whole person, i tlt M
out life or energy, seemed that o[B
man suffering from an acute
To the bystanders, who cheered hiS
as he passed, he never lifted his ei X
nor showed the least token of ricoß
nition or pleasure. In short, 1
seldom, witnessed ai more painful B
hibition, and may venture to add nM
not one individual who saw liimwJß
have exchanged situations with i'M
for the royal canopy, and being)rollß
to Te Benin between a double line 2
roval ;uarils.” I
J CT
A letter from Paris, dated Nov.[B
speak thus of the king : His chesti|
entirely filled with water; his mB
is a mass of corruption ; and thetoß
from his lower extremities is so ml
that it penetrates in a quarterofaiß
hour a double covciingof flannel,kl
sides a wrapping of bark and ovvM
He cannot survive a month. I
The Bishop of Meaux has onSB
that M. Manuel shall not be allowefl
to be a god-father at the baptimfl
fount. [Manuel is the person r®
some months since was expelled frooH
the French Chamber of deputies.] ■
It is not without emotion that ®
announce to our readers the ih®
of Lord Erskine. The place in pub®
opinion which had been for nearly ®
years assigned to this lamented nt®
man, he enjoyed without a dissent®
voice but that of extreme and vx®
less faction. He enjoyed it too, ®
liapily, during that long period, un®
turbed by any memorable rival, fl
died on the 17th Nov. at Alniondal®
miles from Edinburgh, in the 76th v®
of his age.] I
Bell’s M eekly Messenger, a l '®
informed paper,of the 9th ult.conttii®
an article on the Holy Alliance,®
which it is said undoubtedly to bet®
purpose of the Ministry to reman®
peace if possible ; but England"®
not permit the discussion of thef®
tion respecting the affairs of J"®
America, in the proposed Congress:®
that is t'o say, that her minister"®
withdraw himself in the first instance®
and will enter a solemn protest again®
any common measure. The grow®
of this protest will be, that any aid to I
Spain for this purpose,will not ben®
ranted by the law of nations, but"®
be equivalent to a confederacy ford®
turbing the state of possession ol a l
third power ; w hich power as to si®
confederates with Spain, is effecw
and in fact, independent.
indeed, if she thinks proper, makes®
an effort herself; but as it rega™ 5 |
third powers, these provinces a^ 1 ’ I
fact independent, and they ha' e ®
long acted under that character,H
becomes a question whether the c" 111 'I
mercial interests of England ar-d
rope at large can allow a conlcder I ]’ I
to put them down. If this re" 1011
strance fails, says the editor, tlietE”,
tion will be, shall we go to tcar
of the Suutli Americans ? To t^ s
answers, that there is a middle stM
between peace and w r ar, to w!iic” ]
thinks England will resort —that
that a strong naval force, tleteri''-
and precautionary in its nature, s MU,l ‘
be sent forthwith to South
and that the South Americans S ' lO E
tie liberally assisted with money. ,l ;
lie thinks, the powers of Europe, 1
France in particular, would ® c: ]/ CL ‘;
venture their fleets in the lace sU ].
an armament. Whilst he (lep rcC,l L
war, he should be sorry to see the
ciple of legitimacy assisted by the*
ly Alliance in the new world. .
It is evident,we think, that the
tisli government will not l )i ' aC j,j r i
permit any interference in the a
of South America, by any othei P
er than Spain hersell ; and it |(
known to us all, that Spain ot
can do nothing, ltt the tneal r j t ish
there are indications that the p
are determined not to be taken . y
puze or unprepared. Conseq uc