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30 Mr. Watson, of Baldwin, laid before the House, a resolution for the enlargement of the Statc-llouse, together with apian of the same, and also to appropriate money for the same. BILLS PASSED. To authorise Springer Gibson of Upson county to build a M 11-dara across Flint river, one end on Fraction No 25, H)ih district Hous ton, oiirt the other to the Western bank of Flint liver, on the newly acquired territory. To alter and amend an act, entitled an act, tosher and amend the road laws of this State, assented to the l8:b Dec. 1818. Mr. Mills from the Joint committee on the Penitentiary, presented a report upon the pre sent condition of the institution, &.c. which was read. Mr. MU!" from the same committee, also reported a bill to define the mode ot proving accounts due the Penitentiary—which was read tire first time. Friday, December 8. The following bills wore passed : To" amend an act for the better protection of orphans and their estates, passed in 1799. To define the liability of Securites on ap peals, and stay of execution, and for the pro tection and benlit of bail on recognizance and securities on contracts. To after and fix the time of holding the Su perior courts in die Southern Circuit. To alter and amend the 12th sec. of an act to protect the estates of orphans and to make permanent provision for the puor, assented to in 1816. To alter and amend an act passed 2-lth Dec 1825, establishing Battalion district elections in the county of Bui he. Saturday, Dec. 9. The b'll passed to reduce the salary of the Principal Keeper and attending Physician o! the Penitentiary. The remainder of the day was taken uji with tho consideration of private and local mat ters. Monday, December 11. Tho house took up the report of the commit tee of the whole on the bill to compensate petit jurors. Mr. Ft otherslon moved to lay it on the table for the balance of ihe session, which was nega tived, yeas 53, nays 59. After several motions had been made, and some discussions, the bill was recommitted to a committee of eleven. On motion of Mr. Murray, the house took up the report of the committee of he whole, on the bill appropriating money /or the support of Government during the year1827. On the following section being read, viz: “The secretaries of the governor not exceed ing three, one thousand dollars each per an num:” Mr. Watson of Baldwin moved to strike our “one thousand dollars,” which prevailed, yeas 58, nays .19. Mr. Martin of F ranklln moved to reduce tho pay of the members of the General Assem bly, from four to three dollars per day, which was lost, yeas 21, nays 90. On motion of Mr. Hilt, the sura of twelve hundred dollars was substituted for six hundred so as to allow the comptroller general to ern- pley two clerks instead of one. After several motions and amendments had been made, the report was ordered to lio on the table. Tuesday, November 12. Mr. Thomas, from the joint judiciary commit- nfttee, to whom referred the communication of the comptroller general, in relation to tho case of Thomas F. Wells, esq. attorney general— reported, that they find the attorney general in arrears to the state, about twenty-seven hun dred and fifty two dollars and eighty-seven cents, and offered tho following resolution by way of address to the governor: Resolved, That his excellency tho governor be, and he is hereby, authorised und required (two-thirds of each branch of tho legislature concurring) to remove from office tho said Thomas F. Wells, attorney general of the stale, on tho first day of March next, unless the aaid attorney general shall, before first day of March next, pay over to tho proper officer, all monies heretofore collected by him, for the state, with the interest now required of him by luw, which shall be found due and in his hands, after allowing him such fees and commissions as shall be reasonable and just; or shall give, by that time, good and sufficient security to tho governor and his successors in office, for tho payment thereof, on or before tho first day of January, 1828, with interest at the rate of eight per cent, from tho time such security shall be given, until paid, or show good cause to the contrary. Which report was unanimously accepted. The bill to improve the navigation of the Savannah river, was read the third time and passed. On motion of Mr. Myers, tho house took up the resolution recommending General Jack- son to the next presidency, and the same be ing read, was, after considerable discussion, and after several amendments had been premised, passed in the affirmative, yeas 100, nays 9. On motion of Mr. Wilson of Baldwin, the house took up und agreed to the following re solution, to wit: Resolved by the Senate and House of Re- f resentatives t i general assemby met, That the 'rincipal Engineer be directed forthwith to make a survey of that section of the Oconee river, lying between the mouth of Fishing creek and the present Boat Landing, and report to the legislature, as soon ns practicable the cost of rendering navigable the said section, and the manner of executing said object. , Wednesday, December 13. Tho house took up the report of tho com mittee of the whole on the bill to appropriate monies for the year 1827; after several amend- - ments of tho report, the bill was read tho third time and passed. The house took up the bill to amend tho Pe nal Code, so far as relates to the punishment of voluntary manslaughter; which was read the third time and passed. On motion of Mr. Bunuide, Resolved by the Senate and House of Re presentatives, That the governor be, and lie is Hereby,- required to cause a sufficient number of copies of ihe act of the legislature, passed at this session, to extend the timo for giving in for draws in the contemplated land lottery to be printed, to furnish the justices of the. Inferi or Court of the several counties of this State with one copy each, and the clerks of the In ferior and Superior Courts with one copy tacli, and also to cause the same to be published forthwith in the several Gazettes of Milledge- ville. IN SENATE. Monday, December 11. The hill to provide for the compilation ol a civil code of the laws of this state, and The bill further to support and encourage education in this state, and for the relief ofabo academies thereof, Were read the second time and ordered for commitiee of the whole. The senate went into a committee of the whole on the bill to raise a tax for the support of government for the year 1827, Mr. Powell of M'lntosh in the chair. Mr. Rowell report ed the hill with aniendinetii. The senate took up tho report, and on mo tion of Mr. Jones to strike out the paragraph in these words—“and Lc it further *narr®H •>>»« all houses aud lots, in cities, towns and villages, occupied by the owners thereof as dwelling houses, shall not ho taxed as heretofore, the sum of thirty-one and a fourth cents on every hundred dollars of their value,”—it was deter mined in the affirmative, yeas 35, nays 27. Mr. Clayton of Clark ofl'ered an additional section— “And be it further enacted that the present general tax of the stale on all subjects ot taxa tion, he reduced twenty-five per centum.” On the motion to agree thereto, it was deci ded in the affirmative, yeas 38, nays 34. The report treing amended and agreed to, the bill was read the third time and passed. The senate tool; up by paragraphs, the bill from tho house, to organizo the territory lately acquired from tho Creek nation. On motion of Mr. Iiluir to strike out in the first section, second paragraph, the word “Mas- cogee,” and insert Campbell, the yeas were 29, nays 34. So the motion was lost. The fourth paragraph of the first section be ing read, Mr. Tennille moved to strike out Coweta, and insert Newnan, which was decid ed in the negative, ayes 30, nays 33. Several amendments were offered and reject ed, and tho report was finally agreed to, and the hill passed, yeas 45, nays IS. Thursday, December 12- Mr. Allen, -from tho committee on internal improvement, to whom was referred the re port of the commissioners of the southern riv ers, reported, That they have had the same under consid eration and cannot withhold tho expression of heir approbation of the conduct of the com missioners. • From the report, it appears that of the fifty thousand dollars, appropriated to their order, one thousand two hundred and forty-two dol lars thirty-three cents remain unexpended.— The great advantages of steam power applied to the removal of sunken and buried logs, and trees from tho beds of our rivers, have long since been known and understood, by the sieam boat company. Tho last legislature mado an appropriation for the application of that power to remove obstructions, in tho Altamaha river. The success which has resulted, has been fully equal to the expectations of its friends, and cer tainly authorising a further appropriation for similar purposes, upon a more extensive, and consequently more useful, and it is believed more economical scale. The commissioners suggest the propriety of the state's purchasing a steamboat to be employed when tho condi tion of the river will permit, in removing oh structions, from their beds, and at other times in towing freight boats to and from Darien.— On the propriety of this proposition your coin- mitteo have great confidence, and consequent ly submit the following resolution: Resolved, That tho sum of fourteen thou sand dollats should bo appropriated for the purchase of a steamboat to be used according to circumstances in removing obstructions from iho beds of the Altamaha, Ocmulgee, nnd O- conee rivers, or in transporting freight, and that tho sum of throe thousand dollars should ho appropriated to defray the expenses of said boat. Resolved, That S. C. Dunning, Thomas Wilcox, and be and they are hereby created and constituted commissioners to carry the foregoing resolution into effect. section of tho constitution of this state, so far as to authorize a reduction of the members of the senate and house of representatives, and to be apportioned thereafter upon the principles if population alone, and in order to ascertain .he sentiments of the voters on this subject, those who aro in favor of a convention, will please endorse on their ticket the word “Con vention,” and those who are against it will en dorse the words “no Convention.” Wednesday, December 13. Mr Powell, from the committee on banks, nvide a report highly favorable to the condition of the Augusta Bank, and recommended the following resolution: Resolved, That the ability and fidelity with which the affairs of the Augusta Bank, have been conducted meet ihe approbation ol the general assembly, and entitle the Bank to the fullest confidence of the public; Which was read and agreed to. Mr. Powell, from the same committee, also reported on the condition of die Bank ol the State of Georgia, whicli they represented as prosperous and nourishing; which report was agreed to. The senate took up the bill to provide for the completion of a Civil Code of the laws of this state; which was read the third time and passed. The senate took up tho bill the further to o- mend an act to incorporate a bank to be called the Bank of die State of Georgia, passed the 16th December, 1815; winch was read the third time and passed. Which was read aud ordered to lie on the table. Tho senate took up the report of tho com mittee of the whole on the bill to alter the sev enth section of tho first article of the constitu tion, so as to reduce the number of members of tho house of representatives; when, after much discussion, the bill was lost, yeas 29, nays 31 Mr. Daniell had leave to report a bill in stanter, to provide for a convention to amend and alter the constitution of this state, which was rend the first time. The senate took up and passed the bill to separate and divorce Zebulon Rudolph from Eliza Rudolph, his wife. Mr. Clayton of Clarke laid on the table the following resolution: Whereas both branches of the general as sembly are too numerous, creating great ex pense and delay in the despatch of public bu siness, and is according to the population in the respective counties very unequi And whereas also, from the increasing num ber of members in both branches of the gencr- ala ssembly, tho house set apart for their usu al deliberations, will not bo sufficiently large for that purpose and will consequently be re quired to be enlarged at very great expense— 'Therefore be it resolved, That at the next gcnoral election, for the members of tho gene ral assembly, the voters be requested to signi fy to the ensuing legislature whether they wish a Convention for tho special and exclusive pur- FOl&m&N* LATEST FROM ENGLAND. CHAisiqisTON, December 9 We recived, last evening, by the British ship Commerce, Lindsey, a Portsmouth paper of die 30:h October, containing London dates of the* 28th of the same month. Extracts fol low: London, October 25 The German papers, wli.ch arrived this morning, contain timber accounts of the naval coullict between the Greeks and Turks near Mitylene, but they are of a contradictory cha racier, and it is impossible to say, which is cn- tiiled to the most credit. It is st tied in an ar ticle from Constantinople, that Mi. Stratford Canning has addressed another note to the Porte, urging it to enter into negociations with the Greeks. A letter from Marseilles states, that lord Cochrane, on his way from Malta, dropped anchor on the 15th of September, about half a league from the port of Marseilles. He was in galliot, which belongs to him, nnd had on board a crew of fourteen men and ten passen- ners. An aerolite fell on the estate of Madame Ser- binoit, in the government of Ijikaterinoslnw, and in the district of Poulogrod, on the 19th May; the stone weighs two pounds: its color is a very dark blue, approaching to black. Toe Tides.—At tho spring tides in the ap proaching winter, the muon will be alternately near its least and greatest distance from the earth, which may be known from the semi-di ameters being then about the greatest and least alternately. On this account the spring tides w.U be alternately higher and lower than usual. At Brest the diffeience is about two and a half feet. The late Burmese War.—Extract from Calcutta paper of April 11: (Demi-official.)— “Letters from Ramree of 2Sih March, report the arrival at Acng of iho eighteenth regiment M. N. 1. with fifty pioneers and thirty-six ele phants. Lieuleuant Trent, of the .quarter master's department, who had accompanied the division, was at Ramree. The detachment left Yundabo on the 6-h March, and reached Aeng on the 26ih; there were but three men sick with the detachment; and but four or five bullocks knocked up; the rest were all in good order. The road is reported to have proved perfectly good throughout." The safe and easy return of this regiment, as above describ ed, proves the very extraordinary circumstance, that the conductors of the late war were igno rant of an excellent road through the Arracan mountain to Unmerapera; w hich, if it had been sooner known, would have enabled us to have finished a war in a few months, which has cost three years to accomplish, and an enormous sacrifice of blood and treasure. A report is in circulation that ministers in tend to propose an imposition of five per cent on all real and landed property, and to repeal the assessed taxes. Stocks are gradually advancing. Good bills at Manchester are now discounting at four per cent by an eminent London banker. Exchi quer bills and Iudian bonds are in high request, nnd have advanced in price, the former to 25s a 26s, and the latter to 36s a 37s premium.— The market is deluged with money, and two and a half per cent is the highest rate of inter est that can be obtained. London, October 23. The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday are received. The Etoile contains the im portant information, that the Turks have ac ceded to the ultimatum of Russia; rnd asserts that the great powers have unanimously adopt ed a resolution to terminate the war in Greece, Intelligence received this morning from Lis bon, states some fresh insurrectionary move ments had taken place in Portugtd, on the part of the enemies of the constitutional charter.— One regiment in tho Algarves had revolted but the other regiments and the militia remain ed staunch, and troops were inarching upon the revolters with every prospect of immediately suppressing the insurrection. An attempt to produce insurrection in the north of Portugal had entirely failed, and the promoters of the nefarious enterprise had fled. The insurrec tion seems to have been planned by the mar quis Abrantes and count Chaves, one of them the first mover of the revolt against the former constitution. It was carried into effect at tho same time in the two opposite extremities of Portugal. Trasos Montes in the north, and Algarves in the south; and as it has been the last attack upon the constitutional system. Du- ing the alarm in Lisbon, all the marines of tho English vessels of war were landed, and ready to co-operate in favor of the constitution. London, October 27. A meeting of Greek bondholders took place on M onday, to receive the report of the com mittee appointed to inquire into the application of the last Greek loans. The committee de clare that, under a system of economy and wis dom, they think that a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand pounds, judiciously applied, would immediately change the aspect of affairs in the Morea, and give renewed hope ind prospects to the friends of Grecian eman cipation. It was ultimately agreed to defer further discussion until the public were afford ed an opportunity of judging of the veracity of tliei r report. It appears that seven thousand five hundred pounds were distributed among the Greek de puties: and the Times addds, “that they shall probably have occasion to show that the Greek committee lmd a much larger bonus divided a- mong them.” Smyrna, September 15.—There have been some engagements off Mitylene and fochcs, between some Turkish ships and the Greeks. Miaulis with twenty ships had joined the fifty- three under Sachtury, on which the Greeks «of>med disposed to attack the Turkish squad ron before Mitylene, in tho night of the 9th of September. They sent out, but without effect, two fire-ships; one of them, as well as one of their brigs, was considerably d.imaged, by the fire of a large Turkish frigate. On Monday, the 11th, the Greeks wished to attempt a coup dc main against the ships which were repairing at Fochcs; they launched a fire-ship without effect; two Greek ships were sunk and several dismasted. The Turkish ships remained in their position, viz: part at Mitylene and part at Foclies; the captain pacha is with the latter. The Greeks taking their damaged vessels in tow, retreated some to Ipsara, and some to the harbor of Vatti, in Samos, to repair.—Journal des Debats. London, October 28. The Paris papers of Wednesday, and the Etoile, dated Thursday, are received. They contain an article, under date of Constantino ple, September 29, copied from the Augsburg Gazette, of rather a curious tendency; inas much as it tends to intimate that the Otto man government, in yielding to the demands of Russia, has not done so without a strong fueling of the arrogance which dictated her claims. In fact, the sublime porte conceded the question much in the same spirit as a child sub mits; a half sulky, half angry obedience to an authority which it cannot resist, though it would fain do so. Lady Cochrane having heard at Geneva, that some delay had occurred in fitting out the armament for her husband, sent over fourteen hundrd pounds which she had collected, to be applied to the furtherance of that object. A letter from Marseilles, dated October 19, states that lord Cochrane had landed there from off Malta, and set off to Geneva to meet his wife; Turkey.—A letter from Constantinople, dated September 25, says, that the Porte per sists in the plan of reinforcing the array with unabating obstinacy. Several persons have been arrested and ex ecuted for having had a share in the conflagra tion of Constantinople. A contagious malady is making great ravages in the barracks of Eski-Scrai. A great many citizens have been taken up for sedition. They are immediately tied up in sacks and thrown into tho sea. Dutch East Indies.—Accounts from Ba tavia to the 25 h of June, had reached London, giving a gloomy picturifof the affairs of that place. The war was carried on with vigor by the natives, and the Dutch only mustered five hundred troops. It was said it would be im possible to hold the island with fewer troops than ten thousand. Every person on the island was obliged to perform military duty. The English residents wore withdrawing their pro perty and removing to Singapore. The trea sury was low, and vast debts accumulating. A friend at Paris, under date of Oct. 5, writes as follows.—“Gen. Lafayette, is at present in this city, and receives daily with his well known kindness,the children of his adopted country. Permit me to express my mortifica tion, when I informed you yesterday, that no less than nine applications in a few days, had been made by Amnricans to tho Gener al for pecuniary assistance, and he 'gave them all they requested. God forbid I should at tempt to close the hand of charity, but every American feels an interest in whatever relates to Lafayette, and I hope some means may be divised to ascertain who and what they are, who thus call forth the ever ready benevolence of our Nation’s Champion and Frionil.” According to intelligence from Constanti nople, a firman has been read in the mosques, threatening all men who venturo to speak of ublic affairs and the late fire with being hung, guilty of tho same crimo aro to be tied :ks and c pub YVo omen up in sac! pose of altering the third section and seventh | most formidable, it is hoped that it will be the cast in the sea. From the Baltimore American. COLOMBIA. Tho movements of general Paez in Vonc zuela, which have for some timo past been much talked of, and variously explained, may receivo some illustration from the following fact. The fifth article in the North American Review, gives more particular details on the same subjoct. The first efforts towards liberty in Colom bia, as in the other Spanish provinces, though they were simultaneous, were not made in concert. The provincial assemblies repre sented often no more than one or two provin cos and sometimes a single city. Tho neces' sity of concert led them next to a general meet' ing of delegates from the revolted provinces, with no othor intent, however, than to expel the common enemy, but to maintain their so vereignty. Several, and amongst them Vene zuela, declared themselves independent states. Their views of combination, therefore, looked rather to an alliance offensive and defensive. than to a federative government, nnd even those who entertained an idea of the last, cob. lemplaied only a temporary otte. The fi rs i formal union took place on the 17th of D e , cember, 1819, at Angostura, when the captain generalship of Caraccas, or Venezuela, aD( j the vice-royalty of New Grenada united. The provinces composing these two districts, had, | before this time, gradually coalesced under * their respective independencies, often without any formal act, and taking orders from the cap. ital of the department, as' it were from the mere necessity of concert, and as if they had forgotten their previous declarations of inde. pendence. From Bolivar’s speech, delivered to the congress of Angostura, beseems to have contemplated a government somewhat resent, hling the one since adopted; but it was not till 9 May, 1821, ten years after the commence- if ment of the revolutionary war, that the con- n gress of Cucuta, generally called the constitu. (J ent congress, assemblod, which published the i ( constitution on the 30th of the following An. U gust. Tho government established by this con-81 gress was, as is well known, central or consoli. B- dated. But its members are understood to have been divided into three parties; those in favor of the form finally adopted,—those who preferred a federal form- like our own,—and lastly, those who inclined to a government somewhat resembling that which existed in tho United States under the articles of confcdera* lion. The present constitution, however, was almost unanimously preferred. But many a- greed to it, as being necessary while the war continued, looking nevertheless to' the return of peace, for an opportunity of establishing a different and more perfect form. And with this view, a clause was introduced, directing a convention to he called at the end of ten years to examine or entirely reform the present con* stitution. When it is considered, says ihe review from which we collect these facts, that there existed not in Colombia, as there did in this country, separate states, with separate legislatures, that the question was not, as among us, whether these distinct sovereignties should confederate, but that it would have been necessary, in fact, first to create and then unite them; and that the materials for state legislatures, and for their executive office,—if they were to be found at all, were of the rudest character; it is not to be wnndcreB at, nor regretted that the states men of Colombia did not attempt, during the raging of a civil war, to create a federal govern* ment; and the operation of tho present one has been thus far happy and successful. The party, however, denominated tho Fed eralists, is numerous, and embraces some of the most intelligent und worthy statesmen of the republic. But they are almost unanimous ly desirous of letting the subject rest during the constitutional period, though some impatience lias been manifested in Venezuela; and indeed, the distance of ihe seat of ihe central govern* ment from the extremities of the republic is productive of much delay of justice, and of o* tlier inconveniences, which nave led to the i- dea of dividing the state into three great de partments of sovereignties, corresponding with the ancient vice-royalty of New Grenada, the captain-generalship of Caraccas or Venezuela, and the presidency of Quito. But the danger of separation would be much increased by the creation of three great states, so equal in popu- lation and territory. It were better to adopt a more minute subdivision; and so sensible are many of the Federalists of this, that rather than have only three great sovereignties, they would be content that the government should remain in its present form. YVe should certainly regret that this statoof things in Colombia, should seem to its people to make it expedient to invest Bolivar witli a temporary dictatorship. There is, we hope, a less violent method of composing tho differen- ces of parties. But it not, we trust, that the li berator will not be unmindful of the glory to be gained by a “second timo laying down the dic tatorship.” From the Philadelphia Aurora and Franklin Gaulle. INTERESTING FROM PERU. Extract of a letter from Lima, dated July 31, received by the Rebecca Sims, at this port, “I am afraid that the war in this country is not at an end Tho Peruvians are getting to bo discontented with having so largo a Colom bian force in the country. On tho 28th in stant, a plot was discovered, just at the mo ment when it was arriving at maturity, to take tho arms from tho Colombian army, and drive them from Peru, after killing Bolivar. For ty or fiifty Peruvian officers have been arrest' ed on the supposition of their having beon con' cerned in tho conspiracy. Among these aro three generals, ono of whom commanded tho army at the great battle and victory at Junin; since which ho has been toasted and caressed on all hands. “Viva Genoral Nichochia” was on the lips of every one. Now, what a change! On suspicion, ho is arrested; and, on suspicion, put into a cell in a convent, in. double irons, und with a guard. Ho is a fino fellow, and the people are fond of him; but none dare say a word. When Bolivar sent for him, ho tried to shamo him: but he had the wrong man to deal with. “General, said Bolivar, I am aston ished to find a man of your stunding connect ed with so pitiful a conspiracy as this. Som<> thing more noblo was expected from you.’’ Nichochia answered: lam now sorry that I did not know of this attempt to revolt. Per* haps I could have done my country some ser vice in it. and relieved them from theso Co lombians, who aro taking tho bread from our mouths. And now, as I have an oportunitv. I tell you that you have scarce a friend in the country, and the quicker you return tho better.’ This was language that such a man as Bolivab could not stand. He flew into a violent rag<?« and ordered his guard to arrest him. Nicho- cha looked him sternly in the fhco, and observ ed : “If I had my sword, in the presence of your guard, I would draw some of that blacf blood from you, and relieve tho world of you.” 2 am afraid that this circumstance will lew :!