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V VLUME XI P.IBLTS!H.r V.’IiEKLT, Hy phi up c. GtriEU. lO’ NKU \IUI ANGtMENT. As experience ha Oicovei-ed o us the iitt'e .■Mention paid io pttoting (ifh .s, hikl the ‘! diculty aud eXpehvc i: coliec’ing such tlrbts, -<■ ** a few only tan be called liberal in paying” punctually what they owe justly t ;o the printer, ‘.ve have, after due consideration, cottie to this conclusion, that vr; nuuur so t to give credit We are compelled, therefore, io adopt anew plan. In consc*|unce of lits determinat ion, our terms shall in future be,for the paper three tlollarsper annum, it pu.d in advance—lour dollars, if paid within six months—and fire dollar* if paid only at the end of the year For a yrrtisements, they are to be paid m ad- Vance dienft tales excep'ed which are to be P a,f fcftarterly. The above rtties shall be observed, and no one need apply who is not ready to comply with them terms ot Advertising;, 75 cents per square for the first insertion, and 62 i-2 ceuts for each continuation. F O R E I G N. Twenty days later Jroui hn gtand, CIURLBSToV, Feb. 1 L By Hie fast sailing ship Lutta Rookh, Captain Stewart, froui Liv- we have received our (lies of papers from London tu lilt* 2 I of January, and Liverpool so (he sth, inclusive, being 20 days later than our last dales. We have given ihe euhs(an< e of three weekly summaries at Liver pool, and separate articles from (he .London Gazettes, from whi li the Bituaiion of afftirs on the continent may he gathered, without the long comments and various speculations of the different editors. The President’s Message hat! been received from this country, and pub lished without time for animadver sions. A Comet had made its appear ance, and was erroneously supposed to have occasioned (lie unusual warmth of the weather. The state f the Liverpool Mar ket will he found in our nominee ial department ; and we ran add to it limiting more iu substance than is contained in a letter from which the following is an extiaet : “Liverpool, Jan. 5. Since (he Slock of Cotton, very little business has been done, and we apprehend prices will not be support ed, unless keep in the market, which we fear will not be the ease ” Paris, Dec. 29. The politicians of ini* capital can not believe Hie insincerity of the British Minis'ry wnen mey would give the people to understand tiiat they entertain a y serious apprehen* siotF of tiie Comioeiral Ivi g* for eing them into war. Russia b'ists of her hurtles, hut slit* has not a shil ling, except what Sto k jobbers ex tract from til pockets of the Ci glisl* people, a’d the same oberva- applies to all other powers, not excepting Frau e; lor though she possesses a nourishing revenue, the smallest loin in mHcipafion could not be managed in Pa* is withiui Lie nid of British -apitai. Your on tr&otors are liie supporters of the real enemies of British prosperity. The aristocracy of tCrigla and hate liberty more cordially thao even the Continental Noblesse. The number of Spanish emigrants increases ever? day ; all who have the means of supporting themselves in a foreign country, are flung from Spain. It is melancholy to witness the despair of these unfortunates ; they dare not trust to an act of atn- if published to-morrow in Itjadrid. Ferdinand’* liberty means the pow er of doing mischief. Pity Mexico is not settled s i as to admit of the Spanish Constitu tionalists taking refuge there; they would go in multitudes,* it is the only part of America, they think of with any degree of resignation. Sir W. A'C Mirt writ! and * well to keep the French bayottts to pro tect him in Madrid—if they were withdrawn he would not live forty right hours—such is the rage of all Cons!iluti iui Spaniards against them. They say he has done them mare harm tliao all their open ene mies. Next to him, IFGariina ex cite* their sre, which 1 am surprised at* from his insignificance and want of wbiiiiy. i hey reply tbit it re ,quires btit little talent to do tr,li- The Washington News. WASHINGTON , o.eukgia) SA.TU.tDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1824. chief amongst a people so ignorant as the Spaniards, when the iustru . mem is guided by so crafty a hand t a* A’Court. I am inclined to be iirve a Spaniard who mid me that O’Gorman must quit Mexico, such ’ is the hatred of iiirn by (he many exiles going to that country. The Spanish Embassy here is sup ported by he French Government, The Duke of San Carlos is ptvoy less ; 200,000 francs are due to him of arrears of pay during the several years he was in London and else where, as bpanisti Minister. Spain and Portugal are now be come French provinces to all intents and purposes, and must remain so ; the money raised iu London u .der the name of Spanish ami Portuguese Loans, is in reality for France— thus will iier armies in the Peninsu la be paid with J >bn Bull’s money ; it is truly mortifyi ig to an Fogiish man to see the foreign influence of his country at an end, Madrid, Dec. 18. The Govermncn;. bcu.g oUiigt and t> give, its whole c&Uention to the af lairs of the Peninsula, seems to re lax in i*s preparations against the Independents of the Colonies, borne persons pretend that some answers from Foreign Cabinets are expected before ‘ur operation* beyond the ocean are concerted. There is a re port that the Loans of the Cories will he recognised, with some mod ifications. This uegoniahon is deem ed indispensable to maintain our credit Despatches have recently been seut General Vves, the Command ant of Cuba, which confirm in iheir ra k all the o(liners under his or ders, and promise him nobility. Letters from Bilboagivea melan choly picture of the state o* that place. As soon as tiie Luc eha *ge of Ministers was koowa there* toe fanatics went iiowii <g about tae streets, proclaiming their abhor rence of the measure, a..d declaring they could irus no one, except cler gymen, near the throne. Meea ig two persons in the streets, k .owit to be liberals* they immediauiy put them to death, to satisfy their own thirst for vengeance. No person of learning or liberal ideas ventured in tnred into the streets after it was dark, Dec. 20 —Yesterday there wa9 a Council ol Siatc at which his Majes ty presided. To-day it assembles under the Presidency ol* his Royal ‘lighne s the Infant Don Carlos. Tn-niarrow it will meet under the Presidency of his Royal Highness the Lfant Dan Francis Pablo. The object of these repeated meetings is tiie amnesty, wuiali is on the point of being settled, [t will appear, it is said, oa the 33‘h N •thins lias been neglected to obtain precedents woi ih may eniighi *n tiie Council in this important iffTir. The archives have been consulted to ascertain ex aotly wii it o >k place in the reign of the Fmp‘rar Charles V. with re gard <•> the Cotnmuneros, and under that of Philip V. \vFU regard to the Spaniards win were implicated in the party of the Archduke of Aus tria, some valuable documents, rela ting to both those periods, have been obsained from he archives of Seran eas. What embarrasses the Coun cil in de *idiag upon the cases of cer tain persons compromised in the oourse of the Revolution, are the ca p'tulatioiis grunted by the Chief of the Ere neb army to the soldiers of the C irtes. However, all d’ffuul tie3 are surmounted, and we shall shortly know what has been defini lively determined upon. l> oyonne, Dec- 18. Another ©ban ge is already spoken of among the Spanish Ministry. It is affirmed (bat at one of the last CouiieiU which have been held, the King manifested dissatisfaction with one of them, .InCiins, Dec. 42, 1823 (Extract of a private letter.)—Let ter* from Corfu, from Cepbaioma, from IVcsic. and CaUmati, confirm the -•* ws of the defeat of the Turk ish Sleet. Os 52 vessels,only 22 ef fected their escape in safety into the Oares, with the Captain t*a cUi; 12 were taken, burnt, or dri ve.! on share, and the remaiuder got with grekt diffi nlty into the Gulf of Lila. where they are close ly blockaded by the Greeks. Mav roeordam is gone to succour M i iso longo, with 12 vessels. It is said that the besieged have made three sorties, and have driven back the besiegers in a triumphal manner, and have taken prisoner the traitor Varri. qnioie. M reover the inhab itants of Seopolo, of Schiatho, and of Schiro, jiave put to the sword the Turkish army whi h the enemy's fleet had landed to reduce them to submkMon. I'hus has this expedi tion also failed. G dgrant has my country inay set herself entirely free from these robbers, who have igtiotninionsSy e*>elmined and devas tated it for so nitoy years. The right ofepinion, we have had occasion to rertark, and the right to that opinion for the general good, arr among I lie princi ples which lie a* Hie foundation of representative government j which belong equally to the. People at large and to their Representatives, * e might have added, they are also duties of high obligation. These rights and duties the People exer cise a! every election, when they, in the General or in the State Govern ments, vote for a candidate whom they prefer above others of those who offer for their suffrages, and not. for him whom, of a5! others, they would h ive preferred for a particular of fi *e. It \i thus only that they can giv* elective votes. These are also precisely the rights which Members of Congress exercise, when, in their capacity of citizens, possessed ofthe confidence of the People, collected together from different sectioas of the country, they consult together for the purpose of nominating, for the principal offices in the govern merit, the persons who are preferred by the greater number of them. It is this sort of consultation* common to every state, to every district, to every county, and even to every pa rish in the Union, which . has been heretofore practised by Members of Congress, and will he again, unless a combination of several minorities, uniting together, shall think they best consult the particular interests of their respective favorites by uni ting against the general call for a (’oosrressional domination, and shall succeed in the a!tempt to defeat that expression of tiie will of the major ity. Which has 'Heretofore been at tended with stub valuable results. That the voi**e of*he majority of (be People invites a tiomiuaiion of c andidates for the Presidency and Vie Presidency of Ihe United States, in the usual mode, we see no reason to doubt. ’Tennessee, S .uth Caro lina, and Maryland, have ranged themselves in opposition to it; but the Legislators of two of those States have themselves made Caucus recommendations, nml other Stales, among which we find the respecta ble States of North Carolina, Vir ginia, New-York, Ohio, Indiana, &e. have declined any interference in the matter, or have expressly in vited ad encouraged tite nomina tion. Os several other of the States, the Legislatures have given the strongest possible sanction to this mode of nomination, by resorting to it themselves ; amongst which are, the States of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, South Carolina,Geor gia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, Missouri. &e. We hope, therefore, that the Meeting, which is about to be held, of the Members oi Congress, thus sanctioned will be a general oue : that those, who have so long acted together, who have side by sid. fought the good fight, will not suffer themselves to be bow separated by a mere difference about met*; that they will interchange opinions with a view to giving effect, if possible, to the popular will, instead of de feating it by being each man for bimseit instead oi his country j that, above all, they will not avoid a Cau cus, with a viewtto bring the final election icto thj House of Repre sentatives, and dins to take it from the People, to wijwn it properly be long*. t i If, however, the whole of the Re publican party, as represented iu Congress, will not go into General Meeting, a sufficient number will yet attend to give effect to any nom ination which may be made. The Republican candidate will receive a greater number of voles than was given in favor of the nomination of our present venerable Chief Magis trate, when he was nominated, ad we shall find that that nomination will be supported by a decided ma jority of the People* who are an xiously expecting it. That there will he no opposition to it, here and elsewhere, we do not pretend to say. We never expect to sec another uu contetted Presidential Flection, He do not know that we ought to desire lo see one. We hope there will he a very gen eral attendance at the expected Meeting; and that the Members will vote for those whom they res pectively prefer, giving the noinina • tioh li’. him who shall be honored by the suffrages of the majority in his favor. . This is. the rule of election in all Hie states south of Connecti cut, and it is the rule of. reason ev er) where. But as we have already said, if a majority of the -Republi cans assembled •together,’ pursuant to public notice* shall determine ihat it is not expedient to make any nomination, we shall bow to the de cision, however we may.disapptove it ; and, we repeat, the sootier the question is tried, the better for llie country and for its custmtial inter* esis, JWifc. Intelligencer . From the National Intelligencer. In consequence of the statements which have gone abroad, in relation to a Congressional nomination of Ca ■didates for President arid Vice President of the United States, the undersigned have been requested, by many of their Republican colleagues and associates, to ascertain the num ber of the Members of Congress who deem ii inexpedient, at this time, V’ make such a nomination; ’ and to publish the same, for the in formal ion of the People of the Uni ted Stales. In compliance with this request, they have obtained from gentlemen, representing the several States, sat isfactory information, that, of two hundred and sixty-one, the A whole number of Members composing the present Congress, there are one hundred and eighty-oue who deem it inexpedient, under existing eir oumstauces, to meet in Caucus, for she purpose of nominating Candi dates for President aud Vice Presi dent of the United States; and they have good reasons to believe, that a portion of the remainder will be found unwilling lo aitead such a meeting. RICHARD M JOHNSON, of Kentucky. | .I\o. r\. EATON, Tennessee. DAVID BARTON, Missouri. \VM KELLY, Alabama 1 ROBERT Y. HAYNE, S. Carolina. CHARLES RICH, Vermont. , T FULLER, Mass’llts. J SLOANE, Ohio GEO HOLCOMBE, New Jersey. S. 1) INGHAM, Pennsylvania. It H VRRIS, Pennsylvania. JOSEPH KENT, Maryland. D. H MILLER. Pennsylvania THOMAS METCALFE, Kentucky. ROBERT S GARNETT, Virginia. J ames Hamilton,jun. s Carolina. J C ISACKS, Tennessee. GEO KREMER, Pennsylvania B XV. CROWNINSHIELD, Mass'chta. \VM BURLEIGH, Maine. L WHITMAN, Connecticut. JONATHAN JENNINGS, Indiana. SAM HOUSTON, . Tennessee. J it. POINSETT. S. Carolina. The DEMOCRATIC MFMB FRS OF CONGRESS are invited to meet in the Representatives Chamber, at the Capitol, on the Evening of the litb of February, at 7 o’clock, toreromme and Candidates to ihc People of the Cnited States for the Offices of President and V. President of the United States. Joiix Chaxditr, Notes Barber, Elisha LitchfieiD, M. Dickerson, Walter Lowkix, Ehwahd Llotd, Bern well Bassett, II G. Burtox, John Forsith, J. B Thomas, Benjamin Ru& Washington, February 6, 1824. FROM TUE RICHMOND EXqi'lltKK. Caucus at IFaslitngmrr The last National Inteliigenner contains two noCiliratioH* arrayed as it were against each other in par allel columns.—-We have given each of them a place in this day’s paper. One is signed by twenty-four mem bers of Congress —who profess to have ascertained* at the request cf their republican colleagues, the number of members who would not attend a Caucus; and at the request iif the said persons, now come for ward to state that out ot 261 mem bers of Congress, there are (at least) “ISI who deem it inexpedient under existing circumstances to meet in Caucus.** —The other is signed by 11 Democratic members, among these are Mr Chandler of Maine f Barber of Connecticut , Litchfield of New Torki Low ie f Pennsylvania* Id yd of Maryland , Thomas of It linnis, Ruggles of Ohio, inviting the Democratic members to meet on Saturday next, for the purpose of recommending eaodidates to tha people for the ndices of President aod Vice President of the United States. The last notification differs in no remarkable degree from those which, were addressed to the members at the caucus of 1808, ’l6, &c. ex cept that it is signed by si namea instead of one. The former is a perfect unique in every respect. There is nothing like it in all the annals of caucusing or anti-caucusing. Why was it is sued ? Was it really to inform the good people of the U. States as to the number of those who are oppo sed at this time to a caucus? If so, did it at once strike those gentle meo, that th 9fact could best speak for itself; that when the Caucus, came, the people would be compe tent to judge for themselves? that they would see who was present— and form some tolerable conjecture from the number of absentees, of the number of those who deemed it inexpedient to attend? Did it not strike these gentlemen, tha* their estimate might be incorrect—md that some whom they might set down as opposed to a Caucus would ultimately attend it? Did not ano ther circumstance also occur ta those gentlemen—to three of them particularly who were at the cau cus of 1816—that as they had gone so far to inform the people, they might as well have assigned the rea sons which had induced them to de cline attending a caucus?—Was it the number of candidates which had led them to this conclusion? Was it the hazard which we run of send ing the final election into the House of Representatives if no concert was obtained, and no nomination effec ted? Was it the cabal anil intrigue, which will thus he created for the next twelve months? Are sm h the reasons which induced them to with draw? Or was it because there is not a majority of the republicans in Congress who are willing to go in to caucus? that these twenty-four gentlemen are averse to a partial meeting, which they might be plea sed to denominate a Cabal? If this were the inducement, why could not those gentlemen have recollected that by associating themselves with the 80 who are in favor of a caucus; by prevailing also upon the other 17 Representatives from Pennsylvania* who have withdrawn from it upon n similar scruple, they might have • formed a caucus of 121, more than a majority of all the in Ci-tigress? And that no man has a right to complain of a partial caucus which he bimselt had created? Was this notification tbeu addres sed to the people—or was it to ope rate nearer at home? to rouse the apprehensions of their colleagues? and to prevent a caucus from beiog held at all ? This effort has been defeated. A caucus will he held—and not all the combined exertions of the support ers of tbe four candidates can now prevent it. Gentlemen have sub caucused against a caucus. Many of them have flown in the very teeth of their own votes given eight years ago—under circumstances it finite ly less strong thin lho&t of ike pre* [No. 8.