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.FROM Rt —By ikel
flhips Pacific mid Cambria nt New
York from Liverpool and London.,
intelligence from the lattei* one 4ay |
ami from France several days later
is received. We are indebted to our ;
correspondents the .Mercantile Atl
■*tei ti.ser, t lie Morning Journal, ami
the second edition of the Journal of
Commerce, lor the extracts below.
The King of France it will be per j
ceiveii Ims dissolved the Chambers, j
<fc ordered the convocation of the col- j
leges far anew election.—This is an
important measure, and may bo ex- 1
ported to be followed by much excite- j
meat. The Army intended to actj
against Algiers hiss also been em
barked, and will immediately pro-}
need to the scene of action, thus nf-i
fording a diversion i:i favor of the!
measures of the government r ! home, j
toe. military and sight-loving people, j
The latest bulletin of the British!
King’s health notices an alleviation
of till the symptoms of his disorder!
—nnollicial statements represent thej
probability of his recovery as by no j
means flattering. If the disease un-j
dor which the monarch labors bensj
it. has been staled, dropsy, a mere
mitigation of the symptoms, at hi.-!
life, cannot be expected to prolong;
his demise for any very extended I
period. Some of the papers, how
ever, are sanguine of his recovery,.
Tito HornitigClirouick: of the i 7th
t tys, “The American ft'!mister has!
h id severul Conferences lately with
the Fail of Aberdeen, respecting!
i commercial relations between the U.’
States and this country. West’ In
dies, ic.”
Under a Copenhagen date of May,
n 11th, it is said —Major General and
Chamberlain Von Scholtcn, who is
gone to Washington, is commission
ed to open negotiations with the Go-!
vernment of the U. States of North I
America, for the purpose of obtain-!
iug some changes and motlilications |
in the American Tariff, which are”
important to the trade and naviga- j
ttoa of his Majesty’s subject s, cspeci- j
uiiv tiiose in the colonies. j
Express from Paris. —We have j
just received by an Extraordinary j
‘Express from Paris, the Mouiteur;
and other Paris journals of Monday J
(May 17,) and the Gaz. de France,
dated Tuesday (May 18.) j
The ollieial part of the Mouiteur
Contains a Royal Ordinance Ip the j
following effect
Charles, &.c. we have ordained as |
follows:
Art. I. The Chamber of Deputies
is dissolved.
Art. 2. The Electoral Colleges
are convoked in the whole kingdom.!
Those of the arondissenicnts, and
those of the departments which have !
but one College, for the 23d June; j
1633; the Departmental Colleges for j
the 3d of July; and the College of the |
Department of Corsica for tae 20th j
July.
Art. 3. Conformable to Art. 6, of;
the law of 2d May, 1627, and Art.!
22, of the law of 2.1 July, 1828, the 1
Prefect shall publish the present Or
dinance immediately after receiving
it. They shall open the register of
reclamations, shall cause the electo
ral list to be again posted up, and
■shall publish the table of corrections
within the time prescribed by the
law of the 2d of July, 1828.
Art. 4. ‘i'lio operations of the E
fectoral Colleges shall proceed as re
gulated by tiie Royal Ordinance of
Jit:. Oct. 1320.
Art. 5. The Chamber of Peers,
and tiie Chamber of the Deputies of
the Departments, are convoked for
ihc 3d of August next.
Art. 6. The present Ordinance
shall be in force in the Departments
from lac day on which it shall have
been registered at the Prefecture,
conformably to Art. 4 of the Royal
Ordinance of27t‘h Nov. 182 ti.
Art. 7. Our iilinrsier Secretary of!
State for the Home Department is
charged with the execution of tlie
present Ordinance, which will be in
serted ia tiie Bulletin of the Laws.
Given at our Palace, Sr. Cloud,
the jJjtli of May, of the year 1831),
and the sixth year of our reign.
Ey the King, [SignedJ
CHARLES.
The Minister Secretary of State
fur tiie lioine Department,
MONTUEL,
(Non-Official Part.)
Peris, J lay it). —On the JCth, in
the morning, the whole army of the !
expedition-was embarked. * It was ‘
j with t ries, a thousand times repeat-j
led, of “Vive lc Hoi!” and amidst;
j marks of general 1 Iwt i
Jail the troops effected their enfbtirkd
iion in the most perfect order.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
“ Toulon, Map 10.
•'Soldiers!—The insults offered lo
! the French llug cu 1 you beyond the
sons. It is to revenge it, that, on
the signal given from the Throne,
you have all been .eager to run to
arms, and that many of you have
! joyfully quitted your homes.
; “Oil Several occasions the French
i standards have been display'd! on i lie
African share. The heat iff the cli
mate, the fatigue of the marches, (lie
! privations of the desert-—nothing, ill j
i short, was able to shake the resold-!
tion of your predecessors. Their!
| culm courage sufficed to repulse the 1
; tutnhltpoiis attacks of a brave but
undisciplined cavalry. You will fol
! lew their glorious example.
“1 lie civilized nations of the two
j worlds have their eyes fixed upon
you. Their good wishes accompany
I you. The cause of France is that
of Immunity; show yourselves tvor
| thy of yonr noble mission. Eet no
j excess tarnish the splendor of your
j exploits; terrible in the battle, but
! just and humane after victory. Your
interest pi escribes this, ns well as
! your duty.
| “Too long oppressed bv a rapaci
ous and cruel soldiery, the Arab will
: behold in us his deliverers. He will
implore our alliance—encouraged by
i your good fr it h, lie will bring to our
; camps the produceofliis soil. Thus,
; by rendering the war less tedious and
loss sanguiuarv, you will accomplish
] tiie wishes of a Sovereign, who is us
j sparing o; the blood of his subjects as
jealous of the honor of France.
“Soldiers! an august Prince has
{ j us! passed through vour ranks, lie
I has deigned to convince von that no
; tiling .had been neglected to provide
j for your wants. I its constant solici
! tnde will accompany you in the in-
I hospitable rofmtrics where you arc
j going to combat. You will’ render
youi selves worthy of it by observing
that strict discipline, which obtained
| for the army that he led to victory,
jibe esteem of Spain, and that of all
j Europe. j
i “The Lieutenant-General Peer of]
! France, Coniniander-iu-Chief of the
Army in the expedition of Africa,
j Oor.vr in-; liouiuto.-.T. j
From the Constitutional,
j It appears that the choice of the j
Ministerial candidates, who are to
j preside in the Electoral Colleges, are :
not yet determined upon.
The Journal des Debate contains
an article of two columns on the ex
pedition against Algiers. While it
expresses its wishes for the success 1
■j of the at my, it endeavors to prove
I that the expedition is not justified by
| its origin or its supposed objects, and
; in short, that no good is likely to re
j suit from it.
j The ( out tof Assize has eondemn
)ed the Abbe Frilay, as guilty of an
j attempt to murder, to hard labor for
| life, to stand ia the pillory, and be
: branded.
From the London Courier,
j 3 believe that tlie K.'.est private
1 accounts irom Algiers are quite at
variance with the statements in the
j French papers, tliat the Dey of Al-
I I giers had refused to permit our Con
: j sul to leave llicit city. W'c under
stand that the approuching indispo
j sition ol that gentleman's wife must
‘, have compelled them to continue at
j Algiers to a much later period than
I that at w hich the French papers re
present the Dey’s refusal to have tuk
| en place.
Toulon , Mcnj 2.—A lirJe Ameri
can cutter arrived in tlie roads yes
i terdav, having a great number of
J persons, come expressly to see the
j preparations for the expedition.
: ’ aKk w^u'iw>;-ar^rrggaße3aßjma
CI.N.NER TO
Messrs. Hayne & Drayton.
The Charleston Mercury of Mouday last, con- !
tains a t’uii report eb the proceedings at the Bin-;
(ter to Messrs. 11A v and Dhavto.n. It lills
twelve columns of tliat paper, amt a column of
(iohmteev T oasts is omitted from the vvatit ofreom.
Very nearly 000 persons subscribed, a num
ber which would have been greatly increased
bad it not been lor the excessive heat of the day,
and Hie impossibility of procuring accommoda
tions. The audience was addressed severally by
Messrs. Ukavi-ob, Havhb, Checks, IJa.wii.tos,
Tuunbule and H. L. FtNoxxKV. The speeches
were elorpicnt and impressive. IVe extract the
following from those of the two gentlemen in
j whose honor the Feast was given, regretting
.hal our limits do not pcriujr us to give the
- u bolei—-Sar. Ocor^mn
From the spccehofMr. Diuvtcff we sclcdt
(be following.
Our citizens suffering under an
Act, which a great majority of them
beliefs to be unconstitutional, have
naturally been led to deliberate
upon the steps which ought to lie
taken under circumstances so critic
al and numientous. Os the expedi
ents proposed, that which seems,
most general to be relied upon, is,
through the medium of the Legisla
ture, or of a convention chosen by
the people, to nullify the obnoxious
law', or :u other words to declare it
to be unconslhfftional, and to absolve
our citizens h im obedience to it, un
less a contrary decision should bo
pronounced !>}■ three-fourths of the
Legislatures of the several States, or
by convention of the people, in
Ihe same number of the States.
Those who recommend this course
are sanguine in their expectations of
its efficacy. They assert that a so
vereign State, under its reserved
fights, can constitutionally, resort
to it, and that by no'other means
can the Union be preserved. If by
process of reasoning, of which I am
capable: if by any light which I could
derive from intellects far superior to
mine, 1 could accord in these views
and inferences, I should rejoice to
do so; for no one coudems more than
myself, the principle: of the existing
Tariff, or more deprecates its bale
effects. Nevertheless, after anxious
and painful nicditatio, directed by e
cvery motive which ought to influence
a lover of his country, and of his
country’s reputation ami prosperity,
I cannot perceive any substantial
distinction between the abrogation
of a law of Congress, by a State,
and the separation of that State,
from the Union. When an Act of
Congress has been passed, in its cus
tomary forms, until repealed by the
body enacting it, or decided to be in
valid by the Federal Judiciary, it be
comes the law of the land. The
President of the United States is
coni pci led, by his oalh of office, to
enforce it, unless, perhaps, lie should
he satisfied of its uuconstiutlionaiity,
which is not the opinion of President
Jackson, astoihe Tariff of 1828.
.Should then the President, or the
mandate of the Federal Court, direct
lit to he carried into execution, it
j could not be resisted by us, excepting
I upon tiie ground, that our State had
; withdrawn from the federation, or by
i the e xercise OF Force.—-Tiie First al
ternative would be, ipso facto, a se
verance of this State from the Union. i
! The second, w ould be an appeal to
] arms, the ultima ratio republics:.
! Let me not be misconceived. 1
am not tiie advocate of passive obe
| dience and noaresistatice. In the
; ordinary administration of affairs,
j t he assertion of the right of the ma
jjority bind the people is a mere tru
; ism ; but n majority, as well as a mi
| nority may boa faction; and where
the legislature is accused of usurpa
tion, or corruption, or oppression, to
contend that the will of a prevailing
j majority’ should alone be evidence of
the legality of their proceedings,
! weald reader hopeless all possibility
|or relief. A cricis might. ise, when
Jt he bonds of the union ought to be
| broken. The right of the Slate to
■ secede, from the Union, I, uuquaJifi
{only, concede; but so long as she
belongs to it, if she be not bound by
its huvs, the monstrous anomalies
would exist, of a govcrnpient whose
acts were not obligary upon its citi
zens ; and of a .State constituting one
of the members of the Union, whilst
denying the authority of Its laws.
1 am not unaware of the convic
tion of many, tliat the consequences
anticipated by me, would not follow
| from a nullification of the tariff-act,
in the mode which has been mention
jet I—that, on the contrary, the re
peal of tiie law would be insured by
so vigorous a resolution. To those
who are under this conviction, I would
‘submit, that it is founded upon the
supposed weakness of their opno
nots—-a position as false and dangcr
ous in politics as it is in war, and ut
jterly unworthy of the high-minded
I freemen ofSoutli Carolina. Unless
a majority of the people of tiie U. S.
were persuaded, that their interests
were advanced by the mis-callcd
“American System,” it would never
have been imposed upon us by suc
cessive Congresses, from 1816 to
IS3O. Is it probable, that this ma
jority, stimulated by the lust of ava
’rice and sustained by the arm of pow
er would yield to the legislation, or
to the menaces of a single State ?
It might be asked of me, vvbetbci j
l would recommend silence and iq-l
activity amidst the wrongs with which
we are afflicted. My answer is—No.
What cun, constitutionality, be done
by the legislature, ought to be done
by it. Through Congress, and the
Press, and communications with
those States whose cause is common
with ours, every possible exertion
should be made, to dispel the delu
sion under which the people labour,
as to the true character of an uncon
stitutional law, which fetters our in
dustry, cripples our commerce, and
taxes the many for the benefit of the
few. All are injured by it, except
ing the manufacturers; aud although
they, when combined, can carry the
majority with them, yet recent e
vents strongly indicate, that by at
(ticking/iTCjTai iff, in detail, we may
bring it back to those principles from
which it ought never to have depart
ed.
Should the efforts which I have
suggested, fail of success—should
the law we complain of, remain un
repeiiled upon our statute-book—we
should then enquire, whether a re
currence lo the remedy which 1 have
adverted to would not he worse than
the malady which it professes to cure
—whether its certain consequence
would not be disunion—whether dis
union would not be fraught with more
disastrous results than the provisions
of the act —whether it would not cre
ate a division in our own State, pro
ducing that direst ofnational calami
ties—civil war. After pondering
dispassionately and profoundly upon
these quest iocs, wc are bound by e
very social and moral duty, to select
the least of the evils presented to us.
For my otva part, l fee! uo hesitation
in avowing, that I should regard the
separation of South Carolina from
the Union, as incalculably more to
be deplored, than the existence of the
law which we condemn.
We can only add the following,
from Mi. H.vyne’s remarks:—
Gentlemen, in the presence of this
j respectable assembly, and in the face
of my country, I declare my solemn
conviction that the acknowledgement
of the exclusive right of the Federal
Government to determine the limits oj
tV* own powers, amounts to a recog-
I qttioti of its absolute supremacy over
! the States and the. people, and in
volves the sacrifice not only of our
j dearest rights aud interests, but the
j very existence oftheSouthernStates;
| and if, by the blessing of Heaven,
we sh.tli yet a litiic while avoid the
fate which is impending over us, we
are as surely destined to meet it, “as
the sparks liy upwards.” In my,
view of the actual condition of your
; affairs, (without undertaking to de
termine what else it may become
you to do, or to forbear,) it is abso
lutely and indispensably necessary
to give your brethren in other quar
ters of tiie Union, distinctly to under
stand, that you never will acknowl
edge the right claimed for the Fed
eral Government, in either or ail of
its departments, to decide ultimate
ly aud conclusively as lo the extent
of itsown powers,” that you never
will consent to substitute the will of
the majority for the Constitution, nor
recognize unconstitutional acts of
Congress, as the supreme law of the
land. That viewing the Constituti
on as a compact prescribing limits 1
to tbeFederai Government, the State
of South Carolina, as one of the Par
tics to that compact, in its sovereign
capacity., claim the right “to judge
of ils infractions:” and that whilst she
j will at all times yield a ready and
: cheerful obedience to all laws made
j “in pursuance of the Constitution,”
; she claims the right to hold to be ut
j teriy null and void, all such as clear
;ly violate the reserved rights of th(?
| States. Let these principles be
i maintained, and your rig ts may Le
j preserved. The day that you snr
. render them, and acknowledge the
j will of the majority, as declared in j
j the acts of Congress, to be supreme !
law, you will have surrendered the
glorious privileges of freedom, to put
the yoke upon your own necks, to
fasten manacles upon your own and
upon the hands of your children, to
surrender your valuable possessions
without a struggle, and consented to
put yourselves and all that you pos
sesspit the mercy of those, who though
standing to you in the relation, and
calhng themselves your “brethren
have in ihc eager pursuit of their
own peculiar interests, turned a deal
ear to your loud remonstrances,
mocked at your complaints, and man
ifested an utter disregard of you:
feelings, your rights &. your interests.
* * # # * * *
Liu 1 hate trcsjiasscd,Gcntlenien,
too long* upon yonr patience, amj
must hasten ton close. Lot. me say,
then, in conclusion, that I do consci
entiously believe, that the assertion
of the principles I have vindicated,
is essential to the great cause of Stato
Rights, though I believe the abandon
ment by South Carolina of the
grounds solemnly assumed and re
pentedfy avowed by.our legislature/
will amount to an unconditional sur
render of those principles. 1 wish
not to be understood as indieatiii.c
any particular course as proper to he
pursued by the State at this time,
aud under existing circumstances.
As one of the representatives of ,8.
Carolina, I have at. all times strenu
ously advocated these principles, aid
to the best of my ability, faithfully
maintained the rights and interests
confided to rny care. Further than
this, I have not felt myself authoriz
ed to go; to the people, and lo them
alone it belongs to decide, both now
and at all time hereafter, how far
and how long it is their interest or
their duty to submit to acts of ihc
Federal Government, which all ficl
to he a violatit.n of their constitution
al rights. For my single self, Imu
free to declare that I cherish a sin
cere anil ardent devotion to the U
nion, anti that to preserve it inviolate*
I would willingly lay down my life.
But the union which I revere, aud
which is dear to my heart, is foumit and
on the constitution of rny ecuntrv.
It is a Constitutional Union, which
we are sworn to “preserve, protect,
and defend.” I may be mistaken,
fellow-citizens, but 1 have always be
lieved, that nothing is wanting to se
cure the success of our cause, but
union at home —such harmony of feel
ing and unity of action, ns shall tar
ry to tbc minds of our oppressn • ‘ t
conviction, that wc are in ea • i.-,
that we “know onr ; hla and
iag, dare mainiuiu tban.” An. ff,
Gentlemen, we are destined to m i,
and the South is to be drawn down
from that “high and palmy state” of
prosperity, dignity, and renown,
which she has so long and so proud*
ly occupied—if she is destined to be
humbled in the very dust before her
oppressors, I shall live and die in the
belief, that the calamity will have
been hi ought upon her, because her
citizens have not been true to them'-
selves —because we have listened to
the voice of those who have no inn.
moil sympathies with us—or who
have an interest in perpetuating the
abuses under which we suffer, or
who from unreasonable apprehensi
ons of imaginary dangers, will have
palsied the hearts, and shaken the
constancy of their countrymen.
iiUt whatever may’ he the course
of South Carolina, at the present
erissis it is ray determination to stand
by her side. When I shall be found
acting with her revilers, or enlisted
under tae banner of her enemies, may
“iny right, hand forget its cunning,
and rny tongue cleave to the roof of
my mouth.” It is ihc soil of Cat* li
i.u winch Ims drank up the precious
blood of our forefathers shed in her
defence: here repose the honored
hones of my ancestors—it is here that
l drew iny first breath —here that I
hare been kindly fostered in youth?
and sustained in manhood, by the
generous confidence of my fellow
! citizens. It is in the soil ;f Carolii a
| ‘hat the eyes of my children iin-t . c
j held the light, Bom./.! o vi.c, gen
j tlemen, and tor-;; country, Ly < mn
! y at"! such endearing ties, , etoth.-s
desert her, if they can, let them e
\hcr if they will —| shall mar.d m \
I with Carolina. God grant i -.t ■ -
j Join and virtue, firmne.--, andpan i
j ofism may preside in her conciis and
! direct her measures; but should -he
; err, I shall not bo the recreant sou lo
|.l°i the exultation of her oiicmicss
■ i si,all cast no reproaches into her
i teeth—but in adversity as m pms-
J ffctity—“in weal and in woe”—
j through good report and through evil
report — l uo “for my Country.”
Jacob \\ ilcox, (says the Savannah ficoreina
ofFlte lOlls lust.) was j cslerdny elvclcd Cashier of
‘ho Bank of the Stale of Georgia,
to be established at Macon, and the following pens
tlemen a Board of Directors for (he same;—John
l. Rowland. J. G. Seymour, J hos. Taylor, R. IV.
Fort, L. Newcomb, D. Woodbury, R Colemai^
Mr Clinton! —The Constituent? of this rleref.
ict Political) are about to cashier him T'he’citi
/.ens of Daviess county have bad a mcetlin - to
express their “unshaken confidence in the ability,
firmness and iutrgrity of the present Chief Ma-isl
tra(e.” They declare that M. C, “lias violated
his most solemn pledges to the reop!c’'-.r-tliat ike
pretext for his npostacy is as “prepoeterious’’ i- ?
1/ is -false"—and they call upon him (o resign
his seal, and afiord an opportunity to the people,
< select a man who will represent thfir will. ...
t hey appointed a Committee to com spotu) w ith
Ollier Committees to be “raised in Other counties
of the (.'vns'essional ‘ *