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LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
Halifax papers received at Bos
ton, ftirni.sli English dates to the 11th
of Dec.—A Falmouth paper of that
date says.—
‘•'he apprehensions which were
i hist week entertained of n continen
tal war, have nearly subsided. It |
wind'd appear that tli;„ alteration in i
public opinion thiuiighout Europe,
has been principally efffec.;.! by a
change of tnitiistry, and by tlioir de
claration of non-intervention and of
their desire to preserve universal
peace, which they inml.e on their ap
pointment. It. cannot he conceal-{
t-d that considerable distrust of the
Do lie of Wellington’s non-interven-1
tion policy was generally entertained !
throughout Europe, tic was thought!
to manifest too strong a predilection I
for legitimacy—for the rights of the
l’e-.v, in preference lu the rights of the
many.
The Incendiary outrages which
have been committed over so groat
u port ion of the country, have for
the most part ceased on the strict
enforcement of the law, the penalties
of which now await the perpetrators.
The evidence on the trial of the pri
soners, wo doubt not, will shew that
the laborers were not alone, the
guilty parties. In many cases there
is good rcasen to believe that the;
farmers themselves have Li tigated}
She laborers to their 1 apt ess deeds, \
mul in others that they have quietly
looked on, for the purpose of arous
iag their landlords info a sense of
their distressed slate ill consequence
of nigh rdnts ami tithes, with low pri
ces fir their produce.
ti tins be correct, and we believe
it is, then have they succeeded, we
should think, beyond their most san
giiiiiecxpectations, for not only have j
the landlords consented to reduce
their rents, and the-clergy-their ti
thes, but such a sensation has been
produced in the mindset the goveru
xneid and the legislature, that enqiii-}
j-y. retreiiehincut, ami consequent rc- j
duct ion of taxation and reform of
Farliament will certainly follow, ;•
■ Tile institutions of the country will ■
be regenerated, and u long reign of
peace mul happiness, will, in all pro
bability be the consequence.
Thcojiusc of reform in Parliament
is gathering an irrisistable force, and
it must be granted or, as Earl Grey
says, it will be taken., The public j
interest demand if; suddenly it is j
dangerous. A few veals since, and j
the map who avowed himselfu Re-j
former, stood a self-branded revolu-:
tioulst in tlie estimation of men who
iyivv, through their fears, see no;
Safety for the country hut in s-.:ch uj
reform us would Ibrnicily have been j
demanded only by an extra-reform- j
jst. Stielv is one instance of the
complete revolution that sometimes i
takes in the minds of a majority of a j
nation. Lurge meetings have been j
held at Edinburg and Slietliekl, ut,
which editions for parliamentary re
form were carried with acclamation. j
\Vc Wra from Cojienlu-gen that
an expedition which sailed from that}
’ port in May last, succeeded in reach- j
mg the custom coast of Greenland, |
where some Norwegian colonistssct-!
tied eight centuries ago, and to which j
iiil access hud since been pi ev ented j
by the ice. The expedition found]
jtiiere the descendants of primitive j
•colonists, who still profoSs Gbristia
nny much was curried thither by
* tiieir forefathers; their language is
.that of the Norwegians of the tenth
century.
The majority of nearly ail classes
of the citizens of Brussels, Antwerp,
Ghent, and even Liege, particularly
the armed hurghers, are it is said, in
fator ut the accession of Prince ofO-
I'u.ige, or one of his soi.s, as the
unc.uid of restoring peace and confi
dence.
The man who attempted assassin-
Ration in the House of Lords, lias
been handed over to the civil power,
tuid was to be examined at Bow
at/ect. He says be bud no account
lift settle with the Duke of Welling
ton.
Tlie Regency Bill were brought
down It rant be’ House of Lords on
9ih and was read a first time.
’ There is a rumor abroad that a
Strong collision of sentiment lias ta
ken place bet ween the Majesty’s go
vernment and the East India Gom
jnuiv. •
It is said that the Austrain and
Spanish governments 'have retailed
Xhc-ii Auii'nssadois residing at the
Netherlands.
from Paris.—-The % Times
Office, 3 o'clock. —We have just re
ceived by express tlie. Gazette do
Franco and Messager des C’liambres
dated yesterday, and the Moniteur,
Galignain, mid tlie other French pa
pers of-Saturday, from which wo
I have only room 1 for the following ex
tracts; —
i Insurrection in Poland. —“A Cou
] rier, who left Berlin on tlie 4th itlst.
| has brought the following news from j
] Warsaw, which completes the intel-l
| ligence we gave yesterday of the re
| cent events ia Poland:—“On Mon
]dny, the 20th of November, about
] seven in the evening, an insurrec
tion broke out ut Warsaw. It be
|gan, it appears, in the military
school of ensigns. ‘l'he young men,
jto the number of from S'JO to 600,
! took up arms, and spreading tliem
| selves thro:-gli the town, cfilletf the
[ citizens to arms. A multitude of,
students and inhabitants soon joined
them. They proceeded to the bar
racks of the infantry ami the arse
nal, which was taken by ten o’clock.
Tlie immense quantity of muskets
anil sables it contained were distri
buted to tlie people. The insnrec
tion had previously gained the bar
racks of the iafiintry. Tin? engi
neer rogi neat was the first that
rose, and several other regiments
soon followed it. The Grand Duke
Constantine, on the point of being
attacked or surrounded in his palace,
effected his retreat upon Praga, with
his guard, tvvs Russian regiments,
and a regiment of Polish cavalry,
who only followed him limn a sense
of military honor, but who will re
main neutral, if tlie soldiers do not
disband themselves, or join ibeii fel
low citizens in u hotly.—The exas
peration, fora lonij time smothered,
was so very couscferable at the mo
ment of the insurrection, that >ome
Polish detachments, who at the com
mencement refused to give up their
post of arms to the people, were
massacred us traitors. Forty-one
colonels or majors were killed in en
deavouring to op the tree ->u o
bodi-mce. It is i id* and t i-t two ;ds
de-camp of tie- Grand Duke were
■also slain. The opinion at War
saw was that the defection of the Po
lish army would become general.
The Chief of the Municipal Police
and two Russian Generals were kil
led. The German General Hunch
and Count Stanislaus Potdsky were
also killed iu seeking to rally the
troops. The military chest and the
house of the Paymaster General
were plundered. —Gen. Klnpiecki
has taken the command of the Po
lish troops, and endeavouring to in
store order. If is saitl that he has
already 16,000 troops of the line un
der his command. The Frcma tri
colored cockade was adopted at the
beginning of the iusuir**ction, but it
was soon replaced by the Polish
cockade, A corps <>f National
Guards is organized. The Council
of Administration established bv the
Emperor of Russia, in conjunction
with Prince Luboski, Minister ol
I Finances, Prince Adaui Czartorin
i ski, and Prince Michael Radzivil,
I from tlie Provisional Government,
[and have issued a proclamation, in
I which they acknowledge the t ights of
[sovereignty of the Emperor Nirho
] las, but on condition that tho sepa
| ration of tlie two states shall he com
! pletc, and that no Russian military’
] corps shall keep garrison in ihc
j kingdom of Poland.
“We he ar tho numerous Poles
1 who inhabit Paris applied yesterday
to the Ambassador oI Russia for pass
| ports for Poland, which were refused
them.
“Commercial letters from Riga of
the 26th tilt., state that numerous
bodies of Russian troops had fmssed
■flifoOgliThiit town, and Hie Imperial
Guard were expected. The total
dumber of forces intended to be put
in motion was said to be between
2*aud 300,000 inen. The cause as
signed for this display of force is sin
gular enough; namely, tlie necessity
of being proposed to regulate certain
difference that had arisen with res
pect to Gnlicia.”
Private Correspondence.—
Madrid, Nov. 29.—1 .request your
attention to the following, which,
though known to few', is entitled to
credence in every respect.
All the Spaniards taken by the
Royalist forces were instantly shot,
hut on Friday last His Majesty was
■ pleased to pardon all the .French pri
soners. It appears that after the ac
tion of Vera, Gbn. Hander wrote to
the Minister of War that he consid
ered it would be well to spare tho
lives of the French made prisoners
ut that pluce, and in other partial
engagements. Zambrano answer
ed, cpmmamliiig him to enrry into
effecPthe Royal decree of the Ist of
Get. and to hijyc all the prisoners
shot without the least delay. Lltin
der w rote again, and begged to have
his M ajesty’s own orders before lie
adopted the measiiro indicated by
Zr.mWayo. A>socond answer more
] than the first, was return*-
|cd by the Minister. Gen. Llandcr
persisted, nod finally Said, that he
proffered throwing up his employment
to shooting the French prisoners. A
most angry answer coupled with
threats, was the consequence, hut)
I.lnnde,r determined not to obey. In
tho interval intelligence was couvey
e l to Borijcniix of what was passing,
mid as muny of the prisoners belong
ed to most respectable families of
that city, and some of the Ecole
Polytechujque, their parents set out
for Paris, nud demanded an audience
oftlic King, which was immediately
granted. The Queen of France
took tire most lively interest in *he
fate’of the y filing prisoners, who
wrote to her niece (Queene'Christia
nu) interceding for their lives.’ This
letter [trodneed some effect, hut the,
duy following Mr. Salmon, the Min
ister for Foreign Affars, received a
despatch from the Count d’Ofalla,
ia which the Spanish Government
was given to understand that if the
French prisoners was sacrificed it
wus very probable that the frontier
towns would rise, and by entering
Spain, might endanger the’maintain
anee of peace between both coun
tries. The consequence was, that
the affair Was passed for deliberation
to the Council of War, which gave
as its opinion. “That thei high re
coiiiiiiendatTons for leniency being
shown to the French, were entitled
to the greatest consideration: that
their case was different in every res
pect, to that of tlie Spanish Consti
tutionalists: and finally, that the
Council left it entirely to his Majesty,
whether mercy should be shown them
or mm = i nr rang, m sight cf this,
and at tlie earnest entreaty of the
Qneeno, was pleased to issue the or
der to have their lives spared, Count
Ofalia has written to Gen. Llander,
thanking him for his manner of act
ing on this occasion.
The news of the resignation of the
Wellington Ministry lias been hailed
with the most lively joy by the Lib
erals, but has been received with the
greatest mortification by the Court.
This event, believe me, cannot fail
to have some ertfect on the destinies
of this country. This Cabinet coun
ted upon the countenance of the late
Ministry for all its action, and felt
assured that whilst in existence the
r.bsolulc nud antiliberal principles of
ibis Government might be safely
maintained: More ol this in my next.
Judge Peek’s defence, as stated
by his council on the 9th inst. is brief
ly re purled jn the National Journal.
A few remarks or the importance of
the cuse, Mr. Mpulith proceeded to
stay i —■
“If the doctrines were held good. ;
or. which the present impeachment ]
was supported, many questions must
arise which would mark the case as :
one of peculiar weight and consider
ation. His duty at the present stage
was but simple,—it went no further
than to state the line of defence they
meant to pursue, and the evidence
on which they relied to be able to!
support it. And this, with the per
mission of the Court, ho would do, !
in as brief and succinct a foamier as
possible. The transaction which
gave rise to tho present proceeding
‘he would state in a few words.’ The ,
Respondent, it wast khou-il, Was a |
jyidgo of the United States District i
Court tor Missouri. Having, in the
course of his judicial functions, pro
nonccd ait opinion of considerable
importance to many in that State,
he was induced, at the request of se
veral, to publish that opinion, and
this request, as it had already been
proved, was not confined to a few in
dividuals. but was tlie general wish
of the bar, as well as those interest
ed in those claims. One of the
counsel in the cause to which he had
alluded, (that oftheheirs ofSoularjl,)
who was personally concerned in
that as tvey. ns in other of the land
claims undeitoek to .publish anony
mously, and in a different paper too
—not,an argument to coniruvert that
opinion, but an enumeration of what
ije wgs pleased to call its errors
errors which did not require a refu
tation—errors both in fact and in
doctrine, as might be seen in no less
than eighteen specifications, which
he averred required no ©tlier eluci
dation. The Respondent justly con
sidering this as a gross and palpable
misrepresentation of the decision he
had given; proceeded against the
author of this publication for con
tempt of his judicial, prerogative; nnd
after a patient and elaborated inves
tigation, which occupied more than
two days; and after an opportunity [
was offeied to the acknowledged au-1
thor to purge himself of the contempt
by answering interrogatories, and [
! after a peremptory refusal on the
part of Mr. Lawless, to answer any
intcrogatorics in vindication of the
authority and dignity of the Bench,
the Court'sentenced him to 24 hours
imprisonment, ajid to be suspended
from practising in that Court for 18
months. This is the act said Mr.
Meredith, which is charged as a high
misdemeanor—as an act wrongfully
and unjustly to oppress a Citizen of
the State tending to the great dispa
ragement of public justice; the abuse
of judicial authority; and subversive
of the liberties of the people of the
United States. But, in answer! to
this, the Respondent had replied;
mid which he liopcd to be able to
maktf manifest, that the publication
was intended to bring the Court into
contempt; to disturb the course of
public justice; to lesson its weight in
the public mind, nnd totally to pros
trate it; anil further, that the Court
in the hue it (tad pursued, was im
pelled, not by the bad motives attri
buted to it, hut by a sense of what he
conceived wus a legitimate vindica
tion of the rights invested in him*—
Mr. Meredith proceeded to detail
the different laws made by Congress
at various times, for the adjuciation
of laud claims under Spanish grants
in Upper Louisiana; the strong sus
picion of fraud which was attached
to the majority of those claims, and
which, for one, ho contended, wus
attached to that of the Sonlurd case,
for many reasons which he adduced,
lie further argued that the Respon
dent was borne out in the inode of
procedure against Mr. Lawless, not
by tlie English Common Law, but
by American precedents of tho high
est authority; and iu coalcusion lie
said they would produce evidence
which would throw anew hglrJ on
those land claims in Missouri; and
show whether the expenses which
the Government would incur by the
present prosecution, was called for
by the justice of the case.”
Another — and. another. —Tho bill
appropriating $15,000, to enable the
President,“toemploy, without delay,
two or more vessels, with supplies of
men, provisions, and other necessa
ries, to cruize off the coast of the U.-
S. for the purpose of suc
couring vessels that may have suf
fered by stress of weather during the
present inclement season.”—The
bill has been lust in the 11. of R. by
delay■ —and well it is so ; for it seems
to have lie adequate authority in the
Constitution.
Another measure, howevei, has
been adopted in the 11. of Represen
tatives, upon a small scale—the do
: nalioif of wood to the Poor of tlie
District of Columbia—which is not
authorized by the Constitution.—
Both these menStires originated in
good nnd generous feelings—bat the
worst of them is, that they are here
after quoted by cunning politicians
‘as precedents for further and most
1 extensive usurpations. The very
j worst precedents sometimes oi igi
•iiate in the best-in-tentioned acts.
Enquirer.
s
i A gross misrepresentation— --The
I Boston Journal contains a letter from
| Washington, oftlie 11th ult. 'PfU “a
; man” said to be “in u high and res
ponsible posit'ioil” - —in which we find
the following rash and deceptive “C
----pinion” boldly and unqualifiedly ex
pressed :—“lt is in vain to conceal
the opinion which I qiitertuiti, pro
bably with many others, that for the
last twenty-five years, the designs
and corresponding operations of the
South, particularly of S'. Curoliim,
Georgia and Virginia, have looked
intently to a dissolution of our sacred
Union of States-”— lb,
■"l#**
No Kentucky Senator! —The IT. S-
Telegraph •• States that the Legisla
ture of Kentucky have postponed the
election of a Senator, and that it was
to adjourn on the 15tli instant—The
N. intelligent... states, that “on the
A3tk, the State officers were elected,
anti arc all decided- friends’ of Mi'.
Clay.”
Piracy on a - large scale.—A Sici
lian brig, the Colombo, which'aniv
ed at Gibraltar Dec. 6th, from Rio
Janeiro, made the following report.
Oct. 26, lat. 3, 07, N. long. 29, 20.
was boarded by If. 11, brig’ Falcon,
and informed that she, fdgethei-with
a British frigate, hud cajttured near
the Island of Ascension, mp-irafe ship
mou niing 50 gnus, and having a crew
I of 300 men—©f which she lost hbout
ja third in the action, and the qaptoi
idg ships 22 men. The Falcon bad
on board the pirate captain, and twa
lother.pcrsons from that ship, with
whom she was bound to Bermuda.
Tlie Legislature of S. Carolina at
its recent session, imposed a tax <f
five thousand dollars upon Lottery
offices. In consequence of this, but
one continues tlid business, that of
Yateis & M’InTIEE, who, we uudei>
stand, will pay the above, under the
expectation of a repeal of the Jaw at
the next session, and a possibility of
the.amount being refunded.
San. Georgian.
In the Legislature of Alabama re*
solutions have passed against the e.i*
ertions that have been made ans .. e
making to stop the transportation ,t’
the mail on Sunday. A-resolution
also passed the House of Represent
titives against the establishment of a
Branch of the U. States Bank in'that
state, withont the consent
neral Assembly, and was expected
to pass the Senate.— lb. •
Counterfeit twenty dollar -bills of’
the Branch of the United States
Bank at Mobile, liuvc been dejected
there. Thy are coarsely oxmwh!,
, u ;.ei 11 t\
“ Much a-do about —• nothing /’*
“Congress (says a Correspondent}
is doing nothing. I asked a frifenu a
few days ago wnat had been don. in
the House on that day. “Wl,y, sn ,‘*
said he, “We voted some u-ood to-thor
|ioor of the city, and then went’ into
the Senate Chamber.,” On AI O " 1 ’
day, following, I asked him the sa.. •
question. “To-day, Sir,” said .he*
“We hud a most boisterous and inter
esting’ debate upon the question,
i whet; cv the debate which took placer
on Friday, was in order orout of #
der" —and he might have added “V\ ©
had a long and hoist citrus Debauvon
Fniday, that Mr. Burges of R. I.
might show that scurvy gentlemen
may sopict'incs be metamorphosed in
to Members of Congress.
VVe very much approve the follow*
intr sentiments from the Philadelphia
Mail.
“In the Courier and Enquirer of
New York, we saw a few days ago
with much pleasure, some very litres
rul praiso of the general ability ‘of
several papers with which the Ccwi*
rier usually wages a constant and
taunting warfare.
Would it not be better policy jo
our political papers, to adopt a fifa
derate, gentlemanly tone toward
their opponents? Would it,aptgUe
them much greater weight wilh the
community, and thus increase tfce
strength of their patty—if a pasty
they will blindly follow? VVe slionjd
think it might be safe for those’dir
(he right side to go even further—*
and not only be gentle in manner hat
just in matter. If by supposing’ for
the time that their adversaries were
honest and intelligent—and iu con
sequence by using sound arguments
and eivil language, they should yet
fail to convince them, they would
have abundant consolation in the of*
feet of such a course upon the public
at large.”
Some time since n set of i'fsolution,; -,vero sent
forth by the Mcthrfdist Missioners residing among 1
the Cherokee Indians on the subject of the giiev*
ancefi Os \li* people an(J disapproving of the me*,
sures of the gj>r*rttmen4 in relation lo them. If*
find iu thv Cherokee Phmnjx jhe follow ing
proper notice of them
Xennesses Conference, )
Franklin, Nov. 12ih, 1830. \
Whereas certain resolutions have been entered
into by our Into Missionaries in the Cherokee Ra-*
tion, in which the Tennessee Conference of ihc
\l. E-, Church U called on fora publicand ofiiciat
expression of their sentiments on the subject of
the grievances of said nation, vve do hereby give
the following— •
Ist, Resolved that whatever uiav Le our priv
ate views and sentiments as men and as fieecifl*
zsns, relative to the sutTeriugs and privations, ei
ther of the aboriginal nation© of our country, or
of any particular section of the United States, or
of the policy adopted and pursued by'the Stale’
authorities or Cenernl Coveru merit, ycl a* a ba*
dy of Christian Ministers, vie do not .feel at liber*
ty, nor are we disposed to depart from the princi
ple, uniformly maintained by the members hnd
ministers ol anr Chuich, tn carefully refraining
from all such interference u it\ political affairs.
2d. Resolved that, however we may appreciate
the purity of motivp and intention, by whieh our
missionary Brethren were actuated, yet we re
that