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U.-CCh'.MMON, OH I'UK EXILE'S lament.
)]• WJllTnil M'OTTi
>ji., le ;” 3 w'./zunl flag from the grey castle sullies,
T he rowers ul t mm ijtrcd nr the
l. eaai ,\ a. -a .-amllm.a s.vorl, dang target and quiver,
As M.icenaim - a sings, “Faiewdl, Dunvegan, forever!”
p rrnv , |ji talldiff, on which breakers are foaming;
f , vt s|! cadi dark glen, in which red deer arc roaming;
Farew< !1! lonely Skye, to lake, mountain and river,
Macleod mav return —but Maccrimmon shall never!
Farewell! the bright clouds that onQuillan* are sleeping,
Farewell! the bright eyes on the Dun*)* that are weeping,
To each minstrel delusion farewell! —and for ever—
Maccrimmon departs—to return to you never!
The Ilenshie's wild voice sings the death dirge before me,
The pall of the dead for a mantle hangs o’er me;
But my heart shall not flag, and my nerves shall not shiver,
Though devoted 1 go, to return again, never!
Too oft shall the notes of Maccrimmon’* bewailing,
Be heard, w hen the t.ael on their exile are sailing;
Dear land ! to the shores whence unwilling we sever,
Jteturn —return —return shall we never.
Maccrimmon, licriditary piperto the laird of Macleod,
is said to have composed this lament, when the clan
were about to depart upon a distant and dangerous ex
pedition. The minstrel was impressed with a belief,
which the event verified, that he was to he slain in the
approaching loud, and hence the (,aelic words, *‘Cha
till ml tuilliah, ged thilleus Macleod, cha till Maccrim
mon.” —“i shall never return; though Macleod returns,
yet Maccrimmon shall never return.”
•The highest mountain in Skye.
■) Dunvegan Castle, Macleod'* residence.
From the National Advocate.
COMMERCE.
Wc arc now receiving from abroad the most
conclusive proofs that a nation, possessing great
internal resources, may rely too much on the ben
efits of commerce, and thus very materially ne
glect to improve those great and permanent
jncans arising from agriculture and manufactures.
It is proper that great reliance should he placed
on commerce, situated as our country is, with
great commercial products, but not to the ex
clusion or partial abandonment of resources
equally beneficial, and in many instances more
certain in their operation. Ihe late short arri
vals from England have brought deplorable ac
counts of the state of the market, in relation to
cotton, and the losses on this article will be so
considerable as to shake the standing of some ol
the first houses. If these losses fell on the agri
culturist they would not be severely felt; foi it is
well known that the bulk of cotton planters de
rive an inordinate income trom their crops, and
if, instead of 25 cents per pound, they only re
ceived 12 J, there would still be left a reasonable
profit; but the loss falls on the merchant, the ship
owner, the speculator, and, through them, minor
persons deriving their support from commerce:
the banks suffer, and confidence is lost. It ap
pears that the result should have been anticipa
ted. When peace was first proclaimed in Fu
j'opc, it should have been foreseen that it would
require at least four or five years for the conti
nental powers to recover from the shock of a pro
tracted war, and to place their commerce, ag-
V “culture, and manufactures on that footing which
(> enjoyed prior to the revolution in France. In
|he mean time, while the work of regeneration
and resuscitation was going on, Great Britain hav
ing her commerce protected by a navy, anil her
manufactures encouraged by commerce, obtain
ed a still greater portion of trade—but it was evi
dent that this trade would decrease annually.—
France improved rapidly in her silk looms and
woollen factories; the cities in Germany began
to revive their many valuable manufactories;
Russia, always ambitious and capable, held out
great promises to enterprising artisans and me
chanics, and for the last two years, at the great
fair at Frankfort, a combination was actually en
tered into, to Exclude all British manufactures,
and it was not without great sacrifices that the
British merchants were enabled to make forced
sales. In proportion, therefore, as British man
ufactures are excluded from the continent, so
•will the price of our staple articles fall, and so
will our speculators suffer. Not long since a
merchant in this city purchased 800 bales of cot
ton, at 22 cents, and the asking price is now 16,
and it may even be less. The loss on such pur
chases must be enormous, and a variety of cir
cumstances unite to offer to hope that times will
improve in this article. The great importation
of cotton from India is one of the causes to w hich
the present low’ prices may be attributed. A few
years ago not more than 30,000 bales were an
nually shipped front India, now near 300,000
Bales are imported into Great Britain—in conse
quence of which the demand for American cot
ton must be suspended; and it also should be
known, that the manufacturers work up the infe
rior India cotton w ith a small quantity of fine
American, and the goods manufactured from
these materials are sent, in immense quantities,
to the American market—and while, on the one
hand, our staple article is reduced in value, our
manufactories become paralized. The stated
mercantile credit, in England, is also a subject
of great interest. During the most jmrplexing
peiiodsof commeicial difficulty, and
enterprize were maintained—iff present both
at e shaken. The British *icrchanis are fearful
L ■! venturing—arc of each oilier—and,
to failures, derangement in
\ .aaid a m ;r\ of money, unite to p.ual-
That merchants
, M:pi is
• ■ ft with
iff
the heavy charges. Under all circumstances it
would appear most prudent to witudraw, in a
measure, from tPannerce, and not embark hea
vy capitals in fluctuating and unceitain experi
ments. More attention and patronage should be
afforded to our manufactures, and also to agri
cultural projects —these are safe and sure, and
cannot be too highly recommended.
Extract of a letter published in the Richmond Enquirer.
“The commercial distress of the nation is ve
ry great. The banking bubbles are breaking,
anil will leave us all poorer than they faund us.
Industry, economy, ought to bo the order of the
day until the, crisis is past. If this distress could
open the eyes of the community to the real sour
ces of wealth, and induce them to put down, as
soon as they can, the parasite institutions which
accumulated in the hands of a few, whilst they
destroy all morality and sound feeling, it \vould
be a great happiness. But the curse seems to
be entailed on us. For some time many of us in
the towns have been, and we shu.l continue, slaves
to bank directors. Some merchants of high
standing are obliged to crouch to these arbiters
pf credit, upon which their all depends. Would
to heaven that these parisite institutions were
sunk in the lowest depths of the ocean, and their
very memory blotied out for ever. It would be
a bene fit to mankind, even if it threw us a centu
ry back in “internal improvements,” and reduc
ed us to wooden platters and pewter spoons. It
would restore us our honest and glowing sense
of independence, if it diminished cur wealth. —
We should assume the port and dignit) of men,
if w e lost some of the trappings o| fools. Our
possessions would not be so great, but they would
‘be our own. The country is yet only in part
tainted, lilt were enlightened, we might hope
a redeeming spirit would arise out of it, which
might save our towns.”
FROM THE KENTUCKY ARCUS.
Alarming times. —. Never, within the recollec
tion of our oldest citizens, has the aspect of the
times, as it respects property and money, been
so alarming. Already has property been sacri
ficed, in considerable quantities, in this and neigh
boring counties, for less than half its value. We
have but little money in circulation, aad that lit
tle is daily diminishing by the universal calls of
the banks. Neither land, negroes, or any other
article, can be sold for half their value, in rash,
w hile executions to the amount of many hundred
thousand dollars arc hanging over the heads of
our citizens. What .caii be done? In a few
mouths no debt call |#c paid, no money will be in
circulation to answer the ordinary purposes of
human life. Warrants, writs, and executions w ill
be more abundant than bank notes, and the coun
try will present a scene of scuffling for the poor
remnants of individual fortunes, which the world
has never witnessed.
What shall be done? Cannot the banks relieve
us? If they can, they will not. Is not this a state
of things which requires the interposition of the
supreme power?
Fellow citizens, let usburv cur private animo
sities, and commune together on the means most
likely to alleviate present distresses, and avert the
calamities whic h threaten to cover our once hap
py state with bankrupts and beggars.
Prom the Baldywrc Patriot.
IMPORTANT TO MERCHANTS. ‘
Extract of a Circular from the Treasury Department to
the Collector of the Customs.
“It has also been made a question, whether, in
Case of the'importation of goods purchased for a
commercial house in the United States, by a part
ner residing abroad, the invoices arc required to
he verified by such partner, under the Bth sec
tion of the act; which has been decided in the
affirmative, as will be seen from the enclosed cir
cular letter of the secretary of the treasury, to
the consuls of the United States, in foreign coun
tries. sfW ■.
“Once acjmit the principle, that the residence
ip the United States of one or more of the part
ners of the commercial house, will exempt the
partners residing abroad from a compliance w ith
the regulations prescribed in the Bth section of
the act, and you place in their hands, the means
ol*defeating, in a great measure, the object and
policy of the law.
“It has been* supposed by some, that in case
there be no American cousul, at the port of ship
ment, the verification might be made before a
notary public, or other officer duly authorised to
administer oaths —but the proviso in the Bth sec
tion will not admit of such a construction. It
says, ‘that if there be no consul of the United
States in the country from whence the shipment
of goods, wares or merchandize, is made, See.
“According to the terms of the proviso, al
though there be no American consul at the port
of shipment, yet if there be such a consul in the
country , in whitth that port is situated, the invoi
ces must be verified before him.
*‘The sense in which the word country, as
used in the law, is to he understood, is, tfiat Eng
land is one country —Ireland another, and Scot
land,;£cc. another. •
“It having been intimated to the treasury, that
bv the laws of England, the consuls of the Unit
ed States, resident therein, could not administer
oaths, the secretary of the treasury, in the circu
lar communication already alluded to, lias made
the following regulation:
“In all cases, w here by the municipal laws of
tire country in w liich they exercise their functions,
they are restrained from administering oaths,
the verification required by the eighth section of
the act may he made, in the presence of the re
sident consul, before any magistrate duly author
ized to administer oaths —and such consul shall
certify not only the official character of the officer
and was administered in his pre
y resy>eVt vho:<i it ttja
istered is of respectable character, and who, ac
cording to me provisions of the said act, ought
to verify the said invoices.”
“Different opinions have also been entertained
as to the correct construction of the 3utli section
of that act.
“When goods, liable to an ad-valorem duty,
are imported into the United States, me invoices
of which are required to he verified, or are veri
fied, but not in conformity with law, ad the pack
ages arc to be opened, and every article is to be
appraised in the manner pointed out in the ninth
section of the ad. The doubts expressed, have
been, whether although the appraised value may
not lie greater.than the invoice value , or if great
er, but may not exceed it by twenty-five per cen
tum, the addition of fifty per centum mentioned
in the eleventh section, is to be made to the ap
praised value.
“In on* or two cases, in which it satisfactorily
appeared, that the owners of the goods w ere led
into an error, by a misconstruction of the law, by
a consul of the United States, it was considered
reasonable not to exact the penalty of fifty per
centum: but in all cases, in which an omission
takes place in the verification of invoices, requir
ed to be verified, and the omission be ascribable
to the owner of the goods, you are to add fifty per
centum to the apfltaised value , the thirteenth
section saying that, goods not admitted to entry,
for want of the verification required by the eighth
section, ‘■shall be subject to the same appraise
ment and to the same addition to the appraised
value, us are prescribed by the eleventh section,
isV.’ the construction giveti to which, by the sec
retary', is, that the failure to produce invoices du
ly verified should, in contemplation of law, be
considered equivalent to the act of fraudulently
invoicing merchandize at twenty-five per centum
below its real value.
“Considerable difficulties have occured in set
ting the principles upon w'hich discounts should
be allowed in the computation of duties.
“It if the practice in some foreign countries,
but particularly in England, to make out the in
voices in certain, fixed or standard nominal prices ,
and then to make discounts of different kinds
from those prices, regulated by the general state
of the market, and the selling prices at the time.
“From the positive language used in the twen
ty-first section of the act of the 20th of April,
1818, supplementary to the collection law of
1799, it is the opinion of the treasury, that dis
counts of the character alluded to, cannot be al
lowed in the computation of duties.
“It is only discounts, which the importer shall
expressly state on oath or affirmation, were actu
ally and bona fide allowed to the owner or owners
of the goods, iu payment made for the same, be
fore their shipment, that can, according to the
terms of that section, be admitted.
“It becomes necessary, therefore, that the prac
tice of introducing those standard nominal prices
should be discontinued, and that the invoices
should exhibit the true value, without any dis
count, except such as may be actually and bona
fide allowed in payment made for the goods.
“To effect this desirable object, the secretary
of the treasury, in the accompanying circular, has
requested our consuls to use their endeavors to
have the course contemplated adopted; and has
also’ requested them to cause the discounts to be
made on each invoice, and not upon summary,or
recapitulatory statements, as has sometimes been
practised, and w hich has always been discounte
nanced by the treasury.”
SAMPSON’S REPORT.
A report of the case of Maurice vs Judd, rela
tive to the inspection of fish oil, which was late
ly tried in the mayor’s court, and gave rise to the
curious question, whether a whale is a fish, has
just been published by Van “Winkle, as repoited
by Mr. Sampson. The examination of the wit-’
nesses on this; occasion, gaVe rise” to a good deal
of humor at the trial, and much profound learn
ing it seems was displayed both by Dr. Mitchell
and counsellor Sampson on this occasion, so that
the court and jury were almost as much puzzled
as in the famous case of Westerio, in which the
question was whether a black man could be the
lather of a white child; and in which the learned
doctor was in the affirmative. ,
Capt. Preserved Fish having stated in his evi
dence, that all fish have perpendicular tails, but
that the whale tribe have them in a horizontal po
sition, Dr. Mitchell observed, that if whales and
flounders could go upon their edge, they would
have their fins in the same position as the rest of
the finny tribe.
Question by Sampson to Dr. Mitchell.
Q. They would, nevertheless, if they took the
fancy to play the antic in that manner, astonish
the other natives of the ’deep, as they would pre
sent two sides of two different colors, a white and
a brown; as capt. Fish might say, the starboard
side white, and the larboard side mud color. And
how would their eyes appear? Would they not
have a little of a squint?
A. It is true the two eyes would be on the one
side.
Q. Then the white side would see nothing, and
some designing fish would take them by the
blind side?
The following was also put to'the same wit
ness:
Q. If, then, they are provided with hands and
arms, it is natuial to expect fingers and thumbs.
How is it as to the carpus, metacarpus, and pha
langes; are they present; if so, could they use
them for ordinary purposes, as to thread a needle,
or do this? (taking a pinch of snuff.)
The witness, after softie consideration, observ
ed that these extremities tvere covered with a
membrane or web.
Q. Like people that wear mittens—No won
der they are awkward, and all their fingers like
thumbs, as the saying goes?
A. Their arms are, nevertheless, pretty fully
! the mntitjy, sti rftgch'ai to enable ft so t kc its ixi
by in its arms and carry it on shore, thus, (using
I a significant gesture.)—The females of this fann
• ly wear whiskers.
1 Q. She is then sometimes n wet nurse and
“sometimes a dry nurse, or an amphibious nur ,0;
iit zoology, the whiskered lady,
-The learned doctor being asked his opinion a
bout the kruken, said that one writer had dtscrib
! ed it a mile and a half in diameter, but that ITmj
gives it only four acres of extenr; that the e lude,
; feeds upon it; and that a hungry whale has beer;
1 known to bite off one of its huge paws, a- Jar'>-.
; as the mast of a ship, and make a meal of it.
Tne readers of this report will be much amus
ed by the “keen encounter of the wits ’ of the
learned doctor and the no less learned couns illor,
in solving this profound problem. The foiiov. iir
is a specimen of Mr. Sampson’s droller}:
“When it is considered that our waters abound
with the dolphins, so much inclined by nature to
aid and succor us, that the larger kinds are onlv
banished by our cruelty from our shores; and
seeing it is well attested that their milk resc: ffiles
that of cows, with the addition of cream, (see Dr
Brewster's Cyclop, article Cetology,) would ‘
not be worthy the wisdom of our statistical, m; ■”
cultural, and economical societies, to turn their
attention to this weighty consideration, whether
these creatures might not by good treatment be.
induced to lend their aid to the navigation of ou
waters, and to furnish us in return for our hospi
tality, with abundance of nutrition? Mow far they
may be used in our great canals, where there 1.
none but fresh water, may be a question; bu f ;
there is no reason, provided the overslaugh can
be deepened, why judges and lawyers, legislators
and politicians, office-hunters and lobby-mem
bers, may not, before many years, in their atten
dance upon the terms, enjoy the advantage of c
conveyance upon a whale’s back, infinitely sur
passing the speed of the steam boat; and th >
shores of the Wallabout may resound with the
music which calls the dolphins to be milked, ar.d
be studded with villas where the citizens shall re
pair to enjoy country air and dolphin’s whey.
The bay of Goanncs seems designed by nature
for the reception of the whales; from them will
be derived a rich supply of butter and cheese for
home consumption and foreign commerce. An
other important acquisition will be the defence
and safety cf our harbor. If one of Claudius’s
gallies was swamped by a single whale, over
powered and stranded as it was, what would be
the fire of a three-decker, or a pMogobombo- ,
against an inundation from the snouts of three
hundred well disciplined whales? It is evident,
that the use of fire engines will be superseded.
“If this appear visionary, it should be remem
bered how the steam-boat was, till its completion,
a subject of derision to the incredulous.”— .V. Y
Evening Post.
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