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Si!L'RIFFS.CI .ERKS,and other public officers, widhave 25 per cent, deducted in their favor. Finn the London Court Journal. ANINrE RVi E W WI HI T(I E MO - TH ER Ob' NAPOLEON. News having just arrived in town. of the death of the above celebrated lady,we are m >st happy in having it in our po*c> to ftitiMi our readers with a personal sketch of her, from tho pen of an English lady of high ra ik and literary distinc tion. I saw this rem likable and in eresting person, for the first time, in the begin ning of Mav, 1828, in tho gardens of the Vigaa Palatina, on the Jbnto I’oletiuaJ tho beautiful v.il tof Mr. Mills. Sue li id C'>mo, attended by her son Jerum-, ex* King of V/es’ph iiia, his wife, thePrin ce«s Catha: ice, d t ’glrer of the King ofj Wirtembmg, and her Chaplain, D one do Campagnie. and iheir other attendants. Having heaid that Madatna Mere dis liked meeting strangers, we retired t • a distant part <f the gaulcn, but Jerotn* having seen my carriage iu tho coml yard, sent to request that we should j-’in them I and he presented us to his mmeer and ! wife. Maduiie Le ilia Sooapaite* is tali' and sligh', biih a m st dignified and graceful carriage; hei face is even still re. m irkably handsome, bearing pr-.of of ? <p accuracy of the resemblance ol Cinnva s admirable statue of her; and afi >er par sauifica ion r>f a Roman matron could no. be found, than this Hecuba of the In peri al Dynasty. She is male, and the ex pression of her countenance is ol a sub died and pensive c ist, unless when light cd <.p occasional!., when her dark eve s-'ueds for a moyieui a gleam >-f animation; b it even when animated, her minner re, tains its dignified composure, and she seems born to represent the mother of Kings. Jerome and his excellent wife treat her with a watchful and respectful tenderness; each supported her, and suit ed their pace to her feeble steps, listen ing wi h tiituDiion to her observations.— She was dieted io a robe of rich d.ukj g'rey satin, a bound of the ?ame m it-nah,' worn over a lace cap, with a black blj de veil falling over i'; and her h iir ahi Madonna (her om wh’tn hair.) fi iism-d one of Ih© must iireies i»g pictures 1 cv r saw A superb Caduji; re shawl,! that loosed like a tribute from some bar I brnic S. vcrrigii fell gracefelly over her I sh-'uldo 3 ; her feel are sin ill and fi <ely form- d, a. *1 her bauds adtn.ruble Oi ' presenting us. Jerome said something fl it-1 tering about the liberal politics of m . hus- i band, and this insured us a giaci- us re-| ception from Mid me Mere, wh > looks on all liberal members of the House -if: Pailiameut, as having been kindly dis. > posed towards Napoleon, who is still thej tlol ot her thoughts. She expressed this j in a few ords; and when 1 told her that I Napoleon had many admirers in England who did justice to Ins gieat genius and ta* leu's, she picssed my hint), mid a tear glistened in her eye. ‘Why did ynui na tion let mv brave son die on a rock?’ said she; ‘C odd no less terrific pris n be lout'd? ‘B it paidon we, bear with the fei lings ufa mother bereaved of such a sm. I know it was not the fault of vour nation, and I am grateful for their sym pathy.*—Jerome & his amiable wiftj turn ed the c vtv -is iti m o other subjects, in which Madame Mere joined but by mon osyilabl s; thong!) her manner was ga Cinos and geiple, with ouch of;h.i' ffec ti >na:e earnestness which dis'i guishes the inannets <»f Italian ladies, and -. attic u- icly ti ose -f advanced \ ears and high rank. When we had n tde the tour of the garden, walking verv slowly, n l t-» fitigut) her, she cn'ere.d her carriage, io «> which she was .assisted by Jereme an 1 mt husbtnd; Jororne and his wife kissed her baud, th* Princess perfurmi'g tho cere» m-ruy as if a diadem circled the or< ws of Le'.itia, and that she herself bad not worn one. Madame Mere invited as to vid 1 her, and at parting.'oiiched my fore he ;d w h but lips, and shook hands with my hnsbau 1, saying kind and amiable things to us boilt. The gentlemen, inch) ding Jerome, all remained uncovered un til be - carriag’ hid driven off, when her famil . and suite entered ihrir’s and fol lowed her. fiie-e was something h’ghlv scenic in the while <-f out peeking wh tins remark abb*-w man. Here was the mother >'fa Ca? ii .walking amid the mins of me Pai ne ol the ( ae ns, lamenting a sun fame had fi eo the four qn iiters of the pl be & foimed an epoch in the history ol E r re ; he t tiering Jtei>s supported by tiiu-her sou Ir-'m whose br w the'diadem had been torn, and wh-'.now shorn of his splend tir, reminded one ->♦ the Poet’s de scri i.ion -f i demroned -vereign. ‘He .»h» h is worn a Crown, V, h'u css t nKi gs. is less than mher men; r. i J en'f'.ar exi ,»-n.sb’it, leaving blank |i j j- a ein tie .ven? Tl»e ' ther swpp. r'cr of Madame Mere a'ided much to tb< i ffect of the picture. The daughter of K ugs of the old legiti mam stock,and al dto Half-h? reignii gr S vereigos of our eta . she has nobly, fe * 1 b.s sketch i cxti \ te I from aMS Journal, apd w us made at the time to which it relc;e» mininely, and wisely, adhered to the fallen fortunes of her husband, resis'ed the brilliant offers of her family, 4* shares 'he present obscure destiny of him on whose throne she shed a lustre. There is s -tnething touchingly beautiful in the respectful tenderness of this admirable P'incess towards the aged mo.her ol her husband, and her afftctionate attention t-> hnn an<l her children, with the unaff-cted sweetness of her manners,inspired us with a deeper reverence for h-r than the pos session of the inns! brilliant Crown could have excised in our minds. Co| >nel Tiburee Sebastiani, blither to the General of that name, a Corsican by birth, an I connected with the B maparte family, told me that A/adamo Mere’s ac cmichement of Napoleon took place in a salon, on a carpet, on which was repre sented a scene in the ’lliad.’ She hid been at church, where she was taken ill, and had only time to be brought hi'o a s ilon, when she gave birth to a hero, who was to create as much wonder m modern days as did any of those of Ho mer in ancient times. I might serve as curious matter for specula ion to idealist , how far this natal con act wi'h imaged heroes might have influenced the future destiny of Nopole lit; and here are not Wanting persons who would maintain dial it hid some effect, —so t»r<.ne arb min kind to supers itiou. Great as all rn ist allow h;m to have been, pot bven his tai en s would have raided Napoleon to the eminoace he reached,h id not circumsta i ces, over which ho hid no cantroul, ren dered his ascen' prac icable, Col mid So basti ini told <rs, that while her ch-ld eti were vet in infancy, Lotilia had been re markable f r the dignity and seii-o isses sion of nor c!) tractor and conduct. Wall a large family and a small income, she prac ised 'he m is ng: I Wstß i) of ec mo my, without ever comioscending to any meanness; and'his piudoace seemed in her mu. h more he result of a laudable pride than of avarice. In latter years, when she saw het s n ”.-’t only a king himself, n't! -h? d:<a-)- >r of kings, widi ail Europe I king to him as the arbiter of aer destiny ( ho nation of shopkeepers on'y excepted tram his worshippers,) neither tho palace, nor income of a mil lion of francs, tbai he assigned her, could blind her to mo lusecurny of his p iwer, which she saw was based upon sand, while all others looked up ti it as built on a rock. The ccoij -my u-geu by f»e sight, and practised bv Letit'ii at that period,has enabled her to suppo t her st t tion with decent digniti, and reude. s her old age free from the cares of pecuniary cues deration. With Nip ’lo -n’s qiick p< rcepti >a and haughty m ud, it was peculiarly f r tunato that his mothei’s ap >earaiica was so calculated t>>'■upp nt the diguhy to which she was called; he :a I and ibg'ui person, gracatul carnage, dis'icg'.n-heu \ features, and cold, bin p ill© tiiaouers, 'CCiDcd fortnad to ca-i a lustra over tiio pari sire had to fill. It is recorded of her, thin one day, at ho Pa tee of the Tuilleres, N i,>o eon,walking up aud d >.Vn in ooe t<f the galleries, was app cached by different high personage;-, who bad the entree, and iviuciine to kiss his hand; some of the d:ffe:e <t in>*mbeis of the In penal fa uily were am i.ig the numoei , and Vladttne Mere etnered when the cir cle was le.luced to only a lew individuals oi the family; when she approached, Na poleon, with a g aciou, suiiie, off)- ed her his hand, as ue hid d no to his sisters and brother*, but she pushed i gen ly aside, aud holding ou' bers to be i kissed, said in Itah tn, ‘you ate the Em ! perer, the Sovereign oi all the theis, but you me my son.’ Nap Ie n took the hand, and kissed it •tleciiona ely and re spectfully, and probably tell ai the 4110- taent ilia* this re,a'»>>f or ved bis m jlher was worthy <•! the hign Maum wh ch she filled. Tiie etnme .ee 11 winch Napo leon wis raised lutgli have d zr. e i a ie>» strong uitt'l, and rotidered gi ,ly a less steady bead, than thm o' Letitia; b i s>u was iei her to be ela ed Uv prO'pjri v, nor depressed by adve si y /a N> > > leon’s m st ptosperous days, she has’ been heaid th douu he co.-sia cy ui lor. tune; and since lie h istal ea item a height that tew but h m couiu hive uuaitied, i is evident tha- she m u ns ihe sun of her heart more than me Emperor of her pride; he reverses of the iat.er she could bear, but me cap ivity and exile of the former h>s bowed her to the earth. Tim Due de Reichstadt occupies much of her thoughts; and, s ac© N ipolemi’s death, they revert continually t> tin.* tmeresiiog youth; there is s little display or flip pancy in the manners of Leti ia, th u conclusions are drawn m > e from the ex pressi n of her countenance, shakes of the bead, oi sighs, than from her words.— Though gracious aud kind, she is not communica ive or de noustia ive, atid there *s a natural dignity ib ut her, th st must ever check the incursions of curios ity. She may wetl be called the Niobe of mothers; for, if her offspiing have n t , been physically destroy ed befoi e her eyes, they have been, <>ne by one, limned from the thrones where they had been seated. —exiled from the scenes of thejr great’ Hess, and shorn of the splendour with whi -h she fiad seen them surroun led, with nu lling left them but the remem brauce of pas'happiness to render the present change .nor insupportable. In religion Letitia finds her only source of c.Hisola'ion; shb bad stood by this prop w hen greatness courted her, and it has n t failed her when all else lias. Her broth er, the Cardinal Fesch, devotes much of his lime to he:; he leads a life of gieat privacy, and is much respected by all who know him. Our readers will have perceived, from the D bate iu the Senate, on FrHa> ,tbat Mr Webs’cr stands pledged to bring fut ward some measure, if public opinion shall appear to justify a movement on his part. H iving said tha' he acts, on this occasion, iu opposition to nobody, and would have preferred f flowing to being b leader in this business, he will, of course we psesume, if he submit any measure, propose such a one as mav be supposed likelv to bo supported by the reasonable and candid among the ruling party in Congress. For ourselves, we cannot but think, as we said in our last, th it affairs are ap proaching an eventful crisis. National Intelligencer. One of t e letters received yesterday, states that even at the Tammany Hall Meeting, res dutionsin favor of a Bank of the U litod States would have been pass ed, but for verv iotel'igiblo intimations received from Washington on the day of the meeting, that nothing m is' he said a hout a Bmk until the vote in Congresson the Deposite question should be taken, ' because the Pennsylvania Delegation in I Congress wo-dd g-> against the Executive on tha question, if any thing was said a bout a -tew Bank, to bo located in New York. lb. DEBATE IN THE SEN ATE OF THE UNI ED STATES. Thursday, Jan. 30, 1834, On New York Resolutions. M . WEBSTER ms?, and exnre-sed a wish to say a few words. The obser vations of the gentleman from Nek- Y -rk he c -nstdered as full of the m >sr porten tons imp-nr. lie considered ihe declar. aliens which h-d been m ule this morn ing, as conveying the settled purpose of the A Iministration, on the great q resnons which n<»w agitated the public mind. Mr. WRIGHT rose to oxplnn that he had given his opinions, as an individu al, and that he had noau hority to express the views of the A I ministration. Mr. WEBSTER said he perfectly well understood ail the gentleman’s disclaim ers and demurrers But it was from the statiou of the gentleman, arid from reia* tioi.s, that he had adopted he conclusion, that every word spoken by'the gentleman had been well considered, and the sub ject of deliberation with himself and with otheis. Here then was an anhuciation to the whole country* io which (wo things were pl duly set f irth. Ist, that the present svs'em —ifstsiem it was to becalled—or suite of things, was to teiniin unaltered,that i-ph'it the public money was to remain uu der the present disposition of the Treasu. rv, and the whole of the fiscal agency of th B inks selected bv tho Secret iry.— That was the fi st point. The g<>nt : e -m in had submi ted it f> die Senat • as his explication, and had declued his deter minati id to support ’he Administration in carrying it though; and ibo gr-allem m! would n i h ive adopted the ex ’;',c-it '-n wibpDi ktl i wing the se., tl nion;s ffthe \d miuistratiop, concerning it. There was •J') pl an for tho reference of the whole m titer to Cmgiess. There seemed io ba n > in'ention to adopt .my system on det the prescriptiou of law. The effect of a legal provision w-rnld be to place the p'lb'ic deoositt's beyond the power of didv change acco ding to the caprice of an Executive officer, bv directing and fixing the ol ice where th y should te m ini. But it was u>w anno-iced lb it an ex; erimen' ( w.is to bo t ied, and noth ing further was to bo done until the fail uro of ch it experiment. There was auollior thing which be had learned, because it was tho gentium in’s ujonion, and he bid -he means ->i enl n’’ cii'£t his opinion, an 1 they with wh> n he hid coefered, and with w'i on he acted, h ive ’.he matins to enforce their opinions, that hey iu'eod to direct against the B ink the faults which are now everywhere ascribed to the Governinent. 1 was to be asser- ed here, and made the topic of decl imaiiou every where, that, notwith standing die removal of the depos’nes, if die Bank bad not acted there would have b en n > pleasure on the country. — Fiie objec- xvas'o divert the complaint f um the G iveinmont, and to fix h up m th -B» ik. He saw this imeuliou in two ie.ii r k . Tim gentleman had said, that no hon ors were to be gained bv the President, from tne act which he was about to ac complished. Thai he was to bung bick legisla i>n t<> its origin i limits, and th i Congress had n<» power t > ere ie a N i tion il Bank. He w -aid not stop to in qui c whe her Cong ess could no' char-er a Bank in this li-tlc District, winch sh>« Id opmate every where h ough-’iF -lie Gu ion? Not the constitin.onal oower to create a Bank! On woat dd this pow •’ rest? L was merely a power which was gramed and exercised for /he purpose of carrying its other powers i>.t • effec. A fiscal agent was necessary for the pu pa ses of the C -vern uent. it, could create th it fisc d agent n aB :>k. Fnis the gentle man had denied,& nad said 'ha' it was no! competent to Congress to create afiscal a gents,institutions not created by itself,but by others,and which were without the coo trol of Congiess. It was admitted that the fiscal agon’ was necessary, and that Congress had the power to employ it, but Congress could not create it, but must take such gents as were already created. He did not know w heie the gentleman could find his author! v for placing the public mo neys in the State Banks. But, if .here were no as the gentleman admitted he necesssity of a Bink, the gentleman could not hold such discord sot opinions as to assert that Congress should, in that c-se create a Bulk. For himself, he confessed he was too obtuse to see the distinction between creating a Bmk.— for 'be use of the Government, and ta king institutions which were already cre.i ted. To make and to use, >o m ike and to hire, could create no difforences, ex ceptthat every consideration of propriety, and expediency, and c nvenience would require that Congress shou d make a Bank which would suit its own purposes and answer its own ends and not use o thei Banks which wete not under its con'.-o!, On two or three other points hs wish, cd to say a word. The gentleman differ ed from him as to tho degree of pressure on the country.He had admitted,thatthere was some pressure. In large cities,he ad milted, there m'ght bo seine, but that ev ery where else tho pressure was limited, would soon be over, and was greatly ex' aggerated. This was all matter of opin ion. It was capable of no proof or dis proof. The avenues of knowledge were opon to all. He could only say that he differed from the gentleman on this point. For the last few weeks, is he had infered from the letters he daily received, the pressure had been gradually increasing, anti he saw no chance of its dminmion, if no measures of relief wero adopted by the Government. But ihe gentleman hasascribed motives. A p -litic d crime, it seems, had been committed! The gentleman was mistaken It was to bring the a imitpstraiion into disfavor that the rem >val of the depos ites «as thus Strongly ceosuredlTlie gen tleman must hive been aware that not vi:hst I'ldjng the great vote by which the N - * Y rk resolutions, were carried,-.here were many and <s ardient friends of the Pes d -nt,as we’e io be foun I anywhere; there had been, f r many weeks, as n 'ens'ing a debate on this subject as hid been heard for these wenty years,and he hadn’t heud, among dl who h l sip pnted he A jininistration, asi- gle Seoi» to: siy that he t.:>proved the rem vol of dm depdsi’es. H° bi I only hoard tna gentleman torn Georgia approach that point, and he did no* contend tha it w>s a wise act. The gentleman fr m Virgin ia, (Mr. Rives,) not in his ai t n > advocated the wisdom oi the inoasme’ He had not met with twenty iudividu its, out «>f Congress, who expressed an a <pi <v <i of it—not ammg the man. thousand' whose opinions he had heard, twen y v > would say that it was a -vise cours r ; but ho ha ! heard individuals -f ample declare,that they would rathe; h ive na ie great sacrifices 'hemselves, thin ih t th deposites should have been removed. Bit it was cnarged dial th > motive of these movements on account of h ■ p ess ore on die co'iotrv, was to b tug ue Pies idem into disgrace. This a. g eat mistake. Every body w;G n t a politt cian. The mind of everv mhi tr tn.* country was not occupied about subver . ing one Administration.and sri ;ng uia an other. The gentleman bad d m*' gea injustice to the People. lie him o f knew that great injustice was thus I-ne t > the mem irta ists from Bosum, so ;i © of wh m vote verv ardient friends >f toe President, a ol wh > could have been i •• fi etict’d by to md! nj ’dvo as vis attn ba'f'fi to hem. B 1 oin relerenro to he conduct of the B tk, he thought he heard yestetday some lung f <>m the geutletn :ti from Pean svlvtuia, indicative of tbu ime-'.ti >n 10 d>.ec' the hastility of the c just ;y the B mk, on account of (he ,p ibltc dis tio-.*. It wis he duty of ho G vero ment ti> have foreseen he. c-ms. q.ienes of tiie removal of ihe doposees; and g*mde men bad no right to say that die liiS'l u iim hid caballed agai, st th*-G'vermnent and ijius b o ght on itself .i.e great risk which must resul' ftom btiugingtih© whole hostility of th© Government on its pro ::e- y nl chmacer. The G-ve’ument h id placed itself in a:i extraoid 1) >ry p >s siiioti "> the c an ry: Fh© law pr >vided a protec'io 1 for the credit and currency of dm c 'iiut.yj but we had seen tho Eve cutivc G iverument breaking down ihe tiatlonai currency. We had seen the la si'rutimi assailed, w liicbjby law, was pro vided to supply tha revenue. Wa< not that a now c rnrse? D d ihe recollection i.f the geu'leme.i furnish any instance? What inslitud <n could stand against such hosiili y? T lie Bmk <>f E 'gland c-mld not have stood against it <1 single hou . The Bank of Fi aoce would hive pe.~ i.-lied at the first hostile bro it h of he Ad tpinistration. But the B ink of the (J u ted S a es had a ell sus ained it* credit ol der eve;y disadvantage, ind had amnio means o sus ain it to the end. Wm had the Bmk done? Tne ge itlemio from New York, and he gen lemm fr«»tn Pennsy vania, had illeged hat it was not nee iU»»* ut he removal >f the dop si es, that 'here vas .mv oressu'S in the c ma. tiy li vas c.u.g -J by he latter, 'hi li 8-nk hid beg hi t<> curtail its dis iuii’s bet u - e the tern >vtl of tne de.msi es, and it <i time viieii it was on'y ex >ected h i they w >ld be rem >ved. D d no the Bmk by l iking thi* C <u;>e, prove (hat it f>r saw correctly whit was to take place, and, because r ad >p rd a course of pre paration; uiorderto b eak the bio v which was ab >ut to fall upon it, his wis to b<- also added to the g; ive ca' 1! gne >1 i s of fences The Bmk, it seem * 1 hid cur tailed to th ■ atu iual of time miilions Had »he, indeed? Aid was i 11 >’ merely ihat amount of deposites which the Govern inent had withdrawn? The Bmk,'hen, had exac/ly curtailed s > much as the G >v ernincßt had drawn awa. l orn it. N - o'lier Bankin the World could have gone <>n with so small a cu<tailmen'. While ptiblic confidence diminishing all a touii * the B tuk; it only curtailed just as much as it had lost by tho act of ihe Government. The B ink would have been justified, even without the wi hdraw al of the deposites, in curt tiling its dis counts; gradually,and cominuing to do so to 'be end of its chat/er. The Govern ment had refused to recharter it its imm <>f existence was rapidly shortening; one of the last acts it could peifuim was collections, and ttie process of collection ought to have commenced, it would have therefute, been its du:y to begin its cur tailments. He hoped that be had not been misun derstood in bis remarks the other morn ing. The getitlem iu from N w York bad|been 1 e,>resented!as saying: at it was no: the removal of the deposi es w hich had caused the pub'ic distress. What he had said, was that,if the Government had required twice nine uiilli ns fm its ser vice, the withdrawal vs that amount from thg Bank, with out any inferrtiptwn of the good understanding between the Gov ernment and the Bank, w >uld not have caused this pressure. Every thing turned, on the circumstances under which the withdrawal was made. If public confi dence was n<>t shaken, all was well; but, if it was, all—all was difficulty and dis tress. , Again: a word on the subject of motive. It was said by the gentletnin from New-: Ymk, that government had no design a gainst the B in-: hit it only desired to withdraw the public deposites. Yet, in the very paper submitted to Congress bv tho Executive Department, the Bank is described as unconstitutional —as bav'mg broken its charter violated its ebl-g'i tions, and that its very existence was dan gerous to the country ! Was not all this calculated to injure the chatacter of the Bank? Tho Bank had its f >reign connec ions, and was much engaged in the basinets of foreign ex changes • and what w old be thought at Paris and L »ndon 4 when they saw all , th-so allegations made by tho G overn ment agai -s a Bmk, in which they had always reposed the highest confidence? •Did not this injure i f s reputation ? Did it | no- co npel it to take a defensive auitude? The gentleman fr-’in New-York had talk ed ab Hit the power in the country to put d iva th • Bank ; and abou d >iug /is our faiht ts did in 'lie time of the Revolution; rnd hid called’on the People to rise and o’>t down this- tn mev power, as our an cestors had put down tho oppressive rule - f Gen B ttain. All this was enough calculated to pro -1 ice theeffi’Ct which wis intended abroad hut twn v-<rv wide of the true qaesiioi : and ho Aoold vetHure a predict) u now, that -he 1 >ngi»- gen lemeu p irsued the ex peri-imo* which they devised, of collect i 7 i)p public revenue bv th' Stmeßinks, h* m -io no ftj.- I would they be satisfied th i it r -uM o<r succeed. The gen leman t'.a I sofl' rod himself to be led away by fsisn an loss es. H,» said, -ha', when this Bmk ex o- d. there *»ould be the same la vs -t< ex'stod wir-n the eld Batik expir ed,. Now; would it ti -t be the iofeibnce of eve-v wise mm. that there would also b • sane me >-ivmiieiico as there was th o? tie ihe-i duew a pictnie of tilings when the Go -o nm-’Ot found it necessary t > charter the old Binkin 1791; which expired : <i 1811.— Tim wat c mio on the rex' year. Tho Siu B inks all then stopped specie pay and. before the war had continued iweivo nonth», there was a pioposition f > i Uni c-j States Bank; and his propo sal was renewed year afer year. Who stio n: ted this propositi m? The i idivid-rils who hid opp so J the foimm Bank, and wh > now desire r> h ive such a-; institution. They took the Bank, The ■ co sri m -f the ward d not d) a;vay he necessity for i’s c iPtflinnce. hhas boon votifieJ, by experience, that the Bank is as necessary in time of peace as in war,and, perhaps, more necessary, f o the purpose of facilitating the comm rcial operations of the couti'ry. It had now been alleged that wo are io be left in the same Condition, as to laws, as when the aid B ink expired, and, of course, ihat we are to be subjected to the same iucouve uiences. For the convenience of the G •vemmeni and of the country, h’. c must be some bank, and he should wish to hear the views of 'he Admhlis'tation as to this point. He was not so wed led to this Bank as not to be willing to bear any other plan which humm ingenuity migb: devise, if any other fe isib e Scheme Coutu be deyis< d I’he Bito co retiry bad heretofore been circuia-ed tiverv when; it met the warns every mic; 't wasco iv mmol and and safe. It was impossible fur Con.ress t i enact a certain val-te on the papet of the S ite Biiiks. They might say th it hese B -.nks we e entil’ed m credit; but thevemll not legist.i e them int i the opmioi) and faith of the Public. The e mist t ike .li-Jii ow i comse. It cDuld ne ver happen that the N Y uk n -tes would Ue at ,>a> value i • L uis an t, or that ’he no e» of the Lauioana B mks would ie at par iu N Y ok. Fee la.v had now cunvtiiH'cd a u ulor it medium oi value everv wii ne; and ee w aid say th u there wisn >t to be f-Hiii i m the wiiole world ao iiher instiiuu >:i liffh die Bank of the U. S. There was no ms aace oi a Bmk, Ah >se papei had spread iver s > wide a •uoiCH'il country, a-nl was eveiy where of such eq ial Value. H-w could it be bat a number of Stale Batiks, reaching i-ver 2t);0O n les of countiy, subject to be c*Hr> Itt-d only by S ato Legislatures aud State tribunals, without, the possibility of auy geueiul conceit • t ac i> n, could be m imianmd as an adequate sub-li ute for Mich a Bank? It culd not be. He saw in me doctrines which had been advanced i - .day, ohly new distress and disaster,new insecurity, aud m ie danger to proper y, (han the country had experienced fur ma ny years; because it was in vain to talk about the occupations of industry unless props, ty was made secuie, or of the value • f lab t unless its recompense was sale.— Bitthe opportunity would occur for re suming this subject hereafter. A said or tw<> on another subject. It had been said by him, on a former, day, tha this question did not necessarily draw after i Atie question of re-chartenng-he U. S. Bmk. It left hat question for fu ture adjustment. But the piesent ques tion involved high puli ical cons>derati as, which he was not now about todiscu s.— If the question of 'fie removal ofshe d- *■ poshes were nut now taken into view, gentlemen would be bound o yo'e on the resolutions of the Senator iro n Keo uc. kv, as to the power which had been claim ed and exercised. The question /hen was not as to the B ink. But he would iepeat, that, huwe.pr gentlemen might fl it'er themse.ves it it sh "iid not be se tied .hit the ded >sHes we-e to be resmr ed,-> • hmg would be sen.ed,and negative lesuluth ‘is uoold not tr-mq i I’Z"'be coo ntry inm q opsence au repose. Ibe ques tion was be! -re tn© country; all *ag;eed that it nao3l he settled by the country.Ho regretted that topics were mixed up with ihe qustionwhicb could prevent it from bo ingsubmined io the calm judgement of the people. Yet he bad entire fait in the pub lic Sentiment. Events were occuring dail ly,which would make the people think for themselves. The industrious, the enterprising, would see the danger which surrounded them, and would awake. Then be should bo satisfied. If the majority of the people should then say there was no necessity for a continuance of this sound and uni versal cunency, he would acquiesce in the judgement, because he could do no other than acquiesce. But if the gentle man from New York was right in his reading <>f the prognostics, and public o’ pinion should settle down iu that way, and it should be determined here that the public money and the public currency were to be placed at the disposal nf twen» four State sovereignties, entrusted with absolute power over the whole subject* this he would say, that one, and not a powerless one, of the bands of the Union was dissolved Mr. WEBSTER concluded with a reference to the condition of 'he country, ' before the adaption of the Federal Con stitution, when the States were anxious to rid 'hemselves of the difficulty and re< sponsibility which attached to them, in consequence of their power over the cur rency; and stated that the adoption of the Constitution was desired for the purpose of getting rid of a state of things, so justly dpsc ibed by one of tho fathers of tha Constitution, as an unnatural coniliton of the couutry when the debtor was ro’ lentlessly pursuing bis creditor, and threatening him with the ruin of payment. A W ’& W WEOXDSOAY.FIIB. 12,(834 j ■ 1.11 Uli Wf MT— O’ We are requested to say that 12 or 13 Stone Masons will receive immediate employ men at the Vaucluse Factory, Edgefleld Dis trict, S. C. The plnn* and specifications for the Edifice,- of the AT dical College of Georgia, are ready to be exmined by those, whi design to make proposals f>r building. It is desirable, that the propositions should be handed to the Budding Com nitlee as soon as possible. Rail Road St ck —The Athens Burvier, of the Sth inst. cays that boohs for receiving subscriptions to stock in the‘Georgia Rail Road Cosiipary’ were opened in that p ace on Mon day last Over half the arnout li-rited by tlis rbarter (2500 shares) to this place ha.-e beet} subscribed; and we are informed there is little doubt but Hitt the whole amount will be taken before the looks are cl-aed on Thursday n-xt,? The state of ass .itsiu 3. Carolina, the fruit oi in illness in the NulliS rs, is likely again to be; come as appalling, as ths last February was ex pected to be. Ou the 3-1 inst. 12 to 1500 Union men met in Greenville, who were not disposed to emigrate and leave the h.om-s of (heir fathers, . and were as Utile disposed to submit to disfraij* chhement by h *ir political adversaries. The numbers that have left the State this winter, though nothing like whit it was ihe same time last year, is slowly draining off the best blood and treasure of poor Carolina. The resolutions at Greenville and Spartanbrirg simultaneously breathe th ; same spiiitod determination to ‘ live freemen. 1 ' The Cataract of the G nges lias attracted two overflowing Houses iii the Circui, and will be performed To-night again, for the Benefit o£ Mr. Debious, with other entertainments. The perform, uces we learn will close with this week. They have never been excelled here in their pe,- culiar l : ne, and have, we hope, rewarded the Manager for thj expense and trouble necessax. ■ rily encountered in their exhibition. O’ We are requested to say, ihat Mr. ! Dgw.ns wiil take his benefit To mutrow night. ■ Extract of a letter fiom one oi oar Ktpresenta fives in Co'giess, dated lYa.liinglon City, 3d, Feb 1834. The view you have taken of the Deposit Ques tion is the correct one, and as we understand it heie ihe real question is re charter or no re charter—and Mi. Binney decidedly the ab.est friend (he bank, hasiii either house, unless Webs ter should be hrs superior,—a» a so, »lr. Webs ter have both a minted ihat ihe removal of the 9 mdl ons of deposits, or oft vice that sum front the Bank, cmild not p rse nave produced, tac distress watch is aliened to exist tn the Com mercial cities, t ut in order to do away the effect oi this admission, which they were bound to make in order to sustain their own charade s for truth and cand ur, they say that the distress arises from the want of loufideuce in the cur rency and money market, ari lug from the f»*ar of the c inm.mitv, that life Bank, will not be re chartered and thereby the uni.ormity and sta bility of the currency wiii be destroyed—and from this they argue th ;t the Bank must be re cbartered o* some oilier ot a simitar character formed. The whole f their argument against the removal is based upon the ground of a viola tion of the faith of the Nation, a;d the effect produced by the removal upon the quest! »u of recharter. la Senate th -re is a majority of about eight against the administration, but we shall have a m tjority ol 10 to 20 against a return of the de.- poii s in tne Hnuse. We had a vole this evening which, though on a mere question of reference, was a party vote* and a pretty g >od test, aud our m jority was IS. It arose ou a mem -rtai from the. merchants <>f New York, upon Hie su'uject of distress m the money market. The friends of the ba.<k wished to send it to a select committee, aud we wished to send it to the committee of Ways and Means, Where ail the oth r petitions a d memorials of like baracter had gone—and we succeeded a< above stated. Upon the depasite question the vote of Geor gia wil; d? thus—for a return of the deposites— ‘Vilde, Gamble, Foster, Clayton, 4—against—, Wayue, Gi mer, Ccff-e, Jones, Schley, 5. I have i vestigated the batik question with *■ some ait' nu m since I iiave been here, and am decidedly of opinion that Congress has no pow. er io grant a charter to such a bank, and be •ievingso, I shall of cour e vote against it—ora j.-turn of the deposites—and even if I believed ,h a,ik constitutional i should vote against a return, of the d. posites, because the ank hat acted iu u h a corrupt and shameful manner with h; funds iu their bands—aud used its pow rs to force the people to compel their repre se. tatives to grant t e charter. The’ whole movements of the friends of the bank here, and? elsewhere, are directed to that objeej. Jjjj
