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=*E ;* From the Boston Daily Advertiser. -r STEAM BOAtS. Mr. "#lAt*—*Jn yottr >paper of 'Saturday -I. submitted &ome general remarks ihtelatlon to steam boats, and the tnrtuft of Eton’s mdrit in establishing them, My de- algn at-prestht is to consider their comparative safety on tbe ocean as for as we can jidge before trial. Ah unfavorable opinion of them ! ih this quarter pre vails meat,' among men accustomed “to the sea and who >*est know its dangers. This fact wcnld he alarming, "were there not reason for supposing that-both the boat *od its machinery are but imperfectly understood, and their susceptibility of modification quite overlooked.-— This unfavorable opinion is grounded chiefly on two as sumptions—that they cannot be as strong as other vessel* —and that the mechanism will get continually deranged W the motion of the sea. The former of these notions ih entirely unfounded, and the latter is so in a gteat mea gre. There is no reason whatever why the* boats -should not be made as strong as any other vessel—for in deed if necessary they might be made precisely the same.. As to derangement of the machinery, it will no more be Caused bv auv variation from a level (unless by <&cas of «ich violence’ as would destroy any vessel) than that of common a watch for all the braces and other fixed parts may be kS strong, compared with the acting ones, as in the watch But suppose them derate ed or broken* no danger Will thence accrue—as regards the life ef the aboat those parts are not vital—the only consequence would •be a short delay. A boat too can carry spare’ wheels *nd other large pieces as well as a ship spare rigging, «nd the smaller parts can be repaired on board. It seems therefore pretty evident that the safety of a steam boat, need not be endangered by weakness and Would not be Sty derangement of its machinery. ■ The pnlv accident peculiar to .steam boats, affecting their safety, as far as I can imagine is the bursting of the Boiler. This indeed is a terrible one, even on shore, and at sea we admit the consequence might be still more dis ■astrous, even the destruction of the boat. But the chance ©T such an occurrence is vaslly-less than is generally sup posed. In all England, where the number of engines constantly at work is some thousands, such an accident does not happen now perhaps once a year. When it does, it is always tlie effect of carelessness and could, no more take place with suitable vigilance, than the sides of a room cddld burst out while there was a free vent up the dhimney. By proper precautions the danger of ex plosion might be rendered incalculably snial I, and would imply as gross negligence, as running a ship on Castle Island in aelear day.. Let us now reverse the picture and see how far the common dangers of the sea will be lessened or' quite re moved by steam boats—these are so numerous and so va rious as almost to preclude a methodical arrangement— T shall therfore notice them promiscuously as they may affected by each peculiarity of these vessels. The most important perhaps of the many advantages tffa steam boat is that its propelling power is inherent and controtable—it may be instantaneously stopped, and as quickly re-applied in all its energy, or it may be gra duated at pleasure. This is almost inestimable—con trast this with the fickleness and tyranny of the wind, often blowing-bard when we don’t want it, or calm when we do—in the one case, by its violence driving ships on the rotks; in the other, affording no assistance to clear them. „ Men accustomed to the sea can describe, and we who -are not can imagine various critical situations in which tships are often caught—among rocks, or sands, or is lands of ice—meeting other Vessels in the night—i n nar- row straits or channels—or on a lee shore. “In manysuch situations as these and others, when with a wind too light ©r two low, or adverse, other vessels would be lost, a steam boat would often be saved by her own controlable and efficient power. Another essential advantage they possess, is their small masting and light rigging—the wind, being availed of on ly when fair, and then merely as an auxiliary power—• the masts are very low, and the masts and rigging light,— In some of the New-York boats of three hundred tons, the weight aloft is less than in a common’ schooner of wne hundred. The security derived from this peculiari ty is very important. The- immense weight of a ship’s jigging placed high aloft on such a powerful lever, and tending when varied from a perpendicular to press-her over, is the greatest defect in her construction—though perhaps an unavoidable one; while rolling or pitching, it strains a vessel prodigiously, and thus leads to dangers not felt' at the moment. Ships too ait often upset in moderate weather by imprudently carrying sail, and of ten thrown on their beam-ends while lying to, without soil, principally in consequence of the weight aloft.— T'rom all these dangers, and they certainiy are not trivial, a steam-boat will be gxempt. Another valuable advantage in steam-boats is their shallowness—drawing not half so much water as other vessels of the same size. Tlie dangers that tttay be avoid! cd by tliis quality, may readily be conceived hut not easi ly estimated. "Who can number the-'rocks and shoal* and other submerged obstructions they might safely pass over* which woulti be fatal to other vessels of equal size? ... Besides their diminished liability, however, to strike, they have another source "of security in their flat bot toms; when they do strike they will rarely upset. Lastly, a'steam-boat is endowed- with-another- advan tage, not inferior in, importance perhaps to either of tl>e foregoing, whichis the wonderful capability of the en gine to free her from water in case of. leaks. Conceive the effect o)fapplying the whole of this. power, if requi site, to half a dozen; common pumps, or two such' as Ver kin’s, andconsiderrits ability thus to operate for days or week* together, and then you can imagine how often it might happen that leaks which are fatal to common ves- . sels, would not be so, to these. In most of such eases as are now destructive, one quarter of the steam power fhua-constantly applied, ..would probably suffice to up hold the boat, while tlie remainder conveyed her safely to port. These are leading features in the construction of steam boats that induce a greater security, and I am not con scious that the view taken of them is exaggerated.— Those, however, who may think it so, cannot help, never theless,admitting. to be advantages what have been stat ed as such, because they result from qualities that have been aimed at in all vessels. Shallowness of the hull and lightness of rigging, have, in all ages, been desi derata in the act of ship building, and have,'in fact, been approached as far as the nature of the moving power would permit—but with the power of steam they may be united iij almost any degree—and few, I believ e, will, on reflection, deny that they confer an increased securi ty much more than counterbalancing the only risk pecu liar to steam-boats—that of explosion. But whether the first of these vessels .that navigates the Atlantic will combine all tlie means of security suggest ed, is another'point—-she probably will, however, irr a degree to reduce the snm of her dangers to that of other vessels; we cannot expect, however/ to see exemplified all the security they are susceptible of,' imtii boats are constructed expressly for tlie ocean, and ingenuity be- , comes enlightened by* experience. ' - A. B. frfe, as the cfcene fechiblt verv idea of such a thing shpold haVe been even at that tiifle SmdUetflid.dtOweveiytekfly suppose such a case, and treated at as drife .W the / *nost absurd which he could ce&ju^ tqiv Sow rndpS ’mure ritliculov*, then, wouldlt have appeared even to him, if he, could only have takeft hi the whole of the rid’icuioCBMCircum- ^ stances of the base itself;, ifihe had known that, it was a l.ke policy of the/lay TTus-system of! mock fight with a power iShich really, beat his country-, «* shifting sentiments - had to resort to the men every where'else, and that they Serpentine to gain a fictitious victory) Smollet thought it would have been silly enough to have shown the spec tacle on the Serpentine, instead of the Thames—but he must have thought it still more so, to have fought suc cessfully on the Serpeinine, When they were beaten on the broad Atlantic or the Lakes. But to return to the extract, which is from a letter in Smollet’s Travels, written from Nice, March 10th, 1756; “The Roman emperors m imed mure disposed tes ele vate and s nr prise, than to condtftt fh- nubile diversions according to the index of reason and propriety. Ont would imagine, it was with this view theywrttituted their n uim.ichia, or naval engagements, performed by half a dozen small ga lies of a side in an artificial basin offresh water. These gallies I suppose were not so large as fishing-smacks, for they were moved bv two, three, and four oars of aside, according to their differ- rates, biremes, triremes, and quadnremts. I know this is a knotty point not yet determined; and that some an tiquarians believe the Roman gallies hsd different tires or decks of oars; but this is a notion very ill supported, and quite contrary to ali the figures of t hem that are pre served on ancient coins and mi dais. Suetonius, in tlie reign of Domitian, speaking of these fiaumachu, says, Edidtt navatex’pugnas, penejnstamm elassium, effoxxo, et circumducts jux'fa Tyhenm Loess, atgue inter maxi ma* imbrex prospectuvit.” Thisartiticial lake was not larger than the piece of water in lIyde?Park; and yet the historian says, it was almost large enough for real or entire fleets. flow wnrild it younetin the ears o f a British senior, anadver-. tisrment that a mock- engagement between two squadrons tf men of war would be exhibited on xttch a day in the Serpentine liver - or that tlie ships of the lithe taken from the enemy would be carried m procession from Hydt-Park corner to Tower wharf? < ertain it is, Lucultus, in one of liis triumphs, had 110 ships of war (naves long as) car ried through the streets of Rome. Nothing'can gives more contemptible idea of their naval power, than this testimony of their historians, who declare that their sea men or mariners were formed by exercising small row boats in an enclosed pool of fresh water. Had they net the sea within a few mile* of them, and the river Tyber running through their capital! even his would have been much more proper for exercising their watermen, than a pond of still wafer, not much larger than a cold-bath . I clo believe in mv conscience that half a dozen English frigates would have been able to defeat both the contend ing fleets at the famous battle of Actjum, which has been so much celebrated in tlie annals of antiquity, as an event that decided the fate of the empire.”—Travels through France and Italy, ffc. By T. Smollet, Jfl. I).— Vol. 2, p -132—London printed 1766. Thehonor of carrying our ships “in procession from Hyde-Park-Corner to Tower-wharf,” seems to be out of their power to enjoy—unless they employ the discomfitted squadron which they.captured on the Serpentine!—Rich mond Daily Compiler. It is asserted in the correspondence of Baron Grimm, lately published, that Messrs, franklin & Adams, the min isters of this country, in Paris, by order of-congress, re quested tlie Abbe- Malb v, tiie celebrated author of several works on general law and politics, to draw up the plan of a constitution For tlie United States. Tlie article may be found in the second volume of the third part of the Cor respondence Uterari. page 123, under date of January 1783- The following is a translation of the whole article and all that we have noticed in Grimm on the subject. “Here is a great scandal to philosophy and philoso phers. The Abbe Mai by lias just received the most glori ous homage to. which a man of letters can aspire. Messrs. Franklin Sc Adams have requested of him in the name of the United States of America, that he will draw up a plan of a constitution for the new republic. If we may judge from the tone of his last work, it cannot at leaat be fear ed that tliis modern Splon will render our good allies too polished. If it could 1 be hoped that the Americans would submit blindly to his laws, to-have pointed out to them ient wheh to say nothHigtaVirab^e tof him—dt is conven ient how to abuse him—It is politic, at this time, to apeak handsomely ofMoirroe—nt may be prudent, hereafter, to denounce him. Such is the consistency* the camelian- " tjfjndirtg'oprfiions . _ _ . r i to please favor ites; of blowing hot and cold with the same breath, ap pear to be sheading propensity. With a few characters in this state. Our ideas of sincerity and political honesty would lead its to declare, that we are not aware that one solitary fact exist* which would give to Mr. Monroe a priority of" claims ^or a ’superiority of vir tue to Mr. Madison. We believe that Mr. Monroe himself indulges in no. Such comparison—and we are per suaded, that Mr. Monroe will be content and happy, if he can retire from office at the, conclusion of his term withes much credit and public approbation as Mr. Madi son will—he has answered all our expectations, and is worthy of imitation. It is not on the denunciation and ruin of one man that we wish to build the character and support the expectations of another—their separate mer its both can be freely canvassed. Mr. Madison, as pres ident, has done well. Mr. Monroe, when president, we hope, will do well. Our confidence in them both is equal. Mr. Madison has been tlie steady protector of the rights of"the nation and tlie institutions of the peo ple. Mr. Monroe wiil iiave every inducement to pursue the same path—and the people, who know how to sup port and when to condemn, will always co-operate With him in advancing and perpetuating the blessings of civil and religious libfrty. The setting sun diffuses a warm ray of gratitude, and its rising beams will be tiie .herald of hops and confi dence.—A'ationul Advocate. THE FISHERIES, See. The federalists exultingly declare, tliat they did not sacrifice our rights to the fisheries, as held under the treaty of 1783; tlrat they did not conclude the late treaties, which affect fisheries and tonnage. But if they had a hand in producing the circumstances which compelled the.adini nisi ration to accent an imperfect treaty they have no cause to boast. Admitting that tlie war was miscon ducted by the administration, (as in part it was) the “warmly federal” gentry did more injury to the public cause here by a paralyzing opposition than if they bad taken post in the ranks of tlie British army. The excuse of such men now, is like Alacbeth’s evasion of the charge of Banquo’s murder. But, if we cannot say they did it, we can affirm that they in a great measure caused it to be done.—ib. “THE WITNESS”—AGATN. “Make Way for the witness (Mr. liuane) I request your particular attention to his testimony”—saysthe New-York favenh g Post. “They cannot contradict his facts,” says the Baltimore Telegraph. “He does tell tlie truth,” says the New-York Courier. Well, let us hear what the witness, so triumphantly an nounced by federalists, says in the Aurora of tlie 24th inst: “Tlie federalists appear to learn the mottb of Queen Ann—always ths same—in and out of office, their fol- lt is as conspicuous as their disregard of profesxions. ,, - ‘The same foixt which drove them, from power con tinues to govern them, and to demonstrate that they never ought to be Fhcstko with power." You see, Mr. Coleman, that we pay “particular atten tion to his testimony/” We “cannot contradict him,” can We Mr. Hanson? “He does tell the truth,” does he Mr. Gar- denier? We wish you much joy ofyour “ f Fitness," gentle men!—Delaware Watchman. _ Legislation what will he recommend to them? To cultivate the earth, to be-poor and without ambition. This certainly will be the most consonant with the best interest of France with the repose of ail Europe.” So remarkable an assertion in a Work of so high repu tation, seemed deserving of some notice. We have there fore made inquiry at the most authentic source, and are assured that there Is not a word of truth in the story. If there is any person who can relate any circumstances which could occasion to this “great scandal to philoso phy,” and-to the good sense of our own statesmen, he wiil do well to make it public. This anecdote, little creditable as it is-to.cur own country, is in a f_ir way to go down to posterrity as an established historical fact.— Boston Daily ~ilivertiser. >. SINGULAR LITERARY SCRAP. It is within the recollection of every reader, that dur ing the late American war, while our flag flew victorious- * if at. sea, the British prince, regent exhibited, for the amusement of his royal guests, a mock sea-fight on the * Serpentine river. A British and ai» t American squadron were set a-fighting—and as it may naturally be suppos ed, we only came off seconjl best. After a decent resis tance, the Yankee flag was struck—£b tlie great joy of the triumphant bvstanders. We beat them, it is triie, in real fight; but they beat us in the mock engagement. • We tri umphed on Lake Erie juid Champlain—but on the Ser pentine, where we could not manage For ourselves, our squadron was totally vanquished. ^ They shouted in sport; whiie.we illuminated otir dries for the brilliant reality. ,v /''* r ' ' Tbe whs of London laughed a good deal at the joke; and -j declared that the police regent must have been; very much in want of a victory, to have won one by sueh contrivance and manoeuvres—that the Yankees had not a fipr chance—and that it was no wonder tlii Britons had %von the game, when they had all tye cards in their own ' NandsT This' laugh has been so loud, "and tbe satire so * keen, that it is very mdfch doubted whether the royal exhi bitor is not by this time somewhat ashamed of his spectacle. Certain it is,that the people have got out ofall conceit ofit; —i.ndthink there was very little creditin the fight orthe show ofit. It is singular,however, that tliis. very Serpientine should have been thought of, as far back as the inver fear £ PAUL JONES. The circumstances which brought J. P. Jones to the United States, tlie writer of this article read in the nar rative written by himself to the house of Fei-guson &. Co. of Cork, in Ireland, in whgse employment he command ed a merchant vessel several years in the West India trade. On a voyage to Tobago, a mutiny arose on board tlie siilp which he commanded, and which he endeavored to quell by conciliatory ineansin the first instance. The moderation of his conduct appeared to some of the mu tineers to indicate fear, rather than resolution, and the leaders of" the mutiny, acting upon that motive, renewed their menaces; captain Paul armed himself with a small sword only, and took post on the quarter deck, from whence he intftnated to the mutineers'that they must not pass tlie after hatch way; that their attempting to pass to the quarter deck he should consider as a determina tion against the life of himself and his mates; and that lie should certainly seil his life deariv, if they made, tlie at tempt. They were for some time appalled by his decision, but some, more desperate than the rest, determined to seize him, and armed wnh hadspikes, crowbars and axes moved along the wais'e to the quarter deck. The lead er, on approaching captain Paul, raised a handspike ta strike him, and made the blow, but. it was evaded, and he missed his object; but was about "to renewnt, and when lifted a second time, captain Patti pierced tlie ruf fian, who fell dead upon the deck. The rest fled to the forecastle, and some below deck; those who remained abp ve weie seized and put in iron's, and those who had resisted the mutiny, being encouraged by tlie resolution of the captain, secured tlie otlufj below, a The voyage .as prosecuted, and they arrived at Toba go, where captain Paul surrendered himself to the pro per authority, with a demand that he should be tried for the death of the mutineer. The transaction excited con siderable in' ^rest, but at length he obtained a formal tri al, therein be was fairly acquitted. What -became of the mutineers, we do not now recollect, for it ia up wards of thirty years since we read the narrative* Captain Paul had despatched his ship under' another officer to Europe, while he awaited trial; and after his acquittal, returned to Europe. He landed in England, where ,the story had preceded him, and with great exag geration, and he was menaced with imprisonment and a new trial. In this^lilemma he addresed his friends of the Scots house in Cork, described' the persecution be had experienced, and the injustice of bringing him a se cond time to trial, contrary to the laws of England. In his friends, he found advice and protection, anu to escape Injustice, he determined to proceed to the American continent; where he added to bis paternal narrje, nomne, de guerre, Joses. The rest of his liistory is known.— The narrative and the correspondence was written with great force and beauty, so much as to have left a lively on duty at Longwood. remembrance of both, after such a lapse of years.—Au rora. It is really amusing to read the encomiums bestowed on Messrs. Monroe and Tompk ns by persons whom see know are hostUe to their election, and who would open ly avpw their hostility. If a shadow of success or a gleam of hope existed.- They tell ua, that Monroe is a consis tent man, an amiable man, a very good man—but that he was improperly nominated—that Virginia dictates t? the union-but, *iiter all e tbat he possesses . more public virtue and private smcerity tUaa Madisuo. We have, sav the federalists, tlie evidence of the presi dent’s friend, Duane, that the administration is corrupt. And what evidence have we against the federalists,from those who were once their friends? Cobhett, their once favorite Porcupine, in a letter to an English lord, says of the federal leaders, “Hang them, my lord, they are poor creatures!”—John Qtiincey Adams has publicly declared that federal leaders are distinguished for a deadly hatred to France, devotion to England and contempt for Jimerica.—ib. Part of a letter from £ gentleman in Galway, dated 7th July, to his fiend in Baltimore. ———“It is totally out of my power to describe the general distress to wliich all classes in this country have been reduced since the overthrow’ of Napolean, and die commencement of what was called “the glorious peace” The consequences are briefly these—the total stagnation of trade, which has caused so marty failures over the whole country, that we expect little less than a general bankruptcy—As to the finances of government, they are rapidly decreasing, for it is impossible that the tuxes can be collected, from insolvent farmers and bankrupt mer chants and manuf cturers—the land-holders cannot now collect their rents, for their tenants are every where flv- ingfrom their farms, after converting their cattle and stock into ready money at any price—The emigrations, of course, are every- where great, not only from Ireland, but also from England and Scotland—Even our native Milesians have broke loose, and many hundreds have left the west of Ireland, a circumstance the m..re unusual, as the native Irish have hitherto been extremely unwilling to leave tlie green fields of the Emerald Isle, and nothing but extreme necessity could urge them to such a mea sure—Amidst the general distre ss, I thank God, that the power of lias not been able to subdue yuur free and happy country into another land of legitimate despo- I is necessary to make a short comment on the above, by way of explanation—Ireland is divided into four pro vinces, viz. Munster, Connaught, Leinster and Ulster— Leinster is chiefly inhabited by what are called the Eng lish Irish, and Ulster by the Scotch Irish—From the lat-' ter province, at least three fourths of the emigrants to America have come for many years .past. Tlie Scotch Irish, both by education and religion, are inclined to re publicanism, or afree government—Tbe other portion have come from the province of Leinster—but, until late ly, the native Irish, who claim their descent from a colo ny of Milesians, said to have landed in Ireland, from Spain, some thousands of years ago, never thought of removing from their green fields, notwithstanding all the hardships which they suffered under tlie English govern ment—but, hunger, it is said, will break through stone walls; and thousands of these .Milesian Irish would now willingly cross tiie Atlantic, if their extreme-poverty, and their want of conveyance, did not prevent them. BONAPARTE. The following is an extract of a letter from St Helena, dated Jufte 8. “Instead of Napoleon’s condition having been, as was supposed by a few, considerably ameliorated by the change of government, some additional restrictions were judged necessary to be laid on. These for seme days produced an unpleasant effect on his mind, and were probably the cause of his confining himseif closely to his chamber for several days. He has, however, been seen within a few days back, driving in his carriage, and occa sionally riding with his accustomed velocity within his limit, as he most religiously persists in his resolution of not riding out with a British officer. “A letter, purporting to be written from St. Helena, has appeared in some of the public papers wliich have lately reached this island: and were it not that a few of the circumstances mentioned in it liave a distant relation to what really occured, though-miserably garbled and scandalously misrepresented, one wouid suppose that it never was the production of a person residing in St. Hele na; as one would imagine that an inhabitant, or even a temporary sojourner, would have had opportunities of learning anecdotes less distantly removed from the truth than thdse which form the subject ofit. “The author of the letter in question is so grossly igno rant of that whiQh he pretends,to relate with great accu racy, that he does not even know the name of the officer false, and more scsndalbus. instead of \j m ! 3 e fl u aH y ing turned Aiis back upon him (the Polish r ?'» ° n , usked Los Gasses “who thattnan was?” he an 'l in the 'rn&pt polite manner, and conversed with I- wards of two hours. Immediately alter this! v- despatched on* of his suite to ask hhn what li* fc ° n need Of—money, clothes, linen? With direction, A"* had none of the latter clean, after so long a Z** furnish him with some of his own. To this wTFr, to an order for 40h or 50?. .which was hnmediat'lv n A after" 50 had hUn t0 di,mer With for several ^' “Equally true with the above mentioned letter arr n, which state that Napoleon eats a whole pig, smoih * wffi onions for breakfast; and tight fowls fordr-nl r L n a- writer of such absurd stuff, must either be incur,A;, A silly-, or have most contemptible opinions of the . a standings of those to whom they addressed them- A , would never have attempted, to thrust such a farel " ey stupid lies down their throats." However, they S A° o{ be greediiy swallowed by some ef the Journals A,’ 0 circumstance drew from Bonaparte one day a jL ^ that lie-supposed the editors of the English papers Al*’ make him eat a live bull at one meat, horns and ^ S® anecdote I have-heard from a person who was nw “Sometime back, sir H. and lady D. Mrs. M«thm ^ Mrs- Wetherall, with several otlnri ladies and ijemi ° C ” were introduced to him in the garden, to all of whA'i!’’ was extbemejy affable-, end they departed highly nl*. with their reception. When ii n as mentioned to r afterwards, that tlie ladies were particularly I ™ and that they'Were Surprised to find him so" differe’v ’ person from what lie had been represented, he is Sil , 1 have replied laughing, “I suppose they imagined ' ■ was seme strange animal with two great horns out of my head. “It has been asserted that he has frequently reviled t> memory of Richer, and even by some that he had c-iAn hi3 assassina* i* i. Quite the contrary J at I st.ckin; appear tr.-> 0 have taken Epypt with an army without cavalry and A artillery. Tut Turks were nothing.” “Kkbc! Kl h ” repeated he, “was an irreparable loss to France rA me. He was a man of the brightest taieiitsi and a et of the greatest bravery.” “Menou,” he observed a brave man, but destitute of talents.” " lS “The-fiiendsof tlie relative of the late Lamented sir I Moore, would -probably not be dispieayed to Ik , , following tribute of applause paid to his memory - v » an enemy whose capacity to judge need not be m. Ad out:—“Moore” said Napr leon, “was a brave soldier n excellent officer, and a man of talent. /( c made a i'uv mistukes, which were probably inseparable from the dif ficulties by whfch he was surrounded, and most likely caused by tbe incorrectness of his Information ii .n/A in.sled him.” This he repeated, observing. vj , 0 r? had commanded the service in Egy pt, where he evinced considerable talent. “He died,”’a,hied he, “gono .Mv- he died like a soldier.” SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN. Saturday Evening, September 28,1816, FOR THE RF-Pf BOCiV. They said as £ M In the first place, no such cir cumstance occurred as Bonaparte’s ordering ouptain Poppleton to ride in the rear, and that the priviledge of riding abreast of him was not for him. Neither did he (the captain) refuse to accompany Napoleon out the fol lowing day, o* apprise him talar he intended for the fu ture to ride with him in uniform. The assertion of cap tain P.’having taken the precaution of sleeping in a room through which Bonaparte must necessarily pass on his way-to his own, is too ridiculous to need contradiction, it not that such ,a statement, if left qncontradicted, with gfrrw, affect the reputation erf- a most respec- cdficer* (who has always performed the, " » unpleasant duties of fern situation, in ji- ' TV y -vo* v not TO WILLIAM \V. BIBB, F.sa. I have seen your exposition of motives for giving von.* vote and support to a late law compensating mtmt-r* of emp ress for their services, but as I believe you iu'i violated a most sacred compact between your constita- ents and yourself; no a*tenipt to exculpate yourself from so evident a dereliction from every principle that ought to have governed your conduct as the public ser vant of tlie people, can have any other tendency >’d involving you in deeper guilt and difficulty, which j*ur most artful and cunning sophistry cannot elude: tlrf«• citement and indignation produced on this occasicc, (not only in Georgia,) but in every part of the union, » a sufficient test how mud) the rights and privileges of this free and independent nation have been consderd as prostrated to base and unworthy motives. In a plain case like the present, there can be no necessity for rea soning abstractly; 1 shall therefore submit a few obser vations, which being founded in truth, will meet the as sent cf every honest man. When you began your political career, (permit me to ask sir,) did the people first solicit your services, or you their suffrages? If the latter, fid you not know what recompense you were to receive for your services, and by accepting your appointment, uid you not tacitly acknowledge that you were satisfied, and have you not for several years received the former com pensation without expressing openly any wish to ba'v it increased. , Previous to, and during *he war, when all classes o. your constituents were suf Areing under the severest pe cuniary pressure, did they propose to lessen your con gressional pay? Why then should you wish to encr a*’ it, especially at a period when the country vv as f■ b sr ‘ rassed from the effects of the war; when the pubuc debt had accumulated gTeatly; when this state had sutiereu ai much as any in tlie union, from the predatory conduct of the enemy; when the government did not possess ta* means of meeting all the demands against it; and espe cially those of a military nature. You knew- that the militia of your own state remained unpaid; a militia too, whose conduct was worthy oi tlie highest praise for their zeal and patriotism in tneircoun try’s service; while, sir, you were enjoying many com forts, and perhaps some luxuries at Washington; n.ant of the worthy citizens of tliis state were then in b jrl * service, clad in the tnin fabric of home manufacture, bj* ing in the open field, exposed to all the incJenuncies °* the season, and living on the plainest diet; and notwitn- standing all tiie difficulties and privations they " ere subjected to, the small pay they were to receive postponed, while you received your new salary in mort exchanged on a premium; thesc^ sir, arc stubborn bets but from your conduct, they appeal* to have W little influence on you. But the subject mast be s** in a more serious point of view, your support and so for this bill liave inflicted a disgrace on our national cW’ racier; all the wise and patriotic men in Europe with admiration to the American institutions and them out as a bright example to their countrymen. H® then could you sacrifice the sanctity *of our reprt^ n tive character, by reducing it to a sinecure, a salary tablishment, permanent in its nature? Perhaps, sir, .' ^ calculated on the influence of your public character - support this child of your cupidity. . Tlie- little rivulet of your popularity, your ar ‘fK'!' a j*. had swelled into an irresistable stream; PjJvLoof lieving youc vote for the war, was an irrefragable f of your infallibility. I give you credit in tins for the correctness of your conduct. Not so, m ■ ^ others, Where you have played a deeper S >aa f\ long concealed your genuine character from pun g, I quote ffo conduct on tfce Yaztfo tyiestion ■ . gtonoasiy; Speaking about St. He’rua, he observed, “that such was the deplorable state of ihtid- and, that the inhabitants considered the abser.ee of acual want* orthe lack of starvation, as the greatest bless..1. — For example,” said he, “P went the other .lav to R ’s, and there they said to him,” “Ob how h upy you must be to have fresh meat cverv day at dinner' i)ii if we could but enjoy that, how happy vre should be!” ’ “It was stated, some time back, that Napoleon’s mai. tre d'hotel, and others of his suite, had signed a p..per, (pursuant to orders received from England, either to do that or quit St. Helena) purporting their willingness to remain, and submit to such restrictions as it might be tiiought necessary to impose upon them. The following is an abstract from that paper: We the undersigned, wishing to remain in the service of the emperor Napoleon, consent, however dreadful may be the abode of St. Hel ena, to remain in it, submitting ourselves to suen restric tions, however arbitrary and uvjust they may be, which have been imposed upon the emperor and the persons in his service,” [com .nrisicaTF.li.] We are happy learn, that the sanguinafy criminal Taws of England will soon give piece to a code adapted to tlie mereiful genius of the Penitentiary system. We a in formed that Messrs. Harris and Charlton, who wot appointed by his excellency to frame a code, have rturit considerable progress in this important work, and tin there- is a probability of having it ready for the r.C. meeting of tlie general assembly.