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SOUTHERN RECORDER. VOL. II. MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1821. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (on Tuesdays) TSY S. GRA YTDAND f( R. M. OR.VE, AT Tlir.F.E DOI.LARS, IN ADVANCE, OR TOUR DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OF T11E TEAR. O- Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the customary rates. ernmost part of Asia Minor, bordering on the Black Sea. Second climate in America. Its parallel is found from latitudes S5 to ■)2 l-l including the whole of South Caro lina, and the northern halves of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. TU.rd climate in. Europe and Asia .Miner. h com latitude 40 to 55 including Portu gal, south of Oporto; the southern section of Spa n : Oran, Algiers, and Tunis, on the northern coast of Africa; the southernmost part of Italy ; the lsla ,d of Sicily ; Greece, Morea ; nil the isles in thr Archipelago, and those ol Candln, Rhodes, Cyprus, five. kr. Asia Minor, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Ar menia. Third climate in the United Slates. Its parallel is found between latitudes thir ty-two and a half to twenty-nine, including the southernmost parts of Georgia, as far .outll as St. Augustine, Alabama, Mississip pi, Louisiana. Pensacola, and the northern most part of East Florida. Fourth cli mate in .Yorlh America. For which there is no parallel climate in Europe or Asia Minor. From latitude 29th to 55th hordpring al most on the tropic, and including, the re mainder of East Florida, containing about 55 millions acres of land. Ed us now review those climates sepa rately, vs ith respect to their productions. First climate, in Europe. There is not a single fruit, nor any grains or vegetables which this climate produces, even grapes, that are nut likewise nrniinrod in, The first climate in the United States. For vines are successfully* cultivated at Ferny, in Indiana, which lies under the li.gh- est latitude of (his climate—if then, vines gran and bear plentifully good and pu feedy lipe grapes at Fmni, ivhat success would at tend their cultivation on the upper land of '* irginia, North Carolina ami Tennessee, where the climais is milder, the seasons more regular, the soil rich, and where tobacco grows in abundance, ami even cotton suc ceeds, a staple which cannot tic raised in Europe in this parallel climate ! An unde niable ornof, that this tlimits in t!., Union! mg this, however, | is not iny intention, to | States, is as favourable to the rrow th el Include uncut, inury, unis, nor any grams igrapes as that of France. Wc need lint and vegetables whin our country it known | plant, and our labors will be recompensed to grow to ii grid a pci fectimi as in any with abundant riches, other part of the lurid. I shall limit my Facts and observations on the culture ot Vines Olives, Capers, Almonds,itc. in the Southern States, and*f ColTee, Cocoa, and Cochineab rn East Florida, by Peter Stephen Chazotte, who his for upwards of ten years been engag ed in Iht culture of Vines, Sic. in Southern France, tndfnr seven years a grower of Cof fee, Qicoa, Sic. in the West-ladies. To the President, Senate, rad House of Rupee- , niati rs of ttu Vo ted States, are risputjulij „fried for their consideration, The following facts and observations, on the pol y of immediately introducing the highly iiteresting cultures of vines, oliv.s. capers l id almonds, in the nnw territories of the Unit’ d States, and on the plantations of coffee, foehineal, cocoa, or chocolate nut in East Ft’rida. It liaja hundred times been stated, that agricullirc is the basis of the national wealth ol'empfes. May I not he allowed to , dd, that it k the true source of individual happi ness—that it secures independence and .■nr- l ishes l very l ittue, the enjoyments of which are cntstaSlt, Without being contaminated by those vi es width are frequently the attend ants ol manufactures. That sgricultjre is alone capable of rais ing a nst'on to tie highest ^degree of happi ness and indepadencc, the history of man kind tvill provc-tfrom the earliest ages, man lias beer, taiightlo call the earth, •• his mo ther and beneficsit nurse.” For tile furthadevelopemcnt of my ideas on this interesting subject, I shall taki a cur sory view of the cimates of southern Europe and Asia Minor, a 1 look if I cannot find in our country, climii-s perfectly congenial to the growth of wha-ver plants are success fully cultivated in d.nthern Europe, fn d i- inqniriei to those rip staples which our soil will luxuriantly grip-, and which we have Until now negiected o cultivate. Having resolipd bt to he deterred from prosecuting this plfi of improvements by any ol'thoso idle id*s, which either preju dice, ignorance or tVeign policy, has been endeavoring to imn: our minds with, we shall clearly percert all the advantages, whib our insular ^ist, our extensive in ward country, the ^iriety of our climates, and o -r riili sell, givtsus ovi-r the nations of Eurojic. It is true lilt we cannot, at pre sent, drain the marshaof Virginia, nor turn th- dismal swamps uNorth Carolina, into Homan consular retreis and pleasure gar dens. We need not Oatpy oursel.es with works which require (more condensed po pulation than ours is) This shall be done, when the land disiribf-d amongst millions of inhabitants, shall. I) its increased value, promise a fair interest Ir the capital employ ed in its improvement! then, and not before, shall rich fields and a.tv-1y mansions asto nish Ihc mariner sail:* along our extensive ciast Leaving tofu 1 generations to ef fect, what is not our ill tst nnw to do, we aro at liberty to select t ground, to culti vate the plains or plan 'Itlie hills—we may choose the climate, th liver, the particular soil—diversify our cull rife—in flue, we may raise all the Europrai fruits, and the most ▼Jdliable tropical stapl From the cliffs ol ♦he Patuxent to the b f which crowns the plains that form the inks of Mobile hay, • the vines may he en vated, and tile hills and Tallies ol Virgini may, ’ere long, re- aouud with the echoed songs of ihe yiuta- ger*. Wishing to proceet with regiur and order, I shall trace on 'ornpneativ, parallel climates, both in Eure] and the U. :>mes- And'hen, taking a si irate view ofooih, I shall prove that, to a mr alre.v'; known productions may he -d all those tv hie.i we have not yet umh rtjep to cultivate. In forming this scale, 1 sill pay less regard i" parallel latitudes, than 1 the parallels of the now existing climates, r»rallel latitudes i juM not bring a fairco ariaon of climate*. As for example, latitudi l,in France,would give, in Ameiy;i„ the rtherninnst section of New foundhw—not *f the gulf of St. Lawrence, amrninnin; • cstwardly on the «qttlliere i dge of Hmlso tmowo, that, under the latitude, in France, the mate is temperate, and the four season* , whilst under the same the climate is intensely seasons, which arc kno I tu he striving to conquer each other. T cause of this may lie a fit subject for a tre Having thus far expl, i d my mofivr for tih.iudotiing parallel hit des, in order to form parallel climates, I all establish them thus; First ’tlimatt i Europe, Taking France front i 51st to the 45th degree of north laL fo nog two parral el lines running e.isiwaruly rod Including the noi thorn sections of Fr* • from Bordeaux, Sw itzerland, Lombardy l#Vana, Austria, Transylvania, Uc. , First climate of the tited States. The parallel climate is and between the latitude 4ist and «5th, ro lines running ivc*twardly from the At I ie, and including the southernmost t*ctic »f d’omm'rinia, Ohio auv [laoa—the of the states of DeU^arf lvyland.JBg* HU, North Carolina, Ktn ky and Tew*- ■wn. - J Second climate ifiurafi- gJff nchBt th ri’.Iarly marked— in America, Id, «ii)d only two Second climate in Europe. This climate, besides u liat grows in the first, produces olives, capers, almond?, oran ges, limes, pomegranates, and fi^s Second climate in the United States. This, already produces oranges, limes, pomegranates, figs, &c. and if olives, capers and almonds, are not seen there, it is be cause none have yet been planted. It is a well known fact that ind'go used to he culti vated there, and has of late years Lien ne glected, hecft'.'se of the cotton being found more productive, besides, tobacco and rice, hich are great staples for exportation.— Now would it not exhibit a want of judg ment to belie?c that neither olives, capers, almonds, nor fines, can succeed in to favor able a climate. Tacts demonstrate, that notwithstanding Uoiinparle’s command to raise cotton in the southern provinces of France, every attempt was met with a dis couraging failure—the summer was found to be too «hort,and all his endeavors to dis pense with our cotton proved useless.—Sore- y, then, that man must he prejudiced or Hint!, who, after 1 'such strong evidences, will still doubt of our success. Third climate in Europe, and .‘Isin Minor. This third climate produces only it hat is stated in the second, with the addition of some cotton, fit only to manufacture coarse goods. Third climate in the United States. fn this climate is raised the fi:;« «f ration in the world, and besides those ate pies that already grow and may grow in the second, we raise sugar, which i* a production of the torrid zone. In vain diu Bonaparte’*- em pire extend to the southernmost | art of Ku rope—unable to find in it an inch of ground where the sugar cams could grow, he was reduced to extract n scanty Mipply of had sugar from beet**. If is then manifest, that our first, second, and third stated climatas are, separately and collectin g , niperiorto those of Europe. Ami, if they do not pro duce wines, olives, capers, and almonds, thev are not to he charged with bring unfa vorable to their growth, we alone are to be blamed for it. J'oU>ih climate south of the United Slaves. This fourth climate h »s*tu> parallel in Eu rope, it lies between latitudes J'.nli and *~5th, and Iwsing four degree.* fuitherto the smith, than any other section of the I uiteil Stale?, it promises fair, from the nature of the sod and climate, to produce codec, cr.rhincal and cocoa; as lor sugar, it may every where he raided abundantly. Colter, cocoa and sugar, are staples of the tropics, and we are satisfied, that as the lat ter is raised in Louisiana, the climate of East Florida must be much mure favorable.— DojuMs may arise on the sucres* attending the culture cf the two-first named Maples, in the minds of such os are altogether unac quainted with it—but let those who are con versant with the subject deride,and fain confident of being strengthened in my opini on by an alfii mat ive. I shall here take a retrospective view of the progress of the plantations of coflee in the VVest-India islands, and prove that w here it was not expected to grow, experiments at tended with success have removed all doubts In the year 17DC, not a single roller plant tvas cultivated in the. island ot C uha. In the year 17**9, that plantation began to be intro duced III the bland of Jamaica, for, in the j year 1798, there was hut a very scanty * quantity raised in that island. That plant was cmHly cultivated in the colonies belong ing to France—At,were it not tor the French KevoLition, it is probable that, that rich sta ple would at this day he, M It formerly was, *. t 4* iliu nil:<tti*V It! prime minister to Louis the 16th. By that policy which in European cabinets, i.s called un coup de politique,** Caloune expected to arrest the revolution in its first brilliant pro gress, by diverting the minds of the French people, and directing it towards the safely of St. Domingo, where the interests of France seemed until then to have been con centrated. He resolved hi ordered a dread ful revolt to he instigated there, and a man of colour, at that time in l*uris, whose mine was Oge, was sent, and furnished with e.\e ry facility the government could afi'ord, to stir up a revolt amongst the mulattoes.— Cape Francais was burnt—streams of hu man blood Mowed,—civil war was kindled all over the ishnd. The French people were too busily engaged about redressing their grievances, to he deterred from pursuing the object in view, by un coup de politique.— The inhabitants of that devoted colony w ere commiserated, but not relieved—anti -ude« p and long endured were tin* <ores of that op pressed people, that untiUllmr rule was ef fected, they could not busy themselvesa- Imut healing the sufferings of their far re mote countrymen. Artifice, cunning and dcrei f , on the one hand—enthusiasm on the other, misguided and stifled the hest*judg- inent of the nation—all was liberty, equality, philanthropy—and, with a view to npp. •** the revolted mulattoes, the blacks W ere de clared free. In the phrenzy ofa mistaken philanthro py, the assembly of the nation were form ing codes of law?, for the government of what they blindly called, regenerated co lonies, and sending their cmnmbvioners.— When Monsieur, then out of Frame, broth er to Louis the XVI, and at present Louis J hr* XVIII, wishing to save those sections that had not yet felt the regenerating laws of France, desired tin* Brili-h Ministry to take possession of the French colonics, th** plan ters of the w estern and sout!i'*rn parts of St. Domingo, imitating those of Martinique and (iindaLnipe, received the British. A part of that rich colony was thereby sated for .a time—and both Toussnint and Higaud, two coloured chieftaus fighting for power, on thr supposed side of France, w ere on the eve of l.ti.ig l onqwcicd. when tin* island was nud-1 denlv evjiriv ti d hr tU* The po!ic} f of this unexpected evacuation is easily accounted for. The English ral Boyer, on his entering Port nu Prince, had written to the Ministry that more colo nial produce I; ad been found stored in that single city, than the whole of the British is lands could produce in two yean—and Ind urged the policy of securing the whole colo ny as a rich mine of wealth, which the nati on would enjoy, nt least, for ns long as war with France should continue. But the success of the French armies in Europe alarmed the British Ministry :* they well kn« w that a general peace must, nt some time or ciher, take place, and on rich an e- vent, St. Domingo must of rouno lie restor ed fo France. They could not reconcile with their hostile feeling?, the idea of being instrumental to the preservation of a colony, which, on its being restored, would at once replace her rival on that superior eminence '0 the folonial trade, which t he. onre enjoy ed, ..nd which it wasthMr policy for ever to destroy". Therefore, tiny resolved tu eva cuate tint island as the surest means of ef fecting their purpo«e^-g me ral Ms it land was •cut thither—lie nudfcejVaratr secret trea ties with tile two chietTaus—some\sham hat- ties wc.*e fought, and the British troops ap parently beaten, and repuhed in every encounter, without losing n drop of blond, surrendered tl.e rolonv to the purty-eolnur- ed legion* of T»us«aint and Higand. But tin y took considerable care to carry off with them o ruimhcr of planters with their slave-, to cultivate Coffee in their colonies, k. prin cipally in Jamaica, where they had as y et been very umntcca- ful. This plantation washy this mettn* culti vated there on a large M*a’e—several planter? were rani*.I to Trinidad and other small British islands—and England now rt reive*- from Jamaica ahme upwards oififty millions of pouinl.s of coffee, per ye«r. Such planters ;is did not likt to live under the British scep tre and colonial reguht^pns went over to Cuba, and some to I'orto Mire. Thu** i« toffee now cultivated in ;!! the West Indies. \ **t the whole of tho-e i > I a r h 1 - together, and the present state of llavti, muted will* them, In idle yield our half <•/ the quantity which S*. Doini; go alone for merly prod*iret|. This « xj lains the cm ** of the present high price of that staple. The quantity now rahed is fifty per cent less than in the year 1784—and th* i unihe^ ofion- surr.ers l ave increased in the ratio of five to island enjoy s—Ihe sea breezes modifying the scorching vertical rays of the sun, and watt ing away the approaching northern frost. Two opposite opinions have been expres sed and frequently repeated with respect to that country. Some assert it to he u dry sandy land, and others, a flat, muddy, un formed, rising ground. These assertions are altogether unfounded; as may be dc- nionstrated by merely recurring to its topo graphy. Wc se** a neck of land four hund red miles long, and about one hundred and thirty miles broad, from the opposite beach es of which, the land rises gently and gradu ally towards the centre ; where are lakes connected with each other from south to north, to a distance of about 150 miles, with out reeeiviag any supply of water from any large foreign river j and about 40 small li vers, who e sources are, at from thirty to fin Jy mill s distant from Lotli shorts, and whose waters are emptying themselves into tile opposite sens. Now it is impossible for those (rrpat sinew s of nature to exist in a fliit muddy ground, which could at most pro duce reeds, and not the stately trees, winch luxuriantly-row and ctner il .su’fare? On the iitlic- hand, if it he called a dry and san dy desert, tin-very existence of those lakes and numerous rivers belies those asset lions, for rit ers and lakes itre never found to spring anil exi t in an entirely sandy country—and sttrli is the narrow in-s of this loox neck of land, that it must hate a deep mould and pinhfie ho-o.ii to produce, .as it is known to do, stately forests oflhe most luxuriant mix- lied him off with his slates, and destroyed every thin, be bad planted—for which Ins: and damages, the British government a warded to him a considerable sum. Besides these, travellers, who hate visited that country assert to have seen coffee plants in several places, not cultivated for profit and retenuc, hut as a curiosity, the intrinsic va lue of which seems to he unknown to those who have planted them. Mr. Carver,*says “ so mild is the winter thnl the most delicate vegetables anil plants of the Catibbee Hands, experience th* re not the least injury from that season—the orange tree, the plantains, the goyava, the pine Itp- pl«, &r. grow Iiixui iotislv.” *'Fogs are un known there, and no country ea.i thetefore be more salubrious.” Mr. \Yilliam Stork in his description of East Floridu, Ritesthe fol lowing account of it—“The productions of the northern and southern latitudes, grow and blossom hy the side of each other, and there is st in rely another climate in the w orld that ran tie- with this in displaying SIM h an agreeable and luxuriant mixture of trees, plants, shrubs, and flowers. The red and white pine, and the evergreen oak marry their boughs with the ehesnut and tnahoga ny tri es. The walnut w ith the cherry—the maple will) Ihe e,impeach, and Ihe hra/tlt t- to ttilh thesassafras tree, which together co ver here a variegated and rirll soil.” “ The wax myrtle trae grows ttery where here.” “ Oranges are larger, more aromatic and succulent than in Portugal. Plums, natural ly grow finer and of a quality superior to r.- eon t.iiim in bloom, even in j titnre gnlliered ill Ihe orchards in Spain.— I Fein nary ; and the nto l beau-1 The wild vines serpentine un the giniind or climb up to the tups of trees. Ind'go anil cochineal! were advantageously eultivatcd there, and in the year 1777, produced a re venue of ei00,0l'0.”t In fine I sludl add, that this country will produee all the tropi cal fruits rod staples by the tide of those be longing to a northern climate. Having,! presume, adduced siifricient fii deuce in support of Ihe position 1 hate tak en, »nd demonstrated that enflre, cocoa, find sugar r.nics, will grow every where in East Florida, as well as vines, olives, capers, al monds, fir. and that vines ntav likewise he January tiful flowers, whose florid appearance tn%i|e Itu- discoveries of it, award to that country the significant and oppropriate name of Flo rida. In mil places, where the climate is not vi- -ited hy black frost, the land cither diyor wet will produee coffee. Cayenne, lying under the fourth degree latitude, north of the equator, where the heat it intense, no mountains hut at 5no miles off, a fiat, level, and drowned cuuntry, in.d where, us in Eu ropean Holland, the surrounding s< as are tilting to overwhelm the rising earth, even Pinkney, Smith, Taylor. Tkbenor, Van Dyke, Walker of Geo. Williams ^Wjenn.-- 24. % NAYS.—Messrs. Barbour, Brown, Dick erson, Holmes of Maine, Holmes of Miss. Johnson of Ken. King of A ah. Lowrie, Ma con. Pleasants, Roberts, Ruggles Suniord, Stokes, Talbot, Thomas, Trimble, Walker of A lab. Williams of Miss.— 19. bo the report atid resolutions were re jected. Mr. Barbour then gave notice that be should on Monday ask leave to bring in a hill for the relief ef Matthew Lyoa; and then the .Senate adjourned. Monday, January 82. The Senate resumed the consideration of the lull to extend relief to the pur chasers of the public lauds,prior to the 1st of July, 1820. When the bill n,a last under conside ration, Mr. Futon moved to re-comtuit the lull to the cotntnittee 'on Public Lands, with instructions to— 1st. Makefile provision* ofllte hill ap plicable t* '.Incise purchasers of pi.Idle !.unis only wbe hare purdiSncd at public sale since the 30ih day of Dec. 1UI6. 2d. And with instructions to extend the contemplated relief to none but those who, on or before the 30lb day ol Oct. I.ist. L td made a settlement on the land* '■> them *(> purchased, defining anti con sidering the settlement of any quarter section, a settlement of all contiguous and adjoining land, not exceeding two en tire sections. 3d. And with instructions to extend ilia contemplated relief to no section on w hir It any town may h.ivo been laid off, and the lots sold by any individual or . cobipany of individuals. Mr. Fulnn spoke at some length in support of bis motion, and to show that the bill unamended, in ttie mode he pro- * , „ V r ’ V , po»od, w untu De uvtrctive ampy lotiutry, or..nail by ditches, | successfully eultivatcd as Ixr north sa the | 1 M . , . .. From latitude 45th to >tb inching the southernmost sections c ’’ranee, sout.t ol -Bordeaux, one half of Sn. , as far south as Oporto, in Portugal—thi and Sardinia—Italy,-as fa ■of Varvntn ; and includitij ! i A Hia# a. Macedonia, Horn a, the principal muse of the ascendancy of France over England in sunplyin-; the whole of Europe with colonial Produce.— Unfortunately. I do not say for l ranee, but \Yf Inve sr**n lint roflVc is ;:t l!»i* tiny v.sccr fully cultivated, where it was thought it could not ^rmv : it now remain* 1o •* ***, if East Florida is not likewise favorable to its growth. Thi* plant needs not too hut a dir dry land produce* the l»**«t quality ; example: the A1ncl)aroflVe,iii Arabia Fdix, where rain is scarce nndfhc soil sandy, is* teemed very superior. The small si/.* oft kiain and its munch'd form, indicate that the land on which it ;;rqws is exhausted, and liir.t the plant hears only a rcanty quantity In a \irgin and rich laud, this plant bear* large crops—the-rain is higher, and flatted on one side ; so that two grains united, has an oval form, which lie? on the centre, a filestore of a eh*Try, a fi\iit which it per* fectl\ resembles, in nze, slnpe and colour. On tl>e imn hound c< of J)i*pnniola. Jamairz, Culm, See. this plant, a* in Arabia Felix, hears, even in virpn l.nul. luit mid dling crops; on the high land, and an ea*-t- ern we»tem, and nurtliern expinitiom*. it heart plentifully, because the atmosphere i there «older, thr dew in tii*» right constat t, and sometimes.*! Iq'ht while frost occur*. In East Florida, the land is neitlu r too cry nor too wet, nor is the climate ton hot or t dd. This narrow as r»*Mervn«rs t.»r t’w. v ::*■*.•, tlv.* c.'-ff. ^ j■*.•.•! grow* luxuriantly, even to thr size of a plum tree.* At Rio de Janeiro, the present seat of the king of Portugal’s American empire, lying under the i,Sd degree of latitude, south of the equator, an«l as far as the province of Para na or Assumption, which reaches to the SOtb degree of aouHi latitude, the coffea is found to grow. Why then should wo not culti vate it between the £Mh and ^?1li degrees of north latitude? that is to say, in F.a-t Florida ? Will it he said,that under the 27tl» dt^gre** of latitude, to the southward of the (Mj iafhr, it is hotter than under !ts opposite degree north of it ? This will he contra dicted fry tliore navigators and persons who have visiicd this country, (’niton, in Chi na, lies under th«5il-£ degree *»f north latitude, and \* th*; xonthemmost section of thut larf*** empire. The state* north of East Florida, nlrc.idy produce ns fine cotton as is ra fi| in that empire. Why :Jiouid we not also attempt t*• ( ultivate the t* ;» plant ? i do not unde;-tand this culture. Jnlorma- tion ou t ii* interesting subject is expected from tho*** American citizens, who, on a vi sit tn China, shall not suffer their minds to he wrap in a piece of nankin or sunk into n catty of tea—but soaring above their daily mercantile occupations, will see), for rest and ditcrsifiri, in tiie acquisition of information and the collection of plants, for the benefit of their unlive rouidrv. I bhali < lose this digression by ■dducinp «r*ine new evidences. In a proclamation of fijeorgetlb* Pr», issued f.om t!ie court of St. J.uiieti, on the 7th day of October, 1763, and hy tin* auUiitrify *,f«a tr.- atv nfpcHce conclud ed at Pails, on the 101b of February, in the same year, his Britannic Majerty, in tin* ;«•* ond section of his proclamation, i xpretsed himself tiiu*: Secondly—'The goremn ent of F.a*t- Florida, hounded t«» the westward, hy the (iiilf of Mexico, and the Apahchieola ; t<9 the northward, Ly a line dmui from that part of the said river, where the Chataliou* * Sf* nn*l Flint mere meet, to the source of St. Mary s river, and hy the course of said river to the Atlantic or* an ; nnd to the cast- vard end southward hy the Atlantic ocean, nr.d the Gulf of I ’lorida, including all islands within six Irngm s of the sea ci*ast.” This poTt-rnment being fciven to colonel (Irai.t, it wu then expu 1 -led, ‘ that rice, in - digo, *ilk, v ice, * d, nnd oilier xaiuuMu iouk moditics would Ik* produced in prat abun dance.” The English nt that time kefcw little or nothing about Coffee.* Iicr.rr they «lid not imuilion it in their enumeration.— Sometime after, an English gentleman of fortune went to * bt..lili?h Line* If in I«a»t Florida—tils 1 thors were crown* *1 with biic- cr - , both in th** culture of roller, and sugar * anes—and hi* establishment 1 ' were already consid* lahle, when the American revolution i i its * fleets, made Florida pass into tin- hands of Spain. The Drill'll government, finding Mr. Smith, or some inch name, (Eu although this is nu historical fart, yet not having the hook, in which it i* stated before me, my memory lias not perbnp* retain# <1 the true name,) had so far succeed* d, would not allow him to remain there. Theyrar- i'siuiiml tu ei-ifyiaiiU ; fin.nl now take a separate \ie*.v of each of these rich produc- H:-r.r 9 nnd from S*iiudit-ui;**, g*v** a vtatement of the proceeds^yfa inaifis jearh (ahum*. In htatemenf, f sliall allow but one hall of the work, which experience shows a man easily doc*,|* and their mo*le- rat<* calculations, being at no time liable to deceite our expectations, we may, will) •non; certainty, hum a proper estimate of the advantage* or disadvantage* of those culture*—end wbather we arc not to b* he- neiited, both a*individual*, a: d as a nation, by immediately undertaking the grand work, or leave all the riches accruing from it, to those who already enjuv them. It rannot he expected that I ahall enter into the particulars and minutiu* of the cul ture and preparation* of those commodities. My intention, at present, is not to teach, hut to enlighten the mind on a subject, foreign to the pn • nt agricultural pursuits of our citi zens. A work, dcsciibing every particular, would, at this stage, excite-curiosity, without promising any real advantages. Such a work, l shall cheerfully undertake, when I s*•*• that spirit of enterprise which character ise* |hr American people, roused and elevat ed to that degree of national pride and gran deur, as shall warrant its publication. [Toht concluded in our n&r/.] * l n 'tetrtal trnrtlhr, ) ct&t 604 t I do not tout*rstand the raising of it, which it imwihxely prtuluUue, tut I Louie that thr neigh bourhood oj Pensacola, is the place where it uiil produce much. t In the year HV>4, I it as cast upon the. south- nr.ino t point of ftnst Florida, and altnou^h it was in thr month of February—J beheld that covn- t y, entered with preen trees and Jlduirs—ilu ini- agt of un everiasttng Spring. I! ( ojj'er—tuoocree to i-ich man. There is no til:tug < r hoeing—Ike only labour, u to prevent iff ass from growing between the plaids, and the filching up of the /suits, which is the mod tutor i• \ at —otherwise f a snan could tardy take cure vj fee acre» of land. Cocoa—Jour acres to each man. There is go culture uhainer; the labour is in culling vjf the tiu s at d drying thtfs ads. I 'mes hre arrt i to < etch man tVhich are to be plov'..tiedthree hn.no y.ar. In cutting qff.froils, or vintage time, additional hands are mcii. ary. Ohres, i ".pert, almonds, sued w. culture - hoods are necetsury only tu get the ctCjis in, and exhuct 7.7 * Isi the tFesl- Indies, this jnasit troiil I grow Ic the height of 10 feel. Experience hat sin vn the adxautngf of limiting its height cl four feel, by winch means, the brtqickes from the earth up ex pand, end the plant acquire *« si conge * benty, trh ich »•’ eonsoqvinec of its low height, *h< Ittred /torn the run4 cj a hurricane, or Ike too luc y load ef thfiuiU « t .it this p>’igd coff { l ad not yet been culti vated in the Idand of Jamaica, as n proved by n represisdatio.i n ettle about Ike year 1770, to the Court of tit. Jamcs. by the planters and merchants residing in that island—asid eotnj refunded in se ven chief grit ensues, iht s tenth >,J which I sub- of land, Being jera/ttr washed by llic s<’.i rn t'i- south, enst, urn! I “ The r-rmnnSrhitoMt nut whirl, rn here- west, jios ”,ses all the snlvantages xvhieKau | f ‘ ^ u ff ,ru f< n,r1 ' l ‘' l:l "f [bi ie * Iioilrtf'arit. hud I'mi * ■ Italy, and was about statin •?“ at STtoJai A-»eyaj«r~ ■. -I". \ry.' ^ tSu-la *4' That wan was C«W, . | le.ltd, y turr lost by the heavy duties that e&c laid nep/1red the w hole of \ upok rl—and preoab y, mu sugar, rvm, ginger, for Egyj't—.V« i'cju j i -f .h'Wilhic(tlu*nnefatt,iJ*tioltiiniilyrttiudi- ers—Of Holland f adt\ And bi we have ju>t now begmi to plant the Uukt esf l'nr(-,l ioffer, wc hope fora Ijounty to enrourage thet y. an*&-at this time I pUutation, on our iend:nr i« to England—at tfet. j it <</” i csrt tba; tbtre oiijl.t be nu iluties la J vpm it. R.V.ITF. Hati.i'hay, Jan. 20. Titr. ?EUI'IIOM LAW. Tlic Senate then resumed Ihc ronsid- cratiuii of llm rcaoliitioua declaiiug the late sedition law unconstitutional, and to indemnify those who fullered damages under il—the motion of Mr. Ilalker, of Geo. made sonic days ago, to jiostponethe resolutions indefinitely, being still under consideration. Mr. lluibtiur again addressed (lie Se nate in sii|'|iort of the resolutions, and in reply t<> their opponents. Mr. Smith also again spoke in reply to Mr. Harbour and others who advocated the resolutions. Mr. .Mecca likewise spoke again insup. port of the resolutions, and in yetence of the opinions he had previously advanc ed. Mr. llulrrtt, of Maine, spoke atlenglb against postponing the resolutions, th*’ lie prefered legislating for the particular case of Matthew Lyon. Mr. IValker, of Georgia, spoko again to vindicate Lis opposition to these reso lutions. The question was then taken on J^e* indefinite postponement of the r«tli»- tiomandwus decided in the atlirmative as follows : Y EAS.—Messrs. Chandler, Dana, F.ator, Elliott, Halliard, Viorsey, Hunter, Johnsiyi^f u " ,n! " T.oii. King of N. Yoik, LanltMO, Lloyd, *jflp®®MOcy of Mil’s, Mo-ril, Noble, Otis, Filmer, Parrott, hoiite 1 »*u< us icuy opposed IDS IS* commitment, because it would pioduc* uci.iy. Mr. Jithnton of Kentucky opposed the motion to recommit, and udvocated tha bill at considerable length. Mr. ,\able followed in u short speech en the same side.of the question, and of the lame purport. Mr. King of Atebama also opposed th® recommitment, at seme I. nglh, and inci dent illy defended the object and general piovi»iona of the bill. Air. IVulktr of^labama, opposed thrf recommitmenfi nkd wynt into an elabo rate defet.ee of the bill ; (hough he> deemed the bill to fall short of that measure of relief which it was expedient to exieud to a portion of the purchasers. Mr .Morrill spake biieily in support of the bill as it stood; and against recom mitment. The question being taken on the mo- ln>u to i ccommit the bill, it was negatived without » division. Mr. Thomat then offered a sub«tituto for the first section oflhe bill, (not af fecting any principle of the hill, but in tended to render its ineauing clearer,; which wus ordered to be priuted , ana the Beuatc adjourned. ' Tiejdav, Jan. 23. The bill forth* relief of ihe purchas ers of the public land was again taken up, . nd ihen, on motion of Air. King, of N. Y. oidcred to lie on tbe table. BA.NKKU’TMU. The Senate, according to the order of the Jay, took up the bill to establish au uniform system of Bankruptcy. - • A fie i discussing and negativingsifccco- sive motions to postpone the consideia- lion ol Ihe bill—first to Afonday, next to Friday, and lastly to Thursday—the reading of the bill proceeded, which, from its great length, occupied touch lime. When the reading was finished, 1 be lull wn«, on the molien of .Mr. 1 an Dyke, jiotpondd to, and made th® ( older oflhe day for Tuesday next. Wednesday, January 24. The Senate-again teek up Ihe bill" granting relief to the purchasers of pub lic lands prior to the 1st of July, 1820. A good deal of viscussion ogain Wok place on tliis bill, principally on ameed- mente offered to it ; none of which, however, of a material character, were agreed to. The bill wa*, after gbm® time, aguia laid on tbe table. Friday, Job. 20. Mr. Thomat, from the committee oq Public Lands, to wbpm hod been referr ed the memorial of the General Assenb- ly of Indiana, preying to be permitted to- lax all lands in that itnte ;dd since the 1st of July, 182Q, and all sold since (he ist of December^ H516, on which the pay merits ban-been completed, mode a report adverse to the prayer of the me mo-.d ; w hich waa read. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Saturday, Jan. 20. Mr. Uhca, from tbe committee oo Pen sions and Revolutionary Claims, report ed a bill “ concerning invalid pension er* and the same was twice read and, committed. * On motion of Mr. IVkitmqn, Bctolvtd, That tbe commit subject of reviving for i currency of foreign i States, be intrude