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JJf ( £ . Vniylfted it °o the 17th, with
Jr , rv , »u4#*»t«rned a verdict of mis-
jfJTeiiiuVe.y After the inquest had sepa-
,’.iU’d, beafo there were other wounds.
'J he j'/y were again assembled, and
g.ite »n n verdict of murder. When
dicy first examined, the clothes were not
tifcen ofl’deceused. Dr. Goss gave a ve
ry particular description of the wounds,
three of which, the one on the back ot
the head that penetrated to the brain,
the one on the check, which broke the
jaw, and the One on the arm, which
penetrated to the bone, he considered as
-unquestionably done with an axe or simi
lar instrument.
Doctor John Manning, who examined
the body, gave a similar description of the
wounds.
Mr. Mostly nnd Mr. Andrews, in de
fence of the prisoner, contended that the
conduct of the prisoner, before and after
the accident, was proof of his innocence,
and that the wounds might all be the ef
fect of one blow.
The Attorney General contended that
his conduct and his contradictions were
proof of his guilt, and that it was utterly
impossible that the wounds coulJ have
been the result of the same blow, and of
course could not be accidental.
The chief justice charged the jury to
the following effect : “ Upon the whole,
the cause appeared barren of incidents
either before or after the death, which
can have much hearing on the question
of innocence or guilt. The opinion must
be formed principally on the nature and
relative situation ofthe wounds. If they
were satisfied that all the wounds which
appeared to have been made by the axe,
might have been occasioned by a single
pi l'«v would have little doubt that
the death came by accident; as the conduct
in . ^iisouer before and after the tact
wa= not inconsistent with that supposi
tion ; but if they were satisfied that there
had been two or more distinct blows, it
was exceedingly difficult to impute both
of them to accident. Considering the
extraordinary circumstances ofthe case,
either on the supposition of innocence or
gudt, if within the limits of reasonable
probability they could find that all the
wounds might have been given, or have
been the result, of one blow, they would
ref-r the death to accident, and acquit
the prisoner ; if they could not, even by
the exercise of ingr.nuity within reasona
ble limits, come to this conclusion, they
ought to convict.”
At 7 o’clock the cause was committed
to the jury, and at 11 they returned into
Court ith a verdict of Not Guilty.
n rnTffMT ~~ j; —f.•■■wfiiffsr./ 9U !>mit
demands. One of the conditions upon
which the Russian Cabinctlnsists, particular
ly since the late events at Bucharest, is a
guarantee for the political and religions ex
istence of the Greeks. It has, it is said, tie-
dared, that the security held out by treaties
appear 'd the less sufficient, since the scenes
at Bucharest prove that the Turks continue
to cherish the principle that no obligation is
binding with regard to infidels. Russia de
mands then, it is said, n sufficient guarantee,
that is, the occupation of the most important
places in the several quarters of Turkey in
Europe by Christian garrisons. These gar-
Isons shall he of sufficient strengh to enforce
the execution of treaties, and afford prompt
assistance to the Greeks, in the event of
their violation.
Conformably to those demands, tlm Eng
lish and Austrian Ministers, have made some
propositions to the Forte, with a view to the
occupation of all the fortified places of the
Pdoponeaus, with the exception ofthe capi-
¥01\E,I0K.
Further extracts from London Papers receiv
ed at the office of the Boston Patriot.
Paris, October IS.
’ On the 9th inst. about 250 Liberals gave a
dinner to M. Corcelles, on his return as dr
, puty for that city. Toasts were given to
r 'Liberty, the Constitution, * * **. The com-
j tiariy then adjourned in a body to the French
| hills: where t ere was a display of fireworks,
serenade, ami other amusements, in honor
of that deputy ; but unfortunately the com-
1 pany did not coufine themselves to cries of
“ Live Corcelles"—there were others inter
mixed, which cannot be repeated, and which
divested the assembly of its festive charac-
j ter. To put an end to the confusion and
I tumultuous proceedings, two proclama'ions,
( .the one by the Prefect of the town, and the
Other by the mayor of the city, were issued,
nnd had the desired effect, without the effus-
’ )on of blood.
, The heads lately exposed on the. gntes of
1 the Seraglio, were those of Veil Pacha,
the son of Ali of Janina, and of his son Me-
hemed Pacha. Their death has been pro
voked by Ihe intrigues of Ismael Pacha and
f Bekir Theiokador. They have insinuated
o the Divan, that Veli and his son had de
posited a sum of 5,000,0001. at Santa Maura,
if which they declared the English General,
"ir F. Adam, to be heir in case of their death.
negociation to remove the money had
lieen entered into with the Turkish Chiefs
ivhomwe have named. They contended
'{'fiat a Pacha being a slave employed bv his
lighness the Sultan, was not likely to make
will, except in favor of the mosques, and
consequence they demanded the deposit,
be reply was that Veli and others could
pt be divested ofthe property. A second
epand was made, a reply was given, and
4 Divan, in order t* cut the knot ofthe
.fficulty, ordered the heads of the two per-
Mt to be cut off who had been employed
- refuse the treasure.
Madrid, Oet. 4.
Francis Villamora, charged with having
favored to substitute the republican, for
♦tonstitutional system, was condemned
l> trie Sotli of September, by the Tribunal
First Resort of Saragossa, to eight years’
lishinent to the city of Santa Maria de
I ntacuria, in one of the Canary Islands, to
deprived of his commission and rank, and
fay tile costs of the process. The pro
bings against Cugnet du Moutarlot are
, finned with great activity.
*t Cartlingeua, ns well as at Malaga, the
I 1 ,' .'I »nd military authorities have assisted at
tend procession in honor of ltie
Vine of the most distinguished of our chief
xitary oiheers, General Mill.ires, Governor
, alaga, has expired, after a short but se-
s illness. The country has lost in him a
jnt defender, and the new institutions an
| hleued aud ardent friend.
Journal des T)ebals.
Sarauossa, Oet. 8.
iten o’clock at night on the first of thi
I pi, about 20 persons having assembled,
VVd the streets with a stick, to which a
qterchief was tied, crying—“ Death t<
WWa and Riegn, and live the Holy Vir
"yhe soldiers attacked them and seiz
- two were grievously wounded. Tin
jities are exerting themselves for the
I* 6 discovering the other offenders.
. . Vienna, Oct. 5.
|*negocutions entered into with the
1 mediating Ministers of Austria
r»gtaiiit, f lir t (, e prevention of a war
• *?;,,"T' A nn,) Pwrto, continue
fM.tlJT 0 "’ ls bought,
' ? f . thoae diplomatists'
t,d of Tripolitan, of the port of Novnrino, of
DuriiEtoin Albania, of Salomon,in Macedo
nia. and of Widditi and Belgrade, by garri
sons composed of Russians, Austrians, and
English. It ; s not yet known what recep
tion the Divan has given to these proposi
tions ; but it is the more doubted the Porte
will accept them, since in its political rela
tions with other Powers, it is desirous that
all concessions made to them should he con-
idered as a proof of its generosity, and not
as extorted from its weakness.—Journal de
Paris.
Brossei.s, Oet. It.
The Journal called Ami do Uni, contains
an article on the negocidtions between Eng
land and France on the affairs of Turkey.—
There are in it statements 'very hold, and
evidently incorrect ; but we think the fol
lowing passages worthy of attention, al
though they may not deserve implicit credit.
“ England has proposed, (it says.) to pre
serve untouched the possessions of Turkey
in Europe, with the exception of the two
principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia,
which are to he ceded to Russia, and of
some districts of Croatia and Bosnia, of
which Austria is to obtain possession. On
the other hand, Russia is to cede a part of
the kingdom of Poland, to serve as an in
demnity to the Princes wbo are to alienate
a part of their possessions. England, it is
added, contented with the numerous and im
portant advantages which are secured to her
by the late treaties, has no other object than
to maintain in Europe a real, and not a nom
inal, equilibrium, between the prepondera
ting Powers.
“ This Memnire, which was transmitted
by the Duke of Wellington, is, it is said, a
master piece of justice and policy, and con
fers the greatest honor on him who drew it
up. England maintains that no government
has the right to persecute (he immense ma
jority of its subjects, because they profess a
eligion different from its own. She then
proclaims those eternal truths, engraven on
the heart of man by the law of the gospel as
well as by that of nature, that every govern
ment is bound to protect the persons and
ropertics of its subjects. Setting out with
these principles, she concludes that the two
Powers, if they pulled together, might easi
ly, not only induce, but even compel the
Grand S"iguor to consent'to the cessions
mentioned above, and to ensure to the
Greeks full and entire protection for their
religion, laws, and properties. The Divan
it is supposed, would he more tractable on
tliis lu-ad, as it cannot but perceive the dan
ger which threatens the European part of its
empire. As to the objection which will
doublless be made, that the Sultan, depend
ing on the Mufti and the Elcmas, a fanatical
body, and on a sanguinary and undisciplined
soldiery, cannot offer solid guarantees for
the fulfilment of the stipulations of the trea
ty, the Memoirs replies that, in the exti ent
ity to which the Porte is reduced, all the ex
acted stipulations might be easily obtained,
nd consequently nil the necessary guaran
tees against the violation of them, on what-
ver side it might occur; England and
France expressly reserving to themselves the
right of inflicting vengeance on the violator,
In case of impunity or negligence in the
Turkish government.
“ Henceforward, according to the author
of the Memoire, we. calculate that none of
those horrors which make humanity shud
der, and of which Greece has been the thea
tre for nearly four centuries, w ill be renew-
d, because the favorites of the. Seraglio will
excite.no more massacres or spoliations, nor
will the Pachas, ihe militia, or the populace,
dare to commit the outrages with which
they have lately been familiar, when they
shall be convinced that no influence or in
trigue will be able to withdraw them from a
punishment justly merited.
“ The Greeks will then enjoy n happiness
unknown to their ancestors i'or perhaps ten
centuries ; for it is not only since the inva
sion of the'Porks that they have been un
fortunate : they were so in every respect,
•xcept as regarded their religion, under
their own emperors. The history of no
other country presents such a list of cruel,
indirtive, aud rapacious or weak Princes.
It cannot be dissembled, says the author of
le Memoire, that any other mode of assist-
ig the Greeks would he unfavorable to the
equilibrium t>f power in Europe. This
would he the rase even though Greece was
declared independent; for it is to be ohserv-
d that the Greeks profess the same religion
is the Russians, and that they are more at-
acited to it than the latter. Their hatred
ind fanaticism against nations which profess
mother religion, are well known. Russia
would therefore, exercise over the Greek
the same influenee as Napoleon exercised
over the confederation of the Rhine, aud ev
en a greater. The latter was founded only
on force, whereas the former would b
founded upon force and religious principle-
The happiness of Europe, therefore, require
that the Ottoman throne should be preserv-
:d, for if this throne were once destroyed
Ihe colossal power of Russia would become
daily more formidable to Europe, if fortified
by the immense resources which it would
find in Greece."
;aw*t i*o : ™ vr*’”""- vn*
“ Gentlemen,—Since I expressed to
the Cortes my motives for believing it
ndvisD'de to call an Extraordinary meet
ing of (It-- Cortes, nothing has so much
engaged tny attention as the desire to
see them assembled. 1 now see them
with the greatest satisfaction, and give
myself wholly up to the pleasing and just
hope ofthe good which the country will
derive from their labours. The sub
jects which I have prepared to lay be
fore the Cortes for their consideration,
are mostly such, the regulation of which
is necessary for the more speedy consoli
dation ofthe constitutional system, such
as the division ofthe territory, and the
best means of placing, according to it, the
Political Government, the Cortes, the
Military Ordinances, the Plan of Decree
ofthe organization of the Naval force,
and the decree for the organization of
the above militia.
“ 1 particularly urge you to place every
thing in consonance with the fundamen
tal law of the State, leaving the Admin
istration free from all those serious em
barrassments which it oAen meets with
for want of this necessary harmony, and
winch the Government cannot remove.
1 have also thought that some other
points ought to be determined, which
though not so intimately connected with
the Constitution, have a great influence
on the general prosperity, such as the
measures to be adopted to restore the
tranquility, and to promote the welfare
of the Americans, the examination and
reform' of the duties of customs, the
means necessary to prevent the serious
loss which the nation sustains by the cur
rency of false or defective foreign coin,
and the project of a Decree on the Chari
table Institutions ; though all the sub
jects that are going to he discussed by
the Cortes are of so much importance,
the fact itself, of their being assembled to
discuss them, is still mare so. This
new proof and guarantee of the union
which prevails between all the chief
powers of the State, must convince all
the enemies of our Institutions their ef
forts to subvert them will be vain.
“ I shall take advantage of the period
in which the Cories will continue as
sembled, to give orders, to propose any
measure or project which may appear iu
my Government necessary and urgent,
as well as to ask their co-npc'ralion, when
circumstances may require. The field,
Gentlemen, is most extensive, which is
open to your zeal and to your talents ;
and those qualities which so greatly dis
tinguish you, combined with the pru
dence and circumspection which have
marked all your deliberations, insure to
the country the completion of those ad
vantages which it already owes to you.
“ I have the confidence that you will
gain, in both respects, the admiration of
the nation and of Foreigners, entitling
yourselves more and moTe to the par
ticular esteem of your King, who will
always consider the Cortes as the firmest
support of his Constitutional Throne.”
To which the President replied in
substance. That the country was indebt
ed to his Majesty for calling this Extra
ordinary Cortes ; this they considered
is an unequivocal testimony of mutual
love and confidence. The Spanish na
tion, he added, equally abhors despotism
and anarchy j though desirous of liberty,
they ask such liberty ns may he founded
on the laws, and that does not degenerate
into licentiousness. They will have ne
government but a limited Monarchy,
such as the Constitution has established;
ami they entertain the most unbounded
love and respect towards his Majesty’s
sacred and inviolable person.
A committee was then appointed to
draw up an Answer to his Majesty’s
Speech, and the Assembly adjourned till
the following day.
Opening of the Extraordinary Cortes of
Spain.
Madrid, Sept. 28.
A notice from the Secretary of State
having been read, in which he announc
ed that his Majesty had appointed ele
ven o’clock as the time to open the Ses
sion, a Deputation was appointed to re
ceive the King in the usual form, and a-
notherto conduct her M ajesty the (|ucen
to the seat prepared for her.
A salute of artillery having announc
ed their Majesties’ departure from the
1 alace, the Deputations went to receive
them at the entrance of the Palace of
the Cortes ; and Ihe King having taken
his seat on the Throne, delivered the
jfmrowing speech
Extracts from the Communication of Go
vernor Randolph to the Legislature of
Virginia, now in session.
“ The commonwealth has undergone
the, humiliation of having endeavored in
vain to vindicate and assert her rights
and her sovereignty at the bar of the.
supreme court of the United States, and
now endures the mortification, notwith
standing the great talents, learning and
efforts of the counsel employed, of hav
ing altogether failed to procure a disa
vowal of the right, or the intention to
violate that sovereignty, and those rights,
by the procedure which was announced
to the last legislature, and what has been
consequent thereto in the usual course.
The supreme court of the United Stales
has asserted in the broadest terms, the
right of that court to exercise appellate
jurisdiction in cases where n state is a
party, and where it i« brought before
them by a writ of error to reverse the
sentence of one of its courts inflicting a
penalty on some of its citizens foi a vio
lation of its penal code. It lias asserted
the right, in cases where a state is a
party, to enforce witi.in that state, laws
ofcongre»s framed for the District of Co
lumbia, within the limits of which, Con
gress has exclusive jurisdiction, by su
pervising and cor.trouling the decisions
of the state courts upon municipal regu
lations of their own, intended to preserve
the morals of their citizens. Although
it is admitted that under the provisions of
the particular act of Congress authoriz
ing a lottery, for the benefit of the Dis
trict of Columbia, the venders of the
tickets were not protected from a liabil
ity to punishment for infractions ofthe
state laws prohibiting a sale of them in
the respective states, it has intimated its
opinion in a manner which admits of lit
tle doubt, that even in support of regu
lations framed by Congress for the Dis
trict of Columbia, it may dispense with,
or overreach the municipal law* of a
state which are in conflict with them.
The principles thus contended for by
the supreme court, are manifestly cal
culated to impair most essentially the so
vereign rigliis retained by the states,
and ultimately to change the character
of the government from a constitution of
limited and defined powers, to one inves
ting unlimited authority. The supreme
court of the United States, lias long at
tributed to Congress a discretion to use
any means they may judge expedient to
carry a power specified in the constitu
tion into effect. It arrogates to itself,
always, the high authority to judge ex
clusively in the last resort, how far the
federal compact is violated, and to ar
raign before it not only the decisions of
the state courts, but the stales them
selves.
As the states are parties to the com
pact, it is their duty to exercise a proper
degree of vigilance aud energy to pre
vent its violation. In a difference of
sentiment as to the authority conferred
by the federal constitution, it surely can
not be pretended to be an exclusive right
of one of the parties to decide whether
a power is conferred or not, and particu
larly not the parly who claims its exer
cise.
If the principles plainly upheld by
these opinions and decisions are success
fully maintained, jt is manifest that the
amendment to the constitution intended
to guard the sovereignty of the states
has no longer any force, nnd the adop
tion of it has proved a v.iin measure.—
The definition of power* granted is no
longer of any use ; the limitation of those
powers and the reservation of all re
maining powers to the state governments
which before possessed the whole, are
no longer of any avail. If Congress can
pass all laws which it may ever on any
occasion deem necessary to carry any
power imputed to its government into
effect, it is evident that that government
is one of unlimited powers by construc
tion, whatever may appear on the face
ofthe constitution to the contrary. If it
can go to the outer limits of the field of
legislation, presented to it by the states,
it will eventually soon occupy the whole
field so fully, that no decision can be
made in a slate court, which miry not be
construed to involve some law of the U.
States, and be therefore reversible at
the will of the federal judiciary. The
state courts will then be virtually anni
hilated, for their proceedings will be
subjects of jealousy until they become
useless ceremonies.
The constitution ofthe United States
is a durable monument of the wisdom
and ^armony of limes past. Its very
imperfections constitute an impressive
memorial of the necessity for good faith
in the passing and in future times. It is
not a mystic writing given in charge to
the federal judiciary as to a priesthood,
to he enveloped in a studied obscurity,
consulted through mazes, and made to
give such’ responses as may suit the pe
culiar views of a political sect, at any pe
riod. But to argue against the uncon
stitutionality of the jurisdiction asserted,
and the pretended conservative powers
assumed, after the dignified and emphatic
declaration tnade by the last legislature,
is useless, and can produce no good con
sequence.
The only legitimate remedy, whether
sure and lasting time will shew, against
the certain effect of this effervescence of
judicial ambition, which if disavowed by
the present enlightened Congress, may
hereafter be tolerated or encouraged by
some other, is unquestionably an amend
ment to the constitution, confining both
the power claimed and the jurisdiction
asserted, within such well defined limits
as may make the state governments se
cure against the fatal consequences of a
right existing in olher tribunals, to re
verse the decisions of theirs, upon mat
ters of their own internal policy, and in
a tribunal created by one party to the
compact, to declare iu detail what that
compact intended.
Anticipations full of despair for the
future welfare of the Union must una
voidably accompany the harsh supposi
tion that the alarming assumptions in
question can have had their origin iu
wilful error, induced by motives of po
litical expediency connected with views
of government very different from those
of the framers of the constitution.—
They must have had the same under
standing of the different clauses of the
instrument at that time, if not similar in
tentions when they assembled, or views
in the discussion. All then gave
lemn pledge to support it, ns it came from
their hands. All declared it to be the
best contrivance they could make to bring
the whole power and influence of all the
states to hear, in mass, upon foreign na
tions, in peace as well as in war, without
diminishing their internal means of pre
serving tranquility, of encouraging vir
tue and knowledge, and promoting pros
peritv to anv of them. If all did not de
precate consolidation, as much as disun
ion. it was tiecause a few had not the
foresight to discover that n corrupt, mag
nificent, extravagant, impoverishing and
enslaveing government, must he the con
sequence of it. If it he said that the
minority then has become the majority
now, let it he put to the test, by another
convention. The highly distinguished
citizens who compose the supreme court
nl this time are far above the imputation
of had faith, ever poorly defended by a
ny consideration of expediency, but they
are certainly too learned to have unin
tcntinnnl error attributed to them with
out painful doubt. The gloom of thi
prospect is not a little deepened by the
reflection that the places of thosp judge
are very likely hereafter to be filled b\
the same men who have given their o
pinions ns counsel, it is hoped merelv
professional, in support of such a viola
tion of state rights.
It may bo useful to consider whether
the practice of ass.lining an unwarranta
ble latitude of construction, ns to consti
tution and law, may not also have been
indulged in our own state affairs. To
have our feelings softened towards those
officers of the general government who
follow the same unpromising course, will
he one pleasing effect ot' the enquiry.—
But that ought by no means to blind us
to the consequences of suffering all the
points in politics and jurisprudence, once
deliberately adjusted, and all the limits
of rights, powers, and functions, once
scrupulously determined ; to remain per
petually liable to be unhinged, unsettled,
and shifted by a capricious ambition, or
a grasping policy, "’he ultimate effect
of that must he to perplex, weary, dis
gust and irritate the people, who arc,
while tranquil, the only sure guardian of
ail rights as well ns the only legitimate
source of all power, and probably to sub
stitute the farce of mobs, directed by
their leaders, who unavoidably soon be
come their masters, for the reign of set
tled law, upon the unassailed stability of
which, all the dignity of man, and every
prospect of human happiness must ever
depend. That state which suffered most
in the war of the revolution on both its
frontiers, the ocean and wilderness, from
civilized robbers of the sea, and savage
man-hunters of the forest; which had
the good fortune to witness, on its own
territory, and to contribute most largely
towards the most signal successes ofthe
united arm* ; which first and most li
berally reduced its original extent by
grants to the confederacy, and relin
quishments, to increase the number of
its members, which was most prompt to
take arms in support of the laws of the
Union when outraged in 1794, and most
patient to sacrifice its youth in unhealthy
service against the common enemy in
1814, may without arrogance take the
lead in such a cause. The circumstance,
in addition, of hnving hitherto led the
way in all.ameliorating proceedings ; of
having once before applied the legitimate
remedy with so much energy and suc
cess, and of having ever disclaimed all
other means of redress, will justify Vir
ginia for making an endeavor, alone, to
rouse the other states ofthe Union to n
proper consideration of the importance
of the crisis.
The number of persons confined in the
Penitentiary prison ofthe commonwealth,
on the 30th September 1821, was two
hundred and one, of which one hundred
and fifty-nine are white men, and two
white women ; thirty-three are colour
ed men, and seven, coloured women ;
not including slaves, who are only lodg
ed there for transportation. Within tile
year ending on that day forty-eight con
victs hare been discharged in regular
course of law ; fourteen have died ; and
sixteen have been pardoned by the exe
cutive department.
Fourteen persons are confined for hav
ing caused the death of human creatures,
nineteen for all other acts of violence
committed on human creatures, and one
hundred and sixty-eight for criminal ac
quisition in various modes. A propen
sity to the perpetration of homicide,
without its deepest shade* of guilt, has
been formerly attributed to our state.—
An unfrequency of the instance of it for
our actual population may now be safely
asserted. Somewhat of proneness to
violence in our citizens could not for
merly have been denied ; but it was
rarely ever accompanied with predeter
mined intentions of guilty acquisition.—
It was a mark still remaining of those
peculiar dispositions which a fondness
for the chace inseparable from extensive
forests abounding in game, have always
formed in man. The qualities which
distinguish the hunter, gained for us
those civic laurels which decorated our
early banners in 1755. Among such as
sociates, iu such a state of society, was
formed that wonderful mind which guided
this confederacy through the heartweary-
ing storm of the revolution, and amid the
more dangerous, although less furious
swell of human passions, which accom
panied the succeeding calm. May our
legitimate union with the other re
publics of our confederacy endure as
long, as the renown of that sublime
character in which were united qualities,
civil, political and military, more admira
ble, more exalted, and more practically
valuable, than ever appeared in any o-
ther man 1
TIE M. RANDOLPH.
Ion, in the acquisition of a territory
nhicli will one <ljy add so greatly ty her
irturest ; and which will giiu to tfio
Fleridn* an importance not interior to the
surrounding states.
The following extract of a letter from
thk Secretary of the expedition, dated
Charleston, Nov. 6, whs politely furnsih-
Vd as by a respectable merchant in this
<lty.
•It is with pleasure that I announce
to you our arrival in this place. We did
intend to touch at St. Augustine, but
w«rr prevented from so doing by bad
weather. Il’e have succeeded in our en
terprise.”—Florida Gazette.
RECORDER.
MILLKDCiEVILLK, Tuesday, December 18.
St. Augustine, Nov. 24.
We are happy in stating, that through
the mercy of Divine Providence, our city
has been relieved from the dreadful dis
ease which has for some time prevail
ed, and which has almost desolated
it. It will be seen by the Report of the
Board of Health, published in this day’s
paper, that no new case has occurred for
10 days. The weather for several days
has been warm, and we last evening had
a very heavy rain. We do not how
ever, think the change of wheather, from
cold to warm, is calculated to renew the
disease—the air appears pure and whole
some : and we think that persons who
have left the place in consequence of the
sickness, may safely return to their
homes.
COFFEE LAND EXPEDITION.
It will be recollected, that some time
since wn mentioned the circumstance ot
the sloop Hunter, capt. Carter, from
Philadelphia, having touched here, on an
exploring expedition—to explore the in
terior part of the peninsula below the
27th degree of latitude—in search of
land suitable for the cultivation ofthe
Coffee Plant. We have now the satis
faction to learn that they have succeed
ed in their laudable undertaking. W
not only congratulate the fortunate ad-
GEORG1A LEGISLATURE.
The bill published in our last paper, to re
gulate intercourse between the Banks incor
porated by this state and the United States
Bank amt its branches, has passed the Sen
ate, where it originated, by a large majority..
This branch of tho Legislature has rejected
the hill which passed (he House, to repeal
the net restricting the introduction of slaves
into this state, 22 to 18. The Salary ami
Fee hill, in consequence of a disagreement
between the two branches, has been lost.—
The House of Representatives have passed
the bill from Senate for electing tty Govern
or by the people—to effect the object con*
teinplated, this hill must be repasaed by the
constitutional majorities in each branch ol
the next Legislature. The session will close,
it is supposed, on Saturday next.
On Saturday last the election of State
House Officers, to wit, Treasurer, Comptrol
ler, Secretary of State, and Surveyor Gene
ral took place. All tho old Officers were-
re-olected—For Secretary of State, the con
test between Col. Iiammond and Gen. Ncw-
nan was very close.
1st Ballot, id Ballot. 3d Ballot-,
Hammond, 53 70 73
Newnan, 57 69 71
Porter, 21 3
Whitaker, 9 S I
Tennille, 0 1
On the same day, Cicero Holt was elected
Solicitor General for the Western Circuit.
The former Principal Keeper and Inspectors
of the Penitentiary were re-elected without
opposition.
’President’a Message.
(T7**The late hour at which we received
the President's Message, and the great length
of that Document, will not allow us to place
it entir«^wfore onr readers this week—the
whole shall he printed in our next paper—
for the present, we extract those parts of it
which to us appear most important. K
large portion of this interesting state paper
treats of our commercial relations with for
eign powers—speaking of the restrictive re
gulations adopted towards each other by
France and the United States, the President
says, 11 It is much to be regretted, that al
though a negotiation has been long pending,'
such is the diversity of views entertained, on
the various points, which have been brought
into discussion, that there does not appear
to be any reasonable prospect of its early
conclusion.”
Extracts from the Message transmitted by the!
President to both Houses of Congress on
the r oth inst.
With Spain, the treaty of February £2d>,
1319, has been partly carried into execution.
Possession of F.ast and West Fiorida has
been given to the United States, but the offi
cers charged with that service by an order
from his Catholic Majesty, delivered by his
Minister to the Secretary of Stute, and trans
mitted by a special agent to the. Captain
General of Cuba, to whom it was directed,
and in whom the government of those prov
inces was vested, have not only omitted, in
contravention of the orders of their stwe-
reign, the performance of the express stipu
lation, to deliver over the archives and docu
ments relating to the property and sove
reignty of those provinces, all of which it
was expected would have been delivered, ei
ther before or when the troops were with
drawn, hut defeated, since, every effort of
the United States to obtain them, especially
those of the greatest importance. This
omission has given rise to -several incidents
of a painful nature, the character of which
will tie fully disclosed by the documents,,
which will hereafter be communicated.
Ill every other circumstance the law of tlnv
3d of March last, for carrying into effort that
treaty, has been duly attended to. For the
execution ot that part which preserved in
force, for the government of the inhabitants,
for the term specified, all the civil, military,
and judicial powers, exercised by the exist
ing government of those provinces, an ade
quate number of officers, as was presumed,
were appointed, and ordered to their respec
tive stations. Both provinces were formed
into one territory, and a governor appointed
tor it, but, in consideration of the pre-exist
ing division, and of the distance and difficul
ty of communication, between Pensacola,
the residence of the Governor of West Flor
ida, and St. Augustine, that ofthe Governor
of East Florida, at which places the incon
siderable population of each province w;>°
principally collected, two Secretaries weie
appointed, one to reside at Pensacola, and
the other at St. Augustine. Due attention
was likewise paid to the execution of the
laws of the United States relating to the re,
venue and toe slave trade, which were ex
tended to these provinces. The whole tei-
ritory was divided into three collection dis
tricts, that part lying between the rivi r St ,
venturers in this expedition, but the na-1 Mary’s and Cape Florida, forming uur, liuvU