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MILLEDGEVILLJ8, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1922.
No. 22.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
ptY A. GR.1NTLAND if R. M. ORME,
On Hancock Street, opposite the Auction Store,
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YEAR.
33’ Advertisements conspicuously inserted
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jy; ACT to authorize Hie building of Licht
Houses therein monliuoed, and for other
purpose..
Re il enacted by the Senate and I tonic of
Representative of llir United States of Amen-
ea in Congress assembled, That, as soon as
the jurisdiction of such portions of land nt
Moo'licgati Island, oti the coast of Maine ;
at Billingsgate Island, in Rarnstnhln Bay ;
a; (’utter Honk I land, near New Bedford,
In the state of Massachusetts; at Stoning-
(on Foint, in the state of Connecticut ; at
Old Field Point, f, mu Island, in the slate
of Nmv York ; nt Capo May, in the slate
of New Jersey, at or near the Port of O
eracocltc, in the slate of North Carolina, at
Cape Florida, and on tire Dry Tortuga', or
some plane, in tint vicinity, as the President
of the United States shall select for the- sites
of light-houses, shall be ceded to, and the
properly thereof respectively vested in the
United States, it shall he, the duty of the Se
cretary of the Treasury to provide, by con
tracts." widely shall he approved hy tile Pre
sident, for building light-houses respectively
on surli sites, to he so lighted as In he dis
tinguishable from other light houses, near
the same, and also, to agree for the salaries,
waver, or hire, of the persons to he appoint
ed hy the President, for the superintendance
of the same.
Sec. a. And be it further enneted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury he, and he hereby
is, authorized, if he shall deem it expedient,
to cause to he removed the- floating light,
placed at or near this said port of Ocracnckf
and to have the same placed at the narrows
in the Potomac river.
See. 3. And be it further enacted. That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he here-
by is, authorized to provide, hy contract, for
procuring and placing buoys at the following
place 5 , to witnon at Hatbor Island bar,
one on Pine Point shonl, one on the Point
of Marsh shoals, one on Swan Island shoal,
o e on tile ea't end of Brant Island shoal,
one on the Middle Ground Shoal, one on the
Bluff shoal, and one on the Long Shoal, all
being situated on the coast of North-Caroli-
n,i and, also, for three buoys for the liar of
the port of Georgetown, in South Carolina.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the
following sums he appropriated for tile pur
pose of carrying th» prov i*ions of this art in
to effect, to ho paid out of any moneys-
eases hy law provided—and that, foe the
purpose of carrying the same into effect,
there be appropriated the sum of twenty
two thousand seven hundred dollars, to lie
paid out of any moneys in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated.
See. 7. And be it further enacted, That the
light authorized to be built on Cross Island,
in the state of Maine, be, and the same is
hereby, directed to be built on the south
point of Libby Island, and for building and
completing the same, the sum of five hun
dred dollars, in addition to tile former ap
proprialion, is hereby appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury, not otherwise
appropriated.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That the
following sums of money Ire, and the same
are hereby, appropriated, out of any mo
neys iri the Treasury, not. otherwise appro
priated, for the following purposes, to wit :
Four thousand dollars to enable the Secre
tary of the Treasury to purchase the patrnt
right of David Melville and others, to a new
ly invented lamp, for lighting light house**-—
and a sum not exceeding four thousand two
hundred and forty dollars, for placing the
same in light houses.
Sec. 0. And be it further enneted, That, for
making and completing a survey of the coast
of Florida, under the direction of the Presi
dent of the United States, a sum of money,
nut exceeding six thousand dollars, be, and
the same is hereby, appropriated, nut of any
moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise ap
propriated, for carrying tile same into ef
fect.
Washington, May 7. 1832.—Approved.
AN ACT to establish an additional I,and Office
in tile state of Illinois.
Re it enacted by the Senate rend Ifovsr. of
Representatives of the United States of Amer
ica in Cnngrtrs assembled, That so ranch of
tile public lands of the United States as lies
ast of the Mississippi river, north of the line
separating the tilth and Mill tiers of town
ships north of the h;i°e line, and west of the
third principal meridian, iit the state of Illi
nois, shall form a land district, fur the dispo
sal of said lands, and for which purpose, a
land office shall lie established at such place
therein, as the President of the U. States
shall designate, until the same shall be per
manently fixed hy law.
Sec. ‘2. , l lud be it further enacted, That
there shall he a register and receiver appoint
ed to the said laud office, to superintend the
sales of the public lands in the said district,
lio shall reside at the place where, the. said
office shall he established as aforesaid, give
security in the same manner, in the same
sums, and whose compensation, emolu
ments, and duties, and authorities, shall, i
every respect, he the same in million to the
lands which shall lie disposed of at their of
frees, as are, or may he. hy law provided in
relations to the registers and receivers of
public moneys in the several offices estab
lished for the sale of tke public lands—Pro
vided, That the said appointments shall not
of the, long agitated question, “ from what
quarter of the world did the aborigines of A-
merica originally come?” I suspect Hint
they may be allied lo some of the tribes of
wondering Arabs. Their habits are very si
milar, and those acquainted with tile lan
guage of these tribes might, from the mea
gre specimens I have given of the Choctaw
language, be able to determine whether there
lie such a similarity as w ould justify a suspi
cion tliai they were of one origin. I have
seen no specimens of language of I he modern
Arabs which would enable me to puisne the
inquiry, but many, no doubt, are in Eng
l.ind.”
Some days ago, we copied from the
New-York papers an account of a trial
of a civil case between the United States
and Vice President Tompkins. Every
one in this city, familiar with legal pro
ceeding, was suprised at those relat
ed in connection with this case. The
charge of Judge Van Ness, as reported
was deemed extraordinary, and extra
judicial ; lie appeared in the light of a
pleader for the defendant, earnestly
seeking not only a general verdict in his
favor, but something further from the
jury that should reverse the situation of
the parties to the suit, and subject tin
national treasury to a heavy charge. In
the Neiv-York papers of yesterday, u
is said, that what fell from the judge, in
relation tn the certificate in the Vice
President’s favour, which was asked
from the jury hy the defendant and his
counsel, was misapprehended. His di
rection to the jury was, that if, on a full
investigation of the accounts, they should
he sali-fied that the credits claimed and
proved hy the defendant wero equal to,
mire and keep the soil light, not only for I or greater in the aggregate, than the
the present, but for the ensuing year ; s „ m demanded hy the U. Slates in this
and also to avoid such frequent plough- j su j ti t |, Gn (hey should find a general ver-
ings id-the summer, which is the great] ^ict for the defendant: That such a
destroyer of our soil. In fact we should verdict was all that could he officially
never leave our ground without some received or recorded : That any cetili-
growlh upon it, either for manure or for
our own use. By this plan my land and
crops have become, better yearly for the
last ten years. There are many reasons
and alterations which are too tedious to
mention, and which any reasonable man
can perceive—as the different soils and
seasons.
It is my opinion, that instead of suffer
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.
It is not the most work which makes
the best corn crops, (a good plan lor in
dolent Farmers,) it is the substance of
the land which makes a good crop.
The following is the plan which I have
practised for the last ten years, on a
tract of land, the soil of winch is light
mulatto :—I raise my ridges hy running
three furrows together, (mv ridges are
five feet distance)—I then plant my corn
on the ridge (distance from lull to hill
three feet) as fast as the plough raises
them. When I find that the grass which
is between the ridges begins to injure
my corn, I run iny plough once on each
aide of the ridge ; immediately after
which I thin ray corn k cover the grass
which remains on the ridge with the hoc,
and at the same time plant my cow-peas
on the top of the ridge between the corn
hills. When I find that tho grass be
gins to injure my corn a second time, 1
run my plough and use the hoe ns before.
When a third growth of gra's makes its
appearance I run my plough and use the
hoc us just mentioned : by this time iny
corn is generally in tassel.
Should there be a fourth growth of
grass, l run my plough through the centre
twice, as deep as it is possible for one
horse to draw it, in order to get dead
earth to cover this last growth of grass —
this bed of dead earth will prevent any
kind of grass from coming up. The fol
lowing year 1 raise my ridges in the
centre of those on which my corn grew
the year previous. The principles ol
this plan arc to let the weeds grow as
much as possible, in order to make ran
cate they might afterwards think it just
and proper to give to the defendant they
could only give ns individuals, and it
could form no part of the recorJ or the
leg il proceedings in the cause.
This rectification, which is given up
on authority, alters the complexion of
the affair ; hut, altogether, the course
pursued on the occasion and the act of
ingthe weeds to grow, small grain might t j, e j,, rV) will not tend to establish the
be son n in the tall to bury in the spring,! validity of the Vice President’s claims in
when 1 commence ploughing. My ex
perience ns to this plan has not been
sufficient for me to assert it would be
profitable.
1 would be happy, were it in my pow
York is wrong, is not Connecticut, fol
io wing her example, equally wrong ?
[A r at. lnt.]
The City of Boston is, wo apprehend, in
circumstances which il has never before ex
perienred. The fact is openly declared in
Degrand’s Boston Weekly Report, under
date of one o'clock, i*. m. on Saturday last
the 8lh inst., that “ Cash is in great request
at 12 per rent, per annum for the very best
puptr.’’ The Banks of comae are not dis
counting, nr the “ very best” paper would
not go a-begging. Il is easy to conceive
wliat is the situation oflliose merchants who
are not “ tlm very best” men in town ; that
is, those who are most likely lo have occa
sion lo borrow. The same paper, in auo-
I her place, still later in the day, says: “ Mo
ney is scarce, and people are afraid of their
own shadows. Many failures, and some of
i he in quite uuexpected.” Boston is now
undergoing the trials winch liaie heretofore
shook lo its base the credit of other cities, but
from which she lias been exempt. It is to
he hoped she will not suffer as much as some
other cities have suffered by the operation.
[.Vat. Ini.]
A new way to pay old debts.—The fol
lowing solution of the ingenious financial
expedients adopted by the English .Min
istry is given in the London Times :
“ Wilh respiset now to the general
state of our finances, and the increase
or diminution of the national debt.—
file five millions, it appears set apart
under the title of a sinking fund, is to lie
religiously prenerved. For argument
sake, therefore, we will suppose the
public debt diminished this year by that
sum ; but it is acknowledged on all sides
that we have really no other sinking
fund than that sum, be it more or less,
by which our income exceeds our ex
penditure. On the one side, therefore,
,1)5,000,000 is to be considered as de
ducted from our national debt, but on
the other there is added to it—
Money to the bobbers of 5 pr cent. £2,000,000
Borrowed for nat ional works, 1,000,000
Do for Agricultural distress in England 1,000,000
,)n for dhtrusAes In Ireland, sum un
certain, but estimated by Lord
Londonderry, at another million, 1,000,000
£o,6iK),000
“The diminution, therefore, of the
national debt, by the proposed sinking
fund, is five millions ; and Ihe addition
to that dobt is, even in this stage of our
calculation, live millions six hundred
h« made until a sufficient quantity of public j er> {0 0 pf er something belter to the pub-
1'iruU shall have hn'n survt* i i’il within tin* • , , . ,• ■ ■
SHid district, to authorize, in the opinion ol . . • r
the President, a public sale of lauds within j teem^ which u in my _o|iraionfar pro
the same.
the .
to wit:—Fur building the light-house at
MotiliPgati Island, three thousand doll,wa
nt Billingsgate Island, on Barnstable Bay,
two thousand dollars—at. Cutter Hunk Is
land, near New Bedford, and fur placing
buoys near thereto, three thousand dollars—
si Old Field Point, Long Island, two thou
sand five hundred dollars—for placing a lamp
on the mess-house at Fort Niagara, one
thousand dollars—for fiui'diing the pier near
the port of K'uinehunk, in the state ol Maine,
the further sum of four thousand dollars—
for completing the light-house on Throgs-
neek, the additional sum of five hundred
dollars—fur building a light vessel, and plac-
inghlm same on or near the outer bar of the
harbor of New-York, fifteen thousand dol
lars—fur placing tlirre buoys on the bar,
near the port of Ge.orgetowu, South Caroli
na, three hundred dollars—for rebuilding and
completing the light-house on Frank’s Is
lam), in the slate of Louisiana, nine thousand
Seven hundred and fifty dollars—l**r building
the light-house at Stonington Point, three
thousand five hundred dollar*—for building
the light-housn at Cape May, the sum of
five thousand dollars—fur building the light
house at or near Ocracoeke, the. sum nl
twenty thousand dollars—for building the
See. 3. And be it further eneu'led, That the
provisions of the 2d, ild, and 1)1,b sections of
the act, entitled “ An act to designate the
* * . - -.11 me oil, r.imiru n tiv-i. L*> r,
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. b , )Ululil| . ip3 „f districts, and establish land of
fices fur the disposal of the public lands, not
heretofore offered for sale in thv* states of
Ohio and Indiana,” approved March 3d,
181!), and the act, entitled “ An act making
further provision for the sale of the public
lands,” approved April 21th, 18 20.be, and
tlinsame are hereby, made applicable to Ihe
said district and office, so far as they are nnl
changed by subsequent laws of the United
Slates.
Washington, May 8,1822.—Approved.
AN ACT requiring surveyor* general In giv*
bond and security for ibo faithful disbur e
ment of public money, and to limit their
term nf office.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of
Represc ntalives of the. United Stales of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That from and
after the passing of this act, every Surveyor
General, commissioned by the authority ol
the United States, shall, before entering on
the duties of Ins office, and every Surveyor
General now in commission, shall, on nr be
fore the thirtieth day of September next, ex
ecute and deliver to tile Secretary ot tb*‘
Treasury of the United States, a bond, with
good and sufficient security, fur the penal
......... ... . „ I sum of thirty thousand dollars, conditioned
lijrlit-linusn at Cape Florida, eight thousand | f or the faithful disbursement, according to
dollars—and for building the light-house on j | riW , of all public money placed in bis bands
tin* dry Turtugas, nr on some place in tile ; for disbursement, and for the faitlilul per-
vicinity,
ferablc to ail carthlv possessions.
M. F. VERDERY.
HORTICULTURE.
The Berkshire Star gives the folloivingfact
as a botanical curiosity ; but the expedient
of slightly girdling trees in order to divert
the course of tile sap, and cause the forma
tion of fruit buds, we know to have been
practised with great success by several gen
tlemen in this town.
“ An Appletree, in Capt. Lincoln’s gar
den, in this town, which was girdled about
the first of May, 1820, to the depth of half
an inch within the bark, bore in 1821, and
is now’ jn full bloom.
The tree was girdled on account of its
sterility, but bore that season so as to break
town several limbs by tho weight of its
fruit.”—.Yeu-bcrrypi.rt paper.
public opinion. We would ourselves thousand pounds; making a balance in
prefer that he should be found to be the favour of that good old absorber of pub
lic wealth—the national debt—of the
odd hundred thousand pounds. We’ll
bet hnn against fifty thousand such finan
ciers as Lord Londonderry and .Mr.
Vansitlart, lie’ll swallow them all up by
and by.
creditor, instead of the debtor, of the
United States. Yet, before we could
be satisfied of the fact we should require
another kind of investigation than that
which has been hail at N. York,—and
perhaps a change of the venue.
[National Gazette.]
... thousand dollars—and for
procuring and placing the buoys on the* cna*t
of North Carolina, and for removing the
iluitingliglit at or neartbe port of Ocracoeke,
the sum of one thousand three hundred dul
lars.
Spc. 5. .d.ul be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be, and he here
by is, authorized lo provide, by contract, to
be approved by the President of the United
Fl ttes, for building a sea wall or pier at the
Isles nf Shoals, between Cedar Island and
Family nnse-Mand, on the coast of Neiv-
II tmpjliire and Maine, conformably to tile
wport of tlm commissioners appointed tin
der the fourth section of tin* act passed the
3! day of March, 18-21, entitled “ An act to
authorize the building of light-houses therein
mentioned, and for other purposes,” and that
a sum, not exceeding eleven thousand five
hundred dollars, is hereby appropriated for
the. purpose aforesaid, to be paid out ol any
moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise ap
propriated.
Six*. 0 And be it further enacted, That the
Secretary of Ihe Treasury he authorized and
required to cause to lie erected in the Bay ot
Piiears”near"Cape Efenlopen, by contractor
contracts, to lie approved by the President
of the United States, two piers, of sufficient
dimensions to be a harbor or shelter for ves-
Vls from tho ice, if, after a survey, made un-
* r his direction, the measure shall be doem-
Vxpedierit—and provided that the. juris-
i.Vnn of the site, where such piers may be
J fed, shall he first ceded to the United
v according to the conditions in such
formance of the duties of his nfiic
Eet*. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
commission of every Surveyor General, now
in office, shall, unless sooner vacated, by
death, resignation, nr removal from office,
cease Si expire on tile 1 st day ol Fcb’ry next ;
and the commission of every* Surveyor Ge
neral, hereafter commissioned hy tho autho
rity of the United States, shall cease and ex
pire, unless snorier vacated, hy death, resig
nation, or ix moral from office, in four years
from the date of the commission.
Sec. 3. And be it farther enacted, That the
President of the United States shall, and lie
is hereby authorized, whenever he may deem
it expedient, require, any Surveyor General
of the United Slates to give new bond Si ad
ditional security, under the direction of III"
Secretary of the Treasury, for the faithful
disbursement, according to law, of all money
placed in his hands for disbursement.
Washington, May 7, 1822.—Approved.
American Marble.—It appears thal
our country is prolific in marble. 1 here
are. the Pennsylvania black marble—the
Stockbridge w'hite, of which the New*
Pork City flail is built—Iheverd antique
richly veined green—the Now-Haven,
similar in appearance—the Potomac, a
beautiful composition of pebbles of va
rious shades, of which the columns of
the capitol at Washington are made—the
common veined black and white—the
Cherry Valley, of a datk grey colour—
the Vermont, uf u beautiful dove colour.
Extract from n letti'ir of .ludge Toutman, of A-
labamn, published in the (London) Monthly
Magazine, for Apr,!.
“ 1 enclose a specimen of the languages of
my neighbors, tlie Choctaw and Chickasaw
Indians.
“I inadenut this list in tho Choctaw nation,
about nine years ago, anti the occasion was
this: 1 had, a short time before, received a
letter from Judge Innis, of Frankfort, in Ken
tucky, informing me, that in the year 178 1,
as some Southern Indians were passing thro’
Lexington, to join the American army north
of tho Ohio, no African negro was driving a
wagon through the streets of Lexington,
when, seeing some Indians, and hearing them
converse, he suddenly stopped his wagon,
and asked his master’s permission (who was
riding near him,) to go and speak to the In
dians. They were probably the first lie had
seen in America; they conversed together
with apparent ease, to tile astonishment of
Mr. Parker, his master. He inquired of
the negro how he could converse, with the
Indians ? who told his master that he was a
native of the town of Goldean, in Africa
that while lie was a boy, the negroes
brought in some prisoners, and detained
them there a long time, in consequence nf
which he learnt their language. He said
that they were people of the same color, with
the same kind of long black hair, and spoke
the saute language tvitll the Indians then
present.
“ For the purpose of examining more mi
nutely into (his affair, being on a journey in
to Kentucky, I made a li lt of the words in-
ciosed, with the assistance of an intelligent
halfhreod. There is, however, grcntdilficul
ty in catching the sound nf the words so dis
tinctly as to he able to spell them with accu
racy. No two persons would spell them
like. On reaching Kentucky, I found to my
mortification that the negro was dead. Mr.
Parker, however, confirmed the account,
and a neighbor of Ills, (Preston Brown, esq.)
informed me that there were other African
negroes in the neighborhood, who, though
not previously acquainted wilh our Indians,
could converse with them iti their own lan
guage,
“ These facts from an interesting field of
enquiry, and seem to lead to a determination
In consequence of the disagreement
between the states of New-York and
Connecticut respecting steam-boat inter
course, and the retaliatory law recently
passed hy the state of Connecticut, ex
cluding the New-York Boats from the
waters of Connecticut, the Steam boat
now runs direct from New-York lo
Providence, in the State of Rhode Is
land, leaving New Haven and New Lon
don out of the line. The consequence
is, tliat, ns the route is now arranged, a
traveller may leave New York one day,
and arrive in Boston Ihe next day I The
laiv-givers of Connecticut would seem
to have realized, on this occasion, the
fable of the boy and the goose. In
search of greater benefits, they have
lost tae advantages tliey already posses
sed. The travel through Connecticut
was ti source of some emolument to the
state, which will he in a great measure
lost, now she is thrown out uf the line, as
is technically said. We do not mean to
be understood as giving any opinion on
the merits of this controversy, adverse
to Connecticut. On the contrary, ive
think it an inhospitable proceeding in
the state of New-York, to say the least
of it, to forbid steam-boats from other
states from entering her waters. The
time is probably not far distant when
the services of that fickle agent, the
wind, will be altogether dispensed with,
rsgard lo the coasting trade. When
that lime arrives New-York will be nn
der he necessity of modifying her laws,
of losing a material portion of that
comnerce to which she owes her wealth
and importance.
Governor Wolcott, in objecting to the
bill pissed by the Legislature of Con-
nectirut, which became a law notwith
[i'HOM THE NEW-VOHK DAILY ADVERTISER j
A warm contest was carried on be
tween some of the Paris journals in
April, on the subject of the recognition
of the Independence of the South Ame
ricans, The Joxiranl des Dcbats made
some very severe and even sarcastic re
marks ou the note addressed to the Eu
ropean governments by Mr. Zea, Envoy
Extraordinary of the Republic of Co
lombia, which drew forth a reply of
some length from the Constitutional.—
The Journal des Debats on the 25th of
April, contains a second article on the
subject ; which may be taken for a
statement of the principles of the op-
posers of t lie proposition. It is of snob
a length that we shall be forced to give
some paits of it in a condensed form, but
shall translate full some of the most im
portant passages.
After a brief sketch of the history of
their struggles with Spain, the Journal
says : Such has been the course of the
revolutions in America—a course inde
pendent in a great measure uf what are
called liberal ideas in Europe. The
European statesman should keep this fact
in mind, and never consider the Ameri
cans as provinces in a state of revolt,
nor as “giants sprung from a tempest,”
(to use a Colombian expression,) but
simbly as the scattered members of a
dissolving monarchy. The special po
licy of
lion of the independence of his country,
such a measure should not be taken
without the preliminary steps of sending
nn envoy to enquire into the actual state
of things in the country, and cities the
example of the U. Statps when the Coin*
l*ress of Venezuela or Colombia, and the
government uf Buenos Ayres, demand'
ed a recognition in 1017. “ Why shouhi
notan aucimit Monarchy have a right t(»
act as much dignity as a Republic ouljf
forty-six years old.”
“ Quito, (lie say«) has placed it«ellf
under our protection. But Panama ?-•<*
But Porto Cubello ? A few fugitives* r
who are said to be without force, littvt*
taken refuge iu the de.serts of the Oro-*
noko, where they held a sort of Congress’
nt Angostura—they can effect nothing
against the mass of the population, &c.
ire. There it is Ibis same Congress of
Angostura, which, thanks to the talents
of Mr. Bolivar, Mr. Zea and others, has
become the Congress of Colombia.—*
Who then will assure us that a few fugi
tives may not change the face of things irx
a country where it has so often beeu
changed 2”
In another place the writer makes the
following remaiks :—'* France, as an
ally and friend to Spain, ought in tho
first place to avoid every thing which
might accelerate the ruin of a monarchy
whose happiness is not foreign to tho
prosperity of France, and whose power
will be so usef ul an element in I be ba»
lance of states : but if the fact of tha
dissolution of this monarchy is found to
be consistent, inevitable, irremediable.
France ought at least to seek not to ag
gravate the unfortunate consequences
hy an ill-timed accession to the isolated
demands of a single fraction of the Span
ish nation. We ought to desire that the
metropolis may preserve (lie immense
and precious possessions of ihe Havana.
Porto Rico, the Canaries, le Plollip*
pines, colones w here only tin r has beta
no tendency towards separation : we
ought to desirp that the interests nf the
reigning dynasty should be all managed
j where they still mny be ; we ought final*
ly. lo favour with our preference those
ofthe American provinces, which, by the
preservation of the monarebial princi
ple, so convenient to the civil and mor
al state of the people, promise a tranquil
event, and open to the monarchial go
vernments of Europe the prospect of a
stable union.”
After these remaiks the writer de
clares that if France were ever dispo.sed
to favour any Spanish American power,
it would not be the repubic of Colombia,
hut it would be Mexico ; because Mexi
co is powerful aod safe, governed bv a
temperate monarchy, disposed to reject
with firmness Hie decrees of the Cories
against the clergy &. the aristocracy, &. to
place legitimate princes on a constitu
tional throne; “in one word, Mexico
is nearer France than the Cortes of Ma
drid. Under another point of view Mexi
co ought to interest us ; there we see
neither English intrigues nor American
..lots ; the national spirit appears there
independent and enlightened. That em
pire, wilh a good organization, might he
roine in a few years a powerful counter
poise in the political balance ofthe new
oorid. We will not develope this sub
ject any further lest we should chagrin
the Cabinet at Washington.”
The writer allows that it may not he
politic for France always to withhold her
recognation, but deed ires Ins own opin
ion different from thal of those who pro
pose that European nations shall make
u)i their colonial losses by conquests of
Spanish and Portuguese possessions, or
make their recognition ofthe indepen
dence of the South American states the
price of some part of their territories.—
“ This policy, agreeable to certion se
condary powers, is not the policy of
France. We ask nothing better than to
exchange our superfluities for those of
America.”
On the subject of the tone in which
_ _ _ ^ the note of the Envoy is couched, the
Frenchman and a Bourbonite ! writer expresses himself thus : “ i a
ought to conclude with the view of en
lightened Spaniards in directing this dis- '
solution, in such a manner that the six
or eight monarchies and republics spring
ing from the ruins of the Spanish empire
may remain bound together by federal-
ties, hy wise constitution', as much as
possible, by dynasties ofthe same 11 ofi,
Spaniards of all parties will perceive
soirieting friendly and respectful to their
tending bis objections, asserts that the j nation in this view of the subject
act of the state of New-York is void,
and tte like act of Connecticut will of
cotirst also be void, if brought to the
test o’the Federal Judiciary, inasmuch
as the constitution has given to Con
gress the power to regulate commerce
“ among the several states,” to the ex
clusion of the right of the respective
states to pass interdicts against each other.
If reason could ever resist passion, it
might have been hoped that the argu
ment of Gov. Wolcott would have con
clusive against the whole system ; for,
as he well observes, if New-York can
forbid a steam vessel belonging to the
Would they remain a great and powerful
nation of more than forty millions of in
dividuals, masters of the richest and
finest countries in the world ? or, would
they be divided into feeble stales, and
see other nations taking away their ter
ritories one after another ? Such, Span
iards of both worlds, is your alternative.
Those who would force yon into the
first of these situations are your friends
—those who would direct you into the
other are your enemies. There is no
thing less insidious, nor more positive,
more clear than this policy.”
| The writer next proceeds to a more
ay to a government that it Deed not ex
amine what is its origin, but recognize, it
because it exists, is language which be
longs to the jacobins of ’93 and the Dey
of Algiers *, but such language is excisa
ble in nascent status, uncertain of the
rights, uncertain of their existence, like
those of meridional America ; they have
not vet a single right belonging to a rer
cognized nation, nor, consequently have
they its usages.”
The government of those states in
charging their Envoy to present such ex
pressions to legitimate European govern
ments were ignorant, perhaps, that they
were committing a real act of hostility,
in insulting the principles which are con
sidered as the common foundation of our
civilized governments. Nothing in Eu
rope, except the revolutionary faction,
pretends, that every existing government
ought to be recognized, or, in other words,
that the/act constitutes the right. But
it is not to n faction that an ambassador
is sent ; it is to the legitimate govern
ment—and to speak a language which a
legitimate government cannot under-
citizens of any other state from entering particular examination of the proposition
her waters, why may she not prohibit! of Mr. Zea ; arid remarks, that in spite j stand, is to render at once all cquimuni-
any other sort of vessel ? And, if New-1 of his demand of an immediate recogui* 'calicos impossible.