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^ansitory and unsubstantial meteors of'night, un-| ship, wc may confidently expect protection and
sphered urtd forever extinguished in the atmos-(devotion to this inalienable treasure. Yet we
phere of liberty ; they had seen the solid line of
the foe, bristled with bayonets and angry with
vengeance, scattered and purged away by the
ardour of American courage. Cheerfully der
voted to hazard life in every perilous shape, and
familiar with the luxury of triumph, they gladly
returned at the command of their redressed
country, willingly to surrender tne arms which
had immortalized them, at the altar which they
had so flcbly defended. As equivalent for the
restoration, they ask no childish insignia ol knight
hood or dukedom to raise them to an unapproach
able height of mysterious superiority uuove the
brave ranks with whom they had heroically bled,
•or the generous people for whose happiness, safe
ty and glory they had incurred the sacrifice, des
pised the danger and endured the labor. A vote
of thanks and honorary swords, much as the ad
mirers of royal munificence and ostentatious
prodigality ridiculed, the simple testimonial was
more acceptable to our warriors and essentially
more gl o i‘US, than their splendid mausoleums
and priocely monuments. Covered with the
brig' ness of deeds that would have glorified
Spa- la in her noon of chivalry, and Home in the
precious times of her Gracchi, they return to
the vine and the figtree, to •* read their history in
a nation’s eyes,” and drain the revenues of sen
vice from their ownheartsswelled with holy emo
tions.
Uuf alas ! all of the cherished band did not re
turn.— P;ke and Covington had *‘ sunk in the
blaze of their la ne.” Their sacred remains
mouldered far from the acclamations of crowds
and the illuminations of enthusiastic cities. On
the field of blood, on the stand of immovable
bravery, their undistinguished graves, designa
ted the spot where their departed souls had given
resistless impetuosity to their troops and aston
ished veterans, where in the moment ot hard
earned victory they had sped to the kindred spi
rits of our first preservers, to tell them that the
country which they had so tenderly loved was
still great arm deserved to be free. This day,
grateful Columbians ! let us repair in imagina
tion and love, to the humble beds of the fallen
brave. Let us hasten thither by the sumptuous
urns and gorgeous tombs of insignificant vanity,
to weep with mingled feelings of sorrow and
pride. We shall meet the American family there
—voluntarily assembled to accord homage for
the past, and ratify vows for the future.
Hut the best way to illustrate the deserts of
our defenders, alive and dead, military and ci
vil, is to contemplate the country for which they
labo'red and fought. The magnitude of their
services is most sublimely and eloquently written
in the prodigious extent of our territory and the
happy prosperity of our condition. Already too
tedious and uninteresting, I will n,<t oppress
your politeness by any feeble description.
Though a ground on which the dullest might hope
to interest, 1 freely own 1 shrink from its occupa
tion with astonishment anil despair. Yet we
must delight to gaze iit it. A population of more
than eight millions, familiar with the enjoyment
of freedom, and enlightened in its principles ;
doubling every twenty-five yea-s by natural in
crease, and ailditi ipally augmented by daily ar
rivals from abroad, with unmeasured tracts of
productive soil invito g to settlement; where
aha'I the bounds of in.t.oonl aggrandizement be
fixed ! Not an aggrandizement of ambitious
war and incmceivab'e expense, but the natural
and magnificent result of our happy situation !
At this moment, citizens of a state, which is an
honorable and generous member of a confedera
tion, comprising twenty states ; transport your
survey to the distance of a century to come.—
True, we shall all then have vacated the scene:
gathered to our fathers we shall only live in our
descendants—nut of the possible reach of tyrants
and superior to the amazement, which the pros
pect of America now excites. Still, laudable
concern for thi>se descendants attracts us to the
anticipated view. Impressive sight ! when one
hundred years shall have elapsed, agreeably to
the datum 1 have just mentioned, upwards of
one hundred and twenty eight millions of enter-
prizing citizens will possess and animate this
mighty land. If the imagination be permitted
to go beyond this period in the estimate, until ar
rested by the extreme barriers of the country,
which it is thus peopling, «e are lost and con
fused. Fifty or sixty sovereign states, limited
and compact enough in their respective bounda
ries to proviile and secui e every blessing of re
presentative government, with promptitude and
intelligence ; and associated under a wise and
energetic federal head, for general defence, and
the adjustment of disputes between the great
intercommunity ; will present to the world the
true sublime in human greatness and wisdom —
Splendid destiny of our incomparable constitu
tion, whose simplicity, truth and comprehension
calculate it for undefined operation on the Ame
rican stage. Since the day it first rose, our po
litical sun, from the venerable convention, we
have been gladdened with its light and miracu
lously prospered by its influence. If yonder lu-
mi.,ary of the skv, its diffusive warmth has stim
ulated reptiles into being, who would have trea
sonably ruined us, like it also, it enabled us to
detect and destroy them. Beaming impartially
on the rich and the poor, on the dome and the
cabin, bn the cultivated east, and (lie woods ol
the west, it is endeared to us all by the highest
benefits and sacred for its holy origin. We wish
to See no mysterious easement thrown around it
to foi bill familiar approach and enlightened scru
tiny. Compounded of truth, reason and justice,
by wisdom and virtue, in all cardinal particulars,
it challenges examination and defies disparage
ment. Hut pardon this officious praise. In the
peaceful ami happy homes, you left this morning,
and the conscious powers which you possess and
frequently exercise, and in the heart felt dignity
of independence, vou realize its excellence and by
them ail, swear to defend the immaculate char
ter. VVe see how stupendous it is, in the wide
prosperity of the union, and feel how benign, in
our own oosoin9. From the virtuous and able
men who compose our councils, shine in the ju
diciary and adorn the private walks of citizcn-
FOREIGN.
use cannot reach, or to emorce w mu mi ig a Portll( . uese monk f ronl Macoa. of the order of i ton and indigo. Wo have already
igly and universally felt as the throbs-fit g( . p r ancis. Pekin has also an Iuquisi'ion which is chiefs of the Indian nations, we hav
■t. Having confusedly grouped togetii-j un( j er tke ,ij rec tj on of some Portugese inquisitors j the large imlian pipe -if peace ; we hai
events, the heroes, the worthies ami f,. om Q oa The education of all classes is vest- cally made slight feasts ; they come <
must never forget that the humblest among us is
deeply concerned in its preservation, and awfully
obliged to its support.
“ What constitutes a state ?
Not h.gh raised battlement or labor’d mound,
Thick wall, or moated gate;
Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown’d ;
Not bays and hroad-arm’d ports,
Where laughing at the storm proud navies ride;
Not sturM and spangled courts
Where low-brow'd base ness wafts perfume to pride—
No—men! lugh minded men,
With powers as far above dull brute endued
In forest,brake, or den,
As beasts e'xcel cold rocks and brambles rude;
Men who their duties know,
Bui know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.'
Accept, fellow-citizens, my liveliest gratitude
for your complimentary testimonies of satislac-
tion to some things which l have said, and your
polite sufferance of all. The day, the topics
connected with it, and the noble excitability of
your patriotic minds,of themselves kindled your
enthusiasm and gave apparent energy to the teeb
lest remembrancer that ever attempted toelogise
what praise cannot reach, or to enforce what is
as stroll^
the heart
er the
the consequences, which make this day more
memorable, cherished and jubilant than the rest
of the three hundred and sixty five, let us.repair
to the recreations and festivities which, with sin
gular propriety attend and enliven the national
birth day. We know that our joy exists in sub
lime and virtuous emotions, having its source in
the hallowed days of the revolution, and ending
in high consecration of ourselves and ours to the
preservation of what we now celebrate. We
know, that we too are component and integral
parts of the astonishing political edifice which at
this moment resounds throughout the states with
anniversary celebrations, and blush not at the
plainness and simplicity of our commemoration.
Like the government under which we rejoice and
prosper, we have and wish no pompous circum
stance, of commonplace parade to arrest the gaze.
The more nakedly we contemplate the history and
principles we are met to honor, the more proud
ly our hearts exult. The decripitude and lep
rosy of monarchies and despotisms need splen
did coverings and artificial ornaments. On their
national festivals, they truly need the deep end
transporting swell of music—the stunning thun
der of artillery, lestt'/.e groans and imprecations
of the oppressed should disturb their fictitious
joy and belie the adulatory praise. The misera
ble multitude who mindlessly rend the air with
the louil acclamations, if enlightened in its cause
would indignantly utisliout it, and curse the pa
geantry which had long concealed,their enemies
and beguiled their sufferings. Though not sur-
iminded by magnificent walls, nor covere I with
bold and (retted arches; though sovereign mu
sic breath'3 not to inflame, to melt, to transport
us; though the deafening salute will not awaken
the American witniu us, we are not the less wor
thy celebrators of this occasion. The erect sta
tures of conscious and fearless freemen, are in
finitely more impressive and attractive than ex
quisite Corinthian columns, and the strong vibra
tions of their hearts at the Recital of ancestral
glory more potent than the highest efToi ts of har
mony. And now as we leave our seats, let us
etl'use our joint and ardent thanks to heaven for
the freedom in which \, •' o-day meet and sepa
rate, & for the glorious prospect of its perpetuity.
Conversion to cli rist ianity of the emperor oj China.
Extract of a letter from’ Lisbon, dated 20th
March last.—•“ By a vessel just arrived in our
harbor from Rio Janerio, we have received the
very, extraordinary news (and quite official)
that the Emperor of China, and all the great
Mandarines of his court, have embraced "Chris
tianity : which religion is henceforth to he consi
dered as the established one in China, to the to
tal exclusion of all others! The vessel has on
hoard two Portuguese missionaries, one a Jesuit
and the other a Monk of the Third Order ol St.
Francis, who are bearers of rich presents, and
also a letter written by Lis Chinese majesty to
the Pope, acknowledging his supremacy : No
thing could exceed the rejoicings which took
place at Rio Janeiro on this occasion.— The city
was illuminated three night's in succession, and
their most faithful majesties, with every branch
of the royal family, paid their respects to Mon
signore, the Archbishop of Dimerrio, Nuncio
Apostolic to the Brazillian court. The city ol
Pekin is erected into a Patriarchate ;the Patriarch
DOMESTIC.
French Colony near J/exico.—Extr.
letter from a French settler, which w.«T " M I
nicate'd for the L’Ueill* American’. ?Vft
ri ™r Trhii!
are established at the mouth of the
ty, on the Orcaquinsas blutf, twenty fe.i
( the level of the river at high watei ;
■is a fine wood covered with trees • a
tills is the Grand Prairie, or Prairie ofTof*"
tas, which is, at least, fifteen miles from north!’
south, and which extends eastward to a *
that communicates with Lake Savinbine-tK
land is of the first quality, easily cultivated!I
we have around us an immense tract, w |,j t (I
promises the richest productions to those w
to labor a little. The game course the country
in flocks; there is abundance of cows, of bti"
and wild horses may be got with ease. The w , |
ters are full of fish ; and our inhabitants
have surveyed east of the river, say the cum. I
try is still superior ; it is interspersed with most
beautiful lakes, watering the most magnificent
hills, where there are also many animats narfi.
cularly wild goats—all this land is in sugar,c«(!
Literary Intelligence.
have already seen fife
smoked
have recipro-
, .. r . ..- • ® Ver » lli
ed*in the hands of the Jesuits, as well as of the! with provisions; ivc are abundantly supplit,
high offices of state.—T he confessor of the em- with fresh meat, and have all sufficient salt ajfi
peror is a Portuguese Jesuit, and is declared bv I smoked. Our colony is established in a s>ia.
law the next person in the empire to the sove- cious fertile country, abundant in resources, j(
reign; and an unlimited power is in his hands, i the mouth ot a rive'- which e'» tUs intaa fai
These crafty men have adopted the Chinese cos-j bay ; where the settlement of ill people might
fume, and are more spendidl v clothed than any prospei as quickly as in any country in feg
received
of the mandarins.—The Jesuits have
the privilege to wear their nails an inch longer
♦ban any of the nobility, the princes of the blood
excepted; and the mandarin who dares to have
his slipper within two inches as long as the slip
pers of the priests is to be punished with death.
The missionaries brought from the court of Bra
zils some magnificent pieces of China, on which
is depicted the audience of lord Amherst witli
his Chinese majesty ; and those facetious orien
talists have had the audacity to caricature that
splendid embassy, which would have done honor
to the first and most brilliant court in Europe.
anv
world. We have no occasion to form
travagant eote-prise. nor t,. commit
gainst those who o.ive ; we make no other*m
of our arms tl in to repulse any aggression;
but we an- resolved to defend the fields we hart I
cultivated. Victims of event none can deny m
the rghtof our existence, the reward of cur U-1
bur, our industry, arid attention to social on)tr,
All is here that nature can desire in a land o I
bounding with every production that, can be wife,
cd : we open an a ay him to those men who M |
themselves in the same situation with us.
success crown our efforts we shall have render-1
cu an importviit service to our unhappy country*
men ; if, on the contrary, we should not succeed |
we shall at least have the satisfaction of attempt-
Napoleon.—It is reported, there has been a fra
cas at St. Helena. Mr. Balcotnb and his family,
with whom Bonaparte was so i.itirnate on his first ing- We have no fear of fatigue or privatiiM
arrival, has reached England, and it is rumored I in the beginning ; our aim is laudable, our into
he was not allowed much time to pack up. It tionspure and honorable, and we devoutly
has been stated in letters from St. Helena that
Bonaparte has lately received, by some unknown
means, 40,000 franca in gold, and a large quanti
fy of diamonds. Money docs not seem to be
wanting to him or any of his adherents. Las
Casas, it is asserted, very recently drew bills for
5000/. by the way of Frankfort on a banker in
London, and they were duly honored. Itis even
s.iitl that a draft for 10,000/. signed Napoleon,
was lately presented to and paul by a London
house.—London paper.
lieppo.—A Venetian story—A very lively,
satirical poem, has been attributed to a Mr. Fn
hut the editors of the Philadelphia Union, say,
they find by a list of books printed for John
Murray,one of the most respectable booksellers
in London, that this work is definitively ascribed
to Lord (Byron, and several English Reviewers
concur in the opinion. Mr. Murray is tne only-
publisher of Lord Byron's works in Loudon, a
circumstance which adds weight to his assertion
as to the authorship of the present work.
Rob Roy, TJ'averly, fej’c.—Walter Scott it ap
pears is the author •! these excelli-qj novels
The Loudon Morning-Chronicle of 7*Iay IS
states, that Mr. Scott has sold the copy right of
four more volumes of Tales of my Landlord,
with the product of w hich he purchased an es
tate adjoining his own. The price of the book
exactly pays for the land.
Dr. John Williams, a gentleman well qualified
for tbe undertaking, proposes to publish “ Notes
on Kentucky—Historical, Philosophical, Politi
cal ami Moral ;” to be embellished with a map
of the state, and sundry plates and engravings.
Mr. John Lewis Thomson, author of the His
torical sketches of the late war between the U-
nitcii States and Great Britain, is engaged in
writing a History of the late enemy’s movements
in the waters of the Chesapeake, and their inva
sion at North Point, and the bombardment of
Fort MTlenry.
Robert Walsh, jun. and Gulian C. Verplank,
Esqrs. have engaged themselves, it is said, in con
nexion with Judge Cooperand otlie* gentlemen,
to contribute in future to the Analectic Magazine.
Carnot is engaged in writing an important work,
in which he details his oyvn history during the
French revolution.
Proposals for the publication of a new yvork
are issued, entitled *• Observations, Philosophic
al and Medical upon the Southern Climate gen
erally of the United States, and on the diseases
incident to our Southern Seaports—By William
Bakar, M. D. Surgeon of the United States
army.”
Paul Allen, Esq. formerly editor of the Port
Folio, and late editor of the Baltimore Telegraph
has issued proposals for publishing in Baltimore,
a weekly neyvspaper, to be eutitleil “ Journal of
the Times.” \
Royal Incomes.—From papers laid before par
Tiament, it appears that the duke of Clarence re
ceives 21,782/. 9s. 8d. per annum. The duke of
Kent, 2,5,205/. 4s. ?.d. The duke of Cumberland.
19,008/. 13s. lOd. The duke of. Sussex, 18,000/
The duke of Cambridge, 18,882/. 15s. 7d. It al
so appears, that these royal dukes have each ha
out of the admiralty droits, in the year 1805-6,
the sum of 20,000/.—that, in 1813, a loan of a
similar sum was advanced to the duke of Clar
ence, to he repaid bv quarterly instalments of
500/. of which six instalments have been repaid
—and that a loan of 6000/, yvas advanced to the
duke ot Kent, in 1806, of which one sixth has
been repaid.
London, -Way 12.—A Floating Chapel for mer
chant seamen, was opened (or rather moored) in
Bristol harbor on Sunday last. A flag, inscribed
with the word “ uric,” yvas displayed, to denote
the purpose to which the vessel yvas henceforth
to be devoted ; and divine service was perform
ed on board in the course of the day, before a
numerous assemblage of people.
France.—The prince of Cotide lately died at
Paris, in the 82nd year of his age. He was the
grandfather of due MEnheign. The French
court goes in mourning for the prince of Conde—
six days in black and five days in white.
Letters from Geneva state that a serious and al
arming difference had taken place among the Cal-
vanists ofSwitzerlaml—The controversy was em
bittered by the most violent passions—and such
was the acrimony of feeling with which it was
carried on. that fears were entertained of the
people being hurried into civil yvar.
The daring intrepidity of the females of
Hindustan is a matter of curious speculation
and surprise, yvhen we recollect the privacy and
seclusion in yvhich they are educated—The fol-
owing, among a number of other instances, is
recorded by Col. Wilks, in a late yvork, entitled.
Sketches of the South of India—It carries in its
features traits of heroism, which have been too
often supposed to belong to the sterner sex alone
—The son of a widow of Ilindostan had been
cruelly murdered by an agent of the unfeeling
tyrant Tippoo— In the year 1818 she paid Colo
nel Wilks a visit, and yvith other adventures re
lated the manner in yvhich she had avenged the
murder of her son—Tippoo’s Aumil, said she,
who polluted the mansion of my lost husband
and sten, yvanted iron, and determined to supply
himself from the liut, a temple of carved wood
fixed on wheels, drayvn in procession on pub
lic occasions, ami requiring many thousand per
sons to effect its movement—it was too much
trouble to take it to pieces, and the wretch burn
ed it in the square of the great temple for the
sake of the iron—On hearing of this abomina
tion, I secretly collected my men—I entered the
town by night—I seized hnn and tied him to a
staki*, and, (bursting into tears and an agony of
exultation) 1 burned the monster on the spot
where he had wantonly insulted and consumed
it this event we obtain the wishes and
tionof honest men, of good faith and j lulgmeat.’’
Grand Canal.—The New-York “ Columbian’ 1
gives us a flattering account of the progress tf I
flip grand Canal, which is to unit - the waters if |
Lake Erie with those of the Hudson; and a-
presses sanguine hopes that “ the next sumnur I
will enable boats, to ply thinugli the distinct I
of nearly one hundred miles, from Settees river |
to Utica.” The soil is represented as gctuc-l
ally very favorable; and contracts are mile I
much loyver than the estimate. We hope Ike
most brilliant prospects in relation to tins grat
work enay be realised ; and, indeed,few yvlm re
flect on the resources of that state, ami the en
terprise of its people, can entertain n doubt tbit
this canal will be some day completed;!
(with comparatively a little labor in opening 1
passage from Lake Erie into the Miami of tbe
Lakes, or from Lake Michigan into the Illiwi,
or both,) connect the waters of the Hiiilsiin with
those of the Mississippi, and bring Non York
and Neyv Orleans much nearer tigether. Out
doubts with respect to the feasihilit of “(be
Grand Canal ” have been in a great measure re
moved by repeated conversations yvith Mr/El-
licott, an intelligent, independent and candid
member of Congress from tne vye.-> t*.i part if ]
the state of New York ; and no one can cast hi*
eye over the map, and not be convinced that the
other links in the chain, which we have mention*
cd above, will require but little labor or expend
Indeed iri times of freshes or floods, it is well
known that loaded boats can, and do now pul
out of Lake Michigan into the Illinois river.
Sports of the fLest.—A gentleman in West
chester, Pa. has recently received a letterfoffl
his friend in East Tennessee', in whom lie plies'
entire confidence, which states—“ Tint bis
neighbors had a squirrel hunt some time tbit
Spring, and shot to the number of 2000 squjrrell
in one day, and thought they had done wonden.
But theirbonsting wa- stopped by an account cf
a built the peoplehad in West Ten nesse, aboutthe
same sime. There was a company took on *
bet of g.50l) with another Company, who should
get the most scalps. They turned out, and id
one day the whole of them had about 33,000
squirrels!”
Si. Louis, .1Lay 15.—By letters from fort O',
age and Prairie on Chein,*we are informed th*
Indians are well disposed tovVards the whites.—
Our informants inform us that the present tran
quility will continue, if the government does not
interfere in their concerns. They are at «* r
with other Indian tribes and evgr will be at
with one another, unless their thirst for J>lood to
not turned against the whites by a generpl p e,c *
among themselves ; which has been too often ef
fected by a mistaken philanthropy existing »•
Washington ! ! !—Niles.
The Ontario, captain Biddle, who carried o«t
our commissioners to South America, has to«
of great service in protecting the persons an*
preserving the property of the merchant vessel'
lying at Valparaiso, who but for tiiis vessel would
have been at the mercy of the Spanish vessels «
war. Of this service the captains of vessels,
have made a public acknowledgment to captain
Biddle. ^
Five 74's, says Mr. Niles, are now building
and two more are ordered to be laid down. A verj
few years more will put us in possession of a n3 '
al force more efficient perhaps, than that ol *®f
the sacreil emblems of my religion !—C. Times, povfer m the vvbfld except Great Britain.