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are assigned above Fort Smith, and all
it is expected will have removed on
or before the 6th of next month,
which is the day fixed by the treaty
for their surrendering the entire pos
session of their country to the United
States.
It will be recollected, that instruc
tions were forwarded to the Govern
or of this Territory, by the Secreta
ry of War, some time ago, directing
him. whenever the valuation of the
Cherokee improvements should be
finished, to lease out all such as should
be valued at $200 and upwards.—
Pursuant to these instructions, we un
derstand that (Governor Pope has con
ferred the appointment of Agent for
leasing out the improvements on An
drew Scott, Esq. who will set out in
a few days, for the purpose of enter
ing on the duties of his appointment
immediately aftor the 6th of next
month. His appointment extends to
the taking care of the various public
buildings which the United States
lias acquired by (he treaty, and which
may not he leased out.—Ark. Gaz.
WEDNB:SDAY, JULY 22,1829.
FROM ENGLAND.
O'Connel.—Mr. Brougham’s mo
tion in the House of Commons, “that
Mr. O'Connel be called back and
heard at the bar,” was brought up
for discussion on Monday the 18th,
and after being supported among oth
ers by Mr. Peel, was carried unanim
ously. In a few moments Mr. 0-
Connel made his appearance at the
bar, and the speaker thus addressed
him:
Mr. O’Connel; the House have re
solved that you be heard at the bar
by yourself, your counsel or your a-
gents, in respect to your claim to sit
and vote in the Parliament without
taking the oaths.
Mr. O’Connel then rose, and ad
dressed the House in a long speech,
in support of his claim, after which
he withdrew amids* loud and general
cheering. The solicitor general ad
dressed the House in reply, and con
cluded by moving, “That Mr. O’Con-
liel, having been returned a member
of this House before the passing of
the Act for the Relief of the Roman
Catholics, is not entitled to sit or
vote in this House, unless he first
takes the oath of Supremacy.” A
long debate ensued, and the question
being taken upon the mol ion, there
were in favor, 190 votes; against 116;
being a majority of 74 against O’Con-
nel’s claims. It was however order
ed that Mr. O’Connel be required to
give attendance at 3o’clock in the af
ternoon of the 19th, in order that the
speaker might communicate to him the
resolution of the House, & ask him if
he was willing to take the oath of Su
premacy. Mr. O’Connel appeared ac
cordingly.
The Speaker said—Mr. O’Connel,
1 am directed to inform you that this
House, last night, agreed to two res
olutions, the first of which is, that it
is the opinion of this House before
the Honorable Member for Clare can
sit or vote, he must take the oaths of
allegiance and supremacy; and the
second, that Mr. O’Connel be request
ed to attend this evening for the pur
pose of being informed of this decis
ion. Mr. Speaker was also requested
to ask if Mr. O’Connel would take
the oath of supremacy. I do there
fore now ask yon, if you will take the
oath.
Mr. O’Connel,—-I wish to see the
oath.
The Clerk here took the oath to
the Hon. Member at the bar, af
ter which
Mr. O'Connel said, I have before
seen this oath, there is one part of
it that I know not to be true. And
there is another part of it that
lieve not to be true, therefore
fuse to take this oath. (Hear,
hear.)
The Speaker,—Mr. O’Connel you
may now withdraw.
Mr. O’Connel accordingly with
drew.
The Solicitor General then moved
“That Mr. Speaker do issue his war
rant to the Clerk of the Crown for a
new writ for 1he election of a Knight
to serve in Parliament for the coun
ty of Clare, in the room of Daniel
O’Connel, Esq. he having refused
to take oath of supremacy.”
The consideration of this question
was adjourned till the 21st, when Mr.
Spring Rice moved for leave to bring
I be-
I re
hear,
in a bill to amend that part of the apt
which related to this particular cash,
so as to enable the Hon. Member pr
Clare to take his scat without a niw
election. [Not yet acted upon.]
London, May 23.;
It is rumoured in a certain circle,i&
was very generally talked of in par
liament last night, that admiral Ma-
colm has received instructions to pro
tect all British merchantmen-who
may wish to break the Russian block
ade of the entrance of the Dardanelles.
In fact, it was said, the intelligence
of some collision is hourly expected.
From the Sett of IVar.
Paris, May 20.
Letters from the frontiers of Mol
davia of the 2d instait state that ac
counts had been received from Jassa
announcing that the general-in-chief,
Dibitsh, was serious!/ indisposed, but
but that the operation: of the army, the
command of which hid been confided
to another general, vere not in the
least degree relaxed fnm the circum
stance.
A new levy of men was to be made
in Russia, in the proporion of eight
out of every 500, which will aug
ment the army in actual service to
100,000 men.
Russian Official BulUtin.
St. Petersburg, April 30.
A Supplement to the Jouinal of
St. Petersburg, contains news from
the theatre of war to April, wVich
besides the account of the unsuccess
ful attack made by Hussein Pacha
upon Sizeboli, gives the following par
ticulars.
Nothing else of any^importance has
occurred along the whole line that we
occupy it^ Bulgaria or on the Danube,
with the exception of some skirmish
es between the out posts. The gar
rison of Ghiurgevo has made two un
successful sallies against the coips
of observation before that fortress, in
the second the enemy had 3000 men,
infantry and cavalry, and some can
non, and began a fire of Musketry on
the Cossacks, but were driven back
into the fortress with considerable
loss by the fire of artillery and the
attack of two regiments of hussars;
we look some prisoners.
During the winter the necessary
preparations have been made to ef
fect the passage of the Danube be
fore Silistria. Pontoons were made
in the village of Ftindeni, on the river
Argis, with the intention of floating
them in spring to the Danube, and
on the river Bota to Kallarusch, op
posite Silistria. This enterprise was
difficult and dangerous, for the ene
my having assembled the remains of
his flotilla before Silistria, command
ed the Danube at that fortress and
farther up. The operation was, how
ever, executed with success through
the intrepidity and skill united with
the prudence of Major General Schil-
tler^ The pontoons were launched
into the Argis on the 8th April, reach
ed the Danube at day break on the
11th, and at two o’clock in the after
noon i'f the following day were out of
all danger in the Bota. We not only
sustained no loss, but the volunteers
of the regiments of Archangel and
Volguda, stationed on the pontoons,
captured a Turkish merchantman, a
corvette, with seven men. This cor
vette has been armed with four cannon,
& stationed as a guordship at the mouth
of the Bota, where General Schilder
has also had two redoubts erected.
The prisoners and deserters from
the Turkish fortresses on the Dan
ube agree in stating that there is a
great scarcity of provisions, especial
ly at Shumla, where the new Grand
Vizier had arrived with 12,BOO reg
ular troops. The authenticity of
these declarations is confirmed by
other unexceptionable accounts, ac
cording to which the scarcity is daily
becoming more alarming even at
Constantinople, threatens the innu
merable population of that capital
with incalculable disasters.
Thecelebrated Tchpan Oglou, who
commanded at Nieopoli, has lately
been arrested by a Capidgi Baschi
sent by the Sultan, and conducted in
to exile. But it is believed that he
will be beheaded before lie peaches
the place of his destination.
As the commencement of fine
weather favors the renewal of hostil
ities, the Commander in Chief has
thought fit to bring his head quarters
nearer to the Danube, and according
ly left Jassy 14th April.
The
heretofore the
GREAT BRITAIN.
London Quarterly Review,
advocate of the an
cient institutions and abuses of the
kingdom, and opposer of reformation
in church and state, has changed its
tone. The last number presents a
gloomy picture of the state and pros
pects of the country; admits that the
foundation of England's greatness is
insecure, and liable to be undermined;
and that changes must take place in
almost every part of the machine of
society. We will give our readers a
short abstract of the Reviewer’s ob
servation under several heads.
Manufactures.—The perseverance
with which trade and manufactures
are enconraged in every part of the
world is calculated to inspire deep
and constant anxiety in England.
Most of the countries in Furope—
France-, Netherlands, Germany, Prus
sia, Switzerland, &c. are making
rapid progress in manufactures, and
from one end of Europe to the other,
the greatest activity prevails. Eng
lish artists are daily invited to settle
abroad, and foreigners reside in
England until they are able to carry
off the mysteries of their trades and
professions.
Public debt.—The reviewer states
that the national debt in J828 amount
ed to 3,560,000,000 dollars—a sum
so enormous that the mere statement
of it cannot fail to carry alarm to eve
ry man possessed of prudence and
foresight. The interest of the debt
is considerably more than half of the
whole annual income of the kingdom,
and the reviewer expresses his fears
that the people will be unable to pay
the interest, and that bankruptcy and
revolution will ensue. He cautions
those who trust to the chapter of ac
cident to avert the evil, not to rely on
such consolations.
Poor rates.—The poor rates have
increased more than ten fold within
80 years, and now exceed 30 millions
of dollars per annum. The burdens of
the rich and the miseries of the poor
are at this hour generally and rapidly
advancing. The majority of laborers
and their families throughout Eng
land are as completely hound or as-
tricted to the parish, as the serfs
(slaves) in feudal times were to the
farm. The reviewer does not see how
such an increasing drain can be long
supported, and says the pauper sys
tem threatens to involve land owners,
farmers and laborers in general and
irretrievable ruin. He states that
the higher classes generally do not
trouble themselves about the lower
classes, and are often as ignorant of
the true state of the laboring popula
tion who are within a short distance
of their own doors, as if they belonged
to another species.
Redundancy of population.—Popula
tion has been increasing for many
years in almost every town and ham
let; parents cannot find places where
their children can earn an honorable
support; all trades, pursuits and pro
fessions are becoming more and more
overstocked; and multitudes of per
sons of all degrees and ages are mov
ing about without employment, use
less to themselves and a burden to the
public. The reviewer recommends
emigration to the British colonies,
and would teach the people to regard
the colonies as the promised land.
Extravagance—The prosperity of
the last 30 years has caused the most
extravagant notions and pretensions.
The whole community have departed
from the simplicity, foresight and
frugality of their’fathers, and indulged
in notions respecting dress, houses,
furniture, living, education, &c. which
no wealth can support. Many are
beginning to correct the evil, but the
upper classes are even now a great
deal too lofty. As it is hopeless for
them to think of raising their fortune
to these ideas, they should bring down
their ideas to the level of their for
tune. This is a duty which parents
should practice themselves, and in
culcate on their offspring’. Such a
change will increase happiness with
out impairing reputation. [This is
excellent advice, and necessary in the
United States as well as in Eng
land.]
The reviewer next takes a view of
the nature and acquired advantages of
Great Britain, which are very great
—insular situation, commerce, colo
nies, products of the soil, mines of
lead, tin, copper, coal and iron, fisher
ies, salubrity of the climate, vast cap
ital of the merchants and manufactur
ers, industrious and skilful laborers,
intellectual and moral worth of the
middling classes, &c. With all these
advantages, the reviewer thinks that
England cannot retain her present rank
without a oojistant struggle, which
every succeeding year will render
more trying and severe. He is evi
dently apprehensive that the present
order of tilings is verging to a great
revolution; and to prevent this, he
recommends that old incumbrances
should be removed, that every branch
of public and private economy should
be amended, that many ancient insti
tutions should be altered, & that those
things which obstruct the changes
which the current of events is forcing
forward, should be taken away. He
concludes as follows:—“Formidable
difficulties must be encountered by
us at no great distance. Let the aris
tocracy of England, let all who have
influence in this land, bethink them
well what they are about. Let them
beware of rash actions and fash words.
Let them look before they leap.”—
Ilamp. Gas.
DOMESTIC.
The Central Bank.—The Milledge-
ville Recorder of the 27th ult. says:
“The pencil of a Hogarth would have
been inadequate to the representation
of the scene exhibited before the door
of the Central Bank on Saturday last,
when the Bank was first opened to pay
out money. The State-House passage
near the door of the Bank was crow
ded almost to suffocation—the weath
er melting hot. Impatience, anxiety,
hope and fear were depicted in the
countenance of the multitude of ap
plicants for money, who had come
from the c^reme points of the State,
from East, West, North and South.
A little past ten o’clock the door of
the Bank was opened, when a rusk
was made to be first at the Cashier’s
desk-the room was istantly crammed
so full, that, those who wished to get
out found it very difficult to make
their escape—other passions were
then conspicuous in the “human face
divine”—joy, anger and despair.
This scene, instructive to the indiffer
ent spectator, but at the same time
humiliating, continued throughout the
day.” •
Lamentable Event.—Mr. John R.
Creecy, of Edenton, N. C. left home
several weeks ago for Baltimore, and
for some time regularly corresponded
with his family, after which no tidings
of him were received, untill very re
cently, when a letter from him was
found in the Post Office at Norfolk,
Va. directed to a friend, enclossing
the key of his trunk, which he stated
he had sent home. The trunk was
found in Norfolk, and on examining it,
letteis were discovered, in which he
mentioned his intention to destroy
himself, and that all search after him
would be fruitless, as he had fallen
on a plan to conceal his body.—There
were- many rumours afloat in regard
to this taysterious affair. Some of
letters appear to have been written
very composedly—others in a wild
and incoherent manner.
The testimony on the coroner’
proved that her maiden name was
Laura Button—that she had boApa
millener in Rochester—that ^fliji
married her in the spring of last yea*,
after a:; acquaintance of two or tilled'
days—and that a few days after mar
riage, he set off for Canada, taking
with him part of her clothing, &c.
aRd promising to return or send for
her. After waiting considerable time,
without hearing from him, she departed
in search of him, and her fate on find-'
ing him was as above stated. Her',
funeral was attended by a number of
Canadians and Americans, all indignant
at the inhuman conduct of her hus
band.
Commodore Porter.—Capt. Miner,
of the Lavinta, reports than an at
tempt had been made to assassinate
Com. Porter. He had been ordered
to the City of Mexico, and on his way
thither, in company with a gentleman
from New York, and attended by two
servants, when about forty leagues
from Vera Cruz, he was attacked by
a party of nine horseman; two of
whom had advanced to within a short
distance of him, when he turned and
discovered their intentions-he instant
ly wheeled and shot one of them,
who turned out to be the leader, drew
his sword, and struck off the hand of
the other who had engaged him. The
rest seeing their leader fall, fled.
The chief of the band, it is said is the
very man from whom the Commo
dore procured his horses for his jour
ney.—Mew Orleans Argus.
Murder.*-Maliloa Dickinson, over-'
fiefer of Jos. Stiles, Esq. of Savannah,
was recently murdered about 14 * 1
miles from the city, by two liegros, a’
boy and a girl, not more than 16 years
of age. The instrument of violence
used, were an axe and a hoe. His
body was buried in the field by the
perpetrators, assisted by a fellow
slave of riper age, who witnessed the*
whole transaction at a short distance.
The three negroes have been arrested.
Mr. C. is said to have been a humane
and worthy man, and no reason has
been assigned by the negroes con-
cerned, for his mnrder, except the
long and frequent instigations of the
driver on the estate.
Shocking L'epravity.—A box was
recently picked up, on the mississippi,
near Ncw-Orleans, containing the
corps of a beautiful infant.—Erom
its appearance, no doubt was enter
tained of its having been born alive.
How lost to herself and to the world
—how lost to all fear of retributive
justice, either here or hereafter—
how lost to every pange of humanity,
must that mother be, who, to the sa
crifice of her virtue, could add the
crime of murder upon the inocent off
spring of her guilt!
From the Rochester N. Y. Telegraph.
Tragical Occurrence.—A letter
from a gentleman at Kingston, Upper
Canada, to his fi^end in this place,
mentions the following melancholy
particulars:
On Friday the 4th of June, a young
woman arrived in Kingston claiming to
he the wife of Mr. Willis, a Portrait
Painter; but he refused to recognise
her as such, and advised her to return
to Rochester, whence slve had come.
Mortified and heartbroken with his
coldness and bfutality—for she had
travelled alone and unprotected thro’
many towns of Canada in search of
him—she qext evening procured some
arsenic, and poisoned herself on Sun
day morning. She lived for a few mi
nutes only after taking the arsenic.—
The Capitol.—The Capitol at Wash
ington is finished, and it is truly a
magnificent structure.—Rich shrub
bery has been well distributed in the
great enclosure annexed to it,’and
from the noble terrace on the west
side, the prospect includes the great
er part of Washington and George
town, and their lofty and picturesque
environs, and the river for some miles.
This scene, at the setting of the sun
in fine weather, with the profound
stillness on every side, and the aspect
of the splendid edifice, is calculated
to make a deep impression on one
who paces the terrace at that hour.
The silence, the repose, the absence
of all bustle, fortn a peculiar contrast
with the movement of every kind and
in every quarter, and the din of the
logocracy, during the session of Con-'
gress. It is alone almost worth the
trouble of the journey to Washington.
N. Gaz.
u The Moorish Prince.—We have,
seen a letter from Prince Abdulil
Rhahaman, late a slave in Mississip
pi, dated Monrovia, Colony of Liber
ia, (Africa) April 13th. He has as
certained that his relatives in Teem-
bo are still the reigning family of the
country; and is able by means of trav
ellers, to transmit or receive commu
nications in the space of 15 days.—-
“My brother,” he says, “is th^pres-
ent King, having been enthroned three
years since; and his benignant and
placid qualifications endear him to all
his subjects.” He expresses the
deepest sympathy for his children
who are still in slavery in Mississippi,
and says “their emancipation would
be paramount to every other consid
eration.”
“Longevity could not be desirable
to one whoise furrowed cheeks and
hoary locks are on the verge of the
grave, under the frozen impression
that his offspring are still suffering in
bondage. ’Tis all—the last, last
hope! the prop of tottering age? who,
filled with filial piety, could drop a
tear upon the dust of their departed
sire.”—“I have written to Sierra
Leone, for a more direct correspon
dence with my brother, and expect a
return by express.”—Jour, of Com.
Cincinnati, (Ohio) June 16.
Trial for Murder.—At the late term
of the Supreme Court in this city,
John Cridsall was indicted for, the
murder of his wife some months past.
It was proved by his two daughters,
one of whom i9 since dead, that he
cut off her head with an axe, & when
asked by the neighbor^,who did it? he