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Sliced in the payment of the militia of that State, in totifequence of their having been difcha.ged with out being duly muttered but that inftruftions had been given to re medy that defecf, which would be executed as speedily as practicable. •It was also remarked, that there had been extreme difficulty in ob taining funds in fufficient amount to answer the payments of the re guL r troops and militia of South- Caroiina a id Georgia ; the govern went not having than in cither of those States. I was further in formed, that towards paying them, one hundred and fi'ty-eight thou iand, three hun ired dollars had been already fuit.ifhed. <>n re ceiving the answer of the Pay-rnaf te , i caliedon the Secretary of the Treasury He < xprWfed the very great regret which I am p rlaadecJ lie finer rely felt lot the delay in dis Vo ginp the claims of <ai mili tia; and detai e the causes of the dish ulty which had occurred in bis department.. While in feme States tlv Treasury could command funds beyond tt Calls for expen db.ir- , in others, they wee itifui- j fi dent to meet the demand.’ agan.lf the government ; and owing to the deplorable Hate of the currency of the country, the funds in these States where they were not want ing, could not be transferred to the South, and p id to the public ; claimants, without fubjeCling them j to loss. 1 Hated my conviction that the bills of North Carolina | would be cheerfully received, and enquired whether they could nor ‘ be furnifhed. He replied, that he; \v uld immediately afeertain ; and j if it could be done, it (tumid be done. I afterwards received the follow ing note : 14 Robeit Brent, j pay mailer of the army, has the) honor of prefe filing his refpetts to 1 IVli Bibb,and to (late to him that j he has by mail of to-day, (30th A- ; p*i!) remitted one hundred and twenty thousand dollars to Georgia, to be applied to the payment of the mili'ia of that State. Under (land ing that the notes of North Caro lina would answer for payments in Georgia and Sou h Carolina, and not ! ; ing able to procure funds in thole S’ tcs,ont hundred thousand dollars of tills remittance is by a dr ft horn the Treasury of the the Un’.ed States on N rth Caro lina, and twenty thousand dollars by a draft on Savannah.” From this view of the case, it is apparent that the soldier (whole lervic.es no man appreciates more highly than I do) has not been neglected by congress. T hat his compensation has been thus long withh. Id. is owing not to the want of legifii tive provision but to caofes beyond the control of the national repre sentatives. During the war afeheme was deviled oy the enemy to drain this country of its fpcc-e, for th< putpofe of creating fatal embai rafl iiiiots in our pecuniary concerns. And although the diffuuby in dtf chargins( the contraCls ot the go vernment at present, is to be atm. buted to the w ant of an uniform circuiting medium, yet in my •judgment, the lulpenfion of specie payments on the part ot the banks was not only an act ot wiidom and found policy* but probably pie vented the molt serious evils at a period of great national danger. That specie payments have not been resumed, is not the fault of corprefs. During the lall itffion. however, measures were adopted to remedy the evils of the exitling currency, and there is ground to I hope they wii| effeflt a cure, as spee dily as the nature of the dileafe will p.jflibly permit. Until the re medies are fuccelsful in their ope ration, eongrels cannot do more than to provide the means of pay ing the public creditors in filch a medium as the country affords. — The public funds are derived from the public revenues ; and the peo ple in each State can pay those re venues, only in such money as is within their reach. To have ex eluded from the receipts into the treasury, the only currency the people could obtain, and to have demanded what they could not pay. would have presenter indeed a inoil extraordinary fpedtacU. Tnffcad of ihe ten. er solicitude for fol iters rights, now the theme of electioneering patriots , we lhouid have been 1 barged, andjuflly char ged, with an act of monltrous folly and oppression. I have thus, fellow-citizens pre sented to your view a fair and can did expofirion of those proceedings which have calle . forth such acri moniou- invectives, againtt your public Servants. All 1 have a right to expect on your part, is a like fair nd candid examination of die facts and circumstances which are now dife 1 oled. To the great inafs of the people whole object is truth, and whole honelt indignation has been roused by the appreheniioo, that their interefls ba i bee . facra ficed, l look with confivlence for a juit decision. I rely upon the maxim that the people will always decide correctly, if correctly infor med. As to the charge of felfifh motives, “ of political prolliturion” it is precisely suited to the delicate and disinterested conceptions from whence it Iprung, and wholly un worthy of refpedful notice. De plorable indeed is the Hate of man, if against Inch foul aspersions, a life of unimpeached, and unimpea chable integrity, affords him no prote&ion. It cannot be believed by an intelligent and a charitable people, that the preterit virtuous and enlightened chief magistrate of the United States, and a large ma j >iity of the National Lcgiflature, composed of inc;ii inferior to non; in tiiis err any other country, for eminent Cervices, integrity, and pa triotism, C(ulJ have been influen ced by such degrading considera tions. That I may have erred in judg ; meat, is poiliole ; boctufe, to err jis the lot of imperfect man. From j the frailties of human nature, nei , ther you nor l, have a right to ! claim exemption. It therefore you fhotiltl even determine that I have I erred, 1 would iuibmi: to-your seri ous deliberation —to your tense of juttice, whether a (ingle error juf* i titles the unkind cenfwres which are pronounced agais ft me—whether ’a angle error Avoid outweigh a ! whole life ot zealous ands •ithful I devotion to the public interests. That mine has been fueh a life, ; you, yourselves have inoft kindly j acknowledged m the renewed j proofs you have so repeatedly af ! forded me, of your esteem and confidence. To deserve that es teem and confidence, has been the objeftef my constant folicitude— my belt endeavours. From my public labours, I nev er have derived pecuniary profit; nor in that refpett, is there any thing in the prelent cinpenlation to render a continuance in congrcls defnable. But to iole your good opinion, would be to lolethericb eft—the only reward for years of toil in the country's fervics. Such an event I-should mofl deeply de plore ; but (till there would be a source of consolation, which we owe to the bounty of nrovidence, and which ca mot be taken away the consolation of “ a conscience -void of offence.” WE W 8188. I i H KNEW S. v .1 ? ;To • Vi it \>:. 1 mll i.••*:>• *>t cic “ \ (.o Iu„ uk’-n .1 final iarew -ll ot our feushm, tlic Honorable (wrutnJ Jury ot ihis emm-y. iu a lei i#lav ad.ir as. .w believe a wbolsome We nad tome hope* ll.at it w old have a rou,e<l tluni to a aeitse of doty,and a sense <:F j i -1 ice;ls-.:, a moment*reflec ion tiisipatedthese .iop**s, ami v luct-d IIS from tl.e tr.al <8 so im p-obabiest result. Audio U.e place of mat er, which we bad preparedoutiii.subject, we have lie pleasure of giving a lucid and In .lily i"-r ----esi .np ad.ii< 3 tVom our worthy senator, D . 11 V. IV. BM. rUsun.s Uic reasons vve have already as ! Signed, those gentlemen have been recently, j and so severely lacerated by the kicn lah ot 1 s iBBe worthy in the Augusta (razetie, that it w .uld l>e cruelty, not to say cowardice, to s ---i sad them a frcsli, while thus Ticked, and 1 goaded in front md rear. Yes, ye unfortunate eemto-t of our morals, and our duties, we will • not —nay, we start with abnow* nee from the i* j doa, of causing you, as die last resort from our j j censures, io be'k safety or consolation m the ! ■ abemarie of your consciences !—so, no, we • will not drive you to this fearful measure; bnt wi U Christian forgiveness, consign you to the msimcunnof soin<-good spirit, and take our Leave of you, perhaps forever 1 I And for our no 1 ice of you, and the fully we j have committed m bringing you from die som- I Ore and leaden hours of your contemplations : and tlomes ic vocations—> ications to vvhicii we i} >w with joy suffer yo i 10 return, we suppli- , cate your forgiveness, and th. forgiveness of llie offended comnitimiy, wliose attention and ; time, we Have been tlie agent of your encrouch ’ nient on. A *1 as a last advice, remember gentlemen, ! you wiii never pass as public character , wttli j ouc censure, while subject to observation. : HAPPY, thrice happy is the man, who on a ’ Selt- .vwtninalioll, finds alter makingevciy fair 1 allowance for the weakness and impi rfection of ’ human nature, hat li.s good deeds weigh clown the important scale, and that lie Iras nothing bu a lew uuiulentuiiiul errors to accuse huii s-ifnf. He si a ais to begin life anew, to live twice, who is able to enjoy the recollection •,f fc>- liter days. “ live cst vivere bin vita pusce | pnorefnu !” How delightful to be -able to sat, “usyet I have not lived to no purpose,”— *• i have loved my neighbour as myseif, comfort edtbe affliced, servedmy country, and walked linrublt betlire my God !” Havi ig thus acted, ; he dreads no tuluriW— nr is arm. and against re- I proacli—lie knows that it he meets with cross es, tnev are but fur ucr trials of h,s worth, and ! his pa deuce in bearing them; and Ins under m -1 tuig as.Uhn y, hi discharging all obligations devolving on linn as a citizen, will undoubtedly, sooner or U ev, meet with a due reward ; and in the mean time, in lus own bosom, he carries a c*. afar ter namely, the silent, tlr .ugh .power ful and approving monitor within ’ Such is tue reflection, the solace wtncli a o-vod man ex- I ptrieiices —joy which Cannot be wrested from j linn—cxtacy, which is invulnerable to the ; a!t if * -if political tttdndlm, the protcriptir.i of ibsn.e.iygHi*, ‘ he juttitan officii on f A Newspaper,entitled the “ Cahoxtita HR S’ in eh,” n.s seen recently added to the nnur ber published m Fayetlevdie, (N C.) VVe I) ve been lavored with a number, and from a slight View of the editorial department. Sic. we belli ve it truly worthy of pau onagt —Ai mln ; valuable iustieco-operating its influence rvitii ; ilu many, which auorn the Tuple of -our lib erty. SUMMARY. Among a variety of excellent toasts, drank at a public dinner, given in honor of the 4th nut. in Sevannah, we were particularly pleased wi’ii the following : flj ihe pi ctideut, Milhetu Witter.—Uua uiiiutv to the electors of our ncx, Fn s ideal of i t l : nitt and Stales. tty the lice ■president, Ilcn. T. U. JP. Charlton —The only legitimate sovereign—the People. The Brutish have again commenced their ohl p- act ices, and villany; tiring on, and searching our vessels.*—M ire of tins at.on. The Uiu.rd St at a of America and Prussia art -be powers whose socks are the h ght st oil tin Amsterdam exchange, American p per ceu s (Louisiana) arc ijuuted at 94, the I’russian loan at 99 per cent. Fiom liie heavy arrivals a considerable de cline m.s especUd in cotton, throughout Fiance, lice continued to be a drug at Cor de- U!X - Mr. He, American eon.nd at Bordeaux, fmd higlus situation rathefdisagreeable ui.doi no v order al tilings m France .-aui p.-asa^i (witkbif family ) in tije ship t/iftuira, for New Y .rK, about tile 2Jth May Y Venetian has discovered the m mis of perfecting, the compass H.s cliscov .-;.v has been s ibmitted to the Italian institute, ,vho nave acknowledged its importance. Josiah <i iincy, who once attempted in con rvess to impeach Mr. Jefferson, was attain in a minority of one on separation question ia t ie Massachusetts senate. What next ? The senate of Massachusetts 14V voted, twenty-two to ten, to assume rl.ao ait-’s quota of die direct tox ! Ous and qaiu cv were in the negative. T ie U:u~ttes ot L’ iire and Brussels, an iioumC'* a revolution having ‘aken place a* |.ti : they also state that at Paris a revolution at Vienna is spoken of, and at Berlin one is anti cipated -t St. Petersburg. L inen Bonaparte resides at present wito his f ; ,niilv at his seat near K. escati. It appears lie in -mis in.tkinjf some stay there, as he has had removed sun -Of his finest paintings from his palace in this city. Capt. \nsley, lately arrived at New.York from Antwerp, inform--, that it was the c r ent opinion there when he sated, diat war would vci-v shortly break out between the Kussiaus and l urks. r.ie artificial harbor a’ Ramsgate, (England) i which n not vet quite finished, tias cost two mill ons of dollars. B :i n-w law,in France, all acts of divooce, 1 made by mutual consent, are hereafter to be I null. St I.oris—From a late census it appears i thu r th<- own of St. Louis, in the Missouri ter ritory, comamed 2 )00 souls , and tne county, excl imv<; of the town i39.5, fTtiik. i Rostov —Toe assistant assessors ot ac tovrn of Boston, hav- i--turned 9729 rateable polls ! for the year 1816—list year the returns *ave ; only 8326. Thay have also reported li it there i are in the town un less than 5453 persons haLla to the ssui. rot, not having received that dis e;e nor the kioe pox. Rostov sem 43 dele ■r.p, , to the legislature of Massachuse.ts. I) ,rin the year 1813, we find there took place in Paris 22,612 births, 5375 marriages, and 19.992 deaths, of which latter 416 were by ttie small pox. Con uniteral.--The ship Jacob .Jones, lately arrive I at B >,t.n from 8 tavui, witn I.IKW.UtK) lb*. t ~ -ar, 129 meals rattans, : and 120 picuUsapan wood. Fl-.e city ot Bata via nail suffered much by an .nundatiou, -cca- I sioued by the extreme violence ot the north | west monsoon; many of the streets were three fee under water. Iron Cable* are joining h high reputation la England. Tiie unclerwri'ers at Lloyd's i'ive a ad eided preference to snips furnished wiiti [ them. Tire FISHERIES.—The Salem Gazette •gives usa list of 42 vessels, with the names of their ma-ners, and the number offish taken by each, wnich have arrived a Marblehead since the 2d of May, from he Grand 8a k. The lei'st successful caught 7000, -he most success* fid2o,ooo nail, but generally from 14 t.i ISOOO. In the whole, they caught 630,000 —average for each vessel 15,000 —“ being he greatest fares eve. known in that enterprising own. Tne dwelling house at the Creek Agency, occttp ed by the family of the la’e col. Haw. ‘kins, we unde “Stand has b-e i cons u. w *bv fire together with iie furn are and papers inclu ding hi* valuable manuscripts. Dr Pin sick, of Philadelphia, on account of 11 I) ittli, has resigned as surgeon to the hos pital and Dr. J. Parish is elected in his place. / Since the treaty concluded on the I4’h or April, between Austria anti H .var a, the former possessed a population of 29,706,000 souls. Paris, May 12. Austria is reducing her army with gif.a; so verity. The sale ot cavalry horses and mihta . ry stores is continued. T ie French government is represented as in great difficulty to raise a loan ot oh millions of francs; .ibout It) millions of dollars. Tir.-v ■iffi ivd 5 per cents, at 50, that is, lod francs ot stock for 50 in money, which the bankers refu sed. There is a report that Turkey opposes the occupation of the loni* an Islands by England. This ru mour. if founded on fact, w u'd account for the failing of Lord Exmouth’s squadron to the eafi> ward. The maneuvers of the Auffrlaa court have given rife to confidcra ble agitation in Germany and Italy. It is laid the title of emperor of Germany is to be resumed, and we know’ alio how much the addition ol the remains oi the Roman em pire have been coveted. The Aus trian emperor has already the king of Rome in his family. The war cauldron is again fail filling w-ith inflammable materials, and we err much, if an expiofion does not ioon take place London Statesman • The amount of private property Jeffroyed at Raleigh, (n e ) by the late fire, is eilimate i at 70,000 dollars, and of United States’ mili tary (tores at 40,000 dollars. The principal object of the incendiaries is thonght to have been the release lof fomc criminals confined there. Ch<ii t ejlsn Lmtt,