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Volume ll.] priiusifEn wExnlr, BY JO!L\ K.M CHAft L't'O.W PRICE —XUKKB IMII.LAH . Xi.it AS.-:CM, HAT 1 f.viii !>! At. • am: :. MISCELLANY. EMiCiu no:/. The dream of emigration which O is rapidly pouring itself from the old world into the new, Ins alrea dy put fame of the governments cf Europe upon meatures of pre ventative policy. They mull con template these drains of the lam ina of their population with no common folicirude.—• We mav expect tpe fevered interdiction of so ipreading an evil to their power and prosperity. We may loci; to their fmedliy ciofing their ports to nr, emigration, which threatens to it > *.i til t• < ti * ‘kf El O’ ):i. i **•_ 1 f l O a the a; sand inventions, they have been for centuiies nursing to a.a turirv. The circuui fiance speaks a lan guage, however, eafsly spelLd and underload. Volumes could not convey a more perfect deferiptiovi oi the deranged habits of European Society—-of the concuflion and diilocatiou which the commercial part of the machine has undergone. The long wars which have fain iihed the refoarces of Europe, have idr her without the power, for Ibme time yet, to replenish ail this wade—to fill up the gaoloo ctiaith of her means—to iurniii* immediate Uismilams to in du if ry to renew the springs of co.nmerciid enterprise and activity, tda:ced, even tkadeoed, as they have been, by the untoward (pint of hoftdity. The (buggies of power and ambi tion of die paflions for glory, the wars of Princes and Potentates have left their deadly inflictions &l almoll incurable galhes, more or lels, cn every part of that body of the civilized globe. Wars for .upwards of a quarter of a cen tury, between commercial dates, make dreadful havoc in the relati ons and habitude, of an inbufbri ©us and cialized epoch.— i'hey are utterly alien to the Jpirit of our •age —They are followed by amor al as well as pecuniary ravage, which the arts of a healing policy can alone gradually repair. It is, however, the laboring portion of fociery, who furaifh the large (lak.es in this game of glory and ambition —played oy the highest too often, for their own exclusive gratificati on. Long periods of sorrow ar>d fuffering atte(Li this calamitous trath—nor seldom at the glorious termination of a war is their bitter train of calamities iiTTw (ted. The prelent situation of the people of England is the tei rible iiluflration of this fact. Under such circum, fiances, to lay an interdict on the enterprise of man, by which he hopes to reined / the evil of his con dition, in a change of country ; to call chains around his oody, and pin him to the foil on which he tnufl famifli, may be among the politic devices to prefc-rve the pow er princes, ia the use of a degraded 1 M JN vV SJ WASHINGTON, (cEOiiGU) FUID AY, AU GUST’ 22, is 7. and despicable population; but othing can De imagined more hos tile to the liberal aims of an mi ■ • m;ira .'<Vc’ ’•• - -'*•<,*- y to lira genera! character of our aV —which is one of humanity, rxi many points conne&ed. with the social comfort of the species. But is it poffiblp to put ; u effect ual corrective to the prucipe of in creating emigration, by tf.Rirm of po .ver i io am (Ia cur ret: < which has set in with so (hong aui hea dy an impure ? lodefeat tie cun ning and ingenuity ot man, when he is drawn .o a Icene full o; hope, by tne reiutieis import unity bf fell interest, and lpurn of poerty? “When he is won by these prilling motives from the ties of kind fed k country ? We believe not. That . .IV *. ! 1 ! • .1 ‘ ry of the present generation-- none Hnce the inllitution cf osr government —nor perhaps in tty records of hiflory—the prodigiois numbers which are <] nly drains* olftroui the ‘bores of Europe, t. cultivate our fields—cun receive pm haps no efficient check, in th: mid;l of the ‘faculties and Itron temptations, which conitantiy loin. it and beEt tile emigrant Nor i it from one or two iources, w; have received thele large tribunes to our population. It is not oni j from countries whLii have beep walled and vexed by the iword of • ‘. ‘ l i .1 3 4 L i tJ “*W* JUUic U V itiC’ i W i•’ ot ungoverned power —or made Ueriie by the hand of nature ; but emigration is to be fe-n (preadiiig even from the abodes which have be n long luppoied consecrated to coiiifoitand independence. Swit zerhivi lupplies her con ributions as well as Holland, Germany, and oth.r parts of Europe, tofwell the mals ot our numbers. Nor is it podium to overlook the difference to all appearance, wrought in the I character of the European, on hi translation to the new vvoilJ. lE* Lems to undergo a renovation cf hisexiftence. lie mull feel ne v faculties, as it were—new pahlons/ new wants Birred and developed within him. He quietly <Jpens a path to wealth ; to perfcnttl inde pendence ; and occafionlily, to influence and power, lie finds i no monopolies to check las enter prize, and clog his indiiiry ; no oppreflive burthens to tat away his resources; no disqmlifictions of any kind or degree, to shut a gainff him the wide arn| brilliant aveues to power and renown. His faculties find their proper ex pansions, and his enterprise ire rich reward. US. Patriot . I'he Press and Literature A Superior talents are not necessary to every editor. The principal point to be observed in the man agement of a newspaper are, 1. To endeavor always to afeertain and pubiifh the truth with regard to every affair that is interesting to the community, 2. To adraonifh i | t ie credulous and ignorant againfl : t<p ready a belief of mfidious ru~ mrs. 3. l u pubiifh what is ufeful h gmaml, ~.;d u. | xi plain, according to tne belt an ’ thorities, what is obfeure. 4. so j avoid vulgarity, both in expreflioii | iti'l allusion, and invariably to (elect the bes and niofl grammat - ical phraleology. Negligence in tliis fourth particu!aris productive !or ferrous evii : it vitiates talle, ! corrupts the Englith tongue, and | j detracfrom the elegance and propriety of colloquial intercourse. U the specimen; war • not wholly beneath criticifin, We might cite I i examples of low and mangled ! phra ! eology from an 100 newspa g. ms aow in a courle of publication 1 1 fie United States, la Electing / ’ ‘ • • O v • •-% *• i-- * s-, r.. : 1% “ y’ ‘ • ‘’ - o l bojfmiold, the rather or head of a ! hi mly cannot be too careful in I cn ioli ig one which is pue in its llyle. By rhoie who know, that ! from the words we use in talking j and acquire by reading, the ordin ary manner of our converlhnon is derived, the importance of a care ful (election ot nei.vpnpers f:ir per usal, as to this particular, will be ealily comprehended. i’hefe remarks will be much strengthened when we advert to the lurpriLng inlluence of the profs in fociely. It poffeflVs a power in bme meafurc magical ; and how- ! . .... - •L t ♦*-■'>■ •’ -•-• >- r--. ~ be, as to genius, judgment, or : learning, such is the talismanic : force of the typographic art, that j when that fame editor, garrulous 1 in nonie tile, fends forth ids (hallow j lucubration through the machine ry of the press, it am (Is the atten tion of the community, and, upon : a parr of it, produces a certain es- I leer. We may trace this fulcepti- I I biiiry of impreliion from weak and i I insipid observations, to a fiiii great- 1 er vveaknefs of mind in thole who are liberal to it, as to an intellect ual indolence which {brinks from the labor of reflection. usuor. \ The Richmond Enquirer has lately contained much ac quisition relative to the pro priety of the laws which pro-1 hibit usury. The subject ap- i pears to 11s to be a mere man ! oi straw ; for the question I at issue is, in truth, only npm- j inal. All the banks violate s the law of the land in this! particalar. Six per cent is! the common limit of the rate ! of interest; and yet, by the i modus operand /, ail the banks ; receive above the rates : they do more, they receive com pound interest, which, by ma ny Courts of common law, has been deemed illegal. In deed, in some cases, they de rive interest without any cap ital at all—a thing that would be incredible, if it were not tarovec- by the modern .system and baii-Ang. As to interest m Ion: > from individuals, or * r * : \ - „ . ’ -Lh— -y, !’ - J • waving, the brokers and the asm us take all iliey can gety and taere are such a nnmbei* or persons interested in the business, mat tiie law is wiaoly a dead letter; except perhaps, now anti men, when some poor unfortunate devil is pro secuted to secure impunity to the rem. i here is even strong reason for believing that some of the banks are aw teresred in the shaving of their own depreciated paper. When we see all this, when it is known and breugut nonie to ■’ me business and bosoms’* of every one, what signifies a dry discussion about the po licy or impolicy of repealing tlie laws concerning usury. Repeal them cr not, usury will, and does, prevail; winch is just the same thing as if no law existed on the subject. FROM EUROPE. Oer intelligence is not very in terdting. Roused by tyranny £: famine, the people in itverxl parts - ■ • -I - - - . <Ja a uUiLv, uii uUvUi|pl wG varturn the dtabiifhed authorities, but ddiitute of able leaders, and witiiout union in action, their at tempts for the prdent have fallen m tfifcdiug liteir object, and many of the unfortunate malcontents have died on the field and fcatlold. in i ngiand, miiery and wunt continued to press upon the people. Reported ccnfpiraeiesand tumults lurnilhed minilters with pretex s for urging the further continuance of the suspension of the hab.as corpus act and imprisoning whom loever they confidcred inimical to defpotiim. Arrelfs were quite common. But the inflexible ob (linacy of the EngliDi diameter, when once beat our cf its natuul phlegm, leaves us room to hope that redress is not far diltant. file king of Westphalia, finding the deputies cf the nation untra&able and resolute in rejecting the projet or a conditution submitted for their fit cl ion, diflolved the aCernbly, un der pretence of laying the inflru nient belore the people, and in forcing it as boon as approved by a majority of them. This appealing to the people against their repre sentatives is the molt wretched hum-bug of royal depravity of which Ave have ever beared. It is tantamount to a declaration that the sovereign is more thoroughly acquainted with the difpofjtion &z wants cf the Wcftphadans than they 2ie themselves. Eut the moft important political event received in America of the late arrivals is the departure of count d’Yermo loff from St Petersburg for Ptrlia, charged with a million for obtain- [No. 32.