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be deemed and ad judged guilty of felony, and being thereof eonvieted by due -course of law, shall be be imprisoned and kept to hard labor for not less than three years, dor more j than tea’ years, or thall be imprisoned not ‘exceeding ten yeat-s, atsd fined not©xseeding five thousand dollars. Prm'ided, That no* thing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the courts of the individual States of *.; isdietfon under the laws of the several s*:\tes, over any offence declaredpunishable bw this et. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted , That i.i Roy. person shall make or engrave, or’ leause to be made or engraved, or shall have in his custody or prossrssiotf any metalie plate,engraved after the similiiuJe of any plate from whieh any notes or bills, issued hj the said corporation shall have been printed, with intent to use. such piste,or to eeuse or softer the same to be Hseil in forg £-; or counterfeiting any of the notes orbiffs issued by the said corporation j or shall have in his custody or possession any blank note or notes, bill or bills, engraved and printed after the similitude of any notes or bills is -3J and by said corporation, with intent to u*e t;u ;b blanks, or cause or sufter the same to Jb-.* used in forging or counterfeiting ariy of the notes or bills issued by the said <*orpo lra'iou; or shall ■'feave io bis custody or pos yeision any paper adapted to the making of k>ank notes or bills, and similar to the pa per upon whi?h any notes or bills of the 9iid corporation shall have been issued, v . h intent to use such p vper, or eau*e or autifer the same c be used in forcing or eonn ietfeitiug any of the notes or bills issued by t ! ‘c said corporation, every such person, be ing thereof convicted by <hte course of law, feh 11 be sentenced to„be imprisoned, and kept to hard labor, for a term not exceeding five years, and find in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars. Sko. 2o And he it further enacted, That in eo!)*ideration of the exclusive privileges iud benefi s conferred by this act, upon’ the said bank, the President, Dire-tors and Uomp my, thereof, shall pay to the United States out of the corporate funds thereof the sum of one million, and five htindied thousand dollars, in three equal payments ; that is to say, five hundred thousand d.llais .tut the expiration of two years, five hundred’ thousand dollars at tli expiration of three jreara, and five hundred thous nd dollars at ♦he expiration of four years, after the said bank shall be organized, aud commence if> operations iu the manner herein before pro vided. Sec. 21. And be. it further Minnie A, Thar Sto other uanh ihuti be established by any future law of the United States during the continuance of the corporation hereby crea ted, for which the faith of the United States r ss hereby pledged t Provided, congress may 1 lenew existing charters for banks in the! District of Columbia, not increasing the capital thereof; and m*} also establish any other bank or banks in said district, with capitals not exee-ding in the whole six mil lions of dollars if they shall deem it expe dient. And, notwithstanding the expiration I of the term for which the said corporation jis created, it shall be lawful to use the cor- i jporate name, style, and capacity, fer the, Jmrpose of suits for the final settle neat aud i iquid&tion of the affairs and accounts of the corporation, and for the sale and disposition ! ©f their estate, real, personal, and mixed ; kut not for any other purpose, or in any ©ther manner whatsoever, nor for a period exceeding two years after the expiration of 4he said term of incorporation. Sec. 2-3. And be it further enacted. That if the subscriptions and pymeuls l© said bank shall not be made aud completed so as to enable the same to commence its oper ations, or if the said b >nk sh .IS not com- Eneuce its operations on or before the. first Monday in April next, then and in that case Congress may at any time within twelve Eio tths thereafter declare by law this act 3duJ! and void, Seo. 23. And be it further enacted, That it shall at ail times be law ful for a commit-J tee of either bouse of Congress, appointed for that purpose, to iuspeet Jhe Books, and examine into the proceeding of the eorpo* i ration hereby created, and to report, wheth er the provisions of this charter have beenj by the same, violated or not, and whenever; any committee ag aforesaid shall find and; report, or the President of the United States •hall have reason to believe that the char ter has been violated, it may be lawful for Congress to direct, or the President to order a scire facias to be sued out of the circuit court of the district of Pennsylvania, in the hame of the United states (w hich shall be executed upon the president of the corpo ration for the time bring, at least fifteen days before the commencement of the term of said court) calling on the said corporation to show cause wherefore the charter hereby granted shall not be declared forfeited ; and it shall be lawful for the said court, upon the return of the said scire iariatt, to examine into the truth of the alhdged violation, and if such violation be made appear, then to pronounce and adjudge that the said charter is forfeited and annulled: Provided how** ever, Every issue of fact which may be join -j and between the United States and the cor- 1 poration aforuisaid* shall be tried by jury,*- And It shall be lawful for the court dfrorfi said to require the production of such of the hooks of the corporation as it rnay deem necessery for the ascertainment of the j controverted facts; and the final judgment of the court aforesaid, shell be examinable in the supreme yoort of the United States, by writ of error, and may be there reversed jor affirmed according to the usages of iXw, H. CLAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives* JOHN GAILLARD, President of the. Senate, pro tetn- April 10, lßib—- approved, ‘ JAMES MADISON. fcP-SATA. k7* In the second section of the Bank Law, publish'd in our last, 24th line, for “ Savannah .” read Augusta. ff*w—P—wmp—^^**^*wq< AMERICAN CtJAiiJs CI'EH. ‘From CobbeWs Political Register, Communicated. There H a strange notion prevailing in Engl nd, that society, in America, is y t in a rode slate; that the Anieri'-.-n is, and; must be for'some Time, sn ‘unpolished nation ;i that when they become p ii** ed, and w h n great riches are bc emulated by individuals,! they will have as mu h p uperism end as many crimes ms Wt h ve; aud ur’s has on ly been the unavoidable progress of civiliza tion and refinement If this ware iror, it would be impossible to deny, that during! this king’s reign, we have hi de a most wonderful progress in the sublime arts of! polishing aftd refining, seeing Cr&t since; 1760, the paupers have rincre.-sed an hun dred fold. But, sir, if I look back to the,j days of Pope, I do not perceive that there in ’ mu ch proof of an increase of the quantit y of the highest taL-nt. If by polish and refine ment, are meant hypocraey in ail its various brauehes, we have certainly arrived at the pinnacle. But, as to the American* being •u h rude state, or on what is the notion foun ded ? Their dress, their amusements, their | manner of eating aud drinking, are so much like our’*, that, were it not for the absence d‘beggary, misery and filthy street#, a man dropped down in an American town would j imagine himself still in'England* There, } no science, no art kuowu in England,; which is not studied or practised in j America, end in numerous , instances,! with greater succfese than In Eng hind. Ihtir courts of justice have the same form ; ! w is ulm nis ered in the same manner ; ir, m*ny cas s it is the same law'.: I maiters of commerce and navigation, the Americans almost, eqm l ug, r pd are in ai fVir way of surpassing us ; Hhd os to the a flairs of war, whether by End or sea, they have made us fee), and they have con vinced all the world that they want no les son from any body. Where, then are we to look Sir these marks of compHrative rudeness ? Not iu the speeches made iu the congress ; nor in the notes and other papers of their dii'toma tie ministers; torus tolhsAe latter, it makes one blush for one's country to vi< w their vast, superiority, is it in their friendly and dig nified depot Intent towards foreign nations ; eii the wisdom nnd gentleness of their gov erns m and law s ; in the peaceable Le havior cf (heir ritizijus ; in the absence of crimes,and in the went of rotten boroughs and a “ new drop is it in any or in ail of these, that we ar’ to look for proofs of ihiiT a Hedged ruda ens j? ‘‘ So fitr, sir, from its being true* that the Americana re in a mass, compared to us in m rude state, the very contrary is thei truth. In AnuViea there are none of those brogues, or dialects, which distinguish .Scotch and 1 ish and English, and York shiremen, and Wiltshircmen, ami Uo knejs from each other. These cease with emi grant, wh >e el-iidnen spev k good and cor rect English. In America, reading and wntiog, and something beyond merely these, are universal, ‘I be Ameri can farmer h&s other charms under his roof besides those of attending his hospitality. He can converse with you upon almost any subject. The Bible alone does not foim his library. He tomes in from the l ent of tLe sun, strir*ned to his shirt, takes down a vol ume of his Encyclopedia, or some book of science, travels, history, law, polities or poetry. W hen he has rested himself, he re urns to his field op his yard. ‘1 here is no aw of his country, no regulations wbieh he does not understand ; no right that hepos si sses that he does not know how to defend; co public question in which he does unt feel h lively interest, aud as to which he is not able tc txpre a bis opinion, i must be un-j <]*;rstood, of course, to speak with excep tions. There are stupid men in all i oun- < tries. But, as a general description, I pledge • myself for the tfuth of wbat 1 have here 1 said, with the expectation that, in less that) four months, this letter will find its way to every part ok ;h? country of which 1 am speaking, and with very powerful reasons not to be looked upou, in that country, as a dealer in falsehoods, and mure especially as a flatterer. I Well, then, sir, if what I ; have hen (stated be true, will not you, with all you* jHtiU uii*h&ka aUttJuae&t to old Tand which, afierall. Tfcannot refrain from participating with with all the sor rn’w that you ftiubt feel at seeing distant re-- Kions carry otf the fruits of the talents, the labors, aud tbe sufferinge of Sidney end of Tooke, will not your rising envy be stifled, by that generosity which you ex-, claim—“ Blasted be the man who would destroy the harmony and freedom css such a peoplel” “ As to the efleet of great individual for tunes ou the liberties and moral state of the Americans, such already exist, and have long existed.- There are men in Amer ica worth half a million sterling each.— But ns these riches have not been derived from taxes, they have not impoverished & degraded any part of the community in ae- j cumulation,; and as it is impossible that j they should he employed in the purehaseof; boroughs, they do not appear to be danger ons to public liberty. The Edinimrgh’ke viewers fl itter themselves, that these rich merchants will, in time, heeome the lords of the country ; and, they will tell us, that oar government ought to conciliate their friend ship beforehand. These wise critics know, or appear to know, very litrle about the mat ter—They seem very uneasy at the exist ence of a greet democracy. They are anx ious to<see it converted info “ a more digni fi* and” state, with “ a great body of eristorra ey,able to protect the people against the throne and the throne agttii a:, the people.” In short they itch all over, to see a list ol “ ry| burihs” in Ameri ‘a. I dare syV the Americans will be o u h o'blig< and to ti.eui for their hut, In®v ry sure, that they will think themselves better protected by their power of choosim their own public servants, then they would be by any ki grc t body t-f nobles,” even if import'd from ocot j land, and if Mr. Jeffery himself were to to out as king. No, sir, Ido not b tiove that the Atneri;*ans will be very lik’ lv to fall tfpon theseheme of a thhonk for the purpose of wstiVi’g “a bo-iy of ?;reut nobles.” to protect tin m against :h,.t throne.; Sue?* briUh.ut sehetnes they wilHeave, wMi all linn ilitr, !o the polished aud refined na tions of Europe ” ‘ROADS AND tAN ALB. The people of M&ssa huseits propose to ntttketwo Cf nuls for the benefit of their, ’state.—The people of* the State cf NeW-i York, in their Slegislature, ere pushing lor*! vard tb© plan of the liroat Cunul frotn. Lfikt Erie to Hudson river—if this very laudable design be carried into exec ution, it I will be the most extensive Uonul iri the World, trot even’eaeepting.China—it will o-- pen h weter n-ininunicmiou from New-Or ieoriS to Ne\v-York,an extent of nearly 30CO miles.—And our neighbors, both in Penn sylvania and Virginia, are busy in planning internel improvements.—it is” truly pteap to observe this general spirit of improve-. iiicnt, pervediog elmosr every state in the! Union."—indeed, every day’s experience shews the necessity of the Atlantic states o pening convenient communications with the Western “oimtry,by facilitating the con veyance of goods and produce to and from that extensive end rapidly improving por tion of the U. States. Besides the roads now making in vari ous direi tions from Baltimore, tin Greet National Road from Cumberland is pro gressing with speed—this road will be of ir finite advantage not oniy to Maryland & Virginia, but also to Pennsylvania—it will cross the Youghogany, pass through Union town, Penn, from thence it will run through Brownsville, fform°rly Redstone] aud ex tend through Waslirg on. until it tern in ates at Wheeling, on the Ohio. A “mom st all these highly praise-Worthy plats, we are sorry to observe, that not a* word is Sl id about ti e long-projected C< li sts between the C f es ‘p’ okc and *le 1)1, . wsie, si and frrtrn thence to New Yotk—tb©i experiemeofthe late war should have! shewn the absolute necessity of these wa ter communications.— Balt. Aimer. The President bos r‘. fied a Treaty of. cession coiteiudcd at \Vt*d sng’on ou the 22d ult. with certain Chiefs ofthe Uhero k. e Ncctioii of Indians —By tbis treaty the Cbrrokees relioqoish all claim to the ter ritory lying within the boundaries of the Btate of hriuth Carolina, for the considera tion of ?st)t;o to bt paid by the state within nicely d-ys from the ratification. j The President has also ratified a eon-; vention eoneiuded at the same time and ’; place and between the same parties, which establishes the boundaries of the territory ceded by the Cherokee nation to the Uni ted States by the treaty held at Fort Jack j sou in August 1814. The right is alfeo ves ted in the United States to open ard to have the use of such roads within the Ciier j okee territory as may be necessary for the free intercourse between the states of Ten nessee and Georgia and the Mississippi ter ritory ; ana the free navigation ofthe riv ers and waters within the terriory. Th/ United States agree to indt moity the Chero kee nation for losses sustained by them in consequence of the marching ofthe United State’ troops through their territory, which losses l ave been duly, ascertained to amoun: .to &30>OOQ Norfolk Herald. ■ Dot laxt nritie©A froth the British meut discovered the inqtiisirivi* temper of the nation in regard to the treaties which had keen formed, and the extent of the ar ticle! which still remain io the ifeerets of state. AH we can eflirm is, the convuiioc ohtain'edthst we were not In posse :n. li t>? some inten S'ing measures whit h regard not H more thepres wt than the future .oindi 100 of Europe. The documen's which have been received, have heeft romp r and as to their subjects, and have been found not to erharaee all those which haVe uudonbtf dlv haen hefyfe the Congress, and hove obliged some serious deliberatiens, and probable conclusion as yet unknown. Iu England the same deep interest is taken as formerly jin all questionsof revenue, hut the agitation [ subsides soon, and the xr nister generally i gains his purposes by a little accommoda tion. Essex Register. qwul'M'W wi ■wwaMwacaa*in ■ j -jgr^irmnniTOi s^ajefamb FOREIGN. Eonnoßs of carth.ioe.ya. Copy of a letter from Don Juan de Dios A* m idor, late Governor of Carth&gena, to I>cn FraoJfisco Careia dal Fierro, Nevr* Orleans. 3AH 15,1816. ATy e Atoned Nephew, It would tok“ me very loog to give yott the particulars of what took place aftef yur departure, and to describe the honors of famine by wbieh such numbers daily perished. After the Greatest instances of heroism on the part of the people, we were forced to an evacuation e disaaterous as any recorded io history. The greatest weight of the common ealc.mi;y seems to have fallen on oUrf.mily. As to what be -1 I my sc IP during a p as-ige o f 34 days from Cartl.ageua to this is? nd, { wdl on ly observe that eapt iu Mi;eh ;L% v. ho <om manded the schooner General fas i’Jo, on board of which I r;v?e me of passffi geis, after having despoiled us of all our | money, £o’d, silver, j w Is & preetQua ! stones, put us on shore in the i land of IVo | videnee, whence vve at li st arrived here in the miraculoos manner you ah’ ;1 learn when we meet aguiu, and .1 can v . Y more composure relate you my odveniures, My sister McrY, jaif meiber-iu-lnw, your young wife Pepita. who h and lain in but three days I>'fere : ye(i>- ,> ,>• t r , law, with Villegas ©ad r.r.; fl ic the Americht’ ’Q.-Hboc-or r v <rr?As soon 88 1 I ear cf Mr; t t':: I will in form them where you ere ; f * o;i n:y vrri* vul here, 2 learned that y. ;niid: ,*..vted for New Orleans, in company with In Driveii le, w ith u pare: I of goods, and 1 rejoice lH*&l you are less uuforiuuate than most of your kindred. From Carthageha we have nt> informa tion, tor tha British fiigate Junon, sent by H e admiral on this station to claim the En glish remaining in the town, is this day re turned without them. She was not allowed to have any comuaunicatioa with the shore, from wiii h a boat was sent for the pa peri; and the answer to them is said to be orpl. nsoiit ; hence it is thought the town it afflicted with Tear mother, your brother Joseph, hoth your sisters and your nephews, who sailed in the brigantine Hi'pe, urrivtd at Grand Caiman in a state of starvation. A vessel is going to suii from ibis, to bring hither afeern And fifty other persons, a rn m. er that had eieited public tonsideratiuu. lith February* My esteemed Nephew, My grief* arc loti i’ely isic>-eaßed, and | must tell you whet will SSI your heart vrith affliction. The American sehoofcer Drum* m >nd, on hoard of whi. h were your tender pledges and a great part of the fanlily, wai forced Jo try to p o ure provisions to tho leeward of PortotieiiO ; a. boat went and gave information in that port, in conse* quenee of whi< h a privateer went out and i.aptQred the American schooner. I have seen a Hat of the pri-onerf printed in Car thagena by order of government*—ln the number are included rr.y sister Maria aud her sons, your brothers in law, with all their family, yo*r unfortunate wife, my evez esteemed Fepita, with her two tender in fants, in her ill state of health, having sis lately lain in. 1 fed. dear nephew, how great must be your ; ffl ctinu, as is mine, at this deplorable mh fortune ; to w hieh are ad* ; ded the consequences which the waht of food and other sufiei ings may have produ ced on the tender frame of a woman not well recovered from ihild-lirth. Your mother and b>others are almost tims of their a ifleringg, in ifi brigantina Hope, with many others. I have already briefly told you how we wcrl robbed by eap'ain Mitdiell. 1 will now relate wbaf happened to other vessels of the emigra* tion. Ou board the C'onstk!u(ion, 70 per* sous died of hunger ind thirst no her passage o this island; and on board the Gram! Sultan, a still larger number of emigranti died through the same c use. The sehoo oerT'wo )Y others, alias Union, foundered iu sight of this islaud, but so duddeniy tha l only 17 persons could be saved out of tht great number that were on board. Vh< Utawb