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%’A -* rs Yirtf.ti’Oa op-; NtHtrn t* sir. >JUd;*oa- Why/should thu ; • .*! ‘A *n censure on this snores *” e feUr j *ntltis tori thin to conceal v “V c -t,, tVrpp/i iti*o public. notice his pri \:\t ’ t>rrp'*pn* , d nr.*** trch Mr. Jefferson, aY.d are* ccx*ed hi* hostility to Mr. Madison, wvU > * was assured of fe iag brought into 1 ih” ii ‘£ Ttm n? of *tate. If the executive i * i ; w-s to unu-'oate a hi* saece*o t. - •.tv’-o, u>orioulv iueompetent, fti ‘•••:•:’ e i t (, e gre tost political errors, ami t? ■* ■• i dS'isw.'ll f.f the republican party, f: ‘ * j it* *t rh& f elhetitin is a f rce, and the Vo;’ e ‘d- tho people an unThcahint sound. H. *H s lh?'io weighty b)n>'tion to Cal. ?4 •. t/i. on these lii iiti pout<s, there are oV** *of u v >ry serinw > nitur\ Power has ton.dn-led s bn-*in the gams hands that in f?iniisy irist n-v* tho incumheut* of oflfiaa ap- J<e \t ! o he I* n* sight i‘ the fu Uo, mental p'laripUsof reoubliean government. \ y>t.tn o'ojji lal am 1 ! spe eubtio ! mi the •iMhiirsement of offiee,ap j!\rn to 1 e glining ground, that threatens to the pi sin ami wbijlesnme provi a iog of: h© constitution. Ideas of economy r i too ,fsr in fs.shton at Washington; b n'tia ; and funding ays‘ems, give re to iniqritoa* stockjobbing, tha &rt of i.nverging by prmrUentixi patronage, and srafcgiKii* inter oruiuanthationg with Eu ny,” in vogue. Buc*t a state of th\ s g4 seems loudly to demand a change in! C o< e; and this change can neve. bs effYted, so long as the dike is tr f:is:K?U?d froth mne to the other, is t n ---!ar sueumninn. Lxrgb i Unces oV unsettled - teouats remap- unadjusted on the bonks and the *c- -iory ; Co- mei Monroe, himself, ii ii and -r.> I, i btill a delinquent on those b Tcs to a vvy Considerable amount. ().• f . j* Mis * i -ipi* t. will :.*eak m >re tha t b r’~' no. she l vte cotkul v( the U'-i.cO Si .C'H it \lgiers, ro*uroins h tne, and ij.'i ‘tngu isettlfd Aseoun of asm'* thousands ©f dollars, vv.'S nevertheless aopittjfcd nc c-xm'iut of the wi” deport Tse;> , „ The deb* which he ow s the nation i< ago trance •of his to the government n the a ttlrmnt of city afeo-mt, in ,ny mode that nsy mdn-.p as accession of tudueuee to a favorite cond'dits ri.es* are sum* of (he reasons which in- fifiykoor repnnlican of t?’>9 nsopJe to oppose the nomination ofj C.d, Monroe in caucus. They supported! Mr. C'MwtVu*!. be etui se they know him tobej irtdeprodent,vi'tuous.ond ab*o. Had it not, fc-’ in for the die’oitrsging de!iea ( *y of that r-*spe'-ttblp gentlemen, and h’s moreirnmc-’ di it® friends, he would, beyond ali question h-.< * been no a mated fr the president y. it • s v vr.ifi regret we announce oar b'Jkf, that r i ‘. ge-itkatm .viU not consent to be looked; ‘in a* the candidate of wht we conseire to fee a tn;orrty of th ft rcpublirnns. This cau l ! exposition of motive te con-’ fifkntiy submitted to the people. Supreme arbitors if they choose, it is for them to daei Is w'>s:K *.r the eondunt of those oppo sed t Cos?. Vi. tnron bos been inetiga*cd by li'v-vori’ y motives, ssr guided by sound, bon arab-a and eonsiitirional principles; it. is for them to slitermi ie whether they will •lact, as their Gliifti* Magistrate, a peiv n ffoeom n Mid ,v d to only by the casting vote of tin Virgitiio deiigation, after bav in git! that st'tte enjoyed that high ( Biee‘ twenty lour r, it of twenty-eight years, a* gainU whom tii’iy four republican delig'*.tes representing Ivt * miKioos of people, after dcliher iie investigaiion and personal obgcr srotions on toe spot, had such a great and £j.aonoante.blc o ! je ticn. A man reeom- d by the casting votes of eleven Vhi“ !gini;.!u, H int refused to go in,‘o cotisus un til’ mud • certain of success, and then only, win the express defloration, that they dd suppj ’t th?irf.woriU> candidate in op : >s.fk;2, if tkereshuuid be a nv/j ri'y against hir? i. A mm, whose noiTuuaiton was op-’ fMSOiI, not ftn ! y bv several representatives of high respectability, w; c, from principle, did no? go ir.'n . lucus ; but (hn elevated & m3<l and whose virtues and ta louts arc an arm ment to his country, and V*uovitb propriety is ra.iked throughout the nation ss one of the Fat hors of the Ue* HPjMkan P p’ly. It rests with the l"eop!e to h.-itS-*, whether u system of Executive f-vpj.ivsn and patronage, subversive of $h > fumtrin'.cntu! t:d wiudesome priu iplts of r; ptibSi” .n liberty, shall be prolonged ; or \. 5 e<? r, by im’ucht g anew man to cilice, Kioi tr n?;o*ll-d ml -ha.kled n y the rciair er,- of i:je ( uurt, abuses shall be ref *rme<, prodig.v; y aim'dftited, the Constitution bro i back to i a original principles of purity, dis -8 itistV* < tion quieted, >nd the exisienco id the great republican p;rfy pepetu ited. —•;>— 4&o t?a>—•> tat—• Communicated for the Augusta Chronicle. By fT * lato arrival, from England it ap **• r* that the An ♦ scan Convention Ii !l fills received the sanction of the Prince tie gent. Under the monarchical govcruaieat ct threat Britrin, (here is no doubt of the uu *,?sority of purlkineoi to iwteifere ia the ex> ipr it< the treaty making power, where !t touches the revenue of ihe kingdom or op ales apon the parliamentary regulation tt co imw ivl duties. The- P-te esss o'i of (ft&grua kas thud ho waver v/eii set tled Soetnars o?i t’his poiftt \e in the Eiftish government, iu this eountry, under a written constitution, by which the buumfarkc of a 4eligated power were in tended to be a?e*irat“!y dehned, every thing n unset;led and uruenaiu. There are dis- men nfwlnr party in the United Stvites who hold contradictory opinions on this important subject. The dispute be tween the House of Representative* and the Senate, during the last winter was ac ttourmiodated by a committee of conterc.oce: hot i is reports of rhe committee bf tne House of Representatives and .of the Senate hold different I tnguage, and each house appears to have been governed by directly opposite principles, ia agreeing to the proposition submitted f>r their concurrence. The subjoined account of the proceedings of!he Brilkh Fe.riiament will convey* to the p*'on ! e of the United States the impres sion made by the treaty on (he parties **i Great Brit in. The Bill beers a near re semblance to the Rill originally reported to congress fey the CoijnmiU.ee of Foreign Re {ationt.of the House of R •presmtativ >a. It is umiv*cssary to revive this ” i j--et, which ex ited tio little interest while it was >nder disousaioo ; but there tn ,y be persona to whom information on a point of great con stitutional importance may b* sn dissertation upon the increased eom peusition to the tnumbem of ihe National Legis!**-re. A MERFC.AN IN rERCW.TR.3R. nous* of CttniMom, J i iarch 13, —lt was movcl be brought ip respecting the interconrsfe with ti.e United ShUes, a* greei.bly to the resolution lately adopted. 3ir J. Newport tyonid rsot.objeot to the convention, but thought (here wa a com plete ..b&n'io ‘.sQ hit of all that was so much insisted on. particularly as far as regarded i lie pm •>.*t!on of Britilh shipping interest. Mr. Hob *rtson, said it was advisable and pqtiitphle to cement a ?,ood understanding With America. Th-j United State* bad a previous low, enacting that any country that wan'd adopt a System of eq :>.hjeation to ward* her, should be met on the sanj.s prtn o'.ile. It was of tnis, in the present iostais-’v, that w-“ had availed on* *!?;•. Mr. Rose said, that though the former j treaty hid the semblance of fairne §. yet it j threw t'je whole navigation into Amerirfta I ship*; highly iniuutdctorad g cfs were j carried out, and gross produce brought home.—die consider and the present treaty quite fair. Mr. Baring agreed that the afansretn'ent was wise, but objected to the shortness efj its duration, which was limittrd to one or • two years. Upon the whole, tie thought; the was on our side. Mr, For he* asked whether the Amevi. I cana eould have the power of interfering | with our Er.*t.-India trade 1 Mr. Rtberison replied, that if thehon.l gentleman would read the rouventiun, he j would see that though the American* were ! n-.rf prevented front going to the E-ist-In* 1 di is by a circuitous rout, yet they were prevent'd from retnruivg in that manner, i A .bill confirmable to the recolutioa wus ordered (o be brought in, cduvrsxri av of commerce 1 l: li il AMERICA. j The bill introduced into parliament for j carrying into effect the convention of com-.’ merce concluded with the U. States ol A-: proposes to enact? “ That bo higher or other duties shall be j charged r paid, then such as are chnrged and payable upon goods, wares and rocr-; ebandixe, of (he like denomination or de- i seription, being the growth, production or j manufacture of soy of t.ho territories of the \ United Slat*** of Aine ica, and beiog im ported in British built shins or vessels nav igate J end registered according to law. “ And be A further enacted, That upon the exportation frntn the united kingdom,! of any goods, wares or morcbandi&r, the j growth, pioduetion or manufacture of the . suid united kingdom, or any of Us majesty’#; territories ii Europe, direct to absr of the territorii sos the United States of America, an any sldpor vessel built io ahoaaid states, and .-ondfeinued ns prlaa there and being own ‘d and navigated as herein before men tioned, no higher or other duties *imli be p id or payable than such as are charged or imposed upon su it goods, wares or pier ebaodia*, when exported in a British built ship or i essel, navigated and registered ac-, cording >o law. 1 “ Ami bo it further enacted, That upon ti.e exportation from the united kingdom, of i.ny gouiie, wares or merihuudise, the gr wti . p#duction or manufacture of ti e t said united kiuedoui, or any ®fl is ra. j. sty’s territories to Eu ope, in < ny ship or vessel built in the said United Suites of America, or being condemned us prize there, and bs ng owned and navigated as herein before mentioned, tlie same bounty or allowance stuil be paid as at the time of such expor- | tat ion m* y be allowed upon the export - tion thereof, iu any British built ship or vessel, navigated ami registered aezordiug to law.” WANTED, anew crisis iu France-—a rebellion m iroiaad--os’ a treasosabi* cent* tpraejA England. Tn the everff d? none’ ofthese being forth-coming, a lineal des cendant of the pretender wist be ly received at the office of iVfessr*. Vaw & Cos. A well authenticated report of the es-l eape of Bonaparte from 9t. Helena, and of hi* landing iu the ‘south of Frince, will al so meet early attention. The advertisers will upt only reward the bringer of any of the above, bat also contribute every mean* in their power (o facilitate their procure-I c?eut. They are wanted forth with, as with- i out their aid several very respectable staff office; >r, and their aid de-emnps, must go upon hair pay, and ministers will not have the slightest pretealre for the proposed en ormous military establishment in a time of peace. N. B,—Anew expiation in Canada, or eveil in Hanover, would hot he unaeeepta-i hie. xVa earthquake would be of no use,! but an increase of smuggler* on the eoafct of Kent might be made useful at a pinch. Loudon Statesman . NE W- ORLEANS* INUNDATE D. By the f Bowing extracts ct letters just received from correspond'uts at New-Dr-j leans, U will be seen that that patriotic sod important vity is menaced by a terrible e-i vil, besides the immediate loss, infouveu-j ience, and danger attending an mundaian. J ’ Nat iunai Intelligencer. j Njt&-0 CLEANS, Wcy 8. 44 We are all in the utmost consterna tion here, an we are likely to be immediate*j ly inundated. A ‘crevasse,* as the French 1 call it, brok? out in the course of yester day, t M’Cariy’s plantation, about two leagues above New-Orleans, and ou the same side iof the river. The water is a! rcr,dy in the suburbs* at the back ami upper end of the town; and is at the moment I am writing, 10 u’etock in the morning, rising at my door at the rate of two inches and a bul> :;n hour. As not ung of ibis kind has hap pened for the seven years past that I h&v resided c.t New-Orfeaus, >.d as tbs river is now runrh higher than 1h ve ever before kvown it so in seusod, 1 can form no judgihept j>f what may ire the end of it.— | i he poisonous nr.ifemata srisvm-; from the 1 putrefaeti’ oh in the hut part of the season, j jfter the fall of the water, w ill!, it s* to be ! apprehended, produce a plague this sutu rner, instead of the U-UAt yellow fever. 5 * May 9. 44 The greatest distress pervades this j city. Two nights ago a dreadful crevasty | broke in tha Levee, at the plantation of ; Laf.usse and M’Carty, six ro’les above town, | I !< is now 100 yart*s wide, a foruth of the city j ! is inundated, and the water continues ri j j sing. Immense numbers of the poorest in habitants. have been driven from their | | hemes. Boats are now plying in several ofj ! the streets. A large cemetery m the rear) of the town is some feet Under water, at and j the dead arc buried by sinking the coffins • with brinks. The engiueer who is employ* led on the crevasse entertains hopis of stop ping it. If this cannot be effected, as many | seriously apprehend, heir the city miist j remain under water until the river subsides in July. The inhabitants presage a terrs j ble fall, bb the humid putrefaction which j roust accompany the drying of the waters, • will ba the occasion of much unusual skk*j j ness.” j May 11. I | We are concerned tossy that the ap pearance is by do me* ns auspicious* No j progress has yet been made i<i dosing it, | r.d at, least one day more must elapse be j fore even the preparations ar completed- I In the moan time a vast torrent rushes through, increasing the inundation of the country both above and below. The green between the city end Luxtourg St. Mary, is overflowed a* tar as Chartres street, ex hibiting as you look from Lviae to i wards the swamp, the likeness of a lake r A considerable portion of Bourgogne and Dauphin© streets is under water, which has also advanced info the upper pari of Bourbon street. r ihe Bajoii rood and (he rear of Mari guy’s fauxbourg are also over flowed. Without a wish to excite unplea sant reflections, or presuming to advance on opinion as to the practicabiliiy of final, j ly stopping the crevasse by artifii jal means, we do say before it can be effected, an in calculable degree of demage will be sus tained by the city and neighbouring eoun- I “J- _ Extract of a letter from a respectable mer chant in New-Orleans, td another in Hal timore, dated May 42. 44 A considerable part of our city and suburbs is now r under water, owing to the breaking of a part of the levee, about-six miles above the city. Fortunately the o veifh.w has found its level, and is now go ing with great rapidity into Lake Fora* ! ch&rtrain ; of course the rise of the water in town has ceased.” The warfare between iJ,e Royalists and Revolutionists of Spanish America, contin u*m io bj carri don wrh various success, & under circumstances at which humanity re volts 1 fifteen hundred persons; without d.s Rttfliriri of ft*C<>• *<% the s*? vengeful spirit of ‘ hi) Roy at a ph=*e ealbed Zimitii. This preyoked retaliation on the of li e Patriots, and blond w i made to flow for Id rod. Mn,L£pG&viLLF., ’*rie 42, 48HJ. INTERESTING. Extract of a letter from an intelligent f e.ntleman , to the Editors of this paper 0 ated ‘ Fou? Stoddert, (M. TANARUS.) lith May, iSli, ‘ 4 I have jnst haard of the safety of Mr, Lav/son one oft% sarveyors who was sttp poaed to have been cut otfby a party of thn hostileg. He passed. antmd-uKd, . hntifrk considers himself for Innate y t.fee Indiana were frequently near him, nd often di charged their rifles, flee. I doubt net they ! will commit depredation at a period not vev# far distant, notwithstanding every pul>f;*. exertion is made, and will ne enforced. t suppress tin ir present opposition to th* pinion of the survey. The murder? sos Johnston and M’Grilkey have not been die “overed, but such steps are ordered to ken as will doubtless ensure their apptfehen-. | sin*. Reconnoitring parties will seek pt a rt, with instructions to treat as enemies, e* very party of lueiens fouiwl on the- ecdol territory, after allowing those who are eat proyid and for by th? treaty of Fort Jekso% ■bet still remain vrhiajheU. States* lioi;t<% a reasnnafeh) time tn remove. For she mo* mebt (’ is will create rum motion, hot tbe,t is soffi i.nt force to crush aay tribe. ffhouM the murdereis of J ihiH'no and h&vo taken refuge in •Pensacola* they will be forenalfy deaiandt-d: nd if i 4 el’os”d J t hope the guveromeet up? take adefe steps as to have theito for ’ir oming; “ rhe eornuaislonei's br.va as frr ft# pra#- j?alie, completed, the .lrtati*l?.fv Fine t veen the U Slates - n>l the Creck Nation. I‘he geverpmeut w i?l feaw? to treat w ithth* Ohok-taws, Cf.e-ro-kee*,’ & Ghit-k-'v -saws* b *fore anything more can ba dmte; thosri vribes object to the leaps as defined by ih re ity of Fort Jackson. Tha.x e dou- ere this, seen t?ie treaty as coadudud with the deputation of tits Chy-ro-kees, an’j ot <o the rutification of tlie nation—-there is no doubt of its being iam tiotted. Comparing those limits or boundaries with the treaty of Fort-Ja ‘ksor, we loss as imeaeuse valu b?e tract of country. There will be a strong work erricted on the Escambis, ueac the lint of dc.markation with Spain, wfeelt it is to be hoped will prevent thepresazA intercourse with our red brethren* 51 IfT’Tbe Conimunic&tioo which disclosing an ac*; of villiany almost ineredi* ble, wa ? fSirrisi ed by an intelligent genii#* man of undoubted veracity. Mesars. Grant lands, 1 trauaroif tn you, for p!ilierinn,thefblr lowing statement of fai ls, which I fcav* from arquesii tnable emfnrity, in order that, those who violate the lavs, ard tramp!* upon the rights of hospitality, may h brought to condign punishment. Twu persons armed,! y the names of—n Stbho end John Castelow were on ifeei? way, parsing through the county of Jgp.?? a oh the 23 h ultimo, enquiring for the road lending into the Cherokee Nation,having i* their custody 9 Spaniards, in Sailors dress, whom they say it 1* their interitkn to seli to tre Cherok es Go. enquiry, theyeay, | th**y purchased them ia Teif ir eaunty, that one of die twa paid part doxvn eusl gave his note for the balance of the eoosid* eraficn money, to which the other is a wit ness. But the unfortunate persons in cus tody, intiin ite.in term* hardly not being ah Into speak English, that they* are from Europe, and being strangers in Pensacola where they landed, v/ere decoydl by two Americans out, of town by fair pro-* mises ; and having got them in their pow** er ; confined them in sueh a manner as tw render resistance useless. In this mandt!r c it appears, they have been driving thesis mm on foot (Hiey oa horse-back c.nd weii Him;d) through the rour.try.—A country too, boasting of liberties, and of the saereSl rigb?9 of hospitality 1 There is nothing in the appearance eff these Spanish ptisoners that indicates t.ny mixture of African blood in their vrius 5 . to suffer ft r igners unaequaiiitcd with ouu language, customs nr.d manners, w bom inis fortune has driven upon our coast, to b* treated with such ini GroanEy, and thus* who are the authors of such brutality, cape with impunity, would be a riff etiaK, upon the goverimicjU, and a slar npon th American character. It is hoped that prompt measures will bar taken to release the unfortunate men and <w punish the offenders, who, in passing thr# the country, tako unusual pains to avoid tenliun and elude (ho oiheors of justice. Bird, at the Ur*ek Agency on the Ctk iost. Col BENJAMIN HAWKINS, Ageui for lisdion Aff'iiri. lie was one ofthos* Rovolq*.ionary pairiots who h> and spent in the service of bis country, to which no tain wftri mo e devoted, nearly his whole life, At au udvaneed age, with a constitulioa great ly exhausted, he Continued tu discharge with uimlos nish and zeal the tmpo.gtui and perpkxtug duties of Aftfcciji as weU $&.