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THE CABINET
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From a Paris paper.
bonaparte.
The son of Napoleon has attained
his sixteenth year; he is now of age
The captive of St. Helena left him bj
his will, along with the memory of a
name which he will not bear, so near
ti< Ics of dress and furniture; the pos
session and use of which will proba
bly not be interdicted him. Tbes
articles arc, at present in the pos
session of M- Marchend, the Empt’
ror’s valet de rhambre, who is abou !
to proceed to Vienna, to deliver them
Into the hands of the Duke of R ich
stadt. Before carrying aw iy thes*
precious objects, which announce th*
state of dencenmeut , in which th' 1
man who once possessed one half th*
world found himself at the moment ot
his death. M. Man hand permitted
some friends to see these veritable
robes, consecrated by glory and mis
fortune. Let us now describe the in
heritanre left by him: who once though!
he should have been able to leave bis
faoiily thrones and nations, and wh
has li q mated to bis son only soun
tatter* and garments—three uniforms—
one of the National Guard, another of
the Foot Grenadiers of the Imperial
Guard, and the third of the Mounted
Chasseurs of the Guard each bearing
the Grand Eagle of the Legi >n ol
Honor; a thread bare black coat made
out cf a surtout wliich the Emperor
sometimes wore when he wished to
quit the Tuilleries incog. (Napoleon
unwilling to be indebted to the Eng
lish for materials to replenish his
wardrobe, bad his old cloths repair
ed and altered, and wore them until
they became tattered;) a carpot of
green cloth with two rows of buttons.
This was the last garment the Empe
ror wore; he had it on the day he w i>
forced to take to his death-bed: an old
hood (chaperon) of a round and shal
low shape, somewhat nirrower at top
than at bottom. \ blue cloak th
collar embroidered with gold, whi< h
Napoleon wore on the field of battle; it
was this cloak also, that covered him
when laid out in state and served as a
pall to his coffin when he was borne to
the foot of the willow tree, the melau
holy shade of whi h he loved s .
much. Apropos —of the bed of st-t
upon whii h the emperor lay, surround
ed by the courtiers of his misfortune,
l-t us mention a fact but little known.
The English garrison marched
through the chamber of death; each
soldier; as he passed before the body
gave the military salute, and the offi
cers took the frozen hand of Buona
parte and pressed it respectfully; a
sergeant who had with him his sou, a
child of seven years of age, koel
down at the foot of the bed
and said, while the tears stood it:
his eyes ‘My sun, there lies
what was Napoleon the Great!
To resume the list —a three-cocked
hat lined w itli green silk and padded;
this, though in a very bad condition,
has something extremely imposing; i !
is impossible nut to imagine when you
regard it, that you see the noble fore
head of the hero under its little cm k
ade, before which all the banners o
Europe were lowered. A grey capot,
the texture of which is so used, tha
one fears to touch it. This article ol
Napoleon's dr* ss is very curious, i
appears the Emperor attached acer
tain degree of importance to its pos
it in fact recalled to him ma
ny an extraordinary circumstance.
Rural Cabinet.
VVarrenton, March 7, 1829.
it’ li id it on When in* q.ii ieu in isl
and of Elba; had traversed Russia
with it: be bad put in on at the battle
if Lutzan, and also wore it at Water
luo. A pair of silver spurs; two sil
ver botil *s to contain water for Na
poleon's use, when he went to hunt;
a silver telescope, wash-hand basin,
and camp dressing case. The cor
dons and jewels of the Orders which
the Emperor wore. Two cases con
taining snuff boxes, upon which were
the portraits of the Princes of Napo
leon'S family, and of those of the
house of B lurbun; amongst the latter
vere the portraits of the Countess of
Provence, of Louis XVI. Marie An
t dnette, and the Dutchess d’Angou
leme. Several of these snuff boxes
had ancient medals set in them—that
which the hero oftenest used bad the
head of Alexander the Great. A
p iiincct box lillcd with candied I quor
ii e, The alarm watch of Frederic
she Great; Napoleon got it at Berlin,
tnd had it always in bis tent when
with the army. A square time piece
(pendule) in gilded bronze, the only
me which was at, Longwood; a singu
lar coincidence gives particular inter
s‘ to this piece of clock work—it
stopped an hour before the death of the
Emperor —though it bad been wound
op a few hours before, and had never
before stopped. It has never gone
since, and at present marks the hour
at which its movement ceased. Some
articles far the toilette tabic, brushes,
&c. Some old broken boots, as Napo
leon was unwilling to wear boots of
English manufacture, some of the
companions of his exile had endeavor
to make others to replace those which
were no I mger fit for the S >vereigns
use. A piece of the blood stained
shirt which w?s around the body of
the Emperor when it was opened. A
locket containing some d-.rk chcsniit
hair beginning to turn gray. Lastly,
the heard and mustaches, which, dur
ing the Emperor‘s last illness, had
grown an inch in length, and which
Mr. Marchand cut off and preserved.
From the New Fork Courier .
Thp substance of the statement made
iy President Adams in the National
Intelligencer of O ’tuber 21, is this—
that the leaders of the Federal party
in Massachusetts had for several
years prior to 1 808, contemplated tl<-
dissolution f the Union, and the es
(ahlishment ol a sep r ile ot a con
federation—that he (Mr. Adams)
knew this from evidence the most in
dubituble, although the charge was
not proveable in a c mrt of law.
On the 26th of last N vember,
Hanson Gray O is, I-trad Th >rndike.
T. H. Perkins, William Prescott,
Sargeant, Juhn L well, Wil
liam Sullivan, Charles J < kson, War
ren Dutton, and Benjamin Pickman,
the most distinguished leaders
of the Eastern F der l.sts at the peri
od alluded to, (1808,) addressed a let
ter to Mr. Adams. Phis letter was
also sigt e<i by H. Cabot, son of the
iate Ge rge Ca *nt, by C. C. Parsons,
son of the late Tbeophilus Parsons,
and by Franklin Dexter son of the
I te Samuel Dexter—guardians of the
n nr of their departed fathers.
In this letter, the gentlemen above
mentioned, in behalf of themselves,
their deceased friends, and the East
ern Federal party, request Mr. Ad
ams to state.
First-—Who are the persons desig
ned as leaders <f the Federal party
ii Massachusetts, in the year 1808,
whose object was, and had been for
several years, a dissolution of the Un
on, and the establishment of a seper
ite confederation; and,
secondly, ihe wh de evidence oil
wlii-'h that charge is founded*
The gentlemen proceed to declare,
in the most solemn manner, that they
have never known or suspected that a
design to desolvc the Union was ever
entertained by the dominant party, in
Massachusetts in the year 1808. or by
any other party; adding that in this
way only can they refute, or even an
swer, the charge, until they see it ful
ly and particularly stated, and know
the evidence on wjiich it is founded.
On the 30th December last Mr. Al
ains replied to the above named gen
tlemen. In bis answer, he refuses to
recognize them as the r* presentatives
of the M issacbusetts Federal party,
because they have not produced their
credentials, nor assigned any good
reasons for appearing without them,
but more palicularly because their in
troduction of that part of the question
is gratuitous! lie says that the
statement in the Intelligencer spoke
not of the Federal party, but of cer
tain leaders of that party and that
he a’ quits the great body of that par
ty of participating and even of believ
ing iri the designs imputed to those
leaders.
Mr. Adams declines furnishing
names and evidence, and supposes a
variety of cases why he is not bound
to do so—that the charge is not prove
able in a court of law-, ami that he
is amenable to laws of the land—that
the correspondence which would
prove the guilt of the persons concern
ed may have been burned—that men’s
memories may have failed them, and
that they may have forgotten that
such correspondence ever existed—
that perhaps none of the gentlemen
who have addressed him on this sub
ject had any thing to do with the ne
furious project—that people may still
be living who harboured ibis design 25
years ago, and who having seen the
error of their ways, would be glad to
wash their memories ch an—and that
some of the conspirators may be dead,
and that their putations might suffer
needlessly by disclosing their names.
Mr. Adams says that a sense of du
ty may, at s >me future day perchance
induce him to disclose the evidence in
his possession—hut that lie shall exer
cise his own judgment as to selecting
that day, and that it may he delayed
rill he himself shall have departed
from life—that no array of numbers
or of power shall draw him into a
premature disclosure, or deter him
from giving the proofs when his own
sense of duty impels him, and that all
joint corresp mdem e between hiirisilf
mi) the gentlemen must cease!
And with this reply, the gentlemen
are left quite as much in darkness as
they were before they a lilressed Mr.
Adams. They have courted a disclo
sure, and stand ready to try the mer
its of the case, but this they cannot do
until Mr. Adams chooses to give them
the opportunity.
Counting of Electoral Votes. —Mr.
Philip P. Barbour moved that the
House proceed, in conjunction with
the Senate to count the electoral votes
for President and Vice President of
(he United States.
The motion being agreed to,
The Speaker , directed the Clprk to
announce to the Senate that in compli
ance with the joint resolution, the
House was ready to receive them for
the purpose of proceeding to the
< minting of the electoral votes.
Mr. Tazewell , the Teller on the
part of the Senate and Messrs. Philip
P. Barbour and Van Renssellaer , the
Tellers appointed by the House, took
their seat at the desk of the Clerk.
The House, in conformity with the
custom of the Senate, remained uncov
ered during the joint session.
The Vice President then proceeded
to open the sealed packages contain
ing the electoral votes of the several
States transmitted in duplicate—one
copy by a special messenger, the oth
er by the mail, from their respective
Governors.
The votes being summed up by the
Tellers, Mr. Tazewell, reported that
the Tellers bad performed the duties
assigned them of counting the votes,
and had directed him to communicate
the result to the chair.
Mr. Tazewell then handed a writ
ten statement of the votes to the Vice
President, who announced the same
from the Chair as follows;
The whole number of Electoral
votes is 261; 131 of which necessary to
constitute a majority. Os these, for
President—
Andrew Jackson received 178
John Q. Adams 83
261
For Vice President
John C. Calhoun, received 171
Richard Rush, 83
William Smith, 7
261
The Vice President then declared
that Andrew Jackson was duly elected
President of the United State, for the
term of four years commencing on the
4th of March, 1829; and that John C.
Calhoun was elected Vice President
for the same period.
This announcement was received in
the gallery with loud plaudits and ac
clamations; when the Vice President
immediately directed the Sergeant at
arms to clear the gallery.
The Hon. C E. Haynes has kindly
furnished us, (as have Messrs. Berri
en, Prince, Gilmer and Wilde, also,
with florutnenis) with the h tters and
information which Congress had cal
led for from the Departments, rela
tive to the boundary between the
(’reeks and Cherokees, in whi< h
Georgia is greatly interested: if the
boundary is, where contended for on
behalf of the Creeks, Georgia has aU
ready atqired by the previous treaties
with that nation, an immediate right
to the occupancy of the land north of
the line claimed by the Cherokees; but
if it be determined that it is where thd
Cherokees claim it is, then the inter
est which Georgia has in said territo
ry is reversionary, because she must
await such disposition of the Chero
kee country, as may hereafter happen.
The letters and extracts c ntained|in
the document, will be published next
week. We think it is evident front
the letter of Gen. Jackson to Mr.
Crawford, (the Sec’y of War) that
he the General, believed, and is posi
tive in stating that the disputed terri
tory is the Creeks.—The General’s
and Mr. Crawford’s letter are some
what at issue. In that of the former
to the latter he states that the treaty
of Washinton, in Mar<li 1816, (by
which particular boundaries are estab
lished, and we believe adverse to what
is the equitable Creek claim, and
thereby that of Georgia) was a diasty
convention—a convention by which
the best portion of the country ceded
by the Creeks, amounting to five mil
lions of acres, has been surrendered*
and with it the security of the lower
country and our frontier. Below the
mouth of Will’s creek on the Coosa*
and Thompson’s on the Tennessee*
the Cherokees never had a claim—a
fact, 1 am persuaded, well known both
to the lndiaoß and their agents.*
Macon Messenger,
No. 40.