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_iiV. Herrirn to 'dr. Muir.
Washington, XiOt! July, 1831.
n: Your note ot‘yesterday, was received
i> r circumstances which prevented my im
'iate attention to it. I reply to it now, to
<*t the misapprehension into which you
' been led, ami winch, by the publicity
*a yo Ili .vo given to it, id calculated to
lead the public.
i < xtruct tram your note the following sen
te :
vTy solo object Yvas at one?, to clear the
the President from a charge, which
arc well aware ought to be attached to
.; for you have, as ( understand, explicitly
; ;red, that lie disclaimed to you, at the
wheat jim were in communication with
• Johnson, any design like thui now iuipu
o him.”
1 make this quotation for the purpose of
■ ngto you, that you have been entirely
iformed—that the statement contained in
■extract is not warranted by any deciara
i ever made bv [m j; and st.ll assuming it
•>c your wish to represent tins matter truly
he public, I am under the necessity of ask
yon to give publicity to this note.
1 am, very respectfully,
Sir, votir obed’t sorv’f,
JN. M YCPIIERs' >N BE HR I EX.
V.ANois P. Br. v:n, Es j.
Editor <>f the Globe.
dir. Blur to Mr. Berrien.
Washington, July 20, 1831.
cur note of this morning will be given
1 -diatcrly t:> TtlC prCSS. lit nf- lOllCe to
subject ol which it treats, yon do me but
■■e when you say tint U 1 wish to ref-re
this matter truly to the public .” You
• permit me, therefore, briefly to show the
i ol on which I felt myself authorized to
that “you were well aware,' 1 ' that the
ge implicating tho President, ought not
■* attached to him, and (hat you had your*
explicitly declared that he disclaimed the
ose imputed to him.
t> tb first branch of this statement,
h you do not seem directly to controvert,
IVO to support me the positive written dec
eu ot Col. Johnson, in which he says
"- 1 ‘ President ultrays disclaimed such a
‘‘ cfion, and that he told you so. lie sides
, I have before me, in the hand writing of
'resident, trid identical paper, which he
toyourself, and Messrs. Branch and lug
, and which pres etted the attitude tint he
grit it his duty to assume in relation to
‘•.rctimsfances which affected the lianno
•<! character of his Cabinet. The course
it he thought proper then to adopt, was
■ • gated on information given him by sev
iiienibers of Congress, shewing that a
mabon had been entered into, in which
-cli and the other gentlem. tt named
concerned, to disgrace Ma jor Baton, and
'--b h.s diipnission from the Cabinet. Af
er Tutory verbal explmotion of the rea
• inducing the interview, the President
ded to sayi, that if it v. < re true that you
ikon the course of which he spoke, he
trnseJf called on to make the declaration
i he read .) yeti from his written titeino
.r, in which he says that it was, using
r words, “Not only unjust in itself, but
disrespectful to me” (the President)
' .'eil calculate;! to destroy the harmony
y Cabinet. The wounds ytport which
opinion is founded, arc substantially l
1 do not claim the right to interfere, !
meaner, in the domestic relations or
•mi/ intercourse of any member of mi/
net, nor have 1 in any manner attempted
ci-. &C.
the conclusion of the same paper, after
titillating the circumstances to which he
:d to c-; l your attention, he says, as the
r of the matte r, “Therefore have l sought
id mine, to assure you if there is any
in the report lint you have entered into
e.ibinati jn charged, to drier Major £lu
.o:n my Cabinet , that IJ eel an indignity
insult ottered to myself, and is of a char
■/ha! will be considered of.”
•s is tite ground on which this matter
'ace I by the President in his interview
bu in the beginning of the difficulties,
rotn it, and the absolute asseveration of
. Johnson, I consider my statement, that
. v ro well aware that the President dis
• and all right to interfere and dictate the
I intercourse of the family of any tnern
■ i the Cabinet, to be well warranted.
cat lam also warranted in having said
on. yourself, had declared that the I’ros
disclai.ned to you any disposition of the
will appear from the extract which i
from the letter of your own, now before
After recapitulating a conversation of
own, held with Col. Johnson, (the tenor
.ich you inform me is to be adjusted be
lt you and him,) you make this single rc
in relation to the President:
: the interview to which I was invited by
resident, some few days afterwards, 1
dy crposed to him my views on this sub
end he disclaimed any disposition to press
i requisition .”
• this you have allusion to the written dec
on read to you by the President, which
near no other interpretation than that
'i you have given it in this extract,
i both the points presented by me, in the
.- I quoted in your last note, I fed myself
sustained by the documentary evidence,
■ i I now lav before you ; and 1 trust you
.Iso coe-idcr itas fully vindicating the
merit which I have made. .Having thus
fied myself,you will permit me to conclude
irrcspondenco w ith you.
I am, Sir, your obedint servant,
F. B. BLAIR.
Mr. Berrien to Mr. Blair.
Washington, 20th July, 1831.
lave this moment received your note, in
<e.t to mine of this date. 1 make no apol
.or continuing tins correspondence, al
. t. h you intimate a wish to conclude it,
'use it will be readily understood, that it
i your charncti r ;as a public journalist,
.iotas an individual, that 1 address you.
rciso a tlierefore, which, as the
iiitcr e* a public journal, you can with no
THE MACON ADVERTISER, AM) AGRfCLETtIiAL AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
propriety witnhuld, when I claim the iuser
! lion of this note in the same paper which con
veys your own communication to the public.
I 1 repeat the quotation from your note ol
yesterday:— ' „
“My sole object was at once to clear the
skirts ot the President of a charge, which you
tire we ll aware ought, not to be attached to
him; for you have,as 1 understand, declared
that he disclaimed to you, at lltc time when
you were in communication with Col. John
son, any design like that now imputed to
j him.”
The first remark which f have to make
j upon this quotation, witn reference to your
obsi nation, that I do not seem to controvert
tire first'branch of this statement, is the fol
lowing :
Your assertion that / was well aware, that
the charge against the President, to which
you referred, ought not to be attached to him,
was wade vwpress!y to rest upon your under
standing, that I had explicitly declared, that
h-“ (the Pk siilcnt) disclaimed to me, any such
’(■sign. YY hen, therefore, 1 told you, that
such a statement was not warranted by any
declaration ever in .de by me—and of course
that yottr understanding was not correct, I
gave you a very broad denial of my having
any such knowledge as that which "you had
iiiipuf‘ (l to me. In more distinct terms, how
ever, (il that he possible,) I now renew that
declaration. I have no such knowledge —
Nay more, Sir; I have no knowledge of the
papir, “in the hand writingof the President,”
to which you refer. No such paper was ever
read to me, or shown to me, or spoken of to
me. It it had been, I should most certainly
not now In; vc had occasion to address myself
to the public on this subject, through tiie col
umns of your paper.
1 laving thus disposed of the paper to which
von refer, and shewn that this can furnish no
ground for yottr understanding of what J was,
or was no! aware of, since I never saw it, and
its contents were never communicated tome.
I advert next to your suggestion, that this un
derstanding ig warranted by Col. Johnson’s
positive asseveration. Upon this subject,
I have already told the public, through you,
that (consider myself bound by the implied
understanding n suiting from my correspond
ence with that gentleman, not to publish any
statement of the conversation which occurred
between him, Messrs. Branch and Ingham
and mysel, until lie shall have a reasona
able time to r. ply to my letter. ] told you,
at the same tunc, that any departure from this
understanding, which was authorized by that
gentleman, would absolve me from its obliga
tion. 1 still adhere to Ibis view, and content
myself at present, with repeating, in refer
ence to that of which you suppose me to be
well aware, that I hare no such knowledge.
The time must speedily arrive when this for
bearance will be no longer necessary.
Your next reference is to a letter of mine
to Maj. Eaton which you say is in your pos
session. As you have published an cjrtract,
you are bound to give the correspondence—
even before that is done, it is very easy to see
that you have entirely misunderstood the ex
prc.-lion which you have quoted—that a dis
claimer ol an ■ itention lo press a requisition,
is a wholly different thing, from denial of ever
having made if—and that in using this expres
sion, 1 could not have had allusion to“ a writ
ten declaration,” which 1 had never .seen or
heard of. |
You will perceive then, Sir, that you are >
wholly unsustained in all the points of your
statement, except by a declaration which you I
uvhnit that you have used without authority, |
‘and which will lie met if it becomes ncccs- ]
sary. Asa faithful journalist, you will, ot i
course, seize the occasion to correct your i
error; you can, no doubt, do this, in relation j
to the paper on which you have placed so j
much reliance, by a direct appeal to the Ikes- i
ident, who will not, l think, authorize* tin *
statement, that that paper was ever shown to \
me. However this may be, I bear this testi
mony to the truth. Neither invitingcontro- !
versy, nor seeking political effect, I find my- 1
self in a position, in which I must either speak, j
or silently permit the public to be misled. 1
have a sufficient sense of what is due to them,!
not to intrude myself uncalled upon their:
notice—and the consciousness of what I owe j
to myself, will not permit me to shrink from j
the performance of my dirty,
i am, very respectfully,
Sir, your obedient servant,
JN. A1 ACPIIERSON BERRIEN.
To Francis I\ Blair, Esu.
Editor of the Globe.
Mr. Blair to Mr. Berrien.
Washington, July 21, 1831.
Sin: Y our last letter was received late at
night, when the Globe was made up for the
press. To give it insertion with theoorres
pondcnce which preceded it, rendered it ne
cessary that I should defer tlie whole until this
day, and substitute other matter, previously
set up, for my paper.
Y\ ithout adverting to the special pleading
of your letter, (in which; being no lawyer, I
t.ivc no A ill,) 1 come at once to the point.
You t ike issue again with me, by declaring
“ that no such paper as that quoted by me
was ever read to [you j or shown to you or
spoken ol to you.” And you further sav,!
that the President “ will not, you think, an-!
thorize the statement that that paper was ever !
shown to [you.”] J
YVlien tlio statclnent which I made, predi-:
j e.afed upon t 01. Johnson s letter, was im
peached in your second note, 1 made the ap
peal to tire President which you seem to think
I ought now to make. He immediately put
into my hands the original memorandum which
he wrote and which he read to Messrs. Branch,
Ingham, and yourself; and I am now expressly
authorized to state again, that in the interview
referred to in my note and in your own letter, |
quoted therein, lie held in his hand and rend •
to you the paper from which I have given the I
extracts, which you say was never read, shewn ’
or spoken of to you. And lain authorized!
further to say, that if you will call on the
President, he will again exhibit and read to
you this original document. It nuts prepared
by him in contemplation that the interview
might lead to an immediate dissolution ol the
Cabinet, amt it was intended by him to record
'he basis he assumed in doing an act which
involved his own character and the inter* sts
! Die country. The [mperthus premrm! bv
, the President, was communicated at the time
to several of his friends, whom he consulted
on the occasion. And flic substance of fin
conversation which preceded and followed
the communication, wax also imm-diatf 1/ re
duced to writing, and Connected with the
document read to you, that nothing might be
left to recollection, if circumstances at a re
mote period should make a reference to it
necessary. With regard to a transaction so
recorded, and vouched by the concurrent tes
tituony of those consulted on the occasion,
there cun he no mistake. —A man’s memory
may be treacherous when the man himself is
honest. lam willing to believe this is your
case. You have innocently forgotten the
| declaration made by the President, which
I stands authenticated, as I have told you, as
well as.the communication of the same pur
port made to you by Col. Johnson.
I am obliged to rely on this written record
of a fact rather than on your memory, espe
cially when 1 find this positive proof confirm
ing the statement of Col. Johnson, that the
President disclaimed any right or desire to
interfere with the private associations of your
> self or your family, and that you knew it.
I next quoted your own written admission,
confirming the statement of Col. Johnson and
the written record of the President, in the
following words—“ In the interview to which
I was invited by the President some ftw days
afterwards, (after Col. Johnson’s visit,) I
frankly expressed to him my views on the
subject, and he disclaimed any disposition to
press such a requisition.”
You say that “a disclaimer of an intention
to press such a requisition, is a wholly dif-
Terer.t thing from denial of ever having
made il.”
1 thought not, in this case; because no such
requisition had been made. Col. Johnson
says, the President disclaimed to him any de
sire to control your domestic affairs, or pri
vate intercourse, and he told you so. The
record of what the President said to you, de
clares, that he claimed no right to interfere
“in the domestic relations or personal inter
course of any member of his Cabinet;” and,
in allusion to the same conversation, you say,
lie any disposition to press such
a requisition.” When no such requisition
had been made by Col. Johnson; when he
told you the President made none ; and w hen
you do not pretend he made any , either di
rectly or indirectly, I could not but under-'
stand your declaration, that “ he disclaimed
any disposition to press such a requisition,”
as a declaration that lie made no such re
quisition.
Cut I find, in the character you have always
sustained before the public, other conclusive
proof, that no such requisition was ever made
of you, and that you km w it. Ifthe President
had signified to you, directly or indirectly,'
that lie required you to compel your family io
associate with any one, contrary to their will
and yours, you would r.ot, as a man of honor,
have waited for an invitation to resign. You
would have thrown your commission in the
face of the President, -and said to him, “Sir, 1 ,
am no longer adv iser or associate with a man '
who requires me to disgrace myself* and fami
ly, though he be the President of the United j
States!” In your pubii-* character I had a I
gurantcc that you would no*, for the sake or”
your honor, salary amt emelurnents, as Attor-;
ney General, Aik yattr character as a man.!
by tamely listening to such a -requisition.—
No, sir ; it is impossible to believe tiiat. von ■
could have listen. ;l to such a requisition ;;
dismissed your self respect; forgot your south- j
era honor; and humbly bowed in seeming!
reverence to the man who had insulted you,
until politely invited to resign ! It is impos- j
sildc that you could bury such an insult, pro- !
less to be the friend of the President, make !
th<“ speech that you did recently in Georgia, j
and now that you are out of office, disclose a i
fact which would sea! your own shame- No, j
sir; no such proposition was ever mode to
you; you had no cause to complain of the j
President; you eulogized him in public and j
private ; tied you would have gladly acted as j
Attorney General to the end of his adminis-j
tration, had you not been invited to resign.
But. the circumstances under w hich the j
haTmony of tire late Cabinet was restored, to- .
pel the inference, which you will have it, in I
your hist note, that the extract from your let- ;
tor to Major Eaton, leaves open in the ambi-j
guity of its expression. From the moment j
that you denied to the President any partici-!
patron in the political combination to drive!
Major Eaton from the Cabinet, the usual
courtesies were renewed among its members
without any association between their re
spective families. Maj. Eaton would have been
as reluctant to receive visiters, driven into his |
doors by the power of the President, as they
could possibly have been to submit to such
tyranny and* degradation. Ilis house was
thronged by those who were among the most
respeetaldo people of the city—by the most;
honorable families visiting annually there,!
and by those from abroad, most distinguished
by station. To the gayety and respectability
of parties tints attended, the appearance of
; persons constrained by the authority of.the
Executive, if it could have been exerted for
j such purpose, would have added nothing.—
| It could have served no purpose to have ex
acted such a requisition as that now imputed,
Ity the injury of the Present. To have forc
ed the wife of the Secmarv of YY'ar, upon
tiiat portion of society which was unwilling
to receive her, could have added nothing to
her reputation. It is ridiculous to impute
to the failure of such a design, the dissolution
of the late Cabinet. You, I think* must know
that this step was the result of the diversity
of political views, which attached the tiro
parlies in the Cabinet to different divisions'
of the new parties which became apparent in
tiie dissention between the President and 1
Y rce President. This produced, in the then
state of the Cabinet, combinations in Con
gress, calculated to defeat the most salutary
measures of the administration. In the op
position which showed itself with regard to
the Turkish negoci at ion, the members of the
I Cabinet favorable to the new born opposition,
j were expressly exempted in the denunciations
, of those members of the Senate, who then
| came out and disclosed, for the first time,
j their hostility to the President and a part of
liis Cabinet. That a wish to bring Major
E ;tou and in i'ui.iiU into .-a -!-i\ V had no '
influence in producing the dissolution of the j
Cabinet, is apparent from the fact*that it ope
rated to consign them and him to privacy.—
Tiie want of the harmony i ssentini to the pub
lic welfare, hoivev; r originated, was preg-•
nant with political effects and produced thh
result.
You require me to correct the error of my j
declaration, predicated on the information
ivhioli Col. Johnson communicated to me, j
upon the ground that I have no authority to j
use Ihe evidence which establishes the fact.
The testimony which l have in my possession,
under Col. Johnson’s hand, satisfies me thor
oughly of the truth of the assertion 1 have
made, and therefore, 1 will not admit it to be
an error. Your exception to the use I have
made of his testimony, may he applicable as
a censure upon iny course. But I consider,
that circumstances fully justify tiiat course,
and I am only responsible to Col. Job toon
for m?conduct in lelation to his letter.—
Your objection to the authority under which
1 have acted as to Col. Johnson's evidence,
does not, in the least, change the nature of
that evidence. It is as convincing as it could
he under full authority to use it, and probably
more so than evidence purposely prepared
for the public eye.
Y on seem to think that I am bound to pub
lish, on my own account, the correspondence
between Major Eaton and yourself, because
I have used a paragraph having exclusive re
ferrcnce to the President. Ido not think so.
I will have nothing to do with the controver
sy between Major Eaton and yourself. You
have a right to bring that subject before the
public in any way you please, and on your
own responsibility. I will not hesitate to
print it, or any qmrt you may choose to embo
dy, in the discussion with ine.
I closed my last note to you, by an intima
tion that it would conclude our correspond
ence. 1 did so because the issue between ns
depended altogether upon the variety of the
statements I had made, contradicting asser
tions in the Telegraph, for wli.Yph 1 did not
know that you were responsible. When you
volunteered to question my staten vents, I laid
before you frankly the ground on which I act
ed; and then, in a second letter, brought to
your view tiie proof on which, as lo myself, 1
was willing to rest Ihe issue. But at you seem
inclined to make, through inc, an ait kick on
the President, and to use the correspondence
on which you entered (certainly without be
ing called for by any thing I said, as to your
self,) as the medium of bringing on a t e leral
discussion of the question of the dissolution
of the late Cabinet, J shall certainly sac,ri fice
my inclination to w hat you consider tny chi'w.
My reluctance to continue the correspond
ence with you, proceeds from no want of r
sped to you. But 1 believe the public is sic k
of the subject.; is satisfied with the dissolu
tion of the old Cabinet, and the formation of
the new one ; and this induced the iuclirsa
tion I have evinced, to spare tiie country tl*o
disgust of the dissection of a subject, whicl j
it seems willing to bury. At all events, the !
progress we have made will be sufficient for i
one lecture. If you think fit, we will resume !
it again.
Yours <ke. ,
F. P. BLAIR, f
|
FIVE DAYS LATER—IMPORTANT, j
By the packet ship Sylvanus Jenkins, Capt.!
Allen, we have received London papers io |
June Bth, and Liverpool to the 9th, both in-j
elusive. The news from Poland is painfully
interesting. A great battle has been fought,
but without any decisive result.
From the Dublin Evening Post.
Famine in the County of Mayo There
are not fewer than 150,000 men, women, and
children, in a state of actual starvation in the
county of Mayo. This, we beg leave to say,
is no exaggerated statement. A census has
been taken of the parishes and townlands
by competent and trustworthy persons, who
cun repose on oath, if necessary, to the accu
racy of the returns. \Y T e have seen the fright
ful list in the hands of a gentleman, himself
a landed proprietor, and one of the most ac.
tive and intelligent of the deputation nowin
Dublin,Sir Francis Blossc. There is, there
fore, no exaggeration. Famine, in the hor
rible and strict sense of the term, is devour
ing in a part of one county alone, a popula
tion of 150,000 human creatures.
From the Journal du Commerce, June \th.
“ YY’e have just seen a letter from St Gall of
the 26th of May, from which wc make the
following extract :—“Y'ou will be as much
surprised as we are, to hear that whilst Swit
zerland is disarming, all the villages on the
extreme frontier have received Austrian Gar
risons, and yet, at no time during peace have
they been known to be occupied by a single
soldier. If it be considered that there is no
passage into Italy from that part of the fron
tiers, this movement of American troops may
be a cause of rejection for our statesmen as
well as those Of France.
Paris, June s.— The Gazette of Tlitirgovia
positively confirms the news which we have
given of the approach of the Austrian troops,
to the frontiers of Switzerland; the tenth
part of these troops have arrived with carbine*
This news, adds the paper above quoted, dc
; serves all the attention of tire Federal Authori
ties.
A letter from Colmar, of June, contains the
following particulars—“ All the roads in the
Austrian States are crowded with troops. An
army of 60 or 80,000 men is forming on the
frontiers of Bavaria, and Lindau is full of
l soldiers. The emperor has summoned to
i arms the population of that part of Hungary
which adjoins Turkey.”
harp fighting i?r rotANn.
Warsaw, May 24.—The State Gazette
contains despatches from General Skrzynecki,
dated Dlugesiodlo, May 17, give an account
of several advantages obtained over the Rus
sians. The same paper contains a variety ol
ot In r articles, which, though not vested with
an! official character, are known to be substaq.
, Rally correct. According to those statements
j the Russian army is retreating in every di
; rection before our gallant troops, and in a few
days we look forward to hear tiiat not one
Russian soldier remains within the kingdom,
t-’.ffrolciika, Lonvn, Nur, Ciecffpinawiec, and
clawiski, arc known to have already been
iYoed from the presence of the enemy. Die
bit.vh has crossed tin: Bug at Granna, and
the guards are retreating towards Bialysiock.
Baggage, arms,and ?- rcs of every kind, to an
immense amount, an 1 a military chest con
taining 4 ; M),(KK) rtthlv.s, have fallen into our
hands. One ot' our papers contains to-dav,
in a postscript, the intelligence'that Tykocin
was taken ,y storm by our troops, on the
evening of the 21st, after an obstinate battle,
in which the Colonel l.ungerman dist inguish
ed himself. The cholera is losing much'of
its violence. On the 21st instant, the num
ber of patients was 107, of whom five died :
on the 2'2d, the number was 106, of whom
I four died.
May 23.—An official account of General
; Skrzvnccki’s operations, down to the takingqf
, Tykocin, lias been published. On the even
j ing of the 21st, our troops entered the latter
: place at. the point of the bayonet, and dis
persed the grenadiers of the Russian guard,
j who attempted to defend a dyke which passed
j behind the city through the marshes of the
; Narcw. On the same day our troops encaun
j tered, between CicchanoWße and Surnz.sev
i oral detachments.of Marshal Br.Jiitsch’s corps
! which were endeavouring to form n junction
j with the guards at Biaiystock. A Itrusian
corps of 1,000 men, under Sackon, has been
j cut off, and is now retreating into the palati
nate of Augustowo, closely pursued by Gen.
Sierakowski. From the palatinate of Pod
lachia the Russians are rapidly retreating.
On the 23d, Gen. Utninski occupied Siedlec,
and a part of his cavalry pursuing the enemy
upon the road to Miendzyrzecz. Immedi
ately after Diebitsch had crossed the Bug, he
, turned his whole force against Gen. Lubinski’s
corps, which consisted only of a few thousand
men, and having succeeded in surrounding
ottr brave countrymen, he summoned them to
surrender.
lie immediately threw himself on the
column nearest to him, which he completely
, routed, and succor ded in re-establishing his
j communication with the main army. The
particulars ot this affair are not given in Gen
eral Skrzynecki’s report. In the palatinate
of Lublin, General Rudiger has retreated be
hind the Bug, either with a view to maintain
his communications with Diebitsch, or in
consequence of his rear being threatened by
the insurgents. ()n the subject of the insur
rection in Y olhynia, Podolia, and the Ukraine,
numerous reports are in circulation, but the
i Government are cautious of publishing such
j facts as they are in possession of, lest the'safety
, <>f individuals might be compromised by their
j indiscretion. Gen. Dwernicki is no longer in
Gullacia. The Austrians have sent him to
Presburg, and his officers are all to he placed l
i i'l confinement at Olmiitz. Our light cavalry
i has advanced some worsts beyond Tykocin ;
but no account has been received of the oc
cupation ol Biaiystock by our troops.
llambfrgh, June 3.
“The Prussian State Gazette of the 2d in
stant contains the following:
“From the Polislt frontier, May 29.
“Accounts from the theatre of war state,
tb;it the Polish Commandor-in-Chiefwas at
b <-j;cd by Marshal Diebitsch on the 26tli inst.
at i >strolenka, when a sanguinary battle en
sued, j:i which the Rnssiitn army was victori
ous. Ostrolenka was taken by storm by the
Hit ims wish astounding bravery. The di
vision oi the Polish General Gielgud, which I
was siationed at Lomza, has been cut off bv j
the mo vements and successes of the Russian |
army. The Poles acknowledge their own!
loss in killed and wounded to amount to 4,
000 men. Among the killed are Generals
Kioki and Caminski and a number of staff!
officers. The head-quarters of the Polish
Cornmarider-in-Chicf were on the 27th aouin 1
at Pultusk.
“Warsaw, May 26.—“A relation of the ;
most recent operations, published to-day, says
J ho chic f object of the movement of our
army towards Tykocin and Lomza was to en
able a corps under the command of Gen. Clila
powski to reach Lithuania, in order to afford
assistance to the insurgents in that province.
This point having been attained, as the Com
mander-in-Chief found it impossible to induce
the Russian Guards to give battle, and as the
junction of Marshal Diebitsch with the Guards
would give a combined force far superior to
his own, he determined to return to his for
mer position, while Gen. Gielgud, who it was
intended should enter the northern part of
Lithuania, began his march upon Lomza.
Marshal Diebitsch in the mean time having
effected his junction with the Guards deter
mined to cut our army off from Warsaw.—
The gallant resistance of the 2d corps, under
Gen. Lubienski, which forced its way at the
point of the bayonet through a force thrice its
own strength,enabled Gen. Skrzynecki to pur
sue his march. On the 25th the Guards at
tacked Gen. Lubienski, whose corps formed
our rear, at the same time that Diebitsch ivas
advancing in the direction of Czyzew. Our
army was already on the right bank of the
Narew, and the rear only remained on the op
posite bank. On the 26th the attack was re
newed, commanded by Marshal Diebitsch in
person. The Polish General drew near to
< Ltrnlenka, and the enemy’s march was arres
ted by the fire which the howitzers had kin
,ol ln *' ie town * Gen. Lubienski crossed
the Narew, and burnt, the bridge- but not so
effectually as to prevent it being quickly re
stored. Accordingly, Gen Schakoffsk!o,sm>.
ported by the tremendous artillery, succeeded
m crossing the river. A most violent cop*-
bat ensued. The enemy vainly endeavoured
to convey large masses to the rHit b- n f
r'fh"'*""'" IIki “ 3 " , ''" molt wii.
icv.!™i hotels wbbw o' 1, a,,,!
tore” ttis "S Z'Z
other side ot the river, and who on his part
was also striving t 0 effect his purpose. P
ch ‘ t ' l P ol "t of contention was the
•tlomr ihT il ? ngt j evak< l dike which passes
along the marshy shore of the Narew ; and
ffive'th'T nV !l ° £ ro " nd >contributed much to
” v ,7° I>aUle a sanguinary character. They
oug it man to man, and thousands were kill
ed by being thrownover the dike. The R U r.
sum troops displayed a degree ofcourage and
resolution far superior to ivhat they had shown
m j'v.f"dn>£' part of .
unusual heat increased the labor of the i
Toe ID* i ms threw away their knapsactf*'*
he more at their ease. At 1. ngth, to*..,
cv.-.img, fatigued by their exertiong, J
a .le to overcome the resistance ofourira'l- .
troops, the enemy withdrew to tlm ] of 7 7
ofth river, and [we?j remained'in po !!*
sio.i Of the. field of battle, upon whUV’
Commandor-in-Chief, passed the night, h,
der u. provide for the relief of the w 0 lr( ]cl'
io have recommenced the battle would 7/
tended to no result as General Gielm.,l if?
77' qooii; uv „7 “
the ( ominaruler-tn-Chief therefore, rcsnlvfj
• ">*•• over Roza,, a, P u |,S 4 -"sg
inarch was effected in perfect ordt-r, ard with
out being in any way disturbed bv the nn
my, wire, it appears, had suffered too ro V ,7'
ly to follow us. To estimate the la.-s of bifl"
sides is as yet impossible. On our side fJ r
3,003 to 4,009 men are hors de combat Zi p
appears certain that though the Command
in-Chief, with his usual caution, avoid? niff
lusion to the loss of the enemy, it must he -
least double ours.
“Four regiments, one of thorn the Guard,
that first attempted to pass .the river, \ v -
cut to pieces. YY'e lost neither artillery b -
gage, nor provisions ; a few stragglers' akl
can have fallen into the enemy’s hands <]>ir.
ing the retreat. Wc have taken only 200
prisoncis. Generals Kicki and Kaminski
have been killed. Two other Generals P--
and Bozuslowski, have been slightly wounded
According to thp statements of the prisoners
three Russian Generals have been killed.?!
The severe service which our troops have !rd
to pass through has induced the Commander,
in-Chief to allow them a few day’s rest in
I’raga. The intelligence that the' Polish nr
,my,after a sanguinary and disastrous battle
was approaching the capital, spread const. ?
nation here, but the frank statement of Gen.
Skrzynecki has tended for the present tj
tranquillize the public mind. Two fresh re.
giments of infantry, and several squadron* of
to tile camn!
From the Georgia Journal. *~~
SIOL’E OF CHOOSING. THE GJOVKAOU A.\D
rn . .. ELECTORS.
1 he policy pursued by the federal party in
Georgia, has been so tortuous, and injurious
to the reputation, dignity, and best interest*
o. tire State ; and tiie political principles ot
the leaders, as publicly declared by them,
•selves, have been so aristocratical arid so
j mucl) iri opposition to the rights of the State,
! a,ul to til<; powers reserved, when those Stale*
j sanctioned the federal constitution ; that the
j organs oi the party—the Editors of their news.
! papers—should he careful not to coniproimt
i Bioinsclves, by unreflecting assertions, and
j L >’ l ' u ' hasty declaration of principles, and of
i t,!C measures they have supported and intend
! *° s "Pport. Silence on their part, as to prim
: eiplcs, in all political contests and elections,
would we think, be the best policy. But
the desire to say something on behalf oftheir*
candidates, and against the candidates of
their opponents, will naturally lead them to
commit some act of indiscretion, which will
certainly be detected, and for which, as cod
tainlv, they will be rebuked. This iscxets.
i ptjfied in some of the remarks of the Editors
'of the Federal Union of last week. They
: had the indiscretion and temerity to .sav. th*|
I “He (the senior Editor of the Recorder,) aid
i liis friends (the Troup party) happened, foul
l series of years, to oppose the Clark party a I
j their exertions to give tire election ofGoveri-1
| or to the people, lie and his friends Aappcadl
to oppose fora series of yeans, the Clark p*r-|
| ty, in their exertions lo give the election if I
Electors to the people,-” when it iss I
Well known as that the declaration of I
j dependence was adopted o-i the 4th of J;-1
)y, 1776, that it was the Republican ffl
j I roup party which finally insured tkj
; adoption*of both measures, and that it-wal
, i roup men who first introduced the amend*l
I tncnt ol the Constitution in the mode ofclertl
ing the Governor, to the cosidcration of tb I
Legislature. 1
I he alteration of the Constitution was cc.J
sidered a measure of the last importune;!
but before tlie republican party in the Log.-1
lature determined on agreeing to the alt-c.vl
tion contemplated, they wished to ascertain!
the sense ei their constituents upon the rnat-l
ter. They made it their particular businfiil
to ascertain the sense of tire people ; Mill
finding that that sense was fora change ini
the mode of choosing the Governor, the!
change was made. YY ith regard to thcclianyel
in the mode of choosing electors, tiro repubit-l
can party thought best to apply directly M
the people, for an expression of their wi-l
A resolution was accordingly adopted for is B
ccrtaining the sense of the people with rogjiH
to this subject. I
A measure originating with, and purely oil B
the party to which the Editors of the Icderdß
Union belong, is the act dividing the
into Congressional districts, which parsed JB
1.825, and was repealed the year foUo'in®
by the Republican party being in the mnjoS’B
ty in both branches of the general assent!™
VY c wonder that the editors of the lVd’™
Union do not bring the repeal of this
law, as a charge against the Troup party. I
But to place the subject of choosing t™
Governor and electors in a clear point ot'icijß
and in order to put it out. of the power of 4
Editors of the Federal Union, to prevent tfl
facts, or to misrepresent our words, and a J
state our positions, wo give the procci'iii?'* 1 ®
the Legislature from 1821 to 1821, inclasi®
upon the twu subjects, with a few explains®
notes. ■
In November 6, 1821,
Ryan, (Troup man.) gate no<*
that he would after this day, move for tiitf®
pointment of a committee, to prepare am?'’®
port a bill to alter and, amend tlre 2d sect*®
of the 2d article of the constitution ot ' M
gin. According to this notice, a coina-d 1 ®
was appointed composed of Messrs. I'. ' l ®!
Harden, Crawford, Burton and YVimbril;.*®
Troup men, who reported a bill nwkiatH®
! alteration contemplated. On the final P'“B
sage of the bill, Mr. Adatfrs, of I’utn- -®
Clark man, moved to strike out the v ° r ®
“ majority of the rotes given in,'' and v C| ®
the words “ and the person Iwving thelnV l '®
number of votes.” This motion was r-j> : ®
by a vote of 30 against 15. The hill pa"®
by (lie constitutional majority, 35 against h®
q> - ' r*• I . I 4.- I. r- 1 ®®