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B | * l l 1 ——-->r iI, i _ || THE <OAVnYMiO\ALI»>T. I BY Gl n:r & DIME. ; Ell ■Wf -1 KSM.S—For the eeiui.weekly {» j er, published E | every i uesday and Friday morning, S 3 p.ti aaruuti, E I for tb« weekly S 3, oil payable in advance. ■ j •L- ADVF.d'i'I.SEMKNTS are inaerted weekly for 62 p fl 12 cents per equarc ; semi.weekly 62 1-2 cents for the T 1 ond -Id 3-4 cent* lor each Mibeequent insertion nnd monthly ior S 1, 00 per equnre for each insertion. , For yearly advertisements private arrangements are { » u 3c made. A deduction i“ made on the advertise- I men's o! public officers. * li-f I*, stage must be paid on letters of business. VERY IMPORTANT PROM E\G • LAND. 1/ undonment of the Reform lit//.—Resignation oj t/ic Grey Ministry.—Appointment of the Wellington Mi nistry. The Packet ship Britannia, at New. York, brings Liverpool papers to t hr* 16th ,Mav. From! the Ncw.\ urk t ommercial and the Conner and , Lnqmrer, wo make the following copious and highly interesting extracts. From the London Sun of the oth of May. I The AA hig Ministry is for the present dissolv ed —only for the present. Countrymen, t**ar this in mind!! Think t.«j of what vpu owe to yourselves and th-rse who have so far assisted! tvou on the road to Reform, and u ho onlv resign when they can no longer be of assistance to von. 1 he Whig Ministry is for the present dissolved. I It %vill h again before a fortnight lias elapsed. ! And it is you, countrymen, will bring them hack again in triumph to office. Boroughmongers must not he masters ol the lives and liberties ol Engli -ihmen. U e insert the following from the second edi- 1 tion of the Tim ex. The news will come like a thunder-clap on the people. Fray Goi>, they! meet their destiny with firmness, fortitude, but, above all, with becoming Iran piillitv ; We are arrived at tiiat issue which v’e in 1 some degree expected lust night. The Minis try is dissolved! The resignations of Carl fliu;v, Lord Brougham, and theireolieagues; his Majesty, after some conflict—real or apparent —with his own mind, finally accepted, and I announced such his acceptance this morning. Me ol course have now no time to indulge in! P -j reflection on this most important event t w r e ; shall rather briefly enumerate the facts which have come to our know ledge. The Reform Ministry has been displaced ; another—shall we call it an Anti-Reform Min s is, ia C.riuiixr 1.. % -v- ........j use that term, “an Anti-Reform Ministry,'* be- | tore our countrymen at tins crisis: we hardly dare use it or apply It to the members themselves; whatever maybe their iat raal wish, they must ; pay so much homage to public feeling as topre- I tend to be Reformers. ’j Vet the new Administration will probably’be f * Duke of U tLi.i.xi ton Administration ; his ; Grace no doubt at the liead of it. The place 1 ' ot the i.ord Chancellor Brougham—(we give I momentary reports of the Anti-Reforming law- ’! yers as we have caught them) —may be sup-1 plied by JSir John Leach or a commission. :j Lo.d Lyndmurst will most likely go to the ! Bolls, the position there being most secure. And j —w hat next among the legal appointments ! Sir ’j C. V* EThivHKLL to Ireland lor the sake of peace ! ; Sir J. Sc.xßTExr may st< p mto the place of i.ord Lymuiurst. A new ministry’, will be form • cd with more promptitude than a batch of Peers | could be made by the old one, because there is ; more sincerity in all quarters. Yet there was no want of .sincerity'’ in the ! Members of the expiring Ministry’ towards each I other. Their common late test.lies their iutegri , tv. Lord Brougham mingles ins fortune with i I that ol Lord Grey, from whom he will not be sep • crated in his resignation; and their general deter minition to resign, evinces their unbeudin ■' at •* u , O tuchinent to tile question ol Reform. m From the London Times of the 1 Ith M:y. EXPRESS 1 RUM BIRMINGHAM. The 'Fi-vits Office, half fast 6 h’iloch;. Sudden and Spontaneous Meeting of the Ref or- i 7ncrs of Birmingham end its 1 icinity. * ! Birmingham, Thursday, May 10. It is scarcely possible to imagine—the spirit of excitement mto w hich the town of Birming ham has been thrown by the rejection of the ; Reform Bill by the Lords and die resignation' of' j His Majesty *s Ministers. The an a-reformers in London may affect to treat tins with contempt, * , but if they had been present in Birmingham tins day, we doubt not that another and a very dif ferent feeling would have prevailed in their minds. In this town the re is out ouc feeling — one firm, fixed, determined feeling-—which it is impossi ble to suppress. We are morally certain, that if the Bid be not passed, the people will not pay •I' tuxes. Tins .hey have determined. Indeed, as early as 11 o clock y’esterday, the windows ex-*1 hibiied a pruned placard, of which the following is a copy i— “NOTICE. NO TAXES PAID HERE until j THE REFORM BILL IS PASSED . May U.” In other window s, and we observed on the lawn of a gentlemen’s house ia the vicinity of the town, there was ex hunted the following:—“No taxes paid here in money, and no goods bought dis trained for taxes.” But perhaps the best evi dence of the state of opinion in this town, is the fact of hundreds of tne most respectable inhabi tants of the professional and mercantile classes having joined tne i oiiticul I uion yesterday morn ing. These gentlemen have not been m the : habit of taking apart m politics, but they now sec the absolute necessity —to use the expression of one of then —“to buckle on their armour I’’ We understand that more than 100 subscribers of the Subscription News Room, to winch none but the respectable and opulent inhabitants are ad milled; put down their names as members of the Political Union, in fact, persons of ail creeds and of ali political opinions are joining this body. Uu Tuesday four C al..ouc I’r.es s eurolled them selves, and a considers Lde number of that re spectable society called Quakers became mem bers. The fact is, the people tecl that it is by union only that the country can be saved iiom failing imoastaie of anarchy and financial con fusion. The number of people assembled yesterday afternoon at Newiaul-liiil certainly exceeded 100,000. The space, which occupied 6 acres, was densely iili.ru, and, as on Monday, the tops N of tne surrounding hilis and houses were covered » with people. It is ready astonishing how such' -a number of human beings could have been got! •V |H together so suddenly and spontaneously in fourj ißj| hours. \» e understand that several large man ufneiurtrs heretofore considered anti-reformers, • .closed their work room., at 3 o’clock, to give, their men an opportunity to attend the meeting. A’ at thesametimeinforming them that their wages j would be paid us usual —But the meeting was not confined to Birmingham people alone. Many thousand persons attended from the surrounding towns, and deputies from "Worcester, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Warwick, and other places, were hourly arriving, in order to take; advice r.s to the best course of proceeding in their respective districts. Six O'Clocl: , P. M. —The meeting is just over, and though for the last two hours the people have been leaving the ground, not being able to ,;hoar the proceedings, yet the numbers passing j our windows are truly terrific. All, however, is quiet.—The people, conscious of: heir strength,! are not alarmed for the Bill. They feel that they can take it at any time should the Lords refuse to grant it them. Mr. At!wood, Mr. Scholcfield, Mr. Edmonds,j iMr. Joseph Parkes, and Mr. Muntz, then ad-. ; dressed the meeting quietly, when the meeting, j was dissolved ; the sitting of the council being, however, declared permanent: and to resume Ctheir deliberations at night. Subsequently the jjfollowing gentlemen, Joshua Scholcfield, Esq. ■Joseph Parkes, Esq. and John Green, Esq. jwerc deputed to lake the petition express to j London, and to communicate to the Common j Council and the citv of Westminster ‘ho deter-' mination of the people of Warwickshire and Staffordshire to aid them in the common cans*. The deputation left Birmingham with the s’reets crowded to exc< ss and loud cheering :tc ijeompanying th« in to the ve'rge of die tow n. ()n ! itheir arrival at Coventry, the streets of that ed dy were filled with the inhabitants, who loudly icheered tlie deputation, and stated to them that j they were going to convene a meeting of that ■ populous city for this day, and would stick by I them. In the course of the evening Expresses left 'Birmingham to all th large districts of Stafford shire and Warwickshire, urging the people to i immediate and determin • ; u 1 lie proceedings, to Urein.Vafe Ministers, and recover the Bill. All ibnsiners will ho at a stand-sfill til) this great na tional object is successfully concluded. LONDON, May 13th. I HOPES AND FEARS OF THE COUNTRY. Never did the annals of Europe present a more awful crisis than at thi v hour; and never, as a ■nation, shall we cease to deplore, that bigotted : infatuation would presume to destroy those noble attributes that have ever honoured our con iStitutional power, the very essence of our native | worth. Yet the enemies of Reform struggle to Innrnlvv.e tj.« «... ii however, is as vein as futile. Shall the unani mous cl iiins ot' our glorious nation—shall the voice ol a loyal and brave people, be .silenced by Bite sacrilegious veto of a self-elected body of conservatives? Nay, more—shall we be expos . ed to tee inockt rvof nations? Shall industry, the source of our w< alfh and national superiority, .be checked in its full and useful progress? Such I I is the purpose—such the act of all who oppose | n term—and such a condition presents a con jsideration too awful for con cmpla ion, conse ijquently renders a decided opposition, promptly j and peremptorily necessary to all its enemies. The tide of public feeling is now at its full, the j reflux trill hr terrif : ; the immense ocean of rea !son now flows wi.h increasing force and depth— ; what Canute courtier shall dare arrest its pro. j gross? The piercing eye of tru-h now fearlessly isenuinizes all our political defects—the arm of j constitutional freedom, the glory of our ancestors, \a nation's sacred birth right, is now raised to | grasp its rights. I The London Times openly recommends to I the people, and to flic House oT Commons, the j refusal ol all supplies to the Government un'ii a Bill of Reform, even more extensive than that ;rejected,shall ho adopted. And the editor then! proceeds to say that this advice is not idle. “The! :country is every where about to realize it. Lon-! ■ don has begun. The Common Council vester-| day, amongst a series of resolutions, each of; which is worthy of the highest applause, lor the! spirit and energy, and the sound good sense w hich it indicates, declared rliat the advisers of| Dis Majesty’s negative upon the proposition of his Ministers to create Peers, “ have proved themselves the enemies of their Sovereign, and have put to imminent hazard 'PI IE STABILITY OF Fl IE TH RON F. and the tranquillity and se curity of the country.” They resolved, under these distressing cir cumstances, and as a means of procuring for the people an efficient reform, “to petition to the House of Commons TO WITHHOLD THE , SUPPLIES until such a reform shall have beenj secured.” They resolved that Lord Grey and his col leagues deserved the highest respect and regard ! from the Common Council; and finally—andj w hat is not the least impressive symptom on the; whole—they resolved that a committee of their j j body should sit fom day to day, and report upon the PROGRESS OF REFORM.” A proceed ing like this (iocs by no means look asif the citi-i zens oi London conceived the present to be auj ordinary crisis, or one which was to be provided' for by means of a common description. It ap-{ per sins to a time on the issues of which hangs REFORM OR REA OLI TION; and that is the true character of the existing hour. But recollect the speeches which have been; made not in London only, but in Birmingham and elsewhere, do they smack of tranquil per lexis A Do they countenance the possibility of ruling the! people ot England hy means of these very griev ances which have provoked their unanimous ab horrence? \\ ill Birmingham be trifled with; or Sheffield ? or Westminster ? oi Portsmouth ? or j Brighton? (Pavilion Brighton!) or Bury? or North Shields ? In one and all have petitions ; been signed for creating “ Peers,” and carryingi | the Reform Bill unmutHated. But s -e what is : preparing. There is net a town in the United Kingdom where a meeting is not about :o be held, land where “create Peers,” or “withhold taxes” —is not spoken of as the single alterna’ive. — What then, can be done with such a people ? An anti-reform Ministry ! or a-Ministry of anti-re formers brought round by fear, tend' ring reform in the spirit of “conversation,” and nibbling at every fragment of popular concession in the present bill, as if what was lost to the country 1 must of necessity be gained to the Government, aha: we can teli them will not do now. It is in deed possible, that the Tory House of Lords may gram to the Duke of Wellington what it has refused to Lord Grey, and pass the identi cal bill under an oligarch administration, which, under a liberal one it has rejected. Bat the peo ple have a voice, and they will cry loudly to a Cabinet of Tory Reformers (should such a Cabi ‘ net be formed) —“Rapacious hvpocrites, you ! shall not torment the English nation : support ; an Administration, for we w ill not trust the charter of cur liberties in unclean and factious hands like yours.” LoNaox May 13, 1832. p ■ REFORM OR RUlN.—People of the United* ; Kingdom—you who have made m every age such noble struggles fur liberty —who have been I,so lon 2 a prey to the cupidity and despotism ot a | faction—ind vet with a forbearance oi which i the anaais of nations a fiord no parallel, borne with your insulting and rapacious oppressors — j a time has at length arrived to free you from j the shackles which has so fatally cramped your i 1 wonderful energies—made your once happy homes desolate, and your country a splendid la-; i zar-house ! Will you reject the opportunity j , which tim wisdom of benign Providence has: placed before you—nay within your grasp, to I !i enable you to resume the glorious privilege, the j' ■dearest bh ssing Haven can give —Reform 'j; ■X)—no —it were a distrust of the majesty ot • Mcharacter which disdnguishes you to ask this'' it were presumptuous arrogance to i doubt that you will be true to yourselves- •'/"«/' : | to the sacred cause in which you aro engaged • —true to the nearest, the dearest and the most | !| sacred interests if your country ! Reposing with |{ perfect confidence <->u the firmness and prudence ;|of vour resolves, let us try with as much calm ! ness as the nature of the occasion will permit, jto reviser the proceeding's of the week. \ our enemies, ever vigilant and cunning, (and, alas ! , ( witli a talent worthy of a bettor cause,) allowed ] | the reform bill to pass the hou.se of Lords on its I second reading, in order-to lull your fears—to ; , blind you with false hopes, and then strangle j in its birth a measure which would transfer to you tiie power they have so shamefully usurped, and so fatally abused. Under the cloak of a! | mere-transfer of precedence, the “ wavorers” 1 II and ultra-tories cealesed, and ministers were de li fated ! To tuve attempted to proceed with ; lithe bdi when four-fifths of the lords were secret- ‘ illy, if not openly, oppbsed to it, would have been; ! f illv or treachery, neither of which Lord Grey . | can be accused of ; the premier immediately ,called a council, and it was unanimously resolv jedto apply to his Majesty for full power to car- | Try the reform bill through the House of Lords j! • unimpaired or to tender their resignation, j The King, when informed by Lords Ghev andi Brougham of the lamentable position of the country on Tuesday evening, requested until nine o’clock the next morning to enable him to come J to a decision on the subject, and accordingly 11 on Wednesday morning ministers were in form - led that Ills Majesty hud declined complyingji , iwith the advice which they had deemed it their i # • iduty to tender him, and had therefore accepted' i the resigna ion. instaEiiv tt.o tfinom oi’ aiiurm J was sounded throughout the land; the peepfej I ~c r ur Birmingham, of Sheffield, of Liv-1 , j erpoo!, of Brighton, of Manchester ; in fact, of i , every city, town and principal body through out the United Kingdom, assembled to support f the measure of reform on which the public hopoj so long rested, and at the same time, to im-1 , plore his Majesty to lake the advice of his 1 ministers, and create a sufficient number of peers j, to ensure the passing of the bill in the Upper’) ■ House : consequently, on Tuesday night, the l! Commons of Great-Britain and Ireland, by a I triumphant majority of 80, came to the resolu- i tion of announcing to the King their deep re- ' gret at the change in his Majesty’s councils, j their unbounded confidence in Lord Grey and !| his colleagues, their solemn belief that any suc-ji . ccsstul attempt to mutilate or impair the efficien-j cy of the reform bill framed in conformity with the recommendation of his Majesty’s speech j • from the throne, would be productive of the 1 greatest disappointment and dismay ; and there-:j fore earnestly imploring his Majesty to call toil his councils such persons only as will carry into*; effect unimpaired “ that hill for the reform of the'] I representation of the people which has recently ! passed this House /” Will this advice be attended to ? Will a So j vereign, who by bis apparent sympathy with I the people, had enthroned himself in the hearts j of millions, and obtained the proud, the lofty i ! appellation of a “ Patriot King,” will ho now ■ ■ turn Ins back on those who are as ready to shedi | their blood in his defence, as they prove thera- I;selves eager to contribute from their impover ished purses to his splendor and comfort, —will he now turn traitor to the cause of which he! was considered the staunchest advocate ? To, answer this question, it is necessary to invest!-!' gate a li ole the character of the King, and his I proceedings up to the present period. William IV. has ever been considered by thinking peo-J, pie an amiable, though not a strong-minded rnsaa, li —right in his intention, but easily swayed by I passing events, and of course easily acted on j through the medium of his feelings ; this Weak i ness ot disposition has been assailed bv every \ j art which human ingenuity could devise. The J ; Queen — a woman of reputed deep political in- i lltrigue, and unfortunately unable to appreciate! j j the character ®f a nation over whom she was I 1* so unexpectedly called to become the Queen j jj Consort—thus regardless of the inestimable po pularity which her husband enjoyed—blind to j; i'her own true interests, and in contempt of the' ardent wishes of the vast majority of the nation, —laboured (and we grieve o record it.) to turn the heart ot the King from his subjects, stand- ! ing between the throne and the people ! In this i I iatal course has the Queen of England been as- | insisted by those who, from their obscure station, | ;| have been raised to a level with the purest blood ; •j of the land ?—who have had emoluments added ; j to honour, an I respect to common place feeling ? ! i But we will not withdraw the dark curtain which - t is spread over this transaction, the mischief of I which wiil recoil with violence on the heads of its authors ; let us turn rather to a more pleas ing rheme, the determined purpose of the whole nation to resist the etforts making to prevent; their emancipation ; that determination consists ! not in resorting to physical force —the people | | know too well the holiness of their cause to re- ' | sort to arms—the power to humble their enemies remains with themselves : it is to refuse money i payment for taxes! Will the representatives:! of the people assist them in their effor ts ?—They I will—should an administration hos’ile to reform be called into office, the present House of Com raons will refuse the supplies. But it is said that ■ ; a dissolution of parliament will take place on Monday. Are the pretended friends of the mon ■j arch insane ? Do they shut their eyes and ears I to what is momentarily passing ? Perhaps a . military Duke relies on the servile obedience of the military. The latter feel most strongly the 1 truth ot the axiom—“ Thrice is he armed that ■ ■ hath his quarrel just,’’ —they have no need ofij ■ force —their only duty is to give moral aid top , their representatives —to meet —to petition—and! • to unite. To be tranquil, hut yet firm—calm in their language, but determined in their re solves—and presenting that cool, unflinching i front to danger which truly distinguishes them. . Let the motto of the L uited Kingdom be: PEACE AND OUR RIGHTS ! GOD AND OUR COUNTRY! I » \w vl Reminiscence. —The capture of the ! U. S. frigate President, by a British squadron off Lomr Island,, near tfui close of the last war, was ‘marked by many interesting circumstances, which have been communicated to us by one who jwas an eye-witness, I It is well known that the President sustain ed considerable injury by striding on tne bar be yond Sandy Hook on the night that she put to ; sea, widen greatly impeded her sailing. 1 h:s ■accident, and the delay occasioned by it, render ed it very doubtful whether she would be able to elude the enemy’s vigilance, who were known fi to have a force of three frigates and a 61 gun j ship cruising along the const. As the day dawn-! jjed, the apprehensions of Com. Decatur were re-| i aiized. The whole of the enemy’s squadron was; II in sight at no great distance, and in a brief in-j i terval, their clouds of canvass were seen raised .to the breeze in eager pursuit. The largest! Jof the frigates, the Eudjrmion, a ship or equal;! ■size and force with the President, took the lead; ■in the chase, and it was very apparent that liorij I superior sailing would render all hope ot escape;; from her futile. Not that there was any disiu jclination to trv the issue ol a brush with her.; single-handed ; but, on the contrary, such wasjl the confidence incur naval superiority and in |i the hero who commanded, that every heart would j; ■have exulted at the thought of such an eiicoun-j ter, without a fear of its consequences. But; • Decatur saw that if lie commenced an engage-1 rinent with the Eudymlon, it could hardly be de-j jcided before the other ships would arrive and,: I determine the result against him. The chase! ■continued fresh and animated until after sunset,! '! when the enemy’s ship having arrived within gun shot, began to pour in her well-directed fire. At; I this moment, Decatur conceived a plan, which,' | with his characteristic decision, he determined’ to carry, it - possible, into execution. It was no! less than to run the President along-side of the: ■ Endymion, carry her by boarding,escape by her: superior sailing, and leave his own crippled ves-j ael a prey to the enemy. The conception was worthy of the hero, and;; j was hailed with three enthusiastic cheats when; |i communicated to the crew. Orders were prompt-j fly given to wear ship for the purpose, but the: j enemy took the alarm, stood off and frustrated the intrepid manoeuvre. No alternative was now left but to fight the Endymion at her own distance, and matters soon wore a very terrific aspect. A running lire 1 commenced on both sides, which was fatal to |i many of the officers of the President. Mr. Bab jbitt, the first Lieutenant, was killed early in the action, and Lieut. Hamilton was soon after cut Ij in two by an 18 pound shot. This amiable of ficer shook hands and took leave of a friend as | die \.uj departing to his-station, and in a few j minutes, when that friend was hastening to the quarter deck lo make a report to the Commo jldore, he mot h.s faithful servant, who exclaimed || in a tone of anguish, “ Oh, Sir, poor Mr. Hum-!! j| iiton is just killed.” j Meanwhile, the contest which had raged fierce- j ( jjly for more than an hour, began to abate, on the! I part of the enemy, and it was very evident that' i they were unable to continue it much longer. ■ As their fire ceased, Lieut. Howell observed to a midshipman who was standing by his side, ]!“ Well, we have flogged that fellow after all : jibe can fight no longer.” He had hardly utter jed these words when a gun flashed and he ex claimed, “ No, he is firing yet.” The midship, i man moved to look as he spoke, but, hearing | a groan a at the moment, he turned round and I I the gallant Howell was lying on the deck in the ji convulsions of death. That very flash was but 11 the precursor of the fatal shot which struck him i || while he was speaking. The midshipman found j! afterwards that he himself had narrowly escap ed the same shot, it having carried away a part of the belt of his own dirk, which was hanging b}' his side. By this time, Pomona and Tenedos fri gates, having come up, had taken their positions; jto pour in upon the President their murderous) broadsides, and further resistance to such une-jj j qual odds seemed madness. Painful as the no-! cessi iy was, it seemed imperious, and Decatur gave orders for the flag to be struck. Though it was the latter part of January, the sun rose the next morning with a mild and vivi fying fadiance. The hostile attitude of the par i ties having been changed by the result into the . relation of victors and vanquished, it now only remained (o the victors to make the necessary i preparations to transport their prize to Bermuda. On Commodore Decatur, however, and the survivors, was devolved the sad duty of con signing to their graves the remains of those who ! had fallen in the bloody contest. The bodies of I Lieut. Babbilt, Hamilton and Howell, wrapped ,in tarry sheets, were borne to the ship’s side, i and prepared to be consigned to the depths be -1 low, Around stood the silent group, attended ; by a detachment of British marines, who were i deputed to pay them the closing honors of war. I The Espicopal burial service was read in an impressive manner by Decatur, and as he pro nounced the words, “ We commit three bodies ;to the deep,” the marines fired their funeral] • knell, and they were simultaneously launched! ■ into the ocean. j One sullen plunge—the scene was o’er ; Tbs sea roiled on as it rolled before. It is a remarkable circumstance that when the | prize crew was sent on board the President from; 'thosquadron, enquiry was immediately made bvl | a British officer if Lieut. Babbitt was on board jj i and well. "W hen told of Lis death, he was great-id ly affected, and observed that he had been a few j months before, a prisoner of war in the United ; States, and stationed in the village where the ' family resided with whom Mr. B. expected to be I : allied* by marriage, and that he had given them a| 'pledge, at his departure, that if ever the chances j of war should place Mr. B. within his reach, he : would do all in his power to alleviate the misery I | of such a servitude. Notwithstanding the favorable opportunity as- ! ji forded by the weather to repair the President and 1 | i put her in a condition to reach Bermuda in safe- , ; ty, not a shot-hole was stopped up the next dav,; and she remained as she was when the last gun was fired. That night the spirit of the storm was' visible on the face of the waters, and at mid-| night the winds and waves seemed to vie with each other ia an effort to complete the work of | destruction. A tempest of the most appalling!: description sprung, to which the terrors of the! battle were as nothing. The sh p rolled and 1 plunged, and every successive plorure was sup j: posed to be the last. The idea that such a shat, f tered vessel, pierced by a hundred balls, and ’ leaking dreadfully, could survive the fary or such a storm, seemed to ail incredible. The Ameri can officers were placed in the ward r<x>m, where they remained the whole night in that state of exciting and fearful suspense which the danger of their situation was likely to produce. Th ; word passed repeatedly from one to • notaer that she was gone, and all immediately prepared them selves to meet their impending fate as soon as pos. jsiblc. But Providence had ordained otherwise, ‘land with the return of the morning, came new j hope. The violence of the gale did not abate, however, until evening, and when it subsided, notone of the other ships was any where to be seen. A plan was therefore formed by the prison ers to rise upon the prize crew & recapture the frigate, which was defeated only by the prema ture disclosure of it by a drunken marine. Being ordered below for some insolence, he muttered something that alarmed the British officers, who exercised such a igilance afterwards that it was found impracticacle to carry the scheme into ! execution with any prospect of success. Journal of ('ommercc - VOIIId OF A• THE VICE-PRESIDENCY. The Baltimore Convention was a mere bubble. ;It presented a specious exterior ; but was hollow, j| delusive, and* vaucscent. It was without solidly, i I ail 1 could not form a basis for the union ot the ij Jackson party. We have heretofore remarked, ;; that the members of that assembly were not au i; thorized to choose a vice-president, (much less a li future president,) for the people. On this essen-| itial point, we think that the worthy edit rs ot the| l(Georgia Journal have not been as accurate as; : wc would expect them to be. They say, “The; i people of Georgia therefore sent delegates to| ■ the Baltimore Convention, and did so with a, ! striking unanimity. We believe that almost : : everv county in the state concurred in themea-j | sure, where there was a court held, or where I any other meeting of the citizens afforde d a con venient opportunity of expressing their sent!- ments, after the matter was presented publicly tor their consideration ; and not one voice that we know of was raised in opposition.” We know of only three or four counties in which i were held meetings that appointed delegates to j this convention ; and we will thank our neigh- I hours, if they will specify the counties, in which j i such meetings were held, and state the proba-1 b!e number of persons who composed those 1 jj meetings. If it shall appear that the persons j ; who acted ns our delegates, were chosen by a; | majority, or by any large proportion of the peo- j i pic, wc will promptly acknowledge our error: but we are confident, that on a revision of the facts our neighbours will find, that those individ uals were authorized to represent but a very small fraction of the citizens of this state. The burden rests on the editors of the Journal, to prove the fact, which they affirm: and if the tact exists, the proof is in their power. We ob serve, however, that the language of their state ment, is not very positive ; and we may, per haps, have understood their affirmation to be stronger than was intended by themselves. j O * j We are satisfied, that a very small number ot | 7 v the gentlemen, who convened in Baltimore, were * delegated by the people, whom they professed | to represent; and the false assumption of' this! ; high and confidential character, was grossly in ti delicate and arbitrary. To such an assembly, a million of voters cannot be expected to yield } the right of choosing the principal officers of j their government; or to debase this noble attri bute of freemen, into a system of humble and passive obedience to unauthorized dictation. To permit men high in office, to control the great elections of the people, is toestablisli a pre cedent most dangerous to liberty. There is another ground, on which we ear nestly protest against the proceedings of the convention: and this is, the want of reciprocity among its members. The individuals who act ed as delegates from Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wc.y. Dela ware, Louisiana, and Ohio, brought no stake with them; they had nothing to offer, as the ground of compromise; they had nothing to give, and every thing to receive ; they are in minorities in those States, and cannot bring a single electoral vote, to aid tire common canss. The entire electoral vote of those states, which | they professed to represent, will be given to Clay I ! A Sergeant. On the system which the Baltimore ; I meeting adopted, those States gave in conven tion, seventy-seven votes; and Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, North-Cap)lina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, in convention, gave; precisely the same number : while in the clecto- jj ral vote, that by which the vice-president will be made, the latter-named states will give sev-! enty-seven votes to the Jackson ticket, and the! former will give seventy-seven votes against it. It appears to us to have been very absurd, to) estimate the strength of Van Buran, by votes, winch he cannot get, votes which will be given j to his opponent. We can recognize no com-1 promise, which rests on calculations so unjust, | On the principle adopted by the convention, a i minority in Massachusetts, which cannot give a single vote in making a vice-president, has more ! influence in determining how the eleven votes of Georgia shall be given, titan she has herself: for in the convention, the Massachusetts minori ty counted fourteen (as if that minority had four teen electoral votes to give;) while Georgia counted only eleven. This is utterly unequal and unjust in principle; and in the compromise Ij based on this principle of calculation, Van Burenlj received seventy-seven votes more than he can I ‘ obtain in the electoral colleges. In estimating his strength as a candidate, these seventy-seven votes should be deducted. In the convention, Van Buren received from individuals acting as delegates from Pennsyl vania, and North-Carolina, thirty.nine voles: j while it is now almost certain, that he will not j receive a single vote in the electoral college of ‘ either of these states. We think it well ascer tained, that a majority of the people of those two | states, prefer some other candidate ; and that they will not submit to the choice made for them, by the convention. These thirty-nine votes are a mockery of the sentiments of those twoj states. In ascertaining what is the choice of j Pennsylvania, shall we enquire, what are the! 1 opinions of a few men convened in Baltimore ?| jOr shall we consult the vast population of that: powerful state, at their homes? It we wish t <j act' m concert with Pennsylvania, shall we unite’ with an overwhelming majority of her citizens?! Or shall we enter into a compromise with a few j individuals, who misrepresent her abroad ?—ln; estimating the opinions of the Jackson party,, these thirty-n.ne votes also should be deducted j I from tiie number given to Vaiqßuren ; and then ! how does he stand ? lie is left with ninety-two j voles. lo make up thus sum of ninetv-two, it is necessary to count the votes ot several s'ates, in which it is doubtful whether he will be supported. • The eleven votes of Georgia aro counted for him. ihe t ote ot this state may be considered , 3 doubt.ul: and we believe that it will not be; given to \an Bure;;. At this momentous crisis, | "’id -corg j a bow the knee to he man, who has| mr/ely contributed o establish excessive t riff by which she is oppressed? Os the man, "co y ;is for nate position, controlling the strength of New-York, directed tec td -arriick the decisive vote of that state, in estuaksaing this' , u unjust and odious system? Is it possible that |. O I can obtain a single unbiassed vote b orn 'n , ! South? We know the wonderful adroitness </ , Van Buren, and his partizans, in managing tC- rS? : selfish passions of mankind. The conventioi • THE . Baltimore was composed of men of most varicir 1 i and conflicting sentiments. What was the s?cro*' T •j but powerful principle, that pervaded this ] K e ' j s the I ; j rogeneous mass ; that bound its discordam yigilan j incuts to their common centre? What, bet \thdritv il'cret understanding fur its distributing the t , \ n s:; h] ;!| of the government, among themselves, or if r v Xtv.it >jl friends? But we trust that the people of ty pens, t 'South will not suffer themselves to be led b|; n: the cu J fold ; that they will not themselves aid in,s; iCl ;. V anee 'ficiug their great interest, in order to procure social i offices for a few selfish men ; that they will be cause (true to themselves, and to their country; fi u . such p they will select some pure patriot, to whose m. of no tegrity they may safely confide the mainteiuuic; The of their principles, and the preservation of the.; which i interests. .Such a man is Philip P. Barbour it, rer The Baltimore convention itself avowed, that and ah ■an agreement of two thirds in their choice, \va s held b (necessary to the union which they attempted t u neral j j produce: and Van Buron is very fur from be- the co jjing the choice of two thirds of the efficient mem- four s ' '! be rs of the Jackson party. It appears to us to with 1 jibe impossible that they can unite on him; he. const!' cause a large portion of that party believe, that major !he has been one of the chief pillars of the tariff concu 1 and that he is a political adventurer, who has °f bol ever been ready to sacrifice every interest, and Supre i every principle, for his own advancement. H e depos |is supported by many active and talented men; gover i but his name should not be associated with that before jof Andrew Jackson, the venerable patriot whom whet! j the people delight to honor ; for he has no moral not ' strength, and can never win the confidence of tive s; I those who are now opposed to him. The\ f l a tendc {deep distrust, which no professions, no specious appearances, will remove. In opposing Van numl Buren, we oppose not the union and concert of °PI n t {(the party. His name is the brand of discord; P artn 1 let it be withdrawn, and a vast majority of the : j votes of the party will be given to Philip p. sequ. ■ Harbour, a patriot without reproach. iias ’ j.;. . -r_. 1 - _ -- 1 —- ~: —— is tha 1 From tut JSatioaal intelligencer oj June ID. whit 1 THE BORDER WAR. f oilo \ The latest information we have from the trine: theatre of the Border War, is contained in the case.*- subjoined articles. Mul itudinous bodies of cit. mon izens, it is seen, have hastily moved on to the fori frontier, and, undisciplined end un.provisioned, and i have as hastily marched back again, reliance be. • tutioi ing at last to be had upon the regulars and those state who could be induced to remain as Volunteers. ai, it These adventures are harassing to the people, own and most expensive to the government, whilst enfoi they are wholly ineffective to cure the evil, by gene tranquilizing the frontier. We begin to think the j i that there ought to be some frontier force of a stun more efficient character than Militia or transient s’itu Volunteers; composed of officers fitted to coin- fled : mend, and privates taught to obey ; organized so on < as io move with promptitude, & armed and train- powi cd to the particular description of service expect- dele, cd from them. Such a measure, the reader may *. sopa recollect, lias been under consideration in Cun- _ Tutu gress. It T1 IIT1nT»1 AN wAR. £ y ] St. Louis papers of the 2d inst. state, that ti e j Illinois militia, under Gen. Whiteside, were dis banded and had returned home, their term ofser- C el vice having expired. “About 300 volunteered to t - Qn remain in the fortifications at Ota way until the new levies should arrive.” It is said Gov. Roy nolds had calie i out 3000 additional troops. The q uu Governor and his Aid hadarrived at St. Louis, in tlon llac Oaioiine- —aim 11 wns kuiu lie ftiitl home to expedite the marching of troops to the c j seat of war. Gen Atkinson was still at Dixon’s r Ferry, on Rock River. The regular troops at I Cantonment Leavenworth and Fort Winnebago evc had been ordered to join Gen. Atkinson, ani it was supposed they would reach Dixon’s Ferry r I on the 1 Oth inst. i a j t] It is stated that the .Sioux and Menominee ;, with j )y « a thousand warriors, wore anxious to join the t |' C! I whites, ds to revenge the wrongs they have suf- - n , r j sered from the hostile Indians. Their aid was, ■at first, declined, but will now be accepted. It II was believed that the, Indians would gather stregfh p (>l !i in consequence of their success in the common- r | cement of the struggle, and tlie subsequent in- I activity of the whites. Intelligence was daily <^S( ' received at St. Louis, of murders and massacres tf . r . j on the defenceless frontier —and these outrages will he continued “ until the frontier is cleared j of the enemy.” ' j J OJ Clixtox, 7 June, 1832. j REPORT having gone forth to the public, impli | /wearing Mrs. Bonki.f.y in the charge of holding a j criminal correspondence and illicit- intercourse with my- Opi ' self, I consider it a duty which I owe her, to state, that to i such report is a gross and iniquitous slander—that no e q l such correspondence or intercourse ever existed between < us—that 1 view and respect Mrs. Bunklcy as a virtuous lady; and that her entire deportment, so far as it has Sl ?t fallen within my observation, has been chaste, discreet ag) and above suspicion. -nfi WILLIAM S. C. REID. Jjpj jj GEORGIA, Jones county. 3 *S i M iiiiam S. C. Reid, came before me in person, and on I oath deposeth and saith, that the above statement of ha facts is true, to the best of his knowledge. aC< WILLIAM S. C. REID. we Sworn to, and subscribed before me, 9th June, 1892. ROBERT BEASLEY, J. P. June 2f> It *ll TIIOMAS I. WRAV, DRUGGIST. nc Toged ier «,l!i a v»ry general assortment, has just re- tilt ccived the following articles of warranted purity; which are offered for sale on the mest reasonable^enruo &AL JE RATES, Patent Barley, TOC Do. 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