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I CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
Anasri.
Wednesday Morniny, May 18.
, [ Between two and three hundred U. States
■Troops passed through this city yesterday on
■heir way to the Cherokee country.
I MAirn;. —The State of Maine, says the New
■York Evening Star, is deteimined to test the
■lucsiion of the boundary. They are commencing
■a road on the Aroostook river, within the dispu
■ led territory, and Mr. C. S. Davies has been sent
■by the Governor and Council to Washington, to
■ urge the General Government to have the line
■ surveyed as laid down in the treaty of 1783.
■ Thomas Bradford, successor o( Doctor T rank
■ |in, and the oldest Printer and Editor in the
I Union, died on Monday, 7th inst., at Philadel
Iphia, in lire ninety-fourth year of Ins age.
B A correspondent of the Boston M ranscript
■bows, by a comparison of the mean temperature
Ks the month of April (rom 1819 to 1838 inclu.
■ave.lhat the temperature of April 1838 was cold
■, than any of those which proceeded it, the mean
■ange of the thermometer licing 40''.
■| t/if. Spanish Amhassadoit. —Don Angle
do las Barca, formerly Envoy Extraor-
Hinary and Minister Plcnipotiary from the Queen
Spa nto the United Slates, and whose lime
tflpuns were temporarily suspended, has been rc-
Bpmpuinled to his former station.
COMMUNICATKII.
Jlfr. Janes :—I perceive by an extract in your
I |raper from the Charleston Courier, that the
i. steam packets Pulaski and Georgia, left Balli-
H|iore within ten minutes of each other, and came
jjlsp, at the wharf in Charleston within fourmi-
Lanmes of each other, “leaving a difference of six
Hfemitrs only in the running,” having performed
■pc trip in less than forty hours. Ido not know
[■BielllSr-there exists or not'any spirit of rivalship
Bptwecn'these boats—l presume the commanders
Mg both are prudent and careful men—but in
iKrting at the same lime, and running so nearly
it not to be apprehended, that an am
|Hi„us desire to evidence the superior speed of
He of the boats may eventually be produced,
Kid that «ndor its irifuonce one or both of them
■Spy unintentionally be urged on, under a groat
pressure of steam, than may be consistent
Hmh safety! lam averse to any thing that has
K appearance ol stunm boat racing, and I trust
■L nothing of the kind will lie indulged in be-
these two fine boats—bill that both will
on, with judicious management, and with
PRUDENCE.
K, COMMUNICATED.
Hj,/,. Jones :—Do you know whether there has
HL n any order or resolution of the Stockholders
■■the Ice Company authorizing the issuing of
kßangc bills as a circulating medium in this corn-
or arc the stockholders liabl ■. lor their
jjHtemption 1 I have one of their hills now be
me, it reads thus
■ Jackson street Ice Company.
Geo. .April 3, 1838.
aSjßeccivcd of .1 Moiso fifty cents for Ice, to he
to the bearer. Signed N Smith, Trca'
pj|t will lie perceived that this purports to he a
in payment for Ice to be delivered to the
There is no promise to pay in any thing
Ice, and I am not certain that there is any
promise to pay in that, for the receipt
■K not intimate that it is issued by order of the
■■|Lp a ny. It would seem, therefore, to be a
HHe individual speculation—and these hills arc
HBy freely and extensively circulated in this
■■bnunity the one now lie.forc me is numbered
Pis. It becomes a question worthy of considera
gMlftwhcther the circulation of such hills should
Pljßvc general countenance,, when no one is un-
Id«!ohligalion to redeem them, and when even
HKligncr himself does not engage to take them
■Hkhil give other bills fur them, whenever a
■■Lriderabtc amount of them should be presented
lilbrexchangc. If they are to continue incircula
■lm j t ru .st the Stockholders of the Company
Kp{|| announce to the public, that they are issued
■w their authority, and that they will redeem in
Pnn'r Bills all that arc in circulation, when
■jjhMntcd to the amount of five dollars, or when
tfpfaeason for selling is over. It may hereafter
~-Mf iwnrlant to the holders of these bills to know
,«ho u to redeem them, if they continue to circu
|tlate and are generally received.
JUSTICE.
»*We regret to learn that violence has been al~
Ptady committed by the Chcrokecs, within our
limits. Dr. John Brewster, late Surveyor Gener
of the State, has fallen a victim to their hos
tility- His Ferryman was killed, it is stated a
few hours previous, at the Ferry, from whence
they. proceeded to his house. IDs body was
pierced hy/otrr balls.
We take the occasion to urge upon the aulho
tUw* of the country, the absolute necessity ol
some punishment for their sanguinary
I nordeim The Creeks after they had gorged their
hint fur blood, were permitted quietly to emi
rate to their new homes; and we suppose a si
rilar fate is in store fur the Chcrokecs. It should
r demanded by Georgia, that the Chiefs and
aders, of their People, should he hold ro
onsible for the outrages of their people.—
luitre them to deliver up the ofienders to our
or in default, to sulfur in their stead. Sevc
f, stern inflexible severity, is the only sab
[sure course in; this matter. The Indian:
It be taught, that they shall not murder will
mily, that the arm of the white man’s lav
reach hnn in t lie? bosom of bis own tribe, am
go the violation of its decrees.— Geor&u
I
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Prom tin N V Com AJv. May 11. I
Nine Days Later from England. i
We are indebted to the courtesy of Capt. i
Waite, of the packet ship England, for London
papers to the evening of April 18th inclusive.
The England was hoarded oil’ Block island, on 1
Thursday, hy a pilot boat, and her letter hag and i
passengers were put on hoard the steamboat i
Rhode Island, arrived this morning. Captain i
Waite bad the kindness to forward our papers in
anticipation of his own arrival, through which i
attention we received them early this morning. i
The England has on hoard £150,000 for
Prime Ward & King, attd £2OOO for K J Walk
er fi Co.
The ship Acadian, Jones, from Liverpool for
this port, in relation to the safely of which fears
were entertained, put into Madeira, on tire 24th
iMarch, having thrown overboard three hundred
ons of her cargo.
The Athol, and Edinburgh, with the, Cold
stream Guards on board, destined for Canada,
sailed from Portsmouth on the Kith April.
The latest Now York advices at London were
oflhc 25th March, by the 8t Andrew, which ar
rived oil’Holyhead on the 14th of April. The
news by the St. Andrew was published in the
London morning papers of the 17th. This news j
included information of the final kick-up of thp
“patriots” at Point.-a-Pelee Island, the capture 0!
Sutherland, and his attempt to commit suicide.
The Chronicle takes a very different view of
Gen. Sco.t’s proceedings from that of Sir
Francis Head, and compliments him thereon in
the following words.
When we reflect on the slate of things in
America, we cannot help feeling that great praise
is due to Gen. Scott, and the authorities of the
union, for the exertions they have made to pre
serve order under such very discouraging cir
cumstances.
The Chronicle, our leaders will remember, is
the ministerial paper.
We quote the following passage from its lead
ing article, April 17, which treats at largo ol
General Scott’s letter,Governor .Marcy’s message,
and the general progress of events connected
will) the frontier disturbances.
Among our Canadian news will he found a
letter from General Scott, to Colonel Hughes,
commanding her Majesty’s forces on the Niagara
frontier, dated the 29th of January, detailing
the measures ho had taken, and which he in
tended to take, to prevent the fitting out of hos
tile expeditions from the territories of I he United
Slates against the Canadas. The letter is writ,
ten in a friendly spirit, and leaves no room for
doubting his sincere wish that the neutral rela
tions ot the two countries may he long maintain- .
cd.” Even with the enlarged powers which ho 1
says he has received, and the new act. of Congress
which he daily expected to received, General
Scott’s task of “harmonizing all the authorities,
civil and military, both of the general and slate
governments,” in order to prevent American citi
zens from committing acts of hostility against
their neighbors, will be one of considerable dif
ficulty. From a communication to the legisla
ture of New York by Gov. Marcy, also under
the head “Canada,” it appears that the stale
arsenals, and they are pontpously called, which
have been broken open, are not pfaces of strength
1 hut merely depots fur arms and munitions of War,
that each of them has ever been without any
guatd, and hitherto left in the charge of a single
individual denominJ'ctl ci keeper, at a salary of
J 25 per annum. The wonder ceases that these
arsenals have every where boon plundered; and
those who know anything of the United Slates,
will as little wonder that no evidence has been
obtained respecting the plunderers.
1 Wo have no Parliamentary proceedings to
1 note, the houses having adjourned for the Eas
ter recess.
Lord Durham was to leave town on the 21st,
for Portsmouth thereto embark for Canada
Mr O’Connel was at Dublin, agitating. He
was to hold a meeting every day through the
’ week commencing on the 10th. He was getting
I up a registration of till the liberal voters in Ire
- land.
r The coronation was becoming the ptincipal
topic of discussion. The Queen, it sems, has
determined that It shall be conducted on an eco
nomical scale, and with a very considerable cur.
tailment of what the Chronicle calls “the anti
quat si absurdity and feudal nonsense” heretofore
exhibited on such occasions. Among other items
e of the pageantry, the appearance of the mail
" clad.champion is to br dispensed with—whereat
the Tory journals are in agonies of consterna
tion. The expense is not to exceed that of Wil
a liam the Fourth’s coronation, which was about
c 25,000 pounds. That ol George IV. cost 255,000.
r. On that occasion the mere hire of the charger
ridden by the champion cost 1 181.
' There was a groat procession nt the trades, in
1 London, on the I fith of April, followed hy a pub
e lie dinner, to celebrate the return of five workings
i men from New South Wales, whither they had
c boe-i transported for participating in a strike, se
veral years ago.
American Stocks, London, April 10. — New
d York fives, 1845, 91 a 92; do do, 1800,94$ a 95;
. Pennsylvania fives, 1802-05, 90 a 94; Ohio six
j cs, 1850, 99 a 100; do do, 1850, 102 a 103; Lou
isiana do, 1848 98; Mississippi sixes, 1801-71,
- 94 a 95; Maryland sixes, 1870, 98 a 100; Mas
a sachuseits lives, 1857, 92 a 83; Alabama fives,
n 1803, 80 a 87; do sterling bonds, 1859, 90 a 90$;
Indiana lives, 1804, 87 a 88; United States Bank
a shares, £2SJ a £2s|.
I London, April 10. —Money Market . — The
- proceedings in the English Stock market do not
y furnish any maUer for comment, and the nota
j tions remain much the same as on Saturday,
namely, Consols, 93$ to 3 for money, and 93jf
I buyers for the account; New three and a half per
II cents,; 1011} to $; Exchequer hills 07 to 09 prem.
u This being settling day in the foreign market,
and many of the principal operators being absent,
scarcely any other business than arranging ac.
v counts was transacted. The Five per cents, left
- off at 31 to $, and the Three per cents, at 20;} to
London, April 18. —Twelve 0 clock—No
thing has occurred in the different stock markets
- to require comment. Consols aro 93$ to | for
r the account; exchequer bills, 67 to 00 premium.
. Two o'clock. —Consols are rather heavy—
1. they are 935, other securities remain the same,
a State of Trade.
e Colton Trade —The hands in cotton factories
s in several of the neighboring towns round Man
! Chester, have this week commenced working,
- some four and some live days per week. The
41 cotton handloom weavers of ginghams and some
y sorts of nankeens, are very slack indeed.
r franco.
The Chamber of Deputies was engaged, at the
' latest dale, upon commercial questions and the
J stale of trade between France and England. These
J questions came up on petitions and memorials
- from French merchants, complaining of the du
- ties on French brandies in England,and asking a
,r repeal of the duties on English coal.
:■ ‘[l was cutrently reported that the proposal for
fe! Ihe Spanish loan had been withdrawn hy M.
I s 1 Aguado the hanker—and that the King was con
h I tcmplatinga visit to the South Western depart,
w j menu in tlic sum,ncr
id | Spain,
in j No news of moment, except some tolerably
) well authenticated reports of victories gained hy
tmmm w »w\rj» "mb *.«rx»- ■■■ r-w—ww
tho Christino generals—the principal in Catnlo.
nia.-liy baron di Moor over Tristany and Sagar
ra, after 36 hours hard fighting.
Portugal*
The disturbances in this kingdom bad been
brought to a close on the Olh of April. The
Cortes had separated, having agreed upon a con
stitution, to which lire Queen had sworn, and
also the deputies,
A general amnesty was proclaimed the next
day, for all political ofifences since the VOlh of
September, 1836, including a permission of re
turn to all persons who have left the kingdom in
consequence of such offences. The plate of the
amnesty excepts parlies implicated in attempts at
revolt got up liy the partisans of Don Miguel.
The following is a sketch of (ho now constitu
tion.
In the new constitution the Queen has a veto
upon the measures of the oilier branches of the
legislature, and can also prorogue ami dissolve
the chambers. The question whether tho Queen
shall participate in the selection of senators will
have to be decided upon by the next legislature.
The Council of Stale, which existed under the
charter, is not restored. The Queen confers ti
tles of nobility, hut they carry with them no le
gislative privileges.
The upper chamber was a hereditary peerage
under the charter; it is now nil elective senate,
with the exception of llie Prince Hoynl, who
alone sits in virtue of his rank at eighteen, and
who is entitled to vote at twenty five. The otb.
er senators are to bn elcc od by the same const!*
tuency ns the members of the lower chamber,
each district that returns four deputies returning
two senators. They must be thirty live years of
age, unci possess an income from real property of
about £5OO a year, or if engaged in business, an
income from that souree of £lOOO a year. They
having attained a certain rank in the military or
civil service also qualifies lor a senator. Thus
marshals, admirals, and administrators general
are qualified, with the exception that where an
office or command is held in a particular district,
the party holding it is disqualified for election in
that district.
Tho senators are elected for six years, and
whenever a dissolution of the Legislature takes
place, one half of the senators retire, hut are eli
gible for re election. The attributes of the se
nate, in judging of eases of high treason, Ac,
arc similar to those ot theclmmherof peers under
tho charter. The senn'ors receive no allowance
for their legislative services.
The lower chamber is elected for three years;
the elections are direct, the country being divided
into districts, electing from three to six members
each, according to the population. The qualifi
cation of deputies is the possession of an income
of 400 miheis [£[()()] per annum. The deputies
arc paid at the rate of about 15s. per day during,
rbe session. The qualification of electors ia an
income of 80 mrlrcis [.£2o] per annum, derived
from any source, domestic servants only being
excluded. Under the character it was 100 mil
reis per annum.
The restoration of tho veto and right of disso
lution to and the return to two cham
bers. ore the most prominent points of difference
between the constitution of 1838 and that of
1820. Tho substitution of direct for indirect
election, and ot an elective tor a hereditary upper
chamber, are the principal points of difference
between the constitution of 1838 and the charter
of 1820. Whatever may ho the merits or defects
of tho present constitution, it cannot he denied
that if is what it was intended to ho, viz, ascltle
mantjin lh,g nature of a compromise, between the
partisans dr the charier and those of the constitu
tion of 1830.
Prussia.
Tho recent affair with tho Archbishop of Do* - .
logne seems likely to have consequences. The
gcveriimcnt has published a sort if protestation
against the Pope’s interference, which shows that
it is in no humor to submit thereto. Meanwhile
tho Archbishop’s example has been followed in
Posen, and symptoms of commotion have ap'
peared so distinctly that the military have bCui
instructed to hold themselves in readiness.
Ttt> key.
Coxstaxtixoit.k, March 28.—The military
ardor which had so suddenly seized the Sultan,
has gradually decreased, and he appears to have
relinquished altogether his determination to at
tack Mehemot Ali. All his laic warlike prepara.,
lions will probably end in the stationing of an
army of observation on Pro confines of .Syria.—
The entire of the Ottoman fleet is to be ready
for set) cirly in April. Acounls from Circassia
dated Semcz, the 3d instant. They slate that
he natives had just gained a decisive victory
over the liussiuns at fShushew, in tho south,
where the ia'ler had landed a large force, witli
tho intention of erect ng a fori. Seven thousand
Circassians collected instantaneously, attacked
the invaders, routed them completely, and obliged
them to re embark with considerable loss.
Egypt.
Ai.kxaniiiua, March 18.
The insurrection in Syria is daily growing
more formidable. Immediately after the defeat of
Sherif Pasha, Ibrahim Pasha wrote to his father,
that if he did not hasten to forward reinforcements
he would be unable to subdue the insurrection,
or perhaps even to maintain himsclf in Syria.—
Mehemct Ali accordingly sent oil*all the forces bn
could spare in Egypt, and despatched a portion
of his fleet to Candia, to take on hoard part of the
garrison of that island. The levy of recruits basin
the meantime been enforced throughout Egypt
with unparalleled severity, barbarity, anil cruelly;
but the result is far from being satisfactory to the
Viceroy.
SherifPasha returned to Damascus with the
remains of his guard, and Ibrahim repaired in ali
haste from Hamma to Aleppo for the purpose of
suppressing a popular movement. Numerous
executions restored for a moment an appearance
of tranquility to those two cities, hut the discon
tent continued unabated, and will, it is expected,
break our with additional force when tho army
marches hack to Harlan the principal seat of lire
insurrection- Solyrnun Pasha (tho French Uol
onel Scvcs) has taken the command of the Egyp
tian army, by the express injunction of Mohernct
Ali, and to tho discontent ot Ibrahim.
The following are the remarks of Mr Graves,
on motion to print the report of tho Dud Com
mittee. His concluding remarks are highly
impressive, and show how an honorable man
may be driven into a controversy by public
opinion.
Mr. GRAVES rose and said: I have, Mr-
Speaker, forborne thus far to participate iu (his
debate, though, of all others, most interested in
its issue. 1 have done so from considerations
that will suggest themselves to every one of sen
sibility. Nor do I now propf.se to enter into the
discussion, but only to submit, very briefly, a few
remarks explanatory of my position.
Much has been said about a desire to suppress
and withhold from the Public the testimony in
this case. I am not for suppressing or withholding
from the Public any portion of the testimony ta
ken by the committee and reported to this House,
i I am not only in favor of having that le-timony
; printed, and spread upon the records of this
1 House, but, as an net of justice, to me, 1 claim
I that it be. printed and published to the world with
■ lie least possible delay, in order that il may disa
buse mo from the unjusi prejudice which the re
port of the majority of the committee is calcula
ted to product,' whenever it is read without the
evidence.
1, however, do object and protest most solemnly
against having this report printed, and spread up
on the records id’ this House; because it contains
an unfair, partial, and garbled statement of die
evidence, upon which is hypothecated a discep.
live argument, calculated and intended to do great
injustice to me in public estimation; and, if pla
ced upon the journals of this House, there to re,,
main ns long as llt is Government continues, it
will do me gross,yea, cruel injustice, in the esti
mation ol all such ns, in aftenime, may choose
to look into it without perusing the volume of
evidence appended to it.
1 hope the proposition to print and postpone
the consideration of the report and evidence until
Monday next will he rejected- and that, forthwith,
the whole subject will he referred hack to the
committee, with instructions to report hack to the
House, with die least possible delay, die evidence
indy. This can he done in n very few minutes;
and, ns soon as it is done, 1 hope the House will,
with the greatest possible despatch, have the tes
timony printed.
, Upon the coming in of the testimony, if the
House should choose to hold me amenable, per *
sonally, lor a supposed breach of its privileges,
so tar iron) opposing or proposing to postpone the
I proceedings which may he instituted to that end,
1 shall request, and, il I have the right to do so,
I demand, immediate action.
Whilst I should ho the Inst to do an act com
■ promoting the high privileges of (his House, I
j would hog to submit to the consideration of gen
tlemen, who deny that it would ho admissible to
receive and prim die evidence, beyond the point
at which il first appeared tliut members were im
, plicated, whether, injustice to the meniheis that
have been implicated,and in deference to the great
anxiety in the, public mind to see the procoedm|l>B
of this committee, the evidence taken and repor
ted by t hem ought lint to lie punted and gUea to
the Public, hut not to he used ns evidence in any
proceeding which may he institu e l by the House
, against any of its members. That the select
committee, in strictness, had no right to prosecute
the investigation of the subject, so far as related
to members, beyond the point ul which it was ap
parent that members ol this House were implica
ted, cannot, 1 think, ho well questioned by such
as have attended to this debate. Still 1 suppose
this objection would he properly waived by those
who are implicated. The privileges of die mem
bers implicated arc equally the piivilogcs of the
House, whose province it is to protect its ptivi
leges in its own way.
VV henever proceedings arc instituted against
ms, I. shall claim all the rights which the Consti
tution of my country and the rules of this House
guaranty to me. 1 shall object to he tried by n
committee holding its secret sessions in one of
iho committee rooms of this Capitol. For, though
I, at this day, might not suffer injustice, the lime
may come when il would he quoted as a fatally
clangorous precedent. Vos, sir, the time possibly
may come when that high seal which you now
j- occupy may he reached by another, predicating
I his claims not upon high and towering genius,
r lolly and unimpeachable patriotism, and cliques*
, lionnhle integrity, hut upon low parly spirit; por
” Imps as the unscrupulous organ of a lawless ma
. jorily, which accident may have thrown imu this
Hall, and who, when i> became die purposes of
Ids party to rid themselves of an obnoxious polii
, tical opponent, or (o degrade him in public esti
mation, would select, as his triers, a committee, a
majority of them composed of such political ad
versaries of the obnoxious member, us had shown
the greatest avidity to visit their malignity upon
him. Where ihert would he the boasted privilo.
ges of this House; where the much boasted safe
ty of the People’s Representatives, destined to
the fate of a trial before such a committee, holding
its secret sessions in one of the commutee rooms
of this Capitol, overruling and excluding all
, questions, without regard to rule or law, which
might ho thought by them inexpedient ?
Though 1 was notified ilitu I might ailcnd
r and cross examine the witnesses, 1 supposed
, the privilege was extended by the courtesy
3 of the committee to mo and to him who was
• most closely connocled with the other party,
- to enable us to see that no injustice was done
1 to either parly in the investigation ofllic sub
■ ject. I thought the committee was raised,
' so far us members were concerned, only to
1 investigate the subject, and report the facts
1 of the case to the 1 louse, in view of sotting
right the ton thousand false reports that were
’ overspreading the country, and of furnishing
j the basis of a law to prevent the recurrence
I of such affairs. I never had any notice, or
I entertained lire most remote apprehension,
that the committee contemplated a proceed,
mg against me, until the astounding fact was
announ ed to me, that I had been arraigned,
tried, and found guilty; and that a resolution
j was to ho offered to the House to impose up.
on me the heaviest punishment in us power
to inflict —an expulsion from this House as
unworthy to hold a scat here. When nil
’ tlicso.tliings were communicated to me, Mr.
e Speaker,jmy surprise may he better imagined
I loan expressed. *
„ Deal out to nie equal handed justice, and
„ I shail quietly submit, to whatever late may he
,t assigned mo by public opinion: a tribunal to
; whose behests, on the subject that has given
c rise to this proceeding, not only the humble
individual who now addresses you, hut the
o greatest and best men that, have adorned the
II annals of Jiritieh and American history in the
f present age, hate been compelled to bow
» in humble submission.
0 | Whenever it shall he the pleasure of this
• House to arraign rnc, I shall claim my legal
I’ and constitutional right of being tried by my
y peers (ho members of this House, here in this
e Hall, in open day, and in view of the assem
bled public. I shall claim to confront all the
witnesses called to testify against mo, mid
1 require them to testify before the members of
tins House,who are my judges,and who should
not only hear the testimony, but witness the
>, manner and spirit in which it is delivered.
■ I should do injustice to myself were Ito
y conclude with out saying that I was not con.
u scions, at the time, that I had invaded the
t privileges of this House. I thought I was
especial v careful to preserve tln-m. i find,
ho wever, that, being connected with a duel,
r ' either r-' principal or second, when a mein
s her is a principal, technically involves ail
r ‘ nl ke in a breach of privilege. Mir, I was
involved in the commencement oltlis un
' I fortunate affair innocently. I never ronceiv
' ed it possible that such consequences would
have devolved on me, when I consented to
J become the bearer ol that ill fated note,
~ i otherwise 1 should never have taken on my
jr self the task, I am not, and never have
. been, the advocate ol the anti-social and iin
■ , dir - linn practice of duelling, I have never,
y up to this day, fired a duelling pistol. Nor,
, I until the day when 1 went to the field, f never
i ! mo!; any weapon in my hand in view of a
h j duel. Public opinion is practically the par
h**,-»'**———■»«»» ■■ - *'* » —i»a surrrtn 'mm ni _I—II
amount, law of the lime); every other law, bo'li
human and divine, ceases to be observed; yea,
withers and perishes in contact with it. It
war tins parnmount law o.'this nation and ot
this Jloiino that forced rne, under the penalty
ol dishonor, to subject myself to the code
which impelled me unwillingly into tins tragi,
cal aflair. Upon the beads of this nation, and
ul Ibo doors of ibis House, rests the blood
with which my unfortunate hands have been
stained.
'“lit (|iiii'l-l>»; I’ll call my Mother I”
As I was silting in a wood,
1 ruder an oak tree’s leafy cover,
Musing in pleasant solitude,
Who should come by but John, rny lover!
He pressed my hand, unit kissed my eheek
Then warmer growing, kissed the oilier;
While 1 exclaimed, ami strove to shriek,
"He quiet — ilo ! I'll call my mother!”
Ho saw my anger was sincere.
And lovingly began to chide me;
And, wiving from my cheek Iho tear,
He sat him on the grass beside me.
Ho feigned such pretty, amorous wo,
Ureiilb’d such sweet vows one after other,
[ could hut smile while whispering low,
"He (inlet —do ; I'll call my mother I”
He t alked so long, and talked so well,
And swore he meant not to deceive me;
1 fell more grief 11. an I can tall,
When with a kiss he rose to leavo me ;
“Oh, John !” said 1, “and must thou go 1
I love thee helter than all other !
Thera is no need to hurry so,
/ never meant to call my mother !”
Tholler’s Address,
To the Judge, an being arked in the usual form
why Sentence of Heath should not he passed
against him.
Mr Imiin:—l suppose that any thing I may
have to say, will not prevent you from passing
that sentence which yon have already prepared,
and although your question is part of the usual
prescribed form, and however fruitless any re
marks from me may appear at tills moment, stan
ding in (he peculiar position in which I am pla
ced, 1 will not let pass the opportunity without
answering yon, by solemnly protesting against
the jurisdiction of this Court to try me—and
against the unjust, tyrannical, and barbarous law
under which 1 have linen tried, and conditionally
found guilly.
It well i ay he called unjust, tyrannical and
barbarous, a relic of your olden time—of Uato
niiil and Feudal .1 legislation—a law made 01111
years ago, before England had a Colony, and
when her sway was confined to her own I hand.
A law, totally unlit for the present day—and dif
fer ng as much from the spirit qf your present
laws, as the feelings, minds, and pursuits of the
men of that day dilfer liom those of this.
It is a law, my lord, which would deprive you
and every other person in tins numerous nssem.
lily from emigrating to any country, where ren
sons political or pecuniary might point out, and
hind you to the. country, where hy the chance
merely of circumstances you were horn, in letters
as strong ns those which lieund the Saxon sort
instill the farm of the Thane whose born Thrall
ho was. I
Is it possible, my lord, that at this advanced
age of civilization, such u law would he enforced—
a prerogative which the Crown of no other na
tions hold over their born subjects, ami over which
every enlightened being in the world—and parti,
culm ly those residing in that enlightened llepuh*
lie of which f am a citizen, will and ought to
look upon with horror and detestation.
1 pr..tested on my trial, against the juriediction
of this court. That I could not he guilly of I rea
son, not being a subject of Great Hriiain, hut a
citizen of the United States; and if 1 hud com
mitted an olfcnco, it was one against the law of
nations, and that I could not bo tried in this Pro
vince, hut in England, or the country of which I
was a citizen.
It was admitted, my lord, by the Court, ‘dial I
was a citizen of the United Slates, hut not less a
subject, having been born in Ireland; that being
born a subject, no act of mint! could tiniko me
aught else. That (treat Urilain could, notwith'
standing my citizenship,still hold mu as u subject.’
Such doctrines certainly places tlio naturalized
citizens of the United States in a singular predi
cament, obliged as they are to do military duly
us wi ll as the native horn, without distinction.
In event of war, if they were ordered to invade
the llritish dominion, by refusing they would be
punished by the one government for insubordina
tion and cowardice, oi obeying, be punished by
the oilier as traitors.
A precedent was quoted hy the Attorney Ce
noral, in the case of Eneas McDonald, which
somewhat resembled mine. As your lordship
remarked, lie was found guilly also, hut not exe
cuted, and this happened ninety three years ago.
Since that lime, what a change has taken place
among nations, as among men! More liberal and
extended views have been held, both by the Co
venters and the governed—a new nation has
sprung up from English colonists, with a popula
tion <d' upwards of scvenlt en millions, one fourth
of whom arc in the same situation as tnysell, ha,
ving been horn under a monarchy, but who have
since become citizens of a tree and independent
Republic, whose Constitution was framed directly
opposite to the law laid down by this court —
‘once a subject, always a subject!
When tried, my Lord, I rested my defence on
that ground. 1 did not cull evidence to prove, as
I might have clone, that when pursuing my
course from an American port, in an American
schooner, and going to an American island, and
in the regular channel and thoroughfare which
all regular vessels take that pass and repass from
the ports of the .Stales of New York, Ohio, Mi.
ehignti, Illinois, and Wisconsin, I was fired upon
in repealed vollies of musketry, by yoflr militia,
Indians, and negroes, of Malden, and when drawn
upon your shores by the inclemency of the wea
ther, and rny men killed and wounded by the
galling fire, of throe or four hundred concealed
riflemen, I fired upon them in self defence, —this
I would have proved,—and if your Lordship
could remember, nearly all of which was admit
ted by the very evidence brought against rne, —
by my captors, as they styled themselves, —lltoy,
even they, admitted the greater part.
And now, my lord, after three months severe
imprisonment, the greater part of which lime was
passed in chains, I have been tried for “not ha -
ving the fear of Uod iu toy heart, nor weighing
the allegiaticr I owed her Majesty the Queen.”
An allegiance which I did not consider myself to
owe, and which 15 or Hi years before, 1 have so
lemnly sworn, in open t’ourt, to renounce in the
manner prescribed by the Constitution of the Uni
ted Stoles.
And what, my lord, was the verdict of the
jury ? a conditional one. Their discriminating
minds plainly perceived that I could not he
the citizen of one country, and the subject of
another; that both were incompatible, and
they gave in their verdict, which to me seems
a strange one—“lf I was a subject, I was (toll
tv of Treason.” lam not a subject, therefore
I am not guilty of Treason.
I am free from saying, my lord, or of wish-
I lug rnvsi If understood to say, that I have not
done wrong, anti acted contrary to the laws ot
my own country. Hut in extenuation of my
olfcnce, I would slate to your lordship that in
the middle of December last, there came to
Detroit a vast number of men, who lied from
this country—many of them were poor, hun
gry and naked. They had fled from tiled
homes and families, at a momenta notice.—
They told the story' of their sufferings, and
their wrongs. These stories were circulated
by the press, and believed by all ; while your
Magistrates, and others in authority on our
frontier confirmed in tile minds of many, the
same by their insulting ami overhearing con.
duct towards some of our citizens, whom bus
iness had induced to go over among them.
Then came (he thrilling news of the cutting
; out of the steamboat Caroline at Schlosser, an
'* indignity .committed on our national honor
an insult on our national flag. Hetore that
time, my lord, nothing was done by the citi
zens of Michigan, nor was there anything in
tended to be done, but contributing to the
comfort of the unfortunate men who were
said to he.sufferers in the same cause like the
fathers of our own revolution of'76. Reports
were also ch'etiTatcd by persons residing in
Sandwich and M ddcu, that they were raising
the Indians ami refugee negro slaves residing
there, to hum Detroit and other places that
had afforded an asylum to those whom they
called rebels.
excitement then pervaded every mind, and
I, my lord, in eimmum with others, in an evil
time, rushed headlong in committing a breach
of the constitution of my own country, and for
which I am amenable to her own laws.
To you, my lord, whom both parlies ac
knowledge to be a Immune man and upright
judge, the melancholy task of pronouncing
the sentence of Death, in any case, must he a
’ painful one ; how much more so must it he in
this instance—here no atrocious acts were
committed, no murder nor arson ; hut men
who, through the misrepresentations of others,
! and from the natural indignation arising from
■ the outrage committed on (heir’s and their
Country’s Honor, and I ran say from the best
and purest motives that could actuate the hu
man heart, have been hurried into an excess
• which a few men, to magnify their own prow
ess have augmented into one of the most hor
rible and atrocious acts of piracy.
1 I will not detain your lordship any longer,
hut would request you, if consistent with your
’ duty as a judge, to favor me so far as to delay
the final execution of your sentence sulficlent
-1 ly long that time may he had to lav my case
before the proper tribunal of the Home Cior
-1 ernmont, and have your Sovrcigu’s pleasure
■I thereon
IlAitn Tarns.—A passenger down stream
i informs us, ‘pon honor, that. ulOiuciiinati and
r Louisville the timers are are so hard (hat a
man will prop himself against a wall and
a hunt round his pockets for a quarter of ari
. hour fi r“a lo’dr pence”—and not tied it, at.
1 Inst. “The times,” says lie, "is really sere v
d liatin«j.”—.V, (). Picayune,
“ A SriiKMMD Kimii.k,—A big deg running
slier a little negro is thus showed oil’ by one
of pur cotemporiries: ‘As the estrich qses
I both legs r.iul wings when the Arabian cours
er presses on her rear, ns the winged light
nings leap from the heavens when the eternal
, Ims (inbound her holts, so does n little negro
run like the devil when a tile do ’ is after
I him.” ° ’
_____ COMMERCIAL.
UAI.TIMOIIB MARKET, MAV 11.
(‘tfjntr - Almmii. 200 hags Rio wore oflered, inclu
ding 1.0(54 bags, cargo of Mentor. .Sales worn
I made to ilia extent of iilioul 1 fitK) hags, si prices
. varying from 9* a 123 cents. Sales of St Doinin-
I goutlK attic. At miction on Wedr c«dny, 7H Mils
and 'lO bags Porto Rita were sulil at US u 1 lie
Flour -Thu market is more firm, uml the lenileii
-1 cy upwards.
ii UowunlslmlFlour— Them is mil. much doing
r in Ibis doscripiiuu, Imt Ibn market is firm. Sales
~ from stores are mailing in limited Inis ill, $7,75, and
, fiir clnoce lirands ttM is asked. Vho wagon price is
, generally 7.00, aliliuugli some dealers are unwilling
to pay over 7 2;5.
I (’ih/ Mills Flour. —Recent sales at $7 7.5 per hid
- Holders firm.
r tSusi/urhumoh Flour —hast sides were at #7 75
—now held at $B,
Hy- Flour —Sales at 1 50—article scare.
, rouisious J here is no change in the prices of
Heel and fork. Sales of Western liaeon have been
made at Ml a B}c and wilhin a day or two past at
1 Jc, which slmvys a tendency to advance in puce.
h /o's/rc// -11 to market has been firm throughout
- mo week, w ith sales ol hhds at. 3uic. J.arge Hales
, '>• bills worn made in Iho course of the w eek at 321
cents, mid al the close at 33c. Holders ofhlids
I now imk JJe. The market indicates an upward
• tendency. The wagon price nf hbls is 2fia tlHr,
i. exclusive rd the hid. Jhr jnsneclions of the week
i) comprise C3fi hhds and 2101 hlds of winch f.ol
I hhds and 1220 hhiN were from ihu .Vnsrpmliaimah',
and 315 from Philadelphia.
i
MVFRI’OOL COTTON MAHKKT, ArRiJ,. H. .
i l l'l! import lor tho week is 5H,H48 bales; iin mol?,
52,987 from ihe IJniled Slates, 45.03 from Brasil, b7'i
‘ Jroni Pern, find 231 irom the West Jmlia Islands.—
I lies sales of Iho week arc 20,500 bugs, of which
t there are (alien on spec,illation 1.000 bags of Airicri
r run, and for exportation 000 American and 0.00 Bij.
. nit. Tim prices of American ( o'hni oro lowered Id
P°r IIk; in Iho pr cos ol tho other Kind# the reduc
tion is only id. per lb
April J IHh—The Hales shine Friday amount to
s 12,000 bags, of which 2,500 are wold In-day. Jn pri
’ ecu I hero ih no alteration. The nrnvtiln arc? V vm
i sols from New OrloiiriH, 3 from Mobile, f» from Bar
| vnnnab, 1 from Now i York, J Irom Kgypt, and I
l from Bombay.
MARINE INTELUGENCE.
, BAVANNAiI, May ll.—Arrived, hr Bavnnnah, l,j .
, vermore. New York, hr I f•*rc*nl ßiley, New Orlemi*,
hr .Splendid, Cousins, New York, sclir Ajax, Morgan,
/iiiltiiiiore, nloop Wave, hoist ley, Apuliiolik'oln, Blenm
; bout Free Trade, Cchwi 11, Angusta, steamboat I’vmiMl,
I 1 rwtlo ii, Black Creek, Meaiuhoal Han tee, I’oinsett.
Black Creek. *
• Went to sea,nclir Rnim.% (‘oh*. New York.
i Departed, glen inbuilt Chatham, Wray, Augusta, *tenm
boat.las Adiinis, Cliaee, (.areyg Ft rn.
OH Alt I.KSTON, May I A. — Arrived yesterday, ship
OceanuH, I'riuee, Liverpool, skip Governor Fenner,
t Church, /iiisiul, (It I,) hr Mohawk, < rocker, Bouton,
srlir Imperial, It gors/J aioim Buy,selir M« dilerrnoean,
Henry, .New Orleans,schr Mary, Nickerson, Apalaot.i
-3 co'a.
s Cleared, barque Kumum Drew, lln \ re, hr Margaret,
Sampson, /foil, ream,vein* Hope, GriMibk-:, Key West,
mu~ -irtm ■■ iww i ■ Mmtm
’ f.NII’TV gro.i« Hiiperior Winn in ham
il- porajuat received and for ndlo lo Hby •
W K JII JACKSON, Auctioneers.
May 16 .
(I fST and for «uie by A slß
■ J I.HV,
5()0 prs. ( ifnrgia Nonkeen Pantaloons
u Dm «i'M do Nardojeiis. quality superior to diiy
r over offered in llii.s rnarUel.
Nolen of tho Western Bank ol Uomo taken at
P par. May 10
I | IiOKMO I'M)K SAI.K.
- Til 10 mi! sen bop offers for sale ari
S '*; cxorllni't Inroilygroy horse, periertly
t r /"~ ~ gentle m » ilhor dmihle or single hap
nr «h, nod nn excellent saddle horse-•
\ ,/ h Persmis w i.sfnngro purchase may see
S' Ihe Inn -e by ealhin* al Ur IHhlor’s
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