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THE MADISONIAN.
VOL. IV.- NO. 77.] WASHINGTON CITY, THUKSDA Y, APRIL 1, 1841. [WHOLE NO 45H.
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*1 he following Is the thrilling and effective ??ng
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V r oncert |Mt Tuesday evening. It is now for
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Coatks.?at. y. Signal.
THE GAMBLER'S WIFE
Dark i. the night1 How ,J.rk ' No light! No fire '
t old, on the hearth, the U.I taint spaiks expire!
I Shivering she watches by the cradle aide
'or hun who pledged her lure?laut year a bride!
"Hark! 'Tis hi. footatep! No!?'Tis past!?'Tis
gone!" r
w^k TT^~."How wearily the time crawls on!
W hv should he leave me thus 1 ?He once waa kind I
And 1 believed 't would last !-How mad 1-How
blind I"
"Real thee, mv babe 1-Re.t on !-'Ti? hunger's cry !
Sleep ?For there u no food !?The font ia drv!
r amine and cold their wearying work have done.
My heart mu.t break!?And thou!"?The clock
atrikea one!
' Huah ! 'lis the dice-box ! Yea; he'e there ! he therel
;"r ??fi>' this he leave* me to despair!
Leave, love! leave* trulh ! hi? wife' hi, child! for
what 1
The wanton 'a amile?the villain?and the aot 1
'.'J*1'" "<>l <??'** him. No! 'tia all in vain !
1 is long to wait, but aure he ll come again !
And I could atarve und bleaa hiui hut imt yno
My child\--hi. child! Oh, fiend!" The clock atiikei
two.
Hark1 How the sign-board creak*! The blait
howls by,
M?*ak'j! "o*" ' A d ree lhroutf,> the cloudy
?},* ' "8 f!i" knock! he cornea!?he cornea once more!"
1 la but the lattice fia|ia ! Thy ho[ie ia o'er !
"Can he desert ua thua ! He knowa I atay
Night alter night in loneliness to pray
t or his leturn?and yet he aces no tear ! I
No! no! It cannot be! He will be here!
more closely, dear one, to iny heart!
1 hou rt cold ! 1 hou'rt freezing ! But we will nol
part!
Husband !?I die !- Father !?It ia not he !
Oh, God protect my child!" The clock atrikea
three.
In addition to the above, the following concluding
stanza, l.om the pen of another gentleman, himself
tlie author of some fine songs, was sung by Mr. Rus
They re gone, they're gone! the glimmering spark
hath fled I B v
The wilu und child are nurober'd with the dead.
Un the old earth, outstietched in solemn rest,
rp babe lay frozen on its mother's brea-t;
1 he gambler came at lust-but all wai o'er?
Dread silence reign'd around?the clock struck four!
THE INQUIRY.
Tell ine, ye winged winds,
1 hat round my pathway roar,
Do ye not know some s(iol
Where moituls weep no morel
Some lone and pleasant dell,
Some valley in the West,
Where free liom toil and pain,
'J'he weary soul may rest 1
The li>ud wind dwindled to a whisper low,
And sighed for pity as it answered " No!" '
Tell me, thou mighty deep,
Whose billow* round me play,
Know'si thou some favored spot,
So.i.e island far away,
Where weary man may find
The bliss for which he sight,
Wh ere sorrow never lives,
And Friendship never dies 1
^ he loud waves rolling in perpetual flow,
Stopped lor a while, and sighed to answer No !
And thou, serenest moon,
That with such holy lace,
Dost look 11Hon I he rM rl h
^ Asleep in night's embrace,
Tell me in all thy round,
Hast thou not seen some spot
WI.er miserable man
Might find a happier lot 1
Behind a cloud the moon withdrew in wo
And a voice sweet, but sad, rcs|>ondcd "No!"
Tell me, my sacred soul,
Oh I tell me Hope and Faith,
Is there no resting place
From sorrow, sin and death ;
Is there no happy spot
Where mortals may be bless'd
Where grief may find a balm,
And weariness a rest 1
I* aith, Hope, and Love, best boons to mortal given,
Wuv d their bright wings, and whispered, '^es, in
Heaven."
FORGIVENESS.
How beautifully falls
- rum human lips, the blessed word korgivr !
Forgiveness, 'tis the attribute of God ?
I he sound which openeth Heaven?renews again
On earlh, lost Eden's bloom, and flings
Hope's halcyon o'er the waste of life.
Thrice happy he whose heart has been so school'd
In the meek lessons ot humility,
That he can give it utterance; it imparts
Celestial grandeur to the human soul,
And makclh man an angel!
fttfscriianrous.
NAPOLEON AT MOSCOW.
BV AI.KXANDKK DUMAS.
It was on the 14lh of September, 1812, at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, that the French army
discovered the holy city from the heights of Mount
Salvation. A* had been the cane fifteen years
before at the aspect of the Pyramids, one hun
dred and twenty thousand men immediately
clapped their hands shouting, "Moscow ! Mos
cow !' Alter a long navigation in the sea of
Hleppes, land was at" length descried. On be
holding the city with the golden cupolas, all was
forgotten, even the terrible and bloody battle of
La Mo-kowa, which bad saddened the army as
much'as if it had been a defeat. Afiertouching
with one hand the Indian Ocean, France thought
slit was about to extend the other to the Polar
Seas. Nothing had arrested her progress?nei
ther the desert of sand, nor the desert of snow.
She was really the Queen of the World?she
who had bad herself crowned in every capital.
The shouts of the whole army, which broke
up its ranks in eager impatience, brought up Na
poleon himself. His first feeling was an ineX'
pressible joy, that brightened his brow. As all
the rest, he exclaimed, '-Moscow! Moscow!"
standing erect in bis slirrups ; but the shadow of
a cloud was immediately seen to pass over his
forehead, as he resumed his saddle and uttered
the words, "I was tempted !"
I be army halted, for Napoleon, keeping his
eyes eagerly fixed upon the town, expected that
from one of its gates some deputation of long
bearded noblemen and young girls with boughs
would come forth, bearing the keys of the holy
J city upon a silver plate. Every thing, however,
J remained silent and solitary, as if the city were
asleep; no smoke firose from the chimneys.
Large flights of crows hovered round the Krem
lin, and alighted upon some dome, the gold of
which disappeared as beneath a black sheet.
On the other side of Moscow we thought we
descried an anuy in motion, a? if leaving by the
gate opposite to the one i?i front of tn. It was
once more that unseizable enemy who had slip
ped through our hands Irotn the Kiemen to that
Moskowa, and who was plunging into the Rast.
At that moment, as if the French army, ca
glc-like, had spread out its two wings, Kugene
Heauliarnis and Poniatowski extended to the
right beyond the city, whilst Mural, whose move
ments Napoleon watched with increasing anxie
ty, reached the extremity of the suburbs without
any deputation presenting itself.
The Marshals then gathered about him, deri
ving their anxiety from his anxiety. Napoleon,
beholding their clouded brows anil wistful looks,
guessed that his thoughts were the thoughts of
all. "Patience, patience," said he; " those peo
Eile are so savage that they, perhaps, do not
mow how to surrender."
In the meantime, Mural had penetrated into
the city : Napoleon, no longer able to resist his
impatience, sent Goursraud after him ; Gourgaud
galloped off, entered the city and joined Mural
ai the moment when one of Milarodowick's offi
cers was declaring to the King o. Naples that
the Russiau General would set lire to the city it
his rear guard were not allowed time enough to
retire, tiourgaud galloped back and conveyed
the news to Napoleon, whose reply was, Let
them go; I want all Moscow, from the richest
palace to the humblest hut."
Gourgaud went back with the answer to Mu
rat, whom lie found amidst a party of Cossacks,
who were gazing with astonishment at the em
broidery of his rich polonaise and the plumes
decking his cap. Mural informed 4hem of the
armistice, gave his watch to their leader, his
trinkets to another, and, wjjcu hfi Jwd Liytfhw#
note to (five, borrowed the watches ana rings of
the aids-de-camp.
Meanwhile the Russian army, sheltered by
this verbal convention, continued to evacuate
Moscow
Napoleon stopped at the gate, still expect
ing that some of its inhabitants would come
out of the enchanted town. No living being
appeared, audev< ry returning officer uttered the
strange words, ''Moscow is deserted. ' Y et he
could not believe them ; he looked on and listen
ed ; it was the solitude of the desert?the silence
of death. He was at the gates of a city of tombs
?it was Pompeii or Necropolis.
Nevertheless, lie still ttciitered himself that,
like Bremus, he would find either the army at
the capi'ul, or the Senators magnanimously
awaiting his arrival in their curule chaiis. lo
prevent any escaping from Moscow who had not
such right, he ordered the city lo be !-urrouiidrd
I on one side by Prince Eugene, and on the oilier
by Poniatowski; the two armies spread along
I like a crescent, and enveloped Moscow. He
then otdered the Duke of Danizicand the Young
Guard to push on and penetrate to the heart of
the capital. At length, after delaying his own
entry as long as he could, as if he would still
doubt what his own eyes beheld, lie determined
j on passing the Dorogonistoff gate, summoned to
him his Secretary Interpreter, who was acquaint
ed with Moscow, ordered him to keep ckse to
bun, and, whilst advancing towards the deep si
I lence, which was only interrupted by the noise
I ot his own steps, he put questions to him about
all the deserted palaces, monuments, and dwell
ings, he beheld before him. Then, as if alraul
to venture into that modern Thebes, he stopped,
alighted from his horse, and took up a temporary
abode in a large inn, which was abandoned like
the rest of the city.
Scarcely had he stationed himself there when
his orders succeeded one another, as if he had
just pitched his tent in a field of battle. He felt
the want of combatting, a solitude and silence
was more awful than the presence and Jrat as
of an armv. The Duke de Trevise (Mortier)
was appointed Governor of the Province, the
Due de Dantzic (Lefebvre) was ordered to occu
py the Kremlin, and take charge of the police ol
that quarter; the King of Naples was to pursue
the enemy, not to lose iityht ihein, to pick up
stragglers and send them to Napoleon.
Night came on, and as it came Napoleon grew
as gloomy. Some carbine reports had been
heard in the direction of the Kolomna gate. It
was Murat, who. after marching nine hundred
leagues, and bring present in sixty actions, had
crossed the capital of the Czars as tic woulJ h?.-o
done a tillage, and overtaken the Cossacks 011
the Wladimir road. Some Frenchmen were
announced, who had come lo solicit their Empe
ror's clemency. Napoleon ordered them to be
brought in, anxiously questioning them, thank
ing them in some measure for having come with
news; but at the first words they uttered he
frowned, flew into 11 passion, and gave them a
denial. They related indeed strange things.
According to them, Moscow was doomed to
destruction ; M cow was doomed by the Rus
sians themselves, by its own sons, to fire! It
was impossible, thought he.
At two in the morning the news arrived of a
fire having broken out in the commercial Palace,
or the finest quarter of the city. Rostopchin's
threat was being realized^ yet Napoleon 3till
doubted it; it must be the imprudence of some
soldier that had caused the conflagration. W ith
this belief he issued order after order and de
spatched messenger after messenger. Daylight
caine without the flames being extinguished,
for, fa strange circumstance) nowhere had any
engines been found. Napoleon then hastened
in person to the scene of his disaster. It was
the fault of Mortier?the fault of the \ oung
Guard- all arose from the imprudence ot the
soldier's. It was .hen that Mortier turned the
attention of Napoleon to a closed house which
was kindling by itself as if by magic. Napoleon
sighed and slowly ascended, with drooping head,
the steps leading to the Kremlin.
lie had at length reached that desired object
of his enterprise ; in front of him stood the an
cient residence of the Czars; to bis rip hi the
Church enclosing their tombs; to his left th<
Senate's Palaces; and in the background the
lofty steeple of Ivan Welikoi, whose guili cross,
beforehand destined by him to be substituted lor
that of the Invalides, commanded all the domes
of Moscow.
lie entered the Palace, and neither the archi
tecture, the va?t and splendid apartments which
he went through, nor the magnificent view of the
Moskowa; with a world of houses, golden domes,
silver cupulas, and bronze roofs, could wrest
Irim from his reverie. It was not Moscow lie
had in hi- gra-p, but its shadow, spectre, and
phantom. YV ho was it that had killed it?
On a sudden he was told that the fire was ex
tinguished, and he laised his head again. It
was another foe vanquished; his fortune was
still that of Cirsar. Reports succeeded one an
other. According to them the Kremlin arsenal
contained forty thousand English, Austrian and
Russian muskets, a hundred pieces of cannon, a
quantity of lances, sabres, armors, and trop.ues
captured from the Turks and Persians. At the
German gate 400,000 pounds of gunpowder,
and a larger quantity of salpctre, had been con
cealed in isolated buildings. The nobility had
abandoned their five hundred palaces, but those
palaces were open and furnished and would lie
occupied by the superior officers of the army.
Some houses, which had been deemed empty*
would be opened; they belonged to the middle
classes of society, and they would tame or at
tract others. Lastly, we had behind us 2o0,0l)0
men, and might await winter. VV ith spring war
would revive, and with war victory would re
"Napoleon fell thus nslecp betwixt contending
apprehensions ami hopes.
At midnight the cry of 'Fire, was again
heard. The wind was from the north, and the
fire had broken out towards the north. 1 hits
I chance seconded the.flames. The wind drove
them in the direction of the Kremlin, which
ihev approached like a burning stream. 1 r,n'f
did the sparks fly to the palace s toof, and fall
amidst a park of artillery stationed under its
walls, when the wind shifted to the east. The
Humes changed their direction?they extended
but removed to a distance.
.Suddenly a second (ire kindled in the east
and advanced like the first, pushed by the wind!
' 0 *Ufther doubt could be entertained, it was a
new scheme of destruction adopted by the ene
"i'Y' if".. ,'lt! t'Vidence Napoleon had so long
? ifunk from began to gnaw his heart.
resn columns of (lame and smoke soon arose
ZZVaTl?V The wind being still un
? at"* constantly shifting from north to
from .ill ,'i01 8.ratlon env?1?ped the Kremlin
ed f oJ 1 d"S- At t Vfry ?"???? A?w
,lieir turn h H,n a" Vf f,re? which spread in
liaiiie ?-oi WHS .on8t*r ?* <?re, but a sea of
SIS^6. TTT\Udv' eyet "cending to.
a;? 'he loot ol the Kremlin walls.
fierv ' ' apoleon beheld with terror the
hery tempest: there his might expired and Ins
genius was conquered. The sun lose over the
a^Vh fi^W" exhibited D'ght's dts
circle' dr,uin?VL a?ompl?hed its enormous
, ,n*1 workmen before it, and draw
ng near, r and nearer to the Kremlin. Reports
then succeeded one another, aud we began to
find out who were the incendiaries.
In the night of the 14th, the very night of the
occupation, a globe ol fire had fallen upon Priuce
I roubf-tskoi s palace, and set lire to it. It was
no doubt a signal, for at the yjuy luaweui U>?
itjmcs,iiiid at two or three
places the conflagration made its appearance,
kindled by the tarred lances of Russian police
soldiers. Howitzers had beer, concealed in al
most all the stores, and the French soldiers, in
lighting them to warm themselves, had made
lem explode, so that the howitzers had killed
the men and set fire to the houses. All night
had been spent by the men in flying from house
to house, and in seeing the house they were in
or the one they were entering, spontaneously
inflamed without any visible cause. Moscow
was evidently doom.d to Complete destruction.
Napoleon was then compelled to acknowledge
tbat the hres simultaneously kindled at a thou
sand places were the work of one and the same
hand. Me Wiped Ills forehead, wh. nee copious
proration flowed,, and u t ring a sigh,exclaim
? ,. now thfy contend with m ! '1 he
civilization of St. Petersburg has deceived us,
and the modern Russians are but ancient Scy
thians!" '
He immediately ordered all who should be
seized kindling or stimulating the fire, to be tried
and shot; the Old Guard occupying the Krem
lin, were to stand to their aims, and every
thing was to be kept reaily to quit a city which
had been sought from so great a distance, and
on the occupation of which so much dependence
had been placd.
An hour alter, the Emperor was apprized that
his orders had been executed ; some twenty in
cendiaries had been shot. They had avowed
that they were to the number of nine hundred
and that oefore evacuating Moscow, Rostopchin
had concealed them in the ce.lars, in order that
Ihev might set fire to all parts of the city. They
had faithfully obeyed his commands. In that
hour the flames had made further progress; the
Kremlin looked like an inland ca>t into a sea of
nre. I he atmosphere was loaded with burning
vapors: the glass ol the Kremlin's windows,
which had been closed, crackled and fell to
pieces; the air was filled with ashes and dust.
At that moment a last cry was raised of 'The
Kremlin is on fire !' Napoleon grew pale with
anger. Thus even the ancient Palace, the old
Kremlin residence of the Czars, was not sacred
to those political Erostrates; at least he who had
set fire to it had been seized. He was brought
before the Emperor. It was a soldier of the
Kussian police. Napoleon questioned him,
when he repeated what has already been said.
Each had his task allotted to him ; that entrusted
to him and eight of his comrades was to fire the
Kremlin. Napoleon drove him out with disgust,
and he was shot in the palace court itself.
The Emperor was then earnestly urged to
J|U1? llic palaoo where thcfiic puisued him, but 1
he would resist still I he evidence he had before
him, cliftging to his will, and neither refusing
nor submitting. He remained deaf, inert, and in
consternntiou, when all at once a vague rumor of
the Kremlin being undermined circulated about
him. At the same moment were heard the
cries of the grenadiers calling for him. The
news had spread among them ; they would have
their Emperor, and declared that if he came not
to them immediately they would themselves
fetch him.
Napoleon at length made up his mind. But
how was he to get out? So much time had
been lost that no outlet was left. The Emperor
ordered Gourgaud and the Prince de Neufchatel
(Berthier) to ascend to the Kremlin terrace, and
strive to discover a passage. Several ordon
nance officers were also ordered to explore the
neighborhood of the palace for the same purpose,
All eagerly obeyed, tin- officers rapid y descend
ing all the stairs, and Berthier and Gourgaud as
cending the Urrace. Scarcely were they there
when they were obliged to cling to one another;
the violence of the-wind and rarefaction of the
air were such that they could not resist the com
motion; it was impossible to see any thing but
an ocean ol flames, without apertures or limits.
They returned and made their dismal report
to Napoleon. He then 110 longer hesitated : at
the risk of rushing headlong into the (lames, he
rapidly descended the north stairs, on the steps
of which the Strelitz had been massacred ; but
011 reaching the court no aperture was discover
ed ; the (lames blockaded all the doors?it was
too late.
At that moment an officer hastened up out of
breath, covered with perspiration, and his hair
hall burnt; he had found a passage: it was a
closed postern-gate which must open upon the
Moskowa. Four sappers rushed to it, and shat
tered it with their axes. Napoleon advanced
between two walls of rocks; his officers, mar
shals and guard followed: to retrace his steps
would now be impossible, he must go on.
The officer had been mistaken; the postern
gate opened not on the river, but into a narrow
street which was blazing. Napoleon set the ex
ample, and rushed foremost beneath an arcade
of (ire; all followed, determined to die with
him.
There was no more road, no guide, and no
stars. They walked at random, amidst the
crackling of the flames and falling roofs. All
the houses were burning or burnt down, and
from the windows and roofs of all that still stood
the flames rushed forth in pursuit of the fugi
tives; beams fell, melted lead flowed in the ken
nels?every tiling was burning; some of the
fugitives fell, suffocated for want of air, or
crushed under the falling wrecks.
At that moment the soldiers of the first corps,
who were in search of the Emperor, appeared
almost in the middle of the (lames: they recog
nised him, and whilst ten or twelve surrounded
him, as if to defend him against an ordinary foe,
the others walked before him. crvi ng, " This
way! Here!" Five minutes after Napoleon was
in safety, amid-t the ruins of a quarter burnt
down since the morning. He then dashed be
tween two rows of vehicles. He asked what
wagons and caissons thev were. The answer
was that they belonged to the (lr?t corps park of
artillery, which had been saved. Every vehicle
contained thousands of 1 unds of gunpowder,
and firebrands lay between the wheels.
Napoleon ordered the load to Petroskoi to be
taken: it was a royal chateau, situate outside the
city, hall'a league from the St. Petersburg gate,
in the centre of Princ Eugene's cantonments.
There were his head quarters to be henceforth
established.
Moscow burned two days and two nights
more ; at length on the morning of the third
day, the flames entirely disappeared and through
the smoke, which covered it like a mist, .\bjkj
leon could behold the blackened aud half-con
sumed skeleton of the holy city.
Well DiaBCTED Satihe.?A series of contribu
tions to Blackwood1 $ Magazine, entitled 'Hints
to Author*,' have appeared within a few months
past, from which we have made occasional ex
tracts, and which are extremely amusing. 1 hey
are intended to show of! the horror school ol no
velists, and the intense authorsnip of the day,
whether in verse or prose. The number for
March contains 'Hints on the Dramatic,' in
which, among many other entertaiuing revela
tions, the pompous inversions which signalize
much of hNowLKs'a writings, as well as those
of similar schools, are admirubly parodied?and
all the deep faults of ? that inflated school made
manifest. The following colloquy, in the an
tique style, exhibits in a dignified light one or
two of the jocose queries of* the day, current on
both sides of the Atlantic. The hit is capital.?
Phil. Gazette.
The difference between the Grecian and Ro
man styles is very great. When you deal with
a Greek subject you must be very devout, and
have unbounded reverence lor Diana of the
Ephesians ; you must also believe in the second
sight; and be as solemn, calm, and jiassionless
as the ghost of Hamlet's lather. Never descend
to the slightest familiarity, nor lay off the stilts
for a moiui nl; and lar from calling a spade a
spade, call it
That sharp instrument
Wilh which the Theban husbandman lays bara,
The breast of our great mother.
The Roman jiui xhentUo* litud, may occa
sion* rrrTSe jocular?but always warlike; one is
like a miracle-play in a church?the other a
tableaux cioant ill a camp. If a Greek has oc
casion to a?k his sweatheart "if her mother
knows she's out," and " if she has sold her man
gle yet"?he suys?
Alentstheus. Cleanthe!
CUantht. My lord I
Men. Your mother?your kind, excellent ino
thei?
She who hung o'er your couch in infancy,
Ami frit wittiin her heart the joyous pride
Of having such a daughter?iloes she know,
Sweetest Cleanthe! thut you've left the shade
Of the mnternal walls 1
Clea. She does, my lord.
Mm. Anil?but I scarce can ask the question?
when
I l..st beheld her 'gainst (he whiten'd wall
SSiood u strong engine?fl-it, ai.d broad, anil heavy
lis entrails stones-and moved on mighly rollers,
Rendering the crilfitl web as MliooUi anil solt
As whin st miow Tuul engine, sweet Cleanthe
Fit pedestal for household deity ?
Lai anil the old Pi nates ?has the it -till 1
Or tot g Id brities has she dispos?-d of ii 1
I lain wnuld know?pray, tell uie?is it soldi
The Roman goes quicker to work :
Tell me, my Tullia, don your mother know
You're out:?and?Has she sold her mangle yetl
READING AND STUDY.
As every book is not profitable to be read, we
ought to make a wise selection, nnd consider,
V\ ill this book repay me for the trouble ol read
fitudy the works of creation and the ways of
Providence, in the naiutal, civil, nnd religious
world, and this not as too many do by desulti rv
reading, with but scanty intetvals of reflection,
but choose deliberate.y some subject lor the
time, and with resolution make thyself master of
it before vou quit it.?Leighton.
The Word and Providence of God, these are
the two books every student ol holiness ought to
be much conversant with.?Boston.
The student will find it advantageous to make
the Bible the index of all his bonis.?Bickers
Take time for the reading of God's Word, and
for prayer: rather take it off sleep than lose .
these most important privileges and delightul
exercises.
Devotedness to God will help us clearly to dis
criminate betwixt what is vain, and trifling, and
worthless, and what is holy, wise, and excellent,
aud we shall not spend our days and our nights
on things the knowledge of which will neither
glorify God nor benefit man.?Bickerstcth.
That says Archbishop Usher, is to be account
ed sound kuowledege which sinks fiom the brain
into the heart, aud thence breaks forth into action;
setting head, heart, hands, all a working; and so
much enly must thou reckon thyself to know in
Christianity as thou art able to make use of in
practice. James ii. 18, and iii 13; 1 John n.
3, 4.
THE BANK CHARTER OF 1816.
From the Xat. Intelligencer of Aug. 8, 1840.
The question on the final passage ol the Hank
bill in the House of Representatives [in 1810]
was determined in the affirmative, by j eas 80,
nays 71, as follows:
Ykas?Messrs. Adgate, Alexander, Atherton, Baer,
Belts Buss, Bradbury, Brown, Calhoun, Cannon,
Champion, Chappell, Clark, of North Carolina, Clark,
of Kentucky, ClenJenin, Coinstock, Condict, Conner,
Creighton, Crocheron, Culhhert, Edwards, Forney,
Forsyth, Gholson, GriHin, Uroxvenoi, Hawes, Hen
derson, Hugcr, Hulbert, Hungerfurd, Ingham, Ir
ving, Jackson, Jewett, Kerr, King, Love, Lowndes,
Lumpkin, Maclay, Mason, McCoy, McKee, Middle
ton Mooie, Moseley, Murtree, Nelson, Parris, 1 ick
ens, Pinkney, Piper, Robertson, Sharne; Smith, ot
Maryland, Smith, of Virginia, Southard, I'aul, l uy
|or of New York, Taylor, of South Carolina, '? el'air,
Thomas, Throop, Townsen.l, Tucker Ward, Wen
dover Whcaton, Wilde, Wilkin, Williams,? Wil
louchby, Thomas Wilson, of Pennsylvania, William
Wilson, of Pennsylvania, Woodward, Wright, \ an
cey, Yates?HO.
Nays?Messrs. Baker, Barbour, Bassett, Bennett,
Birdsall, Blount, Breckenndge, Burnside, Burwell,
Caily, Caldwell, Cilley, Clayton, Cloplon, Cooper,
Crawford, Culpepper, Darlington, Davennort, Desha,
Gaston, Gold, Goldsborough, Goodwin, Hahn, Hale,
Hall Hanson, Hardin, Hejberl, Hopkinson, John
son Kent, Langdon, Law, Lewis, Lovett, Lylc, Ly
on Marsh, Maviant, McKean, of Kentucky, Mc
Lean, of Ohio, Milnor, Newton, Noyes, Ormshy,
Pickering, 1'itkin, Randolph, Reed, Root, Ross, *Jug
gles, Savage, Sergeant, Sheffey, Sini.h, Stanford,
Stearns, Strong, Slurges, Tagga.t, T?lhn,.dge, Vose,
Wallace, Ward, of M.ss., Ward, of N. ^ , Webster,
Whitenid*. Wilcox /1. . ?
Classed politically, according to the deftigna
lions of partv at that .lay, of the Republican
Member-" ?ixty-seven voted in lavor of the bill,
and of the Federal Members thirteen; and ot
those who voted against the bill, about one-halt
were Republicans and on''-hall federalists.?
Two-thirds of the Republicans, therefore, voted
for the bill, and more than two-thirds or the fe
deralists against it.
When the bill came to the Senate, it was de
bated, amended, and finally passed by the follow
ing vote:
Yk?b? Messrs Barbour, Barry, Brown, Campbell,
Chase, Condit, Daggett, Frotnenlin, Harper, H""'*
Howell, Hunter, Lac?ck, Mason, of Va , ??rr'
R bens, Talbot, Tail, Taylor, Turner, Varnnm,
WNays ?Messrs. Dana, Gaillard, Goldsbornngh,
Gore, King, Macon, Mdson, of N H., Ruggles, ban
ford, Tichnor, Wellt, WiUwn I
Of the Yeas, on this rote, seventeen were
Republicans and five Federali-ts, and of the
Nay.^, five were republicans and seven Fede
ra So'that two-thirds of all the Republican mem
bers of Congress assisted to pass the Dank
Charter, and two-thirds of the Federalists did
their best to prevent its passage.
A splendid fete on the Birthday of Washington wss
given by General Cass, our minister to Franee About
one thousand person* attended, including all the Ameri
cansin Paris The prime minister of France, M Gui
r.ot, lA. Theirs, Count Mole, the Ambassadors of the
varinu* Courts of Europe, except Lord Grenville of
England, (who was represented by his Secretary,
Henry Lytton Bulwer/) and many other distinguished
| persons.