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lute charges, entitled the " Game cock and the
unghill." Mr. Canning, as the game, cock, is re
resented standing on a dunghill, crowing, and driv
er seven
he
dunghill cocks from him. The foremast
. retire is Wellington, and after him the Lord
haucellor, muttering " resignation." John Bull
represented as a countryman, with a pitch-fork
his hand applauding the courage of the game cock,
ml rejoices that the dunghills, who had so long
atcu up his com, were driven from the Treasury.
1 h Majesty looks on-him from St. Jame's Palace,
I asks John Bull's opinion as to the merits of the
une cock.
The English papers are so tilled with speculations
iponthe new course of the cabinet, that verv little
g, ice is vouchsafed to continental news. Those ex
racts, however, which do appear, contain nothing
T interest. The general aspect of things is pcnce
K and in relation to Si pain and Portugal, nothing
; stilted more .than at last advices. In France, the
ïiihdrawnl of the law is said to have been in ennse
»
(ii. nce of the marked disrepect manifested to the
.mg and mistress by the people, as they passed
lirough the streets. Threatening words were
hulked upon the walls, and the customary tokens
il deference, such as taking off of hats, Ac. were
lithheld.
BEiiAW/ÜÙ: jOUKNAI.
WaLâiBWsfÔSfS
Yïiûtvjf, June, 8, t82i"i.
Jlppaintment by the Governor.
Joseph G. Rowland, Esq. to be a Judge of the
upreme Court of the State of Delaware.
It is not practical to publish the proceedings of
II the late. Administration meetings at large.
On the 2d of June, a very large meeting— immer
usly attended by gentlemen from the. country, and
y some from a distance of near 10 miles—was held
i Frederick, Maryland, at which John Tyler was
firman, and John M'Phcrson was assistant chair
ami Patrick Owing- and Richard Coal were
Ii. 11. Warfield, John Hugos, and John
Elfresh, F.sq. addressed the meeting,
t that we have not room for more than a single
isolation—
" Resolved , That although many of the members
this meeting differed in opinion at the last presi
al mention, as to the person best qualified to
ischarge the duties of that exalted station, yet, uf
acalin hut rigid scrutiny of the course pursued
the. present administration, we arc unanimously
fopinion, that the measures adopted have been
rise, tempi rate, and essentially calculated to ad
ancethe true interests of these United States."
A committee was appointed to attend the Bulti
Convention.
an,
ccretaries.
We
re
VI
1
ore Convention.
and
whs held at Merrill's, Anne
Another meeting
Irunilel County of which George Howard, Esq. of
'ol. J. E. II.was chairman, and S. Brown was sVicre
of
for
ed,
all
ary. T rum u letter, giving an account of this meet
ig, we make the following extract.
" We have had the most favorable accounts from
II parts of the county, and we calculate upon a
reat revolution in public sentiment in this part of
he State. The People make no complaint, and
ire satisfied with our old, faithful, long tried, public
ervant, and are willing to see him in the Presiden
The present Opposi
known to he persecuting in its course—yok
in with the restrictive policy of the South, striv
ing against Internal Improvement and Domestic
Manufactures, has aroused the People to a sense of
their duly and they will perform it,"
!
■
al Chair for a second term.
we
ion is
id
in
to
\ very numerous meeting of citizens friendly to
our present National Administration was held at
Upper Marlboro on the 28th May, when a Preamble
aud Resolutions, breathing the spirit o! patriotism
and becoming the present important crisis in our
adopted without a dissenting
The honourable Samuel Sprigg, late Gov
of Maryland, was called to the chair and Phi
Chew, appointed Secretary. Gov. Sprigg,
John Johnson, esq. Col. W. I). Beall, Col. Edmund
B. Duval, Hon. Robert W. Bowie, Wm. T.Woot
. and Dr. David Crawford, were elected to
public affairs, were
\oice.
eiuor
einon
i
We have an account of the late meeting held in
Calve, t county, Mary land, from a friend. It was
not called an Administration nor a Jackson meeting,
like those in most of the counties, but as a general
nieeting, of the voters of the county on the subject
of the Presidential election. The canvass lasted
i n, esq
represent Prince George's county in the State Con
vention to be held in Baltimore on the 23d ot July
next.
We copv only one resolution:
" Resolved, That when we recognize among the
most zealous supporters and advocates of General
Jackson, men, who, a few years since, were his most
bitter and uncompromising enemies, with whom no
epithet of abuse or censure was too reproachful to be
applied to him. even us late as the last Presidential
election—and others who, under the solemn and
awful responsibility of an oath, in discharge of offi
cial duties, declared him a cruel and bloody murder
er, and a wanton violator of the constitution of his
country, we cannot but doubt the propriety of yield
ing our confidence to such men, because these sud
den and violent changes from one extreme to the
other, are the results of ungovernable prejudice and
passion, or of inordinate ambition, reckless of con
sequences, seeking change with the desperate hopej
ol being beneiitfed by it.
two days, having eloquent speakers on each side.
It was court week.
There were 305 gentlemen present when the ques
tion was taken, an unprecedented number for that
small but spirited county, df which only 17voted for
Jackson, and all the remainder for the Administra
tion.— Jlnnopolis Republican.
From the Washington Telegraph.
" We are aware of the high responsibility which
rests upon us conductors of the public press, and
are much gratified to find that the present contest
for the Presidency is conducted on the part of edi
tors friendly to the election of Gen. Jackson, with
a moderation and regald to truth, ami
that augurs well for the republic."
The above is, without exception, one of the most
courageous assertions ever ventured by newspaper
bravery. If ever there was a cause eminently dis
tinguished by intolerant violence, by repeatedly ex
posed falsehood, arid the substitution of declamato
ry assertion in lieu of argument, it is that which
is here represented as the offspring of reason, truth.
N. V. Times.
argument,
and facts
Panama Mission.
The anecdote referred to by Mr. Seaton, in re
gard to the opposition made to the Panama mission
ought to be carefully noted. Mr. Seaton states
that an opposition senator, when rallied on the suc
cess of the administration, in carrying the mission,
observed—" Yes they have beaten us by a few votes,
after a hard battle, but hud they taken the other side,
and refused the mission, we would have hud them."
What a monstrous avowal is here made i The ad
ministration accepted the mission, and we opposed
it. Had they refused it., we would have been its
advocates, and " would have had them." This too
from a member of a component part of the national
executive, bound to act under the high sanction of
an oath, to say nothing of principle and honor I
Can good men of any party feel willing to unite with
those, who are profligate enough to entertain, and
impudent enough to avow such principles ?
Cm. Gaz.
Emigration from England .—It lias been mention
ed on the authority of the English papers, that
16,000 settlers, all of them weavers, were to be
sent out from Great Britain to Canada this year.
6000 are to come from Scotland, an equal number
from Ireland, and 4000 from England. Besides this,
a large number of other emigrants is tobe expected,
as the law restricting the number of passengers in
vessels lias been repealed, and 18,000 persons in
Scotland have petitioned to be sent to America. A
greater number than usual may therefore be expect
ed in this state, from Canada.
We observe by the list of arrivals at Quebec,
that from the 1st to the 3d inst, live vessels arrived
with 1116 emigrants, almost all from Ireland.
These and several others vessels, have had very
short passages.—The Montreal had arrived in 18
days from Liverpool, and 14 1-2 from Cape Clear ;
and the Bolivar in 10 days from Belfast. -.V. Y. Adv.
Mr. Baylies, of Massachusetts, the only member
of the delegation in congress who voted against our
present president, as before stated, declined a poll
for re-election. Several new candidates were start
ed, and two trials were had without making a choice.
Mr. Baylies was then again brought forward, and
received about one-sixth of the votes given—
Mr. Hodges being elected by about two for one over
all others.
The Boston Courier says, that there is no oppo
sition in that city to be encountered by theadminis
As illustrative of the
!
■ as
tration of the government,
truth of this statement, it says, "on all the five tic
kets [thirty names on each] for representatives, t
we have been informed, there were only three
pposed to be opposed to the national admin
as
names sit
istration."
From the National Intelligencer.
We observe that, in a great cause about to be tried
in the City of New York, Mr. Webster and Mr.
Van Buren are employed, amongst other eminent
and able gentlemen of the legal profession. The
trial would be worth a journey there to witness.
We wish, instead of what it is, that it were the cause
between Uncle Sam and The Combination, that is
to be argued, before the People, by these two great
men. We should be perfectly willing to re6t the
issue of the pending contest upon such a trial.
We should like to hear Mr. Van Buren's bill of
gainst tins pater families read to the as
rid. How would it read ? Somewhat
indictment a
semblcd woi
thus, we suppose : That the said U. S., with force
and arms, at the State of Ohio, in and upon the soil
thereof a violent assault did make, with picks, and
spades, and ploughs, and divers other grievous in
struments, delving in the said soil, under the pre
tence of making a road to connect the different ex
tremes of the Union, to the great damage of the
said State, against the Constitution of the U. States,
and against the peace and prosperity of the People
of the said United States; and further, that the
said United States, with force and arms, at the State
of New York, and at sundry other States, did de
mand and exact, upon the incoming of divers pro
ducts of foreign countries, such as sugar, cotton and
the manufactures thereof, wool and the manufac
tures there Ac. Ac. certain specific and ad valorem
payments, .,der the pretence of raising a revenue,
when, in fact and in truth, the effect ol the said de
mand and exaction is to protect the growth ot sugar,
cotton, and wool, in these United States, and also to
encourage the manufacture thereof, to the great
damage and injury of the said State ot New York,
against the Constitution of the United States, anil
against the peace anti prosperity ot the People ot
i the said United States ; and that the said U. States,
then and there being, other wrongs and injuries did
to the said State of New York, and especially in
having reciprocated the courtesy offered by certain
pretended Republican Governments, »Hedged to
have been established m Worth and South America
hr certain rebels ugainst lii9 Catholic Majesty t io
King of Spain, Ac. Ac. . .
VVeare not sure that we have the iorm exactly
right, and, indeed, to tell the tjuth. we have not
been very particular in drawing up the bill of indict
ment : but we are pretty sure of the substance-and,
ais a highly respectable Judge of the State of Virginia
is reported to have said, m a case nearly similar, we
go/or the fraud : that is, we aim at the substance,
and care as little for technicalities as we do tor the
distinction which our tried friend, Mr Van Buren,
would probably make between a road for the Irans
Importation of the. Mail and a road on u-hich the Mailis
tobe transported. Such subtleties, however they
may suit our Richmond friends, are not adapted to
our faculties, which (an ingenious writer for our
particular friends the Editors of tho Virginia Enquirer
intimates) consist in plain Common sense and a ten
aciotis memory—a character of intellect of which we
are proud, instead otbeing ashamed, of being thought
to possess..
To this bill of indictment we should like to hear
the liberal and lofty Webster plead. We wish we
hail time to put down our idea, faint as it would be,
of the Speech which he would address to the Peopje
of the Stale of New York, on behallol the détendant. ,
I here would be no special pleading about it—no
reliance on flaws in the indictment : lie would dis
dain them, and demand a verdict. Standing up for
an honest and calumniated cause, he would spurn j
all sectional considerations. • To my client,' be
would say, 'the. interests and prosperity of every part j
ot the United States, arc equally dear. For myself, !
a son of New England, 1 acknowledge the United I
States as the general protector of all my race. I live ;
in a thickly settled country : I wish to see the whole
Union filled with a population equally dense. 1 de
sire to see the Southern and Western States grow
into the importance which their geographical extent
and the fertility of (heir soil Inay authorize them to
hope. My client cannot foresee, for these kindred
of his, this favorable destiny, unless by aids which
the limited territ rry and salubrious climate of my
native country enable it to dispence with. My
avuncular client feels the anxious and natural wish
of an affectionate guardian, to further the interests
of his wards : he cannot consent that they shall be
separated from him and from one another by the
whim-whams of any one or two of the family, who
have a particular antipathy to straight forward paths
through the homestead, or to the clink of the ham
mer and the hum of the spinning-wheel in the dome
stick mansion. As for our foreign relations, we have
but one principle of action—the Christian rule, to
do as we would be done by-'
But, we have intimated, time will not allow ns to
inake the speech : our readers must imagine it : at !
some future day, if we can find the time, we will
give it to him—and, meanwhile, request him to bear
in mind the substance of our distinguished friend
Mr. Van Bukes's bill of indictment, to which the
reply is to be made.
One word of advice we would offer to M r. Web
steii, if we could take that liberty. Mr. W. is a
gentleman of enlarged and elevated views, and of
considerable knowledge of human nature, in this
latter particular, however, he is no match for Mr.
Van Buhen, as is shewn by the dexterity bv which
the latter gentleman contrived to cajole the majority
in the Legislature of New York, last Winter, when
it was obvious that the State was entirel y opposed to
the course which he intended to take in the politics
of the General Government. If we were not already
apprised of Mr. Van Buren's fascinations, we have
authenticated evidence iff them from the South,
where, with the fabled power oft he serpent, (greater
than that which tempted our general mother) lie fas
cinated those even who never came wi thin speech
of him. Hune tu Romane, caveto —we do not add
the rest of this quotation, because we mean not to
apply it. Verbum sat. We have not the least ill
will to Mr. Van Buben. He is a very clever and
gentlemanly man, but, in one word, he is—very
fascinating.
From the Rationed Intelligencer.
The Editors of the Richmond Enquirer have devo
ted the best part of two columns, in their paper of
Friday last, to bewailing the abuse of the Press,
which is committed by its "opponents,
abuse, and impertinent intrusion into personal con
cerns, by the conductors of public prints, the Editors
of the Enquirer would do well, if experiencing it.
to treat it as we do—despise it. As far as political
abuse goes, we are sorry to have to say that, in our
opinion, the Enquirer lias, by itself setting the exam
ple, lost the right to complain of it. There is not,
perhaps, a paper in the Union, which has, for the
last twelve months, misrepresented the aims and
motives of those who will not yoke in with them to
the car ol the Combination, more perseveringly than
the Enquirer. There is not one which, ill its late
career, lias more completely lost sigh ol wliat it owed
to its established character for moderation and dig
nity. We have heretofore had occasion to express
our belief that it was possible for the Enquirer, by
changing its course, to regain, in part, at least, the
ground it has lost. We are glad to see, in the sub
dued tone of the article to which we now refer, some
token of contrition—some amelioration ot style.
One would think that, liko a hook we once read, the
Enquirer had two writers—otic of whom seized the
pen whenever the fancy of the other was running
away with his judgement. Certain it is, that there
is an air of gravity, if not lugubriousness, about this
article, which whimsically contrasts with the levity
which has characterized some of those which we have
recently seen in that paper.
The Editors say that they determined, after the
election of Mr. Adams, to judge him by his measures.
We have all seen how admirably they have executed
this determination. They plead with much earnest
against the charge of inconsistency, founded
upon their late hostility to, and present support of,
General Jackson, which, they say, is preferred
against them "by men, some of whom are the un
blushing advocates of the worst measures of this Ad
ministration." This is, indeed, quite distressing.
That any one should advocate the measures of the
Administration, instead of reviling them, and should
do so without blushing, is a sin beyound redemption.
We should like to know which are the " worst"
measures of this Administration. We should be
obliged to any rational person who will put his finger
on any measure (of consequence) of this Administra
tion which a majority of the American People would
wish undone. -
Condy Raguct, Charge d'Affaires at Brazil, has
arrived in New York
As for mere
*1
ness
The National Intelligencer, amon* other remarks
respecting the rejection, by the Baltimore Conven
tion, of the claims of Mr. Calhoun to a continuation
in the Vice-Presidential chair, makes the fullowioo
In this incident, the attentive reader will disco
ver a corroboration of the rumor circulated here at
the close of the last session of Con»l ess, that Mr
Calhoun was to .be dropped by tile Combination
from their ticket, for the next Presidential election,
With just thé same facility would General Jacksoij
he dropped by the " leaders" of what the Richmond
Enquirer calls the " Organized Opposition." if his
cause were to exhibit decided symptoms of a wanin°
popularity. We confine these remarks to '■•the Ica
ders because we are aware that there are many
who are conscientiously attached to what they be
lieve to be his superior claims to the suffrages of
the People, for the Presidency. If we cannot
with them, we at least respect their prejudices—or,
if they prefer the phrase, tiieir convictions. We
mean to apply the observation to such only ns have
, given in their adhesion to General Jackson, not
from the least regard to him, but from a belief that
they can carry him through upon the shoulders of
the" Militia, and that, having got him to the goal, he
j is to be President, indeed, but they are to he *■ Vice
Roy over him." And the moment they discover
j that he will not serve for their stalking horse, they
! will abandon him, just as heartlessly as they luive
I done Mr. Calhoun.
;
agree
Already the most efficient supporters of Gen.
Jackson (in Virginia) speak of him as their candidate
for the Presidency, as '-a choice of evils,
such Complimentary language do they salute the
man whom they profess to delight to honor. It will
be perceived how easy the transition would be from
such language to his abandonment altogether.
jj
Wirb
Appointment by the Governor.
JOHN TOD, Esq. President Judge of the Courö
of Common Pleas, ike. in Bedford county ike. to
be a Judge of the Supreme Court of 'Pennsylvania,
in the room of Horace Benney, Esq. declined.
Great Southwestern Road.
Chilticolhe, May 10.—We have the pleasure of
informing our readers, that Colonel Long and Lieu
tenant Trimble, of the Corps of Engineers, in the
service of the United States, for exploring and sur
veying the great Southwestern Road from Zanesville,
in Ohio, to New Orleans arrived in town on Tues
,|ay 0 f t |,i s week, and departed for the Southwest on
the succeeding morning. We understand that they
ale passing over the contemplated route, with a view
of making a general reconnaissance of the country,
and to collect such facts, as to the practicability of
conctiucting this great national work, as may pre
sent themselves from topographical surveys of the
same ;—that, when they shall have examined the
country as far South as Florence, at the foot of the
Muscle Shoals, in the State of Alabama, they will
there be met by General Bernard, the Chief Engineer,
who will take up the line thence, South, to the point
where it intersects the great Southern mail route
from Washington City to Orleans. From Florence,
Col. Long and his party will commence a critical
examination, ami survey Northward to Zanesville,
the point of divergency from the great National
Road, now making from the right bank of tue Ohio
river, opposite Wheeling, to Tissouri. We also
understand, that the prominent points indicated in
their instructions from the War Department, from
Zanesville Southwest, sire Lancaster, Chillicothe,
Limestone, Lexington, Nashville, and Florence, in
Alabama.
We have learnt, with satisfaction, that after fre
quent conferences, and the interchange of several
official notes, between Mr. Clay and Mr. Rebelmo,
the Charge d* Affaires of the Emperor of Baizil,
such explanations and assurances have been made
as will prevent a late occurrence at Rio de Janeiro
endangering the peace and harmony of the two coun
tries.— .Wit. Intel.
The Florida Canal. —We are happy to state that
that able and active Engineer Gen. Bernard, has
already returned to this place from an inspection of
the Country in a direction towards the Appalchico
la, and (hat from the observations ofthat Gentleman,
as far as he had gone, the geological and other ap
titude of the Territory are favourable for the project.
To determine the expense however it will of course
be. necessary tp gel togethermany details which actual
measurement and minute inspection can alone fur
nish ; these are in progress, and we feci a pleasure
in saying that the General has expressed much satis
faction at the manner in which the young Gentle
attached to this service have discharged the
duties assigned them. This looks well, and we may
anticipate a luminous report on the important sub
ject. from the Engineer Department by the next
session of Congress. The General is again oft for
Vacassar Bay by the way of Tampa and has a fa
favourable season for his expedition.
St. Augustine, E. F. Herald , May 16.
men
NEW HARMONY.
Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Pittsb urgh
Gazette, dated
Long Reach, Ohio River, May 15, 1827.
" The government of New Harmony, on the Wa
bash, lias changed from the Social System of Mr
Owen* to one more congenial with the institutions of
country. He has sold a part (say one half) to
Mr. M'Clure, of Philadelphia ; the other part, con
sisting of his mills, shops, tavern stand, Ac. is leas
ed to individuals, on terms in some cases approach
ing to the old system, but generally leaving the les
sees to pursue whatever course they think proper,
to the management of themselves and families.^
Numbers have left the place in disgust. A body of
them now reside at Nevilleville, on the Ohio, and
it is stated that Mr. Owen himself has started for
Scotland, convinced of nothing respecting his sys
tem of sociality, except that'it is not adapted to this
F rom all that 1 can gat her he has been
our
as
country,
well plucked on every hand-"
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