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can manufacture enough for its consuihpii n,
and, secondly that the manufacture thereof is in
a'su.liciciit number of hands to ensure compe
tition. lie called upon the gentleman Iivim
Pennsylvania to shew that there were facts in
the present ease, and, if that could he establish
ed, he Ibr one, would vote in favor of the propo
sed duty, if the article could l*o manufactured
ot a quality any thing like equal to the foreign
article. Mr. B. said he hud noattaclunciil to foreign
manufactures, or to foreign interests, as had been
rather ungenerously suggested in debate yester
day. There was no member on tliis iliwr who
was actuated by considerations of that kind.
The opponents of tliis bill u|>ou principle were
as much attached to American productions as the
gentleman who made the remark, and had shewn
it on all occasions in deleave of the interests and
rights of the country. Mr. B. said lie did not
like these allusions, and he hoped that, in the fu
ture discussion of this hill, they would bo avoid
ed.
Mr. B. said he would not now make any ob
servations on the general principle of this hill.
He had many reasons, wl ich perhaps in time he
might present to the House, to shew theevil con
sequences of this hill, and that it ought not to
pass in any shape whatever.
Mr. Tod said, it inuat he adm>‘.‘ed that cotton
bagging was an article indispensable to cotton
planters, and that, if a supply of it cannot be
• urnished by the manufacture of our own coun
try, the duty either ought not to be agreed to,
or the time, in which it is to operate, ought to be
extended. But Mr. T. said, it would not do to
sav to this House that the states of Kentucky &
Oliio could not make all the cotton bagging
wanted for all the cotton growing states in the
Union, for lie said, it was easier to make bag
ging for a million pounds of cotton, than it was
to raise ten thousand pounds of cotton. Mr. T.
said he knew very well that this additional duty
would oblige the constituents ofthc gentleman
to pay more for their bagging than they now
pay. it lor this they had no equivalent, the du
ty would be unjust, and a hardship upon them.
The question, however, was, have they not al
ready an equivalent ? Mr. T. contended that
they have. The consumption of cotton, by the
people of the United States, is to the amount of
one third of the whole quantity raised in the
country. . I he greater part of this consumption
ot cotton is by the people who do not raise any
of the article. It was notorious that there was
more cotton consumed in the state of Pennsyl
vania than in all the states that raise cotton'in
the Union; and they pay a protecting duty to
those who raise this cotton, of three cents' per
pound, which, it would he agreed, was in fact a
bounty of so much upon the production of the ar
ticle ; because we know, said he, that it can lie
afforded to be raised in South America, and in
some parts of the West Indies, at three cents
per pound cheaper than in the United States,
pro hups because the slaves in that country wore
treated with greater seventy than in this, har
der worked, and more scantily clothod and poor
ly fed. At any rate, those countries can under
sell our cotton growers. For their protection,
however, said Air. Tod, we have laid a duty of
three cents per pound on the importation of fo
reign cotton, which, I trust, will ever continue
to be laid ; ami tints tbe people of the state of
Pennsylvania, and of oilier states, lor every
pound of cotton they consume, pay a bounty ol
three cants to the people of the South. And,
doing this, they now ask of the > cople of the
South to repay about a hundredth part of this
bounty in the shape of a duty on cotton bagging.
This the gentleman from Louisiana considered a
hardship—Air. T.could not consider it so; it
was a mere reciprocity. It was an exertion’ of
the power conferred on government for the pur
pose of compelling different sections of the
.country to dojustice, in some degree, to one
another, by reciprocatingadvantages in their in
tercourse, Sec. It any part ol the country re
quired protection of this sort, it was the state of
Kentucky. All the produce which that state
cau scud to market was not of one-tilth the va
lue of the exports of domestic produce from
Georgia, or from South Carolina. Vet Ken
tucky is superior in numbers, and in physical Sc
moral strength. V* hy should we, by the effect
ol legislation, give to one part of the country so
decided an advantage over the other ? In con
sequence of the disadvantages under which the
AVest labored in respect to its products, titer.
had been great distress and depression in the
state of Ke ntucky. Specie was almost unknown
in the state. So inrich was this the case, that, no
long time ago, application was proposed to'he
made to the general government to dispense with
specie in the payment ol the postage on tn. ir iet
ters. They liavc not the sa ne advantages as
the citizans of Georgia and South Carolina and
Louisiana, and Alabama, and Mississippi ; that
is they have no fellow citizens whom they can
coinpaj to become customers to them ; as they
•arc to the cotton growers. From these and o
tfier considerations, Air. T. was clearly for 'rjv_
ing this encouragement to the manufacturers of
the AVest.
Mi. Crownenshield, of Massachusetts, said he
thought the gentleman from Pennsylvania was
totally mistaken in regard to the matter of fact
when he statcJ that a duty of three cents per
pound is imposed as a protecting duty on cotton,
"because cotton would be raised in South Ameri
ca, the AVest Indies, Sec. cheaper than here.
The Cotton of Hombayand Ilengal might perhaps
be as cheap as ours, but it was well known to be
inferior in quality to ours. Mr. C. asserted,
that, with the exception of those countries, there
is no country from which cotton can be import
ed so cheap as it is raised here, hy 3 cents per
po'Mi'i. i i,c gentlemau’s reasonings, founded
on a contrary supposition, therefore, must go for
nothing; and he was at liberty to make w hat use
he pleased of the information now given.
Mr. fod, referring to documents before him,
said that in oneofthe conn tries from which the
gie.it* -I importation ot cotton by the merchants
had been made, the article was purchased at less
than to cents per pound. It did not at the time
scil, in any part of this country, within J cents
ot 10 cents per pound.
Mr. Hamilton said the argument of the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania was perfectly consis
tent with the whole scope of this bill: that, if by
the laws of God and Nature any part of our
country should not enjoy equal advantages of
soil, ciioiate, Arc. with another, Congress was to
exert a despotic power with a view to equalize
the ail vantages. Mr. If. said he left it to the
committee to say, whether tins was not the .sub
stance of the gentleman’s argument.
The gentleman had informed the House there
was no specie in the State of Kentucky; an.’
sai l Mr. SI. is it possible tnat South Carolina is
fob-.* taxed till specie flows redundtantly into
Kentucky, and Kentucky is made able tos.mply
ns wit!! our cotton bagging? Mr. If. adverted
to the practical operation of the item now pro
posed to be striken out. We are to be taxed bv
it, said he—bow much ? Why for the benefit of
Kentucky, wc are to be taxed, in round num
bers, sixtv thousand dollars a year in the small
Stale which I represent. And wc are now
told tint, as an equivalent for ail this we have
received a bounty in the shape of a duty of .1
cenU pet pound on our cotton. This duly, Mr.
H. said, never was laid for encouragement. It
was laid for the purpose of revenue; and to
she v how far that great man Alexander Hamil
ton wms mistaken, he in his report doubted very i
much whether this country would ever have the j
capacity to raise a sufficiency of the article for
the purpose of .our own manufactures. How
completely had this prediction hem falsified'
We raise it not only in the greatest quantity
but of the most superior quality; the fiuesl cot
fon in the world is raided, to threefold the amount
of the consumption ol' our country. With re
gard t>» foreign cottons, w hich it was supjioscd
by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, nughtcom
jH'te with ours, we know perfectly well that,
even in the Liverpool market, the government
of Great Britain having every inducement
to eneonrago the Last India Trade, those cot
tons cannot enter into competition with ours.
An attempt was made, some years ago, to in
troduce Hast India Colton into this country :
merchants of great skill and experience were
said to have lu.'t hall a million of dollars in the
attempt. The ri\ airy of foreign cotton in this
market with ours, was a mere bugbear, not en
titled to a moment’s consideration.
J .ook at the operation of this proposed duty,
said Mr. II. Wo are to pay a tribute of sixty
thousand dollars a year to Kentucky, to enabl*
her to manufacture bagging. If we go on in
this way with every article of our present im
port, what inducements do we leave to Great
Britain to take our cotton? There are
immense markets open to her, where she can
obtain cotton in exchange for her manufactures
if we reject them. Bra/.il alone is capable of
producing as much cotton as the whole United
States proper; and, he argued, if we take awav
the inducement which Great Britain has to re
ceive our cotton, wc shall in the end lose licr
custom, ice.
Mr. II. said lie would abstain from entering
at present upon a discussion of the general
principles ot the bill. When the bill should be
presented for discussion, on its general principle,
lie should make it his particular province to
point out the many objections to it,aud the cha
racter of the crusade about to be waged against
the interests of that part of the country which
he h;ui the honour to represent.
Mr. Trimble, of Kentucky, referring to an
expression used by Mr. Hamilton, in tlie close
of his remarks, said he was gratified that the
House was to have/* revelation on this subject.
He had no doubt it would have an happy effect
on the minds of those gentlemen who were op
posed to the bill: for it appeared that nothing
but Revelation would have any effect upon
them.
It all this idea of the competition of foreign
cottons was a bug-bear, Mr. T. said be should
like to know why that gentleman anil others bad
been so anxious to tax East India cotton goods, if
it was not for the purpose of excluding East India
cotton itself. Forthc confirmation of the fact, Air.
r. said be appealed to the arguments which were
used when the Tariff was made up, and the gentle
men from the South asked for this protection for
their cotton. [ Mr. T. here said, lie was very willing
to yield the floor to the gentleman from New
York, (Air. Cambreleng,) who seemed to feel
the effect of the Revolution which had been .spo
ken ot.] .As to the Western country, Mr. T.
contended, it enjoyed the advantage of no pro
tecting duty on any article. Rut, when the
gentlemen from the South send us their protec
ted cotton, said Mr. T. it comes to us wrapt up
in Inverness and Dundee bagging, made of the
refuse tow, after the best of the hemp is hac
kled out. Now, Sir, the Western hemp has
been ascertained, by fair experiment, to he 10
per cent, stronger than the Russia hemp; and
from that tact, I presume we can make bagging,
or any thing else, ol Kentucky hemp, as strong
as can be made from Russian hemp. Notwith
standing which, when we purchase cotton from
the South, wc are compelled to purchase this In
verness and Dundee bagging. Is there any’
equality in that ? Notwithstanding which, said
Mr. T. uc do notask an exclusion of this arti
i.le, as they have done in relation to coarse cot
• oil goods, but only, a reasonable tax upon it.
Ao.lling could be more lair, more equal, nor,
00 thought gentlemen would after due consider
lion allow, more just, than such a tax.
ilavo we not land enough, said .Mr. T. to
raise hemp sufficient to make all our cotton bag
ging. The lands between the Ohio and Ken
tucky rivers is sufficient to make twice Uie
quantity necessary for our consumption. Wc
not only furnished the planters in Louisiana dur
ing the late war with cotton bagging—at a very
high price, J admit—but they could not get it
iiu.nauy oilier country. \Ve furnished them
hnS?IV,fT >o hale the cotton at New Orleans_and
wc did another thing; when it was baled, we
stood behind it and defended it. I wish to know
from the gentleman from Louisiana, why wc are
to protect their sugar by high duties, and then
to go there and protect them and their cotton
too.
Mr. T. accounted for the decline of the man
ufacture ot bagging in Kentucky, caused by the
low price ot the foreign article, by tho circum
stance that, during the war, Russia exported vast
quantities ofhemp, ic England, with an extensive
navy then in actual sen ice, had use for it. When
the peace came, a great quantity of the article
remained on hand, and was sold by the mer
chants at a low price to the manufacturers, who
made it up into bagging, fcc. and furnished it
much cheaper than formerly. Rut that is now
all worked up; and last year a tolerably high
price was given for bagging.
Soabmulant was hemp in the Western coun
try, that it we impose only such duty as will o-jve
the farme- a fair minimum price, the farmers
there will keep down the maximum to the mini
mum nearly ; and Mr. T. pledged himself that
the manufacturers of the West would supply the
whole country witli bagging at not exceedmgs
— 1--cents per yard, if Congress would grant
them protection, and that they would keen it
down to that price. Rut, by layintr a nrnner
muy me market must first be made steady iu
its character so that the foreigner cannot dcs
roy tiie hemp grower and the manufacturer
both by excessive importations. Sec. Bagrrjntr
wonh1 be sold cheaper, so soon as hemp wils
allowed trie same protection as was given to the
Southern Cotton, &c. as the prices of coarse
cotton bad been lowered since higher duties had
bcf*n lain on the foreign article, «!tc.
Mr. Cambrcleng, of New York, said, be had
not intended to touch the details of the bill; not
at least, until the general question was settled*
and upon that he should offer his objections to
Uic principle of the bill: (he object of which
as, prohibition, lie, however, felt called upon
by the gentleman from Kentucky; and, although
not ,nsPl> as had been intimated, he woidd
aiMwer the argument of reciprocal justice, which
SoUobnCTaS: l° s'Jstain the duty proposed on
We had been told, that the agricultural in
forest of the South had heeu pro*? ted bv dut.e,'
and that we must now legislate on the basis of
reciprocity. Hus argument, according to the
unhappy fashion of the times, is designed to ex
c i e our sectional prejudices and jealousies. Mr.
C. «hd not for a moment, impute such a purpose
b»the gentleman from K-ituckyT \fr. Trimble ^
nor to the Chairman of the Committee on Man
u actures; hut he feared it had been used by
others, for such an object. The argument Is
however, utterly destitute of found;,?, ; and
alt hough its purpose is grave enough for reason
-its textures too light for any weapon but rid"
file. Where was the intelligence of the Chair
IT? u ,hc;,f:",n,,JliMf'° on Manufactures, when
t'ee-i ' "r ,'i’,f ' WiLH '"'F'sed for the pro
recollect that there was not a j,od of cotton i„
!' country at that penod ; and that the enlbri,;
ZlT,e”,t\v"fi,,a,da-V.nCV"r «S-rc
would be. Where was h,s intelligence, when
he informed us that (he (obarco of Virginia he"
been protected .* 1,. our simplicity, had al
W supposed that Ibis article was a sta„Je (>f
tne country, from the earliest settlement of the
domes; hut we are happy (o see that celebrat
ed slander upon our gieat-graud-mothem, blot
t - J out from t.ie page of history; wc arc happy '
to find that they were .stored for this vile
weed ; wc are happy to hear from such 1< anted
authority, from the gmtlcinau who superintends
our national industry, that our tobacco-plant has
only flourished since 1790, under the salutary
protection of Congress ! But our admiration
reaches its altitude, when we conic to the duty
on sugar. This duty had, before 1600, reached
2 I -'4 cents; it is now hut three. Wc always
thought Louisiana had belonged to Spain—then
to France. It appears singular how this duty
could have been proposed for the protection of
French and Spanish planters. But what’s
this difficulty to our modem logicians? Those
who can transfer 1 Iindostan to Carolina,
in 1790, can, with equal facility give history
a retrograde movement, and tell us, what no
body will have the temerity to deny, that our
ancestors generally laid this duty to protect and
encourage the planters of Louisiana, though
then not within the circle of our confederacy.
Such is tin* foundation upon which this argu
ment of reciprocity rests. Auaigumentaddresscd
to our local prejudices. I Tc regretted to perceive
that thedebatv, on every item of the bill, seemed to
he generally confined too much to more local
ground. It was natural—it was pmpor, that
wo should advocate the interest of our slate, and
of the particular district wc represent; but he
trusted the time would come, when wc should
bring into every discussion a more national feel
ing—when our nutionut interests would be con
sulted.
(Debut* to be continued.)
MILITARY APPROPRIATION DILL.
Thursday, February, 19.
On motion of Mr. McLatie, all the previous orders
of the day were suspended, and the House went into
committee of the whole, Mr. Taylor, of New York,
in the chair, on the bill making appropriations for
the military service of the United States for the year
10iM. The bill was considered as reported in blank;
and tile first blank, which is for the pay of the army,
and subsistancc of officers, including the pay and
subsistancc of the officers and cadets belonging to
the Military Academy, at West-Point, was filled
with 5694,307 03.
i lie second uiar.K, lor subsistence, was filled with
$269,847.
The third blank, foy forage.for officers, was filled
with $39,126.
The fourth blank, for the recruiting service, was
filled with $13,400.
The fifth blank, for contingent expenses for the re
cruiting service, was filled with $15.1100.
The sixth blank, for the Purchasing Department,
was filled with $141,127 59.
In answer to a quere of Mr. Trimble, the Chair
man of the Conunittc of Ways and Means (.Mr. Mc
Lanc) replied that, in the purchases for the clothing
of the troops, a preference was alwaysgivcn to Ame
rican manufactures, (unles.: where the public inter
ests would materially suffer.)
Mr. Trimble thought this rule ought universally
to prevail. As we were soon to be called on to at
tend the funeral ofourlittle army, lie wished toknow
whether its shroud was to be made of American ma
nufacture or foreign.
Mr. McLane said, that many of our woollen man
ufuctori es were sustained almost entirely by pur
chases from the War Department.
The seventh blank, for the purchase of woollens,
during the year 1824. in advance for the year
1825, was filled with $20,000.
Mr. Cobb made some inquiries respecting this
item, and Mr. Floyd moved to strike it out ; but its
propriety \v*as explained and defended by Mr. Mc
Lanc, and the motion to strike out was not agreed
The eighth blank, for the Medical and Hospital
Department, was filled with $10,000.
Mr. Cocke moved to strike it out. Mr. Whipple
replied and advocated its necessity, and the motion
was lost.
The ninth blank, for the quartermaster General’s
Department, was filled with $249,000.
lie tenth blank, for the Military Academy, in
cluding hospital for cadets and troops, two wings to
be added to the Academy, for the departments of
philosophy and chemistry ; a double stone house,
for accommodation of two families of professors: a
laboratory and green house, out houses for superin
tendents quarters ; office for the Professor of Engi
neering ; cast iron pipes for supplying water ; a
modeller, and a plate for a diploma for graduates,
was filled with $ So,400.
For the purchase of Grid ley’s farm, $10,000.
On this sum, and especially on one of its compo
nent items, of $ 10.000, for the purchase of a farm
adjoining the Academy, a desultory debate arose,
which occupied the House till after'4 o’clock. The
propriety of the purchase was advocated by .Messrs.
Craig, Warfield, Poinsett, Strong,-McLane,Sharpe,
Archer, Wood, Jifercer, Hamilton, and McDuffie
and opposed by Messrs. Cobb, Duck, Cocke, San
ford, -McCoy, and 4 loyd, jVr. Cocke proposed an
amendment, making the appropriation for the pur
chase conditional: 1st- thatnomore than $10,000
should be given for the land ; and,2d. that the con
sent of the state of New York should be the sale, i
The former condition prevailed, but the latter, on
motion of -McDuffie, was stricken out ; anil the
whole clause, as amended, was carried. Ayes, 107.
In support ol this measure, it appeared that a
part of the small isfilatcd spot on which the Acade
my stands, (surrounded on one side by a deep river,
and on the other by steep and almost inaccessible
mountains,) is oi copied by a farm, owned by a-Mr.
Gridley, on which there stands a tavern, but a few
hundred yards from the Academy. Every effort
to remove so great a nusiance, or to bring it under
my effectual restraint, had proved unavailing ; and
its effect, in counteracting the salutary discipline of
the Establishment, had long becu a source of pain
ful regret to the superintending officers. As the on
ly efficient remedy, it was proposed to buy the land
for the United States, and attach it to the Acade
my; to which a farther inducement operated, as it
would afford a favorable site for a Hosnif.il .i.„i
thcr out-buildings. The measure was opposed, as
unnecessary, and as insufficient for the end propos
ed. Unnecessary, because the cadets were suppos
ed to be in no danger from so low and degrading a
temptation as a tavern could afford ; if any of them
were disposed to become sots, they ought at once to
he expelled from the Institution. And, besides, the
discipline of the establishment ought to be sufficient
to restrain immorality among the students. Insuf
ficient, because if the whole farm was purchased, a
tavern would be erected a little further off, and the
danger as great as ever. Besides, there was a dai
ly communication with Newburgh and Nciv Wind
sor, and also occasionally with New York : and
young men disposed to dissipation could not bo
checked by putting the means of gratification at a
little greater distance. Other establishments of the
same kind, in the south and in the west, were situa
ted in the midst of cities or populous towns, and yet
were in a good condition.
To this it was replied, that the officers on the
spot were the best judges of the case, and they were
deeply impressed with indispensable necessity of
having that tavern put down. They had endea
vored to effect its suppression by the authority of the
State Legislature of New York, a nd some bill on
that subject was now before that body. Distance
was certainly a most important circumstance in
measuring the strength of any temptation on the
minds of the young. But the land at West Point
was so situated, that*if this little ftirm|was held by the
United States, there was no spot for miles round on
which a tavern could possibly Iw erected. An af
fecting appeal was by Mr. Mercer, in behalf of pa
rental anxiety, and on youthful accessibility to the
approaches of temptation ; the warmest encomiums
were pronounced upon the state of disci] line and
the system of instruction in the Academy, its order,
regularity, and exact police. Mr. Poinsett had vi
sited European Military Schools, and pronounced
this to he equal to any of them, if not superior— Mr.
\rcher testified with enthusiasm to the same point,
and wished that the Secretary of War, in selecting
ffom Congress a Visiting Committee to examine the
Institution, would always compose it ofits most de
cided enemies : they needed only one visit to con
vert them into its wannest advocates.
Mr. Wodd valued it as the best substiutc fora
standing army, supplying, annually, a quota of ac
complished military men, capable of organizing the
militia of the country, and giving immediate effi
ciency *o our constitutional defence.
Mr. Foot wcs n fiieml to the Institution an.! to
the measure now proposed; but had an objection
to i's introduction into an appropriation bill.
Mr. Livermore was also a friend to the Academy,
but feured the insisting on this purchase might in
crease the objections of its opponents, and ho dis
liked this indirect sort of legislation. If the farm
wus wanted, pass an act appropriating a sum for its
purchase.
None little pleasantry occurred in the debate,in
consequence of a remark of Mr. Warfield, that lie
spoke in favor of the school from no personal or pa
rental feelings, as, lie thanked Heaven, he still en
joyed a state of single blessedness. -Vr. Floyd, in
reply, observed, that lie was happy to olwerve the
gentleman was very tliaukful even for the smallest
blessing. Mr. Buck founded his opposition to the
measure, from personal observation, ha\ ing been
for years a student at \\ est Point. V\ itli this ex
ception, everv gentlemuu who had visited the insti
tution, warmly advocated the appropiiation.
Having proceeded thus lar in the 1 ill, the com
mittee rose, and having obtained leave to sit again,
The House adjourned.
February 20.
MR. JOHN BAILEY.
Mr. Sluane, from the committee on elections,
made a report on the reinonstance of sundry in
habitants of Norfolk, against the election of John
Bailey, to a seat in this House, which was laid
on the table, and ordered to he printed.
The report concludes with the following reso
lution :—
Besolvcd, That John Bailey is not entitled to
a seat in this House.
mr. owen’s resolution. /
The House then resumed the consideration of
Mr. Owen’s resolution.
J*/r. Brent sustained the resolution, on the
ground that every information which could be
procured as to the effect of the proposed Tariff,
on the revenue, ought to be obtained.
Mr. JVallary on the same ground as that ta
ken by the chairman of the committee on Ways
and Jt/eans yesterday opposed the adoption of
the resolution.
•Air. Culpepper thought, if the infonnation
could not lie obtained from the committee of
rVays and .Means, it was a reason why the House
should pause before it.acted.
M r. Stewart thought it impossible for the com
mittee to form any estimate of the effect which
th<r bill would produce on the revenue. He
moved to lay the bill on the table ; but with
drew it on the suggestion of JSIr. A. Stevenson.
.Mr. Wickliffe, in consequence of his own
want of information, and the conflicting calcina
tions which had been laid before the House, on
the subject, voted forjthe adoption of the resolu
tion.
•Mr. Trimble protested against the assertion
that this bill would diminish the revenue. 11
would, on the contrary', increase the revenue.
Even if the committee of Wavs and .Moans were
to report that, it would injure the revenue, much
as he respected both that committee and its
chairman, he would venture to dissent from
them in opinion. If information was desirable
from any quarter, it must be from the Secretary
of the Trcasury. But he thought it an incorrect
course to ask opinions from anv quarter. Ask
for facts, and form your own opinions.
.M . Ingham, thought the course now pursued
was an extraordinary one. He explained the
natuic of the duties which correctly belonged
to the committee of Ways and .Means, <c which
related entirely to the revenue. The committee
on manufactures were appointed to superintend
the great manufacturing interests of the coun
try. I To thought it therefore incorrect to apply,
in the first instance, to the committee of Ways
anti .Means. Whenever a deficiency resulted,
it would bet me enough to call on the committee
of Ways and .Means. He suggested to the mo
ver to modify his resolution, so as to refer it to the
Secretary of the Treasury, as the. most proper
coure if lie thought information necessary,
•vhich he himself did not, as he considered that
no opinion on the subject could, from the nature
of trade, be so accurate as to form a basis for
legislation. The combined character of the bill,
embracing both the principles of protection and
revc- ue lie. considered the only exceptionable
feature. It should have been exclusively a bfl!
of pr election. As the resolution now stood, he
would oposeit; but if modified, lie would sup.
port it.
Mr. Garnet, considering that there is a point
in the imposition of duties, beyond which the re
venue would begirt to diminish, d sired infornia
•nation on that subject.
ORDER OF THE DAY.
The House then went info a Committee on
hejbill to make an appropriation for the military
service of the United States, for the year 182J
—Mr. Taylor in the chair.
One or two ino'.ions were made to strike out
aiul to amend, by the chairman of the committee
>f Way.-, and Means, and the bill having been
go .1 through, the committee rose and reported
it, as amended.
On motion to concur in the amendments, Mr.
Cocke moved an amendment to that appropri
ating 10,000 dollars for the medical department,
which was negatived.
Mr. Cocke moved to strike out the clause re
lative to the purchase of the farm at West
.Point.
Air. Randolph moved to amend the amendment
by inserting the words,—making the purchase to
depend on the consent of the State of New York,
and the A\es and Nays were ordered on the u
mendment.
The question was then taken, when there- ap
peared—Ayes 85, Nays, 1!4.
The question was then taken on the amend
ment to strikeout the appropriation, »>y Ayes 57,
Nays 12:?.
The bill was then ordered to be engrossed,
and read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. Tod then moved that the Mouse again
resolve itself into a committee of the Whole._
Ayes Of!, Navs 83.
Mr. Van Ranssclacr moved that when the
House adjourn, it adjourn to meet on Monday.
A motion was made to take the question by
Ayes and Nays—Ayes 30, Nays 180.
Mr. Tavlor moved that the House now ad
jonm—Ayes 57.
The question was then taken on adjourning
to Monday.—Ayes 98, Noes 75.
The House than adjourned to Monday.
(ifficc of (hr (iazrtle, )
New Youk. Feb. 15. £
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
The packet ship John Wells, capt. Harris,
arrived on Saturday evening, from Liverpool,
whence she sailed on the 8th nit. The editors
of the Gazette have received their London and
Liverpool papers and Lloyd’s Lists to the late !
dates. The account from Paris are to the 3d,
but they are not of an interesting nature. The
Etoilc contains some strictures on the Presi
dent’s me wage, for which, however, wc have not
room to-day. The editor concludes hy saving,
that the opinions of Mr. Monroe are as vet
merely the opinions of a private individual.
French Fund*, Jan. 5.—Five per cents 95f.
60c.; Rank stock, lG20f.
Gore’s Advertiser of the 8th ult. notices the
following short passages from the V. States du
ring the week :—The line ship New York,
Maxwell from New- York, in little more than
15 days; the Alary Catharine, from Charleston,
in 19 days from port to port, and the VTarmion,
from do. in 18 drys from the Ear, and 20 from
the city.
The same paper mentions a remarkable cir
rurndancc respecting the ship Alexander, Bald
ivin, of Philadelphia. On going mto graving
dock a large kedge anchor, weighing between
five and six cwt. was found suspended from the
bottom part of the ship. It appears that she
grounded in the Delaware on her last voyage to
Philadelphia, when the anchor stuck through
her timbers and so remained during her passage
across the Atlantic. 1 fad it given way the con
sequences might have been fatal.
A letter from Lisbon of Dec. 23d, mentions
that the government is much distressed for mo
ney. Additional and onerous taxes had been
levied on imports; and a forced loan was in
contemplation, to include all classes of people,
aud native as well as foreign merchants.
The King of Spain lias appointed M. Paez,
of Cadena, Minister to London, and Mr. Eze
dia to liquidate the claims of the British Govern
ment; M. Anducga, Minister to Berlin; J. A
casta, Minister to Dresden; and M. IS'avia,
Charge d’A flairs to Holland. He lias also ap
pointed Gen. Don Raphael Moraul, Ccntador
General of South America, with the title of
Minister of the Supreme council of the Indies.
Intelligence had been received in England,
ot a dreadful inundation at the new settlements
ut the Cu|'c ul Good .Hope.
An article dated Nuremberg, mentions that
an important note had been delivered by Sir C.
liagot, English Ambassador at Petersburg to
Count Nesselrode, demanding explanation, as
to the jiolicy which Russia intended to adopt res
pecting South America.
The cargo of the Aspusia', Brewer, ashore at
Cuxhaven, has been got out without damage,
and it is supposed she w ill get oil'with little iu
jury.
London, Jan. 6.
The Quarter's Revenue.—The official ac
count of the (Quarter’s Revenue is a most satis
factory one. The excess of Income beyond the
charge on the consolidated is 3,104,773£. beiug
above three millions beyond the surplus of the
corresponding quarter; in which, however, tho
charge for the Reduction of the National Debt
was nearly two millions more than this quarter.
In the net produce of the Revenue for the years
and quarters ended on the 5th of Jan. 1023 and
1024, there lias been a decrease in the last year
of £630,000 owing to the diminution of the re
venue on spirits chiefly, and to the reduction
that look place last year in the Assessed Tax
es. But the Customs increased above a million
last year, and there was also an increase in the
Stamps, Post-Office, and Miscellaneous Duties.
Notwithstandingthe before-mentioned reduction
of taxes there is an increase in the net revenue
of the quarter of £262,000.
From the N. V. National Advocate, Feb. 16.
The first paragraph which attracted our at
tention, in our papers by the John Wells, relat
ed to Greece. The affairs of that country are
drawing to a crisis. Austria and Russia, we al
ways knew and predicted, would finally come to
some understanding on the subject, and the fol
lowing paragraph is the “ prologue to the swel
ling act.”
Frankfort, Dec. 2d.—It is affirmed that
conferences on the affairs of Greece Havtj been
held at St. Petersburgh, between Count-iN'essel
rode, the Senator Tatischcff, and the Austrian
ambassador. These conferences will doubtless
assume a more decided character, as soon as the
bos' .to cabinet shall have received the des
patches sent to it from Constantinople by the
Austrian intermincio, which states tlip new pre
tensions set up by flic Porte.
Greece eventually will come in under the
protection of these empires, and acccptaso
vereign from one of them.
Tiie last quarter of the revenue in England,
shows an increase of three millions.
That part of the President’s message relating
to South America, has been received in Eng
land and France with very different sensa
tions.
The British ministerial prints highly applaud
the tone of the message, commend its spirit, and f
for the first time speak highly of the resources,
population and valour of this country ; they tri
umphantly display it to the European powers,
and very significantly pat us on the back for
gallant spirited people now disposed to stalk
abroad and relinquish our safe and substantial
habits of staying at home and taking care of
ourselves. It is evident that the British cabinet
seek to involve us in disputes which rnay grow
out of old causes between Spain, France and
South Amirica, and when once we arc embark
ed. Heaven only can toll when and how it
will end.
The following, notice of the message is from
the French government paper and partakes
much of thcslvleof an ultra royalist. There
are some truths in (he remark, though charac
terised by a consumable degree of effrontery.
Paris, Jan. 3.
The English papers arc full of commentaries
on the message of the President of the United
States. Every one considers it according to
bis political views and private inclinations; but
the fact is this long declaration pleases and
agrees with no one. It has not even escaped
harp ccusuie on the part of the Americau pa
pers.
Mr. ..onroe, who is not a sovereign, who has
himself told us that he is only the first delegate
<>: the people, has taken in his Message the tone
of a powerful Monarch, whose armies and fleets
•m-c ready to go forth on tho first signal. He
loos more; he prescribes to the Potentates of
Europe the conduct they arc to pursue in car
'.lin circumstances, if they do not wish to incur
his displ asure. Such is ttio prohibition which
nc is-nsr-s ag.iinst their ever t (linking of any new
colonization in tint two Americas.
Mr. Monro:* is the temporary President of a
Wepuhlic, sit .-Melon the eastern coast of North
America. I .is rcpiihhc is bounded on the
,oiith by possessions of the King of Spain, and on
the north by those ofthc King of England. His
independence has only been acknowlegcd for
forty years, by what title then aro the two A
incricas to b * under liis immediate dependence
from Hudson1* Hay to Cape Horn. What’cla
m.nirs did lie not raise in the United States,
when the Emperor of Russia wished to trace the
demarcation of the part of territory which he
claims on tin* X. E. coast, ns discovered by his
subjects? This Monarch however, did not pre
sume to direr! laws t.i One of the States who have
established on the same coast. It was reserved
for Mr. Monroe, to show us a dictator armed
with a rigid of superiority over the whole of the
new world.
According to the political system he would
establish, it would not he permitted to Spain to
make the lea-d effort to re-enter on the territory
which for three centuries she has possessed.
I he King of Portugal, as the American pa
per* have observed themselves, could not act as
a sovereign and father witlront exposing him
self to the wrath of Mr. Monroe. England
would require his previous consent if it suited 1
her interest to make any new military or politi- I
cal esfahlidirncnt either in Canada or Nova Sco
tia. And yet Mr. Monroe’s Message contains
phrases indirectly hostile to the policy and am
bition of the Great Powers of Europe! But:
v.ha! is that Power which professes so proudly, j
maxims opposed to the right of sovereignty arid
the independence of Crowns? What is that
Power which pretends to prescribe to subjects !
the limits of obedience? Who is she, in short,)
who dors not fear to compromise the existence ;
of social order, by declaring in the face of Hea
ven that she will not recognise any difference
between a Government dr facto and a Govern
ment (tc jure.?
By bringing under one point of view all the
assertions ami doctrines contained in this mes- ;
?age, it it: satisfactory to cOnsrdcr that it is has
“ot y®4 reived the sanction of anv of il e
Ihorities even of the country where i*f appeared
.aid, in short, that the opinions of Mr. Monroe
arojes yet merely the opinions of a private iuZ
nJ, C ?1*nd* Jan. ft—Five percents. 93. fio.
\ ’ ,£k’ Neapolitan b per cents. 79;
Rente d’Espangc, %7 ] -4. *
Mr. Andagua late Spanish minister to the U.
s tates, l as been appointed minister to Berlin,
and F erdinand has also nominated Don Raphael
Moran Coustador General of South America
and Minister of the Supreme Council of the
Indies.
Sir Hudson Lowe has been appointed Govern
or ol Antigua. He is too near us.
Under the head of London Markets, it is stat
ed on the Glh January, that the news v^terday
from China of an unexpected interruption of the
Tea trade, had caused an advaucc of 1 i-o,i
lb. on Twanfcey tea. ***
The King of Spain has been compelled to
adopt various devices to improve the state of
his finances, but with very little success. He
has cast a wistful eye on the property of the
Church without daring to stretch forth lips hand.
John of England, after his war with France,
used to say, “ Our Abbies and Monasteries shall
pay for this.” Ferdinand however plucked up
sufficient courage to apply to the Legate of the
Tope for permission to drain a little from the
Monks and F riars, and a bull has accordingly
been received from the holy father, empower
ing F erdinand to raise ten millions of reals
(about 440,000 dollars) annually from the
property of the clergy. Small as this sum is.
the King and his Excise officers will not be able
to collect it.
Spain is in a most lamentable and impoverish
ed condition—shaken to the centre by internal
disafiections. It shows what the icy Jingcr of
the Iloly Alliance can effect and warns other
nations to avoid any connection or alliance with
a confederacy so odious, so ruinous.
Portugal is very little better situated than
Spain. That country is distressed for money
and desponding at the loss of the S'uth Ameri
can Colonies. A forced Loan is in contempla
tion, and every imported article is additionally
taxed. A very serious conspiracy bas been dis
covered at Lisbon just on the point of breaking
out. Three Ministers had been dismissed the
King had. ordered the Queen to be arrested
and many persons of distinction were on trial!
The people are in open rebellion. In short af!
fairs in Spain, Porugal, Russia, Austria, Turkey
and Greece, are in a very unsettled state, anil
our policy is not to mingle in any of their con
cerns.
LONDON MARKETS.
Tufsday, Jan. G.—The news yesterday
from China of an expected interruption of the
Tea trade, has caused an advance of 1 i-2d per
Hi. in Twankay Tea; in order descriptions it i<j
difficult to effect sales at the previous prices.
London, Jan. 6, City, two o’clock._“To
day is a Holiday at the Bank, but both the Fo
reign aud English Stock Markets remain open.
The business transacted in our own Funds, has
been much more limited thau yesterday. Con
suls for Account, opened at 87 7-8, but have
declined to 87 3-4, and for February, to 88 1-8
“ There has been a good deal of fluctuation in
Spanish Stock to-day, which after the com
mencement of business declined to 1 perCent.
1 he Banks of 1821, have, however, recovered
from 24 1-8 to 24 7-8. Austrian Scrip remains
the same as yestarday.
“Up to the present hour we understand no
Expresses have reached Loudon from Paris. ’
. Courier.
VV e continued to hare a good demand last
week for cotton, but less was done, through a
difficulty of making purchases in India cotton
on a par with the prices of the preceding week.
The sales were about 1900 bales.
250 hhds. of ordinary Virginia Tobacco at
tempted at 3 l-8d. and about 100 hhds. ordinary
leaf tobacco at 2 5-8 per lb. are the reported
•ales of last-week.
191 bags pimento sold this morning at 9 lT2d
per lb.
Fruit sells heavily, and considerable arrivals
this week.
London, Jan. G.—New Dollars, 4s 9 l-2d_
American Stocks at London, Jan. 4th_Sixes
of 1812, 941-2; 1813,90; 1815,101. Bank
Shares; j£23, 10.
Coffee.—There has scarcely been a single
inquiry during the week for this article, ex
cept for one or two small lots of good Planta
tion for the trade, which were taken at full
rates.
Tobacco.—The inquiry continues very limit
ed, and we can only comprise in our weekly re
port the sale of 120 hhds.
Markets dull at St.Johns 27th Jan. for all
kinds of Am. produce—flour $12. There had
been very heavy rains, and it was expected the
sugarcane would be injured.
Markets at St. Pierres and Point Pet re Jan.
29th dull for American produce except fish,
which were in demand.
Markets at Port Spain, Trinidad, 10th Jan.
dull for American produce, and the produce
ol the Island high and scarce. Martial law was
still in force.
Ofitcenf t/ir Daily Advertiser.
FROM CALCUTTA.
We are indebted to the supercargo of the brig
Hramin, for a complete file of the Calcutta Jour"
nnl from the fn'st of August to the 10th Septem
ber inclusive. After an attentive examination
we do not find any thing of particular moment,
flic inundations in the upper Provinces had
done very great damage, particularly to indigo,
firhoot, one of the safest Indigo districts in the
country has been completely ruined.
I he Cholera morbus was raging with violence
in some parts of India.
Calcutta, Sept. 10.—We have received
letters from the Upper Provinces, mentioning
that the heavy rains in the regions above flood"
ed the rivers, that several hundred villages have
been inundated by a deluge which swept away
rnanv of our fellow creatures and destroyed hou
ses and property to a great extent. The price
of grain had risen in consequence, and it is even
asserted that parents were disposing of their off
spring to preserve themselves and children from
starvation! The corn dealers taking advantage
of the distress, had advanced their prices and
commenced a system of forestalling.
Tletters from Nuddca and Patna give the
most lamentable accounts of the effects of the
late inundations. Nuddca is completely over
whelmed, and at Patna the native population is
reduced to a great state of misery by the ^lestnic
tion of their huts, and have consequently beer?
obliged to fake to boats. The Jellinghv has
risen to an unparalleled height; the Kishnagar
and the surrounding districts are one entire
sheet of water, and the inhabitants arc in the
same state as those at Fama.
Considerable coldness is said to prevail be
tween Russia and Austria, in relation to the af
fairs of Turkey. A secret engagement has just
been published, by which Russia, in la 17, sold
to Spain 5 ships of the line of 74 guns and 3 frig
ates, with their arms, equipments, and provi
sions for four months, that were to be immedi
ately delivered] aft Cadiz—The price thi.-tcen
millions six hundred thousand roubles, part of
which amount is the claim of £ 400,000, which
Spain has againstfirc.it TJritain in Comldci'attUS
of relinquishing the slave trade. {