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THE BABY'S GRAVE. Within a solitary nook Of the chtueh-yard ground, Wheic straying eyes might liardty look. Stood form a little tuouti I, A little mound, and tit to be, * Ti»c cradle grave of infancy ; Laid there in (juiciness to keep A dreamless an l eternal .-deep. e One only llower did bend it< head,' One swvetly-smelUnglV *veer. Over that soft and grassy bed, * Wet by the night-dew shower, Meet emblem did it seem to be Of weakness ua 1 of parity : And did the dew alone descend Upon the baby's grave; The jlutccr alone in silence bend. Above the baby’s grave ? Ah ! no —1 saw, when the Moon was high, A sorrowful damsel passing by, Slowly and sadly passing along Like the tone and the time of a sorrowful song. Sung by a sad and desolate maid ; Reft of her heart's love—lost or (lead, The hollow earth scarce echo’d her tread. As fearing to wake the sheeted dead, The dead that below were slumbering pent, Each in bis stone-girt tenement. And when her steps had reach'd the mound, ’Neath which Iter baby slept, How mournfully she look'd around, How bitterly she wept. Then to the breezes did she tell The burden ol her tale ; And thick and fast the big tear fell, Adown her check so polo. Methought I heard of blighted love. Of faithless man caprice, And the soft prayer sent up above That prayed her soul's release ; And then in accents motherly, She breath'd her baby's name, And looking round with fearful eye, She vanished as she came ! DEFERRED ARTICLES. Fnnn the Fssrr. Register. TIMOTHY PICKERING. The following letter froin Mr. Jefferson (which does him so much honor) was entirely voluntary, and unsolicited by any letter from President Adatns. When he saw the infamous breach of confidence, in the publication of the Cunningham Correspondence, he hastened to express his opinion of-it. This letter was fur nished for publication also by dir. Jefferson him self:— Mosticello, Oct. 12, 1023. Dear Srn, I do not write with the ease which vonr letter of Sept. 18, supposes. Crippled wrists and fingers make writing slow and laborious; but while writing to you, 1 lose the sense, of these things, in £c recollection of ancient times, when youth and health made happiness out of every thing. I forget for a while, the hoary winter of age, when we can think of nothing but how to keep ourselves warm, and how to n-ct rid of our heavy hours, until the friendly hand of death shall riJ us of all at once. Against this tedium vitae, however, lam fortunately moun ted on a hobby, which indeed, I should have better managed some 30 or 40 years ago, but whose easy amble is still sufficient to give exer cise anil amusement to an Octogenary rider._ This is the establishment of an university, on a scale more comprehensive, anti in a country more healthy and central, than our old vVilliatn | and .Mary, which these obstacles have long kept in a state of langour and inefficiency, ifut the ■ tardiness with which such works proceed, may j render it doubtful, whether I shall live to set ! it go into action. rutting aside these things, hoivcvcr, fur the present, l write this letter, as due to a friend ship, coeval with pur government, ami now at tempted lobe poisoned, when too late in hie to ^ be replaced bv new affections. 1 bad for some ■ time observed in the public paper., dnrfi hints! and mysterious inueudoes of a correspondence ' of yours with a frien l to pdioin 3 011 have opened j your bosom, without reserve, and which was to ' be made public by that friend, or his represen- ■ tative; and now it is said to be actual!; publish ed. It has not yet reached 11s, but extracts Lave been given, and such as seemed most like ly to draw a curtain of separation between 1 you and myself. Were there no other motive, I than that of indignation against the author of 1 liia outrage on private confidence; whose shaft seems to have been aimed at yourself, more par ticularly; this would make it the duty of every h morablc mind to disappoint that aim, by op pusing to its impression, a seven-fold shield of! apathy an l insensibility. With me, however,! no such armour is nee Jed. The circumstances l of the times, in which we have h 1 opened to five ! and cue partiality of our friends, at a particular ! penol placed u~ in a state of apparent opposi- i tion, which some might suppose to be per-. >nn!1 als i; an J there • h> w • inu ,vu<! w .s.icd to ir.akf it s 1 oy filling on. e.irs with i malignant fal- bonds; by dressing up hideous) phantom* of !* 'ii'mru cre.il: n, presenting them ! tr.it i. .*1.! 11 mere nad been at any ti no, a1 mriK’nt whoa we were o.Tour guard, and in a! tempfir to let tue whispers ol these profile make) us target what wo ha 1 kn >wn of each other for! many years—and years of so much trial; yet all men who have attends 1 to the workings of the • human min I, who have seen the false colours! under which passion sometimes drosses the ac tions an t motives of ot hers, have seen also, these passions subsiding with time and reflection, dis sipating like nit-ls before the rising sun, and restoring t » us the sight o£ ail tilings in their true shape an 1 colours. It would be strange indeed, if at our years, we were to go an a^o back to hunt up imaginary or forgotten fuels ' t ,disturb the repise ofadecliouj, so sweetening ’ f » the evening of our lives. tTTn J u and 1 : uri ivp my in t * b; avoring to instill inf niug each cm r. the l lor yo : r's, mods, tilings He assurro-t, my -lo ir sir, uni i am incapable ; "of receiving the slightest impression, from tl»e ! effort now made, to plant tlioms mi thr> pi||u.v of age, worth an l wisdom, .111 to s ».v tares be- ' t.v'een friend; who have boon sticli for near half a century. He avohing you then not to siuier year mind t<> he disquieted by this wicked at tempt to poison its pence, and praying1 you to throw it hy among tin; things which have never happened, I add sincere assurances of my uii nhated and constant attach n.cit, fricn Ishiji anrj respect. Til: JF.FFEnHOX. John An A Ms, f Former President of the TT. States. ( After the publicati m of tbi<; letter, the Bos (on Statesman, llm National Advocate, the Washington City Gazette, and the other ken nel papers of the day, wore fiiic ! with i:i ,intui tions mat tilis letter Was in answer to one from President A h ns, apologizing for what he had said ot Mr. Jclfi'n in. TIics1 insinuations were promptly denied, but still they have continued to he made, and Col. Pickering has enibodic I them into • • iioii ■ rpig pamphlet, and made them the basis of his first section of :J2 pages. I (is object was to degrade both Air. Jefferson anil President Adams. The following arc extracts from Mr. Pickering’s book:— “ Mr. JeJenon, 1.1 his Jett ;r of October 12, 1 acknowledges the receipt of onefiom Air. A lams, dated Sept, ffl, which was a few days afierhis correspondence with Cunningham had berm published in Boston. This letter, no doubt «Tas written to Apologise to Mr. Jefferson, for the pointed reproaches he haJ uttered against ; bin. in biK confidential i<#frrs to Cunningham_ On the 12th of the next mouth, Mr. Jefferson writes his consolatory answer to Mr. Adams.”— t’agc 10. c* . • Stone jitter.—Tin's indignation (Mr. Jefler son’s) is doubtless the r.ciio of Mr. Adams’ ex pression of resentment against Cnnnigham’s son, the publisher of the Correspondence. Hut Mr. Adams, in his apolngeiicitl letter” I*itgc 13—“ Hut to return to tlic topic of mu tualJure, >vmtss, 'of which.the two distingui-hed gentlemen of whom l ain speaking, appear so anxious to make a public exhibition—What is its character? The apulogelicnl letter of air. Adams would afford some information; but it is nut published, and I presume m:vi:ii wii.i. uk; nnmpli luted, it would he a curiosity. Did he confess that tl»e sentiments lie once entertained ati.l expressed of .Mr. Joiler.sou were errone ous?” l*tigrt 21, 22, 2.1—“Mr. Adams will not thank me for the pains I have here taken tojus tily him before the public, for uttering these re proachful charges against Mr. Jefferson, for in ids letter of apology he in ay hive taken them all back, together with every ihingclsc in the “Cor respondence,” which could give offence to his half-century friend the “patriarch” of republi cans—lest they should have an unauspicivus injlu cncr. on Utc fortunes of his son.n “ After all, what is there in Mr. Jefferson's letter of Oct. 12, to entitle him to the honor of a triumph—by some few so liberally decrees? Suppose Mr. Adams’ accusations well founded— as every intelligent reader, and all others ac quainted with tiie aifairs of the United States during the last.2 1 years, may justly lie inclined to believe—and suppose Jtlr. Jefferson to he consci ous ofjjicir truth—did it require any great stretch of charily to forgive his friend and fellow “ patriarch,” “ -Voto at hisfeet, submissive in distress Mill Sl*INO FOR PARDON f t\ fid WllCll IrCClV to grant it, would present Hie idea of his men inno cence, antMIr. ,'hlanvt1 g:t;ll ? For if not ot'iL* •rv, why make Arni.ouiF.s, or xur J\tr innlon ? Ami while Mr. Adams1 situation bears not the most honorable ox peel, that of his friend is sin gularly happy: it exhibits the loveliness of inno cence, the calmness of philosophy, and the meek, forgiving temper of Christianity.11 “ But in what originated Mr. Adams1 solici tude so promptly to apoi.oC; izk, in order to pre vent, or soften, the displeasure of his old friend ? Certainly not the belief that all his reproaches were unfounded. It was as above suggested, the apprehension of the effect of the “ C'orres pon Icncc11 made public prematurely—before I the time which he himself assigned for its puhlj- ] cation—and when he had not contemplated a crisis like die present. It was a moment of high family concern. Ilis son, who deserting his and his father’s former friends, and joining their enemies, had risen anew to place and pow er—a boon which lie saw was no longer ntlain blc, if he continued in their ranks, and perse vered in their principles—was now a candidate for the highest object of republican ambition — the Presidency of the United Slates. This ele vation would depend on his standing well with the great dominant party, of which Mr. Jeffer son, originally the leader, was still, though not officially, yet in public estimation, the political head. Under these circumstances, Mr. Adams hastens to make apologies an-l atonement to Mr. Jefferson, for thejust reproaches, or the font slan ders—they must he one or the other—which he had uttered against him. Mr. Adams may avow j either, as will best comport with his knowledge, I liis conscience, or his family interest. Ilis choice j will not change my opinions of the distinguish i ed citizens still living, who have observed the j course of public affairs, and those who have con ducted them for the last three or four and tivcn I ty years,11 rnich are the slanders which t'ol. Pickering j and the kennel printers Iiave circulated. This I whole superstructure will fall, when we sweep j away the basis on which it rests, by publishing j I'.Titrtilated, and without comment, i\Ir. Ad j ams loiter to Mr. Jefferson. It contains no .t | ror.or.v—it asks no roc.; rvi;\j: ;s.—There is a mistake in its date—it was dated not on the lJJth, J hnl on tlie 1 Ttli of September, iiJJJ. 1 ra tter from President Ad i ns to President \ Je/)'crs>n. Qi"ever, September 17, KI2.7. j Dr \n Sir,—With inucb pleasure I have ! heard read the sure words of prophecy, in your ! letter of September tlh. It is melancholy to | coulemjdatcthe cruel wars, dessolations of coun tries, and oceans of blood, which must occur, before rational principles and rational systems of .government,can prevail and be established; but as the«c are inevitable, wc must content our- j i selves with the consolations, which you, from 1 sound and sure reasons, so clearly suggest._! J These hopes are as well fouu led as our fears oil i the contrary evils.—On the whole, the prospect ! | is cheering. 1 hav ! itely undertaken torea I Algernon Sid ■ ney,On Government. TJ -i- tgreat differ! i‘. i | to reading a book a: four a >1 iwohfr and at! j ::iglitv-eig:d. \s often as 1 bare read it and j j fumbled it’ovcr, it non c\ct b . h admiral i-1 I >n, that tin- work has exc tel > bill interest <* : • i -tv^vy wn,;.*, <td !t-i an Ci!iii )ii of iL as the nrl of Printing can produce ; a*, well, for the intrinsic merit of the work, as for the proof it brings, of the bitter sufferings of the ad vocates of liberty, from thsti time to this, nod to show the stow progress of moral, philosophical, political i//umin iUon in the ieor/1, ought to he now published in .America. ft is true, tlint Mr. Jay, Mr. Dickinson and j Mr. Johnson contributed to retard many vigor oils measures, and particularly the vote of Inde pendence, until he left Congrr s ; but I have ! reason to think he would have concnrre ! in that ' vote, when it was taken, if he had been there, i His absence, was accidental. Con Tress, on the 15th of May preceding1, as I remember, had recommended to all the States, to abolish all au thority, un lor the Crown; and institute and or ganise a new Government, under the authority of Vie People. Mr. Jay hail promoted this reso lution in New York, by a.lvi iug them to call a Convention to fr • ue a new Constitution. He had been choscpa member of that Convention, and called home by hi • eoii.'ifu mt to u-si-t in it ; and as !)>■ etc told me, 1> 1 had g me h >m<\ I with my letter to Wythe in his pocket, for hi* [model and found it inn ; and the same Duane, | after the Constitution appeared, n-ked me if it I was not sufficiently conformable toinv letter to Wythe? 1 answered him, l believed, it would do very well. Mr. Jay was i-nmc iiateiy appointed Chief Justice, of the Si ite. and obliged to cnlor, immediately, on the duties of his office, wliich occasioned his detention from Congress, after wards. Dut I have no doubt, had he been in Congress at the time, he would h ire subscribed j the Declaration <f Imlcpaylcncc. I fc would have bran, neither recalled bv his constituents, nor ' have left Congress him«cif, like M . Dickinson. Mr. Willing', Gov. Lev iiigstou, and several o thers. As you wiitc so easy "' and so well. T pray you to write me, as often as possible, for no thing revives mv spirits so i?iu;:1i as vour let ters. except the society ef my son and his fami I ly, who arc now happily with me, after an ab sence of two years. 1 am, sir, with sentiment? of affection and res pect, your antient friend and servant, JOIIM ADAMS. PResmrxr Jkffersos;. P. S. Warmly as 1 fee! for the Spanish Pat riots, I fear the most sensible men among them * To this passnee Mr. JrTcrsPn refer- in the commancciocnt of his Irttrf. have Lille confidence Li their Constitution,j which appears to me is modeled upon th:it in | France of the year 1783, in which the Sover eignty in a single Assembly was every thing, &. the Executive, nothing. The Spaniards have adopted all this, with the singular addition that the members of the Cortes can serve only two years! What rational being’ can havo any well grounded confidence in Mich a Constituti on ? The managers of the Crawford presses, who do not like republican principles, nor even the name of republican, endeavor to mo^tc it be lieved that ihc late meeting of the republican members of our Legislature to express their sentiments as to the candidates for the President, was a meeting of all parlies. The Albauv Ar gus, Boston Statesman, New-Hampshirc Patri ot, tec. all announce it as a merling of the mem bers of the Legislature, carefully omitting to say “ republican members.” The Argus says that the whole number who voted was 147—ami then expressed a belief that the Legislature consists of about‘210 members. Now the fact is, none hut republican members were invited— none but republican members attended—and none but republican members voted. The I louse of Representatives consists of 20G mem bers, and the Senate of 12 members—making 21members only. About 15 republican mem bers did not attend, being mostly absent from the city—and nearly all of whom, had they been present, would have voted for Mr. Adams. Ha.I the federal members been present, no doubt .Mr. Crawford would have received many more votes. The Boston Statesman calls it a meeting of “ the friends of Mr. Adams.” It was emphatically a meeting of Mr. Adams’ friends—and Mr. Crawford has not the influ ence to get up any other meeting in any other part of the slate, limn a meeting of Mr. Adams’ iriends. The Now Hampshire Patriot, says that Nr.v-lf wkn, June 12. i c.xceptingm lif-ju, when me federalist* li;ui no i candidate for the Presidency, that t!ie slate of j Connecticut has inevery instance since the a i doption of the Constitution, cast a unanimous ! vote against the National democratic candi date’’—insinuating that Connecticut was in 1820 and is now, a federal state. This is very cour teous language towards the republicans of Connecticut; but it is no more than should be expected from Mr. Crawford’s hungry friends, all of whom would gladly have had the late elec tions in New England resulted in favor of fede ralism. We recollect vc*y well, that the editor of the N. Hampshire Patriot, a few months since, suggested the impropriety of supporting yr. \dams, because Massachusetts would pro bably be a federal state in 182-1, and it would he uniting with federalism to support him. This editor, as well as others whostipporl Mr.Craw ford, at first had no objections to Mr. Adams— considered him every way qualified—but was looking to the man who united the great re publican family, rinding that New-England is republican, and that Mr. Adams is the man on whom the republicans throughout the Union are concentrating, these Crawford pledged edi tors who desire nothing but the harmony of the Republican party, are now exposing their hy pocrisy, bv abusing .1/r. Adams, and adhciing to the man who has fewer friends among the peo ple of the United States, than any other one of the candidates who have been named for the Presidency. [ Register. The Times appears to Ire in a furious rage, because, contrary to the predictions of that pa per, tiie republican members of the Legislature declared their preference for John Quincy A d \ms as the next President, in spite of the exertions of the Treasury Clerk ami Ins recruiting officers in Connecticut. It is all folly for tiie 'Pimes to talk of “ amalgamation,” fedc : ral union, £c<i. ,tc. The nomination of Air. : Adams is the spontaneous feeling of the I real Democracy of thestatc. No nomination was i ever more fairly made. The democratic tnem f hers agreed to meet and ballot—there was no j excitement, no haranguing, no appeal to the pa-sions or sectional prejudices, but a sober, si lent, vote, and tiie result w;as a triumphant ma jority for J. Q. Adams.—This was as we ex pected ; 're have all along said that the republi cans of the state would go together on thjs great question, and whatever the exertions of .Messrs. Law, Daggett, Sherwood, Champion, and their allies may he, our electoral vote trill he undivi ded, and in favor of the truly republican candi date. The Journal an 1 Herald may scold, am: the Times may rave, ar.d threaten to frame r '■’■popular ticket, supported h:j combined crcr ' Hons ” These “ combined exertions* can ne [ vor get one-tenth of the elector., to vole for Alt . Crawford. The republicanism of the slate will remain firm and unshaken. Jo. 1'. vi, 11 torn-:, J me 1 !. OCLLRIIKNCES J.\ PERU. * he following1 memorandum of occurrences to I 'j’iit li.is been politely communicate I bv a mercantile house i:. tliist ily. Wp heliovu’thc irifor.nn'ion - 'imp b\ th- wav of Panama an:1 « Ingres. According to this account, tho Royal Spanish Army is slated to have gaine' possession of (lie city of I.ima, on the *23d Fe bruary—an event wliicli’thc letters from Lima of the 2A(h of the same month (via Jamaica) shew had not taken place at the latter dale; al though, on the authority of the British Consul of Colombia, it is said to have occured subsequent “On the 19th February, at 11 .A. !\I, the Spanish colours were hpislcd at the forts of Callao, which were garrisoned by a battalion from Buenos Ayres, and auxiliary Patriots from Peru; their officers and the Governor General, \!vara<Jo, having been secured by tliem in sub terraneous prisons. Ato’clock in the afternoon they sent a boat express to Pisco,*the head quarters’of our gen oral in-cl»icf, Don Jose Can tcrac. if is second in command, Vaides, was with the vanguard in Canitc. As soon as they received this information the army marched on Lima, and on the 23d of the same month General Rodil with his division I consisting of 3000 men, took possession of that | nil* and of the forts of Callao. When General Bolivar heard of this event lie was at Patiavilca, and retreated to Truxillo where he remained nine days, and joined Gen eral Sucre, who was in (tie neighbourhood of • Pasco, alter being routed by our general Cnr I r Bolivar immediately began his march i on f [f'tmarcrr will, all his forces, amounting to | J»00 men, where he was on the day of my de parture from Guayaquil, Kttli March. Our troops manoeuvred against himlooonnfcr uct hi« movements. It is supposed that his plan i to get possession of the Pass from Q,,ji„ to / afar, but the valient Agualongo with WOO Pa-dusos, is at the town of yhurra, three d v inareh from Quito. Two battalions o' 2 ,0 men '•rich, the one corning from Panama, and the o j (her, consisting of students and other; fro:n I Quito forced into the service, were sen' (o o[ f ick him, blit went over to him, (Agualongo'_ I *'IC former he joined to his troops, but U,c 1 were cut to | ieces. In consequence oftlic miserable slate if, wlttol, those provinces arc now, and tbc oppre -im, ,,f their in oabitants, the greater part of tliem hail t lie approach of our troops, being bv this fj;ru, convinced of the error into which they J, ,,j f ,|. W the time of General RodiPs cntnir.ee he torrid our colours flying, which were presented to him bv t re Peruvian Congress and '.heir Pro* sidc.it the Marquis Torrc-Tagle.’* STILL LATER. U* After the above was in type, the schooner Scott, captain Smith, arrived at this poit, in *20 days from Chagres. The accounts from Pana ma are to the dQth IVIay, and confirm those pre viously received of the capture of Callao and Lima. Ill consequence of the successes of the , Royuli'ts, there was a general panic throughout Panama, the people ot which were fearful of an attack from them. It was reported at Panama lhat after lire Royalists had pained cample pos session of tho fortv-oj Callao, they shot even third mail of the black troops, through whose] instrumentality tha forts Ira 1 fallen into their ] hands. This measure was enforced to quell the i spirit of insubordination which stilt existed j among them oil account of not having received any pay for a considerable lime pist. it was ! also reported that some of thu Patriot oilicors had gone over to the Royalists. Bolivar was iimch impeded in liis operations in consequence of m anting money. American. AFFAIRS OP OUEKCE. We Iran-late die following arlii-lc from the Ori entul Spectator, ol Felt. '»«>. It will serve to show tin generai views oi the editors of lhat paper, \\ hieli known to iiaie been uK. ays opposed io the (.reek revolution. The reader will deiivu from it some information, and il lie is aoi untied with the rca I'■ouiinr, he may learn on what grounds those who ; .ne intimately aeipi.tinted with tin: eouditioii of the ’ , «ri vk ; place th, ir opposition to tIrocian euinuetpa I lion. [ I'os.'tjii Daitr Advertiir>. It is u qncsin.n w iicllirr the absolute degradation of theCirt eks, wIki have been f«>r four hundred years subjugated »»y the Otto.nans, contributed more to tlic present iuuirrrcti.m, than the sudden exaltation of the modern Greeks. This position will cense to he paradoxical after a little explanation. When the Ottomans invaded the Lower Kmpire, every thing yielded to the effort of their arms, and the tie* generate Greek, his face hent to the dost, dared not to look up, from the infinite distance which he saw separated him front hi; con pieror. This excess of degradation always contained the germ of ven geance which was to burst forth at the eiul of four ; centuries. For what was the consequence ? The i Turks saw themselves the tranquil possessors of a ■ magnificent emipre, and finding not the least resist ance, mtil every where a blind and unbounded sub mission, they could not hut coneriivc a profound con tempt for the people whom thry saw at their feet. Reposing with security in the impression of their | strength, and satisfied with conquests, the\ inscusi | hly neglected the art of war, ami despising and mal [ treating the people whom they had subjected, and I who concealed their hatred in their hearts, they Touad it agreeable anti convenient to avail them selves, without taking any tumble, cl all the arts of first necessity which they found in full activity a rottnd them, so that without perceiving it they become tributary to their industry, growing by degrees cl leminatc under the shade of their laurels. As much limn inexperience as from pride they compelled or ! permitted the Raja to labour, aiul placed themselves in a condition not to be able to dispense with his skill and labour. i he Greeks having every where become necessary, exercised almost exclusively the arts and trades, and their abject state, acquired fortune, which with time Rives so many advantages to those who possess it, whatever may otherwise he tin ir condition. The prosperity of a part of the Creek.;, which was to de cide the fate of the other part, was unquestionably ascendant. Their conuueice was extending, was every day becoming more active, was opening new' branches, and was acquiring every w here ease and riches.—The proof of it is palpable. They founded -chouls and umptuous colleges. Barren rocks and islands which nature and a foreign domination seem ed to have condemned to an eternal poverty, ac quired ail the resources of opulence, and covered the sea with their vessels. The Greeks^ in fine od tained important privileges, and it seemed that their ambition increased in proportion as every thing occurred to satis y it. They at length pre sumed too much upon their strength, and shook off a yoke which no longer existed for the Greek i slamls, ami which at some other points was so much lightened, and was becoming still more light. Cm looking back then, it is perceived that the (■it eks who witnessed the fall of th; ir empire, pot the Mussiilinrn to sleep by the excess of their abase ment, by their blind submission contributed to bis effeminacy, and by bequeathing to their descendants a precious industry, and a character of absolute re signation, prepared for them by the operation of time, the means of strengthening themselves in si lence, and of finally declaring themselves indepen ;ent. '1 bus, then, an ignoble cause mtained from the beginning the germ of an event ordinarily glmi ous in ihe ryes of men, when success justifies it._j But this day succes--. has not justified it, and the’ caii.e of the Greeks has yet a crowd of chances a- i gainst it. On this subject, foreseeing the misfor- ! times which may happen, people say that the Greeks havr revolted twenty years too soon ; which implies hat the Greeks have had reason to revolt, but that to do it with full sucre s they ought to have waited I twenty years longer to gain greater strength. t arc compelled to think very differently.—But i or the fatal impulse given to the revolution by the ! ingtilar event which excited Moldavia and Walla lna, the Greeks would not have thought of raising -ic standard of revolt, and they would still less have • nought of it twenty years hence. For wii.it could they desire? Fortune,consideration, privileges, in tuitions, a sort of emancipation? They had al- ! j ready obtained a great part of all this, and they would have gradually obtained the rest. A few years longer, and their situation would have become so happy, that they would have been far from wish ing a change. The wind of revolution which has blown upon them has been extremely fatal. After so many evils which they have drawn upon them selves, what remains to them ? Hope, which is al ways uncertain. They arc compelled to justify their revolution, and to cover with an attractive veil the abyss which is open before them. What wonder ful efforts may be produced on credulous minds hv ingenuity and eloquence? With the aid of these two elements, in contempt of truth, it has been pro ved without difficulty, that the r a use of this revolu tion was the frightful, the insupportable despotism ot the Turks, the Barbarians, • r. After this, w ith what a Sardanic smile, or with what cold contempt will many persons read this sentence of the Specta tor—i 'he (1 reeks revolted not beratute. they were bad ly, but because thru were well, treated. l or a hundred and fifty years, the principles of the Turkish Government have been growing more mil I. tor this period, there has not reigned a sin gle Prince of whom the Greeks have had cause to complain. 1 he progress of commerce, of intelli gence, and of civilization, were turning to their be nefit. To deny that the prosperity of the* Greeks was always increasing, especially since the time of the last Selim, would be to contradict all evidence. There was no reason why this prosperity should stop, anti why it should not finally satisfy all ambi tion. The revolution, which was hut the result of st> great a power acquired, i: a silent homage ren dered to the goodcss ol the government, which per mitted them to acrjnm it. But, unfortumitciv, this insurrection has come to destroy the most evident advantages, an 1 the best founded hopes. |jy ro!>< II ing, tiic Greeks have blasted the fruit of the douldr precious inheritance which their ancestors have be queathed to them, viz. a blind resignation, and an active indu try. By that, they had by decrees n meltotaled th- ir condition until the moment of their revolt. Hits amelioration would have continued, and wouid have conducted them to the object of their wishes, to a happiness which they have lost by widitng to be a hurry. But nothing which is done well i, done quick. They wished to make them selves a power, without recollecting that they hvd also received from their ancestors another inheri tance, a ri trader of levity, of vanity, of cupidity ami of i.isittiifin. To Conclude, we perceive in tin future only disastrous days for the Greks, if ,hev have not the deposition, or the good fortune, to .coWW; to an arrangement with the Turks. May Pm vidence watch over them and over ail people. From alnlc London Pap«r Tirnrr. months a fit.* MAtuttAUr !—J}.ow. sfrtcl, London.—William and Mary Warden a newly married couple, came, voluntarily befo P V/0 Mutate -Mary f« cornea in «%;' William, or 1 \\ n.iam to complain of Mary; out Mary scfmed to have the most cause to complain, for, thm.ch Na ture hail given her a pair of very hue black eves, \\ illiain in his waywardness, had made their lids of the same colour—and that, too, by no very RCntle operation an operation which led one to believe that he considered a ir editing as a symbol of the r*nS pt'-riilistif. I*e this as it may, however, we shall state their rase for the benefit of the newly married public in genei *1. " dliam i, in '.jet V3d year,and, Mary in her l!)th; ha\e been inairied just three months; it was altogether a love match, poverty has not peeped in at their door, and yet love has already llown out thiv.ij h t.ieir window. And why has he so soon deserted Hieing Mary attributed his tli^it to Wil liam’s excessive tliirMiuoss; and Wiliam aserihed it to Mary’s lore of money, which, as William very truly observed, is the root of ail evil. Mary said \\ illiam was cruel enough to strike her because she told him of remaining so Ion-at the public house. \Y illiain, on the contrary, said Mary was of such a “ desperate’’ bad temper, that she was continually bumping him about from chair to chair, and boxing his cars whenever he came home, not because lie “spent” too much money, but because lie did not {'ll enough: sim wanted him to live upon water gruel, in order that they might become rich, and be wanted to enjoy the pood things of this world as they came to hand—l)um tiiimus r trim ns. Alary admitted she was not particularly good-tempered, ami William admitted that lie was ashamed of hav ing struck her —“ for,” said lie, “I love her as well j1,1 better than ever 1 did, and 1 shouldn't have low f’Lil her if she. Iiaiidu’t tempted ms to it!” “ And pray, how did she tempt you ?” said the Magistrate. “ Why, by boxing my cars,” replied William, “and tolling me I darca t hit lier again.” It was evident to their Worships that there were faults on both sides. It was dear to them that Ma ry had thought to find her husband all perfection_ or, at all events, she was determined to make him so; and it was equally clear, that howevet William might love his wife, lie had still some love to spare for an occasional jollification from home—that in short, he could at on* time, sing— •'\\ lien the heart of a man is oppressed with rare, r he mist is dispell'd if a woman appear.” And at another— ," l,P.ri t,lc *,cait A mm i; elated with Leer, 1 lie bliss is dispdl'd should his siiousy appear.” But or this jovial penchant they thought he might be cured, it his wife would give him soft words in stead of boxing hi: cars; and, after recommending linn to spend his h.er-irnncy at home instead of a brond, and censuring him severely for striking his wile, they sfiimisly advised them to shake hands in kindliest, and try each other for three months lon Tl.ry shook hands accordingly, and left the office nrm m arm, apparently very well satisfied with what had been done for them. AN ORDINANCE, ' Authorizing a loan for the City rf Richmond, and directing live application thereof. [passed juni: 14tl«, 1824.] j He it ordained by the President and Common (■mined in the City of Richmond in Common I Inti assembled, and it is herein/ ordained hi/ the authority of the same; That the Chamberlain of the city of Richmond lie, and lie is here by authorised and required to advertise, that lie will sell to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 20th .inly, a loan (or the City of Richmond; for the Sinn ot $ .15,000, on the terms and con ditions following, to wit: No bid shall be receiv ed for a lass sum than $500, nor for a fractional part thereof, nor at a lower rate than par. 2. And he it further ordained by the authority ajoremid, That upon the payment in cash by a ny bidder of the sum due by him or her, for any stock struck out to him or her, to the Chamber lain of the City, he shall issue to such purchaser a certificate of stock signed by the President of tbr Hall and countersigned by the Chamberlain, with the seal ol the Corporation annexed thereto. 3. Andie it further ordained by the authority a foresaid and it is hereby ordained In the same, That any loan made to the city ol Richmond, under this audinance, shall bear an interest at the rate of siv per centum |h r annum, payable quarter yearly at the office of the Chamberlain of the city in gold «fc silyer cur rent coin, or the notes of ibo Bank of Virginia, or of the Farmers’ Rank of Virginia, or of the Rank of the United States; and such loan or loans shall he irrcdecmablo un til on or after the 1st day of January, 1335. 4. Andie it further ordained, That the faith of the City is hereby solemnly pledged, to set! ajr.w tannually under the controulof tiicC/onnnis sioners of the sinking fund a sum sufficient for the regular quarter yearly payment of the inter est, and the redemption of the principal of the lf;”' aforesaid on tue said 1st day of January 5. The proceeds of the loan aforesaid shall be applied in the following manner and to (he pay ment ol the following debts due from the City "to wit: There shall he paid to the Rank of Virgin - ia $14,310; to the Farmers’Rank of Virginia $ 1,5C0, and to the Rank of the United States’ j a no thousand dollars. ®. 'Phis Ordinance shall commence and be | in lorce from and alter the passing thereof A roi*v—Teste, N. SIIEPPARD, c. c. n. NOTICE. In pursuance of the provisions of tiie forc Soiriir Ordinance, I shall proceed to sell the stock thereby created at Mr. Carter B. Pace’s Exchange, in the city of Richmond, on the 20th of next month, at the hour of 1 2 o’clock. N. SHEPPARD, Chamberlain City of Richmond. June If5 20J 12 NOTICE. K.rrevtirc Department,2ZHt .'Ten/, 1021. PROPOSALS will ho received at this Depart ment until the 1st clay of'July next, for the sale, of five hundred and eighty copies of the “ Hr ports of Cases decided in the' Court of .dpprats of , Virginia, from the 10th .Ipril, U;20, to ‘ZV.'/i June lf!2l, In/ F. If . (itfiner, Counsellor at I.etc." Uy order, Win. II. RICHARDSOjV, r. e. ____ tlstJ ao BHArra, ON BOSTON, I’ltOV IDKiNOE, NEW-VOP.K, PHILADELPHIA, BAI.T1 .YIOP.E, V, ASJII \f»TON CII MTKKSTOIN. SWANN AH, (i ('IT V, S.C.& for sale, in Mims to suit purchasers, anti a! any sight, hy J S. ,t M. ALLEN Si CO. Nn. M tin Street, Richmond. AVA.VTV.tt, | Notes oi* Hanks of Georgia, South Cnroli _ Norili ( aro'iua, and all other uucurreut 15ank Notes, tvhieli will he taken on liberal terms. April 30. S. k M. ALI.KN Sc CO. | f>< K S'- (),, I ho 11th A iiy the H Siibirribrr, from Caleb Stones' boat (head man rimothv) one bag of roru, about 3 bushels. On the 1 ^ih, from Temple llcd’s boat (headman I cter) 2$ bushels of meal, and about -JOOlbs. loose tobacco. The ‘JOflt, from Nathaniel Goolsby’* boat (head man James) 2 bushel* of corn, and about lOOlbs. ol loose tobacco. 2d \ ft om John J<,hul l's boat (headman 150ibs. of loose lob aero. J From Richard Johnson’s boot (headman Biilv't about SOOlbjrXjf lo-'se tobacco. * ! Go the 2C>th April, T took from on board of Smith Tnvi 's boat [!•, id-man Moses,] one hundred p^jndstobacco. l’iie above articles will he disposed >f tis the law dit eels. fSHAM p.andot.i ;i, ror ’■ T\ r A- JS9j>. «f r,o.if< EXCHANGE & READING ROOM. AT the request of many of the most respectable inhabitants of this city, the subscriber has been induced to open an Rxehange and Reading Roan:, lor the accommodation and convenience of the mer chants :wid citizens generally. Tne room now oc cupied by the subscriber and the adjoining one, will be opened for that purpose. The principal newspa pers and priors current in the United States, and the most approved peiindieal reviews and magazines in this country and Europe will bo furnished. Strangers are rospecttully invited to visit the Ex change. I he annual subscription to the Exchange will be five dollars, payable in advance. Persons wishing to subscribe, will be pleased to call at the suhscri* hi ts office. Due notice will be given of the open \ iitjC of tire Exchange. Tire subscriber will srll public stocks of every description at auction or privately. CARTER 1). PAGE. Richmond, ll’.th May. ts33 IN the Court of Chancery of the State of Dela ware, held at New Castle in and for the Coun >’ °* N\-w Castle, of the August Term, Anno Dom ini 1&23, Thomas Roberts, vs, James \T. Broom, Jacob F. Broom, James Roberts and Sarali his wife, John Roberts, Rachel l.o herts, Asa Moore and Ann his wife, William I.yon. Rachel B. Lyon,George Lyon, John Lyon, and Jacob B. Lyon. And now to wit, on this twenty-fourth day of A - pril, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-lotir, on motion of Joslrua G. Brinekln Esu. complainant’s Solicitor, and on Affidavitsfiled, It is ordered by the Chancellor that William Lyon Ra i liael B. Lyon and Alin Moore do appear in this Court and in the above cause, on Thursday, the 1-Jtlt day of August next ensuing, and the Chan cellor directs that a copy of the foregoing order shall within thirty days lie published in the Delaware iiazeitc published at Wilmington, and the Consti tutional \\ big,published at Richmond, in Virginia, and be continued in such newspapers for the space of three months next after its first publication. .Veu- Castle County,1 do certify that the above is a true copy of the record thereof.—In tes timony whereof, I have hereunto set my [r.. s.J hand and affixed the seal of the said court, tv, at New Castle, the 3d day of May, Au no Domini, li;2l. DAVID PAYNTER, Reg'r **m‘™__ . in Chancery. In JImelia County, -May Court, 1821, Thomas Muinford and John C. Iliil, Merchants nml partners, trading under the firm of Muinford and Hill, v against PlflS' J In Chancery. John Huberts ami Thomas Roberts, Defls. The defendant, Thomas Roberts, not having en tered hijj appearance and given security according to die Act of the General Assembly, and the Rules l,”s Court»!,,ld >t appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the said defendant, Thomas Roberts, is net an inhabitant of this State; on ihe moti on of the plaintiffs, by Alfred O. Eggleston, their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant, Tho mas Roberts, do appear hern on the fourth Tlnna j day in August next, ami answer the complainants lull ;and that a copy of this order bn forthwith in so!led in some public newspaper, printed in the City °* Richmond, for two months successively, and also posted at the front door of the Courthouse of this county on two so cessivc coint days. A copy—-Test, , , J- T. LEIGH, C. A. C. J,!ne K w8wt37 PROSPECTUS Of a New Journal to hr. Published at the City of Washington, UY W.\Y & GIDEON, FOR THU EDITORS. F-NTiTr.r.n THE AMERICAN MERCERY. Thf. cstabli dimentof another new Journal at the seal oi the natioual government, may, perhaps, he considered by some, as prcmatuic and unnecessary at tins time; while by others, it will be hailed with pleasure, as another source of intelligence, and a no tlicr incdiumof information, from which much bene fit may lie derived. Means J'or diffusing light and truth and knowledge can never he too extensively multiplied or too generally promoted. In all free governments the press is emphatically the paladi unt of liberty, and it is only in despotisms that its range is circumscribed and its energies destroyed. It is by a free, unrestrained, and easy diffusion of knowledge, and especially political knowledge, that the' liberties of a nation can he preserved ratios is best effected by means of the press, therefore, can not be too widely or generally established. Promises are so frequently made in undertakings of tins sot t, and so often violated, that wc shall for bear to make more on this occasion than we intend to fuJhl. But, this wc will say, without the appre hension of failure, that every effort shall he made to diffuse the most correct information; to support the principles of icpuhlicatiism in their purity; to de fend the measures of government that are bottomed on these ptinciples, ami that arc calculated to pro mote the general good; and fd endeavor to cherish a spirit of union and liarmonf among the confede rated members of our great republic. And while we < o tins, we shall net he inattentive to the claims of American literature and science, hitherto too much ugiitiuu, uni win, at nil ia\owiDjc opportunities, Inl.or to contribute to tl.fir ndvniiccinnnl ami to promote their success-. Through the n;o*um of lit erary and critical essays, inserted from tin,- to time, wc shall endeavor, moreover, to begot and fos ter, as far as wc are aide, a taste for letters and a love of science, that will add to the enjoymr nt as well as the happiness of all who feel their influence Established, as this journal will be, at the seat of government, it will be in the pow er of the editors to put their patrons in possession of whatever of inte rest may transpire,either in the cabinet or the coun cils of the nation, and to communicate the informa lion as it comes, immediately from its source The proceedings of Congress, and sketches of the de bates, with the most important official co.ninm.ica t.ons, shall also, he regularly given, and i„ short,no effort shall lie omitted on the part of the editors to render the Journal tft interesting and useful ns nos MIUU*. 1 As wc purpose to be, on all occasions, perfectly candid, wc think it but proper lo state, ar this time, that, ns it respects the different candidates for the , c nr v'.Vv ^r!Vv’°"r cl,oice is decidedly in favor HLM<\ CLAY, whose talents and genius we respect, am. whose claims to the high office to which 'nany arc wr Shall endeavor to support; • but, at the same t„„e, with that temperance nml courtesy wind, wc think due to the character not only of lloitv Clay, but to that of his rivals, ami which, we are sure, will he more agreeable to ill than the rude ribaldry and low scurrility in w hich’ son.-hovc indulged in pushing forward the claims of tac.r favor if;- candidate. The principles to hiel, Vlr- ( , AV adhered, in the whole of his political • areer, are precisely those we shall maintain. \V> are advorat.- fV-r whatever will conduce to the pros perity aml.wclfare of the nation; an-l the leadiim tram of Mr. Ct.AY S political life have heen tim e of deep attachment to his country, and to whatever would promote it* intercut*, am! n strong desire to advance the cause of freedom, and to protect and suppo.t the unalienable rights of man Of the course wc c!.hM pursue, therefore, and the principles we shall advocate, we think wc have said enough and, with this brief expose ofonr intention^ in die c.ta.diMimcnt of this journal, w<> throw our selves upon the public, in the expectation of obtain mg a portion ot their patronage. TERMS. 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