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For thr Wiiiu.
To the Freeholderf, Voters, and the Citizens q/ Henrico.'
Un lorstanding that a general impression has been 1
made among you, that I had declared myself, on a re*
cent occasion, friendly to the right of the General Go
verninont to carry on Internal Improvements, within
th • limits of the several States, and knowing tha' such
an impression is calculated to do me a serious and las. I
ting injury, it' not promptly removed, you will, 1 hope, j
pirdon me, for adopting this mode of declaring, that
mich an allegation is wholly and totally groundless, hut
boars not the remotest resemblance to any opinion that
I have ever entertainod or expressed on the subject.
It is a very gross error, and 1 think you will bear
mo out in saying, a very strange one too, into which
the gentleman has fallen, who lias made this repre
sentation, when I tell you, that ho never hoard me ex
press any opinion on that subject, in the whole course
of his life. How, then, could I havo been misundcr.
stood.
It is true, that when I was called on, at a public
meeting recently hold in the upper end of this county,
[by one of my competitors, for a seatjpn the next Legir
lature, to let the people know, that I had voted against
Gen. Jackson, and insisted that it should be made a test
question in the election, and likewise requested me to
Btate my views on the Turitf, that I did not hesitate to
express a most deeided preference for Mr. Clay, and to
say, that I wao opposed as well to the Administration as
to tl.o election of Gen. Jackson. I also declared my
conviction, that the Tariff, though a constitutional mea
sure, had !.*een carried too far, ami ought to be modified.
18ay it was a subject, the effects and operations of which
were but little understood, and that for the most part
those who railed most against it, uuderjtood it least
—that /, like Gen. Jucksnm, was in favor of a
jndieious Tariff and until ho was required to give hit j
dofinution of a judiciou? Tariff, his friends had no right
to ask for mine. If they were satisfied with hie views
on that subject, they were bound to be satisfied with
mine—but that I would go one step farther than he had
done, and say that I was in favor of that sort of Tariff,
which would have the offoot to render us not only a
free j.e iple. but totally and absolutely free, and inde
pendent, in the broadest sense of the term, ofevery Gov
ernment upon earth, or in other words, that I waa an
(advocate of that sort of Tariff, that would havo the ef
fect at least to toach us, how to manufacture every ar
icle of our home consumption, and be the moans of fur
nishing u homo market for all the products of the
country, which might afterwards be abandoned at plea
ture, and that the present Tariff, I thought, had been
ied farther than was nccossarv to prcnlucc that ro
' I hcae were the views that I expressed, and if the
good people of this county cun think that I am not wor
thy their support, because 1 did not, and wilt not, vote
for lien. Jackson—if they think i ought to bo denounc
ed for entertaining an honest opinion of my own, in re
lation to a man, where no principle is involved, or be.
cause I think with Mr. Madison and a large majority
of the wisest mon in the country, that the Tariff
is a constitutional measure, and, if carried to a certain
extent, might produce beneficial and happy reeulte, be
it 80—1 must bow with becoming roverencc and sub
mission to the people’s will; but I cannot consent to be
misunderstood or misrepresented, upon any subject,
particularly on one containing a principle in which our
nearest right and interest are involved.
A.'pon the subject of Internal Improvement I utterod
not one syllable. If I had, it would have been this:
that I was an advocato for a system of Internal Im.
provement upon a much more extended seals than had
yet been carried into operation in Virginia, by State
means, and by State means only; but that I was most
decidedly hostile to the cxerciso of such a power by the
Federal Government, as being unauthorised by the <
Constitution, and dangerous in iCe consequencee\ Is
it not enough, fellow-citizens, that the denunemiona i
of the people of J.bis county, should be invoked on my 1
head, for having* dared to cxorcao the right of a free
citizen in voting for the man whom I believed, in the '
honesty and sincerity of mv heart, would best.promote
the honor, interest and welfare of his country? Is it
not enough, that a solemn appeal should be made to
those whom 1 could cluiiu as friends in this election, to
discard and desert me, because I could not acknowledge
the supremacy of Gen. Jackson—because I could not
recognise in him, whose pursuits and education had
been chiefly confmod to the tented-field; who, as a po
litician, was not only unknown to fame, but whose
n line, four years since, was a very stranger to the peo. *
p'.o of this land, except as l successful General—be- j
ciuse, I say, I could not recognise in him, the only]
true and unerring standard of virtue, wisdom and sound
republican principles? He is at last, fellow-citizens
but a man, and he is the first man that tln'« country
has produced, and I trust in God for the safety of our
honor and our liberties, that ho may ho the last of
whom the people of this country, may not, with free
dom, be permi‘ted to express an untrammelled and in
dependent opinion.
I ana sensible that my opinions of Con. Jackson do
not accord w ith the opinions of a majority of tho peo
'e that I have chosen
plo of this county; and it is therefore ___^
to speak thus freely; vet I cannot perceive that it has
any thing to do with the present election. It appears
to me that the only question to he aeked is, is ho honest
and sincere in his opinion? If this question is asked,
tho only answer I have to make, or evidence to offer,'
of my sincerity is, that seeking public office at vour
hands, I am expressing sentiinonts that I know to be at
variance with yours. A time-server I cannot be; and
though I am willing, nay more than w lling, to under
t.. • ‘.o discharge the duties of this office with strict
n iility, and with the best ability that it has pleased
.od to giv"» ;ne, yet I am not willing to purchase it at
0C my honesty and truth. Candour, there.
<’3V, that lf you shall he persuaded
■’*• - - *'■c :ion in the election, I
- •" • :.:.tineeH, as an individual,
• vote tor a man "whom I believe
' "7 ''•-t'-ira, ha*-’it, temper aud educa
the d :ri<-B of that office. I
*
n that
- may be
fusion, that I not only acknowl
- an : i-.illost extent, tiie right of
• - °‘ t;;e people, but the iuipera*
•olv?a on a representative to repre*
eon* a v.: v-ros of his constituents, when with
certainty ns:erij:ne . no m ater by what means, wheth
ex by instructions or otherwise.
Very respectfully.
Your ob’tserv’t and fellow citizen,
JOHN M. BOTTS.
Half Sink, May 28th, 1831.
General Jack ten' a idea if Reform■ We hive re
itciveo lhe National Magazine for May, wh ch a
m i.ig otiioi it; ' .-o> Mi;* a i tie k §, contains one devu
i d to ti e proven c«nd t mi of the Post Office De
p»rtmo.it. In this ariuJe, the Editor adverts in
•Itfonir «nd p< i-ifed terms to t he indifference which
has been m .mf rt.-d by the National Republican pa
pers, in p lan .n to thi* disgrace ul proceedings in
tin* Gem ral Post office. which vverj brought to
tight at the last ecftion of (Jongresi—and particu
hiry in relation to the erasures and forgeries in the
Report of the Post Master General, p ,s truly ob
served, tnat had i>ur.r, a stopooduous mans of fraud,
iniquity, corrnptinr and favoritism been discovered
under the late administration, th.r clamor of the Jack
son press would never have ceased to vjbiate upon
t:ie curs of ttic people. Of this tnerc can be no ques
tion— otiri we hive not only to add the expression of
cur surprise to that of the editor, that the opponents
of this most corrupt administration, have dwelt so
lightly on alien.irmi y so glaring no this, and of such
baleful op.-rn!ion in h De|iaitinenf so intimately con
nected wi»h every pubhc and private interest as the
i'o-t Office. In the article refer-ed to, v»c find the fol
lowing anecdote v/'ich jb the be-u illus'ra'i. n r.e
have seen of (i-mei.il Jackson’s idea of reform, we
quote for the ed.ficaiton and entertainment of our
readers.
•* ,rw t,n>'s tin* creaf guns and hnrra« of
The m >b. had announced tint the military Chieftain
was duly inrnlk'd President of three United State*
tt m reported th.it I19 sent fir John M |lC1(l
U?\l n?oV (?Cn'71’ fi,r ,h° pUrp°‘C expounding
to li.ni t ie cr.ocil m anin^ of ‘Reform," which „*
was auted in maugurs,! speech, like the writ,,,,,
on tho wad « f BeUazzur.h.ad been so legibly i„„Cr»
bed on ,he r.dlofl.i* duties.—“I shall b,^id
Thts distributor of rewar. a and twmbinont* -
••by ftiming out of off,*; erery man who ha,
Haroi f» meddle in the late election. 1 11 tench the
rascals Hi,at it ,s to brin2 the federal *lf,c»s
tr,o conflict with the freedom ot election_tlmy
e!'*«U uifcreh every i;.ar. of them.'* uTos*. wiU be
very right. Sir," replied the Post Mus'er General—
“provided that the rule be impart! illy executed; but,
p.’rlmp--, you have not coni-idered it will ob ige y«>u to
turn out a greater nuinl>er of your own friend* than
of the other party, fLr it is riot to be domed that the
former have been the tkc>Bt ready t<» prostitute their
•tlicos to clootie■neeriii'j purpose*."—•Si;?" .-aid the
Reformer recoiling a* if fie find tp>d upon a serpent,
or n« n Kentucky boatsman would *nv, if he had
unexpectedly ran ncaintt n mag'— ‘ S r?"—I d -n''
tiuderbtand you ’’—Why, Sir, i mke it for granted
j you mean to make your rule general, a d to turn
out all who have committed the Bam*; <&‘-nce again*'
the freedom of elections"—-“By G—d. Sir. 1 mean
no such thing--{food morning, SH*' and the‘‘Great
e*t and B* st," turned upon Inn he* l. .Tho next day
John McLean was nominated to the Senate mh an
j Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and thus
wa6 one “Conscience” put nut of the wny of inter
ference with the new system of •‘Reform."
Nhw Orleans. May 16.
I IT The Northern mail, due on Saturday at half past
. 3 o’clock, failed as usual. Sho^M the mail arrive at
any time to-day, wo recommend to the Jackson folks of
our town, to cause all the bells to ring a merry peal in
honor of so groat an event.—-Irru*.
• May 17.
_ TAe mail*—Post ojjtct aJTairt.—Tho northern mail,
via Mobile, caiuc m Yesterd&y*_J>ringing us, as might
be expected, in consoquenco of the numorotfs failures,
files of papers, many of which, from their old dates aro
ot little or no use to us. It will be soon by the extracts
which we give l»elow, from various journals, that there
is a general hue and cry throughout the United States,
about ths bad management of the General Post office
department, and ot the irregularities, and even total
failures of the mails.— lb.
Arlc.ees.—A part, only, of tlw papers due from New
i orK and Philadelphia,— and none at all from Wash
mgton, were received by the mail of yesterday. As it
came regularly through however, tho packages of papers
must have been overlooked, or missent bv some of the
1 oet Masters, on the route.—-Mobile Register.
Mr. Van Buren’s furniluro in advertised for sale at
Washington, on Monday tho 30th inst. It is now as
serted that ho will not depart on his mission to London
till tho return of McLane, witn whom Mr. V. B. wishes
an interview previous to his departure.
Rail. American.
FtiC \> ashiujrtun Globe ^officia'.) InHs, in refer
enco to the late Secretory of the N.vy, this Imii
guage—“The iiia'i c of Hrnm:!i. and hi«< weak i ffori
toiiapeaci the wisdom, firmness and jos'ic-; of ill
President.” * * * “We a,l; of Mr Branch ».,</,ini.
| over the dtler.ima presented to him in the f Bowing
•j article, and to choose f.i« horn ” Such is ih
treatment et a mun who no longer holds < ftio •
and woo incurred (o much obloquy mid riiljcuh
tor donomnating (i ■ni’ml Jackson ‘the ercifew
and the best”! In the nrtule to which the Globe
refere, it is denied that the President hn* born te—
tiraony to the cnpniiiy of Mr. Branch. The Presi
dent’stccct addressed to Mr. B. is aa f. ltows:—"In tl>e
discharge ofalllhe limicuif your office, nvi>r which
I’ have any control, 1 have been fully sati-fied."—
"1 did not. as to yourtelf, express a wish that yon
[should retire.” Here, 6urely is a fall attestation of
capacity.
According to the article endorsed by the Globe,
‘ i‘hi to be discerned th.it the Pre-it m f.und th«’
charge of tho opposition, that Mr. Branch wanted
capacity true." Admitting tile assertion—for r.rgu
raents sake—we may observe that it is a litUc^in
con-nstciit and unreasonable in the vehement ad
vocstes of President Jack-on, to be so indignant
and abusive when Afxcjpa* i y is qo-stioned byUiose
who arc s-Hd to have believed in it before he wa
trieu. If he con’d rnis ake in the rase of Mr
Branch,—one of his nldrst and m >b intimate f i -nd
the possibility of similar error, on i|io a;de «>f ihi
people even, with regard to himself, might he con
ceded. There may be a very wide difference b
tween what General Jackson wan supposed to b
in IRJ4, upon the representations of his devi te« •
friends, and w hat he has shewn himself to be b>
the year IU31, with atrialof more than two years
in nn ofii'e for which he was not specially prepared
land qualified. Whoever will 1 < k back on the m
rits which were ascribed, by the ad min'strati ti
| edi ore to Governor Brand , at the period of hi
j appointment as Secretary of the i\Tavy. and to their
I boasm about t ie unerring sagacity of the Prefiden
[ must acknowledge that their present language con
jeeruingthe Governor ie quit.* as inconsistent and
suspicious, ae ary which is us- d by theunb. lever*. a
the present time, in regard to General Jackson’s
capacity ,r fititcsa. In fact, the portion of the pe
I !'lc v./tru IT IliRi, WO'e tOO C-Jll fid m<r HI),
eanguinc:—number* of the mofi zealous and uttrlli
gent of iiis admirers and supporters eonf*>s
th ir m’scone-p.’ion and disappoin’mrut ‘‘All ii
t/u* Wron*" m 'he proper tide of the political dm
rn«. Th* example,— if it should end at the prop-t
term,—must bo salutary. Both parties, the man
and lus former preferrers, m»v be excused for th.
iilu-ion under which they laboured. General Jark
8un dial rusted l.imsel' too lit'lr ; ih». majoruy hi
whom he was elected overratf-d !uh energies and
abilities: every rne will comprehend better what
the office of President requires.
Phil. Nat. Gazette.
^1 ht Embassy to England.—We hear no more now
p. the “retiracy” ot Mr. Van Buren—no more of bury
ing himself in the bosom of hia native state—no more of
Belt-disfranchisement from public sorvice—no more of
disinterested withdrawal from high office to assu ne the
hu:?bl® ?tat,on of a private citizen. But all this was
said oi hmi, at the moment of his abdication of the
rremicrelnp, by the toad caters whose task it is to bolt
a I his acts, however gross and preposterous. The
tune is changed, from a positive denial that he had
any intention to go to England, to a soothing congratu
lation of the country upon his appointment. The Kich
mond Enquirer now says, it -can very easily conceive
-hat Mr. Van Buren himself should find sufficient ,„o
1°",*° IT* th* L nilcd P more tranquil the.
atre. Admirable complacency! Wonderful capacity
of percept,on-81B,000 for §6000: how vastly -easy to
conceive!”—JV. Y. Evening Journal. 3
! The ruptures between Mews. Jackson and his late
Cabinet, and between the Calhoun and Van B.-ren
I “,Tl*,on" "lhf party," make it morally certain, that
a great delinquency will soon appear in the Adminis.
, tration ranks. Gen. Green, late Orderly, will blow the
| trumpet of reform anew, and recruit old' soldiers for an
i ^her leader. The friends of Mr. Calhoun with Mr. C. at
I thei.r head' w,n muster at the call, form and change front,
l«,Vln?.Kn point d'aPJnii- Virginia will wheel
out of the Administration line, and form column on
new ground under the marshalling of Tazewell and
Tvler, while the guerilla chief of Roanoke will hov.
er about the field, annoying the cx-secrctary and his
mercenaries. 1 ennsylvania and New Y’ork have al
ready broken their strong columns intoechellonsofcoun
ties, and are moving to a new line. Who shall bo
placed at the head ot this magnificent array? I*>t no
man presume to take the post who has not the com.
mission of his sover.gn, the poopic. I^t no man bo
in haste to reco.ve the reigns of power._,V. Y. Whig
from the Baltimore Chronicle
To THE Editors.
I I sc-.; 0 report of the death of Col. Crockett—he* ;
I ingslint while addressing the people, no date is gj. ;
; van. But I have received a letter from l>irn dated ■
; 'at honve, 21st April,” w'.wch gayt that he had just :
; returned from a three weeks tour, "found all his old
friends true, and expected to be re-elected to Con- i
gross by a majority of five thousand* “They are i
trying to run the Jackson question at me, ’* says he, i
iMJt it will not take with the people.
/.off >,/ the f'uoti.—The steamer Coosa, on her
UP from New Orleans, ahont thirty miles below 1
i(,w Madrid, was run intv by the lluutresa, which j
cm h»r in two, am* eight porscnsuerc drowned.!
| t 10 remainder ul the crew ond passengers were ta
?®n ?" * Par‘ if the br».*t which floated. Fsrf.cn- >
I *»rs hrrcaftci.
BY THIS DAY’S MAIL.
From Venezuela and Colombia—Confusion Wombe '
CoNrorNDr.D.—Jamaica papers by the schr. Evan T.
Ellicott (of which we have two fifes) bring intelligence
of the capture of Bogota by (.Jen. Obando, an insur
gent chief, who headed a rebellion in Popayan two or
three years since, and was afterwards pardoned by Bol.
ivar. He ia also known as one of the persons who
hare been publicly charged in Colombia, with being
^hc murderes of Gen. Sucre.
^ gnacio Luque, another insurgent, who is at work
on his own account, having no connexion either with
j Obando or Paez, and a personage never heard of by tho
public till very recently, has drummed up a little army
and taken Carthagena! It appears that the Boca Chica
(a fortified position at the entrance of the harbor) was
captured on 2-lth of April, and Carthagcna on the 2Gth.
Montilla, tho Commandant General, is said to have pre
viously departed for the United States. If so, he has
saved his head.
I hus, at the same moment, we have intelligence oi
the capture of tlio Colombian capital by one baud of
insurgents, and of the town next in importance in that
country, by another. Blessed fruits of the death of
Bolivar! the “tyrant” Bolivar! who was sagely pro.
nounccd “the only obstacle to the happiness of Co
lombia.”
Turn we now to Venezuela—a fragment of the beau
tiful structure framed by the same hand, but which has
longest been free from liis influence. Here is a country,
no doubt, in the enjoyment of freedom ! under the
mild and beneficent administration of Paez ! Cumana
(mentioned below) is one of its Provinces, and Barcelo.
na another. They are both in the Department of Oro
| noco. Gen. Monagas has been in qpms against Paez
now for two or three months. It is most likely he will
succeed, as Obando and I.uque have done in Columbia.
The paper from which we translate, was furnished us
by a passenger in the brig Dromo.
Matanzas, Mav 13.—Yesteiday arrived here from
St. Thomas and Porto Rico, the Spanish brig Felix, by
which we have learned the following particulars from
the Main.
Troops of Gen. Paez’ party had embarked at Lagui.
ra, to attack the Province of Cuinana, under command
of Gen. Bermudez. He wap also going against the
Province* of Barcelona, now in the power of [the in
surgent] Gen. Monagas.
Various foreign vessels had been taken up for this ex.
|M)dition, and a very considerable number of families had
emigrated to the Antilles. Commerce is ontirely para
lyzed, and the civil war has caused a suspension of
business on the part of all foreign morchants. The es
tates of th»t beautiful country are totallj’ abandoned,
and in short, a'more desolating war was never seen.
St. Thomas was full of emigrants from the Main.
N. Y. Jour. Com
From the Npw Y'"k Jo»»rnr»l of *,nmrr»errr
STILL LATER FROM THE CONTINENT,
At one o’c ock this morning our news schooner Jour,
nal of Comirercc came up, bringing Havre papers of
April 23, cor.taining Paris dates of April 22d, obtain,
od from the brig Otholo, Capt. Scott. Some of the
Polish victories are not confirmed, at least, not to tho
largest oxtent which previous reports had given them.
Paris, April 22.—The Prussian Gazettes say nothing
more of the Polish victory, of which we have had the
official bulletin, d^ed the 10th, contains only the details
of advantages the^Sreceding days. They add some cir.
cumstances respecting the cvcnis in Lithuania and Sam.
ogitia. The peasants which at first rose without arms,
are now furnished with those taken in the Russian ar
senals.
At Warsaw, a grand battle was expected on the 12th
or 15th.
\ esterday the French Academy was in session, wheri
a note to M. de Cassac the president, informed him of
the successes of the Poles. Immediately he suspended
the session to inform the Assembly of the happy events
which have produced such universal enthusiasm.
The illustrious writer Chateaubriand, is living in the
environs of Geneva, where he employs his leasuro in fin
ishing various literary works which he had commenced.
Letters from Memel contain accounts of the taking
of Polongen by the insurgents. They afterwards des
troyed the bridge of Leban, to hinder the march of the
Russians.
The Marquis of Llanos has arrived in Paris, on a
mission from Ferdinand VII. which is said to be impor
tant. 41
Warsaw, April 11.—From the-4th to the 7th April,
the corps undsr tho immediate orders of the General.
iti-Chiei had no important rencontre. His advanced
guard made some prisoners and took some booty. Tho
enemy has withdrawn a groat part of his troops from the
banks of the Vistula. The bad state of the roads which
become constantly more and more impassible, puts great
obstacles in the way of military movements. On the
10th, some persons from the environs of Okuniew, says
that night before last, there was a lively canonade heard
at the distance oft some miles.
Vienna, April 11-—All the news from Poland, is un
favorable to the Russians. The insurrection in Alba
nia, and Bothnia, takes a character very dangerousiy to
the Ottoman Porte.
Berlin, April 11.—Letters received yesterday from
Georgenburg, prove the falsehood of the report that
the Russians had retaken that city. The insurgents
are still masters cf the place.
Rome, April 9.—The Pope addressed a proclamation
to his subjects on the 5th He declares that most "of
rebels have been drawn into the insurrection against
their will; expresses his reliance on the Austrian sol
diers. He announces some reforms, and the punish
ment of delinquents. He says, "the scat of Christian
ity, ^ hich by a peculiar predilection, God Had given
to a Pontiff who was Prince at the same time, that he
might be more free in the exercise of his spiritual pow
i er, has triumphed once more over the machinations of
impiety."
Farit Stock Exchange, April 22.—The amount of
j business done become every day less. The loan of 120
millions maintains its price; 5 per cents, are from 86f.
85, and ih? loan at 86f. 3 por cts. 58f. 95.
HAVRE MARKET, April 22.—Cotton, sales of IOC
bales Mobile at 85c; 270 du Georgia 75a87ic, 16 do
Louisiona 80c: 95 do Ilayti 95a96c; 85 do Pernambuco
91a97. Coffee, fifty bags Hajti 541; 5500 los. Sou
them Whalebone lf.GOc.
The sales of the 20th were 1131 bale* Cotton, 229
hhds. Sugar; on the 21st, 620 bales Cotton, 111 hhds.
Sugar. G7 bags Havanna Coffee in bond at 60c; 60 tcs.
and 215 half tcs. Carolina Rice, free at 23f. 75a24f.50
and 103 tcs. by auction at 19f. 75a23f.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The Committee, who, in behaifof themselves Bnd
others, submitted to the public the proposition fir
erecting a monument to the inemnty of the mother of
Washington, appeal to that public again. The sa
credness of the subject forbids that it assume the
| shape of controversy. A si ght vindication of their
j"'vn motives—a disavowal of all intention to wound
:ihe feelings of the descendants of the deceased,_
j an abnndnrment of eve y part of tlieir own plan that,
by thwarting the honest prejudices of any one, might
endanger the completion of He ir object,—the.-e.
and the submission of another plan in which it is
hoped that all will unite, v/ill firm the grounds of
this appeal. Against the charge of sc-'k'^Pn “par
ticular advantage’' for themselves in the solemn duty
they were about to perforin to the memory of the
dead, the committee place before them the shield of
: tlieir own character. If, in the face of circumstan
ces bo well known to this community and set forth in
the memorial to which their names are attached, the!
charge should be repealed—he that urges it, muat!
derive if from the mirror of his own heart—the com-!
mil tee disclaim it. Tlmy but sought to do that which
others for nenrly the half of a century had left un
j done. Being conscious of the uprightness of the act
j they were am red that the innocence of the motive
| would declare itself In that assurance they at111 r, -
[ main. In depositing the honored remains of Mrs
| Washington within the walls of their church, it was
not because t| was c Presbyterian Church, but q ti m
p!c dedicated to the JJutf High. God. It was that
the pravers of the living be mingled with ihe memory
of the dead. It was that the monumental nt'-s mi^hi
he performed under the sanctions of the Christian
Religion; without r< ference m tlie external firms ef
religion—whet hi r they were Episcopalian orPresby
teri^n, 1 lie committee would have fniled in res
pcct lor them'elves hid iliey been iinmimjfnl of what
wnB due to ' the feelings of the descmdonis” of the
deceased. It was their ti i-fortune rather than fheir
fault if they did r.ot s’ddreas there feelings in the
mode most Jikclv to be considered delicate- Thcv
d;d not appeal to the d:;ccfldan?6 in order thft
iV.vctiiUhtil? ahould appeal with tfieni t-.ej
the public lor a tribute to bo paid to the mo-j
tnory ot their ancestors. It was their wish to place 1
those descendants «rher> they might receive the re
flected honor, not*where they should co-operate with
them in causing the honor to be paid Fi r this rA-I
son,they appealed to n near but collateral connexion
—the Biographer, and son by adoption, of him who
made the name illustrious.—They knew no more de
I cite inodo of coinmiu ic* ino to survivors the tri
bute they sought to pay 10 the memory of the depart
ed.
I hid m all the Committee will utter in a brief
juatifica'ion «-f heins.-lv-s Tiicy choo»o to lose ki^lit
• f lhcm<elvcj ill the pmu* nbj ct whieli i-« before
them —Tin* tribute to the M liter of Washington
shi*! receive m shade fr*,in conten’totis th*l they
C'ca'e.— It ho* b‘-en announced but 't Would be tin
a c* ptnble to the mirvtvi q fatnilv of u* deceased
that her rem in* b:- rem veil. If it —Tn- Com
mittee r -n nince nil wish * make . »*• r m val. L-t
the rein1 ions thetiiselve* d t rtn : e it !• ban In en
alledged ihnt tlie erection of the mo ume.U with n
: the walls of Preshytorian Church true lit g ve ’( tt-e
: character if a sent run c(fi»t~lbat too tti y re
nounce. Tin y war with the honest prejudice* of 10
on". They appeal to patnot<*ra a id gra i tide
wherever they may be found—whatever garb they
j may wear. Lc- the tribute b" paid by all to the
memory of her who gave butli »e on«> honored hy
jail. If they initial d with i* their own fe“lmgs and
j wishes it was only flom a convict on that those feel
in£ and wishes were p*ire Abandoning every pre.
vious proposition, withdrawing1 them elves from
th t naturr-l-< Ifislinc.-n* which causes us to cling to
our own suggestions, they now present the atlbv.C'
t<> the Ante icon people, in a mode to which no one
can object. L-t not the plac" which is hallowed by
receiving the last breath of the Mother of Washing
ton, be wi'hout p- me rem* mbranc** that rhe lived
Let the removal of the remains be dependent on the
wish of those who descended from her; but let a
monument be erected in a manner in which all can
unite. To preserve i fr. m injury let it be placed
within a building, which shall itself form the better
part of the mnnutnen*: —let the budding he pctipor«
to the exercise of female charity—let it be the res'
ing place of the f.itherlcss and destitute—and let the
memory of the dead be hi»l owed by blessings con
ferred on the*livmg.
W avinjr, therefore, all controversy, and withhold-1
mjr all comment upon the mode in which the opinion*
of other* have been expressed, the Committee with
draw every pre inua proposition and respect fit ly
submit to the American people the following—that
ihere be erected in the Town a monument to the
•Mother of Washington—that thpre be built to rr
c-*ive it an edifice which shall be devoted to the ob
ject® > f a F inale Orphan Asylum—that the benefits
of thia Atnl'im be common to all denominations of
Christiana and free from the supremacy of any one
— and let all the fund* beyond iho^e necessary for
the erection of a monument and the Edifice be act
apart f <r the endowment of the inatit i.i in.
Sporting Intelligence .— The following letter was
rec ived hv ye~t**r»ay'8 mail, from Col Johnson,ac
cepting the challenge m ide by the friends of Clara
Fisher, at the la.-t meeting of the South Carolina
Jocky Club*
New York. May 16th. 1831.
"To John B. Irving, Esq. Charleston, S. C.
‘ I)eur Sir—JJnving seen the propo itn n made
through the Ap'd number of the American Turf Re
gime-, to run Clura Fishet, 4 mile h. a;s, for gs.000,
hall f rfeit. I her* by accept t he proposition agree
ably to ihe terms proposed, and name the filly Bon
nets of Bloc. 4 years old, by Sir Cha«les, dam Reality.
You will please to write to me to Petersburg, Va.
relative to any arrangement that the friends of Cla
ra Fisher may wish to make respecting the forfeit.
At the same time I have to remark, that any arrange
meot that may be agreeable to them, will be eqoally
aeceptable io me.
“Respectfully, I am, 8ir, your obedient servant,
“W. R. JOHNSON."
I From the Baltimore Chronicle, of May 31.
On the 20th April, the Printer of the London Times
j w“ brouglit to the bar of the House of Lords to aii
i swer for a scurrillous attack on the Earl of Limerick.
; He apologized, and, as usual, was reprimanded and die."
{ charged. The affair caused some discussion, in which
| Lord Brocoham and Lord IjOndonderry were chief
; speakers; and we may give a brief extract from the re.
j port:—
j The Marquis of Londonderry.—My Lords, when the
i resolution of the House is, that this individual or the
editor of tho paper, has been guilty of a scandalous li- i
bel, it appears to me that catafinement fora short period
and a reprimand are but small punishment for the offence. I
I am not the individual to urge a strong measure of pun.
ishinent, but I think it should be stated distinctly, that
if we are disposed on the present occasion to allow the
individual to escape with a small mark of our displeas
ure; Still if such practices bo continued, and if tho pri
vileges and the dignity of the house be attacked in fu.
ture, that we will not be satisfied with the infliction of a
light punishment, but will take measures to bring for
ward the editor and individuals really guilty; for 1 can
not believe that the person who appeared at the bar was
the real author of the libel. My lords when I saw the
noble and learned lord on the woolsack, who I thought
should have been a defender of your privileges, rather
than a supporter of their impugners—when I saw him last I
night placing himself between tho house and such an
offender, for the purpose of shielding the latter, I real
ly was almost disposed to believe that the noble and'
learned lord was acting as counsel for a defendant in
this proceeding.
; The Lord Chancellor.—My lord* I rise to order,1
at the same time I must say, that, personally, I have !
no objections to the noble lord’s course, so little do I '
I dread its consequences. If I were the noble lord’s |
friend, I should dread the consequences to himself; he is '
: perfectly at liberty, so far as I arn concerned, to go on I
and make what exposition it may please hint to make of
himself to your lordships.—I care not one rush for what
the noble lord can say, he may go on with his sarcasms,
[ insinuations, or charges, as he pleases; but I would ra
j ther have the noble lord’s charges than his insinuations.
I never use insinuations; I always bring direct charges; •
1 would rattier have the noble lord’s open hostility, than !
his covert enmity. I am sure he is incapable of persist.'
>ng in insinuations—the noble lord has too much honour
and high mindedness for that: therefore, as the noble!
lord has hinted something or nothing, I put myself on ’
my defence before your lordships, and call upon the
! noble lord to charge mo with something.
I The Marquis of Londonderry*—I beg the noble and ,
i *p*rned lord to believe, that no one has a higher respect !
I for his great and spendid talents; but with all his logic, |
j and talents, and oratory, the noble and learned lord j
shall not put me down, or prevent me from discharging
what I conceive to he my duty. The noble and learned
lord’s great abilities and acquirements may often enable
h,m r “To make i
The worse appear the better reason.”
He possesses commanding eloquence which carries
every thing before it like a torrent, and an individual
like myself can have but little chance in an encounter
with him; but, pigmy as I am, I tell the noble lord that
neither he nor any other person shall deter me from ta.
king a proper course. I shall now continue the obaer-1
vations 1 was about to make when interrupted by the '
noble and learned lord; and I must say, that I did ex- j
pcct the noble and learned lord to have taken a diffe.
rent part on the occasion in question. I shall now ob.
serve, that the unfortunate individual who was yester
day at the bar, is not, in my opinion, the person most
worthy of being visited with punishment. If the pe
tition be brought i,p, I shall move for a copy of the af |
fidavit deposited at the *stamp-office, and containing a
list of the names of the proprietors of tho Times. I
give notice of my intention to move for this document
to-morrow, and I mean to have it produced, because I'
think wo may thus find individuals tp tell ns at the bar
who the real writers of those paragraphs are.
The Ijosn Ohanckiro*.—I know not whether I should ,
not better consult your Lordships’ feelings and my own
by taking no notice of what has been just uttered by the
noble lord, in one of the most extraordinary speech-1
es which I have ever heard. As for my reason for cal-'
ling the noble lord to order, it being the first, as it mav j
perhaps be the last time in my life that I shall call any i
noble lord to ord^r under similar circumstances—I did
he thought fit to Wigmuuo the conduct of a*
individual peer, by saying that an individual had acted
he part of an advocate or counsel foV'an offender. at\
tune when that offender was beforfi him, a. one ofthi
judges of tho highest court m the kingdom.
The Marquis of Ix>NDoND*aar._One word in oxpla.
nation. I meant to convey, and. indeed naid th.tiL
conduct of tho noble and learned lord was 8U’ch as ,l
most to make me believe that the noble aiMi l." " a
lord was the advocate of a defendant. ed
Tho Lord Chancellor.—My lord*, able and skilfu
orators, like the noble marquis, frequently have a cun
ning way of rendering it difficult to gel at their mean
mg according to the known and ordinary acceptation
ol the termswhich they employ—<hoar, and laughter )
—tliey wrap’up and mystify so successfillly; but I ^
your lordships well know am a plain man—(a laugh)_
and I say, without any subtlety or refinement, that the
noble lord’s mode of expressing himself, even now ia
such as would almost make me believe that he meant
to insinuate that my conduct on the occasion inouestion
W®.rthy ?f a hirc.d advocate than of an impar
}l J g«, sitting in the highest court in the rfealm.
r 'r D^V Tj>e following is an eitnct from a letter ’
from Parts, published in the Courierdas Etats Unis.
°nc csrc', T>»t.inco renders t!»e position of the rfs. '
vernment unfortunate. The commission oppoin ed '
discharge the debt of national gratitude has LiThed ii ;
business,and the decorations so gloriously won are to be
disputed to the heroes of July. Rut alas! most of
them are in prison, under a charge of having promoted
riots. They will be let out St. Pelage, and with the
process against them still pending, accompanied and
guarded by the public officers, thoy will march to re
ceive their reward, and afterwards go back to their fet
ters and to wait lor their sentence.”*
The same letter has an anecdote of a supposed inter
vicw between Gen. Lafayette and M. Lafitte, after the
latter had left the Ministry, and taken his seat in the
Chamber as a simple Deputy. The former is made to
a^-a'in y?U .have hcco,nc « private
again. I hat beautiful revolution in July to which von
contributed sotnuch in word, and deed, and money, made
you lose a vast amount of money, as I know verv well
but you have deserved well of your country, and France
will settle with you for ,t; you are no longer rich, fo?
what is a few hundred thousands francs, tot man who
like you, has handled all the money in Europe?” To
which M. Lafitte is made to reply in this untranslateable
sentence, °
Quc voulez rows General? il y en a gui pretent a la
*C7na,nf» m°l J at prete a la grande.
W e have heard an authentic anecdote of the lad who
R- lvfnn w! St,raVl',n10ya,rd frontine the Cazerne de
Bullion. Ho climbed over the wall, which was nearly
fourteen feet high, with a firabrand in his hand, in the
faco of a fire from some two hundred of tho Swiss
i tJr°?P* w, "ere pouring vollies from ovory window
deliberately ignited tho combustible matter, and climbed
back again, without being injured. When asked what
l ] _ Ait* » dolvCU| n n&b
had prompted hun to undertake such a daring feat he
replied that lie was out of omploymont, and wanted a
job at the time. Ho heard peopin crying Vive la Chart*
and though he did not know who or what Chartc was’
he cried so too, for the sake of having bnsiness on hand’
j He hated the Swiss, mortally, he did not exactly know
j why—any more than the man who did not like Dr. Fell
j —and therefore he set fire to the straw and smoked
I them out. Being asked if he wanted the CrosB oF
Honor, he said he did’nt; but ha wanted to drive tho
mail coach.
In mentioning these facts, for tho amusement of our
readers, we cannot be suspected, save by those whose
; business is misrepresentation, of attempting to cast a
j slur on the truly noblo resistance of those who stood
i up in the three glorious days for tho liberty of tho
, press, and tho chartered rights of the People,
* They have since been acquitted.
rhe lost is jound. M isa Belinda Curtisa, whose
singular disappearance was noticed nfter a few of our
paper* of last week were struck off, ha*, we are grat
ified to be able to i-tite, been again restored to the
bea m of her parent*. She left home on Saturday
morning, the 30:h nit. about ten o’clock, with the
j view of visiting eotne relatives on the Kayadarosseras
I mountain in Ureenfiu.V. In going to which ohe had
j to pass a thicke' of about twenty rods long; it beinn
! C1 *he soon became bewildered, and in this sit
! uationshe wandered through the woods, not knowing
j where to ®n, from the time above mentioned till
| sunrise on Tuesday morning.—On Monday night the
, moon rote clear and this was ihe first time that ehe
, had been able to ascertain the point of the compass;
j she then followed its course from th:s time, and a
I “out sunrise on the following morning she appeared
! on ihe mountain’s top to the great satisfaction of her
j almost d etracted parents and friends.
LAND FOR SALE.
r»1HE subscriber offers for .ale, hi, tract of land.
M. lying m Powhatan county, on Appomatox River
about eighteen miles above Genito, three below Clem’
f^Town imd twelve above the Court House, adjoining
the land of Charles Eggleston, Ricfaard Watkins, Hugh
, rench, and others. The tract contains about eight
hundred acres: between two and three hundred of which
are creek and river low grounds of very excellent quali
ty, equal to any on Appomattox river. Some of the
river low grounds are yet uncleared. The high land is
in a good state for cultivation, and the purchaser will
i ,ve ,n ,U3 Power to seed from 120 to 156 bushels of
j wheat on good corn and tobacco land. The wood land
| ia w<# timbered, and more than a sufficiency for the
■ support of the plantation, independently of the unj
cleared low grounds. The improvements consist of an
overseer s house and good nogro quarters, an excellent
now granery and threshing machine attached to it, and
tobacco barns sufficient for curing twenty or thirty
thousand weight of tobacco. Any person wishing to
view the land, will at any time be shown it hy my bro
Uier, C. Eggleston, who lives adjoining, or Mr. Hugh
French, who at present occupies it. The purchaser will
bo allowed the privilege of seeding a crop of wheat this
ta 1. Should the above described land be not sooner
so d privately, (notice of which will be given,) it will be
sold publicly, to the highest bidder, at Hugh French’s
tavern, Qjithe Buckingham road, twelve miles above
PowhataBKourt House, on Thursday, the 18th day of
August, if flKr, ,f not the next fair day. The terms
shall be accommodating, and will be made known on
ho day of sale, or on application to the subscriber resi
ting in Amelia county. WM. EGGLESTON,
may 17—wtds
GJoucentft* fjOvn €* round#
FOR HALE.
Y lhe latt w ill of the late l>r. James Dean, me subscriber
are authorized to tell, and they now offer for tale h i
’ajuable Estate, lying on Ware Kiver, in the conn ly of (jlou
oe*:er, in il.c State of Virginia, shout three milet from ih
C.oun Home, containu.g 950 acres, nearly ihe whole of wbicl
• » low grown I, and a heut 750 acres a,« cleared, and in a higl
f-mn T"1 a’uwr11 adTCf1 ,he g»owih of Indim
f.orn. Wheal and Barley. There it a spacious Bwellin
House, and all other neccs-ary oul houses, in good repair o.
H-is I stare, situated mi the hack of the Hivcr. Fish and Oys
n' *.h* best quality are taken in tight of the House. /
more minute description it deemed unnecessary, at it is pro
turned any person wi.-hirg sa purchase wiH first examine th
promises, which will be shewn by ihe manager Mr Geotgi W
Billups. A purchaser of the land can lie scr.mnmivdaterl * •ti
at many slaves ns he may require to cultivate it, and aho i h'
farming utensils and stock of every '•.•scription. 'The tint; o
payment will be marie to suit the purchaser!. For fur I *
i articular* a letter addressed to Christo >her Tomnhi.-,. *
Ma-hev. i Court House, Va , will meet due attention
CH’R TOMPKINS, >
JOHN D JARVI8, > Ex'ort of J. Dtin deed
HENKY VV. TABB, ) ’
wav s—law6rn
T
V FjJYT JR •£ gj Mi O T K Ij .
tHK Subscriber, having taken this well known
,, st*"d- formerly occupied by Thomas Ball, having
?, er a *irJ* Dining Room, and several Lodging
Rooms, makes it much more spacious and accommodiC
ting and erecting a large and commodious Stable;
tnej hope to meet with liberal encouragement, as they
pledge themselves to use every exertion in their power,
o give genera, satisfaction, to those who may favor
them with their custom. It is deemed unnecessary to
give any further description of this establishment, as it
is generally known. J8HAM PUCKETT.
7.ACHARIAH BROOKS.
IT The Editors of the Lynchburg Virginian, and
Petersburg Intelligencer, will please insert the above
three times, and forward their scf-ounts to the Whig
Ofljc'*. far collection- rr)1,