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* IN THE SENATE.
TUESDAY, FEE. 26.
The Journal having been read—
Mr. Lloyd, of Md. fose and addressed *
the chair as follows : ■
Mr. fireside fit: It has become ray pain
ful duty to announce to the Senate the
melancholy fact, fhat my much esteemed
and distinguished colleague is no more.
An attempt to excite the 'sympathies of
the Senate for a loss so great, and so af
flicting, would betray a suspicion of their
sensibility, and would do injustice to the
memory,of him, whose loss we must all
sincerely deplore. This chamber, sir, has
been one of the fields of his fame. You
have seen him in his strength. You have
seen him the admiration of the Senate—
the pride of his native state-r-tbe ornament
of his country. He is now po more. But,
for his friends and relatives, there is con
solation beyond the grave. I hutpblj and
firmly trust, that he now reposes on the
bosom of his God.”
Mr. King, of Alabama, then rose, and
.submitted the following resolve, prefa
cing it with ti*e observation, that, altho’
the Senate and the country knew and ho
nored the public character o'f*the deceas
ed, he had known him as a man, and knew
how to appreciate the loss which they had
■•ah sustained.
A esoivea, unanimously, jl nat a commit- ;
tee be appointed to take order for super- j
intending- the funeral of the hon. W iliiam j
Pinkney, which will take place to-morrow !
morning at 11 o’clock; that the Senate,!
wi*3 attend the same; and that notice of.
the event'be. gi en to the House of Re
presentatives.
On balloting for a committee, the fol
lowing -gentlemen were chosen :
Mr. King, of New Vork, Mr. Macon, of
:N. Carolina, Mr. Barbour, of Virginia,
Mr. Rodney, of Delaware, and Mr. Wil
liams, of Mississippi.
On motion of Mr. King, of Alabama,
it was also unanimously. * *
Re&olvecf^Tlvdt the members of the Se
-nate, from a sincere desire of shewing
every mark of respect clue to the memory
of the hon. William Pinkney, deceased,
late a member the. eof, will go into mourn
ing for him one month, by the usual mode
of wearing a crape round the left arm.
I.evolved, unanimously, That as an ad
ditional mark of respect for the memory
of the bon. William Pinkney, the Senate
do now adjourn. .
And the Senate adjourned accordingly,
s .HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, FSB. 19.
Mr. Smith, of Md. from the committee
of ways and means, reported a bill for
.making appropriations for the military
service of the United St ates, in the year
1822, which was read twice anc^commit
xed to a committee of the whole on the
state of the union, & ordered to be printed.
The house resolved itself into a com- j
•mittee of the whole on the u finished bu- !
sitless of yesterday, (the bankrupt bill) I
'Mr. Taylor in the chair.
Mr. Fuiier rose and addressed the
house in a speech of an hour and a quar
ter, in opposition to the motion to strike
out the first section of the bill; when
Mr. Woodson expressed his intention
of presenting his views of the subject,
and moved that the committee rise* and
•report, which was agreed to; and after
leave being granted to the committee to
sit agfein, the house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20. * .
After some preliminary business, the
fbouse resolved itself into a committee of
the whole, Mr. Little in the chair, on the
Pill making appropriations for the sup
port of the military establishment for the
yaar 1822. A good deal of discussion
took place on this bill: and, at a late
Pour, the blanks .having been filled, the
Pill was reported by the committee of the
•whole to the house; and, without decid
ing thereon, the housa adjourned, at five
o’clock.
THURSDAY,-FEB. 21.
The amendment from the Senate to the
apportionment bill, was read and refer
red to the committee on the judiciary.
• The house then resolved itself into a
committee of the whole on the unfinished
business of Tuesday, (the bankrupt bill)
Mr. Taylor in the chair
Mr. Woodson rose and addressed the
house in a speech of nearly two hours,
opposed to the tjaotion to strike out the
first section of the bill. He was follow'
ed by
Mr. Lowndes, in favor of the motion,
who occupied the floor until nearly three
o’clock; wheji
Mr. Nelson, of Va. moved that the com
■tnitte.e rise and report; which was agreed
to, and the committee obtained leave to
feit again.
In the house, the further orders of the
4av were, on motion, laid on the table;
ana the house took ifito consideration the
'bill making appropriations for the mili
tary service of the U. States for the year
1822.
The remainder of the debate was occu
pied in the discussion of this bill.
FRIDAY, FEE. 22.* *
Mr. Sergeant, from the committee on
the judiciary, reported the bill, from the
Senate for thb apportionment of the rep re
sentatives of the United States according
to the fourth census, with a recommenda
tion to disagree to the Senate’s amend
ment thereto, which, on motion of Mr. S.
was laid on the table.
The house resolved itself into a com
mittee of the whole on tire bill supple
mentary to the acts to provide for per
sons engaged in the land and naval ser
vice of the United States in the revolu
tionary war, Mr. Lathrop in the chair.
Mr. Cocke explained the general ob
jects of the bill, which was to re-estab
lish the law, on the ground on which it'
was supposed to stand prior to the opi
nion that had been , given by the attorney
general. He referred to the particular
provisions of the bill for its further ex
planation, Sec.
The house then resumed the conside
ration of the unfinished business of yester
day, (the* military appropriation bill.)
Some amendment!} were proposed, on
which debate arose, but they were reject
ed, and the house adjourned.
SATURDAY, FEB. 26.
Mr. Eustis, from the committee on na
val affairs, requested to be discharged
from the further consideration of the pe
titions of Marcos de Villiers.and Arnold
Guillemard, (who pray the interposition
of Congress to release them from prison,
in Pensacola, where they are confined by
the acting governor of West Florida;)
and moved also that the petition, togetherjjl
with the accompanying documents, be
referred to the president of the U. States.
MONDAY, FEB. 25.
The Speaker presented.a communica-,
tion from the President of the*U. States,*
relative to the correspondence which led
to the treaty of Ghent,,Wic.li; on motion
of Mr. Floyd, was ordered to be laid on.
the table and printed.*
The house then proceeded to the con
sideration of the order of the day, being
the unfinished business of Saturday, and
the question recurring to agree to a mo
tion to discharge the committee on mili
tary affairs from the consideration of the
petition of the two Spaniards imprisoned
in Pensacola by the orders of the acting
governor— . * .
Mr. Hardin, of Kentucky, who was en
titled to the floor at the hour of adjourn
ment on Saturday, delivered his senti
ments on the question ; denying the con
stitutionality of the imprisonment of these
rnen, and asserting the existence, in every
territory of the United "States, of those
rights which are, under our constitution,
reciprocal to local allegiance, viz: right
to freedom of person, of religion, trial by
jury, the writ of habeas corpus, See.
When Mr Hardin concluded—
Mr.^Eustis, the chairman of the milita
ry committee, stated, that he was inform
ed, from good authority, that the papers
relative to the confinement of these men
had been forwarded from Pensacola to
general Jackson; that he had transmitted
them to the president; that they \verc\re
c.eived in this city on Thursday last; that
an order was issued for the’release of the**
men on Saturday, and -was actually dis
patched for Pensacola.
This statement was confirmed, in sub
stance, hy Mr.‘'Mercer, of Virginia, who
had also received similar information
from undoubted authority.
Mr. Cocke stated that no such.informa
tion had been before the military com
mittee, when they had this subject under
consideration.
Mr..Little, seeing that the cause of the
complaint of the petitioners was removed,
moved to lay the subject on the table. *
‘ This motion gave rise to a debate, in
which Mr, Trimble, Mr. Little, Mr: Ran-‘
dolph, Mr. Lowndes, Mr. Golden, Mr.
Mercer, Mr. Rhea, and Mr. Floyd, took
part. The debate, though on a motion
affording, strictly speaking, a limited
scope, was extended to considerable
length, entering more or less into the me
rits of the case of these petitioners, and
the propriety of effectual measures to
guard agar'St the recurrence of such im
prisonments, &c. for the future.
No question was taken on the subject
previous: teethe adjournment.
' "TUESDAY, FEB. 26.
After the Journal of yesterd ay had been
read, in a part of which the fact of Mr.
Randolph’s having yesterday announced
the death of Mr. Pinkney was stated—
Mr, Randolph rose arid observed, that
'Ire.pi^^jd t-he indulgence of the house,
and of the aefegation from Maryland—
and particularly of the young member be
hind him, (Mr. Nelson, of Md.*) whom as
* well as his late father, his fellow laborer
in that house, he was'happy to call his
friend, for having announced a fact which
took place yesterday, though not true at
the time the annunciation was made. [He
alluded to the death of Mr. Pinkney, of
Maryland]—and it was due to- his own
character to state with precision the chan
nel through which he obtained the infor
mation. On the seats reserved for them*
I saw, said Mr. R. one of the Justices of
the Supreme Court of the U. States, who
tofd me that the fact was so. I asked him
if he was sure of it. He replied that he
was—for he had just seen another gentle
map-—a most worthy member of the bar
of Baltimore, equally entjtk'd £o oredit,
and none cou.ld 'be more so—who told
i him that he had seen the corpse. From
! .thence. I returned to my seat, At that
moment a gentleman from Ohio, (Mr.
Ross) was audi essay* the chair. -Tike in
tervening time' did not, as well as I couicl
judge, exceed two minutes ; and tirrie, un
der such circumstances, would hardly ap
pear shorter than the reality. 1 was my
self, ;said Mr. R. under an impulse which
1 was as utterly, unable to control, as I
now am to control the throbbing.arteries
'of my frame. It was under that impulse
that I announced it as a fact to the house
—for I could, not bear that we should be
occupied with that sort of discussion
which was then pending, or with any, at
a time when a loss had occurred to this
nation, and a void created which never
can be fflled—the loss of a man whose le
gal reputation transcended that of any
othgr man in this country—the president
of that court—of which both were most
* illustrious ornaments—only excepted ; for
of all others, it might be said, in point of
professional renown, at'least, they were
‘ fw'Qxvmi longo interuallo. Mr. R.. conclu
ded by expressing the hope, that the apo-.
logy he'h.ad made would be accepted by
those to ’ whom it was addressed. He
owed it to his very respectable informant
i to state, that the whole grew put of that
gentleman’s mistaking the statement of
! the gentleman from whom he had drawn
: .-information, (which was,- that he had
f seen a person who said he had seen the
last sad remains of Mr. P. and not that
H he had seen them himself,)
l By unanimous consent the entry above
| referred to in the Journal was then ex
punged.
“On motion oi Mr. Smith, ot Mu. tne
order of business of the day was dispen-*
Bed with, and a recess at the pleasure of
the house v/as directed. •
Soon afterwards a message was receiv
ed from the Senate, announcing the death
of the hon. W illiam Pinkney, a Senator
of the United States from the state of
Maryland, and that his funeral Would be
attended on to-morrow from the Senate
Chamber, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon.
Mr. Smith, of Md. then rose and sub
mitted the following resolution, which
was unanimously agreed to : •
Resolved, That Uiis hoi^se will attend
the funeral of the hon. .William Pinkney
late a member of the Senate from the
state ox Maryland, to-morrow at eleven
o’clock; and, as a testimony of respect
for the memory of the deceased, will go
into mourning, and wear crape for thirty
days.
, And then the house adjourned oyer to
Thu rsday.
On Monday, Mr. Randolph moved and
carried an adjournment of the house, on
the premature, report of M.r. Pinkney’s
death. That event having* now happened,
we publish Mr. Randolph’s observations
on the occasion.
Mr. Randolph rose, he said, to an
nounce to the house a fact, which, he ho
ped, would put an end, at least for this
day, to all further jar or collision, here or
elsewhere, among the members of this
body. Yes, for this one day, said he, let
us saji, as our first mother said to our
first father, • .
“ Whilst yet we live, scarce one short hour
Between*us two, let there be peace.”
I rise to announce to the house, the not
unlpoked for death of a man who filled the
first place in the public estimation, in the
first profession in that estimation, in this
or in any other country. We have been
talking about gen. Jackson, and a greater
than him is, not here, but gone forever !
I allude, sir, to the boast of Maryland, and
the pride of the United States—the pride
‘of all of us—but particularly the pride and
ornament of the'profession of which you,
Mr. Speaker, are a member, and an emi
nent one. He was a man with whom I
lived, when a member of this house, and
a new one too—and ever since he left it
for the other, I speak it with pride—in
habits, not merely negatively friendly, but
of kindness and cordiality. The last time
that I saw him was on Saturday—the last
Saturday but one—in the pride of life,
and full possession and vigor of all his
faculties, in that lobby He is now gone
to his account, (for as the tree falls, so it
must lie) where we must all go—-where I
must very soon go, and by the same road
too^the course of nature; and where all
ol us, put ott the evil day as lofig as we
may, must afso soon go. For what is the
• past but a s£>an, and which of us can look
forward to as many years as we have lived ?
The last act of*intercourse between us
was an act, the recollection of 'which I
would not now be without, for all the offi
ces that all the men of the U. States have
filled, or ever shall fill. He had, indeed,
his faults ; foibles, I should rather say ;
and, sir, who is without them ? Let such,
and such only cast-the first stone. And
these foible^, faults if you-will, which
every body could see, because every body
is clear sighted in regard to the faults,
atfd foihles of*others—lie, I have no doubt,
would have* been the first to acknowledge,
. on a proper representation of them. Eve
ry tiling now is hidden to us; not, God
forbid ! that utter darkness rests upon the
grave, which, hideous as it is, is lighted,
cheered, and warmed by fire from Heaven
—not the impious fire fabled to be stolen
• from Heaven by the heathen, but by the
spirit of the livipg^ God, whom we all
profess to worship, and whom l hope we
shall spend the remainder of this day V
wo: shipping, not with rarvuth-honhr,
in oilr hearts; in spirit and in truth—to:-a
it may not be said of us, also’, u £ his peo
ple d.i;aweth nigh' unto me with then
mouth tancP honoreth me with their lips,
but their hear-t js far from me.” } as, il
is just so. He is gone. I will not say
•.that our loss is irreparable; because sue.!1
a man as. has existed may exist again ;
there has been a Homer; there has been £
Shakespeare; there has been a Milton;
there has been a Newton. There way
then be another Pinkney; but there is now
none. And it was to announce this eveni
I have risen. I am," said Mr. R. almosl
inclined to believe in presentiments. ]
have been all along as well assured oi th«
fatal termination of that disease with
which he was affected, as 1 am now7. Ae.c
I have dragged my weary limbs, before
sunrise, to the door oi his sick chambei
(for I would not, intrude upon the sacrec
sorrows of his family) almost every mor
ning since his illness. Prom the first ]
had almost no hope. I move you, sir
that this house do now adjourn.
[When Mr. R. concluded, the questior
was taken on adjournment, and carried
item, con.]
THURSDAY, FEB. 28.
This day was spent in a discussion or
a reference of the documents recently 1 :ic
b fore the House, on the late .transactions
j in Florida.*
LATE FROM ENGLAND.
CHARLESTON, FEU. 15.
By the arrival yesterday of the British
brig Leopold, capt. Larmour, in 40 days
fro.rp London, the papers of that city to
the '2d January inclusive, were received.
The French journals still continue dread
! ful details of the situation of Constantino
ple, and of the Ottoman empire generally.
A St. Petersburg -article of the 7th Oct.
states, that accounts had been received
from iieuU.gen. Wiljaminow, governor of
Georgia, dated Teffis, 7th November, ac
cording- to which, the Persians, who ha s
I in aded Asiatic Turkey, had really made
J thems*e!ves trfasters of the important city
of Evzerum, after defeating the Pacha of
Bagdad, who attempted in vain to defend
it. It is said that th^re were many French
officers in the Persian army with which
prince Mirza, the second son of Shah,
has undertaken this expedition.
Considerable uncertainty prevailed even
at Lithuania, concerning the duration of
peace. No furloughs were granted; the
armies were complete, and (says the ac
count) ready to combat any foe of .the em
pire.
i The grand- duke Nicholas arrived at
Riga on the 26th No ember.
• CHARLESTON, FEB 21. ...
From Hayti.—A letter from Port
| Prince dated 18th ult. received by
schr. Ruby, arrived at this port, states
the arrival there of the French corvette
Sappho, from France, with despatches;
to which an answer was received, and the
corvette, sailed a^ain on a‘cruise. Pre
N vious to hew arrival at Port au Prince, the'
Sappho captured and punished some piy
rates, who, under the flag of Colombia,
had robbed a Bremen vessel in the bay o,f *
Samana. a .
We have also been favored with Hay-'
tien papers to the 17th ult.
T»he Telegraph Extra, published at
Port au Prince on the 16th, contains an
official proclamation of the president of
Hayti of the submission of the ci-devant,
Spanish p.arts of the Island to the Hay
tien arms, and the combination, under one.
head, of the whole territory.
■An indication, on the part of some of
the inhabitants, then under the govern
ment of Spain, to join his standard, had
been sometime since made known to him,
(gen. Boyer) but unwilling to excite a
civil way he waited for a more full deve-'
iopment oi their views and wishes. * He
afterwards Learned with surprise, that
com. Aury had induced them to raise the ®
flag of Colombia, and that they ha’d ship
ped off the Spanish authorities.
He sent an embassy to inquire into this,
and was informed that the inhabitants had
shaken off the Spanish yoke because Spain
was so far from Hayti. Why tlfen, re
plied the president, put on that of Co
lombia, which is just as far? Being un
able to procure any satisfactory reply to
this interrogatory, he stated to them, that
the integrity of the empire of Hayti re
quired their submission ; and, by dint of
persuasion and threats, he succeeded in
obtaining the adhesion of St. Jago, of St.
Domingo, of Porto Plata, and the other
Spanish places, and announces in the
above .paper, jumarch of congratulation
through the new provinces.
The adjutant general of the Haytietx
.army is named Voltaire.—£Coitrder^ «
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