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—ufs-’ V. I', wishes loc'j'iivrJc In ' ;i;! itb rt luli.ins whh ilic Uni.trd Siuf's, lo (h-tiui’i-, that, al’u r havirn;- Ij on corr.- fior;; fnaih i>' tin^ fltity »riii>p'jst I' k'lnc'.ni j indii.'ct, whutsocvcr. (,ih-r or j p.Hod to apply t.> ai.v rountry ilu- i I'witi is iovird upon tlH;.vfs.‘,els and p..cscril)(’d hv the art oi’ 1B25 4 handiscMlicrcin imporlcd, btdon^ini; to ■ Guvpinfnrnt cannot hold iisell’ rUor- .1, the !ic siihjrcts or citizens ol'each of the i>a‘ul iiations ri sptctively.” 'I hiis, thert'forc, to comply with tlic t on(Iiti(»ns of ihc act of Parliament, wc must i.rst have allowed British vessels to “impoi t into ihe United Stales the j>ro- ducc ol' any forrip;n conntry whatever, upwn the puynuMit ol’the alien duties, al- thoui;h. vessels of Ihe United Stales a?e and should ‘lave remained proh'hited to import inlo -Hritish ports like produce upon any terms whatever. And '2ndlv, W’e must have ubolishcd or suspended our tiiscriniinuling^ duties, j)lacini? (ii-eat liritain UMon the footin,^ of ihe most fu Tort tl nation, in whose behalf we had a- bolishtd or suspended tiirrn, ali'hou^h it now a})\)eai’L-, fVom the averment of Mr. Caniiin;;, that duties of at least an ecjual aniotint. liuve heen, «lnce the adoption of the order in c«juncil, in the year 182.1, ■arnl MOV/ arc, levied upon American ves b‘i ind the’r carj^ocs In British Colonial ports. S isinod our law, and such must have heiMi our compliajir.e with the conditions of \he Act of Parliaif.eMi at the lime oi it? passai^e. But v. e suppose it to have bn- i!.e undcrslariding of the British Cloverniiicnt, that, if suhs^'qucnt to that per^.id, we shouhl grant to any foreip;ri nation b'lll f,'reater j)rivi!e{>es than those aho\e described, by treaty or otherwise, in consideration of eiuivalents or not. !)otitid to remove that inicrdirt, as a mut ter of cotirse, whenever it may l>a!)pen lo suit the convenience of the I'oreii^n (iov- • rnmeni to reconsider the measures by VI liich the appiicalion >f that interdict was occasioned,” The preletision rc'fer- led to, is the exact counterpart c»fa sim ilar j;re-existing pretension contaitud in the, act of Parliament of IBJJ. The British (Government does nol apDear lo (lave reflected, that its rejection «^f uli ne- i^oiialion on the subjeci, deprives it of the best of the ordy Two movios of f»cl- tint^ rid of the exceptionalile rcslriciiun. From what has now been adv!tnc« d. ii has been established, 1st. 'I'hat the Col onial Trade was a fit suject for theJadjust- mftii, bv Iriendly nej^oiiaiion between the two Powers, of the condition on winch it should l)e carried onj ’2udlyf tha^ it hus been ion^, S; often, in fact, asijf)jecl ofne- t^otialion between them.; and Jdly, thai the American (luvernmetit was bound to conclude, from every thinp; which passed between the two Goveinmcnts, that both parties entertained the expec tation that It was to be arranged by ne- ffoiiation, and only by negotiation. It was under tliis full conviction that your }>enei-al in‘tractions were prepared. What may l)e the naiure of the proposals which )ou were auihorized lo make, uj)- on the renewal of the negolialitjii so con- fiflenily aniicijiated, it is not now pr«jpei lion of I'.H' substar.ce of iliis uespatch, or the subsiancc 'd' such part of it as you muy tiol hhve unticipaled in any answer lo Mr. Caiiiiin^’'. tiole, presenteil from yourself to the liriiish Ciuvernment, w ilh the assurance that, noiwiihstandinfj their present de( ision, the fiovcrnment of the United Stales, at ail limes hereafter, will l)c ready, at Washlr.^^ton or at London, lo treat of tiiC Colonial intercourse, when ever it may i>e their desire or inclination to negotiate on that subjeci. I am, with gveai rcspect, your obedi- CTit i.ervai.t, II. CLAY. such more extensive privileges must have , i , u i : n shou U be conimunicated to the British immediately accrued to the United Kine- . i, . j- » , 1 , I . ...I .1 Kiovernmcnl. Kcspec* lor ourselves, no dom and il!i possessions abroad, upon ihe 1 , r, . i- i • • rule of t'.ie n.ost favored nation, or we less than for that (Jovernmeni, forbids lhat we should obtrude upon their con- must have subjected ourselves to the for- feilUH- or 1I.C Cdoniul trade, denounced I pn;l>osab 'vli.ch they by the act of Pat lian»ent. have deemed il proper to shut their ears. , ,1 . p., I It wi be, however, no violation ol that Sow, subse(iuently to ihe date ol that ’ . ’ . . ’ V, ... n 1 o, respect, to say, that they were ol a char- , to wit, on t ic Gth December last, we ' i .• . i i . act concluded a treaty with the Republic of the Federation of the Centre of America, which, hayinii; been atierwards ratified by both parties, is now in full operation. By this treaty it is stipulated, that what ever can be exported from, or imported inlo, either country, in its own vessels, to or from any foreign place whatever, may, in like manner, be exported or im ported in the vessels of the other coun try, the vessel and the cargo payin:^ in both cases the same and no higher du- acler, on all the disputed ])oinis between ilie two Governments, authorizing us to believe that they would be satisfactory. The Government of the United Slates is animated by the sincerest desire to maintain, with that of CJreai Britain, not merely the forms of courtesy and amity, but to cultivaie a cordial and las ting I’riendshpj to settle every controver ted question between them upon princi- v)lcs of justice and reciprocity ; and, by an enlarged liberality In their mutual in- tics, and conse(iuently neither' paying j tercourse, to advance the real prosperity the Alien Duties. If we had enli'.led ourselves by the fulfilment of the ivq.ii- red conditions, to an intercourse with the British Colonies, we woukl now be obli?ed, in order lo retain the right to that intercourse, to allow British vessels^ both of the parent country and its posses sions abroad, a liberty of exportaiion and importation coextensive with that of the vessels of the United Slates, although the interdict of the Briiish law of navigation should remain in lull operation on the vessels of the United Stai.es. If we are mistaken in the extent of the concessions required by the Briiish gov ernment, to place the United Kingdom and its possessions abroad, ofi the foot ing of the most favored nation, the best and most friendly mode of correcting our error would have been, to have accom panied an oflicial communication of the Act of Parliament with a full and frank exj'danation of those conditions, the per formance of which, on our part, would have satisfied that Governmenl. By viihholdiiig all explanation, if the Con- jrress of the Uuited States had legislated on iliat subject at its last Session, it must have acted eilher 1st, upon the exposi tion of ihe condition of thcact of Parlia ment now givenj or, 2ndly, upon the views of the Briiish Government as dis closed in the negotiations of 1821, It could nut have conformed to the condi- tioti-i of the Act of Parliament, as we un- derslund them, wifhot.-la manifest sacri fice of ihe interests of the people of the Uni.ed State's, and an abandonment of those ,)rincij)ies of recii)rocily for which they have ever contended in all tlieir ne- go.ia'.ions with foreign Powers. It now api>ears dial il would liave been unavail ing, tl'CungicbS harl h gislated in cum- ])liiince With the view i of the British 'iov( rninent, as j)!* senied in the nego tiations of 1ST. 1. Accoiditig lo those views, ihut (jovernmeni war. ihen willing lhat the trade belwe.Mi the Colonies ainl the United Stales ^hoidd continue res tricted, as il lh( n was, by the lawsoftJie two ciMititries, to the direct iiitercourse; that is to say, ’hut a British vessel rlear- i.’ig I'Voiii ti.e United Slates for a Coloni al jiort. should !)(■ bound to land 'ts car go ill ilu't pf r'j. and an American vessel cl'^. l ii!'; I'k.'tji ’.Ir*.' Colonii^s for the Uni ted b’iiu -;, sl.o'jiJ l>w‘ bound to land its rarL' ) itiilicin. J’ut without any iiitima- tidi ■(: us, tliio'jgli the regular diploma- ti. i’.L.niiels, ol all altecalioii in iJieir M' s, (ireat Britain luts now changed tl). in, iiiu! on the llih Septemlx.'i, 18‘J6, lur tile ill bt tin. , announces her determi nation not “to con.sent to enter into any ren*nved negf>tiation upon iho intercourse between the United States and the P>:ii- ish Cohjnies, so li'iii: as the pretension fthe aliove restrictio:i a'j to the^direct in- terroutse] recorded i.n the act of'1HJ und there aj>plied to British Colonies, a- loue, reman.s jiai t of thelav/ of the Uni ted Suies.” And \ie an also giv( ti i-> ITT.ih rstai.d, that [i’?v lit insh (lUViTn- i’uMhcr owes irrP Miiiit of of both. Entertaining this desire, ii has learnt, wilh the most lively regret, the resolution of the British Governmenl to clo.3e the door against those friendly explat.alions, and that fri^nk and miitua! exposition of the wishes and views of the parlies, which are, or should i)e, tlie object of all negotiation. The harmyny of nations requires that every avenue to such explanations should always be kept fully open. But such a free access, on all questions, appears lo the Gcvernnient of the United Slates to be especially de sirable between two such nations as Great Britain and the United Slates, whose interests and happiness are inti mately interwoven. By rejecting the ordinary mode of treating, tiirough the established agency of accredited min isters, and substituiing to it that of mu tual legislation, which, after all, is but anolher, though less advantageous mode of negoliution, we deprive ourselves of many facilitiei;. Congress and the Bri tish Parljameni are numerous bodies, acting in diflcrent and distant spheres, and it is not derogating Irom their un doubted wisdom and superior intelli gence, to sujippse that their organization is not the best suited to the exercise of diplomatic functions in all cases. A single word of explanation, an in stantaneous suggestion of the mcHlifica- tion of a .proposal elicited in c';iiiVi ence, may lead4o the adjustment (/f a ilitVer- ence when ministers are treating iace lo lace, which might not be setlled for a long tin>e in a negotiation conducted be tween two bodies, each composeti of sev eral hundred members, separ.iicd by ihe Atlantic ocean. e do no; mean to ln in,g forward any formal complaint a- gainst (ireat Biiiaiii, on :.ccount of her delerminatiuii to cxclutle one fd’ihe means which t X pel lence has evinced to be Ije^t adapted to the. aecommodaiion of nation al dillVreiices. Our main jjiirpose is to show that the United States are not just ly cliai geabh' with the cunsequt nees which may flow from lhat most unex pected decision. As ihe ordy alleinalive which the course ndo])led by that Government has left, the President has determined ti give a signal j)roof of I is anxious wish to pre serve a good understanding between the two Govi'rnments, by laying the wlude of the cori’espoudenee, which has passed beiween them on this subjeci, including l!u* instiuctions lo our several *linisiers at ilie Court of St. JameSf-before Con gress, at its next session. ' Tl'.e wis.ldin of that I)ody, in the actual stale of things, is alone competent to decide whether I he Colonial intercourse shrJI remain closed arcoiding to the jde-jsur(‘of the Briliah Ciovt'rnment as manifested in the late Order in Council, and whether that |)ortion of it li ft open by the Order shall reniuin (qven, or ou v.iial eonditions, compa'.il>le with tl.e inlerests of the Peo ple id' tin- United St.itcj, Coti;(re:i.^ i^ willing the trade sl.niiii be jylac.d. You v.ill accvn^).iny the conuimtiica- Tlie letter from Mr. Gallatin to the Secretary of Slalt*, which wt- publish to day, furnishJ's snllieieiii :;vii!('nee of the propriety oflht* course l.iiherto pursued by the govi rmnent of the United States, in endeavoring by negotiation to efl’ect an accommodation of ih' diiVerences exist ing wilh F.nglant!, in relation tp their Colonial trade. The provisions of the various acts of Parliament have so enve loped the whole sidiject in obscurilv, and left so many points for ditVerence of opin ion, thal it) the abseticeofan explanation by lhat government, it will be impossible to understand what ^Iiey mean, and un sale for our own !> art upon any con struction whicii it may su])pose lobe the correct one. In the concluding para graph of ilte extracts from Mr. Gallatin’s letter, he says— ‘•it seems to me ihai the intricacy of thesi several acts of Parliament, and the dilliculty of undersiandiiig their precise m‘\ining, iniRht have been considered In the Ciovernment of (^reai Britain as si.f- Hcient reuson, why lhat of the United Slates might not have been dispi.»sed to accept the conditions on which, by those acts, the intercourse was opened with the Briitsh Colonies, without having pievi- onslv, at least, come to an understand ing of their true intent atid meaning.— In point of fact, it was understood by the American (iovt rnuieni, lhat one of those conditions was a prohibition to export goods in American vessels, from those C’olonies, to any other country than the United Stales.” iV(7/. Journal. From Ihe Kentucky Heporter. Extract of a li tter from a geatkman in Ohio to the fJdltur. % “ Our ‘ black hst’ has become a white one : the opposition had their ticket headed ‘the pcopK ’s tiekct.’ but the people beat their own ticket. Ohio would nuio give ten thousand ma jority for Adams, and daily increasing.—How stand affairs in Kentucky as to the administra tion." Xo candid man can wc think doubt the popularity of the administration in this Slate. Its measures and course of poli cy are approved of by the great n^ass of the people, and the people of Xentucky are for men8urr‘t and i>rlnc>ii!es in prefer ence so wfti. The opposition is person al and vindictive in its character; though the leaders are very active, their j)ariy rather dtclines than increases in strength. The eight members of ('ongress in favor of the Aflminisir:'.tion will undoubtedly be re-elected in their resj)ective district,. Whether either of the four Opposition members will b? re-chnseti is more than we can venture to assert. All of them will not. The contest in thelr districts will be close, while the Administration iriem- bers, if any opinion can now be formed on the subject, will In-v*-elected by large iiiajorilies, perhaps w iihoui opposition. LouisiAN’yV.—The following facts are proof of great attention to education in Louisiana : In 1811, the Legislature appropriated Sj‘J.Ov'jO 10 the establishment of a college, and a school in each county. By the same act §3,000 was appropri ated annually for the support of the col lege, an.'! 3500 a year for each school. In 1819, the allovvance for the support of sciuxds was increased to 8600, and in ir.21 tl) S800 a year each. Since which. Sn,!’/00 a year has been appropriated for tiie support of anollier college, at Jack sonville, ill the same State. PKTi:iisnrHO, \’a. hkc. 1 .S. Murdernf Sr.era ’J'funjir.—Within a day or two j)ust, circumstances have I>een brought to light, w hich lend new horror lo this most mysterious and shockinu: transactici:. An individual has been ta ken up and committed to prison, charg»-d as the |)erpetrator, wlio if he be proved lobe guilty, ihe crime will stand almost rdone in its unparalleled enormity. Tiie preciae nature of the evidence against this j)crsoii, we have not been able lo as certain; and even ii we knew, it would )>e improper, in the present stage of the business, to crimmunicate it. However, we shall not fail '.o publish the result of the examination, which is expected to take place in a few days.—Littlligt/iirr, MAfox, Ga. i)t::. IR.—A seri(Mis aFair took place nt the Peuiicutiary on Saiur- dav evening. About suii'-et, as they were closing the prisons, the cunvicts, rose upon the Keejiers and Guard in a! body, sunetded in wresting several muskets from them. A skirmi.sli then commenced, which lasted a conoitlerablc time, in which two of the convicts were hilled, and a nuiid)( r woiinded. 'I'hc Principal ]v(,‘ej;er and one of the Assist ants darij'ci ously vRiuiided. Nniieof liu con\iclb escaped. CKili£OTT£S: TUKSDAY, J.XNUAUY 9, 1827. Owing lo a disarrangeinenlof the mails, conse(iuent on the new contracts going inio operation, the last northern mail brought not a single letter beyond Salis bury, and only two papers—one from Hillsborough and another from Milton. Our columns are consequently barren of intelligence. Although we have a diirct mail from this place to Fayetteville, yet the papers from the latter place are very irregularly received. The Observer and Journal due last week, have not yet come to hand? and it is seldom they are both received at the proper time. General Jlsscmbly.—We learn that Bart lett Yancey was electcd Speaker of the Senate, and John Stanley Speaker of the House of Coitions; and that the old of ficers generally, were re-elected. This is all the intelligence we have received from Raleigh since the Legislature has been in session. The Governor’s Mes sage, if it have no other recommenda tion, will have that of age, when it reach es us. The failure of the mail has enabled us to spread entire before our readers Mr. (Ilay’s leiler to M'*. (.rallatin on the sub ject of the West-India trade, and the re cent Biitish Ord*‘r in Council closing it to our ships. We hope its length will deter no one from reading it—it will well reward an attentive perusal. Hamilton Fulton. In the Senate of Cieorgia, the subjoined resolution was of fered on the 13lh ultimo; and the editor of the Georgia Statesman says he is in- j formed it “ will pass by a large majority:” ' Wliereas Hamilton Fulton, the Chief Engineer of this State, has practiced a gross fraud on the Board of Public Works, imposing on them as his own production, a report w iiich he has most servilely cop ied from a scientific work of the day! And, whereas this circumstance alone is convincing evidence of his incompetence to discharge the high, important and re sponsible duties of Civil Engineer— Jie it therefore resolved,, by the Senate and House of kepresentatives in Cieneral As sembly met, that his Excellency the (iov- ernor be recommended, and he is hereby recommended forthivith \o'di.scharge the snid Hamilton h'ullon from the service of the State. Query.—Did this “ efficient engineer” ever humbug our Board of Public Works ill the manner set forth in the prea,mble lo the above resolution } We hope some one who ha.s access to his reports, will have the curiosity to ascertain. He re ceived some forty thousand dollars from this state, for which he of course ren dered some equivalent j atid we should like to know whether that consists in his reparts, or in something else as valuable. The only srticle of nacs received by last mail, is the following—and it is news in deed. It unfortunately, ho’ ever, lacks one essential attribute. Those acquain ted with the Etujuircr, will recollect iis positive statements and assertions previ ous to the lust election, and the veracious “letters from Washington” which so frequently burdened its columns—but all these “ arts of able ('ditors” availed noth ing, as tile event showed. The Enqui rer’s candidate came in hindmost.— Whether its present statements will be any nearer the irutl., wdien the contest to which they relate shall be decided, time will determine. As a general remark, however, w'e believe il is true, that the on (/Us of the Enquirer are very little worth. From the Jilc/imond ■Knqairer. We shall not at tins time go into the n('xl presidential eleciioii; but we have seen some late lettet s iVom W’ashin^lon, wiiicb furnish the following speculations o!i this .sid.>ji-ct. They state thai the fa\e ol this adminisiratioM is syaled. Penn sylvania is said to be fixed and immova ble in opposition as the rock of ages— her governor’s strange message and Mr. Pianiard’ii election to the cfjittrary not- witlistandiiig. He is a dicidrd Jackso nian. Il is said thal New-Jcrsey is no longer doubifuil and thal even Kentucky will be against Mr. Adorns, with the ex ception of Mr. Clay’b own district. 'I'here ai t; the sti oiiCM’st assiiratu'es lhat Louisi ana is also against his re-eleciion. Witli (ieorrjia, ihet;. the two (.’aiolinas. V'irgi- tua, Penn^ylv?.iiia, 'i'eiinrssee, Alabama, .Nijssisb'^yi, Mii-ctui. llliiisji). L'juibi.ii- r,a, Tiicirafii, an;' fi’ic !a;v.;cst of Kentucky, there wid be enough touc, feat Mr. A. excluding 6 in Maryland,ii. whole of Nev-\ ork, New-Jei.sey andDv laware. With New-Voik, Ii w’tl be nC contest; without her and Kentucky, and wilh New'-Jersey, Delaware and live in Maryland, the same objkt will be accoin. plished. As a counterpart to the above, we acid the following, from another Richmond paper, the IVhig. The correspondents of the two papers, it will be perceived, dif. fer materially in their statements— one afTirming that “the fate of the ad ministration is sealed;” the other, thati: is “ steadily advancing in public confi. dence.” Both cannot be .'•ight. 0,j- which side the truth lies, let the reade-^' decide for himself—if he can. Exlrad of a letter from Washtngton, Dec 1>; “Mr. Randolph has n:)i yet broken si- lence—he will probably speak on Mr. Holmes’ resolutions and hisowii, presen ted at the last session. He is pi duly itj an awkward predicament—if he runs on in the wild, intemperate, and uncoiitiec* ted style of speaking which marked hiii last session’s conduct, the Legislature may lake it into their head to think, him nol possessing sans metis in rorporesano— if he draws in, he acknowledges one of two things, that the administration no longer deserves his abuse, or that his for mer abuse is deemed by himself improj>. er. lit is appointed to none of the Stan ding Committees, which, as he seldom or never attends a committee, is no loss to the public service. “Gen. Jackson's prospccts are believ ed to be next to desperate. The (dectiuns in New-Jersey, Ohio, Xcw-York, Mis souri, and in a supposed Jackson district in Kentucky, Shullze’s message, ihe de feat of Ingham, ihe great diminuiion of .lackson voles in Pennsylvania, wiihina- uy other indicatifjiis in lhat State, shov the steady advance of the administratioo in |)opular ccMifulence. I'he mcssajje, tr>o, gives no bones to chew. The o;jpo- sition are down in the mouth. Thef will make a >iaiul on the subject of the British Colonial 'I’rade—but tiie corres pondence between the two governments, so clearly puts the British in the wrong, thal ihev will be easily driven from th* rou THE cvT.\wiu jornsAt. The labors and ditTicultics through which w« have passed are pleusir.g to the recolkc* lion. Ciruno, Mr. EniTOK: The individual whosft genius and education enable him to take a clear retrospect of all the great event*, which haveoccurrcd since the earliest a ges of the world, is agreeably astonishcft i t the progress which has been made in Mental Philosophy, in the course of the? last two or three hundred years. The gi gantic mind of Aristotle performed won ders—His system of Logic bore sway o- ver the minds of men for many centuries,^ and well it might, from its ingenuity. IIo was, without doubt, a man of no ordinary mind, and his great opportunities ena bled him to go forward, unrestrained by penury. He was a disciple of Plato, and teacher of Mcxander the Grmt, and wa”- liberally patronized by his illustrious pu - pie. Wilh these advantages, he perse vered in a course of arduous study for twenty years ! This may be at all time cited as an example of uncommon indus try in literary pursuits, and is creditable to human naiure. In later times, Descat - tes built up an ingenious system of Met aphysics, which was considered as infal lible; although /7, as well as that of Aris totle, has been set aside by the improve' nients of still more modern times. Lord Bacon, Locke, Mulebranche, S:c. did much lo shed lighten Mental Philo.'^- oj)hy, by shewing the inconsistency o' certain speculations af the schoolmcti. and 'deserve the gratitude and thanks o; mankind for their valuable labors. I’*'*" it seems to have been reserved for ollu:’' writers to completely remove the rubbish which had held the human mind in ob scurity for so many hundred years. Thir task has been admiraldy eft'ected by Ueic^ and Uugald Slewarl, of the Ediiibuii; School. Tl'.ey have shown clearly the er rors and inconsistencies of all their pt’C decessors; and have established the mos’ correct system of Metai)hysics ever be- lore known in the world. 'Phis systeii:. will enligbteti the minds and exalt the lac- idlies of unborn millions of human be itigs. How much, then, are wc indebted to these illustrious bcaefaclors of the hu- mun race. ~- Althoufjh it has been contended bV’ some, thul Mental Philosophy is an nt' i Mpoi tanl science, ) el I ain fulLv' persua • dud lhat no intoUi^cnt man will pretcu'i
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