foreign andi Ppm eitic Intelligence.
- FOREIGN.: i- '
' : London, March 10.
i
A rfport was in circulation at Yarmouth yester
day, thatViliere are in the "Tejcel five sail oF the
line and -six frigates, all with their saiU bent,'lnd
only waiting for a wind to proceed first to Heligo
land, and finally to Anholt. -
"A mornlrig paper, says, that " the two last sets
of dispatches torwafded by Mr. Russel for Mr.
Joel Barlow, by cartels to Morlaix, it will be learnt
with surprise) have been intercepted, and this gen
tleman has,' we believe, determined to send no fur
thcr communications to France until the cause be
explained." ' Now, before we can feel any surprise
upon the subject,-we must banish from our refcol.
lection that it is the practice of ponaparte to stop,
10b, and even murder-messengers, whenever he
wants, to get possession of the despatches.
- i JJew Yobk, April 4;
VERY LA.TE FROM EKGLAND.
At a late hour last night, the beautiful and fast
vailing s up lady- Madison, Swa.ne, arrived at this
port, in u e u iprcceaemeu passage cn . uays iroru
Liverpool, which por she kit on the 16th March,
i he papers aie llllCa With Very lllierestine: tie-
bates in the British Parliament: in the House of dotte is on a visit tq all the ports in! Sweden, and
Lords on-the motion oft the marquis of Lands: wherever a person is , found in favor of France, he
downe, and in the bouse of Commons on the mo- is sent immediately out of the country. '
tion of Mr. Brougham, fdr arepeal of the Orders; Matters are fast accommodating between Swe
in Council. . . den and England. It issaid that ttussia is to join
On taking the question, in the House of Lords in the treaty, as France is making vigorous prepar
there were for the motion 71, against it 135-ma- ations against her. Napoleou is marching troops
3onty in tavor ot the continuance ot the orders g.
an mo, nause oi summons mere were ior me mo.
tion 1 4.4', against it 216 majority 72.
If appears from the papers that a war between
France and Kussia is expected, in the conflict it
is thought Sweden wilrbeon the side of Ilussia.
T.... i.j . ' t
" ' -,rt. m. l'uulj; uo,V 3P
war into Russia, pr as some think" or the account
of the scarcity of provisions on the Peninsula-
By extracts from Paris papers, it appeacs, the
Bussian and Turkish armies still keep th field.
'
HV lUK svi If U lUUS-M ) JM. V-.' I TIIIC lilt.
London March' 2.
T"i. ' r .
ine quesuonoi peace or wr, or raioer, as iar
as it relates 10 Russia, of submission or war, is on
the :eve of bein decided, if it has not already been.
uic eve ui uem iicLiucu, ii u iiaa nui uiicauy ueen.
Bonaparte whose torrent of military force has for
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luuic uiuiiLtia u&cii iuuiiji: iiuuunaiui liit-icasmir
as u roueuisnow gtvmg a more rapw ou-ection to
mat torce ; anq naving ny menaces OLaeceitiut pro-
treaties with him, is overrunninff the territories of
both
Hohicir) is to furnish him with 6000caval-
ry ; that is, he has permission to levy that number
in Iloistem, wbich he will enforce by his summary LiEKtlemen,
process of conscription ; his troops are also to have The constitution oi this state has vested in
free passage thra liolstein and Schleswlg,, whence the Governor thereof a discretion taproroRue the
it is supposed a considerable body will proceed to Assembly and Ssnate, from,time to time, provid--Zealand
-Meanwhile, after over.running Swedish -cd such prorogation shall no exceed sixty days
Pomerania, theinhabitants pf which haVe been trea- in the space of any one year.,-It was doubtless
ted by their good friends the French with Rreat se- intended by the wise and patriotic framersof that
verity, the latter have burst into Prussian, Pomera- sacked instrument, that this por should be ex-
nia, and Anclam, Usedom and Shinemunde, which ercUed on all occasions when, in the opinion of
have already been taken possession of. These pla. the executive, the public good would be promoted
ces they entered on the 26th, in virttie of the Trea- by it. - . 1
iy saul in all ib privet letters frorn the North to I entertain a perfect conviction that the exercise
liave been signed between France and Prussia, by of the abovementioned prerogative at the present
; which" the. latter consents to have all her seaports time, is not only a sacred and iadispensible duty
jyarrisoned by French troop3, Merael and Konjgs; which I owe to the community, but that it will
berg excepted. Colberg-4 said rtOrrie accounts have! tendency to awaktn enquiry, and to" pioduce
to be also excepted, but the French troops have al- a degree of information which, under existing
ready arrived in the neighborhood of that fortress circumstances, cannot fail to be useful andimpor-
theyare even approaching Berlin. Fifty thou- tant in deciding,, ultimately, upon some of the most
sand troops are the Cdntingent to be furnished by important measures now pending before the Le-
Prussia against Russia. ly what promises or met gislature- , . . .
naces Doraparie has induced 'the King of Prussia I am not unmindful of the magnitude and rc-
to assist him in this unhallowed cause, by what spohsibility of the duty. dischargidVfTy this'-meV-
mask he can have veiled from him the truth so clear s.gi ; and therefore beg leave to assign, some of
end naked to all other eyes, that every blow aimed the prominent reasons which have impelled me to
by Prussia against the emperor of Russia Is a blow its perfwmance.
aim -d against herself, We are perfectly unable to You are apprised, gentlemen, that some years
comprehend. For, to suppose that if Buonaparte since it was ascertained beyond any reasonable
succeed against Russia, he will leave Prussia even doubt,: that corrupt inducements were held out to
in hr present nominal independence, would be the members of the Legislature in order to obtain
height of absurdity. No disasters, however great, their votes in favor in an incorporation of a bank-
which 6he-could have experienced by joining Rus- ing institution in the city of New York and the
fcia, would -have been greater than those she will- very strong and general suspicion, that the emolu-'
experience by throwing herself into the arms of ments tendered were, in certain instances, accept
trance. ' "fed, mllicted a deep wound upon the purity and in.
,While, as if every thing were to be extraordina- dependence of legislation.
ry in the present state of the world, we behold twO; At the last session, an act was passed incorpo
of the Old Powers of Europe leaguiffg themselves rating the late Jersey bank ; and : although there
with Bonaparte ; we see ont'he. other one of the ( has been as yet-no judicial investigation as to the
-jiew Sovereigns of Bonaparte's own creation, as-'! alleged improper means made use of to obtain
aiimingthe attitude which would have best become Jhat act, there is a very general public opinion,
the Powers, we have alluded to, and determining to that unwarrantable attempts were resorted to on
take part against his former master. JBcrnadotte, ' that occasion to influence, unduly, the then mem
-if we-may credit the, accounts from Sweden,, has bers ol the Legislature. - , . '
broken off entirely with France, and has, determin- With respect to the bill for the incorporation of
ed to direct all the resources of. Swiden against another bank in the city of New Yorkj by the name
her.' A joint declaration is 'expected from the , of thej?ank of America, now before the Senate,,
tourts of Petersburgh and Stockholmand Great-1 many, and forcible objections", exist against it ;
Britain of course must cordially, unite with them, and I cherished the hope that the consideration
'1 he dread of an attack upon Zealand is said to which I had the honor tg suggest to thV'legisla
have been one of the causes that has induced the j ture at the commencement of thepresent session,
King of Denmark to granrso readfly a passage to j would have their due influence. In corroboration
French troops through his dominions. And it is I of those considerations, I avail myself of this' be-
even said, that Buonaparte has promised to send
out'his fleetsf from the Scheldt and the Texel for
the protection of Copenhagen. . .;
Such are the 'accounts which have jusfbeen re
ceived from the North and which, in all probabil
v, will be immediately followed by events of the
' utmost importance. ' ' .-- . . ,.,ir V
The Danes have fitted out a number of priva
teeis in the fc'-Ibe and Eyder 4heX-are a'so a'd t
be formiryr a large camp in the neighborhood ot
Kitisburtr, with a view to make their neutrality re-
2Jpected in case of a rupture.
A maiTfrom" Heligoland arrived this mornine.,
Tt has not brought such late intelligence .as we re
ceived yesterday from Gottenburg, but prayers are
. said to have been ordered to be put up in Saxony
for jthe success of the French- arms ! .There is a
8'Qryj3f Bonaparte4iavinff eivenWsAustrian con
sort a beatinir and sent her baclCto Vienna.
'-Moniteurs and other Paris papers arrived last
1 nintii intlic let innf Th rnntain. w are snri"-
to state, another instance of treachery in the sur-
rrj:rfoftlj.eloxU-e35!PcniiC0
Don Pedro Garcia Navarro, who. In giving up the
place; offers his enthusiastic services to the. French.
The "execrable traitor 1 1 .
- There is no other intelligence from the Penfn
aula, and not a word is said cf any movements in
the North., - r '. . '
On accountof. there being a show in the Scheldt
of re equipping the Scheldt fleet, Lord Beauclerk
has been ordered to proceed from Portsmouth with
five saH of the line. They were to sail this morn
ings . . i- .. -
.. Lord Boringdon gave notice in the house of lords
of his intention to eubmit a motion on Thursday
next upon the subject of the Prince R-gent'9 letter
to the Duke of York, and the answers of lords
Grey and Grenville. ' However important the sub-,
ject may be, it is onevupon which the Ministers
can feel little difficulty. .
GoUenburg;-Marrh 6.
Every day brings us ome political news. Ke
port states, that the king of Prussia has entered
into a treaty with Napoleon, and has consented,
that all the-Priissian sea ports, excent Colberrr,
Meitfel and Konicsburfr, shall be garrisoned by'satre of the bill to incornorate the aforesaid hank:
French, with an equal number of Prussian troops,
It is also said, that the Prussians are tn furnish
50,000 men to France, in case of hostilities with
Russia. The follow nK places in Prussian Pome-
rania are already jn. the possession of them,'
Sr.hwe nemnnHc; Anrrar anr! A.ir.lem TWna,
jn jars,e bodies northwards, through Hdsteih, and
has alreadv a verv coi
has already a very considerable army likewise close
upon Colberg. ' ;
through the Prussian dominions. Their destina.
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u. " : ruw,uV ra Y arf l 10 rtmr,.n 7 1 Tuv
e4 t-MIil,ICllICl rfc I I ttlU V II 3 UtVti UUSLIVbl V 3lt!M
ed between France, and Prussia, but the particulars
have not as yet transpired.
- Colbert, Fdruary 28.
The French troops have arrived in our neigh-
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"urnuuu,-iKi we expeci every uay mannis xonress
V7t1l hp VIrtA nvpr lt ilium K. nivtur nFri.ip Qn'.
rTZ: t 1.
veregn
A declaration of war on the part of Swe
ist France, is hourly expected to take
den- aSainst France, is hourly expected to take
o .. K . .
Letterjfyom-Berlinr-ated the 7th Feb.
State.' Ihn f hi. Pniirh trnnne am innin9i K rvrr fhaf S
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A PROrRCnATTON'.
To the Honorable the JisenMy and Senate of the
' State of Mv York.
casion to remark, that the bill now before the
Senate establishes, In the city of New York, a
bank with a capital of six millions of dollars ; that
five millions thereof may be subscribed by the
stockholders ofthe late bank of the United States,
without any provision which gives a preference to
the Citizens of the United States ; and thus foreien
stockholders may be admitted, in the discretion
of the directors, to monopolize the stock, & there
by acquire a dangerous influence in the. monied
operations and other important concerns of the
state : : 1 : ? ' I
The banking capital I in the city of New
now.exceeds nine miUions of dollars. This eapi
tal, in the most flourishing stateof our commerce
has been found jdequate to commercial piirpos'es.
1 he United States, we have much reason to ap
pi ehenda.reon-theverge-of ar-withTireatthcmselves-independent, was that the kingf G.
IJntain, in defence of our rights, our national ho
nor, and our independencci and commerce U con
sequently suspended. .,' Can it be wise, then, to liu
crease our bankintr canital in an nnnrecedented
j roanncry at tiffl9 when wg haye only a rery HrnjdpditreYeTtru
; ted and restricted 1 ee'rn.merce left ? Can it be pru
dent or safe, at such ayime, to employ such cap,
ital, and subject ourselves to its deleterious influ
ence in thwarting the operations of our own go
vernment," hi a just and necessary war with Great"
Britain : It appears to me that it would be unwise
and impolitic.
When I contemplate the erection of a new bank
in the city of New York with so enormcus and cn.
usual a capital ; when I perceive thete suscitation
within this state of half .the whole Capital of the
late United States Bank ;, and . when I view the
power which that bank is to concentrate in the,
hands of a few individuals, I cannot but feef the
most lively apprehensions for the safety of all other
banking institutions, and of our most inestimable
political institutions. '.-
But these considerations become less important
when compared with others, to which it is my
painful duty here to advert, '
It appears by the journals of the Assembly, that
attempts' ha ve been made to corrupt, by bribes,
four members of thajr bodyr to vote for the pas-
j and it also appears, by the journals of the Senate,
' that on imnnn. tF.mnt v,... :..n..
; ence one of the Senators to vote for the bill. Far
be it from me to insinuate that imnroner conside
rations have induced any member of the Letfsla
tare to vote for the said bill, yet should Us tihal
passage now take place, before the persons iropli
cated in holding out the before mentioned inducements-
shall have been judicially tried, and with
out consulting the feelings and opinion of the com
munity at large upon the subject, public senti
ment viiil, I fear, however unjustlyattribute! its
passage, in some degree, to the influence of stich
1 inducements.
Under such nersuasion. I entertain the ihost
tearful apjtrehensions that the confidence of the
tion will be fatally impaired; our representative
,Jwt wuu.ii uii uoiu iui us ujr uur oa-
ges and wisest jurists as a safeguard for our sfesu-
rity, our prosperity, and our liberty ultimately le
strayed ; and this great and populous state lose
her just importance and influence in the destinies
of , the U. States.
It gives me sincere anxiety and pain to affect
that many individual inconveniences will result
. many
from a prorogation of the legislature at this time.
r '' con.piww.tn id.
Dubl.c consirleratmns ivhirh indnp this mpasnrp.
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Solemnly impressed with the importance of the
t . .j , . : 1 . : 1 i i i . i
morai5) lhc honor and the dignity of the state re
I quire it and in order that tim? may be afforded
for reflection and for the complete ascertainment
I of poMic sentiment upon a measure fraught with
j such important consequences, I have deemed it
proper to prorogue, and I do hereby prorogue the
Assembly and Senate until the twenty first day of
wiay next, men 10 meet in me Capitol, in tne city
ol Abany.
- Given under my hand and lie privy seal of
the state ot New York, at the city of Al
l. s. bany, this twenty seveDth day of March,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and twelve. J
i- UANIEL D. TOMPKINS.
' ' 1 - r -ADDRESS
Of the Republican Members of ihe Legislature of iW State of N:
Yoik who voted in lavor ol the Incutporalioo ot the &iuk. ot
America, -
10 fHEIR FELLOIT tiriZBNS i
His Excellency the Governor having deemed
it hit duty, by a message this day delivered to both
t kruniluin nf.Vi.T a.. 1 1 .. n . 1. .
uiiiv.ir.a ui uii Ligiaiaiui c, u " jn wrugUC (lie AS
sembly St Senate until the 2 1st day of May next,"
it equally becomes a duty which we owe to our
constituents, our country and ourselves, to explain
the motives which have induced us to support the
measure alleged by his excellency to be the cause
of this extraordinary exercise of an authority long
dormant and never intended to be exercised to de
feat a constitutional legislative measure.
Before, however, we enter into an. examination
of the merits of the bill, the passage of which is
reprebented by his excellency as inconsistent with
" the morals, the honor and dignity of the state,"
we shall briefly jremise that his 'excellency has, on
this occasion, perhaps hastily and unadvisedly set
up his own opinion as opposed to a majority of the
immediate Representatives of the people in both
branches of the Legislature. This might, perhaps,
have been deemed admissible. ; but when insinua
tions so highly derogatory to the dignity of the Le
gislature are made as those in his message, we
think his Excellency doci'not evince that high resv
pptK for the Majesty of the people which is due to
them. Especially; when it is recollected, that af
ter a most patient and laborious investigation, the
reports which gave rise to those insinuation had
been previously declared to be groundless. If
mi nation and recrimination are to be resorted to,
what could possibly prevent one branch of the go
vernment at anylime fronv impeaching the mo
rives of another, in order JqTestablish . any favorite
object, or defeat any obnoxious measure, without
reference to the mterests of the state. What WDuld
prevent the Assembly from declaring the senate to
be corrupt, and the senate while retorting thsame
charge upon the assembly, to include his Excel
lency the Governor, and declare him to be biassed
by improper influence, and actuated by a spirit 6f
intolerance little short of the examples furnished
in the history of England, of crirrupt kings dissolv
ing their Parliaments, for their unyielding integri
ty and invincible patriotism I The power of pro
rogation is a remnant of royal authority which has
crept into our constitution, and being so consider
ed lias been suffered to slumber under the admin
istration of Governors Clinton, Jay 8c Lewi's "That
venerable' patriot who" now fills the second office in
the Union, never exere'rsed that odious and extra.
York-Urdinary power, aliho' occasions -more important
than the present may have been presented during
an administration ot twentyone years. .Nay, let
it be recollected, that one, and a very influential
moive which animated our forefathers to declare
Britain had " dissolved rent esentative houses re.
peatcdly for opposing with manly firmness his.in
vasions on the rights of ; the" people?' AniLalso'
ot.auitT!di?ig ourojvn legislatures."
ng our-Qwn legislatures." Sorry in-
xSfl. ;j5!i2!!a ys-ofj
the Revolution should have been resorted toby the
first magistrate of a free "and independent people.
And that regret is increased when we consider thai
the council of revision, a thiid. bianch of the Le
gislature, of which his excellency is a1 constitution
al part, still remained to 'correct the' errors of the
senate and assembly. Mf the measure which indu-.
ced a prorogation was pregnant withso many evils,
could not his Excellency confide in the integrity f
the highest judicial characters of our state to pre-
f vent us passage. Were they also, they who are
the constitutional guardians of the rights, the pro
perty and lives of our citizens, presumed to be cor.
rupt ! We forbear -answering the question.' We
submit it to the good sense and discretion of our
countrymen, . '
Without expressine any decided opinion as to
the constitutional power of the Governor to pro
rogue the legislature, when regularly convened by
law, we hesitate not however, to say, thatso lvog
as serious doubts could be entertained as to that
power his excellency should, in our opinion, have
riucit)tl 1-v.o fVi Jiu ntuan(-iiMA J a... , .
pregnant as a precedent, with alarming consequen
ces, and quite novel in themnals of American Je
eiskition. . ,
We proceed to an examination of the cause a,
signed by his excellency for such prorogation, ad
of the merits of the bill, which have given-rise to
this extraordinary measure.
The Governor assigns, as theTauses for proro
guing the legislature: r . . --
1st. That some years since it was' ascertained
beyond any reasonable doubt, thatcorrupt indui.'e
ments were held out to the legislature, in order to
obtain their votes infavor of an incorporation cf a
banking institution in the:ity oiN. York, (mean
ing the merchant's bank.) "
2d. That in the public opinion unwarrantable at
tempts were resorted to, to procure the incorpora
tion of the late Jersey bank, at the, last session.
3d. That foreign stockholders may be admitted
inthe-diseretionofthe-ireetorsrto monopolize the
stock and consequent controul of the Bank of A
merica, and thereby acquire a dangerous influence
in the monied operations and other important con
cerns of the state
4th. That being on the verge of a war with Gi
Britain; the incorporation of the bank of America
would be an unwis,e and a dangerous measures
5th. That the safety of other banking institutions
might be endangered by the incorporation of the
bank in question.
6th. and lastly. That attempts had been mad
to corrupt, by bribe, four members ti the Assem-
bly, and one member of the Senate.
On this interesting occasion, we shall be pardon
ed for entering into an investigation of the lorttro-
mi; icawna, ohcixu ojr ins excellency.
We cannot conceive thatejfier the first or se
cond reason could hayet any influence on the p t
sent question. Admitting even the Meicha. t's
and Jersey banks to have been unduly inco'rponrt d
a fact of which we have no knowledge, and mx
now necessary to be determined, how can tha' ,f.
feet the propriety of incorporating the bank of A
merica? . Does it necessarily follow that the cor
ruption of one Legislature shall be visiter! nn ano
ther ; or that succeeding Legislatures ate to be
made responsible for .the acts of their predecessors,?
We couJd;also ask, 'whether it was decorous and
proper for the executive to cast any imputations of
corruption, and that merely from public rejort,
on the acts of any Legislature ! Does it commit
with the respect and ignity due to the h pislorive
powers of a state, for the executive to asseij ihtir
independence, by calling their purity in question !
As well might the LegisIaTure resort to similar
charges on the executi ve, and thus produce an un
ceasing hostility between the different branches cf
the government. "
The thjrd reason offered by his excellency must
have arisen from a misconception of the bill f'.r
incorporating the bank of America for, fcy t!ve
terms of that bill, foreign stockholders are exclu
ded from all share in the direction or the bank,
they being declared incapable of voting for dheo.
tors thereof.
The 4th reason of hisexcellency is, in oiir onin-
on, an extraoidinary one. W7e should think tie T
circumstance, if true, of our being on the verge i f
war with Great Britain, jhordd rather 'encoura.'e
Ine m,t,tut on '.a Di3nk which brings into, a;ut t -cures
to this state, six millions of specie, than a
objection' to it.
' The 5th reason is, if possible, still more sI-ku.
lar. There are alrenclv ,ir l, v- .1,
, 4 y-.-- v" 'jil IS
nve different banking institutions : and yet it H a
fact which defies all sophistry, that not a single ie.
monstrance has appeared from anv of the .ad
banks. We humbly presume that thW bank : ie
better acquainted with their own interest ih .i, h,
excellency can possibly be ; and surely if the dan-
!r-i - '
cri-jthe good citizens of this state, thev wl
Ker lomose oanxs were so apparent as to alrni
1 1 .
deeply interested in its welfare would not !e blind
110 are so
to the tact which forms so prominei t a feature in
his exejeuency's message; -
i5The 6th rpasnn nf Ki :. :
bel ohthe puiity and intell ICenrfi nt'thn f.irw.-i
- - - - i.Avv.iivijLr 1 ruiiri a u -
. o -. M .
ture, or an evidence of the unsoundness of the rea-
wnicn ne nas resorted, i he hill wai pas- -
sea 111 me assembly, oy a majority of nineteen,
and yet the Governor states that offers having been
made to four of its mesibers to corrupt their in
tegrity, and which he does not say was accenrl
are a suttiCient cause for the prorogation, and'this--'
too sTter a solemn investigation bvWfe
and their'uhanimous vote that no conuption hud "
been made use of to promote the corporation of
the said bank. - -
"His excellency also adds that an attempt was
made to corrupt the integrity of a Senator. But -We
would ask, by What authority does his excel
lency make this assertiou ? Had he permed tie
jOQrhals of the:Senate, he vould have perosivtd
that the charge was ex press! negutived not only "
by the oath of the accused, belt by jthe concun tn:
oaths' of four members' .of the legislature, two pf
whomjhad voted against the bank. '
But once for all, we here take occasion solcnmlv
toTOtest-aFainstrfie-irHTnre-e
- l) ' 1' v. lAlJl..
ef the Governor, impeaching the integrity of t.!,.
legislature, vve protest against it, as beinr- in-V
eorojus ami mjust as being a bre&h of thc rj
lesres of the I.errislaturejviii'h-lrL-l.. . . .'
lege? cf thc .LegtsJaturer wjiiclj itf -h
punishable In aa ordinary Tntllvidual, as
BiM.istri'
a con -.c an r