North Carolina Newspapers

, qualification was requirrd tor electors of ;he Assembly and 1'..t re pre re latives; to the p'rrst-m hour, car laws hold no man worthy ot tne trust of a juror, who is not a frethclder. It is found in the Constitution of the Uni ted States, which regulates reprvseuta tioa by the rule of direct taxation ; and in the Constitutions of .11 thj States, which require a qualification of prop erty in the elector or ihu elected, lie considered the principle: fur which he contended, as established and conse crated by the authors of our glorious Kevolution, of whom it was but just to say, that .their merits, as legislators, will remain inscribed on the fairest monuments, when the memory of their splendid victories shall liave crumbled into dust. It was upon this principle, Mr. S. said, he vindicated our Constitution from the uniust attacks now made up on it, and s'.ould support the claim of the Eastern half of the btate to the share which it possessed in the Legis lature. By consulting the very correct Map d the State, by Price and Strother, it appeared that the point midway be tween the Ocean and the Tennessee line, on the northern boundary of the State, was the north-western corner of Granville county ; suspending a plumb, or drawing aline south from that point, it gave to the Eastern half of the State, thirty-five counties, includingthc whole of Granville, all Wake but a small section on its south-weft corner, the greater part of Cumberland and lili dtn and Hrunswick. In his calcula tor he rejected Cumberland from the E.'st. 1 hat county does not go with Us, ;md we take no benefit of its weight in our scale. From the Comptroller's Report to the p-esent session, of the lar.d tux, at the r.'tf of ix cents of tax for every one hun- ,... I .1 M -. ,.r.Ko viliii'. tli value r.t thf lands in the Eastern 55 counties reject- ! inj- fractions, is S18 7 10 000 ! And the value of the lands in the Western counties, at the same rate, is 15,C52,000 , fi i.-..c,-m i ... .. ; nn oai . ..imvuo : them at S250 each, the value is ' $23,172,752 ' The Western counties ccn tain 91,025 slaves, value 22,756,500 The result of these statements to the East a property in land and of And to the West 38 Shewing the property in the these ittm-i only, to exceed tha' r f the West, S9-C00,GQ0 Apportion the whole represm'.-tioti of the sixty- u counties in the House of Commons. '124 members) by this esti mate of p"'ipTty. and the Hast will be en titled to -i '.ly-eight members, and the West to ri'ty six members. That p-rt of the revenue of the State, collected b the sheriff, for the present year, i, sixty-six thousand dollars. Of this the East paid thirty-teven thousand dollars, and the West twenty-nine thou sard dollars. Apportion the representa lion by taxation, the East will be entitled to sixtv-nine members, the West to fifty live members. 'Upon the basis of property and taxation, then, the Eastern half of the State would be entitled to thirteen representatives more than the Wesiern half. And per mit me to say, that the growing value and improvement of the Eastern section, will continue to increase the difference in their favor. Before leaving this view of the question, it was proper to remark, that there was other properly not brought into the estimate. The West have their farms stocked ; so have the East : but the East have totge towns, which possess and em ploy a" considerable commerci d capital, in merchandize, vessels, &c. They own too,1 unquestionably, nine-tenths of the bank capital cf the State. Against these funds, amounting to many millions more, the West have nothing to set off. lhit the West claim the advantage of numbers. On this point I was gratified, said" Mr. S. to hear the gentleman from Hillsborough, (Dr. Smith,) admit the rule of federal numbers to be the proper ground of calculation. Certainly this is correct, and objections to the t ule would come with an ill grace from us, who enjov it as a right in our compact with the Northern States, and under which this State sends 'three representatives to Congress, gives "three votes in the election of President) and which places in the hands of the South ern States the power to turn the scale in the election of President. Ry this rule of apportioning the one hundred and twenty four members, the West would bc enti tled to seventy-four, mid 'he East to forty nine representatives- Upon the average of the three modes, the hast would hau sixty-two, and the West sixty-one mem bers. As to the other brsnch of the objections, arising from the equal lepresentation ol counties of unequal size and population, Mr. S. s-id, if any injustice resulted frcm thii ci.-cu:iitar.c$. It admitted a remedy vkhout a Convention : tlic Legislature competent to i eg date the boundaries of counties. Out no rule could be adop tc 1 whkh would give equality. The co'mties must vary daily, as well in popu lation in wealth j an J if made equal, the equality coiiM not bo preserved for a day. In his view, no inconvenience or injustice resulted from the existing state of the counties. Each section of the State form ed one great community with common fcclingi and interests; there were small counties in both sections; and invariably there would Le found such strong afiini'y between the Jreat a.;d general interests of adjoining counties, great and small, that while ail were represented, and while all were governed by the same laws, there could be no just grounds of jealousy i al though it might happen the representa live was elected by three hundred men in one county, aud by thee thousand in the next. Mr. S. said he could not believe that the Constitution was imperfect, nor the practice under it unjust, in regard to the important matter of represematioti. Wealth, taxation, and population each had its influence- For the opposite claim, that population alone should govern represen tation, and give las to the State, there was no pretence of reason, and no sanc tion of authority. Not th-Carolina, he hoped, would not be the first to fall into a fanciful expeii.nent, at the sacrifice of u principle of tne utmost magnitude. We extract the subsequent foreign in telligence from the Charleston Courier, received by the arrival of the ship Corsair at Charleston from Liverpool. From tie Liverpool Advertiser, April 17. Drtadful Shiizvreck'cf the Albion Patkrt. We have to record a melancholy event, in the lbs of the packet ship Albion from New-York to Liverpool. This tine ves sel sailed from New -York on the 1st inst. with a crew of '2-i men and about -6 pas- senera (Jn the 2-d mst. sac was en- tirely lost on the coa. , oil .eland, otj Gar- restown, near tne via romi oi rvinsaie. Onlv two passengers and seven of the crew were saved. All the particulars oi ' this melancholy shipwreck which have been receivtu in town up 10 me nour uiai . - . f we are writing, are contained m two let-1 er, punished in the Mercury yesterday, auu hicu we give uencain ; tne onc.irom Jacob Mrtik, U. S. (Consul at Kinsule, to Messrs. Cropper, Benson Sc t:o. of this those interested. Cony cf a letter from Mr. l'urcclh (in: tr:'ju :, 22d ..?, 1S2J. Jlor.ored Sir I am sorry to inform you, that to what I had to say yesterday, I have to add the account of a most 'melancholy K"es ! - r " . Poseci luu "u-.- , ,rrcat L.Xert ons are makine to cet it rea- ' frm n tUf f.l her frdiH nn PIP Wl nfSS fll, . i k ( !um ne scene, a .Mr. rurccji, agent oi mc , .nrm srar ; , r , j , r V i .u slaves; - v ... i. .,,i.r.- soon appear. dy for sea, but it is verv doubtful whether ,000,000 i geuucuian m un j-rancc A military rising nas tawen i .f. b Arhjei.o . thti.-ener- ,000.000 I ed, -nd which had been forwarded here by IaCC at Nanci. Sincc the restoration of " h 'G Xlined foTu c Ea,t, is,U' gentleman, for the information of fIie fioXirbotis, (says the -U:,) they have ! , ?s " hipwreck. At some time before 4 o'-J There can, however, be little doubt that, lock, this morninir, I was informed that;m the course ot a short time, .Napoleon s c! a shin was cst on the rocks at the bottom " I of your dairy farms, to which place 1 im- tli r-ti. tre of the two farms, found a vessel on however, accomplished at last I the rocks under a very hit'h cliff. At The Palis papers have asset ted, sundry this time, as it blew a dreadful gale, with times, that General Dektuon has gone spring tide and appicachin high water, by sea to St. Sebastian, a circumstance like the sea ran mountains high, however I de- J y enough. .-The French authorities were scended with some men as far down the thrown into a dreadful agitation the other cliff as the dashing of the tea against it ; day by discovering, in the Morning CAru?:- would permit us to go with salety, and'fe, an insurrectionary song relating lo .1 t t . l I !I , f " T . i. m t I 'll there had the horrid spectacle of viewing five tlead bodies stretched on the deck. and four other fellow creatures, distracted, calling out for assistance without our bc ing able to render them any, as inevitable death would attend any attempt at it rtinong inosc in tins perilous situation Christian Kin i Ambassauor at l.onuon was an untortunate female, who, tho im- 'was expected to do his duty ! How corn possible (from the wind and roaiin of the ! pletely this sudden betrayal of fear let us sea) to be heard, yet from her gestures ; into the whole secret of the miserable and her outstretched bands, we saw he.,! alarm in which the Bourbons live and distracted, call on us for assistance. At move I this time the greater part of the vessel lay j A gentleman from France states, that on a rock, and part of the stern, where rnuch"dissatifaction prevails in the villa- the joor woman lav, projected over a nar- row creek, that divided this rock irom an- other. Here the sea ran over her with;ineof houses. the greatest fury, and she kept a htm hold, which much astonished me she could do; but wc soon perceived the ves sel was broke across, where she projected over the rock, and after manv waves dash ing against her, this part of the vessel roiled in the waves, and wc had the heart rending scene of seeing her perish 1 i hree men lay towards the stern of the vessel, one of whom stuck to a mast, which projected towards the cliff, to whom after many attempts wc succeeded in throwing a tope, v.nd brought him sale ashore. Another we also saved ; but the constant dashing of the wave put an. end to the sufftuncs of the others. T his essel proved to be the Albion of N. oik,-Packet, Cupt. Williams, which place she left on the 1st inst. for Liver pool, with a cargo of cotton, raw turpen tine, lite, and with about 28 passcti gers. His crew consisted of 24 ; and of th whole, there have been only sved rine, making: the sufferers amount to 43 Out ot the passengers there have been sved but two. The bodies cf five men, and two women have been picked up. Af ter doing every thing possible for these pour creatures, I exerted myself with Mr. Gibbons, in saving the private property of the sailors and passengers; and succeed ed in s-rvihg some of their trunks.; I have brought four of these poor creatures here ; .Mr. GiUUa; has taken three, and two more remun at the dairy-men's houses; who could not remove from thence. Capt. Williams is amonz the sufferers. As I know voyr feelings.towards those thus sit- Uited,"! have taken the liberty of prepar- imr sonic thin boards, to make coffins for theseseven.' She Is now completely gone to pieces ; and, I think, was as fine a ves sel of her description as could be seen. I send a Tile of New. York papers handed me by one of the passengers. My situa- lion does hot allow me to say more at ' ' present, ai I was never so fatiirued, and reman, Honored Sir, Y'our ever grateful, and faithful servant, Signed, JOHN PUIICELL. The Albion was one of the finest Amer- ican ships that ever came to this port ; linrhnW excites a more 1 than usual degree of interest, from its be- inff the first misfortune, attended with any circumstances of a painful a-turc; that , t.r,i,- .r i; r n .rUtc onr thIr establishment between this port and New York. Capt. Williams was an excellent seaman, and a skilful navigator ; and no man, in his situation, was ever more gen erally respected and esteemed Ed. JSler. LONDON, APKIL Ca. Negotiations continued at Constantino ple up to the 23d of March, with every prospect ot an amicaoie aojustmem , romSt.FeterSburgh,it counts arc entirely of a pacihe character. , 1 he" exchange was still rising, and no , person expected a war. Some inubor . dination in the Hussian army is stated to have taken place, and four soldiers have been sent to Siberia. The Austrian Observer, of the 12th pOIlc anii ussjd were on the point of be April, says, we are formally authorized to in,r urraned. jt iSj however, given out declare that the reports circulated for f',rfirs. that Lord Strang -ford had -. . .-- .. -..!. .u. the state of the negotiations with the Porte, do not merit any credit .whatever. ; The most contradictory accounts arc circulated respecting the Greeks! lurk- ish fleets. Some letters still continue to j aniriTi mat tueru na uccu uaa4 anuu m which the Creeks were viciora. win- ers assert, that nothing is vet decided; lastly, Uiere arc letters which pretend that the.Turki,sh,lleelhasrcturnedtotheArch-:G S ipelago. We expect witn nupaticnce the news trom &t. i'etersoUI-n. It is sup- ruled France eight years ; and so ruled it, that the people ate now exactly in the same unquiet situation they were in when Napoleon Liujcd from Elba. 'Were ho idive at this moment, he might act over atrain the precise part he played in 1815 will have a successor. It was utter many . . attempts, anu many lauuics, mat opain was revolutionized. 1 he matter was, the " Coidon Sanitairc, which had hrst been circulated in manuscript in France. The copies of the spirited journal in ques tion, that cpuld be found in Paris, were j anxiously seized by the police ; and one i0f the journal intimated that the Most gCS through which he passed, and that much property was destroyed by the br At a late hour last night we received the Paris papers of Tuesday last, by express. The Constitnii'-ncl gives a letter from Vi enna, of the 2th of April, communica ting the substance of a letter from Con stantinople of the 25th of March. I his is later by some days than the intelligence in the Evenmg papers of Yesterday. It is said that ;dl. the efforts of the Diploma tists had beep unavailing, and that M. FJe Lutzow's Drogoman had received oracrs to inform that Minister, that the port hav ing . manifested its intentions, all further steps were perfectly useless, and that the Sultau wouH-evcn be offended if the sub ject w as moved any further. The Journal den DebatH quotes a letter from Odessa, of the 1st April, giving the substance of March, confirmatory of the above at count. In a note, the editor of the Journal dm Debats ventures to sneer at the assuming lanjruage of.the Austrian Obcrx'tr on ihia subject. V Our public he says.) less 1 1 ac table than that ot Vienna, wishes absolute ly to knew something of what coaccrns all Eutone. Ve therefore insert w hat I ei-ni r-aviin.ihlf! nn either Side. It 1 to be wished that the Austrian O.Utrver, as he knows more than is known at Odessa, would be so good as to communicate a part of his knowledge to tLj public." The same Journal quotes an arucie irom the Sieciuteur Oriental, to shew that the j relations between Austria and the Greeks t are not of the most friendly description Jfornitig Chronitlc. The following are extracts from the Paris Pa new of-Tuesday : -i Infract Jrom a Private Lommumcauxr.l 4i VIENNA, APltlL 12 " We have received letters from Con stantinople of the 25th of March, which furnish us with some interesting news. Thpv were brought bv the courier who .... a f - f ... ... . I. I j - was ciipatcneu oy i. luuuw 'j" iame evening, and wno was tne uearer oi i thr. r'kriatclies cf that Minister. M. de ! . i ii i i i . i . i ; r uuizow nau omciaiiy cemanuco, uncc uii ferent limes, a new conference with the Reis Efiendi, but he could not obtain it. He had already, before this, rcmitttd a new Note, in which he developed ail the reasons which ought to induce the Porte to reconsider the decision of the Divan of the SSth lebruary. fhis Note was ver detailed ; having .remained I without answer, he, in concert with Lord btrang ford, caus- ed another Note to be delivered, which is said to be drawn in still more forcible terms ; but this new effort has not been more fortunate than the preceding. It was not known whether the drogoman of Lord Strangford had had a more favora ble verbal answer than M. de Lutzow's drogoman, but it is a fact that the latter j had received verbally, orders to inform ! that Minister that the i'orle naving mam intentions, all further steps were usel am, that lhe SuItan J bc ,cJ .f was whjl nnoui;ccd he and k inr,t cerljinlv accounts come bom ' hhheItll constuntlv af- iirmeu that the ditierences oeiween me wlu'l,ruu,cl"u'',"cll'l,ll"t lu,""uu'u:n not commence - hostilities--a promise on v hidl iadt.ed no , reiiance is pIaccti. The olher ncws comniunicated bv ivjle ictlCrs from Constantinople, men- j lh sea.frht wi,ich took piuCe near . p atras. The Porte has not thought fit to n,,hii h nn n.rnunt of the issue oi this com bat . h Js merelv stated that lhe mkish flcct hjs Joit scvcrd vessels, and that the ks , Hkcwie experienced con- sidc;;45Ic losscs. hc rand fleet Iias not , , . hnrhnr nl CnnUsnhnnnle : J - -J ' Black Sea. They at length despair at Constant! nople ot seeing the uilierer.ces witu t er- sia ainicaujy uujumcu. i nc iicgoiiauuns : . t l . - . -i . . . ... i i t ...... .-v.- ' with the Court of Teheran are broken off, and the Scah has set out in person with a lartrc armv to enter Asiatic Turkey j Thc 'army'commanded bv the eld . A!: . rt ,.,, i:tKt'r, u,. est ot : , K, i ., . ,S com- f llUJwtllLlV J Hlkti Kkk A dad. " We have this moment received the j lerror cf the Bourbons of revolutionary news, thatthc army of Gen. Wittgenstein movements, is evinced bv numerous ar is concentrating in Podolia, on the north-1 resls cf individuals, esnoinasre, violation ern frontier of Moldavia Certs n'tu. Afi. 23 u ODESSA, .vritiL I. U e have letters trom Constantinople, "of the 27th March. lhe Rcis Eilenci had not, up to the 25th, replied to the Note of the mediatintr Ministers. Lord Strangford had endeavored to persuade the Grand Vizier and the Reis Efiendi, in the visits w hich he made them on the 23d. to accept the Ultimatum, but the Reis Ef fendi answered him, that the reply to his Note would be found already in theNote of the Porte of the 28th February, and that the Porte had no new declarations to make." STILL LATEIt FUOM ENGLAND. CH4Ri,isTt)!r, xat 31. 1W the ship Em'uY Capt. Babcock, arrived at Savannah in 27 days from Liverpool, we have our files cf London pa pers to the 27th, and Liverpool papers to the 23th April fo-tr days later than by the Corsair, at this port. From them, and from the Savan - nali naners vp mate the intcrcsuntr extracts in this momtnjr's Courier. The distressing particulars of the wreck, on the coast of Ireland, of the packet ship Albion, - Capt. Williams, on her voyage from New-York to Liverpool, are furnished to usbv this arrival, There is something awfully afflicting in the frus tration of hope, and sudden termination of life, when you are on the eve of reaching your home, and accomplishing the objects which are dearest to your heart. To die as your imagination ap proximates to happiness to perish in the sight of the land which you loe to suffer wreck j and ruin when you deem yourself comparative ly secureto overcome the fathomless 6t?a, on- terrible is such an overwhelming calamity, to the voui.g, to the gay, to the innocent to the mar riner hoping repose from his toils to the son anxiousto welcome his parents to the student niarred in his pursuit of learning- and to the evile returning enraptrxred to his home. Re garding with .deep melancholy. this awful risita tla of l'roMence, we in tharlestoa must feel a sincere and Listing grief for the fati cf Capt. Williams, the commander of die Albion, lou and deserv edly esteemed in our ciry. One uf the Savannah papers eniiin crates Mr. and Mrs. Ii-met, late cf the New-York Theatre, :-i a.mon!- the oasiensrers in the Abxon we ir i;ippy ta hl2Xc tilat they took their pipage -r IJve ia a Afferent vessel. But while we are thus enahled to assure lae sccum iudhiduals who recently tilled a conspicuous pUce ia the public eye at Xew-Yfcxkf jit is w ith sincere sorrow that we are under the netessity cf stating (a fact which we Lave from the best audiority,) tht the ctkbmted Freacli General La Vixre Ucsnoufts, v. ho passed through this city a feu- w eeks since, oa his way from New-Orli.-a.r3 to New-York, was one of the uiifortu- ... ... ... . jrers on board her. Hz was, to a. void :'" iw ir.ucu servation, travelling under aais- surfied n.v.ae. The Lomloa Morning' Chronicle of the 2Sth April, is nearly tilled wi'Ji tlie debate of the preceding evening, upon Lord Jhn IlusscL rnotion for " Parhamentarj- licfonn." Tho speech of his L.ordship was pronouncc-d to be a masterly performance. Oa thViding-, the votes were ia favor of Inform, 16 i ; arainst it, 259. Courier. Hostilities had not yet commenced be tween Russia and Turkey. The accounts are verv contradictory as to the situation of affairs between these two powers. The London Courier of the 26th of April states-that letters from St. Petersburg h;d been received, which caused the ex change and the 6 per cent, stock to rise, both of which are tolerable sure indica tions of the puhlic opinion in favor oi" peace. The Morning Chronicle Vm the other hand says, there is no doubt hostil ities must shortly take place. Letters fiom Russia say, that the first army assembled on the Pruth, and ready to take the field, consists of 230,000 men, of which a large proportion is cavalry, and of dragoons alone, 26,000. It is, said to have been shown by experience, that this description of troops has alwiys been eminently serviceable in the wars with the Turks. The. same letters state the paric ot artuiery to consist oi iuu ecesot cannon. At Kalucra, the irrea AcxyQl uf armb for South Russia, immense ; 1 f ilUa . s,' ! ftl " Th" Fm ',rol. of Ru ores of all kinds Emperor of Russia has ordered no less than 573 civil officers, employed in the province of Siberia, to be removed, punished or reprimanded, for monopoly, peculation, embezzlement, and other of fences. Accounts from Frankfort state, that news had been received at tJUessa that the Turkish government is fortifying; Constantinople- Above 10,000 men are employed on these works. The Marquis of Hastings has been ap pointed Ambassador to Austria. The Spanish Cortes were engaged on, the 14th of April in discussing the future cormnerciai relations between Portugal and Brazil American Not one word about South affairs. " It is stated that the late note of the. Reis Efftnrii to the English and Austrian Am bassadors, was a forgery to depress the funds. Insubordination and discontent still manifest themselves in France, and the of correspondence, concealment oi intel ligence, and tyranny over the press. It seems that Ah Pacha is not dcaa, notwithstanding his he-d has been sent to Constantinople, an ntinople, and fixed on the portals of the seraglio. There, have been some disturbances in "adrid. Many outrages were committed by the troops in garrison there, on the 12th Apiil. They ran in armed detach ments, through the principal streets, in- j suiting the inhabitants, ana snouting " Riego forever I Death to the Servillcs of Navarre !" A private letter from Madrid, of 1st of April, states that the French Minister in that Capital was preparing to quit it ; and that the Spanish Minister to the Court of France had actually quitted Paris. This report, however, is contradicted in the Journal des Debats. A misunderstanding is said to have ta ken place between the Courts of Austria jand Naples, arising from the conduct of I the latter government towards some of its disaffected subjects. Letters from Lisbon announce that Brazil has declared itself independent. . ! .m lnt ia U.mr T? ptrpti, i n c Kffr r,rrt: . j f" fa- - - j lnleti Lmper"or- counts of preparations for the reception of the King of England, in various parts of the Continent. Disastrous ! The packet ship Alitor,, which sailed from New-York-on the 1st of April tast for Liverpool, was lost on the J 22d April, on the coast of Ireland, near the old head ot Kmsale. 1 he loliowmg is a list of passengers who went out in the Albion : Messrs. Chabert aud Gravez, cf Jyari& ; Mr. Le Mercier, of .Yc-Orleans ; Mrs. Gamier and son, and Mrs. Pye, qf .Yew York s Miss Powell, of Canada ; Major Gouglu of the Br. Army ; YVm Proctor, Wm. H. Dwight, and G. W. Baynor, of VeclcrA-; Phiiqtiae Delpbj acd Victs?