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CONGRESS SCENES IN THE TWO HOUSES.
LETTER WRITERS.
That our readers may have a more extended and ge
xieral view of the proceeding and debates in the two
Houses of Congress, we have copied below from the
Washington Correspondence of arums Public Journals.
These letter Writer, though they oflen exaggerate,
area kind of condensation of the most interesting scenes
and able speeches made in Congress; sketched in a
more pleasing manner than that in which the proceed
ings of the same bodies are reported to the Weshing
ton papers. The style of the correspondent of the Ril
timore Patriot is peculiarly felicitous, and his statements
are generally bom out by the subsequent reports of th3
proceedings and debates,
' The " Spy in Washington," who writes for the Ncw
York Courier and Enquirer, is already favorably known
throughout the Union for his faithful and accurate, as
well as for the prophet-like fulfillment of all his predic
tions in regard to the course of events at Washington.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot,
Washington-, January 26, 1830.
In the Senate to-day we had at first under dis
cussion, the question as to whether the Senate
should receive the petition from the sovereign
State of Michigan which have been sent under some
such title. 1 heard some remarks from Governor
Davis, Mr. Niles and Jlr. Ewing. Others I bo
Jieve spoke, but I did not hear them. The first and
last gentleman I have named and no objection to
receiving the petitions provided they did not pur
port to be from the State of Michigan. To receive
ihern as such would le tantamount to an acknow
ledgement that the petitioners had a right to all
their Territory or State, d:c, Mr. Niles thought
ihe petitions ought to be received because they
came from a whole people and prayed for political
rights, and they had no representatives upon that
floor. He thought the title they assumed ought
not to shut out their petitions. &;c. My friend Mr.
Nile, I assure you, grows better in my estimation.
He wears better than I expected. Thus far he has
ap,-2ared as a plain, still, sensible man. There ig
ruatter in him I do believe,
J am much pleased with the persoml appearance
of General I'wing, the new Senator from Illinois
Ho may be a Van IJuren man, possibly, but really
I can see no Van Burenism in his looks.
After the Michigan question was disposed of Mr,
Benton's resolutions came up again, when Mr.
S Milliard, who did not fi:iih his speech yesterday,
tiH.k the tl'jor and resumed and eoncude! his mas
jterlv argument. I got into the Senate just before
he closet! ; and a more impressive and tdoquont pe
roration I know not I have ever heard. Samuel
L. Southard is a powerful and eloquent as well jis
an honest man. lie is second ouly to Clay ; Web
ster and Calhoun.
In the IIuse, Mr. Mason, Chairman of the Com
rnittee on Foreign Relations, offered a Resolution
fo nave me nouseuevoie an ihjui rdin ua, ,
Friday and Saturday, in prcfere-ice to all other bu
siness", to the consideration of the subject of lilting
lip the Navy, Fortifications Ax. Uxm this res.
Jution a Ion j and very animated debate eisij'vl, i i
vhich Messrs. Mason, Bell, Southard, Iatt-n, U ed,
Cambreleng, Howard, Thompson of South Caroli
na, Hardin, and I believe one or two others parti
cipated. The Vanites were for going all lengths
ft r a vy amount of appropriations. The others were
f r prudence but firmness. None were for keep
ing back any reasonable amount of impropriations
when nsked'f r through the legitimate and proper
channels of communication.
The speech of Old Ben Hardin, of Kentucky,
was the most interesting, keen, cutting, able, now
wandering and now directly to the point, of any of
them. In the course of his hits nt the Administra
tion, Miller, a milk-and-water man of the party
from Pennsylvania nnd I have been much puzzled
to know what he was sent to Congress f.r under
took to call him to order. Old Ben" liked that
pame miieh. He lost no time in scoring up the
Miller in Kentucky style. Ho paid him a huge
compliment for his extensive learning and great
judgment, and thought him admirably calculated to
discern the nicest departure from order ! The
House was in a mar of laughter. Millar was e-
qurtd lo rcdiice the point of order lo writing,
I This was a poser ! It was a thing he knew nothing
'about. This Mr. Miller has driven a pretty brisk
business in this small war fbr some time past ; I
hope now he will be content to read ncwspajers or
do something; else than make motions for a week
to come at least.
Cambrejeng is getting a great deal too much in,
flatf'd for his ballast so one of the knowing ones
of the party told me in the House to-day ; and so I
myself have long thought. He is anxious for the
management of the whole House to rest ujon his
Atlas shoulders. He not only wishes to superin
tend the direction of his Committee of Ways and
Meant, but that also of Mr. John Y. Mason's, on
Foreign Relations, Manv of tlie party say he is
delighted with the flaggcflation given him by Mr.
i.-e, because it increases his notoriety.
His speech to-day was merely a piece of inflated
pomposity. In it he alluded to the speech he had
vet to make in self justification, upon Mr. Adams'
resolution. He promised that it should be a short
speech that he would not attack the House or the
Senate or any member of cither; but would defend
simply his own conduct. He however thought the
appropriations ought now to be nttended lo before
looking after the lost Rill of the last session. Sou
therlund thought so to , and so argued in his speech.
Now how is this f On Friday and Saturday Mr.
Cambreleng was furious for blowing skv high" a
certain Senator and the entire Senate even! A
spell seems to have come over the spirit of his
dreams.
Vanderpool moved the previous question to-day.
To second it 113 Vanites, every one of them, I le
lieve in the House, sprung upon their feet. What
display !
Mr. Philips of Massachusetts at the time propo
sed an inquiry of the Speaker. The latter declar
ed it was not tti order at that stage of the procee
dings to make nn inquiry of the Chair. Mr. Vin
ton, of Ohio, appealed from the decision of the
Chair. The Speaker explained and took back hi9
assertion. Mr. Vinton then withdrew his appeal.
The House passed the resolution of Mr, Mason,
After thi., a bill was reported and passed by the
House, appropriating 8500,000 to defray the ex
penses of the Government in suppressing the war
in Florida, with an amendment offered by Mr.
Whjte, of Florida, raising one thousand mounted
men to proceed immediately to the scene of war to
arrest its further ravages. Mr. White made a brief,
but very able speech upon the subject, in which he
set forth with great clearness the situation of af
fairs in Florida. Mr. Adam Huntsman, of Ten
nessee, and General Ashley of Missouri, made
some remarks upon the subject. I have not time
at this moment, or I would give you a sketch of
Adam's remarks. He's a screamer."
POTOMAC
From the same.
Wasiiixwto, Jan. 29, 183G.
The Senate have to-day passed the Seminole Ap
propriation Bill of SoOO.000 which was passed in
the House yesterday, Mr. Webster adv.icated it
warmly, as Chairman of the Committee of Finance,
and it passed with great unanimity.
Judge White has bun speaking upon the resolu
tion of Mr, Renton, appropriating the Surplus Re
venue to National Defences. He has been vindi
cating the Senate and himself individually, for the
vote, by which the Three Million Appropriation
was !ott, at the last session. Judge White having
finished, Mr. Buchanan took the floor for to-morrow,
and then the Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr. Cambreleng has been making
hii promised defence, against the attacks of Mr.
Wise and that s'at notnims umnra,' that incognito
Senator, whom he said in his forthcoming remarks
be should endeavor to reach, But he abandoned
the benator in the outset, saying that he should
confine himself to 3 justification of himself and his
course of conduct in relation to the Bill, from the
grounds already assumed, viz : that there was no
quorum at the only time when he could have re
ported the Bill, and that that situation of the
House arose from the fact that members had con
scientious scrujdeg against voting after 12 o'clock
on the last night of the Session.- The whe thing
was weak, vapid, and inflated. It did not reach the
point declared in the orator's manifesto, and was like
A tale, told by an idiot,
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,
Mr, Reed, of Massachusetts, next addressed the
House. He is a venerable old gentleman, of very
high standing in his own State, has had many year's
experjenco as a legislator, and is always listened to
with great respect. Ho began with the averment
that the loss of the much mooted bill was attribut
able not to the Senate, nor to the House as such,
but to the President of the United States, and a
majority of the House acting under his influence
ami direction. He paid particular attention to what
Mr. Cambreleng had said, and destroyed the fairy
frost work of his fanciful defence, by a single touch
of plain common sense. As to the course taken
by the mover of the Resolution under discussion,
his colleague, J. Q. Adams he was pointed, cutting,
and severe. This is the first time they have ever
been placed in hostile attitude upon any political
question, and the revengeful old partizan must have
keenly felt everv word that fell upon this occasion
from his coj league, whose defence of Ihe Senate,
and of Mr. Webster particularly, agsinst his at.
tacks, must-have gone home to Ids feelings, if he
have nnv. Mr. Reed retorted finely on Mr. Adams
the fliii' at the tendency to man-worship manifest,
cd in certain quarters of the House, by giving a
very significant hint at self-worship, which was felt
perceptibly bv the object at whom it was aimed.
After Mr. Heed had concluded Mr. Hardin took
the floor for to-morrow, and the House, on his mo
tion adjourned. More on this subject in my next.
O,
From the same of January 30.
Yesterday and to-day have been chiefly spent by
the House of Representatives in attending to pri
vate bill Tbera was a little flurry f debate yes
terday, however and another to-day, both of which
seeing there is not much else to write about, I will
give uu some account of.
It was exjM cted yesterday, that Mr. Adams re
solution about the "Lost Bill" would come up, and
Mr. B nuni of N, C, would inflict a speech upon
the II euse. It has also been rumored from what
cause I know not that he intended to be personal
towards Mi. Wise. This caused a large number
of persons to make their way into the galleries to
be ypectators of the scene".
Well, the time came round, and the resolution
came up, and up also came Mr. Jesse A. Bynum,
He is a short, (dim, cadaverous, sickly looking gen
tleman;, but i said to have shot at his mant as
well as the fiery Wise, and to be a man of nerve
and courage. It has been moreover said that if it
were so to fall out that he should get into a person
al rencounter with the brave, fearless, and talent,
ed Wise, it would have the effect to gain for him
no mean ortion of the grateful thanks of the
powers that bo,M
Bo this as it may, Mr. Bynum began his speech
by declaring that a sense of duty compelled him
much against his will, to address the House. He
had he said, individual rights upon the floor he
had political rights upon that floor. He was not
going to make a political speech. No, he said,
God forbid that any political speech should ever be
made in that body or any other body. God forbid
that any President should ever be made or unmade
by that House,
Thee aa near as I can recollect, were the pro,
cise words made use of by Mr. Bynum. For my
own part, I should not have been surprised had
9ome of the members who were part and parcel of
the iTaltimore Convention, called him to order for
bejn anti-democratic, and unconstitutional. For
really, if the gentleman would deprecate jo!itical
speeches in any body whatsoever, ho would pot al
low even a ' National Convention" to bo entertnjf
ned by them ; that is, if in his opinion Mich a Con
vention would le a a body j" and ns for the sup
plication against the House of Representatives ma
king and unmaking Presidents, I believe the Conr
stitution, in a certain contingency, makes it the du
ty of the Houve to elect a President, or rather to
make" a President ; and also, in another contin
gency, the duty devolves upon the House to im
peach or unmake" a President.
Mr. Bynum most probably, however, did not say
precisely what he meant. He was thinking alout
Mr. Wise. He went on, and pretty soon alluded
to that p?rt of Wise's speech, in which the latter
had said something in allusion to a remark former
ly made by Mr. Bjnum, nnd hoped that that gen
tleman had thrown no stumbling bhck in the way
of an investigation of the causes of the loss of the
Fortification Bill,&c. In doing this, he misunder
stood the remarks of Mr. Wise, who instantly rose
upon his feet, and with a determined and resolute
tone put the gentleman right. Mr. Bynum pro
ceeded. In a minute or two he stated something
else as having been uftcred by Mr. Wise. The
latter set him right again. Well, said Mr. Bynum,
(and he now raised his voice to its greatest tension,
doubled his fist, rose upon his toes, made a terrible
face, turned his body half round towaids Wise, nnd
rolled out his eyes amazingly,) the ntleman char
ged the President of the United States with plot
ting w ith certain members of this House to defeat
the Fortification Bill,
Wiso : Sir, (addressing the Chair, resolutely,
and w ith a great deal of ineanin j in his looks,) I
made no Mich charge I
Dwaim: I nm eiad to hear it. But the gentle
man did declare (and here Mr. Bynum made up
another face -f more meaning than beauty,) that
the President wanted the three millions appropria
tion more fir electioneering than for the objects
pifed.
Here .Mr. Wise rose up again, and returning
sour look for sour loo, grin for grin, and doubled
fijit f.r doubled fist, be declared, with great empha
sis, that what he said was, that the Executive made
known, privately, that he wanted the 3,000,000,
to the then Chairman of the Committee of Ways
nrd Means to you, sir, (pointing to tho Speaker,)
and that you secretly told it to certain members
upon this "floor ; and t hat the fact has not been, and
cannot be denied, No, it has been proved ! I hope
the gentleman understands me now.
Mr. Bynum said he hoped the gentleman would
keep his "temper. He then went, and pretty soon
made a sally against Wise for denouncing the ma
jority of that Houso as a train band, when he him
fctflf had not long ago been one of the number.
Wise : Once for all, Mr. Speaker, let me beg
the gentleman not to accuse me of having been one
of that train band. I never belonged to it.
Mr. Bynum continued a few minutes longer,
when, on "motion of Mr. Ashely, the House resum
ed the orders of the day,
1 have not taken down this short skirmish so
correctly as I might have done, had Mr. Bynurn's
voice not been at ono moment so very lioisterous
and loud, and at the next too low to be heard dis
tinctly ten feet from him.
In point of ability, he is not the man to be pit
ted against Henry A. Wise; and as it regard.,
nerve and courage, certainly can gian nothing in
comparison with Mr. W ise.
There were many smiling faces, however, among
the Vanites, at what took place. They will be
pleased if they think they can but worry the Samp
son who makes them shake in their shoes. I my
self heard a fat, reverend gentleman, of the party,
who had come into the Ladies Gallery to "sec
the fight," declare, with apparently a great deal of
pleasure, that Bynum had been giving it to W se
in good earncst,'or something to that eflect.
" 1
Correspondence of the X. V. Courier and Enquirer.
Washington, D. C Jan. 30, 1 36,
I wrote you a few lines in the evening of th
26th expressing my opinion that despatches had
iust been received bv the armed brig Pantaloon
which had a rived at Norfolk, from Falmouth.
That their purport was " a Under of the kind ofi
j cts of the British Government as a mediator be'
tween l-ranee and the United States. Rumors
without number, have been in circulation on the
subject. The train band of the administration ap
pear to be at favlt. If they never felt that they
were but mere automatons, this case may serve
them as demonstration. The chieftains of the
Kitchen Cabinet are well advised. They ran say,
not only whether despatches have, or have not been
received, but if received, what are their contents.
Here is a case of great national importance. It
probably, decides the question of peace or war.-
On the evening of the 26th, the British minister
resident here, received his despatches. Their con
tents, so far as they related to our foreign a flairs,
were known that night to Mr. Van Bvren and Mr.
Forsyth. This remark is not made on slight
grounds. During the subsequent days, the 27th,
28th and 29th, the echoes of the Kitchen Cabinet
have remained silent. They compare notes (in
small coteries) of what they have heard from their
respective file leaders; but still they find them
selves in doubt and uncertainty. They believe the
mediation has been otlered, because every body be
lieves it. They know nothing. They are kept in
ignorance and they will be kebt until the word of
command is given " Foncard March." Now,
I appeal to each and every of these gentlemen, who
are under the discipline of the party, and I ask
whether they do not feel self-mortification, if not
self-abasement at the position in which they stand?
Let each man answer for himself. A few of the
faithful are initiated into the mysteries and secrets
of the party, through the Kitchen Cabinet, while
the great body of them are treated as if they were
dough-babies ; and this too, on an occasion where
there should be no secrecy ; an occasion where the
people should be informed, as to the question wheth
er Great Britain had, or bad not offered to mediate.
Jiut Ihe penple are not to be trusted. Favorites
must first have an opportunity to make their arrangements-
A portion of the Van Bvren wen contend, that
if the mediation has been offered, it will not be ac
cepted, as there is nothing (to use the language of
a certain Secretary,) "to mediate about,". Anoth
er portion assert that Mr. Van Buren's policy is
peaceful, and that his influence must and will pre
vail. The President has spoken in the most violent
terms of all those who were seduced by the Syren
song of peace." On another occasion he has de
clared that all our difficulties would be adjusted in
six mouths. Thus much for conflicting opinions,
if not duplicity nnd double dealing. Why has the
Globe preserved a sullen silence in relation to the
despatches recently received 7 Why has it not hon
estly stated that a tender has been made of the me
diation of Great Britain?
Let me now give you, very briefly, a history of
the case, as I understand it. Previous to the arri
val of the Brig Pantaloon, the administration were
advised, through Mr. Rothchildy if not through an
other channel, that, the British Government had
determined to tender'their mediation, I am in
formed, and I believe correctly, that the proposi
lion being made to the king of France, he indicat
ed his disposition to accept the offer; but that the
Duke de Broglie did not agree in opinion with his
majesty. The result was, it is said, that General
Scburtiani proceeded to England, charged with a
mission on the subject; and that out of thjs mis,
tion has arisen the tender of Great Britain as me
diator. It is supposed that the duke de Broglie
will, therefore, resign his ministerial functions.
It now only remains f r n.n to add tho pleasing
intelligence that I am informed, and I have no doubt
correctly, that the Presieent of the United States
has accepted the mediation ef G reat Britain. That
it has been done in the most courteous terms.
That the disavowal to insult or menace France
has been reiterated to the British minister; and
that while the honor and dignitu of the country is
protected, in the form in vhich the mediation is
accepted, yet that its tone is peaceful, and such as
seems to render certain an adjustment of all those
difficulties tcith France, irhich have agitated and
convulsed cur country for the last twelve months.
This acceptance will be transmitted to England
forthwith, by the British gun brig at Norfolk, and
by the packet of the first February from the city
of New York.
THE SPY IN WASHINGTON.
From the Alexandria Gazette.
Congress is flooded with Abolition Memorials,
These petitions are, we verily believe, concocted in
the worst possible spirit, and sent on in the mere
wantonness of evil propensities. Before Congress
met, it was confidently predicted and believed that
not one of these petitions would be presented. As
soon as the ico was broken however, and one found
its way within the walls of the Capitol, the mis
chief "makers started nt the- game in good earnest,
and have kept it up. We believe a great number
of the signatures to these petitions are false and
fictitious names. It is known that many of them
are signed exclusively by women and children. It
is not,then, the pretended number of the petition
ers so much, as it is the perseverance and determi
nation of those concerned in getting the petitions
up, that ought to call forth the public press on the
occasion. Had the House of Representatives prompt
ly refused to receive these seditious and inflamma
tory papers in the first instance, ther would have
been an end of them. As it is, advantage is taken
of the doubt and delay to for$ in fresh wipphes.
What do these people imagine can be effected by
their impudent ofheiousness ? Do they suppose
that even those who would receive their petitions
would grant their requests? What, then, is their
present conduct to be attributed to ? Simply, as we
have said bfeore, a spirit of mischief. We do not
believe in their honesty and sincerity. We see
no reason to believe in them. They are knaves
for the most part. Let both Houses or Congress
then, at once, come to the conclusion not to to re
ceive their petitions, and pass resolutions declaring
their conduct fanatical and absurd.
A Washington letter writer, giving "an account
I to the Baltimore Chronicle of the presentation of
one of these petitions in the Senate, says :
I move that the peiitiou be not received," say
the stern and vigilant patriot, Senator Calhoun.
" Mr. President," says Senator Wright, " not to
receive the petitions would be disrespectful to tha
petitioners; only receive the petitions and we will
instantly vote to reject them without consideration."
" That is precisely what I propose," says Sena
tor Buchanan.
"If not to receive the petitions would be so dis
respectful to the petitioners and the constituents of
those Senators," responded Mr. Caihoun, " would
it be respectful to my constituents, to the people of
the South, to receive petitions containing foul and
calumnious imputations upon their character and
institutions? And what mighty diflcrence is thero
between not receiving, and voting to reject without
consideration."
" Mr. President," says Senator King of Alaba
ma, " we have no constitutional right to vote not
to receive the petitions. The constitution is im
peraiive. The vote not to receive would be a fla
grant violation of the constitution, aud of the right
to petition,
" That," says Mr. Calhoun, is an extraordinary
doctiine, I do not propose to pass a law to restrain
the right to petition, which the constitution inhibits,
but I as&sert the right and duty of the Senate to
refuse petitions upon improper subjects, or express
ed in language improper or disrespectful. Supposo
a petition should be presented here, calling the ci
tizens of Alabama " dealers and butchers in human
flesh," and praying the abolition of slavery in Al
aba ma, would the Senator from Alabama vote to
receive if.
Senator King, " By no means.'
" Then," says Mr! Calhoun, " the Senator sur
renders the whole ground. He must see that it is
no question of constitutional riirht. but exclusively
a question of propriety and expediency "
A"u tnus a tew scintillations from the brilliant,
analytical n.ind of Calhoun- ennhlfd lhi Alahams
Senator to perceive his position, and compelled him
ii, auiiiiuuu it,
Abolition Debate. During the Debate in the Housa
of Representatives, on the Memorial for the Abolition
of Slavery in the District of Columbia, presented by
Mr. Jervis of Maine, Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina,
made a most powerful speech. In alluding to the csuse
of ths Van Buren party, North and South, on this vital
question, and the tricks and shackles of that party in
general, Mr. P. concludes his remarks in the following
sarcastic style. Letter writers say it produced a most
powerful effect iij the IJouse. Mr. Pickens said :
Look, for instance, to the State of New York as
things now exiot there. We fjnd an art ful, profligate,
and daring party, leagued together by moneyed corpo
rations by the distribution of office, and th.e power and
terror of perfect organization, for the open purpose of
8Wfi3'ing the political destinies of the country. Sir, I
solemnly belisve that, fbr baseness of purpose and in
degrading meani, no party has ever risen in any civil
ized country to equal it, since the Jacobinic clubs of
France hold their midnight meetings ; when no man
dare whisper the secrets of his heart, even to the part
ner of his bosoT, without being arraigned und-.-r their
terrible inquisition. I appeal to the minority from that
State, on this floor, to know if they do not live under a
system of oolitcal vasalage. in wh ch the dominant pr
ty openly spresd out upon their wiuners booty boo
ty!" 44 the spoils of victory belong to the conqu6reM!
and under this vile standard call upon their mercenary
bands to gather in the plunder of a packed camp. Sir,
they preach democracy and universal equality to us,
and practise political despptism at home. This is the
cant duplicity and profligacy of modern times.
Mr. Speaker : I owe perhaps an apology to this Hone
fbr speaking sp plain ; but, sir, I have been taught from
my father's board to disguise no sentiment I entertain,
I know I have uttered sentiments little calculated to
please those interests that now hold the destinies of the
country in their hands. I know that what I have said
is ill calculated for popularity in tin's country; but I
speak the truth as I believe it to exist, and ask no fa
vors of any man or set of men living, save my own con
stituents. Sir, it may be raid that what I have uttered tends
to disunion. I did not come Iter", demagogue like, to
talk about the glories and the blessings of this Union.
These stand recorded in the history of the country, and
need no feeble voice of mine to hold them up to the ad
miration cf the world. But, let me 'near say to gentle
men from the Elaveholtiing race, Beware ! betcare !
unless in your generous and patriotic attachment to this
Union you should find yourselves finally dragged down
and kneeling in idolatrous worship before some idol
made by human hands of the present dy.
That Union which springs from ainbitionand fknatic?F-n
-an unnatural offspring, brq;ottcn in sin and iniquity, foul
and loathsome from its leaprosy ; blood-shctten and bloa
ted from revelling in spoils plundered from o hers, I
scorn to love. Raise not up this monster goU and call
upon me to bow down and worship at its unholy and
unhallowed ehrine. I disdain to do it. Give me that
Union which springs from truth and virtue? fair and
comely in its form in n bending attitude, with an out
stretched arm, to raise the feeble and protect the week
dispensing equal political favors, and imposing equal
burdens on all sections give me the Union under the
Constitution give mc the Union that has borne our
stars and our stripes Jo the remotet quarters of the ha
bitable globe give me the Union that our fathers gave
us, and I will pledge the last drop of blood in my veins
to vindicate and defend it but no other Union.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Chronicle, in alluding to the fatal course of Mr. Ad
ams in denouncing the Senate, says:
" His voice quivered with anger, which he could
ill disguise; the book from which ho occasionally
read, trembled like a leaf in the tempest, as he gra?p
ped it ever and anon he would scream like the Ea
gle as be hovers over his prey, and n.-w" hm would
lower his voice almost to a whisper he was defend
ing the House from the charge he was upholding
the purity of President Jackson it was the He
brew selling his inheritance for a mess of pottage
the inheritance of his life, of toil and of fame."
Arrival of the French Fleet in the West Indies
A letter from Wilmington, dated Mor.day last,
states, that "A Brig arrived yesterday from Mar
tinique, reports that the French Fleet bad juit ar
rived 15 sail."