Politics ol Ific I?ay. Frvirt the United Stairs TeU graph. AN ENGLISH VIEW OF OL'E; DIFFICULTY WITH I'RA.NCC. We invite the attention of oit readers to the article below from the Lone! ;n Spectator. The Spectator is Ultra Liberal in its polities Radical. It is one of J lie most ably conducted journal in the world : According to the latest intelligence from the United States, tflbrts are making by .the friends of General Jackson s Administration to mHame tlie public feeling against France. The speeches of the r rench orators in the Chamber were translated, and, with other documents connected with the sub ject, were distributed in the f rm of a pamphlet to the members of Congress last winter. They will now bo inserted in the Jackcn papers throughout the country. An -intelligent correspondent of the Times sav S, that the tone of the President's mes sage wtil depend upon the effect produced by these and other eiiorts to get up a warlike spirit. That they will succeed to a certain extent, ;s not impro bable ; but we are slow to Ijelisvn; that the majority of the shrewd and intelligent cit2ens of America will sanction a war with France, oa the reai.'y fi jvo- loiis grounds that are a'Hjfrcd. It is absurd to sup'xise chat thi GoYsrnroerjt of the United States .,'UenJyd to bully powerful a naliui as France ; and then on tl;c other hand, the i reach Kinir and Ministers must bft aware that no 6 polony c;.n b3 exacted .from the American Presj tent and. Copjreai. A rrotiac ted war would not alter il:tus quo cr.tc hiHur.:. Of this every one "must 1l: aware .10113 more fully than he men who . I : : .t- 11' 1. then seek to cva-'rate the p-""y!e of the two coun tries? This is a question which it behooves the peoplo carefdiy lo ponder, before they rush head, long into a v.ar. It cv:r.--t t:ai cither the American President or too King of the Frvi.ch rupposas for a moment that benefit to either nation will result from the threatened contr-i. Far better would il be that the paltry twenty-five rv.illions of francs were thrown into tho Bay of Biscay, than that the struggle should last six months. 44 lint the national honor is tit stake." Granted; and after a profused expendi ture of blood and treasure, where will the national honor be ? The American will be less likely than be tore to withdraw the oiFonsivc expression in the Yi vsidf nt's message to Congress ; the French na tion will conceive it an indelible disgrace to have it puppsed that they were beaten into concessions. Neither party, then, will, or can gain any thing on the scr-r:j of national unor bv going to war. It ny hi .urged that certain powerful 44 intc-r-ts" in the United States may be benefitted by a war : this view of the question is put forward by a writer in the Globe According; to Mr. Clay's Bo!, the d:iiies oa foreign manufactures are to be progressively diuihiKiied, unless tho revenue of tho lTnL-n should require them to be increased or kept stationary. The receipts into the public Treasury tiave during the vcar exceeded the estimated re venue b' about two mi'iions steiling ; and if 130 extraordinary outlay takes phice, the redaction of t;.T duties w-.lt prohao'.y b? rapid to the detriment, it is assumed, of the Amer-hr-ui manufacturers, who i;re fostered ly the protective system. In caso of tr, there wwM be a stoppage on this process of tut.ciion: the ntish r.'crc.ianis ana manufuctu ers. ad well t;e Amerioin r .anufacturcrs would thrive. Thu- it might seem that the hitter have an interest in p,-ovo!;inganopc:: rupture with France. 1j! th;re are two sides to it: is question. A verv large qMamity of the Am rio.m manufactured cot .: )as are exported, principally to the South Ameri-t- in States. This would bo cu up by the French v-'.s A-i of war. Almost every p rt on the Athn 'ie coast would '' blockad.-nl by the enemy. Oc casionally the Americans v.n.l i capture a French f. igaft; or ship of the line, and great ivould be their -Lri.'icatio:i ; but they co-.i I not n-slit a powerful iloet, such as tliK French Government have actually ia port and at sea at the jr. -e.it time. Wc hold therefore, to be certain, that the American fo- i mu trade would hi most seriously etidangered, if n it entirely destroyed, d iriiig tho contiuu ince of a v,t. r i :t!i France. 3:mposing, however, that the manufacturers would not he lasers', the mass of the people must seo that their interests in that case would be exclusive nnd "ntf-national. The community at Inrgo would suf for their trade would be crippled, their taxes, direct and indirect, augmented very probably their -guarded sea-ports burned or plundered: ami all i'ti what ? To force France to concede that which ;t no sen t'olo degree can benefit America, and w.iicli it is ridiculous to suppose that France will ie! J compulsion. As they have every rational motive to keep at p nee with France, the American people should re- ;rd with deep suspicion tho ncn who would p!un;n ii:j;n into a war. The object of the war party is H'jhish. They look upon the war-cry cs one which raay help them to retain ollicc. They are willing to stop their country in the full tide of prosperity, i 1 order to gin a pnrfizin victory. Thesauri may be sr,i of t'le party in France "ii) "-re desirous of foiuentinj animosity against the At.icricans. The conduct of the French Min-i- ters has rendered them unpopular w ith a Iaro portion of the nation. Tin ir domestic policy will n t bear scrutiny. Some of them arc therefore inclined to u dract public attention by a foreign v.;.-. Tnis is an old trick t,f unprincipled politi cians, cnciotu of h.uing deserved and acquired the ti.otrust an J disliku of the people. At present, the trade of Franco with the United States, is thriving, and regularly increasing. Iiuff would tho Lyorinesse silk-weavers and the vine- s; rowers cf the Garonne like to line their profita ble commerce destroyed, and their annual faxv ougniented ? It is not merely their trade w ith the United States that would suffer ; although their own Government would probably fit out fleets which :ho United States navy could not withstand, every '- -a would swarm with American privateers, as wc-il . - - . I uu 1 1 It i - iyond cannon shot of Tou! oulon Much evil, there. . ji'i en. neavy loss, won hi accrue to Franco from : war v. '.jch nr.t be undertaken, if at all, with ab--.do certainty that its ostensible object could not e named, t mut 1 ! wnw .-.-. . t- . - v..t ivncs ns powerful hie Ucpuhhcans to bate a jot of what they conceive ..cu iuti:oo.it i.Oiior. There is but oae course for ts national and Iru- patriotic men g both countries to pursue. Tiey :;omaouiige tneir rcspeetivo Govcrnmer.ts tft makb ,'itual concessions, 'i ij!s r-ijht be dojic with cac ! and Vith dignity by both, did tha dispo.ntian to con Kilt the real iritejt its of the iua--s of th" pei-ple ex ist. We ttuif,and in spite f precnt app. artaa es v:e believe, that the quarrel ma yet le accyino tiated .without resort to the plague cf n.ankind acciiracd War. frow the Xatirm.nl Intelligencer cf Monday. OUR RELATIONS WITH rRANCr. No doubt now cxisj.3 that Mediation has been ctlercd between the United States and France by fti tir.vPri..o.t ,.f Crput TIritniil- Wo haVC TCa- son to believe thai the Incentive of tlie United . State?, without consulting the Senate we do not know that it ws necessary that he should ui has acte d on 4 his proposition, and that despatches j debates, and who has watched the progress ot po :in 4ts determination, are already 011 the litical events for the last twelve months, imit have nnnouncin .vay to J he tcaboard. Vc do not know any thing of the particulars of either the proposition or trie reply. Perhaps this mor-jings'.OinciaJ journal may furnish some infor mation rcspecling both. Meauw hile, 1-st, for diplo iiatic reasons, a studious silence should be observe od in that quarter, we think it proer, for the infor mation of our readers, to state our impression that f!m nrnfWed Mediation bv Gre at Britain, as a com mon friend, has been accepted bv the Executive of iho United States. Such an olFer could not indeed well bo declined by any Nation no disposed to place itself out of the pale of tho Law of Nations. The reader inusl, however, tear in mit.d that, between Nations, Mediation and Arbitration are not the same thing. Arbitration, accepted by lioth parties, would to a certain extent, be obligatory on iboth. The acceptance of .lttt(ii07i concludes noth ing between the parties : but only leaves the door oen for conciliation and adjustment, through the medium of u common friend, interested, with all tlie rest of the world, in preventing wanton or un necessary disturbance of the peace of Nations. It Is much, however, that intercourse between the two countries has leen thus rc-opened, through a channel so rcpeetable as to furnish a reasonable seeurity that nothing that is not respectful and con ciliatory w ill be attempted to Lo transmitted through it from either side ; nothing that is not worthy of the generous spirit in which this mediation has been oflercd by the Dritish Government. Whilst, therefore, in til's new course which things have ta ken, we discover no certainty of amicable adjust ment of disputes with France, we see, with the greatest satisfaction, that all apprehensions aredis sipated of a precipitated quarrel between tho two countries. from the Washington GhJe of Malay. THE MEDIATION. Wc understand that the Ilriti.-h loop of war Pantaloon, brought dc.-fiatel.es to .Mr. Rankhead, authorizing him to tender th god ollices of the IJriti-di Government as a mediator in ndjustiug the difficulties now existing between th- United States and France. Whether any deci-ion has been made upon this oHer, or if so, what it is, we have riot been advised ; but wo cannot hut hope, that tlie good ollices of Great Rritain, in tho character of a me diator, equally friendly to both the parties, may be so employed as to restore that amicable intercourse which has so long existed between the people and the Governments of the two countries, without any abandonment or prejudice to the principle on w hich our Government has taken its stand? and in a man ner satisfactory to France. In any event, however, as a considerable period of time must elapse before the result of this medi ation can bo known, it must Ik obvious that the ne cessity for adopting the measures of defence re commended by the President in his special message remains unchanged. . Fi')vx the I'jiited Stales Ttlcqraph of Tuesday. THE MEDIATION. The rumors on tho subject of tho mediation arc J various and contradictory. On the one side it isj said positively that the mediation has been acceded : to by the Administration, that it was promptly de- dined, 44 there being nothing to mediate about?" This is accounted for by the fict of there being 1 conflicting opinions among tho memljers ot the Ad- ; ministration. It is said, that tho President, Rlair, Kendal, and Forsyth, aro for declining the ofter. Cass, Woodbury, Dickerson and Fuller, for accept ing. Mr. '.'an liuren vibrates, still adhering to his non-committal. His jyarlicvlar friends are for ac cepting. They calculate that, even the acceptance, they can keep up an excitement fir eight or ten months longer. TI1K SEXATR. Great hopes are entertained, in certain quarters,! :.. !. . i : . . ; ornts own measures cannot oWa n the vote of the Senate. On the 'expunging resolution, for in stance, it will lose, wc believe, the votes of Mr. f Icn dricks, Mr. Tipton, Mr. King of Georgia, Mr. Kin" ! cf Alabama, Mr. McKea, and perhaps others. According to our calculation, wc place ihe Sen ators as fouows : 1'orthcA h i'li strati c:i. ?Ic -sr. Ronton, Rrown, Ruchanan, Cuthbort, Fovjug cf l!liujii, Gruud)-, Hendricks, Ihil, lluhhar.', King of Ala. Kjngol Ga. Linn, Niles, Nicholas, Morris, McKean, liobinsoii, Kugi:Ies,ShepIcy,Tipton,TalIniadgc, Wright. Walk er, Wall 21. Onpnsiti on Messrs. Rhck. Clay. Clavton. Cal houn, Crittenden, Dav is, Kwing, of Ohio, Goldsbo rcugh,Kcnt, Knight, Leigh, Mangnm, Moore, Nau dain. Proton, Prentiss, porter, Kobbins, Tyler, Swift, Southard, Tomlinson, Webster. li'd. This classification, it will lv seen, omits Judge White altogether; hut ho- the .fudge must vote and w ill vote 011 ail q-iesti -ns between p mer and right, is evident enough: as fir as he is concerned we have no fears. Rut it is to he iomemb'-ied that hereafter the division is not to !? J;;ek.-on and Op position it is to be Van Ruren and Opjmsition. Now we would ak, is .Mr. McK !ii a Van liuren man ? is .Mr. Tipton a Van Ruren man? is Mr. Nich olas a Van Ruren man?-We might a-k Ihe question of others. We do not believe that Mr. Van Ruren will have a majority of the Senafo. It is evident, however, that a desperate attempt has lieen made npon the Senate, o a' to convert it, if possible, into a branch of "the party." How far the action of the Virginia Legislature may go, and what course the Senators from that State may take, we do not know. We or.lv sav. God nreserve the J ihTti-73 of 011 r coynt ry ! ".4 Uxr. n-fria Ga rtf. inui 111 eo:j.sequ,-uee oi me rfrt-iu eieeuons 01 iwo j ' r or three new Senators, the 4 Parly ' will obtain a louor to relieve. Then, as the Constitution majority in that bod v or, bavin- a tie on the ll .or, j contains a definite and special enumeration of pnw can always command the ratlin vote of the Vice ! ors' olit of w'hich dare not go, tho right President. A.lniitting partiestobothusequally bal- of P,,,,on mentioned in the Cnslilutio-i must range anced, it will be remembered the Administration ! u l,lm- tlloso powers it cannot travel bevond those LETTER OF THE HON. A, S. CLAYTON. To the Editor cf the (Augusta, O'a.) Sent Lit I: The r-ccon panving letter. contains such admira ble news and sentiments, that I think it due to the S..wth to publish it. I cannot believe that the writer v.,:i have anv obp ttions to this dino-ition of it, cud therefore I have not waited to ask his permis- sion. Athens, January 9, 1S3G. Pr.R Sr; Vou ak nie for my opinion on the course of cerJain politicians in Congress relative to the ubodtion question which has recently been J so warmly ngiuien mere ; auu w.uu,uo u , is their object ? Every man who has read the late 1 1 ,1,. I ,1,. formed some opinion on the very singula ny curious direction attempted to be given the subject by the professed enemies, but secret friends, of abolition. I will very frankly give you mine. I am well ac quainted with Mr". HcardV.ey, of New Yoik ; as a private gentleman I have no right to speak of him ; indeed, if I did, it would be in his favor, f'.r his deportment is marked by a court eousncss and ur- Uindv altogether respectlul and prt-pos.-osMtig. j Uut as a public man, of Vhom it is lawful to dis course, he is in all its parts, a New York politician of ihe Van Duren school. lie is more devoted to Van Buren than any other member in Congress, and it is my opinion has a deeper intcre-t in his success than any man now living, for I have no doubt some high otlice will devolve on hini in that event. I mention these facts now, that they may Lc kept in view during the progress of my future remarks. You are apprized what a deep sensation pervaded the South on the conduct of tlie abolition ists that it has sent a tremor to every heart and shaken the very foundation of every Southern go vernment in many instances it has suspended the aws whole communities have been convulsed the intercourse between the Noith and South has been interrupted doubt and suspicion have so con trolled the public-sentiment, that the very charities of feoci.il life have been broken up, nnd safety was no where felt but in the most unsleeping vignance and me application m me mos ..gorous u,.,,,., consMeiate and redacting portions of the Northern population, and we had their assurances that this mad sch?me of tho fanatics received no counte nance from them. Thus rested the matter, await ing fit urc developments, but evidently producing a new era in the slave question, and leaving an abid ing heart-felt concern lor t! c shape it was to assume hereafter in its dark and stealthy progress. The next place we see the mon-tcr lifting his hydra head in the Halls of Congress,- the place of all others the most dreaded and d precated, in the shapo of petitions to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. These are from the very quarter where we were assured all was safe fir our interest, and what is worse, they pour in upon Congress at tho very beginning of its session, destroying al! the harmony and sobriety of reflect iuti necessary to the other vital business of the country, nnd not withstanding too the throes and convulsions through which the whole country has jsist passed. Had wo not a right to expect that this artful destrover would bo crushed at once? Was it not due to the integ rity of the constitution, the justice of compacts, the rights of the South, Ihe faith of the" North, and tho peace anil quiet of the whole country to allay this evil spirit at c.neo ? Rut instead of that, what do wo (ind ? Jurisdiction given to Congress over the subject which we have so strenuously de nied, by a most deeplaid treacherous manoeuvre. .Mr. Reardsley, the leader of the Van Ruren party in Congress, expresses himself opposed to the ob 1 111? ai.iit: 11 tiii.i'' hi 1 ti'i-ii ject ot thu petitioners, on the mere simple ground of courteous expediency, but that he is equally op posed to the prompt rejection of their unwarranted petitions, because it w ill violate, nshc says, the con s-tituti nal risjht of the people to petition Congress fir a redress of grievances! Now let us examine this right and keo how artfully the constitution is to be perverted whenever the States nre to be robbed of their rights by th Federal Government. This is a phiin case of State rights, and 1 am aware its force can only bo evaded bv tne scorn and nui cule of the friends cf power, of patronage, their accustomed instruments to blind the people. The Federal Constitution which conferred upon the people the right peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievan ces," meant, nnd could mean, no other grievance, than such as Congress hail a right to redress. No man can ask what another his no right to give. The right to petition implies the right to grant ; for it would lie a mockery without a parallel in mint of ridiculous folly grarcly to confer the right 01 suonucaiion w: 10:11 at the san:f tune ron(i'rre.T ""-, www ""-7 uio me pio,,ui-u nun.s of the jurisdiction of Congress. Within the ?ran' ed jwicers of the Federal Government the right of ft'- belongs. Within the reserred rights of ,,ie S,ates ,l 15 "holly inadmissible. Congress can no more listen 10 a peimon aiiecung one 01 ino reserved rights, than a State Legislature could do the same thing, as to one of the granted powers. What would be tho course of a State Legislature: to whom a petition should be preferred praving the rigi.t to coin money 1 Would it not, and ought it i not, to reject it, at once f r the want of jurisdiction ? hat if Congress should receive a petition asking a law rcgulatir." discounts so as to rest ore the right of primogeniture? Can 'Mr. Reardsley seriously believe that Congress is bound to entertain in any shape, even so fir as to lay it on the table, such a petition, under the notion that a contrary course violate:, the right to jx'titioii ? Now if l iyieg a petition on the table was tantamount to a courteous n jection of it, there are s hut caes where I would have no objections to that roor--e. The s'avery question is, howev er, very fir 'from lieipg one of them ; but recollect .Mr. Reardley does not con ceive it to be a rejection at all; f r he says he w ill vote to lay it on the table, but he in7 not rote f r rejecting it and why ? He gives the reason, because it trill riolale the right of petition. Then as I uiil shew you presently, this clothes Congress with the jurisdiction of the question, and woof the outh are to hope fr a rejection of sue.n petitions, if reputed at all, net on the ground of unconstitu tionality, but that of mere expediency. A matter of ever varying complexion, and n fit subject for political agitation through all future time, so that our peace, interests, and happiness, are to become the foot-balls of every Presidential cspirant cud his myriads cf fJependenfs. To come back to my illustrations : suppose a petitioner (and what is rood as to one is equally so as to one million) should present himself in person, a the bar of Congress and ask that body to inanu- il Southern States ? now this i I 1 1 t JL 1 1 " has been universally acu.me. nc 3 the past excitement, even by Mr. an Uuren lum- self, to be unconstitutional and beyond the power of Congress to grant. " en, wnai ougni ouii-io, to do in such a case 1 V ould 44 the ngnt to pe- titton authorize them 10 n.ccnc, uim My uui demand, for one single moment, on their table? ""u,u ,l rnlv ns n m: Would it not be their duty, as wejt as cue to us, noi matter of right, but more especially under - , nfUi J.,n.'Prons hsturbanccs to iliiu on. uiiiiiiiiiu .... r- reject instantly such a request, and holding up the Constitution, sav to the demandant, 44 what vou asd is not within our power, because it is not within this instrument, bv which alone we live, move, and have our being?" " Now, we of the South contend, and have at all our public meetings so declared, that what Congress can not do directly, it can not do indirectly. If it cannot manumit the slaves in the States, it can not do so in tlio District of Columbia, or the Territories ; for every one must perceive the former follows as a consequence of the latter, and no man is so lost to common discernment as not to see that there is as much warrant for the one as the other in the Constitution. All this cry therefore about the sacred right of petition, is the veriest flummery a shallow artiuce, and a most hollow hearted pretence, designed by Mr. Reardsley and the Van Curcn party, to evade a vote upon the right of Congress to abolish slave ry in the District of Columbia. A vote we must have, we should never rest until we do old. in it. No blinking the question. It is one which Van Ruren has been asking over and over again to an swer, and which he as constantly illudes, coming no nearer to a clear and definite reply, than that as 44 against the rRormirrY (meaning kxpedihscv) of agitating the question in tho District of Colum bia," he is opposed. And who thanks him for his inexpediency at this time 7 We want to close the account against all future time, if we are to live to;cther as a united people. Does not every man ! perceive that Mr. Heardsiev's doctrine completely , o.mgress with the juristliction of the que tion ? What dot s it amount to ? He savs he ran- not reject the petitions, because it will 41 violate the right of petition ; then if they have the right to petition ON THIS SUBJECT, Congress has the right to grant or refuse their prayer at pleasure ; for if the right to petition is not an idle and un meaning privilege, it is impossible to seperute it from the correlative right to vouchsafe tho object of tiie supplicants. To confer the favor, to ask without tho means to give, is too small a business for the saes who framed the Constitution. Hence, I consider all those who voted to lay the petitions on the table, intend that Congress shall retain jurisdiction of the question to bo exercised hereafter, as circumstances may require, I believe further, there was a special object in it. Van Ru ren is in a dilemma between the Southern people and the Northern abolitionists, and this is too well known to admit of the shadow of a doubt. He wants to please both. To say it is inexpedient to act on the subject, he thinks will please the former to give Congress power over the question to be acted on when their strength will justify it, he hopes will satisfy tho latter. The Southern men lers who have aided in this treacherous scheme deserve our most indignat animadversion. A. S. CLAYTON. JOHN QUIXCY ADAMS AND MR. WEBSTEPv. We can hardly bo astonished that M r- Adams has disclaimed any personal allusion, in his late speech, to Mr. Webster. He says that he merely personfiied a sentiment. His taunt is to be consi dered as a license of poetry an ellbrt of the ima gination a flight of fancy without the least per sonal application to Mr. Webster or any one else. Wc arc glad that Mr. Adams is thus self-conceited. We rejoice thnt he has thus admitted the impropri ety and indecency of the attack and indicated a disposition to repent of it. Every individual can satisfy himself of the sincerity of Mr, Adama's ex planation ; and every one will readily yield to his disclaimer all the credit to which it is fairly entitled. Since he has been apparently disposed to judge most harshly of the motives and feelings cf other individuals it is but just to republish, for his bene fit, tho following extract from a letter written as long ago as the year 1814. When Mr. Adams was minister of this country at Ghent, he wrote to Mr. Leavitt Harris in Russia, under date of tho 16th November, 1814, a letter from which we copy a few extracts, that may be peculiarly interesting at the present period. What wi:l Mr. Adams sav of the approach which such a writer may be sup posed to have mado towards joining the ranks o the enemy? We mean nothing personal. We are merely personifying a sentiment merely indulging jr a Might of rhetoric merely displaying an ellort (.1 tne lancy, " The Defence of Fialtiiricre" writes the pe sonified sentiment to which we have refered 44 has giren vs little more to be proud of than the demon- st ration against it has ojferded lo ct.r enemy. Pre vost's retreat from PlatTshurgh lias U'en more dis graceful to them than honora'de to vs. and Wcl- lir.gton's veterans, the fire-cater Rrisbane, and the firebrand Cock burn, hare Ice pi the rairrtt of ot;r militia in countenance by their e.rprrtness in the art of running array. 1 he general issue of the campaign is yet to come, and their is too much reason to apprehtnd that il icill be unfavourable to ovr fide. 41 Divided among ourselves, more passjnn3 thin interests, irith haf the nation sold by their preja tii erg a?iu ifieir igxor anck ro trie enemy. vririi a FEKHLE AND rKNl'KTOVS OOVESMtp XT, w-"th five frigates f r a navy, and scarcely five efficient regi moots for an army, ho-r can it be expected that ire should resist the t7irss of force, trhich that gigan tic power has collected to crush us cl a blot??" It is worthy of especial comment that at this time 0 feebleness and prtvry a certain 44 personified sentiment "charged our exhausted Treasury and crippled Government sixty-two thousand six Ht NnrtED AST FORTY FOUR DOLLARS TOR TWO VEAK3 SERVICES ! United S.'afcs TJctnlc Sine7;, 1753 share were sold in New York on the 27th u!t. at 1 1 S J and Si 10. And on the 2?th and 29th, 1200 shares were sold in Philadelphia at from 8120 to S124. Ry the last papers from Philadelphia, wc learn that there is no doubt of the passage of the bill by the Legislature, to re-charter the Rank. Every attempt to obstruct its passage in the House of Rep resentatives was foiled by a vote of nearly two to 6n- It has yet to go to thq Senais. From the Knickerbocker. French JTarriagcs. In the moral condition cf the French capital, the bad elements vastly predo minate. The effects of ambitior. and mercenary motives, which produce ill-assorted marriages, are generally too common and universal. Overreach ing and" policy are every where rife and active. He is rated as a very simpleton, who offers his gold w here brass is the only currency. The young Pa risian lady is kept more secure than Danae in her tower. Not even cousins and uncles, or showers of gold, that can 0 -every where else, can approach her. Father and brothers defend her withdrawn swords, and her mother never leaves her, except to pursue her own enjoyments. Rut apart, she is instructed most dehciously in all the arts 01 lasn ionsible life. To this is referred every beginning to this, every end. They who would play well in the concert, says Plato, must play well at home; and in what country is there a place where a wo man plavsotTthe intricate machinery cf her charni3 with so much effect as at Paris ? No one can claim any merit for resisting a well-bred Parisian lady, but at tlie expense of his taste and humanity, unless softened down by forty-seven, like me, and forfeit ed by other alleciions. In marriage, the prelimi nary wooing, that is the dowery and settlements, being discussed, the lady is "led to the altar by her Mczentius. He may have (the husband I mean) the pout, chronic pangs, ant1, every other evil, together with the incurable evil of old age; but what matter, provided he has that most desirable merit which the husband of a rich lady can aspire to money? In the name of Diana, what is to be the ctlect of such an uncor-genial union ? Nature will assert her empire, and no institutions of man can infringe on her laws with impunity. CKISETT ES. If you come to Paris, you will see great multi tudes every where of bouncing (lemniscUs, with nymph-looking faces, ruflled caps on their brows, and smail baskets in their bands. These are the grisctlcs. They are engaged in stores, factories, and in all other sewing establishments ; you see them running briskly to their woik in the iu ii.mg, an 1 in the evening strolling ho;i.ew.rd, up n wa ges barely suiT.cient for their supp it. They sel dom marry ; their conditions, ai d the customs of Paris generally precluding all hope of so desirable a consummation. A Grisr-tte never obtrudes her acquaintance but ask her a simple question, you will find her circumstantially communicative, and such aiticles of information as she has gathered she will retail to you with such simplicity, th;.t you would swear she bad been brought up cmor-g the innocent Iambs and turtle-dov es of some rural ham let. She is the most ingenious imitation of an ex emplary woman in the world ; and to overreach her, one must be a Yankee, finished fl in Paris. Never was language more happily en ployed for tlie concealment of thought, (I beg pardon cf Mon sier Talleyrand,) than in the mouth of a gri telle. When sent with'goods from shop-keepers to their customers, she will intrigue and wrestle for her pa tron as zealously as for herself. She will listen to reproaches, insults, repulses, with the most patient courtesy. As long as there is any point of defence, she pleads liko an attorney-general ; and there is no artifice, no rhetoric, or Cicero de cratore that she leaves out ; and if at last overcome, he nves it unM Hie ?e rends, and she sets about looking sorry w ith all her might, till she has disarmed your anger. She dashes off the tear from her rosy cheek, brightens up with smiles anew, shews you her goods again, nnd then cheats you once more, by way of reparation for her firmer rogueries. La vishing her affections liberally about town,her friends of course are numerous. There is next door to mo a modiste of New Orleans, who came over in the same packet with me, who has some twenty op thirty of these young, industrious creatures in her room every morning. I sometimes sit an hour in this group, and from this opportunity, and the old lady's information, I have thus learned about gri idles. CAMELING irorSF.S. In a walk through the Rue Richelieu, a few days ago, my companion, Sir Henry L to gratify me with a peep into a it , 1'. V ' l vj great gambling house the rendezvous of tlie nobility. I entered r with becoming acquiescence through the h wuere servants in livery attended us, taking cur hats and canes, and bringing us refreshments with princely ceremony. Tables in the several rooms were covered with gold, at which many ladies and gentlemen were playing. Others were looking on with intense interest at the game. Around about, some were corteried in corners, others strollirg in pairs and grctips through the rooms, while others again were rambling in nn adjacent flower garden, or seated :n earnest conveisation in its arbors. 44 That gentleman," said my companion, 44 with an Adonis neck and myrrh'd and glossy ringlets, is the Dudke de Rroglie that is the Marquis ofRra ganza, from Spain and that is Prince Caramari ca.5' I locked particularly at Lord Brougham, who had just arrived. I could discern immediately the great truth of genius the bitter sarcasm tiio overwhelming energy which characterizes this eminent man, in his strongly marked features. And, if I had not been introduced to him, I should have marked him at once as a distinguished cha racter. Among the ladies, were the Princess Or leans and her attendants, and the Countess of Rla cas, and others of the nobility. A Dutchoss at my left, (I have forgotton her name,) had a look as haughty and condescending as if she felt the length of her genealogy. She seemed displeased at erc ry body being introduced to her. Rut there was one, young and beautiful so beautiful that I could not, with all my ef- rts, keep my eyes from her and I observed that more than once she reciprocal ted my anxirus glances. I felt pleased at being the object of her attention. 44 What an elegant creature !" thought I; "what sweetness and si m, plicity of expression! How strange that, brought up amid tlie refinements of a court, she should mam, tain all the innocence of the dove! No one can. hop", unless by some interposition of Heaven in his. favor, to know her and not to love her." In the midst of this rapture, nnd just at the moment when I had become enehainee bv the eves of another !a dy opposite. Sir Henry dissipated the charm, by tniorrracg me that these were courtesans! The cloud burst from over my eyes, and I saw a group of the ugliest wretches I ever beheld before. Supreme Court.- William S. Ashe, of Wi'Iming ton, William F. Davidson, of Charlotte, and Mi chael Frances, of Haywood county, have been ad mitted to Superior Court practice ; and Abraham f . Morehead, of Rockingham, to County Court practice. The important cases of Falls & Co. vs. Birchelt et al. and BirchsK At Co. VB. Falls & Co. involving