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