5 NEWBERN, N. C. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1821. NUMBER 180, VOLUME IV. J . - JtlSTZO AND PUBLISHED WKSKLT, 1 PASTEUR WATSON, At $ 3 per annum half in advarce. THE KING OF ENGLAND'S VISIT TO IRELAND. The history of the British empire teems With evenu of vast importance and nany I then, extraordinary in their natare, tt we have it this day m-our power to H record, in the Gazette, au event p arHinarv.and, perhaps of ore L.rtanceto the British crown, han inv that has preceded it, daring the long Slexion belween England and IreUnd We do not allude to the mere visit of his ath to Ireland, or to the enthusiasm with which, it appears, he hns been received, but to the almost mi culous union Vhich'has tn-en effected between the hitherto most decided hostile leaders of the Protestants and Catholics in that country. Had this been the grad ual ork of years, or had it grown out of parliamentary concessions to tbesul feriV and persecuted party, it cotld not cite much surprise, but as the po.Ua Deoas act of a day, at a period when the wornd of the Catholic mind were yet reen and festering from recent and bit ter disappointments, it may well be con fidered extraordinary, if not miraculous ; and as to the important consequences likelv to spring from such a state of things, thev will naturally occur to those whohave been in the habit of attending to th" unhappy relations of EngUnd and Ireland. But were no other good to arise from the King's visit, than this harmon izing oi such adverse and discordant ele ments, it must be hailed as a blessing by his subjects, and be contemplated with satisfaction by every friend of humanity, no matter of what country. " As it is more than probable, that in the course of the next) ear, as well as in many years to come, the journalists of America will iave to notice important events growing out of this royal visit, and the reconcilia tion it has accomplished, we shall, for the inf irmatron of our readers, and as a point of reference hereafter, insert all the de tails which have reached us, commencing with an account of the state oi" he public mind previous to the arrival or' his Majes ty i.i the bay of Dublin. iVash. G.iz. Of the Dinner wliich took place h ho nor of the coronation, we further learn Thirty steward were "appointed, fif- i teen of whom were Protestants ana nr teen Roman Catholics ; and on motion of Mr. O'Connell it wavresolved that the R iraan Cathofk stewards should be cho ss.i by Protestant and the Protestant stewards by Ro'Catholics, and that an Vnniver:'y diner to perpetuate the nev born h irf HJshou'd in future take place." V i The Dublin 3foAing Patriot, the prin cipal Mnistifnial p;i)er, but at the same time dating 1,'vshed Jot its moderation and candor, as ell as its ability, speaks of this dinner jrt ihe warmest terms of exul tation arjj jiea(js an account of it thus A hip;jj day for Ireland:9 "Tbfe luaiberof the company amoun rhre hundred and thirty the 'V'.vor was in the chair, and Lord fir;?,:. , ;At as Vice President Never ,s -vif hpsed more effectual and unie- vil wlirmth. . The Lord Mayor pro F I 'IGrorge the Fourth,, as a bumper V ;,h )ur times four but, the loud 5' ' wvdlclapping of hands, and wa- ' handkerchiefs, continued so Icng, J imori 40 times 4 than 4 times 4. leering after the toast, caught the the multitude assemhled in tin www. m wtw who cordially resuonded. so 1ou1. In. repeatedly, that there was imme V an order eiven to have tfim sprv. in t with eleven hogsheads of porter ' ti was afterward fvtanAeA tr Aw. Mr. Ellis the member of Parlia- from Dublin, drank in the sparkling 'h , " a lethe to Irish dissensions ; and rConnell, pronounced an elegant J h,.of which the following is a pas- : His Majesty has committed his ( h to the care of an Irishman many ' ; select friends were Irishmen. It 1 id of St. Patrick, that he had the ?f to banish venernous reptiles frt)iu isle, but his Majesty has effected a : ter moral miracle the sound of his oach has allayed the dissensions of hte we proceed farther with oar ex f "i H may not be irrelevant to notice 'eraarkable characters named in the u- trinS ParaSTaPhs, in order the more 1 hew lhe xtraordinary and iin- i n rvDatUre f the Union whi has A.. ce- The persons we allude tn 1 " i CI1 Je LJ0RD Mayor Oubhn, Lord ! i Finoall, Mr. Eats and i j The Lord Mayor, it may be recollec- leu, uunng ine laic sessiuu ui me uuusu parliament, proceeded from Dublin to London in muclv pomp and presented a petition from the corporation of his city against granting to the Catholics any further concessions. His Lordship is the rmuch talked of Alderman Beadley Kino, stationer to his Majesty, andGiand Mas ter of the Orangemen of Ireland, an as sociation formed or the purpose of pre venting an extensjon of the privileges of the Constitution to the Catholic body. Lord Mosck is, we understand, a no bleman of little political influence, but his hostility to his Catholic country men was particularly manifested about three years ajro, by his giving from the chair at a public dinner where he presided, the followin'Jiorrible toast, which was made at. the time a subject of warm animadver sion in the Dublin newspapers "The r. ' Pope in Hell pelted with Priests.' Lord FfS'QALL,- is at the head of the Irish Catholic Nobility, remarkable for his moderation in public ; and his amia bility in private life, and for his steady pursuit of Catholic emancipation Mr. Ellis is the representative for the city of Dublin in the House of Commons, returned in the room of the late illustrious Gra rTAN, supported in his election by Alderman King and the Orange interest, and put into Parliament by them for the expressly avowed purpose of opposing the Catholic claims It seems he aave as a toist on the late occasion. ; A lethe to Irish dissmsions." ;Mr. O'Connell is a Catholic leader enjoying more popularity than any other man in Ireland celebrated as a lawyer celebrated for forensic as well as a pop ular eloquence celebrated for his un compromising spirit whenever public right is at stake, and particularly celebra ted for his advocacy, of the Catholic cause, during which he never could be in duced to cede to the crown one particle ofjwnat lie considered the constitutional right of his fellow sufferers He will not consent to the Crown having a veto on the appointment of Catholic bishops, be cause he considers such a power likelyto be destructive of Protestant liberty, as well as of the;Catholic chnrch in Ireland He looks for! nothing sh irt of unconditional emancipation, conceiving that the usual oath of alliance should be held sufficient to bind the Catholic in common with the Protestant subject. Mr. O'Connell had also been the avowed friend and warm supporter of the late Queen, and, we be lieve, for the last twelve months, her Ma jesty's Irih Attorney General. ; A sixth distinguished character, men tioned as being present at the dinner, is Sir Benjamin Bloomfleld. He is also, ah Irishman, but has hitherto kept aloof, from Politics.' However, as Aid-de-Camp arid Private Secretary to the King, it may fairly be presumed, that he will give to his royal master a faithful report of all he witnessed in this extraordinary assembly. ; We have been thus particular in our ac count of these personages, the better to prove that we do not misapply the terms, when we call this an entraordinnnj and almost miraculous union and. that im portant consequences may be expected to flow from it, is, we conceive, quite obvi ous. Well might one of the Dublin edi tors say, as will be seen below, that ( the Irish in England and America will read the report of this unanimity with aston ishment, only to be equalled by their plea sure." ; We shall now proceed with some of the details: FS-om the Dublin Jcncmal, Wednesday j evening, August 8. ., . j We have never witnessed more agita tion than pervaded the city during the whole of yesterday. The expectation of its being announced that his 'Majesty had reached Holyhead the apprehension of thie mail bringing an account of a fatal rasultof the Queen's illness, together with the uncertainty in which the latter event, which was too probable, would leave the further progress of his Majesty on his proposed excursion these various causes combined, produced the highest degree of pbpular excitement. About'the hour of the expected arrival of the mail (half past tWo o'clock) until late in the evening, crowds of people, and great numbers ol horsemen and carriages, continued assem bled about the Pot Office for a time SackviPe-street, the widest, perhaps, in any city in Europe, could not be passed without some difficulty! The delay of the mail, however, caused their gradual dispersion. The mail did not reach the p6t office, until half past eight o'clock. No King since the revolution has paid a jvisit to Ireland. No King of England eyer visited this country in peace. Great strides have been already taken to allay faction; to remove, prejudices -to diminish feuds to conciliate greater than all the! exertions of good and wise men have been able to accomplish ia thirty years." " Nothing can be more delightful than to witness the good feelings and hilarity which prevail amongst all ranks, orders and denominations, civil and religious, of his majesty's subjects on this occasion. It has not been disturbed by the slightest tendency to disunion, and every one seems to vie with his neighbor, in the manifestation of regard and devoted loy alty to the ; person of the monarch, be cause every one is convinced, that no monarch that ever swayed ihe sceptre of this Empire, has done so tnych for Ireland as George IV. Already has he wrought more to accomplish the blessed work of conciliation than all the sovereigns of his line already has done more to revive the city of Dublin to something of its pristine splendour than has ever been done before. And he will receive such welcome, as be fits the people whose enthusiasm' is pro verbial, arid a King, whose sense of such manifestation is durable as it is lively." " Talk of victonesr-talk of grandeur of imperial power of commanding in fluence among the nations of the world : the first have been achieved by his Ma jesty's armi ; the second is the tot awar ded to freedom, bravery and virtue. But no victory we repeat it again, has been achieved like that which the ap proach of his Majesty to the shores of Ireland has accomplished. It is the nost gI6rious of all his conquests it has cost no blood no tears no suffering. His Majesty recommended conciliation and harmony to his people That portion of them who were Irishmen, who had more .bitter recollections to forgo who had more acnmoniohs prejudices to crusn who, in a word, had more to forgive and more to forget, than any other in his dominionsjwere the first to .mark their obedience to his majesty's desire, and to prove to the royal mind that no sacrifices were too great for their loyalty and love. The expenditure of treasure, and even of blood are vulgar considerations when com pared to the holocaust when the people of Irelandj have made of their longest cherished prejudices." " His visit, his very approach, has al ready accomplished this. He will be met on the j shores of his kingdom by a united andjrateful, by a brave and loyal people, rliey have given all tl..-.. mosities to the winds they have exchan ged the calumet of peace, and pledged he cup of brotherhood. For the first time in their history" they are united and, loyalty is the basis of their union." Royal Irish Institution for promoting and encouraging the fine arts in Ireland. In order to commemorate his Majesty's most gracious visit to Dublin, and to re ward the exertion of such native talent as they trust will be displayed on this glori ous and auspicious event the committee of Directors propose to pay the sum of five hundred pounds for the best Pic ture on th0 occasion of his Majesty's ar rival and landing which shall be painted in Ireland by an Irish Artist. The pic ture not to be less than twelve feet long, by nine feet high; to be executed previ ous to the 1st of August, 1S22, and to be come the property of the Institution. The Illumination, and his Majesty's public entry into Dublin, was postponed until after the Queen's funeral. He is in excellent health. J The details which we have just closen evidently j present many a text for com ment ary; but we have no wish to disturb the agreeable sensations which the perusal of such circumstance may have awakendd. We cannot, however, in justice to our selves, conclude without one or two ob servations! We are not to suppose, that in drinking " A lethe to Irish dissension," such men as lord Fingall and Mr O' ConnklL intended thereby to proclaim a renunciation of their claims on the con trary, it is; to be presumed that all par tias looked to Catholic emancipation as a good to flow from the union of that day. On this a 'question arises- will the King meet the natural expectations of his peo ple ? will he throw off the Sidmouths and the Eldons, and the other benighted bigots of his Cabinet, and give to Ireland her rights ? will he thus perpetuate a union of sentiments, of affection, and of interest which his presence has so happi ly begun, or will he blast their hopes, and adhering to the doctrine of the.hyp ocritics, puffer his Coronation oath to stand as a barrier to justice? -There is some difficulty in answering the ques tion, but there is none in coming to the conclusion that if he does not meet the just wishes of his Irish subjects, his visit to them will prove a source of greater danger to his government of that Island, than any, event that has occurred since its conquest by William the Thiid, and the violation of the articles of Limerick Fed. Go j THE UNITED STATES. The following article wilt be read with sincere pleasure by every true friend to the glory and honor of our country. It subjects wil-1 proves that thereare British ing to do our Government arape justice, and to defend us against the-malevolence of the ieviewers PROM THE EDINBURGH SCOTCHMAN. J AMERICA. Additional testimonies to the happy ef fects of its Political Institutions. " But in fact, how singular, and for the well, being of man how glorious the change, which has turned those vast haunts of panthers, waives, ( and savages into tne aoooes ot industry and tne sure , asylum ot tne oppressed I What a no ble edifice there has been raised for hun ted liberty to dwell in security ! It is impossible to tread the! soil of America ancl not to bless it ; impossible to consid er her growing wealth and streagth with out rejoicing." Views of Society and Manners in America, in a Series of Let ters, by an Englishwoman, $2. We feel it a relief to turn pur eyes from convulsed Eupfftpe, the scene of solemn hypocrisy and triumphant villany, to the cheering aspect of the United States, en joying, under their pure and benign insti tutions, an untroubled calm, like that of the heavenly bodies, and rivalling "these bodies in the serenity and onstancy of their course, and we hope in the stability of their existence. Feeling as we do, that the whole human race has a deep in terest irt the prosperity of that ..country,., we are always eager to receive the state ments of impartial travellers with, regard to its condition ; and we gladly em brace the opportunity which the book we have quoted offers, to lay before our rea ders not any statistical facts, but the tes timony of an intelligent eye-witness ito its growing prosperity, and to the happy effects of its political institut ions. It is justly observed, by this enlighten ed and eloquent writer, that the English people have, been . as ill represented hi America as a home. Few British trav ellers who 1?ave visited that' continent have been qualified either tc do Justice to the country they professed to describe, qf credu. to that which sent them forth. The: best of them, in their best efforts to be liberal, have seldom been jable to shake off entirely the "beggar elements" of the old world. Hence the strange- mis representations which prevajl among us, end unsettle men's opinions Ion a subject neither obscure nor difficult! In a pros pering country, wtth ten millions of in habitants, some see nothing but forests, bears, and rattlesnakes in tfie intelligent andjvirtuous husbandmen of the Republic, (he see nothing but drunkfen boos in lier free press nothing but tiegro adver tisements in her Congress j nothing but demagogues and in her mild and Equi table government, nothing tut weakness and anarchy. onsidering the mischiev ous effect of bad institutions! in vitiating men's moral perceptions, such distorted views are not surprising. Fifty ,years arOf had any individual afjfirmed that such a Government as that of the United States could existj he would have leen denounced as an enthusiast. That 10 mil lions of men could , govern themselves by a system of universal suffrage, and live in the most periect order and security, enjoying a liberty of speech j thought and action never equalled, without standing armies-without a hierarchy of priestr without a shackled press ; without state prosecutions ; without idlji pageants; and (most strange of all) almost without taxes in short, without force applied to their persons, or frauds practised on their understandings, is a conclusion most de voutly to be deprecated by those who hold mankind in thraldom, and only slow Iv believed by : "the . liberal minded, even after it had received a practical de nomstration. Generationsyet unborn will bless and honor the men who corrfided in the virtue oT their specn s, in oVhance of j power and ridicule, and mad the bold exoerimenti the issue of whioi has raised the destiny ot ue numan race. i ne r Washinirtons. the Franklbs, I the Jeflfer OSns!, who framed those yobl institutioos, vvill be forever canonWed ir the hearts of the enlightened and generous, as the greatest benefactor of mankind. Their courage and wisdom have realized a state of society surpassing all that ancient sa ges had imagined in the dreams of their benevolence ' While their glorious work exists, writ even in the remotest cor ner ftbe globe, there is a hpe of eman cipation for the most benighted nations. But in is present state w see but the . leeuier e. Al.'" hefrifininss of that influence I whin. in the fullness of its strength, iff vs irsUoed to eert ottr ihc It is deducible from undisputed datVthat in the hort space of one cen- turv. the United States will contain hundred millions of inhabitants. Such ; a population, speaking one. language, Jirj ' in under one Government, and enjoying , bove a others l0 devol ' the of man, will be a phenomenon of which the past history of mankind can scarcely enable us to form a conception. The American Government will then be at the head of an amount of moral and physical force which has never been equalled, and must be irresistible. If tyranny shall thenu exist in any corner of Europe it mu3t be .by the sufferance of America V A Government so constiucted if the greatest achievment of philosophy since philosophy had her birth. And it issur- prising, that an object possessing iirfc unrivalled moral grandeur, has so seldom awakened corresponding sentiments in , the minds of those who have contempla ted or described if. Something must be allowed for the effect of those modes of thinking which Tiave grown up aihidst the usages of the old world ; which teach us to confound grandeur with pageantry, and simplicity with meanness. Notwith standing our pretensions to refinement, it is undeniable that in all public matters we exhibit the grotesque ard piebald ra,:e of an Indian. The South-sea islander, who tatoos his face with ochre, and runs a fish bone through his nose is not more ridiculous, in the eye of reason, than an European Prince or courtier, who covers himself with' gildii.'g and trumpery gew gaws, vhich a man of sense would be ashamed to have in his house, and then exhitiits himself like a harlequin to the admiration of children, -and the derision of men of sense. The taste which dic tates this barbarous buffoonery is "of the s;me stock with that which prefers a gil. ded block of wpdd to a Grecian statue. And the man who identifies ereatnQ ; 1 1 j . 1 i - 53 .. with such paltry exhibitions, is as unable ro appreciate the sublime simplicity of the American system, as a savage is to feel the beauty of the . Bel videre-Apollo. Every vulgar minded Greek could admire the Olmypic chariot of Dionysius, but it was only a small arid chosen circle who could feel the sublimity of the death of j Socrates. The volume before us shows that in the philosophy which results from exaltation of sentixnnt, vrmen often the start of men. The moral sublime of the American democracy was nevr so deeply felt, and so eloquentiv described, as in the " Letters of an English woman."-, the generous feelings of her sex save her the trouble of laborious speculatlohs. Nor has her enthusiasm been nourished in ignorance of its object. She h;s wit nessed ;its all-pervading and bnneficial influence, and her admiration of the A merican Government is but au expansion i of those sentiments of benevolence and. love of justice which flourish in every mind where cultivation is united with true sensibility. It is impossible to deair of a country where such minds are sjrew ed through the circles of private Jifo TREATY OF CHICAGO. """" 1 J ! FROM THE DETROIT GAZETTE', SEPT. 7. On Thursday last Gov. Oss and Mr. Silbey, the commissiohersyppointed to treat with the Indians returned from Chi cago, together with the .gentlemen who attended the treaty. ye understand that the object of the govrnment has been fully obtained, and fhal a cession hns been made by the Vidians on favorable terms, of al! that ountry extending from the southern boudary of this territory to Grand River; And containing, by esti- mation, upwards of 5,000,000 acres. Not less tbSri i 3000 Indians-Attended the Council;' princicipally otawtamies; Ottawas afd Chi ppe ways, and during the ; whole prressof it they coh&icted,them- . selves i0 an examplary manner. The final result was delayed several days by the vsrious propositions and modifications whlth were-submitted on eachside. The Indians eaily evince! a disposition to sell, bat were determined to secure the best possible terras for themselves. We are lmormcu mm sumc.oi ine supmauuns hi- serted in the treaty are very favorable to the melioration of their situation, and to the gradual improvement of their condi tion, mora and physical. , The country has been represented to os, by, the gentlemen who nave travelled ov er it, as fertile, well watered and pleas antly situated. It Is injterspersed with prairies and woodland, and is moderate ly elevated, but not hilly. Lakes and springs of pure water ar abdndaof, andn even in the driest season furnish an eihu- berant supply. iThe Josepnis a navigarie stream, whose head waters approach within two world. fate of tts'days iidt of Lake Erie, h waters a ! i if T I1 n - i t ' ' t I ' . 1 i it i': t tf ! f I

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