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From tbt N. Y. E vtnltng Star of March IOih.
TftOH OVR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
i Liverpool, Jan. 8tk) 1838.
I think it exceedingly likely that Lord
dosford will be formally impeached by
Parliament on bis return home. Minis
ter t niay shield him ; but puWje;f opinion
loudly condemns his weakness, indecision,
arid itanto judgment,
i liThe English troops to Canada will go
by Halifax; not via New York, is has
efr- reported. X. .
I jThe Revenue accounts, to January 5th,
fear been published. There is aa in
crease on the quarter, of X.213.J73, but a
decrease of 1, 1,900.353 on the vear, as
compared with the receipts of the cor
responding return for., the year before.
That is, the returns of the revenue for
1826 were 1,45,00 1.1 64, and for 1837
jwereX43.100.81 1. This falling ofTlooks
rcry badly.
There is little news from tne continent.
! A report was circulated that some G?t
tingen student had shot the Kingyof
Hanover. It appears to be qiiitcN.untrpe.
H (Austria is acting as mediator between
Prussia and the Pope, in thi. busrhpisVf
, ii the Archbishop of I Cologne. In the
f French Chambers an. attack wns made on
:-Siht Duke of Orleans; for havfng married
! i Protestant. The Duke spiritedly de
X jbnded himseHf. and said that hi children
j should be Catholics. ; -J
The Spanish . Government have not,
as yet, succeeded in establishing them
Selves in the placea of their predecessors.
I believe they will make, or are making,
an effort to secure the services of the dis
banded British Legion, if they gain
1 them again, they must use them better
than of yore.
r Sixteen Days later from Europe r
We H a re t h i s rnor.nl n g flooded w i th
! files from. Europe, brought" by the flet of
! packet ships which the fa vo 'able weather
..','' 1 nas enabled to come in! Our dales are
- jtb February 1st.. Among the packets. a re
; the Presideht, Independence, and Oxford,
. , from Liverpool.; ,
;'-! "y;Hl :;; The absorbing theme in England is'of
.:if: -i course Canada, though here it has ceased
to be spoken of but with ridicule. The
ixviiia-rney steamer was.iosi near ioru on
the 27th. and 24 lives lost, having struck
on a rock in a. gale of wind. Sir John
Colborne has been made Knight of the
! Grand Cross of and Bath. -i
Ltndon, January 29A There have
been some large parchases of Utiited
Satrs Bank Stock, at "the improved rate
(tf 15. f L . : - dif.iji :v :rs f :
i si Lord Eur ham has been appointed Go-
l terrior General of , British America,! Sir
John f Co borne exercising; the dutiei 'of
ine oiaee j unm nis arrival, and tie then
retaining the mVitarr command. -
i-A' Government steamer is stationed
.off Holyhead, to forward despatches for
America. ::; , .
CdpL Britton, in the admired pTrket
Biddons, made, the pa1sag6 from New
York to Holyhead in 20 days. " ,
The canals of England hare fcee!n
frozen, and vast numbers of poor thrown
out of ernpjoy by the unusually lncfe
ixntnt
winter to February! 1 st
Canada Affair s. From- the. re com
-
rruen
ement ot the session, Jin. 16, Parha
had been exclusively occupied with
xnent
Canadian affairs. ,;'Lbrd johRussell, in
introducing the subject, .proposed for the
future that the "present constitution be en
tirety suspended. -A Governdr General
and a : Council selected from the 'two
Provinces, to do the duties of the defunct
Assembly. . The said new Government
to organize a new constitution, snbject to
the approval of Parliament. .
! In jaelectingv Lord Durham to 'strip
jCanada,. there was sound policy, as thij
- nobleman passes off for ai radical J One
excel lent point of policy is that of clotii n g
Sim with general powers of amnesty, r
i Warburtonjn the Commons, urged
the policy of firing up the Canadas,
and declaring their indepeHdence. Lord
Brougham in the Lords made a slashing"
epeech, full of withering sarcasm against
the whig measures in the government of
Canada.? The Council of Canada is not
to be definite in number, and five is to be
I a quorum ; nnd th ey a re to be em powered
- to pars laws, if necessary, during the sus
pension of the assembly.: Sir John Col
borno meanwhile to use extraordinary
powers if required. At present the coun
cil to be made up of three selected from
each of the present legislative councils of
the two Provinces, arid fen to represent
each Province, making twenty in the
Vwholefwhiclrtwenly are; to .form a con
torting body to deliberate wfjh the Gu
rernor on the question? aiTectu?5f lne
i Whole interests of the Provinces, a?id
which have caused so much disturbances,
j With respect to'lhe persons who are con
idered to have a representative charac
ter, those persons may be chosen from
the Legislative: Assembly ! '
Specie Coming rTbeJadditional funds
f Which Will be required j for Canada a
I lairs is a subjeet'which already afTlcts the
money market It is proposed to draw
bills on government at home and negoti
ate them in New York,; giving rise of
epUTSe to an accumuUlion of specie here,
to wh ic h the slate ofexcha nges w ith Ame
rica is now peculiarly favorable. . This
will also accelerate,' it is thought, the re
aamption of specie payments, by our
hanks. ": ; . .
Slavery Apprenticeship lord Broug
'ham injhe Lords ptesented a petition of
some 10,000 persons that negro appren
ticeabip and slavery in the, West Indies
might be abolished after August, which
of eourse anticipates the time of the par
liamentaTT act by two yeara.v He noticed
hfa intention of presenting 13 aimilar pe
titions, and inveighed against the extent
ts which slavery was still carried on.
a
. Ou r special correspondent transmits" o
us.- tht following notice of yesterdays
proceeding in Congress: t
Washington, March, 12, 1838.11
UNITED STATES SENATE,
Mr. Buchanan presented a memorial
from Pennsylvania against the practice
of duelling. The memorial' was read,
ordered to be printed, and laid upon the
table. : P,
Mr; Wall, of N; J. presented a, memo
rial from Newark, N. J. upon the sub
ject of the late Duel in the District of
Columbia, and duelling generally. The
memorial arid the proceedings of the
meeting in Newark were read in full, or
dered to be printed, and laid on the tahle
Mr. Crittenden presented a number of
resoluuens from the Legislature of Ken)
tucky, expressing the. opinions of that
Legislature and of the State of Kentucky
upon the subject of the currency. j
Mr. C, defended the opinions express?
ed in f the, resolutions, and, said he took
pUasure in subscribing to all the senti1
merits they contained. Mr. C. contended
that the laws, the Constitution, and the
usages of. the country, were opposed to
the system of the Administration. Even
since ; last September a decided public;
opinion;had gone forth against the ex
periment proposed -to the Senate for its
adoption. Not only petitions from thou
sands of people, iut the deliberate action
of the whole States. New York, with
her forty Representatives, had spoken;
against this Bill- Pennsylvania has
spoken 'against jit Tennessee has spo-;
ken against it New Jersey has spoken!
against it Ohio has spoken against it ?
and all these Slates represented by 121
members of the other House, one half
of the whole number of members, had j
spoken against it'j and other decided op-;
porenis, united with those who had ex
pressed opinions against this measure.
And if, said Mr. C, the members of the
House voted according to the declared
opinions of the States, there would be
in thelHouse of Representaives n5 majo-1
r it y oft sixTY-s.ix against the BUI be
fore the Senate. Bqt one State had spo
ken for the BillSouth Carolina, who
stood solitary and alone so far as an ex
pressionf' of opinion went. Others had
attempted' an expression of "Opinion in its
favor, but had failed in the attempt
The resolutions were then presented,
read, and laid, upon the table. )
.After some miscellaneous business the
orders! of the day, the SUB-TREASURY,
BILL. were called. ;
Mr. Webster was entitled to the floor,
and commenced his Temarks by saying
Thel functions of this Govarnment af
letting its most important interests, Were
those connected with trade' and com
merce. Identified as these were with
the pea-ce and prosperity of the country,
ii was well to consider things as they
were. From nothing . the country, had
become great and magnificent. 'Our
Exports were $ 129,000,000; our Imports
$128,000.000, -$2,000,000 was the
amount of our tonage. Its manufactures
most important, and the country was not
only vast in its trade but vast in its ex
tents. Our Foreign Debt,- not our
Commercial Debt, which was not now
more than $12,000,000 but our loans
arnount-d to hot less than $100,000,000.
Mr. Webster, after stating in a corjeise
manner, what was! and what is the con
dition of. the country, physically, enter
ed upon a revision! of its financial, pros
perity its currency, and the peculiarity
of its monetary system. Out currency
was a mixed currency, part paper and part
specie. Our country, half a century old,
had proved and tried this mixed currency
and found St sufficient for all the purposes
of life for all the wants of the country
for all the business of the country.
This system of currency was identified
with the credit of the country. Mr.
Webster then entered upon a lucid and
eloquent reyiew of the e red it system of
the countrv. , It was identinea wiin ine
happines of the country, It eacouraged
labour - It united t labour with capital.
It made generally the labourer the capi
talist, I'here were exceptions to this,
but as a general remark' it was true.
Where is this capital now ? said Mr.
Webster In your bank, in your ca
nals in .yojir rail roads bridges turn
pikes and public works not in use but
Ln England, continued Mr. Webster,
the capitalists increase their capital, by
dividends upon the public debt oi Great
Britiaii. j As capital, it favored no indus
try it ertcojd r'sged no industry it was
identified wilfrnothing that was active,
or that gave activity to the country -
Could the debt of England be paid off at
oncl. the capitalists Who now investlheir
caoital in the debt, and who receive iheir.
interest from dividends made upon the
public debt :could this, said Mr. Web
efr, be paid off to-morrow, the English
capita fists would invest . his capital in
Works of Public Improvement, and the
benefit would be immense taaH. Wages
would increase, and a revolution would
beseen h'n every part of England.
The most aristocratic sentiment ever
uttered in this couutry, said Mr. AVeb
sier, waa thai which said that 'those who
traded on borrowed capital ought to
break." And what would be the effects
of this? said Mr.' Webster. Capital
would be hoarded and made a dead mass,
and not as before a living and active
principle. ! The effect was to make the
labouring classes of this country but lit-,
tie better than the serfs of Russia. It
was this borrowed capital that gave proa
perity to the new States, and the repre
sentatives of the new Statet should be
the first to foster and encourage it Mr.
Webster pursued this inquiry at some
length and, with great interest, ahowing
the magic and beneficial power of aAvhoie
tome credit system. Much, taid Mr.
Webster, bar been taii by . the Senator
from South Carolina of the interests of
, :. I ion, lAf BaUiiMre Antric&n: :
the clba growing vstntes. And what
is triisr interest inore than lhat bf the grain
grom'ng man of Indiana of the weaver
and shoemaker oif xhiladftlphia, of the
manufacturer of the North, of the pro
ducer of i provisions, -of any interest
equal with it in extent of the $60,000,000
which is the annual amount of the cotton
produced in the South ? ' And it is a
fair calculation that "of this $60,000,00(5
$45,000,000 are spent among the produ
cers, among the employer amd employed.
Mr. Webster went on. to illustrai& the
interest of his own State, and under the
head of Massachusetis anjftrrayof start-l
ImVfacts as'stated tolhTSenater 1
: With TOO.OflQ people, and 8,000 square
miles, Massachusetts, a'mall State, has
an annual i nroduct of fit RO. to cverv
man, woman and child in the State, and
her annual manucfatures amount to one!
hundred and forty millions This too
was for boots, and shoes, and leather, and
books, and' iwool. and woollen, and for
like useful articles. The entire manu
facture of jewelry amounted pnly.to 3 or
4UU,000 dollars of this whole sum.
And yet with these fact? before us,
an example of a multitude of such facts in
many of the States against this - system
a crv of " mononlv" was made. It made
" the fich richer, and the poor poorer,"
was another contemptible and bast and
unpatriotic declared opinion upon this
subject a cry intended to haye an effect
on he worse and baser passions of men.
Beside's, nothing was more filse or more
unjust.' ' ; i
.. Mr. Webster, then entered upon an ex
amination of the. Banking System of the.
United States. There were,;h said, in
the United States 700 banks-Ubetween 3
and 400.000.000 dollars of capital
680,000,000 of specie, and 8100,000,000
ofank notes in circulation. Mr. Web
ster commented upon these .statistics in
reference t their arrangements, benefits,
fec. &c. ; ;i . ' ,
fs Mr. iWebster then said thatif there
had been an expansion of the currency,
and he did hot doubt but there had been,
the Government was the cause; Here
Mr. W. read a letter from the Secretary
of the Treasu ry written just after the re
move! of the ; Deposites. The! letter in
structed the, Deposile Banks to discount
to the fjall amount of their ability, and to
the .fujl means which the de-posites al
lowed, "giving as large discou;n.ts to the
merchants : as possible, consistent with
other claims And yet for acting under
and caFryingiOut these instructions, the
bill before the Senate had introduced a
section of pains and penalties, j The Go
vernmeht commanded a thing,; the doing
of which was to be punished; with pains
and penalties; !
r j Mr. Webster enlarged upon this branch
I of his argument, and proved that for all
undue excess the Government alone was
responsible!. : .. , !
Mr. W. then made an argument to
.show the effect of contraction aifchfhe ne
cessity of a iberal circulation! of notes
among the people. With bu!t one ex
ception, and fthat a recent one, he said
there had not'been a time when our cir
jculation was too large for the wants of the
'country. The country wouldjhave got
along, Mr. Webster said, without a sus
pension of specie payments had it not been
for. the Treasury order of July!' and the
'manner in Which that order wosiexecuted.
There would without this orderj no doubt
have been suffering and distress, but the
Banks he thought'would not have been
compelled to suspend specie payments.
j The p.apert circulation between the
United Siatesjand Great Britain was the
hext topic discussed by Mr. (Webster,
The difference between the two countries,
and the causes of this 'difference, were
stated at length,, and with great ability.
Mr. Webster proved that we had been
two fold more rigid and severe in our
dealings with! Banks arid moniied insti
tutions, and had suffered two fold evil for
so doing. In! our intercourse ivith. the
Banks the interest of the Bankers is as
100 to 1000. The interest of the people
in the Banks is as 500 to 1000. The
Banks benefited the country as much ns
the country benefited the Banks. Be
tween the People and the Banks, the fa
vor shown to. the People was ai four to
one. The cry against the Banks: was a
rhapsody, unmeaning and erroneous-rand
but for effect, j
Mr. Webster then came to the Bill be
fore the Senatei and said he should con
sider it, first, as to its mode "of keeping or
guarding the 'Public Money; and fecond
ly in reference to it effects upon the com
munity. Mr. Webster asked if the bill
was intended to be succeeded by other
measures? Was the bill intended to do
away with all paper circulation? Was
itl intended, to have: a gold and silver
circulation ; exclusively Mr. ! Webber
thought not, and yet that was the ouPbf
doors clamor, i Down with the Banks
down with these 700 little monsters was
the Vrv out-of doors and sometimes here,
w$ile, however, it was generally; acknow
ledged here that there must be some bank
ing in the country. " ' Mi '
What, said Mr. Webster, is to be the
consequence of; this? Suppose ;We anti
cipate the passage of the six years which
allow the payment of some portion of
the public dues! in paper. Suppose this
time now coraej ana an exclusive specie
payment to be legalised. I will venture
the prediction, said Mr. Webster, let
such a measure b authorised to-morrow
morning, and your bill to go into opera
tion to morrows morning, and before five
o'clock to-mprrovr evening there will be
300 private banks in the community.
Every broker will become a banker
every body will bank, and people will do
among themselves what the Government
will norallow to be done. j 3 -;
. In four and twenty hours, said Mr.
Webster, we thoord go back three hun
dred years to the' old Bank of Hamburg
making this retrogrtssive motion in the
brief apace of one day. j ;
Speaking further of the impracticabili-
ty of this till, and the payinent of specie;
Mr. wenster said:tbat ;the daily .'pay
ments made, in the Cityof New: York
from Bank to Bank, f and !fromrthVIeo
ple to the Banks and the ( Banks to the
People, was not less than 830,000,000,
awl that of the. who
than $250,000,0001
ried on in specie 1
e country; not less
And this to be car-
could it
be
done, and how can it bet done ? Impos
sible. ' - 1 i ! . ! I
The effects of this Bill formed another
prominent part of Mr. debater's speech.
The tax-pay er was to; count out ! his spe
cie to lheJj:eMivrx-rTrtjiereiye'rtoJth.e
disburser- the: disbursers Ato depositors
and - depositors to4sba'rsersrtdthe
$30,000,000 receive for the revenue
must be counted five times, or the amount
of $150,000.000 and thus we were
become a tinkling, jinklinfirj generation
to
of
men, a nation of bellrringers-svmbol-
tinkers a hard money government, j
Its effect on the business and commerce
of the country wlil be that $21,000,000
will always on an average, under the
operations of this Bill! be hoarded and
kept from public use. ! You cannot. re
sume specie payments never never.-
I am willfeg to risk my reputation upon
this assertion. You can never resume
specie payments and! continue the' re-
Numplion, unless you contract almost all is
sues necessary for the business of the
community. Business Could not no on,
and the beginning would end in another
suspension. The effejet ! was inevitable
and undeniable. Contractions must be
!made, to a'ruinous extentlunder this Bill
and the country distressed and destroyed.
The constitutional question formed the
jnext subject of Mr. Webster ' speech,
and this was followed by an eloquent and
powerful reply in answejr to Mr. Cil
jioun. ... Mr. Webster begfrn jwith the be
ginning, and took Mr. Calhoun up where
Wr. Clay oh Saturday had left him. j
Mr. Webster read extracts from Mr.
Dalhoun's speeches, proving that he bad
changed his policy on: constitutional
Questions, and directly (denied now what
he had as directly asserted years gone
oy. The poice rs of Congress was ano
ther part of Mr. Websler'sj answer to Mr.
Calhoun. . Here, too, ;Mr! W. proveid
from written and printed testimony that
he asserted now what he had -before de
nied, and denied now what he had before
asserted. '
t I must close my report here, without
giving you the close of Mr. Webster's
speech. The leaving ofs your special
messenger compels me to close Where
i am. : X
HOUSE OF ItEPRESVNTATlVES.
Petition day in the House- the usual
budget presented on the lushal subjects
and some others. A greaf many against
dueling some for a National Bank
some in relation to the Sclosser outrage
4 a multitude on the Slavery question!.
Nothing of importance was said or done
j From the samel ,
j Washington, Mareh-13, 1833
I Air. vveDster cioseq nis j remarks yes
terday about the time I closed my pack!
age not, hovvVer, havingfconcluded his
sjpeech. Mr. W. before Ihe concluded
made" some remarks upon a National
Bank of the the propriety of having a
National Ba'nk 'in New fYdrk of fifty
millions dollars capital j-or if not in. New
York, in Philadelphia! Mr. Webster
spoke of a National Bank in this city,
apd remarked that an institution of this
kind in the District of Columbia woul)
bi? far less useful than j in some of the
commercial cities of the Union.
1 in ited states Senate
The usual morning business occupied
he Senate the morning hour. Re ports!
rrjemorials, and resolutions vere present
e, laid upon! the table asjsed, referred
and dopled. ; X '
I Among the memorialsjpresent waaone
Irom the. JNew York 1 ypographical So
ciety, remonstrating against the passage
of any new Jaw upon the .subject of a!
cdpy right. ' ' j: ' j H 1
j Mr. White, from the committee of In
dian Affairs, reported a bill sdpplementa
ry to the Acts of 1834, for the or
ganization of the Department of Indian
Affairs, to regulate the intercourse with
the Indians, and to provide for the peace
of t be frontier. Read and ordered to a
second reading. r . " ; I (s
After some miscellaneous buisiness,
the SUB-TREASURY BILL came up.
M r. Webster said; that upon his occa
sion, and upon former occasions, he had
i said nearly all he intended
to
say upon
the subject oi a uniform paner
Currency.
Tne Exchanges therefore wfuld
now
first
form the subject of 'Mr. jWebsler s
remarks to-cay.
oft the . old IL
During the
existence
were x-
S. Bank,! bills
changed at the Philadelphia5 counter at
thf rate of $100,000 per day He illus
trated as one of the examples of exchange
ih trade between Kentuck'v and New
York. Kentucky sold tojthe South, and
bought of the North, and jwas Compelled
to Iiave an exchange between the North
anil South. ' ! , . " is '
The honorable member of Ohio, said
Mi. Webster, (Mr, Morris) has asked if
Government is bound tp give ihe people
bread? Give ! the people! tjread I God
forbid 1 said Mr. Webster. 'The people
of j his country never asked for brtad
they never would ask for any thing of
the! kind. They asked for good 'govern
ment, and if you will give them a good
government, they will ask for nothing
mora. They claim protection,!! not de
struction. Tbey ask you jto !roake laws,
ivise, wholesome, just andj equal. They
neither ask you to give them bread, nor
will tbey receive it at your hands. Give
them what they ask. Restore; to them
what you hare taken from them ; and if
yod do not do this yourselves, freely and
f olantarilyi tbey will compel (yoii to- give
them an answer to their claimtj i v . . r
f Mrvr Webatei then commenced a reply
to Jjr. Calhoun, which he! introdoced
with an ,e 1 cq o rf t exo r d i u ri : th a t claimd
the undiridedttehtion of all present.
fli; is Wow, said Mr. Webster, twenty
five years since I matfe te acquaintance
of the honorable member from South
Carolina. The honorable member pre
ceded me about a year and a half We
entered, therefore, upon public life as
young men. I found him then ardent,
patriotic, national, catholic, ambitious, but
with high-minded and bonorableambition,
not low or grovelling or with any love
the loaves and fishes of office. We for
went on cordially together until 1824,
whea jjwe .separated. -.During the last
Administration we became again united
in opposing the powerfthe Execfltive.
We continued together until the events
of May. We separated and it is a mat
ter of deep and sincere regret on my part
that we have separated. . '
If he s.ood how where he once stood
I should be most happy not only to act
with him, but "to act under him- even
to follow him ; But we seperate, and
probably in our time of life, we- separate
never to be again united. The Senator
will believe tne that 1 par from him
wishing him in truth and sincerity all
those personal ! good feelings al that
prosperity and happiness which charac
terised our first and earliest intercourse.
We part, Mr. Webster continued, much
to ray regret; for in times like these I
could wish he and I were together
1 Mr. Web&teri was most eloquent in. this
part of his subjy-ct, and the, croud who
listened to liim, did so with breathless
attention, and with the, greatest conceiva
ble respect.
Mr. Webster continued, and said that
the great experience the long history
the public life and character of ihe Sena
tor from South Carolina render a close
examination of all he says necessary. Mr.
W. then took up Mr. Calhoun's Septem
tember speech, proving that two sets of
doctrines inconsistent with jenrh' jother
we,re there advanced: In continuation,
he sho wed ' that; the. effect ' f what , Mr.
Calhoun ha said was to unite the po!i
tical power with the money power. Mr
W. showed this in a long, powerful and
practical argument. The Senator there,
as he said, after arguing for years against
this union of its dangers and follies
advocates a principle which is sure to
lead to this.
M r. Webster then read a statement of
Mr. Calhoun's where the Senator from
South Carolina isaid " he rallied under
Gen, Jackson to break down the protec
tive system and the Tariff" - He" rallied
underGen. Jaekson to break down the
Tariffl !;
' What, said Mr. Webster, does the
manufacturing State of New Jersey think
of this? What does the mighty State of!
Pennsylvania, which like New Jersey,
rallied around Ganeral Jackson, think
of this? Did Pennsylvania, whese ma
manufacturing inlyrest is as dear to her
as her heart's blood, rally around Gene
ral Jackson' for the sake of breaking
down the Protective System"? Did the
Senators fiem Pennsylvania and the Se
nators from- New1- Jersey, 'said Mr. Web
ster, addressing himself to them, agree
to any uch thing ? Did: th Senator
from South Carolina, when in.lhe Phila
dephia State House yard, aV the friend
of the .late Executive, say that he rallied
around Gen. Jackson to break down; the
tariff? Mr. Webster pressed these in
quiries with 'great force and effect.; jThe
conclusion of it was that the oricinal!sup
porters of General Jackson werecbrriposrd
of the" most heterogeneous party that ever
entered upon any public enterprise. L
Mr. WebsttT "then apoke of Mr. Cal
houn's Edgefield letter of the 3d Novem
ber. It was, he said, a curious produc
tion, strange and wonderful in the ex
treme, and a letter whieh he was-shbek-ed
and astonished to see. It read like
a military despatcji was full of marches
and counter-marches retreats cover
ings a falling back here and a retreat
there, reminding one of the seven years'
war of the King of Prussia the great
Frederick whose army was almost eve
ry where at th" same lime, with this! re
markable difference, that he never tike
the Senator from South Carolina took
a position to keep an allyin check, or
to cover. an enemy!! I was shocked, said
Mr. Webster, at the sudden change this
turning about and going. over thij no
vel position.
. Speaking of the sudden change made
by Air. Calhoun, Mr, Webster, said he
had read that several years ago, .some of
the wits of England wrote a saTly in re
gard to two Germans. They met stran
gers and by accident, sat over their pot
of ale,.and for a time said nothing. Sud
denly one of them broke silence by a loud
excited cry, addressed to the other "jet
u? swear fealty let us voweternal friend
ship." The other party consented, and
like the Germans and the other party,
said Mr. Webster, so is the Senator from
South Carolina. A year si nce upon the
very eve of a battle, when victory was
'before us when we were about to enter
the enemies camp, the Senator left us.
Believing we-muchwanled a leader, and
;were wining to tawe ine senator, lor our
leader prior to the possession of pur trium
phal banner, quick as thought the-Sena-tor,
like the German, turned about and
left his friends, aud went over to the ene
my. The opposite party to whom the
Senator went were rather coy at first,
but after reciprocal blushes, hesitation,
and proper, modesty and backwardness,
(hey did receive him, and the nuptial of
this union have been solemnly and har
moniously celebrated. , j
j Mr. Webster further pursued Mr. Cal
noun, and Complimented him with much
good taste upon the position he now held
as the leader of the Administration party
pthe Commander-in-chief of those whom
not long since he thought to be the chief
sinaera. The Senator from SoGth Ca
rolina was the Ajax, the Nestor, the
Ulysses, the all in all, and above all of
thearty to whom he had wcded LisT: A
andwho had been wedded ia him. fx'
Ija well known f)lace in a certain ?C
tionpf this country, said Mr. Webster, h
a place called the Hermitage, where it
distinguished man now lives you hirr
been -there, said Mr. W.. and 1 have not
Suppose the occupant of that mansion
were now to enter the door to the right.
to siajk abroad through the Senate Cham-!
ber-4-his commanding- fiour i f
jall.nd his fiery eye upon allwould?
mere not oe some strange sights here
:Some ! rustling and huddling? Would
not the Senator from South Carolina feeP
strange at ihe appearance? Would the
joiners not expect to hear the roar of the
!lionieven if they did not feel his paws
juponjfiim and them? TheSenator from
South Carolina is iri strange, very strange
jcompany. He has left his friends, strange
bs it may seem, and gon over to his cne
mies.l j '''!''' J " ' ! .
1 Some of Mr. Calhoun's former notions
about jthe doctrine of Nullification were
then examined, and here' Mr Webster
faidj n his remarks upon Nullification, ,
that he had nothing more to Vay against
the doctrine. lie disagieed with those
who tljought it cither sound or politic
but, c)htinut-d Mr. .Webster, I reproach
rio man. 1 impeach no man' motives
I believe the doctrine, of Nullification er
r niPousand believe also that it , origina
ted infV jealous watchfulness of Federal
power,; and in a great love of the rights of
the Stajes. ' ,K - ,
Mrj Webster then examined the last
formal speech made on the J5th of Feb
ruary! jby Mr. Calhoun upon this subject,.
ind inUhe language of Mr.. Clay, he left
not a hair of if. pulling it Out by the
rbots. Mr.; Calhoun begged here and in
d!ne or two other places to explain andf
reply briefly. Mr. Webster of course
consented. Continuinghe said jthe S!e-i
nialor' from South' Carn1i?i imo iK
filr.it m.4n vhn nrnnnco k . I I I .! ,
olf the bayment ot Bink notes fnr nnKli
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and here he read the law and thn.
teslmiopy in proof of the fact.! 1
! The peroration was in reference to the
Constitution and all of all parlies acmit it
a the most splendid and effective piece
oj eloquence ever heard in the Con
gressf the United States. v '.: .
Mr. pobbins, of R. I. moved the acU
jqurnmenr, and has the floorj to'morroiv.
HOUSE Or REPRESENTATIVES.
In. tbat. House, the North Eastern
Boundary , Message, Bills, &c. were re
ferred to the committee on Foreign AT
fails, and tho remainuer TJfrie day was
consumed .in the co isideration of one of
the regular AppropriaMon BilU -
WLIVHUOTOU" AD viiitTisiia.
'I Wilminston, J C. !
Frirtay, JI arc h 2 3 cl I S 3 S .
&Ttie.tU:ltev.. Dr. Ives arrived in
th.s to wp on Wednesday e vening, on a
tour oflviisitation to this seciiohof his ;Dio
cek Lhst evening the Bishop commrnc
ed; the duties of his visit ttiori in the ina-1'
riah of St. Jamus, with a discourse on the
ssujbjfcl !of Christian Truth, wlJich we un-
' i l r
uejiManu iiu ue me urst oi a series on the
same suljecil(kand which will be contiu-
uejd through the ensuing weckJ
TO TIE'i WHIGS OF NORTH CAROLINA. (
We observe that the upper counties ore
sot?ndin!g! the trump of prepajration, 'and
beginning to marshal their forces for! the
summer!" plections. We sincerely hope,'
thai pending the conlest, the Whig party
throughput North Carolina, may exer-:
cise that vigilance, zeal and discretion,
which aire so necessary to the success of;
any caue,but particularly so totheirsv We
hope thatjlhey will ever bear in mind the-j
importance of victorv at the next election
to- tesciie Ihe country from its present de !
pressed and forlorn condition,
and to vS'
principles
tabjish lie? ascendancy'of those
whjch ar alone calculated to perpetuate
thejfree ibtitutions of this country. Whigs
of North Carolina ! the country expects
yod l4 do 'our duty ; lose not th en'by list-
less;. macron a victory which should be
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purchased ai any price. uememoer you
have a subtle foe for your enmy, who
permit lip opportunity of attack to pass
unimproted. Let the noble example set
you by the Whigs ot Orange stimulste
you' to action, and urge you on to victory
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internal! improvement m Virginia,
v tJr " lAll eyes are turned upon Vir
ginia" in! pity, that her Legislators should
be so faithless to her interest, and so in,
competent to discharge the duties which !
devolve upon them. Governed by the most '
narrow-minded policy, and. careful of no-
thing but that which is least worthy of.
care thiir individual popularity with ."
tneir consiwuenio minuiui oi tueir own
petty importance, and regardless of the,
best!interpst3 of the State, this body by a
votejof 64 to 56, has indefinitely postpone ,
ed the bill proposing a general system of
internal improvement, j .
Rumour of Changes. It is rumoured
that ;Mr. Stevenson is coming homeTr?rnv
England,! t!o be Secretary of the Navjvi
and that the Chairman of the Commiuee
on Foreigti Afiairs, Mr.' Howard, i ta
succeed bim'r that Mr. Butler, the Attor
ney Gtnf ral, will resign in April, and. .
that M4GUpin, the Solicitor o the Trea
sury, will be aprointed in his place ; lhtt
Capt Jones has re-assomed the corn--
mand of
heEip.oring Squadron.
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