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AMER !Ct. SI. ETCH OF THE PEOrLkDIN GS OFTHF. SENATE. MONDAY, N:,VEMBEtt :30. _ _ The following R.:solution was submitted by Mr. TictlENoit for coasiderazilli : _ - . 4. Resolved, T hat toe Conimittee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of chang thr. present iudidial system of the United States, so far as to pro\ ide for the gradual diminution of the number of Judges who at present compose the Su preme Cou:t ; for the. restricting the duties and func tions of clic Judges of the Court, to the holding the Session thereof, and the (Idler duties incidental thereto; of establishing ani organizing a Circuit Court in each State in the Union ; and of providing for the ap pointment of a competent cumber of Judges for the holding said Courts." DECEME ER 1. Mr. FORSYTH I:tid on the table the following Re ll.•solved, That the Committee on 1•i -a t.iee he instruct:Ll to inquire iato the expediency of p ohibiting the c:poriation of the gold, silver, and copper coins of the United Statei,." HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, DEC. 1. Mr. LINN. of New Jersey, offered the following R.,:solution:—" Resolved, That the Committee at - - pointed on so much of the Message of the President of the United States as relates to - the unlawful intro duction of slaves into the United States, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of passing a law pro hibiting the migration or transportati,a of slaves or servants of colour from any State to any other part of the United States, in cases where, by the laws of such State, such transportation is prohibited ; and• that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise." • Mr LINN; said, in introducing his resolution, that it related to a subject of much interest in his part of the country; as the resolution only proposed an in quiry, he hoped it would not be objected to. Mr. POINDEXTER objected to the resolution. Any man, he said, had aright to remove his property from . one State to another, and slaves as well as any other pr•yert . y. . . T;:e liesolation was negative 2. Ayes 60—Noes 63, nncEmbeit 3. The Bank of vlaitingt,:n, Pennsylvania, has pub licly and oliciAlly announced that they have sus pcnded .pecie payin2nts mail the Lekiislature have tinl 4 ; to txkc the si;',*;ect into cow-ideration. V EON/ TDE I4LW YDUK CO:4 S.: E;IC IA I. ADVERTISER OF Novr.ms!:n 18. INnterNtr. vet.. Pttiv.sTrEitiNG.—ln the Balti more Federal 11.-pitVican of Monday we find, on this subject, frillt,y, in t ; inforineaiun—" The Grand Jury have hero very diliently engaged during the List v:isek, in examining in:o the privateering which has been catried on '1 sinne of our citizens, under Smith Amerwan gigs, against the Loninierce of nations with whom our Love:An-tient is at peace; and we understand they fuiiiid bills of presentment against upwards of tvoany pet suns, one of whom is the postmaster of this tit ; I.si csr tnotia Ital.\ \NA r.—Captain Gould, of th e :,ciiiion e r tot, has arrived in Baltimore in ten days front 11a-inn:di, informs, that several coasting vessels had bcea chartered as transports for the troops which were preparing to embark for Pen sacola. 'll - e fornier Go% 1:111Jr, it was expected, would accompany the Sugars were selling at tea doih i rs, was no collie at market, and the en cior.. it is tuideistuad, had all been sold at '22 cents, and is to be delivered in January next. Ea in sI. JACK sON.--.- letter from INntsville, in the ~ k labaina territory, dated Nov. 6, mentions a cu rums tie:Lie-Le of te,pect paid to this hero of the Uniod State. At .t salt: of lands, the General bid for A section which was understood to be very valu able, when, ix ith one convent, the poor and the rich, the foreign specula! or and the hardy cultivator of the ground, remained silent, and the land was knocked Mr to him at two dollars per acre. Eighty-three dol lars per acre had previously ',wen given for second rate land. We have received aLivices from Batavia r of the re cent data• of the 7th of September. The Dutch autho rities there have imposed A new duty on the impor tation of goods, in any vessels except those of the mother country, nearly double in amount to that pre viously levied, and sufficimt to operate as a prohihi . tion on all intercourse by foreign vessels with the port of Batavia. The object of the measure is obviously to exclude commerce with all countries, Holland ex cepted. This new regulation was to be carried ints effect on the Ist of November. On the night of the 19th instant, the -stosei occu- pied by Messrs. Edes and A. and S. Savage, 3. Bettie and Co. and Williamson and Dc fillers, on Knox's wharf, Savannah, Were consumed by fire. The Mures burnt, belonged to Messrs. Telfair and Williamson. Very little of their contents were saved, and the loss is estimated at 55,000 dollar;. The tire-proof stores of Messrs. Johnston and Hills stopped the progress of the fire. JAMAICA PAPERS. KINGSTON, NOVEMBER 9. In our last, we noticed the appointment of a Com mittee of the House of Assembly, to inquire into the operation of the Alien Laws, inferring that neglect in their execution had taken Rlace; and it seed's that the iityestigationis to be considered now particularly directed towards Officers and Magistrates of this city, more than to any other part in the Island. In attention to the duties of this law may perhaps have occurred here, but equal neglect has also been ob served elsewhere. Sonic characters of the most dim gerous description to this community have landed in this Island, at the Northern ports, and Boni thence have found their way to Kingston, wheie they have been speedily apprehended, and committed to safe keeping, until they can be sent off the Island: among these we have to number G. Ilurgess, who made so conspicuous a figure in the affair of 1809. We trust, therefore, that the investigation of this want of vi gour in the Alien Law will be extended to every part of the Island. ..... NoVENI sER 10.—We have not for many years Lad occasion to rejoice in the prospect of such abundant crops, as the present moderate and propitious season seems to promise. The falls of rain daring the last two months hare been so plentiful and steady, that we may confidently hope they will avert the desola ti.l7, effects of tempestuous winds, or the more awful v;:atation of the appalling earthquake. • NONTENIBER ~ L ajesty's ship CONFIAWCR I V:i•'t Perryman, the Chief .1 the Creek Indians on t , •ard. who waited on the liritkh Government with teprecat.ticas of the excesses committed by the Uni tie States . hz.;es against his people, has reached Port L QUFAREC, NOVENIBEII 21. The Provincial Parliament meet on Tuesday, the lath January next. Tits SEASON.—On Thursday morning lest, tFeTc was a slight snow, which has continuei on the ground ever since, receiving small additions from occasional showers. The tirct carioles made their appearance on Saturday. This morning, about day-light, a re gular North East snow storm cormenced, having all the appearance of the setting-in of winter. Up to the present time, there has been no frost to interrupt ploughing. The grass buried under the snow is as , teen as in the summer-time ; and as it receives no P injury while covered with snow, if the spring should prove favourable, it will be tit for pastnre much ear lier than usual. BREACH OF P11031(SE OF MAUR' ACE. (YROld TIIE ALBANY DAILY ADVERTISER, DEC. 2.) MONTGOMERY CIRCUIT. The Circuit Court in and for the county of Mont gomery was opened before his Honour Mr. Juqice SPENCER, on Monday the ltith ultimo, and continued during the week. Among the trials, which excited a great degree of interest and feeling, was that or an action brought by a lady,* residing in Canajo harrie, against a Physician living at Saratoga, ;Or a breach of promise df marriage. The respectabi . lity and standing of the parties, the novelty of the case, and the peculiar circumstances attending it, en gaged a more than ordinary attention. On the part of the plaintiff it was proved, that the defendant had paid his addresses to her, and even solicited the con sent of her father ter a union, which was given.— A number of letters, written by the defendant to the plaintiff, were read in evidence, which contained the warmest professions of friendship and esteem, and breathed in every line the soft accents of love. This correspondence, which had continued for a conside rable length of time, was broken off by the defendant. —From some pretended cause, his heart became estranged from the former object of his love—he had met W ith another young lady (the friend of the plaintiff), whose glittering purse, perhaps, dazzled his eyes, and with a magnetic power attracted his wavering heart. He addressed her, gained her heart, and added to his faithless conduct the sanction of matrimony, leaving the former idol of his affec Lions a prey to tender anguish. The defence raced on was, that the plaintiff had released him from his engagement, by advising hint to marry her friend. As evidence of this, but most fatally for the defendant, and most unfortunately for his learned Counsel, a letter was introduced, written by the plaintiff to him. It was the last which she had addressed to him, composed at a time when her heart was wrung with the painful conviction, that she had ceased to interest him, and when the more painful intelligence was communicated, that he was on the evo. of being united to another. Under these truly afflicting circumstances, so trying to the tender sensibilities of the fern de bosom, she addressed hint, not with harsh epithets of censure and reproach, but in the znoa tender and affectionate language. In the spirit of grief, she told him of the information which she had received, requesting him to inform her, with out reserve, whether he was indeed about to be united to another; and without evincing a spark of jealousy or resentment, she offered the warmest tribute of friendship and respect to the amiable qualities of her . friend, recommending her as every way calculated to make him happy, and if he had determined to make her his wife, telling him to do so without delay. As to herself, she had become reconciled to her un happy situation, though language was inadequate to describe the deep anguish which had rein her bos o n'. The fair prospects of connubial happiness which smiling hope had held up to her view, were blasted for ever. That site considered mart iage as the sacred institution of IleavEN, and it would be betraying the feelings of her heart, if she ever bestowed her hand on another. She breathed forth prayers for his hap piness, and wished him to remember her in his sup plications to the Throne of Grace ! There never was a more pathetic and eloquent appeal to the feelings of an audience, or which called more loudly fur ex emplary damages front a Jury. The tear of sym pathy stole from every ere, the glow of honest indig nation flushed every countenance. 'l'll. Counsel of the d:fendant. by the introduction of this letter, were truly hea;•itlq damages on the head of their client. The letter cif the Lady evinced a mind highly culti vated and refined, a heart possessing in an eminent degree the softness of her sex, and a composure and trat:quillitv which could alone be derived from reli gion and virtue. llis Himont the Jt!non, in a very feeling and elo quent charge to the Jury, after remarking on the rare occurrence of actions of this nature, dwelt with much force on the peculiar circumstances attending the one before them. A Lady of refined MAlplerg and good education, alive to every noble sentiment, and, to add to the interest which she excited; being in delicate health, had been made to pine in solitude and consigned to celibacy, through the faithless con duct of Lime who had gained her affections, and so lemnly promised to be her companion and protector through lifer In summing up the evidence. he ad vertett with much emotion, to the letter of the lady, to which he paid the highest tribute ; observing, at the same time, that so far front evincing a disposition to release the defendant from his engagements, it shoved the very reverse ; it presented the defendant in a more odious view, and exhibited the big:bust part of the Lady's character. That the receipt of such a letter, written under such circunotances, was enough to break the heart of any ether man. Ile told the Jury, that this was the most aggravated. case which had ever come before him, and that it was their bounden duty to lay a heavy hand on the de fendant." To the honour of a Jury, composed of the honest Yeomanry of the country, be it said, they rei'urne4 to the bar, with a •erdict for the fair Plaintiff.:o-1 Five Thousand Dollars ! ! • The name of the Lady is Miss Lucy jiiisbard, of •Canaii herein, and that of tite defendant, 1)r..1. U. Steele, of &tramps , p.orril AMERICA. FITRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM EUENOS AVRES, DATF.EP OCTORIR " This city has been in a complete state of fer-' mentation since the discovery of the conspiracy which had been in contemplation, for the removal of the present Chief Director, who, I can asst.,:v you, very unpopular, owing to his bias in favour of the Portu guese. The conspiracy was composed of 0:- mint influenci.i: men. About thirty were taken and impri soned. Opinions differ as to what may be their fate but it is currently reported here, that the present Di rector will not date to proceed to extremities.—The plan was, to seize him at his country-house, where he usually retires on Satutday, and returns on Monday, and put him on board a vessel in the River, and con vey him away: other reports say, the object was to assassinate him. It is said he was fully aware of the plot for several days, but suffered them to proceed until the night previous to its intended execution, when the principals were taken from their beds, and committed to prison. " The Commandant of the Marines, Don Pedro Aguirre, former Minister to the United States, Ge ileral Sarrica, one of the Ex-Directors, with a num ber of others equally eminent, ate accused of beihg among the conspirators, and a'e in custqiiy. The conduct of the Portugese is spoken of here in the strongest terms of indignation and abhorrence. " At Pernambuco the people have been impressed into the militury service, whilst bringing their pro. Alice into the city. Press-gangs, or detachments of soldiers, have been sent into the interior, to press all persons able to hear arms. These recruit, consist of lame and dit , abled peasantry. It matters not under what ailments they may be suffering; soldiers they must be. Orders have been issued to all personi to enrol them• , elees in the count& y in a given time. The soldiers are marching into the houses at Pernambuco and dragging them (Alto the different depots, whence after remaining a short time to be drilled, they are sent to Garrison the different forts along the coast and islands. .‘ The Alvadais, or Judges, who were sent from Rio to Pernambuco to try the State criminals, have kstied orders for pressing count' y people after fifteen days. All the Government vessels have been manned by people torn from their homes, to guard the State criminals to Bahia, where they are to receive then sentence. Upwards of four hundred persons, disal tected towards the present Government, have been given up to the Government of Pernambuco. Seve ral have e‘capeel, principally in English vessel<, as all other vessels undergo a strict examination pre ' vious to leaving this putt. " All is consternation here, on account of the sud ' den departure of the American Minister. which i. owing to the disgraceful insults and gross abuses re ceived by his co,lntrymen. Seventeen American ci tizens had actually been pressed ua board a Portu guese sloop of war, called the Pedro Col Lusnpter. He succeeded in restoring them ; but in so doing, he had been treated with such contempt by the Court, that it was thought dangerous for hike to remain. '• Our trade is completely at a stand, and no busi ness doing. The coast swarms with pirates, and no thing but a frigate or a sloop of war meets with any respect. It is dangerous for any English people to .appear out after dusk, as assassinations are as com mon here as street•robberies in London. " Reports say that General St. Martin had died at Mendoza. This most likely may be true, as he has been ill for a length of time. " Ships can get no freights, as hides are so very scarce, and• their cargoes from England are selling at great loss. I shall soon return to England, as the present state of this country• is truly distrescing." PARIS, JANUARY '2. l'lt I %%ATP. LETTER. " People thought they raw, in the few debates which have takes place, that the Chamber of Depu ties approached the distribution natural to evei y deli berative assembly ; and that instead of being divided into tin ec factionc, it presented no more than two parties, the right and the left side, or minority and majority. . " By the view of matters it may be affirmed, that provided the match of Government be frankly con stitutional, its majority will not he doubtful. " Reciprocal engagements have been contracted on this subject between the centre and the !tit side. • " These divisions of the Chamber are under the di rection of two Meetings of Deputies, who, the better to concert measures, meet in the evenings, the me at the house of M. Ternaur, and the other at that at M. Lafitte. " There are sixty-four Members in the first, and forty in the second, without including others n licse sentiments arc in perfect unison with theirs, :thhotigh they do not attend these meetings. No individu-.,1 wl,O does not belong to the Chamber is admitted. M. de VILLELE does not even range undf.r hoc banner, or that of the right side, more than sissy Ultras, with some deserters of the centre, \5•11, , , .d -ready ashamed for the most part of their momentary defection, supplicate as a favour, admission to pt-iitnet - % " The Chamber of Peers is likewise dividel into two bodies ; but the proportions may there be ferently stated ; as on one side they speak of eighty members, and on the other fifty-four, in the latt^r which is included the Marquis DESSOLLES, ing President of the Council. " As for me, I am of opinion that when the ma jority in the Chamber of Peers becomes uncert.:i:, the remedy is always at hand. If it oppose the Govern ment, of which it is the necessary support and but w.ak, the King has the prerogative of adding a num ber of Peers more, a practice of which your Covern ment furnishes many examples : that will happen when influence will be re-established on iti constitu tional ground, that is, round the person of the King, whose views and reasonable system this Assembly c4noot continue to oppOse without counteracting its object. It -belongs to itself not to provoke by a dan geious (Tposition that increase of Members, which would diminish the lustre of the Peerage without in the least changing the equilibrium of the three powers or eleinentrof powers, since% this Chamber is l uothing afte; all but a political unit." Ti E EVENING srA LONDON. BOTH THE TinnTi" Tnous AND PetsDs 1 1 742T0 MUST 1W DRAWN N;:xT TUESDAY, 13E1N.D 1..1;1' DAY. WEDNESI)AY, .IA:NI ARY 6, ISIO. finritANy, at tilt Bank. The F. , cl:equer a rco:rits of an: quarter ending yesterday are so neatly that a tolerable idea may be formed of the Coinpa.ative res‘dt. Th# total payments of Revenue, exclusive incidentai receipts in the quarter ending sth Jruu.ry, Ist*, Weft - - 1:11.4 . 48,855 !AI) JAnu .1 F, ISI9 - - 11,734,2171 11!1t the ftwiner n.cluded an anticipated payment of the duties on Sag it of abort CEStX),(XX); so that there has been an Improvement is the 'duct of neArk, £9ty.),000. This day the Bank commenced n:ling the Divi dend, to the hankers on the 10.t.-ols and 5 per Cents. and on Friday they will be paid io the public geno. rally : a circornstancs which «ill tend to remedy the present complaints of scarcity of money—a scarcity which would not have been so se; ex cly felt had nut the Rank diminished its discounts to such an extent, as noticed in .t former Paper, that the acceptances of almost every Hai;king-hot:se in London were re jected.—The scarcity should, howtver, Le principally ascribed to the stitpi.l spec , tlati,ais that have been fcr some time going on in the Fiench Funds ; and to this we may also ascribe the late failures at Paris. The settling day of the l r knall hinds was last Li day ; and consideting what vations fluctuations had preceded it, the period .was expected with anxiety, as likely to try the solidity of many Firms. Accordingly, lictore the talkies were declared, the Re,;:us were as how as 64- 1 . ; but when the extent of the failures became known, beii.g less than was anti cipated, they rose in the course of the day to 67. 30. T!:e diminution of the Bank discounts, the conse quent scarcity of cash before payment of the divi dends. and the money lost by specalatious in the French Funds, could not fail to try the solidity of some of the City Houses. The mischief hag, how ever, not b..en very extensive. Three failures occur• red yesterday, surposett to have been occasioned, in one instance, by t!,e stoppage of the Muse alluded to in out last, and is the others, to their connexions with F.tris. It is believed that none of these are to a con , iderable extent, or likely to involve further disagreeable coir,eguences. The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon. The Moniteur contains a very popular Ordonnance on the Droits d Octroi of Paris, or duties established on articles of consumption, for the benefit of the Municipality, by which these duties are considerably diminished. A minor Journal states, that the people press its crowds in the streets around the placards announcing this diminution, and that the working classes in particular testily their gratitude in the strongest tee ms. A common woman expressed yes terday the sentiments of one of . these grouper, by calling the Oidounance— .4 New Year's Gift of Henry IV. The tall in the price of grain continues to be gene ral throughout the prater part of the Departments of France, and requests have been made to the Go vernment for libert) of etportation. Tlie Duke d It lc,' ELI taf's health is sa;l to be now completely re-establkhed. The 5 per Cents. readied, on Saturday, 66 fr. 75 e. at which they awed. PETERSBURCOI, NOVEMBER t We enjoy lime an extraerdinary temperature, con sidering the period of the year. Without Ike lung nights, which no variation of the atmosphere can change, the month of November would resemble the fine days of autumn. The ice has not yet closed the port of Cronstadt ; there anived there, on the 2d of this moral), the English slip .:m-M.try, and tie Lul , c,:ker (andime, lion; liou: . dea,..s. The tc:al rnt::,b.•r of vessels which have entered this pett ueason) i, 1165 ; and of those which have cleared out, 1169. An article from Copenhagen, dated the rtir inserted in the Frtrich Papers, states, that ACCon.li: , .g to the recent news itrast London. the ne;ociaLion opened by the Danidi 4;uyerrahe:it iur the LJAII (..f a Million Sterling, has been att,..ntled with the de sired et►ect. Extra.t c,f a letter lions Segovia, dated the 16th December, 1818: " At Ftrer.,s, a placer in th:: T'rovinee of S:Tovia, and .her se‘, rat men have stupt :tookagh out know their number, ti:.iturin, &v.) woo demaud rations, 41111 levy contd. katEnv, .mrt.eipts. They are people of consequence, and among them are two Colonels. They weir helmet., with the Oppre%sed by rytutsAno the Seventh: They olid letters to every perave was. has a good parse. These elh culars have feat-tal this An Ordinance. we larnert to find, hat been pub.. lished in the Electorate of Hesse, the only intelligible object of which is w re der the benefits of a learned education as difficult ..• po,sible of access to the com munity. According to this extraordinary decree, c.,.•.1•1!..i10rs and tie of lank equivalent to that of ~t the eldest Sons of Clergymen, Anil 'C' e t Al he .n • , 741 lh : is Irn , >r 'it .11 Ila al 21 al 21. el • a