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• ' • EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. • AUOSBURGH, DECEMBER 21. The. 'benevolent efforts made by M. Maurice de Furstenwaerter, to relieve the distresses of the Ger man Emigrants to the United States, are well known. The following is the letter addressed to him on this subject by M. John Quincy Adams, in the name of the American Government : • " WASHINGTON, JUNE 14,1819. " Stn—l have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 221 of April, with the enclosure of the Baron de Gagern, your relative , and a copy of your printed report. I hope, and indeed entertain no doubt, that the latter may be of great utility to such of your countrymen as may have formed erroneous ideas with regard to emigration from Europe to this country: It has been clearly shewn to you, and you have accurately seized the idea in your report, that the Government of the United States has never takea any steps to invite or encourage emigrants to come from any part of Europe to America. It has never held out any inducements to draw to this country the subjects of a foreign State. Motives of humanity have sometimes determined it to offer certain facili ties to some emigrants who may have arrived here .with the intention of establishing themselves here, and who had need of particular assistance for execute ing their intention. Neither the Government of the Union, nor the differen: States that compose it, de spise or disdain the increase of strength and prospe rity which the nation might receive from a mass. of new inhabitants, healthful, laborious, and temperate; nor are they more indifferent to the great advantages which this country has derived, and is still deriving, from the concourse of adopted children coming from Germany ; but there is one principle on whick all the institutions of this Republic are founded, and which is a permanent object in granting favours to new comers. This is not a country of privilege, but of an equality of rights. The Sovereigns ot Europe grant to certain classes of individuals certain privi leges, which have some object of political utility ; but it is the general opinion here, that privileges granted to one class of people are necessarily an in jury to some other. " Emigrants from Germany, or from any other country, have not, on arriving here, any favour to expect from the Governments; but in case they should desire to become Citizens of the State, they may flatter themselves with enjoying the same rights as the natives of the country. If they possess pro pe.-ty, they may reckon upon finding the means of increasing it with moderation, but with certainty ; if they are poor, but laborious, honest, and know how to be satisfied with a little, they will succeed in gaining enough to support themselves and their fa milies ; they will pass an independent, but a labori ous and painful life, and if they cannot accommodate themselves to the moral, political; and physical state of this country, the Atlantic Ocean will always be open to them to return to their native countries.— 'They must bend their characters to necessity, or they will assuredly fail, as Americans, in all their schemes of fortune; they must throw off, as it were, their European skin, never more to resume it ; they must direct their thoughts rather forwards towards their posterity, than behind them to their ancestors ; • they must persuade themselves that whatever may be their own sentiments, those of their children will assuredly approach more to the habits of the country, and will catch something of the haughtiness, perhaps a little l contemptuousnes, which they have themselves re marked with surprise in the general character of this people, and perhaps still more particularly in the individuals of German origin, who are born in this country.—This sentiment ot superiority over all other nations, which never leaves them, and which has been so very displeasing to foreigners who have visited our shores, prticeeds from the opinion entertained by each individual, that, in quality of a member of society, there is no person in this country superior to him.— Proud of this feeling, he regards with some haughti ness, those nations among whom the mass of the people are regarded as subordinate to certain privi leged classes, and where men are great or insignifi cant by the hazard of their birth. But from this it also happens, that no Government ht the world has so little means of bestowing favour as that of the United States. The Governments are the servants of the People, and they are regarded as such by the People, who create and depose them. • 44 They are elected to administer the public affairs for a short space of time, and when the People are not satisfied with them, they cease to maintain them in their functions. But if the means of the Govern ment to do good are limited, the means of doing ill are limited also. Dependence, here, in the affairs of Go/aliment, is precisely in the inverse ratio of what takes place in Europe. The People here eo not de pend upon those that govern them ; but the latter, as such, depend constantly upon the good will of the People. 44 We know very well, that of the quantity of fo reigners who every year come to our country to fiz their abode, none of them come from taste, or from any regard to a country to which they are totally strangers, and of which the Germans do not under= stand even the language. We know that they come here not for our advantage, but for their own ; not to labour for our prosperity, but to ameliorate their own condition. Thus we expect to see very few in dividuals of Europe who enjoy in their own country ease, happiness, or even any gratification, come and settle in America. Those who are happy and con tented remain at home, and it requires a principle of motion not less cowerful than want, to remove a man from his native country, and the place where the tombs of his. ancestors are placed. Of the small number of emigrants of fortune who endeavoured to settle in our country, a considerable portion were dis satisfied with our singular customs, and, after a cer tain residence, returned home. There are certainly some exceptions; and, in the most opulent and dis tinguished class of our fellow-citizens, we have the good fortune to count some individuals, who would have acquired fortune and distinctions, even had they not passed into a new country, and another por- , ' tion of the world. We should feel great satisfaction in seeing yourself among this number, and that it would accord with your dispositions and sentiments. 41 I have the honour to be, Sir, &c. " JOHN 43 INCY ADAMS." lllMll■moimm.-- .` a'i;;; • LAW OTELLICENTR. BOARD OF EXCISE, JANUARY 5. • OBSTRUCTION OF OFFICER. -THE KING V. VOISET. This was an information exhibited against the de fendant, who is a grocer, for obstructing J. Burton, an Excise officer, in the execution of his duty. The information, which is founded upon the 10th Geo. I. cap. 10. subjects the accused party, on conviction, to a penalty of f.:100, or not less than one fourth in mi tigation. Mr. MAYO having stated the short facts of the case ion the part of the Crown, produced the following I evidence : Burton, the officer, said, that on the day stated in the information, he went, in pursuance of his duty, to examine the stock of the -defendant. The latter is a. retail grocer, living ia Ratcliff-highway. He arrived at his house about two o'clock in the afternoon. It was on a Saturday, and there were one or two cus tomers in the shop. As soon as he could speak to Ithe defendant, ltelold him he was come to take his stock. The defendant expressed great surprise, re: fused to assist him, and tuvied his attention to the customers. He again requested • him to proceed in taking the stock, but be was only replied to with abuse. The defendant manifested every degree of opposition, and in the course of their conversation called him " a liar, scoundrel, thief, and high , wayman," and told him he svould " physic him tbi coming on a Saturday." After considerable delay and opposition he succeeded in getting some of the teas into the scale, but the defendant spewed no dispchition to assist in getting thorn out. The witness desired that the samples which were in the windows might be taken out, but the de fendant would not suffer it. He proceeded, in eon sequence, to take them out himself, but was also re sisted in this by the defendant, who declared that no man should take them out. After some further al tercation and delay, witness was at length compelled to seek the aid of an officer, in order to enable him to perform his duty. He was detained there more than two hours, but had the proper facilities been given him, he would have been enabled to take the stock in about twenty minutes. The witness underwent a long cross-examination by the defendant, in the course of which he admit ted, that there were at times a number of "customers in the shop, to whom, of course, Mr. Voisey could not pay attention, if he applied himself solely to the taking of the stock. The defendant complained of the very inconvenient time at which the officer visited his shop, and said, that had he attended solely to him, he must have turned all his customers adrift, and become subject to a very severe loss. It was quite unusual, he said, to - take stock on a Saturday. - The Cower said, that they were far from desiring that the officers should act arbitrarily, or put indivi duals to inconvenience; but they bad a duty to per, form, and the Ad of Parliament was as imperative upon them to take the stock, - keit was upon the de fendant and others to assist them in so doing. Burton, the officer, being recalled, stated, that on the day in question he marked the time by the *lock, in Wellclose-square, not 200 yards from the defen dant's house.. It was two when he arrived there, and past four when he left. The Cover having deliberated for some time, said, that the case appeared to be established, and, under all the circumstances, they felt themselves bound to inflict upon the defendant the mitigated penalty of a fourth of the full sum, with arrimmation that he might petition the Board, if he pleased, for a still further remission.—Penalty, £2j. IMITATIVE PEPPER.-Mr. Beard, a grocer, was charged with having in his possession a quantity of imitative pepper. His defence was, that the article produced in evidence was not hii, and must have been conveyed into his place by some evil-disptr.ed person, if not the officer.—He was fined in the penalty. of £lO. Mr. Dowling, a grocer, was charged with a simi• lar offence, namely, having a quantity of spurious pepper in his possession. The defendant pleaded that' he had before been convicted by the Court, and' trusted that would be a sufficient punishment. The Collar thought this rather an aggravation, and again convicted him in the sum of £lO. JANUARY 6.----THE KINO r. PURCELL. This was an information against the defendant, Mr. N. J. Purcell, for having' in his possession, in an unlicensed and unentered place, sine candle-frames, or moulds, containing 190 pipes, and three manu factured candles. The penalty, upon conviction, is a forfeiture of the ,eroods, for the use of his Majesty. J. Stitch, an Officer, said, that on the 14th of Sep tember last he surveyed the manufactory of the defen dant, who is a respectable wholesale and retail chand ler at Lambeth. Every thing was correct upon the immediate premises; but he found in a shed, about 150 yards from the house, nine frames, as before de scrihed, for the manufacture of candles, three of which were newly made in the pipes. The whole were in a cart, covered over with sacking, and ap peared to be recently placed there. Charles Chambers, one of the Surveyors of the Ex cise, proved that the place in which the frames and candles were found was not•duly entered or licensed for such purpose. The defendant declared his perfect innocence as to any unfair intention towards the Excise. The goods found in the shed, he admitted, were his; tart he had merely purchased them the day before, and should have had the regular entry made, but being pressed by business at e time, and being himself fatigued and old, it was unfortunately neglected that even ing. He had maintained a fair character in business for many years, and was well known to the Officers of Excise. His integrity had never before been ques tioned; and he was ready to prove that the frames found upon his premises were, as he before stated, bought on the previous day, and were never used by him, or intended for illicit purposes. William Dowie, a broker, deposed, that on the 27th August last he was employed to levy a distress for £7 10s. at a house in Saville-place, for a Mr. Ste srens. The party on whom he levied gave him, among ether articles, nine moulds, or frames, to re cleeni the distress. On the 11th. September, he sold these to Mr. Purcell for £l2 Ss. and the latter had Ithem removed away in his cart. Thomas Stevens was the person who employed the *t witness 'to levy the distress upon a person named Coombs. That individual, he knew, bad n . iiieTrames- and -he believed that thoie found 'at Mr. PaneWs ! were identically the same. -The Commissioners, -having consulted together for a short time, exonerated the defendant, auckordered his property to be restored. THE KING V. STEPHEN WILLIAM BILL. Stephen William Bill was charged with conveying two gallons of brandy, two gallons of Hollands, and two gallons of British spirits, from his warehouse to certain places, without a permit. An Officer, named Skipper, seized the goods, on the 22d September last, at the corned of Queen-street, Rotherhithe. Henry Mitchell, the servant of the defendant, stated, that the case originated solely from neglect and mistake. The pernut was on his master's table on the morning he was 'sent away with the spirits, and he unfortunately left home, in a hurry, without it.— The permit, as taken out for the purpose in ques tion, was now put in and sworn to. The defendant was acquitted, and the - spirits or dered to be restored. THE KING V. MORGAN. A spirit-dealer, named Morgan, was charged with having a quantity of his stock under proof _The property was condemned. WESTMINSTIIR SESSIONS: Yesterday morning the business of these Sessions commenced before ROBERT BAKER, Esq. and a full Bench of Magistrates. The Proclamation against Vice and Immorality being read, and the customary forms gone through, the Grand Jury were sworn, and addressed by the CHAIRMAN as follows: " Gesirtzses-v—l am happy to inform you that the Calendar is much smaller than usual; you will, therefore, not be detained long in the investigation of the business that may coin, before you. lam also OA to congratulate you on the good order and tranquillity of the City of Westminster, and the Metropolis in general. The measures adopted lry Pa rliament have had the ef fect of enabling the quint and :veil-disposed to follow their avo cations, and perform their duties in society, in safety and quiet. It will not be requisite for me to advert to particular Acts of the Lnisrature, of which I have no doubt but you have full knowledge. It will not, therefore, be necessary for me to de tain you longer, being fully convinced that your experience will emble you to decide, on all matters brought before you, with judgment and Impartiality." The Court was afterwards occupied for several hours in hearing an indictment against Mrs. Warren and Benjamin Wnrren, of the Strand, for a nuisance, created by their making blacking; and also for their obstructing the foot-path by their waggons and black ing barrels. After hearing a host of witnesses, the case was given up, as it did not appear that the de ' fendants were managers of the concern, the name of Robert Warren being over the shop-door. MOH COURT OF JUSTICIART, JANUARY 3. This morning the Coutt proceeded to try John Reynolds and Robert APGie, accused of robbery, theft, and breaking into lt:ck-fast places, on the '23d day of October, by going into a cow-house, in the parish of Stow, 'and breaking open a chest, and steal mg a variety of articles of wearing apparel ; and fur ther, with assaulting David Allan, on the King's high way, and robbing him of three half-crown pieces, and some silver. The prisoners pleaded Guilty to the indictment, which his Majesty's Advocate restricted to an arbi trary punishment, and, after a suitable admonition from the Loan JUSTICE CLERK, they were sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. POLIO?. Mawstow-Hoists.—James Hamilton, a person about 19 years of age, was charged by Stephen Nicholson Barber, Esq. one of the partners in the Banking-house of Sir John Perring and Co. with having forged a check upon the house for £63, In the name of Mr. Harding, Notary-Public, of Ball-alley, Lombard stmt. Mr. Barber stated, that Mr. James Harding kept cash at the house of Sir John Perring. On Tuesday, one of the drivers of the light Bath night coach presented a check at the house for the pay ment of £63, drawn in the name of Mr. Harding.— The Clerks had no idea that it was a forgery, and brought it to the witness, who was also deceived by the imitation. Upon referring, however, to Mr. finding's account, he found that it had been over drawn, and, on subsequent inquiry, it was aster mined that this check, by which the account was overdrawn, was a forgery. When it was com municated to Mr. Harding that his account was in this state, the house were alarmed by the assurance that no check of the date, or . of the amount men itioned, bad been signed by him. This led to the discovery that the check was a forgery. An Officer was immediately dispatched to Bath with the coach man, upon whom no suspicion whatever rested.— Vaul, the coachman, stated, that he drove the Bath coach from London to Newbury. At the latter place he received the check from a fellow servant named Linnell, who had got it at Bath to obtain payment for in Lcndon. He accordingly presented it at the Banking. house. George Linnell stated, that he gave the check to Vaul to get cashed. He received it at Bath, from the prisoner at the bar, who asked whether he was going to London? witness replied in the negative, but offered to get the check presented by a fellow-servant. This offer was accepted, and witness gave the check and the necessary directions to his fellow-servant. Mr. Harding, Notary-Public, of Ball-alley, Lombard-street, stated, that the check was a forgery : he also said, that the prisoner was his Clerk in the year 1818. Marchant, the Officer, stated, that he apprehended the prisoner at the White Hart, Bath, and that the prisoner refused to tell his address. He was remanded, merely to have an op portunity of seeing his friends, before his committal .fite trial. Bow-araerr.—Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, as Mr. John Burne, boot-maker, of Charles court, in the Strand, was tuning out of the end of the court into the Strand, he was suddenly attacked by a man, who knocked him down backwards, and at the same time robbed him of his watch. The attack was so sudden, and the fall so violent, that Mr. Burne was senseless for a short time. He re turned to his family, and his daughter set off to call at all the Pawnbrokers for some distance round the neighbourhood, to leave a description of her father's watch. In a short time afterwards, a woman presented a watch at Mr. Ashman's, in the Strand, for pledge. The shopman suspected the watch to be the same of which information had just been received, but was not certain, and went to call to the young man, who up stairs, who had received the infor mation. The woman, taking the opportunity of the young Man turning his back to make the inquiry , left the Atop, and -- made her escape, teav lag the watch. Information was then..stritto Mr. Burnt, and yesterday the parties attended before the Sittin. Magistrate, when Mr. Burne stated, that the att:x:: upon him was so sudden and instantaneous, that he should not know the robber again if he «gas to see him. The young man from Mr. Ashman's stated, that the woman who offered the watch-to .pawn, iVal; not known at their shop. Upon Mr. Burne swearing to the watch being his property, it was restored to him. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, a Man named Ma lard, was brought before the Magistrates, charged by Wainwright and Edwards, Police-Officers, with being a rogue and vagabond, in the practice of keel ing a Little-Go, and taking illegal insurances in lie Lottery. The O ffi cers stated, that the prisoner was a well known offender, having been convicted before • {of the same kind of offence. NVednesday night at warrant was issued by the Magistrates to search the' prisoner's house, in Little Northampton street, Clears enwell, which was executed by the Officers, tod the? . found a number of papers relating to the. Lottery; and a complete list of prices of insurance. Mr.Hasszi Solicitor: to the Stamp-Office, attended on the rte of the prosecution, and said, the prisoner being an incorrigible irffender, he hoped he would he treated with the utmost severity of the law. The Magistrate Ordered the prisoner to be committed for four nionzfls to the House of Correction. The prisoner, who is an old man, dresied very respectably, pleaded very hard for a remission of the sentence, and in extenu. tion of his offence, alleged a want of business to support his family. In consequence of his age, the Magistrate reduced the sentence to three months im prisonment. The Sessions for Middle- ex commence at the Ses sions House, Clerkeuwell-Green, on Monday next. Yesterday, the prisoner's who stand committed on charges of felony, were removed from the several jails in London and Middlesex, to Newgate, prepara tory to their taking their trials at the ensuing Ses sions at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, which corn , mence on Wednesday next, the 12th instant. • An Inquisition was held yesterday, at the Quelir s }lead, Islington, on the body of an infant recently born. Thomas lull deposed, that he found the de ceased quite naked, lying on its back in tae tion of some intended buildings in Back-road, [sling. ton. A surgeon examined she deceased, and t)e. Jury returned the following verdict—" 'nut the ceased was born alive, and died through the ran;:ect of its mother?' Thursday se'nnight eleven poachers were slSor ring for some time round Morton-hall, Norfolk, and on Friday night they came to the number of twenty five. The keeper and three astistrants disturbing them, were attacked and much beaten. Fotzs.—Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Grey and Hull, chair and bedstead-manufacturers, of No. 2, New man-street, Oxford-street, which commenced by some shaVings catching fire in the workshop.; it was discovered in its infancy, and, by means of a good supply of water, the flames wire .prevented from ex , tending, but a considerable part of the premises and stock, were destroyed.—A second fire broke out in the house of Mr. Wright, linen-draper, of Foley-plate, Mary-la-bonne, about eleven o'clock, on Wednesday night, in consequence of a spark having caught some of the light furniture in the shop. The flames had spread to a considerable extent before the fire was discoVered. Several engines arrived on the spot very speedily, speedily, and it was owing to the active exer tions of the firemen, that the whole premises were not destroyed. Considerable damage was done 'to the lower part of the house and property. THa SERP&TINE RIVEH.—The thaw,. yesterday, made no material impression on the ice tilt four o'clock, and even then it would have had but little effect, if it had not been for the vast nunsbers c. owded together around the skaiters of eminence. The lee then gave a tremendous crack, and the water oozed 'up. fortunately, no accident occurred. Mr. Mon- TABUS, Mr. Coottratiatv, the Hon.raloattoit and Mr. CHARLES JUMBLE, were among the beck perfermcs :• the latter experienced a dreadful fall, by his skates coming in contact with a stone. He fell on his faces one eye turned immediately black, and his nose was much cut. Undismayed, however , he fearlessly resumed the sport. Figure-daaciug was never displayed with such adroitness belay', in which about a dozen joined in one movement. There were many Russian and Swedish Gentlemen witnessing these proofs of superior talent, who were excellent performers themselves.. All the footpaths in Hyde Park resembled a Sanday's promenade ; those frock Grosvenor, Cumberland, and Stanhope Gata; were equally as much thronged as Rotten-low. The line of carriages was extensive ; and there were many equestrians of titled distinction. TWELFTH NIGHT.—The confectioners, yesterday evening, exhibited their annual display. The sight of the snow-crowned cakes, their sweetmeats, their festoons of flowers and foliage, their wreaths of roses and jessamines, intermixed with sparkling lights in numerable, were really quite refreshing--accompa nied, as it was, by the contemplation of all those happy fire-sides of which these exhibitions were but the token !—BADDELEY'S Cake was, as usual, drawn for in the Green-Room of Drury-Lane Theatre. LONG Saavrec.—Ann Squire, late of Wells, in Sometsetshire, some little time since died at an ad vanced age, having been in the service of Mr. Fuller and family, for more than eighty years ; and, lately died. William Penny, aged seventy-two, who was in the same service full fifty years ! BIRTH& Monday, in George-Street, Hanover-square, the Lady of the Solicitor-General, of a daughter. Dec. 31, at Edinburgh, the Lady of Capt. Barchy► R.N. cf a son. MARRIED♦ Wednesday, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Lieutenant-Can- - Del Marsack, of the Grenadier Guards, to Jane, widow ci Richard Lateward Lateward, Esq. of Ealing Grove, Middlesn- Dec. 23, at Edinburgh, Witham Piul, Esq. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Admiral Deans, of Huntington. DIED. Dec. 24, at Edinburgh, Capt. Thomas Boyes, late of the tath Foot. September 18, at Kingston, Jamaica, the Lady of Dr. An derson, 92d Regiment. Dec. 27, at }lectoun Manse, Scarab Xlizabetb. second &tusk ter of the Rev. James Duncan. HIGH.WATZR at LORDOI4 BRUME TO-MORROW. hicrning . . 4t iniautes after Afternoon • • • a --•••••-- --ur 1-Plokott" ;tt:d and published by Dreg, . niCtl Titiple•Dacc E' ,~ `i! 4 ~'