The National Register. — London, England, 1821-11-25 00:00:00

'N.M..' --- . No. 1,348.—V0i.. XIV.] SUNDAY, NOVI lER 25, 1821. .43LEtti - CAN PAPERS. the plain and simple character of an American citi zen, or to pine away the dregs of their existence, and, finally, to die on a Barren rock, surrounded by the surges of the Atlantic.-denied in the hour of death' not only the presence of the Lords and Ladies of the Court, but likewise the tears of sympathiz. ing friends, where not oven conjugal faith or filial sensibility could smooth a pillow for the head, or close t4t , ele whose beams epee resole the eon*. deratenioteutntes of Europe tremble and turn pale: Such is the glory which Americana wish to avoid ; in the contemplation of such spectacles, they turn with renewed delight to their own President, the citisen-magistrate of the ouly remaining republic on the thee of the globe. PHILADELPHIA, Qire. 25.....T0 our great disap pointment, on applying last evening at the stage (Aloe for our usual packets from New York, we found that no mail bag had been received by the steam boat. The disappointment was greater, as it was known that the Hercules (sailed the 17th Sept. from Liverpool) was below at New York, and that no less than six expresses had arrived here from that city in the course of Tuesday night ; the first of which immediately started for the Brandy Mills and Baltimore. The * demand for flour in this city was so great at an early hour, that suspicion was imme diately excited, and but few sales were made; that commodity is now held at about 10 dollars. Our information is, that owing to the failure of the crops in England, in consequence of the bud weather, bread stuffs had risen from 20 to 30 per cent. The New York market was drained, by a passenger who left the Hercules about 60 miles from the land, and was in New York the whole day incou . Between two and three hundred persons left this city yesterday, for the purpose of buying up all the flour in the neighbouring counties. Accounts from Nov Orleans, to 26th September, by the mail, state, that information from every part of the State, but particularly the interior, confirmed the statement that not more than half a crop of cot ton would be made this season. (Front the Boston Columbian Centincl, October 27.) Batartmons, OCT. 19.—Our journals are teeming with the accounts of the King of England's coro nation, with his visit to Ireland, with addresses, and festivals, and songs, and loyal toasts, and music and triumphal marches, and all that give bustle, and splendour, and pageantry to a spectacle so brillant, --What a contrast is furnished on this side of the Atlantic, in the inaugUration of an America*Pre• silent! The Senate, after having counted the auto trases, proclaim the successfid candidate, who, on taking the constitutional oath required, is front that moment, and to all intents and purposes, the Chief Magistrate of the American republic. He may oc casionnlly visit his fe.llow-citizens in some remote pert of the continent, when he partakes of their hoe pitality and departs. We may learn by the daily journals where the Chief Magistrate is to be found, and even they, perhaps will not mention the fact, enless some special circumstances, worthy of atten tion, should occur in the course of his journey. —But where arc his guards in the meantime?— He has none, he never dreams of having any; and ahoeld be take such a precaution, he would be lauehed at from one extremity of this continent to the other. He may probably devote a month or more to such a jaunt, and on his return to his limne, he may be found, in the recess of Con gress, sitting quietly by his fire side, with his wife and children, or perhaps superintending the cultiva tion of tobacco. Surely it will be said, if the Chief Magistrate of this republic can afford so much time to his own enjoyment, the members of his cabinet must do a double ditty. Here the foreign enquirer tends himself mistaken again ; he perhaps proceeds to Washington, in the expectation of meeting the ' heads of departments ; but what may be his surprise to learn that the President is in Virginia, the Secre tary of State itiMassachussets, the Secretary of the Treasul y - ia Georgia, and the Secretary of the Navy in New York. He will find, to be sure, a few clerks in these respective offices, who arc, of themselves competent to transact all the ordinary business during the recess. If cases demanding the presence of these officers occurs, they arc notified by mail: they come, resolve, and again disperse to their families and to their homes. This is the distinctive line between republicanism and royalty—the Pre sident and all the heads of the departments are more than half of their time simple citizens, and scarcely contemplated by their relatives and friends in any other light. As an evidence of this sort of pervading equality, we were conversing with a Virginia planter some time slue, who un some questions that occurred in the course of his remarks, observed, that he derived his intelligence from the lips olCol Monroe. We fin.- get what-the information was, nor is it material to our present purpose: but this gentleman thought no more at that time of the President of the United States, than he did of King George, or the Empe ror Alexander. Now is there not a moral dignity in this, far superior to all the artificial - splendour and glitter of a royal coronation ? Is there not in this combination of the citizen and the magistrate, something superior to magnificent titles, to stars, and to garters—a man superintending the welfsre of the United Suites, and employing his leisure mo ments, that nu time may pass away unimproved, in the cultivation of his film ? This shows us of what materials our magistrutes are made : we are com pelied to rely on tto legitimate stock—to watch over ' no infant's cradle, or to observe with anxious soli eitede a legislator in his' go curt, doomed when a child to play with a threepenny whistie, end when a man with crowns and sceptres. It is the prevalence of such ideas in the first set tleirent of this country that has made Americans what they arc. We arc now going buck, we trust, the simplicity of early times. , Awhile, the pony ot !sewer, and the intoxication of European victo ries, seemed to have seised upon our minds ; we waited every arrival with intense interest, to learn haw many men were sacrifi:ed at the shambles of human butchery ; how many cities were ever 11:rwn : how many towns and hamlets laid in ashes. Btzt we have lived to witness, and partially ta feel, the consequences of such exhausting glary. We have lived to see mighty conquerors them selves compelled to fly the field 'before those genies that they bad formerly vanquished, forced to ley d'Avu their crowns and sceptres, and to partake of In a court held in Pensacola, Governor Jackson made the following remark:—" I am clothed with powers that no one under a republic ought to pos sess, and which, I trust, will never again be given to any man—nothing will afford me more happiness than to learn that Congress in its wisdom shall have distributed them properly, and in such a manner as is consonant to our earliest and dearest impressions. Yet, as I hold those powers by the authority of an Act of Congress, and Commissions from the Presi dent of the United States, it therefore becomes my imperious duty to discharge the sacred trust reposed in me, according to my best abilities; even though the proper exercise of the powers given might in volve me in heavy personal responsibilities. It has been my fortune to be thus circumstanced on other occasions, in my various relationships as a public servant, vet i never have, and never will, siirink from the discharge of my public duties, from any apprehension of personal responsibility." NEW-YORK, OCT. 17....-• The editor of the Na lional Gazelle has thought proper to notice the regrets we expressed at finding him the "Apologist for the late conduct of Gen. Jackson at Pensacola."—" Our knowledge," he adds, •' of this case is, we appre hend more intimate than that of the New York editor. We rely confidently upon the results of a more full and dispassionate investigation. The first impulse of an Amcrizan public writer, should be towards his own countrymen and country; both should always be presumed to he in the night, on whatever occasion, until the contrary is estab lished by irrefragable evidence.. When this secret intelligence, which at present is confined to the breast of M.. %Valli, shall be com municated to the public, we shall be enabled to judge how far it may extenuate the conduct of Gen. Jackson We must, howtver, (Lifer from the sen timents of the Philadelphia editor, in the conclud ing paragraph we have quoted. Our " first impulse" will ever be towards truth and justice. The cause of General Jackson is not at present the cause of our country, nor will it become such until the ad ministration shall acknowledge and justify his mea sures. We consider nothing more unworthy or more dangerous, than the es:wish:lu of that feeling r lationali 'AO Our thing, Conatitution, anb labA. t c trr. % , ‘'.4l , •r* PRirE Which would excuse the perpetration of violence and outrage in time of peace, because the individual who committed it had been bold and successful in war, and this we have no doubt is the real opinion of Mr. Walsh. (Extract of a Letter fewit Baltimore, Oct. 49.) " The brig Maryland arrived in this port yestc r day in 18 days from Curacoa. On the 29th Sept. fell in with the brig Boston ocSelim, frora St. Do. saino, with a cargo of tnallogany ; the brig was up. set In. a squall, her masts were cut away, but the hull was stater-logged. Captain Doyle was washed overboard and drowned, and the mate perished for want of food ; on the 2tith a seaman expired from the same cause. Shocking to relate, these men were without any food, except a few grains of It..t,sn corn, or fluids that proceeded from their own bodies, for 15 days. Three of the remaining crew were taken from the wreck, 'and have arrived in good health." " Commerce and Navigation.—The shipping in the port of New York up to the lit October, pre sents a striking view of the extent of the commerce of that port, both foreign and domestic. The num ber of ships are 81, gun-brigs 58, of these ten were foreign, the rest American, At the same time there were 50 schooners in port, all of which are employed in the coasting trade, except a small number trading to the West Indies ; and there were 105 sloops ; all hut 18 are employed in the Sound and liver trade; in addition to this evidence of business, there are now building for the New York merchants 11 large ships and brigs." EXtruct of a letter from St. John's, Oct. 10.— The landing of the first native settlers in New Brunswick was celebrated here on the 4th instant, Three spacious tables were laid out in the King's *pare, and at one o'clock an ox was-roasted whole, and each table supplied amidst the sedum itiatis of She people. PORT OF QUEBEC, OCT. 22.—0 n the 12.. h of this month the schooner Dolphin arrived in 13 days from Anticosti, with 20 passengers, being the re mainder of the people wrecked in the Dalhousie. • SLAVE TRADE..-•••On the coast of Guinea, an of ficer commanding a Danish settlement had occasion . recently to put in force the instructions received • from his government, with regard to the Slave Trade; having taken prisoners the crew of a Por tuguese Slave ship, and sent them to Sierra Leone. It is gratifying to the friends of humanity, that four nations of the civilized world adhere with becoming constancy to the agreements entered into by them with other powers, (who have basely abandoned their sacred engagements) in the cause of the in• jured sons of Africa, England, Hol'and, the United • • States, and Denmark, have acted with firmness anti justice—while France, Spain, and Portugal, have exhibited the most inhuman delinquency. 1 , 1 . . traffic the two latter nations have always proved themselves cruel and rapacious, tiom the conquest of Peru by Pizarro, and that of the dominions of • India, by the successors of Vasco de Gann, to the present day. But fro.n France better conduct was to have been expected ; owing, as that government does, its present establishment in a great measure to England, it might be supposed that it would have contracted ome of the humane feelings which actuate the conduct of that nd:ion. , DRESDEN, Nov. 2.—lt is certain that the final - ratification of the act of the free navigation of the Elba will take place in the course of November; that it will begin to be in force on the is January, 1822; since the disputes respecting the duties of customs between Prussia and Anitalt seem to be ad justed by reciprocal concessions. The only difficulty at the conclusion was a reservation on account of the t' • maritime rights of Hamburgh and Hanover, by which the most friendly understanding certainly; cannot be further interrupted. The Austrian Cum.. • • missioner, Baron V. Munch, ivho lately received from Vienna the little cross of the highly honourable or,ler of St. Stephen, as a testimony of his Majesty's • satisfactien, is expeeted in a fi:w days to complete the ratification, for which purpose several of the , Deputies from distant parts have already sent their full powers to Members now here. The custom of the exhibitors of the curiosities in Westminster Abbey presenting Gun Munk's cap fur a compliment has been abolished. 1, -~,.. • • • •••,,.,,•••• . . ,~j ~