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--- / 1-40 V 1 111111)\L 1411, . 1w ‘ llllll lllmr . l . CLU tii &:lt t Ora" : frok ) a.. un bt . , - , tzT_ Liao al CONTRACT FOR OATS. I COBIIIIssARIAT DEPARTMENT, TREASURY 0 TT , CHAMBERS, JULY 29, 1529. ►` - '`-' l l Persons as are desirous of Contract- Mg With the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to b ena e , 336,000 POUNDS of OATS at the Ordnance ir Tooley-street, may receive particulars of the Con , _ e aCt ti, d Office between the Hours of Ten and Yaw, and liver their Tenders sealed up and directed to the Agent for onk.bruinissariat Supplies., marking thereon "Tender for Oats ;" oe :r 'Wore SATCILLAY the Sth August, but cone will be p 'ed after 'Neve o'clock on that day ; nor will any Lialltr.osicuaiarbe noticed unless made on or annexed to a printed a n 4 ti;he price inserted in words at length ; nor • lett er t.. .. Pellet 's k !, e subjoined to such Proposal signed by two 44* party, , n( r dm property engaging to become bound with WI; , 4 11" tering, in the sum expressed in the particii e due performance of the Contract. 4111 1 , 1311 . j, FISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. .11.. 13 .: 1 • GALLERY, with a Selection of the 4 4 , 1 t • Works of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch, Schools, IS NOW OPEN DAILY, from 'Team the Morning till Six in the Evening. Admission Is., Catalogue Is. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. • SURREY. Thir teen Miles from London, between Croydon and Westerham. 1) be LET, FURNISHED, for a Term 1 4 0 b? Twel ve Years, or Less, with immediate Posses- Itt the MANSION called SANDERSTED COURT, '3 Acres of Park-like Meadow Land, and the Manor ..ding over more than 1,000 Acres. )ti Tickets for viewing, and further particulars, may be lid Of Messrs. Hughe s and Henslow, solicitors, 13, Cle- Istat' s • TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN. 141)-x of the highest respectability, who has hedge o f t l east arxood theoretical, if not) a practical know a Letter..presa Printing, and who can command 4 0 , °IR, to 1,0001., will lie admitted to take the Out net.; "ePsetment of a well established Manufacturing Busi litu2Pon terms equa lly as pro fi ta bl e as th e M an uf ac turer ' 91 4 and without any comparative risk of property, bf either party being involved in a copartnership. host-pain letters to X. Y. Z., 37, High Holborn, will Z....t.t_ended to. pE,,RtING'S PATENT LIGHT BEA % „„fitti. HATS, at 21s. to 265. weighing only A l ti — rt 7; are the best ever offered to public notice ; for ta ct hs dit Y and brightness they are unequalled ; they are i and 'uTt than half the weight of the common made bat, ,velliblvill wear equa ll y as long. Carriage, Opera, and Tra 'raent-,,g. Hats and C a p s o f ever y Inyention.—Establish *Are: 86 , Str an d, corner o f C ec il- stree t ; 124, Edge t.na,l; and at T ATE AND HOUSE-AGENCY OFFICE, No. 93, 13 ISHOPSGATE-STREET-WITHIN. tI EN , WY L. COOPER, in submitting to p his Friends the publication of his Register fur the I::".ent month, is happy in being able to state that, after "lag already disposed of a much greater number of pro tirtieB on any former season, and from the patronage A g e ncy Establishment has found with the Public, he ....Is still th e opportunity of laying before them a list of t!ous es and Estates, which few competitors can exceed, e l v it h h i € : l , value, importance, or variety, and in situations PriSe most of the counts in England, thereby tendering it almost impossible but that patties, either as both or sellers at the reasonable value of the day, may 1 s:t1 1 a ccommodated. An engagement of upwards of 2 t YYsira in th e upholstery department, on t h e same spot, ill, kis presumed be a sufficient Ba n k for his inte rtY anti responsib , g ility ; and when the locality, as to situa nn, is considered, being in the immediate vicinity of the an it of England, Garraway's, and the Auction Mart (the resort of the monied and landed interest of the country), Presents facilities peculiar to this establishment for effecting 14n ediste and advantageous sales, at the fair marketable ay, valu e o f the dfwhatever interests may be committed t o his care. o A i N .• l3 .---Noblem en or G en tl e m e n d e sirous of taking a pro loud l e _ opinion will be waited on at their residences or Bishopsgate•street-within. 11y rIA ~N N US CORIUM, OR LEATHER CLOTH. T HE KING'S ROYAL LETTERS PATENT, 109, STRAND. HALL and CO., in directing the Public attention to their newly invented PANNUS CO RIUM, or LEATHER CLOTH, for Ladies' and Gen tlerneo's Boots and Shoes. would observe that their material Presents a jet and brilliant appearance, combining with the softness natural to cloth, great durability, having no liabi lity whatever to crack, and are adapted to all climates, being differently constructed, so as to keep the feet in any degree of temperature. It resists wet, and its softness is not at all impaired by an exposure to it; is made to fit accurately, and polished with blacking in the ordinary Way. Their beauty will ensure them patronage among the Nobility and Gentry who desire a light and elegant article for dress ; while those who have tender feet, or are subject to much walking, will at once avail themselves of an opportunity which affords unprecedented ease and in creased durability. They are manufactured at 109, Strand, where orders wholesale and retail are promptly executed. u As many L a di es an d G ent l emen may pre f er h av i ng t h e i r opts and Shoes made by their own tradesmen, H. and Co. b are decided upon supplying the Trade with their material `'amps and Quarters, ready trenched to pattern, if re quired, and Boot-legs blocked. _Orders, accompan i e d b y a rem i ttance , w ill mee t promp t qet__ .s. 2!:TL_t.--" All letters are to be post-paid. A NEW SCHOOL BOOK, T hin SUITABLE TO ALL CLASSES. d aY Was published, in a clear bold type on fine paper, b a nd handso me ly p r inted, 12m0., price 4s. 6d. neatly r\. "ound, VUY'S GENERAL SCHOOL QUES TIONotd BOOK ; in which each question, in a re ar series, is followed by its appropriate answer, not only 4leient and Modern History, in which the whole is 'P i nged in c h rono l o gi ca l order, but also in Biography, p l e , tl graPhy, Astronomy, Heathen Mythology, Classical I tt t 'lleelogy, and a great and interesting variety of miscel- 4, us subjects ; the whole tending to enlarge the boun tflh.lea of Juvenile Knowledge, by increasing its stores ; and by blending such a course of general information e*" sound classical or liberal learning, to raise a better "Perstructure of School Education. By JOSEPH GUY, o rmerly of the Royal Military College, and Author of a Chart of General History, Pocket Cyclopmdia, School Geography, Elements of Astronomy, British Spelling Book, &c. &c. London : printed for Baldwin and Cradock. ' l s * This work has been compiled by the author with 1 133 usual care and attention to the wants of Teachers. His Ong and successful practice in the education of youth must 11 1 ways give his books a decided preference over the genera lity of School Treaties, had they no other merit ; but Mr. Guy's school books possess higher claims ; they are more ;erfect in arrangement, more choice in selection, and more tlessical in style than any of the elementary works that have preceded them. Their extensive sale is proof enough ef th e i r va l ue per h aps; b ut l arge as i t i s, t h e pu bli s h ers tioubt not but every year will add greatly to their circula tion • , at present the annual sale of the whole is not short 0 ,; 1 SIXTY THOUSAND ! an d wh e n th e " GENERAL SCHOOL QUESTION BOOK" has taken its station (where it soon will be) in every respectable school in the !jupire, the total sale of these admirable School Books must be greatly increased. Teachers will see in this (Mr. Guy's ? " the and most finished work,) his intimate knowledge of e Wants of schools ; and, in the arrangement, the power L 'u Possesses of abridging the anxious labours of school business. REAL EFFERVESCING CHELTENHAM SALTS, Nang FROM THE WATERS OF MR. THOMPSON'S MONTPELLIER SPAS AT CHELTENHAM. HE Public are respectfully informed that these Salts are the only genuine production of the "'"eltenham Spa Waters, a fact which is well known to every P e roon who has visited Cheltenham. They contain, ac %cli 'ng to the Analysis of Sir Humphrey Davy, and Messrs. lowatide and Parkes, all the Chalybeate and other essential , Properties of the Spa Waters at Cheltenham. These Salts possess an effervescing principle, and in this I 'llPect differ only from the Cheltenham Salts hitherto sold bi the Public. ...Ile REAL CHELTENHAM SALTS in Crystals and ! . Morescence, as well as the above, are to be had of the Sole Agents, Messrs. BUTLER, Chemists, Cheapside, F' b orner St. Paul's, London ; Sackville-street, Dublin ; and 2ince's-street, Edinburgh:—Retail of Hudson, 27, Hay •: ,'"irket; Bass, 76, New Bond-street; the principal Medi ; ' ul t i it l aFa i r sndere, and at the Montpellier Pump Room, Chel tiorTro.--In future the above Cheltenham Salts can ,. be gennine unless the Government Stamp with the "rd• " Batley, Cheapside," is attached to them. No. 11,506. NEW WORKS, Just ready for publication by HENRY COLBURN, No: 8, New Burlington-street. THE BOOK of the BOUDOIR. By Lady MORGAN. 2 vols. The DAVENELS, or a CAMPAIGN of FASHION ir. DUBLIN. 2 vols. The HISTORY of the LATE CATHOLIC ASSO CIATION. By THOMAS WYSE, Jun., Esq., ONE of the MEMBERS. 2 vols. MEMOIRS of BERNADOTTE, KING of SWEDEN and NORWAY. By W. G. MEREDITH, Esq. I vol. Mr. WARD'S MEXICO. A New and Revised Edition, comprising an Account of the MINING COM PANIES to the present Time. 2 vols. Dr. GRANVILLE'S TRAVELS to ST. PETERS BURGH, -with,seventy Plates. 2 vols. THE NEW - MONTHLY and LONDON MAGAZINE for AUGUST contains among otber original and interesting articles Extracts from the Portfofl of a Septuagenarian : Lord Byron and Sir Wslter Scott at Brussels—School-Boy Re collections of the Jesuits—Pictures of Constantinople, by Captain Frankland and Mr. Madden—Letters from New York, Nt. I.—The Life and Correspondence of Locke, by Lord King—Poetry by Mrs. Hemans—Ramblings of a Desultory Man—The Story of the Beauty of Arles— Sporting Scenes in India—A Lazy Day and Shot-shooting —Travellers' Tales—Londoniana : Morning and Evening— Recollections of Brazil, No. H.—The West India Interest —The Broken Lute—Liberality—Farewell to the Alcazar —Discontent, &c. &c. and the usual Varieties in Art, Science, Criticism, the Drama, Biography, Politics, and Domestic Occurrences. Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington-street, and to be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen. rrHE UNITED SERVICE JOURNAL, I and NAVAL and MILITARY MAGAZINE for AUGUST, price 2s. 6d. contains among other interesting papers :—On the Establishment of a United Service Mu seum—Account of the British Campaign of 1809, (con cluded)—A Midshipman's Life on the Coast Blockade, by Lieut. Brand—Notes of a French Officer taken prisoner by the Guerillas—Naval and Military Peers—Biographi cal sketch of Paul Jones—Memoirs of the Emperor Ja hanguer, written by himself—Traits of a Private Soldier —Military Surveying, No. 2—The Rogniat Controversy continued—Hydrography, No. 6—The Works of the late Capt. James Cook, R.N., F.R. S.—The East India Com pany's Military Seminary—Royal Naval Annuitant So ciety—Spanish National Song—Designs for a Pendulum Pump, by Mr. Leith, of Deal—On the use of Howitzer Cannon and Steam Vessels in Naval Warfare—Elegy of a Subaltern in Cantonments on the Banks of the Coa— New Plan for arming line-of-battle-Ships' Launches, by Commander Philip Graham, R.N.—Cavalry alterations in the present system—Original Correspondenee—Tala , vera—On twenty-eight gun Ships and ten-gun Brigs— Military Medals religio snilitis—Congreve Rockets— Discipline—New Publications—Editor's Portfolio—Gene ral Orders and Circulars—Monthly Naval Register—An nals of the Fleet from 1793—Annals of the British Army from 1793—Change in the Distribution of Corps—Ga zettes, Births, Marriages and Deaths, Meteorological Regis ter, &c. &c. Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington street, and to be had of all Booksellers and Newsmen. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. There was a rush into the Justice-room yester day, by merchants and brokers, the case of Richard Giffard, who stands charged with having committed forgeries upon the Bank of England, having been appointed to be heard fully before the LORD MAYOR. After the transaction of some business of minor importance, the following cases were gone into against the prisoner, who is a very young man, and respect- ably connected : Richard Gjfard was charged with having trans ferred stock in the Three per Cent. Consols office, by forging the name of a person named Green. Mr. Thomas Linton, clerk to Mr. Linton, the stock-broker, of No. 4, Shorter's-court, deposed as follows :—On the 6th of March the prisoner ap plied to him to sell 1251. in the Three per Cent. Consols, in the name of 'William Green, of Cru cifix-lane, brazier. Witness told prisoner that he did not know him. " Your father," said the pri soner, " knows me well, and has seen me frequently in the National Debt-office." The witness's father was sent for, and having seen the prisoner, said he knew him somewhere, but did not recollect where. The witness then accompanied the prisoner to the Transfer-office in the Bank, and made out the ne cessary documents for the transfer. Witness looked over the dividend book, and saw the writing for the receipt of the last dividend. The prisoner gave the ' signature " W. Green," and witness, upon compa rison of the writing in the last dividend with the present, found theta to be exactly similar. The stock was then regularly transferred, and it produced 1081., having been sold at 86k. Witness paid the prisoner with a cheque. Mr. Green formerly lived in Crucifix•lane, and now resided in Fashion -street, Dock-head, and was by trade a brazier. He had stock to the amount of 1251. in the Three per Cent. Consols. He had not received the last dividend upon that stock, but he tad from 1826 received all the former dividends.— He did not know the prisoner at the bar; had never seen him before that moment, and had never trans ferred the stock to him. (Here the transfer-book was handed to the witness.) The "W. Green" in the book was not his writing. He always signed himself "W. M. Green." The writing:in the book was not like his. _ _ _ Mr. George Taylor, a clerk in the Bank, had exa mined the alphabet book at the Bank, and found that the only account in Mr. Green's name was that in the Three per Cent. Consols, for 125/. stock. The stock appeured to be transferred. It appeared from this evidence that the prisoner had received the last half-yearly dividend on the stock, as well as the whole of the stock itself. The dividend, it was afterwards stated, had been receiv ed by him on the very day preceding the false trans fer. The stock had, since the forgery been replaced. The second case was this : Mr. Richard Mann, of Chelsea, had 3001. stock in the 3 per Cent. Consols. He had not received the dividends for three years, of course there were six half-yearly dividends due. The clerk in the Three per Cent. Consols-office deposed, that the prisoner applied to him in the name of Mr. Mann for the dividend due on the 300/. stock. Witness took up the book, and asked how many dividends were due. The prisoner answer ed, that there were three due. 66 Are there not more ?" said the witness ; " I make out six." 66 Yes," observed the prisoner, " I mean three years." There was at the moment a hurry of busi ness, the hours of business having been nearly con cluded. Witness handed to the prisoner the book for his signature and six dividend warrants. The Cash-office clerk deposed, that the prisoner came to the Cash-office, and got the amount of the dividend, 27/. Mr. Mann had never authorized the prisoner to receive the amount, and the writing in the book was not his. •On Thursday last the prisoner went into the Ro tunda of the Bank for the purpose of transferring LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, •JULY 30, 18249. :his 3001. stock, and applied to a broker to effect he transfer. The brolier not knowing the prisoner, hesitated in the matter, upon which the latter said that Mr. Linton knew him well. Mr. Linton hap-. pened to be near the spot, and upon being appealed to immediately seized the prisoner, who was taken away in the custody of an officer.—Committed.. It was stated by the beadle of St. Stephen's, Coleman-street, that by means of the press a mise- rably poor man named Smith, who was in the . habit of receiving work-house relief, had come in for an immense fortune. This man supposed that he had had cause, at the commencement of his Lordship's Mayoralty, to complain of the parish officers, and summon them. Mr. Ellis fully justified the conduct of his brother officers, and mentioned that the complainant had, he really believed, a claim to a large fortune, but was prevented by his poverty from establishing that claim. The Lord Mayor ad vised the parish to make the experiment, but Mr. Ellis thought that parishes could not really under take to support claims which might after all involve them in expences never to be repaid. His Lordship then mentionePthat there were no doubt persons who would undertake the office of mediators be tween the conflicting parties, and the facts were stated in the newspapers. Mr. Ellis said. yesterday, the gentleman who-saw the account called at the work-house immediately afterwards, prosecuted the action, and succeeded in obtaining a verdict for Smith, who would probably be put in possession of nearly 100,0001. The LORD MAYOR hoped that Mr. Smith would not forget the numerous favours he bad received from the parish. Mr. Ellis had met the lucky man some days ago, and he did not appear to be in the slightest degree intoxicated at the change of fortune. He had, it appears, been formerly a lamp-lighter, and a grena dier in the city militia. We understand that the case may, however, still get into the House of Lords. The East India Company are, it seems, deeply interested in the result. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday nearly the whole of the time of the sitting Magistrates was occupied in the investiga tion of a case in which three miscreants named Thomas Amor, Francis Beckman, and Mary Hamp ton, were charged with having obtained, by threats of exposing and bringing him to justice for being guilty of a most abominable offence, various sums of money from a Mr. Young, a gentleman holding a respectable situation in one of the first mercantile houses in the city. From the evidence of Mr. Young, who appeared to be labouring under highly-excited feelings, pro duced by a nervous affection of body, it appeared that the prisoners belonged to a gang of ten or twelve wretches who live by such practices, all of whom have haunted and annoyed him for the last twelve months. In the first instance they accused him with being guilty of the most disgusting prac tices with one of their confederates, and threatened, that if he did not give them a sum of money, they would at once expose him to his employers, and bring him to justice. He foolishly complied with their threats, and since that time (twelve months ago) scarcely a day passed over that he has not been beset by one or other of the gang, to whom he has, according to his own acknowledgment, paid over 1001. About ten days since, however, fortunately for the friends of their unfortunate victim, the par- ties quarrelled among themselves, some of them being jealous at the success of the others ; and the result was, that the fact of their infamous practices was communicated from one of them to Goofing, a conductor of the Bow-street patrol, who succeeded in securing the prisoners. After the most minute inquiry into the whole of the circumstances, the pri soners were committed, under Mr. Peel's Act, to take their trials for the capital offence of having feloniously obtained the money. QUEEN-SQUARE. CURIOUS CASE - OF BIGAMY.— William Connolly, an Irishman, was charged with intermarrying with Catherine Fogarty, his former w;fe being alive at ie time. Eleanor Connolly, a pretty-looking woman, with a fine child in her arms, said she was married to the prisoner at St. Giles's Church, on the 26th De cember, 1827. The Parish Clerk confirmed her statement. Catherine Fogarty, an Irish girl, said she had known the prisoner upwards of five years. He had kept company with her, and she was very fond of him : she had not seen him for the last five years, until last month, when he returned from sea, and offered to marry her; she accepted his proposal, and they were married on the 27th of last month. " To end the matter," she added, " I will give up all claims to him, and Mrs. Connolly may have him again if she likes—l don't want him." The first wife said that the female who had just spoken was anxious to get out of the matter, for a good reason ; she was married about . two years ago, and her husband was then alive. The second wife said, it was true she was mar ried about three years ago, to please her father and mother; but as the marriage was not consummated, she thought she was justified in marrying again. Mr. MARRIOTT said that the conduct of the se cond wife did not justify the prisoner, and he was committed for trial. UNION.HALL. Yesterday an investigation took place at this office relative to the conduct of a watch-house keeper, named Morley, who was accused of having taken a small bribe for the liberation of a man in his custody without bringing the charge before a magi strate. The case exhibited in a strong point of view another instance, if any were required, of the necessity for a reform in this department of the police. It appeared that on Sunday night, as a watch man belonging to Rotherhithe was proceeding along one of the streets near the water side, he observed a man dressed in sailor's clothes lying on the pave ment in a state of intoxication, and bleeding very profusely from some cuts in the face, which were probably produced from falls. The watchman in this district having received instructions to take all men found in the streets in the above state to the watch-house for safety, the sailor was accordingly conveyed there, and the charge, which was that of drunkenness, entered in th e night constable's book. This book was placed before Mr. CHAMBERS the following day, who, observing the charge, and hav ing been given to understand that the parties were not in attendance, inquired the reason, when it was intimated that Morley, who has the care of the watch-house in the absence of the constable, accepted of a bribe of ss. from the sailor when he became sober the next morning, and set him at liberty. The magistrate, determined on sifting the case, and ascertaining whether men placed in brief authority presumed to take money from the pockets of those who fell into their clutches under such circumstances, had the parties confronted, when the sailor admitted that his friends had, at his re quest, given Morley ss. on condition that he should be set at liberty without being taken before a Ma gistrate. The sailor added, that so far from Morley, having refused to accede to these conditions, he ap peared most anxious to settle the matter in that way, saying, " 1 may as well have the ss. as the King ; for if you are taken before a Magistrate, you will have to pay a fine amounting to that sum, and ls. besides for your discharge, all of which w ill go to his Majesty." Morley, who is an aged man, said that he had filled the situation of watchman and watch-house keeper for 22 years, and declared that although the money was offered he did not accept of it. The night constable's statement relative to the affair confirmed the truth of the sailor's account, added to which, as the Magistrate remarked, the very circumstance of the man having been set at liberty without being brought to this office com pletely established the fact of the passing of money between the parties. Mr. CHAMBERS then said, that it was quite time Morley should be displaced from his situation : there was little doubt but he had compromised affairs of this nature in a similar manner frequently, end it was requisite that such a person should be removed.— " The business of most watch-houses," added the Magistrate, " requires to be narrowly watched, and persons should be appointed who are of good cha racter and otherwise efficient men, to fill a situation► which has certainly some responsibility attached to it." Morley hoped that after his lengthened services he would not be sent adrift at his time of life. The Magistrate said, that as the appointment was vested in the Commissioners, and Morley was one of their servants, he should leave them to determine the case. The night constable was then directed to apprise the Commissioners of what had transpired at this office relative to the conduct of the accused person. Another case, pretty similar to the foregoing, was also investigated after the disposal of the above. Iwo women, whose conduct was excessively ob noxious at Vauxhall, were locked up in the Vauxhall watch-house, and the charge of drunk and disorderly entered in the book. The following morning, in the absence of the night constable, the watchman left in charge of the defendants liberated them (there is every reason to believe on receiving a bribe), and afterwards tore the leaf out of the b3ok in which the charge was entered, with the view, it seems, of preventing disclosure before the Magistrates. The fellow was soon afterwards discovered in a state of intoxication in the watch-house alone, arid had, it appeared, procured the liquor to get drunk with the proceeds of the bribe he had from the two women, for liberating them. The watchman in this case was discharged from his situation. LIFE OF GENERAL JACKSON. A sketch of the " life, character, and services of Major-General Andrew Jackson," appears in a late number of the Boston Statesman, a paper strongly attached to the interests of the new Pre- sident of the United States. It extends through eight closely printed columns. At the present moment we think a summary of this article ma) be interesting to our readers, when the General holds so important a station in the New World, and so many and such erroneous reports have been circulated respecting him. He is, it ap pears, a native of Waxsaw Settlement, in South Carolina, and born of reputable parents, who early instilled into him the political principles which he has professed throughout his life. At fourteen years of age his enthusiasm led him to enlist in the militia, and he was soon afterwards made prisoner at the place of his birth. His captor, having soiled his boots in passing a creek, ordered Jackson to clean them, which he pe- remptorily refused to do, demanding the treat ment due to a prisoner of war. The officer enraged at this refusal, made, with a naked sword, a blow at his head, which would pro bably have proved mortal, had he not parried it with his left hand, on which a scar still remains to attest the fact. His brother Robert, who was taken with him, for also refusing to perform this menial drudgery, received a deep wound on his head, of which he died a few days after his re lease. His eldest brother, Flugo, perished of fatigue at the battle of Stono ; and his father being already deceased, his mother, who had urged her sons to the field, in defence of their country's independence, being then widowed and almost childless, and subdued by grief and misery, survived her son Robert but a few weeks. At the age of fifteen, Andrew Jack son was left alone in the world—in one year bereft of parents, brothers, and kin, and reduced to a bed of sickness by his sufferings in captivity. While thus sick and friendless, he was attacked by the small-pox, which brought him to the verge of the grave. The strength of his constitution and the vigour of his mind enabled him to triumph over the complicated ills that assailed him, and lie found himself with a diminished patronage and without a single friend or relation, destined to be the architect of his own fortune. With this conviction lie resolved to complete his edu cation, which his brief military career had inter rupted : at seventeen, he began the study of the law ; and at- nineteen he was licensed to prac tise in North Carolina. Four years afterwards a spirit of enterprise led him to settle at Nash ville, in Tennessee, where he went with Judge M'Nairy, who was the head of the First Supreme Court in that territory. Jackson was soon ap pointed Attorney-General, and held the office for several years. When Tennessee became a State, he was chosen a Member of the Conven tion to form the Constitution ; and so greatly were his abilities and republican zeal prized, that he was elected the first Representative of Ten nessee in Congress. Next year, having attained the requisite age, he was advanced to be a Senator of the United States. At this time there was a struggle between the democratic party and the then President, Mr. Adams, who, supported by the Federalist party, was aiming at the establishment of a mixed government like that of England. Jackson was disgusted with the scenes of violence and intrigue he witnessed ; and at the end of a year, he resigned his seat as a Senator, and returned to his constituents, who made him, in acknowledgment of his services, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tennessee ; he only sat on the bench, however, for a short time ; and having thus, before he was 31 years of age, held four of the highest offices in the gift of his fellow-citizens, he retired into private life, and seated himself on a farm on the Cumberland River, about ten miles from Nashville. When he was only 29 years old, he was elected by the people Major-General, to command the military division of Tennessee, on the admis sion of that State into the Union. He had ex ecuted all his different trusts with a regular ver satility of talent, and went into retirement much against the desire of his former constituents. In 1812, when the Congress authorised the Pre sident to accept the services of 50,000 volun teers, Jackson, at the age of 45, called on the citizens of his division, and 2,500 rushed to his standard. Their services were accepted, and Jackson, like Cincinnat us, exchanged the plough for the sword. He was ordered to New Orleans ; but after he arrived at Natchez, he was PRICE 7D. directed to dismiss his volunteers, nearly 500 miles from home, and to deliver the public property in his hands to Gen. Wilkinson. He refused to obey this order; humanity and justice forbade him. The year following, he commanded the force employed to chastise the Creek Indians for a shocking massacre they committed at Fort Mimms. By a series of uninterrupted successes he avenged his country, and saved an extensive frontierfrom the horrors of Indian outrage. He entirely subdued the Creeks, and attained a large cession of territory for his cornitry, but re fused a reservation for his own special benefit. This war, it is stated, was of a desperate and sanguinary character, but Jackson displayed the highest degree of all the military virtues, while he did not forget, when the sword was sheathed, to shew a magnanimous clemency to the worst of his enemies. Weatherford, who was a prin cipal in the massacre, having voluntarily surren dered, was forgiven. Jackson was wounded in his arm, but nothing prevented him from attend ing to his duty, which was exceedingly harassing, as he had even to quell a mutiny among his own soldiers. On the close of this war, he was appointed a MaiarrGenetal itithe army.of the 'United States, and appointed to the C9mnta4kl ofthe Seventh Mili tary Division. He compelled the Governor of Flo rida, now belonging to Spain, to do justice, in his own words, " by carrying his arms where he could find his enemies." At this time the United States were involved in a new war with Great Britain, and the Republic was in a some what dangerous situation. The Wellingtonians, whose services were no longer needed in Europe, the Bourbons being restored, were dispatched, as Sir Joseph Yorke then said, amidst the cheers of the House of Commons, " to overthrow James Madison." One Military Commander in New England had concluded a disgraceful armistice, and another had capitulated to the British troops, who had established their posts and " smuggling counters" within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts. Such was the convulsed and critical state of the Republic, that Mr. Quincy Adams, the late President, and 'the American Minister at Ghent, writing to Mr. Serett, the Charge d'Affaires at Petersburgh, thus expressed himself:— " What can we expect from a weak and pe nurious Government—with five frigates fin. a navy, and scarcely five efficient regiments for an army—with one half of the country sold to the enemy by their prejudice or ignorance—but ruin and disgrace ?" The biographer thus describes this period ; alluding to New England, which was suspected of disaffection :—" Treason gleamed, in blue light, through the nocturnal air, over the canting land of steady habits,—nay, the Capitol had blazed with hostile fire, and the only chief ma gistrate of a free people in the world had been chased from his constitutional seat of power by an insulting foe. Faction, infatuated faction, had virtually become the ally of our unprinci pled enemy, by attempting to destroy the credit and to paralyze the energy of our Government — nay, she had the effrontery to lift her haggard head in convention, and,commission her emis saries to dictate terms of capitulation to the house less Administration of the Union. It was in the thick gloom of such a moment, teeming with events of a nature to appal the stoutest patriot heart—when, too, the despatches from our bul lied Commissioners at Ghent extinguished the last hope of peace ; then—then it was that, amidst the scene of disgrace, treason, faction, and dismay, the good genius of our country pointed to Andrew Jackson as the man destined by Heaven to defend. and avenge her, and to cover her with imperishable glory." We give this as a specimen of the spirit in which this article is written, and of the liberal disposition of the writer to ascribe as much suc cess to his hero as he can do with any semblance of historical impartiality. The convention to which he refers was that of the New England deputies at Hartford, in Massachusetts ; cer tainly, it must be admitted, the most daring con spiracy that was ever formed in a civilised coun try, and one which, in any other country, must have brought the parties to the scaffold. Gen. Jackson had a long line of assailable frontier, and he knew not what point would be attacked. He conjectured that Louisiana would be selected for the assault of the invader. He went to New Orleans in December, 1814, and found that im• portant post destitute of all adequate means of defence—of men, arms, and money ; there were only about seven hundred regular troops, and the military chest was empty, there not being actually " funds enough to purchase an express horse. The Militia and Volunteers were in effective for want of arms; and he was a thou sand miles from the War Department at Wash ington. The supply of arms which Mr. Munroe ordered from Pittsburgh did not arrive till after the departure of the enemy, or, so General Jack son asserted in his dispatch, "he would have captured or destroyed the British army." The people of that region were a heterogeneous mass of Creoles, Frenchmen, Spaniards, and English men, with a recent mixture of native-born Ame rican citizens. Jackson felt the difficulty of his position, mid took vigorous measures accord ingly. He awed disaffection and checked de spondency. He declared his watchword to be " victory or death." He told them, " our coun try must and shall be delivered. We will enjoy our liberty or perish in the last ditch." The ap proach of the enemy was watched vigilantly ; an embargo was laid on to prevent perfidious com munications, and a military police established to secure the camp against spies and traitors. Of his naval armament, one frigate was so unfit for service that she was blown up on the 13th December, and the five gun-boats were captured the day after by the English. On the 16th he reviewed the militia, and made an address to them glowing with patriotic fire, and kindling it, says his biographer, in all who heard him. On the evening of the 22d, the American scouts re ported " all well," but the next morning the Bri tish army was within seven miles of New Or leans. General Jackson resolved to attack them ; and when the troops he ordered on this service were passing through the city, to silence the shrieking of the affrighted women, he told them " not to be alarmed,—the enemy should never reach the city." He attacked the British in person, after night-fall, and, as the American writer modestly asserts, " humbled the pride of the Wellington conquerors, and taught them to respect the foe they had come instructed to despise." lire _goes on sneeringly to state, that the 4 veteran heroes-,of the Great Lord were more than double the number of the raw •and unseasoned troops by whom they were com pelled to retreat." This retreat, however, on his own sheaving, turned out to be on the part of the Americans, who, after beating the Welling ton veterans so easily, thought fit themselves to retire to an entrenchment behind a deep ditch, in fortifying which Jackson spent four nights and five days without sleeping. On the 27th the English destroyed another of the American frigates by a battery which they opened on her ; and on the 28th, Sir Edward Pakenham. ad vanced in columns, under a discharge of bombs and Congreve rockets to storm the American works. The attack lasted seven hours, and the British returned to their encampment. Jackson strengthened his defence with batteries at every point that commanded the approach, and sluices were made in front of the American Mean- , while the Legislature was considering ,the ques tion of capitulating to the invaders; but General Jackson, by prompt and decisive measures, soon silenced the debate. On the Ist of January another attack was unsuccessfully made. The British army was reinforced by the arrival of General Lambert, and preparations were seen to be making for a general attack... To the Ame rican army, arrived also a reinforcement in the Kentucky troops, 2,250 in number ; but with only 500 armed with muskets. On the Bth the attack was made. The British batteries poured forth torrents of bombs and balls against the American works, and the sky blazed with Con greve rockets. The British army advanced in two divisions in solid column ; they were receiv ed with a discharge of musketry and small arms from the whole line ; and so rapid was the snr cession of the firing that no pause- could be per , : ceived in the continual roar. The English, s' all know, were defeated after a prodigious slaugh , ter ; but so glad were the Americans to see them go, that they did not venture to molest them in their retreat. Sir E. Pakenham was killed, and Generals Gibbs and Keane disabled ; the former dying in a few hours. This is the victory on which the military glory of General Jackson is founded. But as it was not light in the field, and as the victor did not dare to follow the van quished, it is a sorry foundation in military fame. His biographer, however, is never tired of ex patiating on this triumph over an " enemy flushed with his victories over the best troops of Europe." There can be no doubt at the same time that hi 3 defence of New Orleans manifested great skill, energy, and ability, and entitles General Jackson to the respect of his countrymen, for a resistance which de. stroyed the British expedition that was ravaging the American coast, and led almost -directly to the peace that followed. The Americans state the Btitish force engaged at 9,000 veteran;, and their own to have been only 3,700 raw troops , and the loss of the British more than 3,000 killed and wounded, and of themselves seven killed and six wounded ! The watch word for the assault is said to have been " beauty and booty," to stimulate the British soldiers to the dreadful conflict. But this may have no other foundation than the dislike the Americans bear to all the British Commanders who did mischief to them during the war. The defeat of the English at New Orleans was the more important, as it was understood in the terms of the addresses issued to the people of that territory, that England meant to keep it as a conquest. In a Proclamation by Colonel Nichols, he tells the natives of Louisiana that the " American usurpation must be abolished." On the return of peace, in 1815, General Jack son disbanded his drafted troops, and was in vited to Washington to assist in organising the peace establishment. The Union was divided into two military provinces, the North and South, and Jackson was appointed Commander of the South province. At a public dinner to do him honour at Lynchburgh, in Virginia. Mr. Jefferson greeted him with the toast— " Honour and gratitude to the man who has filled the measure of his country's glory." In 1816, he negotiated several treaties with the Indians for the entire abandonment of their claims to lands ceded to the United States. In 1817 he took the field with the Tennessee Vo- lunteers against the Seminole Indians, to punish them for depredations and murders in the Re publican territory ; and in 1816, he put him self at the head of the Georgia Militia, and pur sued the enemies of his country even into Florida, which was then a Spanish colony. He tried, convicted, and executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, two Englishmen, for acting as insti gators of the Indians, and furnishing them with weapons. Much complaint was made by the English Government of his conduct, in regard to these two persons, but the President, Mr. Munroe, and the Congress supported him and approved of all he had done. The imputation of hatred against the Indians is refuted by his biographer in reciting an anecdote of .Jackson's adoption of a young Indian child, who, having lost all its relations, was in danger of being killed. He was appointed in 1821 to carry into effect the Treaty with Spain for the cession of Florida ; and the powers given to him were exactly the same as those exercised by the Captain-General of Cuba, but he laid them down as soon as he had discharged his duty, saying :—" I am clothed with powers which no one, under a Republic, ought to possess, and which, I trust, will never again be given to any man." In resigning this office he surrendered a sti pend equal to the salary of the Vice-President, and powers incomparably greater in kind than the Constitutional Powers of the President ; General Jackson retired, too, at the same time, from public to private life. He was afterwards appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico ; but though the emoluments of this office were more than 22,000 dollars, he refused it, because he would not, by his presence, aid the usurper Iturbide. He had before declined the War De partment in 1817, when offered by Mr. Madison on forming his cabinet. When Mr. Adams became President, he was elected senator for Tennessee, and he had 99 votes from that State for the Presidency. He again resigred his seat after one session, when he saw that intrigue, as he declared, had defeated his election, though he had a plurality in the votes of the electors. At the next election for President, he was re turned, having an absolute majority, which, by the Constitution, is necessary for a candidate to be returned by the electors ; as, if it be otherwise, the House of Representative chuse the President out of the three candidates who have the most votes. What sort of President the General may make, now he has attained the summit of his ambition i we will not predict. 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