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yit tm», grape vice*, v»*
Toots, iieths ami vegetables,
vatcd Ih good gardens, have lately
■uoductnl, ain'they all thrive vrcU.’*
kuder the head of nrinujut it *
pears that the agent had, the pa; t api'i
C ISO 1) delivered to Indian women 100 **
«jf cotton cards Mtd SO kpinning w a celt; |
and that there arc eight looms in the Creek j
nation ; that the women have adopted thi.< j
part ot the plan with spirit; that three In- j
t-ian women have by spinning completely !
clothed themselves; enu that one of the
ir. use was made by an Indian
f'ho r.gent observes that n The chiefs |
who were apprehensive at first t. * if their j
women could clothe and find t^ Jmselves '
l\v their own c 'tertions, they *Vt . become !
independent of the degraded mate ofcOn-!
nection between them, have h*d proofs ,
that • link is mote firm, in proportion as
t' ‘en are more use fill, and occupied
tic concerns.”
*7 rapid progress is stated to have
beeii it in the manufacture of oil from
hickory nuts; and in the winter of 1800,
200 gallons were actually delivered for
fuarket.
Two blacksmiths are established, who
in the sp lg are restricted to mending
implements of husbandry, while at otner
•usoiis they attend to any work brought
the n\.
'•V »rd to the adrhinistrafioh of \
V-isti . -cars that « When the Nati-!
onal C. icii e convened, all tin; white
, eople are oi °ed to attend on a given
cay ; three c,l ; most fcspectr.ble ore ap
1 'nted by the nt to hear and decide
< 'll cases heir *rt white people. With
•ght of ?.pjk to him. In all cases
. b« n a White i. ' and ? l vlian, the
age -am and c .1 *'be
l-'dg • *bave hither ? bee.,. warned into
e.fie it ■'■tt doing m than giving them
to tile oa" , and with i -v ic ” I
The *t'co,. ’ocument contained the cor- j
r prudence * '■•veen the Secretary bf j
I* . <f t and our fot cign agents in relation to j
the N hary o-.vers. com the 20th of May, I
to t Sloth of Oaob. , 1801. BV this
correspf d6i.ee it appeared that the exe
cutive b .d tck- n the most decisive mea
sures o.i t’ • first evidence of hostile de
sign exhibited by the Bashaw of Tripoli;
. and had, through the Secretary of State,
apprised our consuls and other agents in
the Mediterranean, of the necessary steps
to be pursued by them generally.
The President concludes a letter to the
Bey ol Tripoli in the following terms :
“ We have found it expedient to detach
* squadron of obsen “ion into the Medi
terranean sea, to v> .. rintend the safety of
our commerce there, and to exercise our
seamen in nautical duties* We recom
mend them to your hospitality and good
am< ,*s, should occasion require their re
sorting to your harbors. We hope their
appearance wiilgivc umbrage to no power;
for while we mean to rest the safety of our
commerce on the resources or our own
strength and br;ivery in every sea, we have
yet given to this squadron in stn& com
mand. to conduct themselves towards all
friendly powers with the most perfect re
: pert and good order ; it being the first
obj'*:7! of our solicitude to cherish peace
and friendship wjth all nations with whom
it can be held on terms of equality and re
ciprocity.” # i
Three frigates and a sloop of war are
slated to have been dispatched to the Me
diterrnnefo under the command of com
modore Dale.
The letters of our consul, Mr. Cat heart,
minutely detail his. successive conversations
■with the Bashaw, who had been for some
time, jealous of the large sums paid by the
United S’ates to Algiers, and entertained
expectations of receiving tribute. In one of
the last interviews,the Bashaw said. “Con
sul, there is no nation I w ish more to he at i
peace with than yours; but all nations pay
and so must the Americans.” Mr. Cath
< t replied, ‘*We hav e already paid you
• - 'c owe vou and are nothing in arrears.”
1 ’hiSiUiw rejoined, “ that for the peace
wi .d paid him, it was true ; but to main
tsb» it we had given him nothing.” Mr.
Cath art told him, that the terms of our
treaty were to pay him the stipulated cash
and stores in full of all demands whatever.
Art«r seme further interviews the Bashaw
said, “ let your government give me a
sum of money, and I will he content; but
paid I will be one way or other. I now
now desire, you to inform your government
that 7 will wait six months for an answer
to my ietter to the President; that if it
did not arrive in that period, or is n(,t suiis
factrtry, that I will declare waf in form a
gainst the United Stati a.”
On the Uth of May, 1801, the Ameri
can flacr-stafT was chopped down, which
is the Tripolitan mode of declaring war.
The in&tru€linriff of the Secretary of the
Navy to commodore Dale are given at full
length.
On the first of August, 1 1, lieut. Ster
vet, command* r of the sr hooiierCnterpriae
of 90men and fa guns fell in with a Tri
jvditan corsair mounting 14 guns. An
t» lion immediately commenced within I
pistol shot, which, with incessant fury,
continued for three hours, when the cor-1
sair struck her colours. The carnage on
hoard the Tripolitan was dreadful, Uo mm
ha ving been killed and 30 wounded, among
the latter of wlmm were th« capudn and ,
first lieutenant; while on bn*, d the Enter
prise not a man was even wounded. The i
fortune of war stare efy furnishes a similar i
instance of disparity.—Agreeably to the ,
instructions of the Secretary of the Navy, ,
the corsair was dismantled and released. ^
isr
.da!'
tious!.
i. ignU:» •
-giv. oy .r»e Dev c f AU 1.
• *», i / I veo.
Respecting ail the above trims.adVions
theYieta'ls are full and satisfactory.—They
mark, cn the part of the American govern
ment, ah honorable adherence-to justice
w ith Dowers which had been the first, to vi
olate its duties; and evince in the coirv
spondencc of the Secretary r>f Sivfe with
our foreign agents great civctlm sjieclibn
and foresight. In the chain of contem
plated events th «ot)c?.rs to hare bcert
no failure ; r* - ires taken, with
the issue * - irminated, have
evident' „ S*.. '‘time ’charafler
«t in thf- eyes of foreign
pow er
Mr by the';* ^ensures obtain
ed the p of Ilk* ‘fy ; but we have
taught nc, N yt.jj y n bi beavance; and
it is to lx; oop. 4, • utever symptonsof ili
will may exist, t. .it the expectation of
plighted tribute on the one hand, and the
dread of merited vengeance on the other,
\tiil suppress a repetition of violence.
The third document containd a return
ot tht whole number of persons within the
sevevM district* of the.United Stales, ac
cording to an a^ providing for the second
census; by which it appeared that the
whole number of persons amounted to 5,
305,582, of which 893,607 were slaves.
It may not bs uninteresting to exhibit
the relative numbers of this census with
that o! 1790, ten years distant, so far as
respects the aggregatenumbcrs.the staves,
and the population of each state.
In 1790. In 1800.
•Aggregate Kb. 3,929,326 5,305,588
Sl^ve* 697,697 893,605
NTew-Hampshire, 14 1,885 183,858
Massachusetts, 373,737 422,845
iViame, 96,540 151,719
Rhode-Tsland, 68,825 69,122
Connecticut, 237,9 46 251.002
Vermont, 85,539 15-4,465 j
New-York, 340,120 536,050.
New-Jersey, 184,139 211,149 ‘
Pennsylvania, 434.373 j '
Delaware, 59,094
Maryland, 319,728 *349,692
Virginia* 747,610 830,200
Columbia, in Virg. 5,949
North-Carolina, 393,751 478,103
South-Carolina, 249,073 345,591
Georgia, 82,548 162.686
Kentucky, 73,677 220,959
Tennessee* 105,602
N* }V' Territory, 49,365
Tiulliinn T\ r r a \
1
Ir-jry* 8,850
From this View it appears that the slaves
have suffered a proportional dec Qfa. I
bout 70/100 in ten years. j
* Including Washington Co, tn Colatn- ;
bia»
The Fourth document exhibited the de
tailed expenditures on account of materi
als for building six 74 gun ships to the 1st,
of Oflobcr, 1801, the aggregate of \Vhich j
is repcsented to amount to 45 3,411 dol
lars.
i he Fifth document exhibited specifi
cally the expenditures to the fii :-t of Octo
ber, 1R01, on account of navy \ ai ds, docks
and wharves, at Washington, Norfolk, Phi
ladelphia, New-York, Charleston (Muss.)
and Portsmouth, amounting in the whole
to 240,906 dollars.
The Sixth document exhibited the pro
ceeds of the sales of public vessels and
stores, di refled to he sold by an aft of the
last session, ntnounting to 275,767 dollars,
and 63 cents
The Srven/h document exhibited a state
ment of monies applied for the defence of
the ports and harbors of the United States
rom the 2Oth of March, '794 to the 16th
Nov. 1801, amounting in the whole to 578,
387 dollars and 41 cents.
The Eighth document exhibited a state
ment of the number of suits instituted in
the circuit courts of the United States, with
those decided or deptndim? from Mai
1790, to June 15, 1801.
An attempt was made in the Senate by
Mi*. Tracy, and afterwards in the House
of Representatives by other federal mem
bers to invalidate the accuracy of this state
ment, which, on investigation, recoiled up
on themselves. It appeared that some
trifling errors, not in the least affecting
the inference of the paucity of instituted
or depending causes, had arisen from in
statements derived from clerks of
courts, and from amdiring and adding the
number* contained in the returns,and tran
scribing the result. That these errors
were trifling, clearly appeared from the
cfleft of their correction on the first state
ment, the one of which only varied from
the other, by the addition of 82 instituted,
and 90 depending suits, including in the
correClcd, :«me returns not in the original i
statement.
The recapitulation of all the suits insti- <
luted and depending in the. circuits for i
Ihe above stated eleven years was as fob I
lows j ,
Recapitulation of the ndf* in the Circuit 1
Court* of the United State*, and the f)i»- '
trict Court*for Maine, Kentucky and 7Yn- :
octree*
depend- |
Instituted* ing. j
^‘cw-Hampshirc lit 7 <
thode-Island 275 10 t
tfos&acbusotu 323 41 I
naine 9
ionnecticul 354
Vermont 27r
tfew-York and Albany 106
’•ow-Jersey l'jt
it stern D:»-j > ci Pew »* .!•) ... .« ’ 1
VK,ia l,oul >*«
IVestcrn cfto none. none.!
Delaware 163 16 •
Maryland 273 59
K.eutw ’*v, 67') 346
Kastern district of Virginia, 2162 331
inotte. none.
Not completely organ
ized.
NortlnOnrohua, 629 13!
South-Carolina, 495 261
Georgia, 697 1 17
Districts of East and ? ,
West-’fenmsrt, \ 1
DiMrift ofOluO, i „ none. nohe.
( Not organized,
8358 1629.
(To be continued.)
c 6 ngrTe s s.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Fkida ?*, February 19, 1802.
DEBATE
On (he bill received from the Senate, entitled
“ An Act to repeal ee'-tain act* res/iexting
the organization c/‘ the courts the Uni*
ted S:at •«■.” . ■
(Mr. Bayard in continuation.)
I stated the gentleman’s words as Itdok
them down. It is immaterial whether the
mistake was ip the gentleman’s expressi
on, or in my understanding. He has a
right to explain, and 1 will take his positi
on as he now states it. I deny, sir, that
mandatory process has issde'd. Such pro
cess would be imperative,-rnd suppose a
jurisdiction to exist -f the proceeding, which
lias talien place, is nor move than notice of •
the application tor justice made to the
court- and allows the uartv to shew, either
that no wrong has been committed, or that
the court ha* no jurisdiction over tin: sub
ject". Even, sir, if the rule \ve»*e made ab
solute, and the mandamus issued, it would
not be definitive, but it would- be' compe- I
tent for the secretary in a return to the |
w nt, to justify the.acl which has been done, j
or to shew that it is not a subject of j deft- i
ciai cognizance*
It is not till after an insufficient return
that a peremptory mandamus issues. In
this transaction, so far from seeing any
thing culpable in the conduct of your judg
es, 1 think, sir, that they have given a
strong proof of the value of that constitu-!
tional provision Which makes them inde- \
pendent. They are not terrified by the j
frowns of executive power, and dare to j
judge between the rights of a citizen and
the pretensions of a President.
I b dieve, Mr. Chairman, I have gone
through most of the preliminary remarks
which tne honorable gentleman thought
proper to make before he proceeded to the
consideration ol ti 3 ] <»ints which proper-!
ly belong to the i .jtv t before the com-!
mittce. 1 have s ■ supposed the topics I
Jiave been discus* had any connection
with die bill on ye ir table; but I felt it as
a duty not to leave unanswered charges a
gainst tlie former administrations and our
judges, of the most insidious tendency ;
which I know to be unfounded, and which
were calculated and designed to influence
the decision or the measure now proposed.
Why, Mr. Chairman, has the present sub
ject keen combined with the army, the na
vy, the internal taxes, and the sedition law?
Was it to involve them in one common
odium, and to consign them to a common
fate ? Do I see in the preliminary re
marks of the honorable member the title
page of the volume of measures which are
to be pursued ? Are gentlemen sensible
of the extent to which it is designed to lead
them ? They are now called on to re
duce the army, to diminish the navy, toa
boKsh the mint, to destroy the indepen
dence of the judiciary,and will they be a
ble to stop when they are next required to
blot out the public debt, that hateful source
of rnonied interest and of aristocratic in
fluence ? Be asnrcd, sir, we see but a
small part of thy system which has been ’
formed. Gentlemen know the advantage ;
of progressive proceedings, and my life for
it, they can carry the people with them,
their carreer will not be arrested while a
trace remains of what was done by the for
mer administrations.
There was another remark of the hono
rable. member which I roust be allowed to
notice. The pulpit, sir, has not escaped
inve6live. The ministers of the gospel
have been- repr*. seuted, like the judges,
forgetting the*duties of their calling and
employed in disseminating the heresies of
federalism. Am 1 then, sir, to'undpfstard
that religion is also denounced, and that
pour churches are to be shut up ? Are we'
:o he deprived, sir, f>oth of law and gospel ?•'
Where do the.prim iples of the gentle,
nan end ?JVhen the system of reform
* completed v/hat wM rojnain ? I pray
fchat thi* 'flourishing'country which,
inder his providence, hot attained stjch n
icight oPpros^erity, muy yet escape the
lesolatiob stffiefcrl by another nation, by
h£ praflice of Vimijar doctrines.
1 beg panion of the committee Ihr hav
pg consumed so much time upon points
ittle conncflcd with the subject of the de
late. Till I heard the honcwable member
rom Virginia yc <.U-rday, I was prepared
inly to discuss the merits of the bill up
n which you are called to Vote. lTispre
iminarv remarks were designed to have
n efleA which T deem it material to en
cavonr to counteract, and f therefore t
ielded to the necessity of pursuing the
nurse he had taken, though I was coiihci- |
ua of departing very far from the aubjeft '
xforc the committee. To the discussion
3i that subject I now return with gieat
mtisfa&ion, and shall consider it under the
wo'views it naturally presents; the con
ititutionaUty and the expediency, of ti c
nr\ea«ure. I find it most convenient to con
sider fir-it, the question of expedh ncy, and
shall therefore beg permission to invert
the natural order of the enquiry.
To shew the inexpediency of the prt:
sent bill I shall 'endeavour to prove the
expediency of the judicial law of the lust
session. In doing this it will he necessary
to take a view dT the leading features of
the pre-existing system* to enquire into
its defers, and to ex-n:nie l.j\v iV..- the
evils complained of were remedied hy the
provisions of the late aeT—It is not my in
tention to enter into the details of the for
mer system ; it can be necessary’ only to
state so much a*> will distincllv shew its
defects.
There existed, sir, a supreme co*’rt,
having original cognizance in a f*w cuses,
but principally a court of appellate juris- 1
diction. This was the great national court ■
of dernier vesort. Before this tribunal !
questions or unlimited magnitude and con- j
sequence both of a civil and political na
ture received, their final decision; ami I
may he.allowed to call it the national cru
cible of justice, in which’the judgments of
inferior courts were to he reduced to their
elements and cleansed from every impu
rity. . There was.a circuit court, compos
ed in caiyli district of a judge of the su
preme. coUrt and the districl judge. This \
■was the chief court of business both of a
civil and criminal nature-.
In each district a court war. i rtablishcd i
for affaire of revenue and admiralty and 1
maritime jurisdiction. It 13 not necessary
for thepurposes .of the present argument
to-give a more extensive outline of the for- ]
mer plan of our judiciary. \Vc discover 1
that the .judges of the supreme court in 1
•consequence of their composing a part of
ver? oujiged to travel
from one extremity to the other of this ex
tensive country. In order to lie in the
cotftl house two months in the year the'}
were forced to be upon the road six—The
supreme court being the court of last re
sort, having final jurisdiction over questi
ons of incalculable importance, ought cer
tainly tor be filled with men not only of
probity, hut of great talents, learning, pa
tience and experience: The tihiob of
these qualities is rarely, Very rarely to be
found in nicn who have not passed the me
ridian ol life. My Lord Coke tells us no
man is fit to be a judge till he has num
bered the lucubrations of twenty years._
Men of studious habits are seldom men of
strong bodies. In the course of things it
could not be expected that men fit to be
judges of rour supreme courts would be
men capable ol traversing the. mountains
tnd wilderness of this extensive country*
It v. as uu essential anti great defeat in this
court, that it required, in the men the com
bination of nualities, which it is a pheno
menon to nnd united. It required that
they should possess the learning and ex
perience of years and the strength and ac
tivity of youth. I may say further, Mr.
C hairman, that ihis court, from its consti
tution, tended to deterioration and not to
improvement. Your judges, instead ofbe
ing in their closets and increasing by re
flection and study their stock of wisdom
and knowledge, had not even the means
of repairing the ordinary waste of time.
Instead of becoming more learned and
more capable, they would gradually lose
the fruits of their former industry. Let
me ask if tins was not a vicious construc
tion of a court of the highest authority and
greatest importance in the nation. In a
court from which no one had an appeal
and to whom it belonged to establish the
leading principles of national jurispru
dence.
In the constitution of this court as a
court of last resort, there was another es- i
sentiul dtbfct* 1 he appeals to this court i
are from the circuit courts. The circuit j
cotut consists of the disu-** judge and a ;
judge of the supreme court. In i
where Uie district judge is interested,
where he has been counsel, and where he
Ims decided in the court below the judge
of the supreme court alone composes the
circuit court. What then is substantial
ly the nature of this appellate jurisdiction ?
In truth and practice the appeal is fi-om a
member of a court to the body of the same
court; The circuit c ourts are but emana
tions of the supreme court. Cast your
eyes /on the supreme court; you see it
disappear, ana its members afterwards a
t ising in the shape of circuit judges. I3c- I
hold the circuit judges } they vanish and I
immediately you perceive the form of the '
supreme court appearing. There is, sir,
a magic in this arrangement tthich is not
friendly to justice. When the supreme
court assembles, appeals come from the
various circuits of the United Slavs.
There n-e appeals from the decisions of
each judge. I ho judgments of each mem
ber pass m succession under the revision
of the whole body. W'HJ not a jucW
while he is examining the. sentence of"a
brother today, remember, that that b*>
ther will sit in judgment upon his pro
ceedings to-morrow ? ’Are the members of
a court thus ronstituted. free from all rno
five, exempt from all bins which could e
ven remotely influence opinion on the
point of strict right; and yet Jet mo iiRk
cmjihatically, whether this court, br,n~ the
court of final resort, should.not J>e ^ con
stituted, that the world should bc«ic • - rl
every suitor be satisfied, that in neighing
the justice of a cause notlring entered the
icales bgt its true merits.
(To he contrived.)
From th\ JVr*v-Vurk Ct
OF LOU IS hi.YJ Lima III.
THE reasons assigned by a French
writer, for taking possession of Loun>»tii—
must be very satisfactory to the tm.-atime
powers in Europe, for it seems o oc in*^
iisUed as a kind of manifesto 4br, their i"
formation. It is very wuproj... r s«ts the
French apologist, that the siiv>ngiv,t t ov»n
in Europe should be charged v. itii thecinx
of' holding tpe United States in check.
That is to say—it 1s projnr that «e, the
French nation, who have lately bec m.e
strong enough by land to give ia\*s to afl
the.powers in Europe, should r.lso fare*
the means of becoming the strongest pow
er by sea j thus we shall be clubEJ to
give laws to all the mavatime state;, in Eu
rope and America, ar.d we shall astonish
the world by our displays of moderation
and justice—Nothing can be mere reason
able than the investing of ail power in the
hands of a single nation. England may
rejoice in that fortunate event, for she will
be relieved from the trouble and enormous
expense of supporting a navy.—-The
Swedes, the Danes, the Russians, the Spa
niards, ami tlie Dutch, ait alto to b : p.oT
filed by the contemplated event. Thev
will be relieved from t,.e toil of buildir. ,
ships above the dignity of a drover, - c
might appear heccs^y.to build a few fri
gates or sloops of war. for the pio'ttcvi
of commerce against pirates; 1 at the
great nation will take care of tliatbusiners;
lor their ships alone will be worth icbbi*
"s I conceive, is the meaning or the
spir't of tl.e apology, Tor it will hardly he
disputed, that the naval .superiority ■«. f
Fiance is>to fo.low as a necessary cons*.
qdtncc of her great colony in Louisiana.
Tlit trxpdi t* of that count ry alone liiUstir
rreasc her carrying trade to an incalaila
bie extent. The criony will supply her
hntiViell,iv. f. iu., i •* i .
It vrill render her planters it the West-In
dia Absolutely ihaqVer.’Wh' of every other
nhtion for supplies ^v,-rv kind. It w ill
oaklc her to manage the Whole of her
own West-1nclin c,m,mtIce.—OUie r be
nefits of a very expensive and Xubstantiai
nature must Arise.fvdrn the scttlenient of
Louisiana. Wo.know that ».■ nr bf n
excellent quajijiib. m. de in tie sontl e- u
Part of the province, at l it Hppcar3tl at
rice, tobacco, cotton tU.tl intiigti, maybd
cultivated there to t!.e greatest extent.
The European markets, in all probability,
will depend on France for a chief part of
their American supplies. What a source
ot wealth lo the guardian of the Spanish
colonies! What a r.ursery for seamen to
tne prute6\or of European planters in the
W est-Indies l Is it to be supposed that a
nation so just aiul moderate as the French;
a nation so little actuated by motiveg cf
ambition ; so little disposed to plunder her
neighbours or incroach upon their tc: rl*o
ries, should ever think of survevfng the
Spanish mines or laying her hard upen
the little sugar islands in the West-Indies ?
In a word, it is admitted that France on
ly needs the command at sea, a command
that must arise from the commerre of
I Louisiana, to make her not only the pro
i 'eelor of the .Spanish mines and the West
India Colonics, but the legislative guardi
an of her ancient rival.
It cannot be said, with any colour of
|ruth, tha* the settlement of Louisiana is
’•’tended to irj'.rc ore part of^the union in
I fhstmflion from another. It will affetk
I '’c ncrtr.ern ar.d southern states'ih a dif
f«”ent manner; but the measure isequal*
i ly hurtful to the extremes. We are taught
by the French themselves to look f6r the
operations of a rigid navigation abb. by
'he effectof such regulations, when u co*
lony is settled in Ivujisiana, two thirds of
of the Ncw-FngKrd carrying trade wi;l be
rut off. I he French poky supply their
own sugar plantations entirely, ar-d they
will be our rivals in the Danish, Dutch
Hpamgh ar.d English Tslands—lt is know »
'bat wild horses and nudes, of an excel
lent quality, mnv he purchased at present
ur hnndred&.atf vc dollars the b/tid in 1 5u
isiana. '1 i t v >;ole West-Tndifli rnaik t
may be amply supplied with five stock
mm that province and 'it will be-found
r r z .. * “,4,# viJii.dit
.ittcst for W est India ‘labour. It H s b< < n
stated, and the reader wTn certrli.lv p,
ccivc that the exports of'tobacco, coltt u
and nee frovnl.ouis;anu and Florida, must
depress the staple of the soutberh Stater.
1C Ujdure of those or;po-t.i will be inju~
nous to the northefh carrier at the Mmc
Mme that itdewmystTSr southern planter.
The southern states arc onlv to be distin
guished by the accidental circumstance of
ccm.ng first in cant'ntf villi the citizens
. , c Krrnt wtivn. The northern stafr-s
en,oy the favour that Pojvphen.e ,m»
mised the King of Ithica, to he the last in
being devoured. I have said nothing n
•>out the desertion of servants, lnsrnv£>.
ons, or other means that may be used 'o
annoy nr ruin the southern planters. K
very part of the projected hnsiners mu
be painful but this may be truncal,
Tri.YSSES.
To rns Brpus srxr* rims op tup. okw.ic'a
ton nip. sTAVt r,p ViRurviA.
AS there irf a Vacancy by flic death of
the late clerk to that how, I tike thh,
opportunity through the mcilhitn of the
press, to offer you rnv sendees nc:ct sersi
in of assembly, t«, nil tb*t pupt. ithoubl
fou think proper to elect r e, you mav
civ upon my untemitied ntienucn in the
discharge of Che duties incumbent 01 me
n that station.
MattAkw Branch.
Buckingham, Iith Ju O'J. C -)