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The PIMMDENT of the Senate then rose and declared, that no
person had received a majority of the votes given for President of
the United States ; that Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams,
and William H. Crawford. were the three persons who had re-
ceived the highest number of votes, and that the remaining duties
in the choice of a President now devolved upon the House of
Representatives. He further declared, that John C. Calhoun, of
South Carolina, having received Ifl2 votes, was duly elected Vice.
President of the United States, to serve for four years from the 4th
day of March.
The 'Menthe's of the Senate then retired.
The SPEAK Ell directed the roll of the House to be called by
States. and the Members of the respective delegations to take their
seats in the order in which the Sates should be called, beginning
at the tight hand of the Speaker.
The roil was called accordingly, when it appeared that every
Member of the House was present, with the exception of Mr. (hr.
nett, of Virginia, who is known to be indisposed at his lodgings
in this city.
The delegates took their places accordingly, ballet boxes were
distritured to tacit delegation by the Sergeant at Arms, and the
Speaker directed that the ballot should proceed.
The ballots having been tell deposited in the boxes, the following
tellers were named by the respective delegations, being one from
each State in the Union:--

lilessr. Cushman, Livermore, Webster, Eddy, Tomlinson,
Buck, Taylor, Condict, Ingham, 111. Lane, Kent, Randolph,
/looks, Ciunpbell, Forsyth, Trimble, Allen of Tenn, Sloane,
Livington, Rankin, Jennings, Cook, Owen, and Scott.
Webatcr. of 31assachwietts, war appointed by those tellers
who sat at one table, and :Ur.•Randolph, of Virginia, by those at
the other, to announce the result of the balloting. After the bal.
lots were counted out, _ _

Mr. Wens ern rose and Raid:—" Mr. Speaker—The tellers of
the votes at this table /lain proceeded to count the ballots contained
in the box set before them. The result they lira to be, that there
ate—For
John Quincy Adams, of Slassachusetts - 13 votes,
Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee - - . 7 votes,
Wm. H. Crawford, of Georgia - . 4 votes."

Mr. RANDOLPH, from the other table, made a statement cor-
responding with that of Mr. NVehster, in the facts, but varying in
the phraseology, oas to ray that 31r. Adams. Mr. Jackson, and
Mr. Crawford, had received the votes of so many States instead of
so many votes.
The SPEAKER then stated this result to the House, and an-
nounced that John Quincy Ailarns. having n majority of the votes
of these Uhited Stares, was duly elected President of the same for
four years, commencing with the 4th day of March nest.
On the motion of MT. TAY Lon, of New York, a Committee
was ordered w be appointed. to notify to the President of the United
States, and the President elect, the result of the ballot.
The House then adjourned.
When the fact of Mr. Adams having 13 votes was announced by
the Tellers, someelappiag and exultation took place in the galle-
ries, and some alight hissing followed. When the House sus-
pended Its proceedings wail the galleries were cleared.

Sim Jeors sty Pauszn.—This lawyer was the first
Attorney-General after the Restoration. Dating all the
troubles of the times he lived quiet in the Temple, a pro-
Nara and known Cavalier; l3tl no temptation or fear ever
shock his principles. He lived then in great business of
conveyancing, and had no clerks but such as were strict Ca-
valiers. One, 1 have heard, was so rigid, that he could
never b^ brought to write Oliver with I great 0. And, it
was said, the attorney chose to purchase the manor of
Charlettu, because his master's name sounded in the style
of it. S telt amusements may be allowed to please and di-
vert it zealous old gentleman that lived to see and enjoy all
the fruits of his honest ambition. When be was first
made Attorney-General he had means, by the universal re-
newal of grants, and the floating of all manner of 'concerns
of the Crowp, tvhich settling must pass by him, to auras
vast wealth, as others have done and do. But he was
mindful of his old friends the Cavaliers, and generally gave
them their fees, and not only w such as he knew poor, for
a sort of charity, but to others that had less need, out of
geLorositY, and as a mark of his friendship and recognition
of their merits. It was affirmed that the patents granted
to Gen. Alonek passing his office, came to nearly Y,snot.
io fees, and for honour and gratitude he took not a penny
for biroself.—.4areelotes of the Bur.

SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OP THE IRIS!!
PEASANTRY.

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Yemenis y a POO Meeting was held at the Ring's Head, Poul.
try, for the purpose of considering the most effectual means of
seeming to the English peasantry the benefit of the Statute of 89
George III.; and also to consider some measures for the relief of
the lower clas►es in Ireland, sod to petition Parliament thereon.
At one o'clock a number of gentlemen hrd assembled, when it
was street,. in corsequence of the inautfieiency of the notice given,
and of the smnllness of the room, to adjourn the :11-eting to twelve
o'clock on Friday next, on which day it will be held at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern.

Ainongt4 the persons present were 3lessra. OT wined and Finn,
as well as several other Irish gentlemen, who eLpressed their in•
motion of attehding the 3leetiog on Irtday.

LAW

INTFLUGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY, Tuc.D•r, Mmign 13.
- REAL DEL MONTE AND ROLANOS 311NL5.
EINDEtt v. TAYLOR AND OTHERS.
The SOLTCIT oß...Orwra At. applied to the Court for a dissolu-
tion of this partnership ; that the defendants might be matie to ac-
count, and be restrained from proceeding in the management of the
mines; and that managers b.: appointed to doao, ant to wind up
the concern.

The plaintiff was Mr. Thomas Kinder, jun. and the defendants
were Slows. John 'Payler. Francis Bally, Michael Bland, Thomas
Brown, Thomas F. Burson, J. F. Colby, William Fry, John
Martineau, Joseph Martineau, J. H. Thiers, and F. T. Wilde.
This motion was made on behalf of the plaintiff, who is a pro-
prietor
to a very considerable extent of the Real del Monte, Bola-
nos, and several other silver mines in Mexico, against 31r.•Taylor,
die raanagfr, and the other defendants, the directors of the Reel
del Monte Company, for an injunction to restrain them from com-
mitting. what Mr. Kinder considered, a fraud on him, namely,
from withdrawing and caking away from the Company, through
Mr. Taylor, the extremely valuable Bolanos mine, and to restrain
all the arras, servants, and workmen of the Real del Monte
Company from working the Mamas mine, if disposed of; end
likewise, the bill prayed for a decree to dissolve the partnership,
the Court appointing a manager in the meantime till the concern
was wound up. The injunction sought embraced all the mutters in
the bill, and if the allegations in it were true, which were sup-
ported by affidavit, he (the Solicitor-General) hail to contend that
Mr. Kinder was entitled to ask of the Court a dissalut'am of the
Real del Monte Company. with a!1 the relief consequential upon
that dissolution, part of which relief would be the restoration of the
Bolanos mine, which had been withdrawn from the Oompany. The
bill stated that the plaintiff had become acquainted with Signor
Don Juan Garcia and General Paroissien, Plenipotentiaries Extra.
ordinary from the Government of Mexico, a few years ago, from
whom he acquired certain infuriation with respect to the mines in
question. It stated that the plaintiff, through his agent, Mr. Pon.
sonby Staples, residing abroad, became the purchaser of Count
Regia's shares in the heal del Norte mines, prior to which he had
been introduced to Mr. Taylor, of Bedford-row, for particular
knowledge respecting therffines.
Ilia Lonrisine wished to know how many shares there were to
be in the whole?
Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, there were 500 at 4001. each,
and Mr. Kinder was the proprietor of 71 shares. Two hundred
shares were put into Mr. Kinder's bands to be disposed of, and
300 put into Mr. Taylor's hands for the same purpose. Early in
the year 11124 a meeting was called for the purpose of forming the
proprietors into a body.
Ills LORDSHIP wished to know whether the deed that was exe-
cuted err that occasion was In Court?

Mr. A MOR Y (Mr. Tinder's solkitorysaid he had a copy of the
deed.

His LohOSHIP said, it rested entirely with that very respect-
able solicitor whether or not he would show that deed to the Court.
Mr. Altollr had not the least objection to it.
His Loansitip said, he would tell him candidly, that if it
came within the tith Cleo. 1., he would send the case to the Attor-
ney-General.
The SOLICITORMENERAL then proceeded. The lease of the
Real del Monte mines was to last for twenty years, and a contract
was entered into with General Murphy for the purchase of the
Moran mine. In the deed that was executed the Directors were
empowered to make large purchases of steam engines, carriages,
quicksilver, Jet. &c. to transport across the Atlantic, for the pur-
pose of working those mines; the Directors here were also em-
powered to--a term which hitherto had been generally used in a
political sense- denounce any mine the Company might have which
might be considered a bad mine. The deed also appointed Capt.
Vetch and Mr. Rule Commissioners to act for the Company at
Mexico. Those Commissioners were subsequently directed by Mr.
Taylor to take whatever mines they might think proper, and par-
ticularly to acquire a lease of the Bolanca mine, as being a mat
important and most valuable mine—and this he was to acquire for
the Real del Monte Company. The bill then stated that 31r. Tay-
lor and his friends had projected having a new Company, which
the Holmes mire was to form the subject of, and in which Mr.
Kinder was only to have fifty shares, each share being worth at pre-
sent not less than 8001. premium, and therefore (as the Solicitor-
(ien. had said) just taking out of plaintifra pocket at least 25,0001.
by refusing to let him have 71 shares. TWA transaction led to an
Interview between the plaintiff and Mr. T. and also to an epistolary
correspondence, with a notice to the Directors front Mr. Amory,
that the plaintiff could not consent to be deprived of his fair and
equal proportion of shares. Subsequently the Directors of the Real
del Monte Company tame to these extraordinary Resolutions : first,
that the proprietors of the Real del Monte property divested them.
selves of all claims to shares in the Bolanos mine; and secondly,
that the servants of the Real del Monte Company should give every
assistance in their power, as desired, to the persons interested in the
Bolanos mine. This he (the Learned Solicitor-General) considered
to be in the teeth of all sorts of justice. Then a new capital was
I directed to be raised for the purpose of working the Bolanos mine.
An indirect tender had beat made to Mr. Kinder of twenty-one
more shares, provided he would relinquish all right of claim to
seventy-one shares. Another circumstance worthy of being men-
tioned was, that Mr. Taylor had never set up any right to the
Bolanos mine, or given nn intimation that it was to be considered
in any way but as belonging to the Real del Monte Company until
this newfangled Company was suggested. Whether they had
nick-named themselves or not the Learned Counsel (lid not hnow ;
but however that might be, certain he was that the Company would
not stand long, because in fact, in the prom sense of the word, no
new Company had been formed.
The Loan Caranekr.Toa threw down the copy of the deed
(which had been handed to him), and asked if it was a deed that
could be acted upon at law ? That it seemed to him, that although
it was declared that the Company should not act as a corporate
body, yet that it appeared they did so act, and there was a clause
in it that if parties should become bankrupt the shares should be
forfeited unless the assignees executed. Could a Court of Equity
interfere where there was such a provision ? Although a Company
might not conic within the Bubble Act, yet it was not the policy of
the Court to support a Company which, though without the letter,
came within its spirit.
Mr. HEALD followed the Solicitor-General, and endeavoured to
Impress upon the Lord Chancellor the importance of the plain.
till a interests, and the necessity of the Court's immediate iueer-
ference. _

The LORD CHANCELLOR—This being a partnership I mist
have all parties before the Court, and I must have the decd in
Court to ascertain if there are now sufficient parties before the
Court ; and it must be shown to me that I can intaefereconsistendy
with the policy of this Court In former decisions. And it is another
question, not whether these Companies call themselves corpora-
tions, but whether they act as corporations And you (addressing
himself to the Solicitor-General) town show me that it is a deed on
which a Court of Equity ought to act.
Mr. WALKER submitted that this Company cenld not be ob.
noxious to the doctrine regarding corporations, and assimilated it to
Mining Companies. In this country.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—Let this matter stand over until
Friday, and let the other parties have notice given to them of this

member of the Druid Society,
their up
the procession to ridlcul•
him. I have read the libel, an think it is intended Iti!MPIT
partly to the Ridgway,: I real it to the looming of das fess-
den, and thought au then : I understood them to be 11)1111111a carder
, the terns " Radical Saints," sod the " Twelve Apostles" t wader-
stood to mean the twelve proprietors of the Methodist pivot or
Afercury. I understood the Ridgways to be includsi ar4bulit PP.
pellation in regard to the charge of defrauding the Itssostwa• •
Several witnesses were examined to show that the WWI aPPIWII to
the prosecutors.
The Rev. James Aikins said, I am the incumbent of *Chapel
of Ease in the parish of Shenton ; I spoke with the defoliant
I about taking away of licenses ; in consequence of reading a para-
graph, 1 told him that he had charged two gentlemen with
trying to get his license taken away, but that that was unfounded
as the Magistrates had done it themselves ; the permits wbo at-
tended Use Magistrates were Mr. John Ridgway, Mr. Alms, and
myself.
Mr. JEavis addressed the Jury for the defendants, and con-
tended that this libel was not in reality directed at the prosecuttirs,
as it was merely written. concerning Mr. Abbot, the publisher of
the rival paper. and those persons who were the proprietors of It—
, the prosecutors having, as was proved, no concern directly or indi.
reedy in that paper ; and he argued that the witnesses understood
the libel to taloa,: to the Messrs. Ridgway, not from the reading of
the libel itself, but from circumstances or rumours that they hail
heard elsewhere; but from the contest of the libel itself it would be
scen that they were not the persons meant.
Mr. Baron Gan ROw.iin charging the Jury said, that there cool,:
be no doubt but that the libel in question was published by the
t • mart: and the question titer lc s; whc b s this was a libel. ar.t:
there could be little doubt that it was so, and he should insult then
by tiotnting out the different parts of it; that was his opinion ; but
deer had been told that they might find for the defendant, if they,
believed that the libel was a mere squib of the day ; but if this way
written of men of respectability and probity of cor.duct, they would
very, from the tore and manner of it, whether it was riot • very
atrocious libel ? They then wore asked wheelie* ibis was applied
to 3lesirs Itidgv sy, and aley wt It'd find by the fair consiruction,as
well as by the strong extensive evidence, that it did very manikistly
'poly to them ; but that was matter for their eonsiderat:on.
I There had been several respectable witnesses brought forward, who
all if them prose! tine they were the persons meant, and the de-
letalsn 's Counsel, as they must have observed, could not even mg-
est :Mit it applied to any one else than Messrs. Ridgway. They
had I cm told, too, that none of the facts charged in the libel ap-
plied at all to Messrs. Ridgway. This reminded ltim of a etr-
e-on:stance that occurred very long ago, beture he (the Learned
Judge) was called to the Bar. A person was tried for libelling
the late Marquis of Salisbury ; on that occasion the late Lord Er-
skine hit the case for the defendant, and he well recollected that
the junior C.:unsel for the defendant was a person of *hose talents,
as a Statesman, lie could not speak too highly—he meant the
late Mr. Pitt. In the libel, the Noble !tturquis was not
. mentioned by name, but was denominated the tallest and
ppproenirouvoedFmtt
heaPatzinuiponb
ohueriilricißhotle:.liirto.he;" Pitt got
witness
the
agroqtutiisp
oaf w n called::laisaaiiasbdutryo
wthue
ness, I know the Marquis is • tall man (which was the fact:,
but do you think him the proudest Pecr in the realm ? To this
the shoots answered—" I have the good fortune to know the
Marquis of Salisbury very well, and am therefore aware that he
is not at all a proud Nobleman ; but among those who do not
know hint as I do, he is so considered. Atter this answer. tit,
great Statesman he alluded to sat down, and neither of the
Counsel thought it prudent to ask the witnesses any more
description
was a true one, but whether it was such a one as showed who was
the person meant.
The Jury immediately found the defendant Guilty.

LI VERPOOL, MONDAY, ILtacu 14.
Wind S.E. to E.—High Water 8 min. put 7.
Arrived the Minerva, Kinnear. from Greenock. One
ship cff; but up to seven o'clock not known what ship
it is.

DUKE or Yoaa's Lavac.—Yesterday afternoon at
four o'clock, the Duke of York held a kvee as Commander-
in-Chief, at his office, in the Horse Guards, which was
attended by the Earl of Oxford, Viscount Templeton,
Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas ilislop, Montgomery,
and Strickland ; Major. General Sir John Dalrymple,
Bonham, Darling, Widdrington, Murray, and Burton, and
about forty other officers.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Clar.mee came to
town from their residence at Bushy. Their Royal High-
nesses returned to Bushy in the afternoon.
The Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Gloucester, and the
Duke of Sussex, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday.
Four young noblemen of illustrious families are ap-
pointed to attend the Duke of Northumberland at the Coro-
nation of the King of France. 'fhose selected for this
proud office are, Lord Pelham, eldest son of the Earl of
Chichester; Lord llarvey, eldest son of the Earl of Bristol ;
Lord Prudhoe, brother of the Duke of Northumberland;
and Lord Lcvecon Gower, son of the Marquis of Stafford.
A letter from Sierra Leone of the Ist of January states
that the trade in the timber of that colony far exceeds that
of any former season—not less than 8000 tons of shipping
were expected to sail before the end of February. A
great many slave ships were still trading under the White
Flag.

Cetters have been received from the Havannah, but they
do not contain intelligence of much interest. The en-
couragement given to piracy by the authorities of Cuba
appears to have attracted some very strong remonstrances
from the Government of the United States to the Governor
of the Havannah, accompanied, as it is said in one of the
letters, by a threat that, if something is not done to repress
the practice, steps of a more decided nature will be taken.
We understand the Diamond frigate had arrived at the
Havannah, with specie from Mexico, on her way to this
country.
The Oriental Spectator of the 20:h of January emtains
an article on the atfairs of the Greeks, which it; as veracious
as its statements usually are. We arc told that the typhus
fever prevails at Napoli di Remania, " owing to the rebel-
lion of the Greeks, and the scarcity which it has produced ;-
that Colocotroui was entrenched between Motion and Ar-
gos, and was approaching Napoli ; that sixteen of the
Egyptian fleet bad arrived at Motion, and thirty-six had
sailed for Patras; that the Viceroy of Egypt was fitting
out a new expedition against them ; and lastly, that a con-
siderable European naval forco is on the point of appearing
before Napoli, for injuries done to the commerce of its
nations—all of which the Editor of the Oriental Spectator
will find some difficulty in making any one believe.
Loss or rite KENT.—The officers of the troops have
resolved to present an elegant cup, of the value of fifty
guineas, to Captain Cook, and another, to the value of
twenty guineas, to his mate, as testimonies of their sense
of the humane attention paid to them on board the Cam-
bria. It is also intended to have a medal struck, to cotn-
memorate the heroic conduct of the miners, to whose
spirited resolve, in refusing to allow the seamen of the
Kent to enter the Cambria until they had rescued those
left on board the burning vessel, the preservation of the
lives of the far greater pact of those saved is to be attri-
buted.—Wert Briton.
A letter from Liverpool of Saturday states, that the
fourteen soldiers saved from the Kent East Indiaman
landed that afternoon. There was a great crowd collected
to welcome them ashore, when the Caroline came down from quarantine ground.
'I he India Company arc stated to have sent a 1,0001.
Bank-note to the Captain of 'the Cambria, who so hu-
manely rescued the passengers and crew of the ship Kent.
*The Courier of last night positively denies the relit
that the opinions of the Earl of Liverpool have undergone
sotee alteration with regard to the Catholic Qin stion.
Mr. Lawless has written a long letter to the Editor of a
Morning Paper in which he declares his regret that Nit
O'Connell, in his letter which we published .;,n Saturday
should have expressed himself so favourably of the pro-
posed Bill for Catholic Emancipation, which Mr. Lawle,.
considers wholly inadetinate to meet the wishes of the.
great body of the Catholics. Mr. Lawless also expresser
great doubt of the sincerity of Mr. Plunkett.
We regret to hear that Mr. Macready has had a relapse.
and his life is again pronounced in great danger. It is,
at all events, supposed that Mr. Macready will never be
able to resume his professional duties again.—Carlisie
Journal.
Mr. Arrowright, who was wounded in a duel with
' Mr. C--e, died on Monday night from fever. The
meeting took place on Hurst Common, near Oakingham,
and Mr. A. received the ball of his adversary in the left
breast, in the second round.
The Fives Court, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square,
this day (Wednesday, March 13) wiil be the seat of attraction in
y,
attended liu tis nboywall
I:fr the lir
first-ratersing ud e:
a
the sporting world, for the beneht of Harry Harmer, a brave man,
who
ofec of wont
alt
ngh The his battles
Cm:rttmwainllfubell
in the ring, and White-headed Bob's (Baldwin) money will be
there to tight any one. From the arrangements made for the sets-to
a bumper is wished for, as a reward to manhood. Operations to
commence at two o'clotk.
Printed at THE
131, Sitrand, and published by H. Csatatow, same place.

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