The National Register.
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A M ERIC. f.V PAPERS.

Ratarowitz, OCT. 19.—Our journals are teeming
with the accounts of the King of England's corn-
manna with his visit to Ireland, with addresses, and
festivals, and songs, and loyal toasts, and music and
triumphal marches, and all that give bustle, and
splendour, and pageantry to a spectacle se brillant,
—What a contrast is flirnished on tl.is side of the
Atlantic, in the Manguratioa of en American Pre-
sident! The Senate, after having counted the suf-
frages, proclaim the saccesshil candidate, who, on
taking the constitutional oath required, is from that
moment, and to all intents and purposes, the Chief
Magistrate of the American republic. He may oc-
casionally visit his fellow-citizens in sonic remote
part of the continent, omen he p uaakes of their hos-
pitality and departs We may learn by the daily
journals where the Chief' Magistrate is to be found,
and even they, perhaps will not mention the fact,
unless sonic special circumstances, worthy of atten-
tion, should occur in the course of his journey.
—But where are his guards in the meantime?—
He has none, he never dreams of having any ; and
should be take such a precaution, he would be
laughed at from use extremity of this continent
to the other. He may probably devote a month
or more to such a
.jaunt, and (la his return to his
home, he may be tiamil, inn the recess of Con-
gress, sitting quietly by his lire side, with his wife
and children, or perhaps superilaending the mildew.
tion of tobacco. Sarely it will be said, if' the Chief
Magistrate of this republie can afford so much tin.c
to his own enjoyment, the members of his cabinet
must du a double duty. Here the foreign enquirer
finds himself mistaken again ; he perhaps proceeds
to Washington, in the expectation of meeting the
heads of departments ; but what may be his surprise
to learn that the President is in Virginia, the Secre-
tary of State in Nlassacliussets, the Secretary of the
Treasury i.t Georgia, and the Secretary of the
Navy in New 1 ork. lle will find, to ha sure, a
few clerks in these respective offices, who are, of
themselves competent to transact all the ordinary
business during the recess. It eases demanding the
presence of these olliairs occurs, they are notified by
snail: they come, resolve, and again disperse to their
families and to their homes. This is the distinctive
line between republicanism and royalty—the Pre-
sident and all the heads of the departments are more
than half of their time simple citizens, and scarcely
contemplated by their relatives and friends in tiny
other light. As an evidence of this sort of pervading
equality, we were conversing with a Virginia planter
some time since, who on some questions that occurred
inn the course of his remarks, ebserved, that he derived
his intelligence from the lips olCol Monroe. We for-
get what the information was, nor is it material to
our present purpose: but this 4,entletnan thought
no more at that time of the President of the United
States, than he did of Kii.g George, or the Empe-
ror Alexander. Now is there not a moral dignity
in this, far superior to all the artificial splendour
and glitter of a royal coronation ? Is there nut in
this combination of the citizen and the magistrate,
something superior to magnificent titles, to stars,
and to garters man superintending the welfare
of the United States, and employing his leisure mo-
ments, that no time may puss away unimproved, in
the cultivation of his turn ? This shows us of what
materials our magistrates are made : we are com-
pelled to rely on no legitimate stuck—to watch over
nu infant's cradle, or to observe with anxious soli-
citude a legislator in his go cart, doomed whets u
child to play with a Bina:penny whistle, and• when
a man with crowns and :sceptres.
It is the prevaleme of such ideas in the first set-
tlement of this country that has made. Americans
what they are. We are now going track, we trust,
to the simplicity of Ludy times. Awhile, the pomp
of power, and the intoxicatiun of European victo-
ries, seentad to have seized upon our minds ; we
waited every arrival with intense interest, to learn
how many inett Were sacrificed at the shambles of
human butchery ; how many cities were over.
thrum' : how many towns and hamlets laid in
ashes. But we have lived to witness, and partially
to feel, the cunsequenta s of such ltAlitlasti:lg glory.
We have livtal to ace intlay compterwa them-
selves compelled to fly the field before those armies
that they had formerly vanquished, tiirced to lay
down their crowns and sceptres; and to pantile of
the plain and simple character of an American citi-
seta or to pine away the dregs of their existence,
finally, to die on a barran rock, surrounded by
the surges of the Atlantic—denied in the hear of
death out only the presence of the Lords and Ladies
Vi the Ct.aal, Lot likeivie the tears of sympathiz-
jag ti•aaals, wiare riot even t.tntittg:.l faith or filial
seasilanty Lt.tsitl mutsigla a pillow fa Ore head, or
ions that eve WiIIINC IMIUUI4 once mode the wale-
derided 111/11;11/ LII.OIIC tremble Mid turn pale.
Snela s the glary ahi n A mericans wish to avoid ;
iu time emu mpluti 111 l of such spectacles, they turn
with morass:a delight to their own Presidant, the
eitizeu-nevatrate of the ouly IC/IliallAilig republic ens
the Lace of the globe.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

l'utuneLpitta, Ocr- 25.—T0 our great disap-
pointment, on applying last evening at the stage
oflice fin. our usu.tl packets from New York, we
found that nu mail bag had been received by the
steam boat. The disappointment was greaLer, as it
was known that the Berea/es (sailed the 17th Sept.
from Liverpool) was below at New York, and that
119 less than six expresses had arrived here from that
city in the courAu of Tuesday night ; the. first of
which immediately started for the Brandy Mills and
13iltimore. The demand for flour in this city was
so great at an early hour, that suspicion was imme-
diately excited, and but few sales were made; that
commodity is now held :it about 10 dollars.
Our information is, that owing to the failure of
the crops in England, in txmsequence of the bud
weather, bread stuffs laid risen from 20 to 30 per
cent. The New York market was drained, by a
passenger who lett the //creak: about 60 miles from
the land, and was in New York the whole day
incog,.

Between two and three hundred persons left this
city yesterday, for the purpose of buying up all the
dour in the neighbouring counties.
Accounts from New Orleans, to 26th September,
by the mail, state, that information from every pout
of the State, but particularly the interior, confirmed
the statement that not more than half u crop of cot-
ton w,,uld be made this season.

(From the Battu* Columbian antind, October 27.)

In a court held in Pensacola, Governor Jatkson
made the following remark:—" I am clothed with
powers that no one under a republic ought to pos-
sess, and which, I trust, will never again be given
to any man—nothing will afford me more happiness
than to learn that Congress in its wisdom shall have
distributed them properly, and in such a manner as
is consonant to our earliest and dearest impressions.
Yet, as I hold those powers by the authority of an
Act of Congress, and Commissions from the l'resi-
dent of the United States, it therefore becomes uty
imperious duty to discharge the sacred trust reposed
in me, according to my best abilities; even though
the propt.r exercise of the }maws given might in-
volve me in heavy personal responsibilities. It has
been my fortune to be thus circumstanced on other
occasions, in my various relationships as a public
servant, yet I never have, and never will, shrink
from the discharge of my public duties, from any
apprehension of personal responsibihiy."
NEW-YORK, ()CT. 170—The editor of the Na-
lionalGazale has thought proper to notice the regrets
we expressed at finding bins the " Apologist tin. the
late conduct of Gen. Jackson at Pensacola."—" Our
knowledge," he adds, •' of this case is, we appre-
hend more intimate than that of the New York
editor. We rely txmlidently upon the results of a
more full and dispassionate investigation.
The first impulse of an American public writer,
should Le towards his own countrymen and country ;
both should always be presumed to lie in the night,
on whatever occasion, until the contrary is estab-
lished by irrellagable evidence.

When this secret intelligence, which at present is
confined to the breast of Mr. Walsh, shall be com-
municated to the public, we shall be enabled to
judge how far it may extenuate the conduct of Gen.
Jackson We must, however, diller from the sen-
timents of the Philadelphia editor, in thu conclud-
hag paragraph we have quoted. Our " flist impulse"
wall ever be towards truth and justice. Thu cause
of General Jackson is nut at present the cause of
our country, nor will it become such until the ad.
ministration shall acknowledge and justify his mea-
sures. ‘Ve consider nothing inure unworthy or
more dangerous, than the extension of that feeling
which would excuse the periktration orviolelic
and outrage in time of palm, because the, individual
who committed it had been bold and successful in
war, and this we have no doubt is the real opinion
of Mr. IValsh.

( Esleact si r finals Balliature, Ocg. g 9.)

" The brig. :Marylanu arrived in ti.is port -Yester-
day in 18 days from Curacoa. On the 29th Sept.
tell in with the brig Boston of Selim, from St. Do-
mingo, with a cargo of mahogany ; the brig was up-
set in a squall, her masts were cut away, but the
hull was water lugged. Captain Doyle was washed
overboard and drowned, and the mute perished Mr
want of food ; on the 26th a seaman expired from
the same cause. Shocking to relate, these nien
%el.e without any tixxl, except a few grains of Indian
corn, or fluids ttr,t proceeded from their own bodies,
for 15 days Three of the remaining crew A ere
taken from the wreck, and have arrived in good
health."

" Commerce owl Navigaii..n.—The shipping in
the port of New York up to the Ist OctoLer, pre-
hems a striling view of the extent of the eirtuthei
of that port, both tiaokit and domestic. The num-
ber of ships are 81, run-brig:; 58, of these ten were
fiweigr, the rust American, At the sante time there
were 50 schooners In port, allot which are employed
in the coasting Ira te, ex,:ept a small number trading
to the West Indies and there were 105 sharps ;
all but 18 are euipluytAl iu the Suuud uttel laver

trade; iu addition to this evidence of business, there
are now building for the New York merchant* 11
large shipa and brigs."
Extract of a letter from St. John's, Oct. 10.--
The landing of the first native settleri in New
Brunswick was celebrated here on the 4th instant.
Three sr:lt:ions tables were laid out in the King's.
square, and at one o'clock an fix was roasted whole,
and each table supplied amidst the acclamations of
the people.
SLAVE TRADE.—On the coast of Guinea, an of_
ficer commanding a Danish settlement had eceasion
recently to put in force the instructions received
from his government► with regard to the Slave
Trade; having ti.ken prisoners the crew of a Por-
tuguese Slave ship, and sent them to Sierra Leone.
It is gratifying to the friends of humanity, that f lit
nations of the civilised world adhere with becoming
constancy to the agreements entered into Ly them
with other powers, (who have basely abandoned
their sacred engagements) in the cause of the in.
jored sons of Africa, England, Hol.and, the United
States, and Denmark, have acted with firmness mil
justice—.while France, Spain, and Portugal, have
exhibited the most inhuman delinquency. 1.1
trade the two latter nations have always proved
themselves cruel and rapacious, from the conquest
of Peru by Pizarro, and that of the dominions of
India, by the successors of Vasco de Gains, to the
present day. 13ut fro:n France better conduct was
to have been expected ; owing, as that government
does, its present establishment in a great measure
to England, it might be supposed that it would have
contracted sonic of the humane kelings which actuate
the conduct of that nation.

DREODEN, Nov. 2.—lt is certain that the final
ratification of the act of the free navigation of the
Elbe will take place in the course of November;
that it will begin to be in force on the Ist January,
1822; since the disputes respecting the duties of
customs between Prussia and Anhalt seem to be ad•
justed by reciprocal concessions. The only difficulty
at the conclusion was u reservation on accouni,of the
maritime rights of Hamburgh and Hanover, by
which the must friendly understanding certainly
cannot be further interrupted. The Austrian Com-
missioner, Baron V. Muuek, who lately received
from Vienna the little cross of the highly honourable
order of St. Stephen, as a testimony of his Majesty's
satisfaction, is expected in a few days to complete
the ratifica;:on, for which purpose several of the
Deputies from distant parts have already sent their
full powers to Members now here.
The-Second lieport of the Lords, on the Silk and
Wine Trude, bus been published. The former of
these trades the Committee think deservirg the at-
tention of the Legislature, and in support of this
opinion they state several interesting circumstances.
The quantity ofsilk used in France, in which counts
try the silk manufacture stood so high, was, up to
1812, under 2,00u,(Vollos. a year, while the quan-
tity pitying duty, used in England, averaged for the
last three years more than that amount. On the
subject of the wine trade, the Committee state, that
a considerable diminution has taken place for some
years past in the importation of hareign wines, but
they do not venture to recommynd any material al-
teration in the present system of duties, until some
disposition is evinced by the French thwernment to
concede something in favour of llcitish nianufac-
tnres.

Ctulman, the unfortunate young man who was
executed with the other individuals on Wednesday
morning last, was occupied fola length of time the
night prior to his execution in writing a letter to his
wife, who is now in the female side of the prison,
Newgt.te. She is a fine-looking female, about 2d
years a age. Ever since the fatal hour that robbed
her of her husband tears have nut ceased to flow
copiously, and she is in a most pitiable state. Her
huslAntd requested the fitvour of Mr. Baker to
deliver it soon after. It was couched in the must
allixtionate terms, and the style and language of the
composition reflected credit on the talents of tl.e
writer. During the time she was reading it, we
understand, she was frequently interrupted by cx.
essive grief aid phrcnzy.
ANCICNT COIN.—On Tuesday morning, while
some workmen were excavating the fluor of a shop
is the Overgate, Dundee, they found a number of
crowns, halt-crowns, and shillings, of the reigns of
Elizabeth, James, and Charles the First. The most
of them are considerably corroded ; but upon some,
the trove of the royal maid is plain ; and on others,
the kingly pedant and his unfortunate successor arc
represented_ upon horseback, wearing the diadem,
and with a drawn falchion in their hands. The im-
pressions are well struck ; but the edges are extremely
rugged. As the house in a hich they were found is
of no antiquity. it is supposed that some cautious
citizen may have deposited them under ground to
save them from the grasp of Cromwell's saints, when
their leaguer of Dundee terminated in the slaughter
of many of her deli:talent, and the giving of her
riches as a prey to the spoiler.