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No. 1,348.—V0i.. XIV.]

SUNDAY, NOVI

lER 25, 1821.

.43LEtti-CAN PAPERS.

the plain and simple character of an American citi-
zen, or to pine away the dregs of their existence,
and, finally, to die on a Barren rock, surrounded by
the surges of the Atlantic.-denied in the hour of
death' not only the presence of the Lords and Ladies
of the Court, but likewise the tears of sympathiz.
ing friends, where not oven conjugal faith or filial
sensibility could smooth a pillow for the head, or
close t4t,ele whose beams epee resole the eon*.
deratenioteutntes of Europe tremble and turn pale:
Such is the glory which Americana wish to avoid ;
in the contemplation of such spectacles, they turn
with renewed delight to their own President, the
citisen-magistrate of the ouly remaining republic on
the thee of the globe.
PHILADELPHIA, Qire. 25.....T0 our great disap-
pointment, on applying last evening at the stage
(Aloe for our usual packets from New York, we
found that no mail bag had been received by the
steam boat. The disappointment was greater, as it
was known that the Hercules (sailed the 17th Sept.
from Liverpool) was below at New York, and that
no less than six expresses had arrived here from that
city in the course of Tuesday night ; the first of
which immediately started for the Brandy Mills and
Baltimore. The *demand for flour in this city was
so great at an early hour, that suspicion was imme-
diately excited, and but few sales were made; that
commodity is now held at about 10 dollars.
Our information is, that owing to the failure of
the crops in England, in consequence of the bud
weather, bread stuffs had risen from 20 to 30 per
cent. The New York market was drained, by a
passenger who left the Hercules about 60 miles from
the land, and was in New York the whole day
incou .
Between two and three hundred persons left this
city yesterday, for the purpose of buying up all the
flour in the neighbouring counties.
Accounts from Nov Orleans, to 26th September,
by the mail, state, that information from every part
of the State, but particularly the interior, confirmed
the statement that not more than half a crop of cot-
ton would be made this season.
(Front the Boston Columbian Centincl, October 27.)

Batartmons, OCT. 19.—Our journals are teeming
with the accounts of the King of England's coro-
nation, with his visit to Ireland, with addresses, and
festivals, and songs, and loyal toasts, and music and
triumphal marches, and all that give bustle, and
splendour, and pageantry to a spectacle so brillant,
--What a contrast is furnished on this side of the
Atlantic, in the inaugUration of an America*Pre•
silent! The Senate, after having counted the auto
trases, proclaim the successfid candidate, who, on
taking the constitutional oath required, is front that
moment, and to all intents and purposes, the Chief
Magistrate of the American republic. He may oc-
casionnlly visit his fe.llow-citizens in some remote
pert of the continent, when he partakes of their hoe-
pitality and departs. We may learn by the daily
journals where the Chief Magistrate is to be found,
and even they, perhaps will not mention the fact,
enless some special circumstances, worthy of atten-
tion, should occur in the course of his journey.
—But where arc his guards in the meantime?—
He has none, he never dreams of having any; and
ahoeld be take such a precaution, he would be
lauehed at from one extremity of this continent
to the other. He may probably devote a month
or more to such a jaunt, and on his return to his
limne, he may be found, in the recess of Con-
gress, sitting quietly by his fire side, with his wife
and children, or perhaps superintending the cultiva-
tion of tobacco. Surely it will be said, if the Chief
Magistrate of this republic can afford so much time
to his own enjoyment, the members of his cabinet
must do a double ditty. Here the foreign enquirer
tends himself mistaken again ; he perhaps proceeds
to Washington, in the expectation of meeting the '
heads of departments ; but what may be his surprise
to learn that the President is in Virginia, the Secre-
tary of State itiMassachussets, the Secretary of the
Treasul y -ia Georgia, and the Secretary of the
Navy in New York. He will find, to be sure, a
few clerks in these respective offices, who arc, of
themselves competent to transact all the ordinary
business during the recess. If cases demanding the
presence of these officers occurs, they arc notified by
mail: they come, resolve, and again disperse to their
families and to their homes. This is the distinctive
line between republicanism and royalty—the Pre-
sident and all the heads of the departments are more
than half of their time simple citizens, and scarcely
contemplated by their relatives and friends in any
other light. As an evidence of this sort of pervading
equality, we were conversing with a Virginia planter
some time slue, who un some questions that occurred
in the course of his remarks, observed, that he derived
his intelligence from the lips olCol Monroe. We fin.-
get what-the information was, nor is it material to
our present purpose: but this gentleman thought
no more at that time of the President of the United
States, than he did of King George, or the Empe-
ror Alexander. Now is there not a moral dignity
in this, far superior to all the artificial- splendour
and glitter of a royal coronation ? Is there not in
this combination of the citizen and the magistrate,
something superior to magnificent titles, to stars,
and to garters—a man superintending the welfsre
of the United Suites, and employing his leisure mo-
ments, that nu time may pass away unimproved, in
the cultivation of his film ? This shows us of what
materials our magistrutes are made : we are com-
pelied to rely on tto legitimate stock—to watch over '
no infant's cradle, or to observe with anxious soli-
eitede a legislator in his' go curt, doomed when a
child to play with a threepenny whistie, end when
a man with crowns and sceptres.
It is the prevalence of such ideas in the first set-
tleirent of this country that has made Americans
what they arc. We arc now going buck, we trust,
the simplicity of early times. , Awhile, the pony
ot !sewer, and the intoxication of European victo-
ries, seemed to have seised upon our minds ; we
waited every arrival with intense interest, to learn
haw many men were sacrifi:ed at the shambles of
human butchery ; how many cities were ever-
11:rwn : how many towns and hamlets laid in
ashes. Btzt we have lived to witness, and partially
ta feel, the consequences of such exhausting glary.
We have lived to see mighty conquerors them-
selves compelled to fly the field 'before those genies
that they bad formerly vanquished, forced to ley
d'Avu their crowns and sceptres, and to partake of

In a court held in Pensacola, Governor Jackson
made the following remark:—" I am clothed with
powers that no one under a republic ought to pos-
sess, and which, I trust, will never again be given
to any man—nothing will afford me more happiness
than to learn that Congress in its wisdom shall have
distributed them properly, and in such a manner as
is consonant to our earliest and dearest impressions.
Yet, as I hold those powers by the authority of an
Act of Congress, and Commissions from the Presi-
dent of the United States, it therefore becomes my
imperious duty to discharge the sacred trust reposed
in me, according to my best abilities; even though
the proper exercise of the powers given might in-
volve me in heavy personal responsibilities. It has
been my fortune to be thus circumstanced on other
occasions, in my various relationships as a public
servant, vet i never have, and never will, siirink
from the discharge of my public duties, from any
apprehension of personal responsibility."

NEW-YORK, OCT. 17....-• The editor of the Na-
lional Gazelle has thought proper to notice the regrets
we expressed at finding him the "Apologist for the
late conduct of Gen. Jackson at Pensacola."—" Our
knowledge," he adds, •' of this case is, we appre-
hend more intimate than that of the New York
editor. We rely confidently upon the results of a
more full and dispassionate investigation.
The first impulse of an Amcrizan public writer,
should be towards his own countrymen and country;
both should always be presumed to he in the night,
on whatever occasion, until the contrary is estab-
lished by irrefragable evidence..

When this secret intelligence, which at present is
confined to the breast of M.. %Valli, shall be com-
municated to the public, we shall be enabled to
judge how far it may extenuate the conduct of Gen.
Jackson We must, howtver, (Lifer from the sen-
timents of the Philadelphia editor, in the conclud-
ing paragraph we have quoted. Our " first impulse"
will ever be towards truth and justice. The cause
of General Jackson is not at present the cause of
our country, nor will it become such until the ad-
ministration shall acknowledge and justify his mea-
sures. We consider nothing more unworthy or
more dangerous, than the es:wish:lu of that feeling

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Which would excuse the perpetration of violence
and outrage in time of peace, because the individual
who committed it had been bold and successful in
war, and this we have no doubt is the real opinion
of Mr. Walsh.
(Extract of a Letter fewit Baltimore, Oct. 49.)
" The brig Maryland arrived in this port yestc r-
day in 18 days from Curacoa. On the 29th Sept.
fell in with the brig Boston ocSelim, frora St. Do.
saino, with a cargo of tnallogany ; the brig was up.
set In. a squall, her masts were cut away, but the
hull was stater-logged. Captain Doyle was washed
overboard and drowned, and the mate perished for
want of food ; on the 2tith a seaman expired from
the same cause. Shocking to relate, these men
were without any food, except a few grains of It..t,sn
corn, or fluids that proceeded from their own bodies,
for 15 days. Three of the remaining crew were
taken from the wreck, 'and have arrived in good
health."
" Commerce and Navigation.—The shipping in
the port of New York up to the lit October, pre-
sents a striking view of the extent of the commerce
of that port, both foreign and domestic. The num-
ber of ships are 81, gun-brigs 58, of these ten were
foreign, the rest American, At the same time there
were 50 schooners in port, all of which are employed
in the coasting trade, except a small number trading
to the West Indies ; and there were 105 sloops ;
all hut 18 are employed in the Sound and liver
trade; in addition to this evidence of business, there
are now building for the New York merchants 11
large ships and brigs."
EXtruct of a letter from St. John's, Oct. 10.—
The landing of the first native settlers in New
Brunswick was celebrated here on the 4th instant,
Three spacious tables were laid out in the King's-
*pare, and at one o'clock an ox was-roasted whole,
and each table supplied amidst the sedum itiatis of
She people.
PORT OF QUEBEC, OCT. 22.—0 n the 12.. h of
this month the schooner Dolphin arrived in 13 days
from Anticosti, with 20 passengers, being the re-
mainder of the people wrecked in the Dalhousie. •
SLAVE TRADE..-•••On the coast of Guinea, an of
ficer commanding a Danish settlement had occasion .
recently to put in force the instructions received
• from his government, with regard to the Slave
Trade; having taken prisoners the crew of a Por-
tuguese Slave ship, and sent them to Sierra Leone.
It is gratifying to the friends of humanity, that four
nations of the civilized world adhere with becoming
constancy to the agreements entered into by them
with other powers, (who have basely abandoned
their sacred engagements) in the cause of the in•
jured sons of Africa, England, Hol'and, the United • •
States, and Denmark, have acted with firmness anti
justice—while France, Spain, and Portugal, have
exhibited the most inhuman delinquency. 1,1
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traffic the two latter nations have always proved
themselves cruel and rapacious, tiom the conquest
of Peru by Pizarro, and that of the dominions of
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India, by the successors of Vasco de Gann, to the
present day. But fro.n France better conduct was
to have been expected ; owing, as that government
does, its present establishment in a great measure
to England, it might be supposed that it would have
contracted ome of the humane feelings which actuate
the conduct of that nd:ion.

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DRESDEN, Nov. 2.—lt is certain that the final -
ratification of the act of the free navigation of the
Elba will take place in the course of November;
that it will begin to be in force on the is January,
1822; since the disputes respecting the duties of
customs between Prussia and Anitalt seem to be ad-
justed by reciprocal concessions. The only difficulty
at the conclusion was a reservation on account of the t' •
maritime rights of Hamburgh and Hanover, by
which the most friendly understanding certainly;
cannot be further interrupted. The Austrian Cum.. •
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missioner, Baron V. Munch, ivho lately received
from Vienna the little cross of the highly honourable
or,ler of St. Stephen, as a testimony of his Majesty's •
satisfactien, is expeeted in a fi:w days to complete
the ratification, for which purpose several of the ,
Deputies from distant parts have already sent their
full powers to Members now here.
The custom of the exhibitors of the curiosities in
Westminster Abbey presenting Gun Munk's cap fur
a compliment has been abolished.