Star.
London, England, 1829-03-09 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Maws 7.

In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States
General, on the sth, a decision respecting the numerous
Petitions presented to the Chamber Was come to alter
ten days extremely animated debates. At the conclusion
of the bitting the following questions were put-
1. Shall the Petitions be laid on the table? (without
prejudice to any farther resolution on the order of the
day).—Carried in the affirmative by 98 to 2.
2. Shall the question be referred back to the sections
to examine whether a communication or address to the
Government shall be made by the Chamber ?
A very slot my debate arose on this question, but it
was decided by a maj rity of 54 to 46.
S. Shall a communication be made to the Government?

Another warm debate arose on this question. borne
members thought it was conceived in too vague terms.
and that them were various modes of making an ad-
dress; but the President observed that if it were once
resolved that a communication on the subject of the
Petitions should be made to the Goiter nment, the mode of
the communication might be deter mired afterwards.
The question being put. was carried by 55 to 41.. sb
that the Chamber has resolved that a communication.
shall be made to the Government.

As soon as the re,ult was known, loud expressions of
satisfaction proceeded from the galleries, which were
crowded. The President recommended silence, other-
wise he would be obliged to order the galleries to be
cleared.

It seems certain that the project cf law on the press,
which has already been ex.rained in the sections, will
be withdrawn by the Goveinment, And that another
will be presented in its room.—Brussets Papers, Mar. 7.

BUCHAREST, FIB. 15. -
By the capitulation concluded on the 11th the gar-
rison of Touttioul, stated at 1,509 men, was allowed to
depart with arms and bagg4ge to Tui kry. Count
Langeron, on his arrival, had a confrernce with the
Governor, Achmed Selim Aga, in consequence of which
the latter, seeing that be had no hopes of ben% relieved,
consented to capitulate.—Ausfrien Obsesver, Feb. 21.

WARSAW, Fn. 16.
The ratification ot the Polish Loan, lately contracted
for at Berlin, has been received from St. Pete, sbuigh.
foe letters say that two agents ot tie house cf Roths-
child have arrived at St. PetersLurgh. In the us te of
'the Grand Duke Michael are M4jor Gea,ral Bibikow
and Colonel Annehltow. Colonel Von &ha:oboist, the
Grand Duke's Atd-de•Camp, is gone betote his Imperial
Highness to Tuiczyn, where the P,ince intends to put
himself at the heed of the Guards, the chief command
of which, we bear, he o ill have in the next campaign.
Vilma. Frs. 44.--Iletalkliun 97 3.16. Bank Shares 1,007.
Agsswisse &gang, karc4 1.
DORPAT, Paw 14.
In the night of the 11 its is tire broke out in the Uni•
versity, which commenced in the militia y cabinet, and
peneirated to the Zoological Museum. The cold being
to degree, it was difficult to obtain water; however, by
the elections ot she firemen and police. seconded by the
students, andel tie direction of the Picilessins, the fist
wasextiogilished in five hours. The greater post ot
the t•u collection., iacla.fing all the tarefet
were Need. The damage may, however, mount t
.12 or 15,000 iu'cles.--Prossias Maio (Indies Nara 2.

Paws SEVENPENCE.

AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

General Andrew Jackson, the new President cf the
United States, is by de cent an Maims's. His father
and mother left that country for South Carolina no
farther back than the year 1765. Andrew was been
on the 15th of March. 1765, on a firm that had been
purchased by his father ins the district of Warsaw,
about forty-five miles from Camden. He was des.
ti, eJ for the Church; and he had been placed for
some
.time at a school. io t';e neighbourhood of their
residence, when the English, under Carleton, burst into
the province of &oath Carolina. YoUng Jackson. though
hard) 15 years of age.was smit with the general mania of
nib cowl yarn, and forsaking his books, he shooldertd
a musket, and set out, accompanied by his two boy
thin, older than tiirnolf, to repel the invaders'. The,
campaign, though i glorious one for his country, was
a fatal one to young Jacks, ni -for he lust his two
blethers, both of whom were slain, the one at the
battle of Stoney, and the other a short time before
at Camden Town ; . rid his mother, unable to bear
up under such an accumulation of grief, died of a
broken bent, soon after the melancholy news of the
loss of her children became known to her. At the
close of the war he went to Salisbury, and having
these studied law for a couple of years, was called
to the bar in the year 1786. He practised as a bat.
rister at Salisbury for a couple of years. He after.
wards removes', along with his friend Judge M'Nair,
to Nashville. in Tenets', "them, and in the neighs.
lbout hood of which, he has ever since resided. His
talents and assiduity so tecommended him to the
notice of, the people of Nashville. that he was in
short time elected Attorney-General for the district,
an office which be filled fi r many years. In 1796
Tenne.se, having then a population of the requisite
number, was admitted a o one of the States of the
Union. Jackson was one cf the persons is whom
the draught of the constitution of the new State was
entrust:d, ,and he was the first man who represented
it in Congress. He was made a S. nator in 1797, which
honour, how ewer, he resigned in 17.990onbeing- a; -
pointed Judger the supreme Court his aslclitedlenn.
try; and C. mosaad r in-Chief of its ibilitia forces. When
the war between Great Britain and the United States was
proclaimed, he was ordered by Congress to take the
command of two thousand five huldred volunteers,
past of the army of .50,000 men ordered to be levied
for the defence of the States, and to descend the Mi..
' 'Hsi, in order to defend the low country towards
the south. His conduct to the troops under hie
command on this occasion was extremely humane.--
The Congiess, with a fine disregard of the rights of
tile poor men, had ordered them to be disbanded on
the 1 of January, •Isile at a distance .1 many miles
Isom home, and unprovided with the means of teach-
ing it. The object of vis piece of injustice aas Is
induce the volunteers to enlist in the line. It was
defeated by Jackson, also provided Isis solders with
every thing they requires', and did not dioharge
them until he had conveyed them safely back to
Nashville. Oa the eighth of October, JAck•on, tor
whose use the Congress had voted 300,000 dollars,
began the campaign with an army amounting to 2,000
men, and a number of the volunteers which he had led
south in the winter of the ptevicus year. He encountered
the great:st possible difficulties, partly arising from the
inefficiency of his commissariat depastmentorluch led to
a mutiny among his men, arid partly from the indecision
of the civil authorities. He r,rcrcame them all, nobs.
ever; matched to Mobile, to to Unbending the scruples
of the civilians, and driving out the English and Indians
from it, restored P.usacola to tie Seanish authorities.
Jackson established his Headquarters at New Oilcans
on the Ist of Decensban, 1814 His merit is the d.a
fence of that town was the greases, as not only did he
mike the wisest and most efficient disposition of the
troops under his command, but he bad almost to
create the means that he so successfully ens' loped.
On the 2d, the General proceeded to the principal
Church of New Orleans, to return thanks to
Heaves for his great and unexpected victory,
salute he was saluted by the preacher, Mr. Dubourg,
as the " Saviour of his country." The news f the
Treaty of Ghent, which was signed previous to the
engagement that cost the English so many valuable
lives, arrived soon atter ; martial law ceased, and the
army of New Orleans was disbanded. The Mc:imam
whom Jackson had banished resumed his functions, end
summoning the Ex-General before him, fined him a
thousand dollars for contempt of Court, and the fine
was without hesitation paid. It was instantly sub•
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scribed by a thousand of his d ring country men.—
Jackson soon after returned to Nashville, whence be
bad been absent about eighteen months. and where he
was welcomed with the greatest enthusiasm by all
classes and denominations t f the c,;mmunity.:'ince that
time nothing has haypened to call into action the Italia
tau qualifications of the '4 Hereof New Oilcan." as tl,e
Americans term him, and he has passed, we b large, the
greater part of it in the or inary pursuits of a plain
country tientlearan. 1411825 he a as prowled as a candi-
date for the Pi esidentship,by t e Sour her aStates,het wen
whish and the older States of the North there had long
ezisted a jeal,pssy which may at some future period
lead to 'opponent resoles. Of 262 votes given on
that occasion, Jackson bad 99. and Adams, the pre-
sent President, only 84. As neither had an absolute
majority, 132, the selection devolved in consequence
on the Senate, which dot mused in favour of Adams.
'On the present occasion. General Jackson has, we
nelieve, 180 votes, while Mr. Adams bat no more
than his original number of 84, and the return of the
Werner is therefore matter of absolute certainty. Geo.
Jackson is a tall thin man, of a dried aspect, and
111111Cft his soubriquet of Hiccosy. He is still 'Memel,'
active and vigosvus for his age, 62, and with watch des,
vision of character. is described as a parson of p:eisAel
and affable address, and of easy access to the poorest
and humblest of his countrymen. Fears have been ens
teriainecall
Awmabed in this
ateri ouienctnnen7.bluettehirsatbrr reign,
thains we may
will
prove
unfosaded. We have a brisk example at home, that it Is not those
who are the most movers/km with war and its /Serino.i that are
mast disposed to water speak oamstasearily."—(From a tittle woo.*
by U. B. Ward*. IL+ Woody Coital of Ma Vatted &swept
Paris.) •