Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-12-02
ALEXANDRIA:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918.
ST. ANDREWS SOCIETY.

"Lard of my sires! what mortal hand
"Can e'er unite the filis1 band, -
That knits me to thy rugged strand"
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
"Who never to himself hath said, u.
This is my own, my native land"
AT the anniversary meeting of the St.
| Andrews Society, held on Monday last, at
Mrs.M Dougall's, the following tossts were
| given-Mr. JOHN RAMSAY in the chair, and
Mr.. ANDREW FLEMING, vice-president,-
These toasts, while they breathe that love
of natal soil inherent in the breast Of eve-
ry man of true feeling, show also that re-
spect, attachment, and reverence which
the sons Of Caledonia feel for the couHtry
that has adopted them.
1. The day and all who honorh.
2. The land O cakes.
8. The land we live in.
4. The president Of the United States.
5. The memory Of Washington.
6. The memory of Sir William Wallace.
7. The memory Of Robert Burns.
8. The fair daughters Of Columbia.
9. Scotia's daughters, blithe and bonny.
10. The days o lang syne,-the inno-
cent days Of sportive youth. and scenes of
early joys.
IL. Weel tim'd dafin.
le. The beggar's benson.
IS. Gordie McGregor's Madison TO a the
enemies O. Scotland.
VOLUNTEERS.
By Mr.. H-May the thistle, the sham
rock, and the leek, always preserve the cha
rac,eristrc qualities Of the soils that produ-
ced them-nor let the perfume of The rose
of England ever affect their native pun
gency.
By Mr. S-May the sons Of Caledonia
always be the type Of their great dellverer,
the Bruce of Bannockbmn.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT AT WASHING
TON.
Tuesday, December /.
The two prominent cases which occu-
pied the house Representatives last week,
were again taken up yesterday.--I mean
Mr.. Spencer's resolution touching the bank,
and the claim OF the heirs OF Beaunar-
chais.
Upon the former of these, Mr.. MLean
again impeached the grounds upon which
the resolution had been conceived and COLI
structed; they were not of force TO satisfy
him, and he was against proceeding upon
them; but il il should be The opinion Of the
Louise that an inquiry ought 10 be set on
foot, he hoped ha, it would be confined TO
reasonable, Just and discreet limits, and re-
strained within the boundaries of the power
given by the law establishing the bank and
contained in the Cd section, which he read.
To this he felt no unwillingness that the
fullest extent should be given-but against
the transactions of the bank being broken
in upon, and the dealings of individuals
with it in discounts unfoIded to the world
in all their minute details, as was proposed
by the resolution. he must set his face. By
The provisions of the act of charter, the on
ly power the committee could riehtfullyas-
sumo would be that of examining into and
reporting whether the charter Of the bank
had been violated by its proceedings or
not but TO iptrude into the private money
dealings of the individuals who might have
had recourse 10 that institution for accom-
mediation, it would be an outrage upon pri-
vate right, unwarrantable in itself, and mis-
cbsvouS in its consequences as prece-
dent. With respect 10 that part of the
resolution which related 10 stockholders
paying in their stock out Of the proceeds Of
notes discounted for the purpose, the pow
er to make those discounts was vested in
the directors, and they might possibly have
acted in that regard with indiscretion but
if as cure for that such remedy as that
part of the resolution be alluded to was APP
piled, he did not see why they ought not to
60 further, and boldly call for the names OF
all who might have applied for discount,
with an account annexed OF the exact state
of their solvency. II the resolution were
confined 10 the simple inquiry whether the
charter of the bank had or had not been
violated, it would embrace every salutary
purpose. and therefore he moved 10 amend
the resolution by striking out all but the
words that went to that point.
This amendment was resisted by Mr..
Spencer, who said that the honorable gen.