Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-12-04
Washington, December 2,

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Washington, December 2.
We had not time yesterday, to express
our satisfaction that the House ofRepresen-
ta,ives had appointed committee to in
spect the books of the Bank of the United
States, and report upon its state and pro-
ceedings that the measure had been adopt
ed without passion; and that, after debate
and amendments, the motion had assumed
a shape so unobjectienable, as TO secure TO
! il an unanimous vote-we say unanimous,
because no dissenting voice was heard.
Since our last, the names Of the persons
to compose the committee have been an
nounced, and we have fresh reason to con-
graduate our readers on the prospect Of
! fair, full, and unprecedented report on a sub.
f! ject on which much excitement exists.
| II would be great error to suppose that
! this measure is the result of a disposition I'M
friendly TO the Bank, OF a suspicion Of the
integrity Of its proceedings-much less of
disposition to PROSTATE or cripple The In.
stitution. There are in Congress, no doubt,
many who are hostile to the Bank from va.
rious motives, aud others who condemn
certain of its measures.
But the course which has been taken had
! the support Of tire friends as well as the adj
versaries of the Bank, and, it is certain, will
/ be attended with resolts useful to the coun-
try, and, it is hoped, valuable 10 the Bank.
We shall see with what reason The lnsti
tuition has been assailed, and the characters
of its Direciorsippeached. We hope the
defence the Directors will derive, fran the
opportunity Of exhibiting their books and
proceedings, will be in proportion to the
patience and equanimity with which they
have borne the attempts which have been
made to turn the the tide Of popular feeling
against the Bank Of the United States, as
the source of the present arrangement Of
the pre-exisling currency.
This measure having been adoPtedby the
House Of Representatives, as well for pub.
lie information as for their own, we shall
not be left hereafter TO conjecture, or to
mere assertion, for facts connected with the
subject We shall wait with patience for
the report Of the committee, with full conf
dence of its presenting us an impartial and
y
enlightened view Of the subject OF IFS inves.
| tgation. National lntelHgencer.
A commercial friend has politely furnish
ed the Keeper ofthe Norfolk Reading Room
Books, with the following Wholesale Pri-
| ces Current at Martinique on the eth Octo-
| Der.
Flour, superfine, Baltimore, Philadelphia
and Virginia, prohibitcd-Rye do. per Dbl.
IS 6, current money, plenty corn meal,
per puncheon, "a a &c; corn, yellow, per
Dbl. Ala 8; rice, per 100 lbs. 81 a 7; tobac-
co, do. as in quality 8 a ~; beef per Dbl. as
in do. Is Is scarce; pork 22 &c, ~. {;
lumber, per NJ. 90 "a molasses per gal.
So a 81 cts. very scarce rum, Grenada and
Antigua, do. 80 90 coffee, per Id. GO
27-round dollars, 81 Al per cent premi-
um.
From Gte N. Y. Com. .ldpertiser, Nor. 80.
LATEST FROM IRELAND.
The sh;tSDublin Packet, capt. Cole, ar
rived this morning in "A days from Dublin.
BY this arrival, papers of that city to the
10th Of Oct. are received. We are indebt.
ed 10 James M'Bride, Esq. for perusal Of
them. They contain advices from London
10 the 18th, and from Aix-la-Chapelle to
the eth OF October.
+ The evacuation Of France By the allied
troops is confirmed.
Il A new levy has been ordered in Russia
for the army and navy. 1t is TO consist, OF
one man Out Of every five hundred, through
out the empire.
The Jason, from Montreal arrived at Dub
, lin on the 9th Of October, the George Pom
sonby on the 10th.
Prices at Dublin Oct. 1oh.-Flaxseed,
7oa 75s; ashes, pot, Sc 58s; pearl, sc a
Cos; -four, per cwt. seconds, &c a 25s; thirds
l2a los butter, 1870.