Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1822-03-22
cred 70 heroic virtue. rshsre once stood

Mount Vernop!
ssDid his ashes rest on my domains,
should not have them, al 4
slough they begged with tears enough
20 swell our old rive beyond its ssnks.
Their proceedings have smacksd Of the
Rialto, not Of the Capitol. They have
weighed the cost in Shylock's scales,
so that if in the costing, it shall exceed
tho cost, % much as the hundrs4th part
Of poor cent, the pledge is forfeit. the
debt Of gratitude remains uncancelled.
Say, oh my country, did your hero thus
bargain for your lib. rites, in the dark
est days of our des my There was
time, when you would have pledged
your 'psund Of lesh,' aye, and that
'nsarest the heart too, to have secured
the blessings of liberty and independ.
ence. in those dismal days, the close of
70 But priceless were those immortal
services, whose benefits we all enjoy!
Well, It's no matter. Let his ashes re
main in their long neglected. grave, his
spirit rests in the bosom of his Father
and his Cod Virtue will rear for him
in the hearts of man, monument are
perennius, more durable than brass, or
marble. s. when posterity shall unite the
scroll of his fame, and ask where is the
sstorisd urn or censscrated bust His
tory will point TO no Wondering ruins,
but to this magnificent empire, bounded
BY the oceans. the lakes and the gulph,
and say, behold the everlasting memo.
rial of Washington the Great"
Mr.. Gusts also dwelt at some length
upon the happy institute of our govern
ment, the eonscript fathers of the re-
volutionary congress, and the pride of
our arms, by sea and land, of the for.
mer, he says:
"My country must never forget a
blue JACKET, to whose prowess, that We.
tcran Aag. which for. thousand years,
had braved the battle and the breeze
found it to be its duty to knock under
Proud indeed has been our march, up
on the mountain wave and safe and
honored is now, our home upon the
deep. and guess that whatever nation
shall see that odd striped bunting, hy-
ing in defiance at the main, will be apt
to give it good birth,'
Washington, March 90.
A Report was yesterday made in the
House OF Representatives, by the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, Of which Dir.
Russell is the chairman, on the subject Of
the Message of the President OF the gnited
States, proposing recognition, by this
government, ofthe independence OF the GO
vernmen.s OF South America.
The report is of too great length to be
published to day, hut it shall appear in
our next. 1t is an able paper, which
was to have been expected. Its conclusion
correspond With the general views presen-
ted in the Executive Message.
The actual independence ofthe govern
ments Of Mexico, Colombia; Buenos Ayres,
Chill, and Peru, is admitted to be esiab-
lished beyond question. The result of
the whole examination Of the subject, is an
unanimous opinion, on the part OF the COM
mittee, that atis Just and eGpedieut 20 &C
knowledge the independence OF the sever
al nations OF Spanish America, without any
reference TO the diversity in The forms of
their governments and in accordance
with this opinion, an appropriation OF one
hundred thousand dollars, to carry into eff
feet the diplolnatick purpose, is recon-
mended,
THE FRIGATE.
The PoToMAe, now on the stocks at the
Navy Yard at this place. will we under
stand, be launched on Saturday next, a.
bout quarter Of an hour before 10 o'clock.
SUPREME COURT.
Monday, March la.
DIR. Chief Justice Marshall delivered the
opinion of the Court 10 the case Of the Me-
reydu, the Spanish Consul claimant. The
cause was ordered to further proof.
The case of Elmsndorf against Taylor
was argued by Mr.. Talbot for the plaintiff
in error, and by Mr.. Hardin for the dsfen-
dant in error.