Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-04-02
tNtseeii'seoas Eet",icts tiUat Ensitst ou,d
French Papers.
From Tie Losdo.s .luo,ning Chronicle.


Gates Is one that still continues to occupy the
pabic attcnsioa from one extreme OF the Union
te the other. aud the eNertions made by the par
ti5ans OF the respective candidates arc uiiprccc-
denied, Rs statesman, John Quincy Adams
appears "a be most respected, and, notwitilstond-
ing he Is not considered as properly belonging 10
the Republican party, he las every chance oi
succeeding. Mr.. Crawford, it is thought, will
he his strongest competitor, As the demonstrate
: ons on the part of the European league agains;
rec institutions i'm every part If the globe, re-
ouire that the reins oil the United States Govern
nent should be placed i'll the hands of man of
s strong republican principles aud r,nness, al
though his diplomatic talents and experience arc
not so great. Mr.. Calh0un's want of age is
objected to; and although numbers admire
General Jackson as a commander OF an army,
they feel afraid TO trust him with the destnes
of a country whose prosperity depends OH peace.
In Il recent coinage at the London .]liint of
double soueyeers, the coin, when about half mil
lion twas ready fordelivery was found deiicient;ke
sereuth on his Britannia .uajesty's head was ,can-
ting. The whole issue was countcrmandcd, and
the die broken. Better countcrnland history,
too, in whose stamp tke crcath may not be al
lowed at all.
The London Morning Chronicle, in refer
ence to the exclusion of the Catholic LAWYERS in
ireland from certain Offices, Observes
IS Barristers in England are seldom very re-
fractory; but in what state Of things should we
DE were there two or three hundred of them ex-
cludcd from all chance of prcferment, without
even the hope of commissionship of Bank
rupts or q seat on the Blue Bench? We should
not be able to eat, drink: sleep for gricvancc,"
In the London Morning Chronicle of the Goth
Feb. it is mentioned that the day before, "a tall
young man, very elegantly attircd, who stated
himself to be an american, and gave his name
George Donaid VS. brought to the Bow street
dom, Nrfnh
charged by the Hotel keeper in the Piazza, with
having refused to pay for a supper of oysters
and some purfch, with which he had RECALLED
himself on the previous night.n The defendant
had eaten ga tolcrablc quantity Of oysters and
drunk large glass of punch;" but ''whcn the
time of payment came, he declared that the oys-
tcrs were horribly bad and the punch the vilest
that was ever drunk on either side OF the Allan
tic,n and she would see the house blown up and
the owner hanged before he would pay a sim
glc farthing." The defendant persisted in his
declarations before the Bow street .Nagistrate
but the latter informed him that 'sif he chose to
swallow, he must pay" and did not set him at
liberty until he satisfied mine host.
The French papers announce the marriage
Of JHiss Zea, only daughter OF the late NJ. Zca,
of financial notoriety, to a French Viscount and
Lieutenant-Col. in the army. She is stated to
carry with her portion equal TO II 600 dollars
per annum.
The count Of Carthagena, (Morilo) with his
wife and son have. arrived at Rochfort i'll the
sloop ofwar Vigilant from Corunna.
The number of Spanish cmigrants which
have passed at the beitO6ie is more than 1000;
vet the people continued to emigratc.
At Vic department of Meurthc) there is a
pSne OF salt, 30 leagues in extent, containing
three different qualities Of sat-the first extrac-
ted is very fine, fit for the tablets quality,
ldeHquescent) dry, and not liable to attract the
dampness of the air.
\ woman named Beymer, at Brussels, has
been delivered of three girls; eleven months pre-
,vious she was also delivered of three girls; SC
that in less than twelve month"; she was the mo-
ther of six children.
The Brussels Oracle mentions that the Me-
1noirs of Carnot, since 1889 to the downfall OF
Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo, haye
been bought by an English bookseller and will
be published i'll London.
The French ship Dolphin, of Bordeaux, con-
victcd of having been engaged in the slave trade
has been confscated. The following French
vessels have sailed for Senegal, for the suppress
sion of the slave trade on the coast of Africa;
sioop of war Hebc, gunboat Brcssanc, briggs
Dragon, .Marsouin, scbrs. TOulounaise, no
mus, ard Dorado.
The eccentric Captain Cochranc, who had
undertaken the arduous task of a pedestrian
tour through Russia and Siberia, for the pl,r-
pose OF minuteiy exploring that inhosptable re-
gIoD, and also for asccrtaining the disputed fact
OF the separation of the continents Of Asia and
America, has after two years survey, decided
the question in the affirmative, there being a
continuous channel between the continents
though frequently blocked up with ice during
greater part of the winter.
NJ Clement, French chemist, ha. lately in
vented an apparatus for the distillation of sea
water, which produces six pounds of good fresi.
water by the burning of one pound of common
coal. a single still will supply five hundred
pints OF water daily, and the distillation NAV be
performed during the toughest weather.
1t is confidently rrlrnoured in Bath, that a
marriage is specdily.to take place between Mrs.
@Coutts, the richest widow in England, and r.
Elliston, Esq. lessee aud manager of Drrtry-
lane Theatre.
Maritime Entorpize Of the Russians.-It ap-
pearcs from the last number of the Annalcs dies
Voyages, that NJ Simonof, Professor at the Uni
ycrsity OF Kansan, has given a sketch of the
voyages of the Russians to the South Pole, which
Is full of interest. In Europe it is not generally
known, that the circurnnavigators, sent by the
powerful Emperor of the North, have made
between the parallels of sixty and seventy de-
grees, Il voyage round the Pole, much more
complete ana Instructive than that made by the
celebrated Captain Cook. The island situated
farthest south, which is at present known, bears
the name o! alexander the First.
JeMRat des DcJuts.