The Litchfield County post., 1828-03-06

pose, and in the defence oi the call to or- der by the gentleman in ny rear, must trouble the house with few remarks, in the course of which hope to show how extremely erroneous are that gentleman $ ideas in respect to the usaeeS of other wise and deliberative assemblies, both in Ame- rica and in Europe; bothin modern and in ancient times. Sir, I wll go no further back than the days of KiEg Alfred, when Cardinal Wolsey was archbishop of Ed inburgh, in order to establish the fact, that questions precisely similar to the present, were decided in the mole and manner which it is my good fortune to advocate. Sir, when the Welsh parliament was in session at Dundee, in tn, year 1457, it was moved by certain pe,r, ,that no mem- Der should enter the hall, without feathers l in his hat-a motion to amend, was made by another noble gentleman, whereby it would have been lawful to appear with a. ny number of feathers or r,plunles, not ex- ceeding seven. A substitute for the whole proposition was then submitted by the Earl of Pokelem, which embraced not on- ly hat and feathers, but boots and breech- es-whereupon acall to order was interpo- sed and after due discussion it was sus- tained. But, sir, what does all this signi- fyl Some people pretend to scout at an- cient and established precedents. But I consider them, especially when derived from wise and magnanimous nation, es- sential to the preservation of ou: glorious liberties. Sir, person lately had the in- civility to tell me that the prece dents and usages of olden times were all nonsense he even went so far, sir, as to say that those usages might be converted into al- most any purpose--yea, and he, by per- fixing two letters only, one may transform all usages into sa-us0ges.
 Mr. Smuge. Sir, am reminded by the last word of the gentleman before me, that the hour of adjournment has arrived. Wherefore move you, sir that this house adjourn to Tuesday next. .......
 Iurkish Cannon.-It is singular that in our conflicts with barbarians, or with half. disciplined troops we most generally sus- tain heavier loss than in our battles with veteran aud we'll organized and disciplined armies.
 Whether this arises from our contempt of the enemy inducing us to attack them at a greater odds, or at closer quarters, ,or that such foes are stimulated by the iercer pas sions of untamed nature, we cannot deter mine-but the fact is well worthy of con- sideration., Our attack on Algiers was att tended with loss of life nearly equal to any thing we had ever sustained on board of a feet.-and if we include the numbers killed on board the Russian ships at Nav arino, we shall find the total number ofkil- ] led and wounded to be nearly as great as l in any of our battles last war. With res- pect to the Turks this may arise from the extreme heavy cannon which they gener- ally use. In our ships, and we believe in our batteries, we seldom use heavier gun , than thirty-two pounder. No Man-of- War carries any cannon of larger calibre; ] but the Turks make use of even eight kun- drsd posnders! When Sir Ralph Duck 1 worth passed the Dardanelles to attack Constantinople, in 1907, his fleet was dreadfully shattered by these immense shots. The Royal George, (of no guns was nearly sunk by only one shot, which carried away her cut water another cut the main mast of the Windsor Castle near ly in two shot knocked two of hel ports into one !: the RepuIse (74) had her wheel shot away, and 24 men killed and wounded by single shot-nor was she sa. we'd but by the most wonderful exertions
 One of these guns was cast in the day of A. murat; it was composed of two parts, join ed by screw at the chamber, its breecf resting against stone work the difficult ty of charging it would not allow its being fired more than once~-but as Pach; once said ,one discharge would sink whole fleet of an enemy. Baron de Tottsto the terror of the Turks, resolved to fire thi' gun. The shot weighed 1900 lbs. and ht loaded it with 33O lbs. of powder :-Ht says, "I felt shock like an earthquake d
 the distance of 800 fathoms; I saw tht ball divide into three pieces, and these fragments of a rock crossed the Strait, ant rebounded on the mountain" The heav jest shot which struck our ships was of gra
 mite, and weighed 500 lbs. and was fee in diameter. One of these huge shots, t' the astonishment of our tars, stove in thu whole larboard bow of the Active an' having thus crushed this mass of timber the shot rolled pondrously aft, and brough up abreast the main hatchway, the sailor standing aghast at the singular spectacle