The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-02

even many of their leading statesmen are not Iexempt. Mr. (now Lord) Brougham, for in- stance, in public speech, remarked, ssAVash- Iington was raised 10 the supreme poper, by the
 unbought voice of the country he had served i aud sayed-and after having been lifted to that proud emnence, he taid doaen the sceptrc which 'hs country had given him, when he found he
 could not mieid 1t consistently with the liberty
 oi the country. " C see what q confused idea ! even Brougham has of one of the most striking sand beautiful events in our history.
 Mir. Cooper, our novelist, observes. thai .sthe
 American eyennow little suspects how complete Fly his country is without the pale of Euronean l lthought-and justly adds, that the ignorance in which she has remained of America and Amer liean character from the day her pilgrims first touched the rock of Plymouth 10 the present ], hour, has been one of England's great misior- tunes"
 To show still farther, the extent of this ieno- rance, we copy (although somewhat out of date,l an extract of aletter from an American gentle man in Paris, written nSeptember last and then published in some of our papers:
 You would be astonished to witness the jg- lnorance that prevails in Europe, with regard 10 our country, and its institutions. Its extent and resources are beyond their comprehension. Our
 
 understand how twents-four sovereigntes can form one, and yet each retain it's owl sosereigl,- |y. A surgeon in the British army, asked me whatwas the general language fo the country. Irepled that tthe Mohazuh was the native language, but that those who were caught early, and tanned Iyoung, sometimes talked English. To another Hingtasnaaa, who asked the same question, re- tPled we talk the American langnage--a kind iof antique English, such as was written by Ad- dison N Johnson, and spoken hy Burke and Pitt, but which could not recognize as the legitimate English which heard i'll common use in Eng land IorkshremaD, who was my fellow traveller on the top of coach, upon learning was an American, complimented me by saying. ss Tees talks ez gude ifinglish ex Iii duz'' Yees sur, hand hize cum to Yorkshire, said I, tn per- feet my hedicalion."
 The British tourists have to write for a market, the taste of which has been thus vitiated by their predecessors. How es4ii We expect that they will all at once tell the 1swhoe truth and nothing but the truthg' lfthey did, their own countrymen would sci them down as egregious |fabricators.--Lyschbug Vaaginaan.
 .Abstract of fhe 0oyage of Hse Pyv,ue Paul of Wuten,burg.-On leaving St. Louis, December 23d lS29 took with me the instruments .,sttz useful for observations, such as thermometers, barometers, hygrometers, and scxtants; but ex- Iperience soon convinced me that it sufficed for traveller, in such an undertaking, to be provid- ed with a compass, one CT two thermometers, and very good chronometcr on account of the events which may deprive him of the most of those instruments, which get broken or,are casi- Fly pur out of service. repaired to the mouth of kans river, without meeting with any remark able occurrence. The weather was mild and pleasant, but in the beginning of January, Rea- mur's thermometer fell to three degrees below 10. On the 9th of that month reached Mir. F. Choteau's trading establishment. As l was pro ; gressing from thence, towards another cstablisl-
 ment of the same kind, also belonging to Mr.F Choteau, the country presented 10 me few
 wooded hills and small praries, where vegeta- tion generally consisted of embellferous graln-8 neous plants, and clusters of lofty trees inter- mingled with few sunderland dwarfoak b,ish- es. The lands included in that section of the country were lately ceded to the Delawares, Peorias, and Shawnee Indians, in exchange for the lands they formerly possessed in the State of Missouri, between the rivers Meremeg and Cape Girardeau, where few traces of their former dwellings can still be perceived. Tracts of cul- tivated ground, and the possession of cattle, and even of few black slaves, already indicate the change which may be wrought in the course of time, and under a free, mild, and pacific govern
 ment, which will ere long destroy the ferocious habits of the worshippers of Wackandah. The ice presented some difficulties to swim-
 ming my horse across the Kansas river, in order
 to repair to Leayenworth settlement, where the
 government keeps a garrison, in order 10 inspect 1 the expeditions directed towards the Indian tcOuntrfes The nnst pas tten tfrdcr fhp rom
 the Kansas river, in the Territory belongiL 2 fo
 the Kansas tribe, ard at a short distance from
 the island of Ouasabee-O Ouaudagce.