South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-03-21

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the Bourbons had always refused their
assent TO these claims. The adherents
ofthese respective dynasties considered
the treaty concession which their
friends had never made. The Repub-
licans, with all their kindred feeling for
our country and its institutions, saw
France grooming under a weight OF
debt and taxation the result Of the OPP
pressions of half century, and thirty
years revolution, and did not like to see
the "Citizen King" take the response
bility to make treaty to pay money
without the sanction of the Peoples
Representatives.
"France did not care 80 much for
five millions, but all France saw, in the
assertion ofthe prerogative of the King,
the right to bind the nation to pay mo.
ney by treaty, Without the previous
consent fits Representatives, an APP
proach to the absolutism and despotism
of Louis the 18th, which plunged the
nation into revolution and civil war.
"France had been the friend and al
" of America, and had expended blood
and money in assisting them in achieve
ing their independence. The Ameri-
cans had, they said, grown rich, whilst
France was undergoing the same Or
deal in their struggle for free institu-
tions. France was almost desolated
in tina. struggle. The pressure of the
American claims, for the acts ofNapo-
leon, upon their new "Citizen King"
was not we'll received. The further
attempt to dragon France because her
Representatives set up principle Of
Republican Government and constitu.
tionaI liberty, by their Republican
friends, caused deep feeling Of NOR
LITIGATION and disgust. The proceed
ings in the Congress have checked
this, and they receive the opinions and
sentiments Of Congress as the views
and sentiments of the American Peo-
pie.
"The examination of the claims has
satisfied them that the debt is due
The point of honor having been adj
usted by the failure of Congress, up
to the last advices, to adopt the warlike
Recommendation of the Executive, the
sum will be voted. The Ministers
have new made it a Cabinet question,
upon the success Of which their com.
missions are staked.o
Extract from another letter.
"Eight out of nine Of the new com,
mittee appointed to investigate our af-
fair, are thorough-going for the Is mil.
lions-the other one for indemnity, but
not for that amount. This last man
was lawyer, who only got ia by one
vote. Dupin and his tiers parti are
harping upon economy, and losing their
influence"
Il letter from Haure o. Feb. 10 says:
"The treaty affair, it is believed on
all hands, will be settled in few days
in favor Of the twenty-five Millions"
We regret to find the following mel
ancholy account of the loss ofan Anne
rican ship, with the captain and all on
board, except three. The account is
from the Liverpool Albion, and copied
into London paper Of the 9th of Feb
ruary.
Intelligence has been received of
the loss of the fine American ship Lion,
which sailed from Liverpool on Fri-
day. She was bound to New Orleans,
and was commanded by Capt. Bursley,
brother of Capt. Bursley, of the Anne.
rican Packet ship Orpheus. The crew
consisted of fourteen men, including
the Captain. She struck on ledge Of
rocks about 2 O'Clock on the morning
Of the LIST of F ebruary, a short distance
from Port Patrick, nearer to the Irish
than the Scotch coast. The wind at
the time was blowing fresh from the
northwest, and she Immediately went
to pieces. Three of the crew succeed.
ed in reaching the nearest land, and
were saved; but The remainder, con.
slsting of the captain and ten men,
have found watery grave. The Lion
sailed from the highly respectable house
OF Haggerty g. Jerdein, ofthis town."