The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-01-21
S G. A ND A LOIS.

! We are the last that would damp any
national or rational Joy Of the country on
the birth of the Princess, nor will we
unseasonably rehec, upon the alnoun, of
the vote next session, for the support
and splentors of the Royal Infant, and
far be it from us to calculate the addition
to he made to our taxes, should her pre-
sent Majesty be as prolific as Queen
Charlotte, the consort of George iii,
whose progeny has cost us more money
than arithmetic can count. We wish, how
ever. to make few observations on the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Certain ceremonies were
used in barharous ages in order to Gete ct
fictitious ACCOMPLISHMENTS Of Queens, and to
prevent spurious offspring from being
placed upon the Throne to the injury of
the righiiul. or rather the legal. claimants.
1t is said, for instance. that the Pretcn-
der was not the son of James ii, but was
a child conveyed into the Queens bed in
a warming pan. 10 the grea, deception Of
the Royal midwives and officers of State
Such days are gone by, and with them
ought to cease and perish all the precau-
tons which are no longer necessary, and
which are extremely offensive to modern
delicacy. The meanest peasant. the most
humble Of the working classes in the man
ufacturing districts. or the most destitute of
the common Irish, could scarcely tolerate
the ceremonies essential to royal accouch-
ment. The Gazette Extraordinary SAYS
that Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
several Lords OF her Majesty's most Hon.
Privy Council. and the ladies of her Ma
jesty' 5 Bed chamber, were present. We
may be wrong in taste, but this scene to
US is offensive. We are told that in an
adjoining room, the door being open,
were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the.
Bishop of London, Viscount Palmerston.
and a score of others. This was in an adj
joining room. with door open; and we
are then furnished with host of persons,
male and female, who were in the "anle-
room" it not being mentioned whether
the doors were open or shut. We are
not acquainted with the Court distinctions
between ante-rooms and adjoining rooms,
but we must repeat our expressions Of
disgust of the whole ceremony as put
forth in the Gazette. What would such
a patriot and generous hero as Washing
ton have said if the noble command or
virtual Sovereignty of America had been
imposed upon him on the conditions that
three or four score whskered or mi,red
gentlemen were to be in his wle's bed
! chamber when his wife was delivered.
| The moral sense of our public revolts at
all these indecences, and it is in vain to
argue in their favor, that they have the
sanction of antiquity .--London Weekly
Despatch, Of Nou. 30.
! IMPORTANT INDIAN TREATY.-At the
late Indian payment at the Forks of the
| Wabash, we learn thatthe Miami Indians
made proposition to sell The remaining
jlporiipn of their lands; and although no
person present was commissioned 10 treat
with them. several gentlemen well ac-
qaain,el with indian affairs, among whom
! was the Indian agent. took The response
billy" while the Indians were in the
J humor," and made a treaty for about
! SOC, 900 acres, being the whole of the
] Miami lands remaining within the state.
The price agreed to be paid is about
| 81, 10 per acre; and the Indians agree to
I! remove west in five years. This is in
deed mos, fortunate affair. Most Of the
lands are of the 6nestauali,v, aud situated
in the heart Of the cpuntry. being princi-
pally in Miami and Cass counties. Il
i was. not expected that they would be
SO soon relinqnished BY their old possess
ors. No doubt is entertained Of The rati.
1 fcation Of this treaty By government. Il
il so. an end will be put 10 The demoraliline
scenes of an Indian payment among u.s.
to the drunkenness, gambling, stealing =
to The frauds, rascality and violence tina
are always witnessed there. Many
thanks are due 10 those who ..topk time
q by the foretop," in this matter. I'hs
s lands viii now speedily Gil up with sub
:. stantiL and intelligent culiivators Of thu
soil.-Fort Wayne Times.