The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-05

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Of the 90,00o with remarks upon the exorbi-
tanee of some of the claims, and OF the doubt I
4 full, not to say unjust principles upon which
4 Others are founded; and firm refusal 10 admit
thai Of The General armstrong, ercept under posi-
tire coercion, rirfe Of the arbitration Of thef
hing of Saoeden, or other maritime potoer, Tot
nhote decision this government Is sill ,oiiing tol
submit The Jacts and principles alrolred in the l
case.
hear the Portuguese note, drawn up after
tne council OF State, could not be sent in to Dlr.
clay before yesterday, and believe it embodiesI 1
a species OF protest against some of the claims
thus admitted through coercion: for. nnder thet
! circumstances, Mr.. Clay has virtually coercedi
this government. as by the threat regarding hish
passports, he enforced settlement not admitted.
to be just with regard to some of the claims. |.
and excessive in the amount of others Mr. Clav'ss
threat placed before the eyes Of the government
the suferings recently placed before Greece,
nor could Portugal fail to see the injury her flags
would sustain at different ports for want of chars
tiers, &c, during the long interval between thesf
rupture of diplomatic relations with this court.
and a decision by Congress for or against Lord |.
Palmerston's sPac.ico,' plan of capturing mer-s
chant vessels for unjust or excessive claims ar
bitrarily asserted against weak notion 2
I" i much doubt, however, whether the admsJ,
sion of the $9l 900 will prevent Mr.. Clay's re-
turning from this court, as understand his ina
structions will lead him to do in consequence ofre
/ the gnon-rccogniton of the General Armstrong;.
claim; but think the United States Congress1
and people ought to put an immediate veto upon1
any further steps against PORTUGAL except byI
means of fair arbitration. Even If the Portul-es
/ guese Minister had, upon an erroneous state-1
ment OF facts, confessed in 1914 the justice Old
the General Armstrong claim upon England, can.i
/ Dnp IL. III 4 Al. " 49,
forced Interpretation thatitis bound to pay whers
England refuses and contests the facts with \
counter proofs equally good or more creditable'5
than the American privateer's interested version "a
| | do not see how this can be done, when the3,
United States Government had itself emphati-l.
cally declared in 1874 after full Investigations
OF the case, that it could see nothing in the or-y
cumstances to justify it in having recourse too
any other weapon against Portugal, but those
argument and Importantly, which had then, ass
now, failed to secure the recognition of the claim
and admission OF principle of internationally
law, which other powers are, equally with Por-t
tugal, interested in opposing. In short, cans
not see how Portugal is, with a shadow Of JUS
tce, to be nailed to her hasty and inconsiderate,
admission Of 1914, and no account taken Off
those made thirty years afterwards by the Govt
ernment of the United States, upon a full inves-
tgaton of all the circumstances"
F. S--As anticipated, Mr. Clay's reply to |
the Count of Tojas's note insists upon the adj,
mission of the General Armstrong claim. A; |
| Cabinet Council sat at7ltil midnight IN the CounA
| of ih0znass residence to consider sohat ansDe,s
should be girea 10 some of Mr.. Clays remarks
as before stated there appears no chance of the adj
mission Of The claim by THIS Government
MISCELLANEOUS.
| Young Peel, now Sir Robert was unanimously
returned 10 Parliament in his late fathers place
without his making his appearance on the hus
| tings
1t is said that the late Sir Robert Peel has left
his papers to Lord Mahon and Mr.. Edward Card
well, M. p.
Lamarne, before he sailed for Smyrna, sold his
copyright of two novels which he has recently
written, and the first will shortly appear.
| M. Theirs has received 924 900 for g The His
tory of the Consulate and the Empire, severa
volumes of which are yet unwritten. The pub
fishers, afraid, in these stirring times, that he
might be cut off, wished to insure his life, and tried
the London offices for the purpose, but they de-
clined the risk.
Mr.. III. Drummond, school fellow, a college
companion, and an unchanging friend of Sir
Peel, said OK the late statesman,--" A remarke
| able character in his career was that, from tn.
time he entered the House till the last moment 0
his life, he not only read but marked, learned
and nwardly digested,' every report which hac
beenpresened to the House (lear.) A nd he al
ways brought from out Of the stores of well
filled mind mass of information which generally
settled the debate. The consequences was, that ht
obtained a mastership more complete than any
other individual whom he ever saw. If there werd
public career, he advised them to initiate the acts
any young persons present who looked forward to
of Sir K. Peel, and to labor for their country as
he had done"
is to proceed to Rome for nvestture in the dignity
of the red-hat in August. It is many years since
any English Roman Catholic, resident in England
attained this honor.
At Berlin, the Academy of Sciences has beer
holdnga sitting, according to its statutes honoI
of the memory Of Leibnitz. In the course of tho
Grafton delivered on the occasion, it was stated tina
the 4th ofAugust next, being the 50th anniversary
Of the admission Of Alexander Won Humboldt al
member of the Academy, it has been resolved
in celebration of the event to place marble bus
of the ''Nestor of Science" in the lecture room o
the society.
Madame Gavaudan is dead To many it will
be necessary to explain that Madame Gavauday
was In her time, one of the most avourite singing
actresses and acting songstresses belonging to the
Opera Comiqae of Paris and that, after many years
of popularity, she retired from the stage in 1923
The first Doctors degree in Music ever bestowed
by the University of Jena, has just been awarded
to Mr. Meyerbeer.
Keightley History of Greece has been transla
ted into modern Greek--one of the better fruits OF
s'The Greek Question mayhap
The appearance of the black Prlma Donna, o
whom made mention recently, is thus noticed
by the Liverpool Journal:
ssFor some weeks past the appearance in o
the boxes of her Majesty's Theatre of lady O
color has caused much conversation in the lobbies
and the rumor that this the same lady who
under the name of the Black Malibran, had crea
ted great sensation in Paris, contributed much I'd
increase curiosity Biographies, too, have beer
circulated, by which we learn that Donna Anns
Maria Loreto Martinez de Morena-such is her