nation.

From the above his excellency commodore Biddle will perceive that the British vessels of war went to Buenos Ayres, not upon the service of England, but upon that of the empire of Brazil; and that with the exception of these, no other vessels of war have hitherto gone there.

ate Forte went. up; to her I lent my pilot, because as lomatic intercourse with France, exclusively by means of yet there was hope of peace, for there had been no move-its public ships entering the French blockaded ports. In ment which had indicated, in fact, a rejection of the treaty; 1811, in the United States' ship Hornet, I myself went they all retired, a brig having gone twice afterwards with into Cherbourg, then blockaded by a British squadron; despatches in furtherance of that end, by the mediatory was boarded as I went in by the blockading squadron, but merely for the purpose of ascertaining our national character. To the list of neutral ships mentioned by your excellency as having gone to Buenos Ayres, your excellency might have added the United States' ship Čvane, in April, 1826, and his Britannic majesty's packet, regularly every month, since the first establishment of the blockade. It results, therefore, that, in sending the corvette Boston to Buenos Ayres, I exercise au indisputable and customary right. At the same time, I fully recognize the relations of amity, happily subsisting between the United States and Brazil, and I am disposed to preserve them so far as may depend upon me.

If the U. States were the mediatory nation, (as surely they would have been, from the good understanding and the friendship which they have for his imperial majesty, if his imperial majesty had not anticipated them,) the same would have happened with their vessels that has occurred with the English, and the latter would not have gone up.

Possessed of all that has been recited, his excellency, commodore Biddle, will form the resolution that may appear to him most suitable to the occasion, remaining responsible for the consequences.

The undersigned will have the pleasure of sending the pilot to obey the orders of his excellency, in shifting the birth of the frigate Macedonian, not being able to spare him for a longer time, because affairs wearing a different aspect from what they did when he allowed him to carry up the frigate Forte, it may be necessary for him at any moment to get under weigh.

If in any thing else his excellency commodore Biddle shall find that the undersigned has it in his power to oblige, he may count his willingness to the utmost of the ability of the squadron under his command.

When at this anchorage in February last, the charge des affairs of the United States at Buenos Ayres expressed a desire that I would visit Buenos Ayres; but I then declined, because then no object of a public nature existed to call me there. I did not consider the blockade as at all interfering to prevent my going to Buenos Ayres; but, as long as I had no publie duty to perform there, Í deemed it proper to abstain from going there. Now, however, as your excellency must preceive, objects important to the interest of the United States require that I should communicate with Buenos Ayres; and these objects, your excellency must also perceive, I cannot, consistently with my duty, neglect.

And it is necessary to my views that captain Hoffman should have a personal interview with our charge des af

exposed anchorage, that he should be separated from his vessels, I must decline your excellency's offer of one of the vessels under your command, to convey my officers to Buenos Ayres, while I duly appreciate the kindness of the offer

The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to re-fairs at Buenos Ayres, and as it is not prudent, at this new to his excellency commodore Biddle, assurance of the highest consideration with which he has the honor to be his excellency's most attentive and obedient servant, BARON DO RIO DA PRATA. Most excellent sir James Biddle, commandant of the naval forces of the United States on the eastern coast of South America.

States

Off Monte Video, Nov. 11, 1827. Sir: Your excellency's letter of the 10th inst. has been received and attentively considered.

A number of American vessels have recently arrived at Buenos Ayres; and the seamen belonging to them being there discharged, are often compelled, by their necessities, to enter a foreign service.-It is my duty to endeavor to relieve these seamen, as far as practicable, by furnishing them the means of quitting Buenos Ayres in a public vessel of the United States.

I will add, that upon my arrival here, on the 6th inst. I received communications from the charge des affairs of the United States at Buenos Ayres, urging strongly, and upon public grounds, the presence of a public vessel of the United States there.

I have the honor to be, with great consideration and respect, your excellency's most obedient humble servant, JAMES BIDDLE.

To his excellency sr. Rodrigo Pinto Guedes, Baron of La Plata admiral commanding the naval forces of his imperial majesty at La Plata.

[TRANSLATION.]

H. I. Majesty's frigate Piranga,
November 11th, 1827.

having occurred in the late war, I am now informed of them; yet I beg leave to make some remarks upon the same subject, impelled to do so by the station I occupy in the Rio de la Plate.

Your excellency knows perfectly well, that, in the late war, monstrous transactions had place, such as are no longer received in the law of nations. He who was then chief of the French nation for many years, holding his will alone as right, forced other nations to resort to extraordinary measures, to counteract disorganizing attacks. Your excellency, therefore, must see that exampies drawn from that war cannot well apply to periods in which more regularity existed.

Outrages of an aggravating character have recently been committed upon the lawful commerce of the United States, by the private armed vessels of Buenos Ayres; Most excellent sir-Although I might have been igand particularly the American brig Ruth, bound to San-norant of some facts which your excellency recites as tos, and the American brig Anna, bound to Rio Janeiro, have been captured by Buenos Ayrean privateers, and the crews of both vessels have been abused. To ascertain if these captures and this abuse be sanctioned by the government, and to decide in what manner I shall in future treat these privateers at sea, it is indispensible I should communicate with the diplomatic representatives of the United States at Buenos Ayres. These are the considerations which have determined me to send the Boston to Buenos Ayres; and in communicating them, I give to your excellency a new proof of my respectful and amicable disposition. It was not necessary I should communicate them: since, in the case of the Boston, all that a blockading squadron can rightly claim, is, to be sa- The English nation itself, from whom your excellentisfied that she is a public vessel of the United States; and ey argues, has given a decision, and consequently pursues to this end, I have already ordered captain Hoffman to a different course, in the present war between his impeshow his commission from the president of the Unitedral majesty and the republic of Buenos Ayres. Some States to any Brazilian cruizer that may ask to see it. of the English authorities, as well in Rio Janeiro as in I must be permitted to say, notwithstanding your excel- the La Plata, pretending to establish the same doctrine lency's observation to the contrary, that blockades never which your excellency lays down as certam, the question have been deemed to extend to public ships. Great was referred to the cabinet of London, and his BritanBritain, almost perpetually at war, and numerically su- nic majesty decided that vessels of war could not enter perior at sea to any other nation, never for a moment blockaded ports, and such has continued to be the prac pretended that neutral ships of war could be affected by tice of the English. blockades. During several years of the war in Europe, the government of the United States maintained its dip

Permit me, your excellency, to deny the argument of the packet, because it proceeds from a special conven

With respect to the American seamen, William Nye, I received information from our consul, on the afterIn 1802, I was a junior officer in the American squadnoon of the 20th, that Nye had been impressed the preron, then blockading the port of Tripoli. A Danish ceding night. I sent an officer to state this to the admifrigate came off the port, which our squadron boardedral, desiring also that he release Nye, and his answer and permitted to enter.

THIRD SERIES.

No. 9 VOL. XII.] BALTIMORE, APRIL 25, 1829. [VOL. XXXVI. WHOLE No. 919

THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE.

EDITED, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY H. NILES & SON, AT $5 PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

Judge Gould's publication, in reference to Mr. Adams' letter to Mr. James A. Hamilton, shall have a place in our next-unless prevented by the press of more immediately interesting matter.

At

should disavow any foreign authority as to "temporal ties," as they are called-but how any member of the Catholic church can swear that he will not "disturb or weaken," the Protestant religion, we know not-except, in disavowing all desire to make converts to doctrines which he holds essential; a disavowal that should not be asked: for every individual, believing that he himself is in the right way, will conscientiously endeavor to lead others into it. And from hence, are apprehended, many abridgements of the liberty of conscience. But we will hope for the best-and that mutual forbearance may setthe this distracting question.

FLOUR AND GRAIN are rapidly falling back to their former low prices. We regret that while there was a foreign demand for flour, all that we had to spare had not been exported; for though it is yet much cheaper in the United States than in England, it may be expected that the high duty imposed in the latter will soon prevent its importation for consumption-such being the spirit of British, "tree trade."

The following averages are given in the latest prices current:

Averages of grain
For the week
For 6 weeks

Wheat.
GGs 6d

Barley.
Sls 5d

Oats

228 5d

718 10d
6s 8d

33s 8d

29s 11d

128 4d

198 9d

An article signed "Souтa," published in the South Carolina Telescope, at Columbia, and ascribed to Dr. Cooper, addressed "to the merchants of New York, and to the farmers and other consumers of manufactures in Pennsylvania and New York state," is passing through the anti-tariff newspapers. The writer thinks he has some very new views to present, and that his arguments, are altogether conclusive against the principle of protecting domestic industry: but all that he says has been thumbed over times unnumbered, by "e ambers of commerce" and British agents-giving out opinions for our use, as they have supplied us with cloths made out of old clothes, "imported as manure, ,” but re-manufactured for American consumption. Nor is there any novelty in the thrents of "South " The best of his arguments are those which may be most powerfully used against himself He asks "who will buy when he cannot sell?” present, as to the articles of cotton and tobacco, this proposition may be used to favor a few citizens of the south interested in the production of these commodities-but it will apply just as well to the ten-times more numerous growers of grain, wool, sugar, hemp, and Duty flax-and to breeders of cattle, hogs, &c. and fish- American flour was selling from 33 to 34s per barrel, ermen and others, in the eastern, middle and west-Some however, had lately been held at 37 to 388. ern states. What do these sell to Great Britain? But, if the amount of exportations are to be accepted as the basis of private happiness and national prosperity, as "South" seems to think that it is, we must admit that the inhabitants of the island of Cuba, regarded as a community, are far more happy and prosperous than those of JUSTICE. Though ever indisposed to capital punishthe United States, seeing that their proportion of exports ments, we have been latterly inclined to an opinion that is ten or twelve times larger than ours-and it will fol- there is no security against pirates, slavers and murlow, that private happiness and public prosperity are derers, but in inflicting the penalty of death-and that it best maintained when three-fourths of a whole popula-is altogether mistaken mercy to pardon those guilty of tion are debased and ignorant black slaves. We are not such offences. "The dog returns to his vomit again,2 prepared to believe this. But, at an early period, we except in special cases; and so do these to their high ofshall give a full insertion to the essay of "South," using fences against the laws of God and man. It is the great the liberty of making such remarks upon it as we shall misfortune, however, as to the two first, that the suborthink proper, but without hope that they will be per-dinates-the means of doing the iniquity, suffer, and the mitted to reach the ear of those most familiar with the 'monstrous delusion" which this writer encourages.

A Liverpool paper of March 17, anticipates an increased duty of 4s. in the following week. It will be recollected that the duty rises, as the price of grain de clines.

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principals generally get clear. But we hope for improvement in this particular-and that the prime movers of these crimes will be more certainly reached than hereTHE CATHOLIC QUESTION. Though the people of tofore. The pretence of privateering will have to give the United States, as such, have only a remote, or indi- way to acknowledged piracy, and the "glorious uncertain rect interest in what is called the "Catholic question," inty of the law," will be exceedingly lessened. From CuGreat Britain, we publish, from the latest London papers, ba, we apprehend, that the latter description of miscre a long account of the proceedings had thereon in the house ants, will still appear on the ocean. The local authoriof commons, &c. with a sketch of the bill as it passed tres, we hope, have the will, though wanting the pow that house, by a triumphant majority-at which every er, to put them down; and if the captain-general cannot liberal minded man will heartily rejoice; and hope that or will not suppress piracy, measures must, and will be, the hospital of incurables," the house of lords, may be no doubt, adopted by Great Britain, France and the Unireached by the popular feeling. We also copy from the ted States, to do it-and without much ceremony. "London Times" an account of the disabilities under A St. Thomas paper of the 14th Feb. announces the which the Catholics labored-a careful looking to which, hanging of four more fellows for piracy-passing by the with a recollection that those parts of the barbarous laws names of Beaupre, Uriarte, Antonio and Cabrera; the not mentioned as having been repealed, were retained, first said to be a Spaniard, the second and third Portuwill shew the state of the question when recently pre-guese, and the fourth Haytian. They belonged to the sented. They were subject to many odious disqualifica-American schooner Bolivar, alias the Danish schooner tions, and rather regarded as a conquered people, than as having a common interest in the affairs of the British empire. Mr. Peel estimates the population of Ireland at seven millions, of which five are Catholics. The bill, "take it all in all," is more liberal than we hoped for, and we think that, if an established church must needs be retained, and the necessity of it can be accepted by the Catholics, it will accomplish more than the most sanguine friends of emancipation anticipated. The “if” rests mainly upon the form of the oath proposed by Mr. Peel. We hold it entirely correct that a British subject VOL. XXXVI-No. 9

Elizabeth, alias the Buenos Ayrean privateer Las Damas Argentinas, alias the sheer-pirate, some 30 of whose officers and crew were executed a short time ago. There is a long and fresh account of the doings of this vessel; and these men, who were not on board when she was captured, have been since taken up, and met their reward. Others of their associates, may have nearly "run the length of their rope."

PIRATES. Five of the crew of a piratical vessel lately captured by the Spanish king's schooner Habanera, have

arrived at Havana.

One of them belonged to the French Some idea may be formed of the extent of this estabbrig Amedee, whose life only was spared, on conditioulishment by the quantity of articles consumed in a year. of his joining them. He stated that during the cruize,The following is a part, stated in round numbers: the pirates had murdered one hundred and fifteen persons-which appears too probably true. From the exertions now making it is most likely that these wretches will retire from their horrible vocations-but something must be done, by the captain general of Cuba, to prevent a renewal of it."

INTERNAL TRADE.

There were 437 arrivals of vessels at the port of Sandusky (located in the wilderness during the late war) during the last year, and 1623 wagons were loaded there with goods for different parts of the interior of Ohio, and other western and south western states. Vast supplies from New York are distributed from this depot, which, had it been "let alone," would still have been a fishing place for Indians.

In the lead-mine country, of which Galena is the centre, there are now about 12,000 people, chiefly men, and it is probable that they will make from 9 to 10,000,000 lbs. of lead, in the current year. Between the 25th of of Feb. and 26th December, 1828, there were 99 arrivals of steam-boats, and 75 of keel-boats, at the port of Galena, which even 6 or 7 years ago, was in the possession of the fierce Winnebagoes, who would still have retained it, had things been "let alone." By the tariff of 1828, a duty of 3 cents per pound was put upon lead, and of 4 cents on shot. The first is purchased at Baltimore, for 43 cents per pound, and the last sold for six cents: so that, according to the reasoning of the profound philosophers of the south, lead at Galena, including the cost of its transportation round to Baltimore, about 3000 miles, "more or less," is worth only 14 cents per pound, and shot manufactured in Baltimore, the duty on the manufacture being added to that on the material, is sold by the manufacturers for one cent less per pound than nothing at all-it being the unyielding maxim of these philosophers, that protecting duties are inevitably a tax on consumers! And of such stuff as this, are nine-tenths of the anti-tariff essays made up.

400.000 lbs. of wool, value
18,000 lbs. of indigo

$160,000

36,000

200 bbls. camwood

600

40 casks woad

800

Other dye stuffs

5,000

50 pipes olive oil

4,100

And our diplomatic relations with the governments of these countries having for their chief object the protection of commerce, including outfits and infits, &c. cost us not less than 25,000 dollars a year; and yet they afford not a market for our farmers equal to the little village of Somersworth. Well might Dr. Cooper, now president of the college of South Carolina, in his better days, exclaim, after he had calculated the product of American industry, "How do the boasted panegyricks on foreign trade dwindle into insignificance, when set in competition with this!" And, what difference does it make to the HEMP. Two beautiful specimens were exhibited at the farmer whether his market is at St. Petersburg or SomBaltimore Exchange, last week. One grown in Frede-ersworth? The last, however, is far the best-not berick county, Maryland, and the other by col. C. S. Tod, ing subject to foreign controul. of Kentucky. They are public benefactors who furnish such examples, and we hope that they themselves will CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS. The United States may profit by them. "This is as good hemp as ever came be regarded as entirely independent of Europe for all from Russia," said a friend who is acquainted with the the chief chemical articles, and the result is, that they material-and why should it not be? And we think have become at least fifty per cent. cheaper than while the time is at hand, when the farmers of the northern and we were dependent on foreign supplies: and their aggrewestern states, may obtain the same profits for hemp gate values must amount to not less than two millions of and flax, that the planters of the south have obtained from dollars a year. So that, besides employing our own peccotton, in proportion to the demand for the articles re-ple, to consume our own provisions, &c. at least a million spectively. We observe yet another machine, invented of dollars are annually saved to the public, because of by Mr. Salisbury, and in operation at Troy, N. Y. for the domestic manufacture of these small things." dressing hemp, which the "Farmer's Register" speaks is a pretty little item in the national economy. What of so highly as to entertain the hope that we shall soon will the opponents of the protecting principle say to it? export hemp. We think this very probable-for the We have several times noticed the great chemical growth of hemp is protected by the tariff, and protection works in Baltimore-at which some of the most delicate has uniformly had such effect on the industry and enter-and costly preparations are made, with a guarantee that prize of the people of the United States.

This

they are genuine, because that the makers of them are known, and have a high character at stake, and which it is essential to their continued prosperity that they should SOMERSWORTH, N. II. The factorics at Salmon Falls preserve. This is one important advantage in behalf of have lately become famous, though only a small portion the domestic articles, which no thinking man can overof the water-power is yet employed. The company was look. There is nothing like responsibility, and especi incorporated in 1822, with a capital of a million. Their ally in things of this sort. And, when we recollect the works at present, consist of three cotton mills, one for enormous prices which chemical preparations obtained the manufacture of broad cloths and another of carpets.during the late war, we have additional reasons to be The cotton mills have, or are to have, nearly 20,000 gratified with the successful establishments at Baltimore, spindles, with looms enough to make between 70 and Philadelphia, New York, &c. 80,000 yards of cloth, weekly. One of these mills is The N. Y. Enquirer says-Within the last few years six stories high, 49 feet wide, and 390 feet long. The the chemical works of this city have increased astonishwoollen factory is six stories high, 49 feet wide and 220ingly. Last year this establishment made 500,000 pounds feet long, and makes 2,000 yards of broad cloth weekly. of oil of vitriol, and in 1829 they expect to increase it to The carpet factory makes 1,500 yards weekly, that com- nearly a million of pounds. In the same period they pares with the best Kidderminster or Scotch goods. The have sold 500,000 pounds of alum, and next year it will village, belonging to the works, contains 1,600 persons1,000 of whom are connected with the factories-the monthly disbursements of the company in wages, arc over 16,000 dollars.

*The present supply might cost four millions, at old prices, if imported-but at such prices the quantity conIsumed would be much less than it is.

increase to 800,000. Ten years ago not a pound of this
article was made in the United States-it was imported
from Germany and England; judging from the demand,
the previous sale, and the materials on hand, this estab-
lishment is expected to manufacture in 1829, of the fol-
lowing articles, the several quantities set against them:-
Blue vitriol,
Saltpetre,
200,000 pounds.
Aquafortis,
200,000
Refined saltpetre,
Bleaching salts,

40,000

500,000
200,000

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produced happy results, and if firmly kept will ensure
"The strong ground taken by the south has already
that triumph which plain honesty of claim and purpose
always has and will acquire. For you may be assured,
that God has ordained that the moral, like the physical
world, shall be governed by fixed and permanent prin-
ciples; and that truth, justice and honesty, are as certain
of a virtual success, as the waters of the Mississippi are
to roll on to the oeran.
well as religion, and it cheers me on with the highest
This is my faith, in politics as
hopes and confidence."

These are only a few of the leading articles manufactured by the chemical factory. Their list exends to thirty or forty various kinds of drugs and chemical ral estimate of the losses sustained by the English army, Loss OF LIFE IN BATTLE. The following is a genestuffs. In the article of bleaching salts, five years ago, under the command of lord Wellington, from the time not a particle was manufactured here-now it is nearly of his appointment to it in Portugal until peace. 200,000 pounds. The same striking advancement might campaign of 1808, 69 officers and 1,015 men fell; 1809, be instanced in various other art.cles; but the above spe. 243 officers and 4,088 men; 1810,78 officers and 924 men; In the cimen will be sufficient to show the general reader that 1811, 459 officers and 7,584 men; 1812, 816 officers and manufactures thrive as well in the city as in the coun- 11,050 men; 1813, 1,025 officers and 14.966 men; 1814, try, when they are conducted by men of prudence, skill, 400 officers and 4,791 men; 1815, 717 officers and 9,485 and attention. [A very large quantity of alum is made in Baltimore-wounded. This total does not include the Brunswickers, men. Total, 3,807 officers and 54,283 men killed or perhaps more than in New York. The first alum works Hanoverians, Portuguese, nor Spaniards. It is remark in the United States, we believe, were established neared, that at Salamanca, the proportion of the killed to the this city, and have been in operation more than ten years. combatants was 1 to 90; at Vittoria, 1 to 74; Waterloo, But, until within a few years past, nearly all the alum 1 to 40; while at the battle of the Nile, the ratio was 1 to used was imported. Now none. has ruined the importation, but supplies the article for The duty upon alum 36; at Trafalgar, 1 to 41; at Copenhagen, 1 to 39. less than one half of its former price. Is this "a tax on consumers, for the benefit of monopolists.?"]

CREATIONS OF VALUE. Estimate by the late Mr. Colquhoun, of the value of property created in Great Britain and Ireland, in 1812.

Agriculture in all its branches, including
pasture

Mines and, minerals, including coals
Manufactures, in every branchi
Inland trade

Foreign commerce and shipping
Coasting trade

Fisheries, exclusive of the colonial fishe-
ries of Newfoundland
Chartered and private bankers
Foreign income remitted

Total

[The killed in these fights, bear but a small proportion to the British losses in their affairs with us, in the late war, at Chippewa, Niagara, or New Orleans, and in the ter, a statement of which happens to present itself, we naval battles on lakes Erie and Champlain. In the lathad 52 killed out of less than 600 really engaged, and the British 84 killed out of about the same number.]

£217,000,000 TRIBUTES TO MERIT. 9,000,000 has just finished three elegant swords, which, by resoluMr. Fletcher, of Philadelphia, 114,000,000 tions of the general assembly of Maryland, are to be pre31,000,000 sented to captain Ballard, and lieuts. Cross and Mayo, 46,000,000 as tokens of approval of the gallant bearing of those gen2,000,000 tlemen in the several engagements in which they took an active part during the last war. 2,000,000 that the swords are something smaller than those formerThe U. S. Gazette says 3,000,000 ly worn, but are conformable to the mode. The blades 5,000,000 are of the finest steel, etched with views of the engagements in which the respective officers to receive them £430,000,000 were prominent, contaming the names of the donors and The handles and guards are of solid gold, flect the highest credit upon the manufacturer. The elegantly and appropriately chased-and the whole re cost of these swords is twelve hundred dollars.

Say-One thousand nine hundred millions of dollars-receivers. 1,900,000,000.

[American.

Cuba, the New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser, makes CUBA. On the subject of the piracies on the coast of the following remarks:

In the appendix to the proceedings of the Harrisburg convention, the annual creations of value in the United States are estimated at 1,000 millions, which we think very moderate, compared with Mr. Colquhoun's calculations for Great Britain and Ireland in 1812; and yet the magnitude of that sum astonished many who had never reflected on the subject. Dr. Cooper, 16 or 17 years ago, estimated the products of our agriculture at 640 millions-including only articles of food, such as places on the coasts of the island in the neighborhood of "It is supposed that these pirates have their retreating bread-stuffs, meats, drinks and vegetables, with fuel. Matanzas. On which he exclaimed "how do the boasted panegy-vernment will surely, for the sake of its honor, seek If they are any where in the island the goricks on FOREIGN TRADE dwindle into insignificance them out for exemplary punishment. The civil authowhen set in competition with this!" Aye, and it is even rities will not or ought not, to suffer themselves to be so in Great Britain, though the shop-keeper of the trampled upon and despised, by a daring band of ignoble world; and the value of all her exports, whether of do- corsairs! When such an emergency shall present itself mestic or foreign product, had an average of only about as that of a puerile and contemptible government in that 53 millions, in the 7 years preceding 1812-that of Mr. quarter, unable to maintain its authority, the government Colquhoun's calculation--one-eighth only of the value of of the United States will know how to act, from the abthe other. We recommend these things to the atten- solute necessity of self defence. Let us forever bear in tion of the president of the college of South Carolina. mind, too, that we cannot permit any other European PROSPECTS. The Greenville, S. C. Mountaineer, pub-lation of the commerce of the Mississippi, carrying with power to take possession of Cuba without a total annihilishes the following extracts of a letter from Mr. Davis, it a death blow to the life and prosperity of New Orleans. one of the members of congress from South Carolina. Any European power, disposed to annoy us, prosperity of this city forever. the possession of that island, seal up the fountains of the would with tion of these truths, our government has resolved to preUnder a solemn convicvent any new occupation of Cuba; and there is no state so much interested as Louisiana to support it in this resolution."

"Washington, March 5, 1829. "The tone of the president's inaugural address, I think is calculated to sooth the too justly excited feelings of the south; and his private conversations and expressed opinions are still more satisfactory to myself. You will no doubt have already seen the sundry legislative schemes of robbing the south for the benefit of other sections, but which have, for this session at least, failed, and will as long as we are united.

[In connexion with these remarks, the instructions given on the occasion of the much abused Panama mission, should be read and reflected on by every American.-