the Branch Bank of the U. S. in Charleston might be taxed, repórted, that such a measure would be impolitic and unwise. chief point to establish this-but it was proved, as well by the master of the vessel said to be robbed as by other facts, that Taylor had seized upon a part of her cargo as Spanish property-which it We state with peculiar satisfaction, says the Cin-was; and that, in other respects, he had behaved cinnati Inquisitor, that the city banks continue to with great courtesy and moderation. pay specie for the accommodation of persons hav ing payments due at the Land Office. All the cases against certain individuals as partners, agents or abettors of com. Taylor, are settled In the house of delegates of the state of Mary.for the present, and the court has adjourned. The land, Messrs. Wilson, Blackistone, Wm. Hayward, [prosecution against Mr. Joseph Karrick, a merBrackenridge and C. Dorsey, were appointed a chant of Baltimore of high standing, occupied the committee, with leave to bring in a bill to facili-court 8 or 10 days: he was indicted for a high tate the recovery of debts due from the several banks of this state, and to compel the said banks to pay specie for their notes, or forfeit their char ters. crime and misdemeanor, in 11 counts, all which were abandoned or set aside, except two-and, as the facts were proved, "his offending had this extent, no more,” that he, acting as an agent, had efAt a meeting at Glasgow, Ky, of representatives fected an exchange of a certain quantity of old of ten of the Independent Banks of Kentucky, as powder for one cask less of new. On this the jury they are called-that is, the banks chartered, 35 found him guilty—but judgment could not be renîn number, during the last winter-it was unani. dered until a question of law was settled, and, an mously resolved, to “recommend to their respec-argument being had, the judgment was arrested, tive institutions, to suspend the payment of specie, and he of course, acquitted of all accusation. Af notes on the bank of the United States and its ter which, the district attorney ordered a noli pros branches, notes on the bank of Kentucky and is sequi to be entered in all the rest of the cases, branclies, until otherwise ordered by said institu though in respect to some of them, the attornies tions, or the decísion of the legislature." This is for the defendants offered to wave all defects in stopping payment by wholesale. Nat. Int. the indictments, &c. and admit against them the evidence of the parties implicated. During these important trials, the attorney geneCommodore Taylor-a law case. ral of the U. S. several times exhibited his great At the circuit court of the United States, sitting powers in eloquence and argument; and, whilst in Baltimore, Duval, chief justice, Houston, associ-rigidly faithful to is duties, much endeared him ate, a very important case was decided on Satur- self to all parties by his frankness and liberality. day week. As a full report of the trial, with the opinions of the court, will probably be published, the following brief notice of the case may be sufficient for the present. As we have had so many prosecutions on one side of the question, we should like to see a few on the other; else most persons will suppose that our neutrality is lop sided. It is just as notorious that Spain draws a large part of her means of warfare against the patriots from the United States, as that the patriots receive such means through us. Let the rule work both ways, or the law be repealed. The colonial system. Thomas Taylor was indicted in the name of the United States on five courts for piracy. The first great question presented to the court, was the pro position of the counsel for the United States [Mr. Wirt, attorney general, Mr. Glenn, district attorney, and Mr. Hoffman] to introduce the capture of several vessels not named in the indictment, to evince the piratical intention, or animus furandi. The following is from a Liverpool paper-"Seve. This was objected to by the opposite counsel ral commercial houses at Paris have been informed [Messrs. Pinkney and Winder], and, after a most by their correspondents, that the American govern. splendid and learned argument, in which Mr. Pink-ment has offered a sum of 30,000,000 fr. to the king ney exhibited his vast powers in their fullest effect of the Two Sicilies for the cession of the port of -the court rejected the proposition of the council of the United States, deciding that the crimes charged in the indictment were the only ones to be considered in the case. The argument was maintained with much warmth, and something like a personal difference took place between Messrs. Wirt and Pinkney-which however, was promptly and amicably explained, Syracuse. This proposition was rejected. It is well known that the Americans use every effort to procure an establishment in the Mediterranean, and that they have successively directed their attention on Porto Ferrajo and on Mahon. In the fear of injuring the commerce of Leghorn, the grand duke of Tusaany has refused them the isle of Elba, for which they offered 14,000,000 fr." This matter being disposed of, com. Taylor's We have always treated articles of this nature as counsel plead his commissision from the existing go. supremely ridiculous. We know that no approprivernment of the united provinces of the Rio del ation has been made for the purchase of a territory Plata, in justification of the acts charged in the in-in Europe, and it is impossible to believe that the dictment. This produced another most able de-president would make any unauthorised proposal bate-in which Messrs. Pinkney, Wirt and Winder on a subject involving such serious consequences. greatly distinguished themselves-the former es. It is of no use to argue the matter, or say much pecially, who supported his glowing eloquence by about it, in the present state of the case-but, dea reference to about one hundred and twenty cases, spising all the sophistry and doctrine of expedieḥ. as authority, in behalf of his client. The court adcy that may be brought to bear in favor of obtain journed for one day to deliberate-and delivered ing a portion of territory in Europe-we may briefly an opinion, that Taylor's commission was valid; on observe, that when the American people are prepar which the jury acquitted him of every count ined to sanction such a procedure, they will also be the indictment without leaving the box. prepared to receive one of the incorrigibly foolis t Guelphs of Engiand, or miserable Bourbons France or Spain, for a KING. Among the counts against Taylor was one for the capture of an American vessel. It seemed to be a Literary Notice. Several reports, on private petitions, were reber of motions submitted. ceived from the different committees, and a num After a short prefatory speech, Mr. Williams, of C. moved the following resolution, which, at his request, was laid on the table"That the committee on military affairs be inducing the army of the United States." structed to enquire into the expediency of re Joseph M. Sanderson of this city, has issued proposals for publishing a biography of the lives of the signers of the declaration of independence, (to be written by PAUL ALLEN, Esq.) with a his tory of the proceedings during its progress, and the document itself, with fac simile engravings of the signatures.-Each biography is to be accompanied with a likeness of the person-and if properly conducted (as we have every reason to believe it will), Monday, Dec. 14. After a variety of business of we hope the obscurity in which many of those il a private nature, a message was received from the lustrious founders of the American republic have president of the United States, by Mr. J. J. Monbeen suffered to remain, will be unveiled, and their roe his secretary, transmitting, in compliance with actions become the familiar topic of the day. To a resolution of this house, a report of the secretary revere their memories is a debt we in gratitude of war, embracing the correspondence which took owe, and as descendants of illustrious parents, we place between the governor of Georgia, and major cannot be backward in discharging it. We hope general Andrew Jackson, respecting the arrest, &c. then, that the encouragement necessary for so of Obed Wright: which was referred to the mili laudable an undertaking-to make it honorable to tary committee, the nation-honorable to the place, and profitable to the publisher, will not be withheld. CONGRESS. IN SENATE. Dec. 11. Mr. Tait, from Georgia, appeared today and took his seat. Mr. Tait presented the memorial of the legisla ture of the territory of Alabama, petitioning for permission to form a constitution and state govern. ment, and to be admitted into the union on an equal footing with the original states; which memorial was referred to a select committee. the president to lay before the house, if he should Mr. Hopkinson submitted a motion requesting not deem it improper to do so, copies of any in. structions which have been given to the minister of the United States at Madrid, relative to the late proceedings of the army of the United States in Florida. The motion was opposed as proposing an unus sual course-and finally laid on the table. The engrossed bill for gran ing a sum of money to the representatives of commodore Edward Preble, was read a third time and passed. The bill to extend, for a further term of five years, the pensions granted to the widows and orDec. 14. The memorial of the Mississippi con- Phans of those militia who died or fell in battle vention, praying an extension of the limits of that during the late war, being the order of the day, state, and the counter memorial of the legislative Passed through a committee of the whole, and its council of Alabama, both presented at the last ses-objects being briefly explained by Mr. Harrison, sion, were, on motion of Mr. Leake, referred to the was reported to the house; when a spirited debate committee appointed on the admission of Alabama arose on it, which occupied the whole of this day's into the union sitting. Mr. Eaton submitted a resolution for the appointment of a committee to enquire what amendments are necessary to the existing laws, the more effectually to prevent the importation of slaves into the United States. [Agreed to next day.] Dec. 15. Mr. Fromentin submitted the following motion: Messrs. Harrison and Johnson warmly supported the bill, Messrs. Simkins and Pi'kin opposed it. It was at length ordered to be engrossed for a third reading-79 for, 78 against it. Tuesday, Dec. 15-The Speaker laid before the house a report from the secretary of war, in obe dience to a resolution of this house of the 17th Resolved, That the committee on military affairs April last, directing him to report whether any, be instructed to enquire into the expediency of ex- and, if any, what reduction may be made in the mitending the right to a bounty in lands to the sol.litary peace establishment of the United States, diers who were enlisted to serve in the company with safety to the public service; and whether any, of bombardiers, sappers and miners, and in the and, if any, what change ought to be made in the . corps of ordnance. ration, and in the mode of issuing it; and, also, a system for the establishment of a commissariat for the army. The bill respecting the transportation of persons of color, for sale, &c. was taken up and referred to Messrs. Eaton, Burrill, Smith, Macon and Horsey, Mr. Colston offered for consideration the followthe committee appointed in pursuance of the reso-ing resolution, prefacing it with the remark, that, lution adopted on this day, on motion of Mr. Eaton. as the subject of the Seminole war was one which Dec. 16. Mr. Sanford laid on the table the fol considerably agitated the public mind, and on lowing motion: which every member of the house, and the whole community, were desirous of all the light which could be thrown on it, he should make no apology for this motion: Resolved, That the committee of commerce and manufactures consider and report what provisions may be proper for obtaining more accurate state ments of the annual exports and imports of the United States. After considerable debate, the bill for the relief of general Stark, was ordered to a third reading, by yeas and nays-yeas 29, nys 6. Executive business occupied a part of this dayand other things transacted will be noticed in their progress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to lay before this house any correspondence which may have taken place between this government and that of Great Britain, relative to the execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister. The engrossed bill authorising the extension of the pensions to the widows and orphans of the militia who fell in battle or died in service during the late war, for five years longer, was read a third Friday, Dec. 11. Mr. Nesbit, of South Carolina, time. appeared yesterday and took his seat After debate, a motion was made to postp the bill indefinitely-on which the house divided equally-79 to 79; the speaker voted against the postponement. The final question on the passage of the bill was decided as follows: ry five tons. [The late shocking destruction of Dutch emigrants has caused this bill.] The bill regulating pensions, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. Thurday, Dec. 17. Many reports were received and resolutions offered, not necessary to notice at present. The engrossed bill for regulating payments to military pensioners, was read a third time-and re committed. YEAS-Meters. Anderson, Pa. Anderson, Ky. Baldwin, Barber, Ohio, Beecher, Bellinger, Bloomfield, Blount, Boden, Butler, Lou Colston, Comstock, Cook, Cruger, Davidson. Earle, Ervin, S. C. Floyd, Fuller, Gage, Gilbert, Harrison, Hendricks, Herbert, Herkimer, Herrick, Hiester, Hitchcock, Holmes, Hostetter, Hubbard, Irving, N. Y. Johnson, Ky. Jones, Kinsey, Lewis, Lincoln, Little, MLean, W. Maclay, Mercer, Middleton, Robert Moore, Mum ford, Murray, H. Nelson, T. M. Nelson, Nesbitt, New, Newton, The engrossed bill to regulate passenger ships Ogle Palmer, Parrott, Patterson, Pawling, Pindall, Pleasants, Poindexter, Porter, Quarles, Rhea, Ringgold, Robertson, Rogers, Sampson, Schuyler, Sergeant, Settie, Silsbee, Bal. Smith, Alex. and vessels; the engrossed bill directing the paySmyth, Storrs, Trimble, Tucker, SC. Walker, N. C. Walker, Ky.ment of certain bilis drawn by general Armstrong in favor of William Morgan; and the engrossed Wallace, Wendover, Whiteside, Whitman, Wilkin.-82. bill for the relief of Dr. Mottrum Ball, were se. verally read a third time, passed, and sent to the senate for concurrence. NAYS-Messrs. Abbot, Adams, Allen, Mass. Austin, Barbour, Va. Bassett, Bateman, Bayley, Bennett, Boss, Bryan, Butler, N. H. Campbell, Clagett, Claiborne, Cobb, Crafts, Cushman, Darling ton, Desha, Edwards, Ellicott, Garnett, Hall, Del. Hall, N. C. Hlast rouck, Hogg, Hunter, Hopkinson, Huntingdon, Johnson, Va. Kirtland, Lawyer, Linn, Livermore, Wm. P. Maclay, MCoy, MarJer. Nelson; Orr, Owen, Pegram, Pitkin, Rice, Rich, Richards, chaud, Mason, Mass. Mason, R. 1. Merrill, Mills, Morton, Moseley, Ruggles, Savage, Sawyer, Scudder, Sherwood Sivukins, Slocumb, S. Smith, J. S. Smith, Speed, Stewart, N. C. Strother, Tallmadge, Tart, Taylor, Terry, Tompkius, Townsend, Tucker, Va. Upham, Westerlo, Williams, Con. Williams, N. Y. Wilson, Mass. Wilson, Pen.-79. So the bill was passed, and sent to the senate for Concurrence. Mr. Hopkinson, called up the resolution which he yesterday submitted, calling on the president for certain documents connected with our relations with Spain. Mr. Holmes proposed to modify the resolution in a manner which he thought would meet the object of the gentleman, and be free from any objection, so as to read as follows: "That the president be requested to cause to be communicated to this house such further correspondence and proceedings in relation to our affairs with Spain, as in his opinion it shall not be inconsistent with the public interest to divulge." Mr. Hopkinson accepted this modification. A private claim of Charles Kellog, for payment under his command in the late war, occupied the for certain clothing lost by company of volunteers house. The prayer of the petitioner was rejected. Mr. Little, from the joint committee on the sub, jeat of the printing for the house, reported a joint resolution, directing the secretary and clerk of each house to cause the printing to be distributed among such printers as shall be best able to expedite it, giving a preference to the present contrac tor; which was agreed to on the part of this house. Foreign Articles. ENGLAND, &c. A vessel has arrived in the Shannon, (Ireland) in sixteen days from Quebec. The Polar expedition has returned-the highest point of latitude reached was about 80. 30 long. 12 east, where they found an impenetrable barrier of ice. This is said to be the 17th or 18th failure to accomplish the project of crossing the polar reThe resolve was agreed to, nem, con, and a com-gions. The London papers observe-In different mittee appointed to present the resolution to the years the Greenland whalers have advanced to the lat. of 81 and 82; and so late as 1806 the elder Mr. Wednesday, December 16. Several reports were Scoresby ascended to the lat. of 81. 50. It is now made by different committees-of no present imclear, we think, that all hope of sailing to the pole portance to notice. senate. is at an end. A son of Mr Scoresby lately suggest Mr. Clagget, of N. H. submitted a long motion, fed the bold plan of approaching the pole over the to set apart certain townships of land in the state icy continent from Spitzbergen. Adopting the of Hlinois, each alternate section of which should mode which the Russian hunters have employed be reserved for settlement by emigrants from Ire- with such advantage in exploring the Frozen Sea Jand, they paying therefor, at the rate of $2 per from Nova Zembla to the shores of Kamschatka, acre, &c. But the house refused, by a large ma-he proposed to pass the winter in the Island of Spitzbergen,and starting in the spring with sledges, jority, to consider the proposition. Mr. Tarr, of Penn. offered a motion to appropri-drawn by dogs, to pursue a direct journey of 6 or ate an additional sum to complete the road from Cumberland to Wheeling. The house refused to agree to a reference of it-55 to 54. 700 miles to the pole. He might then expect to find a continuous sheet of ice stretching through his whole track. This certainly proves that lord Castlereagh is an honest man, unless the jewels were hired.] The jewels worn by lady Castlereagh, at the ball On motion of Mr. Walker, of N. C. the commit. tee of military affairs were instructed to enquire given at Aix-la-Chapelle by the town, amounted, it into the expediency of providing by law for allowis said, to the value of four millions of francs.ing an equal bounty in lands, as to other soldiers, to all minors who enlisted in the military service during the late war, who continued in the service till peace was concluded, and were regularly dis charged. It is reported that the duke of York will resign this situation as commander in chief, and that he will be succeeded by the duke of Wellington. Col. Harvey to the military secretary. Mr. Robertson, of Ken, offered a resolution to Stocks, Oct. 22-3 per cent. con. 77 3-4 1-2. raise a committee to consider on the expediency of London, Oct. 22.-Government have already re establishing a separate territorial government in ceived on the new loan of 1.27,000,000, 5,450,000 in the extensive country now constituting the terrimoney and 14,9333,000 in exchequer bills, leaving tory of Missouri, and not included in the project ed state of Missouri. Agreed to. The bill to regulate passenger ships, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. This bill restricts the number of passengers to two for eve between six and seven millions to be forthcoming. 1788, when Pitt came into power, the whole expense of governinent did not exceed 1.12,500,000, [So much now the poor rates approach that sum. for the paper system.] England with 3000 men. When these all act to gether the fate of the Spanish power over Vene zuela and Granada is sealed. The privateers are also very active, and have nearly annihilated the commerce under the royal flag. They are charged with committing many excesses. A Dutch frigate from Curracos, and a British frigate from Jamaica, are cruising to restrain them. Messrs. John E. Howard, jr. Henry H. Chapman, Henry A Callis, John Stoops, and Arnold E. Jones, all federalists, were elected as council to governor Goldsborough on the 15th inst. Artigas still harrasses the Portuguese at Monte Video. About the 1st of September, he had an engagement with them, at three leagues distance Walter Lowrie, esq. is elected a senator of the from their lines, in which he captured 200 horses, U. S. for six years from the 4th of March next, and 50 or 60 men, with the loss of only one man. from Pennsylvania, in the place of Mr. Lacock, Chili is quiet. The patriot army therein is pre-who declined a re-election-the votes were for Mr. paring for an expedition to Peru. The royalists Lowrie 87: for Isaac Weaver 32. had evacuated Talcuhana. The rich Spaniards of Peru are shipping of their effects, and many were embarking from Panama. It is understood that the patriots will strike at Lima, at once, as soon as they can get ready for the great enterprize, in which they have every prospect of being successed. ful. Mr. Gaillard is re-elected a senator of the U. S. for six years from the 4th of March next, from South Carolina. Indiana.-There are now nine newspapers pub, lished in the State of Indiana and a tenth is propos Retrocession of Alexandria.-A late grand jury for the county of Alexandria, recommended a retroOn account of the late conspiracy at Buenos Ay-cession to the state of Virginia, of that part of the res, the following proclamation has been issued: The supreme director of the United Provinces of La Plata, to his fellow citizens: district of Columbia which lies west of the Potomac; and appointed a committee of nine persons to promote the measure. Manual Labor. The 6th regiment of infantry, stationed at Plattsburgh, have performed, since the first of April last, 25,716 days labor, exclusive of their military duty, and the cultivation of a kitchen garden, which will supply the regiment with vegetables until the next season. CITIZENS-A malignant individual, under the influence of misery and desperation, which he has himself since confessed, formed the project of seizing my person, with the intent of creating dis order, and working a change in the present administration, and also with a view of bettering his own fortune. In endeavoring to procure accomplices to carry his designs into effect, he was entangled in the snares he premeditated for others; and he was taken by surprise, on the very eve of executing his extravagrant and diabolical machina-nufactures. tions. He accused, as the authors of this plot, three distinguished citizens, residing in the envirous, and gave a plausibility to his wretched cunning, by assuming the appearance of truth in affecting to denounce his pretended associates. I immediately caused to be arrested the three persons he accused: the security of the public tranquility imperiously imposed on me this painful duty. I then named a member of the executive council, according to our laws, to examine into this affair, the result of which was that it did not, in my opinion, threaten to disturb the public order; I, therefore, ordered the personal liberation of the three principals who were accused. In the mean time the proper magistrates, having due respect to the laws, will formalize their judgment. I declare, that with respect to the arrest of these persons, the precautionary measures which have been adopted, were indispensable, and that no one ought to consider his honor or reputation thereby njured. As soon as the sentence of the judges sanctions the opinion that I entertain of their innocence, I promise to make them as solemn satisfaction, as the notoriety of their arrest may require. Citizens-be tranquil; order cannot be disturbed, but for the moment by conspirators; the culpable can have no fear of being confounded with the guiltless. The honest man will always be conspiCuous for innocence, even though the wicked should conspire against him. Fellow citizens, this assurance is the fruits of your virtues: I thank you for it, and felicitate you in the name of the country for so much glory. JUAN MARTIN DE PUEYRREDON. Buenos Ayres, August 25, 1818, Domestic manufactures. The commissary general of purchases, has issued an advertisement to receive proposals for supplying materials for clothing the army of the United States in domestic ma Rouse's Point. A Montreal paper alarmed us by saying, that this point was found to be on the Canada side of the line 45. This is at least prema, ture, for we learn that that line has not been run. MISSOURI. In the legislature, Nov 8. The speaker laid before the house the returns of free white male inhabitants, made to the office of the secretary and transmitted to this house by him, in obedience to an act of the general assembly, passed February 1st, 1817. Also a transcript of the apportionment of representation made by the executive, in obedience to said act, which being read, stands thus:Howard 6 reps. frac. 386 3386 366 St. Charles, enumeration, S 669 1529 meration. Maryland legislature. Leave has been given to bring in a bill to alter the constitution of the state, so that the governor shall be elected by the people. We have no hope that it will pass; because, the representatives of the minority have a majority of influence to prevent it. A committee was appointed to bring in a bill to extend the same civil privileges to persons prò. fessing the Jewish religion, as are enjoyed by those of any other religious sect. Also leave granted to bring in a bill to deprive the city of Baltimore of that part of her revenue heretofore derived from sales at auction-and to tax brokers and lottery office keepers, |