-increase to 800,000. Ten years ago not a pound of this 200,000 pounds. 40,000 500,000 200,000 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 stuffs. In the article of bleaching salts, five years ago, not a particle was manufactured bere-now it is nearly 200,000 pounds. The same striking advancement might be instanced in various other articles; but the above specimen will be sufficient to show the general reader that manufactures thrive as well in the city as in the country, when they are conducted by men of prudence, skill, and attention. "The strong ground taken by the south has already produced happy results, and if firmly kept will ensure 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 principles; 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 ocean. This is my faith, in politics as well as religion, and it cheers me on with the highest hopes and confidence." war, ates Y Loss OF LIFE IN BATTLE. The following is a general estimate of the losses sustained by the English army, under the command of lord Wellington, from the time of his appointment to it in Portugal until peace. In the campaign of 1808, 69 officers and 1,015 men fell; 1809, 243 officers and 4,688 men; 1810, 78 officers and 924 men: 1811, 459 officers and 7,384 men; 1812, 816 officers and 11,030 men; 1813, 1,025 officers and 14,966 men; 1814, 400 officers and 4,791 men; 1815, 717 officers and 9,485 men. Total, 3,807 officers and 54,283 men killed or [A very large quantity of alum is made in Baltimore- wounded. This total does not include the Brunswickers, perhaps more than in New York. The first alum works Hanoverians, Portuguese, nor Spaniards. It is remarkin the United States, we believe, were established neared, that at Salamanca, the proportion of the killed this city, and have been in operation more than ten years. combatants was 1 to 90; at Vittoria, 1 to 74; Wateloved. But, until within a few years past, nearly all the alum 1 to 40; while at the battle of the Nile, the ratio was the used was imported. Now none. The duty upon alum 36; at Trafalgar, 1 to 41; at Copenhagen, 1 to 39. has ruined the importation, but supplies the article for [The killed in these fights, bear but a small proportion less than one half of its former price. Is this "a tax on to the British losses in their affairs with us, in the late consumers, for the benefit of monopolists.?"] at Chippewa, Niagara, or New Orleans, and in the naval battles on lakes Erie and Champlain. In the latter, a statement of which happens to present itself, we had 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. Mr. Fletcher, of Philadelphia, 9,000,000 has just finished three elegant swords, which, by resolu114,000,000 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. The U. S. Gazette says 2,000,000 that the swords are something smaller than those former3,000,000 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, containing the names of the donors and Say-One thousand nine hundred millions of dollars-receivers. The handles and guards are of solid gold, 1,900,000,000. elegantly and appropriately chased-and the whole reflect the highest credit upon the manufacturer. The cost of these swords is twelve hundred dollars. 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 Mines and, minerals, including coals Foreign commerce and shipping Fisheries, exclusive of the colonial fishe- Total [American. CUBA.. On the subject of the piracies on the coast of Cuba, the New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser, makes 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 "It is supposed that these pirates have their retreating 640 millions-including only articles of food, such as places on the coasts of the island in the neighborhood of bread-stuffs, meats, drinks and vegetables, with fuel. Matanzas. If they are any where in the island the goOn which he exclaimed "how do the boasted panegy-vernment will surely, for the sake of its honor, seek ricks 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 power to take possession of Cuba without a total annihi PROSPECTS. The Greenville, S. C. Mountaineer, pub-lation of the commerce of the Mississippi, carrying with lishes the following extracts of a letter from Mr. Davis, one of the members of congress from South Carolina. "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, it a death blow to the life and prosperity of New Orleans, Any European power, disposed to annoy us, would with the possession of that island, seal up the fountains of the prosperity of this city forever.. Under a solemn conviction of these truths, our government has resolved to preveut any new occupation of Cuba; and there is no state so much interested as Louisiana to support it in this resolution." [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,— Flour 6 The interests of the United States in the affairs of Cuba,] readers interested, we publish the rates of provisions in and the resolution that that interest should be maintained, our market, with some corrections, by which it will be are displayed in these instructions with a master-hand, seen that some articles have advanced since Friday last. and from the spirit of which, none in authority in our 350 cents per cwt. country will ever dissent. The following paragraph, 75 66 bush. from these instructions, cannot be too highly appreciated, 71 a 37 66 lb. and especially by the people of the southern and south western states-more immediately concerned in preventing that which has happened in Hispaniola, or Hayti, from occurring in a much more fearful form in the island of Cuba, which, it will be recollected, Mexico and Colombia had contemplated an invasion of and success must nave been followed by awful events, indeed.] After an argument on the subject, the instructions proceed if Mutton Sausages Fresh fish, generally, 124. doz. 75 a 125 qr, lb. 8 a 10 10 a 15 "The president hopes that these considerations, enforc ed by such others as may present themselves to you, they should not be deemed of sufficient weight to prevent altogether an invasion of Cuba, will, at least, dissuade from any rash or premature enterprise with inadequate or doubtful means. And it is required by the BRITISH SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION OF GRAIN. From frank and friendly relations which we most anxiously de- estimates made, particularly those by Mr. Jacobs, it is sire ever to cherish with the new republics, that you supposed that the price of bread stuffs cannot decrease in hould, without reserve, explicitly state, that the United England the coming season. It is estimated that the whole We have too much at stake in the fortunes of Cuba, population to be fed, is 16,000,000, and that the consumpfierc ow them to see with indifference, a war of invasion tion of bread stuffs is equal to a quarter each; but as many secute: in a desolating manner, or to see employed things are substituted for wheat bread, consumption and in the purposes of such a war, one race of the inhabi- seed is put down at 14,470,000. The produce of the tants combatting against another, upon principles and with harvest in ordinary seasons, is 13,000,000; but last year it motives that must inevitably lead, if not to the exter fell short, and is estimated at only 9,000,000. The immination of one party or the other, to the most shock-portations from Ireland are generally about 400,000, and ing excesses. The humanity of the United States, in at the commencement of the harvest of 1828, there was a respect to the weaker, and which, in such a terrible stock on hand of 755,274, making altogether an aggregate struggle, would probably be the suffering portion, and of 10,155,277 to meet the consumption of 14,470,000, and their duty to defend themselves against the contagion of leaving a deficiency to be supplied from foreign sources, such near and dangerous examples, would constrain of 4,314,723. The foreign imports of 1827 were 511,334. them, even at the hazard of losing their friendship, It is supposed that the surplus wheat of Europe is not greatly as they value it, of Mexico and Colombia, to more than 1,000,000 quarters, and that of America not employ all the means necessary to their security.” exceeding half a million. Thus, supposing Great Britain Very plain language this--but such as every American to become the purchaser of all the surplus grain of Euheart must respond to. rope and America, there will be a very large defect to be supplied by substitutes for bread, and it is conjectured, and we confess with much apparent reason, that the scarcity will be very sensibly felt.-Aurora. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICS. We have numerous proclamations, statements, &c. &c. relative to the state of affairs in the new republics of America-it so some of them may yet be called. They shew a generally unsettled and unhappy condition, and that the military power is the ascendant. Some of them are at open war with others, and we hear much of armies and appeals to force-and the want of repose, has introduced poverty and crime. Usurpations and insurrections, are the "orders of the day." PROVISION MARKET. The following sensible remarks and interesting statement, is copied from the Pittsburg Gazette, of the 17th inst.; it is worth more than the whole article in the last number of the Edinburg Review, on the folly of the American tariff: we understand and feel every word and line of it. [Yet the price of bread stuffs is declining in England.] INDIANS. The following is the estimate made at the war-office, of the whole number of Indians within the limits of the United States, and their location. 2,573 within the state of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode The rates of provisions in our market appear to in- 939 within the state of Louisiana. 4,050 within the state of Indiana. 5,900 within the state of Illinois. 5,631 within the state of Missouri. 9,340 within the peninsula of Michigan. 7,200 within the territory of Arkansas. 4,000 within the territory of Florida. 20,200 within the country east of the Mississippi, north of the state of Illinois, and west of the three upper lakes. to market without cost of transportation, and disposing of them in places where foreign articles would other 94,300 within the country west of the Mississippi, east 20,000 within the Rocky Mountains. 44 and 49. NAVI TIMBER. It is said that no wood but teak and wise be used to the general disadvantage of our country. live oak is fitting for the construction of ships of war.For the more particular information of our country! We believe the former is exclusively the production of Louis McLane, of Delaware, minister to Great Britain in the place of James Barbour, recalled. Com. Hull has arrived at Washington, to take charge of the navy yard, in the place of com. Tingey, decease. Benjamin H. Norton, who had been appointed postmaster at Hartford, Con. in place of Jonathan Law, removed, it is stated in letters from Washington, has been suspended. By an article in the Hartford Mercury, it would seem that a remonstrance had been made against the appointment, by certain friends of the present administration, and that a delegation had been sent to Washington with it. the south eastern part of Asia; the latter is found on our The trees of the second class, it is thought, will be fit TRIAL FOR CONTEMPT. For a number of weeks past, the Detroit Gazette has been much occupied with the proceedings of the supreme court of Michigan, upon the subject of an alleged contempt of that court, said to have been committed by John P. Sheldon, esq the editor of the Detroit Gazette, and Henry L. Ball, the printer. John Pattersou, of Ohio, to be marshal for the district of Ohio, vice William Doherty, removed. Samuel Herrick, of Ohio, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Ohio, vice Joseph S. Ben John M. Davis, of Pennsylvania, to be marshal of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, vice Hugh Davis, removed. Samuel Cushman, of New Hampshire, to be attorney of the United States for the district of New Hampshire, vice Daniel M. Christee, removed. Charles Slade, of Illinois, to be marshal of the U. States for the district of Illinois, vice Henry Conner, removed. Samuel M. Roberts, of Illinios, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Illinios, vice Sydney Breeze, removed. Benjamin F. Moore, of Alabama, to be marshal of the United States, for the northern district of Alabama. William Lyon, of Tennessee, to be marshal of the United States, for the eastern district of Tennessee, vice John Callaway, removed. Zephaniad Drake, of New Jersey, to be marshal of the United States, for the district of New Jersey, vice Oliver Garret D. Wall, of New Jersey, to be attorney of the United States, for the district of New Jersey, vice Lucius Q. C. Elmer, removed. Samuel Judah, of Indiana, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Indiana, vice Charles Dewey, removed. John G. Stower, of New York, to be attorney of the United States for the southern judicial District in Florida, vice William Allison McRea, removed. Benjamin F. Lenton, of Louisiana, to be attorney of the United States, for the western district of Louisiana, vice John Brownson, removed. The act of the editor, which has been construed into a contempt, seems to have consisted simply in the pub-W. Ogden, removed. lication of an opinion of the court upon a question of law, together with remarks thereon, not made or published, however, until after the adjournment of the court, at its January term. And although the editor and publisher have purged themselves, by making oath that they did not know or believe that such publication was a contempt against the authority of the said court, yet, after an able and manly defence, Mr. Sheldon has been fined one hundred dollars and costs for the alleged offence. The printer was discharged on payment of costs. The whole conduct of the court strikes us as being a high-handed piece of petty tyranny, and an outrage upon the spirit of our institutions. The transaction has kindled a spirit of honest indignation on the part of the people of that territory. On the day after his committal, a large meeting of Mr. Sheldon's friends assembled and passed a series of spirited resolutions, disapproving of the proceedings of the court. The excitement spread abroad with great rapidity-and, on the 7th, three hundred citizens assembled and partook of a public dinner in the jail-at which were addresses, toasts, songs, &c. A subscription is to be taken up to pay the fine, by limiting the donations to twelve and a half cents each.-Com. Adv. Lieutenants of vessels,. 2d do. 665 .12 .24 100 ..150 ...500 ..660 Frederick Dupanier, of Louisiana, to be marshal of the United States for the western district of Louisiana, vice Adrien Dumartrait, removed. A number of other removals and appointments have been made by the president that have not yet been published. Among them are the registers of land offices at Zanesville, Chillicothe and Wooster, Ohio; and receivers of public moneys, at Marietta and Delaware, Ohio, and Vincenues, Indiana. We also hear of several removals of post-masters. DOMESTIC ITEMS. An establishment has been made at New York for the sale of horses, carriages, &c. and for a riding school, and called "Tattersals"-the name of such a one in London; there not being ingenuity enough to make a new name for it. Twenty-four butchers' stands in Clinton market, New York, between Canal and Spring streets, were sold, last week, at the City Hall, for $34,280, subject to the annual rent of $1720. The lowest amount of premium was $700; the highest $3,000; average $1428 33. Mrs. Mary Dickson, the proprietor of the Lancaster Intelligencer, has been charged with the superintendence of the post office of Lancaster city, in the room of Mrs. Aun Moore, resigned. The promotion is to proceed regularly to fill up the additional commissions at periods to be fixed upon. The dignity of marshal of France is to be conferred on such vice admirals as shall fulfil certain conditions hereafter The following notice of the actress, Miss Clara Fisher, to be detailed. Those of the vice adinirals who shall be addressed to the editor of the Charleston city Gazette, is named to the command of a naval squadron of five ves-the "cap-sheaf” of extravagancesels or over, and who are invested with the temporary I have beheld-1 have admired-I have idolized-The commission of admiral, shall enjoy with that title, du- master piece of nature! The perfection of art! The ring the time of their command, the honors and preroga-glory of her sex! The wonder of the world! Oh! had tires belonging to the dignity of marshal of France. APPOINTMENTS, &c. Mr. Pope, of Kentucky, it is now said, has accepted the office of governor of Arkansas. I thought to comprehend, or language to describe the excellence of the fair enchantress; the transcendent talents of the lovely Clara! Oh! had I the inspirations of her ethereal mind-the golden pinions of her soaring fancy! then might I faintly pourtray what I would glory to emu-call it the "Democratic-Republican-Jackson-nomilate. But it were fruitless to essay, her talents require nation." not the tribute of words; they are superior to praise! "Omni exceptione major," be the motto of her fame, and now, &c. &c. &c. Benjamin W. Richards, esq. has been elected by the councils of the city, mayor of Philadelphia, in the place of George M. Dallas, esq. appointed district attorney for the United States. The post master at Key West has advertised for proposals for transporting a mail once every two weeks, between Key West and Charleston. The grand jury of New York, last week, finished the examination of several witnesses in investigation of the alleged collusion between persons in that city and the abducers of Stephenson from Georgia, and dismissed the complaint. The war in New York, between the anti-masons on one side, and the masons and others on the opposite side, is going on with much warmth. The former seem resolved to prevent the election of any persons to office who do not take part with them, and this has produced 2 strong resistance, and reported to have been successful at Rochester, and its neighborhood. A writer in a Boston paper, the Anti-masonic Free Press, thus addresses the kidnappers of Morgan. "Assassins! The bones of the martyred Morgan, bleach beneath the cataract, but his voice is heard above its roar, and his ghost lives upon its foam, and gliding through its mist, sours aloft on the mid-day sun-bow that spans the torrent, and, when the PALE faced moon looks BLOODY on earth, casts the dim shade of its thin form across your pathway!" The rev. A. Campbell, of Virginia, and Mr. Robert Owen, have met at Cincinnati, for a regular set-to on theological subjects. A committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements for it. The public, we think, will not approve of this proceeding. The steam boat Benjamin Franklin, lately made the passage from New York to Providence, from dock to dock, in 15 hours and 23 minutes. The Albany Argus says, there is now scarcely a doubt of the renewal of solvent charters, and the incorporation of such new banks as the public exigencies may require. The first batch of new banks is to consist of eighteen. [We hope that this "batch" may be thought sufficientat least for the present. ] A fire broke out in Savannah on the 10th inst. at 10 o'clock in the morning, which ended in the destruction of 80 or 90 dweiling houses and some other buildingsabout 100 in all, with great quantities of rice and other produce. The insurance offices have suffered heavily. George Swearingen, late sheriff of Washington county, the reputed murderer of his wife, and who was arrested at New Orleans, arrived at Baltimore on Thursday last in the brig Arctic, and was forthwith committed to prison. PENNSYLVANIA. The following messages of the gov ernor may be much referred to hereafter, and are therefore inserted at length. To the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Gentlemen: The bill entitled "an act relative to the appointment of canal commissioners," which was presented to me on Friday, the 3d instant, has not been returned within ten day's, (Sundays excepted), so that it has now become a law. I have directed it to be returned to the house of representatives in which it originated. April 16. J. ANDREW SHULZE. To the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Gentlemen: The bill, entitled an act relative to the Pennsylvania canal and rail road, has, since it was presented to me, engaged my serious attention and deliberation. The result is, that I feel an imperative obligation upon me to return it with objections to the house of representatives, where it originated. This commonwealth may be considered as pledged to prosecute with energy the scheme of internal improveThe Chemung canal bill has passed both houses of the ment. She has commenced with a laudable spirit of en. legislature of New York-It prohibits the commence- terprise, and a wise conception of her policy and interest; ment of the work until the canal commissioners shall but while she is liberal in appropriating to its execution have made contracts, with good security for their per- her resources, she looks to us, her servants, for a judiciformance, for its completion, for $500,000. The length ous and economical application of them. And she is right of the canal from the head of Seneca lake to the Che-in thus holding us responsible. Acting upon this recogmung river at Elmira is 18 miles, with a feeder of 13 nized right on the one hand, and responsibility on the miles: with locks to be constructed with chambers of other, should we not, in authorising loans upon her crewood, and either supported by stone walls, or finished dit, and for her use, have a watchful care, that we do not upon some other approved plan. exceed the amount which, calculating from the largest expenditure of former years, will be amply sufficient to meet the demand of the present, and by that means avoid the payment of unnecessary interest upon an unnecessarily large principal. The last season was particularly favorable for constructing public works; and the sum required did not far exceed two millions; it is therefore not probable, that a sum much exceeding the loan of last year will be necessary the present season, for all the purposes of spirited and vigorous operations. If in your wisdom, you should deem it proper, in reconsidering this bill, so to modify it as to make the loan the present year two millions two hundred thousand dollars, it wit, be assured, gentlemen, afford me great pleasure to unite and co-operate with you. J. ANDREW SHULZE. Harrisburg, April 20th, 1829. [Two or three other bills of like nature, seem nearly prepared. New York, though "vexed" with strange party politics, steadily pursues a sound policy in not "letting things alone." Gea. Harrison has been received with great respect at Bogota. The official Gazette says--"We congratulate Colombia on beholding the interest which is manifested by the government of the U. States to cultivate the most friendly relations with this republic, by sending among us so distinguished a citizen as general Harrison. The government has a full confidence, that his permanent residence in this capital will contribute generally to strengthen the harmony and good understanding which happily exist between the two nations." The general, however, is recalled, and Mr. T. P. Moore, of Ky. appointed in his place. It is estimated in the Georgia Courier, that, up to the 13th March, 112,994 balcs of cotton, at 30 dollars a The board of canal commissioners, (says the United bale, equal to $3,389,820-had been shipped from Au- States Gazette), is now composed of the following gengusta and Hamburg in the present season, of which near-tlemen: James Clarke, of Westmoreland county; P. S. ly 2,000 bales had been damaged or lost by casualties on the river, and a loss made of $49,160. The chief losses were by the burning of steam boats. We rejoice with the people of Norfolk in their continued fine spirits, for the success of the Transportation Company, in opening a direct intercourse with a highly interesting portion of North Carolina, by the means of the Dismal Swamp canal. As this goes on, and extends, we shall hear of the busy hum of wheels," and "lords of spinning jennics" will be found as honorable as other sorts of lords. It will be well to mention, that the supporters of the late nomination of Mr. Wolf, as governor of Pennsylvania, V. Hamot, Erie; David Frazer, Washington; James S. FOREIGN NEWS. The following is chiefly copied from the New York Herald of the 18th inst. By the packet ship William Byrnes, capt. Hackstaff, which left Liverpool on the 10th March, we have received Liverpool papers to that date, and London papers to the 9th, inclusive. As might be expected, the principal items of intelli- premacy; yet I am satisfied with the change. (Hear.) gence, relate to the progress through parliament of the If the battle must be fought, it must now be for other obmeasure proposed by the ministry for Catholic emanci-jects. Let the worst come to the worst, the contest pation. The excitement which had existed in conside- must now, rable strength since the Clare election, inflamed by the grounds. The contest will be, not for an equality of I repeat, be for other objects and on other warmth with which the Catholic claims were urged, and civil rights, but for the predominance of an intolerant by the violent opposition of the Brunswick club party, religion. (Cheers.) We can fight the battle with greatseems daily to have increased, as the certainty of the er advantage. If the most gloomy predictions should success of the ministerial measure increases. Seldom be realized-if the more formidable view of the consehas any question created throughout the nation so gene- quences to come should turn out to be fallacious, even ral or so lively a sensation. free people in the world, against the predominance of an then we should struggle, with the sympathy of all the intolerant religion. We shall enter into the contest with the advantage of having dissolved the moral alliance which now exists among the Roman Catholics, and with the countenance of those authorities who have, for so long a period, opposed this question. They will be transferred to our side, and I have not a doubt that in the contest, if it should ever happen, we shall be victry, as it is demonstrated by those petitions which have torious (cheers), by the unanimous feeling of this counbeen presented against the measure, and in which 1 find its real security. (Loud cheers.) By the union of orthodoxy and dissent, and with the assistance of the voice of Scotland, and with other aid, if it were necessary, we should be cheered by the friendship of every free state, and have the good wishes and prayers of every freeman, in whatever clime, and under whatever form of government or religion. (Cheers.) In the house of lords on the 2d March, the duke of Newcastle declared his intention to move a call of the house whenever the day should be fixed for calling up the emancipation bill. He said he should do this in or der that every peer might be a personal witness of the degradation to which it was intended to expose him. He inveighed against allowing the inconsiderate or ambitious to trifle with their religion, to trample on their liberties, and overthrow the Protestant constitution. The duke of Sussex in his reply, said that he could not bring himself to think that the house of lords would sit by and hear the degradation of his majesty, and the subversion of the constitution charged as the object which one of its members had in view. On the night of the 3d. the earl of Eldon presented fifty-one petitions against Catholic emancipation. The noble earl said, that he had upwards of one hundred similar petitions at home, to present. It is generally supposed, that had Mr. Perceval lived, the system of a united administration opposed permanently, and upon principle, to every concession to the Roman Catholics, could have been obtained. I, however, doubt the fact. Had such a cabinet been formed, it is questionable how long it could have lasted. Immediately after the death of Mr. Perceval, another most important consideration was added to this question. The restrictions on the regency, expired, and in one month the parliament was re-elected. The election was in 1819, at a time when the feelings on this subject were very prevalent, and yet that very parliament, on the expiration of the regency, by a majority of 139, determined to take the question into consideration. It was found impossible to conduct the government on the principles of unqualified resistance to the Catholics; and Mr. Canning and lord Castlereagh could not have been parties to an administration otherwise formed. Since 1812, up to the present period, that is, to the commencement of the present session, the question, as is well known to every body, has been made what is termed a neutral question. Each member of every administration has been allowed to take his own course, and the consequence has been most disastrous. During the course of that period, the cabinet has been exactly divide ed. At other times the division has not been equal, but at all times the consequences have been unavoidable embarrassment to the operations of government. At one period the division of the cabinet was seven to six against concession, and sometimes it was seven to six in favor of it. But the cabinet may be said to have been about equally divided, and we have had, as the inevitable consequences of this division, a divided government in Ireland-either a lord lieutenant for concession and a secretary against them, or a secretary in favor of the Catholics and a lord lieutenant opposed to them-or there was an attorney general taking one view of the question, whilst the solicitor general took the opposite view. Mr. Peel's defence of the policy of granting the Catholic claims, or rather adjusting them, is absolutely voluminous, occupying twelve closely printed columns of the London papers. The conclusion of this speech is in the following spirited language: This is my defence to the accusations brought against me; this is my consolation for the sacrifices I have made, and this shall be my revenge. (Loud cheers.) I trust that the turbid waters of strife will subside; but if these expectations should be disappointed, if struggles and contentions should still take place, if there should be difficulties before us, let us reflect whether they will not arise out of the artificial distinctions arising from unequal privileges. But if there should be something in the character of the Roman Catholic religion which will not be content with equal rights nor any thing short of su Loud and protracted cheering followed the conclusion of the speech of Mr. Peel, who towards the close of his address, appeared to suffer from exhaustion. Throughout he was listened to with the most profound attention, and at times with cheers of applause from an immense majority of the house, which were so loud and continued, as to be heard in Westminister hall and the passages leading to the lobby. in opposition to the resolution, and sir Geo. Murray and Messrs. Bankes, O'Neil and sir. Robt. Inglis, spoke lord Milton in its favor. The resolution introduced by Mr. Peel was adopted on Friday evening, 6th March, by an overwhelming vote -348 to 160, leaving a majority of 188. the London Traveller says-we have not spoken of the We have copied below an abstract of the bill to be introduced in the commons. The plan is thus characterized by the Liverpool Times:-The grand principle of the measure, is the admission of Catholics to every civil right and privilege enjoyed by Protestants. It annihilates all political distinctions on account of religious creeds. It banishes the principle of exclusion from the constitution and government of the British empire. In this respect, it places England in the same situation as the U. States, France, the Netherlands, Hanover, and many other states of the continent; and we fervently trust it will have the effect of giving the British dominions the same perfect tranquillity, which, as it regards the political condition of religious sects, the countries we have mentioned have long enjoyed.' The following are the outlines of the plan. 1. Its basis is the removal from the Roman Catholics of civil disabilities, and the equalization of political rights. 2. Roman Catholics are to be admitted into both houses of parliament. There are to be no restrictions as to numbers. Catholics becoming members of either house are to take an oath, to support and defend the succession of the crown,-abjuring the sentiment that princes excommunicated by the pope may be deposed and murdered by their subjects,-denying the right of the pope to any civil jurisdiction in the British kingdom,-disclaiming, disavowing, and solemnly abjuring any intention to |