society reside, in the very time to search the dwel-[persons whose infirmities unfit them for such emling houses and other buildings of the said society, ployments? or any members thereof for such child or children, 10. What is the quality of your manufacture, comand on bringing such child or children before the pared with those of a similar kind imported? Illuschancellor or judge, he may on due considera-trate this by instances. tion, away the charge and custody of such child or 11. If the articles manufactured by you are more children, so to be brought before him, or any of serviceable than the imported, please state the reathem to that parent who shall not have joined the sons; if less substantial, inform by what means these said society of Shakers,for such time and under imperfections can be removed. such regulations, and with such provisions and di- 12. How far is your manufacture dependent upon rections, as to the said chancellor or judge shall foreign materials, and by what means can they be seem proper, and as the case may require; and the supplied from internal sources? chancellor or any judge of the supreme court, shall 13. What is the cost of the raw materials? Com at all times thereafter, have power on sufficient pared with the prices of the same quality in foreign cause shewn, to annul, váry or modify the order so countries, and if higher, say by what means you to be made; and such warrant of the chancellor or suppose the prices can be reduced? judge shall justify the sheriff or other officer, and 14. What is the difference of profit from hands those who by their order shall come to their aid, employed in your manufactory, and from hands emin making such search as aforesaid, and sued there-ployed in the pursuits of the yeomanry? for, may plead the general issue, and give this act and the special matter in evidence. American Manufactures. 15. What is the national gain from the difference of the raw materials employed in your manufacture, and the value of the articles when manufactured? 16. What is the difference between the wages paid to laborers in your manufactory, and those paid to laborers in similar foreign manufactories? Does this difference operate favorable or unfavorable? Great and simultaneous exertions appear to be made at the present moment to awaken public attention to the subject of home manufactures. The 17. Is the establishments of your manufacture fafollowing queries are calculated to produce infor-vorable or unfavorable to the extension of agricul mation important to the great interest of the nation; ture? and we therefore lay them before our readers that such as have it in their power may give the answers. (CIRCULAR.) 18. Do the present duties on import afford a sufficient encouragement to your establishment? If not, what rate of duty will be necessary? Philadelphia, March 6, 1817. 19. Has your manufacture been the cause of inSIR-The committee appointed on the part of the crease of the wages, paid to the laboring part of the "Philadelphia society for the promotion of American community, or upon what principle do you account manufactures," to report a plan in aid of the inter- for the increase paid for daily labor? nal industry of the country, take the liberty to call 20. Is the increase of paupers owing to the estaupon you for information on this important subject.blishment of manufactories? If not, to what cause That our manufactures are in a state of great de- do you ascribe the increase of the number of the pression, is a fact, unfortunately, too well known, and poor, and by what means do you suppose the numtoo severely felt: but the nature and extent of the ber can be reduced, and their condition rendered evils which press on particular manufactures are not more comfortable? so obvious. You will particularly oblige the society, by for For the purpose of obtaining an intimate view of warding without delay your answers to such of the the manufacturing interests, and of strengthening above queries, as you consider within your knowour application to the legislatures, by the most pow-ledge, and in such terms as you shall consider best erful of all means, a well digested statement of facts, calculated to give the most useful information. we request of you the fullest answers in your pow- Address to William Young, chairman, No. 10, er to the following queries. South Third Street, Philadelphia. 1. Is your manufactories in a depressed state? If it be, to what cause do you ascribe its situation? 2. What measures in your view, will contribute to its relief? 3. What proportion does the price of your manufactures bear to the present price of articles in your line, of foreign fabric? What to the heretofore regu. lar import price, and to the cost in the foreign country in which they are made? 4. What is the national consumption of articles of your manufacture, and how far can the demand be supplied from internal sources? William Young, Edmund Kinsey, Siddall, Thomas Gilpin, Thomas F. Gordon, Relations with Russia, FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. Committee of superinten dence and correspondence. 5. What are now, or have been heretofore the quantity and value of goods manufactured by you? 6. How many hands do you employ, when your manufactory is in full operation? What is their state of mental cultivation, and what their moral habits. 7. Do the habits contracted by the people of your manufactory render them less profitable in other adjusted. It has given us pleasure to learn, that employments? 8. Is your business conducted by manual labor, or labor saving machinery, in whole or in part? What is the relative propotion of each? Our readers have seen, by extracts from Englisha papers, and verbal advices from Europe, that the difference between the United States and the Russian government is said to have been satisfactorily this report is not without foundation, and that information has been received by government, indirectly from Mr. Harris, our charge d'affaires in Russia, that, immediately on being made acquaint9. Are the people employed by you principally ed with the true state of the case, by means of the adults capable of field labor, or minors, females, or dispatches of which Mr. Coles was the bearer, ed to him. It is stated in the New-York papers that the Rus sian minister has been recalled by the emperor, with marks of his displeasure. We do not believe that any information to that effect has been received in this country from any official source. Curran's Speech. the emperor expressed his conviction that not the thusiasm for them is not surprising. My youth has government of the United States, but the Russian been spent amongst them-my sympathy has been officers in this country, had been to blame in the exercised for them-I might have sold myself at transaction, which had been incorrectly represent- the market of corruption, and grown into pride, and wealth, and remorse, at their expence; but I preThe conduct of the emperor, in yielding his first ferred to stay below with them in their humiliation impressions at once to just explanations from our-to mourn their condition to defend them if I government, is an evidence of the continuance of could-to chide and rebuke them, when a bold the disposition, which that sovereign has always friend ought to do so. On their behalf I thank you shewn, to maintain amicable relations with the Uni- for the generous sympathy which has dictated that ted States. The frankness and promptitude of the toast. You will not find them unworthy coadjutors in executive in making these explanations directly to the vineyard of liberty.—(Applause.)—I might be the government of Russia, has secured the honora disposed, perhaps, trespass too much on your ble termination of a controversy, which, however indulgence, on a subject towards which my heart absurd in its origin, might by the intrigues of those will never freeze-the subject which brought you disposed to foment it, have become important in its together; but the sentiments I entertain have been so much better expressed by the member who consequences. spoke last, my old friend, if he will allow me to call him so (Mr. Waithman,) that I shall only deface them if I attempt to rub them over. They are sentiments which a longer life then he has yet passed has rivetted more firmly on my judgment. The awful subject of our meeting is that policy which, by its melancholy results, we perceive has approached a crisis. It is written in tears in this country-it has been written abroad in blood (ap. plause.) I remember the American war-I am not sorry that I am old enough to have witnessed its crimes and follies, because I shall soon be removed from these scenes altogether. I saw then the The assembly was most respectable, and through graceless contempt of human rights. I heard the out the whole of the proceedings never for a mo-assertion that men were represented when they ment overlooked the great cause for which it was were not represented; they behaved to a nation as convened. When the cloth was removed, the fol- a petty solicitor to a man when he enters his aplowing toasts were given from the chair: pearance in a court in order that judgment may The king-The regent, and may he never lose proceed against him (applause); the admonition of sight of the principles which seated his family up- Providence, the admonition of the waves, which on the throne-The queen, and all other members she had interposed, was of no avail. We displayed of the royal family-The constitution of king, lords our antic force and mimic ferocity; we kindled the and commons. May all the efforts to endanger it fire of liberty in America, and at that blaze was be rendered abortive by the timely exertions of all the spirit of France kindled. Let no man dare to good Englishmen to correct such errors and abuses say when he weaves his web of policy-tush, there as time and design have introduced-The friends of is no God! Yes, there is-and by his law the economy, public order and reform, throughout the crimes of men generate in their own consequences united kingdom--Civil and religious liberty to all their own punishment (applause.) The French remankind-The liberty of the press-May the pre-volution began-the French would have been at sent tranquility of Europe be neither disturbed by peace with us-as a man from them was on his knees the injustice of princes, nor by the violence of in-in this country--(Chauvelin,) but he was kicked dividuals-The navy and army-The lord mayor, the out. It will be tedious to read a clincical lecture friends of reform, and the city of London. on the progress of this disease-we have brought FROM THE LONDON OBSERVER OF JANUARY 18. The CHAIRMAN said he should propose the health it to an end--but how? As the most ignorant quack of an illustrious man then present, the right hon. might have closed it; we have bottled up the infecJohn Philpot Curran, which was drank with great tion (appluse.) Have we done any more? What applause. have we done? The most glorious circumstance Mr. CURRAN then rose, and spoke to this effect for this country took place at the time of our revolu—Mr. Chairman, and you, gentlemen, be pleased tion, when we decided, that in the time of national to accept my most respectful thanks for the honor calamity, the monarch should not cling for his deyou have done me; an honor peculiarly great on an fence to the base and scurvy tie of legitimacy [apoccasion awful as the present. On ordinary occa-plause.] Your ancestors saw what the monarch sions, a superficial civility is sufficiently rewarded would be, if he only could commit crime with imby an insolvent bow. But something more is ne punity. They repealed that odious law. The last cessary in return for the introduction of my name, war was to repeal that repeal, to establish the prinat a moment when the liberty of England is in ques-ciple that the nation has no power to judge of right tion. I come from a country which has no liberty or wrong; that their decisions shall be set aside by to be proud of, and if I go back to it, it will be as a gang of despots who have restored a faded-no! to the ruins of Babylon, to weep. You have been not a faded-an exhausted-no! not an exhausted, pleased, however, to give one toast-the cause of but a bloated, extravasated dynasty—merely be civil and religious liberty all over the world. When cause they had a mind to do so [applause.] It is you drank that toast, I felt my heart embrace the not that I have any sentiments of enmity to the negro-I felt also that it sympathised with my own members of the executive in this country-they poor country. Ireland, if it heard that toast, would are misguided, misadvised, but they do not want bless that generous prospect of your's, from which good intentions; but is there nothing alarming in alone can grow our human existence-(applause)—itself in the establishment of 150,000 men? Where I am enthusiastic for my countrymen, but my en-think you this establisment was formed-in the cabi het of St James'? Are you sure of that?-Was it not course to be followed in the attainment of reat the congress of Vienna? [applause.] We see its form, and proceeded]-There should be no spirit effects, universal distress, universal beggary. [have of acrimony in your proceedings. There are many There are in the direction of his majesty's been shocked in your streets with what I had never persons of the highest honor in the house of comwinessed before in this country-men well dressed mons. approach me, and, in the under voice of suffering and councils-I do not know them--but blessed are --(a laugh)-many excellent persons.shame, beg me to give them something Remember those, we are told, that believe, though they have one thing. It was the number of public mendicants in not seen-France which caused the horrors of the revolution. When you hold up the situation of the country to When man, who has been accustomed to support their view, they will have so much acquiescence as his family, is no longer able to find them bread, the to say, as Nathan said to David, "thou art the man;?? social tie which binds him is broken, and famine they must acknowledge the justice of your picture. becomes the recruiting officer of rebellion (ap. I cannot suppose that if your claims are stated plause.) Let me remind you of another thing: a fairly and moderately, they cannot have an effect. country does not fall to pieces in a moment; but When the people are unrepresented beyond a when it begins to fall, like other falling bodies, it certain point, the system is worse than no represendescends with a constantly increasing velocity of tation at all. (Applause.) The executive is not only precipitation! How far are we from the earth? without counterpoise but without apprehension.-How long will it take to pass the space which re- Those bribing and those bribed degenerate into a mains? If you have now 40,000 starving men (you profligate fraternity, drawing and redrawing, withsee I am absurdly minute in my ealculation) burn-out funds of their own, on the solvency of the couning under want and oppression, what bond of allegi-try. The ruler is not ashamed, and the betrayer ance remains for them? The true bond of allegiance is not afraid. There is a kind of competition in is, when the subject feels that he derives blessings vice. If one man will keep within bounds, another from it which he had better die than part with. will be found to dress himself out in all the ribbons But where is the John the Baptist? Where is the of his prostitution. I am not for giving votes to or divine, which can preach to the beggar on the bridge, nor for the constant rout voice, human the exasperation which famine and oppression pro- of annual parliaments, but for a substantive reduces in the minds of men (applause,) and I will presentation of the people. In this cause I wish to even add in English minds? You are not like the see all distinguished persons come forward to pull You cannot pipe or sing an oar. This society, I am persuaded, will set a French apes and dancers. amidst your misery, and then run from your little good example, it will show the people that parliaYou are mentary reform does not consist in breaking winordinary gambols into blood and cruelty. of a grave habit; nature has made it more difficult dows, or getting drunk in the streets. It will rally to rouse you, but remember that oppression will every man of good sense and decent feeling-behavGo on-and God give you the success make even a wise man mad. You feel what your ing with respect even to those who have done you grievance is-but what is the remedy. Neither wrong. the patient or doctor know our evils; we feel im- which, if it be not blasphemous to say, you have pending famine and the dread of a military des- merited by the noble principles of your co-operaThe healths of the mover and seconder of the potism. Military establishments are useful when tion (loud and long continued applause.) raised to oppose our enemies, not to trample on our friends. But even in the streets now we see resolutions were drank, who returned thanks.-nothing but spurs, and cockades, and whiskers and Several toasts were drank, as trial by jury--The liAbout 10 o'clock the chairman left the feathers.-Fine birds of show, but odious birds of berty of the press-Success to the cause of the soWhat has been done ciety. prey in a country like yours. by this army? It should almost seem that honor chair, and most of the company separated. was no longer a part of the profession of a soldier. Faith has not been kept in any part of Europe. How have you behaved to Norway, how to Poland (which has been treated almost as badly as Ireland,) how Independence of parliament. It is publicly averred to Italy? To aid rulers against the people, you were every where. Did the blessed Virgin lay you in a British paper, that a certain measure will be to sleep, while the horrors of the Inquisition were carried at the ensuing session of parliament, berestored? (applause) My unfortunate country you cause lord Liverpool has signified his intentions of supprevailed on to sell her life, and when she lay dead, porting it! The meeting for reform, at Cork, was attended instead of affording her decent rites of sepulture, you tied her corpse to what remained of vital re- by 20,000 persons. The state of Ireland is most presentation in this country, and you have been gloomy-tenants are deserting their farms, and rewarded accordingly. You have not been haunted they, with their landlords are involved in a common by her ghost, but you have been rotting with her ruin. In one barony of the county of Clare, 18,000 You have been engaged in a war contrary acres, deserted by their late tenants, remain as to the interests of your country-not one war in a waste land, and so it is in other parts of the counthousand is undertaken for the sake of national in- try. A London paper states that 13,000 distressed terests-they are stimulated by the courtly panders to the passions of princes. The war with America workmen from Staffordshire, were patrolling the had never been popular in Ireland; the war with kingdom in all directions as beggars, bringing with France had never been popular there. I do not them printed papers signed by the magistrates cermagnify the importance of Ireland; God knows the tifying who and what they were! Thirteen thoúEnglish ministry had lefe it little to be proud of in sand men from one country made beggars of, bethe way of wealth-but still the voice of a nation sides the usual vast stock of paupers and vagrants. was something, and the base apostates who go. Is this possible? And why should it not be-it verned it, thought better to sell their country, and is said that many land-holders are willing for a transfer their voices, to this. [Mr. C. commended term of years, to give their property rent free to the judgment of Mr. Waithman as to the proper any that will give security to pay the taxes! Carcass. Foreign Articles. ENGLAND, &c. FRANCE. "Shaving."-The following account of the new royalists and tories, and has finally succeeded, after Bolivar has had several hard battles with the French loan is given in the Boston Centinel: "The London papers are in error respecting the a royal force of 3000 men, near and in the city of suffering one defeat himself, in nearly annihilating extent of the loan which Messrs. BARING & Co. have Barcelona, while they were in the act of murdering lately made to the French government. We have the people of that place, without respect to age, seen letters from intelligent gentlemen in France, sex or condition. He killed, and captured 1000 of which give correct particulars respecting it. The them in the city, and the fugitives were happily inamount of the loan is four hundred and twenty mil- tercepted by gen. Arismendi, who, had 800 cavallions of francs, [nearly seventy-nine millions of dollars, ry, and literally cut them to pieces. It seems as if and upwards of seventeen millions sterling.] The len-none but solitary individuals could have escaped ders were to take five per cent. stock at 70 francs, him. Bolivar led the royalists into Barcelona by a payable at the expiration of ten years, at par. It is stratagem, and fell upon them at the moment they estimated in Paris, that the loan will produce nearly were engaged in their butcheries. The probabilicleven and a half per cent. per annum, for the ten years. It is added, that only one half the amount is to be paid in money, and the other in clothing and supplies for the allied army; which unquestionably will be supplied from the workshops at Sheffield, Manchester, &c." ty is that Cumana has fallen into his hands, where there was a king's sloop of war, 3 gun brigs, and a schooner, reported to be only half manned, hem. med in by a division of Brion's navy, competent to beat them with ease. Admiral Brion is using every means in his power to detect and bring to conThe Spanish consul at New-York has officially flag, have latterly committed so many piracies in dign punishment those who, under the patriotic notified the public, "that all and every description the West Indies. He had several such in close of foreign manufactures, composed wholly or in part confinement, waiting for trial. of cotton, are totally and strictly prohibited" an entry into the kingdom of Spain. SPAIN. AFRICA. ST. HELENA. CHRONICLE. The captain of a Tripolitan vessel of war captured an Anglo-Hanoverian ship, and entered port with agreed to a resolution requiring the members at Both houses of the legislature of New York have her flag at half-mast. A representation of the case the next session, to appear dressed in American being made to the bashaw, he ordered the vessel manufactures. restored, &c. and caused her flag to be hoisted to the mast-head, under a salute of cannon-the cap-from Dowingstown, Pa. was partially destroyed by Mr. Werwag's extensive nail factory, not far tain of the vessel of war, at the same time, being fire on the 14th inst. It contained 43 machines, hung from the mast at the height that the flag had each of which cut and headed a nail, or brad, at a just occupied. single operation, turning off an average quantity, A letter from the marquis de Montchenu, com- immediately repaired. The fire is supposed to have each, of half a ton per week. The works are to be missioner of the king of France to guard the per-originated in design. son of Napoleon Bonaparte, in St. Helena, has been widely circulated through Europe to shew the im. barrels, is prepared for the lake, and will leave The steam boat Ontario, capable of carrying 2000 possibility of the escape of that man-and, indeed, Sackett's Harbor every Monday, and make a rout if only one half of what the marquis says is true, from Ogdensburg to Niagara, stopping at several and we have no reason to doubt any part of his places to land or receive passengers. The fare for statement, an army of 10,000 men and a fleet of 20 cabin passengers from Sackett's Harbor to Ogdenssail of the line would not be sufficient to release the burg is $5-from the same to Niagara, $10. captive, if opposed according to the means possessed for the purpose. The little island, or rather 120,000 acres of land, in the state of New-York, siMr. Le Ray de Chaumont is offering for sale rock, of St. Helena has been fully described in the tuated on or near the St. Lawrence, and watered Register. A landing is practicable only at one point, by many other fine streams. These lands make a and there "ten men with stones only," says the mar- part of "M"Comb's purchase"-there are now upquis, "might stop a thousand well armed." The on them 3000 inhabitants, 12 saw mills, 5 grist garrison consists of 2500 men, with upwards of 500 mills, &c. and the proprietor is about to erect mahundred pieces of artillery and about 20 mortars. ny large buildings, and to establish iron works and The only plain on the island is that where Bona- other manufactures upon them. parte resides, on which a regiment is also encamp New-York inspections.-Flour and meal inspected ed. This plain is surrounded by tremendous pre- within the city of New-York, and county of Kings, cipices, on which are stationed centinels and tele- from the 16th of February, 1816, to the 15th of Fegraphs. An hourly report is made with these to bruary, 1817, both days inclusive: the governor of what the prisoner is doing; and in two minutes he can be apprized of any particular occurrence, as well at night as in the day time. In addition to all these, 2 frigates and 2 brigs are constantly sailing round the island, and at night the whole coast is patrolled by armed boats, &c. Such are the preparations deemed necessary to guard against the influence and power of one man-ever represented to us a monster, to be hated rather than loved. "SPANISH AMERICA." We have Bolivar's proclamation of Jan. 7, declaring the cities of Guayano, Cumana, La Guira, and Puerto Bello "in a state of strict blockade," according to the usages and customs of civilized nations. 236,326 barrels superfine flour, 11,552 half barrels do. 14,161 barrels fine do. 2,444 barrels fine middlings, 1,526 barrels common do. 10,303 barrels bad flour, 23,902 barrels rye do. 243 barrels bad meal, elected by districts of counties. The late propo Virginia representation.-The senate of Virginia is [Oficial report. sition to call a convention was rejected therein by ayes and noes-ayes 9, noes 12. The nine represent ed certain counties containing 347,328 white inha ed and prosecuted with vigor. The rise in the value bitants, and the twelve certain other counties con-of property they would occasion in the state of New taining 150,080! This a burlesque on the right of York would, of itself, pay for them many times over. suffrage. The state of Ohio has resolved, as far as the resourFalsehood-Lieut. Crabb, of the United States na-ces of the state will justify, to assist in making the vy, under his own proper signature, has refuted the canal between lake Erie and the Hudson. story from the Gibraltar Chronicle, headed, "Fracas THE GREAT CANAL-The report of the canal combetween the British and Americans at Messina." missioners on the contemplated western canal,makes As the article had internal evidence in itself of its an octavo pamphlet of 90 pages. It contains a mifalsehood, we did not think it worthy of notice in nute survey of the route. the REGISTER; and mention the subject now only From lake Erie to a point 11 miles up because it has been extensively circulated through the Tonnewanta, 27 miles, will cost $205,877 the United States. Our ships. A letter from commodore Chauncey to his friend in Boston, describes the Washington 74, "as the finest ship that ever floated," and the swiftest that he ever was in, and the best sea-boat. -She has been completely tried, and proved to be the fastest ship in the fleet on a wind, and beats all but the Java before it. The Spark, so famous for her sailing qualities, was beaten by her, both by and large. The Washington swims with the lower cills of her lower ports five feet clear, with four months provisions and water on board, &c. From Tonnewanta to the Seneca river, 1,550,985 853,166 Of rise and fall-661,85 feet, by 77 locks. By a route, south of the mountain ridge, from Erie to Genesee river, will save in expences 309,025 dollars. We have observed before, that our ships of the line are the happiest combinations of celerity with force ever before produced.- And they have another advantage, which has not escaped the observation of every British officer who has had "Ship chandlery."-We were agreeably surprised an opportunity of examining them-they sit so to see in a Buffalo paper, an advertisement headed light on the water and look so small, that, at a lit- with "ship chandlery"-wherein is offered for sale tle distance, they cannot be distinguished from a cables, and all sorts of rigging, &c. with sail duck, large frigate. This may as well facilitate the es- anchors, tar, &c. needful for the equipment of vescape of our own frigates from a superior force, as sels. lead larger vessels into a snare. Sugar, made in South Carolina, has been refined at Charleston. MAJOR-GENERAL HARRISON.-This estimable officer and accomplished gentleman, has been entertained with a sumptuous public dinner by the paNew-Hampelare.-William Plumer, esq. has been triotic people of Petersburg, Va. and the survivors re-elected governor of the state of New-Hampshire, of the gallant corps of volunteers from that place by a large and increased majority. All the branch-who served under his command in the late war, es of the government of this state are republican. through whom the citizens at large had become Mr. John Randolph, it is understood, retires alto-familiar with his arduous services and exalted chagether from public life. racter. The general, being on a visit to his relations The late bishop Asbury. A committee was ap-in Virginia, was sought after and invited by a joint pointed at the late conference of the Methodist committee of the citizens and the volunteers, which Episcopal church, held in Baltimore, to superin- he accepted. The town seems to have been quite tend the publishing of a correct life of the late re-alive when he approached-he was received with a verend bishop Asbury-who have notified the pub-salute of 16 guns and the general hilarity of the lic that they are about to appoint a suitable person people. It was a proud day for the general, that to write the same. Western Plaster.-It appears fully ascertained, by actual experiment, that the Plaster of Paris, from Manlius, in the state of New-York, is an excellent manure for lands near the sea coast, exhausted by crops of cotton and indigo; on which the Nova Scotia plaster is of no value at all. Transportation.-An association is spoken of at Philadelphia to establish a line of waggons between that city and Pittsburg-to start at fixed periods, &c. and, by travelling day and night, like the mail stages, make the journey in seven days. This may be easily accomplished when the great turnpike is finished. The Pacific-Our hardy and adventurous brethren of Nantucket, &c. are very successfully and very extensively engaged in the Pacific whale fishery. those who ought to know him best, men of high and honorable minds, should thus respectfully and joyously receive him, notwithstanding the many persecutions he had suffered, for causes unknown to the public. The account of the affair in the Petersburg Intelligencer is delightful, and we would copy it but for its great length. After dinner the usual number of toasts were drank, their beauty will plead an apology, if one is necessary, for giving the entire;" 1. The people.-Brave, patriotic, and virtuous-free, sovereign and independent. 4 guns. 2. The Constitution Bless'd be the code, by whomsoever wro't. Replete with maxims sound, and lib'ral thought. 3 guns. 3. George Washington.-Executing the mandate of Heaven, he gave freedom to millions. No. gun. 4. James Monroe-Called by the choice of his fellow citizens to the first office in their gift, lie will not disappoint their hopes. 3 guns. 5. James Madison-He gave the signal for battle, and saved the republic. 3 guns. 6. Thomas Jefferson.-The consciousness of having contributed much to his country's prosperity will render his declining life serene and happy. 3 guns. Canals.-The canal commissioners have made a Feport to the legislature of New-York. They estimate the cost of a canal from lake Champlain to the Hudson at 800,000 dollars. They propose to borrow 1,500,000 dollars to complete that canal, and the great western canal from Rome to the Seneca river, for which this sum is supposed adequate. It is probable that these great works will soon be commens- 9. The battle of Tippecare:-Excited by British intrigue, its shaffs of calumny, and rises superior to the malice of his enemies. the safe depository of American liberty. 2 guns. |