the use of the senate, and the appointment of a post master, who shall also act as a librarian for the senate, which was agreed to.

The president communicated a letter from the secretary of the navy, accompanied by fifty copies of the Naval Register for the year 1828, for the use of the senate. Also a letter from the post master general, stating the names, number, and salaries of the clerks employed in his department.

Mr. Hayne presented a memorial from the chamber of commerce of S. C. praying for an uniform rule as to damages on bills of exchange.

He also, as chairman of the committee on naval affairs, reported a bill increasing the pay of lieutenants in the U. S. navy, who had served ten years as such, which were severally disposed of.

January 7. The chair communicated letters from the secretaries of war and the navy, stating the number and compensation of the clerks in the departments.

Mr. Johnson, of Ky. having moved to print two thousand copies of a report made several years since from the war department, in which the names of the surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, entitled to lands were enrolled, an animated debate took place between Messrs. Johnson, Harrison and Branch, during which the last named gentleman moved the reference of the resolution to the judiciary committee, to be examined by them, and some method adopted to prevent the frauds which might arise from the publication, by the acts of speculators.

After further proceedings, the question on Mr. Branch's motion was taken, and the report referred to the judiciary committee, to inquire and report whether it is expedient to print the same, and in what manner it shall be done.

Mr. King, from the committee on the public lands, reported the bill for the graduation of the prices of public lands, without amendment.

On motion of Mr. Macon, the senate went into the

Mr. Woodbury, from the select committee to which was referred the memorial of the surviving officers of the revolution, made a report on the same, accompanied by a bill for their relief; which was read, and ordered to a second reading. The report was ordered to be printed. A motion was made by Mr. Harrison that 1,000 co-consideration of axooutire business, and, after remaining pies of the report be printed, but on the snout senator, Mr. H me printing of 500 copiesLaner some remarks from Messrs. Johnson, Harrison, Chandler and Foot, the motion for printing 1,000 copies and 500 copies were severally put and lost.

The resolution presented Mr. Parris on Monday last, requesting the president to communicate to the senate, (so far as may be compatible with the public interest), any information in his possession relative to any alleged aggression on the rights of the citizens of the United States by the persons claiming authority under the government of the province of New Brunswick, was taken up and agreed to.

Messrs. Knight and Bateman were appointed a committee on enrolled bills, on the part of the senate. Mr. Knight was, at his urgent request, excused from serving on the committee, and Mr. Ellis was appointed in his stead.

The bill for cancelling the bond given in the case of the slaves captured in the Ramirez, was considered and agreed to.

The bill for abolishing imprisonment for debt, as formerly amended, came up for discussion, and, after being further amended and discussed by Messrs. Mc Kinley, Johnson, of Ky. Smith, of S. C. Rowan, Berrien, Brunch and Kane, the senate adjourned.

two hours so employed, adjourned.

January 8. The senate did not sit this day. January 9. The chair communicated a letter from the secretary of the treasury, enclosing a list of the clerks employed in his office during the last year, &c.

Mr. Hayne, from the committee on naval affairs, reported a bill for the relief of Susan Decatur, accompanied by a report: which, on his motion, was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Woodbury, from the committee of commerce, to which was referred a resolution passed on the 18th December, in relation to drawbacks, reported a bill, which was read and ordered to a second reading.

Mr. Marks presented a memorial from the city and county of Philadelphia, stating that they are deeply sensible of the great importance to the true interests of the United States of an extended support to the agriculture. and manufactures of the country. They, therefore, respectfully pray that congress will be pleased to give their earliest attention to this great national object, by imposing such salutary additional duties on the leading important articles made from our great domestic staples, as their wisdom shall direct, which will protect from imminent danger a large capital already embarked, and, as your memorialists fully believe, produce the most prosperous results to the community at large. January 4. The president communicated to the se- The memorial was read, and referred. nate the annual report of the commissioner of the public Petitions against an increase of the present tariff were buildings; also a report of the secretary of state with co-presented by Messrs. Smith and Hayne, of S. C. The pies of the correspondence with the British government, petition presented by Mr. H. was from the agricultural relative to the establishment of light houses, &c. within society of S. Carolina, and on his moving that their jurisdiction opposite to the coast of Florida, which ed for the use of the members, a brief but animated dewere read and ordered to be printed. bate took place, but finally, on the question being taken, it was ordered to be printed. It was then moved by Mr. Marks that the memorial from the city and county of Philadelphia be printed, Carried. The memorial presented by Mr Smith was also ordered to be printed.

be print

Mr. Eaton submitted the following resolution, which was considered, and agreed to:

Mr. Hayne presented a memorial of the chamber of commerce of S. Carolina, against an increase of duty on imports. The president of the senate communicated a memorial signed by a number of citizens of the state of Delaware, praying for protection against "foreign rivalry" in the manufacture of wool, and other branches of American industry; and referring congress to the memoResolved, That the committee on the district of Corial of the Harrisburg Convention, in the recommenda-lumbia inquire into the expediency of placing Pennsyltions and suggestions of which, they heartily agreed, and praying that efficient protection may be afforded to all the interests recommended therein; which, were refer

red to the committee on manufactures and ordered to be printed.

vania avenue in such situation, that this great highway of the city may be passed in comfort and safety.

Several bills received from the house of representatives Macon, the senate then went, into the consideration of were ordered to a third reading, when, on motion of Mr. executive business, and remained therein nearly two

The bill for the relief of Francis Larche, of New Or-hours; when the senate adjourned. leans, was taken up in committee of the whole, and the blank being filled with $800, ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

crease of the tariff.

Wednesday, Jan. 2. Among the petitions presentAfter other business transacted this day, of which here-ed this day, were several in favor of and against an inafter we will take notice, the bill for the abolishment of imprisonment for debt, the order of the day, was again taken up, and when Messrs. Hayne, Kane, Van Buren, Johnson, of Ky. had spoken on the subject,

Mr. Mc Lean, from the committee on Indian affairs, reported a bill for the establishment of a general superintendency of Indian affairs in the department of war. Twice read and made the order for to-morrow,

On motion of Mr. Berrien, the bill was postponed to and made the special order of the day for Monday next. Mr. Whipple, from the committee on public lands, reThe senate then went into the consideration of execu-ported a bill to confirm certain claims to lands in the tertive business, and when the doors were opened, The senate adjourned to Monday next.

ritory of Michigan, which was twice read and made the order for to-morrow.

Mr. Jennings, from the committee on public lands, reported a bill from the senate, to authorize the sale of lands in the state of Indiana, heretofore set apart for the use of schools, without amendment. The bill was then committed for to-morrow.

for to-morrow.

reign fabrics, by way of protection to the domestic manufactures of the same.

such loans.

Of the corporations of Washington, Alexandria, and Georgetown, in the district of Columbia, asking for pecuniary aid from the government of the United States, Mr. McDuffie, from the committee of ways and means, in the construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio canalas also, for a confirmation of the terms upon which the reported a bill appropriating forty-six thousand, two hundred and seventeen dollars and fourteen cents, to the said corporations have subscribed to the stock of that canavy hospital fund, which was twice read and committed nal; viz, by a tax upon, and a pledge of, all the real Mr. McDuffie from the same commit- estate within the said corporations, for the redemption of tee, reported a bill to prevent defalcations in the disburs-loans which the said corporations may make for that caing agents of the government, &c. Mr. McDuffie also nal, and by a collateral guarantee of the redemption of reported from the committee of ways and means, to whom was referred the resolution of the house, directing them to "inquire into the expediency of refunding the amount of tax laid by congress on domestic spirits, by the act of July, 1813, to such contractors as were bound to furnish All these memorials were referred to the appropriate supplies of that article to the United States, by contracts committees. made prior to that date, and which supplies were to be Mr. Burges, from the committee on military pensions, delivered to the United States, subsequently to the pas-reported a bill to amend the act "to provide for certain sage of the said act, and liable to be affected by the tax or duty above alluded to," submitted a report walking persons engaged in the land and naval service of the Uniin the revolutionary war," and of the several with the expression of an opinion that it would be inexpedient to refund the tax referred to in the resolution, and acts made in amendment une This bill was twice read, and committed. ask to be discharged from its further consideration.

Mr. Hamilton, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill to continue the present mode of supplying the army of the United States, &c.

Mr. Mercer, from the committee on roads and canals, made a report, accompanied with a bill to amend and explain an act, entitled "an act confirming an act of the legislature of Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and Olio canal company," and an act of the state of Maryland for the same purpose. Which bill was twice read

and committed for to-morrow.

Mr. Mercer also reported a bill authorising the subscription, on the part of the United States, for ten thousand shares of the cap tal stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, to be paid for out of the dividends that may accrue to the United States upon their bank stock in the bank of the U. States, which was committed to the same committee of the whole as the preceding.

Mr. Mercer, from the committee on roads and canals, reported a bill for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland road, (a copy of the bill heretofore before the house for the same purpose). The bill was twice read, and committed for to-morrow.

Mr. Mercer also reported a bill for the continuance of the Cumberland road. This bill was twice read, and committed for to-morrow.

Several resolutions laid on the table, on the 31st ult.

were taken up and agreed to.

The following resolution, offered some days since by Mr. Maxwell, was taken up and read, and, after considerable discussion, adopted.

Resolved, That the secretary of war be directed to communicate to this house the report of the engineers employed to examine and ascertain the practicability of uniting, by a canal, the waters of the James and the great Kenhawa rivers.

Of the comptroller general of the state of South Carolina, for the payment of the balance claimed by that state of the United States, on account of advances and expenses during the late war.

Mr. Cambreleng, from the committee on commerce, reported a bill allowing an additional drawback on sugar refined in the U. States and exported therefrom, which was read and committed.

Several bills of a private nature having been reported, the speaker laid before the house a letter from the postmaster general, accompanied with a list of the names and salaries of the clerks of the general post offices in the year 1827.

Laid on the table.

On motion of Mr. Stanberry it was

Resolved, That the committee on the public lands be directed to inquire into the justice and expediency of appropriating a portion of the public lands to the state of Ohio, to aid the said state in the payment of the debt contracted for the canals authorized by the laws of said state. On motion of Mr. White, it was

Resolved, That the committee on the public lands be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing, by law, for the settlement of all claims to land in the territory of Florida, which have been presented to the commissioners of the United States appointed to decide and report upon the claims under the Florida treaty, which remain undecided.

On motion of Mr. Fort, it was

Resolved, That the committee on Indian affairs be

instructed to inquire if any of the Indian tribes within the territorial jurisdiction of any of the states, have organized an independent government, with a view to a permanent location in the said states; and if they find that any attempt of the kind has been made, to inquire into the expediency of reporting to this house such measures as they may deem necessary to arrest such permanent loca

tion.

In addition to the above resolutions, thirty eight of a private or local nature, were offered and disposed of; and the house having passed to the order of e y, several private bills were reported to the house, without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow. Adjourned.

The house went into committee of the whole, Mr. P. P. Barbour in the chair, on the bill to revive and continue in force the several acts making provisions for the extinguishment of the debt due to the United States by the purchasers of the public lands, and on the bill for the relief of purchasers of public lands which have reverted We expect to have a little discretion over the for non-payment of the purchase money, which were severally read and ordered to be engrossed for a third read-contents of our next publication, though embarrassed by the mass of matter on hand, and shall bring up many ing. We are exceedingly desirous of grapthings in arrears. pling with the much-talked of Boston report,' against the protection of domestic industry-from looking into which, for we have not yet had time to read it), we observe that things are upon the "high pressure principle," and might suffer a "collapse, "through the application of practical truth instead of counting-house theory.

The bill for the relief of gen. Flournoy was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to morrow.

Several communications from the different departments were laid before the house by the speaker, and then the house adjourned.

Thursday, Jan. 3. Vast numbers of petitions are still presented to the house; the following were among those presented this day.

Of wool growers and woollen manufacturers, in the county of Worcester, in Massachusetts.

Of the farmers and manufacturers, within the county of Dutchess, in New York.

Of citizens of the state of Pennsylvania, praying, respectively, for the imposition of additional duties ou fo

BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. Appointments by the president and senate-Nicholas Biddle, and John B. Trevor, of Pennsylvania; Campbell P. White, of New York; E. J. Dupont, of Delaware, and Benjamin Hatcher, of Virginia, to be directors of the bank of the United States, on the part of the U. S. for the year 1829.

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AGRICULTURE IN GEORGIA.-A resolution was passed by the Georgia legislature in Nov. last, to instruct the committee on agriculture and internal improvements, to inquire into the expediency of adopting measures to promote the cultivation of certain plants, in consequence of "the continued depression of the cotton market," and we find their report in the Savannah papers.

adjustment. Guayaquil has thrown off the Colombian yoke, and the affections of the Peruvians seem completely drawn away from Bolivar. Mexico is expelling the old Spaniards-1,200 were preparing to leave the capital alone-many were coming to the United States. They have been for some time engaged in securing their property, and many millions of dollars had left, or were They recommend that attention be devoted particu. about to leave, the republic, in consequence. Factions larly to those tracts of land called Pine Barrens, where abound, and the people are nearly as ignorant and mismulberry trees might be raised with facility, and silks erable as they were under the government of Spain. might be made in large quantities. Before this branch Com. Porter, at Vera Cruz, advertises "a number of of culture was destroyed by the revolutionary war, commissions for privateers," to be disposed of. Chili, in one year ten thousand pounds of silk were receiv-is apparently at rest; but Peru and Buenos Ayres are uned at Savannah. As women and children are able quiet-without unity of action, and harrassed for funds. to perform all the necessary labor, the committee are We some times almost fear that the want of intelligence, of opinion that the subject is worthy of the encourage- which has been well called "the soul of liberty," will ment of the legislature, Olives may be raised in Georgia, long prevent the people of these large and interesting as is proved by an experiment made on the plantation countries from enjoying that repose and safety which we of Thomas Spalding, esquire, of McIntosh county, have so anxiously wished for them. It takes generawhere five trees are bearing, and forty or fifty are grow-tions to make up a thinking virtuous "populace"-that ing well. Good wine is made on the same plantation of middle class, chiefly made up of thrifty laborers; men with native grapes; and there is evidence referred to by the strong heads and sinewy arms-a body which commands committee, which proves that very good wine was made the factious elements, and bids the ambitious and their in the state as early as 1740. tools, the thoughless "herd," be still.

Tobacco, indigo, madder, the white poppy, and several kinds of grass are also recommended; and it is proposed that large tracts of country, now useless, should be converted into sheep walks. For the purpose of exciting the zeal, attention and industry of the inhabitants on these and parallel subjects, the committee recommend that various premiums be offered.

A resolution of like purport has been introduced in the New York house of assembly, and we are informed that it will be adopted with great unanimity.

Later accounts intimate that Bolivar was exerting himself to bring about a "regular state of affairs" in Colombia-Bogota, and its neighborhood, had been severely shaken by the late earthquake-half the houses in the city had been rendered untenantable, and only one church remained uninjured. The same destruction extended through the neighborhood. The motion of the earth was perceptible for more than 24 hours.

INSTRUCTIONS AND REQUESTS. The legislature of Pennsylvania, almost unanimously, has passed a reso- ROADS. Letter addressed to the editor of the Mayslution to instruct the senators and request the represen-ville Eagle, dated 21st Nov. 1827tatives from that state in congress, that an act may be pas- Dear Sir: I cannot forbear, before I take my seat in sed for the encouragement of domestic industry, embrac- the stage, to inform you of a statement just now made ing the items recommended by the convention of farmers to me, the truth of which is not to be doubted. Before and manufacturers which met at Harrisburg, on the 30th the construction of the turnpike road from this place to of July last. Zanesville, the price of carrying the mail exceeding $50 per mile a year. It has now been let at a sum bat little exceeding $30-the difference per mile exceeds $50 a year. This bare fact speaks volumes in favor of making A resolution has passed the senate of Indiana, 16 to 5, good roads. If we make the same difference in the instructing the senators and requesting the representa-price of transporting merchandize, salt, whiskey, and all tives of the state, to use all reasonable endeavors to procure a further revision of the tariff so as to give adequate protection to the growth and manufacture of hemp and wool. Four of the minority, it is stated, have entered a protest against this resolution-as interfering with the presidential election! We have not yet seen this paper. While such is the state of things in New York and Pennslyvania, we find 15 members from the former and 18 from the latter, voting with all the anti-tariff members of the house of representatives, four only excepted, in favor of the resolution proposed by the committee on The people of what are manufactures, on the suggestion of a decided opponent of called the "free states," are becoming more and more the protecting system-the member of the committee interested in the success of the colony which we have from North Carolina. "if we live long enough, we shall planted in Africa. The steady progress of opinion against see the result." The question must be fairly met-wheth-the principle of negro slavery, together with the reduced er it "interferes with the presidential election" or not.

other articles of commerce that passes betwen Maysville and Lexington, &c. can you tell me and the subseribers to your paper, how many hundred thousands of dollars a good turnpike road would save to the citizens interested in that transportation, in a few years? If you I am persuaded that it will be of some benefit to that class of our fellow citizens who are opposed to internal improvement, as well as to those who are in favor of it. Yours, respectfully,

cau,

AFRICAN COLONIZATION.

THOMAS METCALF.

value of slaves as property, causes an increased influx of colored persons into them, and reduces their energy and force in possessing a class who cannot be introduced into the common stock of the population for the common purposes of these states. Many of the citizens of these states became such to avoid the evils attendant upon a black population, but they are followed by manumitted persons, expelled from the states in which they were born, because they have been made free. Chio is particularly over-run with them-they are a great rais sadice in many parts, and the colonization project has, therefore, become a great favorite in Ohio. If that, or some other plan, to provide a home for liberated slaves does not suorced, it is very possible that, in the course of

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events, some of the free states may feel compelled to AFRICA. The Phare du Havre, of Oct. 13th, contains throw back the colored people intruded upon them, and the following article:-"M. Ashmun, agent of the thus force the slave-holding states to "manage their own Washington Company for colonizing Africa, writes as concerns in their own way." The last deny the right of follows: An excursion of one of our people to the disany national provision on the subject, though the project tance of 140 miles into the interior, has led to the disoriginated, or was, at first, chiefly supported by them; covery of a nation, numerous and polished to a degree and if they will not act for the relief of those unfortunate beyond all I could have imagined. The country is perpersons, let the responsibility rest where it ought. The fectly well cultivated, and the horse is employed, as free states may as well interfere to exclude persons of co- among ourselves, for domestic uses; a considerable tract lor, as the slave-states rightfully can to cast them out, of land is tilled and inclosed; and every thing really nethough natives thereof: and such will probably be the re-cessary for the wants and pleasures of life is produced sult of this opposition to the colonization of freed people of color.

by the soil, or manufactured by industry. Here written Arabic serves to keep up communications; well supplied markets and regular fairs are established, and the inhabitants possess a degree of intelligence and civilization INDIANA. It appears from the message of gov. Ray to the legislature of the state, that, through the instru-altogether incompatible with the ideas we had formed of the people of Guinea." mentality of her representatives, Indiana has attained public land for the construction of roads and canals, worth one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.This grant was made for the construction of a canal to connect the navigable waters of the Wabash river, with those of lake Erie; and for the construction of a turnpike road between lake Michigan and the Ohio river. The canal from the Wabash to lake Erie, has been demonstrated to be practicable, by the examination of skilful engineers. The expense is estimated at a little above one million of dollars, which in time can be realized, from the lands granted by the general government to the

state. An interesting question arises, in what manner the lands can be best disposed of, to raise a sufficient sum to construct this canal. The governor recommends, that a loan should be obtained at present for its construction, and that the land lying on each side of the canal would increase in price, after the canal was made. He states, that the land, if sold at present, would be sacrificed, but if preserved for a few years, would amply remunerate the state for loans and interest, in the construction of this

work.

The governor, in noticing the principal opposition to the national doctrine of internal improvements as coming from the south, very archly inquires, "whether the rays of a southern sun, gives that peculiar energy to the intellec which enables their politicians to take the only correct view of the constitution!"

APPOINTMENTS-by the president and senate of the United States.

LIEUT. ALLEN. The remains of this gallant officer having arrived at Hudson, N. Y. of which place he was a native, were interred there on the 20th Dec. ult. with military and civil honors; in the presence of a great concourse of people. The remains had been accompanied from New York by a considerable number of officers of the navy, who assisted in the funeral ceremonies. They returned thanks to the committee for the respect paid to the memory of their late associate, and for the hospitality with which they themselves had been entertained-and departed under a salute of artillery, with the best wishes

of the inhabitants of Hudson.

COUNT CAPO D'ISTRIA. The following brief sketch of the life of Count Capo D'Istria, the president elect of Greece, will probably be as interesting as any thing with which we could fill our pages.

This nobleman, who has lately been elected presi dent of Greece, was boru at Corfu, in the year 1776a glorious year for the cause of freedom. His family first class of citizens of the Seven Ionian Isles. He stu had, from the year 1300, held an honorable place in the died in the universities of Italy, and returned to his country in 1798, at the moment when the overthrow of the the democratic power of France. He found his father republic of Venice introduced into the Ionian islands a prisoner, and threatened by the French commissary with banishment, on account, it was said, of his politi cal opinions. Count Capo D'Istria exerted himself with zeal and activity for the relief of his father, and had the good fortune to succeed. After the French had surren

James Mitchell, of Connecticut, to be marshal of the district of Connecticut, in the place of Andrew Hull, de-dered the island to the combined Russian and Ottoman ceased.

John Simonds, jun. of Missouri, to be marshal of the United States for the district of Missouri, in the place of Henry Dodge, resigned.

Matthew Hall McAllister, of Georgia, to be attorney of the United States for the district of Georgia, in the place of Richard W. Habersham, resigned.

Thomas Randall, of Florida, to be judge of the United States for the middle district of Florida, in the place of Augustus B. Woodward, deceased.

fleets; and they had been formed into a republic under the joint protection of Russia and England, the count, though still young, was employed in 1800 to organize the islands of Cephalonia, Ithica, and St. Maura. This was the commencement of his political carcer. In 1802 he was appointed secretary of state for the home department of the republic, and afterwards for foreign affairs, for the William Tudor, of Massachusetts, to be charge d'af-marine and for commerce. One of the most prominent fairs at Rio de Janeiro, in the place of Condy Raguet, re-acts of his administration was the establishment of mosigned. ral schools, which had not before existed in the islands. In 1807, the isle of St. Maura was threatened by Ali Pacha. The Ionian government invested count Capo D'Istria with the powers of commissioner extraordinary on the frontiers, and placed under his orders all the militia in the service of the allied courts in the Seven Islands. In this campaign, under the cannon of Ali Pacha, count Capo D'Istria became first known to the Greek captains Colocotroni, Bozzaris, Karaiskaki, and other chiefs; and at this epoch his personal relations with the warlike part of Greece commenced. In July, 1805, he was invited to repair to St. Petersburg to be employe in the foreign department.-Thither he went in 1809, and remained there until 1812. He was then employed in the suit of the Russian embassy at Vienna, whence he was summoned to discharge the functions of chief of the diplomatic department at the head quarters of the Russian arJohn Shellman, to be surveyor and inspector of the re-my of the Danube, and afterwards with the grand army. venue, for the port of Savannah, Georgia.

Henry Chipman, of Michigan territory, to be one of the judges in and for the Michigan territory, in the place of Jolm Hunt, deceased.

William Radcliff, of New York, to be consul of the United States at Lima, and for the ports of Peru, in place of William Tudor, appointed charge d'affairs at Rio de Janeiro.

Louis Paimboeuf, of New York, to be consul of the United States at the island of Curracoa, in place of Philip Robinson, resigned.

Henry Wilson, of Florida, to be marshal of the United States for the district of West Florida, in the place of William Sebree, deceased.

Samuel R. Gilman, to be collector of the customs for the district, and inspector of the revenue for the port of Penobscot, Maine.'

Nathaniel Bullock, to be collector of the customs for the district of Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island.

He continued with the army during the campaigns of 1813, 1814, 1815, and took an active part in the most important negotiations of this memorable epoch. In November 1813, the emperor Alexander sent him to Switzerland. The result of his mission was, that Switzerland made common cause with the allied powers against Buo

naparte; and the system of the Helvetic confederation, great interests that I am now exclusively occupied, an as it now exists, was in part his work, in concurrence with with which I will still occupy myself when on my way the ministers of the other allied courts, and of the 22 to you I pass through Paris. Should heaven continue cantons. Switzerland still feels for him a grateful affec- to bless my efforts, as it has blessed them up to this day, tion. At the congress of Vienna, during the conference I dare indulge the hope, that it will be merit to offer you at Paris, in 1815, and at Aix-la-Chapelle, count Capo some consolation, and that the Greek nation will not reD'Istria, possessing all the confidence of the emperor fuse to me the powers which I ask, to regulate, in the leAlexander, was chosen to carry on the principal negotia- gal exercise of the honorable functions which it offers me, tions with the allied powers-negotiations which includ-all the necessary arrangements with the courts which ined those, the result of which was the placing the Ionian terest themselves in its behalf. islands under the exclusive protection of Great Britain. "I will not lose a moment, for time passes from day From 1816 to 1822, he exercised the functions of se- to day, to decide for Greece the question of life or deatii. cretary of state for foreign affairs in the cabinet of the Doubtless, the event is in the hands of God; but let us emperor Alexander. In 1822, when the court of Rus- not dissemble, that much depends on you, gentlemen, to sia adopted the Austrain system with regard to the affairs render it propitious. Be assured, such it will prove, if, of the Levant and Greece, count Capo D'Istria resigned faithful to the immutable principles of our holy religion, his office and retired to Switzerland, carrying with him you labor unanimously, and with good faith, for our commarks of the unaltered kindness of the emperor Alex-mon safety, some in carrying arms; not only with devo ander, and of the attachment of the most distinguished tion and courage, but with a perfect subordination to the persons in Russia. In the beginning of the year 1826 orders of your chiefs: others in administering the affairs he came to Paris, and it was then supposed that he then of the country, for and not for or against particular inintended to go to Russia. He did not take the journey, dividuals or particular interests. however, until the month of May in the present year, and it was on his arrival in Russia that he received the news of the choice which called him to the government of the affairs of Greece. After a residence of two months in Russia, he retraced his steps, and was in France at the last advices, having brought a decree, whereby the emperor Nicholas gives him a complete discharge from his service in terms which at once demonstrates the personal sentiments entertained by his sovereign towards him, and the character of the recollections he has left behind him in Russia.

"I pause here, and I resign, gentlemen, to your wisdom and your patriotism, the care of weighing the immiense responsibility which falls on your heads. I shall have the honor to share it with you; but I hesitate not to repeat here, that I cannot share it with you, till after you shall have heard me; and that I myself shall have obtained from you all the confidence which I wish to inspire. Receive, &c. (Signed)

CHESAPEAKE AND ORIO CANAL.

canals

CAPO D'ISTRIA.

Copy of a letter from count d'Istria, to the Greek nation. bill recently reported to the house of representatives by The following is the London, August 26. "At the moment of quitting the Russian capital, I have Mr. Mercer, chairman of the committee on roads and received, through my brother, the messages which your Be it enacted, &c. That the secretary of the treasury excellency did me the honor to address to me, conjoint-be, and is hereby authorised and directed to subscribe, in the name, and for the use of the United States, for ten thousand shares of the capital stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, and to pay for the same at such times, and in such proportions, as shall be required of the stockholders, generally, by the rules and regulations of the company, out of the dividends which may accrue to the United States upon their bank stock, in the bank of the United States; provided, that not more than onefifth part of the sum,

ly with the representatives of the nation, to communicate to me two decrees, one of which places me at the head of the Greek government, and the other invests me with the power to negotiate a loan. Ever since the month of May, and since my arrival at St. Petersburg, the public prints and private letters made me acquainted with the proof of confidence so flattering and so solemn, which the Greek nation had just given in my favor. I will not express to your excellency and your noble colleagues, either the sentiments which the decrees now before me inspire, or the prayers which I offer to the Almighty that he may bestow upon you, gentlemen, and upon me strength to attain the object of the long and bloody sacrifices to which the Greek people have submitted, and to which it still submits in the hope of a final restoration. For the present, I shall confine myself to giving you an account, in a few words, of what I have succeeded in doing up to this time, and giving you the assurance of my

entire devotion to the cause for the future.

United States shall be demanded in any one year, after so subscribed for the use of the the organization of the said company: and provided, moreover, that for the supply of water to such other canals as the state of Maryland or Virginia, or the congress of the nexion with the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, the section United States may authorise to be constructed, in conof the said canal, as leading from the head of the Little Falls of the Potomac river, to the proposed basin, next above Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, shall have the elevation above the tide of the river, at the head of the said falls, and shall preserve throughout the whole section aforesaid, a breadth, at the surface of the water, of not less than sixty feet, and a depth below the same of not less than five feet, with a suitable brendth at bottom.

"On learning of the catastrophe of Athens, of the pecuniary embarrassment of the provisional Greek government, and of the sad necessity which forced it to contract a loan in the Ionian islands, which could only have sufficed for a few days, I sent to my brother, as my only answer, the remnant of my moderate fortune. I instructed him to take a portion of that loan if it had been ne- Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said segotiated, or to deposite in the hands of the provisional cretary of the treasury shall vote for the president and government the sum of two thousand pounds sterling, directors of the said company, according to such numwhich I have placed at his disposal. At the same time,ber of shares as the U. States may at any time hold in I proceeded to call on the Greeks, who possessed wealth in foreign lands, to follow this example, and to afford you some assistance. These measures have had some success, and the provisional government, in consequence, is in a condition to meet its most urgent wants, for the moment; I say for the moment, for I flatter myself that by the aid of God and your wisdom, the Greek nation will shortly receive more important succor.

"In the present state of things, this assistance, in order to be effective, ought to have a double object. It ought to draw Greece from its isolation, and put it in contact with the great European powers. It ought to procure for it the means of existence, and of defending itself, till its government can introduce something like order into the external concerns of the nation, and put it in a situation to provide for itself. It is with these two

the stock thereof, and shall receive upon the said stock, the proportion of the tolls which shail, from time to time, be due to the United States for the shares aforesaid; and shall have, and enjoy, in behalf of the United States, every other right of a stockholder in the said company. U. S. AGENTS IN COLOMBIA AND PERU. From the National Gazette.

A letter or address of Mr. Watts, American charge d'affaires at Bogota, to president Bolivar, in which he refers to the concerns of Peru, appears to have occasioned much excitement among the politicians of the latter country, who deemed themselves emancipated from the Colombian hero, as much as from Spain. We annex translations on the subject from our Lima papers, which show the feelings produced by the address.