(LAA (@he Datei “To epeak histhoughts, is every freeman’s right,» ® SATURDAY, march 9257 In Congress—A bill has been reported by the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President’s Message, as re ates to foreign affairs, authorizing the ~ President of the United States to take possession of, and occupy, the territories of East and West I'lorida, and the appen “dages and appurtenances thereof ; and au- shovizing him, for that purpose, to employ any part of the army and navy of the Uni. ted States, zed the militia of any state, which be way deem necessary. The. bill was twice read, and referred to a committee of the whole on the state of the Union, ——c®) } Go— A resolntion las passed both houses of the legislature, fixing the time of the ad journment on Tuesday the 28th iostant. —— QP The judiciary bill, contemplating the addition of two judges to the supreme court, and the establishment of circuit courts, was before the senate on Tuesday last © when 4 motion was made to pest pone the bill and to recommend it to the early attention of the next legislature, and carried by one vote. rn 4 Qe The London Times of the 4th of Janu ary, contains a letter from Madrid of the 20ih of December, which state, that Gen VIVES is prepare to set out for the U- nited States, in quality of Minister Plent. potentiary. He takes with him a numerous suite, and Is accompanied by officers of TALK. rt pet Officicl notices ~The following officers of the United States’ Navy are at present on a visit to the seat of government— Comnopores Murray, Macdonough, and Cassin, Carraiss Jooes, Biddle, Spence, Chaun cey and lion, [ qeutenant Commandant John Porter, a present commands the U, 5. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. We understand that on the 18th nit Yieutenants Concklin & Wells of the navy, and Capt. Kelogg, of the marines resigned 1heiv commissicns 1a the United States ser- vice. At a Naval Court Martial lately conven- ed at Notfolk, the following officers were dismisced the service for unofficer like con. duct namely, Di. Dawley, Midshipman Baker, and Salling Master Kemper. Nat. Reg. ——s § O— NEW YORK, March 11.. Death of the King of England, and his son the Duke of Kent. By the arrival last evening of the packet Courier, from Liverpool, we have received i.ondon papers to the 30th of January, con- taining the following letters, announcing the death of the King of England, George the third, and bis fourth son, the Duke of Kent, — LONDON GAZUTTE BXTRAORDI- NARY. Whitehall, January 30th 1820. The following Jctter was received this morning from his royal highness the Duke of York, by lord Sidmouth, one of his majs esty’s principal secretaries of state. Windsor Castle, Jan. 29. MY LORD --=1t becomes my paintul du- tv to acquaint your lordship, that it has yo 4 Almigbily God to take unto him- cf, the king, my beloved father, and our most gracious sovereign. He expired at thirty-five’ minutes past eight o'clock, P.M. FREDERICK. "To the Right Hon. Viscount Sidmouth. At three o’clack on Sunday morning, the following letter was received by the Lord Mayor : Whitehall, Jan. 30th 1820. MY LORD—It is my painful duty to in- form your lordship ot the demise of his laie majesty king George Hil. This mel- ancholy event took place without the least apparent suffering, at Windsor Castle, at thuty-ohe minutes past eight yesterday af- wernoon, to the great grief of his present majesty, and of the royal family. have to request that your lordship will give directions for the tolling of the great bell at St. Paul’s Cathedral 1 have the honor to be your lordship’s most obedient Fumble servant. SIDMOUTH. lord Mia DUKE Lovpan. Jax. To the lord Mayor of London. MY LORD —<It is with great concern, it 1 have to acquaint your lordship with royal bichness the Duke "Kent. which melancholy event took place 3. dmouth, onthe 23d instant, after a few ys (ness, to the great grict of all the roy- To the right hon, the ATH OF THE Of DF al, 2 4 i ~ th ol his } avy ai tamiy. SIDMOUTH. {inations adopted a line of conduct different from —_— Ly rs CARLISLE CONVENTION. Carlisle March 4, 1830. Pennsylvania elected by the friends of reform for the puipose of nominating a suitable candid. {ate for thie office of Governor to be recommen- aed to the people of this Commonwealth, for October, assembled this day at the Court house and after some desultory conversation appointed John Shryock of Franklin County, Chairman, and Eli Coulter of Westmoreland and George L.ouis Mayer of Lancaster County Secretaries. The meeting being thus organized it was agreed that the names of the Counties be called and those represented should be entered on the minutes of the Convention«sygeke appeared from the - City of Philadelphia, John M. Taylor. County of Philadelphia, Charles Pierce, Carr. Centre,”"Wm. H. Patterson. Berks, Conrad Feger, Peter Aurand, George Bover, John Bgrkenbine. Lancaster, John \V hitesides, Joseph Lefever, Johu Ramsey, Geo. P, Fryer, George L. May- er. Schuylbill, Frederick Hesser. Lebanon, David Fisher, Henry Koppenhaver, Dauphin, Thomas Wenrich, Jacob Shoema- ker. Cumberland, John M’Carter, Abraham Fulwi- ler, Samuel Redett. Mifflin, Robert M’Clelland, Westmoreland, Alexander Coulter, Humphrey Fullerton. Franklin, John Shryock, Jobn M’Lean, Sam- uel Dickey, Information was then laid before the Conven- tion of the inability of a number of delegates (col- leagties of those members from counties repre- sented) to attend, as well as those ofother coun- ties who had elected delegates, but from their want of knowledge of the time and place of meet - ing and other unavoidable causes could not ar- rive in time to take their seatsat tis: Conven. tien: .'5Y It was then resolved, That this convention proceed to ihe nomination of a Candidate to be Robert Andrew Banks. Culbertson, Eli the office of Governor. ing nominations were made — Joseph Hiester, John Steel, Collect Andrew Gregg, [or of Philadelphia. N. B. Boileau, Walter Franklin John Spayd, James Brady, Isaac Wayne, Jared Ingersol, Dr. Geo. Logan, Wm. Tilghman, Benj’n. R: Morgan. A motion was then made and carried that the! opinions of the gentlemen present be fully andi fairly expressed as respected the sentiments of their coustituents in relation to the different candidates now before the convention. After a futhand free discussion, during which the pres ent state and prospects of the friends of reform were taken into view, as well as the claims of the | highly respectable characters in nomination, it! appeared that General Joseph Hiester, of Berks County on taking the sense of the meeting received twenty, eight votes ; and Walter Franklin Esq. of Lan-y caster County one vote-~whereupon JOSEPH! HEISTER was recommended to the people of} Pennsylvania as a suitable cendidate for the! office of Governor at the general election to be! held on the second Tuesday of October 1820. A Committee was then appointed to draft a preamble and resolutions expressive of the sen- Uments entertained by this meeting, consisting | of John Whitesides, Charles Pierce, Abraham | Fulwiler, Wm. H. Patterson, James Dickey, El Coulter, and Geo. Lewis Mayer. The Con- vention then adjourned to meet again this even- Ing to receive the report of the Committee. The convention re-assembled pursuant to ad. journmentand the committee appointed to draft certain resolutions, &e, reported, that owing to the short time allowed them they were unable to accomplish the object for which they were appointed, and requested a further perind to transact the business delegated to them. There- upon the Convention adjourned to meet on Mon- day the 6th of March.— Monday March €:h, 1820. Tle Convention ve-assembled” when the fol lowing preamble and resslutions were reported by the committee appointed, and were adopted by the unanimous voice of the Convention.— The Governments of the States of America may be said to be the only political institutions ever created, which haye not derived their ori- gin from force, fraud or accident, A glorious design under the influence of the deity has rear- ed those structures under which so great a share of prosperity has been enjoved by the people of these States, and which must forever continue 10 protect their posterity ifeach existing genera- tion shall be as virtuous and as vigilant as their ancestors. Decay indeed seems to be inciden- tal to all human works, and it must be confess. ed that short as the durations of our institutions have beer, symptoms ofno dubious boding have been already witnessed. Still it will be found on a cardi enquiry that if abuses have present ed themselves, they have not been the efiects of inherent, imperfections im our frame of govern. ment, so much as of ble indifierence or neglect on the part of the peopie- It is now nearly four years since that portion of the freemen of Penns: ivania denominated In dependent republicans first erected the standard of political re form ; aware ofthe abuses of power hy thase who were elected to the Ligher grades of office and trust, they resolved to resist those abuses and that selfishness of individuals which necessarily proceeded therefrom. When the first meeting was held in Carlisle those who attended it rzised their warning voi- CES = the mischiefs of feguiative mnterfer- 8 culp ence 1m Fe nominations of Presidents and Gov- ernors, théy were then answered only by calum- ny and aspersion ; but the people were not in- different or so ienorant as was imagined ; under all those difficulties, our predecessors of 18:6 made a deep unpression upon the public mind. So powerful indeed was their appeal to the peo- ple, that in the succeeding year, the very per- sons who had so lately defended legislative nom- The delegates from the several counties of their consideration on the setond Tuesday of recommended to the people of Pennsylvania for! Whereupon the follow - tenis, it will have heen an adequate consideration for aR their labors and the unmerited abuse re- turned for their disinterested services. Dut their success so far is a guarantee of an ultimate triumph in all other respects. The path of principle is strait and pleasant, ambition and selfishness are not tempted to tread it, so that an ample opportunity is offered for the excerci of the energies of thie virtt ous and disinterested. No provocation oughtto produce an imitation fof the example ofthosé who in 1817 denounced 1“ enomies of the country,” such of the freemen {of this state as would not submit to a legislative Inomination ; the rights of all men are equal, the factions of no man ought to be attributed to base motives, if those more generous can possibly be supposed ; allowance ought ever to be made for ‘the frailty of our mature, and a reform of politic- jal abuses can only be lasting which is produced "by conviction, such it is believed have ‘hitherto | been the leading doctrines of the minority of 1816 and 1817, such itis hoped will ever be the sentiments which will guide their successors. | Thus unwilling to arouse unnecessarily any { personal emotions, it is with reluctance that duty {demands a brief notice of the candidate who succeeded in 1817. Have the predictions of his friends been realized by the wisdom and purity of his measures ! Has lie pursued the course which was thén so loudly promised ? Or have not the accusations then preferred against him been amply established even by those who may be said to have been of his household ? What objection made to him then has lost its force upon experience ? What motive that then ex. isted to array 2 manly opposition does not now demand a more resciute resistance ? If indeed there is a necessity for an amelioration of our social as well as political concerns ; if it is desir- J astc that an early termmation should be put te jthe prevailing distresses and embarrassments; {it & magnanimous policy is essential to the ter- fal prosperity, of Pennsylvania those desirable yresulis can only be accomplished bv a change in {the state administration.—Men who seek power tand patronege solely for the purpose of their jown aggrandizement should be removed from ithe trusts they abuse, and their stations filled by fmen who will aim to’ establish thzir renown by ithe benefits they eonfer on society L For Berks, Northampton, Lancaster and the adjacent counties John Bickle, and Jacob K. Bover, Berks, Allen Horn, Northampton, John Whitesides, and George Hoffman, Lancagtap : Centre, Lycoming, Northumberland and the adjacent counties, Andrew Gregg and Hailtonggy PR Humes, Centre, Samuel Stewart Lycomiy ony Jumes M‘Farland and Doctor Doty of Mil For Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, York and the adjacent counties, John P+ Helfenstien, Gog 3rown and Barnet Aughinbaugh Carlisle, | ; Montgomery of Dosuphin, John Franklin and J. Carter Esq, of York. For Allecheny and the counties west of tha mountain, Walter Forward, Allegheny, David Stewart, Indiana, David Reynolds. Armstrong James Brady and Jacob D. Mathiot, WV estmoren land. Kesolved, That the members of the commit. tee named be authorized to supply anv vacun. cies and that our friends in the different: coun. ties of the state be requested to appoint a com. mittee of correspondence for cach county, to co. operate with the committee above named Resolved, That John M. Taylor, Jos. Lefevep Abraham Fualwiler, Humphrey Fuilerton, An. drew Banks, John M*Lean and David Fisher be appointed a committeeito prepare an address to the people of Pennsylvania in behalf of this convenuon. } Resolved, That the thanks of the convention be presented to the Commissioners of the county of Cumberland for the use of the Court house, and to the spectators for their orderly deport. ment during the session of the convention, Resolved, That the proceedings of the cone vention be signed by the Chairman and Sec eta ries and published in all the papers of the state, The business of the convention being closed, 4s it was begunin the utmost harmony, friend~ ship and unanimity adjourned. ; JOHN SHRYOCK, Chairman. 3 Secretaries. Jilnes Rudisil, of Eli Coulter, Geo. Louis Mayer. —D ten ; dnsurrection in Spain —The news of the ‘nsurrection in Spain, had reached London via France. The troops had taken possess i To the accommphishment of this great pur- i pose, party distinctions at all times odious now sion of Cadiz, and the constitution of the jLortes was immediately proclaimed, and 5 "W “ > olve oa ar £ q! + po > li. (no longer oppose themselves. the charm o {the oath to defend it was administered to imere nome has ceased to delude----the mark of |4]] parties, civil and militar The mer- affected patriotism no longer hides the deformity |... ..o £Cadi y- -hants or Ladiz, gave a grand banquet to of imposture----the freemen of this Common-{ Avil: aid ‘ath Li wealth seek statesmen and not factionists and ‘1¢ €lvH and miitary authorities, to cele the virtuous and the wise cannot but anticipate {brate the triumph of the constitution. The from a reform of the political administration a}insurgent forces, it was computed, amount. ha 3 - ft Tennsvlivanis erie ™M. me we had change that must Yestore 1 Ansys ania tn heried to 24.000, The French papers sate, once high and glorious reputation amongst the | States, Impressed with these sentiments ; therefore, Kesolved, That we adhere to the principles and objects avowed by the friends of reform as- sembled in Convention at Carlisle in 1816 and 7----never forgetting the great political truth that all men are born free and equal, and that governments ought to be jnstituted for the use of the governed and not forthe goverio-s. Resolved, That achange in the administration of'our political institutions and to the restoration of the Commonwealth to its former state of hon- orable distinction and internal prosperity, Resolved, That Rotation in Office, being of vital importance to our existence as a republic, we recommend that the candidate now proposed to the independent voters ofthe state of Penn may be elevated by the suilrages of tbe people to this high trust, will in accordance with the spirit of the constitution retire fiom office at the his country his constitational period, decline a re election. Resolved, As the opinion of this convention that the candidate tow recommended, will if elected, call to his councils our most virtuous and distinguished citizens, having talents ard honesty without regard to party prejudices sec- tional divisions, or RELIGIOUS DiSTINC- TIONS and that is policy in all respects will be wise generous and disinterested. i Resolved, That this Convention highly disap- proves of the practice heretofore adopted by the incumbents of office in arrogating to themselves the supreme direction in nominatisg candidates foro flice, and view itasa system of corruption leading to subvert the freedom of choice, and introduce aristosracy by creating two orders among, the peopie- Resolved, Therefore that we most zealously recommend to the freemen of Pennsylvania from this time henceforth to exciude from all meet- ings for nominations all persons holding offices dependant for duration or salary upon the pleas- this state. Resolved, That in selecting men to fill our public offices we recommend to our fellow citi- zens to be guided solely in their choice by thie fitness, honesty and capacity of the candidates; laving aside party spirit, that bane of public goed and poison of social happiness when car- ried beyond: the bounds of free enquiry. And that instead of substituting unmeaning terms of reproach for reascn and argument, we keep up a spirit of liberality and forbearance in our dis- CUSSIONns. : Resolved, That the candidate for the gnber- natorial chair of Pennsylvania ought to be a man not only of private worth and public integ- rity, but one who will be a rallying point for hon- est men of all partics desirous of promoting the public good , rather than foment party dissen- tions 3 and one who will discountenance all mea- sures calculated to aggrandize the few at the ex. pense and degredation of the many: Resolved, "T'hat in the opinion of this Conven- tion Joseph Hiester, ir elected will be such a chief magistrate as would advance the best in- terests of the state, establish by his example and influence and the wise and prudent measure of his admimstration, * a new order of things” fonn- ded on ilie st:ong basis of economy and the pub- lic geod, and rescue the character of republican Pennsylvania, from that degraded situation, to which its party animositics “and spirit ot pros- cription have reduced it in the eves and estima- tion ef our enlightened siscer states. the past : and at length such has been the glo- rious effect of truth and perséverence that islative nomination of candid scouted by her course 1{ the efforts of the minority of 1816 should nce th @ leg: ates 1s now publich those who in 18.6 reprobated any! not accomplish a more important change than Kesolved, That a general ecinmittee be ap- pointed ot twenty five persons and that the state be divided into five districts. when the following wis reported and adopted. For the City and County of Philadelphia and 13 ‘adjacent counties, Jos. Reed, William Dcloney, W. J. Duane, Wm. Milnor, and Joho Harrison. svlvania, and every succeeding Candidate who! expiration of THREE YEA KS, and after serving! ure of the executive of the United States, or of hold bas been that the king of Spain bas demanded from the king of France, prompt succours .of {both men and money, (25,000 of the forms ler were required) to aid him in reducing {the rebels to obedience, and that two ships tof war have left Rochefort, to cruize near i tion. Kevolutionary Pensioners — We think Stati Gn. | iis absolutely essential to the duration, and purity | proper to s:ate, for the information of pers sons who receive military pensions from the United States, that we Ari hus joi puss sed Congress, appropriating funds for the payment of those pensiont on the 4th of March next, and the probability is that the appropriation will not be made in time to mect the semi-annual payments; on that day. It is therefore, advisable, that those concerned should delay their application tunul noticewhall be given of the appropria. tion having been made.” Nat. Int, —— bOI Among many interesting articles in the second number of the German correspon- Ident, published in this city, we find the \following, which is well worthy the atten- ition of those now engaged in building isteam- boats : « The new steam:-boat Plocher, was {lately Jaunched at Pottsdam. Several (members of the royal family were present, ‘and Prince Albrecht conferred the name. (This is probably the largest steam-boat iin Europe—the whole length being 200 feet. It draws but 21 inches of water — I'The boat contains two engines, which per= {form exceedingly well. The utmost pre- |caution is used against accidents by fire. | As this vessel will carry merchandize of {great value, and in large quantitics, the divided into nine compart- ments, by water-proot partitions, so thatin case it should spring a leak, there is every | probability that the vessel would not fill — | Besides by means of tubes, there isa com= | munication between these chambers and the locations of the engines, which arc $0 arranged as to pump any quantity of wa- ter out ofthe division where the Jeak may exist. This improvement appears to be well calculated for the steam-boats on the Mississippi. NYG. oe m— NOTICE. Subscribers, commission mer THE yg 1 a ' or } r their chants and dealers in Iron, tende services to the manfactorers of Bar & Pig Fron, and Susquehanna, situated on the Juniata : % acy mal vrs a SARE land make known that they advance CASH Iron on all ensignments of Bir and Pig :nd country produce in general at their ware house No. 69 Bowlegs “wharf. : > David Kizer, & co. N. B. The §1Z¢ 5 of B ir ron suital » the B.ltimore market may be obtain- ed by addressing as above. D 5, 1820. K. Co. Cr wo Paltimore, Feb. 1 } . : Bayonne, and to remain there in observa- % “ # 4 ks
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