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Latest from LK ngland.
From New York Columbian,
IMPORTANT NEWs.
Queen acquitted—rthe Florida Treaty
signed,
Last evening the ship Hector, Capt. Ben
net, arrived at ths port from Liverpool
wiience she suilod on the 19th of lust month
and brings dates 14 days later than before
=eoetved, being to the 18th uit.
Le news ot immediate interest to us, by
this arrival, is the CESSION OF THE
YLORIDAS—on which subject it appears
that Don Mawuel de Barros, attached to
the Spanish lega ion to the United States
ai (vd at the nouse of the Spanish consul
In Boideanx, with the treaty for the Cession
of the Biordas which hed been ratified by
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ed ar Paris on the 7th November, he will
embark imnmedia sly, ia the ship Rapid, of
New Yoik, ior Philadelphia.
The wial of the queen terminated in the
House of Lords on the 10th November. It
having been ascertained that there would be
A letter from Bordeaux receiv-|
eh
Lerd Erskine addressed a few words ta
Lelr lordships in a mavser truly emphauc |
[and striking i==% 1 have heard, (said be)
hie proposals of the nobis Early, 1 see the |
fate of this odious mersure consummated, and
The Paty
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‘Tospeakhisthoughm,isevery freemen’s right
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(1 feel nothing but the most lively and entire!
lsatisfaction. | heartily rejoice in this event
[My iords, I am an old mun ; and my hte,
justi It bas been for goon or evil, has
been passed under the sacred rule of the!
faw. Ip this moment I feel my strength
renovated and repaired, by that rule beng
restored, the accursed charge wherewithal
we have been menaced has passed over
our heads ; there is an end of that horrid
and portentlous excresence of a new law,
refrospective, and iniquitons, and oppres-
sive and the constituuen and scheme of
our polity is once more safe, My beart is
[too tull of the escape we have just had to
fet me do mare than praise the vlesstogs ol
the system we have regained ; but I cannot
praise them adequately myself, and I prefer
expressing my own sentiments in the fine
Hanguare of one of the most eloquent au-
{tho s of my age, Hooker] who thus speaks |
(in his great work his Licclesiastical Polity
SATURDAY, yaANUARY 6.
AD b Pr—
Ansqer to the Lst Quest. inserted in last
weck’s “hapher.
Take any number, say 24, or the side o
an equalateral triangle, ana find the con-
tent 249, 36.
Then by 19h of 6.h Euclid,
ratio of their homologous sides—<"Uhere-
lore,
As 246.36: 180 :+ 24: 17 32 and to find
a mean proportional between C4 and 17.32
SAV AS 24: x 22 + 17.32 where x = the
mean pronortional, . Therefore 22 == 94
XAT .3%%== side
32 = 41568 and x = 20.3126 —
of triangle, as near as possible,
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| Ansqer to the © Rebus” in the last Pat
“\riot—By a young Lady.
Gf law (here can be no less acknowl-|
be ~ . y
fi'The Plebian class can daily see
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jedged than that her seat is the bosom o |
(30d ; ber voice the harmony of the world sin
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1pose all innovation.
similar tria
angles are to ove another in the duplicate
Wwe, As 2 wise pecple, be indifferans,
we sce the cause of our yearning ?
should we not with one voice call fay a
‘ectual reform in our Corstitution ?
atronage ot the gover:
not eurtail it 2 \We
great cry of Reform ! Reform! before the
election. The great object of Reform will
now be to amend the constitution, | lear
however, the professed Ref ners, will one
They will do as ey.
Cry party in power ; the constitution wij) be
good enough while they are reaping the
harvest : but wili arguments dstep you
'om pursaing your incerest?
A FRIEND TO REFORM.
net 4 Wren
For the Patriot
when
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H Ifthe
Or 18 100 great, iy
have all heard the
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ir. Brindle,
Some years’ ago myself
tamily were in what might be eal
goud circumstances. We were reasonably
thdustrious, and for the overplug produce
tons oi our industry we got a £00d price,
By this we were enabled to live we both
as to rating, drinking and wearing, - We
enjoyed ail the comforts, and many of, what
{nay be called, the luxuries of Jife, It is
trae we went in d=bt in the stores tor some
and
called prety
eriors, once, vite far above them;
jut King’s are great as they can be
Upon this earthy where none doth love them.
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onlv a majority of nine for the bill, a mo H{ hk do | \
J ] ; all thin ell Bavey arth do her hoo
tion was made by Lord Liverpool to post- all things in f2aven and a 3) ) pen B
: \ . Nera a a : in ue care, ang
pme the question for six smonths ! nr, in |a8e; the very feast #3 jeching her care, ana
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things that we might as wel] have done
Wit hes } 7 1 1 1 « t i
Without, but we thought hing of this, ag
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This is with
ACQUITAL OF
TUE QUEEN ; and great illuminations
and rejoicings had in consequence taken
place. ’
other words dismiss the bill.
propriciy viewed as ihe
a
CASE OF THE
siton on the second reading of
the b'lt acajnst the queen, was tuken on the!
6th Nov en it appeared there weve con
tents 123-—uon coentens, 95—Majoricy 28
Ou the followin: day, the debate on phe
third reading was commenced, which was
continned ili 10th. The hovse then
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[the greacest as nol exempied irom her pow.
jer. Both angels and creatures of what con-
dition soever, though each 1a different sort
And yet, sometimes, they see if 100—
When gullotines are brought to view !
But God, in truth, can’t see this thing,
tle’s 4 Lord of Lords, of Kings tha KING
Therefore, your Riddle, vigh'ly solv’d,
Shews a SUPERIOR is involv’d.
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miring herr as the mother of peace aud joy.”
The Duke of Monirose said, he siiould
oppose the motion for throwing out the bill.
He was convinced of her majesty’'s crimin-
ality, and should never look up 10 her as a
queen. The motion was tasnh put and
agreed to, and the house adjourned to the
22d inst. the day on which the commois!
meet,
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For the Patriot.
To the Citizens of Peaniylvania.
I have waited ull the heat excited by the
clashing of adverse opinions, has been ex-
tinguished, and the mind of nan had
chance to disentangle itself frem the web
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London Nov. 11.—We have ai last the
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divided ; when there appeared tor a third
reading 108, agaist it 99, leaving a major- |
ity of 9 in favor of the hill. |
soon ag the sfate of the division was!
announced, Lord Dacre rose, and holding al
paper in fs uand, said he had been ivtrusted |
with a petition {from her mojesty, praving|
to be heard by counsel against the passing |
ot the bill, Lord Liverpool said that he ap-|
prebended such a conrse would be rendered
unnecessary by what he was about to staicd
be ipnorant of the stale of pub.
He conlid LOL De
lic fooling with regard to this measure and!
jtappeared to be the opinion of the house!
that the bill should be read a third time!
on'y by a majority ol nine voles: Fad the!
thud reading heen carried by as cousidera-i
bis a number of neers as the second, hig and
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his colleagues would have felt it their dus
to persevere with the billy, and to send
down to the ether branch of the legislature,
In the present state of
and withthe di sion ot sentimont, 30 T
balanced. jnst evinced by their |
they had eomig to the determination not to
proceed turiier wich it—He should accord §
gly move (hat the question that the biti}
bili do pass be put on this day six months. !
(Lhe mostyehement cheeriiig (ook place cn!
this npexnected d sedaration.) |
Ea » as soon as the Earl of Livy.
erpoot had resmaed lus seat, bat the conty-
sion did no. subside vutil alter his jordship
had heor time on his legs, His lord-
ship complained of the wholé course vinis-
ters liad pursued with regard to the bill,
which after tie declaration ef the noble earl
could scarcely be said io be before the
honse, but which was sti} before the coun-
try, and would long live in its memory —
He charged the servants of the crown with
the groseest neglect of duty, in the first in.
stance. in listening only to cx parte evidence
and giving a willing credence to the most
exaggerated and unfounded calumnies. em
They had thus, for many months, agitated
the nation ; they had produced a general
stagnation of public and private business ;
ad given a most favorable oppor-
{ s LO the enemies of in-
d tranquility. They had be-
trayed their King, insulted theu queencorn-
tinued cries of hear from all sides.) and had |
given ashock to the morals of sociery by the
promulgation of the desiestable and fisgust-|
ing evidence, 10 the hearing of which thej
house had been so long occupied. (Hear.);
His lordship a! abated, mn the severest|
duct of
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ternal peace
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the Milan commis-
sioners, who, having been appointed not to
Investigate the truth, but (0 obtain testimony
of guilt, had K county but teo
1 tion to pat faith iu all the
esses might invent against
reputation of the queen of
Great Britain, The result has bes n, that
alter inquiries, ret and the
calumniss and ton! had
iH debate
for filty days—afier ali the i ry it was pos-
sibie { lo the quecn had been ac-
inl wasabandoned, not with-
complished, th
ithont apology.
terms, tiie Co
and in this
incling
agents and wily
great at
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the bouor and
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sec open—zfier
rant no > Bihela
oreaics. est Npels
been made the subject of derail) and
or them (o «
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‘have done moie to withdraw the affections
Hiceivaed
the country however! quar
Weary ion was universal,
ordships, twelve
jed a mote tumultuous pladiess et
woven by the wily politician to entangle it ;
as a scason fit to call the attention of my
readers to a serious consideration of the
satisfaction of congratulating the country on
on the abandonment of ‘the Pains and Pen
The division on the thhrd read-
ng having: given a majority of only nine in
favor of minisiers, that is a roajority formed
altogether of themselves, Lord Liverpooi
could not, with any regard to decency, at-
tempt the passing of the measure. Such is
the ternunation of the odious proceedings
which for many months have keptthe coun:
try wn a state of continual irritation, which
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ernor occasion. Is it not to be feared,
that at sone period, perhaps not very dis-
tant, in those dreadiul throes or strugales
for power, by parties. that it will eventuate
in the destrncuon of oor Republican insti-
tutions ! The people of Pennsylvania are
a peaceabie people, not inclined to riots;
but experience bas made it manifest, that
ihe election for governor i8 contested with
more animosity than any other, and it i
gencral’'y conceded that (he cause is the
patronage vested by the constitution in
him : that parties in power holding Jucra-
tive offices, make use of unjust means to
hold them ; aud those out of power, make
use of like means to get into power.
is the same in all countries : power is
tempting : history gives numerous instan-
lces waere it has been pursued, fy the am
thitions, throuoh fields of blood ay
[the faiher destroying the son, and the son |
ithe father, regardicss of all the ties of con-|
sanguini'y or virtue, and agamst all Jaws]
Diviue and huinan, to come at the fist]
station in the government,
That the duties of
of Pennsylvania are arduous, wil not be
deuted. In making appowntments some
must be disappointed. Unbortunately {or
us, few of those high-minded men bear
have their ambition thwarted ; with then: |
ncer on the body—
Constitutional au-
theorities, than all the revolutionary writings
which ever were cotaposed, and which have
truly been derogatory from the dignity ol
the crown and the best 1uterest of the em-
pire.
Lhe joy with which this result was re-
18 indisciibable. The news flew
tie rapidity of ightning to the remotest
tors of this metropolis. The exulta-
A town relieved from »
could not have display-
be streets
we © soon thronged, and in the evening the
'aminati
y the
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of the people fon
with
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montas sieo
was general qn all the principal
trectsy Reports of feux de joice were
heard in every direction. Such 1s the man-
ner in which the failure of the artempts to
destroy her majes'y has been received in
London. As there bas been but gne feeling
tiirougheut the country with respect (to the
proceedings, the joy of course will be uni.
versal
The national character ney
more advantage than durin
these proceedings. The
the queen was og th
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chief mogistrate
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it has the effect of a ¢
it corrodes every virtue —their peace, their
honesty and humanity are absorbed. The
virtue or capability of a governor, when he
incurs their displeasure, is to them as the
dust in the balance. The history of Penn.
sylvania bas (wo causes in point and of re-
cent date-—the first of them in the three
last years of the administration of our wor-
thy governor Simon Spyder. William
Duane was instiumental in bringing him
ito power, and wished to have his friend
er appeared to
g the whole of
people saw that
ue ¢ point of becoming
the victim of a pewerful conspiracy, and
with that Jove of justice which thev have al-
ways. possessed, they expressed their in.
dignation at the base attemiptin so loud and
auequivocal a manner, as to palsy the band
which was stretched out to destroy her,
livery violation of justice jeads to still more
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convulsions every trienial election for gov-|
it i5(t0 nu
Man {quire at them about it,
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d peril every cast, and also some of sur most knowe
debts coming fis Gihiers to bal.
ance this, and also good prospects of, pot
iy a continnation of high pices for what
we could spare to sell, but also an Increase
of those prices. This was all very well ;
ity behold, to our ores fisappoi
hie Hite $ took Bn HE IE La
ty scarce ‘the Banks shat Weir vaolis 3
we had grain and and other naticrs to zell,
but th were'few buyers, and the prices
vext to nothing. The Storekeepers push-
td tor what we owed them, J tried to col
lect what was owing to me, but could get
nothing. My deblors put me off with tel-
“It was hard times,” and (his I
well as they did. So that we were
d by degrees, though very reluctant.
our expences. We pet your
per regularly, and my wife, Margery,
I who, | stice, is a good economist,
meting ola politician too, reads it
[very attentively. She discovered ip it
jvarious saving expedients : among othep
{things directions for cooking rye as a subs
(stitute lor coffee. She tried this, and ig
succeeded beyond my expectations j though
{some of the boys and girls did not like it
{well at first, but we ware forced all of us
| tup with it; und with manv other
tprivations. I was anxious to know the
causes of this ehange of times ; and whene
ever 1 had an opportunity of conveifing
with persons of saperior learning and ne
(formation, + made it my business to en-
I was 10ld by some
out Lawyers, and
ik officers and Directors, and our Iron.
masters, Justices, and 211 our Doctors of
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tof our Storekeepers, and
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ing farmers, that the whole of these diffie
culties and bard times, were occasioned hy
the Democrats, that were they out of pow=
er every thing would flourish, That they all
were vile corruptionists—-that the fees & sal-
aries of the officers were too enormous teat
they were rolling in wealth, and swallowed
up all the money. That they Lad run the
state over head and ears in debt, and left no
money for public hmprovements, That
governor Findlay had plundered the treag-
ury and taken the money for bis own use
and that of his friends. And that if lowph
Hiesier were putin he would reracve all
difficulties ; raise the price of prain—lowy
the prices of stere goods; rnake money m
plenty as it was in Jerusalem in the days
oi Bolomon— Serve for one fourth of ‘the
sallary that Findlay got. In a word, that
we should have golden times, I was char-
med with these fine prospects; and be-
came a warm Hicsterite, and brought over
ali my sons and some of my neighbors, —
a
exiensive violations, The injustice from
which she was about to sufier, would have
afforded a precedent for ihe destruction of
otiiers 3 and the interes: taken by the p=o
ple 1s, therefore, not more henoraole to the
generosity and feeling, than it is creditable
to tire good sense of the peonle. The
uiph of her majesty is alse, therefore, their
trivmph 5 for the successful resistance ol
oppression, the defeat of injustice, are caus
es for triumph traly worthy of a free and
enlightened people.
Toe people achieved a plorious victory
but they must not stop, he Wuits’s and others, and grant.
advisers of these d'sgracetul measures, theled to himseif the commission of an “Aldar-
men who filled the Green Bag, and who cli-iman, is here a human being who can
tered on the odious inguiry in defiance of 2 [lieve the state of Pennsylvania wonld have
resolution of the honse of commons, pro {witnessed the prosecution of Mr. Scareeant
nouvcing it derogato y from the dizvity of{or that of Win. Findiay : but on tl "
EPA to te vs ha ve we not cause to believe that it Mr
oh i a ei poyer. hl i Any Say. und haga half as corrupt as repre-
315 they hive so egreiiously betraved.—| granted vis request Een iC, TOM have
Can men who have stiown Dear rres sO A HeWS : er y Ser le dat
destitute of every statesman ike quali y as SR ay) a great pan
| dike g 'Y @3101 the slate, won!d it not have been a goo!
to enter on a course, the calamitous conse- way of securing Binns? We know that
Michael Leib appointed Secretary, On
the refusal of the governor to suffer him to]
appoint bis Secretary, he, Duane, wheeled!
round, and charged the man whom he be-|
tore szid possessed every virine, with be-|
ing igrorant and corrupi, and a viola or ot!
the constitution. It must be evident, to]
every ninpactial man, that if Mr. Snyder
had suffered Duane 10 make the appoint-
ments, the voice of Puane would rot have
been raised against him. And had gover-
nor Findiay complied with the wishes oi
{John Binus, and suffered him to appoint his
Tbe responsible} fr nds, th
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Marge: Y wW4S not so sanguine, bur thinks I
to myself she is buta woman. I had al
ways belore been a Democrat, but thinks I
«0 mysclly if this de the way the democrats
manage matters I'm done with them. Sosn
atier the election T was at P 1's mill &
was told that His er had certainly carried.
[never heard any thing with more joy=—
aot even the election of Jeffirson. 1 went
to the store, bought four pounds of coffee
and a pound of ca, apd gave six bushels
ot wheat for them, wlich 1 had in the mii;
rashed home with all possible speed, told
‘he news—ogve Margery the tea and cof-
ice, and told her we would have no more
ot ber rye coffee ; times wouid now soon
aiter— Wheat would soon be 82 per bushes
el; and every thing else in proportion.e.
That the first time I went to Beliclonte, op
Aaronsburg, or to J. — Va Store, I would
buy her, and cach of the girl’s, a silk gown,
and the boys a suit of broad-cloth €ACh em
For though 1 had not the money to pay for
them ‘now, we soon would, for Hiester
would make glorious times.” She ¥ 4
d me, in her usual dry way, not to Di 80 «
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Jueuces: of whieh were obvious to aii who offices are the bone of contention—tihat ai
out reason, but assuredly
His lordship coacluded by assuring the no-
bie {ords ou the other that the peuple
rn would not be sadsfied wiih |
g of thie measure, bu!
t Mo Its founs|
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Wrival appeansc, '
of Great Bei
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possessed the least penerration—a course vir'u us chief is liable to be assailed for
waich ralhicd all that was sound an virty not complying with the request of the am-
ous in the country against the executive Hitious 3; and by the promise and barter of
can these men be allowed to retain the :
: sthces, a knave or fool, may hold or obtain
a dig they have shown themselves power. ‘This avenue for corruption arises!
unit to iL
‘from the defect of our Constitution.
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much lifted up—that It wus pot all gold
that glitters—that clectioneering promisess
were not alwaysto be trusted—that they .
were generally forgotten after the election
ts over; and that J bad better nevermind.
the silkdresses and suits of broad cloth,
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Can until 1found those specious promises pers
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