DI 13 El E Eliii - gek-.. _ A -- "iffiest front rmgland.—The - iihifo - AjOi;ntisTeiV 'York, lii in s Live rponl ...tiers to the 2(1 June inclusive, Our cor ,.. •nts of the Mercantile Ali e'er ye transmitt• us proo the following: The London Morning Chronicle of Ist Julie contains a long letter from its Corres pondent, O. P. Q. dated, Paris, 29th Max; in which hegives not Only his own views, butirepeats conversations, said to have ta ken place on the Bourse between himself and several well informed men on all sides ofthe question which is now the enurossing peace or war. It seems that 0. P.Q. hini selfleans to the side of War in Europe.= That Perrier's determination to preserve . peace is not so popular as it for though France wishes peace, vet .as peace cannot be preserved without "humiliation," French men desire .War: and therefore Perrier's popularity is on the wane. France seems to.be dissatisfied with the course pursued by . the Government in relation to Poland, Bel gium and Italy. ' Frenchaten wish to assist Poland; they wish, inronjunction with Eng. land, to obtain peace -and independence for Poland without going to war; ,bait if Nicho -las-refuses-mediation,-then le t- war-come, On the Belgium question, the opinion was that Louis Philippe had evinced much cow ardice and apprehension of offending; and In that of Italy, Frenchmen feel that the 'ltalians have been most cruelly treated by - - the - French Government. The Royalists are not numerous: and it seems; fon 0. P. Q.'s conversations reported in his letter, there is little or no chance that the young I , -of Bordeaux will ever reign in Fmnce if he die without issue, the Orleans family are the kgstimate heirs to the Crown. The news from Belgium that Leopard would be .elected to The throne had caused an advance . - -- -- hrtherfandsr - bectitts . ei - 11 - 4111 1 1 - ; the-question in relation ,to that country and Holland will in all likelihood be definitely settled. • :s i er—Riported- POLISH P ICTOIIY! BALTIMORE, July 20. The Nerus, arrived at Boston, has brought the gun of the evening of June 3d. The coil article frOm this paper furnished by our Bogen n Correspondent, is the follow ing; which affords us some ground to hope that the gallant Poles have been winning an other -harvest of laurels in their unequal struggle with the Russians: From the London-Sun-of June 3. We have yet nothing absolutely to au thenticate the rumor mentioned yesterday, of another signal victory of the Poles over - doubti however-,—exists of great and important advantages having been obtained by the former; and we have just been informed from a most respectable source, that the Polish Legation is in pos session of the particulars of this fresh victo ry. Our informant, however, states that the obstinate and sanguinary conflict, which - (Path and 20th May) took place with the Russian imperial guard com manded by Gen. Pahien, which were almost annihilated. Since the fore come to hitid. Its foreign intelligence is of the - highest importance, as. will be seen by e ()Wing extracts'. - if - thess-Zelails are true, to the extent reported,' the Russian _commander must have been in a very disa eable predicament,g.ttt the date of these --- --- ---- -•---- Contmed success of the Poles. The 'London Star of the evening of the 3d 'June, says, "The brave Polish Comman der has coMpletely dutmanceuvirl the itus sYm?.. While a Polish corps was amusing them at Minsk, Skyneeki united all the corps orals left„ crossed the Bug, and taking Os trolenka by assault, has proceeded to Lomza, defeated the Russian iluards at 'fychosin, And in feet occupied the whole country be tween the Bug end Naroiv. ' Accounts from Warsaw, of the 26th, left Diebitsch at G2colow, apparently in 'route . for OstrolenksPbr for Bielsk or Bialistock, with no resource but to throw himselfon the pmteetion of Prussiat as Dwernicki threw himself on the protection of the Austrians. lie has, however, to cross the Bug and N l 's; row, with Polish corps on every side of him. -, By this masterly movement, the Polish aerosol has placed himself in contact with ,the Semogitians, Lithuanians, and other re:. vetted districts, by whose population -his ar- my will be indefinitely augmented, So as to leave to. Diebitech no prespeceof escape, but within the Prussian_ frontiers.- The foreign Lis assert, he will endeavor to reach e; in Prussic; but we expect he will seek to cross the Awsoka.ond,Ar.,til himself _ ethic shelter ()fits vast forestikz • , - The march of $ znecki ibwithout liar . tillel in mederii w Are: From Warsaw to ieOstrokaike, was a inarchof-full e . aty iN the See to' )inother 30; an to . eheitt - 0 20 innie:—' a() t ras being in, the - of Russian 'd army. the P les ssm also to hive gained advantages in a re p 0 *the, Lesions, at Minsk; and thie, : 4 -•,othirtelwtetitien.elf.SkrYnecki, no doubt`, ' 1614.1:tri to retreat to Focolow, near '•'- liii* ". • ' • '' . . . i . , 1 l ' ' Y To Vigo of tite wiisiowialsa tvilie - - 1 'i , 1 . I= it= 1;219 -MASONIC 'ST _L -AND REPUBLICAN BANNER. -:---- --- - _ . . been. recruited by volunteers from Prussia S till Later from Poland, and Austrian Poland; and the whOle cam• . BOSTON, July 20. • paiL7tresembles a war of chivalry, in which The Free R 111.19 says--O - By the arrival' the enlightened - enterprize -pf-Europe-is Ai- at this port yesterda . v of the brig Czarina meted individually;against - the --- furthi 4- - trom Cfonstadt, Awe team that verrlittle - wrm eroachments of the barbarous e Muscovits, published at St. Petersburg relative to the Tarters and Siberians. Polish War; but it was generally r acknowl- We pave just learnt, (says The London edged the Russians had lost 80,000 men Globe, under date June 2, three o'clock, P-isince the coml .- tie:la:molt of .the campaign M,) that a report is general 'in the city of the ! and that the Emperor calculated to sustain Russian defeat by the Pole and that thela loss of 200,000 in the final subjugation of Imperial anards had been cut to pieces.. It ! p o i an d. is sari-to-rest.- on letters from Berlin. It is -(r.,.Y-Af Elsiiieve it was .currently report certainly-very-prevalent . eethat the Polesovided by:Lithuanian in- The --- -.--- - The Morning Star of the 3d says, that the i surgents, had cut off the supplies for the hh - rive tryyrt - prollablV alludes to the over- ultus!iinu_AnnY;' .and that Gen. Diebitsch ftlirbw - Tif die Gail I il, at— l'ye'hosiii.-who were-! would 43e_obliged tu_eriter the Prussian-dom-- taken by surprise. • inion; and that Wit= way in possession of A private letter from Warsaw, dated I Sth, insurg"ffis• sues: Since last Thursday the two armies are in full movement. General Diebitsch has made a manoatv re with the principal part of his army, in the direction of the Bug and Narow, with a manifest'intention to get into the wawodie of flock, to gain the Prus sian frontiers. • The motive of this change of position is lot difficult to he understood, as the Russian General finds it difficult to receive his convoys from :Russian. Poland,' and he now wants to gain the .P riissian fron tiers, to be in communication with Thorne, where he lips a considerable magazine of fl.orisions and amunition waiting for his a.p. awing was in type, the Bos- Mlle proaeli. . Gen. Skryznecki has also made a flank movement, on Friday morning his head quar ters were at Milosna, and in the afternoon Jablonna, and- on Saturday at Sierwli, his main army was_ in -the direction of Pultusk; three hundred Polish officers have received orders-to -proceed to Lithuania,- _to organize_ the insurrection there. We have this mo ment .a report, that in the environs of Ostro lenko the Imperial Russian Guards have ex petrienced anew check.- Gen. Uminski com mands in that quarter. The Messager de Pologne, &Warsaw pa per, of the 21st May; announces that Gen. Skryznecki had taken Ostrolenka on the 18th, where he obtained a large sum of mo ney,.the.-haviage_of the enemy and 1700 prisoners. The object of Skryznecki in advancing to Ostrolenka, is auposed to have been to get between the Russians and their supplies. • LoNntifitjunel.—L , The - fiitioets -- Uk - astrof the 23d of March, addressed by --the-Auto crat of Russia to the insurgents in Lithuan ia and Sarnogitia has been carried, wherev er the Russian arms hay been toccesiful, into - barbarous execution.Mi'eadthumbers of prisoners have been shot in cold blood, or I otherwise butchered by the Scythian "he roes,-" who are never at a loss to make up fbr their deficiencies as soldiers by their en-. ergies as executioners. What a contrast to the savage spirit in which the Russian forces carryon hostilities was 'the generous conduct of the Poles, even in the moment of the first fervor and excite,- -mental _th.eir_..revolution. The conflict of Warsaw on the night of the 29th of last No. vember--the consequence of 15 years of in tolerable oppression—ended . in giving a _completeAriumpli of' the Poles; and, with a forbearance and magnanimity to which none l but a barbarian heart could, be insensible; they allowed 7,000 Russians, with the broth er of the Emperor, to return peaceably to their native land. What was the return made for this forbearance? Those very troops came back soon afterwards to spread slaughter and devestatidn through the land w iem ey had - found that mercy-which they did not merit. Great were the cruel ties \vhich they committed in many places —sparing neither age nor- sex, when they --thoutrltt---theirmafe-h-to-Warsa.w.m.as_to have.] been more of a triumphal procession t1:111 any thin° . else, -and their imaginations alrea dy .revelred in spoils and pillage and desola tion of the bnyning city, 4hat .was to have been offered as one vaAlielocaust to appease the indignation of the Calinud J ove, who hrandishesh against freedop from the secure summit of his Northern Olr m pus. But the prisoners whom they.have taken they dared not put, to death as rebels,. be- - cause the - Poles have in their'hands 16,000 prisoners, along with 300 'officers and 16 genoials, whom they have treated with at ' tention and respect .Which brave men pay to 'misfortune. But the question • arises, how long can the Polish soldier restrain his just indignation, when he learns the.savagc cru elty that has been practised on his Lithuan ian brethren! Another question .arises fioni this state of things, and it is, Shall . the Polish Govern . ent retaliate for the executions awl massa cres which the Russians have perpetrated in the Lithuanian and Samogitian territories? `; MADRID, May"?l.—lt turns out that the , negotiations with the South American States , cannot be settled so eaSily as was at first ime- I i gined;. they have, .however, n o j iection to paYashare of the _old debts; but re ' to lay down a sum' of-moneytheir.ToT ;P.,er griition, on the ground that such an act would 'be ii." kind 'of bartering for. theft. emancipation.. - PORTUG*L. 1 No answer had yet been received- at PariS" from London, but. Don" Miguel has taken it into 1 - ki.s head that the English squadron, Which remains at the mouth of the.Tagm, is intefided to protect him against the. Fteti6jr: , The captain of a Portuguese schooner, which arrived in Cork, mentioned havinj , passed ;on the I.6th, two large French frigates, and three-limier ones; clow \ to the ,harborof Lisbon. These; with 'the 09 gun frigate al ready-in the Tague r ferm the expefted squad. , ron seeking reparation, at the h ds -of the pot; fir .the - tr, Hp gm against, SPAIN. From.Consimalinople.—lly the arrival of the brig Ilenry from Coustatitino ple, whence she sailed on the 15th of April, the New York Commercial learns that the. Grand Seiunor was very act iN e in fitting out his fleet. News find just reached Constan tinople that an insurrection had broke out among the Tnrkisli troops, and the Grand Se i ignor had despatelied troops to quell it. Ile has thrown aside the Turkish costume and re-placed his dress with a frotk coat and red cap, and most oldie officers in the Tur kish Navy had done the same. The uews of the ratification of the treaty between the United States and Turkey had-reaehed-Con stantinople, where it had been anxiously ex pocud, and gave great satisfaction to the Turks. ANTI-MASONIC. The following is from a gentleman who was elected, by the recent Clay Convention held tit Albany N. Y. a delegate to the Uni ted States Convention, to be holden at Bal timore next December, for the purpose of nominating Mr. Clay for the Presidency. It will serve to show the state of feeling a mong the high minded men of New York, _who were formerly Clay men, but who have left that partyso, soon as they saw it truck ling with the Regency to save free-masonry- Ogdensburgh, June 18th, 1831. 'o-the-Editor-of the- Albany Evenirig—Jourrial I have seen by perusing the proceedings of the-Convention of National. Republicans, recently held in the city of Albany, that I 'was appointed a -Delegate-froth -this- Con-- gressional District to attend a National Con vention in Baltimore, next December, for thellithipose of - nominating Mr. Clay to the next Presidency. The object of this letter is to comthunicatethrough your Journal, to the gentlerrien cortiposing - the late Conven tion, and all other*interested, that I decline, the appointment, and give this early notice to enable them, at their pleasure, to supply my place. The occasion affords me an opportunity to say that I always have, and do still, en tertain the highest regard for Mr. C. as a patriot and statesman. But a large portion of his professed friends who, like himself, are attached to a secret; dangerous - and highly obnoxious institution, have, by ma king political integrity a matter of seconda ry consideration, suggested to FREE MEN, the necessity and justiceof-edistinot ization, founded upon the basis of pure Re publicanism, and having for its object the sustenance of the vital spirit of civil liberty. -of-t-hie-efgattization,-Mr—Clay__cannot_ in_ any event, become the head, and of course his interests cannot command my, humble. services. • Without reflecting upon the mo - Aims or 'conduct of gentlemen composing the late Converftii - th, I would:Wale that I adher7 ed to the party which is now so urgent in the support of Mr.'Clay, till the last annual election in this - State, when the portion to which I haire reference; shamelessly gave their influence and suffrage to strengthen his enemies, as well as - the principle's which they had previniiilY' ence, in political, as well as moral subjects, is a grave monitor, and its lessons cannot in iis instance, pass unheeded. - Very respectfully, yours, &c. J. C. BA RTER. Democratic Antimasonic Cele bration at Harrisburg. Rkdait. : TOASTS: - (:.gorge Washington.::—The first commander-in chief of an army of American freemen—the first President of 'this free republic. His fame was great—his worth was grouter. , The eatyge of Anti.masonry.—lt is the cause of' the people, it will_ triumph. Crowns have fallen before it—Mitres are at its feet; and at its nod re gal banners, plumee and royal badges tiro inglori ously imprisoned in musty aloscterrimd concealed in unfrequented,garrets. • - . ... The Humbug of Freemasonry.—lt , hus put the State ofTennayh•ania under the direction of an 'oath-bound bend, but she i drily ho‘yed down *to - rise the stiranger,-- . 1 , - • . . The Ham dlichard Ruak r —Hia able and patriotic exposition of the oviLeilee.s and tendency of Free masonry .and its coadjutors, entitles him to the zratitndo and reward i,f the American people, r The Count ry.--The home of Anti m noon ry:—Too many of the inhabitants of our cities and, towns ' are joined to their ickils---letthom alone. Domestic. Manufaqtures and Internal Improve mente.l-,-, T.ho truadolinaation ,ot'lasting Indepen dence. , , , The Pram—A grand source of knowledge.— May it continue. free, but not licentious:-.—not io, eAcret iniuence nor enlisted by execu. 10 4 46 at - e.. *.votust:roß, TOARTS. ~ . . • By Mr. Thontatt - ifider.—"S .ecret Societiett---If not abandoned, ther must be-übolished—ryirtue, •Libeity and Indeptndenoe require IL." ''• ' By-Mr. John S ll.—Pol*al Antimatonry— hi. The, only check th hail ever afrectid the masonic institution. . ', .. . .- By lyo.-J. D. Elder,tho Fkrmers of Penney!. vaniti w ind guhe me o.wouldinicrifice•the proceeds f it of ! ,the r honesty . to line the tigeitetit of 11' train " 10 oifr'sr . nos rerhitps - Ine.it wititho.iir accounts drawn out and balanced ere long in the poll-book. -- By Mr. AnAew Murry,Jn—The liberty or Press—lts value is not known until ks libe7 usurped.' . Ayres.—The Sovereign Pao] The only legitinliStelowor to correct abuse! republican government. By a Gurst.—Gen. Jackson--His selectii. the Wand Ilth Priest of Masonry, the brig/ mason, in the Union, as his cabinet Secretai disrespktful totho sentiments of the Atitima party and evinces an attachment tolM is, which will not be sanctinoed l i v the intlepe, voters of Pennsylvania. By a Guest.--If conduct not half !to heinous a,4 the abduction 'find murder. of William Vlorgan, will expel-a. uterulierfrvin the Arasonic Institution and cause him to he so publislflnl, wny the, do not fret-roosons do so_with these wile were concern 1 ' ; a+ atrocious act, It was inconZstaut_with their masonic obli;ation . ? TOASTS DR AN li AT YORK, PA. By .Dr. William 111' Dwain—Our fellow towng mail, the [lon. Richard Rush-- A firm and incur- ruptible st;ttesmtin, an lioneqt and enlightened poi Mean', a Roman in virtue and integrity; his coon try 'dl not long overlook his merits. By D. .111 Ritner, the next row ernarofPennsylvania, an honest man, and the can dilate of an honest party. 7 RI/ 1.1% Lanitis--The )11)6. Richard Rush, too elevateil in. public ekroto to ti-el the shafts of malice or to 'be soiled by filth ejected front the BEE By .1. Cramer, Rt. .--The next presidential elec. tion : the voice of the people and daylight on one side, combination and midnight on the other. AT WORCESTER., (MASS.) American Independence—While we reit vivo in our Emancipation from the British Throne. may every freeinan_refttse.to tolerate the baser degra. dation of Lodge-room Royalty. The memory of George Washington. • The ()Ricers and Soldiers of the Revolution. Our Curnif y—Porpetuity to the liberal insti:: tutions, Which have made it an asylum for the op. pressed ()fall nations. Public Officcrs—The freemen of the country will not permit them to owe a slavish obedience to Secret Societies. The Press— , Subdued for a season by Masonic Influence to disgraceful silence, may its awaken ed energies destroy the despot that has dared to touch the Palladium of Liberty. _ No closed doors, no secret societies, no kidn.ap. pin g, in this land of equal rights„ • Richard Rush—Eliiquent, fearless, honest--the people will do justice to the man, who has done justice to their cause. The Reverend Clergy—Much esteemed for their work's sake,—may they hereafter remember, that the "square and the trowel" are not weapons of. Christian warfare, nor. "three burning taiiiro, the tight of life." The present age, whose, light has penetiated-all the folds of Freemasonry, andwhose justice has doomed the total extinction of the Institution. 4 • , The Masonialnetitution*—The mystic Dagon 'the age—may' it fall, never to rise again. Antimasenry , —The cause of the whole people ' against the stratagems ofSecret Combinations.— The voice of our fathers cries to us from the ground - "my sons scorn to - be , By P. Merrick, Esq.—The Institution of Freetna sonry—May its abolition by the povier ofthe people be speedily anticipated by its extinction through the good sense and magnanimity of its members.- By Daniel Henshaw.—Richard Rush and the kasonic Presses—Though there be "more than forty lying in wait, who have bo9nd themselves w i th an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have slain Paul"—Paul may have a g reat er force to defend him. ,Antimasonry—May it spread like the Camo mile and flourish like the Bay-tree, t ill it shall scut down all Grand King% Most Worshipfhl High Priests, and all Secret Societies, and give equal rights to the whole world. #, The American Fair—We recommends:l'llot Mr their own safety)• they petition the Grand Lodge for an' alteration in the Master Mason's _ obligation, so far as to extend protection to the wives and, daughters of anti masons. fet:CzA, : HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—The Dan ville Intelligencer, received yesterday, states that on Tuesday the sth instant, Mi.. John C. Thiel of that place, was robbed on his way from Pottsville, by itakighwayman, who was armed with a pistol. Tile robber is des c-i'id-tis-wribout 5 feet - 8 or 10 ihk,l les high, of mther a sandy complexion, with long cur ly Lair, and gives the New England accent to his conversationhe is about 30 or 35 Mr. Thiel will give $25 for liii - appi.elVetiSion.': When Mr. T. was leaving Pottsville, he met a rdlar, who inquired if lie was going to travel 'overthe mouataiiii, and tinswerifg in the affirmative, he was informed that the pedlar had been robbed the day previous, ..ivtiletossingLocust Mountilin, and adijSo to prepare hi inself for defence; bat the adiiiii nition was not . heeded, as the road has not been considered dangerous• for some years pest. , Mr. 'P. was the first man who tniv cited the road alon&ofter the pedlar had been robbed; others crossed the mountains, ip ad-. vance of him, guarded by men hired for that purpose." . .. • From the Albany. Freeman's Advocate. STEALING .NE WSP APE ltS.—A boy., , belonging to the office of the Argos saw .ft person steal a copy of the Freentaa'sAdvo cate from the steps-of a-house, at an early hour on Saturday morain4. lie caused the thief to be apprehended and Inought:betbre Mr: Police JustictCole,, whomentenced him to ten days trnprisotiment. This may serve as a warning to others. The lad of the Ar gus had, , we presume, been found fault with .by subscribers who•flid-net-receive their pa pers. .He therefore did but justice to titin self and his- employer while he caused ius,, tice to be.done to the. deliwitiont. itrThose persona who are in the habit 8£ napping" and "abductine the.STAR, are respect -fully invited to notice the above.) • , More of the Owllioul4r Plot.—Tho Al bany papers mention thatn weight which had been used as a 561 b: So nollowda out as to con tain half a pound of gunpowder, was found buried in the stable in the rear of the Mayor's . residence. A hollow'. straw . comthunicated with the powder and thersurface of the &Kik It is supposed that the explosion in front of the houSe alarmed the incendiary i btfore,he could. apply a match to. the 'combustibles in they stable: The *so., and' its young ones, have, returned, oath 'And 2 . nunil, wai4)elieva. ' Mil a • • I. Here shall the PRESS the People's RIGHTS proclaim Uncut:V.lly. ilytu.ence, und _Antaiif d 711_o_oki ligg Jul Oeittocratile Ant I•Mamonie IVoniUii►ntlun FUR PRES! DENT, John McLean, of Ohio. f'foß VIC PH icsi DEN•r, Richard Rush; of Penn. BALTIMORE From the Patriot or Saturday FLOUR, Iluward-st.--The receipts continuo liuuted and•as the demand for fresh ground flour lias'exceeded the supply, a little improvement in prices has been realized. Sales of fresh ground in small parcels have been-made at J to 5 1.2 i per MI. In prosecntingour inquiries torntlay, wo find that some of the deiders name 5.25 as the store price of fresh ground, and others 5 121. In the early part of tho week a parcel of old Ihtur was sold at 4,15, and a lot, subject to ro-inspection, at 4 87i1. To-day a lot was sold at $5, subject. to re inspection. The wagon price of fresh ground flour te.day t ranges from 4 871 to $5 per brl. WIIEAT.—TIic new crop has begun to arrive at market. Sales of various - parcels of very good red, weighing from 58 to 59 lbs. have boon sold within the last two days at $1 00 per bush. and or. dinary parcels lower as in quality. Several par cels of very prime' new red have also been sold at 1 02, and oneparcel at 1 03. Tho sales just re ported Will show the state of the wheat market to-day, and we accordingly quote good to very prime red at 1 . 00 to 103 per hush. A parcel of prime new white wheat was sold to-day at 1 05. A parcel of old Maryland wheat of prime quality Was sold on Thursday at 1 09. A cargo of 1800 -bushels- prime Westßranch stored red wheat wa• sold early In the week at 1 08 per bushel. THE LADY'S BOOK.—THE JULY No. of this work has been received. It is nauchimpssmd,"and_ contains a large variety of interesting matter.— The contents are crowded out this-wee.— , It is rumoured that 'linos ICendall, W. G. Lette. is, and W. 7'. Barry, are about to be dismissed. Mr. Clay and Masonry. The differentcontending parties relative to the . Presidency of the United States, (says the Harris burg Statesman,) oath in their turn . affect to die piss the strength of tlicr -- Ahti•masonic party; but they often give strong signs of fear, from the con- sequences of the Anti.masonie party uniting with their opponents, and they frequently court the aid of the party they pretend to disregard. Their _fears are,graundleas,& _their nuations-useleits.- The Anti•masons have formed a party from prin- ciple, and they will support their- own neon and measures with firmness We have been led to those remarks by the fol lowing charge made against Mr. Clay, in the Washington Globe, a,papor.much opposed to the Anti-masonic party. < ln 1822, a masonic-notice wiis' published in the Intelligencer in Washington City culling a meeting of the , members of Con gress, and other citizens attached to the fraternit-to-tako-into-constdc.mti 'on " tern of general interest to the Masonic Insti- Xntion.n_;.the first resolution uttered tb the ineetii* was by Mr. Clay, and is in these wi rd,l: "Resolved, That in the, opinion of this meeting it is expedient for the general in-. teregts ty . Freemasonry- to constitute a GEN. -ER AI/ GRAND Loud: of the United States.'" . • Mr. Clay, as chairmiui of a,oommittec appointed . for that purpose; Inadell report in with the_.above :cinotohlrom. which we extract the ibllowing passages:—, "'llic United states are supposed to. con tain near eighty thousand 'Freemasons.— They are generally in the vigor ofmanhood, and capablelor inuch active usefulness. Not withstandin pp the abuse in some plates" by the itchnissii !v elr',uni .. rrthy.:masons, :tit% are, as a body aikoVe in6diociity in character and talent. It becomes an interesting . question how the 'energies of this body can be best COMBINED TO Give effect to the beneoo. lent designk.y . (heir association! "From causes which need no._explatait ion, the masonic jurisdiction in this ciiiintry, has taken its fbrin froni its pol4icul.divisions,— The modification.which it undergone, front the spirit of our civil institutions, 4as -- its benefits and defbcts. "It is requested. that this letter may not ,be published in the newspapers; but submit ted to the several Grand LodgeS,itriddistri hilted allying Masons as a subject concerning the itiiitioftheir own body." • - , In order to show how far Mr. Clay's ma sonic ardour, hurried him beyond the bounds of discretion in getting up this project, it is oply necessary to state that-every lodge in the Union instantly discountenanced it as wild, visionary and impracticable; and,..even denounced - it as calculated to. become a po litical engine. in the hands of a centhil juntia at Washingten,which might one day destroy' the liberties of the nation. . It has beenrepeatedly charged ag#eat. Mr. Clay; that his political pirincifilia, WA% ro ried .out in their consequences, would end in the establislinient of a p rand . Conitifticlitted S paten r :divt * Oberntnent. , - .`lt - appetto leapt by the. resolutio n . and moil to !which we . allude, that .as late ai 1822 heattempted to erect tr - Or:onif. cirniitifitpTteri N'errif hisritik 6 1831 MEE
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