Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 148, Richmond, Wayne County, 31 March 1827 — Page 2

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FOREIGN AFFAIHS. Selected from Knettrri Taper.

France. The liberty of the press is still the -u'iv t of discussion in the French papers, and i umerous petitions have been pr 'erred against ihe proposed restriction. The French ladies engaged in the book selling business, have sent in a petition concluding with the following words 'The ntfu ial journal informs us that the prop ed law is a law of love and justice. S ive us gentlemen! preserve us from the junior and love of the count de Pey rennet." The editor of the Gmricr Francois has been fined 300 francs and sentei ced to 15 days imprisonment, for expressing himself latiier too freely upon the tuhject of the proposed law.

Spiin. A manifesto nas been issued

and laid down in England peroral years ngo, as the policy to he observed vrith les poet to us, whenever any new war should occur. There was a policy adopted then, and it will be followed, not to allow us to enjoy a profitable ' eutrality. and to re-become the factors of the woild. They will move every spring to deprive us of another term of progressive, unexampled pros perity. They will not allow a renewal of Jonathan's thrift, nourishing system of paddliig his own canoe, and picking up grists all over the mill ponds of the world, and of effecting in some twenty years, what other nations have required centuries to accomplish. I tell you. my good friend, faunc this. England will have enough on her hands in Europe, and I shall not be sui priced, if, under her present pressure, she mav be. m earnest in accommodating

(every cause of difference with the United ! States: iridee !, I have some reason to be-

ji true, that whole families of eight and fen jj when the whole U paid, the R

from the war department to the common- jjCVp that she will, dets of the provinces respecting the affairs There must be war all Europe is aof Portugal, it is entirely of a pacific na -j jjV(. for it especially the French: they ture, arid speaks of the ''magi animous j ar indignant at Mi . Canning's audacious kingcf England.' It is stated that the jj iirstr.isj. jn his afterward subdued and Ftench government had withdrawn the jj n,itjg.,ted speec h. The English are deSwiss regiments from Madrid. jj tested every where on the Continent, and Portu'il. Some difficulties exist be-jlm where more than in Portugal. The tweeuthe Portuguese government & lord i jrtuguee u?k the BritiIi olTuers, what Ber .-'st" d, and it i- said that he is about , tn,; j ji brought you here? Who wants red. qaishing the idea of taking the c n- jtjie to be med dhng in ou affairs? m- I of the Portuguese army, previous to !. You mav be assured that the PortutMies' his departure on his return to England. h neither understand nor want Dmi Pedro's

'i r a ' ii o i iiic mo in, umw is t:i;onttitu ion. lie Kn is i are as we II a

ware of that as are the French or Span iardg. Again, I say, there will be war."

i n nnnn h unrndoe

SolJIS are now taism'j; mj.v.i ... r---t. ' of meal or flour, generally eaten twice a day; and even with this they dare not satisfy the cravings of hunger. Formerly, no cottage was without a bread flake, or a place to hang their oaten cakes upon, which any member might go to as he had occasion. Now, it is a luxury to have a baking of oaten bread; a luxuiy wh;ch very few families can indulge in! It is almost superfluous to add, that butcher's meat is not to be thought of except it has b en overkept, and is sold at a low

rr,ce . .. . . . 4l , , I.se-'ions contiguous to the Senin-

"but to describe tnc stats oi ineir cio-jM , 'a,,are thing ,s simplv impossible. When 1 speak i '-served from sale Those tracts which of rags and shreds of garments. I cannot j may remain unsold are to be let on yearly convey an idea of the truth. No one who leases. The Commissioners are seven! dm iint v it ikfkCfr an nespmhlafe of four -tn r

or five hundred emaciated, squalled ob-

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give a linnl certificate, k ... 15 lo

j the purchaser, his heirs or asgn, jeeivoa patent from the State. ' rfc' I The Commissioners are to rnhkr iterly reports of their accounts,;, iover money to the State Treanun- i directed by the I reasurer.

! All lands which shall not be sold at !6rst sales shall he publicly sold, by ft jtion of the Tre..rer,in hke mntl upon tlie same terms as abo?e.

; iects. begging praying, in the most moving

, I anguag', for a few articles of apparel,

j car. form a notion of it. I an sure no man i of common humanity can witness it with- ! out feeling his heart moved with compas

sion

"But this is not all. It eannot be er

turn upon ail money they pay over to ih ...treasury. f Such are the features of the act anj 1 among the most important is th.it wLirK

gives a credit to the purchaser. The V

States has had a very sufficient experience

ipected that a body ofpeople, thus fed and jj of lhe r,atap rnor,ts ! i.-.i i i n i :.. u..iKr nt-il which have heen surressivelv a.4r.,.f..j

IIIIJ ItllllCU, IM- III iicniiuj v-i ' . jqj

dition. Disease has already commenced

! its work in man? parts. Toere s no ex iggeration in this statement. I declare what I have seen;

j and I censidr with anguish. lh;it the same';

to sit nightly in Lisbon, and to contribute Its ubM ripti n to the grand collection miJ-on the p irt of the church in Spain a:.J the rest of the kingdom, to resist the constitution. Many broil have occurred between the Briti-h soldiers and ti e Portuguese, and ten f the former had been assassinated. The belter opinio- is that the cause of the P -rt'igue-e rebel" i desperate. The mir j!i: of Chaves, defeated, has Len c"n; lie ! to withdraw to tlie frontiers, and muf retreat into Spain. The Spanish airm was moving upon tie- Portuguese fro: tier, and the eion and mnles &e. on the Portuguese side of the li- e. has peen purchased up and driven into Sptin. The details of the surrr aider of the fort of Almeida have been received at Madrid. It vvas effected without bloodshed, the t-in-le of the gairson have der hired for the king .Miguel, to whom the took the oatn. oil the 20:h of l)eeemher. The garrison form t tiiis ne.ruent a part of the division commanded by brigadier Magcsei. Jihcrlcx'!s. A dreadful mortality is raging at Grnningen. Greece. As usual, our accounts from Greece are vague and contradictory, hul from what we see in the foreign extr.-ets. we incline 'o the belief that their pro peeta are brightening; tin are stated ti

be"jovful and tilled with hope. '

Is e Greek Irigate the k-D' ( atur Millh oi

OT trie bin U.c. ot;e was receive!, with 'j

trreat etithusi i;;n. Miaidis took command

oi ;.er. ana me limm'-u yi z tie says,; that gallant admiral had alread), accrn- i pa - l h the rest of the flotilla, uttut ked j tht itian fleet, i d c aptured several ; Ve ' U lidenwith arnunition. i Tne ;,nae paper states that M. Evrnd !

Las received bv wa of Anen, ;t lrt' ? from !

From Xilcs Weekly Register. It is impossible that Great BriUlin can support her preseut systems of taxation.

j except at the cost of the people of other

nations, with whom she shall exchange article produced by scientific power for others produced by manual 6or, which will average as fifty to an hundred against one in herfvor nay, that she cannot freelv receive grain, butter, cheese and other articles of food, without hazarding the de-

I -miction of her systems; and her artifi

i rial means are so far extended, that at

tempts lo equalize the burthens on her people to the reasonable ahillity possessed to htar them, would be not les- dangen us than a perseverance in exacting from the mouth of labor' the last crumb that it can possibly spare, without a tual stavation. And this mut needs be the cot dition of the laboring class, when the well know? fart is, that tuxes equal to one hundr d del larsa)earaie demanded and collected for every adult m e in the kingdom, princes and nobles, and priests and paupers. nensioM'rs. soldiers, and other mu.-Mcdti-

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I (Ku ft t e rA- -i 1 ef flo rMit.li-. Iit.n. Ti .

. allowed a credit, and has been productive j of much disappointment, both to the

tion and to indrviacals: a variety of itTi

tatemee.t might be given, from many oth-j; have ben passed to relieve the purch?..

i i5 wiitric tuc uisursa is ; scic, auu in?i uia inv iici ueDIS Gut (i

the United States. The cn$h system has been found much superior to tlie other- ' more productive to the nation, ai d more j benelicial to purchasers. 'We ftar that, I since we have adopted the fhrrner s-sjera we shall reap some of its pernicious const jquencea; anddh.it our statute bonk:

j display frequent and neeessan att

preat. There are case.- of person and families such as are described in the preceding letter, every where but in most countries they are of such as will not labor or cannot obtain employment; and some are so debased as seemingly to prefer want of food and abundance of tilth, with laziiie -s, to plenty and comfort, with industry.

These exceptions, however have no rela

tion to the case of the British laboring poor jj relief of purchasers. Wc wi!, bonem,

s fr the

they do work 1C hours a day, and et canni earn enough to supply themselves with food1. There must ce an end op HESE THINGS.

that our anticipations may not be realized;

for the ii.-orest of education and the hor-or of human nature alike demand a s.-de of the townships.

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nope, now cam o

arrived at N p- !i (j f- (

em

ceott d. Arid as other rations ir.trndim

and make ue c.f scientific power, the "opot:iiivesM in Gre.it Britain wi'l be nti-it and more pinched for funl. until there shall !e a gi eiel ttntijg! f r tjeittnue

' it until it shall he gem r a!, rn ha t ei-

j The Hail Road. The Legislature cf Maryland have incorporated a Conpuy to make a Kail Road from Baltimoit to the Ohio river. A law confirming the i.rr-j poration has pased loth Houses of !!. V;rrf ginia Legislature, almost unaniir.cuslv. It vas expected that a similar act wcuid Is ! obtained of Pennsylvania. The liwir. fi were to be opened at Baltimore on tie The Secretary of War hs ,J 2Qth injt. and it was anticipated that d

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g or inseleslv employed pei.on, Vj din-c .e, the Indian Agent to procure of jj the shares would be taken on

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will

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the stnrx it

titeC'k- tiie strip of pine barrens,1 anotit won h Gov. Tr..up has wrought himp'lfintosu i a rage and there is hope

tiiat this 'n pleasant affair will soon be fi

lly ettled.

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coir.- h ie deft at o! R-dh it Iht ha, and t ho deliverance of all Upper Greece, fr m At tiea to Tiiess;d, Karaiskaki. and the otlier Gr k commanders at the head of a nuueious army, are in pursuit of the bar baiians. Another column of Rumeliots had entered 'he Mori a, marching ngainst Ibrahi n Pact a, who being beaten at every p a t, bad been obliged to quit the plateau of Tripolizz t, and to retreat of Modo;.. Letters from Mar?epes gays that lord C r i e is ai St Tropez, arming a brig ot 100 tons a;ei making active preparatto s to j in the Greeks, with a considerable amount of finds. A letter is Tnentio. ed from lord Chchratie to the Greek government, in which he vivs that the time is approaching when he will come to their relief, and that he may be expected in the Morca in the month of March.

u retchci. of the i ieht lul; a s ot mi.l hel

i he? and a want of food for waiii g- ! ii

dreii! However, Ut les there should he some f tett xt i.siv wars, to c at n -n) tens of thousands of persotts, (n the ot tinent of Europe, from the prodm it g irtfo the consuming elass.it is prha.' -t that the foreign consumption of Bt'iigolds' must dther be more aid more reou ced or the price of them exceedingly h s 'on '!, an 1 either will 'end t ih sai. C consequence which is, that th e Bntisl: .a borers must work more and live upon less than heretofore; but to us either ot these seems almost impossible. Take the

following, Irom a late number of the Lon their duties, and severally to give bond.

The editor of the Baltimore Patriot has; been favored with the following interest j ing exirat t of a letter frr m a gentleman in ; Europe, (who has the best means ofacqui-j ring the most correct information,) to his!

Inend in Baltimore, dated 2Cth January. Whether lus predictions are well founded or r.ot must soon he realized: "My unconquerable persuasion is, that var must break out ere long, and thai I Vance and England must be parties. E erv effort will bem tde by England to in volve us some way or other. Am;r, that

3 policy to thid effect hag been agreed oni

6ne Seminary Ijnd$. It will be recol-

j lee U d that mi ac t was passed at the late session of the General Assembly of this Stale, for selling tlie two townships of land m G.bson and Monroe counties, r ct rved lor t, e support of a State Seminary. As

tins is a measure of some moment to our State, we will give an abstract of tho act:

J.une Smith is appointed Commissioner j for the township in Gibson county, and j James Borland for that in Monroe county.

j 1 hey are to be sworn faithfully to perform

don Courier, as a sample of the state of

those unfortunate people. It is a letter from a "respectable clergyman" at Black burn, written on the 1st Januar last, and is a fair representation of the misery of the laboring classes toiling 16 hours in a day lo make articles for the clothing of others and yet possessed of nothing but rags to cover their own nakedness! "H aving been appointed one of the committee for the distribution of relief in this district, I have thought it right personally to visit every house, and sec the situation of oery family an aMIicting duty, it ts true but one which, as the curate of the parish, had I not been thus officially called upon I rousd feel I was bound to perform. And this is the real state of those bt whom I am surrounded. 'Here are numbers of our fellow creatures, reduced, by circumstances over which they had no controul, to the " verylowest condition in which it is possible for human nature to exit. Englishmen and women toiling f,om day break till midnight 7vithMt intermission, except on the Sabbath; andvith all their labor unable to obtain sufficient f,r their fimiliei to lite upon. And what is food which all their labour cannot procure? A little meal, a little ilour, a few .potatoes, and little milk as a hiT.in.

il Incredible tho it appear, I know it to be

with approved sureties, in the penalty of

fifty thousand dollars. They are to divide the lands, by half quarter sections, into first, second, and third rate, and to depesite a plat thereof with the Recorders ol the respective counties. None of these lands are lo be sold for less than $3 50 per acre for first rate,g2 25 for cecond rate, and 1 25 for third rate. The lands are to be sold at public auction: the eales to commence, in Gibson county, on the first Monday in September nest, and in Monroe county, on the first Monday in October next, and to continue not more than two weeks.

The land will be sold in tracts of half

quarter sections; one-fourth of the purchase money to be paid at the time of sale, and the balance to remain on interest for ten years, at the option of the purchaser;

j the interest to be punctually paid in ad jvance for each year, or, if neglected for ;t wo successive years, Ihc land will he for jfeitedtothe State. The Commissioners ;are to receive the money, and to give certificates, which are to be recorded; and

the

idiv. The slock is divided into thirir j thousand shares of 100 each, tert the sand of which are reset vt d for sul-srnp jtion by the state, five thousand by thrcitt of B iltimore,and fifteen thousand nrc tc j be taken by individuals. A resolution 'a, ; already parsed one branch of tlie City J Council, directing a subscription frfM

five thousand shares. This prrji'ft U heen adopted in great haste, but wckp its novelty constitutes the least of its rcJf

its. WetayKSod speed" to the enter prize.

The navigation of Lake Erie conirr.fc PAi lift ihn a n el it C il i j rnP

tween Sandusky and Detroit. Edzcard Tifin has been appointed President of the United States, Surveys

General of Public Lands in Ohio, Iniac-

and Michigan territory. Dzrlhng! Gen. Saunders, cf Carolina, on the 27th ult. requested J' Wright, of Ohio, an able and zealous fender of the administration, to favor with an interview for the settlemert their differences, "in the mode uaM, mong gentlemen!" Mr. Wright very Pr perly declined the disgraceful and bar s, ous method of settling disputesnJ apprehend he will stand as high in , timation of men of sense, r.s if he . . 1 the gallant Gcr.sral on the field cf It was but a short time before, thai M'Dufiie challen-ed Mr. MetcaM J tuckv, who accepted the chaln?e, ; chose to fight with rifles. The mi antagonist of Curaming quailed before, backwoodsman, and "backed out. scenes cannot be spoken of in tsrort severe reprehcr.xion. They ore of gentlemen r.r.d legislators; D jb, dis-raceful to t'-.e character ol o r fj

councils. The Her York AC51,

i the following: