3estroed as not to possess any property capible of being excited into action even by variola itelf which amounts to a con clusion of its entire destruction forif the variolous matter cannot lind s pre disposition in the system capable of be- ins excited info action by its virus then there is consequently no disposition by which the disease can be produced this brings us to consider the subject as it respects its total extinction of tem porary liability by vaccination fn or der to afford a fair ground for argument on this subject the opposers of vaccina tion ought to have shown hie effects of vaccine virus on the system and how it destroyed the predisposition of which they have spoken and nlsn by what law of organic action or physiological prin ciple this liability was regenerated after its extinction this however it is pre sumed no medical gentleman lias yet done from an investigation of the laws of animal or organic action i am totally unable to comprehend any general prin ciple by which the system can possess the power of regenerating a liability to any specific disease after ithasoncc been extinguished the absorbents are pro bably the principal if not the entire class of vessels concerned in transmitting the virus of any contagion through the system and this power in those vessels becomes destroyed by the effect of vac cine matter then if those vessels are totally deprived of any ability to bring the system into any general concert of action by the application of variolous matter it would amount to a conclusion that they were able to change or create anew any predisposition independent of exciting causes or this liability couid never be regenerated but if is proba bly the fact that no change of action can take place in the system independent of exalting caues therefore it is believed that if vaccination destroys the liability to the small pox one month oryear that it aio destroys it for life phild- vaccinatum sin fbh the kixgstox chhosicie letter 10 to robert walsh esq a good account of the american war is yet wanting and can hardly be written in the true spirit of history for some time to come its origin may be found in the peace of 176s had great britain consented to restore ca nada to france the states of america had been still colonies possessed of the navi gation of the lakes and claiming a passage to louisiana with a complete command of the st lawrence on the one side and the mississippi on the other the french would have kept the colonists in continual alarm they would have harrassed their frontiers made encroachments upon their territo ries and rendered it necessary for them to have been continually on their guard but a state of permanent hostility would have been attended with an cxpence which the colonists had not the means of defraying and as they were incapable of defending themselves effectually against a nation so powerful they would have anxiously main tained their connection with their mother country and willingly contributed their share of the sums necessary to pay for their pro tection but no sooner were they relieved from impending danger than they turned up on their protpctor and stung the hand that saved them from destruction you endeavour in this section to prove that on the peace of i76s the colonies mani fested the most affectionate lovaltv and hence you infer the injustice of adopting any measures displeasing to children so kind and dutiful and take occasion afferthese preii- hvnarywwrks to hold up thepnlfcy adopt ed in england to general execration von even hazard lie assertion thai the colonies at this period entertained no designs ofinde- pendence and are extremely angry with chalmers and robertson who take the li berty of asserting the contrary as tin truth of the whole of your sixth section depends ipon the correctness or incorrectness nf dr robertsons assertion i will state what he says and give a summary of what you tri umphantly call his refutation dr robert son remarks that the league among the new england colonies in i0w was a transac tion in which they seem to have considered themselves aa independent societies posses sing all the rvits ef sovereignly and free frua the control of any superior power what is your refutation of this opinion of the historian merely the necessity of the mea sure you cannot deny that it was a step to wards independence and your pled is that the situation of the colonies surrounded by enemies required a measure of this kino now the celebrated author whom in an evil hour you talk of refuting contents himself with stating the fact its origin and natural consequence if it was necessary which may have been the case the sanction of the parent state ought to have been obtained if not to its commencement yet to its continu ance but the candid writer of the life of washington goes much farther than dr ro bertson and ought therefore to have experi enced from you a double share of animad version the colony of massachusetts having been settled by men whose political as well as religious opinions were strongly tinctured with the spirit of republicanism had been conducted from its commencement ve- rvmuch upon the plan wf an independent so ciety vol 1 p 101 the whole history of the new england colonies justifies this lan guage and fully shows that independence was never lost sijrht of although it was ne cessary to cover it at times and to wait for opportunities for its actual enjoyment the governments of new england leftvery much to themselves had been in the habits of di recting their own affairs as ah independent nation thev had carried on a free trade with the world the commissioners of the united colonies viz those joined by the league of 1c43 had held nesociations with the french colony in canada on the subjects of peace war and commerce and in lfi50 they had settled their differences and adjust ed their boundaries with the dutch life of wash vol 1 p 1 k again p 141 in thisyear ib51 war tvas declared against holland accustomed for some time to conduct their affairs in their own way the united colonies did not tiiinc themaclvss in volved in this contest unless engaged in it by me iet of their own if tnene are not sncantros which indicitc not men ly a wish bt een thepo9bhion df independence no traesacfions of governments can the his tory ofthi colonies proves beyond dispute hat th y never were attarntd to m parent tat nc d o d to ywa any obedience winch they could ovoid cud were only held in some sort of subjection by thcirown weak ness and fear of the french it is true that in words they were often under the necessity of making submissions but even in doing this they were slow and reluctant mas sachusetts saysjudgemarshaiipl60sccms during the frequent changes which took place in england after the death of cromwell to have preserved a cautious neutrality and to have been disposed to avail herself of such fa vourable circumstances asmight occur with out exposing herself to the resentments of a- ny party which might ultimately obtain the ascendancy although expressly ordered she did not proclaim richard as lord pro tector nor did she take any step to recog nize the authority of parliament the first intelligence of the restoration of charles was received with incredulity and when informed in away not to be questioned they neither proclaimed the king nor by any public act evidenced their admiss on of his authority this was not the only testimony of their jre- neral disposition in the vessel bringing this intelligence wfaaley and goff two of the judges of king cliarles 1st came passengers and were received with distinction by the governmentand affection by the people is it to be supposed that these colonies would have hesitated to throw off their dependence upon the british crown af this period had they been able it was not till 1g01 a year after the restoration that charles 2d was pro claimed king but as if unable says judge marshall pl64 toconcrj the coldnesss and reluctance with which this step was taken an order was made on the same day prohib iting all disorderly behaviour on the occasion and in particular directing that no man should presume to drink his majestys health which adds the order he hath in a special manner forbid in i7j0 the conduct of the legislature of massachusetts forced the king to declare thai he should find himself under the necessity of laying the undntiful beha viour of the province before the legislature of great britain not only in the single in stance of not conferring a permanent salary en the governor but in many others of the same nature and tendency whereby it mani festly appears that this assembly for some years past have attempted by unwarrantable practices to weaken if not cast off the obe dience which all colonies ottgfet to have n their mother country it would take up more space than is intend ed for this letter to mention hajf of the proofs that independence when strength and safety concurred was never forgotten and there fore dr robertson might with perfect jus tice have made use of stronger language as tojhe enthusiastic joy manifested by the colonics on the peace of 1703 it may be accounted for on other grounds than affec tion for the mother country it removed from their frontier an inveterate enemy who had long harrassed and alarmed them it o- ncned for them new sources of trade and lessened their dependence upon the parent state as usual all your authorities are par liamentary speeches their colouring and ex aggeration best suit your purposes they exhibit a strange phenomenon men defend ing the enemies of their country and strength ening their hands till they become victorious i am aware of taking unpopular ground ed saying any thins against the american revo lution but truth is not always agreeable and after premising that i think thepolicy adopt ed by the british ministry after the peace of 1703 was unwise i take the liberty of re marking that the error they committed was very natural the supremacy of the parlia ment had never been called in question and was not doubted even by the chief promoter of the american revolution mr otis this principle was assumed by lord chat ham in his famous proposal for reconcilia tion in 1775 and after the dispute commen ced it was never in the power of the ministry to heal the breach tnat they were endea vouring to lay a foundation lor arbitrary pow er will hot be easily credited by any impartial person during the war of t75fl more than a million of money had been voted to the co lonics to defray their extraordinary cxpen- ces and three hundred thousand after the peace this liberality does not appear very consistent with plans of immediate oppres sion it is worthy of remark that wfctfn the first bill for taxing america was brought into porilament i me with pn orfmnr lb political enemies oi the ftttnim who de claimed afterwards so bitterly against it were at that time silent inde d nothing could ap- i there caibe any fe that greatbri- tain shewed tins 5 ccvuiuu which u the colonics followt j 0x had re presentation in p heen given before the deputes beg presence of all the members yon cou avouid nol j prevented the pa w 0 act i was already rrmarked there was no disposi tion on the side or the colonies to reconcile matters for white thev were presenting pe titions to the king am parliament thev were not only engaged in defensive h even offen sive war i he u p w have been that of dean tuc to left you to your selves but this corild not be expected for no british ministry durst have proposed if to parliament in r c historians in re lating this contest u do justice to great britain when the mh for undefined liberty and liccntiousnes shall ha e passwi away no longer biassed by prejudice the facts will not then bear t u previous bentiments of fiiose who relate vn and who will trace with coolness oadprecision the long train of miseries which ln sprung from a rebellion nourished by faclon and rendered successful through treachc- yours kc folleiun news m iear more reasonable than that those parts of the empire which had benefited most by the war should contribute something towards lessening the heavy debt which it bad occa sioned and not a member at that time in the house of commons had the smallest doubt of the constitutional right vested in the par liament to raise the contribution after wards when the colonies resisted the par liamentary opposition began to discover ar guments in their favour though they still ad mitted that great britain possessed the su preme governing and legi slative power and bad always bound the colonies by her laws and by her navigation and commerce but a distinction was attempted to be made between this power and that of taxing then not very evident all parties allowed that external taxes might he levied by parliament but not internal the parliament therefore conce ded this point and after repealing the stamp act they imposed a trifling tax on tea but the colonies as had been foretold began to exclaim if the parliament of great britain has no rjght to tax 03 internally it can have none to tax us externally and if it has no power to tax us without our own consent it n5 none to govern or legislate for us it has been said that the colonies would have been content with a limited representation in par liament but this fe extremely doubtful for we have seen that they aimed at independ ence from the beginning and it is more pro bable that no concessions no advantages of fered them by great britain could have long availed new differences would have arisen and a separation have taken place moreo ver supposing concessions to have been ef fectual yet they could hardly he looked for after the violent measures adopted by the colonic even granting that the acts of parliament were unjust as well as inexpedi ent it was difficult to repeal them in the face of insurrection and defiance as the contest has long ceased it might have been far better not to have entered upon the subject but you bring it forward with so many flourishes of exultation that they must be checked let it then be remembered that great britain in imposing certain duties was not actuated by a spirit of oppression but a desire of ren dering her protection more effectual that the states had determined to be satisfied with no concessions and that they had thanked pro vidence that they had arrived at growth and strength sufficient to resist the parent state these truths sufficiently repel the insidious attacks which you have made on great bri tain in this section it is indeed true thai there is a timo when colonics may be allow ed jo lay aside their leading strings and rise up in their place among the nations of the knrth bat you were not aumalc till rue jrench nvre dnvii out of canada and fter the contention commenced reason could not be heard when two parties wi- njrree niu- lual forbearance bt tomes dccciaiy before from the st e post april 5 foreign naps by the arrival last evening of the pi kef ship james mon roe in 30 days iorn liverpool we have received from ovr correspondent a reg ular tile of lie l courier to the 2d of march parliament was prorogued on he8th of february to the 13lh of marcli the princess of wales arrived at leg horn on the lothof february from mar seilles with a liaited suite a few hours afterwards a courier from london brot her the intelligence of the death of king george the third she was to have set out in a few days for lond n the duchess d- berri has presented to the person who frst spized assassin of br hwhnnc i rbusitrj gpftne to the soldier of tin- royal guard who secured him a gow watch of considera ble value asuhscriptkon his been opened in lon don for the benefit of the widow ol smi- thers who was killed in arresting the conspirators that ad assembled o as- ssassinate the kinos ministers and large sums received ftr elliston manager of drury lane theatre has offered to give a benefit to tfcfi widow and officers any night they mi- chcose to select for the purpose ad vices from cc infant inople announce that on the 5th of january last dervis- pacha grand visicr of the ottoman em pire was deposed he is allowed to re tire to gallipoli rtnd to enjoy all his wealth some of the western districts in ire land appear to be agitated by the ma chinations and actual excesses of the rib- bonmen throughout tin county of gal- way the banditti continued their depre dations upon private property and daily acquired new strength they spared neither friend nor foe liverpool market march 4 the import of cotton last month was 43232 bags of which 22442 were from the united states sales 29770 bags n which 1r 120 bag american present prices upland 11 d l l4d new or leans ii i 2 a ud sea island is 7 to 2s 2 new york ashes 39 a 40s bark to 20s tobacco kentucky 3 11 to 5d stemmed 5 a 7 l4d rice am in bond 16 a 21s flour 32s a sss the nvernpe rri e of wheat received to day is 05 p r quartrr the sales okotton this week have been limited amounting to only 4000 bags house of commons feb 21 the queen the chanceiler of the exchequer mo veil that the house should resolve itself into a committee of supply and auo that the gracious message of his majesty to that house together with the army estimates and civil contingencies should be referred to the said committee which motions were severally agreed to upon the motion for thespcaker leav ing the chair being p mr h ime confessed after what had been said by theimblc lord castlereagh of the blessings hhich this country had derived from tb auspicious rule of the house of brunswick he was anxious to learn the reason why so illustrious a branch of it as the queen ol these realms was suffered to remain unacknowledged and from what be could collect abroad he was afraid it was determined she should remain unacknowledged a cry of order he by no means intend ed to allude to or circumscribe any re medy that might be taken according to the rites of the church lord castleragh thought the hon member would have acted more advised ly had he followed the opinion of the greater part of the nation who with be coming delicacy declined as much as possible entering upon this very interest ing subject the less it was agitated he thought the better at the same time he assured the house that the high per- looage alluded fo should experience no want of attention to her rank orcomforts at the hands of his majestys government mr hume still persisted in having an explicit answer how ministers could out of the 50000 intended to be mo ved for in the committee grant a suita ble allowance to the queen lord castlereagh replied that had the hon member waited o hear the propo sition of the right hon the chancellor of the exchequer he would be satisfied the subject bad sufficiently occupied the at tention of his majestys government tuesday february 22 the queen on the resolution for granting 200060 for enabling his ma jesty to provide for the payments char ged on tlic civil list mr tieruey asked of the chancellor of the exchequer how any payment could be made to the queen under this grant mr vansittart said the payment would be made as formerly to the prin cess of wales the grant was made to the person mr tierrey said the grant was made to the princess of wales and there was now no such person in existence and any person who should presume to pay the annuity granted to the princess of wales to any person except the princess of wales would be guilty of an oiience against the house of commons mr vansittart conceived the annuity was granted to the person and not fo the title and therefore might be paid not withstanding any demise of the crown mrtierney to the princess of wales but not fo any other person mr vansittart s3id he had nothing ma to add on the subject mr tierney believed the right hon gentleman had nothing more to say en the subject lie was aware the right hon gentleman must not uttoriheword queen he would repeat that this grant was not to the person but to supportthe title and dignity of princess of wales and the princess of wales no longer existed if the right hon gentleman should pre sume to pay money to any other person he would incur a heavier responsibility than any person in his situation had ever done before tho chancellor of the exchequer re peated his former opinion the grant was made to the person in one political character and might be paid to the same person although that person was now known under another appellation wii aftucne cuuui uot conceive why the name of the queen should not be intro duced mr lusbington said this could not be done without introducing the name of every other individual mentioned in the civil list this was a grant to the king to be applied to the ervice of the civil list as would have been done had there been no demise to the crown mr tierney said there would be no princess of wales to receive it sir r wilson asked under what au thority this money would be issued the chancellor of the exchequersaid under the usual authority the grant of the house which had always been deem ed sufficient the report was then agreed to londox feb 27 speech of his majestys commissioners in proroguing parliament this afternoon my lords and gentlemen we are commanded by his majesty to inform yon that it is a great disappointment to his majesty that on this first and solemn oc casion he is prevented by indisposition from meeting you in person it would have been a consolation to bis majesty to give utterance in thisplace to those feelings with which his majesty and the nation alike deplore the loss of a sovereign the common father of all his people the king commands us to inform you that in determining to call without delay the new parliament his majesty has been influenced by the consideration of what is most expedient for public business as well as most conducive to general convc- gentlemen of the bouse of commons we are directed by his majesty to thank you for the provision which you have made for the several branches of he pub lic senice from the commencement of the present year and during the inter val which must elapse before a new par liament can be assembled my lords and gentlemen we are commanded to inform jou that in ta king leave of the present parliament his majesty cannot refrain from conveying to you his warmest assurances of the sense which his majesty entertains of the important services which you have ren dered the country deeply as his majesty lamented that designs and practices suchasthose which you have been recently called upon to repress should have existed in this free and happy country he cannot sufficient ly commend the prudence and firmness with which yen directed your attention to the means of counteracting if any doubt had remained as fo the nature of those principles by which the peace and happiness of the nation were so seriously menaced or of the excesses fo which they were likely to lead the flagrant and sanguinary confederacy which has lately been defected must open the eyes of the most incredulous and must vindicate to the whole world the justice and expediency of those mea sures to which you judged it necessary to resort in defence of the laws aud con stitution of the realm london march 2 the conspiracy on monday last the well known thomas preston was ap prehended at his lodging on a charge of high treason and underwent an exam ination at the bowstreet office he was detained in custody thistlewood is committed on charges of high treason and murder brunt for high treason only the other nine for murder there were no proceedings at the secretarys office yesterday in the case of th conspiracy there have been no arrests since mon day nor have any further particulars of this horrid plot transpired the precise time and mode of trial of the conspira tors is not jet fixed should they be in dicted for murder their conviction is certain the government it is presu med mill proceed agaiost thenu on the mere heinous offence of high treason u is supposed the trials will not enmo a until after the election come a gentleman of high fashion and nobl family has called a meeting of his cred itors to whom he declared that all th reports of his repeated losses at plat unfounded that his great pecuniaryr barrassment arose solely from the sud den demise of his principal agent who had left all his affairs in such a peipl ed state that nothing but rigid cconomv could retrieve them he added with tears in his eyes that he had called the claimants together not with a view to compound w ith their claims but to make over estates of 30000 per annum n til their demands were liquidated paris feb 24 a letter from xarc states that it has been proved by a deposition taken be fore the judge of the preliminary tribu nal of that town that on monday even ing the assassination of the duke de ber ri was talked of there although it only took place in paris the preceding night about 11 oclock the distance from paris to nanci is 90 leagues in the from the n v pcrmtnr april 7 the spanifh ambaftador general fran- cifco vives fo long expeedj has arrived in the james monro fifty one pofons are faid to have been arretted in france as concerned in the as- faflination of the duke de berri the duke of wellington hsd arrived a paris a number of perfons concerned late confpiracy to aftaffinatc the cabinet minifters bad been taken among them was mr brunt mr firth win sim- monds abel hall robert adarr8 john hamton and mr tidd a number of 4tftaa jmfiuir utah r examined ifljfl committed in all 16 in the houfe of tidd 2000 ball or- tridges were found count simeon has been appointed rmniftet of fiance in place of count m de cazes- sir francis burdett and mr hobhoufe are the parliamentary candidates for weft- minder a coroners inqucft had pronounced arthur thiulcwood the murderer of smithcrs aflifted by wm davidfoir james logs charles cooper richari tidd john monument john shavr strange richard blackburn james wilfon james gilchrirt and others thiftlewood is in cold bath fields prtfotu fle is watched night and day he icp well on thurfday night and ate a hcm breakfaft on friday morning he doei not enter at all into convention with the officers atprefent it feems not to be under flood whether the delinquents will bt placed on their trial upon a charge of high treafon or of murder- j though only 25 perfons were in wie loft at the time when they were furpritei by the police yet it is underftood ttutldi the courfe of the evening not lefs than 50 had been prefent but half of them had flunk away it isfiippofcd from a fufpicion that the cabinet minfllcrs would not dine together at lord harrowbys the re maining half began gradually to entertain the fame fufpicfon and were it ii hid deliberating whether they fhcnld dtfer their diabolical purpofc to another night when ruthven burtl into the room if is intimated that the pan of assas sinating the ministers at a cabinet din ner was not a sudden project it was intended to have been executed about a mouth before the detection of the final plot when tho cabinet were to have di ned at the marl of westmorelands io g rosy en or square whose house was up- posed to afford equal facilities with lord harrowbys some precautions takeo at that time by the ministers gave the alarm to th conspirators aud they post poned their designs a poor creature inveigled into a course of crime which his bitter nature abhor red discovered the plot in a letter ill- spelled and illwritten addressed to lord castlereagh and as if afraid that it might not reach its destination safelyhe put it into the hands of lord ilarrowby whom he met in the park tvrentyfeven radical delegates in full conclave st glafgow have been apprehen ded the courier intimates that evidence has been obtained of the confpiracy being connefled with a projtcl for a flrnultaneoui rifing in the beginning of march and that the delegates arretted in glagow appear in fome degree connected with the plot the englilhman of the 27th february gives the following fummary of the moft important tranfaftions on the continent the french papers of tuefday and wcdnefday arrived yefterday count simeon has been appointed minifter of the interior in the room of the duke de- cazes baron mounter direor gene ral of the departmental administration of police and count porta lis under secretary of state to the minifter of juftice on tuefday the remains of the duke de berri were removed from the louvre te st denis the proccflion reached st denis at half pad two the coffin was met at the door of the cathedral by the clergy marfhals de viomefnil and mon- cey and generals de bethizy and dupont were the pall-bearers- the body was placed on a lage in the middle of the church duriig the celebration of mafs and afterwards removed to the chapellc ardente more than 100000 of tw inhabitants of paris attended the prolific- all the hops in that city were clofed anil a great number of houfes were hung witft