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nomination is made rather as an ojfer to the West than any thing else. The Post Office will be given to some New Yorker it is suppose I. Such is the rumor. It is plain, that tac President intends to try to build up u third party for himself.? He calculates upon desscrtions from the two great parties, for the sake of office, and he will, to a certain extent, succeed. But patronage alone cannot make a party. He has irrevocably cut himself nflf from the Whig party by his veto ot the Rank Bill, and by the Distribution, Bankrupt, and other Bills, which lie says in his last veto, he most heartily concurred in, he has cut himself off from the sound portion of the Democratic party. The course oi the Democratic party is plain; Fight oil the ground they now occupy, without the least change of position, and their success is certain. Support the administration when right, and oppose it when wrong. (Correspondence of the N. Y. Jour, of Commerce.) THF .MCLEOD AFFAIR?STATE OF PUBLIC ? * > Dttnv kirn norAT V YPITP in anvmanv ? ? 'me xt. London, Aug. 18th, 184!. The relation of this country with the United Slates have now become a subject of most intense interest, if not alarm.? At a time when a new ministry is about to assume the reign of power, all eyes here are fixed upon the party, to endeavor to ascertain what policy will be pursued under circumstances of such extreme doubt and difficulty. In vain however, the eye gazes over column af;er column of election harangues, or dinner orations, emanating from such personages, for the purpose of solving the problem. Nothing is to be found falling from the lips of a Peel, Stanly or Graham, which will enable any one to trace the drift of the mind, or the disposition of the individual. But though the great men among the Conservatives are discreetly silent upon such topics, their mere followers, hangers on, " ' ? - - ?i i ami particular irienas, uoiu pouucai anu privuie, display no such delicacy of mint, or resolution. They boldly avow that a blow will be struck to retrieve the outraged honor of Great Britian?that it will be left for the strong, vigorous Tory Government to vindicate the rights and liberty of an increcrated British subject?and that, if McLeod should fall a victim to the supineness and indifference of the Mclb >urne Cabinet, the Foreign Secretary will at once be dragged to the bar of the House of Lords and there undergo charges for impeachment. I am giving you the opinions and sentiments of men of wealth, rank anil character, who feci themselves indignant at what has taken place, and wish to infnse the same feeling into the breasts of all who will listen to their furious outcries and revengpful aspirations. These persons find any thing but an apathetic auditory, for go where you will, sve whom you may, To ry, Whig, Radical, or Chartist, nil appear uneasy, annoyed, outraged nnJ envenomed; and I am perfectly certain that if the Tories were to follow up the McLeod question with a declaration of war. they would soon become excessively popular, and could then point to their decision of character, determination of action, and patriotic preparations, as safe and secure grounds for demanding a long continuance of publie support, approbation an l confidence. It is the perfect knowledge of this state of the public mind which has induced the press of the country to dwell upon the alleged wrongs of McLeod with force, vehemenceand repetition. The provincial papers are constantly alluding to the affair, and the yeomen are taught to believe, that it has been entirely owing to the weakness and imbecility?the grocely culpable negligence, heartless indifference of the the present ministry?that u British officer is now entombed in the dungeons of a foreign power. The extreme silence of the government press, is looked upon as particularly ominous, and is readily inferred from such conduct, as a tacit admission, that the policy of Lord Palmerston is positively indefensible, cF?n Kv the hirprl iprilio nf llctt sln'pc. man. The other day the Tory Morning Herald announced, in its first leader the 'important fact" that fifteen sail of the line had been despatched to the scene of action?New York?and went on to discant upon the circumstances with all the glee and satisfaction of an overjoyed man.? There is no doubt but the wish was father to the thought, and that the Tory Duke of Buckingham, who influences this paper, would be too happy to see the United States and this country engaged in a most sanguinary struggle, so as to keep the attention of the people away from the Corn law. What does he care how many valuable lives fall in the dire and deadly strife, or how much treasure is squandered in the slaughter, so long as his thousands of acres are secured to him, in fact, the rents kept up to "war prices," and the serfs upon his soil still slavishly <*rmtiitiip to hail him "miirlitir -..,1 ? ? 6"V ,V/,M ?*"" master," This state of feeling is not confined to himself; it is?cherished most dearJy by the land owners generally, and as they have such a majority now in Parliamcnt of themselves, what is there that they would not do??what war is there that they would not readily and recklessly rush into-?if only, by so doing, thej could stave off any change in the Corr Laws?direct for a time the public opinion, and secure to themselves and party all the privileges and powers of officia ~ station? ^ The '1'jmes of the Uth takes up the subject, trtul after alludiug to u passage it - '. - 'V&.H ? . i***)t the British and Foreign Review," on Mr. Wheaton's "Elements of Interna I linnal L?ws," which says: The commit ( stoning power could not be expected to | rest satisfied with the judgment of the < foreign court, on the construction or exe* I cotton of its own commission," main- i tains, that if the soundness of this doc- i ; trine he admitted, the principles will go i ; far to cover a stronger case than thai i which has been "got up by the American i Lawyers" against McLcod. This com- i i mcntarv on Air. Wheaton is attributed to i the late right honorable T. P. Courtenoy, f who was recently drowned; and the 1 Times goes on to contend for it that even had the British Government disavowed i and punished Capt. Drew, and his party, t for their conduct in the destruction of the i Caroline, it would not have been compe- i i tent "to the municipal laws of the United States (limited to their jurisdiction bv the laws of nations) to try the Queen of ?ni stand's officers for those actions." The i i Times then declares that had the officers in question exceeded their commission the American Government might demand that they should be punished as officers , who had deviated from the purport of their commissions and the law of nations ?Allusions is made to the peculiar laws of the American nation, which transfer , the case from the action of the goverment of the United States to that of a criminal court of the State of New York, and placing the pardoning power not iu i the President of rhe United States, but in the Governor of the State It is impos- j sible, says the editor, to conceive any i thing worse than this, and ,4that a demo, i cratic legislature should have a discre- i tioiiary power of executing one of the I Queen's subjects, under pretext of ad- i ministering justice, in the Slate 01 new York, and that the only hope of saving i McLeods's life, if he fails to produce i witnesses not easily to be procured, is a I mock appeal to the clemency of an As- t scmbly, which represents the local pas- i sions and national violence by which he i is doomed to perish." The dispatch of i Mr. Webster is termed conciliatory but e quite unsatisfactory, and the decision of i Judge Cowan is characterised as having I demonstrated that "the law, ns adminis- ? tered at Utida, is slowly drawing along j the worst consequences. Doubts may t reasonably be entertained whether all ne- t gociaiion on the subject is not peremptorily broke off, by the decided rejection of all those principles by which the British Government declared itself to be guided." The article thus concludes: "Is it becom- i ing to the dignity of this countrj that we should patiently await the very last, per naps i!i6 laiai, stage 01 muse |um-ti umjo, against which we have protested from the , first? Is it in any way compatible with j the safety of McLend, and the honor of i the crown under which he has served, to i reserve our more forcible remonstrances I till he is sent by the American judges be- t yond the reach of succor? If AfcLeod is i to he acquitted by the force of evidence, t or any other ground, wc presume that he e will not be placed in greater jeopardy ' than he now is by any act of the mother i country. If, as would seem but too pro- i bable, his chance of a fair trial is as small t as his chance of subsequent pardon, we cannot be too soon prepared to interfere r in the only way which remains to us. I have been particular in giving you the t pith of this article, because it has created i quite an effect, and receves the eulogies of j men in high authority with both Whigs a and Tories. The subject I assure you, t is much discussed privately; and every ? day with an increase of iro towards the a Uuited States. The Sunday papers?par- * ticularly the Tory ones?continue to inflame the public mind, and the most vile a and audacious falsehoods are put forth by tlicm to show, or endeavor to show, that Lord Palmerston and the Whigs have a compromised the country and tolerated a cruel and national outrage on the person of a British subject. With these felings abroad, the Cunard steamer of the <i first of Augmt was sought for with much p anxiety, but the intelligence brought by H the Columbia did not afford the excited r portion of the community much additional a food for their disease. The Times news- \ paper of the 17th, managed, however, to i supply this deficiency, by publishing a a communication, signed "A Barrister," j and in all the horrors of leaded type and * conspicious position, of which the follow- ( ing is a copy: t "I wish to mention a circumstance, i which should you think fit, might well be t made known to the public. In France, a r few days ago, a gentleman much con- p nected with America, told me that Gen. I Cass, the Minister of the United States a in Paris hail-told him that the probable r result of '.he MrLcod affair would be thut r he would be convicted by a jury, pardon- i ed by the government, and then proba- t bly seized by force and murdered by a c mob. Now whether this does or does not ' look like a foregone conclusion," or a r wish father to the thought, "at least it 1 should induce our government to warn t that of the United States, that it will be held answerable for the safety of McLeod until he Li beyond the limits ol the jurisdiction." ' Of course it will be useless to point out the absurdity of this very veracious i statement, and how perfectly ridiculous I it would be to expect Ueneral (.'ass to I 1 make any sucli statement, eren if he im- ! magined such a contingency by any pns- i | sihility as likely to occur. But it is not ' the Opposition, or Tory organs alone that ,'j tenil to keep up this feverish state of the ' public mind, for a ministerial paper pub* 1 lislics the following, as from authority, . > >' r - -c V -- \ "A very large contract is announce* jy the commissioners for executing tin office of Lord High Admiral of the Navy It is for not less than 15,000 navy tierce: :>f pork. The last contract was mud iclow these quantities, and it shows tha it is the intention of government to hav In the most efficient state the naval depart ment of the Kingdom. Whilst doubt pxists on the adjustment of the Boundar Question,*' it is probably the desire ci the Ministers to show to the America Executive, that "in the worst," the tigh little island" is prepared to vindicate he right to ihe disputed land. The Time/ of this morning retnrns t the question in an article, if possible still more pointed and personal, than it previous one; "The time," it says, 4kfo diplomatic expostulation and legal argt ment is, as we observed the other d?j alreany past." Reference is then indij nantly made to the relnsai 01 me eunc Slates to.enter a nolle presequi and th animus of the Federal Government i said to be sufficiently evinced by such d< termination. litems to the Times to b perfectly immaterial as. to the sause < quarrel, whether McLeod be convicted c acquited, whether be be pardoned o hung, and therefore it goes into a bri< analysis of the force of the two countries not deeming it "premature to contemplat ulterior consequences," This is done b reference to a table lake from an Ameri ran publication showing the vessels c war nf nil descriptions nnssessed bv Er gland, France, and the United States and concluding by some severe reflection on the United States Navy "as deficien in numerous and well appointed vcsseli but the very materials of a navy are want ing." The West Indies is triumphantl pointed to, and the prodigious increase o importance, as military positions, whici these islands must receive from the estab lishmenl of a complete system of stean communication with each other and ih Tiother country. The article thus termi tales: "In a just struggle for nationa lefence, a state infinitely below the Unit :d States in the scale of nations, ma; 'iglitfully and hopefully resort to arms tut for the purpose of" injustice, and in lull, the threats which are hateful in i tower of the first magnitude, are con emptiblc in one so ill provided to supper hem." From the Ohio Statesman. Monstrous Negro Riots in Cincinnati ?The following letter, received this inor (ling, is up to the latest hour: "Cincinnati, Sunday Evening, Septembers, 1841. The mob was kept up all day yesterday \bout6p. m. all' the negroes that could b< gathered up v^ere lodged in the jail foi jafetv?no injury done. The mob thci urned their attention to the Aholitionisli trnkeupthe Philanthropist office, and liretv the presses in thp river. The hou ses and stores of several Abolitionists wen tlso broken open and the contents destroy :d. The leaders were from Kentucky.? rhe whole military of the city were un ier arms; hut there is so little syni|>aih) ik? fl-.nf iKov rpfugpd ft "i iiic au<'iuiuiu:i?a iiiu* liiv ? i v*Mwv?* ? ire on the mob. A number of the ringleaders were treated last evening, and lodged in jail? This evening the mob, headed by Ken uckians, demanded their release, ant. hreaten to take them by force. A strong ;uard is posted round the jail; the military ire all out again; and, as the question it low one of sustaining the civil authoritiet ind enforcing the laws, they will use theii irms. If an assault is made, there will be farm work. I will leave this open till morning and id rise you ofthe results. Monday Mornino. We have passed a tolerably quiet night nd 1 think the rule of the ino'b is at an end Yours." The Gazette also savs: At 3p. m. Saturday afternoon, the May>r Sheriff. Marshall, and a portion of the ?olice, proceeded to the battle ground, inn there, under the protection <>i in? nilitary, though in the presence of the mob ind so far controlled by them, as to pre'ent the taking away of any negroes, up in their complying with the law. Sever il negroes gave bond, and obtained the )ermission of the authorities to go away, nth sureties* some of ot^r most respecta)le citizens, but were headed even within he military sentinels and compelled to eturn within the ground. Il was resol 'ed to embody the male negroes, and narch them tojnil lor security, under the irotcctiou of military and civil authority, From 250 to 300 negroes, including sound tnd maimed, were, with some difficulty narched off to the jail, surrounded by the nilitary and officers; and a dense mass o! ncn, women, and boys, confounding all listinrtion between the orderly and disor lerly, accompanied with deafening yelli rhey were safely lodged, and still re' nain in prison, seperaled from their fami ies. The crowd was in that way disper led. [From the National Intelligencer.] Washington, Sept 13, 1841. To Messrs. Gates Seaton: Gentlemen: Levi any misapprehensioi should exist, as to the reasons which hav< led me to differ from the course pursuec by my late colleagues, I wish to say tha I remain in my place, first, because I se< no sufficient reasons for the dissolution o the.late Cabinet, by the voluntary act ol its own members. I am perfectly persuaded of the absoluti necessity of an institution, under the au thority of Congress, to aid revenue ant ifiw>l7IT'i^hirl^a i. 3 j financial aperations, and lo gi*cJlic eonfc* e fry the blessings of a good currency and ? . cheap exchanges. ~~ s Notwithstanding what has passed, I have -__ It confidence that the President will co-ope* f y t; rate with the Legislature in overcoming all f ? el difficulties in the attainment of these ob-j > jects; and it is to the union of the Whig ^ s party?by which I mean the whole party, ^ y the Whig President, the Whig Congress, fro| ?f and the Whig People?that 1 look for a ^ n realization of our wishes. 1 can look no gj ft where else. ^ r In the second place, if I had seen reasons to resign my office, 1 should not ha,ve . o done so without giving the President rjja- y sonable notice, and affording him tune to r s select the hands to which he should con- J ir fide the delicate and important affair now *a i- pending in this Department. In U I am, gentlemen, respectfully, your **1 r. obedient sertrand, Bpc ti , DANIEL WEBSTER. ? Washington Sept 11, 1841. 5- Sir: Circumstances have occurred in the e course nf vour Administration, and chief- ** >f j ly io iheexercisc by you of the veto pow- ,nd Tier, which constrain tne to believe that my r I longer continuance in office as a member OT< if of your Cabinet will be neither agreeable J i. to you, useful to the country, nor honor- "ie e able to mysclfi At y Do me the justice, Mr. President, to i-. believe that this eonelu&io.i has been adop- hou )f ted neither capriciously, nor in any spirit wa) i- of party feeling or personal hostility, but *hei i, from a sense of duty, which, mistaken w?' t? though it may be, is yet so sincerely enterit tained that I cheerfully sacrifice to it the i, advantages and distinction of office. ( Be pleased, therefore to except this as p?p y my resignation of the office of Attorney d Gencial of the United States, h Very respectfully, yours, &e. of] J. J. CRITTENDEN. urn, i The President. ^ th? e daj i- AUGUSTA, Sept. 16. I Fire in Hamburg.?We have just re- put - turned from a destructive fire in Hamburg, eve y which originated about eleven o'clock VV? i, last night in the store of Mr. Geo. Parrott, in Grocer and Commissiun Merchant, on fon a Centre street, which was soon enveloped der in flames and communicated to the exten odi t sive Grocery glore of Sibley & Crapon, plo immediately adjoining, on the corner of noi Centre and Mechanic streets, both of Bei which, together with the back stores and ten . contents, were entirely destroyed. And get hut for the timely arrival of, and prompt bim assistance afforded by our engines, (there E* being none in Hamburg.) the whole town to northwest of where the (ire originated, act . and toward which the wind was setting di- bci j rectly, must have been consumed. They mai r however, succeeded in preventing its if I t crossing cither street, although the win- and i dows and doors of the brick building oc- act, I i copied by Messrs. Wright, Bull & Co., whi - and Henkel &, Robinson, were several any }[times on fire. ' infa In the confusion we could not learn any add - thing definite as to the probable loss sits- ] . tained either by Mr. Parrott, or Messrs. and r Sibley & Crapon, it is no doubt consider- Bar i able, as the latter had a verv large stock for of goods on hand, and the formerTiad a alo considerable slock of his own, and many rich . in store. We also learned they were in- rec< . sured, but whether sufficient to cover mit I their losses, wc could not ascertain. pol ; The prevailing impression was that it unp r was the act of an incendiary.?Chronicle, bid* i We learn by private letters received by i yesterdays mail that Messrs. Sibley & trur Crapon's loss was not so extensive as aroi > above reported, they having saved their i back stores and contents. tior | Charleston Mercury. jn j ??? omi A late money article of the New York , , Herald, says: "The U. 8. Bank has disappeared from the financial circles, and nothing remains to those directly interested in it, but a . mass of rubbish, the value of which is mc . entirely unknown, even to its proprietors. jt j , The committee of last winter refused to an( ? give the stockholder any account of the jg( , i assets, other than "it was not mercantile t| . | paper." They diverted public attention . by raising a hoe and cry against the offi. cers, and the result has been, that, after . > the excitement IihiI subsided, the manage- ja ( ment of the hank went back under the control of those identical men by whom it i was ruined. The old agents, Mr. Jau, tlon, and all, were reappointed, and these ^ j . men ate now dividing all that remains, ^ | preferring debts, making partial assign ments, and are fritting away the assets in ^ , all directions. Still the stockholders re- ~ main passive, and, as if -dupified by their , losses, make no movement towards saving *c > anything. Besides the capital of the U. cn f 8. Bank, $30,009,000 '.>( bank capital in erc< I Philadelphia, has depreciated greatly, and P8* . the stockholders seem to be reposing in 1 v } security. The Girard bank, the Schuyl- "J0' . kill, the Western, the Mechanics, and also . the Lehigh Coal Company, with its enor- *al . mous debt, amounting to near $5,000,000 ? are among the worst of these. Do the alt? stockholders and creditors mean to submit 111 to a total loss without taking any steps to retrieve their affairs? It ia time they were wai up and doing." pre oil , ~T the j For Sale. Tr< t That tract of land lying on the south pli< b side o( Sanders' Creek and the east side bill I of the Beaver Creek road containing 163 f acres more or less. my .Also, a wagon and team. Terms made hai f wery accommodating?for particulars ap- ?ng . ply to bill I JAMES M'EWEN. Jean Wll't W i.. > *\'X M. v^'.. -- ' " ' : | PSS OAUVXX V0I751WAL. OAMDBir, S. OAaOUIfA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 29, 1841. NEW COTTON. ~r v. -v ^ . !Vo biles of the new crop, the first we hafe aeon i season, reached oar market on Wednesday lost, n the plantation of Col. j. C. Ha ilk, of this.Dis- ^ . t. It was purchased by Mr. W. J. Gould, at . A. On Friday, seTen bales were received, from plantation of Mr. W. Shaw, .of Sumter District' . y y low Monday, three bales were brought-to marlseC " i'-Xi Col. Deschamps, of the latter District. run State vs. tttk Banks.?A writ of scire foeiaa s served an the Bank of Camden on Monday lost,"' pursuance of the provisions of the act of the last rlnlatwe. to provide against the snspcosioii of icie payments by the Banks in this State, ^- 7:$ Hi oh Wate*.?We were surprised on Sunday- 1: t, to find a considerable freshet in our river, as the vious rains did not seem to indicate such an event, ie damage done to thocrops is not very serious to* ividual planters, bot the aggregate Icms most bo- % [, je. All the very low bottoms on the river were '~v%\ :rflowod. \ccount? from Georgia state (hat the high water i<*v re, during the last week has been verydisaslrops. Aogoata, the banks of the Savannah were over-- .# '/? (red, the river having risen twenty feet in aboutaix ? r > i rs, and a considerable portion of Hamburg under xr. Merchants in the latter pkee had to remove'ir goods to the npper story of the bonaes, and boata eased to get oat of the town, ' CABINET DISCLOSURES. )ur readers will pereeive in another part- of oof or, tiiat tbo President's Cabinet has been reor- -V. lized, with the eicoption of State Department, rhich Mr, Webste* still remains.' The letters JSS Messrs. Crittende.v and Ewwo to the President, daring their resignation*, bare boon published;, t of the former wilt bo found h? oar.columns to- .'j Mr. Ewiito'g letter a loo Jongr antes* it wtr w re deserving, for us to giro it to our rea?fc?.Ile >' ~ w' ilioation is certainly one of the basest acts that r marked the conduct of a Cabinet M,wis*w>? i cannot call to our recollection s single instance*,. . which a member of the Cabinet Ha*'eyes* bc_ ;, softr degraded himself as to betray.the Cohfice reposed in him as one of the constilotiona 1 'isers of the President, On the memorable vision of of the Cabinet, under ther of the retiring members, Messrs.. Bsajtcnj, rrien, and Ingham, all of wbom addressed let- ' i to the President or the publie, could so far forthemselves oa to bstraj the proceedings of C?- " 'J& et Councils. -It has been reserved for Thoma* . 'mo, the speculator in revolutionary land claims, -. sink himself into a - "lower deep,11 by tbisjast - -'a^S ? ? j ?cj-' ir oi uncquarico oaseriese aim pernuy. u i* cuuiu shewn that any high motives of patriotism, de. ndcd the disclosures made by this letter, or, Mr. Ewyxq'* isersooal character had been assailed,. I his defence cook) only be made perfect by Ibis- - v , there woqld be some apology, for the course " ch he has adopted. But it is not pretended thatintercst of the country is to be subserved by thw^'1 .mous act, or that it v^ll .tend in .any degree to any thing to the purity or dignity of hs aythor. Mr. ewing's letter- is addressed to the President, professes to give the Cabinet proeoedings on the ik Bill, the veto of which, he makes the pretext leaving the Cabinet, and the treacherous.betray.- - y .1 f the confidence reposed in him. Mr. Ewirtc has ily merited the severe denunciations which he baa ^ lived for his traitorous condppU^ven if it be ad. tod that his letter is true in klfilsptrts?but the > lie will be slow to place impBcHvreiianCo in tlra roved statements of an individual wha comes, tin; - ,| Jen, before them, under such questionably circum- ? *'-' ? ices. One wuo in the very act - of asking, us to - , *' L'-~ ?- An/trif nnnainta (uiM Sn/werl, lb UUUf ? VUliO^UI^ UIV1J uv?M nv*vv> 3Dg men of honor. . ., We ha co not apace for this extraordinary prod no i of Mr. Ewikg, but there ore two sentences t which strike us as so singular, that we-jauwot ; It copying them. The first is ax follows;? ' ' It is equally a matter of justice d to myself to say that the bilf which I jorted to the two Houses of Congress at : commencement of the sessiqn;fn obe- .7 nee to their call, was modified so as to f'4 et your approbation. You nnjy.no!, s trup, have read the bill throughout, 2 I examined every part of it; but the .h fundamental article, which became ! contested question of princiele, was ely discussed between us, and*it.was > "J Jerstood and unequivocally sanctioned yourself. The last clause in the lull, o, which contained a reservation wer in Congress, whs inserter! en i of June, in your presence, J ur approbation; though you at one lime " ."T ^. fi me that, in giving your sanction 10 i bill, you would accompany it with an 9* Sanation of your understanding of that it clause." ~ * < -; v^. ?; Cjr rho bill alluded to in this paragraph is known by ? name of "Ewino's bill," and was referred, in the . 4> ate, to a special committee, whore it was smoth- < Jj I, and the first bill (known as Clay's,) which ,? led botli Houses was reported by that Committer jl rill be remembered however, that the 16th fundif ital articlo was retained in the bill, and it will i be recollocted to what a eerere commentary it * >""? i subjected, by the President, in his first Veto f '~ 'Y J wage. Keeping this in mind, we ask the reader^ \ ntion to the other sentence to which we alluded, ?' f dr. ewing's letter. It is as follows:? 'u?i.i that on t>nouirv he J ' MnilgS1 snai . 1 _ s happy to find that the beat temper 1 vailed in the two Houses. He beller- V they were perfectly ready to take up bill reported by the Secretary of the X easury, and pass it at once. You reyd, "Talk not to me of Mr. Ewing's ; it contains that odious feattne of lodiscounts which I have repudiated in message." I then said to you, "I Xj re no doubt, sir, that the House, harascertained : your views, will pass a XB in conformity to them, provided they i be satisfied that it wculd anrvcr tho X