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St&fcVHLU&il FRIWAV, AUGUST 81, IMP "}/-The WB of llichtand District uav^C business In Court* will take notice hut Hsturx Ij *? will be on the 19/A day of St'fiteutbrr, instead of Octobcr as liw i>ca? heretofore. J w We linve published in this day's paper; .in article on tight lacing. We hope the > .idles will excuse us, for the ugly shape? we have exhibited in the two accompanying wood cut*. There being no engraver in UU place, they were executed by ah inge nious friend, who is no artist. It will, at east, as brother Jonathan would sav, l' give fie Idee:' - In publishing an extract from the Hoston Commercial Ciar.ette, in this day's paper, <ve took occasion to remark vpon the ex - cllcnce of that print. Wc cannot too high ly recommend it to our fellow-citizens at he south. It is an able and unctnsing rel ocate of Free Trade; and looses no occa ion' to present to the consideration of the ood people of Boston, the double dealing nd disgraceful conduct of Messrs. Webster nd Everett. The tvooHen speeches of lese gentlemen, haue acquired a name tat will render tlicnt odious and ridiculous, 1 long as good sense und political honesty rcvaiis In this country. We have rceciv-. J information, from a quarter which we ighly respect, that there nrc few gen cmcn ' education or intelligei.ee in Ilos n wht not firmly opposed to Mr. lay's sj Hut tli?- late failures in ew F.nglnnu, ^gins even to disgust them, J lio at one time anticipated those immense t ofits in plundering tlic south. Hut alas; I cy have opened the goose that laid the! ildcn Eggs imkruitinv i,\w cam:, Venlcrday at 12 o'clock Jeremiah Smith w brought up from Cnuuk-u, on a writ of iIh h* Corpus, before Chance." lor llarpcr. ii|)|tc'uh that Siniili Iin<! keen convicted \ 1822 for stealing a negro, and had boon nloned by Governor Bennett on condi . n of bin staying in prison accrtain time, i d at the expiration of that time that lie ? >ulrt leave tiio state never to return, e understand that complaint wa* hslged ore hi* Excellency Ciov. Miller, that itli wan residing in Chesterfield or Lan . dor and ho tatted hi* proclamation ofler ; a reward of $200 for bin apprehension, <u which he wan pursued by divers citi t< of South Carolina into North Carolina I brought into tins Htate and ronunitted ?\tmden goal, by a magistrate, Mi Hoy ? of that district. Mr. (!re?-< thi? morn inovcd to postpone the cjsu until to ' row morning, as his colleague Mr. 'onl had just been engaged in tin* cause had not liad an opportunity to consider Mr. I)tsatis?tire for the slate consent o it, and tho wuifl comes up again Iwfore Chancellor to-day on the motion t i ?hargo the prisoner. It in a new case I oxcitcs a good deal of interest. We undcr&tat.d that the Eagle Tavern in ?pitt* was destroyed by fire on the 1 Ith i. together with all the house* attach- i . exccpt the Ice Ilooic, Stable*, audi nulla. 'c ar.^ .is much disp.M>ed as any ol'cur w citizens ran be, to treat with dofer *?all who are put in authority over us, notlotti than any, the Judge* of tho '**?1 Courts. Hut the ntrong tendency < ? Supreme Court of tho United States Judge Marshall at its head, to extend '?wits of the general government at <pe:,?c ofstato '>? ?&ocbv iom to ncealcc! or denied. That rciirt in not rt of judicature partaking of the spirit ? Republican Constitutions. It is a jro fif tho executive: it in appointed ml any popular inllueticc and populicr .jp: it flecm* to hold its prerogatives rivileges "in contempt of tho people," ikeuftcofMr. Burke'nstiong language. >?' Judges of that Court go wrong, who ?ir to correct them! Impeachment! lot tho farco of impeachment Iwen tri vain, in the case of the notorious ' 1^0Chanel Can the House of Uepre i '.lives touch the*o men when they de d. n direct hostility with State rights ? i they proceed steadily on, in Hip 't road of Connolieiationl Alan! the iary according to tho doctrine* of ii. lem vifctoerary, in nacrrd from all at i i.-k* hf the popular branch oTotir Legisla i re*: Their decisions however absurd or 1 i inirsl are unattackahle The Judges theniselve?up in|th'ir irresponsibility; ? /ami by State right* will fall before ? decisions. vf thoroughly the Federal Judges >e, and are apt to be the tool.) of power ivents at Washington have fully in ?be lain trial of l)i WatUins, comnr-n ? i sm, common law, and common justice od aghast at tlw? proceedings. / more '('(tied, bold,and open determination to 1 a notorkms delinquent never wns o\ />.: n d, no not even in the dingrareful cane of Mr, Wickliflc. Tlte court, tho Jury, Ui ? cnufcfttl for tho Prisoner at Washington *u?*e utterly astonished the American pub lic ? d manifested how farcical all ourerim <f a? proceeding)* can be made, when a po litical delinquent of whose guilt no one on doubt for fl moment, in to lie screened. \Vb? .lithe accusation ought to full?who in pai tit ular are delinquent in respect of these (M/i??etlonft--whn ought to liedeemed ae ?'eiinl?|>lo for this strange per version of Jus t, i, niuong the fetors concerned in it wo j Jri?iv> not Mid nay noi: but if the next Con* rfaf* not men#<ire? to wipo awsv W ? Wt ii?,. i.uin ual u Icikriu court, will become ? by Mord of indignant reproach. PINEVILLK TOASlh. At a crisis like the present every indica tion of public opinion, however small, be | come* interesting to the friends of the couu ! try. Among*! these Indications we naturally look to the topatsof the 4tli ult. and we re joice to say that hi our state they have every where manifested but one tone, and one spirit on the all-absorbing question of state nnd southern rights except in Pint viflr. In the regular toasts of this place there is certainly an ambiguity, and an obligulty* not southern??or not very intelligible} but awurcdly indicating a spirit not in unison with the rest of the state. The 2d regular toast reads thus: " The easy recurrence of sovereign con federate atatea to original principles al ways of uncertain issue, dangerous in its policy, and subversive of order and govern ment." A more anti-southern, oblique, and dun gertu* sentiment could scarcely be advanc ed. We are not ready to believe that it was dictated by a southern head or sanc tioned by a southern heart. We would have commented on it with severity, but we find it unnecessary. Upon looking into the vcluutcer toasts on that occasion we find from the very rcspcctablc names of the parties that they form the true exponent* of the public feeling of Pineville, and therefore that Pineville is as sound aw any other part of the ?tatc. In proof of this we will only offer at present the volun teer toast of Mr. S.iml. J. Palmer. It rcad? thus: ??The easy recurrence of sovereign con fcdcrulc states to original principles: the only safeguard of our liberties when threat ened by constructive views of a written con stitution." This toast evinces a soundness of views? a boldness and iiulcpcndcncc of spirit wor thy of the 6cuth?nnd aLso a directness of expression worthy of all commendation. We see nnd feel thni the antidote was equal ?full equal to the poison, nnd we are con tent. WILLIAMS. THE YOKKVILLE PIONEER. Scarcely a crimr in committed however base, but whnt its author will attempt to excuse or justify. I know a man not far from Columbin, who after having outraged the feelings of another, and excited his re sentment, by way of apology, assured him, " that he entertained no unfriendly dispo l siiion toward* him, but hnd been influenced ? entirely by a teme of duly and /iu contci ' etier.djfine refuge truly, for fiy/iocrky ami malice! When such artifice* arc rc sortcd to and countenanced, then will Tyr | anuy have a full swing and the rights and t liberties of the citk7.cn be in danger. ? What, shall v. e toleratr every and any > charge that ignorance or malice may invent, | when there is no evidence to sustain it? | Shall the vile calumniator be excused, by [the plea of " rente irnee. or his profession of ?? honesty of motive," or hi* pretended " tense of duty, when his slanders are as apparent as the sun in its splendor ) Shall the vittuous and the great be stripped of their honor* and their fame by any hypo critical cant that scoundrels may ns&umc ? Is it just, 13 it right, is it decent, to allege any thing against character that will not ad mit ot proof * Who is he that by insinua tion, endeavours to create suspicions inju rious to the peace and quiet of a family, wlu n he known they arc false and unfound ed ? Can he ba a good man or a good offi cer who would act thus f Who then can wink at such conductSurely none but the base in principle and vile in practice? the higot and the fool?the fanatic and the knave. The truly Rood will ever scorn the socicty of such beings and withhold fi rm them their countenance and suppoit. The /ilea rf" covtcience " mny dupe the weak ! and mislead the thoughtless, but even this success, will be but for a season ; for the cloak of hypocri-y soon becomes thread bare, and the villain appears in all hi* de formity. But even this is no punishment, to those who delight in calumny and re proach. The prosperity of such people runs with their " conscience." Exposure and conviction only hardens them in crime and render* it more difficult to reform their principle* or correct their habit*. These remark* though intended for gen eral application, have l?ecn occasioned by what I conceive a ffrr.it tlander upon the character of a brave and gallant officer, who is now ahtent from his native country. Perhaps, I wa* wrong In noticing it in the first instance, and it is but right the public should know why I did. In the first place, I was satisfied that the authors of it were, " devoid of those gencrou* feeling* which arc so essential in " Editors, " and without which even the p/lvate man 1* slow to gain esteem." " And that they were lamcnta-1 bly deficient in whnt I conceived to be es sential in the character ?>f a /food man.H Secondly, I was satisfied th.it if thl* slander was passed off In silence, it would encoar* age others tiom the tame source, that might lie ten times more insulting to common jus tice and public feeling. Thirdly, that the publio might know what importance to at* tach to statements coming from m?ti who appear t<? be mere adventurers in the state, whose first editorial offering. Is a labored, cruel, and unnecessary attack upon (he character of a distinguished hero. For these reasons 1 publish*din the Telescope of the 3l?t ult., a nolle* of the first article in question, that had appeared In the Pio neeer of tho 19th. This presumption on my part, for typing 0tredtotblnkiltf* Dm reputations! CMmodon Porter than of th? 8th Inst., with how much gfsot, dig nity and truth, thoss can best jade* who have read the precious article. But tt ftoot the afltcted importance and self conceit, of three Editor* thetl care about?U U Commodore Porter 1 wbh to defend, and if in to doing, the littleness of these men should appear?the fault U theirs net mine. It Is generally known that daring the late corrupt administration of Adams sad Clay, Commodore Porter was fotved to quit the service of his country and seek employment abroad, lie was known to be a friend and admirer of Jackson. This wai enough ; the hirelings of the administration Justified his banishment from the navy. Now the government has changed Into abler and bet ter hands, an opinion haa gone abroad, that this exiled hero will no longer have to earn his bread in a foreign service, but will he invited to return to hta home, and the flag he has no often defended. Tkls how ever docs not seem to suit the palate of nil, for be It known that whatever appears good to the taste of the Jackson party and honora ble to patriotism, Is Mire to sicken ami give pain to the advocates of the late coalition. And some of the milk and water sort, who, can *' run with the bare und hunt with the hounds," would do very well tor them selves If they only had cunning enough to conccal their duplicity. It Is a happy thing that such character* can have but little in fluence with a discerning public, ai.d none with n virtuous administration. I* it not the voice of the nation, "come home Porter, thou injured champion of your country's rights ! come to your family and friends, and to the stars and the stripe* ! comr, the patriot Jackson rules?the hero knows the patriot licroc* worth ! come, we will rcjoir.c und "not be reluct to do thee reverence !" come, " Free Trade and Sud ors rights!" Adams and Clay can no long cr trample you undtr their feet. Who doubts but that this Ik the heart-! felt feeling, entertained by the great bodv of thr American People, for this absent hr ro * Little then did it comport with the character of intelligent Kditors, just enter ing upon their career, professing " homage to the will of the /teo/ile," to step aside from their duty to assail a favorite officer.? And how too have they done it ? Why, at n time when every body seems to take a deep interest in bis tate. Wc heat that an armed banditti attempts his life, but lii? "good genius" and his wonted intrepidity saves him, and the leader of the hand <? laid prostrate at his feet. Thus cviuciii); the snme undaunted heroism and self pos session in single combat and against superi or force, that was displayed in h:t gallant dcfencc of the P.sscx, and for which he has ever been distinguished. Well may public sympathy be manifested for smh a noble, gallant Tar. Well may we wikh to see liini on bis own native shore. Hut I am stopped, a grumbling, groveling voice is heard, und our sympathies and gratitude must give way to the Yotkville Pioneer. Now it speaks? listen ! " Porter it devoid of tnose gene rous feelings which arc so essential in ail officer ! lie is only above the common stan dard of our ofliccrs ! he is not the man that tit would w#rar in the core of our hearts ? ! wt would desire carneatly to improve him upon first nature." ?? Oh modesty, where arc thy charms !" So much for the fir?t attack. Now for their apology. After au awkard bow for noticing an *' anonymous scribbler," these wiseacres inform us " they nrc not dueled by the glory, that encirclo the brow of a patriot," but " give an un biassed opinion, justified by the tale of hit life." " We wrote" say they," " from a recollection of what we have learned, from porsons more conversant with the unwrit ten history of the life, the manners *nd hab its of Commodore Porter, than Heniy or hispirjudiccd informants!" Protect me Ye Powers above, from "unwritten" slan ders, What a retreat ! Away with the records of the country and let it be known that the ?? unwritten " statements of irre sponsible tattlers is the only evidence of cliArnctcr for a public man. Hut render be patient, ami listen ngnin to these just and righteous men, these judges of the i|ualificuti<iu? ol an otficei ! ?? lie will toy, that our opinion was loumk-d on what '.vc are not witling should becoino matter of fiublle talk." I low dignified ' how honorable ' assail the reputation and lame ol an absent man, and when enllcd upon fur proof to support the charge, hack nut from it hy saying, " we are not willing it should beeome /mblic talk." Monstious! What h refuge for calumny! Hut a^ai.i uud worse Mill, driv en to the wall and conscious of having viola ted public decency and public tnling, they have the impudcoce and folly to resort to another artifice to cover their dastardly re treat. They nay, " ItV will not particu larize ; but thi<i we will dare vthtnper, (to those who think well of Porter) go to the borough of Norfolk, and enquire if there beany who would reluct to do hint reve rence?go to the City of Washington and aak If their be none tojustify our opinion go to the city of Baltimore and ? ? ? then and not till then, sustain a defensive argument against an opinion which might truly be e*n*idered flaring," Thus the reader will perceive the gronnd* 'upon which the exiled Porter baa been assailed and the tout absence of every thing like proof to give even a colouring to the charge, or to justify the attempt made to leaaeen him in the affection* of the American people. Who these Editor* are I know not, I am ? MUMI r; ussi told they art Minm la # whilst I srarftd ' withoutpfMtmdflmi, ItfckkIhM of their written ** history, msnnlj Its,** and that too from their own pen, to authorise me In saying that ^wy have been guilty of a foul calumny on the wet) earned reputation of one who is justly a favorite not only with the people of this state, (Hit throughout the Union. The base insinua tion* and artifice*, to which they have re sorted to sustain the charge* can only se cure to them that pity and scorn, which al ways follow the indignant feelings of an in sulted public. I might ash were I disposed to retort up on them there own vile slang. Why did they desert the place of their birth? Why could they not live in Norfolk f Why leave Washington, Baltimore, and ? But I de test too much such conduct in them to adopt it myself. For the future let them keep to their "garret high, protected by its cobwebs," and there I now leave them to re fleet upon the ?? unwritten history of Commodore Porter," their own, and the hon ors and rewards of defeated slander. . HENRY. POLITIC A I.. (he Kentucky Atgti*.] TO THR PUBLIC. Circumstances, over which I have nooon trol, make it necessary that I should again address the public. Justice to myself to my friends, and to my enemies, require it.? Could I live at peace with all mankind, it would be the situation whtah 1 moit desire. But 1 will not yield my rights as u freeman, even for that desirable blessing; The friends of Mr. WicktiRe have used every means which malice could suggest, to brand my tunic with the guilt of Mr Ben ?tlnu's il<n;'n. With a strange obliquity of head and heart, some of them have Mid, that I whs the murderer, and others have Mid that I was guilty at least of manslaughter. A short review of the causes, will show bow blinded by the venom of hatred that mind must be, which could entertain either opin ion. On the 4th day of March last, "Coriola nus," since avowed by Charles Wir.kliffe to be his pioduction, appeared in the Report er. The last paragraph contains the fol lowing senttnresi ? " Now 1 wish to be as explicit an* point ed as possible in my allusion*. My re marks arc applicable and intended for two individuals, who have secretly presided over the editorial department of the above men tioned paper, and whose libellous abuse is t ? be found under the editorial head. Kven the tuercd robr of religion hat been ftrofun r<l, and made a cloak for the malignity of one oj thrte ficrton*. I akiag thrm ail in til, it is hoped wc neVr shall see their like ag llll." I'he day after this article appeared, 1 w.ts informed of it by a friend, and, told lh.?t it wasbtlieved 1 was one of the persons alluded to in the above quotation. Mr. Smith, the editor of the Kepoittr, has since stated on oath, before the grand jti r> and on the trial of Wicklifie, that 1 w;?? one of the persons alluded to. In the following CJaaette 1 replied to 'Coriolanus' under the signature of 'Dcntatus,' and the public hating had these picccs repeatedly before them, o.?n judge whether the retort was not much milder than the provocation. So little of fictional retort wus there in the reply, that I believe n refusal of the name of the authm would have been given by nine editors out of ten, to whom such a demand would have been made. When Mr. Bei. ning informed me that the name wnt de manded, 1 told him to give up my name to the applicant,prot iJed he would avow him self to be the author of 'Coriolanus,' but that he must first inform me of it, that I might be on my guurd; Accordingly, Mr. Benning, after receiving Mr. Wickliffc's avowal of the authorship of 'Coriolanu?,' and a vain search after me to inform me of it, postponed A surrender of the name until, eight o'clock the next morning. Tb tht* /loiifioncment Mr. IVickhffe agreed. This important fact is proven by every witness who heard the last conversation between them, which cudtd with the fatal af fray. sVhat then becomes of one of the vile falsehoods which my enemies have fabrica ted, that I pushed Mr. Benning between my self and a proper responsibility? If Mr. Smith had published, In his statement of the evidence, all which he gave on the trail, I might have referred to his utatement of Mr. Wickliffe'a remarks to him betoic h< had his interview with Mr. Benning, toaltow thnt Mr. WickllfTe wrote 'Coriolanus' in a much more abusive style than it finally ap peared in the Reporter, for the express purpose of producing a reply which would authorize him to demand the author; and that when the rcplv was given, Wiekliffe himself snid that he doubted whether he hud a right to demand the autho, of that filece. not withstanding thisfact, however, my name was to have been given up, with the promise of which, WickllfTe wns satis fied. A .other clrc um*tance has been stated and is still believed by many* which it, that I nvnsintlie office of Mr. Bcnning when the affray t?*#k place, thereby hoping to prove that I skulked from danger ami permitted my friend to fall ?n my placc. l#ook ut the ??x dent e of the Hev. John P. Trotter and flt.rge Norton, Jr. as given the Ke|?ort* cr, and you lu\e it there uncquivocall) proved, th.it I left the nfflre of Mr, Benning "a short time" after the first interview; that I was at John Norton's shop, which is at least two bundled yards higher up Main Street, when the intellljrenre reached there of the affray, and that Mr. Trotter n^et me going dowo in that direc tion, a short dls tancc f<-om Mr. Norton's shop, and informed me of the affair. It is then proven that I neither refused to assume the responsibility ut ? Dcntatus' nor skalked in the time nf danger. Charity in* duces me to say, that in mv opinion thoat who made those charges did not themselves believe them, and that they were intended solely to injure my character. How can H be said, then, that I am a murdrrrr, or that I have bce-i guilty af mannlaughttr, when Mr, Wkkbne, who directed the fatal ball whieh terminated hi* existence* is acquitted of all crime for the death of the unfortunate Hennincf And has it come to that point in this town that ? freeman, because he it In the minori ty, It to he assailed violently in the public press, hit person plainly marked by mutn do, with the direct Intention of provoking him tosoeh a reply at will furnish an apolo gy for an attack on hit person, and he be u tended to vlmlcMv iu?n and principle* rhkh are dear lo him? Tl?? men who m lulgc W^Mtch dreams, misctlcuUte their two strength, the firmness oi their ad tmrlei, and the virtue of (he pep >te, I wu ntsaiied without prwodUon. 1 do nost solemnly nvcr, that it U false that 1 iave ever used any aecret control over the rditorial management of the Gazette, or t';*t I have ever a*tailed any man under that cloak. Whenever I have written tor that itrtny other paper, my name waa always at the service ot any man who had a right |<? tlemand it) and to long aa I can wield a pen ?r raise my voice, 1 will defend a right wbich Is the birth right of every Ameri CM* | That 1 should incur the dislike of the H libera) of those opponents, with whom it bat been my lot to come in contact during the political struggle* of the country, waa to be expcctcd. But that I ha\ c conducted my self with a decorum and polUencss, at least equal to thoae of my opponents 1 assert,and I challenge them to niow the contrary.? Under these circumstances, I little expect ed the notice which 1 have received from one particular quarter, and 1 wannot consider it in any other light thuti'a* a com* plunent. I was not present when Mi. Cluv addressed the jury on the trial of WickliRV. but I am informed by many who heard hltn, that he condcscended, to take particulnt n? tice of me, ut a time when he well kne# that I coujd not defend myself; and th >t -ill bis powers of declamation o| wit, and of sa tirc, were exerted to demolish my humble standing in society. An unfortunute expres sion of my deceased friend, who |)crhn|>? thought mure highly of me than 1 deserved, and (or which I certainly was not to hlatn*. , was seized on bv tilth windy orator o. (Ik West, and mudc tlie ground work of iti*. nbufc I have never, like tome gentlemen, boast ed of my prowess. I trust, however, that I neverhave been, and that I ntver will be found wanting in firmness, to meet prefer! \ any danger which may assail me: Hutl think it poorly becomes that man to sneer at oth ers, whose faithless nerves have twiee dis turbed liisaim in conflicts which I lis un gov - ernahle temper had brought '?n, and who now holds his life ah ttie gift of Virginian magnuuimity. JNO. M'CALLA. Lexington, July 21, 1829. [From tin* lUlluimre Itcjiutilirsn ] The Editor of this Paper ha* appeared, and went tlirouglt nn examination, before the Grand Jury at Washington in obedience to their mu< S talked of summons. The on ly object nf ti?e summons proved to be, im pertinent curlo*ity. The Grand Jury wai ? te 1 to pry into our pi ivate correspondence! mik. n < tiid not indulge them of<?airsct and of course we were discharged, because tlie ignoratnuaea found ?>ut they had no law t? compel it* to reply to their stupid <nd impu dent queries. We r.ongratulutc thenntion :?t large, at the conclusion of the legal mum mery, which hat lieen c arried on in vurimu shapes for the last sixty dns ut Washing ton. The C urt .ire composed of ?urh ma terinlsns Shakespeare only, could describe; tin- Counsel are worried to their last gasp; Watkms is guilty legally at latl, us well .is morally throughout(the Jurtea are disclinr 5cd; IfV ure discharged. l'hv faicc isen cd? Exeunt omncaf Hr.Nity S. Sandkiison, Editor ol the U dtininre Republican," (>'??>* the U. State*' Telegraph of Thursday evini?n) "ItaviiK been Mimniontd by the Grnnd Ju ry to answer as to the nutlior of a ser.e* of letter* on the ease of Dr. Wntkin*, publish ed in '.hat paper, appeared yesterday 'in Court, nnd was informed that the Grand Jury were not then prepared to exatnim him. " Til is morning that gentleman under went a long examination, with respect t<> the publication in the Republican, of the statement <>f Dr. Watkins t? Mr. Harris, nnd his letter to Mr. Southard, confessing his guilt. "Mr. Sanderson, after an exatninntion of nearly two hours, (during which several applications respecting it were made by the Grand Jury to the Court,) Was informed that his presence was no longer required, he declining ti< give up the name ot the uu? thor in question. ??The Grand Jury was subsequently di* charged." Then it was not for any ran/# tmht of Court tha*. Mr. Sanderson was dragged to Wash* ingtnn by the Cin uit Court of th>it District; but merely t'? sive the (iruntl Jury an op portunity to pump out of him, if they could the name of the author of the letters from Washington!! Mr. Seatoti wanted to know who was Mr. Sanderson's c<>rrcsp?m||Rit, mid as the Post Uftir.e at Washington was i. other hands than those of his late obsequi ous friend, betook tfiway ofatcertai'. ing who he was. I bis proceeding could have l?een lor nothing but to gratify malig nant curiosty;for If Mr. Sanderson hud giv en up the name of his ror respondent nothing rould have been done to him. It has not been pretended even that any of the letter* published b> Mr. Sanderson contained any thing hu. the I Itl) I'll; and is a man in this country where we boast ?t our laws and individual freedom, to be ta ken from hi* family and his busbies* and dragged off from "tie end of the country to the other to give a /mrtitan Grand Jury an opportunity to alarm him into a betray dot hi* trust that the* may satisfy their ma levolent curiosity t Shall not a tree man it> HutHmore publish a truth, which ev<( > man in the Oiatrlet of Columblu spoke of freely? A namk cannot give dignity to Truth, nor deprive it of itsforct; and theiefore, we cannot imagine ativ legitimate objert the Grand Jury ciaild nave hud in seeking the name of the author, when they <<.uld not deny the truth of what he stated) unlets they niennt to revive the Skmtiom law of the PJder Adams, whereby the greater was the Truth the greater was the fJbel. Kt I<oci*. (Mioeotiri) July 14. Important.-*Gentlemen who have arri ved from tho Upper Mississippi, Male that ' would be formed, aa It would he no treaty IT_? , ? fou ' impracticable to gather a suH ricnt notnlxr of Indiana to attend in council, The Indian* we learn, had been notified to at tend at Rock Island, by the two commit sioners Arat appointed, and had in compli ftnta there* ith, aMM?mhhsi very iiumeroua iy at the Prophet?* Village about thirty nMh*ftntn Rock Island. Whelk arrived met by an onler from the ~ *? -*?? - -m heir usual summer avocation*, frcto which i would be impossiblo to withdraw them. ?ftp* FORKION. m , II.. * V ' aii.1 _ LAiEST FROM FRAf The packet ship Prane<4? Vr. j state that Gl 000 vigorously bombarded by the ?I liana. (Ten. Geismar i* at Kalafat with 15,000 men cheeked in hisoperatioo* by the swelling of the Danube. A letter (from Vienna of Juno 18th, tho Russians have exjM0p?c?4 a mvsto check in the. affiiir o( Pravidee. but that they have not been prevented from bom barding Silistria. The Turks can throw shells as well as the Russians. A sea fight lias taken placo at the mouth of tho Bosphonis between a Turkish squad ron and a Russian urig and four frigate*. After a short contest, the brig and two of tho frigate* took to flight,'the fourth firi Kto mounting fifty piece* of cannon ?ur udercd to tho Turk*. It in said that tho King of S|?ain is about to marry Maria Christina, princess of Na ples. For tho late papers wo have, we are in debted to a friend who ha* frequently ren dered to u* similar favors; wuf not liaving received our regular files, we avail our selves of the following translation* from tho Commercial Advertiiier:? Tho Pacha of Nicipolia announce* that tho greatest misery |torvados the Principali ties; and tliat tho peUtantry,- notbeing any longer ahlo to comply with the requisitions for tlio war, have retired into'the forest*. It i* (lie Mime thing at Bulgaria. whore friend* and foes fight together and lay eve ry Uting waste. The inference from these ((liferent reports is considered at Pera to be, that tho socond campaign will bejike the drat, with 110 decisive result. Tho suc cours brought to the capital aro consumed immediately. The English Consul-Gene ral Cartwright has arrived at tho Darda nelles, where the Aml>as*ador, Sir Robert (?onion is momentarily expectod. It is im possibly to give an idea of tho impression mado it? this eapital hy this approach mado hy England to the Porto. Wultuctuu. ? From tho frontiers. May 24th.?The executive divan has received or der* to prepiiro provixiona for 90,000 men. Two hundred labourer* are at work on the bridge of boata at Kallarasch; but it will not lie finished for some tie**, becau?o 40 pontoons liavu been carried away and destroyed hy the late inundation*.?vVu rcmb< rg < uu> ier /<cy > -n. May 28.?Wo learn from Alexandria that a part of tile Egyptian troops, de .tintd to reinforce theTurkisn ar my m Asia are on their march; but the re mainder, which forms the strongest part, and which had tho Mine destination, have received counter orders, and will embark to rejoin tho Grniid Scignor's army in Eu ro|?e. This change of destination is ascrib ed to tho influence of a European |?ower.? ^iuLhbuiff (in st tie. Tho same paper announces, on tho au thority of the Journal of (Wu, that tho Egyptian expedition is retarded; and that a Stop ot toe fine, with four Turkish frigate* and twenty Egyptian corvettes and brig* are at Alexandria, ready to sail for Con stantinople. Tho following intelligence fr?nu Trieste is dated June 0:?" We learn by advice* of May 20th. from the frontiers of Servia, that lluwiein Paclui, who loruicrly oommanded at Houtschouk, has received orders to com b!u?*J*.'1 wiu? the garrison ot furtukai, and march towards Silistria, to cover, during tho contemplated attack, the danks of the ('rand Viaier'a anuy.? From hence, it ap|>eani that tho Russian corps which is before Giurgevo and ntinr llouuchouk in not considerable. Before Silistria, on thu contrary, tho Russian* havo sssembled 24,000 men. Tho Turk* will unquestionably employ their utmost effort* to maintaiu that fortress; and under its walls, probably, ? bloody battle will bo fought that must have great influence on tho campaign. Congrevo rockets are now mado use of by the Turks. They havo boon taught to uso them by an English officor, and expect to find ihom of great ad vantage in the uneten ground of the Bal kan and againat the enemy's cavalry.? Utters from Corfti, dated May ?, an nounce tliat two English ships of the lino and two frigates continued in that sea. Af ter the blockade of Prevesa bad l>een raised two cutters returned thither. Since the coast has been free from blockade, a great nuiulier of veahvtt havanrvivad at tho Ioni an Island* to buy com, the price of whicli lias risen in consequenoo." Our correspondent at Lisbon writes us as follows, under dale of tho 3d inst?Tho new Spanish minister in this capital htt frequent conferences with l>on Miguel art* tho Que*n Miguel. Uc has succeeded in prevailing with Don Miguel to accede ton marriage with hi* niece,l*.nna Maria but has now an enterprise much more difficult to accomplish, that of inducing him tore sign the character of King for that <7Re gent. lo (hi* end the ambassador ha* re ceived very minute instruction*, concerted Mwcen the C ourts of tendon and Madrid. A.tho the om|>erof Don Pedro has testified to ""bun'cabinet* that he. no longer wish es to treat with his brother, and has even shown " desire that his dangkflK should re turn to llraxil, w< now have certain in formation that the cabinet of fit, Jamas, in accord with U.at of Vienna, will oppose a* far a* |?o*?itde the departure (4 the jountr Queen; and that the great question now 1* to ?'??k?ge Don Miguel to mwume the office ol Regent, in order that, having complied with hi* bn.ther s w,,|,es, Don Pedro may no longer op(M?e the marriage. The <abi Il J.'n i.S" that Dim Migu el n ill in ifiiture l?e more submissive to its counsels (ban hitherto." at 20.?Fives closed im lAr r *** ,7{* $?*"?? Bank actions n?inl Sl??*sb 4fl4f ? l^n from 4W. to I Jw plliam,r '.of P<'rn,.on ,h? IMt, (lie ?Jby a majority of W against 22 messumgxte much excitement. ,. vb? Propagateur ,n c;irom|o , ?n, pu**^re; socli is the distress of the wine trade, (list aaany growsr* are obliged to give uo their wine in nayment of the ?Itr Augsburg (iaxette, savs. "?he let P'*tur? of tho wfisMssyps