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sepa ahey mee E NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 6857. SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3, 1851. On the Hevision of the French Constitution, Sritina or Wavnesvay, July 16. ‘The following is 4 fall report of the speech of M. Berryer on the revision of the Cov-titution: M. Berryek asec nuded (ue j rivuue, and apoke as follows: Gentlemen, 1 i t ioe preteasiva of replylag to whut was 6.) 1 day and to day by the speaker who hy Jct ees you y phys- ical strength and wy 1 Co taeulties would not, perhaps, enable i »« Bat seizing ia its gouerality the » which has been dis played before you ion against all the paet of the e seem that if We attach to thore obs importance which they merit, if wr ry eravity of them, Af we perceive the beariuy ot eo vivas to which they give rise in th: | 40 Whom they are addresked—it weni! soi) © euch oiviliza- tion, which has lasted \« ‘od wade such pro- gress, would only have | 4 continual, an inces- Sant combat agaivet the iunaaimental rights of so- ciety, a blind and ivcesswut ‘yranuy against the Sieat mase of the people—such would be tag history of the past [profound scusution } 1 shatl not tuush on the diferent parts of the Hon gentloman’s speech, except on the points which bear more di rectly ou the great question submitted to your de diberation. In the discussion even of your questio know, and I canvei forget, that tae Legelative Assembly bas not the right to decermine and to pro- claim what changes way be mde im the political institutious whieh now govern the country. The Assembly hus only one wish .o express. I innst, 1 the flirt pluce, state what purt my friends and my- felf have taken inthe preparation of this disoussion. e did pot even demand chat the wish for revisioa should be expressed: we prevented no proposition to that effect. But when the word revision was ut tered, when it was spoken ot, could we avoid seeing that thore who demauded tae revision responded to @ sentiment? Could we be blind to the necessity ot that revision which wos culied for by tho country, and demanded in petivions more cr i regular? I say, that it was impossible for us to misunderstand (iat tha; demand re sponded to a want of he country. J: was imposing for us, for it was signed by wo huud-ed and thirty- thice members of this Assembly. What was tho dine of conduct we pursued! Could we, who are convinced of the defects aud dangers of the present institutions, refuse this appe What wonld have become of the honor, the good tuich, and the sin- cerity of the royalists, if we bad done go. (Hear, hear.) Yes, We supported tho revistoa; bat it was not merely to satis ty var ideas as to the best future of the couutry, it Was oot only to gratily our affuo- tions and our intereste; but We threw a glance the situation of the couutry. Two great dange @ppeared to us to threaten it. Three years sic we saw men, driven by the tide of events on the ruins of interest: and of goverumoncs, proclaim the republic, as a dyke raised iu haste to prese: France from the torrent of anarcuy. We never op- posed the proposition of that repy 3 We never | exclaimed aguinst that effort, made in a moiont of | feverish exctiement; we never procesied against it. vas ' SPSECH OF M BURRYER, | | instincts of the space. The republic, on’ the contrary, which you | We anited onrselves, un all forms, to those men whe showed @ resolution to save lraace from | the tempest; to those men to whom we have con- | am But we | 3 stantly and loyally lent our co-operation. cannot but see that this Jaborious eflurt of three apa the junction of all tie conservative tor ts NOt been too m to avert the danger; and | that it has been necessary to be ready on the | broach at every hour, and at every momeat. Aad | what is the danger to which we tind ourselves op- | posed! It is that when tuis labor of resistance against the elements of d ‘ the constitution has puir ‘We noW approach, when a!) the pa be suspended, and when the torrent, dread, will only meet with uncertain and hesitating | I say that this is a daoger with whica | France ie pre-oceupied. ‘Tais perti is not the only one; it gives rise to another which is not less great Every wind is alarmed at tae crisis which as pre- paring, and the country has rached a moral siate which makes ime fear that it may be led astray ns | to the remedy to be applied to the evil, and a® co } the resource to which its eifurts should be direcied. | 4 do not bring any accusation ag aiast ihe char iter of my fellow-c! 8; God forbid that | shoutd io so, but whoisthere that cannot adait that P60 years, in whioa ali systems, and ull forms of government | have been in turns tried, estublished. end overcome; When all the illusions of generous minds have by turns fallen beneath the power ot tacts, tho zeal for tbe public weldare does not any luager avimate the Deart of the people. Lam not unjust, aad 1 can | a 18 80 Necessary, | oul & moment which understand that these events of «..°y years may | have altered the French charactor. “Waat, then, | may happen in the country? It y be that it will do What it finds the most conveaient and the most easy; that it may choose the transitioa the | Tess agitated, the less violen., ani that which will cause the least commotion. it may happen that it ill take what now exists, and that ic muy coutiaue b Xr a longer or a shorer d, and that, ia | onder to avold anarchy, it may precipitate itself | ‘into a violation cf the constitution, and itself lead to the misfortunes whic inwishes to avoid. How ever much I may dread the inv: of our socigl enemies, | do not less fear an un onstitutional re- election of the prerent chief of the executive | government. Gentlemen, 1 bave a long career to | o over. At the commencement | was anxious to | shorten my discussivn, out, very anxious to respoud to the attention which you g pe, I feel that the range of the subject increasc, and | beg you not to | pronounce a hasty judgment on the ditlerent parts of the speech which | pronowace, and not to ex- clude other propositions becwuse 1 do pot now men- . Lrepeat, never demanded the re- ‘vision, but when once it was called for, the royal- dats, through a fecling of howor and of frankness, were bound to support it M. Mtot-There are, thon, royalists here ? M. Bernyen—Doee that rise you! On the Left—S; ! epeak M. Beevers —tis not exclusively from interest in our principles that we act, bus from the perilous situation of the country We thiuk chat the eslling together of an asembiy p sessed of all the powers society is indisyonsubie. [oe revision having been demanded, it woula have bveea s ifisient, it #ccms to me, to have given only the geueral mo- tives for it. Bat honorable members go farther, and desire to foresee the results. The Hon. M tes. With great authority he har sour’ cove ow clorely conseque uces are connect« | pete Michel (de Bourges) has stated v + antici- We do not require eny wa: | ; voice to be les. hut jy aware of that—recent facts havo suffiviently convinced us of it. 1 do not wish to accuse any one; but, when we sve principles oppoved to principles, L permitted to show what consequences inciples which we opposed have pro- duced on the masses. These } vinciples received th rst intorpretation on che | 5h of May, when the sancturry of the la ulated, aod they re- ceived their consequences im the terrible days of June, which cort us sv mush bivod And you, in spite of the separation witich you have wished to make between the future sud the past, in order to remain in (+ : srvow circle, see what are the coo Sequences of ti) use principies! [Ilvar, peel We have heard you pay homage to the remembrance of the most detestable ot bad days, to men, to times, and %© a period wh oh the moral feeling of the whole world has cursed. In saying this, | do not fear bing taxed with any exaggeration in say- uu have spoken of fine mon who, in four- committed more crim-s in unheppy an ali the passions, all the ambition, and all the perversity of the bumaa mind, have been able to perpetrate in fourteen centarics—(ioud applause on tho right)—aud have you, with your great and lively imagiwation, had any thought of Others! Has ii occured to you that there ht be ia this Asrembly eons or yephews or frionds of your viotime? Have you thought that it is to a nation the most impetuous in passion, bat also tho most humane and the mort nubile when calm, that you | most noble jealovey of the diguity of I | them. addrore the langaag» you m«ke use of? (/Hfear, hear.) But, afterwards, you said tous Stmade my- self.” I did so, also. I'am a plebsian, as you are. J approach the people as you F mix with them asyoudo. I vidthem at least as much as you do—1 know them, and do thom justice. They will not yield to your fatal excitations—they will in- Bae ny the rouvenirs of their brethren—they will caloulate what misery, euffering, and shame thoy supported when you were their inasters (movement) —when they obeyed (he voice of those children of donbt who protond to be reason iteelf. Aud ean it be true that wo—wo, my friends, [ore the honor: able member turned to the right j—that wo shoald be inevitably placed under the yoke of thoee de- testable principles thet we, without knowing it, without desiriog it, shou!) resemble our adversaries! Why? Because #o are not invurgente—b recognive the work of time—bocause we mage to the legitimate obanges whien civilération has undergone—hecanse vo kavw toe transforma tion of society, act ng ty industry, by loveligenco— aure wo claim te great reforsa uf 178, rendered necessary by fourteen conturies— beewu all the political bberth« of 1784 We towards our erewi-e-we, repablicwo: [-nddenly ning to the left} What kind of pride can animate you, that you group together thee youre fin the Fame sentiucoute oi | What. you attr ratitude t troyed 1780. (Grcat sensation.) The republic billed the most noble (ouniers of the liberty of 179. Applause ) Bailly —but mast [ count them here? ‘bey ail fell on the «cuffolds of the repwolic. (Ap- lause ) There is an immense distance between | 7s¥ and 17%%—between the principles, the great reforzns--the reforms to which we have devotod our lives—of the former and the latter. Tor yoa know we have followed the saine carecr—you know if we have ever been unfaithful to the great principles of 1s {Approbation,) And our friends are not more unfaithful than we are. (No ) When it is said that the monarchy is hostile to hberty, it is forgotten that the wovenent of 1769 was commenced by the great martyr, Louis XVI. 1t was he who foun the reat principles of that epoch of public sovereignty tion.) Where do you go to seek incom- paubiities between the monarchy and liberty? Im- vrudent that you are, you forget that the repub- lic only tett ruins and sufferings, and that it gave us up to despotism [bravo]! Incompatibility be- tween morarchy and liberty ! But who, then, restor- ed to France the principles of liberty of 89 Who replaced them in honor? Who caused us to enjoy them during thirty years ? The monarchy. Ah, you say that though it way have proc!aied those prin- ciples, it did not love the people, it did not satisfy thei: wants—it was hestile to the people by a too restricted electoral system—it wished to have capi- tal represented, but would not allow labor to be so. Really, my mind is confused. Do you believe, then, thac it is only since 17¢ that capital and labor have found themselves in opposition to each other? No, that opposition dates trom the first day of the crea- tion. hen you say every day to the man who earns wages by the sweat of his brow, that capital is a despot—when you rand it by accusing i: of ex- baueting the source from which it spriogs—when you mirlead the reason of the workman, by making ap abusive use of tho privations oud sufferings he endures in the midat of his fucily—do you not feel acme shame? And, besides, why do you doit? Does tbat depond on the form of government ? Does that el als> on questions of rapid, prudent, paternal administration, giving activity to capital, inspiring it wita confidence, aud thereby exciting it to render labor feeund ? Such is the effect of pru- dent la’ but the form of government whether republic or monarchy, has nothing to do with it. And if the republic disquiets, troubles, manaces the country with @ too bricf, and perhaps stormy future—do you believe that it does not drive away capital inclined to desceud ia wages on the people, at the same time that it thwarts the course ot labor towards capital t [approbation] The monareby, which you say is iacompatible with the sople, bus traversed a long say is eternal, and to whica you promise the future, has only been known by us fora day. But. for how many years has its nursery not weighed on us! Lam willte not to make au abusive use of the fact that you have lasted but a short time; bat do not make an abusive use of the fact that we hive losted too long. [Laughter aad approbation } restoration did more for tho people practically then you will ever do with your theories. That tion was the monarch; ional sovereignty, transmitted crated order. That monarchy solved all problems, , accomplished practically more than will ever do—it inspired progress—it hed peace, from whence prosperity arose ‘The honorable M. Michel (de Bourges), iv thanking tbe restoration for having delivered us from despot ism, eaid also that it bad delivered us from glory Put that is not exaet. Never did the monarchy fail in what it owed to the country in days of con- flict. 1 once asked if there existed a sin, patch of the government which #as not inspired by cai ,end Te will was told that there was none. [Applau be to its eternal honcr to have raved Greeve. General Fanvizr— jreece was saved by (iod and her own people. {Noize.] | M. Per ~The honorable member is right. | There iz nm h does not come from Gud; bet let him him not forget that he was in tho Preocamen who devoted theimselyes to enee of Grecee AuviBR here made som> ark, whieh ‘ard, and there were crivs of ‘* dilence RnvER—It is also to the honor of the monarchy that it crushed a long-established ty rary exereid over Europe by a barbarian peo ue English and Spanish governments fai cam the attempt. It has alsothe gloryofa govcrpiment which occupied itself to mainta'n peace, icbor and prosperity. You have not forgotten wha Ihave more than onee said since 1830, to the glory | of those who o nobly supported the honor and au tberity of the French nam The restoration did particularly two things—first. it accorded an indewnity to the emigres. | do not hesitats to say that the time has arrived for £, ing on equitable judement on that great act. ‘ho in- dem ity for spoliated justice and of eocial pru: by that 3 and confiseatios was effaced from the} cha:ter of ISH. Prop it was said that cou sooner ov later, rey properties was a great act of | ass. Property was avenged chet horrible penaliy, | XVI. and the " sin, because, 2 Would be granted. [Ap- probation ] The restoration id another thing; it provcribed regicides. * Ves,’ itis said, **but they returned after wards.” But count, after tho return of those mort guiliy men, the attempts ai assassi- pation. (Movement j You say, further, that tho restoration, after — recognized rights, violated | Gentlemen, | will not defend in aay reapect | what I have co: demved; but 1 demand that the | ditions, and its habits, as which could only excite | coulesced Hurope—if, then, he evoked the republic | tioned. Both of whole truth shali be nown. On the day oa which an additional libert: as announced, and certainly the charter of ISit was a great liberty, mon of | license invaded t)s Geld; then a conflict arose; and it wes seen the’ the liberty accorded becauo dan- gerous, Did you not seo the same thing under the republic! [/) vement.} It is not posable to pro claim a libe y without seeing men of livense in- stantly demioi ag rone. ‘The man who had been spoliat d, wi ‘been constrained to seck a refuge abr od, hei (little confidence in liberty. ‘That is tr ‘Tio government, also, on its part, tod too! » confidence in libert, ut Lask you, ifat that! we liberty did not t the govern- ment? Yes, under the restoration !aws wore passed, both repressive and preventive, but I will ask you whether the government, created in July, and the men who most warmly adhered to that govern ment, and who wished to at least constituti nal order, were vot compelled to diepute thes liberties inch by ine)’ But because restrictions are imposed on liberty, v bich are inevitable in times ¢f revolu- tion and of struggle, does i: thence foiiew that royalty is opposed to liberty, to the liberties of 17M, which we maintain, and whieh we «all to the - ithe peed I aoe bgt ve ge ance 's 0 to royalty, and, partiew.orly, to the monarchy of divine rghe Nover could a more false e> prev oi have been made use of. There is no diy right but that which man establish ina ecu of society: there can be no rociety with- out religion, family ties, and right of property. When you say to society that royalty is ho: tile to it becnnse it is of divino right, you utter a threat ego. ot that which is of divine right—so ciety. Ge bevond that network of useless word: io w oy you Ly ogeneaee your bogey la- or and capital. ‘ou respect the right of pro- perty? Certalcty nel. Peed A‘ all events you threaten it. There is but enc thing divine, acd thatis the state of man in sovlety; but the form of government is human essence, society may live un- der all forme of governme I do not tell you that society cannot exist uncor a republic, therefore do not tell me thit it cannot exist under a monarchy. [Approbetin.] Doubtless the republic will leave to al! jcowt freedom of discussion; you say that, and 1b eve you. But J alvo understand that General Cavaignac, who #0 energetically dofended society mm necordance with the majority, should say t & government which id allow itself to bo called in question wae a lost one. When a govero- went fulfils ite task, whea it secures the prosperity of the country, it certainly could not allow tho question whether it ehouid continue or not to be eternally discussed. But hero allow me to say you touch on a great question of oe nial, T will even say of national, duty. Did monarchy fail in its duties towards Franco? Go back to the first y of cur history. Will zou find that monarchy «it our country in the barbarism and the ignorance { former ages? You now bring forward grea: s0- cial theories; tell us, 1 beg of you, whether the monarchy hae not fulfilled its task, and whother our ege bas found France what it was undsr ansient tyravniest Certainly not—royalty has acco mplivh- cd ite duty, and it is ours not to aliow blind and, viclent minds to insult this saving and pacify- arg spirit. If, after the divisions wich rent the country asnnder, the crown of France did not fall on the bead of a ki England, it was becanse the ba foretat vol cher — principlee it a later period, we religions wars, Which brought Frapee within a hair's brendth of her ruin. How did France save herself? 8 eturning to her principle—by making it triump! ever the passions and ambitions of the moment. Gentlemen, I wiil not go further. I said, at the be gin that tho Assembly should express a wish for ar » but Eas not tho right to proaonnes op the form of government. Bart when you say mona.chy is incompatible with the principio of unite the repuviie ‘and 1740 But tho topudlio do. | ITP wien you represent the last two gorernmonte | | of the prerent Mregident of the republic. having fallen on that account, permit me to ask all of you, if it be seriously that you say that I’ranco ig republican t—if it be seriously that you mako that assertion, after the experience you bave haa? France gt in! France, who received your accla- mation of the republic with stupor! France, who treated your circulars and your commicsaries in the way youknow! But no; France is not republican! You recently reproached it yourselves with having embraced the republic of a prince who is a preten- cert You reproached it with having sent. a majori- compored of mouarchical men. at! this rance is republican! No—she is not—she cannot ! What do you want herto do? ‘’o run to meet Sead republic!” But what do you promize us for the juture ? At most, some administrative reforms— ffuirs which coucern the Minister of Cominerce or the Minister of the Interior, (Laughter) Youre- ject the example of the old republics—it would prove against you that never was there a form of woverbment more repugnant to France, to her char- eeter, for her name, and to her spirit of individual- ism, than the republican form. What would you have for her? You would have the American go- verrment, lees what? I will not say less the slavery, but save the federation. 1 tell you, then, constitute the American government in a great so- cial unity, and | will tell ‘you that it will not exiet a single di {Approbation.} You compare tw» states which bave very different condition: would assimilate a federative state to France, whic : has a dread of anything like federation. What yo wish for is an Utopian seheme. Will you allow m to make my confession of faith to you? (‘Speak speak.) bat | am about to siy, | never betor. expressed to one; I row make my country my fist confidant. Ihave based through four forms of go- vernment; 1 entered into life when the Empire wa in the midst of its glory. With my youthful en thosiasm I was strongly imperialist at twenty year of age. [left college at the time when the thun ders of the cannon of Jena were heard. I thea begon to ¢xamine into public affairs. My fathe- was @ poor laborious man, but anxious to inspire me with a love for study, In 1811, he placed me with a former deputy of the StatesGeneral, ro- EW him to make me shody the minutes of the sittings of the Constituent Assembly. In conse- quence of that course of reading, 1 felt an eager thirst after libeity, and a hatred of despotism. saw that even glory could not palliate this latter, and | can appeal to witnesses as to the truth of my assertion; tor you, Barrot (turning cound to where that honorable gcatleman was sitting], you can testify to my horror of the empire. [ Movement. } I pray you, gentlemen, to excuse the familiarity of wy language; but the rapid working of the idsas sometimes carrics us further than we intend. I say, then, that I detested despotism; and whon I beheld a great government, an immense power, dis appear tuddenly in a day—when nothing remained ot all that it had arrived at—when glory and genius could not suffice to maintain anything in an erect position—when, | say, | poadered on all that convulsion, I perceived that to make the destiny of a people depend on the head of a man, however gigantic be might be, was nothing else than the greatest of crimes. (Applause.] Lsaw | that a prin je was wan‘ed. I devoted my life to the conviction which animated me, and from that @ay 1 became—do not mock what | am aout to suy, for, by so doing, you would wound mo-t deeply the truest sentiment that ever moved a human breast— from that day | became « royalist, because I was devotedto my country. [Loudeheers } Can you suppore that I did not ack'imyself in February, Its, why a great nation like France, able to boast of so many able men, shoald not govern itself? 1 asked wyrelt the question, but 1 did not for a moment hesitate fir the answer, as 1 knew only too well what it was for an old society to be subjvcted to a re- public necesearily at variance with ite hopes, its tra- vaneor and discontent. k leave to reply to that point «I ay that the republic is i with the old’ society of Furope—ix utterly uneuited to the ge wants, manners, and fevlings of « nation of thirty ns of inhaditunts, closely packed together in the same territory, aad Whore ancestors Lave been, for centuries, governed hy kings. (Applause.) A great authority bas beon named to us to- day—namely Napoleon, Napoleon, it bas been said, when at St. Helena, spoke in fa vor of tho repubiie, and predicted it tor Europe No, vo, do net believe that such was bis intention | What! that master mind who had done so much to Vomged together the scattered fragments around im, and to reconstitute society in Mrance—he to praise the republic! Not so; but when the great genius beheld his work destroyed by the force o! —if be uttered the words, Frazee will be repub | lican or Cossack!”--it was not as a prediction tha: he so spoke, but as a mulediction. (immense cheering.) Yos, it was a malediction from the lip: of great man fallen, and nothing else. (Renewed cheering.) And that other great man, Mirabeau—-the mighty orator to move the listening senate and the massee—he who had so shaken, from the tribune, the government to its centre—when he had ex- hausted bis remaining strength in endeavoring to onetruct the ruin which he had mady, what was hie ery of despair, when he felt the wings of death flinging their darkest shadow around him! “1 cary with me,” cried he, “the monarchy; tho factions will dispute, amonget themselves, its shreds and remnants.” (Movoment.) History has appre: ciated, as they deserved, the testamentary exclam: tions of the two ro mea whow I have just me them, who disposed of a whole century anda whole people by the mere force of their genius, felt the task at last too ponderous for theirstrength, and in the agony of their disappoint- ment they exclaimed: —* Authority is gone, anar- cb: Aeesnn hag! aan ion. God only can ane gether the seattered ruins.” plaure.) let me now to the question, M Michel (de Bourges) and 1 have beth tinned against your patience, in having departed irom the subject immediately under de- bate. iam ubout to discloee to you, in a fow words, my whole way of thinking. | know that rome of my friends by no means go so far as 1 do; perbaps, in fact, my mind is unncee: ly terrified at the dangers which the constitution has prodacod, ard the immens@peril attendant onthe re — ove- ment.) Suppose that, when a head of the State is to be again named, that nar.e, which cannot feel any ap tion another being as well known, eh again obtain several millions of voter—euppose Louis Napoleon Bonaparte to be again elected President ot the republic—if that thes place, I say, gentlemen, that you are lost. (Agitation.) The Presideat—oh! 1 do not attack him. Idid not give him my vote, but I maintuin that he has rendered @ great service in placing hiw- velfon the side of the party of order. Suoull be be reelected, he will be placed, by universal snilrage, above the constitution, and I ro that it would require ® superhuman virtue for a man in eveh alien, and so elected, not to imagine that is his duty, and his right, to overturn every ob acle tg bee ining in power. What, then, wit! you do? " A_Voice.—We willnot give way, wo will persis’. M. Protyne—You will persist you will oppose that course. How will you dose?” Hyro, in thi house, during the week which you would still hive to lt You will support a scraggle, and what struggle? But will you Perpetuate your existence! Will you make yourselves a lon, tliament? In that case you would violate the constitution your- selves. (Deep sensation). Ye: which is aboat to arise, and it it for that re: that [ carnestly call for the revision ; that I desire to see a Constiinent Acsembly aesembled here, be- fore any anti national crime cau be committod.— Do not forget, gentlemen, tbat ro-elec.ion or pro- lopgation of powers, are both imuense dangers ‘To prolon, ephemeral power is to prolong tho ers with which we are at present eocompasied I bave no hope that the proposition of revicion wilt ol tain a coretitutionsd oe But if it obtain only the Sogmannor ag ed and not che legal oue— however the question be decided—let us, above al’, respect the constitution, let us cling to itas ovr rheetanchor. Inthe present formidable circuns 1 implore the Assembly to remain unhesita- Jy and constantly in the path of legality, The law which we bave, whea observed, is surely safer than any other violated. Legality is, in fact, tao aly strength that remains ty us against seditivo | vat ambition. J appeal tu you, geatlemen, ‘all upon you te urite frunly together to respcot legality. Ah, my frieeds, you canvot but cherish socal order; dy i.0t, then, listen to the voice of heee who lock wirh pleasu member that they wish to divide us stili more be certain that they will arrive as their ends, do not render ourselves invincible by watch ulness and union, Lat we, then, stand together, for the bour ot danger is drawing near. Hear in mind that the union of all the social forces bas alrealy been cur eafeguard ina verrible crisis—n g fori table inamirection Muay that vouduct of ours new serve ve as a great example,» d render ua ablo to meee he pertle which advanee. [Tremendous cheoring | ‘Lhe hor orable mac, on desvonding from be tribune, waa surrounded by tho members of the right, who overwhelmed him with foliatations Tht disenssion was then adjourned to the next day, sod the sitting was brought w & oloso ate quactor past six, Movements of Mr, Webster, THE PROPOSED TRIP TO EUROPE New Yorx anp Lrverroon U. 3. M. Srrawsip Company, 56 Wall st. New York, July 18, 1851. My Dear Sin :—Seeing, by our papers, that it is possible you may visit i:agland, permit me to teuder you such accommodations on board cf our | steamers, to and from there, as may be most likely | to conduce to your comfort while crossing the | ocean, Yours respectfully, | Epw’p K, Cotixs. To Hon. Danict. Wenster. MR. WEBSTER’S REPL Magsneteco, July 28, 1851. My Deak Sin:—I am extremely obliged to you for offering me a passage in one of vhe ships of your line to England, and if I should propose such a | voyage, I shell certainly accept your offer. Ket only am | disposed, so far as may be in my power, to manifest an interest in your line of steamers, but Iam ready to say, also, publicly and rivately, that ] think the encouragement of your lite. ani its success, to be objects of high public con- cern. Individual enterprise, in this country, can ace complieh all that individual enterprise can accom- plich anywhere, but it cannot carry on the conteston equal terms, or with equal success, against individual enterprise in other countries, strongly sustained by | the patronage of governme: lconsider your en- terprise as partaking largely of a national char: ter, and decm it @ cause of jast national pride t! you have been able to construct such noble speci- meus of naval architecture as have commanded the | admiration of the world, and with which you have | been able to accomplish the voyage asross the At- lantic in a period of time without a parallel, thas far, in the history of steam navigation. | am not, my dear sir, in the legislative councils; if | were, | I shou!d deem it my duty to contribute such sup- port, on the part of government, to the Atlantic steam navigation, as to give it # fair chance of | successful competition with that ef any uation im | Europe. Lam, my dear sir, very truly yours, (Signes) Dant.. Wensrr I. K. Cottins, Esq., New York. MR. WESSTER’S LETTER TO THE CAPT CODITES, NOT THE _CODIPIERS Wasnixcton, July HM, 1851. Gentlemen:—I have received your friendly letter of the 4th of this month, and am highly gratilied with the patriotic sentiments expressed therein. La- | deed, I should have expevted nothing else, because | such sentiments are worthy of those Pilgeun Pa thers from whem you are descended, as well as of the general charavier of your community. ill give p ich satief action, if cirouimstances should allow, to accept your invi! among you. In the meantime, I shall be most happy to send, to each et you, such productions of mine as may fully explain my sentiments in reepect to the great questions of the present time. With some of you! have the pleasure of being personally acquainted, as 1 have often been iu your good town of Dennis, a3 well as allthe other towas onthe Cape. Lsee also attached to your letter muny hanes not personally known to me, but be- longing to families with which I have had 'sequain ance in former times. I bave always found the air of your county delightful in summe®, and there are muy sea Views remarkably fines ought to fers, also, that ia there my pleasant visits, I did not entirely neglect the aireams, 20 highly estimated by the anglers that have throws the fly in them Gentlemen—The nature of your pcpulation iv somewhat peculiar. Ibave often been struck by | the very great number of sca captains, as well as other mariners, which the county of Parnstable and the neighboring islands furp On the cape and on the islands f have frequently conversed wita persons who seemed as well acquainted with the Gallipagos Islands, the Sandwich islands, and some counties of } artsof New Lolland, as with our inmpehire and Berkshire 1 n the trial ofa arose rex o the harbor of Owbybce, between revts ‘al rock guarding it on cither side. The | counsel for the opposite party proposed to call wie | nesses to give information to the jury oo: ming | this cutrance. | at once saw a suile, which thought 1 understood d suggested to the Judge that very probably some of the jurors had eveat entrance themselves ; apon which seven out of the twelve jurors, rose and said, that they were quite familiarly acquainted with it, having seen it often. ‘The occurrence, | dare say, is remembered by that most worthy man and eminent Judge, now i 1am happy to know, and enjoying in ad- ife the aflection of his friends, and the re- s of all who know him; | mean Judge Putnaw. ‘Faw incident phows the nature of the employments pursued by your ncighbors and yourselves. With tho mere elderly gentlemen of your county, have bad the pleasure of frequent cooversations | concerning early revolutionary times, and esp cially | respecting that extraordinary man, James Oris. have been where he lived, aud examined such of his papers as 1 could find; but in tue latter part of bis life be destroyed most of his correspondence. Mr. ‘Tudor bas Writter @ very good history of bis life, end you all kuow the ewphatic eulogy pro- nounced on him by the elder Adams, viz, that it was Jomes (ris who set the ball of the revolution in | motion. Warm, eloquent, and highly impassiono 1 in the cause of liberty, his brilliaut life was termi- nated by a stroke of lighting. None were earlier to begin, none more persever- ingly maintained, more zealously struggled to main- tain the caure of the revolution, than the people on the Cape. Allthe region about James Cus, and the Thomas’, and the other true-hearted pa- triots of those times, isto mea sort of classio ground; remote, without large cit scattered along an extensive const, there was yet, | think, in no part of the country, a more fervent devotio: to the patriotic cause than was manifested by your an- ecetl Gentlemen, I am eure you ascribe quite too mach merit to my efforts in behalf of the ( nion, aod of the constitation. Icanonly say, done what Leould, and ali that I could; and that } siall not slacker my hand. Perbaps, it is natural that you should be attached to free aud regular ¢ ostic ations of government, since all hnow that tho fi st written | constitution in the country was composed and | signed on board of the Maytiower, wh he was riding atanchor in one of the barbors Your own prosperity, gentlemen; the sucee your leading pursuits; the prosperity of yourcounty, and of the whole State of Massachusetts, are, at this memeot, living monumcots of the benotts con- ferred by the constitution of the United States, and the administration of government under it. Your soil bas alwa: en 2 soil; as such you and your ancestors have cultivated it for conturies: it needs no new obristening: but what the pecple of Masrachusetts wanted, and “rt county anong the reet, before the adoption of Lhe present constication, | was free sear—free seas, oo which their iadastry eguid be Mapleyed, and their national rights pro- tected Hy the blessing of Providence they have enjoyed thie frccdom, pnd this protection long course of yore, ave have flouriebed and prospéted utde! thom beyond al! former exnmple What if your soil be not of the richert quality, whatif it be not fertile like Western New York and the Western States, I ecill bardly kuow a part of | the country in which the people eajoy wore sub- ‘enti t have traversed the whole, from in Proviacetown to the line of Piy- mouth, without rceing an instance of ragged po- verty or of abeolute wa Your labore are oa tne sea. Ja amore emphatic sense than cau be said of any other people, your home iv on the deep. No be the home of your families; the nume of ) ion; tue home to which y arn with ro much gladness of heart, isin the various towns on the Ca where all your treasures be * Itrust that there is oot a man « you, who doce not feel and see that the prosperity of his labor is mainly connected with the Gam stration of the government of the Uvited states; and therefore, | trust that the political air cf the Cape wil remain a thy as ite natural atwoepler a6 free trom faction and feusticina, | we ie ie from fuga and vapors If your hardy and enterprising young men co euteard, pursuing their enpleyment, to the Bay cf Chaleur, the Straits oF the ¢ nd Bank, do they ust receive @ positive protection and enevuragemont from the laws of the | nitea State? If taey take # wider range, and, in pursuit of larger chjects, coast slong Brartl, dowble the Cepe, and tierce tloer West, ur south ov worth, io the rast Macifie,de } they not fing that they are safely covered by shelver of thes fag, which no power ou arth vor tures to tremt with disrepe cs? | . frico ce of West Donnis, discourage fav cite ead, @hstract notions, aud all inswusiderate at tempts to reach ends, which, however desire tle in themeelves, are not placed within the compass o” peur ebilitice or duties. Held on, my friends, to the eovstinus ment eetablis te of be couuty, but which are beyond | )0br control, to the all-wie diveotion of ao ov. ruling Providenes Perform those duties #b oh ero presett, plain and pesivive = Rorpoot the laws ef your country, uphold our Amorigaa tnstivutions, Mint ee pou acy Able, Commuly the chart aad thy ation to pass a day | nd 1 suppose I | | up to Marshfield, and you, ccrtawly, after what has | great honor to bot | Bh notn, wh com! , keep an eye on the sun by'day, andon the pe otis bok, of the South and the North, by night; ards conatitational American liberty wero ia some de- ree sommitted to your barge, ke+p hor, so far as it depends on you, clear of the breakers. “ Lashed to the helm, FYould Kens overwhelsa, 1 thiok en thee.” | Lom. my friends, with sineero regord, your | obliged fellow citizen and obedient eervant, Dasu Wresrer Mesers) Wm. B. Gooch, Eleazer Nickerson, Jr., Aber W. Nickerson, and others. MR. WEBSTER'S REPORTED RESIGNATION. The Lebunen correspondent of the Boston Tran- script, gives the tollc win In a recent letter I spoke of the enthusiagm waich was felt by the gucsts of Colambia Hall in this de- | lightful summer howe, on the reception of the glo rious oration of Daniel Webster, at the laying of the corner stone of the enlargement of thy Capitol at Washington. I have siace soon a letter writtea by agenticman who must have nad every fucilit for knowing the facts, (and whose character & er 4 like that of Cwwsar’s wife, above suspicion,) in which the following tacts were stated; and as | nave seen have experienced # constant and ualyterenpted in- tellectual tension, of which few other wen would bo incepable. What corstiiutes the clief master of turprice is, that be bis been able to go vbreagh thore exhausting toils wthouc zbsolute prostration, Ard yet Mr. Horace Maun has the Pharacaical imspudence to sneer at Mr W , for the premature and longing es ho did, 5 his accustomed rural sports und amusements, in the indw gence of whien be has gathered his vitalicy aud power, from the time ve beat bis own enow path Ww over the hills of New Lamps i t school Mr. Webster laid Fil. mere bis nation, io one of those ¢igvified iti and classical letters by whic A to much ve. and ou which h writer of the Eng curcly for the fature vk, When a very high eule erence, upon the classic yuruy of i unre: pondence with Le felt it to be as th ty of an Anglo saxon as y of WY asbingion Well. Mr peter Jaca before the Pes’ dont his resignation. Mr Fillmore received the ¢ i cation from Mr. Webster's baads with » E ret. he said to his 2 Tnow dl was @ t, I felt thas beould curely in any other +1 coun-ellor, aud there- ou to Lecome Seeretary of State. generously lett your ¢ aivent placo wad consented to md ing in the ad bic affairs Lou have done so, a a very considera le portion of larity which bas attended my adiminis- Amerie fore 1 inv Serute, 1, Ae my cl ‘oustom| duriyy wed agricntcural PRICE TWO CENTS, American dren. ays feeling and acting asif oar united soem pe be given n political stu by the cheracters Miss Ludlum’ will da.vee the hatever | gourk at weel Spprobation mental performances are execute cision: their j keep the nud the New tion te elureienl Bo) univerrels fe xe eution the reversal com for tham th Pr remem way < exer in Chis d rating fiom Hw er tdt, and thee visiting Lind’ intent called upe cy. Mirw Dyk eouy le Cf airs, dollars, by b Mr Harnett ind the pext feature . and wei ‘Their eimging is jokes are happily me chi wos well fil ade heerte, vb nawiede tor thi FROUPE—THEIR SEPARATION, JENNY LIND AND ¥ Lieahing up of his physical constitution, aati Nome c But, i will speak of the facts to which Thave nl | tye princiy | luded. Feeling the necessity ef ev who came with Ber wo t yeioally wo with ber di vdny eherrelf. reer wpapie have returned tot . euson, to her, whieh it we * porenits. feel the necessity of going home tomy — the eclumos cf a paper, tarm, and I connot courent to sustain any offivial pe poo Cun as ne Sas at responsibifty while lam away from my poet for apy considerable length of time — I should glad, theretore, gir, if you would relie my CBee. J wish you well, ar. thi issafe I know of no important forviga BOW pressing Upon our attention, and ——' “But, Mr Webster, | caunot consent to acuopt your re, gnation: You have been with me fror the begiur let us go through to the end. You know Phere ‘cl confidence in your integrity and obilivy ; and, besides if you feel dis some relaaation, go and stay as Lenith, your duties, or your tnclivation prompt, and if any wdto tako | rq articular emergency arives, I witleome | Ue” passed between us, will have no great objection to seeing me there, and we will talk over the business of the dey, sul it may be. Mr Webster could not resist this appeal made with the same megnanimity with which portfolio of fervign affairs wes fi ed to him, after the death of General Taylor, ‘These facts do | “"¢ b geotlomen Ard so Mr. Webster left Washington, and he | bas gone to Marshfield. lt was | of P a terr Theatrical and Mw ical. Tay Morsnati Deamanie Jtnicnr.—Me. Peter Rich. ings, the popular and gentiomauly comedian, well kaowa, at the old Park, and for several years past manager of | tint the Walnut street theatre, Philadeiphia, has arrived in thir city, snd entered upon the duties of manager of the | dramatic jubliee to be given in honor of Mr. K A. Mar. | thal, A more judicious sclection could not havo been | made by the committe | The steamer Atlantic PIcteseor Of BRK? opportumity cfg lich papers reger eran og ws your | cheate. imprereiig hi oF Mrorapt, | thea from the vsusi | | ed amongst hir guerta, up ere done hy thy low an extract from the Plymouth widvertisey, Bi | Inet mont, tthe «xtraordinary powers 0 | Others, the hig end will but beer we | euccreded Whereve i) ri ) wan. are every whe nce jie noe by at, lth greater m ie he be in Ww Haltetic heroes \s 1 Ube ingenuity # dict Ny to our Hh the ruceradul, for nothin ne ie no wan in the country who could briug 40 much ex- | jwitice they = perience, tact or talent, to ald im earrping out this great | 4 total des that Mr. Geo. Lewls, the very efflelent prompter of Brondway thratre, who displayed great skill in stage tilaice Gmiing the recent illness of Mr. Bareett, the late | tmapeger. bas been appointed by the commiitce to fill the effice Of prompter at the coming jubilee. Hert Cline, | Leon Javeill, Miss Clagendon, Mra, Deering, and Mr. W Hi Urmilton, are amongst the artists who Kindly ten- dered belt gretuttows services yesterday. La another column will be seen the immense array of talent that has boon aivady pieced at the disposal of the eommictee Wita euch © eoneentretion of artictic ability, a vay diversity of po cformances, ealoolated to emit every t can be represenved throughout the day aud eveniog of | the 12th of Augu-t, and we may add. that ander such a ] marrysr ef Mg. Bichings. the whole af not foi in | Ji dweing on effet whieh will be how thetic telent. as well as tho drama’ ic taste, of chis country, ord which will dovbUess ap epoch in the history of. —. ihe stage | From Boweny Tunsres.—The beautiful and itoposing epre. | Pom twel the dele of « junl,” whict hat been produced | h has drawn large and highly | Jor, and wh | little ewe We are glad ty be mble tontate | fits wt parch ir tw The folic wing ate Ube te 0 to the dea. | United Staves, frm ist From custom to ity Russia senght ini at the kings of Pruy avover, have each and all eckwowledged ‘his power Profure y rewerded bis effort hem for eh nee in roars of leughter. irrned ir t:-morrow evening in exceedingly attractive, and mustenure & denacly crowded Frasows’ Minetnoss.—'Chis inimitably negro delinentors buve eomsletely allured the public their light and varied entertainments, ‘The rieanr serennders has proved a great acquiai- ie corspeny particularly Swaine, Dac y ; Ieok is eufficient to ecuvalse his auditors. A glamee the programm fort morrow will be guarantee enough fora crowded by use Mitarany Gane made quite a) how the cheeks uf our buid fo; wonder and a bee devierd wash entitled the “Pespio's Candidate the chareeter of Josiah Shattuck by or MeV \. Clark, La Favor. Mins rn In the course of piece there will mp speech. and a ieker, the Mrs. ‘ee thy Ma Li ated will be the ob jemaing ‘bildren in the Woods,” wich J. It. Soot, whom latitudes you traverse, on whatever distant billows i of the | you are toned, lot your country retain ber hold on | every boty krows to be an exeeltent actor.in the 4 your affections heep her in “your hearts, and let | racter of Walter. and Mins ©. Pox ne Joseph = Jour carol to her ever be-~ orebeetra wil) next play an over'ore and all rumi~ nete with the celebrated drama 0: the “Seven Raemper of Adtiside of Drerd:m.? which will introduce nearly’ all of the excellent company attached to this populer a1 flourishing establishment. Dut thet the house will be rammed Crriery's Minerures drew immenre econds during the ceived with the youl enthusias Van There can be little dipebt ent, wad the imatruk ith the strictest pre- given. and the burlesques 4 ‘The programme ~ band af addition of A ort. last evening Tho Dghted and enthusiastic no allu to them in any ef the public journals, [ ad ie © ow piriang to Brougham's with te refer to them briefly, for | kudw'that they suglemee. wien rx be :w vriting to Brougpean's coe will constitute a new source of satisfaction to the — that ever oxper: y ‘wntial success in Brook friends of that illustrious staresmen who hag jash dyn ¢ David 1) will be repeated again thie escaped from the escitements and fatigues of his evening, with wo unrivalled netors. Johnston and wblic labors, to the quiet shudes of his sea-washed — Ly? ne. puste rarscters of Uriah Heep and Pe- ome at Marshtield. Botiy; tore! ‘le excailent farce of * Delicate Mr, Webster, during the law: seventeon months, GeuAa” Flue * | hes gone through more exhausting labors in public Bawaue’y “he performances sanounies for Ife than avy other civilian We searcely kuow of a “a ming are sxeuetinaanente a General even, who, in the flushed career uf viotory, ‘ ius Tasty Mestager, bad tore baaes be warching trom one conquered province to anotaer, oe \ cocspany attached to this flourish- and from one prortra’e kingdom to an empire yot t cul ® lmake hee debat to-morrow to be Cinta who he ac ed such cg An per ime. tight-rope exploite, and incowparable physical, moral, au . « end two bighly atiractite taroce, torks. From the tine Mr. ¥ . srivcted. his great Union epeeeh of the 7th of March Canna © publie will enjoy a rieb treat by year, till be banded in bis resignation to Me. Pill viel? hoo hoon establishwnent tonight. Max more as Secretary of Statu the othor day, he must Mare omheotra will give another of their sch have met with such orfvet flolkh ard brillianey the inspirations of ied. and have wom @ positionas artists. The eevening contains maay rier, Aug. 1.) composing Jcuny Lind’s suite, country, end have continued ns—Benediet, amd dt. end last, though Joceph Burke, separated fer having given, om enth eoacert since sepa- ‘enedtiet the two Bellettis, Gold- nected with the es, left for New tory to eawiling for gone dowa to his 11 stop» couple of reat. cabbag While the i by Mux Hjortaberg and Cliften Honse, Ninqura y OF 80, prior te ad it is Mle some time separation, can sing them. r the pur- of the tage, were done by proper to spread forth im Here, ber to every proper cal! of and ebe leaves upon the minds and hearts of var People AN Ampreeion ef aminbility and guodoers thet will p: ver be effaced Providence Lover ever and bless he PROFESEOR ANDERSON, TUE GREAT WIZARD © sok vehe may @9, may 4 kind THR og amongst usth: famous Me hove on reveral occasions takes: cur readers extracts from tho Eng- erior abldities of this extra- . OF soirées fantaa deveribed as the most ors aad with doligtt, ww thetoreltes, We give bee of common with vouumes of ne est row Art.” enjoy ugh modern sevels than ever were at- ef bygor» ov turis—teate ere Cay ecourren bot in ration we #eulfal dha- with which they rit ccromapecrs” of \be pinetoenth com= Amumweat, “doing tele rele nos eromantic tribe, there fait in bala enn! in im Las hitherto deem rth ‘ f 4 ye owe Bhores wer of trivimp! in Amerien, whete he nit nee the imem who has steos ce hours, every mo- tent iors, aad is greatest telus *6@ times be porto lore aint Queen Viera saint of ‘An ate Finances of the Governa nt. to ' opts nod ey wemuiiures of the 20th Jume, 1831 — $11 0.147 BS 603 BAT TS Joan cf 1507. (Treweuig Notes funded) 9700 68 mmlegellancour SOurCs......c.see.s MUTASE OD _—-— $12,105,118 49 TERE. nces fur the past fuitoight, has been as ay bod ~ . place to enuther no lear attractive | Civil, miscellaneous, wnd foreign Inter 9, 4 aud excelent pieer, emtitied the ~ Three Guardemen " | 6 COW re ea m1 Mr Hombitn terms determined that no thentfo inthe | Ou Sccount of Mt ee. 1890s, 14 Unlon rball excerd him im novelty, The drauatic pubile ion SO60008 68 Hfe tw Loo We liawnre of Me IL celebrity to requirwany | . penere rulcgy fem @-— be bas been # loug time conuecied wich | OR aeecumt C tetien CD nee bentricnl afuire im thts city and te Jastly entitled to |G imOMtr cir poco: £29 043 03 te calied the father the dama—fr, from | On ace rae Cao a 18878 bie fret vogst ome, he has aed 2240 199 08 the tions to False the drama | OR Account of navy... eins 2 aay’ Uno ogtvnan | Teast. Be. OB PENSO Cont nee 7 1498 98 ar tu five trbiewas, sade NL 3,700 stiemt of Treasury motes san By aagth of the tahocted oxen va". ewe mptice Of tock ie ued for oi gd oT t ength of the taleuted company — “ye ean indemnity... Rady. “Mr t apd Mr ar the faces | ive instalments of Mexican pgp bn os ann uareemen the XUL, ant $16,202,044 88 m the Add to the ENT, a lirsetive memes. th lent wetrea, Mise An | fd ap Rete ooking id Py } Cotton. Whe Eppeare ns net ng. whi de Meriet. and ht y thentre, won for her t With sue F Humbita aurt be -ure to cont! ine ruccesful carert ‘The entertaiumeut commences © Hveband s Seeret."* —A great bill for to morrow evening ries Is the Ught cope porfore anor, with fed Franecis Ravel and the astoutoimg Wome Bigdily fonts draw down ths Met em thusieetic cheers This pat of the emtertetnoea” will he succeeded by the Ven-tivm Carnival Directieamut first Cie this + n «piece thas Deen ate ced oy Mens Pent bi in whieh Joeeoa Mare wt WIE ftrO. tee vin me ping sod thy chlese suit ~ the part of F by Mo Gefiont.thy Comatens ook. that of Zoriiaa by the gence. ned Columblae by Mad. Mar. dt harlequin coraio will totrodace «the Davrie, wie th Ge taeas, Mad. che discagul hea artiete On With his celebrated company, ® 4 Bure 9: trons: Trrathe —Me Purdy fs till going aboad bis now pieces. Tomorrow ke prevents smothor Register'e Office, August Rogtater. Nore.—The aboww incindas #2072400 paid 1 ithe article of treety With Mexeo. and $2 616.601 11 on ee count of awarde per loth article of same treaty. IMO ne per ree nda san esaas Amovot outstanding of the te-ae of the Ith Jenoary, 1847, ns per reourds of this oatee. TRRASURY NOTES € Deduct canceled notes In the hinn puting + Mrers, all under se 2d July, 1896, ; Total “MOND NOC TAK. Acting DUTSTANDING Taraeet) Deranrmeer, Reptetera Office, August 1, 1861 Amovurt oulrtanding of severe leeuet on - swe (cling Regteter. ‘The North iver travel ts jet now at ite flood, and whatever tumtee the oybe | beats carty thensende Cally - ght beats wad Use dey bow’: this 7cer, wibd be unprecedoamied. sta may Cacty the day ‘crew due ralirond, the the number of trerelicm