The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1856, Page 2

wo Decanse they are im themselves appro- ] t t f. s £ i rat ah stilt ae vat lid ve ot war. [bat Webeter of which I bave sp sion 2 tyes out in its proper Ie roma letier to one of his and Sr Wetter in Fonte note to Mr. Rush, in obieh he contrasts the super.or retineme! Roman word togethe: which is merely a woot tully foto the i «f Cleero so beautiful y ex- pressee in the letter alluded to:— 5 & tinere ad beate viver dun "1 al Virts is taee ét, amanubus Up vives. ‘vitor: nfbi! ad vi- vendum sco umedaiius Nea id ad yoluptaiem refero, sed ad Temiasionemque acmoram, bh ane nermone familari, ui est in convivio Mr, Webster loved to live wit his friends, with -‘good wen who loved bim.” This was his delight tone omprereed with the Peay gn carey 2 office lasbingten, and when enj.ying the sepose and quiet of Marebfeld. He loved Sy bis frien is at the social Because it is there that men most cast off the Durcem of the business and thought; there, as Cicero ‘mys, that conver-a'ion is sweetest; there that tae kindly ome uve ‘he fullest olay.’ By tne social sym- pa-bies thus cultiva’ed. the genial con-ciousne=s of in- dividual existence becomes more intense. Ani eho thr ever enjoy: d it can f 1get the charm of his hospitulity— so lidersl, +o chcice, so thoughtful? Im the very ast ays «f his life, and when comfined to the ‘couch from which he never rose, he coo- tinned to give mioute cirections wor the hospit- able entertainment of tbe anxious aad sorrow ul frrenda who came to Marshiield, It be enjoyed soc hiooseif, how mach be contributed to its enj.yment in eibers. His coliequial powers were, I think, quite equal te his parliamentary and forensic talent. He had some- ‘hing instructive or logemions to say on the most fauiliar ececrsion. Im bis playful mood be was not afraid to trifle. but beneyer p'osed—never iodulged in common Pleo:—never dogma ized— was never affexed. His range of informaticn was so vast—his observa'ioa so acute apd accurate—his tact in separating the important (rom the ‘unensen ia) so niee—his memory 4 reteutive—his com- mand of hapguage +o great, that his common tave tals, ‘@f taken down from his lips, would hive stood tne test of pabliestion. He bad a keen senso of the ludicrous, and Fepested or listened to a humorous ansedote w:th infinite glee. He narrated with unsurpassed cl-arnens, brevity and grace; no todions, unurcessary details to spia out the ‘story—the fault of most profound ran/eurs— but its main points set each in ity place, so as often to meke a little dinm-r t+ble epic, ut all naturally and without effort. He delighted in anecdoves of eminent men, especially of eminent Ameri:ans, anc bis memory was stored wi h them. He would oriefly @curs.a question in natural histo: y. relative for iostance to climate, cr the races and bapi's and breeds of tne dif ferent d: mestic animals, or the various kinds of our na- tive game, for he knew the secrets of the forest. He de- eee wes topic ¢rawm from life, manners and great industrial pursnits cf life; and he did it with @ueb spirit and originality as to throw a charm arouni subjects which, in com.on hands, are trivial and unin- ‘viting. Nor were the stores of our ste-ling Iitera‘ure Sess at bis command. H» had such anacquaintance wi h the great writers of our lar guage as enabied him to enrich bie conversations with the most apposite illusi mms and il- Justrations. When the oceasion and caarac*sr of the com pa- ny invi'ed it his conversation tarn-don higher themes aad sometimes rose tone moral s.oline. He was not foad of the tecbpical Ispgnage 0” metaphysics, but he had grap- pied, like the giant he was. with the most formidabie problema. Dr. Johnsen was wont to say of Burke. that ® stranger who sheuld chance to meet hin under a abed ina thower of rain would say, ‘This was an ex- tractdinary wan.” A stranger woo dil rot know Mr. ‘Webster, might have @ day with bim in his sea- ms of relyxation without detecting the jurist or the atesman, but he could not have pasted a hulf hour with him without coming to “he conclasim ta2t he was one of the best infsrmca of men. His personal appesr- apce contributed to the attraction of his social inrer- eourre. His coun'enance, fame, exoression and pre- sence arrested and Gxed attention, You cou'd not pass him unnoticed in a cr wd, nor fail to see ia hia a man of dsigh mark and character, No one c:uld see hin and net wich to see more of him; aud this alike in puoiic and Povate, Notwith:tanding his nobi» s:atace sud athletic devel pement in after life, be was in his childa>d fraii and tender. In an autob‘ogeaphical sketen wakea dowa from his Gictation, he says:—‘I was a wesk wnd ailiog child. ard suffered’ from almost every disease that flesh ie heirto. I was not able to wark on the farm” Luis ‘4t was which determined his f. ther, though ia straigh'en eda circumstances, to make the effort to send Damel to college; because, as rome said, “he was not fit for anything ele.” His brother Joo, “the wit of the family,” rema:ked that “ii was necessz-y to sead Dan to seho 1 to wake him equal to the rest of the 3. Tt was a somewhat cartous fertare of Now Fag Jand life at that time, not woolly ankno+n now, that it ‘was cwing to the fact that he ‘wasa week and auiag child” that Mr. Webster received in youth the benefic of ag codege education. This inversion of the g:eat law of our vatue, which requtres in the perfect man ‘‘a sunnd mind in s sound body,” was, I supp ‘ve, occasioned by tae arduous lie required (0 be led by the industrious yer map in anew country. Whatever was the cause, in a large family cf sens <he priviloze of a “pub!is esuca- tion,” as it was calied, was usually reserved (or ti. nar- row-chested, pale-faced Benjanin of the fick, the mo- ther’s darling. In consi.eration of showing symptoms of endercy to pulmonary disease, he was eolvcted for a Mee ut hard study acd sedentary Jabor, flickered a wnile in the pulpit, ap 1 too ofien crept befors he was fif'y toa corper of bis own church yard. Mr. Webs‘er. by the bles eo | of Provicence. overcame the infirmities of :uildhood, aithcugh not long subjected to the nardships of frontier lie, grew up.in the luve of out do -r existence, and all the manly and h altbful pursuits, exercises and <r softbe country. Born upon the verge of civilize bis tather’s h-use the farthest by four m‘l-s on the Indisn trail to Cunaca—he re*sioed to the iast bis love tor that pure f esh netare in which he was cradled The dasking streamer, which conduct the water. of the m of New Hampsbi ¢’s lake to the noole Merrimas, \t superb group of mountains (the Switzerlavo of the Upited States) among whieh those wa'crs have thei- wources; the primeval furert, whose date rons back to the twe'fth verre of tte first chapter of Genosis, and merer since creation yielc ei to the setdar’s axe; tue g ay Wuttiesnes of gravite which prop the eternal sacréa elternstion of the seasons, with io play <n Geld and forest and tivod; the caeth ck ies ail cpa, i sum ner; y pavement with which they are floored in wicter; {io'verdwe of soring; ‘he prismatic tints of the ‘autumral words, the Jeafiess branches of De- eomber, g.icering hke arches and ¢ rridors of silver ani in the enchanted paiaces of fairy aad; soark liad im the morning sun with wister’s jewely, diamond and smetbyst, and ruby and sapphire; the’ cathedral aisles of puthless woods—the mournfal hemlvck, the ung with drooping creepers, Mike foneral binpers pendent from the reot of chancel or traprept over the graves of the old iords of the land; these ali retained for him to the clore of hu life ao un dying charm. Bat though he ever clang with fondaess to the wild mouptsin scerery amidst which Le was born and pared bis youth, he loved nature in all her other The simple besuty to which he had brought at Marshfield, ite approaches, 1°s grasey lawns, dis pored sions on the ‘hill sides, unpre- but taste‘nl, end forming a plsasing inte-- ‘with bis cora fields and turnip pat:hes, showed fen A t> tbe miloer beaoties of civitized cul- e. He umderstcod—no one more—vhe secret sym; of nature and art, and ofton conversed on ciples which govern their relations wih esch other. fe appreciated the infinile bounty with which nature furnishes materials to the artistic powers of man, at once ber servanc and master, and he ka-w not less that the hivhest exercise of art is but to im- select and.embine the pi < = [ re Hy ‘ore parts of one great system; for natare is the Divion Creator’s art, ano art is rational man’s creation. The meanest and the humbiest zoopbyte is a most won. @rous work of more than buman art, and a chrono- meter or ap electric telegraph is no dead machine, but a portion of the living and inscrutab © powers of natnre— magnetism, cohesion, elastici y, gravitation—compiaed im new forms and skil'ully‘grratged conditions by the creative rkill cf man. But not than m-antain or plain he loved the sea. He loved to walk, and ride, and drive upon that magnificent besch that st:etches from Green 7 all berg we td a fired to pass hours, say, days in a le to Proutie the Realthtal nit othe salt-water. Ie lovee the of the ocean, through all the mighty actaves deep end high of ite far resounding registor; from the lazy plach ofa midvurimer’s ripple upon the margin of somo cozy creck to the sharp how! of the tempest, whish wrenebes @ light house from iv clamps bolts, ‘atbom in the living rosk, as easily as a gardener pulls s from his flower border. There was, intact, » manifest sympathy mares his great a ant = world-sutrounding, deep heaving, measureless, everlast- jog, infinite deep. Bis thoughts and conversation otten ‘torned 4 it and its t relations wish other of betar mee? Thre heard bim allude the mysterions analogy between the circulation car- ried on by veins and arteries. heart and lungs, and the ivterchange of venous into arteris! blood— that miraculous complication which lies at the basis of animal nfe—and that equally complicaied and more stu- pendous cireu'ation of river, ocean, vapor and rain, which from the fresh curren's of the rivers fille the depths of the salt rea; then by vaporous distillation car- ries the waters which are uncer the firmament up to the cloady cisterns of the waters above the firmament; wafts of the wind to the earth in the form of a thousend chennols, , open and secret, to the beds cf rivers. He loved to ecntemplate the profusion ¢f Jife in the ocean, from the —_— animated gelatinous «park, which Uigh*s up the bow the plunging vessel with its spectral pbos- gleam, thr: the vast varieties of fish that | a of the food of to the wallow through ita from ‘they are dregged by the skill and bo gd of the whalemen, to cur dwellinge—e specie of industry, the ja cow in the waters be Breech perscns, ‘not promaeal ina Of practiced in een Few qnlonce, were a6 well (ustracted ge Mr, Webstor with the i ‘ # til i i rf : z oa iE, bi | te en) Flee agcde" Fz! erieateile Beetageiile E Hi i i i Hi 3 A i H fe “1 53 be a Res fit if : 5 g é i fe 1 L can never but Mr, Webster’s heen relish for the besuties of nature gave a freshuess to his perception of her every day oc- which, in oo. seqnance, of, thats. Lago are lookes uptn by most pers ne u @n0e. pers that laearntat peo © Tho Morning,’ which bas found its way into the papers. Surely never was such aletter witien before by a statesman in political life, startung on a tour of otservation, Spendirg but a siogie day in hichmwnd, he 10s xt 4 0 clock to.su vey the ct'y im the gray of tbe mornicg, and returning to his lodgings at 5 o'clock, addresses that admirable letter to his friend ‘and relative, \drs, J. W. Paige, of Boston :— it ing, and » morning sweet, fresh and detightfu'. noah sere phe = ge 10 so many objects Bar’ de ‘monary itso, few peoples inhabitants, Of citiee— kpow apy'hing abou'. Among our good peopie of , Dot one in a thousand sees the sun rise once ins year ‘They know rothing of the morning ‘Thetr idea of it is, that it is that part of the day which comes along alier @ cup of oviive and a boet- steak, or @ piece of toast With them mori is not an issuing of hight, a new bursting forih of the auo, & 10 W. ‘of al} that has ife trom a acrt of temporary death, to beho God, the Heavens avd the Et fret frint streaks of iight, the earliest purpleing of the east which the lark springs to greet, and and aceoer Scloring into orange and red, Wl at length the qlori vas sun 18 seen, ‘ot day,” this iney never enjoy fo- they never see Beautizul descriptions of the Sun abound in ai! languages, frut tbey are the strougest perhaps to those of the Kast, where the sup 1s 80 of ‘gn object of worship. hing David speaks of takng to bumelf the “wigs of the mornirg”’ This is highy ical and beatiful wings of the morning sre the Sun, Kavsof light are wings, It ia said that ‘ihe un of righteoospess shall arise w'th bealing in his wiogs;” arising sun which sha) scatter jife and heatts, and Nerve. 2} know the morning, Tam aoquatnted with it, and T love ft, fresh and sweet a8 it is, a daily new creation breaking forth and calling ali that have lise, and bseath and being toa now adoration, new enjoyment, and new gra! tude, But Mr. Webster's mind was eminen‘ly practical, and it was by no means through his taste and feelings alone hat he entesed int» this intimate communioa with na ture. He allied himseif to it by one ot the chief pursuits of his life. Notwithstandiog the engrossing nature of his professioval and official duties, ne gave as much t'ms ard thought to sgriculture es is given by most persons to their main occupation. His two extensive farms at Fravkiin and Mar: former the much loved place ot his bisth. the latter the scarcely less tavored re- sortof which he became possessea in middie life— ware carried on under his. immediate superintendence—uot the nermal supe: vision of amateur agrisultarista, leaving everything, great and swall, to a foieman; out » minute and intelligent supervision given to particulars, to the ‘work of every week, and where it was possible every day; when at heme by actual direction, and when a rsent by regular and detailed correspoudence. In the large mass of Mr. Webster's letters, there is no subject more frequeat- ly treated, or with greater interest, than this, in bis cor- responcence with his foreman and others in relation to his fms. Brought up on a he knew sometbirg from the associations of bis early days, of old-fasbioned husbandry, and in later life, ob- servation, experiment and books Lac kept him up with the current of all ihe resent improvements, With every depsrtment of husbandry—the qualities of the soil, the great art of enriching it, to which modern cuemistry has given such extension; the succession of erops, and th-ir compsrative adaptation to our soil and climate; the varie ies of snimals, and their preference for drait, flesh ond the dairy; the construction and use of agricultural implements—with all these subjects. inall their pranches and details, he appeared to me as familiar as with the elementery principles of his profession. Aix knowledge of ther was practical as well as theoretical, derived ia part from experience, and actually applied hy him ia the manrgement ot his owa farms. He had an espe- cial ‘ondness for fing live stock, and possessed ad- inirable specimens ct it. Eurooean and Amerizan. ‘This taste never cese'ted him. On ono of the last days of his life, be caused himelf to be moved to a favorite bay-wincow, and after he had beon employed eih bis friend avd secretyry (Mr. G. J. Abbot) in dictating a part of bis will ‘he directed three favorite ycke of Hungerian oxen to be driven up to this window, ans having entered into a particalar descrip ti nof their oge, brevd and history, gave dirce'ions for their being weighed and measured the fo.towing day. No subject attracted more of his attention in England than farming. Ihe only public speoch made bs hin in that country, of which a report has been presorved, was that mace at the meeting ¢ the Royal Agricaltaral Socioty at Oxford. Bis first public atdress, on bis retarn to this country, deiivered in the State House iu Boston, can- tired the results of his observatinns oa the agricu ture cfErgland. Mavy of you. my fiends, must have hoard Mr. Webster convers« on agricultural tepics. I reeotleet ‘on one occasion to have heard him explain the c: wbich determine he limits within woieh the vari real grains can be cullivated to advantage in Evrope and Arevies; unfolding the doctrine of trothermal liner, in conzestion with the varions grains, some of which requive a lorg sumuer ond sxme'a hot sumner. His remarks on this rubdject, evidently th-owa off wihout: premeditation, wuld have enriched the paces cf ascientific j urnal. Onanot.er orcwion I re member to have heard him state with precision the ¢e- scert of & favorite native breed of homes, with al the characteristic pomts of a good animal; and on another, the question relative to the indigenous origin of Indian corn. I meme these familiar instances, which now to mo smopg the verul of you, my tri d greatly enlarge the list. . Whether ana citives, a patriot, or a practical her, Mr. Webster’s mind was powerfully drava nituze, Could he have chosen bis precise poxi- ia life, I think it sould have been that of an cx- tensiyo lancholder, conducting the operations of a large farm. At Oxford he said:— Whatever lve may tend to envich and beavtify soctety, thet which feeds snd clothes comfortably the mass of mankind, shonlo always be rogarded as the great foundation of national prospcrity. Inthe beginning of that adéress in the State House, to which I have referred, he snid>— I regard agriculture a9 the leading tuie* esi of sovletr. © > © Ihave been famllar with ts operations fom my youth, aud L have siways looked upon the fchject with a rely and éoy ta- res Ne- tbe m:cting of the Norfulk Agricultural Soc'ety, at DedBsim, he cailed ogricaitue ‘tue mam pirsult of life.’ Weighty words from sueh @ souree! What Webster cor ere ‘he leading interest of society’’ and ‘the great foundation ot nationsl prosperity’ might well oecusy his time, his thoughts ond big profound atten- tion. “Petore popular bodies he spoke of it in its econo- mieal relation»; butin narrower cirsles and on propes cecusions he delighted to dwell on its sublime pailoso- phy. And what worthier thowe, my friends, can cecupy the most exalted intellect. what subject is en waal enlea- lated to task the bighest powers of though:? Were in the natural world do we come so near the traces of that ineffable Power, which, in the great economy of vegeta- tion, hangs orchard and rove ead forest witu the pom- pous drapery of Mey, and strips them to their shivering branches in Novemoer; which lays out universal natare as we see it now in this cold winding sheet of snow, not torleep the sleep of denth, but to waken her again by the concert of birds and warbliog brooks and the soft breezes of spring; and which, when man cries to heaven for his duily bread, instead of giving bim a stone, smites the marbe clods of winter ailround the globe with his creative wand, and bids them bring forth grass for the eatrle and herb the service of man, and wine that maketh glad th of msn and oil that causeth his face to shine, an: that strer; neth tue heart of mau. I meant, my friends, to have said a word of the delight taken by Mc. Webster in the healtoful and invigorating sports of the forest, the field, and tbe rea; with wast keenness and success he followed them, how well he understo d them, In these he found his favorite relaxation from the anxie- ties ct offiec, and the labors of his profession. Tacy were to him diversion, in the proper sense of the word. they diverted, turned away his mind irom the grest cares of life, and furnisbed him fn exhilarating occupa- tion; which, without mental strain, stimulaced and re- fresped his intellectual powers. To these sports he brorght all the ecience and mastery which their na‘are adwi's. An apt pupil in the school of old Tease Wal- ton, ho was entirely iamiliar with the wngler’s cu- riows lore. The different kinds of fish thet fill our waters—their habits, their resorts, their rela- tions to each other; the birds which frequent out hres, wmetsbes, and uplands, with every variety of larget game. hacjteen subjected by him to ascurate investiga- ton portleularly in 2e’erence to their points of revem- Diance to their Puropean congeners. It was not essy to ask bim a question upon any topic of this kind, to wnten & #atisfactory re not ieady. I hope my frieads, youwill not th am dwelling on trifles.§ You all know how Geenly the taste for these manly aports ca- tered Into Mr, Webster's character. The Amerisans, as & people—at least the professi nal and mercantile e'agses—have too little considered importane of healthful generous recres‘ion. They have not learned the lesson contained in the very word which teacres that the worn out man is re-crented, made over again w the senscnnole reloxation of the strained tacul- thes. Tho old world Jearned this lesron years ago and found out (Aercd 1. 17%) that as the bow always dent will at last break, so the man, forever on the strain of thought and section, will at last go mod or break down, Thrown upon e new c:ntinent—enger to do the work ot twenty centuries in two, the Arglo-A nerican Ppriatica has over-worked and is daily over-working sai, From morning to night -from January to Decem ber, brain and hands, eyes nud fingers—tre powhra of the budy and the powers of the mind—are in spasmodic mer- elles activity. There is no Inck cf @ fow tasteless aud soullers ¢iasipations which sre called amusements, but noble athletic sports, manly outdoor exercises, are too little eultivated in town cr country. Let me not con- ude, my frienés, without speaking of a pti more en- deasing aepect of Mr. Webster's character, { mean the warmth and strength of his kindly natural affections, The great eympthics of a true us Apicit were as strorgly ceveloped in him as the mascuiar powers of bis frame or the espactticn of hie mighty faleilect, dertem of 9 woman. He honored his parents, he loved brother and sister and wife aud ebild, be chertahed II the gentle humanities of life he had the ten: i . tempt to do justice to thrizks from the most distant approach t» pubile dis- cursion! These were the pure fountains from which he drew not were'y the but ch of bis ebaracter, every faculty of bis mind end every purpose of bis will, deriving new strength and fervor ‘rom the warmth of his hear ee rome may ask were there no sbadess picture, no Fy upon Sibi melldin sca! WWastbesteog he ‘Ibat faultless monster wa ich the world ne’cr saw, or ¢id be ysrtake the infirmisdes of our common huma- nity? Dic ibis gr-at intellectual. emo fonat, aud phy- sicul cr gaviza!ion, amidst the strovg ac ion and reaction of Lis vast energies, ita in‘one couscieusoess of power its sopring aspitatione, ita. oard stroggies wi h tortane in early life, its vehement antagynism? of a iste the exhilarations of triomph, ths lassituce of ¢. 44 it never, under the urgent pressure of the interests, the parsicns, the exigencies of the hour, diverge im thy slightest degree from the gviden mien in which cloistered philosophy places absolute moral perfection? To this questicn, which no one has @ right to pnt but an angel— wh: se rer‘ ne virion no mote cistempers—*o which no one will expect a negative answer bu: a Pharisoe, witha beam in his eye big enovg2 for the crovs-tree of a vyoa- gegue—l wake no response. I confine myrclf to wo reflectims—firet, that while contemporary merit in tor the most part gradgirgly estumsted, the faults ef very great men, p'aced as they are ‘uyon cn inence wheie no: hiog can be concealed, and od- jects of the most serutimzine Lostilty, personal and political, and like the spots o.. \he sun, 1o which I have compared them, seen fir the mo-t part through teles- copes, that msgnify a hund ed, a thousand times; and tecond, that-nus seldom. 1m reference to ques'inus tha strongly excite the public mind, the unputed error is on the side of the observer. We learn frow tho kay] o’ Ross, the most difficult problem in prac icsl science i: to ¢ p+truct aleps which will not cistor: the dody ft reflects. The rlightest aberration from tho true curve of tho ape- cular mirier 1s enough, to quench jhe fires of Sirias aud tresk 10 club of Hereules~ he motives and eondue:, the principles ano the characters of ten are not lows 1 kely to be mistaken. than the lines and angles of mate rial becies. The unebaritableness of inciviauals and panies will somotimes confound a cefect in the giess with a blemish im tie object. A fiy, hatched from o maggot, in our own brain creeps into the tue, ond shiaigntwoy we procisim thet there is s monster fn the heavens, which tpreaters to devour the sun Such, wy triends, most inadequately -ketchoi, w some «f his private apd personal velations, was Mr. Webster; not the jurist, not the Senator, not the states- mon, not ‘he orator, but the man; and when you add t» there amiable po: sonal traits, of which I have endeavsred to enliven your recvilections, the remembrance of vha* he was in thore great public capacities, cn which 1 bave poaresely omitted to dwell, but which it hos tasked the ighest surviviog talent to ceseribe, my we not faicly sny tbat, in many respects, he stood without an equal among tho men of his dey und genora'ion, Besi. os his noble presence and majestic countenance, in how many pelnts, and those of what verratie ex: cellence, he towered above his fellows! od, Miso: If, ry deslicd enly a companion, for em idlo hour? s cummer’s drive, an cvenibg ramble, woo ples sant copyerratiun would charm the wey, was thero aman living ycu woula sooner bave sought than him’ But if, on the other hand, you wished to be resutved on the mosi difficult pont of constivational jarleprudense or public law, to whom woulo you have propounded it sooner thon to tim? If you desivea.a guost for a social circe who ¢ vovy prest nce, when ceremony is dropped and care barIebed, gave life and cheerfu'ness to the board, wou d not your thought, while he was with us; bayotarne110 bum? if ycur life, your fertune, your gooa pane were in peril; or you withed for a voi ci patriotic ex- hortaticn to1ing ibrongh ihe iand: oy if the great iat. rests of the country were to be explained and vindicated in she senate or the cabinet; or if the welfare of our be loved pative land, the union of the states; peace or wer with foreign powers, all that is dear or important for yourselves end your chiloren were at stake, did t: ore live the man, nay, did thore ever live the man, with whose intellect to crnceive, whose energy to enforce, winec ‘ice to proclaim the right, yeu would have rested so secure? Aud u, through the *‘clouc” of party opposi- tion, sectional prejucice, personal ‘‘detrastion,” and the mili ary availabilities which eateh the dazzled fan- civs of men, he could have “ploughed his way,” at the merkiian of bis ite and the maturity of dis faculties, to thot pesitian whieh hie talen's, bie pat:iotiem, and his pubhe services so ad merited, would he not, bey nd all queeticn, bave administered the goveroment with o diguity, a wide, and a fide'lty to the constitution not surpassed tinco the days of Washington? Two days bs fore the decease of Denicl Webster, a gentls aua thought- ful spirit touched to ‘the finest iseucs,”? (Rev. Dr. Fro@urgham.) who know and revered him (as wbo taat truly krew bim did not.) c.n'emplatirg the setting eon ay be “ sbed bis parting smile” on the mellow skies of Ocioter, and anticipating that a brighter sun was soon to et. which cculd 1s¢ no moe on ear h gave utterances to bis feesings ina chaste and elevated strain, which, | am ure, ¢xprosres the feelings of all present: — Sick thou antumnal sun ! ‘The trees will misa the radiance of thine eye, Ciled in their Joseph coat of mant a dye, ‘The ctowda will mtss thee tn the fading sky: But now in other clitoes thy race tnust run, ‘This day ot glory done. Sivk, thou of robler light t eee wil) moura Ce -s ite ea deur, '« heavens grow gray at thy rei ser, Thott sbiving orh of milnd: thou beacon tower! Be thy great memory sil» guardian might ben thou art gone from sight. Speeches wee also made by Hon. Rafus Chon'e, Gov. 8 mop and mbers, and the festival was prolonged till a late hour. Theatres and Exhibitions. Excspway Tresrau—The speciaste entitled ‘The Sex of leo? con innes the great feature of attraction ut this house. Those who ¢esire to witners 8 grashie represen: tation of the effects of winter in the Polar regions, with- out experiencing any of the bed'ly discomforte incident to that celd sma cheerless quarter of the globe, siioula 200 tbo grand panevame of tiie dreuksog up of an eccsa of ice, togetber with a won~ertully natural portraiture 0! the aurora borcslis. a6 delineated in this Crama. ‘Cateh- icg 3 Mermaid” is the afterpiece to-night. Nipto’s Garpey.—A new cr micality from the faci’e pen cf Jerome kavel, called “The Echoo:master,” in which all the Ravets have characters specially adapted to their abilities, will be presented tonight. The protty litde “Serpichcre, or Fes of the Musi will ful Kobert, the wiliant danseuse, and othe: members of ‘be great ballet corps, perform ecveral ne and elegant durces in,this picee. The anu cmenta close with Jerome Ravel's great fairy pontemine, entit ea “Rooul,? which is ore of the finest scenie pieces ever produced at this favorite houre, Bowsry TaraTay.—Miss Penvil will make hor third a carance thie evening in the part of Pesdemona, in Shekepere’s g cat tragedy of “Othello.” Mr. Jounston wil support her aos , ané Mr, and Sirs, Werd as Othello end Emitia, The tragedy will be sucseeded by the highly exciting drama denomiputed ‘A Pather’s Dream’? —Mr. R. Jobneton as Ok Adam, avd Mrs. Ward Bs Phebe, Between the plays there whi bea song by Miss Denbam and cancing by Misres Gallot and Melville. I: 1s seldom that a Lill is presented possessicg so many at- tractions, particularly for a Saturday 2 ight. Burros's Tarsire —The tadustajons mansgsz will agaia appear in two of the taree excel ent pieces offered at biv house to-night. The opening piece is “Twenty Minutes with a Tiger,” folloWed the charmiag comedy6t ‘Sweethearts end Wives’’—Mr. Burton in his great ehs- ractor of Bly Lacksday; Eagenia by Mes. A Packer, ber first eppearapce here; the other parts will be we i representea throughout. The comical drama of -‘Bur- ton’s New York Direetory,”’ Me. Burton as Picadilly, elves the entertainments, Fun eno: gh for one night. Wattack’s Timammm—The revival of Bourcisault’s c:mecy of “Love and Meney” seems to have vee souree of quire as much pleasure to the audiences a: bas been of profit to the pepu'ar manager, Tae lending chargeters could not be entrusted to more abe hands trau Messrs. Lee‘er, Brougham and Walest, Mesdames Thory, Vernon, Stephens, Broughatn, Covover, and othere. The comedy will be feliowed, this evening, by the great extraveganza called a-hon-tas,”’ which has now been rupning & month, and would probably ran as much ger, Lavra Kzusn’s Varretirs —Those who desire to wit- ness the chgant comeay of “Sill Waters Run Deep,” with its admiratle cast, should not neglect the opportunity, ns it will be withdrawn of or to-night to take room tor other novelties, Asa guarent every charocter is ably rendered, it is only reqai: metic that Muss Keene pisve Urs, Sternho! Reignolds. Mrs. Midmay; Mr, Base, Mr. Potter: Ur. Byott, Jchn Mitimay, sad Mr. G. Jordan, the villein Hawksley. The splencid ballet of ‘Tne Prima Donna’? ‘will also bo performed for the last time. Woon’s Minerrgis.— After rendering a number ot their Dest songs, both jocular ard sentimenta!, this favorite troupe wil to-night appear in the burlesque of ‘Robert Macaire.” Bockray’s Sexnwavees.—The burlesque called “Richard the Third,” which bas been the cause of great merriment for a fortnight, will be performed to night for the last time, The eustomary variety of singing and dancing. ‘Tox Boon Comonen will give readings from Shakspere and other authors, this atternoon and evening, at the Apcilo Rooma, These talented javeniles havea large numter of trienda, who, it is hoped, wit! not forget them on this eccasiom, Navai Intelligence. ‘The Naval Court Martial assem led yesterday at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, for the trial of Commander Ito- bert Ritchie, for insulting Jargunge used to Capt. Kamael F, Dupent, covering the action of tbe late Naval Re- Toteg Board, of whieh Captain Dupont was a member, and by which Commander Ritchie wae retired on fal leave pay. The following i# a Jist of tho officers wh> compose the Court -Cotamodore L.. Kearney, President; George W. Storer, F. A. F. Lavalette, Ieaai tains Thea. A. Conover, James M. MeIntos! Mentgomery, Joshua R Sands, William , John? Kelly, Thomas A. Dorndn, Frederick Engle and John Knéd.’ Commander H. B. 'W. Kennedy will be Advocate, and Ion. Charies C, Conrad ex-Seoretary Navy, counsel for the secused. t?-4= Bavirg in view the renewal of erp! o transport the United lew ‘Yor Europe, twice a mont! the Collins He, 1 nave thought it be to acdress a few remarks bearing upon the subject to the members of a Soe ons House the r tiv pracsicabil ‘ocean with stcam- ers of great and power bean discussei for portant pri 18:8, made her first Live: pool to New York, in Gtuen days. ment, Say dyer as it ee ens ormamserelal ost ave ® seeing ae Ee ee Brick gponrrp wl punctual communication ‘woil as with the eolonisl 10 feed the main arteries of her iw, and 8) eptly secured \he suprem: wird ea Her pu.iey in relation to this great en- terprise was at once t, liberal and comprehensive. Ibat government, j apprebensive chat private capital ano incividual enierprise could not alune push hips bist baa Be? the ascendancy of contracted with the Cunard line to carry the mail twice « month between Liverpoc! and Boston, via Haiiax, for the sum of three buncred acd twen'y.five thousand dol- inzr (875,000) anpom, This compeasailon was after- wards ipcrea‘ed 10 four hundred and wwenty-tive thou. ‘api oclars ($42,000), per annum, with the tion ibe the steamers should be of not Jess than 1, nurthen, and four hundred and tif'y horse power. Ibere was national economy, as weil as 8 high- er grade of national pour in this proceotiog. tetweem the years 1841 and 1846 inclusive, Corsrd Jine twce two hundred and twenty-four trips, and psid into the Britt sury. in the shape of pettege cn mosladle maver, seven miliiuns eight hundrea thi: ty-aix wWourand eight hundred dollars (87,836,- ‘The sum aid to the owners of this ine witbin tue «ome pevied, urder jibe contract of four hindred and twenty-five thourane ceilars ($425,000), per annum, was ‘wo mi'liona five bunded and fifty thousand dollars gs 590,\.0), Jeaving a Dalance of five miliions two bun- ved 01d eighty-six thourand eight hunsre1 dollacs (25,286, 800), to the cred: of the British gevernment. This mone then fev: able result po doubt had much influence in Incucing the latter to enlarge its operataons iu that oi- renen, The mumber of s eawships in the iine was in- ©1€2+00, and the allowance for the conveyance of the male xed at nin nd forty thow and two hua- Mars ($940.00), per anpum, or adout six eeu a es hondzed apd eighty auliars ($10,680), for ip. ver munificent this allowance may seem, and is, its } a) mex t was dictates by sound and patriotic policy. Krom the Copare line bas eprung into existecce, in # woncertully short space of time, Great Britain’s s‘npen- Ccus tystem ¢f ocvan mali steamers. wih an egg ogate «1 Leer\y forty thoursnd horse poser, ateaming over one ape a bal nolli vs of miles annually, traversing every paviguble oceon, and. viciticg nearly every important Durtur in the world, The switt conveyance of commer- cial inteiligence, and tho facilities of travel obtained thicugh the oceansteam mail service of Great Bet:ain, 2: B cost o' Dearly eigat millions of dollars perannum, is, in fyc’, Ina rateval p int of view. a source of im: MeDs¢ profit to becounwy, inasmuch as countless piste ot eyes ey weah — ore trom it find thelr way into her grea ccapor:s and her mighty capita). Dor 1s this all: mere then half of thisdmmense steam marice, #0 usetul ip peace, bas been aiready taken up 9 the goverment tor the transport service, and has thus been mace available eguinst her enevies in war. It is not strange that this pew and rapidiy ceveloping element «f comm ereia] and naval power and hel se sbould bave awakened the ateention end stimulated the awbition of our own peopie and government. Treading ¢«sely, as we do, upon the heels ot our great ocean com- pein, we e ula not remain incifferent spectators of the steam triumphscf Great Britain. Our lake and river steam boats were, confesrediy, unequalled in the worlo. Trey were, indéed, the offspr: if Todividual enterprise Bnt an occan steam marine was a vast unt experi- ment. ‘Ibe fielo was entirely new. The great sbun- dance ef capital in Eng and, and hence thel- unequalled tacil:tits for the c.nsti verion of heavy machinery, alone zed her a formidable rival. But when vo these a}: on Was addeda generous gcvernmen: patronage, i! ‘was evident that no hing short of the 62m kind of eacour- agement bere could held out to American enterprise the least prospect cf ruccessful competition. Gur goverrment adopted the sz Jus policy of Great Britain. avd Jaid the foundation of our rysten ¢f Ameri- con msil steamers. By meaze of the Dieren line a di reet ccanmunication was opened with Hayre, Central Germary and other parts of the kmropean ¢2n*inent. The attention of tbe American pecple became awaken- ed to the necessity of the +staplishment of a s‘eam ma- rire cf our cwn, which might secwe the purposes of our it g er merce in times sg ped and aid in the protection of yhat ccmmrrce in event of war. Ths resulthas preven that this policy was a wise one. Ou the 61b of March, 1846, Mr. Collins and his associ- ates mace proposals to the Pr stmaster General to carry the Unnied States mail boteeen New York and Liverpool iwice a month curine e‘ght months in ibe yoar, and on # a mcnth curing the ovber four months, for the sum f three bundred and eighty-five thonsand dollars (8 £5.(00) yor snmim, yeyab'e qaarterly, or nineteen thonssrd 1¥0 hurded und filty dolars ($19,250) for tach 1ounc wip. Trey proposed’ to build five steamers, ‘fnot less thon two thousand tens messwement, and ore boussne berse pawer esch, to be of groat speed, a1 suffics ny streng for the purposes. The proposition received ike sanction of Congress on the 2d of, Mareh, 1847. in \htee ot which @ formal contract was made op the lst of Nevember in the soine year. Cn the {6 of August, 1848, an act was passed for the relief of Mr. Coins snd associrtes, ‘in order to raise tke requisite cmount of fonds to carry out and com- plete le agreement.” By this act he Navy Department was emp wered to advance on each steamer from the tine of ber lant chin; twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per month, witl the proviso that “he wholo +n advanced should not ex- ceed three bupdied and cin ty-five thensand dollars (3%85,0C0) Ip any ove year. Even with this vimely anc hbera} sid the period for the fulfitment of the contract bad 10 be extey Cec by specisl act ot Congress until June 1, 1850, Cn the Sth cf April of that year the Atlantic woa inspected, and socn after commenced running. The Peclfie was ready by the 15th of May following; and by the 12th ef June the A-ctic ard Baltic wore launched, By act cfCorgrese July 21, 1862, the number of trips per nnvm of the Collins lime was increased from twenty tw twenty-six and the compensation for insii service was argrmented from nixeteen th: veand iw hundred and fif- ty 4: jlays ($19,580) to thirty-three shousand dollars id E ($23,000) per round tip, making a total of eight hrn- dic and fifty-cight thousand dolla-s (854,000) arpur. Cex; reserved to itself the right at any time to terminate the increased a)lowance, upon giving six mcmbs’ previevs notice. But the notice not having been given, the Collins line is now performing the moti ser- viee, ‘and is receiving compensation therefor, in pursu- ance «ithe act of 136%, at the rate of thirty-three thou sané dellars (862,000) the rourd trip. 1 lave e:tatlied «misg the present year a line of stermers between New York and Europe, which has since the month of — last, made mcenthiy trips between New Yok and foutbampten and Havre, My steatners, the North Star apd the Ariel, are still employed ia tha’ service, My pur tp the-ertabiishtent cf tne line was 10 far nirh those eased facilities so much required by 1aron of tho withdrawal to the British transzort servier, of 80 New Yerk branch of the Cunard tine. and to su) ject oa practical test the question, whether without ¢ vernment ald in the form of loans ‘towards construction, or in the form of ecmpensaticn for mail service, a kuco- scan Jine cf ocean mail steamers can be sustained. The <xperience of six months has satisfied me that it 1s utter iy impcstible for a priva’e indtvidval to stand in com) .:1 tica with a lie drawing nearly one million of dollars per urnpm from the natiens] tiéssury, without serlons r+- crifiee. ‘Ibe extravagance which a compeasatien +o murificent naturally orgenders, is utt-rly inconsteten wiih the exercise of that economy and p: udence essential to the ruceersful managranent of any private cater prise; and I bave become sativfied (and but little refiection sets requisite to bing ever; ing man to the saino conclusion) that no priva’e individual can be expected lone into cumperition with a line deriving such sid from ths genezal governmen., The rate of ocean portege is 1834 conts per letter, and I did sup when I started my line, that] would be allowed con pensation om such letters as the interests and convenience of partics might induce to place on board. im this I was Gleappointed, as the existirg postal ar- rorgemints snd contracts fave only al'owed me two cents per letter fur such service rendered. We mu t bere‘ore cg pa the ccean to {he ships of that lin , or be permitted to receive such reasonable compens. - tion for wail service rendered as shall enable individu: } ente priv tosustain itself in the competition. As an Anerican citizens, 1 am unwilling to be debarred frera the priviledge of navigating the ccean with my own steamers, Lecavse of the protection afforded by my government to otkers and denied to me. 1 am row constructing with my own unaided resonrces, upon a plan which Iam enabled from large experience to as- sert to te the best adapted to ccean navigation, a stearcsbip of upwards of 6,000 tons, and whieh ‘will cost between sevin hundred thourand end one million of deNors. I propose to pleoo her in my At'antic line in the course of the ensuing spring. I ask for no gm § goverrment loan, or advance to sid me in {ts constru:- Vion; but apprehensive that she cannot maintain bir without serious loss to myself, if the government paitonsge is to be wholly bestowed on othicrs, to the oxelusion and embarrassment of the enterprise in whith I he ve already embarked a capital of near two mil. None ot dollars, and feeling satisfied that the public con- venierce Cemands greatly increased facitit for the ‘tra ation of passengers, merchandise, and mails be tween New Yerk and Europe, 1 baye determined t» re- rew tre propesitios made by me to the Postmasior-(iene- ra] during the last session of Congress; and I now propore to run a femi-monthily Jine, alternating with the Collins lize, thus establiebing in ‘connec‘ion with that lice a weekly ecmmynication between New York and Durope ‘The facilities tans to be afforded are by our commercial people decmed quite inadequate to the pub.ic require- ment at the present time, I propose to carry the mails twice a month—thus renderiog the same amount of mail service periormed Vy the Collins iine—snd I ask for compensa‘im at the vite of sixteem thousand six hundred and eighty dollars ($16,€80) the round trip—beirg abont one halt the amount paid to the Collins Jine for the same service, and the precise sun paid to the Cunard line by the Brith gi verrrent for similar pervice; and I farther propose that wy atipulated compensation shall ecace whenever Geagress eball adopt the golley ef withholding govern- ment yatronsge, in al! its forme, from steamships travers. ing the Atlantic ocean. in mekixg vbis propcsition, snrely it ts not necessary for me to cinclaim any Ring like bostility to the C.iins ize. The ccenn ts free to the whole world. As Ameri- , our «ply vivalry suould be # national one, with erful competitor on the other ride of the Atlantic. nefieial efiect of government aid, in the establish ment of mail iines, haw not been felt ¢ in the mere construction of our soble ocean steamers; it has called into cxletenee among us many important sppl'auces fe “ni our The SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1856... P ’ the spe: facture of » may be '' good act it in-aay ey. gbe of ilities and impr: and of their results ulready before us, it does seem to me that no should admit for = moment, thet io this field of enter prise we csnnot compete on equal terms a Brite‘n. ‘an is fons ase apart of this ot it rOpese regulat compensation for m; Dail pervice by the Cunsra, rather then by the larger amiobnt paid to the Collins Hoe. It is for the two go- ‘vernments to determine the time when the recei; rr the tran: portation of the mails between the United States and Europe sbail be the role element of patronage ia te competition between the mail steamers of the tzo vations, 2 Nothirg jees than the rame eis ae on every ules our pockets, liners, clipper ships, either Sees er with reference to their rE Se nectar Se mt erent aan er, Inaii Pes mers between Kygland anc this ‘with the present smount 0: ‘ materia! aid,” American st cannot ruccersfuily compete with them without lize ad- vaniages. if cne g:verpment e¢xteods its peoumary Devnty, even beyonc the time when the tine shoula be s-l-sustained, the other fiom necessity must do the rame. 7 about our mail service on other routes, the tine between the United States and Furose would, I bave no doubt, to-day sustain itseli, if the two ‘Disepts were by com: ‘to withh sid fron the owners a! beele, oe om whatever, excapt that ac- cruing for sc val service yendered in carrying the malts: and should my proposi ion be accepted by government, 1 scud silt recommend the sdoption of this policy, and & formas compact io curry it out by the two govern- men*s. It seemeto me that the true, if not the ony legiti- wate bject of govepmen! coucern in such ma:ters, 1s 1 pv: old and Jornty the enterprise of our own oltizen- } npoiuet the adveree 1 giriation of other nstions, while +1gsged in builoing up new and important eusen- tial to the arcrndcucy of eur commerce. ‘The value of such 2 service vo the pation at large is not 'o be ccunputed trom the mere entries of profit aod Joss in our portal department The increased protec- ‘tion rér dered to our ccmmerne by the trequent di-play of ovr flag, vapid. and :egular transmission of the com- meicia! correspondence, uson which the foreign trade ot tbe country:is based, carry witt them sdvan-ages which it is ciffeult aceura'ery to estimate, but which not the less cer'ain important on that account. I* is 1! pert of wie legislsto:s to watch these developements, ord to be corefui 4 moO government monopoly or syecis) patrovage Ml repress individual energy ani ch tree comperitit on in this great field of ente: prise, period when iegitimare trade and @ eatin tor mail service eh! be 1 Ip tre evert of coitision with any of the great muritime powers ar tbe earth, cur present ocean mall stvamers would be fourd a potent clement in toe contest. Up n “he wise legis ation of Corg ess depends the future of thie power'ul acjunct of our prosperity in psace or wa Sbouls it bece'me the rettied pol cy of our governmen’, itis with England, to foster the commercial steam marine interests by a wise and just sys'em, which shail b’end its patronsge eith individual efforts, capital and thi J. few years will place us commercialiy in a most en- viable pori ion, and at the same time a porition of grea* national security. In coneluricn, f hope the ieportance of the subject, ia a national port of view, will be a sufficient apology fur my eg you 80 aie at crheom ‘¢ { ve respecttully, your ot lent servan oe foe . C. VANDERSILT, Secyet Correspondence of Napoleon the First. [Fram a new Work in the press of 1). Appleton & Co.] NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. [919.] Parts, May 19, 1815. My Brorn¥r—I wish to create a houre ot peors, and to apport at first eighty members. As I desire vo proat by @ acvice ot thore in whom IJ ptace confidence, I ask you to prevent to me on Sunray a list of 120 persons, whom ou will select ae if their nomination depended upon you. it there are any among them with whom I am not ac: quainted, please 10 acd no es to their names. This iist will remain o et between you and me. You do not require to be that no one need know that I have asked you for it. T have derpatched a similar letter to each of my minis- ters, apd to other perrons on whose jacgment and at- tachment I can depend. NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. 920.) Paris, June 2, 1815. uy Broruse—Having resolved to assemble the House of Feers on Saturcoy aay at 3 o’clock, in the room which we Lave appointed for ft sitting, our mish is that you be there, std that you take your place, that by your iu- fluence you ray contribute to the good of the State and the ecuéolidation of our imperial puthority, As this let- ter hos no other object, I pray Gud. &e. NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. [921] Avesnrs, June 14, 1815. My Brotuer—I shall carry my heac-quarters ‘this evo- nirg to Beaumont; to-mortow, the 15th, I s:all march upcp Chariarct where the Prussian army is, the cose- quence of which will be either a patle or the re reat or theeneny. My army is excellent, and the weather toler- ably fine; the ¢.untry is pesfectiy fw. disposed. I wil write 1o you this evering as to whether the communics- tions should be made on the 16th. [The declaration of sar.—Ep.] In the meanwhile preparations must be made, Adicu, NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. Exacaonz, Juve 15, 1815—3 A. M. 4y Eromer—As the enemy bas made an ressive mcvement, I em advancing 10 meet bim, Hostilitres will the efore commen: day Consequently, I wish you to pub irh the ceclara'ion w bas beon prepared, BAKON FAIN TO JOSEPH. CuantrRor, June 15, 1815—9 P, W. Tho Emperor, who has been in the sacdle since three in the mormmng, has just come m. cverpowered by fatigue. He will throw on Dis bed to sleep for a few heures, and get on horse>uck ogam ot micright. As his Mejesty is not able to wri'e to ovr bighness, be has desired me to seni te you the fol- lov ing intelligence:— The army forcea the passage of the Sambre, near Char- lercd, ard placed advanted guaris balf way between Chatlerci ard Namur, and between Charleroi and Bras- eels, We have taken 1.10) prisoners and six pieves of [ora [928] Moxsmerevr—It is 9 o’etock. cavbon, Four Prursian regiments are Few of our men were killed, but the Froperor has sastaincd # loss which grieves him deeply: his ofd-de-exmp, General Le- fort, was killed cn the table-lond of Flearus as he was 1g a charge ct cava ry. Itis impossible to descrive the entbutiarm of the inbabitants of Charlero!, and of all the country through which we bave passed; the feeling ig the some as tt was in Burgundy. The Emperor, Xcnreigzeur, wishes yeu to communicate this news to the mipisterr, and to make any use of it which you my thivk proper. Anaction of the utmost importance may take place te merrow. NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. [924.7 ‘Cuantenot, June 16, 1815, Ay Brorner—The bulietin will acquaint you with what has parec#. Jam carrying my beadquarters to Fleurus. The whcle of this army is in mction. tA yd deep!; General Letort. Our I'ss yeatereay was ; it fell ai- wost entire y en the four squadrors of household troops. F. 8.—Letort is better. SOULT 70 JOSEPH. [925.] Jane 16, 1815—8:20 P.M. Koxsuicxetr—The fap bas just obtained a com- plete vietory over the Prus ianand British armies, united uncer the ccmmand of Lord Wellington and Marshal Blusber, ‘Tho stmy is sdvarcisg in pursuit of th: cremy throcgn the village of Ligny beyond Fleurus. I hesten to arnonnce this happy news to your Imperial Pighiess [This letter was the Jast which Joseph re- ecived frein the army.—Ep.] ‘ BERTRAND TO JOSEPH. ‘14, 1816 926.) ‘iste oF Jeg daly PRixce—be Emperor commuvicated this morning with tke British cruisers. The admirals answer has not yeached us, but the ceptein [Caprain Maitlan3, of the Belleroph: n.—TR. | is orcered by his government to receive the Emperor, sf he should present himeelf, with the per- sovs = ecmposix his suite, The ia not acquainted with the furtber intentions of hie govern- ment, but he dces not coubt thet the Emperor will be well treated; for even if the gorcrnment shoald wish to act « therwire, pubiie ‘n in England will, he thinks force thein to ve as they ought to doon such an o:- Sellerdphe bette) sha, tesmorroy soorning elleropbin—TR ,) spd to-1 will repair thither.’ His Mojesty tacires ms to giver you this inormeticn. BERTRAND TO JOSEPH. (%7] Loxpow, Sept. 10, 1821. Faixce—I write to you for the first time since the aw- ful misfortune which has been added to the sorrows of your fowily. Uncertain whether a lettor would reach jou, asI was not quite sure of your address, 1 hoped that a letter fro1 phe or frcm Rome would acquaint me with it. Ihave decided on éeporit! this letter with Messs! 4 T hope that you will receive it. Your highness is acquainted with the events of the first years of this cruel exile; many persons who have visited St. He'ena have informed you of what was atill more interesting to you—the manner of living and the unbind treatment which aggravated tho inflaences of » dead)y c!imate. In ibe last year of his life, the Emperor, who for four years bad taken no exercise, altered extremely in ap stance: he became pale and feeble. From that time fis health ceteriorated rapidly and visib'y. He had slesys been in the habit cf takiog baths; he now took them rorefrequently and stayed longer in them: they ay peared to relieve bim for the time. Letterly Dr. Antomarchi forbade him their use, as he thotght that they oniy increased his weaknons. In the month ¢f Angust he toox walking exorcise, but with diffienlty; he was forced to stop mioute. In o used to walk while dictati:g; he walked thus did without the exercise which he feared to take ont of doors lest he should expore him- relt to ineult. But latterly his strength would not admit even of this. He remained sitting nearly all sur and dis- eortinucd almort all occupation, His health declined sensibiy every month. Once in September, and oj ba bee of Octo- ber, he de ont, as bis physicians desired to take exercise; but he was so weak that he was obliged to re- ture in bis catrisge. He ceased to digest; his debility inceeased. Shivering fits came on, which extended oven to the extremities; hot towels applied to the feet zive him some relief, He suffered from these cold fita to ths last Four of Lis life. As he could no longer vither walk or ride, be tock several drives in an carnage at a foot e, but without reed strength He never took off Pic dressicg gCwD, stomach rejected food, and at the end of the sevr he was forced to give up ment; he lived wpen jellies ad soups. For some time ha ate scarcely snythizg, snd drank only a littlo pure wine, hoping thus to sy; pert nature without fatiguing the jon; but the youiting continned, he returned to soups and jeliies. The remedies and tonics which were tried ce duced ltve effect. His body grew weaker every day, but bis mind retained tts strength. He liked ree ding and conversation; be did not dictate much, although be 1'4 so from time to ‘up to the Jont Gnys cf bis Hie, He felt thet b's end was approach- @ ko freq wen'}y rected the paseoge from “Zaire”? with this line volt Paris; Je ne do's ping prdentes. Neverthelesr, the bepe of leaving this dreadfal country often presented itself to bis imagination, some pewrener articles falve reports exci ted our ¢: tions e sometimes farcicd that we were cn the evo bean for American; ¥e read travels, we made plans, we arriv at yeur house, we wancercd cver that immouse country, & liberty. Vain hopes? I "us doubly feel our ms of Quipauli’s or ome of Molidre’s ind apd poweif: aisRhotor( woe Femaskable thal on that larger co eclipsed sil that fx by ee niet at wee of the gcod sense and the: At times, hi ad and Fleece: tt ow ever, fi what he bad dose, contrasted with what he t Acne, prevented themselves. He tatked ported srapbners—persuaded that on the ne what be wae required to do, and not sharing: Birange and contiadictory ore which we hear @-sed every dav +n «vents which are not understood apeakers. If the conversation took he soon changed it; be liked to talk of Corsica, ot uncle Lucien, of bis youth, of you, the fami; Towards the middle of March fever From that time he scarcely left his bed, except bout balf am hour in day; he seldom the strength w sbave, He now, the time, became extremely thin, The fits of vomitin, 4 FIR é i E E E tFiete 5Ess be- came more fequent. He then questioned the physicians and aboata _ on the conformation ot the stomach, n he became aware that it war ao} he lett. Untpeating on ihe rulj-ot. Ho. thought or ans o@ and ycur children. To hts last moments he was Bina 0 affectionate to us all; he did not appear to suffer 80 much as might hare been expected from the eause of bin death. When #e questioned hin he raid that he suf- fered a litvle, but that be could bear ic. His memory de- cin d during the Jaxt Sve or six days; bis deep sighs and his exe'emaiions from tuse to tine made us think that be was in great pein. He looked at us. with the pene- trating giarce which you know so web; we tried to dis- ims but he was soused to read our faces that no doutt be trequently discovered our anxiety. He felt too clearly the gradusi decline of his teculfies not to be aware of his state. For the last two hours he neither spoke nor moved; os bis difficult breathiog, which gra- dually but regularly cec'essed; his pulse ceased; and lod died, surrounded only vy a few servants, the who had dictatec Jaws to the world, and whose lite should have been preserved for the sake of the happiness and glory of our sorrowing country. Forgive, Prince, a harried let‘er, which tells you so lbvle when you wish to huow so much; but I'should never end if I attempted to tell all. You are so far off ‘bat I know not when I shall have the honor of seeing yourgsin. I must not omit to say that the re ‘was mort anxious that his correspon- derce with the different sovereigns of Europe be. printed; be repeated this to us several times, In his will the Empercr expres ed a wisn that his remains sbou'd be buried in France; hewever, in the last days of his life, he crdered me, if there was any dificulty it it, to lay him by the ride of the fountain whose waters. he bad $0 long drank. PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON TO JOSEPH. [369.} New Youk. April 22. 1837. MY Deaw Uncie—On my arrival in the United States 1 beped to find a letter from you. lown thet your Girpleacue g icved me; knowing, os I do, your good sense and your kindness, tt sdspried me. Indeed, uncle, My concuct must have teem strangely ta rr you before you could have been induced to as en¢mies the men who sacrificed themselves ‘If, having succeeded at Strasbow (! y mearly did so), I had march Taw on empire and, aresving in the capa aa Pro a of \be empire, and, capival as Pre- tender, 1 had seized tbe government, then to disavow me and to besk with me might have have been nobie and magnepimous. But when I at.empt one of the boiden- terprises which alone could bring bask what twent ears of prace have effacec; when I offer to it the sacri- foe of my Ine, persvaced that my of use to our cause; wi the bayonet and ihe a there only con ewpt and mily. If and esteem einen a tere will never allow that thee 3 éiate your nephew becaure has the {cr your cause ; no one will believe that you can treat as enemies men who have ex: their lives and thelr Jortunes te repisce the eagle vn our standards, any more than it woulc have bren believed that Louis XVIL had repuisec the Piin e de Condé or the Duc d’ be- caute they failed in their enter, I hnuw yeu too weil, desr uncle, to Coubdt your sffec- tiow and not to bope tha' you will in time do jastice to we, aud w others wh> have compromised themselves for our cause. As for however you may treat me, my he- haviour will not a the ral ai- gen Jity of my conscience, and, abovi if the Fmyeior looks down on me, he approves mo—t are the corsiderations which compensate for the many mortifications and i: juries which I have endared. My sttempt failed, it as irue; but it proved to France that he funiiy «fthe Emperor is not yet extinguished, that it possesses devoted Sitends; im short, that ite preten- ticus are not to reclasm a few pence mm the govern- Went, but 10 re-estabsish in favor of the people wnat the foreygners and the Bou dens have ¢estroyed. This is what I have done; is it tor you to reproach we? 1 annex the account of my removal trom the prison of Stiasdowg, in order that you may be acquainted with all my proceecing*, and thst you may be convioced that Ihave done nothing vnwortby cf the name which I bear. 1 beg you to present my respects to my uncle Lucien; I trust ny cause to bis judgment and to bis affection. Viey, dear ucie, cv not be offerded at the brevity with which I represent fac 8 a4 they reallystand. Never coubt my cwel‘erable at.achment. Yonr affectionate aro éutiul reyhew, NAPOLEON LOUIS. P, S.—I beve delayea writing because you left my let- ters trom Europe upapswered. 1 own that in this respect Twas wreng. Op the 91h o! November, towards eight o’clock in the evening, Duector Lebet ‘came to tell me that I was Ammedia‘ely atter- desired to be removed fiom prixon. wares tbe coor was opened and 1 was to enter @ cariage, where were alreacy General Voirot and tne Prefect. Relieving a first that I was te be transferred to another prison, I ontreated zal Voiro) to jeave me us the same place with the other priscnera, On reaching the court of the Prefecture we fot cut of the carriage; 1 then d two post- cdalses with horre-. #ancying that I was to be taken frcm Stresbeu-g, | urgec General Voirol to let me remain in prison. Soa af erwards I was placed in a earrt with thee ye sons whom I did not know, and wi inf rmec me tha’ tory hed orders to take me to Paris. 1 then understood that I vas to receive a special par- don; a1d, unable to retain wy tears, 1 the ( flicens who accci ho the thought of a paroon a coward, and would patirg the cslumpies by mir: ented to the cvuntry tané M Thioautot, to ask my pardon of the King, ee eek DB jon it te falen to Letlent, and thence transported. to Titec Statesof america, Texpostu ated once more with the Prefect on my re- inc yal, adding thas wy antes. would deprive my fellow. sufferers of much evidence in their favor. The Profect answered, ‘‘ When ycu reach Lorient you may make in wiiong any Cevceitions which you think proper.” Was he aware that Ccmmandant Cugnat had express orders. ao ats ict that are ‘0 M, Cagnat exroute prestse y the orders which he had My fate being irrevocably fixed, thee 1o c@ al! that I couid to be useful to my friends. I wrote to the King to say that li'e was a small favor, since I bad rencunced i% when I planted my foot on French g7cund; but that, if ke would pardon my companions in misfortune, I sbould be eternally grate‘ul. At four in the morning I quicted Peris. On the citadel of Fort Louis I wrote recret!y :o M. Odillon Barrot a Istter in which, tshing all b'ane upon myself, | endeavored to clear my friends of ac: ing with premeditation. On the 21st we railed from Lorient, magi: were going. to New York. When we reached ia:itude 82 eeg., captain of the te opened sealed orders in the bandwri'ing of the Mivister tor Marine Afairs, which enjcir.ed bim to take me to Rio Jar eiro; to sliow me to sp ek to nobody; to remain there only long enough to toke in water, ard then to eailfor New York. As the frigate bad no business in the Brazis, she must have been ordered out of her way in order to prevent me from communicating with the prisoners at Strasbourg until the trial was over. l InDICTMENT OF TBE ConnECTICUT WAKRMANITES- —Me Grono Jury cluved their ve-y laborious session late MAL ay Adapeg sot and found « true dil for murder egaipst uel ly, ané found Mrs. Wakeman, the pro- Re ers, accessory before and atter the etktul 8. Hersey accessory after the murder bom Iasge number of witnesses were examined, &: 9 ties have been onerous, but they have at Jast concluded their deliberauicns. evice sce before the of tn~ quest very Inplicated Jackson, the but be seems to have been sequitted by the Grand Jury. Miss Abbe Sables was not indicted as an accomplice, bat wae awitness, apd was called before the jury twice during their deliberations. She stated yes‘erday, that if Pe ted todo ro, the shonld remove immediately to jsssachuretts, where her friends reside. Our repor‘er visited the prophetess st the jail last evening, to ascer- tain how she regarced the proocedings of the Jury, ond what she-had to say avout the case, She appeai to be very much depressed in apirite, and sid tnat she hod beard of the deings of the Grand Jury. She said that the whole worid persecuting her, and moaned and cried bitterly over tho tact tnat she wes indicted as accessory to the murder of Matthews. he protested her innocence, and said tha; she knew nothing about the murder, either before or afer it took place, and that sho had it revesled that the jury were pede against her, and wanted to Fe secute her. This astoni an- noun cement was fullowed by another equelly as al vir, : thet the caee would vever come to trial for it hnd. bern revealed to he: thet the judgment would ome be~ fore the eare was tried before a court on earth, but it would socm come before ‘another court;? and she pointed toward heaven. she eid, im conclisim, that the should permit ue all ts live while longer on tion, but she sbould bring judgment ¢ay whea got ready to do r0.—New Haven Courier, Jan. 18 Josiah A. Noonsn, postmaster of Milwaukie, has heen. indieted by the Grand Jury, says the Wisconsin, for: having paid a mail contractor, contrary to law, in othen cnurency than thet whigh the law makes obligatory.