i p • n • w •* v 1 * ■ 9 * /ru FROM ®llP (HttttPS 1838 February 14, 1838. Price 5d. The accounts from North America contained in yesterday’s Times were of a satisfactory nature so far as regarded the rebellion in Upper Canada, or rather the war of pirates and outlaws, who ha seized a portion of the Queen of Eng- land’s territory and turned it into a place of arms against Her Majesty’s Canadian subjects. The organized banditti, under the command of Van Rensselaer, a citi- zen of the United States, abandoned Navy Island on the 14th ult., and are said to have subsequently dispersed. ... The affair of the Caroline, it is obvious, can lead to no misunderstanding with the Cabinet of Washington, the “outrage being in truth committed not by Great Britain but greatly to her detriment The capture of the vessel was a pool set-oti against the harbouring of Canadian rebels the fitting out for them an armament of American citizens ... the forcible seizure of [Great Britain’s] acknowledged soil, and the erection upon it of batteries for the destruction of her peaceable and in iffensive subjects. ,, We are bound to say that throughout he whole of the official correspondence low published the tone of conciliation, lonfidence, and kindness, which maiks ■very sentence proceeding from Mi. Fox inone side, and Mr. Forsyth on the jther, is such as to inspire us with the most cheering hope that nothing wi lone or permitted by either Government unfavourable to the continuance of the strictest and closest international har- mony between the two kindred nations. p nocr^iM.t rio,\. HV llis Excellency SIK FHAIVCIN IIOIVO HEAD, Baronet, Eientennnt Governor of L p j*t* r Cnnada, &c. iVc. To the Huern'ri Faithful Subjects in tipper Canada. Inn lime of profound peart*, while every one was fplietly followin'' his occupations, fading arc u tv muter the |»ro*%*imn of our Low*, n band of K^cb. itwtigalud ti y « tew nttd dodoynl incut, Wm IwkLiIk 1 wichcdmnw him! audacity l« amutuMit kith Arm*,**"! to nuadl nml Murder lint Quouu'a Hvlijuoi. <>a ll* High- way — to Hum nod llfutmy Uicir I'rojn-rty— to Hot’ ti.» i’uhlk* Mail* — oiuJ to threaten to t'lumlir the Itauk a — sod to Ftrt- tho City of Toronto. Brave ami Loyal People of I'pperTJanadn, we have been lodg suffering from the acta and ondoavwflieVif rKHTCoaled TraUfin, Inti Una •« ih<- 6u; tot* itiai HaboUftw hoa dnrt-d to alo w tuolf openly iu tbo load, u> the shocoos of ikaostoh !. r mu y Fort urn linen.; • I.et every ninn dt» hi* tint? now, tf aVItt he the last {Hne that wo or ***/ ohildraa a it all aeft.our lift* of |*roprrtJC» « ndaopt .rd, or the Authority of onr tiro clou, Uwra itiauUm) lit aovii treudicrmi* oi>d iinjrrw, fill turn. Mll.rnA.il I N OF 1 mitt (' AN AIM. «<•« ..nutiy banter «i1 of nU rank*, am flockjr-K to the Standard - of then Country . What hw. Ukcn |*l»c«- wt.l ciutlilp <>«f Qui ttn to kualPlArr (-'nun A Oom llrr Fncmtea — a public ‘OMvtiiy W to-*t-r so danptoua w a coomdcd Tran or — and now tor friend* Irt «a r-m»|Jcu wait what ta begun — lot ua not rot urn to our root till Tir-oao.. and Traitor* aw i.nafai 10 tlw tight under, and rendered Imrieii.* throughout the Be vigilant, pntientmhd active — Unite, punishment to- the Laus — our first object bfifii gMilijp tif tU'WInoi, l^tili r tm«) Kobhrrjr^— A**d to Mid mm iu till*, I (hie Thousand Pounds, Ui Mty one Mtin will apprflKttd, and '• ivrr up In Jnotiro.lft t.U AM WON MA(^irN'/(E|aud FIVU (tVNOBSO pot Nl.tH Ui ui.i- nn« who wil nppr nud di.hvor nj> I- I DWIS» <. It.- \ -\\fl |'|, | UNI Jl.KSQ LI,|0\ Ltw-cir r>lUs t'LLTCUl'.IU— n*)/t fliuisb**- wM^ud. «n ‘T triWpai “ » " lit, ua |if occoii^tiic » who will /under Oua public wniffl, mtpr.pt b|.ur tliey shall haf«.«pmnnt(^, in It uT iXun {.Sm, tb- crtinttfif* ^ 1 Murder or Anwu. f ' • r And all, but the Leader* abo\o-m»nu*tl. who have beet ‘•tHloimd Vv join in tiiut unnatural RuIkiIImih, an. hen-lw cnllotl to rrtnrtrut OKar duly lo lltrir So%croit»» — lu idx-y tha Law*— «nj u, hru Iwaoofbrwartl aa good mid foiitifal Sulijncta — mwi thay wid 6«. Tburstlttv, 3 o'clock, P. iW. V v Till Dee. fjg^* The Earty of l{< l»«*k\»Hiv r tU'tfXa'hief Leutlerh, is wholly dispcrsod^Mknd flying l>efore the Loyal Militia. Th^.miy thiug that remains to he done, is to find them, and arresf them. R. «TANTO>. Pt.otwt u> iMftvftK* Ikodkut Majwrtv I i ' ! t THE CAROLINE ALMANACK, AND AMERICAN FREEMAN’S CHRONICLE. FOR 184®. Being Bissextile or Leap Year, and the 64th of American Independence. Calcula- ted for Albany, Lut. 4:2 ° 39 T N., but will serve for the whole of New York, the Northern and Middle States, New England, Canada, &.c. ; “ It was perpetrated after concert and preparation, by an armed and supe- rior force, upon unarpied and defencekss men, under cover of night, and cir- cumstances ox signal atrocity. Indeed at the very moment when the Lieu, tenant Governor ot Upper (Janata was declaring to the Provincial Parlia- ment his confidence in the disposition of the American Government to pre- vent its citizen** trom engaging in the coniot that was then raging, and was wailing lor replies trom ti.u Governor of New York and Her Majesty’s Min lateral Washington, with' whom he had communicated, this outrage was, with his knowledge and approbation, planned and executed. Under such cir- cumstances, it was not to have been expected that the whole proceeding could be regarded by the Government of the United States in any other light than as a manifest act of hostile and daring aggression upon its rights and sovereignty, utterly inconsistent with all the principles of national law, and wholljr jrrt concileable with the L.’yndjy and peaceful relations of the two countries.” — Mr. Stevenson the American Minister's letter of $2d May, 18. 8 to Lord ^ aim erst on, demanding redress for the Massacre at Schlosser. ROCHESTER, N. Y. MACKENZIE’ S G A Z K T T E OFFICE. r Caroline Almanac, and 0) Sun, 0 Mercury, 0 Venus, J' Mars, fear ojo Aries, u. < $ Taurus, &(U Gemini, • C O Cancer, I) Leo. W ( ID? Virgo, Solar Cycle, Epact, Lunar Cycle, Julian Period, ASTRONOMICAL CHARACTERS EXPLAINED. ; Vesta, ) Juno, ► Pallas, > Ceres, 7L Jupiter, Last Guar. ©New Moon, □ Quartile, SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. Conjunction, g Opposition, Ascending Node, £5 Descending Node Ram, Bull, Twins, Crab, Lion, Virgin, Head, Neck, Arms, Breast, Heart, Belly, ^ C — Libra, Scales, a J TH Scorpio. Scorpion, ^ ( J Sagitarius, Archer, ( YJCapricornus, Goat, E ^ Aquarius, ^ Pisces, Reins, S“cre‘.] Tliighi Knees, Waterman, Legs, Fishes, Feet. COMMON NOTES FOR 1840. 1 2(3 17 6553 Dominical Letters, No. of Direction, * Romau Indiction, - Dionysian Period, H Vernal Equinox, March 30th, 7h. 57m. morning. ECLIPSES. Summer Solstice, June 21st, 5h. 4m. morning. | Four Eclipses w ill tak Autumnal Equinox, September 22d, 7h. 9m. evening. I place during the year ; tw Winter Solstice, December 21st, Oh. 29m. evening. | of the Sun, and two oftH Moon. The first will be of the Moon, February 17, beginning at about 8 o’clock i the morning, and ending about ten ; the Moon being beneath tne horizon at the tin) and consequently invisible to us. J The second will be an Annular Eclipse of the Sun ; taking place during the nigl of the third and fourth of March, and consequently invisible to us. The third will be a partial Eclipse of the Moon, taking place on the morning of th 13th of August; visible as follows: First contact of the moon with the earth’s penumbra, (ev. 12th) llh. 52m. *1 Eclipse begins, (morn. 13th) • - - - 1 9 | Apparen Middle of the eclipse, - - * • - 2 34 > or Solar Eclipse ends, - - - - 3 59 ( Time. Last contbct of the moon with the earth’s penumbra, - 5 16 J Digits eclipsed, 7° 17* on the moon’s northern limb, in the southern side of the earth shadow. The fourth will be a Total Eclipse of the Sun, taking place during the night of th 26th and 27th of August ; and consequently invisible to us. It begins on the Earl generally at about a quarter past 11 o’clock in the evening of the 26th, and ends 1 about a quarter past 4 o’clock on the morning of die 27th. It will be visible in th Indian Ocean, and the south part of Africa. The line of Central and Total Phas will pass to the north of the Cape of Good Hope, crossing Africa at about 10 ° soud latitude. MORNING AND EVENING STARS.— Venus will be Morning Star till Jul 27th ; thence Evening Star. Jupiter also will be Morning Star till May 4th ; then! Evening Star till Nov. 21st; and then again Morning Star. Mars will he Eveninj Star till May 4th ; thence Morning Star through the year. Saturn will ue Morninj Star till June 9th; thence Evening Star till Dec. 15th; after that Morning Star again, THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN 1839. Queen, — Victoria Guelph, aged 20. Her Cabinet Council, Ministry, or Go ▼eminent, are as follows: — 1st. William Lamb, Cord Melbourne, First Lord of th Treasury, Premier, aged 61, salary $30,000; was Secretary for Ireland under the To* ries, cruel and lewd. — 2d. Charles Pepys, Lord Chancellor ^ (Cottenham) office worth $100,000 a year. — 3d. Marquis of Lansdown, Lord President of the Council, aged 59, salary $20,000; was Home Secretary in 1826, to thetories. — 4th. Thomas Spring Rice, Chaneellor of the Exchequer , aged 50, salary $25,000 ; was an under secreta- ry in Canning’s tory ministry’. — 5th. Lord Duncannon, Privy Seal , aged 60, salary $20,000. — 6th. Lord Holland, nephew of Charles J. Fox. Chancellor of Lancaster, and father to Mr. Fox, the English Minister at Washington, is in his 67th year, salary $25,000. He had an intrigue with Lady Webster, Sir Godfrey proved the adultery, my Lord paid $30,000 damages, married the frail fair one, who is now Lady Holland. — 7th. Lord Palmerston, Foreign Secretary, aged 55, salary $25,000* was a tory minister for twenty years— joined the whigs. — 8th. Marquis ofNormanby. Colonial Secretary ; in his 43d year ; poor; a novelist and actor; has been Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; salary $30, 003. — 9th. Lord John Russell, Home Secretary, aged 48, salary Free/nutis Chronicle. 3 $30,0()0; a poor younger son of a Duke ; wrote a book in defence of rotten boroughs, and opposed parliamentary reform ; is clever and unprincipled, therefore fit for such company. — 10th. Earl of Minto, First Lordof the Admiralty , and, like Earl Grey, ri B i a perfect leech , greedy for office to himself and his relations ; salary $25,000. — lltli. Sir John Cam Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control , a partner in Whit- bread’s Brewery, aged 53, salary $28,000 ; was once a radical, but sold his supporters J and principles lor place and ease. — 12. Richard Lawlor Shiel, M. P. for Tipperary, I, J President of the Board of Trade , salary $25,000.— 13th. Lord Glenelg, if I mis- take not, also retains a seat in the Cabinet. He was the Colonial Secretary, who r, approved of all the murders committed by Arthur and Colborne on the gallows. — «[. [Since the above was in type we observe, that in August, 1839, the Marquis of Nor- r manby took Lord John Russell’s place in the Home Office, and Russell became Colo- nial Secretary; Spring Rice left the Exchequer, and is succeeded by Mr. Francis Baring; and Lord Howick, who had a seat in the Cabinet, has ceased to be the War Secretary.] CANADA'S MARTYRS— ROYAL MERCY! ROB THE PEO PLE FIRST, \YT THEN MURDER 'EM FOR DEFENDING THEMSELVES. — The reader will find the executions in Canada very like each other. The picture before him will represent the deaths of Lynn and Bedford, Perley and Cunningham, or Clark and Doan, at London — Woodruff &, Abbey, Buckley &, Lawton, or Von Schoultz & George at Fort Henry — Lount & Matthews, Toronto — De Lorimicr &, Hindenlang at Mont- real — Baird & Hardy, Stirling — James Moreau at Niagara — or if he pleases :2; to look back to the times of the great revolution, it will exhibit the death of Isaac Haynes of S. C. and hundreds of brave men like him. At Toronto 2 *i and elsewhere, Indian savages were often employed to guard the scaffolds, and the plate exhibits them acting in that capacity, while the prisoners are looking through the bars of their bastilcs wondering who will be the next ^ victim. (See cases to which this engraving has reference, in the Caroline f Almanack, January 4, 7, 18, 21, 30 — Feby. 11, 12, 15 — April 12 — Aug. 1, 4— Sept. 8— Nov. 28— Dec. 8, 12, 19, 22, 24. PEOPLE OF AMERICA, TAKE WARNING liY THE PAST! Vain is his hope whose stay and trust, is In moral mercy, truth and justice! — Burns. English Government in 1 reland.— During the dreadful period of four hundred years, the laws of the English Government of Ireland did not punish the murder of one man of Irish blood as a crime. — Sir James Mackintosh. The stranger shall hear thy lament o’er his plains, The sigh of thy harp shall be sent o’er the deep, Till thy tyrants themselves, as they rivet thy chains, Shall pause o’er the aongs of their captives and weep.— M oorb. Caroline Almanac , and English Government in Canada.— On Sunday evening, (Nov. 11th, 1838, j Martinmass,) the whole of the back country above Laproirie presented the awful n spectacle ofone vast sheet of lurid flame, and it is reported that not a single rebel jg house has been left standing. God only knows what is to become of the surviving Y Canadians and their wives and families during the approaching winter, as nothing c but starvation from hunger and cold stares them in the face. The history of the past proves that nothing but sweeping them from the earth and laying their ha- bitations level with the dust, will prevent renewed rebellions south of the Si. Lawrence. The Canadians in the rebellious districts, whose houses have beea given to the flames, and who have escaped the 'bullet, the bayonet or the prison, 1 are doomed to perish in the woods, for in the United States they can expect no assistance.” — Montreal Herald , tory government journal. English Government in New England. — “It will be a record that must ren- der the British name odious in America to the latest generations. In that record will be found the burning of the fine towns of Charlestown, near Boston ; of Falmouth, just before winter, when the sick, the aged, the women and children were driven to seek shelter where they could hardly find it ; of Norfolk, in the midst of winter ; of New London, of Fairfield, of Esopus, &c. ; besides near a hundred and fifty miles of well-settled country laid waste; every house and barn burnt, and many hundreds of farmers, with their wives and children, butchered and scalped. — Doctor Benjamin Franklin' s descHplion of English Government in America , vol. 1, page 463 of his works. Eighteen hundred and twelve. — While the formal relations of amity remain- ed yet unbroken — while peace was yet supposed to exist — in cold blood an unpro- voked attack is made upon one of your national ships, and several American citi- zens basely and cowardly murdered. At the moment when your feelings were at the highest pitch of irritation in consequence of the perfidious disavowal of Erskine’s agreement, a minister is sent, not to minister to your rights— not toex- f j tenuate the conduct of his predecessor — but to beard your Executive — to add in- j. suit to injury ; and to fling contumely and reproach in the face of the Executive j= of the American nation, in the presence of the American people. To cap thecli- ie max of her iniquity, England resolved to persist in the wicked, the odious andde- y testable practice ot impressing American seamen into her service — of entombing i. our sons within the walls of her ships of war; compelling them to waste their u lives, and spill their blood in the service of a foreign government — a practice 2C which subjected every American tar to the violence and petty tyranny of a Britial 21 midshipman, and many of them to a life of the most galling servitude. Undd 2: such accumulated circumstances of insult and of injury, what was your govern j 2: ment to do? Was it basely and ingloriously to abandon the rights for wliich you £ and your fathers fought and bled ? Was it so early to cower to the nation which 2 had sought to strangle us in our infancy, and which has never ceased to retard out | 2 approach to manhood?— Mr. Van Buren's Address to the People of the State of E New York, 1813. ^ J 2 English Government in America, 1776.— When a long train of abuses and , \ usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them \ [the peoplej to absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their duty, to throw off : such a Government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies. The history of the Dresent ct King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having “ in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States. Ho has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitu* 1 \ tions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretend- . ed legislation. For abolishing the free system of English laws iu a neighboring . province, [Canada,] establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging j its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument, for in- e troducing the same absolute rule into these colonies. For quartering large bodies j! of armed troops among us : For protecting them by a mock trial, from \ punishment, for any murder3 they should commit on the inhabitants of « these States: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: — For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury : He has excited domestic insurrection amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, > the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistin- f Freeman’s Chronicle. 5 guished destruction of all ages, sexes, anal conditions. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He ; is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of jrrnelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages. — Declaration of Independence. 1776. ; English Government in Scotland. — See February 15th, — November 12 th April 15th— June 24th. English Faith to Denmark. — See September 1. [31 Days. PI 840.1 JANUARY.— FIRST MONTH. New Moon, 4th, 4. 31. e. w. First Quar. 12th, 3. 5. m. N. W. Full Moon, 18th, 7. 39. e. e. i Last Quar. 26th, 8. 37. m. s. w. M&W Days. Sun rises Sun set? Moo* rises. Moon South Sun’s decl. S. : 1 W 7 31 4 29 4 52 9 17 23 4 7 «> T 7 31 4 29 5 52 10 7 22 59 i * 3 F 7 30 4 30 6 48 10 59 22 54 j 4 S 7 30 4 30 sets. 11 52 22 48 vs 5 E 7 30 4 30 5 16 aft. 44 22 42 V5 ' 6 M 7 29 4 31 6 24 1 31 22 45 _ 7 T 7 29 4 31 7 34 2 21 22 28 R 8 W 7 28 4 32 8 44 3 7 22 20 ££ 9 T 7 27 4 33 9 54 3 52 22 12 ? 10 F 7 27 4 33 11 3 4 36 22 4 111 S 7 26 4 34 morn. 5 22 21 55 °f *12 E 7 25 4 35 0 15 6 12 21 55 1 13 M 7 24 4 36 1 31 7 5 21 35 8 ;: 14 T 7 23 4 37 2 50 8 3 21 25 «15 W 7 22 4 38 4 10 9 5 21 15 n ^16 T 7 21 4 39 5 23 10 10 21 4 n 1*17 F 7 20 4 40 G 28 11 14 20 52 1 8 S 7 19 4 41 rises. morn. 20 40 d3: 219 E 7 18 4 42 5 35 0 13 20 28 ft ;i:20 M 7 17 4 43 6 48 1 8 20 16 SI In21 T 7 16 4 44 8 0 1 56 20 3 w :22 W 7 15 4 45 9 8 2 42 19 49 w if23 T 7 14 4 46 10 13 3 25 19 36 w n24 F 7 13 4 47 11 18 4 6 19 21 *25 S 7 12 4 48 morn. 4 47 19 7 _£V *26 E 7 11 4 49 0 22 5 30 18 52 m ,27 M 7 10 4 50 1 26 6 14 18 37 m 23 T 7 9 4 51 2 30 7 1 18 22 m r 29 W 7 8 4 52 3 33 7 50 18 6 t l 30 T 7 7 4 53 4 31 8 42 17 50 i 31 F 7 6 4 54 5 22 9 34 17 33 VS Maine & Massachusetts Legislatures meet. Deleware Legislature meets. Sir, Nothing is a 'Trifle in War! — Napo- leon. 2d Sun. after Chris. [Legislatures meet. 6th Michigan. Arkansas. &. Louisiana Y'aL. south 10.8.7thN.Y.Legislature meets. 9 gr. elon. ^ Perih. The indiscriminate defence of right and wrong[by lawyers] contracts the understand- ing while it hardens the heart. — Junius. 1st Sunday after Epiphany. "The Prophets prophesy falsely, and the (5 ®) & 7+s.] Priests bear rule by their means; AND MY PEOPLE LOVE TO (g) Perigree.] HAVE IT SO: and what will ye do in the end thereof? — Jer. v. 31. 2d Sunday after Epiphany. Rigid Economy — or State taxation: The onlyalternative for maintaining the pub- 6 9 h •] credit. If the people desire to avoid the latter, they must take care that their representatives shall practice the for- mer. — A Toast by J. Buchanan , of Pa. 3d Sunday after Epiphany. ® Apogee. c5 ^ ® • . . . _ " It is a simple fact that the majority in last Congress favorable to the Bank, was made up of bribed &. retained members. — Wash- ington Globe, 1833. : Farmer’s Calendar. ! counts, and balance your — Attend to the education of your children. Settle your ac- • books. Prevent the ravages of rats and mice. ’ Arrests and commitments to the Jails by the Upper Canadian Government, for high treason (ie. rebellion), against Victoria Guelph, in January, 1838. Toronto DIVISION. 2d. Lucius C and Eber Thomas, Elias Crary, Royal Hopkins, Timothy Doyle, Alex. ' C. Clunas, D. Hutchinson, 6th. Michael Corrigan, Johu Doyle. John McAnary, Jas. I Maguire, James Parker, Ewenand John Cameron. Duncan McNab. Charles Axtell, J. F. Farley, Gilbert Decker. 7th. Thomas Elliott, bank director, William Carroll, : farmer. 13th. James McDonald, Isaac Moins, John Houck. 18th. Sergeant Matthew Hayes (Queen’s Evidence), James Murray, Martin Smith. 2l9t. James Edmonstone, William Brewer, Terence Ferguson, Peter McConville. John Hawke, of Simcoe.— 24th. John N. Kline, of Vaughan. Michael Flood, Win. Irwin, James Mclsaac, Den- nis Leahy, Dennis Connor, John and Patrick Condon, John and James Keane, John O'Brien. Jas. C. Chapin. 26th. William Shaw, Edward Keay and Simon Servoss. Gore District — Robert Alway. M. P. ($1000 reward offered for him and paid, Al- way delivered up, sent tojail all winter, and released, not a shadow of evidence being forthcoming,) Michael Showers, George Rouse, Samuel Marlatt, David Ghent, John Tyler, Thomas Sirpell, George Roberts, Andrew Miller, Hamilton, Joshua Lind- en narles Hammond, S. F. Wrigley, Jacob Emery, Aaron Glover, John Hainmill (ver- dict of guilty), Duncan McPhedron, Robert Laing, Collins SkeUy. London District, — Nathan Doan, Orlando Inglis, Patrick Malada, George Blake, Charles Tuden, An- drew McLure. JANUARY 1. 1077. William the Conqueror crowned.-— 1651. Charles II crowned.— 1730. Edmund Burke born.— 1776. Norfolk burnt by the English.— 1801. The Irish Union with England, accomplished by intimidation, bribery, and the corruption of a majority of the Irish House of Commons with English gold, chiefly through the agency of that traitor to Ireland and liberty. Lord Castlereagh. The union degrades Ireland to the statiou of an English Province. — 1822.^ The Greeks declare their Independence. — 1829. American National Debt, 58 millions; Andrew Jackson saw it paid off before he left office, and left a luck penny in the Treasury besides. — 1833. William Lyon Mackenzie having been expelled the Legislature of l, ppcr Canada, by the influence of the British authorities, is re-elected at Toronto by accla- mation, by the freeholders of York County, and a splendid medal and gold chain presented* to him. The freeholders march through Toronto in triumph. The soldiers of the 79th regiment, in large numbers join the procession, preceded by the bagpipes, and are punished by a week’s confinement within the walls of the garrison, some of them in irons, by order of Sir John Colborne. — 1840. New Year’s Day. — Row- land Hill's penny postage plan will come into operation in Britain. — 1838. Charles N. Phillips, Midland District, Upper Canada sent to jail for treason. JAN. 2. 1719. Law’s Bank this day taken on account of the King and Royal Bank of France. Law proposed to make the farms, the factories, the commerce, and the internal improvements of France, the basis of paper currency. Law established his Bank in 1716. The general Banking Law of New York State is partly on the same principle, andsodid Mr. Biddle propose to make the United States Bank for this nation. Law ruined the French finances and beggared the people for a generation. And why is it that the fixed capital or property of this nation cannot be permanently changed into circulating medium, or money, a measure of value ? — Because until other nations shall agree that the fixed capital of every nation shall be turned into currency, any one na- tion (say the United States) enjoying extensive foreign commerce, which shall adopt Law’s plan, will be involved in misery the moment the currency becomes depreciated, as it surely will be. Other nations will not take your Bank Bills for differences paya- ble in money, and if you have no cash your situation will not be enviable. When a landed proprietor wants money, lie mortgages or sells h s estate, and thereby gets mo- ney from those who have it. If his estate were money the sale or mortgage would not be necessary. To attempt to make it both one and t’other, as in the general Bank- ing Law of New York, must fail, therefore, and prove ruinous to thousands. — 1838, George R. O’Brien, baker, Johnstown District, arrested for high treason.— Reuben White, late M. P., Joseph Lockwood, late M. P., Joseph Caniff, Norr H. Hems, Joseph P. Cavalar, Gideon Turner, (town clerk), Peter Davidson, Dr. Anson Hay- den. and Cornelius Parkes, Hastings, Upper Canada, prisoners in jail on a charge of treason, admitted to bail by Hagerman. — Thomas Mullens and Samuel Parkeymore, Midland District, Upper Canada, arrested for treason. 1798. Bank of England . — This infamous scheme of carrying on wars by taxing posterity and turning credit into capital, had its origin at this time, under similar circumstances to those which occasioned the re-chartering, of the Bank of the United States. A war had closed, cash was scarce, and this dreadful resource was resorted to. Before paper money was introduced (at this time) into Eng* land, the revenue raised by taxes yearly from the nation was about 11 millions of dollars— now it is 250 millions ! / Cobbett told the truth when he declared that “ the working classes of England are indebted to the paper monev system for the principal portion of the miseries they presently suffer,”— and tfie same remark might be made in the United States. The Bank of England was a scheme of the Whigs, and its capital was lent to King William’s Government before it went into operation, in thd same way as the first 50ff 000 dollars paid into the Bank of the United States was lent to James Madison’s Government. In a few years (see Cheves’s statement) the Bank of the United States was within a few thousand dollars of bankruptcy. So of the Bank of England ; its notes were worth twen- ty dollars in the hundred less than silver before it was five years in operation, and the government due bills at 40 per cent, discount, when'they were funded, for posterity to pay, at 8 per cent, interest, equal to about 13 per cent, on gold and sil- ver. The Bank of England aided that crazy tyrant George 111. materially in his attempt to make slaves of the Americans in the war of 76, and has been the main Freeman's Chronicle. shua Lbs spoke in the wheel of tyranny, and caused the murder of millions during the war* smnll I t. on the continent of Europe, which it upheld. First it issued $100 notes, then Dbtkc 850, then $25, then 85 (£1)— now it issues none below S25. The profligacy of rild en.Ai England's rulers led them into debt— debt gave birth (at this date) »o the Bank of England — which begat paper money — which broughtforth the funding system, or Chari&i the art of borrowing money at extravagant rates, never to be repaid. The result English is, in England, drunkenness, highway robbery, hulks and colonies of thieves, &rv, andft pickpockets, wars nearly eternal, poor houses worse than jails, a standing army old. chier increased ten-fold, and a poor, ignorant, miserable, discontented people. Let the The la grasping, greedy and avaricious among the Americans, think ot this, and profit seksdeclj By the example. In 1828, Mr. Huskisson, afterwards Chancellor of the Ex* ew Jacks chequer, stated in the English House of Commons, in debate on the nation- J 0’ besi^ a i debt, that “ the Bank restriction of 1797, which had continued for a quar- lre ° fl P? ter of a century, had produced more calamitous consequences, more confu. 8 l° n » more moral and political evils, than any other measure parliament had Thego’j! ever sanctioned.” In this opinion, Mr. Goulborn, then Chancellor of the Ex- hebagpra chequer fully concurred. Would America desire to inherit the like evils by ison.soiK departing from a specie standard ! tojrf JAN. 3. 1777. Battle of Princetown.— 1838. A Lockport, N. Y., Grand Jury, in- Cbar.a: dj ct gj r Allan N. Macnab, and his companions, for the Schlosser murder, viz : bir Allan Napier Macnab, Speaker of the House of Assembly — John Mosier. formerly l Royal Bi Captain of the Niagara Steamer — Thomas (should be Shephard) McCormick — Ed- ?rce,aMi ward Zealand — George (by mistake called) James Chalmers, merchant, Trafalgar tablished: Edgeworth Usher (since shot I believe) — Angus McLeod — Jared F. Jarvis (an error ’onthen in me Xtian name) — Rolland McDonald, tory lawyer, St. Catharines John B. W ar- orthisnaa ren — William Warren — Peter Riglev, &c. — Finlayson of Cobourg, C apt. J. Arnold, . Andwr and Hon. John Elmsley were in the boats. At a large public meeting in Lockport, it changed! was resolved, that — If eighty armed men, (waiting the signals of spies employed for rnationsK the purpose of giving information where their victims were sleeping) attacking thirty ,\ anyone' men unarmed, in their sleep, and massacring them indiscriminately, disregarding their \ shall ail cries for mercy, is a “gallant affair,” Macnab’s assassins are entitled to the name of ideprecifi “heroes.” The conduct of the petty tyrants of Upper Canada towards American ci- erences po tizens, their foul abuse of our officers, and their declared abhorrence of our Republican ile. Wifl form of Government, is no more than what might be expected from those who by their irebvflM arbitrary conduct have driven their own subjects to rebellion; have banished their rtgaje s® most able and upright statesmen, and after having declared martial law, are gratifying jeneralto their cruel an d vindictive feelings by incarcerating and starving all who dare to mur- sandi-lJ mur at their lawless acts of oppression. son.-BfiS It is the Rolland McDonell indicted at Lockport, of whom Mr. Parker speaks in jrrEfe 3 his Journal, thus: — “We touched at Lancaster, and arrived at the Coteau du Lac . kmk, just before dark. We met many on the wharf who knew me, and among other per- >n a a?* sons, R. McD., of St. Catharines, who mentioned the defeat of the Canadians and the burning of their villages, saying “that to destroy the crows, the only way was to exterminate the young one 3 and their nests.” Although they forced us to remain on on adj deck in the rain and cold, we got some boiled potatoes and crackers of the steward, grime e# The pilot (a Frenchman) in speaking of the burning of the villages and the destruc- ' (be Bid' tion of families and property, cried lute a child. In reciting the tale of wo, how wo- jfulrescfl* men and children had to fly before their persecutors, he said “what can the poor A joloCif Canadians do— no pork, no bread, no house, no home !” 1838 — Peter Malcolm, yeo* j-jjjjjdi man, confined 9 months, charged with rebellion, found guilty. — 1839. Seven Cana. dians condemned to be strangled at Montreal, after a mock trial by the English steins siding guillotine court. mere®: 1 EDUCATION. — The great bankers, merchants, and monopolists wish to see hemew' : their sons filling all the high and honorable posts in the Republic, hence we per- ceive, that whatever party may be in power, there is a great deal of talk about aid- lank of ® ing and extending general education and common schools; but very little done. ■ years'® jf governors and senators could do it all by speeches, we would have plenty of them; but there they stop. Our monopoly made gentry educate their own sons orth W* in a superior manner, out of the wealth their grinding despotism acquires out of -alioftj the folly of the many — this they do with a view of having them exclusively fit for iffldWj? first rate stations. Hitherto the democratic system has counteracted the designs MW? of this spirit of monopoly, but the people should beware. Education to all and illy in® Equal Rights, stand and fall together. No man can perceiveat one view the evils them * 1 5 Caroline Almanac, and which may result to a people from that sort of legislation and judicial intrigue which has for its object the enriching of nfew at the expense of a whole people. Are We Opposed to Banks? — By no means. They are very useful in their place, for lending the money of those who really have money to lend— and for transferring large amounts of money in the easiest, cheapest, and best manner from places at a distance from each other — and, as in Scotland, they may be con- verted into the best of Savings Banks, yielding interest on deposites, and exacting it on loans. To adapt them for these objects, they should be allowed to issue notes of $25 and upwards (as in England), but none below that, and real money should be brought into universal circulation in all the small and domestic dealings of society. This is the way they do business among the thirty-six millions of Frenchmen, where the Banks in Paris alone, hold now 100 millions in specie, which the country does not require, although no Bank note circulates there of a less value than $100. JAN. 4. 1838. "No Prisoners*' wa 3 McNab’s watch word on this and one other night, opposite Navy Island, and it was resolved by the officers to put every living creature on the island to death when they took it. — 1839. This Morning Christopher Buckley, of Onondaga Co.; Sylvester A. Lawton, of Hounsfield, Jefferson Co.; Rus- sell Phelps, of Watertown; and Duncan Anderston, of Pamelia, N. Y., Prescott pri- soners, gallant and generous men, were escorted by the hireling soldiers of England from Fort Henry to the front of the Court House, Kingston, U. C., and butchered in cold blood, in the midst of the Canada snows. They were hung two at a time, Colo- nel Dundasandhis officers enjoying the scene. In the evening there was a ball and great rejoicings. These men had no trial according to the laws of Canada. Arthur selected some 12 or 15 of his creatures, militia officers, bade them try and sentence the Americans, and they did so, without Judge or Jury. When will these horrid murders be avenged! — Lord Norbury assassinated by "an unknown person, in Ire- land. JAN. 5. 1839. Von Schoultz's murder sanctioned by the bloody Queen of England.— Lord Glenelg, Secretary of State, acknowledges Arthur's account of tlie verdict of his militia divan to hang the gallant Yon Schoultz, the leader of the brave band at Prescott. And adds — "You also enclose a copy of the warrant for his exe- cution, which you have directed to be carried into effect on the 8th ultimo. Her Ma- jesty’s government ENTIRELY AGREE in the necessity of allowing THE LAW to take its course in this instance.” . (Signed) GLENELG. Von Schoultz never had a trial by law. A dozen of the militia officers opposed to Canadian freedom assem- bled in a room and said “hang the Pole,” and he was hung accordingly. — 1781. Be- nedict Arnold destroys Richmond. — 1838. Mr. Secretary Forsyth acquaints Mr. Fox the English Agent, that the U. S, would demand redress for "the destruction of pro* perty, and assassination of Citizens of the United States, on the soil of New York,” at Schlosser. JAN. 6. 1838. John Haling, U. C., arrested for treason, and banished to the U. S, What is meant by Constitutional Treasury, Independent Treasury and Sub - lreasury ? — The meaning of the term as used by the Government, is Treasu- ries, like the Mint, where the money of the people, raised from them for the public uses by law would be kept in vaults and iron chests, in the care of officers ap- pointed by the President, with consent of the Senate of theU. S.,(both President and Senate being chosen by the people to watch their treasure) ; said officers to give ample security for its safety, and be liable to fine and two years in States rnson, if they embezzled or used a dollar of it, unless by authority of a law of congress, which is the expressed will of the people. Under a Constitutional Trea- sury system the Banks would have no interest in bribing editors to defend and congressmen to vote new and heavy taxes and loans to burthen the people, be- cause the Banks would no longer obtain the money so raised to speculate with. — Under the National Bank system the Bank gave no security for the safe keeping ot the public treasure but lent it to whomsever the Directors pleased, made inter- est on it out of the people whose it was, and when the Government and Congress wanted more of their own money than the Bank chose to let them have, the Bank would not even allow the Government Directors to investigate its affairs. 7 4 t r 1763 ' Allan R amsay, author of the Gentle Shepherd; died. 1839. Windsor Patriots. More Murders!— The men who had gone over to relieve a land in which its rulers had declared there was no law nor justice— that regular government was at an end. were, some of them shot in the streets in eold Freeman's Chronicle. 9 'p blootl by Prince. For tlie others, Arthur’s prisoners, a jury trial would not do. No P'* jury would have convicted. Therefore Arthur ordered what he called a court mar- their tial, which meant a few rascally attomies, and militia officers chosen (not by the mi- ld litia but) by Colborne, Head and Arthur, selected because they would have hung arnier their nearest friend for profit and promotion. This court or convocation of ruffians 3 cob- consisted of John Bostwick, custom house collector at Port Stanley, President! acting Henry Sherwood, Attorney, Toronto, Judge Advocate ! ! and for members (! ! !) Co- fi ijjjij lonels James Winniet, Joseph B. Clench, John B. Asskin, George Washington none; Whitehead, Win. Brearley, P. B. De Blaquiere, Majors Fred. Somers, James In- [a r-. gcrsoll, James Carroll, Capts. Julius Talbot Airey, Edmund Deedes, Hugh Cham- on^. bers, Wm. Mackay and Charles Purlay. They began to enquire who were the bra- spT . vest Canadians ancl Yankees among their 38 prisoners, on the 27th Dec. 1838, at Lon- r g • don, U. C.; andthis day, the first fruits of their labours were openly murdered oppo- 1 site the Court House, viz: 1st. Hiram B. Linn or Lynde, who acted as Adjutant to the patriots at Windsor. He was from Ann Arbour, Michigan, a very courageous ie( P man, full of zeal and ardour for liberty. He would have died in a few days of his 1 p«| wounds, for he was mortified all over, and had to be carried to the gallows. The monsters had his coffin made and placed in the cell with him three days before the °-i fi» execution, and when Mr. Kryon the clergyman went in he found poor Linn mourning awtjB heavily but in a sound sleep lying in his coffin. 2nd, Davis D. Bedford of the New- Enjiis castle District, U. C. We have not learnt whether Sweetman, of Albany, swore a- jeredi way these men’s lives, or only the three last hung. Charles Kennedy, of Cleveland, ie.Cn- was sentenced to be executed, but whether he was so we are not informed. — 1814. Da- ballui niel Webster, of Mass., when the U. S. was at war, voted this day in the House of Arir Representatives, against an appropriation to defray the expenses of the navy. On sesjj the 10th, against a proposition to detect and punish traitors and spies. On tne 14th, sekn against making provision to fill the ranks of the army. On the 22d against raising n, iai troops for five years. On the 28th against a non-importation law. On the 8th of Feb- ruary, against raising five regiments of riflemen. On the 29th of March, against a bill ) u , . to execute the laws agd repel invasion. On the 2d of December, against a bill to raise revenue for the government, and maintain the public credit. On the 10th, against a jj‘‘ . bill for an appropriation to re-build the Capitol at Washington, after it had been burnt by the enemy. — Buffalo Star. — 1832. W. L. Mackenzie tried again by the U. C„ pi’ Legislative Assembly for political opinions expressed only through his newspaper, £ £: and sentenced to re-expulsion, and declared ineligible to be again returned by the l freeholders as their representative. 1 ; English Government in India. — The grinding oppressions of thatgreat mo- nopoly, the English East India Company [the English Aristocratic Government y. in one of its most cruel and unfeeling forms, J have reduced the miserable inhabit- ‘jfjg ants to the scantiest pittance. Millions of them in former periods have died of Yjf starvation in the streets and fields, so that at times the atmosphere was poisoned with the noxious effluvia of unburied human carcasses. The climate is so mild , that very little clothing is indispensible; and rice, the food of the wretched labor- er, is easily cultivated, and therefore cheap. And the wages of labor is depressed M to 2£d- a day. — Young's Report on Finance , 1839. fe. (See also August 1st, and April 14th.) epyfe Pathetic Petition of an Indian Lady. — The following petition was published ersi?- many years ago in England. It is one of the most heart-meltingappeals we ever esifc read, and would have softened the heart of any man but Warren Hastings. The icersi) catastrophe was rendered more shocking, from the fact, that the only crime of Stats the husband was patriotic hostility to the enemies and despoilers of his native law rf country. A petition not less affecting, was delivered by the wife of the unfortu- lTrfr nate Lount, to Sir George Arthur, imploring him to spare her husband, but with. id«K as little effect on that cruel tyrant, who was urged to dip his hands in innocent le> blood by Chief Justice Robinson, C. A. Hagerman, and his Executive Council,, •A- Allan, Elmsley, Baldwin, Sullivan, and Draper. xpinf A literal translation of the petition presented to the governor-general, Hastings, inter- by the wife of Almas Ali Cawn, one of the native princes of India, in behalf of her igreii husband, who was seized and put to death for political purposes : ?, dK “ To the high and mighty servant of the most powerful Prince George , King of airs. England , the lowly and humble slave of misery, comes praying for mercy to the father of her children . “Most mighty Sire, —may the blessings of thy God wait on thee: may the oj, gates of plenty, honor and happiness be ever open to thee and thine : may no sor- Jg rows distress thy days, may no grief disturb tky nights; may the pillow or pease ^7 Caroline Almanac , and 10 kiss thy cheek, and the pleasure of imagination attend thy dreaming, and when length of days make thee tired of earthly enjoyments, and when the curtain of death gently closes round the last sleep of human existence, may the angels of God attend thy bed, and take care that the expiring lamp of life shall not receive one rude blast to hasten its extinction. Oh ! hearken, then, to the voice of dis- tress, and grant the petition of thy servant ; spare the father of my children, save the partner of my bed, my husband, mv all thnt is dear, consider, oh . mighty Sire, that he did not become rich through iniquity, but that which he possessed was the inheritance of a long line of flourishing ancestors, who, when the thunder of Great Britain was not heard in the peaceful plains of Hindostan, reaped their harvest in quiet and enjoyed their patrimony unmolested. . “Think, oh ! think, the God whom thou worshipest delighteth not in the blood of the innocent, remember thy own commandment, “thou shait not kill,” and obey the ordinance of God. Give me back my Almas Ali Cawn, and take all our wealth ; strip us of our jewels and precious stones, our gold and our silver, but take not away the life of my husband : innocence is seated on his brow, and the milk of human kindness floweth around his heart. Let us go and wander thro’ the deserts — let us become laborers in those delightful spots, of which he was once lord and master; but spare, oh! mighty Sire, spare his life — let not the in- strument of death be lifted up against him, for he hath committed no crime. Ac- cept our treasures with gratitude, thou hast them at present by force: we will re- member thee in our prayers, we will forget that we were ever rich and powerful. “My children, the children of Almas Ali Cawn, send this petition for the life of him who gave them life — they beseech from thee the author of their existence By that humanity which we have often been told glowed in the breast of European loveliness, by the tender mercies of the enlightened souls of Englishmen, by the honor, the virtue, the honesty , and the maternal feeling of thy great Queen, whose numerousoffspring is so dear* to her, the miserable wife of thy prisoner beseeches thee to spare her husband’s ife, and to restore him to her arms. Thy God will reward thee and she now petitioning will ever pray for thee, if thou grantestthe prayer of thy humble vassal.” fThis petition was presented by the unhappy lady to the British governor-gener- al, who, after having perused it, gave orders that Almas Ali Cawn should be im- mediately strangled, and this order was put into execution. So rackenham he made his brags, But Jackson he was wide awake, If he in fight was lucky, And wasn’t scar’d at trifles, He’d have their girls and cotton bags, For well he knew what aim we take In spite of old Kentucky. With our Kentucky rifles. JAN. 8. 1815. Battle of New Orleans, a most glo- rious American victory over a cruel and sanguinary enemy, whose watchword was “Beauty and Booty,” and who had ) resolved, if successful, to deliver up the city to the soldiers Lto gratify their cupidity and lust No treaty can bind the I faithless and brutal government of England. We have read Bthe mystery of Babylon in the 17th chapter of revelations, at- ' tentively, and are satisfied that “ the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth” there spoken of, is England, the bloody English power, which has ascended out of tne bottom- less pit ; and that the prophecy of its destruction will speedily be fulfilled. — 1701. Origin ot the Prussian Monarchy. — 1838. The Barcelona Steam- boat arrives at Navy Island from Buffalo. — 1838. Five thousand slaves transported to Demarara and the Mauritius from English India, under Lord Glenelg’s patronage, within 2 years to this date. JAN. 9. 1838. The only person who died or was killed upon Navy Island was Nelson Beebe, formerly a gunner in the U. S. Navy. He had not been 24 hours on the island when a spent 18lb. ball hit him this day as he was dodging, and closed his mortal career. — Dalton of the Patriot very abusive, yet he began by hosannahs to Papineau until government bought him up. In his No. 32, he says — “If the people could fail to sympathize with; or give their support to such a House of Assembly as the Lower Province has been blessed with, their loyalty to any body or thing would not be worti^a pinch of snuff ; but seeing they have stood firm as a rock to back their worthy and urfcsjunted representatives in the maintenance of principles, &c.” — 1838. Generals Sutherland and Theller with an army of 500 take possession of Bois Blanc Island in the Detroit River, driving off the English forces. General Theller, in the Freeman's Chronicle . 11 whe line else ecen- )fd» U* sea* mnfij dt'oe ebb. "ai alios r, bs nd ie rthn e m ihei . it wills W8& the j uropa ,W ),«b ?seea JOSS tew ■•geos- be a ostglo enemr, 1» hi oldien Jid tbt eras 0M,fr otsaui id. the ottoc eedilj Iteas- ted to inaga 1 tt'Ji r» oo dh» hsto iople !vss iia heir 338 . anc the •chooner Ann, attempts to capture a vessel fitting up at Malden for warlike uses, the man at the wheel, the only sailor on board, is killed — the Ann runs aground, and is captured by the militia and negroes, after a gallant resistance. In this action the pa- triots had several killed, and the whole crew, twenty-six, including Theller, Col. Dodge, Capt. Davis, and Col. Brophy, the most efficient men in the expedition, were made prisoners, and sent forward to* London jail, on a charge of high treason. This schooner was a valuable prize for the captors, containing three cannon— one nine and two six pounders— three hundred and sixty stand of small amis with bayonets and accoutrements complete, a large quantity of ammunition, and six hundred and thirty dollars in specie, besides clothing and* other materials. Colonel Bradley, a gallant patriot officer, in his report of Feby. 9 , says — “There is no doubt but that if General Sutherland had attempted to relieve the schooner, her capture could have been pre- vented, for he (Sutherland) had at that time between sixty and a hundred men under his immediate command, who expressed their willingness to make the attempt to save her from falling into the hands of the enemy. Capt. Sanford earnestly requested Gen. S. to order the men into the boats to prevent her from being taken ; he seem- ingly complied with the request. Instead, however, of performing what every man supposed was his intentions, as soon as the men were on board he ordered them to pull for the American shore, saying, “the enemy are attacking us and we must flee for our lives.” If Gen. Sutherland had effected a landing, he could have maintain ed it ; he had a sufficient number of men directly under his command, to have made good his position there without the aid or assistance of a single Canadian. However, he had the promise of assistance from three or four hundred Canadians, but in con- sequence of his cowardice they were driven to the necessity of uniting their fortunes with the Royalists.”— 1838. Francis Lemaitre, editor of the Montreal Quotidienne, seized by a party of Colborne’s riflemen, thrown 4 months into a dungeon without trial, why was this done ? Here is his statement: — “It was about half past seven o’clock in tlie evening, that a detachment of forty volunteers unexpectedly besieged my premises. They were all armed to the teeth for the purpose of arresting one man, and he unarmed! No sooner had they burst into my office than I was sur- rounded by a triple row of muskets with bayonets fixed, which were presented so close to my body that they pricked me at all points. This was accompanied by most insulting language. Irritated at the moment, I moved my hand to ward off the bayo- nets, when several of the guards cried out — “ He resists ! — he mustbe tied !” Here- upon two officers came forward and levelled a brace of pistols cocked at my breast, and one of the forty heroes struck me a blow on the mouth with the barrel or butt of his gun, so severe that he split my lip. Covered with blood, my feet merely in slip- pers, I was immediately throttled — refused permission to draw on my boots, and in this miserable plight, in the heart of winter, on an excessively cold night, I was hur- ried to the guard house, and thrown into the black hole. Here I was kept for four and twenty liours deprived of all accommodation and nearly frozen to death. I was next conveyed to the common jail. Eight of the armed volunteers were left on my premises. They helped themselves to every thing they fancied • On the next day my press, and every tiling that was found in my printing office were seized and re- moved to the vaults of the Court House.” The Vindicator presses had been scatter- ed to the four winds of heaven in November — so had the Minerve — so had the Que- bec Liberal. December closed the career of Mackenzie’s Constitution, Talbot’s Li- beral, and other republican journals. L’Observateur and L’Etoile were put down by the bayonet. JAN. 10. 1815. English army evacuate New Orleans. — 1645. Archbishop Laud, an intolerant, proud political Archbishop who had spent a long life persecuting the English people whose belief did not accord with the creed oi the national church, was beheaded this day. Doctor Strachan over at Toronto is a character very like Laud. JAN. 11. 1839. Eleven brave Canadians, whose houses and barns had been burnt, and their numerous families beggared, were sentenced by the Court Martial, or standing guillotine, at Montreal, to be hung as rebels, for their love of country and hatred of oppression. — Earthquake at Martinique, W. I.; 400 persons sent into eter- nity thereby. — 1838. Donald Cameron, Esq., Thora, arrested for rebellion — tried 10th May and acquitted. JAN. 12. 1801. Lavater, the physiognomist, died. When the issuing of an unlimited quantity of paper dollars has produced ex- travagant speculation , misery and ruin ) and at last a f all in pi'ices , whom do the Banks sustain ? Whom do they crush and ruin ? — They sustain those spe- culators who owe them much, and were worth nothing when they began to bor- row of them, because that is the only means by which they can realize what they 12 Caroline Almanac , and lent them ; but persons who were wealthy when they began to borrow, or to lend their names to borrowers, they sacrifice without scruple, because the selling of all they have will keep the Bank safe, although it may sell the farmer’s last acre. JAN. 13. America will have to follow the example of France and quit paper cur- rency. To allow every body to issue all the dollar promises to pay they can flood the country with, causes an excess of currency — that brings on dear flour, dear pro- visions, a rise of prices, alters the conditions of contracts and injures commercial cre- dit — next it brings ruin on many innocent persons — and it ends by making money ve- ry scarce, so much as to injure the country still more than even" the flooding it with worthless paper at first. Is the passage of a laio to establish a Constitutional Treasury essential to the independence of the country and the stability of the Union ? — The money of the country mnst be kept somewhere. If the people are capable of self-government, they are as capable of appointing discreet persons to guard the chest with the public treasure asa(misoalled) National Bank, the majority of the real Stockhold- ers of which would be foreign persons, speculating persons, gamblers in stocks and public lands, and persons in trade, who would, as hitherto, endeavor to monopo- lize or regulate the staples of the country, cotton, grain, &c., to their own advan- tage; and, holding the purse, determine whether it would suit their private inter- est best to give to Congress the means of defending the nation, or use those means to corrupt its ablest orators. If the people’s money is placed in a National Bank, it will not be there when wanted; but if it be deposited in a well regulated Con- stitutional Treasury, the funds necessary for the public defence will be at the command of the nation, to enable it vigorously to prosecute anv FOREIGN WAR into which it may be forced for the maintenance of the national honor, rights and welfare. At the close of the last war, the United States Government was greatly distressed in its finances, owing to the uncertainty caused by a mass of irredeemable paper money with which the Banks had flooded the U. S. To relieve itself it re-chartered the U. S. Bank, a combination of gamblers and spe- culators. The Bank was to go into operation on the first day of January, 1817. To such a pitch had these embarrassments reached, that the Government with twenty millions of paper dollars in the Treasury, was obliged to borrow, in ad- yance of the public operations of the Bank, half a million of the specie paid towards the first instalment, in order to avoid the forfeiture of the public faith, by providing for the dividends due on that day in Boston on the public debt, as none of the public paper money could effect payments in that city. JAN. 14. 1838. Navy Island, U. C., evacuated by the Patriots, Sir John Col- borae s forces on the main shore having allowed the tri color flag, with its twin stars, to float in the breeze for nearly 5 weeks without daring to attack it, although they numbered 3000 men in arms, and the patriots not many more than 600. — 1784 Peace between U. S. and G. Britain ratified.— 1838. Queen Victoria’s Councillors hold a session to consider how they can most effectually coerce Lower Canada. JAN. 15. 183*2. Dr. Tracey and Ludger Duvernay of Montreal, republican edi- tors, arrested this day, Sunday, and dragged to Quebec by the sergeant at arms, and to the bar of the Legislative Council, there accused of calling the Council “ a political nuisance standing m the way of useful legislation.” Sentenced to be immured in the dungeons of the Quebec jail among felons, for the remainder of the session. — 1559. Queen Elizabeth crowned, a harsh, artful, tyrannical and unfeeling woman, who kept her cousin Mary Queen of bcots 18 years a close prisoner after she had thrown herself on her protection, and then caused her head to be cut off.— 1836 Sheriff Gu- gy s humanity.— The thermometer was between 15 and 20 degrees below zero, when a poor houseless being John Collins, was found wandering Ibout the streets of Montreal witli scarce a shred to cover his raggedness and moaning with hunger and thrus t jnto jail by a magistrate as a vagrant, and there locked without fire, food, bed or bedding, to pass the night m a cell the windows of which afforded no protection against the inclemency of the pitiless weather. As might be expected, die poor man cou d not long bear up against such inhumanity as this. He was dis- covered one morning— frozen to death ! J Q S JAN. i6. 1809, General Sir John Moore, son of Dr. Moore, author of Zelucco Travels in Italy, &c., slam at battle of Corunna, Spain. — 1794, Edward Gibbon the Historian of the Roman Empire, died. ^iodoii, tne irifat Boston a ^' ran ^ 111 ' the American statesman and philosopher, irn at Boston , learns the trade of a printer ; enters the Pa. Legislature : acts as atrent Mass, and Pa. in London; appointed Deputy P. M. G. ; joins in the revolt; goes n the U. S., where he is highly honored on account of born to out to France as Minister from Freeman" 8 Chronicle. 13 3 his personal character and philosophical researches ; is successful in his mission. — i 1837, Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri, carried in the Senate a a vote expunging the 8 resolutions, which had cast a stigma on General Jackson’s character for removing the 8 deposites. We think it was a pity the General did not go for an Independent Trea- - surv at once, instead of crediting these treasury banks, who have acted so corrupt and 3 selfish a part ; but this advantage is obtained, the experiment has shewn that, although / less dangerous than the U. S. Bank, they are the man-traps of vile speculators, and un- - worthy of the public confidence. Colonel Benton is about 56 years of age, has been . a Senator for Missouri, in the U. S. Senate, nearly 20 years ; is a lawyer ; a native of - North Carolina; and the friend of hard money, and the independenVtreasury. , JAN. 18. 1781, Battle of the Cowpens.— 1839, Five Canadian worthies suffered 3 martyrdom at Montreal, for their love of freedom, and hatred to English tyranny. — g They were refused a jury trial, and underwent the mockery of a sentence from Gen- . eral Clitherow and his fellows of the Hangman’s society. Their names will be held t in everlasting honor by free America. 1st. Pierre Theophile Decoigne, Notary Public, cj Napierville, (left a widow and two children); 2d. Joseph Jacques Robert, farmer, St. .. Phulippe, aged 59, (left. 5 orphan children) ; 3d. Charles Sanguinet, farmer, Su Phil- , lipe, aged 36, (left a wife and two children); 4th. Francois Xavier Hamelin. farmer, . only 20 years of age, but of gallant bearing; and 5th. Ambroise Sanguinet farmer, St 3 Constant, (left a wife and five orphans). All these murders of the virtuous Canadians _ are urged on by the bloody Queen of England, who is as keen for spilling Canadian ^ blood as her mad old grandfather Geo. 3rd. God sees these acts, and in his own time, and way he will take vengeance. As now with greedy and accursed England, so of * old with the Romans did the accursed thirst for extended empire induce Agricola with his victorious legions from Rome, to pursue the poor but brave Caledonians under ! Galgacus, their heroic leader, to the skirts of the Grampians, where 10,000 of our . brave ancestors were slaughtered, and offered up on the altar of an unbridled ambi- tion. The Scotch then, like the Canadians last winter, were very brave, but they 3 were like them too, undisciplined and poorly armed, so the Romans lost only 340. Over * the face of the country, says Tacitus, no inhabitant was to be seen — their homes were j smoking ruins, like thousands of Canada not long ago. Agricola civilized the Britons, l but our more barbarous conquerors seize the schools and colleges and halls of legis- lature, and convert them into barracks and banquetting rooms — amuse themselves » with shooting the natives in the streets on the occasion of the farce of a popular election f — and having trampled upon every other liberty, conclude by annihilating the free- * dom of the press. > JAN. 19. 1832. Immense meeting at Toronto, of the people of the Home and ad- i joining Districts, U. C. — A petition adopted. Mackenzie delegated to England. Other * counties concur and petition for domestic government and equal rights. —1736, J AMES , Watt born at Greenock. Scotland. His great-grandfather was an Aberdeenshire [ farmer who died in one of Montrose’s battles, and his property was confiscated by the . victors for his opinions, on the barbarous principle, in use by the cruel English whig • government towards Canada — his grandfather was a teacher in Greenock — his father [ bailie, town treasurer and merchant, lived to the age of 92. M. A.rago, the biographer ( of Watt reminds his readers that this celebrated man was educated at a humble pa- , risk school in Scotland. His constitution was extremely delicate — at six years he was . able to solve mathematical problems ; and botany, mineralogy, antiquities, poetry, me- L dicine and natural philosophy were successively his study. At nineteen ne went to , study under a mathematical instrument maker in London — at twenty-one he set up , shop in Glasgow College — and soon invented the steam engine, in other words crea- ted many minions of workmen, industrious, indefatigable, who upheld England when sinking under the weight of defeat, debt and misrule. Did a grateful monarch elevate so eminent a benefactor to the highest rank of the peerage ? No. There was as little room for James Watt there, as there was for Christ in the Inn. Newton was no peer of England! — 1473, Copemieus born. — 1783, Independence of the United States ac- knowledged by Great Britain. — 1777, Washington informed Congress that “The fluctuating state of an army, composed chiefly of militia, bids fair to reduce us to the situation in which we were some little time ago — that is, of having scarce any army at all, except reinforcements speedily arrive.” France came to their assistance, replen- ished their empty coffers, clothed their starving soldiers, armed their militia, fed their people, strengthened their hands, and encouraged their hearts: — Is there any debt of gratitude due to her children in Canada? JAN. 20. 1783, The Independence of America acknowledged by England after a desolating warfare of seven years. — 1788, Australia colonized. — 1830, Red J;r:ket, otherwise Keeper Awake, Chief of the Seneca Indians near Buffalo, died in his 74th year. He opposed Christianity,, fearing that it would degrade and impoverish Ids tribe 1; le tl a! Tt tt v: d n \v 17 CC tfc P' ei P» li: ts e; tt it 81 C( V ri w ol T( Cl T v v tl fc p b tt n b< s« tc tc . n tl Q k h S v IS c fi n tl c< a i b tt o M Caroline Almanac , a/id 1 as the majority ot the poor are impoverished. His last speech is likely to prove true. “I am about to leave you." said he, “and when I am gone, and my warnings shall be no longer heard or regarded, the craft and avarice oftne white man will prevail. Ma- ny winters have I breasted the storm, but I am an aged tree, and can stand no longer. My leaves are fallen, my branches are withered, and I am shaken by every breeze. Soon my aged trunk will be prostrate, and the foot of the exulting foe of the Indian may be placed upon it in safety ; for I leave none who will be able to avenge such an indignity. Think not I mourn for myself. I go to join the spirits of my fathers, where age cannot come ; but my heart fails when I think of my people, who are soon to be scattered and forgotten." JAN. 21. 1793. Louis 16th, King of France beheaded. (His nobility and title;’ clergy slain, banished, deprived of their lands, and of the power they had abused, U cause they delighted in such monopolies as the U. S. Bank, special corporations church and state united, and in squandering the revenues, having no sympathy with the people.) JAN. 22. 1788. Lord Byron, the far-famed republican and poet, bom in England. Died in Greece, 1824, endeavoring to give liberty to that country. — 1561, Lord Chan cellor Bacon born.— 1813, Second battle of River Raisin. — 1689, The Prince of Orange’s Convention Parliament meets. — 1838, Colonel Worth and a party of U. S. troops land at Dunkirk and disarm 300 patriots. JAN. 23. 1838, Lord Brougham persuades the House of Lords to stop a bill to introduce the principle of limited partnerships, registration of partners, and investing a great many small sums in trade, to be under the management of a few whomth; others could not check. He said it was unfavorable to honesty, and he was right. JAN. 24. 1749, The celebrated English statesman and orator, Charles James Fox, born. JAN. 25. 1759, Robert Bums, the poet of nature, born in Ayrshire, Scotland, and remained through life a true democrat and a friend to equal rights : at one time he in- tended to have settled in the United States. What consequences would ensue to the finances of these States , were this coun- try suddenly forced into a war with England , before alawis enacted to givetht people's elected servants the whole control of the public revenue ? — Every Bank- ing concern in the Union would suspend the payment of its debts in money the moment war was declared. The country would be flooded with paper promise* which could be turned into silver at a discount of 5, 10, 15, 25, 30, or 40 dollars in the hundred, and the real value of such promises (or Bank Notes) would be un- known. Contractors would be unable to decide what proposals to make to go- vernment, for they would not know what paper they might be paid in. In one port the duties would be paid in Bank Notes, 30 per cent, below par; in another port at 5, thus taxing importers unequally. If Government received for taxes tha Notes of pet Banks, or of all Banks, the public would be deceived. If it refused to do so, every press the Bank owners could bribe, subsidize, or influence, would slander the government, and in additition to war abroad, there would be a still more rapacious enemy to combat at home. In case of a war the revenue from imported goods would decrease three-fold, and the expense of the nation increase perhaps ten-fold. Government would have to borrow. The Bankers would lend it broken bank notes and take its bonds to pay back principal and interest in silver and gold; these bonds they would sell to foreigners, who would afterwards carry off the specie, which is the life’s blood of a country. These evils a Constitutional Treasury would prevent, by securing the public against Bank intrigue, and equal- izing all payments in one known and unalterable currency. JAN. 26. 182/. A corrupt House of Assembly, U. C.. pass a bill to declare all set- tlers from the United States Aliens, incapable of holding land or exercising civil rights until they would solemnly abjure all allegiance to. and ajl right, title and inter- est m their native land, in which case they were allowed to hold land and be subjects, m part, in U. C. ouly. This oath of abjuration to be recorded. A committee of four formed, with W . L. Mackenzie as their secretary, to defeat this bill, who send R. Ran- dal to London. 1839, Pierre Maurice Lavoie and eight other French Canadians stood victims to English barbarity, at the new Court House, Montreal, and were sen- tenced to be hung like criminals for drawing their swords like freemen. JAN. 27. 1832, Treaty with France. SLAVERY IN THE U. S. — How is is to be got rid of? When slavery was about to be abolished in the north, many persons went and sold their slaves to P”* 1 nters in the south. These persons are ready to abolish slavery. How would they do it . By forcing the southern states to emancipate their slaves? Thai Freeman's Chronicle - 15 k vi. no® :ryU the H *R.T fait abused urpotc ipaib inEag Lord! to tyofi K wvria s-asrc arlee'i km Mis rth di tvajk m W? mid rooldbe nnkf- . It- m miK foritE itrefw nee, v: dbeii ^encei >n m would* >stins' arfl'sa stiioto' arc alt isinj- and is sufc seoS iB.6 main crest would be the signal for a dissolution of this happy union, an event which England earnestly seeks to bring about, and which would be fraught with misery and woe to mankind. Does the abolitionist believe that by filling the minds of the blacks with sentiments of hatred and revenge against their masters, and putting the lat- ter in continual fear of assassination, this great good is to be brought about 1 No sincere follower of Christ will say so. England has given more personal liberty to her West India slaves of late. Why has she done this 7 ? J s her motive benev- olent 1 Had it been so she would have refused to deliver over the Lower Cana- dians, whom she acknowledges to be the most peaceful, moral, and kindly pea- santry in the world, to slavery, murder, rapine, robbery, burning, banishment, and utter destitution. They were free. She forced them into slavery because they earnestly prayed for justice!— for leave to educate their children !! To the millions in Britain and Ireland, too, the cruelty of the English Government is pro • verbial— so too in India. A number are emancipated in the West Indies, because it is hoped thereby to weaken and divide the southern Stales, and break up the first federal union of popular sovereignties in America. What then would you pro- pose ? Let these sincere philanthropists who dosire to better the condition of tha slave, and remove this great blot from the escutcheon of America consult the Sa- viour’s golden rule, ana do unto the southern planters as they would wish to be done by. were they situated as their southern brethren now are. Obtain the con- sent of the slaves states to the following proposition : —That a law be passed in Congress authorizing the purchase of the freedom of the whole colored race, upon any fair principle of valuation ; let the nation give its bonds to the several slave- owners for the amount; and let the interest, and gradually the principal, be paid, by a direct or other tax, fairl y and equally laid on the whole union, of all races and colors. Let slaves be admitted to the elective franchise, according as the several states may decide, but only when they can read and write, and are shewn to be qualified to perform the dunes of freemen. Any attempt to remove slavery, ex- clusively at the expense of the slave-owners, will be likely to cause difficulties yet more formidable than even slavery itself. Slavery is recognized by the federal constitution, and slave-owners give hundreds of thousands of votes for federal of ficers because they art slave owners. But let the whole union put its shoulder to the wheel and slavery will soon cease to exist. Monarchists and all enemies of the honest democratic principle will cry out against slavery in the States, but this or any other peaceful and equitable mode of getting rid of it, in a brotherly way, they will also object to, because they love tyranny. TheUnited States Congress and federal courts, and the several state courts and legislatures have continually sanctioned the purchase and sale of slaves, in such states as chose to deal in slaves, from the 4th of July, 1776, till now. If then they have made it lawful to buy and sell and hold a property in man, the true remedy is, for the whole public to pur- chase the freedom of the whole of the slaves, set them free, and let all classes bear alike their fair share of the burthen. England, in the case of Jamaica, has paid for the slaves, and surely those quakers, independents, presbyterians, baptists, &c. who are foremost in crying out against the sin of slavery, should be the first to do by the southerns as they would desire to be done by. When it was proposed by Mr. Van Buren and others, to permit Missouri to come into theUuion, only on the principle of abolishing slavery, Clay and Harrison voted it down — Clay gave a easting voice against the free’ principle. The. majority of the people of the Union went with Clay and Harrison against Van Buren. Having authorized the citizens of Missouri to buy, sell, hold and convey slaves, the only honorable pro- position the nation can make to Missouri for abolishing slavery is, that all men join as one and buy the bondsmen and bondswomen, set them free, and then place slavery beyond the pale of theconstitution in all time to come. The whole works of “internal improvement” hitherto cried up, are but as a drop iu the bucket when compared with this. It would take off many taxes, and cost the nation scarcely SI each person yearly, and if Canada come into the Uuion let her people bear their share of the impost for so benevolent a purpose. Public Debt and Negro Slavery are evils, as E ngland and the United States have shown. You have two alternatives, and, we think, only two, £jf*Debt or |^Slavery. JAN. 28 1837, The Russian government capture and condemn the British schooner Vixen, on a charge of landing gunpowder to enable the Circassians to re j°AN 8a 28. 1 R 1832.' THE (BANK) CREDIT SYSTEM HAS MADE WESTERN N. Y.!!— UPPER CANADA BANK CHARTER EXTEN. 16 r? Caroline Almanac , and DED. — Query . How do such banks as this continue to tax the ignorant , foolish people who incorporate them ? — First, by exacting 6 or 7 per cent, of tax for the use of their miserable notes or shinplasters, which cost them noth, ing — Secondly, by suspending specie payments, collecting all the silver and gold in the country for their notes, and in payments and deposites, and then selling it to those who must make payments abroad — Thirdly, by the vast sums paid to their favorite lawyers as law costs on their short loans — Fourth, ly, by the power they obtain to make their paper money scarce or plentiful when they please — Fifthly, by their using the monopoly power to bend the press, the bar, the pulpit, the bench and the legislature to corrupt purposes, and thus to destroy popular rights — Sixthly, by their frequent bankruptcies, so ruinous to those who having deposited specie with them receive back shin, plasters which a broker pays cash for at a loss of — say $15 in the $100. In U. C. now, the banks pay no specie for their notes. The effect is this. The government get gold and silver from England to pay the soldiers — this mo- ney Sir George Arthur 6c Co. exchange at the Banks for their bankrupt pro. mises, and with these the troops are paid. The bank notes at length come into the hands of merchants, farmers and tradesmen ; and as the most of it has to be paid out to Europe and these States, where such notes are in bad repute, the exporters carry it to the banks who buy their own notes at 90 to 96 dollars in specie for the 100 dollars in paper, although perhaps they receiv- ed the silver so paid over, dollar for dollar, in silver the day before from Ar. thur. Who loses by this? The people. The price of every thing is raised 4 to 10 per cent, higher than it would be if the silver were paid to the tioops at once instead of being exchanged with these rogues of bankers. But doubt, less Sir George is paid his share of the plunder, and so it is wherever niiisan. ces are incorporated by fools to multiply genteel knaves and pickpockets. JAN. 29. 1833, The British Parliament, having given a preponderance of power to corrupt the whig section of the aristocracy, by a pretended bill of re- form, met, and chose Sutton their old tory Speaker, again, by a vote of 20 to 1, Messrs. Hume and O’Connell voting in the minority.— 1689. Swedenbourg born! 1737, Thomas Paine, author of “Common Sense, 55 born— 1820, Geo. 3rd, the last King of this part of America, died. JAN. 30. 1839, Dr. Theller’s Memorial presented in Congress, asking the United States to give effect io their pledges in the laws guaranteeing equal pro- tection and equal rights to the naturalized citizen whom the Constitution and acts of Congress invite to these shores.— 1838, Peter Grant sent to Toronto jail on a charge of treason, 30th Dec. died this day, one of the many victims to their bar- barity.— 1836, Sir Francis Head lays before the U. C. Legislature his instruc- tions from Lord Glenelgand the English Cabinet, for the government of U. G\, in reply to the report ot the Committee on Grievances, ordering rnanv reforms to be made, and showing that Lord Gosford was mocking the people of Lower Canada, holding out prospects of reforms which the English power never inten- ded to carry into effect. Head, it appears, had private orders to grant no re- form whatever; accordingly he insulted the reformers, corrupted the legislature and Sir George Arthur was told by Lord Glenolg to go and gull the people in like manner, which he has done. O, treacherous England !!!— 1649 Charles 1st, a treacherous prince, the enemy of popular rights, civil and religious, alter being tried by a high court of the republic of England, and found guilty of crimes similar to those^which George 3d successfully practised in England, and Sir F B. Head in U. G., was condemned as a traitor to his people, and this dav be- headed m London.— 1661, llollm, the Historian, horn.— 1689, The Lords, in the Convention Parliament, vote that there is an original contract between the Kings of England and the people, and that James 2d had violated it 1839 THE INDEPENDENT TREASURY 1BLL, lost by a majority of 14 m H. ot II (see June 25th). This bill proposes to leave the re- gulation of the fetate Banks entirely to the states— to dispense with the usexif Banks whether state or national, in collecting, keeping, and disbursing the reve- nues of the United States Government— and to employ for these purposes such responsible agents as may be nominated by the President and approved by the Senate, (in the way the officers ot the mint are appointed, whore, with its branch- Freeman's Chi oniclr. 17 tor* Kill a no vert id : be n Foe. ilenit )endt urpon roptci ick&j 100 , is. ] this: rupt: Lh to loste .rein: at 5 ! yn» front istti belli utdot rnus ket ranc iil ol: f 20 :: rg.be U mg I ialp« and ik jail nr idrbi ins® fl'.i reforr Low: ints no: iaia jopk" "bark s,alit crimfl Sirf lay it ihlk Kop «t it here ea, hundreds of millions of gold and silver have been paid out and not one cent lost to the public for the last half century.) The main features of this bill are as follow:— §1, O’ that a national treasury shall be built in Washington, with safes and fireproof vaults, for keeping the public revenue, in the possession of the treasurer of the U. S., from which not one dollar shall ever be drawn but by a law of Congress.— §2, (Or instead of favorite banks to suit the party in pow- er) O’ the Mint of the United States in Philadelphia, and the branch mint in New Orleans, shall be the places for the safe keeping of the public revenue at these points, and the treasurers of these mints are to have the custody of all re- venue on hand, under restrictions and provisions stated in the bill.— § 3, O’ In the New Custom Houses at New York and Boston, vaults and safes, suitable for safe keeping the revenue at these ports, shall be erected ; O’ Receivers Ge- neral shall be appointed by the President and Senate, in whose custody every cent of the money of the people shall be kept, 0*till appropriated by the na- tional will. — §4. Proper buildings shall be erected Charleston, S. C., E and at St. Louis, Missouri, with secure fire proof safes and vaults, for safe pine* of the revenue collected at these poiuts, Of* each tinder a Receiver Gen- eral as in §3— \Ai the above places the greater part of the revenues of the Union are collected. J § 6. The above officers, as also all other collectors of customs, treasurers of land revenue, postmasters, and revenue receivers, shall severally keep, WITHOUT LENDING OR USING, ALL PUBLIC MONIES collected by or entrusted to th»m in charge, till required by government according to law, and then promptly pay over the same. — §s 7 and 8, that Strong bonds, with heavy sureties, liable to frequent renewal and increase, shall be taken from those officers who have the keeping of the revenue at the principal ports in their charge. This section throws the responsibility of doing so upon the President and the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury.-§9, orders under-receivers to pay over mo- nies. and also chief receivers, as often as the Secretary of the Treasury may di- recl _ a t least once a month. — § 10, directs that money in the hands of officers at other stations may be transferred by the Sec’y of the Treasury s order to any of the seven principal treasuries, which are in Washington, New Orleans mint, Philadelphia mint, N. York and Boston Custom Houses, and at St. Louis and Charleston ; or from one office to another to suit the public service; and that the Treasurer of the U. S. shall draw upon any place where there is pub- lic money, to make payments to creditors of the U. S. or for public uses, as the convenience of the said creditors or the public may require— §11. All monies in fices, mav be placed in certain banks to be selected by the Secretary of the Trea- sury whenever any receiver of revenue shall have more money in his hands than he has given bonds for. The money in any such bank is to be under the lock and key of an officer of the bank and au officer of the U. S. government, and ne- ver to be used for bank purposes, but kept in safes to be furnished by government; and only silver, gold, and notes or paper issued under the authority of the U. 5>., by law, shall be received and kept in said safes. A Commission, not more than one-eighth per cent., may be paid these bauks for risk and trouble.- 14. The Secretary of the Treasury is to appoint special agents to examine the books and money of the several depositories.— § 16. The naval officers and surveyors at ports of entry, directors of mints, and registers of land offices 10 a °* counts and returns of the several collectors of public revenue, by miarterly or other examinations of their proceedings. [One would think that, in th^ respect. Mr. Wright’s bill was the most suitable for detecting error or fraud.] § 20. All revenue officers are to keep an entry of each sum rece [y ed, E ai £, “THE KIND OF MONEY” so received or given; “THE KIND U* UUK- RENCY” taken or issued, “and that if any one of the said officers shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by way of investment, m any kind of property or merchandise, or shall loan, with or without interest, any por- tion of the public moneys entrusted to him for safe keeping, disbursement, trans- fer, or for any other purpose, every act shall be adjudged to be an embezzlement of 90 much of the said inoneysas shall be thu9 takeu ; converted, invested, used, or loaned, which is hereby declared to be a high misdemeanor, and nnyi Jfflwor person convicted thereof before any Court in the United States shall be sentenc- Caroline Almanac , and 18 ed to imprisonment not leas than two, nor more than five years, and to a fine equal to the amount of the money embezzled. 1 839 This day was introduced into the U. o. benate, by non. fculas Wr ig lit, a bill for an INDEPENDENT TREASURY, di fibrin ff only in its details from that which the H. of R. threw out in June. This bill passed the Senate. § 1, provides that the collectors of the customs at Boston, N. York, Philadelphia! New Orleans, Chaileston and Baltimore shall return very clear and detailed accounts to four different officers of government every week.— 6 2. All receipts for money paid are to he registered by the naval officer at the port of entry. — §3. The Register of the Treasury is to give due notice of warrants granted by him. — §4. All other collectors than the above four are to make four monthly returns of their transactions. — §7. Receivers of land revenue are to make four weekly statements in detail to certain offices of government. — §8. Registers of the land office are to send weekly check statements.— § 9. Clerks of the U. S. District Courts arc to forward detailed monthly returns of cash in their hands for government. 10. Other revenue officers are to make four monthly returns, the Post Office Department excep. ted. 12. The officers of State are to examine said returns and report month, ly. 14. Balances at each quarter’s end unpaid, are to be reported for prose, cution. 15. The treasury accounting officers must examine and settle ac. counts within six weeks after they receive them. 16. Naval ollicers to act as checks on the Collectors. 17. The Secretary of the Treasury is to cause the books and papers of certain receivers of public money to be examined carefully once a year or oftener, and when Congress shall direct, also the bonds, and money on hand. 18. The Secretary of the Treasury, with the President’s approbation, may take additional security from revenue officers, and cause them to renew, strengthen or increase their sureties at his discre- tion. § 19, is essentially the same as the 20th or last § of the bill thrown out in the H. of R., about keeping a record of the kind of money or currency received by each collector, with penalties and so forth. § 20. Improper fees or gratuities not to be accepted for performance of services, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. 21 to 26 consists of directions about modes o: keeping books, per centages, appointment of clerks, &c. In his message of Sept. 5, ’37, to Congress, Mr. Van Buren says, that ten millions of silver dollars would transact the whole of the government busi- ness of receipts and payments, adding that to retain bank notes in the public treasury, would be to renew the old system of lending the revenue to the bankers. But the treasury bills we have described as before Congress do not contemplate that gold, silver and government due bills only shall be re- ceived and paid out by the revenue officers. They leave to the President the power he now wields of receiving, paying and keeping on hand bank notes — they enable his officers, unless otherwise ordered by a treasury circu- lai, to favor one bank more than another, by putting its paper in circulation, exchanging it, &c. — But in case the banks fail, they authorize the president to hold out a boon to some of the ablest banking institutions, that their notes will be taken instead of specie in case they resume cash payments. The great powers the bills confer on the president and secretary of the treasury these officers now possess, except as to the punishments, securities, vaults and places of deposite. Government can now take and refuse such notes as it may think fit, or it may refuse all notes, and if it take any it may deposite them in banks, or take bank notes and let the banks enjoy the interest while the notes are in the treasury. The improvement consists chiefly in the pro. visions for the safe keeping of the cash or bank notes, which, in case of a panic suspension, might enable the president to insist on specie without nueh risque of the collectors Swartwouting. The main points, a gold and s ilver currency, as in 1789 was by law ordered, and a total divorce of bank Freeman's Chronicle. 19 and state are, as far as the federal government is concerned, left to the pre- sident of the U. S. for the time being, to insist upon or dispense with, as cir- cumstances or opinions may influence him or public opinion dictate. 1840.7 FEBRUARY.— SECOND MONTH. [29 Days] New Moon, Mon. 3d, 9. 1. m. s. w. I Q FuU M° on > Mon. 17th, 8. 55. m. N. W. First Quar. Mon. 10th, 11. 5, m. e. | © Last Q«ar. Tues. 25th, 5. 53. m. S. M*W[ Sun Sun Moon Moon Sun’s © Days. rises sets. rises. south. decl. S. Feb. 14th. St. VALENTINE’S DAY. 1 s 7 5 4 55 6 5 10 27 17 16 yf O for the swords of former time ! 2 E 7 4 4 56 6 42 11 19 16 59 V) 4th Sun. af. Ep. $ <§)] Candlemass. 3 M 7 3 4 57 sets. aft. 9 16 42 /vw O for the men who bore them ! 4 T 7 o 4 58 6 25 0 56 16 24 /VW When armed for right, they stood sublime 5 W 7 i 4 59 7 36 1 43 16 6 c5 cTftfcCD 6 T 7 0 5 0 8 48 2 28 15 48 X And tyrants crouched before them. 7 F 6 59 5 1 10 1 3 15 15 30 T I was nine years ago honored with the 8 S 6 57 5 3 11 15 4 4 15 11 r choice of Congress, to command an army 9 E 6 56 5 4 morn. 4 54 14 52 a into Canada, and never have I ceased to 10 M 6 55 5 5 0 31 5 50 14 33 <5 dD-fc 7*s.] enjoy the prospect of its en- 11 T 6 53 5 7 1 50 6 49 14 13 n franchisement. — General Lafayette to John 12 W 6 52 5 8 3 4 7 52 13 54 n <§) Perigee.] Jay, Paris, 1787. 13 T 6 51 5 9 4 10 8 55 13 34 o A nation may lose its liberties in a day 14 F 6 49 5 11 5 6 9 55 13 13 53 and not miss them for a century. The R^- 15 S 6 48 5 12 5 47 10 52 12 53 53 man orators flattered the people until Nero 16 E 6 47 5 13 6 21 11 44 12 32 £ Septuage. Sun. J#.] was on the throne, 17 M 6 46 5 15 rises. morn. 12 12 SI (Jjjg) Eclipsed, invisible.] telling them “You 18 T 6 45 5 16 6 48 0 31 ll 51 w are too enlightened ever to be enslaved !” 19 W 6 43 5 17 7 53 1 15 ll 30 Tlfc Bone and Skin, two Quakers thin, 20 T 6 41 5 19 8 59 1 57 ll 8 _Q- Buy up corn and share it; 21 F 6 40 5 20 10 5 2 39 10 47 -n. But be it known, to Skin and Bone, 22 S 6 39 5 21 11 10 3 21 ]0 25 m That Flesh and Blood won’t bear it 23 E 6 37 5 23 morn. 4 6 10 3 m Sexages. Sun. 7]. 0.] Sprinkle brine on 24 M 6 36 5 24 0 15 4 51 9 41 m 14 foot regiments are in Canada and 5 in other colonies. Newfoundland is guarded bv a colonial corps. In this calculation, allowance is made for deaths, desertions, officers and men at the depots and on leave of absence in Europe. The rest of the English regular army, horse and foot, is stationed as follows In England 33 regiments, besides depots ; in Ireland, only It; in Scotland 4; in the East Indies 26 ; Ceylon 5; Mauritius 3; Cape of Good Hope 5 ; N. S. Wales 4 ; West Indies, only 10 ; Gibraltar 5, Malta 4, Corfu 3 ; Zante 1. In all parts, 139 regiments or battalions ; from 85,000 to 95,000 souls. A < FEB 2 1839, Victoria Melbourne's bloody divan endorse Sir George Arthur b barbarous murder of Von Schoultz, Abbey, Woodruff, George, and other prisoners of war taken at Prescott. Extract of a dispatch, Lord Glenelg to Sir G. Arthur, acknow- ledging his letters and account of mock trials of the Prescott Prisoners hung at King- ston— Sated “Downing Street." “ To your request that you may be supported by the expression of the unqualified approbation of the ministers of the crown in the measures which you have taken (ordering the heroes of Prescott to be hanged). I can- not hesitate to answer that you are entitled to their entire approbation. —Extract fro n Queen Victoria’s Coronation Oath, sworn in Westminster Abbey, I\ov. 20th, 1837 —Archbishop of Canterbury.— “ Will you solemnly promise and swear to gov- ern the people of this United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the domi- nions thereto belonging, according t® the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the i e -.pective laws and customs of the same ?” Queen — ‘ I solemnly promise so to do. gj 1 it of j nts V Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust, is more A brigand than the robber-chief. — BYRON. Of the murder of Von Schoultz, Abbey, &c., Colonel Thompson, late M. P. thug writes to the people of Hull, in England: “ These men are to be put to death after i mock court-martial; I do not know whether Don Carlos went through any such pro- cess, but whether he did or not is indifferent. There is no law in existence for put- ting a prisoner of war to death by any such proceeding, any more than if Lord John Russell should send a number of his epauletted footmen to put you or me to death on proof of our identity. There is a Mutiny Act annually pased for punishing mutiny and desertion in the enlisted soldier, there are Articles of War specifying the punish- ment for various offences against military discipline — but there is none for the mur- der of prisoners. If there is, produce it. If there is not, then every man concerned is liable at any time to be proceeded against for murder in any civil court in Great Britain or America; to say nothing of the stings of conscience, and the sufferings ot bearing about a Cain-like reminiscence for the rest of life. If an Act of Indemnity should suggest itself the answer is, that indemnities passed by criminals for their own crimes are repealed ipso facto when honest men come into power. The world has been gulled too long by tlie vulgar error that the soldier murders his prisoners under the sanction of a law ; and there cannot be a better time to bring the question to an issue. Alas for the days of antique honor, when a military leader would answer to an order to employ his troops in murder, “ Sire, there are here brave soldiers, gal- lant gentlemen, but not one executioner." FEB. 3. 1832, W. L. Mackenzie expelled the U. C. Legislature again by orders of Colborne for his opinions in a newspaper, is re-elected the 4th time by the freeholders aftcr6 days polling against Col. Washburn and Capt. Small, by 6 to 1 against, both candidates. — 1769, John Wilkes expelled the H.ofC* of* England. — 1733, Gcnl. Lincoln born. FEB. 4, 1837— , This day the Bank of England began to exhibit her great and controlling power over the United States, and to show Uncle Sam that as far as the dominion of money went, this Union is as much a colony of England as ever. In the summer of 1836 money was borrowed in quantities in London at3i t* 4 per cent, interest, and lent out in the United States at 7 or 8 per cent. In Freeman's Chronicle. 21 * [ims fat Ml it'u, Toft tan; ate; m tifa nnlyi Cape Main m Artk isoK r.acfe gall pond iwni '-Be Not,! ear k; i the* in, a ■e son ce,ii M. P.a iaui.tr r * aaca: :efo| LordJ< ;odea: ,ngm« he pai riei conce tin 6 feritp ndell their! 1 wrorUi era a® lion# 1 insw liera? iwifl! ■liif .Sun U this trade there were three or four leading houses, the Wilsons, Haring and Co.. Timothy Wiggins, and another. These three firms and two smaller houses owed at one time in Dills running, twelve millions of sovereigns. All this the Bank of England encouraged. In June, 1836, the Bank had nearly eight millions of so- vereigns in gold, but in February, 1837 the cash was reduced to four, or little more thanlialf. The Bank immediately stopt the credit of the above American houses, demanded payment of their bills as they fell due; and the American houses stopt their renewals of credit to their customers, the money dealers and bankers on this side the sea, who having but little real money capital of their own, and not having kept within compass, began to break in February, March, and April, like pipe stems. In May the New York city Banks became insolvent, and immediately afterwards the other Banks throughout the United States stopt payment. Those who wanted to exchange their claims on the Banks for real money had to lose from ten to twenty dollars in the hundred of their debts. The creditors of the Banks were chieflv the honest, industrious, frugal and prudent part of the com- munity, mcluding'the United States Government— these lost about 25 millionsof dollars, which was gained by Bank directors, stockholders, attornies, and debt- ors, who, the debtors especially, were in a majority of cases of the class called speculators , whom Kingsbury thus defines : ‘-If a ragged beggar rob you of a six- C ence in the street, you may cry “ Stop thief!” and drag him to the common jail; ut if a well-dressed “ gentleman ” palms upon you thousands of dollars of value- less paper— based on fraud and falsehood— and you lose it, you mu9t say nothing that will injure his feelings, or those of his highly respectable friends; for, mark the difference — the one is a beggar, the other a gentleman ; the one stole a six- pence, and is a thief— the other stole thousands, and is a speculator .” In this State, the legislature stepped promptly to the relief of the gamblers and specula- tors, and while they continued the laws in force which compelled every body else to pay their honest debts, they decreed that the Bankers, whose avarice and dis- honesty had caused the whole trouble, should have a year of grace to pay debts contracted on the faith that they would always be liquidated in gold and silver on demand. Here was favor to the knave in English broadcloth, and the sheriff’s writ for the industrious honest tradesman. Call that legislature by what name you will, they were in reality the mere tools of the bankers and speculators, and the injustice of their decisions ought to warn the farmer and mechanic that moon- shine hank credit to the farmer is like whiskey to the drunkard, ruinous and de- moralizing. Is it not a noble testimony to the purity of the general government, when we find the Globe of Aug. 14, 1839, telling its readers that these cheating, shuffling banks “ were sheltered behind the relief acts of the different State Le- gislatures, protected by judges, who, in too many instances, show that theboast- “ ed independence of the judiciary is only an independence of common sense and “common justice, and guarded by governors who seem to think that the interests “of corporations is their primary concern, and those of the people but a second- ary consideration. The avowed principle of action of the largest Bank in the “country (the Bank of the United States) was, that the resumption of specie pay- “ ments ought to be deferred for one year longer, if not for three or four years.” — Bnt the course pursued by the Bank of England could not have prostrated the Banks of itself, although it might have compelled them to curtail their issues of 276 millions of paper, (bank notes and other deposites due to the people.) The legislation of Congress did much by ordering a transfer of the “surplus revenue” to the credit of the several States, The suspension of 1837 has been ascrib- ed to the honest John Windt or park Democracy of New York. We dare not admit their influence to such an extent. A far more powerful cause of that bankruptcy was the drain of gold and silver produced by the sale of the bonds of the Bank of the U. S. payable in London for the reliel of the New York speculators and importers of English silks, muslins and broadcloths. Give us a silver currency, and home manufactures, and the failure of Banks and breaking of speculators will no more trouble us. 1836. Surplus Revenue Appropriation Bill . Foolish people often tell us that “ there is not gold and silver enough in the United States to form a circulating medium for transacting business.” What nonsense! There are a hundred mil- lions of gold and silver in the States, and one month’s labor of the present male population, estimating it at a dollar a day, would bring upwards of another hun- dred millions of dollars into the country — and two hundred millions of dollars 22 ^ Caroline Almanac , and would last twenty millions af people a hundred years for a measure of the value of their produce and labor, unless indeed they chose to let England keep the mo- ney, and in addition to sending her their cotton and tobacco, ship their gold and silver also, taking her silks and cloths and fineries, and abundance of Bank shin- plasters instead. The exports of this country will bring the gold over, unless the fanners and planters would rather have home manufactured Bank promises, and English manufactures for every thing else. Well was it said by Mr. Calhoun that the policy of the men of our day is to convert all capital into credit and all credit into currency. In 1830, the Bank of the United States owed the public for their Bank notes payable on demand, and for money or Bank notes left with them, al- so payable on demand, 116 millions of dollars; in 1834 they owed in this way 170 millions. By January, 1835, they were debtors to the public for 186 millions; in January, 1836, they owed 255 millions; and on the 1st of January, 1837, just before the great crash, the Bank notes in circulation, which is debt due by the Banks to the people, and the money or Bank bills deposited with the Banks, due on demand, amounted to the enormous sum of 276 millions of dollars! !! The more Bank notes the Banks issued, the more scarce money became; and ended in the bankruptcy of the Banks and the injury of the public. Men who had accepted loans on the mortgage of their houses and lands, were ruined by the scarcity; and the Banks throughout the Union joined in a fruitless attempt to force the go- vernment and the people to continue to accept their broken and dishonest pro- mises, or notes which they rctused to pay unless through the shaving process over a broker’s desk, in payments for homes and lands, taxes, tolls and merchan- dize, so that, as in Upper Canada, they might continue to prosper on the ruins of their country, and drain the specie to be sent to their dear friends of the Bank of England. The U. S. Government thwarted them, however, and they had topay a part of their debts and redeem their obligations, or lose their monopoly. In June, 1836, Congress, through the opposition majority of the day, resolved to di- vide 28 millions of “surplus revenue,” or debts due by the Banks to the Govern- ment, among the twenty-six States; this bill compelled the Banks to press their debtors, the merchants and speculators, thousands of whom became bankrupt, and last of all the Banks broke also, having been always ready to pay until called upon to do so. Their failure demonstrated that if, in the midst of a war, the Go- vernment were to keep its money in Banks, the Banks would use it for their private purposes, break, and stand the tedious process of an action at law, leaving the army to b> periled, and the public service injured. Hence the Independent Trea sury Bill, to keep the money of the nation beyond the control of President or pet Bank, as the money is kept in the Mint, under officers chosen by the President and Senate, who had given security, and would be on their way to States’ Prison if they touched a penny of it. The Independent Treasury Bill is just such a mea- sure as building forts, castingcannon, making muskets, building ships of war, or educating military leaders— it is preparing for the defence of the nation, if war should be necessary. To be prepared for war is the best way to avoid or prevent war. FEB. 6. 181.3. Battle of Elizabethtown. — 1778, Treaty of Alliance be. tween France and the United States. Franco acknowledges American In- dependence. — 1838, Patriot meeting in the Methodist Church, Ogdens, burgh. — 1804, Dr. John Priestly died. This celebrated philosopher and re- publican, having been mobbed out of Birmingham by a church and king par. ty, came to the United States in company with the father of Col. Lount, of Upper Canada, and settled in Pennsylvania. FEB. 7. 1649, The House of Commons of England voted the abolition of monarchy, and that the House ef Peers was useless and dangerous, and must be abolished, which it was, the peers retaining their titles.— 183S, Wm. Ketchum, Esq., President of Farmers’ Bank, Toronto, arrested for high trea. son ; since forgiven. 1 EB. 8. 1587, Mary Queen of Scots beheaded by Queen Elizabeth’s or- ders. — 1838, The London Morning Chronicle, forgetful that England robbed the French of the colony they had planted and nurtured, thus taunts the fron- tier people ffir their patriotism : il Jt may be very convenient to the bankrupt traders and idle artizans and laborers of Buffalo and Rochester , to obtain lands by a re. appropriation of the properties of the present occupants ; but Freeman's Chronicle. 28 who will aay that robbery and plunder are justifiable grounds for an inva- jj 1 sion by the inhabitants of one state of the territory of another ?” — 1839, An- n j..; dre Montigny Papineau, F. X. Prevost, Louis Turcot, and 5 other Canadians, ,1 L1 ; sentenced to the gallows, at Montreal, by the English military, for fighting for their country. — 1837, Richard M. Johnson elected Vice President of the loiinj United States by the United States Senate. Johnson 33 votes, Granger 16. ill cm 1649, John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, issued his book, to show that it forth “is lawful, and hath been so through all ages, for any who have the power, to tonu call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction , to depose w *ji and put him to death if the ordinary magistrate hath neglected or denyed to do it.” He quotes the Emperor Trajan's speech to his General : “ Take this drawn sword, to use for me if I reign well, if not, to use against me.” ln j.; Mr. Milton argues that in whose hand soever is found sufficient power to pjjg. avenge the effusion of blood, (on such a wretch as Sir John Colbornc) his du* dedit % y is clear - accf FEB. 9. 1674, New York (formerly New Amsterdam) surrendered by the scar! Dutch to the English. — 1555, Bishop Hooper burnt for his religious opinions. cetlK 1567, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scotland, murdered at Ed. )nesi inburgh. FEB. 10. 1763. Peace of Paris. Cession of Canada by France, and Flo- ^ rida by Spain, to England, conditionally. — 1837, In the House of Assembly, j g a: U. ., against a bill to authorise Americans and other aliens to purchase and yj. hold lands in fee simple, voted G. Boulton, Cartwright, Draper, Elliott, poly. Gowan, Hotham, Jonas Jones, Kcarnes, Mathewson, A. McDonell, D. Me. (veil: Donell, McKay, Powell, Richardson, Win. Robinson, Sherwood, & Hagerman. eGa 1798, Governor Johnstowne offers a bribe of 10,009 guineas through Mrs. jress Ferguson, on the part of the English Government, to Mr. Reed, a member of bant congress, once aid-de-camp and confidential friend of Washington, to induce inli [ a him to forward the views of England. The noble American replied to the r '. lady, “ Tell Governor Johnstowne, that although I am hardly worth purcha* the King of England is not rich enough to do it.” May his memory en- J dure for ever! — 1839, This day were strangled at London, U. C, by the eDl5; common hangman, for following the example of Lafayette, and stri- py vin S to relieve a wretched, prostrate country, four of the brave Windsor men, gj 1 Pu after a mock trial before the court martial we described, Jan. 7th, viz : Joshua chaa G. Doan, of London, L T . C.; Col. Cornelius Cunningham, Major Julius Perley, and Albert Clark, natives of the United States. Perlcy closed his )n, if' defence thus : “ Gentlemen, if I atn executed, let it be remembered that I die )rpif as a martyr in the cause of liberty !” Hagermarfs advice was to “mark all the Americans who showed spirit, courage and judgment ; these were the linK men to make examples of.” Abraham Tiffany, son of Dr. Tiffany of Ancas- !f'' ter, states, that it was on Daniel S weetman of Albany’s evidence that Perley, Doan and Cunningham were hung. He turned traitor to save his neck, 1 and even the private soldiers cursed him. But for the military power the Mi? Canadians would have torn him to pieces. Tiffany, who was tried, says that Sweetman was in no danger, not being a leader. t EB. 12. 1838, Great meeting of citizens of Erie county, at court house, . Buffalo, Dy re Tillinghast chairman ; asks of congress that there be redress ^ or Caroline massacre. — 1839, Lyman R. Lewis, or Leech, a spirited ‘i ' American taken at Prescott, hung at Kingston, after a mock trial, by a court 1 of militia officers to hang him ! The Upper Canada Gazette contains a Mili- ,, General Order, with the names of 140 republicans, who were tried at Kingston, four of whom were acquitted, and 136 condemned to death, 20 re- r . commended to mercy, and 11 have been executed ; and of 44 who were tried at k. ondon » one of whom was acquitted, and the remainder found guilty and L received sentence of death ; four being recommended to mercy, six already \ k have been executed. — 1833, The Test and Corporation Acts, bv which for a 24 Caroline Almanac , and is iu express iu yuui i*°'**i- j- T - . 7 7 j w vast dominions His Majesty no where possesses subjects more loyal and ■ true than the people of Loiver Canada .” People of America, what has been B their reward from that robber monarchy ?— 1 809. John Henry, agent to ^ Gov. Craig, for dividing the American Union, writes from Windsor, Vt. “ It t is further ascertained that in case of a war, the Governor of Vermont will use his influence to preserve the state neutral , and resist with all the force ^ he can command , any attempt to make it a party. I need not add that if ^ these resolutions are carried into effect, the State of Vermont may be consi. j dered an ally of Great Britain. I can only soy that, the leading men of the federal party act in concert ; and therefore infer that a common senti. ment pervades the whole body throughout New England FEB. 15. 1839, Brigadier Genera!, Charles Hindenlang, of the Canadian ( Army of Liberty, a native of Paris, in France, sentenced to death, after a mock trial, by a junto of English ruffians, of whom General Clitherow was the r head, and expired on the gallows this day at Montreal. This noble martyr for liberty had done exactly what Gen. Lafayette did, left bis home to assist the cause of freedom, and is honored by mankind for so doing. Gen. i liuden- j lang left France to aid the children of France in a foreign land, and a motto* ^ ment will yet be raised to perpetuate the events which led to his marytrdom. He was 29 years of age, and brave as a lion. ; [ 1839. This day was also marked by the martyrdom at Montreal, of Francois s Nicolas, Teacher of Ste. Marguerite, aged 44; a young but very brave far- of mer, Amable Daunais, only in bis 21st year; he had risen but once to chace k Victoria’s murdering bands from a land which they hold by the same right as 12 the highwayman holds the traveller’s purse whom he has just murdered * and Pierre Retni Narbonne, of St. Cyprian, whose feelings at parting with ■ his three lovely children no person can describe — these three suffered in the J holy cause of civil and religious liberty, upholding their spotloss and honorable ^ House of Assembly, and following American example. 1839. With them, suffered t ho worst that cruel and baibarous Eng* . land could inflict, an ignominious and painful death, in the bloom of , youth, the brave Chevalier DE LOIUMIER, descended of an ancient and , honorable French family, and blessed with an amiable and lovely wife, and f three charming infants, the pride of his heart. lie was in his 35th year, a na- e tarv public of Montreal, greatly respected by all. When this pious and af- C fectionate man was cut down from the gallows, a letter was found in Iris bo- ' som, close to his heart, addressed to his poor distressed Harriet, of which we give an extract: — “On this very day blood-thirsty assassins are tearing me from your arms; they can never efface my remembrance from your heart; of that I am well convinced. They take away from you your support & protector and the father of your dear unfortunate children. Providence, together with the friends of my country, shall provide for them. They have not even given me time to see my two dear little girls, so that I could press them to my pater- nal bosom, and give them a last farewell ; they have even deprived me of see- ing my good old father, my brothers and sisters, to bid them an eternal adieu* Ah! cruel thought ! ! ! Nevertheless, I forgive them with all my heart. As to you, dear, you must take courage, and impress upon your mind that you Freeman's Chronicle . 25 must live for the sake of your unfortunate children, who will be greatly in roc!t need of the maternal care of a tender and devoted mother. They shall know IV no more my caresses and my cares for them. I assure you, my dear Harriet, V that if from the etherial world, it were permitted to me still to aid and protect * jj derii yo u, I should bind up your broken heart. My dear little children will be de- it - Drived of my caresses but they will be doubly caressed by you, so that they \r r may not feel the deep loss they shall have to mourn over. I shall see you no ii, j more in this world. O what a thought ! ! ! But you, my dear Harriet, yon C j aV may see me once more and for the last time ; then I shall be cold ina- ^ r nimate disfigured dead. I finish, my dear Harriet, by !. j offering to the eternal God, the most sincere prayers for your comfort and hap- tl ‘ ' piness, and that of my dear little children. Yesterday evening you received my last embraces, and my last verbal adieu; nevertheless, from my cold* r y damp and lonely cell, with all the preparations of death before me, I give you my last, last farewell.” I fa. “ We have been thus far unfortunate. Death has cut off several of my hi j ( brother laborers ; many of them are in chains, and a still greater number in ex- i' ile, their properties destroyed, and their families abandoned without succor, to all the rigors of a Canadian winter. The wounds of my bleeding country - shall be healed. After the disasters of anarchy and a bloody revolution, the BW * 1 peaceful Canadian will behold on the borders of the St. Lawrence, the revival of liberty and happiness. Every thing tends to that end, even the executions W on the scaffold ; the blood and the tears shed on the altar of liberty this day. lh ’ 1 will moisten the roots ofthe tree upon which will be unfurled the flag embla- °" zoned with the two stars of Canada.” jblei ie fi FEB. 15. 1691, Another SchlosscrM English Government in Scotland, — n j| Massacre of Glencoe. — Although William of Orange was crowned King of England, the Scottish Highlanders, like the Irish, remained faithful urtheir oaths to the exiled monarch. William sent money to bribe them, but failed. Smollett, in his History. Qar ' : " tells us tli at King William had by proclamation offered an indemnity to all those who had been in arms against him, provided they would submit, and take the oaths ; wh 4 -, ofFffl a denunciation of military execution against those who should hold out after theen f ' brat ; of December. Macdonald took the oaths, and so did iiis adherents, and theyret uvr ed to Glencoe valley, secure of British protection. They got it too, as ail will who n gnp trust in the merciless wretches who dispense it. King William hated these brave ]n j eR , men, and signed in London a warrant for their murder, without trial. Colbome fash- , ion in Canaria, Wellington fashion in India. This barbarous mandate, sealed and * r signed with the royal hand “ was transmitted to the Master of Stair, Secretary for rPj ' Scotland, this minister sent particular directions to Livingstone, who commanded the I™* troops in that kingdom, to put the inhabitants of Glencoe to the sword, charging him to take no prisoners , that the scene might be more terrible. In the month of Febru- OUJ ary, Captain Campbell, of Glenlyon, marched into the valley of Glencoe, with a com- bioot panv of soldiers belonging to Argyle’s regiment, on pretence of levying the arrears of lC j ei ! the land-tax and hearth-money. When Macdonald demanded whether they came as w j(j, friends or enemies, he answered, as friends, and promised, upon his honor, that neith- ' , er he nor his people should sustain the least injury. This officer and his men were e j then received with the most cordial hospitality, and lived fifteen days with the men of the valley, in the most unreserved friendship. At length the fatal period ap- II ,l! : proached. Macdonald and Campbell having passed the day together, parted about ,v ^ seven in the evening, with mutual professions of the warmest affection. But the young Macdonalds suspected something, and went out of the castle, the guards of ]eJf1 which were doubled. They overheard the common soldiers say they liked not the pro:? work ; that though they would have willingly fought the Macdonalds of the Glen {ler? fairly in the field, they held it base to murder them in cool blood. When the youths . hasted back to apprise their father of the impending danger, they saw the house al- ready surrounded; they heard the discharge of muskets, the shrieks of women and '/C children ; and, being destitute of arms, secured their own lives by immediate flight. 3 '' The savage ministers of vengeance had entered the old man's chamber, and shot him I 1 ®* through the head. He fell down dead in the arms of his wife, who died next day, rl* 1 distracted. The Laird of Auchintrincken, Macdonald’s guest, who had three months .at 1 before this period submitted to the government, and at this very tune had a protection in his pocket, was put to death without question. A boy of eight years, who fell at ■ 20 Caroline Almanac , and Campbell's feet. Imploring mercy, and offering to serve him for lile, was stabbed to the heart by one Drummond, a subaltern officer. Eight-and- thirty persons suffered in this manner, the greater part of whom were surprised in their beds, and hurried into eternity before they had time to implore the divine mercy. The design was to butcher all ‘the males under seventy that lived in the valley, their number being 1200; but some of the detachments did not arrive soon enough to secure the passes ; so that 160 escaped. Campbell, having perpetrated this brutal massacre, ordered all the houses to be burned, made a prey of ail the cattle and effects that were found in the valley’, and left the helpless women and children, whose fathers and husbands he had murdered, naked and forlorn, without covering, food or shelter, in the midst of the snow that covered the whole face of the country’, at the distance of six long miles from any inhabited place. Distracted with grief and horror, surrounded with the shades of night, shivering with cold, and appalied with tire apprehension of immediate death from the swords of those who had sacrificed their Iriends and kinsmen, they generally perished in the waste, before they could receive comfort or assistance — This barbarous massacre, performed under the sanction of Ring William’s authori- ty, answered the purpose of the Court, by striking terror into the hearts of the High- landers : but excited the horror of all those who had not renounced every sentiment of humanity.” — 1838, Major Win. Harrison, a gallant Canadian advanced in years, and who led a body of the Canadians on the Tuesday night, when they made such a speedy and needless retreat from a bloodless victory back of Toronto, no one pursu- ing, died this day, at Hunt’s Hollow, U. S. He was a worthy man of estimable pub- lic and private reputation, and his whole soul was wTapt up m delivering his country from English bondage. The retreat of his comrades, and their refusal to return to the attack, broke his heart — he went to his home, took to bed, was sought for by the enemy, retreated to the U. S. and soon died of grief. He had a fine estate near die city, Init whether Arthur has allowed his family to remain on it we know not. FEB. 16. 1819, W. H. Harrison voted against a clause prohibiting the further in- troduction of slavery into Missouri. — 1787, Genl. Washington writes Thomas Stone of Maryland that he considered paper money a bad medium, opening the door for fraud, liable to depreciation, and injurious to the farmer, planter and artizan.— 1831, Lord Stanley denies in House of Commons that government had compromis- ed Mr. O’Connell’s sedition case. On the 18th January Messrs O’Connell, Steele, Barrett, Lawless and John Reynolds, had been held to bail in Dublin, by or- der of government, on a charge ot conspiring to evade Lord Anglesey’s proclama- tions for the suppression of a society favorable to a repeal of the union. On the *25th the Lord Lieutenant was hooted by the citizens, pelted with mud, and obli- ged to take refuge in the castle. FEB. 17. 1815, Peace between England and France ratified. — 1778, Lord North proposes a bill to the English Parliament solemnly pledging the national faith never to tax any North American Colony thereafter without its consent. It passed; and that is one reason why I would not be sorry to see the English Peerage, Parliament men and Ministry begging their bread in foreign lands. With this pledge read to them in 1837, they passed Lord John Russell’s resolutions violating it, and showing that nothing honorable or sacred can bind them in any case. FEB. 18. 1546, Martin Luther died.— 1839, Governor Fairfield’s Message about N. E. Boundary. The American Land Agent seized, carried to Frederick°ton on a sled like a felon, and thrust into prison. A band of Nova Scotia Tories enter Maine and cut down the best timber. A military force- to be sent into part of Maine to ex- pel the Americans ! Governor Harvey claims exclusive jurisdiction over the dispu- ted territory. — 1838, The State Arsenal, Watertown, broken open, and a few Eng- lish muskets taken at Sackett’s Harbor, borrowed by gjf none knows who. FEB. 19. 1819, Henry Clay gave the casting vote in H. of R. against the future emancipation of slaves bom in Arkansas, and for perpetual slavery in that state. W. H. Harrison voted same way. and against prohibiting the further introduction of sla- very into Arkansas.— 1839, Alexander Hamilton, Sheriff of Niagara District and P. M. of Queenston, dies. He hanged and quartered Colonel Morreau. after every ne- gro and loafer had refused to do it for $1000. He was a thorn in the side of the re- formers tor 18 years; and his father was a secret informer of the government, of evidence on which to indict the brave Sheriff Wilcox when his Irish honesty made him take the press as a means of exposing the government. i a i — i 1 ° a FEB. 20. 1469. Voltaire born. & * , . P ? B * T 1 ; }J 5l ’ Ja '™ e8 Madison , 4th President of the United States, was born this day (5th March; old stvle) near Port Koval. Virginia, was descended from Scot- tish ancestors, educated by Donald Robertson, a Scottish teacher, and finished a A Freeman's Chronicle. 27 ^ ' his studies with Dr. Witherspoon, another learned Scotchman, then President of ! Princetown College, N. J., and afterwards a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ftcr - ence. His political preceptor was the immortal Jefferson. At twenty -five, he was elected to the Virginia Legislature, which, in May 1776, unanimously advised their delegates in Congress to go for independence. Next county election he was defeated. He took a seat in Congress in 1780 — opposed paper money emissions in Virginia, e , J 1785— wrote for the Federalist — assisted in framing the constitution of the u. S. todia 1707 — sa tnext 8 years in Congress — wrote the Va. legislative resolutions against the Klut Alien and Sedition Laws — was Secretary of State 8 years under Mr. Jefferson. and K succeeded him for another 8 years as president, which office he held during the war 8 of 1812. At 66 he retired to his farm, and died June 28, 1836, aged 85 years. After f nearly half a century of public life, he left an advice to his country, jhy * “ that the iron® Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.” — 1437, James 1st of Scotland anet.; murdered. — 1776, Medfield, Ms. burnt. sisu: FEB. 22. 1732, George Washington born in Virginia a subject of the English [, s ~ Crown. He accepted a Commission from the Province of Va., fought against" the ‘“d French and Indians, held several legislative and judicial situations, revolted against the tyranny of his sovereign George 3d, headed the armies of America, aided greatly d»j! in bringing about independence, and became the first President of the United States, a&s 1838, The attempt to join the patriots this day in arms in Upper Canada, with the re- 0K|t fugees and American volunteers from F rench Creek, failed. It was the most promi- mth sing of all the attempts to give the republicans possession of Canada; but, deceived his by ms Navy Island name , die leading men on this side would make R. VanRensse- ora laer their General. Mr. Mackenzie, who had had enough of his generalship, urged tfor them to avoid him. and then withdrew from all connexion with the parties. Let those Jt w who witnessed Mr. V. R.’s conduct speak of it— the golden moment has gone by, and lot why should we say more ? fur, F EB. 23. 1838, Hiram and Stephen Mott and Wm. Anderson sent to Kingston ms; Jail for treason. — 1820, Thistlewood and companions arrested in Cato Street, Lou- ie it don, intending to upset the horrid government of England. an.-* FEB. 24. 1815, Fulton, the celebrated American Engineer, died. — 1838, Jona- impis than Cilley, member of Congress, shot in a duel with Mr. Graves of Ky. They elL& fought with rifles— fired twice and missed — on the 3d shot Mr. C. fell dead in the |j n : , arms of a friend. He was born at Nottingham, N. Hampshire, July 2, 1802 — taught p.jv-. a school when young — studied law — was admitted to the bar — was elected Speaker l> of the Legislative Assembly of New Hampshire — and, in 1837, sent to Congress. He 3D was a ble, honest and eloauent, a true democrat — and left a widow and two children. FEB. 25. 1838, A body of Canadian Patriots driven from their camp on Fighting )v Island by nearly 600 militia and regulars under Major Townshend, with the loss of one liiiK cannon * — 1831. Poland struggling — battle of Warsaw. FEB. 26. 1797, The Privy Council of England (having deliberated during the r v, Sunday) prohibited the Bank of England from paying any more of their notes in cash tor 3 weeks, or till parliament had considered about it. They paid no more for twen- ' i ty years. The English people had their rags for a currency, and as English gold 5 would not submit to the degradation of circulating with rags it was driven out of £n- v to foreign countries, or sent abroad to pay English and foreign troops to keep ’ ' U P wa r and murder and bloodshed in countries which would not touch the bank rags. Meantime the English national debt doubled — the rich grew richor and the poor got down to absolute want. People of America, are you prepared to shield improvident ie ,? ' speculators, the banks and their debtors, by adopting a system which, as Mr. Delavan f .rl sa y. 8 » h as made 600.000 drunkards in Britain of whom 60,000 drop annually into an w ' untimely grave l The above act of the privy council cheated creditors and enriched debtors. The man who borrowed five dollars in gold the day before the order, took 1 j fo at purchased $7 in bank rags, and paid his creditor in moonshine! — 1814, In . time of War with the U. S. the subservient House of Assembly of U. C. place the ".j colony under military power and suspend the habeas corpus act, so that no one in hril ** could demand a jury trial or to be discharged from unlawful confinement. Judge / * 8herwood and Mahlon Burweil voted for it.— 1815, Bonaparte escapes from Elba. — 1838, An expedition to which that of the Black Rock Grocery was as a mouse to a mountain. At Comstock’s, 8 miles from Buffalo, this day, Colonel Worth found 300 ffltf unarmed men. but on passing up 6 miles a detachment of his forces reached the camp of the Canadian Liberators on die ice. On seeing 30 of his soldiers and a few civil officers, the liberators stood to their arms for a fight, but finally grounded arms. Their t number was 70, leaders included, but they were to have been joined by the who*e force in the course of the day, and made their errand attack on our tory tyrants on ^ Tuesday. The 5 leaders (Amcricaris) vtcre held to bail to appear, but no fur- — , — 28 Caroline Almanac , and ther proceedings had by Benton. Col. Worth burnt their barracks, though in Cana- da, and seized 4 cannon, 250 muskets and rifles, 60 pikes, 30 kegs ammunition, be- sides swords, pistols, i 10 T 6 15 5 45 1 o 5 52 3 57 n 11 W 6 14 5 46 2 9 6 53 3 34 n 12 T 6 12 5 47 3 2 7 53 3 10 dl? 13 F 6 11 5 49 3 48 8 49 o 46 52 14 S 6 10 5 50 4 22 9 41 2 23 & 15 D 6 8 5 52 4 52 10 29 1 59 bl 16 M 6 7 5 53 5 16 11 14 1 35 iR 17 T 6 6 5 54 rises. 11 58 1 12 W 18 W 6 4 5 56 6 50 morn. 0 48 -TV 19 T 6 3 5 57 7 55 0 40 0 24 -n- 20 F 6 1 5 59 9 2 1 23 0 1 -n. 21 S 6 0 5 0 10 8 2 8 0 23 m 22 I) 5 58 6 2 11 12 2 53 0 47 m 23 M 5 57 6 3 morn. 3 40 l 10 I 24 T 5 55 6 5 0 14 4 30 1 34 X 25 W 5 54 6 6 1 11 5 22 1 57 t 26 T 5 52 6 8 2 2 6 14 2 21 VS 27 F 5 41 6 9 2 43 7 6 o 45 vs 28 $ 5 49 6 11 3 13 7 57 3 8 29 D 5 48 6 12 3 47 8 46 3 31 zz 30 M 5 47 6 13 4 14 9 34 3 55 zz 31 T 15 45 6 15 4 37 10 21 4 18 H (1) ST. DAVID’S DAY. Quinquagesima or Shrove SUNDAY. 'IJ.stati. (2) 1791. John Wesley died. Shrove Tuesday. © eclipse invisible. ASH WED., or 1st day of Lent, d © d* © • 6 W © . Y’d L. set. 0. 0 . a Per. 1st Sun. in Lent. 0 7*s. 15. j Unblest by virtue, government a league Becomes, a circling junto of the great, □ h ©. ; To rob by law ; religion mild, a yoke To tame the stooping soul, a trick of state > To mask their rapine and to share their prey. — Thomson. (17) ST. PATRICK’S DAY. As long as Great Britain shall haveCa- nada, Nova Scotia, and the Floridas, or © ent.°j°. Vernal Equinox.] any of them 0 gr.elon.J so long will Great Britain be 3d Sun. in Lent. 0 the enemy of 0 Apog.J the United States, let her "dis- cf ^2 €>-J guise it as much as she will. If peace should unhappily be made, lea- ving Canada, Nova Scotia, or the Flo* ndas, or any of them, in her hands, jeml* $ stationary. J ousies and controversies MID-LENT Sunday, 4th Sun. in Lent- will be perpetually arising. — JOHN 6 $ 9 ©• h statio.] ADAMS, 1782- a m t Freeman's Chronicle. 29 lr Farmer’s Calendar.— Attend to the business of spring; look up and repair ^ your tools if necessary. If you are fond of spruce beer, collect a suitable quantity idJ, of the boughs to make your drink for the summer. Keep your cattle from brow- sing your fruit trees. Set out cabbage stumps. House your sleds and sleighs. — r ji^ Attend to your fences. nils, $| 7 ~ inhighr . MARCH l. 1839, Persons sent to jail charged with rebellion, in Toronto Dis., m. p- t U. C. (March) — 15th, John and James Cane, Timothy Munro, James Squires, in,Jaa, Robert Wilson; 17th, Wm. Heron ; 19th, Wm. Carney; 21st, Peter Milne, Jun, idler.* Merchant and Miller, Markham 23d, John Hill, 2nd, Bartholomew Plank, 31st ised bv ■ Ira White.— 1833, Lords Grey, Brougham, Durham, Althorpe, Melbourne, and acted, 'he Whig Ministry introduce a bill into the English Parliament to coerce the Irish lildngj people, to try any one by martial law, to prevent the people to petition Parlia- ment, to complain of grievances, or for any purpose, except as permitted by Lord 338, if Anglesey; persons found out of their houses between sun-set and sun rise to be mo*j tried by a court martial of officers selected by Anglesey.— 1817, James Durand, a nger* member of the Upper Canada Legislature, voted guilty of libel, expelled the As- sembly, and obliged to fly from its vengeance for exposing, in an address to the senbrj electors of Wentworth, the horrible cruelty practised towards the Canadians in the mitt war of 1814, when martial law was unlawfully proclaimed by the military tyrant cm of the day. For this attempt to bridle a free press voted Jonas Jones, Peter Ro- aelcas binson, Mahlon Burwell, Isaac Frazer, Burnham, Vankoughnet, of Cornwall, jfjj MARCH 2. 1838, William Lesslie, merchant, Toronto, committed to Kingston Llber Jail charged with high treason.— 1781, The celebrated PENNSYLVANIA LINE MUTINY. They were chiefly Irishmen, gallant boys, who loved tore- ~~ venge Ireland’s wrongs on America’s enemies. But America was basely un- grateful. They fought for the weaithy, the luxurious, the rich, who rioted in j"jj wealth, while their brave defenders marked their road tracks with the blood of 'u their shoeless feet. What did the rich care? W T hen they mutinied Lord Howe 1 sent messengers to them promising every thing tlvat a robber power could give, if they would but join bloody England — provisions, clothing, arrears of pay, par- don for the past and bounties for the future. But there was no Silas Deane, no Egerton Ryerson, no Arnold, no Judas among them. They seized the King’s messengers, who were humr, and continued to prefer poverty and liberty to Bri- ; lish gold. What an example to the greedy, speculating, gambling race of the pre- j !f sent day, who would grind to powder if they could the farmer and laborer! It tLf May, 1S32, now filled men’s minds in Boston — and the blood then shed was avenged in the revolution, as that recently shed in Canada soon will be on this continent. MAR. 6. 1834, York, Upper Canada, was this day called Toronto by legisla- tive enactment, created into a city, with a splendid and costly government of a Mayor who might have $2000 salary, and who was not only to preside in the Common Council and act a9 1st magistrate withiu the city, but also to hold crim- iual courts, and call grand and petit jurors to decide cases in general sessions. So obnoxious was this measure, that at a publie meeting held in the court house to consider it, only three persons desired the expensive change. But Sir Allan M’Neb truly declared in the House of Assembly that government would give a city char- ter to the people to punish them for their support of Mackenzie. Sir John Col- borne issued his precept for theelection of the 1st Mayor, Aldermen and Common Councilmen, a few days after ; the voting was open and by wards. A majority of the council (of 20) were reformers ; there were two candidates for the Mayoralty, Dr. John Ro!ph,whom the minority supported, and who agreed to serve if elect- ed, but when he found that he would not obtain the support of the reformers, he resigned his office of Alderman. The Council elected Mackenzie, (who had been previously returned as Churchwarden,) and he took the oaths and was thus the first Justice of the Peace elected by the people either of Upper or Lower Canada. 1 he charter privilege has overwhelmed the place with debt, and proved a curse to the population.— 1833, On the complaint of Mackenzie, on behalf of the Canadians, fcarl Kipon (Lord Goderich) turned out Hagermanand Boulton from the lucrative offices of Attorney and Solicitor General of U. C. because they opposed every re- form. They went to London aud complained ; Hagerman was instantly reinsta- ted, and Boulton made Chief Justice of Newfoundland. This was a violation of the royal word to the Canadians, but there was no redress.— 1836, Colonel David Crockett killed at the Alamo. MARCH 7. 1829, The Hoboken Bank got ugly, and would not pay its debts IVIauy a poor farmer and mechanic suffered for that. What did the Directors care, they lost nothing ? What did the stockholders care, they had divided glo- rious dividends, and many of them borrowed twice as much as they paid in of summer Th6 prtJSent banks Hoboken will stand better— they are beautiful in MARCH 8. 1702, William III. (Prince of Orange) died. 9 l} 1566 « David Riz *i<> assassinated in Queen Mary’s apartment — Martin \nn Buren becomes Secretary of Siate, U. S.-1S39, D. McDowell in the English National Convention, describes their cruel factory system embra cing upwards of one nnllion and a half distressed persons. At Ramsbottom the P °° r en r a pf d at the factories was miserable in the extreme. There were 309 cottages occupied!)? them which, with a few exceptions, were indiffer- ently furnished, and were so situated as to be injurious to their inmates both nhv sicafly and morally. Twenty-one families inhabiting those couages, with & m each larm ty occupied one bed room ; twenty-five families of six one bed-room ; twenty-four families of five, one bed- room; five families of °a 0 l)ed * r( j )orn ; two families of twelve, and one family of thirteen persons occupied one bed-room. (Cries of “shame, shame.”) In' other places^ was the same The wages of those persons did not exceed five shillings on an aver age, while there s were cases where the wages was only 2s. 6d. pe^ week from deducted - rent ' c ? ala - and lhe wear of furniiSre, be^es “he nale°peop!e! Hen “’ r " gs ’ starva “ on > al,d dealh were the fate of those unfortu- March in. 1338, The Neutrality Law, so called, passed.— 1839 Sir F m NarratIve >. states that Colbornc had given to Judge Ridout several p r0du “ d he - Head ' dad «J& MARCH 1'2. 1839, Francois S. and T. S. Lafontaine David Dfnwr. nine other French Canadians ordered to be executed fur rebellion anSns? We® t ™ bbe ”i of Ca ‘ ,ada ’ af, ? r a - '»<** <™' by the m.litarVco rt at-Momrea VVe say mock tnal,” lor trial it 19 none where the accuser who fs “S' 32 Caroline Afonaneie, and sits upon the bench of justice and pretends to administer i'-~Great Canadiw sympathy meeting in the Legislative Chamber, at the capitol Rid • > »• ^rs. Gauvain and Duschesnois address the Virginians.— 1838, John D. btap es com- mitted to jail for rebellion ; afterwards sent to hard labour m the penitentiary, and then into banishment to United States. 1644, Archbishop Laud (the Strachan of England) impeached of high crimes againiV the stale. He was the tyrant Charles the lst’s right arm ; naif the cruelties oT that reign had their origin with him. He pulled off his cap and thanked God when Professor Leighton, Archbishop L’s father, was, at three-score, ordered to be public!* whipped, stand and be branded in the pillory, have his nose s it, his ears cut of and be sent to the dungeon for life, for his opinions. On the 10th of July 164o he was executed on Tower Hill, London. _ . MARCH 13. 1778, War declared between France and England. MARCH 14. 1795, Grattan’s reply to the address of the Catholics of Dublin —he foretells that Ireland was to be extinguished as a nation. MARCH 15. Before Christ 44. Julius C cesar assassinated. — 1839, Arthur re- wards Shepard McCormick for his share in the midnight assassination of the Amer- icans at Schlosser, with the lucrative office of Collector of Customs at Cobourg. Ar- thur tells the H. of A. tli at the public debt of U. C. is nearly five millions of dollars, of which the revenue is unable to pay either principal or interest. Ogle R. Gowan fails to get the legislature to cheer Prince for his murders.— 1839, Major B. Waite, Alexander McLeod, John McNulty, John Vernon, James Waggoner, James Gammell, Norman Mallory, Samuel Chandler, Garrett Van Camp, and George B. Cooley, 10 of the most honorable and patriotic inhabitants of Canada, most of them freeholders, men of large families, heavily ironed, and shipped from Portsmouth for Hobart Town, Van Dieman’s Land to perpetual cruel slavery, on fel- ons’ fare, in company with 240 felons, for the crime of loving their country and seek- ing its freedom. Mrs. Waite has since set off for London to pray the Queen for her husband’s pardon or take a passage to N. S. Whales, leaving their child with its grandfather ! This is British Justice ! ! Most of these prisoners had suffered 12 to 18 months’ imprisonment and underwent incredible hardships.— 1781, Battle of Guild- ford Court House. English loss 500— American do. 400.- 1767, Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the U. S., bom in South Carolina, of Irish parentage— his father dies and his brethren lose their lives in the war of the revolution — his mother s lessons oc- casion that fixed opposition to English tyranny and oppression which characterize! his life — one of his brothers is cut in the head when a prisoner of war. by which his death is occasioned — he takes part in that war for freedom at the age of 14 — is severe- ly wounded— at 21 he had lost all his kindred and near relatives— assists at arrang- ing the constitution of Tennessee — becomes a Senator of the U. S., and a general in their armies — obtains signal success in the Indian Wars— gains the great battle ot New Orleans — becomes president — opposes the U. S. Bank as dangerous to the welfare of the republic — vetoes a bill to renew its unjust powers — vetoes a bill to apply the proceeds of taxation under a heavy tariff to make local improvements in favorite states — is friendly to free trade — recommends Mr. Van Buren to the people as his successor — retires to private life. — 1831, Don Miguel orders 9 students of the college to be strangled andtneir bodies burnt, in defiance of the judges of Portugal, who sat at Lisbon and declared the youths had done nothing to deserve punishment “They are Constitutionalists!” replied the tyrant imitator of Spring Rice & Co.- 41 Away with them !” They were placed on a platform near Lisbon — tied one by one — and the hangman threw a cord 5 times round each student’s neck, then twisted a stick round till the cord had strangled him. After they had all been strangled a fire of tar barrels and other combustibles was lighted below the platform which soon re- duced their bodies to ashes, which the hangman, a miserable, lame wretch, (uncle probably to Hagerman, Colbome, Judge Robinson and Sir Geo. Arthur) threw into the Tagus. How steadily Hagerman &. Co. tread in the steps of Don Miguel & Co. MARCH 16. 1796. Mr. Gerald dies under banishment from Scotland to Botany Bay, for his love to reform. — (Mr. Skirving died three days afterwards.) — 1827. The Legislature of Louisiana vote and send to Va. $10,000 in a present to Thomas Jef- ferson’s family. — 1831, Cavan Assizes, Ireland. Hugh Ward, Edward Duffy, and Michael Farrelly sentenced to be hung fer Whiteboyism. The Judge and lawyer* fearful of the people took to their heels and left the court ! MARCH 17. 1764, The English Parliament propose to tax the Old Colonies by obliging them to purchase and use stamped paper for business dealings. — 1776, Bos- ton evacuated by the English forces. W ashington marches into the city in triumph.— 1839, Commodore Sandom visits Port Maitland, Lake Erie, to inspect the royal na- 33 Freeman's Chronicle - a^ie of soldiers from the fortress Who seized the printer of the newspa- per, his types, presses, &«., and lodged them all in his dungeons. 1809 THE DUKE OF YORK, kept Mrs. Clarke, a masons wife for years, as his concubine, and left his own wife. Mrs. Clarke was the channel through which commissions in the army were bestowed by the duke as commander-in-chief ; those who paid her the price had a commission ; ot cour ® e she took care to take bribes only from the deserving. Col. Wnrdle brought the accusation before parliament; the duke's woman was examined at the bar, and although every act was used to prevent royal turpitude from being exposed, pub- lic indignation compelled the duke to resign his officfe and retire. A more corrupt old villain never lived, yet Perceval, a sycophantic lawyer, whom Bellingham re- moved, whitewashed royalty by persuading theJHouse of Commons by a vote of 278 to 198, to resolve this day that the duke meant right. Atter public indignation had cooled down, he got his office again, and after wards the coal and iron mines of Nova Scotia to pay his gaming debts! When his father, old King George got crazy the duke sent in a bill of #50,000 a year for his trouble in waiting on him— this over and above an immense income from the public for idleness— Americans, shall we have a royal government 7— Bankers, usurers, episcopalian priests.— Yes, yes ! The People, — No. MARCH 18. 1776, Stamp Act repealed. — 1745, Sir Robert Walpole died. — 1812, John Horne Tooke died.— 1768, Lawrence Sterne died.— 1838, The Grand Jury, Hamilton, U. C., find true bills for high treason, against Col. George Washington Case (now under a course of punishment m Canandaigua Jail), Adam Yiegh, Angus Mc- Kenzie, Robert Lane, Charles Walrath, Wm. Lyons, Oliver and Stephen Smith, and MARCH 19. 1822, The U. S. admit the independence of Mexico. Colunfbia and p erU- — 1839, The Government of New Brunswick reject a bill from the Assembly for liberalizing the College there ; and refuse a graut in aid of the Baptists.— 1832, A great county meeting held in Hamilton Court House, U. C., to petition England for Tree institutions— the tories defeated. A party, headed by Colonel W. J. Kerr, son in law of Brant the Indian Chief, steal into Mackenzie's lodgings, and attempt to mur- der him— he is much injured— Kerr indicted by a grand jury, tried by Judge Macau- lay, fined #100, and wealth and honors heaped on him continually afterwards by the governments of Head and Colbome. MARCH 20. 1776, The English Kings bestowed vast tracts of invaluable proper- ty in this state on the proud and pampered clergy of the dominant church of England, while they persecuted all other sects. There are now in the city of New York and throughout the State, lands worth sixty millions of dollars, which that priesthood claim to ovrn independent of their flocks. Even in England the House ot Commons admit that the state may sell church property. It is in dangerous hands. Why not dispose of it. pay off the state debt, complete the canals and railroads, extend the ad- vantages of common schools, and leave the bishops and oily clergy on a footing with ether sects depending on their flocks? .. MARCH 21. 1556, Archbishop Cranmer burnt by the government tor his reli- gious opinions, in London. . , YT . “ The accounts which you had received of the accession df Canada to the Union were premature. It is a measure much to be wished and I believe would not be dis- pleasing to the people • but, while Carleton remains among them, with three or tour thousand regular troops, they dare not avow their sentiments, it they really are favor- able, without a strong support. Your ideas of its importance to our political union coincide exactly with mine. If that country is not with us, from its proximity to the eastern States, its intercourse and connexion with the numerous tribes of western In- dians, its communion with them by water and other local advantages, it will be at least a troublesome if not a dangerous neighbor to us; and ought, at all events to be in the same interest and politics as the other States.” — General W ashington to Landon Carter. See Sparkes , Vol. 5, p. 389. . MARCH 22. 1765, The English determine to tax America by passingthe Stamp •'‘Act, providing that bonds, bills, &c., shall not be lawful unless executed on damped paper to be purchased of English Agents at heavy charges for English benefit.— 1839, A Canadian Association formed by a convention of refugees at Rochester, N. Y. The press and types of the Aurore seized by Colborne at Montreal.— 1801, Law, Lord Ellenborouih, carries a bill through the infamous junto of oligarchs called an TOt CM mv nt/nu/uic, S English Parliament, to protect and encouiage spies, informers and secret accusers of their neighbours.— The habeas corpus act had been suspended for 8 years to this date. MARCH 23. 1832. A government mob of drunken officeholders headed by She- riff Jarvis, Treasurer Billings and other authorities, and urged on by Bishop M’Don- ellkeep Toronto for three days in an uproar of drunkenness and riot — many oersons injured— Mackenzie burnt in effigy — a memorial against this violence signed in four hours by 1000 of the inhabitants. — 1838, Sir G. Arthur arrives in Toronto. — 1816. A corrupt nest of sycophants in the House oi Assembly of U. C. vote $12000 to an Eng lish Governor to buy silver spoons with, out of an impoverished treasury. Their con- stituents ignorant enough to re-elect many of them. — 1829, Catholic Emancipation carried in the English Parliament, by which, at the sacrifice of the civil right of the 40 shilling freeholders to vote at elections, certain religious and civil disabilities were removed from the catholics of Ireland, and also of England and Scotland. MARCH 24. 1603, Queen Elizabeth died. — 1839, Knowledge progresses in L. Canada. House .3 of Assembly, and every appearance of popular influence were thrown aside, when the electors shewed themselves intelligent enough to elect repre- sentatives who studied their interests. A naked despotism upheld by bayonets is the last resource of Mother Britain. MARCH 25. 1774, Boston Port Bill passed. By this tyrannical act the parlia- ment of England shut up the harbour of Boston so that its trade was destroyed be- cause of the manly fortitude with which its people resisted European oppression.— Two years after, England had to give up the city for ever, after inflicting many cruel- ties upon its people. MARCH 26. 1839, This da}' were condemned to be hung at Montreal, by the military English Tribunal there, for the crime of following the illustrious example of the immortal Washington, Hampden and Lafayette, Dr. Samuel Newcomb, Joseph Louis Roy and 17 other Canadian Farmers, and tradesmen, for the sin of rebellion against the tyrant Queen of England’s vindictive agents. — A country lad (says the historian of Ireland’s woes) was tortured to enforce a disclosure of some hidden arms, and his sister was brought to witness the proceeding. She could not bear to see his agonies and she discovered. He raised his languid eyes and said, “ O, Jen- ny, 1 could have borne it all, and in dying blessed you ; but now you have brought disgrace on me, and ruin on the cause.”— 1816, Governor Gore, by* bribery, induces the U. C. Assembly to make the chief officers of the government independent of the legislature, by a bill to pay them out of the proceeds of the taxes for ever, also to grant perpetual pensions. MARCH 27. 1802, Peace of Amiens, between France and England. — 1625, James, the 1st Scotch King of England, died.— 1838, W. S. Stevens having purcha- sed the monopoly called the Oakland County Bank, Michigan, borrowed all the mo- ney in the Clinton Canal Bank, paid it into his own bank, returned it, borrowed it a- gain, until the three loans of the same sum made 15,000 dollars; to comply with the ►Statute — no other specie was ever paid in as capital! !! — Essex Co. Bank, Vt., ano- ther rascally concern, began just so.— 1838, L’Estafette, a New York newspaper, stopt from circulation by orders of the government of Canada.— The Reformers of Toronto go up to Sir Geo. Arthur with an address and get insulted. Had they pos- sessed spirit equal to their numerical strength, he would not have been there to affront them. 1812, Daniel D. Tompkins, a manly and truly republican governor of N. Y. State, having seen a disposition on the part of the legislature to erant a corrupt mono- Bank Charter, prorogued their sittings to 21st of May.— 1838, Thursday, James ham. John Butcliart, James Peters (which three had lain all winter in jail), with Calvm Lyman, James Parkinson, Wm. Armstrong, and Hiram Dowling, tried at Ha- milton, U. G\, for the crime of hierh treason fWashinfrtonisinf th* infnrmora Freeman* Chronicle . «fci fat* to is •ljii aai ten acipt jW; iesit iset is Dct i eciw ieuii ie pc nd tea inj® aU ilia b, 3 a re:- H ie k otbes “ 0,1 glint . ri ent k. #Bp i-lt g pun lltbei wedii witia Vt,u orspapc rraes kyj» ifU.l ; Jaw loeai rU .H::. tcRi' oia '\d jwi y. :ion» Do 1836, Messrs. Lount and Matthews sentenced by Col. Lount's personal adversary C. J. Robinson. — 1839, Schuyler’s counterfeit detector issues a list of 169 broken banks, also of 206 banks whose notes have been counterfeited, and describes 816 different kinds of counterfeit bills now circulating in the United States— then follows a list of banks whose notes brokers buy at from 50 cents to 96 for the paper dollar. It is the opinion of many persons that thousands of farmers in the country are so shortsighted tiiat they would go for monopoly Banks to get great prices for grain, although they were certain that the result of their folly would be to drive their children to poverty. The above is their first warning. America buys wheat 4000 miles off' in Germany — 6000 miles off at Odessa in Russia. Why is this ? The land i3 fertile in the U. S., the climate good, the laborers many, there is wealth in abundance, and 25 cents of a protecting duty on wheat as a sort of premium to the farmer at the expense of the me- chanic. Yes/but employ capital in gambling, speculation, stocks, fraud, paper dollar Bhops, shaving, monopolising articles required, and you hope to make more profit than by employing It in honest industry. Hence it is that there are too many bankers, bro- kers, lawyers, buyers, sellers, and too few farmers.— 1838, Chief Justice Robinson tells Arthur and his Council that he sees no ground upon which to recommend par- don or respite to Lount or Matthews ; has no evidence to report, but refers to a ma- licious, false and secret accusation artfully prepared to stain their characters by the wretch Hagerman ! MARCH 30. 1829, Bill to emancipate the Catholics of Ireland, (or in more plain terms to enable Catholics to sit in the English Parliament and hold certain important offices, and be freed from certain civil disabilities, without taking oaths inconsistent with their religious opinions,) passed the English H. of C. 142 to 320, but the right of 200,000 Irishmen (40 shilling freeholders) was taken away at same time!— If you are to form a government, as in England, where those who have real estate or pro- perty vote for the/members of parliament, and influence direcdy the councils ot the nation, while tho$e who have it not are excluded, although in many cases their hones- ty, industr\ r and intelligence is superior to the class whose property confers power up- on them, do you not, by upholding this system, and acting oppressively make it the interest of those who have no property to burn, destroy and render worthless the es- tates of those who have, in order that all may be on a level ? Is not this a bad way to secure the welfare of succeeding generations 1 MARCH 31. 1814, Battle ot the Barriers. The allied sovereigns enter Paris. — 1837, The Mexicans protest against the acknowledgment of Texan Independence by the United States. — 1835, A bill to ^ive means for securing and to secure a good edu- cation to the whole of the vouth of Canada (an excellent measure) passed by the House of Assembly of U. C., Yeas 33, Nays 3 (Hagerman, Rykert, a sycophantic American, and Sir Allan McNab.) The Councilor Government crushed the mea- sure. — 1838, The Earl of Durham appointed Commander in Chief, Capt. General, and High Commissioner for the Canadas, &c. UPPER CANADA LISTS. Lt. Governor, Sir G. Arthur, income $27,000. — Chief Justice, J. B. Rob- inson. income $10,000. — A Legislative Council appointed by the colonial of- fice, London. 33 members. — A House of Assembly, G2 members. Sir Allan McNab, Speaker. — An Executive Council (the same which advised the butch, eries of Lount, Von Schouliz, Matthews, • 9 in aph.] the political influ- ence of the money power, legislation is pu- rified, and the Republican feelings of our ci- tizens are cherished.” — Andrew Jackson , December 17, 1837. Palm Sunday. Uncompromising hostility to a National Bank.” — Martin Van Buren . Room for the gray-haired soldiers ! Maundy Thursday.] Room for the patriot Good Friday.] 'sires, 41) fy-] Who kindled in our own green Easter.] land © Apo. 9 sta.] The light of freedom’* 6 h (JD-] fires ; Long, long, may they gather here With the children of the free, And ever as now renew their vow In the cause of Liberty ! Low Sunday, 1st after Easter.] 6 9 Virginia Elections. 6 f> W- r persecute those who differ from you _ T J)& 9 •] * n politics or religious belief. Farmer s Calendar.-— Plough your ground repeatedly and thoroughly : this in a good measure is a substitute for slight manuring. Set out fruit trees ; be not spa- ring in pains to cultivate the apple and the pear. Now is the time for grafting.— There is no more difficulty in grafting a tree than in planting a hill of corn. Plant peas, potatoes, and other early vegetables. It is said that wheat and rye sown in the new of the moon will not smut. Dig up your las t fall’s manure heap. APRIL 1 .fytw'/r’s and all other Lotteries.- An infamous scheme to aid as far as possible m the desmuenon of republican institutions, by taking from the earn- mgs ot 999, the wages of their labour; to create from among them three upstart aristocrats, with a large share of the plunder out of which the 9997 Freeman y 8 Chronicle. 37 [30 Di fools had been gulled ; by applying the rest of the proceeds to uphold in idleness the gamblers and their lottery agents; and, lastly, by inducing the people to look to lot- teries rather than labour as a source of wealth. English National Debt of 1000 Millions, chiefly consists of obligations of the government to pay 3 per cent annually on every £100, in gold, at the Bank of England, but not to pay the sum lent unless it be convenient. At present £100 of that stock or obligation to pay interest, is worth £90 ; six months ago it fetched £94 ; in 1737 it was worth £107 ; but when the Bank of England stopt payment in 1797 the { >riee fell to £47 3-8 for £100, public credit being then almost annihilated. The va- ue is kept up by artificial means ; if many persons should want to sell it it would fall like a stone. APRIL 2. 1791, Mirabeau died in France. — 1839, The State Bank of Michigan, one of those cumbrous and ruinous machines to the democracy, destructive to the farmers, and framed to force specie out of the country, approved. — 1835, An excel- lent and liberal bill to establish a University in U. C. passed in Assembly, 33 to 5. The Council choked the bill, and the government officials entrusted with the funds, borrowed them. — 1743, THOMAS JEFFERSON, who wrote the American De- claration of Independence, 4th of July, 1776, was born this day, of Welsh progeni- tors. He was twice president of the United States; opposed a national bank and all other schemes to corrupt the people’s morals ; his opinions and character are held in great reverence by the people of this Union, and by the liberals throughout the world. — 1838, Monday, JOHN MONTGOMERY was tried at Toronto for High Treason against Victoria, before a mock jury selected of the basest, most dependant tories not of the county, but picked up by the sheriff af Hagerman’s order, through the ci- ty. They were men whom the banks could break down at a nod except perhaps Andrews the bellman. They are D. M. and P. Faterson, Jr., Win. Andrews, G. Moore, T. Champion, W. and J. Ross, G. Denholm, Joseph Rogers, J. M. Murchi- son, W. Osborne, G. B. Willard. We will give them an unenviable notoriety to last their lives. Hagerman thought there were some names of jurors drawn wh® had a little humanity left, and he objected to every man of them. Sherwood and Hager- man were united to procure a conviction. Win. Clark, Painter : John Linfoot, Butch er; Hugh Stewart, R. N., James Severs a sheriff’s bailiff, George D. Reed, Wm. Gymer an hostler, W. B. Crew, David Bridgeford a poor colonel, Thomas Nightin- gale, Butcher, and James Purdy, his man, and Archibald Cameron, son to a half-pay Colonel, were the informers and Queen’s evidence. They did their best to have him convicted, yet he was innocent as wc well know, for he was as ignorant of the inten- tion of the refonners to take possession of his premises on 4th Dec., as the babe un- born, and it was but natural that he should stop and watch so valuable an estate. Ha- german’s language was vindictive enough; ana C. J. Robinson pleaded for a convic- tion he was sure of at the hand of his creatures. If the defendant could select his jurors he would always get clear. In John Beverly Robinson’s trials his creatures select such jurors as will ensure conviction. Wm. Ketchum swore that he (K.) was out on Tuesday at the reformers’ camp with Dr. Rolph and Mr. Baldwin, who bore a flag of truce from Head, and that Dr. Rolph took him aside and bade him represent the force »f the country people “as very strong.” and that he had been told on Mon- day that the city would be attacked that night, probably by the same friend. Mr. Montgomery was sentenced to be hung, drawn on a hurdle, cut up into quarters, &c. by Robinson, but the people were so horror struck with Mr. Lount’s butchery, that Arthur ordered him to be banished to perpetual slavery in Botany Bay. He escap- ed, reached the land of the free, and affords a home for many a brother reformer, in this flourishing city. He was worth $3000 a year before the revolt. APRIL 3. 1829, The New York Safety Fund Act passed. A good patch on a cor- rupt, vicious, system. The Scotch Banking system is freedom of trade — no great nation- al bank to ruin the others — interest paid on deposites — stockholders all responsible — issue no dollar bills — the bankrupt law stops a bank the moment it fails to meet its engagements, and its property and that of its owners, is instantly applied towards the payment of its debts — Scotland owes much in morals and prosperity to the com- parative freedom of her banking system from parliamentary intrigue or jobbing, which has proved ruinous in England, the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia. Her local situation protects her against the general bad consequences of that abuse of credit, small notes. But the Scotch system would not answer in America. APRIL 4. Taxes levied by England on her Slaves at Home. — About 36 millions of dollars yearly to uphold paupers. About 90 millions of dollars yearly in indirect taxes on grain. Heavy taxes on inland and foreign bills of Exchange, (by stamps, on agreements, on apprentices’ indenture#, on 38 Caroline Afmdnac, and bonds, on bank notes, See. A Tax on every advertisement for every time in- serted in a newspaper 30 to 50 cents — on every newspaper not sent by mail 2 cents. Taxes levied yearly to pay the interest only of the National Debt 145 millions of dollars. Taxes on articles imported or of home manufacture (exclusive of grain) 160 millions of dollars. APRIL 5. 1820, Fight at Bonnymuir, Scotland, between a party of brave Scotsmen, up for freedom from the English yoke, and the hireling sol. diery of royalty. The latter triumph. — 1646, O" King Charles 1st, than whom no royal hypocrite ever more deserved the death he met, wrote public despatches to his governors in Ireland, which he took care secretly to render ineffectual by private despatches of same date, telling them to act the con. trary way, as it would please him better. This is the course pursued by tho Kings of England, through their secretaries Goderich, Stanley, Spring Rice and Normanby, who write plausible lies to the colonial governors, Head, Col- borne and Arthur, for publication and deception, and private ones telling them to bind the yoke as tight as they can. — 1712, U* Mr. Walpole, (after, wards Sir Robert, and premier of England) Secretary at War, convicted of pocketing a bribe of $2000 on a Scotch forage contract, expelled parlia. ment, imprisoned in the Tower, and when re-elected declared incapable of sitting. APRIL 6. A NATIONAL BANK. — If it be a company concern like the last you cannot prevent the capitalists of England from owning and di. recting it — no law can stop that result. If they own it, the monied affairs of the country will be directed by the propa of monarchy, the enemies of de- mocracy. — Again — If it be a U. S. government concern — if the President, Senate or House of Representatives choose the directors — if the political par. ty in power are the managers— it will be an engine in the hands of party which, under favorable circumstances, may tempt them to try tfuir hand at destroying free institutions, and building up a hundred families or more as “the gods” of the modern Israel.— A National Bank, like that of theU.S., a company concern, will always be opposed to a democratic government, hence it will nourish, consolidate and strengthen a factious partizan opposi- te 11 to government, bribe and corrupt the press, pulpit, bar and senate, to the utmost of its means, and, if it can, 0*swamp the republic. APRIL 7. 1778, Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham, a statesman strongly op- posed to the coercion of America, (when in opposition), died. -1720, 0T South Sea scheme begins ; and by the 29th of Sept., when it ended, had ru- med tens of thousands of Englishmen, who expected to treble their fortunes by speculation. O* CHIN A.— Paper money was tried in China for many r a /onn Ut f0Un u t0 J? eVuin ? us to the P e °P Ie and the government. For the last 3U0 years the Chinese have preferred the honest standard of value, silver dollars. In the United States a combination of the people to try the stabili- ty of the banks by demanding payment, would bring them to bankruptcy iu 24 hours. Is this a safe measure of human labour ! APIUL 8. 1835, Clergy Reserve bill, to appropriate these lands for gen. eral education and good roads passed the Assembly and was crushed by the nnl!™ ment of U ; C ~ Thc Canadas, by an act of the parliament, of theif con. f.rm Ih. are ? Pa . rt .i° f ‘ h ? SEE ° f Canterbury. In U. C. one acre in 7 of evorv farm throughout the colony, and also the unsettled land, (say 15 millions of hesrLTtledT *5* r hUr i°^ ° f En?!and Clergy lor ever— alsif 3J0.000 acres with SSrtlOdr* P ° r - Kle 'Tr and 36 °’° 00 lo endow an intolerant school- with about 10'-' rectories of the most valuable estates in the country— and all the religious and evil supremacy and powers exercised in England and Ire- knd-t ns priesthood are paid out of the public revenue, against the people’s will, with enormous grants to its priests. Their priests are generally paid spies on the people and defamers of other 6ects 180 E > [TT* TM* Whitbread brought before the House of Commons 1 XlntiK breach Freeman V Chronicle. 39 Jl LORD MELVILLE, who had been Pitt’s right hand man for 15 years, and 0Q ‘ . prompted him in almost all the acts of horrid cruelty of which his adminis- lr P, tration was guilty. No doubt Melville had robbed the treasury in a thousand ways, but in this case his dishonesty was made as open and notorious as that of the robber who is hung at Tyburn HjT and more so. A Commission of 1 enquiry asked Melville whether he had pocketted many thousand pounds of 1! p> the money of the public, as Treasurer of the Navy. He replied that he was ‘‘M not obliged to criminate himself. His Paymaster, a loyal person called A. Trotter, was sent for, and Melville asked before him whether Trotter had fteis use d many thousands of the public funds for his private use — in other words tttlhi swindled the people. Trotter would not tell, nor would Melville, and the juedit two had burnt ail the accounts of their offices, explanatory of transactions •P^l! between them, the moment the commission was appointed. As Melville Heic durst not say “l am innocent,” Pitt had to keep up appearances, and Mel- nestd ville resigned office as 1st lord of the admiralty, and his name was erased ?ole, t from the privy council. Melville was impeached before a pack of corrupt ^nviefc knaves called “ the lords,” but it came to nothing. It is computed that he lied (i robbed the country of a million of dollars, and the paymaster of the navy took icapii for his own use nearly half a million. He lived a noble, peer, however, the soul of honour, and so lives his son. Had they been poor men they would jncert: have been hung. , ng ie APRIL 9. 1747, Frazer, Lord Lovat, a brave and learned Scottish Ba- iled i ron, beheaded by the English for aiding the Scotch revolt in favor of inde- nieso pendence and their native princes, against the paper money, national debt,' Pres foreign taxing, Glencoe massacring, faithless power of England. — [Jjf*JO- ditici SEPII HUME, M. P., the celebrated Statesman and Financier, was born in s 0 f : 1777 in Montrose, Scotland His father was Captain of a trading vessel be- irk longing to that port. Mr. Hume, who has done more than any other man >r ra« living to inform the people of the United Kingdom of facts important to their •j|, e f welfare, was educated (like Watt and Van Buren) at the schools of his native ym town. He was three years at Edinburgh University, and became a member jjop of the Colleges of Surgeons of London and Edinburgh. After being in the SfnJ ,; East India Company’s naval service four years, he proceeded in 1799 to Ben- gal ; learnt the language of the country, became paymaster and postmaster , on! ,i r to the forces in the Mahwratta war, and held his medical appointment besides. - 2 |V In l807r8 he returned to England a wealthy man ; travelled in England, Ire- I ^ land, Scotland, Spain, Portugal, France, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Sicily, forte Sardinia, &c.; and in 1812 was elected a member of parliament for Wey- - orK mouth, in which body and in the court of proprietors he stood alone in 1813 p flr contending earnestly against monopoly and for free trade. In 1818, he was je s jv elected to represent his native town, Aberdeen, Brechin and Arbroath, in par- liament, and he stood forward an unwearied advocate of the rights of the . fT people, the liberty of the press, toleration and legislative reform. He began P an enquiry twenty years ago into the wasteful expenditure of the government, ^ ability, zeal, industry and temper, and has never ceased to show his country the advantages of prudent, economical government. In 1828 ho y 1 ' was elected member for the county of Middlesex, including the metropolis, eirf* and twice re-elected. He succeeded Mr. O’Connell for Kilkenny in 1834-5, and is continually at his post doing all the good he can to mankind. The io' ! Canadians entreated his aid in 1827 against the Colonial authorities, obtain* ^ ®d it, and the House of Assembly of U. C. sent him a vote of thanks, as did W' many towns and counties. From that time he has been a firm and unwea. nh ried advocate for Canadian rights, and will yet, we trust, receive ample ij* proofs of the people’s gratitude. APRIL 10. 1816, President Madison sanctioned the bill to charter a r P* Bank of the United States. “The act of Congress chartering the Bank had conferred a privilege upon the stockholders precisely similar to the most va* " — ^ ^ 40 Caroline Almanac , and luable of all those enjoyed by the high nobility of France, previous to the Re. volution — that of imposing burdens at their pleasure upon their vassals, com. prehending the greatest portion of the community, and at the same time be entirely exempted themselves From all legal taxes and contributions towards the maintenance of the public establishments of society.”— [Democratic Re. view, Aug., 1839. — 1838, O" Robert Stibbert tried for treason at Toronto and acquitted — THE FAMILY COMPACT of U. C., so called by Durham after the Bourbons, is well described by Matthew Carey, p. 378 of his Ire, land Vindicated. He says, “ In every subjugated country, there is alwayi a small body of the natives, who make a regular contract, not written, but well understood, and duly carried into effect, by which they sell the nation to its oppressors, and themselves as slaves, for the sorry privilege of tyranni- zing over their fellow'slavcs.” This “small body” in U. C. have for mana. gers John Beverly Robinson, Bishop Strachan, Sheriff Jarvis, S. P. Jarvis, Judge Jonas Jones, Judge Archd. McLean, Sir Allan McNab, Mahlon Bur- well, Sheriff Ruttan, John Macaulay, Wm. Allan, Judge Macaulay and bro. ther, Attorney General Hagerman, the Boultons, Gambles and Howards. These wretches are to U. Canada what the leaders of “ the Protestant as. cendancy” have been to Ireland, a perpetual blight, the evil principle person, ified. APRIL 11. 1838, Judge Robinson, the Jeffries of U. C. sentences John Anderson (now of Lockport), Ralph Morden (now of Lewiston), Canadians, Doctor Theller, a naturalized American Citizen, and John Montgomery, who had suffered so extensively in his property by the revolt, to be hung, drawn, and their bodies quartered, on the 24th, for their love of* liberty. Dr. Theller protested, that though born an Irishman he had left that land of oppression early in life and become an American Citizen, abjuring English allegiance and English protection. The Judge and Attorney General decided thatouce a subject of Victoria and her successors a subject for ever ! ! The Irish threa- tened the government and saved Theller’s life — he afterwards made a mira- culous escape from Quebec, as did the three others from Fort Henry, and air four were received with great kindness on this side the lines. On this claim of England to hang naturalized American citizens as English subjects, tin London Sun says — “ To sentence him to death, to keep him months in pri- son, loaded with irons, is adding cruelty to gross absurdity. When we look to Irishmen, of whom Theller is one, the claim of the law seems to us an utter abomination, which every man is bound to protest against. Ireland is still more a prey to a redundency of people than England, and there the fa- mishing wretches, cleared from an estate, driven out from their roofless hoi. dings by a Beresford or a Bandon, have very often no resource, but to bind themselves to an American Captain, who carries them across the Atlantic, and sells their service when they arrive. They are compelled by those in whom the law vests the property of the soil, and whom the law encourages to clear their estates, to leave their native country, and when they procure in another the bread which their own denied them, the law still claims their obedience, ties them to starvation, treats them the same as one of the favor- ed landowners, and declares them guilty of treason if found in the ranks of the defenders of their new country.” APRIL 12. 1838, Messrs. LOUNT and MATTHEWS, two of the bra- vest of the Canada patriots, were executed this day, by order of Sir George Arthur, and at the urgent request of Chief Justice Robinson; Hagerman the Attorney General; and Sullivan, Baldwin, Elmsley, Allan and Draper, the Ex- ecutive Council. Petitions to Arthur, signed by upwards of 30,000 persons were presented, asking him to spare their lives, but in vain. He knew that Victoria and the English Ministry and Peerage thirsted for Canadian blood— he had been told to follow Head’s example, by Lord Glenelg, and he obeyed orders. Capt. Matthews left a widow and fifteen fine children, and Colonel Lount a widow and seven children. lie was upwards of six feet in height. ! i c 1. t a c i c N It V c- u ti ii t’ t» ti iff ! I i k 01 Freeman'* Chronicle. 41 wivery good looking, and in his 47th year. Arthur was earnest to know of /yliount who the leaders were, but, except that he told him that I)r. Rolph 11 as the Executive, he answered him not a word. They behaved with great ? (^solution at the gallows; they would not have spoken to the people, had ' dC8ired s P ectac l e °f Lount after the execution was the most 6|»tikhoeking sight that can be imagined. He was covered over with his blood ; head being nearly severed from liis body, owing to the depth of the fall, weudlora horrible to relate, when he was cut down, two ruffians seized the end ot or tyahe rope and dragged the inangled corpse along the ground into the jail yard, notfome one exclaiming “this is the way every d A rebel deserves to be : [ wsed.” Their families are impoverished. Mis. Lount is in Michigan. Dal. LahloQ.on’s Patriot was outrageous— it said— “The country is being scoured ay un all directions for the Captains of the gang, and we expect everv moment no*o sec them brought in, pinioned and bound, to be laid by as winter proven* Jtcsmler lor the greedy gallows.” Mr. Lount’s wife was, for two mouths prevent- ed from even seeing her husband, by the monster Head. When she was al- owed to enter his dungeon (his son writes, that) “his eyes were settled in toa heir sockets, his face pain as paper, he was worn down to the form of a liv* Ciaing skeleton, and bound in heavy chains. My poor father had travelled hun. romfflrods of miles through forests, rivers, swamps and desolate places, by night Mg, £ nd by day, and at last while attempting to cross Lake Erie, and once moro Dr,|n sight of his native shore, where freedom loves to dwell, he was driven ^opjhack upon the Canada inhospitable coast, surrounded by a horde of negroes bali ind Queen’s volunteers, carried before their magistrates, and about to hi ex- edti'uiined on a charge of being a salt smuggler, when he would have got clear It®,* lj,lt ^am Jarvis came in, cried out that it was the rebel Lount, and or. ade, ercd y 18 c l° se detention.” Dalton’s language was probably written at Head’s W‘. c . l , a t‘? n * In one of ld8 Papers Dalton says, “ We had several interviews ntiii v *th fcir rrancis, who, as he constantly grew in our esteem, so did the Pa- ibj#* not sec, . n to nse * n Iris estimation, insomuch, that numerous copies of it miiitfVcre at intervals dispersed through the country from the Government Office, ieD« >v ! , a vl( ;, w to arrest the moral contagion, and we have reason to know, „ jjfVith excellent effect.” kk Mr. Charles Durand, then under sentence of death, gives ihe following ac. mount of the last days of these glorious martyrs Matthews always boro , ! p 1M s P ,rits 'veil. He was, until death, firm in his opinion of the justice of , U | -he cause he had espoused. He never recanted. He was ironed and kept Ain the darkest cell m the prison like a murderer. He slept sometimes in bankets .that were wet and frozen. He had nothing to cheer him hut the ^probation of his companions and his conscience Lount was ironed tho’ ^ept in a better room. He was in good spirits. He used to tell us often, in iiyming, riot to be downcast, that lie believed ‘Canada would yet be free,’ tie,!- iat we were ‘contending in a good cause.’ He said he was not sorry for hat he had done, and that ‘ he would do so again.’ This was his mind un. . . ‘, 5; Lou " t was a s ? cial and excellent companion, and a well informed ft" ? 110 spoke to us under the sill of our door. He did so on i Oft he morning of his execution ! he bid us ‘ farewell ! that lie was on his way T nJL blT W ° r,d * . , Hb ; Was Calin Hy and Matthews came out to the gal. - l1t TN \ ’ that ^ as J? St b , cf °J C ° Ur wmdmv g ratc8 * We could sec all plainly.— &TJt* d l he P alt< i rm with . tmfal tering steps like men. Lount turned ei r.J i head at his friends who were looking through the iron-girt windows as “h, ° TV- ‘°° S farewe " ! ’ He *"<* Matthew^ knelt and payed, ^ and *e” flannelled into eternity Without almost a single struggle. Oh ! the horror of f^our feelings, who can describe them !>’ tUC no ' ror 01 EnglUh barbarity now the ?ame as it was 500 years ago ? -Is tho h bm ^l m itS ,nurder ° r th <= American, Lount, than It was o, the Scottish hero SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, four centuries 43 Caroline Almanac , attcf ago ? The page -f h : story tells us that Sir Wm. Wallace was dragged by the English king to Westminster, where he had a mock trial. His last mo- ments are thus described : — “ The spectacle which was now exhibited to the gaze of the inhabitants of the metropolis of England was such as perhaps has never been presented to the populace of any land. The last freeman of an ancient people, riot less renowned for their bravery than their inde- pendence, stood a calm and unshrinking victim ready to be immolated at the shrine of despotism. That powerful arm which had so long contended fo; liberty, was to be now unstrung beneath the knife of the executioner ; and that heart replete with every ennobling virtue, which never quailed in the stern hour of danger was doomed to quiver in the purifying flames of mar. tyrdom. After hanging a certain time, the sufferer was taken down, and while yet in a state of sensibility'. He was then disemboweled, and his heart, wrung from its place, was committed to the flames in his presence. During this dreadful process, his eyes still continued to linger on the Psalter, till overpowered by his sufferings, he expired under their hands with all that passive heroism which may be supposed to belong to so elevated a character. The body was afterwards dismembered ; the head fixed on Lpnd on-bridge, tiie right arm upon the bridge of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the left at Berwick, the right leg at Perth, and the left at Aberdeen.” — [The reader will now turn to the account of Colbornc’s murder of Dr. Chenier, at St. Eastache, 14th Dec.] — ICrSame day, Dr. James Hunter of Whitby, (a native of Yorkshire and a sincere patriot,) was tried for High Treason, and acquitted by theJu- ry, although the Judge (Robinson) pleaded for his condemnation as earnestly as Judge Smith Thompson did for Mackenzie’s, at Canandaigua. — 1838, UJ* William Wilson, a soldier of liberty, farmer near Toronto, had been treated with great cruelty all winter in the dungeons of Toronto, and died in the hospital. APRIL 13. IMPRESSMENT OF AMERICAN SAILORS.— THE ALGERINE ENGLISH. — 1799, Rufus King, American Minister, writes T. Pickering, Secretary of State, this day, that since July last he had appli- ed for the discharge of 271 American sailors, forced by England aboard he: war ships to fight for the oppressors of G .id’s fair creation ; that not a third of these slaves were given up ; that half were debarred a chance of redress by being put on board ships of war which had sailed before his enquiry ; and 86 had been restored to their country. Cobbett’s Register says, that English ships of war, when they meet an American vessel at sea, board her, and take out as many sailors as they choose to call British subjects ; that they are bound by no rule, but take whom they please ; that two years previous (to 1806) the American Consul computed the number of American sailors thus taken into foreign slavery at 14,000, of whom many had died, many been wounded or killed in battle on board English ships ; in some cases where an American sailor has tried to effect his freedom ho has been flogged through the fleet for desertion, as if the old colonial yoke had never been slackened. Silas Talbot writes Mr. Secretary Pickering, July 4, ’97, that the admiral had ordered his captains not to allow civil process to be served for the release of American sailors, and that many Americans had been brought to the gang- way and whipped.” All this America bore patiently because the granting of charters, monopolies, corporations, the avarice of foreign traders, and the issuing of paper money had already raised a party whose interest was to weaken the government and destroy it. Even Danes, Swedes, and other fo. reigners (says Mr. King) were dragged out of American ships and forced into tho English naval service. T. Pickering, Secretary of State, reported to Congress the^afRdavit of Eliphalet Ladd, a native of Exeter, N. H., that on 12th June, 1799, he came on shore with 2 seamen of the Thomas and Sarah of Philadelphia, to land a load of staves ; that a press gang attacked them, and one ol them cut Ladd a wound of 3 inches with a broadsword ; that they were taken on board the Brunswick man-of-war, where Edea was floggedon Freeman's Chronicle . 43 ' dn ?h is naked back with ropes* ends, from his shoulders to his hips; that they got ,.,?^no surgical aid ; and that the 3d sailor, Carter, was so injured by the blows ' l llfC and flogging that he vomited blood for several days thereafter. In 1806, fcCapt. Pearce, an American, was murdered by Capt. Whitby of the Leanacr, st ^ntering the port of N. Y. Whitby was brought to a mock trial in England, in then f or the sake of appearances, and acquitted of course. The English ship of roolateitvar fired on the American coasting vessel, laden with provisions, within half a contenibiile of the shore at the entrance ot the harbour ! ! There are thousands of cases cutiorie:*f cruelty, hut America had to bear them, so divided were her people. On the qutileipSd Dec.. 1812, Isaac Clark, a naliveof Salem, Mass., inadeoath that on the 14th lameso ,,fune ’ he was dragged from the ship Jane of Norfolk into the English ship en dov^ war P°‘ ci, pi ne * Capt. Elliott, who tore his American protection and swore lie i • /was English; that he [Clark] refused to work; was put in irons; next day put . . ■ x dozen lashes ; in a week had other 2 dozen lashes and a heavy iron chain nod Ulg PJround his neck and fastened to a ringbolt in the deck ; was kept 9 weeks on a onthefijint of water and a sea biscuit a day; then consented to work; was wounded in Iswithiin action with a French frigate; sent to hospital; put on board the Impregnable; ^daclichs wounds got worse ; sent back to hospital ; the American Consul got him dis- jondo^harged April 29th, 1812. There were 10 impressed native Americans on board •ft « E? he Guerriere, 13 in the Java, and in the Sappho and Moselle 35, when those ves- ' ill ,‘d 9 were taken by the Americans; 14 is the average, which would give 7000 n , American white slaves coufined m English ships in the 500 vessels which com- “*®*®bosed King George’s fleet in 1813.— 1829, Or Catholic Emancipation bill assent- b°i la»d to by George 4th. — 1837, gj” Republican feeling of Nova Scotia shewn very ttedbjplainly in an address to the king, cm the motion of Mr. Howe, member for Halifax onasetCo. and Editor of the Nova Scotian, demanding an executive council responsible la.-lS 10 l he people, for domestic rule, a legislative council elected by the people, and the id beeD 3ontro1 al1 lhe revenues of the province to be in the Legislature. The vote was d died^ ye 4. That Address told what Nova Scotia wanted but durst not fight or. — 1797, H The Channel fleet at Portsmouth mutiny — the Queen Charlotte’s irew gave three cheers, and all the fleet followed her example. The officers were jOlto.-ieposed and a convention of delegates held in Lord Howe’s cabin. On the 17th iniste^very man in the fleet was sworn to stand by the cause; memorials to the Hou30 ;hebt>f Commons were agreed to, saying that the officers get almost the whole prize ind alioc none y» ‘hat their wages had not been raised since 1666, that their victuals wero iatBO l,neanand made a job of by favored contractors, that wounded seamen had their ice of * ,ay slo P ta hhough not discharged, that thev were cruelly used by tyrannical offi- J;ers, and often all but starved. Government at length brought them round, but efflid ns little as it could for them. ^ APRIL. 14. 1817, Erie Canal. — \V. L. Stone bears testimony to Mr. Van Bu- nsen's efforts in favor of the bill to commence the Erie Canal, in Hosack's Memoir of that IjClinton. This dny the bill was sent to the Senate, and [says Stone] Mr. V B. made previotfc powerful speech in its favor, would go the whole length imposed by the bill, as the i gjulflti?roject would r I, JMflT! s: Governor Clinton 1 raise the state to the highest possible pitch of fame and grandeur.” :on thanked him in the most flattering terms. — 1838, Seventy eight itants of Aera. India, whom the E nrrlish rrovprnmpnf Vi:w4 nlnn^pi ,>,1 ^ \ ouaall d inhabitants of Agra, India, whom the English government had plundered j} ie *F ^ an< ^ 8 » were le dby public bounty being in a state of starvation. The dead #ea bodies in the Jumma and Ganges have poisoned the river — the stench is intolerable — i slaCWjut the weslthier natives, like the merciless English, look on with unconcern. — the icJ allies L eland, John Randal, Michael Me Farlane, and James Howie sent to prison irthankharged with rebellion, at Toronto. tothep' 1712. PATRONAGE. — The first deadly .blow at Scottish liberty by their New 18 nglitsh piasters, after the bribery purchase called the union, was a London made •rs Y rC8tin £ lr< ^ n . t ^ e w hole of the congregations in Scotland the power they had of cl rtf ‘boosing their ministers, and vesting that power in noblemen, gentlemen, the kings, j y in 4 the professors of certain great estates; that was a deathblow to the noble and id ot- well tried independence of the Scots Clergy. fed- APRIL 16. 1746, THE BATTLE OF CULLODEN was fought this day, ■epoiw between ihe Scottish Prince, Charles Stuart, and the German Duke of Cumber l, upland, and the Independence of Caledonia, for which Wallace bled and Brucedrew indMhe sword at Bannockburn, was exchanged for German and English vasolage, so feed tlfhrut ifying of mind and body, that in 1S3S the debased, degraded Glengarians i r thttljV' C. were found robbing, murdering, and plundering the children of their cwr> 44 Caroline Almanac, and try’s ancient ally, gallant Franca, on the plains of Canada. T he Duke of Cum- berland left Aberdeen early this month, and early this morning marched J miles from Nairn and met the highlanders only 4000 strong, with a tew pieces oi artil- lery, drawn op in order of battle. The English paper money tyrants had alar larger army, 6000 Hessians (yes, Americans, the same wretched hirelings who were purchased by England 30 years alter to assassinate your Washington,) 6000 Hessians were imported into Leith, Scotland, in February of this year, and fought for tyranny and 11 monied corporations,” as a part of Cumberland’s army. The German and English artillery was well served and did dreadful work— not so with the highlanders. 0 Both my grandfathers were in the battle, and my rnotlierW ther accompanied the prince to the continent in his adversity. He told thanhi storm of wind and rain that day was terrible, und directly in the faces of the high- landers, who nevertheless fought with a manly courage, honorable to their na- tion. But they were deleated, and the field filled with slain ; the road as far as Inverness was covered with dead bodies Officers and privates traversed the field of battle and coolly massacred the wounded and dying. The Duke senthis mercenaries all over the country, and whole vallies were entirely depopulated, women and children stabbed and drowned wholesale, and the most patriotic sec- tions of the highlands converted into adesart. All the jails of B-itaiu, from Lon- don northwards, were crowded with captives, also the holds of ships, “and thou- sands perished in the most deplorable manner for want of necessaries, air and ex- ercise.” In May, the Duke and his hireling hordes pcnetrtaled as far as Fort Augustus, “and sent olf detachments on all hands to hunt down the fugitives, and lay waste Scotland with fire and sword.” Until this battle the accession of the Hessian scoundrels, the Scotch had been always victorious. On the 17th of January, same year, General Hawley with a large English army marchedfrom Edinburgh to raise the siege oi Stirling Castle, but the Scottish Prince mer lum at FalkiiK, fought like lions, and routed cnv-lry and loot, took his artillery, killed BOO of his men, and drove the rest back in confusion to Edinburgh. But the Bank of England loans changed the face of affairs. When vve.e usurers, Jews, and and money changers favorable to freedom ! ! May the chartists complete what their fo eta t hers tailed in, and old Scottish woods and water lulls yet be the orna- ment of a liberated race, for States of native liberty possessed, Though very poor, may yet be very blest. 1782, IRISH INDEPENDENCE asserted. On the anniversary of Cullode: 36 years after, the Irish Lords and Commons resolved that Ireland is a distinci kingdom, with a Parliament of her own, the s le Legislature thereof; anil on the 18th of May the English Parliament admitted that England could pass no law to bind Ireland, without her consent. This was gained by Irish unanimity, but priestcraft and bribery (as in Scotland) changed the scene in 1801. 1838, Amos Bradshaw, George Hill, and Joseph Bowes, landed proprietors, accused and tried for rebellion, at London ; banished U. C. for life— their estates confiscated of course, as all other etsates were, when the parties were convicted. APRIL 17. 1794, Benjamin Franklin died. — 1570, Lords Sussex and Hunsdon and English army entered Tiviotdale, Scotland, and burnt all the castles, houses and towns lor thirty miles; and with the English king’s forces (says Cabella, 174) razed and burnt above 50 castles, 300 villages arid hamiets, driving the Scotch out of the country with fiend-like cruelty.— 1813, Richard Thompson, a native of New Pallz, N. Y., made oath this day that he and other two American sailors were impressed on board the Peacock, an English sloop of war, in 1810 ; refused to wot k ; w ere stnpt, tied up, and severely lashed ; that when the American vessel Hornet engaged the Peacock they refused to work, but had pistols held to their breasts, and were told to work or their brains would be blown out, which they did till the English vessel f= r ruck her colours. — 1S19, Much exertion was made to defeat a lull to complete thi great canal, in the N. V. Legislature. Messrs. Samuel Voung and Van Bil- led proved its friends. Col. Stone (a political opponent) says “1 believe it may be truly said, of Mr. Van Bcren and Col. Young , that it was to their wiiceariid exertions mainly that the attempts made at this time to cripple the bill were de- feated.”— Mr. Tyler’s report bears authentic testimony (says the Globe) that sev- eral millions of dollars were invested by the Bank of the United States m the ac- commodation of Members of Congress. Farmers of America were not these se- crei. bribes intended as an inducement to these Congressmen to betray the trust you had reposed in them to accommodate speculating unprincipled villains? Freeman's Chronicle . 45 APRIL 18. 1689, Judge Jeffries died.— ENGLISH GOVERNMENT IN BRITAIN. Masters and Slaves !— It is a monstrous iniquity that ihe elec- tive franchise should be in the hands of so small a proportion of the people of England It is scarcely endurable that, in this great country, there should be a master class having votes, and, therefore, by themselves and tEeir representatives making all the laws ; and on the other hand, a slave class, having nothing to do* with the laws but to obey them, and to suffer their pressure and infliction. The Reform Bill has failed. It has created a capriciously- selected class of voters ob- noxious to intimidation, and liable to corruption. It has increased the bribery the perjury, the villany of the unreformed system. It is disgraceful to the coun- try. and insulting to its people - Daniel O' Connell's address to Ike Chartists of Birmingham , May 3ft, 1839. APRIL 19. 1775, Battle of Concord, where the English commenced their eight years of wholesale murders upon the Americans, to reduce them into slavery — General Gage resolved to take from the Americans, certain stores thev had at Concord— sent 900 Grenadiers, &c. who when thev arrived at Lexington found about 70 militiamen paraded on the green. Major Pitcairn rode up, and thunder- ed in their ears, “ Disperse, ye rebels; throw down your arms and disperse!” they were in no hurry, on which he rode in among them, (as Moodie did at Mont- gomery s,) and fired his pistol, and ordered his men to fire also— they did so— eight Americans fell dead and several more were wounded. This was the first of the eight years murders— Colonel Smith moved onwards to Concord destroyed some stores, fired on the militia, the fire was returned, the regulars retreated with n loss of prisoners . The country people rose en masse, General Gage sent other 900 man to aid the invaders— yet the whole 1300 fled before 400, shooting over lences, behind bushes, «fcc. The English lost 276 men, the Americans 60.° The people of Charlestown used the royal troops with kindness, and (like Colborneat Sl addh U hcy ,i^ e V >ya i'n ls) 8000 after set fire 10 the place and burnt it. Ai 111 L r ~ u - , L ? ld B y ri, n, the republican poet died in Greece.— 1836, Ha- german, Prince, Chisholm, and Robinson, report to the Upp«.r Canada House of Assembly, ‘ Neither was an instance known of a high-minded Englishman, re- nt, an f 1 ®? g i t, ‘ of time, however strong his predilections might previously have been, who did not leave it with a feeling of disgust at the pracli- tical exhibition of republican institutions on this continent.”— 16S9, Siege of Lon- donderry commenced. ® | JaCin '°’ Texa 1- San,a Anna ,aken Kroner T, * T 16 En g ,Ish Parliament pass a law to givearistocratic constitu- Hons lo the Canadas, authorising, §b, the king to grant titles of hereditary rank ::ita a - - ->< BmUlfifMd. dUsl’t D ° VCli,tb0r “- 1839 - Gener0lSa ‘^ 1 1838 ' Sirius und Great Western arrive at N. York from Europe, cie'tv^thp n, k ,AfTt, re * u 38, At tlle onnualdinner of the St. George’s So- ring th « * of , ,he Carolme hu "g up os a trophy behind the president’s chair vell| h r° n ?r rS H°' ? overn ™ em Present and applauding. Uapt. Marrvatt, the no- velist, i ot»e and proposed as a volunteer toast— Captain Drew and his brave -Tm AMFltlCAN 1 L 1 Mp a ,i 0 i ine »M Which k toast was received wild loui^pplause. were ^ AL1 jF^ b *. Man >' j h ° u * and3 of ‘he best settlers in U. C. V h i U l and he honest y, of ^eir votes induced Judge Robinson to ?nn? Pt - lh E ? sllsh Gov ernment to declare them alien*, incapable of holding or convevmg rea estate, although the half of U. C. either belongid to, orhad pas^ through their hands. Thts was done, and a bill brought into one of our cor?um Assemblies to enable them to hold their farms bu f not to vote at elections if they ^ould abjure their native country for ever. This bill passed our Colonial Assent iV, w htc h it was not difficult to bribe or intimidate, and was sent to England for the royal assent. To lose American votes would have been the downfall of the democratic parly, and a central committee of four wasappointed (Messrs Jo*enh Shephard Thos. Stoyell, Jesse Ketchum, and Dr. Burnside, w,?h L Mac ken/ie for its confidential secretary. Dr Rolph, one of the delegates chosen de o toEn S Iand ’ and Mackenzie urged so many objections agaS the other, (bolhergill, since and before a hungry tory,) that he Der«und<.d the mm mmee to mv„e Mr. Randall, an M. !>., who Ld suffered cno^h “or Is ImeTh 46 Caroline Almanac , and can birth and principles, to undertake the journey secretly. Mr. R. consented. Instructions were drafted by Mr. Mackenzie* at the committee’s direction (which lie yet preserves, as signed by them,) and these, with a memorial having 15,000 signatures, Mr. R. took to England in March of this year, having previously agreed that Mr. Mackenzie should dash off one or two loyal letters to the Gover- nor General, Lord Dalhousie, and send him 500 copies for distribution in London, to pave the way for a favorable reception. The hoax was played otT to admira- tion— Mr. R. instanced the tone of the liberal paper as a proof of the loyally of the republican party, and gave copies of the No’s, containing the letters, in proof. With the help of Mr. Hume, loyalty, assiduity, and a good cause, Mr. R. carried his point with Lord Goderich, and received a pledge that the Yankees in Canada who had been subjects from 4 to 40 years, might so remain without abjuring their native land. The Colonial Advocate began its loyal song this day, and kept it up a whole fortnight, and thus for once out-generaled the politicians of England at their own weapons.— 1838, Henry McGarry tried at Toronto for rebellion ! I acquitted. — Colborne’s DIVAN, or Special Council of Tyranny in L. Canada.— C. DeLery, James Stuart, John Neilson, Wm. P. Christie, Amable and Joseph Dionne, John Molson, Turton Penn, Peter McGill, T. Pothier, Wm. Walker, Cha. Casgrain. M. P. De Sales Laterriere, P. De Rocheblave, Sam. Gerrard, J. Cuthbert, Jules Gluesnel, B. Jolliett, Jos. E. Fabribault, Paul H. Knowlton, Et. Mayrand and Ichabod Smith. Many a black and cruel measure this divan has sanctioned. One of the most barbarous was that of this day whereby they au- thorized Colborne to keep any body in jail that he pleased and as long as he pleased, without trial, if accused of opposing his government. Many in this w-ay have been quietly murdered, starved to death by cold^nd hunger, and cru- elties unnumbered practised: APRIL 24. 1731, Daniel D* Foe, author of Robinson Crusoe, died. — 1696, Tha Scottish Parliament wisely provide for the establishment of Parish Schools in Scotland, for the education of the whole youth of the nation. APRIL 25. 1599, Oliver Cromwell, Protector of the English Republic, born. — 1778, English Parliament pass a solemn declaratory law never to impose any tax, duty or assessment, except for regulating commerce, upon any colony, m N. America, the product of this and all other taxes and assessments to be ex- pended bv the votes of the House of Assembly only, for the uses of such colony. In Canada this statute has been continually violated.— 1839, This day the Hon. Sam. Young, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, presented a Report con- taining his opinions on the state finances, on internal improvements, on borrow- ing to tax posterity, on partial legislation, corrupt party presses, lobby hangers, national and state debts, and other important matters. This is the best, able- and most useful document of the kind we have ever met with in America. The other members of committee dissented from it more or less, and the Argus and Evening Journal withheld it from the public eye till August, when the former pa- per copied it, and gave a qualified, dissent to its doctrines. How we should like to circulate 100,000 copies in the States and Canada !— 1836, The House of As- sembly of Lower Canada, having a full monev chest, the province being free of debt, and the English government continuallv taunting the Canadians with their ignorance, the people’s representatives passed a biil to grant 80000 dollars a year for 4 years, to 1638 elementary schools, and two dollars prize money to good scho- lars ; the heads of famtlies were to appoint school trustees and assess the towns for school houses, buildings and repairs; the country was divided into school dis- tricts; the trustees were to choose the teachers, &c., and annual vouchers of ex- penditures to be exhibited. The Legislative Council, placemen, nominees of go- vernment, threw this excellent measure out at once, and now trample on the le- gislature and keep the country as ignorant as possible. By the government vote 120U schools were shut up in one day.— 1838, J. B. Molleur of Henryville L C , severely wounded and charged with rebellion against Miss Victoria & Co., is brought to the dungeons of Montreal jail. If, when the Canadians get the upper hand, any wretch should be so base as to propose the use of paper money, one great source of crinie and villainy, the indignant frown of society should put him down.— 1838, (Wednesday,, Thomas David MORRISON, M. D., Member of House ol Assembly, formerly Mayor of Toronto, was tried therefor hiirh trea- son in the revolt there, Dec. ’37. He was falsely charged with joining the patriots at Montgomery s, and that .'act was sworn to, but although the Doctor was one Freeman's Chronicle. 47 !9nse% °n(*fe,; priiiodjii the Govg. hi Londoc. tO idiBjj. 1 Ml < 's, in proi • R. carujt linCia^ juringifes idkapiiti of Engi« rebellwn! Canada.- and Joq m. Wills Gerrarc . owltonl 9 divan's iby theji long is lanyie: er, and c - 1696 ; ish Set mblic, bs imposes ny colt is to bee licit color iy the 11 k R eport® on bom» tvitan^ best, srica. ft Argus r formers should v use of k ing freed with tlw arsayaf roodsdk- :betowi ihoolds- era of « vs off tntlsel f sent vote «,U fcCM teuppff iey, ok put to nber of r hr >airto 89 0 ^ of the principal persons to plan the revolt, in aid of the L. Canadians, he, like ma- ny others, shrank from the execution of his own schemes, after the battle of St. Charles. We thought it right to conceal the part he took till he got out of the country, and had his property sold. He is now well off in these States, having lost nothing. He and Dr. K., it is presumed, ordered the rising on a day they thought more suitable. Dr. M., however, gave the movement no aid, although his influence in town and country would have been very useful. He is a good speaker, made a very fair republican representative, and l with Mackenzie,) strong- ly opposed the flood of bank incorporation bills which those who wished to make easy fortunes out of honest industry, passed through the legislature. At length it was proposed to grant an anti-republican charter, with exclusive privileges to the Bank of the People, in which the Doctor was a director and stockholder ; this altered the case. He voted for that bill through all its stages, and saw it safe in the senate chamber. Those who were with him in confinement state that he was deficient in physical courage. The jury acquitted him and saved his neck, otherwise his steady opposition as a representative would have sent him to the block. While in custody he was cruelly treated. The trial lasted 16 hours, and Hagerman was particularly vindictive against his old opponent. Two of the mock jurors, Murchison, a tailor, bought by the tories, and Champion, an iron- monger, who could not afford to be honest in Canada, tried hard to tie a halter round the doctor’s neck, urging hour after hour the necessity ef a verdict of guilty, but they failed for once. Mr. Elliott, an attorney, testified that at the time the government were removing the troops from Toronto, that wicked rebel, Macken- zie, proposed jocularly to a company of reformers to take possession of governor city and garrison a» once, but was put down by every one present, and told not to talk of such things even in jest ! ! ! APRIL26. Would it be honest in a Merchant of this city , state or na • tion , to push into circulation among the fanners and tradesmen , his promises to pay on demand , to three , four or jive times the amount, of his means of fulfilment , and to receive Joi these promises the goods and the labour of these persons'!— It would be fraudulent and censurable; most men would call it swindling. Yet the banks do this; they promise to pay on demand four times the amount of specie that ever was in the country, and cheat the farmer and labourer out of their means upon false pretexts. APRIL 27. 1837, Lord Gleneig intimates to Sir F. Head that his conduct in corrupting the Elections and deceiving the people of U. C. had entitled him to a baronetcy from Ills Majesty. — 1779. Congress sends Washington 2000 guineas to use for secret service. — 1813, General Dearborn and Com- modore Chauncey took Toronto, after a well contested battle. The explo- sion of a magazine killed th? American General, Pike, and killed and woun- ded many of his men. In their dispatches the American Commanders state that the Speaker’s Mace of the House of Parliament had a human scalp hung over it! — 1798, Pitt’s Alien Bill passed. It enabled the crown to detain fo- reigners in England— to prevent foreigners from landing in England without the permission of the crown— and to oblige all who had hotels and lodgers to give accounts to government of all movements of strangers in their houses. Working Men of America , Doctor Clianning advises you to take part in the politics of your country. These are the true discipline of a free people, and do much for their education. I counsel you to labor for a clear understanding of the subjects which agitate the community, to make them your study, in- stead of wasting your leisure in vague passionate talk about them. The time thrown away by the mass of the people on the rumors of the day, might, if better spent, give them a good acquaintance witli the constitution, laws, his- tory, and interests of their country, and thus establish themselves in those great principles by which particular measures are to be determined In proportion as the people thus improve themselves, they will cease to be the tools of de- signing politicians. Their intelligence, not their passions and jealousies, will be addressed by those who seek their votes. 48 Caroline Ahnanack , <2>2ci 1840 .] MAY— FIFTH MONTH. [31 Days. | New Moon, 1st, 7. 25. e. w I O Full Moon, 16th, C. 50. m. w. ) First Q uar. 8th, 10. ]0.m. N. e. | (§jj& Last Quar. 24th, 8. 44. m. s. w. @ New Moon, 31st, 2. 35. m. N. E. Truth crushed to earth shall rise -gain, Th'eternal years of God are hers.— Bryant. 6 S “ Snatch from the ashes of vour (flUD 7*8. Per. I sues. 2d Su. af. Eust.] The embers of their fo r . c? 6 S ©•] iner fires, [expires £ gr. eion. W.] And he wlio in die strife Connecticut &. R. Island Legislatures meet. Will add to theirs a name of fear That tyranny shall quake to hear. And leave his soxis a hope, a fame, 3d Sunday after Easter.] They too will rather die than shame ; For Freedom’s battle, once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to sou, Though bathed oft, is ever won.” , 6 ^j- dD ] But, where the invader’s tramp is heard 4th Su. at. Eas. (Jjj) Ap,] When, rushinjfln 6 h ©•] the gale, 5 - The slogan of defiance comes, Shall freemen’s spirits quail ? No, — rank to rank, and hand to hand, Quick let them meet the foe, And to the God of battles trust Rogation Sunday, 5th after Easter.l 6 J# ®] Their country’s weal and woo. (5 ? 5 • Ascension Day, Holy Thursday, "mg Charles and Monarchy restored in ) Perigee. (5 yM5ty American ship Columbia, enters the Columbia theOregon^ferrK^ TordVhlh , 8 C °r Ver8 a "c rc i nams for some * imo ■« thatTbem> n *|j ber - ,y wheu opposhioni'amT^ peeragc.aiidTeft^t^o^ns^'the^ide.^ alasytoiffwh^Siegrat^d^imseif a”\Va"ch* H^cnfr d f' he yo ““gcst, WilhsmRtt, whobegan, like on the cLuse of freedom d ’ ^ hm> a ‘ S °- a " d Henry Slay *** P™ed a trmfor To" To May 12. 1839, An attempt made in Paris bv a party of Republicans wif h rereroT S k\ii:r' 0 Th° niZ h e / r,,n ^ • P arb -' * h - Wder^fterw^dL con l o • g u ]l T J?cy had no British government to murder men seeking was pm \o de n ath e 69368 ° f L ° Mm 9 ° d N °‘ 0n8 ”f «he reToluS t.bhlL'h 3 ’ , lS % AQRICELTURAL RANK, Torontp.-This concern was es- lavished by tvyo Englishmen, who contrived to get hold of a vast quantnv of c h^ered, lhat is, permitted to issue paper as mo^ey when «ome other banks \yere crushed— and in due time got in debt many thousands of dollars to tl>e Receiver General apd others, apd palmed probably 5100 000 of their cen^mTh 10 PV ^ le98 , 0r m u or k e ) on the credulous public, which are not worth a S ,hi , me ? QlIar ^ an ? Probably never will be. Mr. Mackenzie publicly warn! S () nn V'K" u C fopnd w !? ere the >’ were § oin ^ but ^ey contrived to foist 350 on him, whichjje has yet. One of them, George Truscott, of the Roval Na- nnH b n r8 | the ^ hl8 Toron L Q runner Ha mlin) keeps a splendid wholesale tea store . hlh s havmg usury shop in Buffalo, and is outrageously loyal, (supplying Ca- ofth e Il T p ea 31 sam f ,lmC5) b u Ul u the poo , r C «nadians sufer/ Leuhe ^rasfality ofthese L* C. usury shops teach the people to make a constitution that will set » «Kng! bat WQUld llve by W work to or planing iaiiiJZ! d\eei ~ jam S en [ y u lbe *ar famed Irish StaTesman and Orator, ed — 18^Q 1 Navarre) the best king France ever had, murder- Commnna ^ ^ J ^ uncle to Bon aparte, died — 1814, The House of Commons of England voted a present to WELLINGTON of £400 000— nkn nr ^ 0 l l ™ £ O 4lPD ° a r ar K f ° r 3 H VeS an ^ ^ 33 , 42 o - to^ th J ^wel7aV 0 p°nf a »hfh r f0r bemg an u^u ert "t ur< J erer »n India. &c., and an enemy 1 ir a ^ e -“ are ef the hunian race. “ These be thy gods, O, Israel »” 7 MA> 15. 1839, The Earl of DURHAM'S REPORT on Canada, laid before by , the aueen ’ d ^ clare l d hy the Grand Jury of the Newcastle District in their presentment on oath, to be a seditious, false and dangerous libel. The ’ 1 ¥ ani ? ers > ^ C ? T - Harn ’ X* A * Stewart, W. Sowden, J. G. Rogers' B. Ll^rli, Asa A. Burnham, P. Lawne, Dugald Campbell, II. D. Chatterton (Ed- P° r R C ° b h^ rg m ta iw’ M u a J° rA * fh^irp, Donald Mactavish, Major D. Campbell, R. Murphy, D Smart.-1837, The Montreal and Quebec P Banks O’Cnnf on nkr vi? l ’ i a j nd spec 0 i? ted up0n the Canadian people’s means.— IS.30, Mr. U Connell, 14 ijie House of pommons, tells the English torv members, 0 >r ‘m6re 52 Caroline Almanac . and extensive BRIBERY than you practised at the last ejection tised in this world, and the highest among you shrink from its m e g • 1838, The Kingston Grand Jury, U. C (a knot of tor y Justices and niilitia offi- cers selected bv government) indicted for high-treason 'NeUon ^. Reynolds, Hugh Scanlan, Tobias W. Meyers, Pierre Le Sage, Peter Orr, Sami Marsh, Asa D. Lewis, and Chrst. La Fontaine.-1832, The whigs, backed by the peo- ple, oblige King William to dismiss Wellington aud take back Grey. MAY 16. 1632, Leighton, a Scots divine, writes a severe book against the hi- erarchy, is for his opinion thus expressed, sentenced by the Star Chamber, Lon- don, to be publicly whipped at Westminster, set in the pillory, have one side of his nose slit, and one of his cheeks branded with a hot iron; and to go through the like horrid process of branding, whipping, &c., at Cheapside next week— then to be imprisoned in the Fleet dungeons for life. Archbishop Laud thanks God ! MAY 17. 1832, The Scots Greys removed from Birmingham because num- bers of the soldiers had become reformers and joined the Political Union. MAY 18. 1804, Bonaparte declared by the French their Emperor, by a nearly unanimous vote.— 1803, England, urged thereto by her hatred to free institutions, and fearful of the spread of republicanism in France, declares war against France. —1839, Caroline Bonaparte died— 1811, John Bellingham hung for shooting S. Perceval, prime minister of England.— 1824, Mackenzie commences “The AD- VOCATE,” newspaper, which was printed at Lewistou, N. Y., by Oliver Grace, and circulated through Canada, via Queenston. - MAY 20. 1506, Columbus died, aged 59.— 1834, General La Fayette died in France. This noble Frenchman disobeyed tho orders of his king and left his family and fortune and came over to these United States to fight for freedom to the Americans and a home to the oppressed of all nations — this he did at the most gloomy period of the revolution. He aided this country with arms, money and credit, and anxiously desired to see Canada a free state of this Union. MAY 21. 1832, MONTREAL MASSACRE.— What the Boston Massacre was to the American revolution, the 21st of May, ’32, was to the outbreak in Ca- nada. There was an election held in Montreal, and some dispute occurred near the hustings, which a few constables might have quelled in five minutes; but the tory English magistracy called out the foreign red coats, stationed them with loaded guns and fixed bayonets in the public square opposite the booth where the parliamentary voting was goin» on; and the moment there arose a petty dispuu they ordered the Colonel and his troops to charge and fire upon the citizens, which they did most willingly, wounding many near the hustings and killing three worthy citizens as they were running out of the way of the musketry down St. James’s Street. Colonel McIntosh, though condemned by a jury in Canada, was received with marked distinction by King William, thanked by his Majesty, and invited to dineat the royal table as a mark of approbation of his conduct. All this enraged the Canadians much, and paved the way for revolution. 199 ladies had voted at that election at Montreal. 1831, CASTLEPOLLARD MASSACRE.— At the fair this day, says the Dub- lin Freeman’s Journal, there was some quarrelling in the afternoon, and a few stones were thrown, but this was soon stopt. The Peelers or English Police had been called on, however, and ordered by the magistrates to restore order— they did so, by presenting their arms, firing at random among the men, women and children at the fair, killing 7 men and two women, and wounding many.— Was there an v remedy 7 Nay my friends fTjfEnglish Monarchy is a structure built with millions of the dead bodies of the innocent, and cemented with their life’s blood. Teach your children to abhor it, and believe me that every pa- per dollar issuing bank is a part of the machinery for bringing you and your offspring under the like horrid yoke.Jp£ — 1809. Battle of Essling. MAY 22. 1797, This day the English FLEET at the Nore REBELLED a- gainst the tyranny of the government. Richard Parker a brave and well educa- ted Scotsman headed them. They took possession of the shipping, insisted on a more fair division of prize-money, and told the lords of the admiralty they would keep possession till justice was done. On the 6th of June they were joined by 4 ships of the line from Lord Duncan’s fleet — the lords of the admiralty came down to them and held a board, at which Parker and the heads of the naval convention attended, but it had no effect. After some weeks the government contrived by bribes, spies, and artful men to sow division among the leaders and in the ships. The result was a strike of their flags of freedom — a desertion of their hold and Freeman's Chronicle . 53 tWE5», km railitu; • Re^ imUi by tb Wilii amber.L: iOKsj > go tins t week-5 lanksGx *ecause l nion Tjbyaie leinsito [tmh >r s hoot?; :es "Tin rQliwt ayetie 2 ig and k for frea did an: is, mo: )n. iton I itbreak occurrs nutes;:. ed the: ootb»i» a petty » n the f recein i.Y. J, Diplor: Hall jn t andg of com; eetini I ccligbi evolena niisojf ;ulars; & rncsJlw rd Durbe F the 301 ai Town* ciryhaii ck had « lid 5000 i i to fit this earn i 1 RATH- Jess mu ut bjr ^ ■tain nti» urine fte idnnrato ritinfff* llingnen ja^ar;; projc^ ’I Suck / the Ah nrtffi” ijftipfl pporung Mf ■om ttbro* itdo* 1 aedbi Th 1840 .] JUNE.— SIXTH MONTH. [30 Days. First Quar. 6th 8. 35. e. s. w. Full Moon, 14th, 10. 5. e. s. e. Last Quar. 22d, 6. 45. e. N. New Moon, 29h, 9. 11. m. s. e. M&W Days. Suu rises Sun sets Moon sets. iMoon South Sun's decl. S. 1 M 4 33 7 27 9 49 1 33 22 7 n 2 T 4 33 7 27 10 37 2 38 22 15 o ZB 3 W 4 32 7 28 11 13 3 37 22 22 thedo? rohan?" ikenoJt lirect** >RY$ ndoo:^ lose htf ; JO# after the death of the tyrant Charles 1st. Many such cases are on record. — 1837, Van Dieman’s Land Convict Colony illuminated for joy at the removal of that brutal monster Sir George Arthur. — 1826, The ADVOCATE Press destroy- ed, the types thrown into lake Ontario, and Mr. Mackenzie’s dwelling house bro- ken open by violence, by a loyal mob of 16 government officers, whom Colborne rewarded by Colonelcies, Clerkships of the Peace, Registerships of Conveyances and Wills, &c. JUNE 9. 1798, United Irishmen of Down rise in arms. BATTLE OF NEWTONARDS, between them and the York fencibles (English tory regi- ment) and the Irish — the English retreat to Comber — no prisoners taken on ei- ther side — many slain — 1831, Sir John Colborne’s relative and private secretary and recorder of treasons against the Canadians, Zachariah Mudge, blew out his brains at Toronto with a pistol. It is hard to keep the secret doings of such a barbarian as Colborne. Mudge had about ,$4000 a year, much of it from a tax of $6 on every boy and girl who asked license to marry. JUNE 10. 1838, Messrs. Theller and Dodge arrive at Quebec, handcuffed and manacled; and are insulted, spat upon and groaned at by a tory mob, until they reach the fortress.— 1839, The John Bull steamer, worth $90,000, burnt on the St. Lawrence. — 1800, Pope Pius excommunicates Napoleon Bonaparte. — 1837, THE NEW YORK BANKS, are followed by all the other Banks in the United States and Upper and Lower Canada, become insolvent, and refuse to pay their bills, banknotes, or the money deposited in trust with them. Their notes and obligations are then sold for what they would fetch in the market. This causes the ruin of many a worthy and opulent merchant. One cause of these banks failing was the refusal of the Bank of England to continue to credit to a very large amount three or four firms in London connected with the American trade. So it was proved that the Banks in America did not ask credit of the public be- cause of their capital and prudent conduct, but because they depended on four London traders who depended on the Bank of England to lend them money to meet their engagements. JUNE 12. 1798, BATTLE OF BALLYNAHINCH, north of Ireland. The Catholics and Presbyterians under Monroe ; the English under Generals Nugent and Barber ; the English set fire to the whole country round ; Monroe had few or no cannon ; the English a splendid, well served park of artillery. The Battle continued on the 13th, when the Irish, after displaying the greatest valour, were defeated. The English pursued, and like Colonel Prince, gave no quarter to their foe. The slaughter of Erin’s sons was terrible. A young lady oi Ards followed her brother and her lover to the field in which they struggled for Old Ireland’s freedom — she reached Ednavady heights— joined the embattled ranks — love sup- ported her through the perils of the fight — but borne down in the retreat she was slaughtered by the bloody English, and her gallant lover and her brother fell at her side. O, God of mercy, love and goodness, receive these sacrifices accepta- bly, and hasten to crush the cruel spoilers of thy heritage! May the sons of Erin yet unite to repel their treacherous hosts from the sacred soil. Though slavery’s cloud o’er thy morning has hung, The full tide of freedom shall beam round thee yet. 1838, Mackenzie indicted at Albany for setting on foot an expedition at Buffalo. — Mrs. Lount, widow of the Martyr, accuses Chief Justice Robinson of being in- strumental in her husband’s destruction, “as friend — co-patriot— traitor — and judge.” JUNE 13. 1520, Martin Luther excommunicated by the Pope. — 1838, Colo- nels Maitland and Wetherall Knighted by Victoria Guelph, for their barbarity to the innocent Canadians. JUNE 14. 1798, The gallant MONROE elected by the Irish forces in the North their commander — takes Ballynahinch — is defeated — taken — tried, as they try people in Canada — by Courts Martial, that is by a dozen of the enemy selected for the purpose of conviction, by a mockery of justice. “ With a quick but a firm step and undaunted composure he ascended the scaffold, evidently more desirous to meet death than to avoid it. He was executed in the thirty -first year of his age. at the front of his own house, where his wife, his mother, and sis- ter resided. His head was severed from his body, and exhibited upon the mar- ket house on a pike, so situated as to be the first and the last object daily before the eyes of his desolate family.” English murders in Scotland, Ireland) India, A 58 Caroline Almanac , and the 13 Colonies, now the United States, Canada, and Aci The history of the world affords no scenes of cruelty eqt the barbarous and brutal rulers of England.— 1/77, The to 13 stripes, red and white, and 13 stsrsina blue field.— Cromwell and Fairfax defeat Charles 1st, with great slat Marengo; the Austrians swept off the board by Napoleon.- land; Napoleon defeats the Russians. JUNE 15. 1775, Washington elected by ballot of Congress, unanimoui/f, commander-in chief of the American Armies.— 1810, Wm. Cobbett convictedtn the London King’s Bench Court of libel, for animadverting on the flogging d( English militiamen by German mercenaries— fined £1000, and imprisoned two idia, how like they are, lal to those enacted by American flag changed 1645, Battle of Naseby, ghter. — 1S00, Battle of —1807, Battle of Fried- y JUNE 16. 1758, BANK OF VIENNA established by the Empress Maria Theresa. It issued 12 millions of florins for which her subjects gave service, grain, beef, merchandize and labour, although the paper florins had cost nothing. She then issued more paper to the common people and paid her debts with these florin prom; see. The Golaand Silver left Austria, of course, and in 1797 the Bauk stopt, and their notes were ordered by the Emperor to be taken in payment of all debts ! In 1810, the Austrian Government had 1000 millions afloat among the people, who offered 13 florins of this royal paper for one of silver. In 1811, government became so thoroughly insolvent that it ordered 5 of the florins it had issued as equal to silver, to pass for one of silver. Thus paying 20 cents to the dollar, or 1000 millions with 200, it issued more, and has begun again to flood the country with the new paper which is down to 185 paper florins for 100 in silver. It is remarkable that no expe- rience will teach the people that when paper is issued for money it will end in plun- dering them. t JUNE 17. 1775, Battle of BUNKER HILL, where the Americans fought bravely and successfully for liberty against the power of England. — 1703, John Wes- ley bom. — 1775, Charlestown, Ms., plundered by the regiments of English red coats, now entrenched beyond the St. Lawrence, set fire to by them in 10 places, and burnt down. General Warren killed at Bunker Hill. His body was stript and burnt within the entrenchment. — 1689, Battle of Killicrankie, Claverhouse killed. JUNE 18. 1838, The bill to do away Imprisonment for Debt in cases under th jurisdiction of the United States Courts, was passed almost unanimously in the St- nate of the U. S. The other house of congress paid no attention to the matter,! though many may be suffering from this neglect. 1812, WAR AGAINST ENGLAND.— The United States, after suffering fc many years every possible insult and injury which the pride of England could inflict declared war against her. The vote in the Senate was 19 to 13, and in the House of Representatives 79 to 49 ; in all 98 yeas to 62 nays. Josiah Quincy, and the other leaders of the rich merchants, bankers, traders, money lenders, and that claBS gene rally who wished a more splendid government, had voted for every measure of Mr. Madison’s government predicated upon a war, to enlist men and prepare the array and navy, but when the vote was taken, these leaders voted in the negative. The federal presses, their orators, the N. York and Boston merchants, even the clergy, goaded the nation into war and urged on England to continue her oppressions— bu; tne moment these same federalists saw America involved in war they raised up » peace party, and never ceased to embarrass the government, threatening and insult- ing all who loaned it money, and their priests denouncing from the pulpit all who would dare to maintain the honor and amity of these United States. I do not mean that all the federalists did this — far from it — I say, the leaders of that party and ny who joined them — all who lusted for unlawful power and hated free institutions- did so — and it appears that of these leaders many were, like Aaron Burr and B. Ar nold, at heart enemies to libertv. Thirty-four of these tories, in congress, signed an inflammatory protest addressed to the people of America, and as a whole this war party in peace and peace party in war did more against their country than all the bayonets and fleets of England. These protestors were Brigham. Bigelow, Breckenridge, Baker, Bleecker, Champion, Chittenden, Davenport, Emott, Ely, Fitch. Gold, Goldsboro’, Jackson, Key, Lewis, Law, Mosely, Milnor, Potter, Pearson. Pit- kin, Quincy. Reed, Ridgley, Sullivan, Stewart, Sturges, Tallmadge, Taggart, White, Wilson, Wheaton. The peace party and their dupes finally compelled the nation to conclude the war without gaining one object for which it was undertaken ; and b*' 1 ® since succeeded in spreading monopolies all over the Union to the injury of sound morality and the disgrace of the Christian name. The head quarters* of these trai- tors was Boston, then the richest city of the Union. The Banks collected all the spe- cie they could. draw from other parts of the Union; the English government scot ^ Freemans Chronicle . >* liken hosees* mhi: Battle ofi is, uaaiis •belt conn a the flog l impnws i Empre* jave serris rnthing. s tbeselSoc lie Baakc it of ala peoples nnnent ie i as eqaw • 1000 gi ith ties kable tin it will a Americi -1703, ; fEnglist .0 places is Btripn mse killec incasesr nimouslj: m to the a after «ft ngland cc: ind intbec Incj'i infli nd tiuitk ryfficaK-t , prepay thenept* a, ereaae :r oop® ir they rtf ateniaf the pa® 11 » i*» tharpa^ f 1 freei^ jnBaiN* MfR ■ >■ jioW itier.F^ e,T^ eifed^ taken; ^ '*£ iers® ? iarff 50 bills on London to Boston brokers, who eagerly supplied the specie which enabled bloody and brutal England to despatch her Indian allies to murder, bum and destroy their defenceless brethren on the frontier. Such has the spirit of commerce ever been when incited by monopoly — such will it ever be while banks are allowed to is- sue paper and call it money. At the close of the war the government was in trouble and out of means, but the Jews, federalists, and bankers ot Boston were overflowing with wealth, and had bonds on the nation for vast sums, lent on the most grinding and usurious terms. — 1815, Battle of Waterloo. England, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden, combine to put down Napoleon the angel of revolution, and are successful. —1839, In the British House of Commons. Mr. Grote's motion to vote by ballot at elections of members of parliament, was lost, 333 to 216. — Same House vote to co- erce the Jamaica Legislature, 267 to 257. 1831, NEWTONBARRY MASSACRE.— Some cattle of Patrick Doyle's which had been taken illegally for tithe were exposed for sale, for the benefit of the parson, and 150 yeomanry and police collected, armed wtth muskets and ball cartridge, to enforce the holy claim by Lord Farnham’s agent, and Capt. Graham. When the cat- tle were set up to auction there was great grumbling, ana some of the youths cried out against the act. On this the English Orange power opened a dreadful fire upon the poor fanners and labourers, killed almost thirty honest Irishmen, wounded many, and drove several into the Slaney, where they were drowned. Redress was out of the question. When did Irishmen get justice from an English government ? 1643, JOHN HAMPDEN died on a Sunday morning of wounds received a few days before at the head of his regiment at the battle of Chalgrove Field, near his birth place. He withstood tyranny and was in public and private life — under all circumstances — a most excellent and eminent man, as ever England or any country produced. A royal tyrant imposed on him a tax equal to $5 illegally — he resisted on principle at the expense of thousands of pounds, and the consequence was the pros- tration of the monarchy. JUNE 19. . 1216, Magna Charta, or a charter of rights granted to the barons of England unwillingly bv King John, at Runnemede, for the benefit of community.— 1834, The Tory Wesleyan Methodist Conference of England suspend the celebra- ted Joseph Raynor Stephens from preaching, because he had committed the sins of announcing from the pulpit a petition to parliament for a separation of church and 6tate, and attended a public meeting at Oldham to obtain that object. (See Minutes qf Conference.) JUNE 20. 1837, ROYALTY. — William 4th, tyrant of England, called to his last account by death. Victoria proclaimed.— ■ National Debt, costly royalty, Houses of Peers, glory and li the credit system” or making the paper of bankrupt banks pass as if it were money, has brought England, Scotland and Ireland, their 24,306,719 inhabi- tans to this condition, viz. all the people have to labour very unremittingly, day by day and year after year, for a subsistence — they must do it — all except 275,204 per- sons belonging to the higher classes, nobility, capitalists, bankers, &c. Of these favo- rites of “the credit system,” 179,983 reside in England, 5,204 in Wales, 29,203 in Scotland, and 61,514 in Ireland. Nearly 100 persons are reduced next door to slave- ry many below it, to uphold one of these in splendor! These facts are from Mar- shall 8 Statistics, paid for by a parliamentary grant. — 1813, Sir James Yeo with the Lake Ontario fleet landed off Sodus, N. Y., took all the flour, and then set fire to the village of Sodus and burnt it to the ground. JUNE 21. 1839, WILLIAM L. MACKENZIE tried yesterday and to-day before Smith Thompson and Alfred Conklin, U. S. Judges, at Canandaigua, charged with beginning, and providing the means for an expedition against the English power m Canada, from Buffalo, Dec. 1837. N. S. Benton, U. S. Attorney. The Jury were Dr. Otis Fuller, Naples, Alfred Nichols, do., William Carter, East Bloomfield, An- drew Rowley, Victor, Ezra Newton, Hopewell, Jacob Salpaugh, Manchester, D. Benton Pitts, Richmond, Seth Gates, Phelps, Moses Black, Seneca, Janies P. Stan- ton, Gorham, Valentine Stoddard, Canadice. Booth P. Fairchild, Canandaigua. — Judge Thompson charged the Jury strongly against Mackenzie, and they found a verdict accordingly. He was sentenced to 18 months confinement in Monroe County Jail, and fined ten dollars. N. S. Benton conducted the prosecution for the U. S. — The States evidence were Jos. B. Lathrop, Ex-Police Justice Bnrton, Ex-Sheriff Lester Brace, Michener Cadwallader. (editor of the Journal,) Wm. C. Hoyt, all of Buffalo, and Christopher Smith, late custom house officer, Niagara Falls. They were most willing witnesses. The Judge said that the conviction left no stain on Mac- kenzie’s moral character; and he made the same remark when sentencing Van Rens- selaer afte wards. So then there are political offences in the U. S. Statute Book which ^ 60 n? Caroline Almanac, and are no offence against good morals or the law of nature, which is the law of God!! The laws of Congress go beyond the sum of the ten commandments. 1839, GEORGE WASHINGTON CASE, of Hamilton, Canada, tried on a 81 - - . -w .. J a 1 . t Is ^ Km/J n 1 1 K c n r 1 li <’■ I 1 A T* COIfl n A milar charge to Mackenzie's. It was proved that he had subscribed or said he gave $60 in aid of an expedition intended against the Canada Tones, which was broke up by the cowardice of those connected with it. Mr. Garrow the marshal, and his depu . -• i a .t . .1 _• r nf admissions when m their eiiatnrl,. ty, Malcolm, were the chief states evidence, of his admissions when huheir custody. •—Judges Conklin and Thompson gave him 12 months in jail and $20 fine. 1838, Sir G. Arthur issues a proclamation for the persons engaged in the Short Hills expedition, near Niagara Falls, stops the ferries, and states that the patriots had defeated a detachment of militia, &c., that day. i JUNE 22. 1812, Napoleon declared war against Kussia. — 1807, I he Amenr&n frigate Chesapeake sailed from Norfolk. Va.— the English ship Leopard overtook!* and demanded four sailors, which Commodore Barron refused to give up. In cm sequence the Leopard attacked the Chesapeake, in a time of profound peace, and wholly unprepared for resistance. Three Americans were killed and 1 6 woundad, including the Commodore, who struck the American flag, and the English Captain sent an officer on board the Chesapeake, seized four of her crew, had one tried a: Halifax and hanged— another died in close confinement — the 3rd and 4th were de tained 5 years and then restored to their country. The 3 last named sailors were na- tive Americans.— 1679, Battle of Bothwell Bridge. Scotland — the persecuted pres- by terians defeated by the royalists, and hundreds murdered in cold blood. JUNE 23. 1817, James*\Vatson, sen’r, Thistlewood, Preston and Hooper, ar raigned before Lord Ellenboro’ for treason, and acquitted. Castles, tho government witness, was proved to be an infamous character and a hired spy. — 46 Englishmen were soon after indicted at Derby for high-treason. — 1836, The Act regulating the Deposites of the national revenue, and that it be placed in state, district, and territo- rial Banks, passed. In May, 1837, said Banks become bankrupt all over the Uuion, when indebted 30 millions to the nation. JUNE 24. 1314, BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN, Scotland. The English king had invaded and conquered all Scotland except the highlands; had taken priso- ner and cruelly murdered the gallant Sir William Wallace, the Champion of his country, and cut up his body into four quarters, as the English Viceroy Colbornedid with the gallant Chenier’s body at St. Eustache, 1837, when the Scotch resolved to be free or die in the attempt, met the English power at Bannockburn, and afters bloody struggle recovered tneir country and drove their English tyrants out of it, « I trust the Canadians will also do before long. This battle gave occasion for Burs beautiful ballad of “ Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled !” — 1837, The whig Lord 1st- tenant, Marquis of Normanby, issues an order denouncing orange processions an public nuisance. — 1837, The Duke of Cumberland, Grand Master of the Oran? men of Ireland, and uncle to Queen Victoria, becomes King of Hanover, and since that time destroys the free constitution of that country, as the English pretended re- form government had done to Canada. — 1815, Napoleon surrendered to CapL Mail land of the Bellerophon, and arrived in Torbay. lie was afterwards cruelly banished without cause to a rock in the ocean, by England, and there died.— 1781, Genera! Wayne’s army and an Indian Chief and his tribe fight a battle with uncommon bra- very. The chief and 17 warriors fell ; the rest took to flight. Twelve were overta ken, brought back, and we regret to tell it, put to death in cold blood by the General ? orders. The Indians at Sandwich lately acted a better part. JUNE 25. 1839, TRIALS of Dr. Edward A. Theller and General Donald McLeod at Detroit, before Judge Wilkins, whose conduct is represented as hark been fair and manly — very different from that of Judge Thompson at Canandaigua The defendants were acquitted of the charge, which was the same in substance as that against Mackenzie and Case. The indictments against Col’s Dodge and Brophy given up.— 1838. The House of Representatives at Washington, by a vote of 12 noes to 111 ayes, refused to provide the nation with Treasury vaults, in suitable pb ccs, for the public revenue, so that the banks could not borrow and waste it— 1W Battle of Charleston. 1798, Abominable Alien Law . This day the elder Adams approved of a law of congress giving to the president for the time being the power to banish from the Umted States any or all aliens (every body except American Citizens!) then in the republic or who might enter the same whose residence he might dislike, or whom he might suspect of unreasonable opposition to his government; and if such alien • , 1*1 i r r ' v*. iJtuvuk y luiu i i o ut/ii aliens did not depart forthwith (unless licensed to stay by the president) he or they were to be sent to jail not more than three vears- in nil thie ko inrv ; sent to jail not more than three years ; in all this there was to be no jury trial ; the president decided. Aliens thus drummed out of the country might take as Freeman's Chronicle. 61 1 orujj, much of their goods with them as they conveniently could ! This law was chiefly di- L ch rected against Irish emigrants. . JUNE 26. 1830, Geo. 4 died. William proclaimed. — 1836, Abbe Sieves died at Paris, aged 88. He was a Director and Consul of the French republic, and voted 20^ for cutting off’ the head of Louis 16th. JUNE 27. 1822, PETER WATSON, Shoemaker, Durham, England, prose- ntoik cuted, sent to jail and kept there for years, at the suit of the right rev. father in Gad, Shute Barrington, Lord Bishop of Durham, before the spiritual court of the Tbeli established or episcopalian church, for refusing to pay the holy father TEN- PENCE, being in lieu of Easter Dues, an offering hen, Peter's Pence, and Smoke Sv e ^‘ Money. The costs of Court (on the tenpence) reached £1000 sterling. This is liouttl-i ^established system set up in Canada in sight of this state, by Colborne and land lb Arthur, under English orders. eEife JUNE 28. 1836, James Madison died.— 1778, Battle of Monmouth. — 1838, y m . Lord Durham and his Council pass and promulgate the tyrannical ordinances and^, which occasion his recall. These ordained that Dr. Wolfred Nelson and others fdsaita should be banished to Bermuda without a trial ; and that Mr. Papineau and 16 e perse; others who had never been tried or indicted should be hung without a trial if they Idhlocd returned to Canada to be tried— of the latter 16, six were members of the legisla- n aadEr lure— in a few days after Dr. Nelson and seven others were banished. The Spe- es, d»p Council to make this law was appointed at 11 o’clock same day, and the or- v.-jgjj dinancepassed at 12!! Not one of them was connected with Canada — they were Actren C. Buller, Col. Cowper, Admiral Paget, General McDonell and Col. Grey, iistricu JUNE 29. 1837, Nathaniel Macon of North Carolina, died at Buck Spring.— all 0V e: He was an incorruptible patriot. He voted for the last war, but against appro- priation bills to uphold it, which had rascally measures of a different description n d. r tacked to them. He was a Senator for N. C. and greatly beloved by John Ran- ,. y, dolph for his sterliug integrity and wisdom. He was long the leader of thedemo- iChaffij cracy in Congress. He supported Jefferson, Jackson, and Van Buren, voting for cer0 y Ct the latter for President He considered the usurpations of the Supreme Court at Scotch? Washington the effect of its irresponsibility to the people, and the perpetual sala- kburn, e fie* of its members ; he ascribed the corrupt legislation of congress to the six years tyrant? « independence of the senate and the two years noliday of the nouse of represen ta- Kctsknfe lives— and would have substituted annual elections. — 1836, Dreadful riots at the hewtyli Leeds, U. C., Election, by the Orange party, who drove the legally elected candi-. , e process dates from the poll, and returned Jameson, Attorney General (husband of the au* £ ro f ti< thoress,) and O. R. Gowan. Janorer.i JUNE 30. 1685, The Earl of Argyle beheaded for attempting to deliver Scot-’ rlishprss land from wicked government.— 1829, The Tariff Bill, abase scheme to obtain •red to Ci many millions yearly out of the industry of the people, for purposes of corruption, bcnitilv under the control of the party in the majority for the time being, burnt by the peo- L-IWI. pie of Columbia, S. C., with the effigies of Clay and Webster its advocates, thunc® 1838, The hypocritical Lord Durham invites ADAM THOM, Editor of the Mon- reive *0 treat Herald, to his table and seats him at his Council Board. Thom had organized dbytke& the Doric Club, a society formed to exterminate the Canadians. Five months before he had also proposed to punish the Canadian* for their love of independence, thus : — Generi “ Th# punishment of the leaders, however agreeable it might be to the British inhabt- .jented * tints, would not make ao deep and so uaeful an impression on the people as the sight of i a t Cu»* strange fanners settled oh the farm of each agitator in each Parish. Th* sight of the einwla widow and orphan hawking their wretchedness around those wealthy houses of which they should be dispossessed would have a good effect. We must not hesitate in the jjyjvie execution of this project. Speeial Commissioners should instantly be named with in- structions to terminate the trials of this batch of traitors at present in prison. It is ri- [ was# diculous to fatten fellows all the winter for the gallows.” prft CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES, bantf" President , Martin Van Buren. New York — Vice President , Richard M. is!) tn-" Johnson, Kentucky — Secretary of State, John Foisyth, Georgia — Sec 1 y of the ike,f’ T Treasury , Levi Woodbury, New Hampshire — Secretary of War , Joel R. Poin- ifstf- sett, South Carolina— Secretary of the Navy, James K. Paulding, New York— Postmaster Gen., Amos Kendall, Kentucky— Atty. Gen. Felix Grundy, Tenn. a5toi* : SUPREME COURT. — Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney — Associates , Joseph Story, Smith Thompson, John M‘Lean, Henry Baldwin, James M. Wayne, Phi- lip P, Barbour, John Catron, John M‘Kinley. Caroline Almanac , and 02 1840 .] JULY. — SEVENTH MONTH. [31 Days- ) First Quar. 6th, 9. 16. m. ) Full Moon, 14th, 0. 41. e. N. Ei N. (Q Last Quar. 22d, 1. 56. m. s. j£. £ New Moon, 28th, 4. 38. e. w. M&W Days. . Sun rises Sun sets. Moon sets. Moon south. Sun’s decl. 1 W 4 28 7 32 9 36 2 12 23 7 2 T 4 28 7 32 10 1 3 5 23 2 3 F 4 29 7 31 10 24 3 51 22 58 4 S 4 29 7 31 10 43 4 35 22 53 5 D 4 30 7 30 11 3 5 18 22 47 6 M 4 30 7 30 11 24 6 1 22 41 7 T 4 31 7 29 11 45 6 42 22 35 8 W 4 31 7 29 morn. 7 27 22 28 9 T 4 32 7 28 0 11 8 14 22 21 10 F 4 32 7 28 0 42 9 3 22 13 11 S 4 33 7 27 1 19 9 53 22 6 12 D 4 34 7 26 2 5 10 45 21 57 13 M 4 34 7 26 3 0 11 37 21 49 14 T 4 35 7 25 rises. morn. 21 40 15 W 4 36 7 24 8 20 0 26 21 30 16 T 4 37 7 23 8 46 1 13 21 21 17 F 4 37 7 23 9 7 1 57 21 10 18 S 4 38 7 22 9 29 2 42 21 0 19 D 4 39 7 21 9 49 3 26 20 49 20 M 4 40 7 20 10 11 4 10 20 38 21 T 4 41 7 19 10 35 4 56 20 26 22 W 4 41 7 19 11 5 5 44 20 15 23 T 4 42 7 18 11 41 6 38 20 2 24 F 4 43 7 17 morn. 7 37 19 50 25 S 4 44 7 16 0 27 8 40 19 37 26 D 4 45 7 15 1 29 9 47 19 24 27 M 4 46 7 14 2 43 10 52 19 10 28 T 4 47 7 13 sets. 11 53 18 56 29 W 4 48 7 12 7 56 aft. 4 8 18 42 30 T 4 49 7 11 8 22 1 39 18 28 31 F 4 50 7 10 8 43 2 25 18 13 The European emigrant may here, Survey with pride beyond a monarch’* 0 in Apogee] spoil, His honest arms’ own subjugated soil; And summing all the blessings God has gi- ven, 3d Sunday aft. Trinity.] Louisiana Legislature meets. Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven, That when his bones shalL here repose in peace, The scions of his love may still increase, refortcr has ads iecfed« know'!:' s about r? gut of i resses. « ,oinaojP :e morff eofCtf one so® thatM lies in ^ httok* joffdiss® rocli^- . M® } ale®' bloody ninen! i t. Rock s- kcoty j tolls " 1 • war."' ag eB! ;' *an Freeman's Chranide. impressed into English War Ships, had been brought to the gangway and whipt for writing to the agent to obtain their discharge.— 1838, Mr. Buchanan’s resolutions on the North East Boundary (Maine), adopted by the House of Representatives in Congress unanimously, declare that the U. S. tide to all the territory in dispute is just; that it is time it were decided, 50 ^cars being long enough to wait; but that one trial more of a settlement by negociation should be made. 1830, A Christian legislature in New Jersey abolished imprisonment for debt in that state, in honor of Independence day.— 1385, The Kingdoms of Scotland and France unite against the usurpations of England, on which Richard 2nd, the English King, invades Scotland, devastates the country with fire and sword, and burns the city of Edinburgh. 1838, Independence kept by Dr. Theller and his comrades in the citadel of Quebec.— 1776, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; birth day of the nation.— 1826, Ou this anniversary of the national birth day, the 2d and 3a Presidents of the United States, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, who had been among the most deter- mined advocates for independence, and the latter of whom had drawn up that docu- ment, died. A very remarkable event. On the same day, 1831, (five years after- wards), James Monroe, 5th president of these states, also died.— 1839, The British Parliament pass an act to empower Sir John Colborne, their military agent, to levy taxes from the Canadians and appropriate the same, contrary to the will of the peo- ple. . . JULY 5. 1830, ALGIERS taken. The French find an immense treasure in it, also 1500 pieces of ordnance and 12 ships of war. Much noise was made about Algerine cruelty, but London is a far worse nest of pirates, robbers and freebooter® than ever Algiers was, and Victoria Guelph and her Melbourne crew a viler band than the Dey and his harem.— 1779, The English Royal forces land at New Haven. Conn., waste and destroy property, and wantonly cut out the tongue of an infirm old citizen. — 1814, The Americans defeat the forces of the tyrants of England, who re- JULY 6. 1838, Nelson C. Reynolds, son of Bishop Reynolds, Belleville, tried at Kingston, U. C., for high treason and acquitted. — 1779, FAIRFIELD, Conn., burnt by die English and American Loyalists under Tryon, who went next to Norwalk and committed dreadful acts of barbarity and plunder. At these two towns were burnt 4 places of worship, 162 dwelling houses, 142 barns, 69 store houses, 4 mills, and much shipping. People of America, your cause and diat of Canada is one. If the Canadians are enslaved through your apathy, hope not to escape the punishment your selfishness will have merited. Remember, ye are brethren. — 1809, Battle of Wa- gram— die Austrians defeated, and obliged to cry “Peccavi.” JULY 7. 1838, Anson M. Day tried aud acquitted at Kingston, U. C., of a charge of high treason. — 1831, William Cobbett tried and acquitted in the Court of King s Bench, London, before Lord Tenterden, for libel in enticing the laborers to acts of vi- olence against the government. — 1816, R. B. Sheridan died. — 1415, John Huss burnt to death for expressing and refusing to abjure his religious opinions. — 1807, Peace of Tilsit between France and Russia, when Napoleon’s brothers, Joseph, Louis and Je- rome were acknowledged as Kings of Naples, Holland and Westphalia. Where are dieir thrones now ? JULY 8. 1838, Christr. Lafontaine, Samuel Marsh, Asa Lewis, Peter Orr, Chas. Marsh, and Wni. A. Forward, tried for high treason at Kingston. U. C. and acquitted, after a long imprisonment. — 1838. Honble. Peter Robinson died at Toronto. This loyal leech was brother to the Chief Justice — was elected member of the Canada Legislature for York County, and succeeded by Mackenzie. He was once a great reformer, but sold the cause for money. In 1819 he voted for a law to make it crimi- nal for Canadians to meet and complain of grievances— he got many offices, and yet 7000 dollars a year proved insufficient for his and the family’s rapacity — he Swart- wouted $80,000 of the public money entrusted to him. Robinson was of the family that aided the traitor Arnold’s escape — and an anxious plotter to crush the very pow- er which had thrown wealth into his lap ! JULY 9. 1797, Edmund Burke died.— 1754, General Braddock defeated by the French and Indians.— 1839. RICE, (Irish traitor) Chancellor of the Exchequer, in- forms the English Parliament that 35,000 regular troops and forces raised in tne coun- try, are now upheld in Canada and New Brunswick, and paid by England to preserve loyalty and keep down the people. So, in 1746, about 35,000 English bayonets were employed to keep the Scotch under the yoke. And at the close of the re volt of 1798, until tie act of Union had reduced Ireland to the degraded rank of an English pro- vince, 114,000 soldiers were paid by England and kept' in Ireland to coerce its brave but divided people. JULY 10. 1447, Columbus born.— 1509. John Calvin bom. d * 66 Caroline Almanac, and JULY 11. 1836. LEVI WOODBURY promulgates General Jackson's treasury circular, directing all purchases of public lands to be paid in specie, except those made within a given time, by actual settlers. — Mr. W. is a native of New Hampshire of which he was the governor in 1823— in 1817 he was admitted to the bar as a lawyer —in 1817 he took a seat on the benches a judge of the Superior Court— in 1825 he presided as Speaker of the Legislature— from the Speaker's chair he was sent to the U. S. Senate for his native state— in 1831 he became naval secretary under General Jackson — opposed the re-charter of the Monster — became Secretary of die Treasury — was consulted as to the removal of the deposites, after the U. S. Bank had resolved to employ large sums to procure a re-charter by corrupt means — was favorable to the state banks’ obtaining the public money — and probably did the best he could to select more honest ones, though tie failed. — 1767, John Quincy Adams born. — 1838, Bank of Mississippi and Commercial. Bank of Natchez, at Brandon. — The roguish directors of the former have borrowed all the capital except $18,345! ! The direct* ors of the latter had subscribed for nearly all the stock and discounted their own notes to pay the instalments. Such a system is a disgrace to those who having uni- versal suffrage, use it so as to allow knaves to cheat society. JULY 12. 1839, Hugh Carmichael, Wm. Kirkup, John Alves and others, refu- gees at Cincinnati, send a draft on N. Y. for $64 to Mackenzie in jail, and thereby prevent the stoppage of his Gazette. — 1690, Batde of the Boyne , Ireland. Dutch William, with nis paper money, E. I. Co. bribes, national debt, monopoly banking, and Glencoe massacring, gains the day. 1812, GENERAL HULL issues his proclamation from “Head Quarters, Sand- wich,” “ to the Inhabitants of Canada, ’ telling them, that “ Separated by an immense ocean and an extensive wilderness from Great Britain, you have no participation in her 1 councils — no interest in her conduct. You have felt her tyranny, you have seen her injustice. Many of your fathers fought for the freedom and independence we now enjoy. Being children therefore of the same family with us, and heirs to the same heritage, the arrival of an army of friends must be hailed by you with a cordial wel- come. . You will be emancipated from tyranny and oppression, and restored to die dignified station of freemen. Had I any doubt of eventual success, 1 might askvour assistance, but I do not. I come prepared for every contingency — I have a force which will break down all opposition, and that force is but the vanguard of a much greater.” The fanners joined him by thousands and were betrayed to their ruin.— Seven were hung on Burlington Heights in one day! Messrs. Mackenzie and Case have received from the power which placed the above words in Hull’s mouth a cell in a penitentiary ! ! — 1691, Battle of Aughrim, Ireland. — 1839. Mr. Attwood of Bir- mingham, presents in the English House of Commons, the petition of the Chartists of England and Scotland, signed by upwards of twelve hundred and eighty thousand men, demanding universal suffrage, (as in this state,) vote by ballot, a fair and equal representation in the legislature, tne payment of wages to be made to their represen- tatives, that the elections of members of parliament be annual instead of once in 7 years, and that the extent of a man’s property or estate should no longer be a test of his fitness for legislating. JULY 13. 1791, PAPER MONEY OF DENMARK.— This year the Danish specie Bank was set up as a substitute for the Royal Bank, which had cheated the common people. The new bank w r us under the check of that cormorant “govern- ment.” Its capital represented 2,400,000 crowns of 110 cents each, and were paya- ble in specie, or in the notes of the old royal bank at the rate they fetched in specie. * It could issue nearly twice the number of notes in value to the cash in the vault. Roy- alty and the Bank violated the law and turned pickpocket of the people. The Bank before that had flooded the country with notes it could not pay ; so did the new bank. -Cash fled from Denmark ; shinplasters of 9 to 20 cents were the royal currency, and at 1813, eighteen hundred crowns in the promises of the bank were sold for one silver crown. The bible tells us that man is afraudule t, cheating, dishonest animal ; with a “ heart deceitful above all tilings and desperately wdcked>” and all history proves that it tells the truth. JULY 14. 1798, ADAMS’S SEDITION LAW.— This day the elder Adams approved of a law of congress directed against the liberty of the press and the con- stitutions of the U. S. and of several individual states, to punish with a fine of not over $5000 and a jail residence of not more than FIVE YEARS ! ! any persons combin- ing with intention to oppose any measure of the government of the U. S. ; or to im- pede the operation of any U. S. law ; or to intimidate any official from performing his duty ; or, with said intent, shall advise or attempt any riot or unlawful assembly, whe- td>er said advice or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not. Defendant to find security after the five years, &c. And if any one wrote or printed any false and Freeman's Chre?iicle. w&i. Ht^ SSiiT “ini S S ttBl derfe aeTren ladrtu oraWn 'aid to t 1838 , 1 . The nr. Thei id their^ i havig oilsea: andSr ini 1 '. poly bn larteni lyania mrticiw roulir deuce* rstoil- a core •store, light, haves xdofi their r. azieaii- i moutii wood «! leCIrs rfaty tbocs 'air ad® eir repre of oncer r belts ■ theDc cheated: mt ! were.tr jigoecsi rault B? TheBs » newb» rrencr./ ironesfr limai; ** Wtfp ler Adis the I of not ^ ns cos- ; or to' flflflif ifajy.*# itift* falx^ 67 malicious writings, to bring government or congress into contempt or disrepute or to stir up sedition or excite unlawful combination, lie was to have not more than two years of the jail and pay not more than 2000 dollars. 1789, THE BASTILE, Paris, taken by the people's forces, the governor and oth- er officers killed for their perfidy, and the key sent to Gen. Washington.— IS 17 Ma- dame de Stael died.— 1789, The French Revolution, which overwhelmed the nobili ty, crown and titled clergy, commenced.— 1327, Peace between Scotland and Eng- land, Edward 2d acknowledges the independence of Scotland and Kobt. Bruce as its king. — 1788, Federal Constitution ratified by Congress. JULY. 16. 1674, Dr. Isaac Watts born.— SALT. The Globe con. eludes an article thus : “ Monopolies seem to be the curse of the times ; “ nothing too great nor too little for them, and the banks foremost in tho “ odious work — cotton , flour, beef, salt, lead, pork, butter, wool, etc.” The banks would be mote cautious if they lent money instead of notes of hand. In the west the tax on salt and bank paper loans enables speculators to give bad measure and charge five prices for an indifferent article. Liverpool boiled salt may be bought out of the ship at 15 or 16 cents per bushel if the duty was off; and sea salt made by the sun, pure, strong and better than the Liverpool, could be bought at any seaport of the Union at, 6, 7 or 8 cents out of the ship, were the American duty off. To farmers salt is in. valuable for their stock, & c. JULY 17. 1838, Durham and Colborne caused the Yankees from Buf- falo to be invited to a review of the English forces on the Banks of the Ni- agara. He writes Lord Glenelg that the effect was “ as great and salutary as could be desired” [i. e. ] the Americans were put in fear ! ! JULY 18. 1832, The London Monthly Magazine proposes to pay up. wards of a thousand millions of the National Debt of England by selling off the crown land, church and corporation property, decayed charities Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals and Holyrood House. JULY 19. ROTHSCHILD. Suppose the w hole loans from the 900 banks in the United States, 500 millions of dollars, the specie in their vaults 27 millions (for one sends the same keg of dollars to tho other, and they re. port in turn and often with the same specie), and their paper (bank notes onl Wnnr, ClrCulatltm 130 millions ’ 1 would b c justified in asserting that the 10,000 officers and directors of these 900 banks, have on the average borrow, ed, or endorsed which is the same thing, an amount equal to all the specie and all the notes in circulation, being considerably more than the capital •tock of all the banks in the republic. Had we not known that the Israel- ites worshipped Aaron’s Calf, and the Egyptians and other nations a great variety of foolish things it would have passed belief that in this day enlight. ened Englishmen. Irishmen, Canadians, and Americans, would make gods of a genteel species of pickpockets! But so it is. Rothschild the unbe- lieving usurer and Jew, could not borrow £200, thirty years ago in Man. Chester ; but he had the slight of hand of the paper money system, and by this trick died worth four millions sterling, or nineteen mUlions of dollars, the interest of which at 7 per cent, is one million and thirty thousand dol- 8hippers ^ ! V ! , ° f near ^ 3 ^^ dollars a day. All this flowed from paper wor- JULY 20 1785, MAHMOUD THE 2ND, Sultan of Turkey, born at onstantmople— ascended the throne Augt. 1 1th, 1808— caused his brother Mustapha to be murdered, as his brother had caused the murder of Sultan Selim, also 33 chief officers and many women of the seraglio; he also de- stroyed the Grand Vizier. 30,000 men were slain in Constantinople, from May 1807 to Nov. 1808, also 4000 women — in 1812 he drove the Russians across the Danube— in 1826 he destroyed the Janissaries, slaying 6000 of them at once— he was playful with his children— fond of European cus. toms— of ^ood appearance. He died July 1, 1839, aged 54 years, and his ■on, a youth of 17, advised by his brothers.in-law, reigns in his stead.— 1746, J. Barwick, James Dawson, Geo. Fletcher, Tho. Tyddall, Z. Chadwick, 08 Caroline Almanac, and T. Deacon, Andrew Blood and David Morgan, English and Welsh men, hanged in London for their love of liberty and hatred to Brunswick tyra. ny. Their bowels and hearts were taken out and burned before their eyes while they yet lived ; they were hung five minutes only ; their bodies vvere quartered, and the heads of Townley and Fletcher placed on Temple Bar, London, where they remained many years. This is the government which Godin his providence permits to curse the face of the earth in hall oi .North America, in 1839. Judge Jones, a demon in human shape passed a sentence like the above on 16 Americans and Canadians a few months ago at Niagara. JULY 21. 1796, Robert BURNS, the Scottish poet, died.— 1683, Lord William Russell beheaded in London for his advocacy of liberty in opposition to arbitrary power. His relative, Lord John Russell introduced the resolves into the English parliament which caused revolt in Canada. JULY 22. WESTERN N. YORK USURERS.— Not long since a case came to be tried before Judge Dayton which disclosed some more of the villainy of the banks. The Cashier of one of the Rochester Banks prosecuted for the value of a note, and the defendant pleaded that the trans- action was dishonest and usurious, and brought the president of another Rochester Bank to prove it. This president swore that defendant was greatly distressed for money then, though he said he would be abundantly able to pay. He (witness) refused to discount his note m his official capaci- ty of president of a safety fund bank, at 7 per cent, but as Mr. S he did so at the rate of 3 per cent a month (or 36 per cent per annum ) Wit- ness discounted other notes at same rates, and disposed of them to the cashier of another Rochester Bank (very probably for an equal amount of paper just as honestly (! ! !) acquired,) but neither of them officially told the other that there had been fraud in the transaction. This other cashier, ho said, discounted the notes at 7 per cent to him (the dishonest president), and the judge decided that the transaction was legal, while the convenient law officer put his conscience and oath of office in his pocket, and left the self, convicted usurer unprosecuted. This is a common occurrence with these nuisances the banks ; they find what good notes are offered ; lend funds to officers and directors, while they refuse the most solvent notes of merchants and manufacturers ; and then with the funds so borrowed meet the men of business elsewhere and propose to accommodate them at 3 per cent a month or to give 640 dollars in paper for a note of 1000 due a year hence. Even this Jewish hug they squeeze tighter by importing Essex or using Corpora- tion or other worthless or depreciated trash to transact the business in, which the broker shaves their dupes for, changing at 4 to 6 per cent more. If A- mericans tolerate such things why should they wonder that people in Bengal bow before Juggernaut ? JULY 23. 1839, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, of American royalist birth and breeding, who said in parliament he wished the Canadas at the bottom of the ocean, died, in England, aged 80. 1803, IRELAND REVOLTS.— This attempt to recover freedom and establish a republic was headed by Messrs. McNally, Emmet and other true hearted Irishmen. They attempt- ed this evening to besiege Dublin Castle, but failed — they took possession of the city, but were overpowered by the Orangemen and hireling soldiery. — Mr. Emmet’s death and gallant defence all readers are acquainted with. — It is hoped that Mr. McN. may live to see English power prostrate on both continents. JULY 24. 1783, Bolivar born. — 1827, James Stuart, then Attorney General of L. C., openly threatens, abuses, and injures the electors of Sor- el, Wm. Henry, to induce them to vote against Dr. Wolfred Nelson for their M.P. P — England dismisses him for so doing, and then makes him chief justice ! ! ! JULY 25. 1814, Battle of the Falls of NIAGARA or LUNDY’S LANE — said to have been the most bloody and hot fought action ever de- Freeman'* Chronicle. cided in Canada— out of 9000 men 1738 were either killed or wounded. Ool. Miller charged and carried the English artillery.— 1792, The Duke of Brunswick, on behalf of the continental despots, issued his manifesto against the principle of equal rights in France, declaring that his army “ will inflict on those who shall deserve it, the most exemplary and ever me- morable and avenging punishments, by giving up the city of Paris to milita. ry execution, and exposing it to military execution,” &c. But so long as republicanism held sway in France, the duke’s scheme to renew the reign of kings, tithes, priests and nobles proved abortive. JULY 26. 1830, The French Ministers report to that whited sepulchre, Charles 10th, that the press must be restricted for its factiousness, and the Parliament reconstructed because of its democracy. Charles’s ordinances against the press and the people, appeared in the Monit ur of this morning ; the editors meet and boldly protest. JULY 27. 1838, THE BRANDON BANK, or “ Mississippi and Al- abama Rail Road Company,” had their affairs at this date enquired into by state commissioners, who report that the company had in cash <$38,000, and owed six millions besides the two millions of stock, much of it imaginary — that they had become dealers in cotton wool and had <$360,000 value in it on hand, and had shipped 3 millions’ worth and drawn for 1 1-4 millions — that the bank held EXECUTIONS against the people for 1 1- millions, and has issued its promises to pay next year at this time for {$360,000— that (with only $38 000 in specie) it has its notes or bills payable on demand in cash scattered through the states to the amount of nearly 4 millions of dol- lars! ! 1 — that its rail road expenditure was only $234,000 (out of 8 mil- lions ! ! !) — that it had a variety of agency paper issuing banks, and was mo- nopolizing trade and merchandize — that it owed $520,000 to depositors in its money shop ! — that the paper in circulation far exceeded the lawful lim- it, and as the bank could not pay its promises those who had them sold them at 60 or 70 cents for a dollar, which the public lost, and the cheating direc- tors and their brethren in roguery gained — that the two millions of stock or capital had never been paid in money; those who became shareholders gave their notes I ! ! or mortgaged property ; and a chosen few of Yankee, Scotch, Irish, English and other gamblers got the management of fortune’s wheel, with power to make mankind dishonest as far as example would doit — that while the public is suffering by depreciated paper, the bankers, who trade on moonshine, will make 750,000 dollars of profit during the year, and more than that, if it chose to go into market and buy up its own vile fraudulent trash of bankrupt promises at 35 per cent discount, it might realize other $800,000, while the people would lose — it would thus, in one year, plunder the state of a million and a half of dollars, on scarcely any capital at all ! ’. The Commissioners state the way this villainous concern was got up. ** The mode by which such enormous profits are realized without either capital or labor, is very simple. A charter is first obtained from the Legislature. A small portion of stock is to be paid in, before the bank goes into operation. A few honest planters desirous of promoting the improvement of the coun- try, which the bank promises, take stock in good faith and pay it up in bo* na fide capital. Those, however, who are experienced in these matters, pay up as littlo as possible. But as the latter are financiers, they are elect- ed to manage the bank. They soon discount paper for themselves and other stockholders of financial abilities. With this they buy more property, to se- cure more stock, to get more discounts, to buy more property, to secure more stock. See. &c. and finally they arc able to write a very respectable capital, upon which they are permitted to issue double the amount. If, however, the wants of the people are very pressing, they disregard the limits of the charter, and issue ad libitum. The stockholders of the bank are now in a fair way of making money, or at least of acquiring the property of the peo. pie within the sphere of their operations. Nothing can arrest their career 70 Caroline Almanac , a«d of gain but a return to specie payments, and this they will endeavor to post, pone as long as possible. So long as a few men can draw a profit of more than 50 per cent from the labor of the country, for merely writing their name on a slip of paper promising to pay their own bank any given amount, it is natural that they should endeavor to protract their harvest.” They add, that a few stockholders, by the art and mystery of banking, have ta. ken from the productive industry of Mississippi, 8750,000 in one year on a capital the legitimate interest of which would not exceed $50,000 at 7 per cent. Our Canadian friends, who are plundered wholesale by Arthur & Co in this way will now perceive that the Hamilton Merritt family are not extinct yet in the United States. But to continue : The honorable and intelligent state commissioners, Messrs. L. A. Besan. con, E. F. Calhoun, and James Hogan, show that of the funds of the Bran, don Bank, the 10 Directors had borrowed from the chest of the Bank near. Ip four times the amount of capital said to be paid in-^-in short, they had borrowed about three millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars them, selves ! ! ! and had pledged 310 slaves, 53,000 acres of land, and 1121 bales of cotton to the bank as security. What madness it is for honest farmers to build up banks to help the public ! It seems that when the Bank refused to pay its debts, attachments were lodged in Biddle’s Bank for 29,000 dollars for protested notes, on which Biddle began to protest the checks of the Bran, don Bank, although he had large sums belonging to it in the U. S. Bank, in order that its other creditors might not know how to obtain their honest de. mands. The honor of the Bank and his own character required that he should have paid the Brandon Bank’s checks so long as he had several hun. dred thousand dollars of its funds in his hands; yet this is the artful, keen gambler whom a party on this continent would have made treasurer of the United States, and placed its treasury in a national bank ; he the regulator ; foreigners the stockholders ! The Commissioners conclude by declaring, that of the 40 banks in the state, some have acted in worse faith to the pub. lie, others better ! ! ! 1839, WILLIAM ALVES, J. G. Parker, Randal Wixson, Leonard Watson, Paul Bedford, Finlay Malcolm, James Brown, Robert Walker and Ira Anderson, Canadian prisoners, took passage in the Wellington from Liv. erpool to America, after suffering years of English ^ cruelty and oppression. They owe their deliverance from the horrid grasp of the English government to Wm. H. Ashurst their disinterested solicitor, and to Messrs. Falconer, Roebuck, Hill and Fry their counsel. Mr. Hume, Lord Brougham and other benevolent characters did much for them, and the liberal press aided them. Four days after they sailed for England from Quebec the year be. fore, a plan was formed and within an hour of being put into execution which would have enabled them to sieze the Captain and hands and steer the vessel into an American port — the irons were sawn off some of the stoutest of them, when Jacob BE EM ER from the London District, U. C. proved a Judas, and informed the captain of their design. This wretch, though tried in Canada, has not been banished with the 14 brave Canadians his baseness has sent to N. S. Wales, but is yet in England. — 1758, Louis, bourg, Cape Breton, with 221 cannon, 18 mortars, and 5637 warriors taken by the English from France. Louishourg was afterwards destroyed.— 1 833, Barnabas Bidwell, a sincere reformer, faithful lriend, and public benefactor, died at Kingston, U. C. aged 69 years and 1 1 months.— 1839, The French Edi. tors attempt to publish their Journals in spite of Charles’ unlawful ordinan- ces— the royal police and troops sieze and destroy the types and presses— the printers resist, and editors, publishers, journeymen and apprentices pre- pare to fight for liberty. JULY 2£h 1837, Great meeting of Reformers at DOE L’S BREWERY, Toronto. They applaud the Lower Canadians, resolve to make common y*p it of Hi. ritiajt) cnam^ *•* Ti Cfrir 5 year j OOiti J kk family oftkel Bub t. the/ lollini! d 1% It &K nkn&r 9, OR oftki S.Ba sir ho? lired: •ever artf asure. lercgi j deck h totk jn, k Walk, on from! iopprs govern: i. Faltf ogham i preisu theya’. i elect s amis'-' me of: trict,ri is wrtifi CanaW.’ >8> riora t*i ? sl.-J «nefac!- T - •enchE- ilorf# pressa- tices ; 0 coinff- 1 Freeman's Chronicle. cause with them in their opposition to English Tyranny ; propose a conven- tion of reformers, a delegation to L. Canada, and the division of the colony into districts and societies, on the Irish plan of ’98. 1830, The first of THE THREE glorious DAYS in Paris. The people and their republican leaders fight bravely — their doctrinaire lawyers and de- puties waver. Perrier, Guizot, and Dupin act a pitiful part. The Great La- fayette arrives in Paris and is appointed commander in chief. — 1839, Sami. Peter Hart and others arrested at Cobourg, with arms. They were tried in Sept., and Henry J. Moon, the informer, with James Stuart and another were the Queen’s Evidence. Hart and the others were convicted, and sen- tenced to 5 to 7 years in the penitentiary. Letters were sworn to and pro- duced in court which shewed that Hart, when Editor of the Telegraph at Lewiston, acted as a spy for the Hamiltons, and offered for £300 to go ful- ly into the Judas trade for Arthur. JULY 29. 1830, Charles the 10th, forgetful of the lessons of the previ- ous 40 years, endeavored to subvert the French constitution, destroy the li- berty of the press, and finally to take back from the people of France those rights and lands which they had wrested from an aristocracy less cruel and heartless than the banking monopolists of these states. The people resisted, and this was the 2d of three days which ended in banishing a traitor king a second time from France, and sending his ministers to a dungeon. 1500 Citizens of France were declared by the nation soon afterwards to bo enti- tled to honorary decorations for their services during the three glorious days — the King said they should have the decorations if they would swear fideli. ty TO HIM. One thousand of them met and to a man decided in the ne- gative. They said we swear to be faithful to the people, but that did not suit the royal person. JULY 30. 1838, ESCAPE FROM FORT HENRY.— Messrs. Mont, gomery, Morden, Reid, Anderson, Stewait, Marr, Kennedy, Chase, Brophy, Stogdill, Tracy, M. &. T. Shepard, Parker and Watson, escape from Fort Henry, U. C.— the two latter are retaken.— 1829, Daniel O’Connell elected member for Clare County by acclamation, at which time he gave a solemn pledge to the Irish people never in life to cease his exertions till the 250,000 Irish freeholders who had been disfranchised and their rights subverted as a set off against the emancipation bill, should be restored, which rights the 40 shilling freeholders of Ireland have not again obtained. fe^JULY dl. 1837, Adjourned meeting of REFORMERS of Toronto at Doel’s Brewery ; they agree to a declaration of grievances, rights and duties, recommend auxiliary associations, a convention, and to stand by the Lower Canadians. W. L. Mackenzie appointed agent and corresponding secretary, a committee of vigilance nominated, members to convention elected for city, and resolutions for non-consumption of English manufactures agreed to. — 1836, Capt. Burwcll announces that his brother the M. P. P., who had got about 70,000 acres of public lands, and been a most vindictive enemy of the reformers, (he who moved the gift of a sword to McNab for murder- ing his countrymen), was accidentally born in the united states, that he 41 WAS brought through the wilderness in a basket with a bottle of milk 41 T0 BALANCE HIM AGAINST AN ELDER SISTER CARRIED IN LIKE MANNER ON THE “ OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE HORSE !” UNITED STATES COURTS IN NEW YORK. District Couats.— Southern District— New York , 1st Tues. of each month,— Northern District— Albany, 3d Tues. in Jany.— Utica, 2d Tues. in July— Roches- ter, 3d Tues. in May — Buffalo, 2d Tues. in Oct. Circuit Courts — Southern District — New York , Last Monday in Feby.; 1st Monday in April: last Monday in July and November.— Northern District — Albany, 3d Tuesday in Oct.— Canandaigua, Tuesday after the 3d Monday in June. € Wlt , h Kev ' F - F - Calmer, Mr. Skirvingand Mr.Gerald, WashinfrfnnV'i 3 n . s tua . sent from Scotland to America and re printed — General nl wll S . #es a deep interest m las fate- the Americans fit out the Otter, Capt. ?796-re m*™* ! nin , . froin captivity-she anchors at Sydney, Jan. 25th, two 6 R n IoT« rt^ol‘ ^ Ulr r 1S shipwrecked near Nootka Sound— all but Mr. Muir and on foo^-hf imnr^ kmdI J by Indians-travels 4000 miles to Panama n toot is Jmpnsoned m Cuba — sent to Spain— captured on the voyage bv the En- nrostme wiffiY^ b * V f ^ cotc h officer, his old school fellow, lying cheek 1 ° "f i° f c o T S k ! 10cked out, with the bone and part of hi! cheek is sent to the hospital of Cadiz— the French Directory send him money and offer him' f’ 7^ Frencb government invite him to Paris and ne^fronTtK 1 citizenship--he arrives at Bordeaux.and receives a public din- -rYacWPn^f l 5°a citizens, as “ the Brave Scottish Advocate of Liberty” dies 27 Sem 1-99 «iT° reC } b v? : tkc ‘ & ove fn nient ~ his wounds found incurable-ha 1 TTr* o- P 1 ? 8 ’ and sends hl3 blble his parents. r Hamilton U ??! 'L ? r ' • Sheriff Simons and Alex. Robertson, tried at only #fo efch colSl I® leathenn S Geor S e Kol P h - =*9— The two first fined to \}enm^id-^intf 1' England peisuades Russia to send a message publfcans aXo S seml no 0 ’ 11 *"" 8 U ,em 10 8 " 5151 "> starving out the French Re- Genirfn^v' Toranv’p! no gram or flour to France. Russia, Naples, Holland, Fn'rland'ordered nil’ . russla ' Italy, joined England in the ljague to starve France. France tobesie^ml i't? cargoes of flour a, id grain destined to icans and thev tmripnt! ° K gbl , - nt0 b , er P 01 Js and sold; this was done to the Amer* 8 S 0r S an ^ ^Peedily after signed Jay's treaty of perpet- ,ud frvtnd'h.p w nh England, to the injury of their ancient ally, Franw. In tanj* nise.Gr.- mk siecapN. Mtiii I milt 530 g| '■ay. (Hi to ,P»Jii ankuote. manes Sumter 1819W2! *&**! and the! be mRLt ated Kg eland 6 ar Laket tertberii el; ihew 'ord. Set iken itfit IdMata ietrb rnibet tlieDir y militr aretok ire mac air dol& st reli® bund sc tedUi® idMr’Gs ned-Ge e Otter, (; IV, Jn - Mr. Mon lestoPe ;e bvtk: IfeiW; id par!S : a mo vjt ntoPn: sapofe- •ofliks waW son, t»' Hi dllBS« s. irff^ pit >of$ •m Freeman** ffhrontcf*.. 1 n Fef,. '93, PiU declared the war with France a war of extermination , and Burke said, ‘I.et no regard be had to the customs of civilized nations: let the war be reduced to military execution ; let France be surrounced bv a circle of Fire* let her be consumed within it.” Many of the excesses of the French revolution a. rose out of this hellish policy of England, which seldom gave Paris and its 800,- 000 people more than 18 hours’ supply of bread. AUG. 26. 1837, THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY OF LOWER CANADA, before they were extinguished by England, address Governor Gosford to say, that as the Legislative Council chosen by the English government had refused to pass bills renewing the law providing for the education of the people, and for the trial by jury after English manner; also to agree to bills for improving the administration of justice; lor granting but one salary to one officer and destroymg pluralities ; for es- tablishing road laws and for the election of parish and township officers to manage local concerns, and be paid by local assessments ; for giving the parishes instead of the priesthood the control of the secular concerns of each parish; and as the British government continued to refuse all reform, to apply the public revenue without the public consent, to tax the country by laws made in London against the public will, and in all things to despise the Canadian people's opinion, thatit was useless for them to sit legislating where they could effect nothing. Gosford prorogued them— Eng- land swept them away. On the subject of Lord John Russell's resolutions for plunder, robbery aud blood- shed, on behalf of their innocent countrymen they say: “ It is our duty to tell the mother country, that if she carries the spirit of these res- olutions into enectin the government of British America, and of this province in par- ticular, her supremacy therein wiil no longer depend upon the feelings of affection, ot duty, and ol mutual interest, which would best secure it, but on 'physical and material force, an element dangerous to the governing party, at the same time that it subjects the governed to a degree of uncertainty as to their future existence and their dearest interests, which is scarcely to be found under the most absolute govern- ments ot civilized Europe. Jt is, therefore, our ardent wish that the resolutions a- i ie * w ”. Houses °f Parliament may be rescinded, as attacking the rights anil liberties ol this province, as being of a nature to perpetuate bad government, corruption, and abuse ol power therein, and as rendering more just and legitimate the disaffection and opposition of the people.” <« i! ie above warning was disregarded, »nd Lord Durham’s Report tells the result. 1 heir ancient antipathy against the Americans has terminated. An American in- vading army may rely on the co-operation of almost the entire French population of ower Canada. The militia, on which depends the main defence of tue Province against external enemies, is completely disorganized. The attempt to armor em- P Tr^ d be merely arming the enemies of tho government.” ;G. ~7. 1830, The Belgians revolt against the Colonial yoke imposed on them ^ att*? U < v*^ * t ^ ^b. wnison 8 ^ cc e p ds Sir J. Colborne as Governor of Canada. .. ~ 7 - 1*°1, Arrival in America of Count de Grasse, with a French fleet of ° ® “P s °t war, and army ot 3,200 men, in aid of the Americans. AUG. 29. 1632, John Lockeborn. 1798, The Rev. Jas Gordon of Killeguy relates that Lord Kingsborough caused two Irishmen to be severely flogged on suspi- cion ot being rebels, on what ground he did not tell. While the drummers were cutting these miserable men’s backs with the lash, my lord was employed throwing salt into the cuts; nor would he allow them to be dressed for 24 hours, although the surgeon urged it ! AUG. 3u. 1813, Col. Scott and Commodore Chauncey take Toronto a 2nd time, CQnnon an d boats, shot, shells, provisions, &c. and burn the barracks. 1839. MATTHEW CAREY, the celebrated Irish Bookseller, wrote to a friend 1 am greatly below par. J am fearful that the state qf the country is hopeless. Ifuolic morals are at the lowest ebb ; and private share a portion of the same fate, ncgardfar self appears to be the predominant feeline. ‘Every man for mysnelf, as the Dutchman said when he had siezedall he could lay liis hands on. — 1 respects have heretofore been very gloomy in some points of view as at present , but we could heretofore see a little cherub shining aloft to cheer us on our way, but no telescope can enable us to see a cherub aloft at present” This was the result of his experience during a Jong and benevolent life. He died a few weeks after. Phc Scaffold for Lount and JMa\ thews was taken by Wardsvvorth by con- tract, but his men would not touch it — then Ritchie & Hill got it, and their men very willingly made it. Thcirnames are, Samuel Dimeor Sims, Wm. Hill, John Dove9 and Bcnet Adams, from England — and Jas. Flinn, Jas. Mullen, John West and Robert Miller, from Ireland r7 7b Carotin t Almanac , and 1840 .] SEPTEMBER. —NINTH MONTH. (30 Days. # Pi' st Quarter 3d 5. 55. e . s. O F ull Moon, 11th, 3. 7. e . N. E. M&W Sun ' Sun I Moon Moon Sun's © Days. rises sets sets. South decl. 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New Moon, 25th, 1. 51. E. s. w. Sept. 2, 1807, The ENGLISH- ALGE- RINE treatment of DENMARK. Tha Vermont Election.] 'll (0. £gr. elonW Danes kept alool from the wars of the con- tinent: they were neutral, and at peace §) Apogee 6 h €)J with England. But they had a fleet of ships which the band of 12 III Sun. af Trinity .] robbers and mur- derers (for surely never were the word# more truly applied) had coveted. England sent a fleet to Denmark, which was receiv- ed in the most friendly manner by the Danes. Suddenly, Jackson the agent of King George demanded of the Danish king to surrender his whole navy to the English Maine Election.] power, to be kept and used by the English pirates general until it 6 # * 7 * 8 -] would suit them to make peace 0) Perigee.] with France. The Danes indignantly refused, on which the English robber troops were landed, and Lord Cath- Sun. aft. 7V£n.]cart issued a proclamation Tennessee Legislature meets.] that "the Autumnal Equinox.] city of Copenhagen should be desolated by every means of de- vastation’' if they dared to resist. An attack was made without any previous declaration of war; the capital was wantonly wrapped in flames, while a false or evasive statement of the commanders enabled the English arma- «„ 9JL <® ment to pass unmolested beneath 56 1 TTV | ^°o ce 3 the ver y 8 unsof Cronburg— an operation which must inevitably have been attended with great loss in such a numerous fleer. Not a Danish ship was rigged & the crews were absent. The attack commenced this day (the 2nd) and continued for several days ; 6500 shells were thrown into the city which was on fire in thirty places ; the timber yards were burnt ; the powder magazine blew up ; the steeple of the cathedral was in a blaze and fell, like St. Eustacne, a- midst the shouts and jeers of the infamous English. Numbers of the aged, the young, the infirm, the sick and the helpless perished from the bursting ot shells and the Are of the military. At last the Danes yielded rather than have the city entire- ly consume*!. The Danish fleet, 18 sail of the line, besides frigates and sloops, and much other property was carried off by the English freebooters, who have preyed on the property of every friendly power that they found unprotected as far back as his- tory records. Honest hearted Americans, remember that, whether intended or not, every bank issuing paper money is a natural enemy of your independence and an al- ly of the Algerine English monarchy. The paper money system to you is line the courtezan as gold or silver is like the pure maiden. Farmer’s Calendar. — Now keep a sharp eye to your fences. Put up swine to fatten, and give them now and then a little brimstone. Gather white beans. Take care of your corn-stalks, keep them from the heavy rains if possible, but let them have an airy situation. SEPT. 3. 1783, Treaty of Peace between the United States and England signed at Paris. 1839, FLORIDA contains about 25,000 people, wdio during the last 17 years have enacted 1000 laws, 3 10 of them for monopolies and corporate powers, or against e- oua.l rights. When I see a nest of speculators like this struggling with the bold In- dian of the forest, and reflect on the liberty they would give him, I am tempted t£ cry out — ■** God protect the poor Indian !” t'reeman** Chrontcit. 79 li *2 h m b tk *k Ott it k fix 11k ||3 < 0 * trap lose *fr As (A i» 0 SEPT. 4. 1839, The property of Messrs. Leclaire, Bouc, Rochon, St. Louis, Gravelle, and Boussin, now lying in Montreal jail under sentence of death, for hav- ing wished their country’s freedom, has been sold by order of the Government, and their wives and children left incomplete destitution. — 1823. Sir John Caldwell, an Irish baronet, made treasurer of Lower Canada by England, to enable him to ac- quire a fortune. He pocketed nearly half a million of dollars of the people’s mon- ey, and is backed by England in the robbery.— 1657. Oliver Cromwell died. SEPT. 5. 1832, WALLSTOWN MASSACRE. In Wallstown parish, Cork coun- ty, Ireland, there are 3,063 Catholics and one Protestant, and the whole people ate forced to pay their tenth sheaf of oats, barley and wheat, aye and their tenth pota- toe, to a holy man, a church of England clergyman, one Mr. McGtivin, for instruct* ing that one protestant. McGavin, fearful that some of the grain might be takei* away before he got his share, illegally insisted on getting surveyors and valuators to measure and value their growing crops, to enable him to bring them to an ecclesiastic- al court for the last farthing of his tithes, although floods and storms might destroy the whole crop. Lord Anglesey sent with the parsons and surveyors an army of horse, foot and artillery, General Barry and Admiral Evans, who entered Jamea Black’s farm, who, with his neighbors, made some resistance. The magistrates said they would make short work of it, ordered the soldiers of the 43rd to fire upon the Irish peasants, and some did so, although their commanding officer gave no orders. Eleven were wounded, and four murdered! May the sons of Erin in America never forget this deed of blood until the robber-government of England is laid pros- trate in the dust ! The Irishmen slain were Daniel Regan a boy of 14 — Wm. Doyle farmer, aged 50. (left a widow and five orphans) — James Roche, aged 27, who was to have been that afternoon married — and Michael Horragan, also aged 27. Irish- men, think on these things, and remember that a bank aristocracy have shed blood at the polls even in the city of Brotherly Love ! Beware ! RUSSIAN PAPER MONEY. — The Emperor Nicholas has just fixed the val- ue of the paper rouble at 26 cents, the quantity in circulation being 1000 millions of dollars. This he has done with the approbation of the rich nobles, and without ask- ing the people’s consent ; thus legalizing by his mere order a government bankrupt- cy of 500 millions of dollars, if the paper was all issued at the original value prom- ised by the crown, or 77 cents. This paper money^vas down to 19 cents during Na- poleon’s invasion, and rose to 27 cents afterwards. Congress or continental money depreciated much in the same way. 17 74, Second American or Revolutionary Congress met at Philadelphia. — 1837, Lord Mulgvave (Marquis of Normanby) removed Colonel Verner the Irish Orange- man from the Commission of the Peace, because he had insulted the catholics by proposing at a dinner, " The Battle of the Diamond,” as a party toast. SEPT. 6. 1757, Lafayette, the friend of man, born in France. SEPT. 7. 1925, Robert Randal, Esq. tried at the Assizes at Niagara for per- jury. The conspiracy to ruin ibis persecuted and deeply wronged gentleman, by the Canada lories, was defeated by an honest jury, and eloquent advocate. SEPT. 8. 1827, The Michigan, with a cargo of bears, geese, &c., takes a pas- sage over the Falls of Niagara. 1776, WASHINGTON evacuates New York. Kis army are described by Paul Allen thus: “His troops might fight, for native valour will sometimes blaze forth ; but they could not be depended on. They had no confidence in them- selves, and little in their officers; wore not accustomed to withstand the approach of an enemy, the whistling of balls and the parade of discipline. The bravest troops are but gradually trained to encounter danger; the most cow- ardly will soon learn in actual service to disregard everything but the bayo- net.” “The greatest defection (to the cause) took place in the higher ranks of society. The mm and undaunted were the middle classes, who had possessions dearer to their hearts than lands.” How like this is to the state of things back of Toronto, Dec., 1837. Yet the Americans conquered Itjrand so will we. 1720, THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE began to burst, and like many modern schemes to cheat mankind, involved thousands of families in utter ruin. The Houses of Lords and Comirtuns appointed c mmittees of enquiry, Sir T. Janson, Mr. Sawbridge, Sir R. Chaplain and Mr. Engles were expelled parliament and arrested with other guilty members, the chancellor of the exchequer resigned office, was expelled and sent to the Tower; and it was found that in order to in- duce members of parliament to pass the South Sea act large portions of stock had been secretly conveyed to them as a bribe. In order to set this stupendous fraud a going £574,000 of sham stock were taken by Lord Sunderland, ih* 80 Caroline Almanac, and Dutchess of Kendall, that hi i. C.-Ca «gn!u indite icc-.v s mad easure allrite Aids , beta! I, press Eng ■ lavfi&r «lft Wolfe.-: 1 out of* ! before. 1 * capit’' rertrj thefts and )se m«5 'videos’ idedtoff ejiff? fliif f 5 # *tei ; se:^ : ihW sea^ ^ freeman's Chronicle* 91 they lent money to the needy at usurious rates, to be paid back in current notes,) is broken down entirely. Mr. Dewey, who obtained its charter has attached its contents, and the sheriff found $19 in specie and 13 sticks of scalin? wax. SEPT. 15. 1S30, Brunswick revolts and expels her tyrant. — 1579, Smerwick Garrison, Kerry, Ireland, surrendered on mercy, 700 strong, who were massa- cred in cold blood by Sir Walter Raleigh, ageni for the Queen of England. SEPT. 17. 1814, The American Army, 2000 strong, besciged in’ Fort Erie, make a sortie, capture the English batteries, destroy their cannon, blow up their magazine, and drive them off. SEPT. 18. 1759, Quebec surrenders to the English, this morning; and if the capitulation had been delayed but two hours and a half, a reinforcement of 1000 men would have been at the gates in aid of old France. SEPT. 20. 1746, CHARLES STUART, Prince of Scotland, embarked at Lochwinnoch, in a French privateer of St. Malo, hired by young Sheridan and other Irish friends. They passed through an English squadron and were chased by two English ships, but reached France safely. Such was the love of the Scotch for Prince Charlie, that the £30,000 ($150 000) offered for his head did not tempt one Highlander during the five months in which Charles was hunted through the highland mountains.— 1792, The French Chambers meet and pro- nounce “royalty for ever abolished in the nation.” — 1651, The Commons of England in parliament vote that 1500 SCOTS PRISONERS of war should be sola as slaves. Whitelock says (p. 485) that “at the request of the Guinea mer- chants, 1500 of the Scots Prisoners were granted to them, and sent on shipboard to be sent to Guinea, to work in the mines there.” The English Parliament now send Canadians and Yankees to Van Dieman’s Land instead of Guinea. SEPT. 21. 1745, Battle of Preston Pans, near Edinburgh, in which the Scotch, fighting for national independence, were victorious over their English ty- rants. — 1832, Sir Walter Scott died.— 1780, Arnold and Andre conspire to betray West Point into the hands of the English. SEPT. 23. 1339, BRIBERY. — The Globe of this dnv shews that the Legis- lature of Maryland is as rotten and corrupt as that of England. The facts are from a report drawn up by Col. Wooton a delegate, and chairman of a commit- tee of enquiry. The rascally legislature received the report, ordered it to he prin - ted, and then managed to suppress it altogether. Col. Wooton and Mr. MeCul- loh state the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co. and the Ohio Railroad Co. paid to Mr. Joseph J. Merrick Twenty-five thousand dollars for his exclusive use. as a reward for secretly corrupting or unduly influencing members of the legislature to loan these speculators millions of money and mortgage the property of Mary- land for payment — Merrick is a relative of the governor’s, and of several ment* bersof the legislature. These companies also secretly bought the influence of Mr Alexander and Mr. Brewer for 82 000; that of Colonel Kent for $3000; and that of Philemon Chew for $3000. These men are not all lawyers, nor were law ser- vices given by any; they were corrupt wretches who were ready to sell honour and honesty for gain. Americans, fHfshun and despise the sordid wretches. 1795, FRANCE adopts the republican constitution, by 914,853 yeas, and 41,- 892 nays; it therefore becomes the supreme law. It had cost 1,200,000 lives, and failed because of its dependance on paper money, 200 millions of dollars, and owing to the opposition of English and continental tyrants from without, the de- sertion of the U. S. from their first and best ally, and the too great protection which it gave, to the accumulation of wealth. Foreign spies and domestic trait- ors were numerous. SEPT. 24. 1791, 43 AMU EL LOUNT, the Canadian Martyr, was born this day in a cottage on the banks of the Susquehannah River, near Catawissa, Co- lumbia County, Pa. He removed to Whitchurch, U. C. in 1811, but was in the U. S. dining the war of 1812, and returned to Canada in 1815. He was after- wards elected a member of the Canada legislature, and appointed by the govern- ment a Judge or Commissioner in one of the courts in Simcoe. His brother George is a magistrate and register of lands there. Mr, Lount was a faimer, owned a large blacksmith establishment, had agreed 16 survey one or more town- ships, and was wealthy. He was beloved by his neighbors, generous and brave; of great personal strength; upwards of six feet in height. At the last county e- lection the government created several hundred sham freeholders and sent them to the poll, .infuriated with liquor to destroy the freedom of hiselection, & after a hard fight they succeeded in depriving the people of a voice. 82 Caroline Almanac , ana SEPT. 25. 1339, Doctor J. B. H. D. BRIEN, alias Briant, set at liberty by Colbome, as a reward for betraying his brethren. The N. American says it is to his accusations and disclosures that the executions of De Lorimier. Daunais, Car- dinal and Duquette, and the banishment of many good men is chiefly ovving.~- This wretch will surely never leave the earth unpunished. 1780, Arnold desert- ed— got safe on board the Vulture, an English Man of W ar and received 10.000 guineas and the rank of brigadier geueralfrom the royal tyrant of England tor betraying his country. , , . SEPT. 26. 1777, The English capture Philadelphia. SEPT. 27, Wheat imported into the United States within the last eight years, in 1831, 620 bushels — in 1832, 1,168 bushels — 1833, 1,600 bushels— 1834,1,225—1835 238,768—1836 583,898,— 1837, 3,921,258-1838, 897,. SEPT. 28, 1813, General Brock takes DETROIT; the fort was this day evacuated, and part of the city destroyed. SEPT. 29, 1839, Sailed from Quebec, on Sunday THE BUFFALO, convict ship, to Botany Bay, where the English keep vast numbers of chris* tians in the most horrible slavery, insomuch that many hang and drown thmselves rather than suffer under the stripes of their taskmasters. It is said to be 14,000 miles distant. On board this Christian slave ship were 59 Lower Canadian prisoners, and about 80 others, chiefly from the Uni. ted States and Upper Canada, whose bravery at Windsor and Prescott Eng. land’s tyrants could not forgive. After keeping them nearly a year in jails, giving them mock trials, sentencing them to be hung, drawn, and cut up into quarters, Governor Poulett Thomson, and the other members of the English government wrote to Arthur and Colborne to send them into per. petual slavery. They were heavily manacled, chained in couples, conveyed to Quebec a humiliating spectacle, put on board the slave-ship, stript na. ked, their heads shaved as smooth as an apple, their bodies washed and scrub- bed, canvass shirts and trowsers put on them, their dresses made like that of the rogues. They were then stowed away in the hold, heavily chained. One hundred and three of them have wives and 387 childreu. Among these patriots are Charles Huot, Notary, Capt. Morin and his son, ofNa. pierville, Andre M. Papincau, 7 children, J. Longtin, St. Constant, 1 1 chil- dren, A. C. La Reinc, Farmer, L’Acadie, 12 children, R. Bechard, 10 chil- dren, Charles Roy, Bcauharnois, 9 children, Dr. Samuel Newcombo, Cha. teaugay, aged 64, with 5 children, J. R. Lapensee, aged 55, with 8 children, and Benjamin Mott, Alburg, Vt., 5 children. SEPT. 30, 1829, THE WELLAND CANAL, after upwards oftwo millions of dollars had been borrowed to finish it, pretended to be opened, and a small schooner dragged through it for effect in England. This was one of the most plausible pretexts for obtaining vast sums to squander on colonial sycophants I ever knew. Much money has since been expended, the Canal has been carried six or seven miles in 28 out of the way for party purposes, and its temporary locks, &c. are ready to fall into ruins. In 18 iO, The Commonwealth BANK of KENTUCKY was created by the legislature, with 30 or 40 little loan ofliccs or branches. On Sept. 1, 1821, in addition to 2 1-2 millions of dollars issued before, 500,000 dollars were now put forth. The bills were at 32 per cent discount — that is, the farmers who had taken 2 1-2 millions at 100 cents to the dollar had lost 32 cents on each dollar, in all 800,000 dollars, besides unsettling the value of debts and property, ruining thousands, destroying trade, and extinguishing personal credit. On the 15th of Feb. 1823, at Frankfort, 700,000 dollars of this bank’s paper were burnt. Another legislative swindling shop called the Bank of Kentucky burnt 1,400,000 paper dollars at the same time. In 1823 it required $200 of Commonwealth paper (issued to the greenhorns for $200) to pay a lawful debt of $100. Freeman’s Chronicle. TT 83 ■Ji mu. 4k ini 31 tlulq. m m t iu i iUFFAl ersofti wit iteis. ! 5 ship t Qm t!i!'. reswai )m\ x. nben; ;m ifii es,R M id lib el U r il j» en. is son, ("j ad,M; combo, i8(kv ranis i bef , ft) up# no?® 1 « yfo? 6 j crwti (til! lolto* tbe^ fddW us fl* < 4 ! , $ lilCftf 1840.] [31 Days j) First Quarter, 3d, 0. 5. e. E. 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W 6 50 j 5 1( ) 6 50 ! 2 1 34 13 15 l 29 T 6 51 5 S ) 7 3S i 2 1 25 . 13 ; 35 J 30 F 6 52 5 J 3 8 3t $ 4 l 16 13 l 55 V5 31 S 6 54-5 i 61 9 31 ) i > e P14 I 14 VS OCTOBER.— TENTH MONTH. © Last Quarter, 17th, 7. 29. e. N. $ New Moon, 25th, 4. 31. m. E. See there the enemy, my boys! Now, strong in valor’s might, 3 at them, or" Molly Stark must sleep In widowhood to night. Each soldier there had left a home, 1 6th Sunday after Trinity. J 1th, Georgia Flection .J A sweetheart, wife or mother, Maryland Election.] A blooming sister, or perchance A fair-haired, blue-eyed brother. Each from a fireside came, and thoughts 17 th Sunday after Trinity. © Perigee.] South Carolina Election.] Ohio. Pa. New Jersey Elections .J Those simple words awoke ; That nerved up every hero’s arm And guided every stroke. Who were those men— their leaders, wh*f 18th Sunday after Trinity. ] Where stood they on that morn 7 The men were Berkshire yeomanry, Brave men as e’er were born; Who in the reapers’ merry row, < Or warrior rank could stand ; [ nmgton . Right worthy such a gallant troop*, [Ben- John Stark led on the band . — Battle of © Apogee. 6 $ 1 6 9 ®* <5 laturt meets. <5h®- c5^$- ). Alaba. Lcgis. meets. A T . Jersey Lcgis • Calendar." xmt esi, uuu .ipest ears the.- thrift v stalks that produce two or more cars each, m m» y l v . increase your crop greatly, but bring it forward much earlier, father wi liter apples from the trees by hand, put them directly into clean dry casks, head them up, and let them remain under the trees, or in the open air, till they arc'n danger of freezing; then remove them to the cellar. Look to your flax, and turn it if nec essary . — OPT 1 1798, THE UNITED IRISHMEN.— This society, the noblest and best Ireland ever formed, having in its obligation friendship all men was planned and orgauized by the celebrated Theobald Wolte lone, au Irishman of rank, generous fisposition, ardent patriotism ^and “nd^ 1 ^ b javerv. It now embraced many thousands of the noblest of Ireland s sons, and the vile orange association was the scheme of the artful ruleis of England and the A nolds of Ireland to defeat the friends of freedom. An insurrection was planned, but the a^ent, Jackson, told one Cockayne a rascally English Attorney who sold his friend and plans (tike Moon and Sprague) to Pitt, ana procured his condem- nation. Mr. Wolfe Tone and Mr. Hamilton Rowan escaped to France, where l)r. McNevin (now of N. Y.) followed, as agent for the Irish people This day fOcl 1) Warren captured a French squadron of 9 vessels of war destined to aid the Irish ; Mr. Wolfe Tone was among the prisoners; he was tried, condemned for his manly and disinterested efforts to an ignominious death, but lie died be- fore the sentence could be executed, and has left an immortal name. His widow lives in Washington, as generous, kind hearted and benevolent as in toe sunny days of her youth— 1801, Articles of peace signed between Bonaparte and Geo. Ouelph. 1S07 ? First Steam Boat on the Hudson. M 84 CntroHne Almanac, and 1699, The Scotch attempt to form a Commercial settlement on thelathmuiof Darien and land on Golden Island for that purpose, but the jealous spirit of the English government, at once puts them down, as Smollett’s History shews; and King William of Oiange sent instructions to the governor of Jamaica to give the Scots no aid or assistance, and to hold no correspondence with them on pain of his royal displeasure. The same jealousy and spite was shewn towards Ireland, Virginia, and other colonies in their trade and manufactures, by the English power. OCT. 2. 1780, Major Andre, an English officer, caught within the American lines, where he had been bargaining with Benedict Arnold to betray his country for British gold, hung by the American General’s orders, under the sentence of a military court. OCT. 3. 1691, Treaty of LIMERICK between William of Orange and the Irish independent forces, agreed to this day. It was an unfortunate agreement for Ireland, and only made to be betrayed bv the faithless English bank note aris- tocracy, who fora hundred years afterward^ were systematic only in their bar- barity to the colony of Ireland. OCT. 5. 1813, General Harrison defeats the English General Proctor on the Thames, U. C., near Detroit. The celebrated chief Tecumseth shot at Colonel Johnson, V. P. of the U. S., who fired his horse pistol al him at a short distance, and killed him. OCT. 6. 1839, SLAVERY. — The Boston Quarterly Review of this month truly affirms, that “the democratic party puts forth principles which must in the end abolish slavery, and do it too at the very day, the very hour when it can be done with advantage to the cause of freedom, of justice.” It adds, that there are causes at work which will yet free the slave with the consent and joy of his master. If democratic principles triumph this will be the case; and if not the only alternative is mentioned in our 15th page, to get rid of slavery by acquiring a national debt, which will not be necessarw OCT. 8. 1839, THE UNITED STATES BANK was chartered by the State of Pennsylvania, who have ever delighted in “internal improvements,” batches ol corrupt banks, state debts, and a rotten system. Yet they are democrats and support Jackson and Van Burcn. The Bank bribed its charter through their le- gislature. This day it became bankrupt, was insolvent, refused to pay its notes, and began to discount by the million with uncurrent paper. News was also brought from Europe that its drafts on its Paris agents for about two millions and a halt of dollars had been dishonored, and that it had been warned that such would be the case before it sold the bills. In the course of six weeks it had col- lected and shipped to England, to help the tory bank there, four and a half mil- lions of dollars. Its shares, not long since worth 117 dollars, and on the 6th inst., worth 103, fell in New York to 70, or from 44 millions for its whole stock down to 24§. The governor and democratic party, ’judging by their resolves, are not sincere in their professions to get rid of the banking humbug, and perhaps the administration at Washington arefor half measures. Time will tell. ThisBank was selling its notes payable next year in Wall Street the dav before it became bankrupt, and swindling the people oi all the money it could get.— 1793, John Hancock, President of the Congress of ’76, died. — 1765, The first Continental Congress met in N. York.— -1839, Philadelphia Banks declare themselves unable to pay their debts — the Baltimore Banks cry ditto. OCT. 9. 1779, Pulaski killed.— 1838, Lord Durham issues his remarkable proclamation at Quebec, announcing that his ordinance for an amnesty had been agreed to, but that his despotic order to hang Mr. Papineau and his 14 friends, without trial, if they came home to Canada, and to banish Mr. Bouchette and 7 others to Bermuda, also without trial, had been reversed by the English parlia- ment. lie would become liberal, if ho could not coerce, as heand his colleagues had done in Ireland in 1833 4. He announced that Mr. Papineau and all those whom he (Durham) had excepted as “ dangerous disturbers of the public peace,” were now free to return, and absolved, from guilt.— 1839, FIRES.— This day a great part o 1 Mobile was burnt. A few days ago property burnt in New York va ' ue dollars, a °d $300,000 worth in Pennsylvania. Not long since 8300,000 worth of buildings, &c. burnt in St.John, N. B. These and ma- ny other fires are by the press ascribed to incendiaries seeking plunder. If it is so, the incendiary with his torch, is a more honest and less culpable man than the 5 per cent a month banker and broker. The incendiary may say to the Fieeman's Chronicle* TT 85 Ames see® tenet! !e«j> Jgrtd (iwkc i than i!or«: rtdiat this at tosac: :nita ip idifi] lywj byes *> nooe igh® ayttsK im niibti d tints liitt ahiif: 0 !! | rhdes esolNM wW- Thtsfie eilbefl loan® Iran yliaaa? Wki etfe tf coto Etp®' W far I* plj ,'Ifl nab Banker, “Here am I wiih my torch, and if caught 1 know my doom. You make the law, I risk its punishment in order to amass a small share of that plun- der which you rob wholesale, in contempt of your own statute.” OCT. 10. 1692, Sir Richard Cox (see Svdney papers) acknowledges that in the wars between James and William for the Crown, he had in Cork County killed and destroyed 3000 Irish, and taken £12,000 value of plunder and cattle! OCT. 11. 1839, CHARTERED BANKING. OATHS AGAINST PRO- FITS.— Legislative enactments binding corporate banks to give periodical ac- counts of their finances on oath have been oftener violated than observed, and area temptation to fraud. In this state the same kegs of dollars have often pre- ceded the Bank Commissioners from Bank to Bank and from town to town. In Quebec a case has just occurred shewing what regard is to be paid to oaths under royal charters, which are just the same as ihose legislative frauds that prevail in these states. Read it. Last month Mr. Coates, teller in the Montreal Branch Bank, Quebec, was prosecuted for w alking dowuinto the Bank Vaults and steal- ing thererrom Fifty-nine thousand Dollars. He was tried a few days ago, but it could not be proved that he really did take the 859,000 and he was acquitted.— But some things w^ere proved, and here they are. It is required of the Banks that they publish on oath periodical statements of their affairs, the cash on hand, mM rt haG Wi Wal, . ac 5 b A ed > Scot9 wham B ™ce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory. Now’s the day and now's the hour, See the front of battle lower : See approach proud Edward’s power— Chains and slavery. Wha Will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward’s grave? V\ ha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee. k Fieeman r king an ? !*. w > fre-edom’s sword will bravely draw, i leeman stand, or freeman fa’ Let him on wi’ me! W^wiilTifn "! 8 W ? CS and pains ! „ B >’ y° llr son9 in s «-' v 'le chains, Wt. Will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be lreo. tiioj ouau ueuec Cay the proud usurper low! Tyrants fall in every foe, Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die! ling house, all to be sold by the sheriff to pay his ten creditors 2 to 400,000 dollars ot judgemeuts they have against him, owing to want of skill in his trade, and grasping at enormous wealth. v 5 OCT. 23. 1G52, Sir William Petty states that in the 10 years to this day 504,000 Irish were slaughtered and wasted by sword, plague, famine, hardship and banish- ment; and when we see what foreign influence has done in Spain during the last five years, there is no reason to doubt the statement. Such has English conquest proved to Ireland ! ! OCT. 25. 1838, Arthur proclaims an amnesty for U. C., excepting certain per. 8 ° ns : „ IN . DI 9 T ^. ENT S for high treason had been found by mock juries against the following individuals, viz: — Jesse Lloyd, Jacob Rymal, Nelson Gorham, W \ Mackenzie, George Washington Case, George Lawton, James Marshall, John K \, Silas and Joseph Fletcher, Richard and Jeremiah Graham, John Mantach, Jo Borden, Joshua Winn, David Gibson, Landon Wurtz, Alem Marr, Joshua Cla: £ Dudley Willcox, Edmund Quirk, Tho. Brown, Aaron Munshaw, Henry Stiles, and Dan. Fletcher, Dad and Seth M’Carty, Cornelius Willis, Erastus Clark, Duncombe, James Dennis, Eliakim and James Malcolm, Peter De Long, O- n B. Clark Lyman Davis, Hervey Fisher, Pelham C. Teeple, Norris Humphre - Lv se Paulding Joel P Doan, John Talbot, Samuel Edson, Jr., Abraham Sutton,'M 0 Nickerson John Massacre. Elisha Hall, Solomon Hawes, Geo. A. Clarke. John Van Norman, Michael M. Mills, Angus Mackenzie, Aaron Winchester, Chester Jillett, others are in^e U?’ Lambert ‘ Some of lhese are in U PP er Canada, unmolested; PW?' 27 k 17 * 7 r Fi [ 6t American Congress.- 1554, Michael Servetus, a Spanish Physician, burnt alive by order of John Calvin and the Magistrates of Geneva far P ubli r 8h i n g his religious opinions, which were anti trinitarian. anf j tlip Ttrnno f i c 1V -t ™ 1 ie ® nemies °* Iraud, colonial vassalage, paper money, l l f were tung. drawn, beheaded and quartered o£ Kenning nrTlT' ^f‘o ng the 5 cottish rebellion «g»Snst English' tyranny. S , *, . ’ Biots 111 Bristol, one so extensive as to put down the trovernment trv wolfd hnvc h parallze . th . e 'Military arm. Had they bee^i followed up the conn- “5ackson ReDuW?can'*r < .f Utl °k 1Z ^nt. l®^^t. Genera l Lyman publishes in the Boston j™ 1 lep ' abl 1 .'5 a ? letters by Thus. Jefferson. J. Q. Adams. &c, showhw that Massachusetts" ° n A, ." eri, ' a " sbi Pping, the leading federalfats of TOvlrnmem and ^ co-operate with England, turn traitors to their own K"™' and ’ as ,a [ biew England was concerned, dissolve the Uuion. Dan- Mr Adams Lyman in December, but the jury did not agree in a verdict sum WaS a ^ ederabstf au< ^ declared he had undoubted evidence of their de- so^ifJ'oTbA 4 8 . 3 . 0 ’ - T . 1 - C Iri ,? h T g ovcrmrient prohibit the meeti»g of Mr. O'Connell'! Rev E Ih- i Tr r ° I . nsb Volunteers for die repeal of the U«.ion.”-lKM, pareo^a^aM^lim < f uardia ? ! g°°ver to the tones, typ -s, press, aid Colbornc tn ? ’ B ‘ , H /; ad s ?. nds tbe 24,£l1 re g nn ent down to Montreal to thefomeir'wWrhV 56 Fr8ncbCauad . ,ana - and takes 6,000 stand of arms out of Toronto h P ^ mchar S eof Burnett and the Orange Corporation of JoSSwteforJSS V \ nkou e hnetof Cornwall, Z. Burnham, I. Frazer, and Jonas petidon for m U ^ Cr Canada to hold P ublic —rings and ll 5T if ;s •D !5T nw !3 P 1 'i; ST IfT n j !9T I »F SIS HI ! S3 I sir i n n m Had Si'll; iatt bov: de, > Freeman's Chf'o nixie. 89 *** Pintos tip ^ nasiki ^asp $«* ~J**l Gotti 1 all, Jog laotjti, loabuiC? inrySai *usCli4 Lonf-i Hampb- in Stuc. llarke.J« i Chfstefi aJifi®; mijj i of Gap. inntrai: h p»p«jt redc'm iff d up - es in x, slwr *«■ rs lo e e Ura '. ■eeiaim ice of a: dr.O'Ca L’ni«L r -il i, t?p\f (olli of anas JOIJKHSB DUB lied, 1810.] NOVEMBER— ELEVENTH MONTH. [30 Days. 0 First Quar. 2d, Q Full Moon, 9th, 8. 36. 1. 24. m. N e. s . E. E. (jj^ Last Quar. 16rh, 4% 23. m. s. R. New Moon, 23d, 9. 41. e N. vr. M 8 holds a cabinet council ; Messrs. Howe and Mantach make affidavits in the King’s Bench that Allan, Elmsley and Robert Baldwin Sullivan, Head’s Councillors, said in their hearing that “ Mackenzie ought to have been shot at that time, and the only thing to be done now is to take him out and shoot him.” U* This was before the revolt. NOV. 1 4. 1832, Charles Carroll died, aged 96. — 1838, Large Canadi. dian Sympathy meeting at Vauxhall Gardens, N. Y. — the venerable Dr. McNcvin in the Chair. — Mrs. Herbert, of Burtonville L. C. was arrested last fall and cast into a dungeon in the Napierville jail, to compel her to make disclosures about patriot movements. Although kept there alone up- on bread and water, she would not disclose anything. Her children were left unprotected in the streets during her detention, her house burned at the time of her arrest, and her husband a refugee in the States. — Sicanton P’r. NOV. 15. 1838. The party in the Windmill posted a cannon on the hill, be- low Prescott, attacked a long line of militia on their way down, and routed them — want of round shot was tne cause of their surrender on the Friday. — 1830, The whigs gain a majority in the H. of C. on the Civil List question, in conse- quence of the Duke of Wellington’s declaration that he would permit no reform in parliament. 1836, NEWFOUNDLAND ELECTION; near approach to a revolt; 200 to- ry constables appointed ; the electors insulted and injured; the military called out to take possession of the Streets of St. John; Fort Townshend Heights planted with English Cannon bearing upon the city, over the hustings; Kent and Morris elected in spite of the government and carried through the streets in triumph; the regulars again take possession of the city; on the 19th the New- foundland Patriot publishes the U. S. Declaration of Independence, and Mr. Speaker Carson declared that if one musket had been fired, “ some thousand gunners had their sealing muskets loaded and primed, ready to avenge the bloody deed.” The Newfoundland Editor bids the government figure to themselves a snow storm, the snow 4 feet deep ; and reminds them how powerless the troops would be against the people. “ Six Thousand of the best Gunners in the British dominions, who are invulnerable both in the storm and in the battle, and who on the rolling billows would pick the eye out of a seal at a distance that would bid defiance to the mmy musket of a veteran. Were the designers of this attempt to bear in mind that if the life of any of those on whom they principally direct their vengeance, had been taken on that fatal day, months, no, nor years would efface „ from the memory of those six thousand well armed and well disciplined hardy sons of the ocean, until they would revenge the bloody deed.” NOV. 16. 1830, The Duke of Wellington and Sir R. Peel, chiefs of the tory section of the people’s oppressors, announce that the Whigs had obliged them to resign their power.— 1837, The Canada government, to goad the people into a revolt fbf which their oppressors wore prepared, arrest Andre Ouimet, Pr'csidentof the Sons of Liberty, J. Dubuc, F. Tavernier, M. Le- blanc, Dr. Simard, &c., on a charge of high-treason. Aimablc Nerbert Mo- rin of Quebec, and other leading men, had been previously placed in dun- geons there. These arrests caused the first effusion of blood. A small party of cavalry were escorting Dr. Davignon and the P. M. of St. John’s (Mr. Demaray) to Montreal Jail, and treating them with cruelty and insult, when the farmers stopt them, upset the vehicle in which the manacled prisoners wero tied down, and set them free, driving off the soldiers. On this the Mon. treal Courier cried out, 44 blood has at last been shed by the rebels — the long desired blow has been struck — no British subject could desire better things.” O* 1838, Friday. After a well contested and sanguinary contest, the gallant Von Schoultz and his brave band had to surrender themselves prison- erg— 149 surrendered to the enemy, 15 were killed, and 16 escaped. Sir Geo. Arthur officially informs Lord Glenelg that 5000 militia were on the ground, besides the regulars, and they had the armed steamers and two 18 pounders playing on the windmill. As proportioned to the number engaged, more men fell in this contest than at the bloody battle of Waterloo. The American patriots gained immortal honor for their race and name. Wm. Johnson and 94 Caroline Almanac , and the people of Ogdensburgh speak of CoL Worth’s conduct and that of hi« officers, in language which we omit. It is known. The exact line of his duty we cannot, perhaps, rightly define.— l?73 f 'The Citizens of Boston dress themselves like Indians and throw 346 chests of East India Company Tea into the sea, because the English Parliament had placed a tax of three pence per lb. on it without their consent, the proceeds to be used as a bribery fund wherewith to corrupt (as in England) the leading men of the colony, and make them instrumental in enslaving their countrymen. NOV, 17. 1838, Five thousand men meet at the railroad depot, Phila. delphia, to hear Theller and Mackenzie state the wrongs of Canada — Lewis Taylor in the chair. — The Spirit of the Times says-^-* 41 But one feeling per. vaded the immense assemblage — that of deep commisseration for the hard* Bhips and suffering of the Patriots, and upon dispersing, the universal senti. ment was GOD SPEED THE CANADIANS.” — 4837, The Priests of the Seminary, Montreal, subscribe large sums to feed and clothe the tory volunteers who were murdering and plundering their countrymen at St. Eustache, &c.— 1794, John Horne Tooke tried for high-treason (lovo of liberty) before Lord Mansfield. He was defended by Lord Erskine andac. quitted. Had he been found guilty the gallows would have ended his honor, able and useful career. NOV. 18. 1838, Colonel Wetherall with a large military force, cannon, cavalry, &c., marches thro’ the disturbed part of the country to excite more disturbance and take vengeance. — Sir George Arthur renews his reward of one thousand sovereigns for Mackenzie’s apprehension, and believing him in Canada makes a diligent search. NO\.19. 1838, BURNING. — Colonel Angus Macdonell, Fourth Re. giment of Glengarry Militia, writes Bishop Macdonell, Cornwall, “We pro- ceeded towards Beauharnois by a forced march, burning and laying wasto the country as we went along ; and it was a most distressing and heart rend, ing scene, to see this fine settlement so completely destroyed, the houses burned and laid in ashes; and I understand the whole country to St. Charles experienced the same ; the wailing and lamentation of the women and chil- dren, on beholding their houses in flames, and their property destroyed; their husbands, fathers, brothers, sons, dragged along prisoners : and such of them as 1 C QqQ not , appear ’ were su PP osed to be at the rebel camp.” 1838, Colborne issues an order to convene the corut martial which sent so many good and true Canadians to eternity, and orders them to give sentence according to martial law and the rules of military discipline.” This court ot murderers of the innocent consisted of General John Clitherovv, President, Co . feir John Eustace, Col. Henry Barnard, Col. Wm. Grierson, 15th Regt., Col. James Crauford, Major John Lloyd, 73d Regt., Major Henry Townsend, 24th Regt., Major Arthur W. Biggs, 7th Hussars, Capt. William Eyre, 73d Regt., Capt. Win. B. femith, 15th Regt., Capt. Robcrl Marsh, 24th Regt., Capt. Henry A. Kerr Royal Regt., Capt. Augustus Cox, Gren. Guards, Capt. linv ' on C01 ?oo? d 5 an h Captain Hew A ’ R ‘ Mitchell, Gren. Guards. 1>UV. ^u. lo37. T he English Commander in Chief, London, orders sol- diers to take off their side arms when not on duty, because they often injured people with them. The like request made at Quebec and refused to the Crw nadians.— 1838, Governor Arthur writes to Lord Glenelg to barrow money oi le . C. tones, and tells him that the colony is fast going to ruin and that he cannot help it.— A large meeting of the citizens of Washington held in n a 01 } q?a e *P rc * a T Sympathy for Canada. From 1000 to 1500 per. eons attend. — 1814, Gen. Jackson writes to the Scc’y at War, “ I will (if my p an ^ a opted) insure that an effective force shall soo.i appear in every quarter, amply sufhetent for the reduction of Canada, and to drive our ene. m \w m ai 0 “ r ±? S : J 3 ’ Wl *y was his excellent older refused ! ! h a ]| tv./fi i, la “/' A j , Gla ? d i . Ba ll given by the Londoners in their Guild- hall for the benefit ot tho Polish refugees in Britain 1838, President Van Freeman's Chronicle. 95 i&dtbitf iCtlil).. afBostc-, Compu;' of three'?, a briberj:: colour,; 1 depot,?; 'anada-L* Be faSty i for tii* i mivemli Tiie Pritjj dolhellfi toymen l ttson (br *rskiae i; ndediiijs, force, ear ’ lo eiciii? i his rent elieriagb ell, M nil “fe j laying iDd heart:: ed, the ia loSLCac Mien auk Mtrojedj 2 i such of & which k giwwir n This >ff,Pres£ n, 15thfc ryTom amEtre,' , 24tife juwfeflf Guards- otouf edtotiaC WfW ruBiirK.ii liSty ,-I» arifn Tfoir^ iairfe Buren issues his neutrality proclamation. — 1830, Polignac, Peyronnet, Chan- telauze and Ranville, the advisers of Charles Xth’s tyranny, and author of the bloodshed of the 3 gloiious days, declared guilty of high treason against France, and imprisoned for a time.^1806, Bonaparte issues his Berlin De^ cree, declaring the British Islands blockaded, and forbidding the rest of tbo world from communicating with them NOV. 22. 1830, Earl Grey takes the premiership, as head of the Whigs , and grasps at offices for his relations as greedily as a famished hound would at a bone. lie takes the premiership — his brother in law (Ellice) Sec’y at War — his son in law, (Durham) in the cabinet — his son (Howick) Underse- cretary of State — another son, Capt. in the Navy — his brother, Bishop of Derry. He began reform by coercing the Irish ! — 1838, Three thousand persons meet to express friendship towards the Canadians, in the city of Bal- timore, Commodore Daniels in the ehair. They are addressed by Messrs. Theller, Mackenzie, and others. NOV. 23. 1837, Death of Lieutenant Weir, B. A. — The Canadians took him prisoner near St. Denis ; ho was in plain clothes ; said he was buy- ing wheat ; was searched and his errand and character found. When the battle of St. Denis began his guards tied him easily, put him in a caleche and took him forward a little way, when he burst their bands and fled, they chased and fired — he fell. — 1830, Lord Chancellor Brougham 1st introduced as a peer into the House of Lords by Durham and Wellesley. 1802, Colonel Despard and others seized and charged with intending to rid the world of Geo. 3rd, seize the Bank, the Tower, &c. After a mock trial, the Colonel and 6 others were hung, he on the scaffold telling the peo- ple, as they all did, that they were innocent, and suffered for their love of truth, liberty and justice. 1837, (Wednesday) THE BATTLE OF ST. DENIS, in which the gal- lant Dr. Wolfred Nelson defeated the English regulars and drove them back, was preceded by warrants from Lord Gosford to arrest the Canadian leaders, which aroused the people to resistance. Dr. Davignon and Mr. Demaray were arrested on a charge of high treason at St. John’s. Instead of convey- ing these prisoners quietly to Montreal, direct by the rail-road, the cavalry that captured them, resolved on striking terror through the country by march, ing them around by Chambly and Longueiul, a distance of thirty-six miles, with iron fetters on their hands and feet, and ropes around their necks. The people of Longueiul assembled and rescued the prisoners. Immediately a force of 800 men, with four pieces of cannon and a howitzer, was despatched, one half to attack St. Denis, the remainder to storm St. Charles, where sev- eral of the leading reformers from Montreal had retired. So little expecta- tion was there that such an armed force would be sent to arrest half a . dozen of civilians, that no preparation had been made to oppose such a body . — There were not more than thirty men at St. Denis previous to the arrival of the troops, and these were collected to prevent the sudden seizure of Dr. Nelson, by constables. The same may be said of St. Charles. When it was known that the troops were coming, the tocsin was sounded — a crowd of a- bout 300 men, armed some with fowling guns, and others with pitchforks, assembled at St. Denis, and after an engagement of six hours and a half, repulsed the soldiers, with a loss of fifty men and one piece of cannon. NOV. 24. 1814, Peace concluded between America and England. — 1820, Greek Revolution commenced. — 1778, Lafayette, through his personal cre- dit, clothes the American Army, and furnishes them with shoes, linen and other necessaries of life, from Baltimore, &c.— 1837, Charles Ovide Perrault, member of the parliament of L. C., aid de-camp to Dr. Nelson at the battle of St. Denis, was mortally wounded during the struggle, and died this mor- ning at half past three. This amiable, pious and accomplished youth was slain in his 28th year, and left a young widow to whom he had been married only a few months. He was one of the most faithful, devoted, disinterested £<5 * Caroline Almanac , and friends of liberty we ever knew. His talents were of the first order — his manners winning'and agreeable — his bravery undoubted. In the legislature he had acquired deserved weight and influence. Lord Gosford had marked him out for the scaffold, but fate awarded him a mo:e glorious death in the arms of victory. NOV. 25. *1837, (Saturday) BATTLE OF ST. CHARLES.— The En. glish, about 700 strong of regulars, infantry and cavalry were led against a mob of honest farmers, 2000 perhaps in number, ill armed and ignorant of war. Colonel Wetherall says : “ The march was accomplished without op. position or hindrance, except from the breakingdown of the bridges, &c. &c. until I arrived one mile from this place, when the troops were fired at from the left or opposite bank of the Richelieu, and a man of the Royal Regiment wounded ; several rifle-shots were also fired from a barn immediately in our front. I burned the barn. On arriving at two hundred and fifty yards from the rebel works, I took up a position ; they opened a heavy fire, which was returned. I then advanced to another position one hundred yards from the works; but finding the defenders obstinate, I stormed and carried them, burning every building within the stockade, except that of the honourable Mr. Debartzch; which, however, is much injured. The affair occupied a- bout one hour. The slaughter on the side of the rebels was great : only six. teen prisoners were then made. I have counted fifty-six bodies, and many more were killed in the buildings, and their bodies burnt.” The patriot ac. count, as copied into the U. S. papers is in the same strain as that of Colonel Wetherall. They state that he flanked his operations by a murderous dis- charge of grape shot upon the crowds of peasants, adding to the cannon-ball and bullet the bayonet and torch. The farmers fought bravely till charged by the bayonet, and then the butchery was dreadful. Upwards of one huh. dred were in a barn, full of hay and straw, which was set fire to, and they were burned alive or smothered. The malcontents lost, at least, five hun- dred men by shot, fire a*%d water. Another account states that nearly one hundred men were driven into the river, and perished. The village of St. Charles was entirely destroyed in the attack ; the houses having been al- most all fired by the soldiery. The royalist account, in the N. Y. Albion of Dec. 23 d, p. 40S, says that Col. Wetherall “enfiladed and knocked over the pallisades, with his artillery, after silencing the enemy’s guns, formed line and CHARGED WITH THE BAYONET, UNDER' THE OLD BRITISH CHE Eft. Though four or five to one in number, the poor wretch, es who had hitherto stood fire well, soon broke, but not before the troops were amongst them. Between two and three hundred were killed, and the remainder lied in all directions, spreading terror and dismay far and near.— Col. Wetherall had three killed and seventeen wounded, only, for the Cana- dians fired badly.” 1783, New York evacuated by the English army. England has since sent a far more dangerous force of Jews, brokers, bankers, importers, agents quacks and Speculators, in the place of the other, who teach the Americans those infernal arts which undermine national virtue and take away that peace and happinc-ss which can never be restored. NOV. 26. 1838, Mr. Keilchen, Russian Consul at Boston, arrested in the catholic church of Montreal, and his trunks rifled, on suspicion of con- spiracy to aid the Canadians. Colborne released him.— 1688, King James 2nd arrives at London ; and while one of his daughters and her husband, the Prince of Orange, were invading his kingdom, the other, Princess Anne, had gone off to his enemies. He burst into tears, and cried, “God help tn? ! my own children have forsaken mo.” Much need have kings and peasants, slaves and masters, of faithful and true instructors. Princess Anne hail been educated by mean divines of the Church of England to take pleasure in seeing its ministers crushing, worrying, banishing and imprisoning dis- schters and catholics, for honestly adhering to the uncourtly creeds of that Freeman'* Cluonide. 97 fe* l«Ai ithiaig -Tkft >p«i aormt »' ilboiit R i, 4c, it riat&i elya* ivlicfen Is from* Tiedfe lonoraj )cccpk : oiiljs andnc patriot ■of C« tier® a 51MM' lilldp- M >,*-• oaiirs lap of l j iwi , AI'Kobc eked w. is, feat HE OH or «Tf!S the Iron d, andtk ndn«- n,«® MB’ tffijlil rested ? jflrft# Dffr* il* si a* day. 1832, Mackenzie (after 3 or 4 expulsions) elected member of assem- bly for York county by the freeholders in his absence to London — the gov- ernment could not get a candidate. — 1823, Kingston Bank, U. C. breaks, and its notes are sold for sixpence. Its nominal capital was 500,000 dol- lars : next to nothing paid in. The Directors were Benjamin Whitney, Atty. General Hagerman, John McLean, High Sheriff, John Cumming, Collector of Excise, Thomas Dalton, Editor of the Patriot, McLeod, Merchant, Smith Bartlet, Cashier. When it was agoing, the President posted to Mon- treal and lifted $32,000 of a deposite of redeemed bills from the Cashier of the Bank of Canada, circulated $4,000 of them for good money in that city, and where are the rest?— 1769, Mr. Wilkes returned to parliament again for Middlesex, and soon after re-expelled !—- 1 772, the East India com* pany monopolize the purchase and sale of salt, betel-nut and tobacco, and declare the leases of land throughout India void. A dreadful famine and mortality ensued, and pestilence desolated the land. This is and ever will be O" English government. XD NOV 28 1839. JOHN TEED, merchant taylor, Quebec, arrested for treason, accused’ of having made some clothes for his countryman, Dr. Theller, when es- capinff from the citadel — he applies for a writ habeas corpus before Judges ranet and Bedard — they issue the writ. — The Sheriff went to jail to bring Mr. Teed before them, but found that the military officers (the superior power there!) had removed him to the citadel, with the aid of a file of soldiers -the writ was then served upon Col. Bowles, commanding the fortress, and a warrant issued to commit him for con- tempt, but lie kept the barrack gate shut, held Teed in a cell, and defied the cm- [3l Days. 18*0.] DECEMBER. — TWELFTH MONTH. ) First Quar. Wed. 2d, 2. 45. m. N. w. I ® LastQuar. Tues. 15th,4.24.e. s. w. Full Moon, Tues. 8th, 11. 41. e. N. | ® New Moon, Wed. 23d. 4. 41. e. w. Q First Quar. Tliur. 31st, 6. 2. e. s. M&W Sun Sun Moon Moon Sun's $) Days, i rises sets 6ets. South decl. 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(1st) Pennsylvania Legislature meets. (2d) Twenfy-Bixth Congress met, 1839. _ Farmer's Calendar. — Be not ambi- tious to have a large farm. A man’s con* 2d Sund. in Advent.] Pres’t Van Buren c5t iqpiif M id BO' him. ue o/' ria court at Canandaigua, and had a set of questions ready for him, but the Doctor aave him the slip in his hour of need, just as before at Toronto. Mr. Montgom- ery had waited on the Doctor to ask if he would attend if served with U. . process. He replied that he certainly would, and Mr. Robertson served him with a subpoena in the usual way, through whom also he intimated to Macken- 7 ie that he might be fully depended on. When the trial came on Dr. Rolph nei- ther came nor sent an excuse nor enquired on what points he was to be exara- 10 DEC. 8. — 1837, Sir F. Head issued a lying proclamation offering pardon and forgiveness to all who would lay down their arms and go to their homes, except Mackenzie and five others. M any did so, were arrested as soon as possible, sent to the penitentiary, banished, or, as in the case of Capt. Matthews, hung on a gi • be 'l746. Mr. Ratcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater, who had escap^ in 1716, was ta- ken in a French ship, having been engaged against the Brunswickers nn Scotland, He Dleaded that he was a NATURALIZED subject of France, but wastoldtha; if he had been born in England and lived but one hour in it he .was a i subject for life. He was beheaded on a sentence passed in London 30 years before , bis bo dy mangled ; and his heart taken out of his body while yel palpitating. 1838 "NIELS S. VON SHOUI.TZ hung on the gibbet at Fort Henry, by order of Arthur, and with the united approbation of “Her Majesty ifljw ment. He was a glorious martyr to Canad.an i liberty, a you ’ , cool bravery and gallant and heroic deeds His • 1 ^Tiew Ws death ish liberating army — the son had attained the rank of Colonel. w hirh to his assassins. He was about to be married to jT. i on „ s | la n bloody had a superior education and very engaging manners.- How lon s snau oi y England's shambles be drenched with the best . bl “ 0 ' j ^ A ' n ™ ^ ent republican, DEC. 9.— 1603, John Milton, Prince of English poets, an , c ? ’L a &c born in London.-1838, Furs and Skins carried to England from Canada, ., ,h lXMARSHAL^E 9 Y *waf of , lh ? Duk f e P ° £ Wellington giving a malicious explanation of ‘brakin'’ t'heir' sacred by recommending ‘‘an inhibition, wuth suitably P en :’ tent ; ons (ti\ to be car- » «., mil imr, .«.»•!, « [JJ* U.l, w.ich chard, but for intending to do it. Unrfly j regard ing P I RACY be ex- fine and impnaonmeiu, and ™Sg est3 N lll £ Colonies, now tlie U. S„ agree not to ^A^rdav^and Sby^gr- £r-l® t Vh^WB h ^ 1‘Sesrc-ecdy^ft e^hatfn all cases of election by the House, the vote shall be oi^n and ^ Mr. Pt- DEC. 11. — 1337, Mackenzie arrives in fr ^" ii,?'? Van Burcn, by Mr. pineau and Dr. Wolfred Nelson are introduced to P'^J^Htof June 1793.) Wriaht of N. Y.— 1792, .Louis l®*h Uied at 1 aris, GEORGE, of Water- DEC. 12.— 1838, DOREPHUS ABBEY and fre cdom. Capt. Abbey town, N. V., hung at Kingston for defen A ™^ t , a printer by profession, left two orphan children, was a native© t ^ at wa s an excellent Mr. Southwick says he employed him m ^ ^ od „ or 0 f a journal m this workman, sober and correct in bis \ ^ respect 0 f society ; brave, sih- State, was frugal and f l ^ u ® 1 ^ in ’ le J col Arthur, at the bidding of Hagcrman, Su r Uw a a n n, El^yl AUa" a/d ,0 the — of ’ 76 - Hl8 b,00d M4 Caroline Almanac , and cries for vengeance ! ! ! It is said that Mrs. George was re/used a sight of her husband, till he was dead.— 1653, Cromwell turned the English Parliament out of doors, and assumed the title of Protector.— 1837, Mackenzie, at the urgent re- quest of the citizens, addresses near 3000 persons in the theatre of Buffalo on Canadian affairs, this being the third public patriot meeting in that citv. 1831 Mackenzie, after a trial of four days, is expelled from the Legislature of ’U C bv a vote of the Boultons, Hagerman, Burwell, Frazer of Brockville, McNab &e because he declined to retract an opinion given in a newspaper. '* DEC. 13. — 1831, Great meeting of the Freeholders of York Countv, U C at Toronto, in consequence of Mackenzie’s expulsion. Sir John Colborne, fearing that their memorial to him was a cover for seizing his person and revolting plants artillery in all directions near the Government House, appoints a signal for n iS'datedf 8 " 180 "’ a, ' dprCparesfor d efence.-183^, Proclamation fromNa’ r J® 3 . 7 - Expedition of the BLACK ROCK GROCERY, dispersed by the She- riff, the Police Jitstice, and an attorney, without assistance. * The arms seized from a garret.— Thomas Wilson, a methodist preacher, U. C , arrested on a eharge of treason.- Wm Purdy, miller, Chas. Powers, iron founder Dr Gil- christ, late M. P., and Robert Waller merchant, Newcastle District Upper Ca- nada, arrested on suspicion of treason.— Arrests, Home District, U C P for hieh il 8aa w %e i er vf 0n ’ ^^eon Vernon, Periphon Hawke, Joseph Wilson Win ? C \v t S w r ’ Ge ®r Wilson, Joseph Newlove, Joseph Gould, Geo’ Hill, J. W. Kendi lek, Wm. and Peter Rogers, Wm. King, Peter Rogers Richard a'lSate&afersK " d •** — » “ DEC. 14.— 1837. BATTLE OF ST EUSTAOWF ^ w ■ i r i m, because its peopleTtad protected ^orn^ arrest some^ofSe 8 honest memb^rs^fAil^n' Dr Chenier and ^mo^threv^aSefves^mo'tite^ehtl 6 ^ ^ de , fe *f- having been fired with Congreve rockets, and the peo,§e who retreMed to theVeS paZ newer of the bk’e^ wUh W °vome e s d of 'musketry^* dT C i ^ wind ~ d w« “2 Dr. Chenier's * the The limbs— the body was cut into four ai ? flr Lr« *J 1 5°jJ? tl } ln & 8tn PP e d from his yet warm exposed to the gaze of the barbarous soldi/™ ^t 5- S ieart torn from his breast and his beautiful and accomplished wife in i n % *? 1S Pi r .?P en J was destroyed ; even land’s sacking of St. Euslache Tnd he whl . ^ ^ tloscd Up0n En £- flame, in the midst of the horrors of Canadlln ^'°. untr ^ ™ ullti seem ed one sheet of way and time visit those cruel destroyers » "rnn^vr A P ow ? rful God > in diy own ci destroyers. Copt. Marryat, who accompanied Sir Freeman's Chronicit. 105 John Colborne, was at the battle. He says, the English soldiers and their officers were so exasperated against the Canadians, that “it was o service of danger to at- tempt to save the life ot one of these poor creatures." About midnight he went to see the church ; the floor had been burnt to cinders, and “ between the sleepers were scattered the remains of human beings, injured in various degrees; some with mere- ly the clothes burnt off, leaving the naked body ; while here and there the blackened ribs were all that the fierce flames had spared. Not only inside of the church, but without its walls, was the same revolting spectacle; and farther off were bodies still unscathed by fire, but frozen bard by the severity of the weather." 1837, THE U. C. CONVENTION, dated in September, was to have met, had the people and their leaders possessed courage enough to free their country, when no enemy from without opposed them. What right had they to convene! The same that the Barons had who obtained Magna Charta — or the Conven- tions who recalled Charles 2nd, and crowned William 3d. The Convention did meet on the 14th of December, but it was on Navy Island, Canada, and the U. S. Government has bestowed 18 months’ imprisonment on the chairman of that day, for daring so to assemble. DEC. 15. 18 37, Colborne’s destroying army enter St. Benoit. Encounter no resistance. Three hundred farmers meet him with white handkerchiefs in their hands as a token of peace. Vast numbers are arrested and sent off to Montreal Jail ; hundreds take to the woods; Colborne and suite remain all night in the village, which they give up to plunder. DEC. 16. 1837, Colborne and his army return from St. Benoit or Grand Brule, having first set it on fire and rifled it of every valuable they could carry off. AMURY GIROD, a native of Switzerland, one of the leaders, was stopt on his way to the United States, through tho officiousness of John Taylor, of Long Point. When escape seemed inevitable he shot himself. His body was brought to St. Benoit; beheaded; his head exposed on a pole; a stake driven through his body, and the body buried at the cross of four roads as a mark of the infamy attached to the Canadian cause. Ev^ the London Times denounces Colborne’s “ infernal acts” here, but England’s Queen approves. The Quebec Canadien states that in one month to this date, 500 Canadian houses were burnt down, and property destroyed to the value of upwards of one million of dollars. DEC. 18. 1088, KING JAMES having left London on the previous day, his son-in-law enters it, and takes possession of the royal palace. The English law- yers came to address him, headed by old Sergeant Maynard, aged nearly ninety. The Prince told him he had outlived all the lawyers of his time. Maynard re- plied, that but for the arrival of his highness, he would have survived the law it- self. He was an old rogue for all that,” says Swift, and McIntosh’s Revolu- tion adds, “ that the destroyers of the law were the lawyers, its own offsprmg, by their iniquitous judgments, corrupt pleadings, and sycophant petitions. I he like might be said of the U. C. lawyers, as a whole ; they were the most worth- less, rotten and venal tribe on the face of the earth, and the judges were like un- l °DEc! 19, 1838. Execution of Colonel MARTIN WOODRUFF at Kingston. He was a deputy sheriff, Saliua, Onondaga Co. N. Y. His enthusiasm in favor ot the Canadians was boundless — he came to Navy Island, with aid to the Patriots was ready to serve at French Creek had there been a Commander, and exhibited great coolness and courage at the Wind Mill. A few militia officers were collected, who ordered him to execution. The Kingston Spectator, thus describes the scene ot his murder, of which Victoria and hef bloody cabinet, heartily approved. This gallant soldier was, “about sunrise, brought from Fort Henry upon a rough carter s tram or sleigh, attended by two priests, escorted by a party of volunteer cavalry, to the jail, and soon after to the door leading to the scaffold, when the Sheriff read Arthur s warrant to execute him; he was then placed on the platform, the cap pulled over lus face, and the hangman placed the rope to a hook in the beam over head. The plat- form fell and presented a revolting disgusting, and disgraceful scene. The knot in- stead of drawing tight under his ear, was brought to the chin ; it did not slip but left space enough to put a hand within ; the chief weight of the body bearing upon the rope at the back of the neck. The body was in great agitation, and seemed to suffer ereatlv The spectators said it was shameful management, when two hangmen came out, endeavored to strangle the sufferer and not having succeeded they returned again to their disgusting work. “ The Port Ontario Aurora says : Ins neck was no broken, till the hangman, on the cross-tree, had pulled him up by the collar and let him fall four times in succession. After this, the inhuman brute struck his heels seve- 106 Garoiine Almanac , and ral times into the breast of the dying man! Shame on the civilized barbarians! — No wonder the biped blood-hounds nre hunted by the avenging assassin. 1813, The American Fort, Niagara, (built by the French, 1751) taken by the Eng- lish. 1831 The South Carolina-Legislature protests against the tariff. 1837, Governor Marcy issues his proclamation for neutrality in the Canadian contest. 1837, Two thousand men of Vermont meet at St. Albans, to express friendship for the Canadians, DEC. 20, 1834. Alexander B. Richmond, an English government spy, prosecutes a London Bookseller for publishing a record of his crimes, and is nonsuited, London. 1837. Sir Francis Head, Upper Canada, demands, in Victoria Guelph’s name of Governor Marcy, that he deliver up to Judge Bethuuehis messenger, Mackenzie, a rebel, traitor, &c., Governor Marcy replied that— Mackenzie’s offence was political and he could not give him up — moreover as he was on Navy Island, Upper Canada, and Sir Francis would find him there. — C. H. M'Collom of Belleville, U. C. arrested on a charge of high treason— liberated on condition of banishment. DEC. 21, 1838, Messrs. Panet and Bedard, Judges of the King’s Bench Court, sus- pended from office by Colborne, for bailing Teed, accused of aiding Theller in his escape. — 1836, President Jackson addresses Congress recommending the acknow- ment of Texan Independence. — 1837. Garrow (Marshal) writes Benton (District Attorney) from Rochester, N. Y. “ There is much excitement here ; forty soldiers ‘ marching the streets of Rochester to day under drum and file ; two pieces of can- * non went off' this morning; and three-fourths of the people here, I learn, are en ' couraging and promoting the thing; and seven-eighths of the people at Buffalo and ‘ all along the lines are taking strong interest in the cause of the Patriots; many furn- ' ishing arms, and large quantities of provisions contributed and forwarded to them, 4 and volunteers continually going on." DEC. 22. 1838, JOSEPH NARCISSE CARDINAL, member of the parliament of Lower Canada, aged 30, (left a wife and 5 children) ; and JOSEPH DUQU- ETTE, student at law, aged 22, were this day hung at Montreal, for nobly at- tempting to free their country from the English yoke. They were brought before a dozen of hired assassins in red co^s called a court martial, and ordered to the Eng lish shambles forthwith. They were delivered up to their murderers by the Caugh- nawaga Indians who petitioned for their life. Cardinal was hung twice, while Col- borne and his brutal band sat at their windows enjoying the horrid scene ! ! Madame Cardinal, in tire last months of pregnancy, threw herself at the feet of Lady Col- borne, supplicating her interference in behalf of her husband.— Lady C. offered the broken hearted supplicant— five dollars! Cardinal and Duquette were in Jail, Nov. 4th, Martial law was proclaimed on the 5th, and the ordinance constituting Clitherow’s Court Martial on the 8th, so that they were tried under a proclamation issued after they were in jail ! ! Delisle, the High Constable was one of the officers at the execution and while Mr. Duquette was slowly walking towards the scaffold he pulled suddenly the rope round his neck, precipitating him to the ground. Mr. Car- dinal reprimanded him . — “ It’s good enough for a dog of a rebel," was the reply. While the two sufferers stood upon the scaffold, they bade one another a parting adieu for this world— the next moment the drop fell; Mr. D. fell longitudinally, break- ing some of his teeth and cutting his face on the railing round the scaffold ; his suf- ferings were excruciating; several times he begged, for God’s sake, to have an end put to his agony, by killing him. Twenty long minutes elapsed before auother rope could be prepared ! it was then passed around his neck and tied to the fixture, the first rope was then cut, and in a few moments after this second hanging, he was num- bered with the dead. Same day, at KINGSTON, the British monsters were employed in strangling on the gallowaof Fort Henry two of the Prescott heroes JOEL PEELER of N. Y. State, and SYLVANUS SWETE, of Northampton Ms. who died as they had lived, fearlessly. DEC. 25. 1776, GENERAL HUGH MERCER. This night, Wash* ington crossed the Delaware at Trenton, surprised the Hessians, took 900 prisoners and 6 brass cannon, losing only 9 of his men. Throughout tho whole campaign GEN. MERCER is stated by all parties to have power- fully aided Washington, and behaved with the utmost bravery and skill, in this, the very darkest hour of American suffering and misfortune. On the morning of the 3rd ot Jan., 1777, Washington decided to attack Princetown, and MERCER led the VAN of the gallant band. In the evening Mercer encountered three English Regiments, and a deadly struggle ensued, in which hf» fell, dangerously wounded, while rallying the American militia. jfJS* 3 17m sdthL lestibl Siew! DEC. '•0 C (sail iroold «eor si!! i ftG 12 m rif iikui m di. nitre Gnu tegm i'seir nth Sirin m 'T&ti *rhc Usd iiiin «yfc 2 pen am it A lie *stl 4* k\ uni ibk ire; wei iif tta se Freemaii's Chronicle. 1U7 The English surrounded and refused him quarter, stabbed him in seven places, struck him with the butt of their bayonets and left him for dead. Nine days afterwards this friend of Washington expired in the arms of his (W’s) nephew, and Congress erected a monument to his memory. Mercer was a native of Scotland, fought for his native Prince at Culloden, was exiled, and in 1755 became the companion of Washington in the Indian Wars. It seems hard that Scotchmen should have laid down their lives in this last century to establish a power which insults their countrymen as aliens and intruders in this; and when they claim its hospitality, pounces upon them as the victims of its policy, and immures them in American Bastiles, for the crime which constituted the glory of a better age. DEC. 27, 1837. Great meeting in New York (Vauxhall Garden) in favour of the Canadians, addressed by Dr. O’Callaghan. — 1838. Court Martial met in London, U. C., to determine who of the Windsor Prisoners it would serve the interest of the government best to murder, without judge or jury — on the same day a company of artillery anived at London, with 40 waggon loads of arms for the Sandwich frontier. Davis Bedford tried!! and ordered* for execution for rebellion ! 1 — 1 79 1, new constitution for the Canadas, a law. DEC. 29, 1813. The English army under General Riall invade the State N. York, BURN BLACK ROCK and destroy its battery on the their way to burn Buffalo. The English forces also burnt Manchester village, Niagara Falls, and one infirm person perished in the flames. 1837. INVASION OF THE STATE OF NEYV YORK. BURNING OF THE CAROLINE. — [Explanation of the Frontispiece. — 1 repre sents Mr. Durfee lying on the wharf by the ware house at Schlosser, N. Y., weltering in his blood. He was shot in the*back of the head — 2 shows the murderers in their boats returning to Chippewa, where the lights are seen at 3, 4 is a view of the ill-fated vessel passing onwards with fearful speed towards the great falls, in a blaze of flame, the elements of fire and water combining in their fury to send into eternity those who had hid themselves in the boat from the dagger of the assassin. A faint view of 2 or 3 persons holding out their hands in desperation maybe seen near the bows of the boat. The En- glish official account is that six were killed ; the Americans say eleven.] The Steamboat Caroline took out a license at Buffalo as a ferry boat for passengers — sailed to Tonawanda — thence to Schlosser, and twice between it and Navy Island — Schlosser contains an old store house and a small inn. At 5 in the evening the Caroline was moored at the wharf- -the tavern being very full, a number of the gentlemen took beds in the boat — in all about 33 persons slept there. A watch was placed on deck at 8, the watchmen unarmed — there was only one pocket pistol on board, and no powder ; at mid- night, the Caroline was attacked by five boats full of armed men from the English army at Chippewa, who killed [as themselves say] six men, or as the American account lias it, eleven. A number were severely wounded, as the people in the American port, could make no resistance. To kill them was therefore a wanton assassination, The cry of the assailants was “ g— d d — n them — no quarter — fire, fire !” Amos Durfee of Buffalo was found dead upon the dock, a musket ball having passed through his head. The Caro- line sailed under the American flag, which the assailants took to Toronto, and displayed at annual festivals, in honor of this outrage. She was set m a blaze, cut adrift and sent 6ver the falls of Niagara. We witnessed the dreadful scene from Navy Island. The thrilling cry ran around that there were living souls on board ; and as the vessel, wrapt in vivid flame, which disclosed her doom as it shone brightly on the water, was hurrying down the resistless rapids to the tremendous Cataract, the thunder of which, more awfully distinct in the midnight stillness, horrified every mind with the pre. sence of their inevitable fate ; numbers caught, in fancy, the wails of dying wretches, hopelessly perishing by the double horrors of a fate which nothing Carotin t Almanac ) and could avert; and watched with agonized attention the flaming mass, till it was hurried over the falls to be crushed in everlasting darkness in the nn. fathomed tomb of waters below. Several Canadians who left the Island in the Caroline that evening, to return next day, have not since been heard of, and doubtless were among the murdered, or hid onboard and perished with the ill-fated vessel. Why did the English pass Navy Island, in Canada, where the patriots had hoisted their flag, and waited for them, and attack an unarmed boat in N. Y. State, and in the dead of night, butcher them in cold blood ! Sir Francis Head planned, ordered, and sanctioned the whole massa. ere, the Queen of England and her government approved of it, and reward, ed the villains. Drew is raised to the rank of Captain of the Royal Navy, and commands on Lake Eiie, and McNab is knighted, and received the Royal thanks. Sir John Colborne is also created Lord Seaton ! Xfl McNab in his despatches says — “ I was informed by citizens from Buffalo that the Caroline would be down that night.” The editor of the Star stated that he understood that Dr. Thomas M. Foote, of the Commercial, and John McLean, ex-judge of Seneca Counry, were that night McNab’s guests in his camp. Was it so? The Hon. John Elmsley, Toronto, a member of Head’s Government, at- tended the anniversary dinner there, in honor of the heroes who defeated the Yankees. He said — “After a desperate engagement of some minutes, she was fired, and rode upon the waters a blazing beacon of infamy until she sunk into the lbyss beneath— (loud cheers.) Gentlemen, 1 glory in having been one of those who destroyed this boat” — On the same night (29th Dec. ’33.) says the Montreal Herald, “ Col. Holmes and the officers of his brigade, held their first regimental mess dinner at Orr’s Hotel. The room was decorated with transparencies of her Majesty, the Duke of Wellington, Britannia, the steamer Caroline in flames de- scending the Falls of Niagara, and a globe with the motto, “ The British empire, on which the sun never sets.” Sir Allan N. McNab was toasted, and many jokes cracked at the expense of the unfortunate Americans in the Caroline. 1912. British Frigate Java taken.— 1837, Benton takesrOul a warrant to appre- hend Mackenzie for an alleged breach of the lawsof neutrality at Buffalo. — 1833, Patriot meeting of the ladies of Buffalo — many other Caroline meetings. DEC. 30. 1833, ANTHONY G. W. G. VAN EGMOND, a native of Holland, and formerly Colonel in the army of Napoleon, settled many years in theHuron Tract, Upper Canada, where he owned about 15.000 acres. As he happened to be near Toronto when the difficulties took place there, he was arrested on Thursday the 7th of December, immediately after the battle, and lodged in To- ronto jail. He had committed no act of violence against the government, and there was no pretext for detaining him, but he was a dangerous man on account of his military talent, which was of the first order, and his known republican principles. Accordingly, the Governor, Council and Hagerman, held a consulta- tion, the result of which was that Colonel Van Egmond, in his 67 th year, was ordered down to one of the coldest of the cells underground. The water had ruu into the cell, upon the clothes under which he lay, and they were found next morning frozen to the ground, and the old Colonel all but perished. — The physicians were sent for, to keep up appearances, and they at once saw that he was done for. He was ordered to be sent to the hospital, and this day he breathed his last. This is English Government in Canada. May God in his lo- ving kindness to the son9 of men deliver the earth from such a dreadful curse.— Russian despotism is paternal affection when compared to the brutal sway of England. 1813, The City of BUFFALO burnt by the English in the midst of the frosts and snows of a Canadian winter. Only one house was left standing^— 1746, Carlisle Castle, with 400 Scottish prisoners, surrenders to the Duke of Cumber- land. The prisoners were treated with a refinement of cruelty. DEC. 31, 1806, A Commercial Treaty entered into by the ministers of the United States and England, which the Senate at Washington would not ratify. 1775, General Richard MONTGOMERY, a native of Ireland, falls before the walls of Quebec, while storming that strong hold of despotism, at the head of the gallant Colonists. He was one of the bravest aud most accomplished Gen- erals of the age. in these days there were no Native American Associations to insult brave men from Europe who embarked in the cause of freedom. Mont- gomery was a Colonel under Wolfe when he fell in 1759 ; he was a volunteer for fcbsrty to the new world, and his last sigh was embittered by anticipated defeat. Freeman's Chronicle. 109 2^-TO THE PEOPLE OF UPPER CANADA 1 «C1 Since crossing the Niagara in January, 1838, 1 have ascertained — that the re- publican forms of the governments of these United States serve as a mantle to con- ceal from the people tlie aristocratic machinery which, as in England more open- ly, moves the vessel of the state. In this great country of New York, the law- yers protect their monopoly by seven years apprenticeships, and at least as many varieties of rules of life, taken from England, her colonies, state legislation, con- gress statutes, foreign treaties, and British common law, as are in use among yourselves. The administration of justice is exclusively in the hands of those monopolists, the judges being often selected by the Banking influence, from among the most intolerant and exclusive of the members of the bar. Equal rights and the truths of the Declaration of Independence are not ondcannptbe enjoyed in the midst of a thousand city, village, clerical, manufacturing, railroad, canal, and, worst of all, banking corporations, every one of them more exclusive than another. They are the props of the British monarchy beyond the sea ; they are England’s fortresses on the continent of America. The influence of the press up- on the people here is very great ; and the tongues of the lawyers and the pens of the editors move in implicit obedience to the same monied power which has prostrated the last remains of freedom in Britain. Even the President of the republic has come forward and acknowledged, that as the United States is 200 millions of dollars in debt to the English capitalists, and paying them over ten millions of specie in tribute annually, and as America clings to an anti-republican, fluctuating paper currency, issued by her enemies, in preference to a gold and silver one of her own, the money power of England controls this nation, causes her banks to stop payment, deranges her finances at will, and might even embarrass her go- vernment in the hour of its utmost need. England has a standing army, and the government here is quietly increasing the efficiency of a like prop of monar- chy. The Church of England, in England, is richly endowed. In this State alone its priests own sixty millions value of estate. So we have an established church in risfht earnest, aye, and more than one. The State Legislature, whe- ther whig or democrat, meets but to increase the burthens of the people, iich capitalists pass laws for poor laborers, but as to republican legislation, where is it to be found? In the Congress, a majority of prerogative made lawyers shew far more respect for English Parliamentary customs than American Institutions; and; as far as I can judge, the two great parties of ins and outs, whose leaders move the people as if they were two contending armies, are the very counter- parts of the British Whigs and Tories, and equally honest and disinterested in all they say and do ! The ballot, of which I was much in favor when with you, would be no adequate protection to the poor voter in the present state of society in England, neither does it protect the people here. Corruption is powerful in England and with you, but beyond its influence here I should think that nothing could go. . ... The machinery of the state and general governments is becoming daily more complicated and difficult to be understood. The people are in the main true to the faith of their fathers, and desirous to walk in the good old paths, but party legislation, party orators, party presses, and party organization neutralize even universal suffrage, and impel them to take sides in a contest where their inter- ests are but little cared for, just as their brethren in England follow, one half Peel and Wellington, and t’other half Russell and Melbourne. So long as our friends in the United States choose to submit to such tv ,t, wo „J| J a system we have no ri^ht to interfere with them ; we should keep our attention firmly directed to one point, and that is political INDEPENDENCE both of England ‘and this Union. Where they have improved on their European models let us profit by the example, and where they have failed let us take a timely warning. The proper formal notion of government is the annexation of pleasure to some actions and pain and privation to others, in our power to do or forbear, and of which we have notice before hand by means of well known fixed laws. Thug it is that God governs the world, and the nearer we approach to the law of na- ture the happier we will be. But in these United States, the laws are so nume- rous and inconsistent with each other and with reason, that they are often little known or notoriously disobeyed. Such also is the English system, and it brings its punishment with it. M v darling wish for twenty years was to see one great federal union of the nations of North America, by which means I expected a perpetual peace to be maintained. But the time is not yet come. The sooner wo get rid oi Rngtisu 110 Caroline Almanac , and power, the nature of which this Almanack faithfully describes, the better. While England keeps five millions of her home subjects in poor-house bastiles or for factory ] work, we can have nothing to hope from her sense of justice; and it would be no enviable condition to become the miserable dependants of the slave owners of the south and the usurers of the north, by exchanging the yoke of Victoria for that of Congress. The time of your final emancipation is perhaps nearer than you imagine. Even here, shut up from society, within the gloomy walls of a republican penitentiary, by an American President, at the call of an English minister, for the love I bear to Canadian Liberty, I rejoice in the anticipation of that blessed day, when the sun shall cease to shine on a British slave from one end of Canada to the other. I write at this time to bid you prepare for that happy period, and would earnestly request you to consider some suggestions concerning a government, constitution and code of laws which are printed herewith. The views they convey may be imperfect, but my object is to lead you to reason and reflect, keeping always in mind that if you aspire to that great good of leaving to your children republican institutions, elective throughout, you must avoid tne grand error of the legisla- tors of these states, who yielding to the ambition, covetousness and avarice of a few, have covered the face of their country with gainful monopolies the grave of democracy. The sufferings of the reformers among you, by impiisonment, torture, starva- tion, and noon- day robbery, have been very great, but it is probable that they were essential to laying broad and deep the foundations of rational freedom in your land. Had you embraced the opportunity offered you in December, 1937, and achieved your liberty, I fear it would have been too lightly valued. Your European oppressors show very little statesmanship in their attempts to unite for internal legislation a country 1500 miles long, and filled with people of different customs and languages. They desire to saddle Lower Canada with four mil- lions of debt, of which it never borrowed or received one dollar ! But all their schemes have failed and v\ ill fail ; and by means of internal disturbances in the United Kingdom, or a short crop, or other causes of financial derangements there, or thro’ a quarrel with Russia, France, or Ireland, or trouble at Constan- tinople, you may be speedly relieved from their military power and left to govern yourselves. As to the chances of a rupture between England and these States, it is difficult to reason upon them. The Melbourne ministry may give way to Peel and the Tories, but what their policy would be perhaps even themselves could not now clearly foresee. It is probable it would be more warlike than that of Lord Pal- merston. It could not be more peaceful (seemingly) than that of Mr.Van Buren. But appearances here may be deceptive. Out of tne North East Boundary difficulties war may come and that speedily, and thus rid us of the English yoke. If the best of the Irish, English and Scottish Soldiers, now in Canada, could be made acquainted with the true character of the Government they serve, as exhibited in the Caroline Almanack, I think they would at once decide to fight no longer under the bloody cross of St. George against their own own flesh and blood. There are a thousand ways in which the more patriotic of your citizens might thwart their invaders and make them uncomfortable; and I declare to you that so long as one English bayonet stands unsheathed for your coercion, I think it your duty to use every exertion to oblige the tyrants who sustain it to retrace their steps. Take no thought for me. If you have read Mr. Van Buren’s letter to Lord Durham, as published in the London Times, you can readily conceive that if Governor Thomson has sent his compliments to Washington, with a re : quest that I may be detained other twelve months in this penitentiary, no efforts of the generous people of America will be at all available for my release, unless the commencement of hostilities change the American policy. In Jutteor July next I intend to publish 10,000 copies of an Almanack for 1841, somewhat larger than this, which will contain a code of laws suitable for Upper Canada, according to my views, with this advantage over the present system, that every body will be able to understand them. Some of you might aid me in tins publication by donations or orders with money in advance, and others by paying the sums due me so far as it may be convenient. My books of account, notes ^of hand, and records, were burnt by those to whom 1 entrusted them in 1837. The tasks yau have assigned me for many years past, have been often veiy se- vere, but I ta*e pleasure in the reflection* that I never shrunk from the lute F rceman's Chronicle. Ill of duty. My present confinement has made me more familiar with pain and sick- ness than during man y years previous, but even among the felons and prostitutes of a frontier prison I have learnt many useful lessons, especially as to prison dis- cipline and the necessity of being just and equitable in the infliction of punish- ments. Perhaps not less than 20,000 heads of families have removed from Canada since Sept. 1837, and so far as I have ascertained the minds of many of them, they are for independence the moment it can be attained. To their kindness, my family, in a strange land, and without the means of support, owe much. But for their timely aid the persecution of the American authorities would have been as unbearable as it was severe, wanton and unprovoked. Yet it would be wrong to blame the American People because they did not aid you as France aided their fathers. Had they been polled, I am satisfied they would have willingly consented to cross the St. Lawrence en masse to secur your deliverance from the English yoke, but the leaders of parties had more inte t ested views, and they prevailed. I have been in no way connected with the military movements on yourfrontie. since the winter of 1837-8, neither am I in the least discouraged by them. Prepare yourselves for a change ; use all the means in your power to hasten it, and some of the oldest of you will live to see the last British red soldier leave the banks and shores of the St. Lawrence, I trust, forever. Rochester, N. Y., January, 1840. WILLIAM L. MACKENZIE. SOME FEATURES OF A CONSTITUTION SUPPOSED TO BE SUITABLE FOR UPPER CANADA, AS A FREE AND*INDE- PENDENT REPUBLIC, IT A PURE DEMOCRACY.^ 1. The government to consist of three distinct departments, the Legisla- tive, Judicia and Executive, the members whereof shall be directly elected by the People. 2. Universal suffrage— that is, all elections to be by male citizens of 21 years and upwards, unstained by crime. * 3 The Legislature shall consist of a single chamber^ a General Assem- bly of one hundred members to be annually elected. The people will be a safer check on hasty or selfish Legislation than a senate made independent of them for 4 or 6 years. 4. In choosing the legislature, population shall be the basis of representa- tion, but no one county shall contain less than 400 square miles. 5. All resolutions, laws or statutes, intended to bind the people shall be printed after they have passed the legislature, and been formally submitted to the citizens in their several townships, for their judgment thereon; and no reso- lution, law or statute shall have any force until a majority of the citizens are satisfied with and approve of it. It is time that a republican form of government with monarchical insti- tutions were dispensed with on this continent, and is hoped that Upper Canada may be among the first states to set the example. The principle of instruct ing representatives may be necessary where the law is passed without consulting those whose business is to obey it ; but where the people keep the check in their own hands it is improper. To send a representative to hear and argue and reason and then make up his mind, and while doing this to instruct him to vote and argue in this way, or that ; to oblige him to reason and vote, it may be against the dictates of his judg- ment and conscience ; to p ace the determination ahead of the discussion ; to have one set of men who do not hear the arguments, decide, tho* hundreds of miles distant, that which another set of men have been specia ly appoint- ed to enquire into and conclude upon, after full investigation, is perhaps not the best way to arrive at the truth. 6. Ministers of the Gospel of all denominations to be eligible to the legisla- ture or to any office in the state. Wc do not desire to sec secular offices filled with the clergy, and if the people think as we do they will not elect them, but their exclusion from the rights of citizens cannot be defended on moral principles. 112 Caroline Almanac, and 7. Sheriffs, Judges, Coroners, Postmasters, Registers, and other officers whose duties require their attendance at their respective residences, or whose dependence on their incomes may impair their fitness to act independently in the legislature, are to be ineligible to seats therein while acting in an ex- ecutive capacity. 8. 'A jury system would be required that would secure in all cases, by a fair choice, the services of the most intelligent citizens as jurors. 9. A more humane, healthy and gentle system of punishments and prison discipline would be required. A change in this respect is indispensable. 10. When a jury shall agree on a verdict against any party tried in a crim- inal case, the judge shall specify the measure of punishment, but if two. thirds of the jurors dissent in opinion from him, he is to modify the sentence co as to obtain their concurrence. • 11. In England and the United States the public prosecutors appear to j!iave the power, either before or after indictment to bring to trial or pardon whom they please, without any rule, system or responsibility other than their mere pleasure or private interest, of which instructive proofs have been given since the frontier disturbances began. It is expedient that this power be modified so as to prevent these persons from making political capi. tal for their patrons at the expense of an impartial administration of justice. 12. Instead of summoning a convention, adopting a few general rules, and leaving to a knot of interested lawyers to twist them into any form they please, finder the name of statutes, in future years, it is proposed that the laws of Upper Canada shall consist of a written aud well arranged code of rules to be agreed upon at a general convention of the people ; and that this code shall, before it takes effect, be submitted to the citizens in their primary assemblies to vote upon, chapter by chapter. 13 Under such a system, one man of plain understanding would under* stand plain rules as well as another, hence the occasion for an organized monopoly of privileged barristers and attornies, to expound the present lie- terogencous mass of what is now called law, and to dispense it, would be at an end, and therefore the trade and calling of a lawyer, like than of an edi- tor, printer, legislator, watchmaker, or merchant, would be thrown open to the whole people. 14. No candidate for office, or witness in a court of justice to be ques- tioned as to his religious belief — and all swearing of oaths to be done away with. Witnesses in courts could be required solemnly to affirm, and per- sons appointed to offices, solemnly to pledge themselvps to a faithful per- formance of their duties. (See Matthew V and James V.) 15. In any treaty made by the government with a foreign power, it would be required that the whole particulars should be laid before the legis- lature ; and if it approve of the conditions, as also the people in their town- ships, such treaty is then to form part of the supreme law. 16. Cheap and portable editions of the laws to be provided, so that all persons may have copies for reference. 17. The duties of the executive department to be exercised by a Govern- or, who shall hold his office for two years. 18. Provision to be made for the election of a Treasurer, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Education, &c. ; and for a successor to the gov- ernor in case he died, resigned or was removed. 19. County Officers to be chosen by the people at proper intervals ; also township officers. Our views in detail on these subjects will be seen in the next almanack, or the companion thereto, next June, in which the attempt at codification will be made. If imperfect, let the matter be reasoned. 20. The post office department is to consist of such post offices on such post roads as the law may direct. The rates of postage, on letters, nows, papers, magazines and pamphlets, and of remuneration to officers, to bo re* 113 ependeati g'manex. c^s, bn > and prise; usable, d in a era b«t if tn IhesEute^ n ippejij 1 to tra! r sibilitjftfc e proo&'ip enttlnij oliticah jnofjsfe [enenini oy fontr )sed tlati iged cods: and that t tens is Ik would m an orguijt lepresali would k an ofuft thrown on e tobsyu ie done in ‘in, and y faithful^- n power. ' >re the lef> atheirton so that y aGoper 5e«etw< to t top irrtlsl & ahaanaci- ;odidcatioo s on Ri« m ** g) l*^ Pittman'* Chronicle. gulated by law, but so as to yield no surplus revenue. All post masters to be elected annually by the people, but must be approved by the Surveyor of Post Roads, and be liable to removal by him, 21. All public unappropriated lands within Upper Canada, all lands that have been granted or conveyed to priests, clergymen, or religious societies or ttachcrs, or to churches, congregations, sectarian colleges, schools or hierarchies of any sect or denomination, or under the form or tiLle of King’s college lands, university lands, glebes, rectories, school lands, or by any other name whatever, whether by the British or Colonial Authorities or those under them, or any public authority whatever, are to be taken to be the property of the State for its public use. 22. It is believed that the fair sale by auction, in the way that the laws would direct, of a portion of the public domain from time to time, would furnish the means for maintaining the government and its officers, without any inland or other tax. It is therefore proposed that trade and commerce with all other countries be free and unshackled. If it is deemed advisable to forbid any foreign luxuries they may be prohibited. 23. The townships and counties to have leave, under proper regulations to assess themselves for educational and other purposes, appoint their offi- cers, and have their accounts duly audited and checked. 24. Although borrowing money is one of the last things a free people should attempt, it may sometimes be necessary to do so. The legislature may pass laws authorizing, in detail, the borrowing of money on the credit of the State, or on certain lands or income — each law to state the precise anm to be borrowed, to limit the terms of the loan and to agree to the times of repayment. If a majority of the people in their townships, at two successive stated meetings, vote in approbation of such a measure, it shall have force, but not otherwise. 25. The state shall neither lend its credit to any individual nor to asso- ciations, professing to carry on internal improvements, nor shall it become the partner of any private company or create any corporation of an exclusive character. [When the state lends its credit and the experiment succeeds, the rich stockholders reap all the profit. When it fails, as is the case 19 times out ol 20, the poor farmers suffer the loss.] 2G. In the collection and keeping of educational and other funds care must be taken not to allow large balances to accumulate in the hands of individuals. 27. In all laws made and to be made every person shall be bound alike — neither shall any tenure, estate, charter, statute, degree, birth or place, con- fer any exemption from the ordinary course of legal proceedings and respon. sibilities whereunto others are subjected. No exemption laws shall releaso any person, class, or order of persons, or their property, from such public duties, taxes or burthens as others may be subjected to. Every profession, trade or business not hurtful to community shall be equally open to the pur- suit of all. without charter, license, inpediment or prohibition. 28. The coins in lawful circulation in the United States shall be the only legal currency of Canada, until a coinage of equivalent value, blit stampt by ounces, half and quarter ounces, can be substituted. 29. No treasury notes, exchequer bills, or any other promissory note* shall be issued by the government, nor shall it receive and pay those whom others may issue. All public officers shall pay and receive current money only in their transactions. 30. The chartered banks and other exclusive incorporations of U. C. are to cease, except so far as may enable them under proper suspervis«on to wind up their dffairs. 31. The regulations made in this schedule will ensure a free press. 32. No hereditary emoluments, privileges or immunities to be granted to any citizen and his heirs by the people. E Caroline Alfnaiia<, and s; enjoyment of contentment and peace, the charter under a gen abolished, and frugal, plain governments erected in their stead, under a gen. eral law to apply to all places where there is a crowded population. 34. Debts P heretefore lawfully contracted may be collected by due course ° f 35 W Ndaw shall ever be passed or court established for the collection of debts hereafter to be contracted between man and man, or arising from voL untary agreement between parties whereby the one relmquishes a right to seme property for the promise or expectation of an equivalent hereafter. [Tins law would place bank-notes, shares of stock, mortgages, bonds ] pro. missory notes, payable with or without interest, conditional pledges of estate 7 and all paper securities whatever in the situation of debts of honor not to ’be recovered by law. The most usurious bargain might be made, but it would be optional with the party promising, to pay or evade the claim. No man could be'compelled to part with his property, but if he did so v^h out value he must trust to the integrity of his debtor. U. Canada is cursed with about 500 courts, for the recovery of debt, with hosts of judges, com rs, lawyers constables, clerks, and other officers, armed with processes, war. rants, usages, cognovits, judgments, bills of costs, &c., sufficient to keep the entire population in endless misery.] 36. As the alteration contemplated in the last and other clauses, wou lessen the volume of the currency, the convention on investigation ought to examine and establish a tariff between debts contracted in < depreciated pa. per and the gold and silver they are here required to be paid in, of $60. $70, Sj80 or $90 as the equivalent of $100 heretofore borrowed. This not to apply to the banks in so far as they would have to take their own paper at Pa 37.' raSL^otn'frusand houses or farms, and make such agreements with the tenants they admit on their premises as they think ht, ■o regulating the covenants as to assure themselves prompt payment, and on a default may promptly eject the tenant, but are to have no power to sell or seize his furniture or property for rent or arrears of rent. 38. All the power now enjoyed by the rich of intimidating the poor, being taken away, voting by ballot is abolished, and every man shall give his suf. frage openly, as a man, viva voce. . n ■> 39. The laws of primogeniture, half blood and entail are to be annulled, and the sons and daughters of parents who may die intestate shall inherit equally the family patrimony. 40. After marriage the real estate possessed by a man and Ins wife s.iall be held to belong to them jointly, insomuch that no sale or lease made by the one without the consent of the other, shall be valid. And in the making o wills varying the ordinary course of descent of property, no such will or tes- tament shall be lawful unless agreed on, signed and acknowledged by hus- band and wife, her part and portion being, on every principle of rational jus. tice, the same as his. In case the woman survive her husband and there be no children or lawful will she shall be entitled to half the property real and personal. If there be children she shall have one third. . 41. Equal freedom shall be extended to all in the enjoyment ol religious profession and worship. . c 42. The present spiritual and temporal supremacy of the church or £*ng. land in U. Canada, and all attempts at obtaining supremacy over the others by any religious denomination, to be declared unlawful. 43. The whole people to be organized and armed as a national guard, and the youth to have arms suited to their age and be taught the use o coMn 1 for ti j ^ to I* lengtt. oc count lection { from nil a# t»| roak t be a i cthecn ; id sot: ' la is civ res, conh esses, si. toto'i uses, on oagh: reciatcdpi mM ’his not a rn paper t make ffi- y think u ?ment, ui io power a poor, rive his € annoTst hall inbff* wife * iadehyt» makiiif 1 * will or ^ red by ^ itionalj* ad Usenet y reil^ fl#* li* [iieotbe^ Freeman GhronicU. vT 115 them in every township. To have two or more superior military schools, but no standing army upon the European plan. 44. On the question, whether verdicts for libel subjecting citizens to criminal punishment are or are not unjust in principle, I would gladly re- ceive information previous to next June. My friend Solomon Southwick, after 40 years of editorial experience, declared them unjust. It is proper that every person may freely speak, write and publish Ins sentiments, being responsible for the abuse of that right. How is the responsibility to be e*. forced ^e estab i ishment Q f large cotton, silk, woollen, or other factories where thousands of the youth ot both sexes could be seduced from the homes of their parents by the hope of gain, and immured many hours a day should be discouraged as far as precept and limiting the hours of working can do so They are unhealthy and immoral, ftever did boy or girl look hand- somer than in the home iniado stuffs ,spun, wove, and dyed on the farm and in the house of their parents. _ , P , 46. In such a republican state of society, poor laws will scarcely be found necessary, except perhaps an institution for mildly treating those who have lost their reason, and another for instructing the deaf and dumb, and the '*'’47 Lotteries are anti-republican (see page 36.) and to be prohibited ; and all gambling to be discouraged, especially thro’ precepts to youth m com- m T3 8 Nrma 0 n°w'hether white or black, citizen or stranger, should beheld in personal bondage as the slave of another. S avery is a violation of flm moral law, and its existence in America deeply to be rejreted But altho it were at an end in the southern states, the whites and blacks would not amalgamate ; the coloured population would not he received into society on an equality with the whites. The remedy is to give to the coiourcd people the country west of the , in full sovereignty for ever, solely to tl eir use, so that they may enjoy such political institutions and live under such laws as they think desirable, instead of being deceived by a mockery of po- litical equality in Upper Canada. . . A 49 Instead of enabling lawyers to embarrass suitors, perplex juries and pervert justice for hire and gain, by what is termed judicial legislation through which the precedents, usages, decisions, laws and law authorities of other nations are often admitted as a rule of action, tho following cardi- nal principles of rational justice are to be forever taken and pleaded as the supreme law, an unerring guide, a statutory regulation never , to b ° v ten viz “ All things whatever ye would that men should do to you, d ye even so to them. "-Matthew 7 & 12: and, “ Thou shall love thy neigh- bour as thyself.”— James 2 & 8. This is the precept of the law of nature. 50 The y setting apart one-seventh of our time, so as to make bunday a dav of rest from labour — and the precepts, not to covet that which is ano- K to do no murder, neither to rob nor steal, to honor our parents and not to bear false witness against our neighbour, should be embodied in tho republican code ; and while strength or courage, cleanliness and temperance are pointed out as moral virtues, the offences of drunkenness, cowardice , filthiness* ignorance, idleness and sloth should be suitably denounced. Tq for MACKENZIE’S GAZETTE, and this Almanack. JVnj Wai^«, Ri^moi^; GeOT^^erorqJ^nrmt ^Wm.^K^Aup^Md ?“SSl' 5S3E! I&f IBS? b.3. John Muut’, B.*S«V W- 0 Lewis, For. Onlario, John Willb.qk, I’hiladelpliia. 116 INDEX- TO THE ALMANAC. Abbey Dor. murdered, 103. Adams John, 60, 65, 66, 87. Allan Win. 9, 40, 93, 103. Aivo.i .V n 70, narrative 100 Ai »va v -i. ..< !,*••••••• «5. Allan 5. Anderson John, •• -40. 71. Anderson Duncan murd. 8. Andre Major, hung, • • - 84. Arnold Benedict, traitor, 8, 81, 82. Arnold Capt. J. 7. Arthur Sir George; 8, 9, 16, • ♦ • 20, 32, 34, 35, 40, 57, 60, •• • 87, 88, 93, 94, 103, 105. Argyle Eailof, beheaded 61 AshurstWm.H. • • 70, 100. Askin John B. 9. Adams John Quincy, --67. Baldwin Robert, 101. Baldwin Augustus, 9, 103. Balmerino Cord, beheaded, 75. Bedford Paul, 70. Bedford Davis D., murder- ed, 9, 107. Beebe Nelson, killed, ‘*10. Beemer Jacob, traitor, 70. Benton Thos. Hart, •• •13. Benton N. S., 28, 59, 108. Binns Benj. Pemberton, Philadelphia, (not John) 56 Bolton George, 100. Boulton H. J. 31, 89, 104. Bostwick John, 9- Brien Dr., Informer, • • • 82. Brace Lester, ex- sheriff, 59 Brougham Lord, 14, 34, 70, 74, 95, 100. Brophy Step. B. 11, 60, 71. Brown Thomas Storrow, 99. Bradley Col., II. Buckley Chris, murdered, 8 Bunveii Mahlon, 27, 29, 30,34, birth 71, 104. Burns Robert, 14, 68. Burke Edmund, 77. Burgovne General, 87. Burn. riiii 4 j.i. Zieh--89. Butchart Jonn, 34. Byron Lord, 14, 45. Bid well Barnabas, 70. BidwellM. S., ■ • • 100, 102. Bedard J udge, ( L.C.) 97, 106 Bouchette, (son to S. G. of L. Canada, 100. Cadwallader Michener, 59. Cameron Donald, 11 INDEX TO NAMES OF PERSONS. Carroll Wm. 5. Carmichael Hugh, 30, 66. Cardinal Narcisse, 82, mur- dered, •' 106. Case Geo. Washington, 33, i rial 60, 88- Castlereagh Lord, •• -6, 75. Charles, 1st, executed, 16, 38. Chandler Sam. 32, 73. Cilly Jonathan, shot, •• 27. Clitherow General John, 13, 24, 94, 106. Clay Henry, 15, 26,30,61, Clark I. lasned severely, 43. Clark Albert, murdered, 23. Clark Geo. A. 88. Collins John, froze, - • • • 12. Cobbett Wm. 6, 58, 65. Conklin Judge Alfred, 60. 103. Coffin Sir Isaac, 68. Cook Dr. Ephraim, 75. Colborne Sir John, (Lord Seaton) 6, 23,31,49, 73, 76, SO, 89, 90, 91, 94, 98, 104, -105, 106, 108 Colborne Lady, J 06 Craig Governor, 24, 33. Cranmer Arch’p, bu nt,33. Cunningham Col. Corneli- us, murdered 23 Cooley George; 55, 73 Cromwell Oliver, 104. Dalhouisie Earl of, 46. Dalton Thos. 10,41,97. Daniels, of N. Y. Gazette, 73. Darnley Ld., murd. 23. Davignon Dr. J. F. 93,95, 99. DaylonJudge, 68. Decoigne P. T., murd., 13. De Lorimier Chevalier. murdered, 24, 25, 82! Daunais Amable murd.24. DeSt. Ours Roch, 80. Demaray Pierre Paul, • *99. Despard Col. executed, 95. Doanc Josh. G. murd. 23 Dodge W. W. .57, 60, 86 Draper W. H. 9, 23. Drolet Jos. T. 99. Drew Commod.33,45, 108 Durfee Amos, murdered, 107. Durand Jas. Sen. 29. Durand Chris. 41, tried 50. Duncombe Ohas. . -88, 104 Durham Earl of, 29, 51 54, 55, 61, 67, 73, 77, 84. 89, 95. Falconer Thomas. - • • -70. Fillmore Millard 103. Fletcher Silas, &C.88, 98. Forsyth Mr. Secretary, 8. Fox, English minister, 2. Fox Chas. James, 14,80. Franklin Benjamin. 12. 63, 80. 89. Frazer Richd. D. 89, 104. Foote Dr. Thos. M. 108. Gagnon Julien,*. -99, 100. Gamble Moses, 30. Gauvin Dr. Alphonso, 99. Garrow Nathaniel, M r- shal, ••■•60,91, 106. Ghent David, 5 . Gibson David, 54, 74, 88, ■*. 98, 100, 101, 102. Girod Amury,- • • - 99, 105. Glenelg Lord, 3, 8, 10, 16, •\ * 20,47,73. Girouard Jean J. 99. Gordon Lord Geo. — 56. Gorham Nelson, 88. George 3d, 6, 13, 16, 33, 51, cruelty of 89. George M r. murd. 103. Gosford Lord, • • 90, 95, 99. Go wan Ogle R., 23, 32, 61. Graham Jeremiah, 88. Grant Peter, destroyed, 16. Grant John, 73. Gregoire Narcisse, — 90. Grey Earl, 29, 34, 95. Gurnet! Geo. • 86, 88. Hall Elisha, 88. Hayes Sergeant M. - • • - 5. Hagerman Christopher A. Cameron Dr . Archd. hung, Du verna y Ludger, 12? 73.' 66. Cambreleng C. C. 86JDesrivieres Rodolph,-99 guquet'eJos. murd. •• 106. 35, 37, 40, 45, 50, 87, 88, 97, 103. 104. Hampden John, 59. Hamelin Eras. Xavier, murdered, 13. Hamilton Sheriff Alex. 26. Harrison Major Wm. > • 26. Harrison Gen. W. H., 15, 26,84. Hardy Andrew, murder’d, 49. Hardy Thos. ••••87. Hart Samuel Peter, infor- mer,- 71, 80. Hastings Warren, •• 9, 10. Haynes Col. Isaac, mur- dered 72. Head Sir Francis, 16, 31, 34, 47, 54, 74, 88, 92, 98, 102, 103, 103. Henry John, 24. Henderson E. T. 34. Caldwell wife of Rev Mr l”?* muru * * * lur >.!Hindenlang Charles, mur- L/aiaweii, wue ox ttev. Mr. Deltsle, high const., lOG. dered, !. -24. Elliott Thomas 5. j Hooper Bishop, burnt. 23. Llhott Commodore, • • - SO Hogg James, - • • 100, 102. Elmsley John. 79, 93, 103. ! Honshman Jac. murd. 90. murdered, 56. Cawn Almas Alt’s wife, 9. Carey Matthew. • *29, 77. jeW 0 ii.s fi)B • 30.3 TjSani. jfjOoTfl- ' jjoiJ Jar ti» ffr jjoaRicfc eJ#- jCtar,! ijft’r iuJw nil iioii iratcGe !tgc Bis asCte a Mb SWflS.x »Lvnt seit'Wi autre F s&Wn a!ie Jar uBenjai -Td Jess te Hit 4wood 16 tl* ■ aurJe b: 3 Phi at 31 blollur aula 1 ■’i:; iW I:Nal Ml. .Mai, U INDEX TO THE ALMANAC. 117 tot?,., 1 iid' town! towns,! Horne Tooke, John, 33, 94. Hall Gen. Wm. •• *66, 74. Hume Joseph, 16, 39, 46, 48, 70, 100. Hunter Dr. James, 42. Hu 93 John, burnt, 65. Jackson Andrew, 6, 10, 30, 32, 90, 94, 106. Jarvis Wm. B.. sheiiff, 34, 40, 50, 86, 89. Jarvis Sam. Peter, 40, 41. Jefferson Thomas, 32, 37, 63, 65, 83. Ingersoll James, 9 Johnston Wm., 93 Johnson Rich. M. • • 23, 84 Jones Judge Jonas, 23, 29 ; ....40, 53, 54, 73, 83, 102 Julius Caesar, assassinated, 32, Kendall Amos,- •• 75 Kennedy Chas., Kerr Wm. J., 33 Ketchum Wm. 22, 37, 45 Ketchuni Jesse, 34 Kilmarnock Lord, 75 Kirkup Wm. 66 Kosciusko, died, 8 Lafayette General, 19, 52, 74,79,91,95 Lartigue Bishop, 53 Latimer Charles, 49 Laud Archbishop, 11 LawtonS. A murd. 8 Leacti Lyman R., murd 2.> Leggett William, 54 Lemaitre Francis, 11 Lesslie Wm. 29 Lesslie James, 34 Lett Benjamin, ••••••• 80 Lloyd Jesse, indicted, • • 88 Lynde Hiram B. murd. 9 Lockwood Joseph, 6 Loui9 16th behead. 14, 103 Lount Col. Samuel, 9, 22, 35, murdered, 40, 57, 77, birth Si, 93 to 102 Louis Phillipe, 73 Luther Martin, 91, 57, 26 Lovat Lord, beheaded, 39 McCollum C.H., 106 McLean Judge Arch’d. 40 Macaulay J.B., J. S.&J.10 McCracken H’y. Joy, 56 McLeod Gen. Donald, 60 McLeod Alex. • • • • -32, 73 Macon Nathaniel, 61 McNulty John, ■ * • -55,73 McCormack Shd.7,32,80 Macnab Sir Allan N. 7, 8. 31, 35, 40. 89, 104, 108 McDonell Bishop Alex 34, 94 McDonell Holland, 7 Madison J . 26, 39, 58,61, 80 Monroe James, 65 Malcolm Finlay, 70 Maieolm Eliakim & J., 88 Mahmoud 2nd,- * 67 Marshall James, 88 Marryatt Capt., •• 45, 104 Matthews Capt. Peter, 35, murdered 40, 41, 100 Mercer Gen. Hugh, • • • 106 Melville Lord, 39, 98 Miller St’n. murdered, 99 Melbourne Lord, 2, 29, 34, 75, 103 Miller Lyn. Wilson, 55, 73 Mills John. 34 Milne Peter, Jun.. 29 Milton John, 23, 103 Monroe Gen. murdered, 57 Montgomery John, trial ... 37, 40. 54,71, 102, 103 Montgomery R. dies, • • 108 Mosicr John, 7 Moon Hen. J., ••••71,80 Moodie, death of Col. 101 Morden Ralph, - * * - 40, 71 Morrison Thos. D. •• - 46, 74, 100, 102, 103 Moreau Col. James, 26, 56, (murdered 1st August.) Morin A. N. 93 Yludge Zech., suicide, • • 57 Narbonne Pierre 24 NapoleonBonaparte,19,27, 49, 52, 57, 58, 59. 60, 65, 74 86. 90, 95, 98 Nelson Dr. Robert, 89,90 Nelson Dr. Wolfred, 61 63, 95, 98, 99, 103 Ney Marshal, shot, • • 103 Newcombe Dr. S , • • 34, 82 Nicolas F. murdered- • -24 Norbury Lord, shot,* North Lord, O’Brien Geo. R., O’Coigley James, murder- ed,- 5( O’Connell Daniel, 16, 26, 45, 51, pledge 71, 73, 87, 89 O’Callaghan E. B. 99, 107 Peeler Joel, murdered, 106 Penn Wm., 86, 89 Perrault Chas. Ovide, • • 95 Perry Commodore, 80 Perley Julius, murd. - *-23 Phelps Rus’l, murdered, 8 Pitt Wm., 51, 77, 98 Powell John, Mayor ofTo- ronto, 101. Polignac, 95 Priestly Dr. Joseph, • • • 22 Prince John, 45, 98, 99 Price James Hervey, *-34 Putnam, death of Col., 98 Ralcliffe Earl, beheaded, 103. Raleigh Sir Wal’r.81 Randall Robert, 14, 45, 79 Red Jacket, 13, 14 Reed, a noble American, 23 Reynolds N. G. 52, 65 Ripon Earl of, 31, 90 Ritchie & Hill, gallows contractors, 77 Robert J. J. murd. • • • • 13 Roebuck, J. A.,- • • -70, 100 Robertson Peter and Robt. 28, 103. Rodier Ed. E. 99 Robinson J. B. (Chief Jus- lice) 9, 35,37,40. 45.50. 57, 98. Robinson Hon. P. 65 Rothschild Nathan, 67 Rolph Dr. John, 31, 37, 45,47, 53, 88. 98, 100, 101, 102,103. Rolph Geo.- -76 Russell Lord murd 68 Russell Lord Jno. 2, 26, 68 Ruttan H’y, Sheriff, 40, 80 Rymal Jacob, 88 Ryerson Rev. Egerton,29, 63,83. Rykert George, 35 Sanguinet A. murdered, 13 Sanguinet C. murdered, 13 Schermerhorn Ab. M. • • 87 Scott W. H. 99 Scott Gen. W,...-68, 69 Scott Sir Walter, --74.81 Seaton Lord, (see Sir Jno. Colborne.) Servetus Mich*l, burnt, 88 Shannon Janies, 34 Shade Absalom, 89 Sharpe Archbishop, • • -49 Shephard Joseph, 45, Sherman Capt.,- • • -90. 91 Sherwood Hen’y 9, 23, 37 Sieyes Abbe, 61 Smith Christopher,- • • - 59 McNevin Dr. W. J.. 83.93, Mackenzie Wm. L., 6, 9, 13, 14, 20,27,31,33.34,45, 47, 51, 52, 54. 57, trial 59, 63, 65. 71, 74, 85,83, 89, 90 93, 94, 95, 97 to 103, 104, 106, 103. 109 Mackay Rehert, 34 O’Chenier Jean,- • -99, 104! Sprague Foster, informer, Papineau 1.. J., 49, 61, 84. 71, 80. Stanley Ld-26 ,75 nri ,no Stark Gen. John, •• 75. 83 Stuart James, C. J. 63 Stuart Mary, beheaded, 12 Stuart PrinceCh. 75,81,100 Stewart Jn. Esquesing, 71 Stephens Rev. J. R, •••59 Strachan Bish. Jno, 11. 40 99, 103 Papineau A. M-, 23, 82, 86 Parker John G.,- • • - 7, 70 Parker Richard, 52 Parsons Timothy, 34 Paine Thomas, *•••••• Jo Peel Sir Robert,, 76. 90. 93 tie INDEX TO THE ALMANAC. Sullivan R. B. -*9, 93, 103 Sutherland, T. J, --10, 11 Swartvvout Samuel • • • -75 Sweetman Dan. inf. 9, 23 SvveteSylvanus,murd. 10G Swift Dr. Jonathan,- * • 87 Taylor D. U. C's death, 55 Taylor Jno. of Long Point 105*. Tecumseth, • • 73, 84 Teed John, (Quebec, 97, 106 Theller Edward A., 10,11 16, 40, 57, 60, 65, 86 , 95, 97. Thom Adam, Mon- treal, 61. Thompson Col. of Hull, 20 Thompson Judge Smith, 42, 59, 60 Thomson Chas. Poulett, Usher Edgeworth: Van Egmond Col. 100, 102 Van Buren Martin, 15, 18, 31, 32, 43, 44, 54, 94. 99, 103, 110 Van Camp Garret, • • 32, 73 Van KoughnetP . 29.30, 88 Van Rensselaer Capt. 30 Vernon John, • • • 32, 62, 73 Victoria, Queen of Eng- land, 8 , 13, 20, 57 VigerD. B., 90 Von SchoultzN. S., 8,20, 91, murdered 103 Waite Major Benj.**32, 73 Waite Mrs 32 Walker Robert 70 Wallace Sir Wm.41,mur- 76. 82, 103|dered and tortured, 42, 60 Tillinghast Dyre, 23 Walpole Sir Robert, • • * 38 Tompkins Daniel E.** -34 Washington George, 13, Tone Theobald Wolfe, 83 •• -26, 27, 33, 58, 67, 79, 80 Tracey Dr., Montreal, 12 'Watson Leonard, •• -70, 71 Waters Charles 74 Watt James, 13 Webster Daniel, •• 9, 61 . 88 WellingtouDuke of, 51, 93, 103. Wetherall SirCh.96 White Reuben, 6 Wideman Ludovick, shot, 51. Wixson Joseph,* •• 28 Wilkes Jn. 20. 30,51.87,97 William 3d, of Orange, 14, 25,31,84,85,90, 105 Whitehead Geo. Wash., 9 Windt John, 21 Wilson Wm. died, 42 VVixson Randal, 70 Woodruff Col. murd. 105 Woodbury Levi, 66 Worth Col.*- 14, 27,91.94 Wriglu Silas, Jun. 18, 103 York Duke of, 33 Young Hon. Sam. 9, 44, 46 Zealand Edward, 1 MISCELLANEOUS INDEX. Almanac Calendar Pa ges, (including Farmer’s Calendar) 5, January — 19, February— 28, 29, March —36, AprH— 48, May— 55, June — 62, July — 72, August — 78, September — 83, Oc- tober - 89, No vember— 97, December. Almanac for 1841** *110. America, Columbus lands in, -85 Astronomical characters 2 BANKS AND CURRENCY. Agricult. Bank Toronto, 51 Banks— Seep 8,11,12.14, 21, 47, 48, 58. 63, 87 Brandon Bank,Mississ. 69 Commonwealth B. Ky. 82 Commonwealth B. Ms. 85 Currency, 26,27,33, 46, 87 Danish Banking, 66 England Bank of, 6 , 20, 21, breaks 27, 57 Independent Treasury 8, **•12, Billl 6 , 17, 18,22, 60 Law’s Bank of France, 6 Maryland Leg. bribery, 81 Michigan Banks,- • • • 34. 37 Mississippi Bank of,- ■ • - 66 Montreal Banks, 49, 51, 85 National B, for U. S. 12, 38 N.York B. 6, 37, 42,50,53,57 Paterson & Po’keepsie B 56 Quebec branch of M’iB.85. Rochester Banks. 63 Russian Banking, 77 Schuyler’s Detector 35 Scotch Banks, -- 8 , 37 Surplus Revenue Bill, 21,22 Tombigby Bank, 75 'U: Canada Banks, 15, 16, 97 U. States Bank of Pa. 6, 12, 30, 39,44, broken 84 Usury, 68 Vicksburgh Bank 63 Essex Co. Bank, - * *34, 80 BATTLES. Princetown 7— Cowpens 13— River Raisin 14— New Orleans 10— Fighting Igl’d 27 — W arsa w 27 — Poin t au Pelee 29— Guildford Court House 32 — Paris Barriers 35— Culloden 43— Concord Jacinto 44 — Toronto 47— Oulard, Wexford, Naas & Gory 53 — Antrim 56— Bur- lington 56 — Newtonards & Ballynahinch57— Naseby, Killicrankie, Marengo and Friedland 58 — Waterloo & Chalgrove Field 59— Both- woll Biidge, Bannockburn, Wayne and Indians 60— Monmonth 61 — Wagram, Braddock’s Defeat 65 -the Boyne, Aughrim 66 — Lun dy’s Lane 63— Paris, the 3 glorious days 71 — Fort Erie & Kilsyth, Scotland 74— Bennington & Camden 75 Cashel 76— Copenhagen 78 — Flodden Field, Eutau Springs, Lake Erie. Brandy wine, Piattsbugh, N. Point, Quebec SO — Preston Pans, FortErie sortie 81 -Que* ns- ton Jena, 86 — Leipsic, Yorktown & Saratoga 87 0X* ^th- , jjna ljroi‘ 1 0 Windsor uluatio- jnodlac DEX CAXi n Germappe, Odeltown and Tippecanoe 90— Chrysler’g Field, Sheriff Muir 91- Windmill 91, 92, 93- St. Dennis 95— St. Charles 96 Austrelitz 98— Windsor 99 —Toronto 102— St. Eus- tache 104 — Trenton and Princetown 106. Burnings — 4, 6 . 41 44, 56, 65, 86 , 87, 88 , 91, 94. 96, •• 98.104,105, 102,107,108 Calendar — See Almanack. Courts Martial. (Boards of Assassins) 8 . 11.20, 31, 33, 57,94 Danish Fleet seized,- - - • 78 Dutch Invasion of Eng, 90 Earthquake at Martinique, 11 . Education, 7,46 EXECUTIONS, POLITICAL, 3, 8 , 9, 13, 20, 23, 24,25, 32, 40,41,44, 49,56, 57.61, 66 , 67, 67, 68 , 72, 75,76.87,88, 95, 103, 105, 106 Farmer’s Calendar, (See Almanack) Fires, — 84 Gratitude of the wealthy 29 I mpressmen t, 42, 44, 64 kansdc - 11,13 tartit gaGov Ml,' - 90, 9 KOI As ureal Be areal SI snood i Gallon,- sanCoi Dennis blue! IOC CPPEE state! kind INDIA. English government in 9— horrible oppression 43 & 97 Mexico, 33 , 90 «sag- done mt MASSACRES — MURDERS, (Also see executions)— Ca- roline 7 — Glencoe25 — Bos- ton 30— Lisbon 32— Lon- don 51 — Montreal 52— Cas- tlepollard 52 — Rathcor- Ite , INDEX TO THE ALMANAC. mack 64-Newtonbarry 59 on board the Chesapeake 60 , 63— Wyoming 62— Pe- terloo 74-^in Ireland 76— Walls town 79— Smerwick 81 — 1 Toronto 86— Warsaw 89— Windsor 99. Naturalization Laws, 16,40 ofOiaEs Newfoundland, 74 93 N. Scotia is republican, 431factory 31, 37, 45, 55, whole- Polish Ball 94, massacre 89 sale 59, Scotch 81, English Printing Presses destroyed (white 82, 84, 115. 11,33,90 Style, old and new, 80 Tyrants, how disposed of, 23, 49, 53 Van Dieman’s Land, Ca- nadians sent to 32 73 Weather Prophets, 73 St. Domingo sets up font self, ••••*•64 Scalps bo’ t by England, 89 slavery, notices of, 10, 14, 15, 26, Geo. W« died.- 1 imial, I Col da l r Levi, I IVDI2X TO CANADA, ENGLAND, FRANCE, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, AND THE UNITED STATES. CANADA. Army, English, in 19,65, 94 Jackson offers tosetfree94 Taxed at bayonet’s point 1 46. 65 Union with U. S. 19,29, 33 Idwarit LOWER CANADA. Army under Nelson and Cote, • • • 28, 89 Buffalo, the, white slave lOdeltotii ship, S2 ieS Wn Burnings by the English, enffl/', .. 91,94,105 91, 8, W Canadians doomed to die, -Sl.CW 11,13,14,23,31,34 98-Wa^ De Lorimier. Daunais and 102-Stf — Trenuti o 106. -4 Hi friends murdered. 24 English Government in 4, 12, 24, 61, 74,76, 80, 88, 90, 91, 93,94,97, 99 JSJISjl Houseof Assembly, 10,46 105 , mi .*». 74,77 -See Alma Montreal Bank villainy, So irlial.(B«tf Montreal Massacre, 52 lUUH Priesthood in Seminary 94 &c. 8— Lynn &c. 8, 9—20— Doane &c. 23— Leach 23— 136 sentenced 23—7 Amer- ican Farmers 66 — Van Schoultz, Abbey & George 103 — Woodruff L05— Peeler and Swete 106 Family Compact •• -40, 74 Fort Henry, escape f’ in 71 Grievance Report. 73 Methodist Leaders 63, in England 59, 64 Militia. 5000 turn out •• *93 Navy Island, notices of • • 8, ...10, 12,104,105, 107, 108 Prescott prisoners **20, 23 Public Debt 32 Population 36 Revolt n’rToronto 98 tol02 Ryerson Rv. E. notice ot63 Short Hills Prisn’s tried 73 Toronto made a city 31 — government riots 34- -ta ken 47, 77 — massacre near • • 86— battle near 99 to 102 Windsor Prisoners, mur- der of 9 , 23 eel its Russian Consul’s arrest, 9G Windsob Battle of •• S», 99 asidotifc St. Charles, battle of* • *96 LeatMsnss St. Dennis, battle of* • *95 jaiioD."" N3. POlJt 20,234’ 19,56,53 vM 95,1931) Caleno v ) Fire, flhewtf nt, (DU* St. Eustache, battle of 104 Tracey and D avernay, • 12 UPPER CANADA. Address to the People of 1 09 Advocate Press desir’d, 57 Alien and Land Bills. 14 23,45 AI ves, Parker &c releas 70 Arrests for Treasons, 6, 19, 27,28 29 30,32 , 43,55,62 B nks, 15. 16,51,97 Burning property by Head Welland Canal 82; 85 WINDMILL, battles at • • 91; 92; 93; prisoners 23 York County meeting 104 Hickory Islandexpd. • -27 Patriotic Scotch Itegt. • *b ENGLAND AND WALES, Army 6 ; 20; 33; 52 Ballot voting Bank of Eng- 6; 20;21;_27;48 Bribery in; 33; 39; 49; 50; ol Cabinet Council,- •••••• Chartists 66: JO Coronation Oath .*• - 95 “Tf “ c • ,7. . . , 54 Despard CoTsexecution 95 "**1 Christian Guardian. 63 S, E~» Clergy 35 -HeserveBill 38 KxecutionsClT«)G7,bB^» Constitution (basis of) for jOb S-J Upper Canada 111 irtfl5H Debt, Law Suits for, to be )- Hi* abolished - * - • • 10 ° Executions in Lawton, James 2 d- • • ■ 76i 96, 10a Lawyers. Eng’s curse • • 10a Liverpool Rail w’y bribes* Mctinv in Channel fleet 43 Nore fleet 52 National debt •• *37; 67; 76 Persecution **52; 53; 86; 87 Peterloo massacre • • 74; 75 Reform Bdl 16 SLAVES, 3; 45; 55; 59; 81 Slavery; Statistics of* **59 Scotsmen; 1500 sold* • • • 81 Scottish soldiers murd. 87 Taxation 37 — on U. S. • • 94 Troutback’s Est. robb d 54 FRANCE. Aids the United States 13 22; 74; 77; 87 The Bastile taken 67 England tries to starve • • 76 The three glorious days 69 71; 75 Paris Printers resist, 70 Revolt attempted in 51 Revolution in • •• 67; 81; 90 IRELAND. 4 Battles of, Oulard; Wex- ford; Naas; Gory 53; An- trim 56; Newtonards57; 66 Castlenollard massacre* 52 English Gov. in 3; 29; 73; 88 English Coercion Bill 29; 34— Treaty of Limeiiek 84 — murders before85— Em- ancipation of Catholics 34 35; 53 English massacres 76: 88 40 shilling Freeholders, 35 Durham’s proclamation 56 England degrades Ireland 32; 63; 65— murders Mon- roe 57, and McCracken 56 Independence won *44 Orange Processions 60 — riots 61; 68: toast 79 Revolt oHb»3 -68 United Irishmen 56; 57; 83 Massacres 54; 59; 79 SCOTLAND. Battles of— Cullodeu43^— Bannockburn 60 — Sheriff Muir H Bruce’ s Address • o« Bonnymuir fight* - - * 38; 49 The Covenanters 74 English Oppression viz : 120 INDEX TO THE ALMANAC Massacre at Gleneoe 25- Patronage 43 — Burning 44 Degrading it 48; 50; 65 English executions 39; 42; •••••.•56; 75; 76; 88; 89; 91 Hessian mercenaries • --44 MuirThos. notice of 76 Scottish Rebellions 43; 75; 81; 87; 88; 89; 9l Wallace SirW. beheaded 42 UNITED STATES. Army, notices of- • • • 13; 79 Alien&Sed’n Laws27;60;66 Buffalo; movement at, on ice 27; 22; 67; meeting at 23; 99, 104; 106; burnt-. 108 BOSTON massacre 30; 32; port bill 34— tea party - - 96 Burgoyne’s surrender - -87 Burnings in New England 4; 56; 58; 65 Black Rock expedition 104; burnt 107 CAROLINE MASSACRE 1; 7; 8; 23; 32; 45; 1^107, 108.0 Church of Eng. wealth 33 Case & Mackenzie’s trials 59; 60; 103 Cornwallis surrender- - -87 Congress Assignats- • • - 87 Democratic Review 40 Eng. Insults 4; 42; 44; 64; 86 English executions ofAmer- icans 3; 8 ; 9; 23; 72 Executive Officers of- • • - 61 Foreigners distingsh'd in 29 Florida, notice of 78 Haynes Col. hung 72 Impressment of seamen 42; 44; 64 Independence Day 34; 35 three Presidents die • • • • 65 Irish Pennsylvania Line 29 Kendall Amos 75 Lafay:tte in America 74 ^. clothe? her troops Lotteries Masaacre on board the Chesapeake,- • » Murder of Capt. Pearce 43 Neutrality Laws • • 27; 28; 59 N . Eastern Boundary 26; 65 Rochester insulted -- 22 - lflfi Salt buying ,..84 Sir Robert Peel (the) burnt •Sympathy mt’gs 32; 93; 94; 95 Slavery in 14; 15, 26; 84 Tar fFBill 61; 106 Telegraph fired into 55 Texan Independence, -106 U . Svbtes Courts, N. Y. - - 71 Union, dissolution of 24 ; 88 War; of 1812; p 4; 12; do’ 14 War declared ag’stEng. 58 Washington City taken - -76 Wheat imported 35 ; 82 5 tr thi liai id the - 0fhtr« m ■ A" m ihas THE CAROLINE ALMANAC— COMPANION TO DITTO MACKENZIE’S GAZETTE— HIS I M PRISON M EN T- RATES OF POSTAGE.— \Ve have laboured hard to complete this little work, which will be found useful for reference, bein* supplied with a copious index The price, a dollar and a half per dozen, twelve dollars and a half per hundred, eighteen dollars per groce.or at the same rate for any other quantity, would not pay expences, but there have been some donations. The Almanac contains nearly three ^sheets, and is a periodical— part of the Companion to it is in type and will appear, if possible, next June. The Almanac for 1841, vve delivery by September. MACKENZIE’S LrAZii, 1 1 E is published weekly, at Rochester. N. Y., at $2 a year when sent by mail, and contains much that willbe interesting to the lovers of democracy and friends of Canadian Independence. No one can read the Gazette and Almanac without seeing that they are pre- paring men’s minds for a change in Canada. Mr. Mackenzie has been seven months in close confinement, and other eleven months of the bars and bolts are assigned to him, if his constitution should enable him to survive so long. His imprison- ment is unjust, for lie never offended against the laws, and if he bad it is cruel thus vindictively to single out a stranger advanced in years on a charge of asking aid for the oppressed in Canada, from a city which had in vited him from Toronto for that purpose. The sentence U t Thompson and Conklin resembles the harsh punishments ot a Jettnes and a Norbury, yet they are sustained thus far by Mr. Ulen ’ ant ^ i 110 ™ ern ber Congress has raised his voice in favor e f 1 e * ¥- r * M . acke nzie is without means, with a • & • . rai J^ ^ e P en( ^ ent on him, in a foreign country, and so closely V u 6 rece P lac le for felons and prostitutes at Rochester, be den t ied the T ™8 Q of the jail inside, and never allowed to gd outside, not even into the yard for air and exercise. For half of the ^rnbvQi^inna° nt § * ia ;\h ee ii very unwell, but the representations of physicians, as well as his own, were insufficient to procure him re- pel from Mr. Forsyth, and he is satisfied that the representationsof Gar- was of fioaic ofte e isigli 313151 ■ Ut* l leariii those : ■ 55 C?3IS Alexw £ Boats , Calv Daw ; Giiii • Ger Gre Ha do* h I , I CAROLINE ALMANAC, - Marshal fa bitter enemy of the poor Canadian exiles) did such treatment. ANNUAL CATALOGUE OF FRUIT TREES, &C.FORSALB A AT THE ROCHESTER, N. Y. NURSERY, BY S. MOULSON. T rrais^si“ try affords. In addition t * f i • oijmiie have been ordered tions of Foreign Plants, suitable A r tr ees bavin" reduced the stork from Europe. T be great demand fo “Je * ell for person* or- of large trees of sora ® h tle ^ c . r '>’ . z , in part to tlie proprietor. mats or boxes, so os ,be kinds, b, ISJXmSSUSta oftho ptoptiotor, .no, dopmd opot, h..,«« those sorts that a*re most desirable memo ton, flip ilD|C' ilrf APPLES. 25 cents each, $15 to $13 per hundred $125 per thousand. Alexander, — Beauty ot Kent, Bellflower, Red,— do. \\ lute, ' Bough, Tart, do. Sweet, or large earl y, ^ . /jrM Bourassa, (Canada, ^—Buffalo (Ca- nada,) . Calvill e, red winter, do. red sum- ra r, — Cabua^he \ — Cynthia. Downton’s srfp, Fameuse caby, Gilliflower, Red — do. Black, German Bow, Greening, Sweet, G r eening. Rhode Island, Geo. the Fourth, Hawthorn Den, Harvest, Y How, tfo. R d streak do. Sweet, Junto! ing, white.do. red Kentish Fillbasket, Lady Apple. Petit A pi, a b atitiful desert ti uit, Lady Fiuspur, Montreal, Margell, Nonsuch, Hubbard ston’s Nonsuch Norfolk Beefing, Beaufin, Pound Apple, Pearrnuin. Golden do. Sweet, do. Winter, do. Sum- mer, do. Royal — Pomme Ivoi, Pcmm’e Grise, Pippins,' viz Holland, Down- ton, Ribston, Monstrous or Gloria, Fall, Ne.vark, Green Newtown, Yellow Newtown, Summer, Sweet, Twenty ounce, Loomis, Ferris, and Blenheim. Pennock’s — Gucen Anne, Q,ua non, very fine, Kambo, or Romanite, . „ . _ . Russet rs, viz Early, Roxbury or Boston. Golden, Summer, English, Winter, Lfcrge , Chcsbor. ' R.vmbour, Seek nofii ; t her, Steel Red Winter, Surprise (yellow out- side and red within)— Sweet and Sour. . t _ Sweeting, viz: Red and Green, Spice. Telman’s, Eiigl'sh.-Golden, Green Sweeting, or Molnsses App'e. Ponml, arid Robins. Sine Q.ua Non, Spitzeuberg, Esopus, Soitzenben, Swaar, do. Sweet, Twenty Ounce App.e, Wn.iam- soiiAppj*. Cider Adples, Campfie'.d, [IarrLon. _ , . Ornamental. Double Flower- ing Chinese, Siberian or Cherry C ra b. , . P EARS. -37 cents each. Amb ette, Amhette, Autumn Beil, Auirint Pear. . Bergamot, viz: Eas’e-, (winter benram >t,) Summer, Swiss, Prince’s, Beur.e d'Aremburg, Belle de Lucrative Bonchretun, Prince’s Summer, OOllLill ClH i»$ » «» ivv. iCatharine Red Cheek, very ear v,. Early Bell, do. Green Chisel, July., 122 MOULSON’S catalogue. do. Sugar, Green chisel, Sugar, But. excellent, Summer Sugar, Jargonelle, superior, Little mask, primitive, or cluster, earliest of pears, Louise Bonne, white St. Germain, excellent, Large Blanquet, Pound Pear, win- ter bell, Prince’s Virgaloo, Royal winter, Pvusselet, early, Robine Avorat. Seckel, Spice, Stevens’ Genesee, Sugarfop, July or harvest pear, Virgalieu, while Doyenne, St Mi- chael, Williams 1 Bonchrelien, Bartlett of Boston. P 111 ACHES: 25 cents each — $18 to $25 per hundred, according to the Kind and quality of the fruit, and scarcity of the varieties. Admirable, Avaunt, white, very early, Banard’s Yellow Alberge, Blood, cling, Columbian, cling. Early Purple, do. Probyn i. or , Ward’s late Freestone, Yellow Rare Ripe, early orange, •” ^ j,, Yellow Malacaton, * ^ Washington Rare Ripe, freestone. nJ, APRICOTS, 37* cents to 50 jXapL ns grant | ispbeh 12* ct iW jrwYeli cents each. Large early French, Denancy, or Peach, Nectarines, 37J cents each. Violet — Nectarine Rouge. Almonds, 37. J- cents each. CHERRIES, 50 cents each. Amber Heart, American Heart, . Arch-Duke^ Belle de Choise, Black Eagle, — do. Tartarian, do Heart, — do. Honey, Carnation, Downer’s Seedling, GrafRon, Yellow, Spanish, Elkhorn, large black bigereau, Amber, Yellow, Spanish, Herefordshire, white, Lundie Grigue, Large Double Flowering, Large English Morelia, oent, 'id« jlloiaor f^Jll tlsabelkC n isarfritf less ■ May Duke, — Napoleon Bigereau, . do. Mountain, do. Troth, Yorks. Red Ox Heart, Orleans White, Pendant Montfrit, ; ‘ cs or Early Waters, do. Newington. Green Nutmeg, Grosse Mignone, George the Fourth, Honest John, Jersey Yellow Alberge, Leavitt’s Rare Ripe, Lemon, Cling, — Late Heath, Morris Reds, — Murray’s July, Malta Monstrous Freestone, Oakley’s Early Anne, Orange Freestone, Old Newing- ton, Orange, ^ling: Old Mixon. Orange Dark, Prince’s Red Rare Ripe -Purple Rare Ripe, Pine Apple, cling — Pound Peach. Red Rare Ripe, large, Royal Kensington, large yellow, do. Rare Ripe, Red Cheek Malacaton, Red Neck. Hare Ripe, Golden, Scarlet Nutmeg — brown do. Sweet Water nutmeg do. Sherman’s Rare Ripe, very fine. Superlative, — Teton de Venus, Viiry, Beauty of White Nutmeg, early Ann, White Rare Ripe, Whil e Blossom, or willow peach, Turkish, — White Heart, Waterloo, White Bigereau, Weeping Ornamental, PLUMS, 50 cents each. American, Red, , Cherry, American Myrobolan, Cooper’s Large Red. Damson viz: Sweet blue, late blue,& late white, Gage, viz: Green large Queen. Claudia, Prince’s yellow. Blue, Red, White,Coleman s, Gifford’s Lafayette, Ilulen’s Superb, Imperial Violet, do. Red-Magnum Bonum — yellow, Orleans Smith’s — do. Hanfords, Washington. (Bolmer’s Washing- ton has weighed 4 £ oz.) Yel’ow Egg, Red Egg, MULBERRIES, White Italian, $5 qr. 100, $25 qr. 1000 Chinese, or Morus Multicaulis, 25 to 50 cents each. Quinces, 25 to 27 $ cents each. Common apple shaped, Large Orange, superior, Early s 'White Comma ieen v 'New •Hud: *Lar: jls.ee ored ♦Pit t\l> \U *1 MOULSON’S catalogue. m , \ ductive. M S, r or Pine Apple, very largejll These two varieties most culu cult n. l ui ** aa-w — and beautiful. Currants, Common red 12 2 cts T a rcre Dutch, white, 25 cents. Black English, very large, 25 cts. Black Naples, 25 cents, Lewis’ black fruited Missouri, fra errant yellow flowers, 25 cents, Raspberries, American black 12£ cts-50 cts, per doz., Red Antwerp, 12£ cts. do. Large Yellow, or White Antwerp °12i cts. do. Gooseberries, A good assort ment, 25 cents each. Grape Vines, 25 cents each. Alexander, Early Sweetwater, Munier, or Black Cluster, Fiontignac, or Smith s, vated for market. . f 5j 3=* Also a choice collection oi Rhubarb, or Pie Plant, Sea Kale, ORNAMENT^TREES AND SHRUBS. Coludea Arborescens, 37 £ cents. Ailanthu5,or treeof Heaven, 50 cts- Aralia, or Hercules’ Club, Althea Frutex, 37^ cents, Almond, double flowering, 37 J cts- Andromeda Fruticosa, 37 £ cents. Balsam Fir, 50 cts Berberry , 25 cts. Bladder Senna, 25 cts., Buxus Arborius, 25 to 50 cents. Cornus Sanguinea 25 cts., Cornus stricta, 25 cents, Cornus sericea, 25 cts. Cornus alba, 25 cts, ; S ! l A lr^ c Sr dozen: Calycanthas Honda, sweet marked thus* are 25 ° s per a r 37 .i cents , 374 cents, and thusj.50 cts. JJo less charge is made than the prfee a of dozen, tor one variety * Early scarlet, or Mornssama, White hautbois, . Common English hautbois, t Keen’s imperial, very sweet, t New black musk hautbois, hi,l . > 1 .. V , .srnrlnr'tlVP. w biaciv mush. ^ tlavored and very productive. ‘Hudson’s bay, or Large Hudson!! * Large early scarlet, T| t Keen’s seedling, early, fine A*™ > tNew prolific hautbois, mu~k nav ored, g Large Lima, high flavored, ‘Pine, or Carolina, tDownton, LVlulbcrrv, ‘Mcthvcn scarlet, ited bush alpine, monthly without runners, 25 cts. per bunch, ‘Red Alpine, Monthly, everbearing, ‘Roseberry, •Grove-end scarlet, ‘Duke of K»nt, or Austrian scarlet, early, jChili, large red ‘Rostock, Wellington, or Devon- shire Chili, ‘Lar^e pine apple, ‘Elton seedling, large and superior ‘ Melon, very large and productive, ‘Knevet’s new pine, tra- • • rrn CI1 »> scent- ed shrub, 37 £ cents, do. ferox,50cts.do. nana, 50cts. Cupressus thuyoides, 25 cents Coronilla fruciicosa, 25 cts. do. emerus, 37£ cts. Catalpa syringafolia, 37 f cts. Crataegus oxycantha, 25 cts., do. v. pleno, 50 cts., do* monogina, 50 cents. Clematis climber, 25 cts., Double Japan Globe flower, 37 £ ct. Daphne mezereura, 50 ct9., Elm English, 75 ct«., Euonymus, or Strawberry lrce, 37 £ cents, Fiaxinus excelsior, 50 cts., do. acuminata, 25 cts., do. sambucifolia, 25 ets., do. latifolia, 37$ cents, Glycine frutescens, 25 cts., Hawthorn for Hedges, 25 cts., or by the thousand at low rates in proportion to the sizes, Honeysuckle, fragrant, 25 cts*, do. scarlet monthly, 25 cts., Horse Chestnut, 37 £ to 50 cts., do. scarlet flowering, 50 cts., da dwarf white, 50 cents. Hibiscus syriacus, or Rose of Shft- Tlvnevet s ut.w „ lnrfTP ^Bishop’s orange, superior, » : roQ — (tieuera uw«w», — v ‘Wilmot’s superb, very l * rg & ’ de . y. purpurea tlorepl«W,37i«rt ‘Soulhborough, very large cts. do. Basket, or Osier, 25 cts. do. Hoop leaved, curious 5 50 c do. English variegated, 50 cts Roses, Achoice selection to. large to enumerate in liiis Gala logue. P/EON1ES, Picotees, Pinks, Chinese Chrysanthemums, Iris, or Fleur de Lis,' Herbaceous Perennial Flowering Plants, — Medicinal & Gulina ary Plants, — Biennial and. IV rennial, — Dahlitfs. Double Hyacinths, — Tulips Crown Imperials, &c. Lilies,— Narcissus, Amaryllis, hardy varieties. Greenhouse Shurubs, Vines, Herbaceous Plants, and Bulbous Roots — Camelia Japonicas China Roses, most of which are monthly, or ever blooming. Geraniums, or Pelargoniums. Oranges-, Lemons, &c. The prices will vary according the age and size of the trees, Olives. ROBERT M.\GK\Y, Grocer, (from Toronto,) Front Street, Rochester. DAVID MACK AY, Grocer, opposite theU. S. Hotel, Buffalo st.Rocheelc; JOHN MONTGOMERY, Boarding House, and Groceiyand Provision Store, Main Street, Rochester. ,,\l The CAROLINE ALMANACK is a Periodical, containing i h ree tffjec t s neatly. Orders tor the Gazette or Almanack, with cash enclosed, if the letter i* wn«eu by a Postmaster, pass free by the U. S. mails. A 0 ^ ^ —