States and Great Britain. In case of war you will use every exertion to protect yourself and command, and to annoy the enemy, cruising as long as your provisions and other circumstances will admit of, and when a favorable opportunity offers, you will run into some port of the United States and report to the Secretary of the Navy. Much, however, must be left to your own judgment. Should you ascertain that quietness has been restored, you will return to the Mediterranean, touching at Mahon, where you will probably

from me.

Very respectfully, I am sir, your obedient servant,
ISAAC HULL,
Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Naval Force in
the Mediterranean.

Captain WILLIAM C. BOLTON, Commanding

CONSULATE OF THE UNITED States,
Gibraltar, April 7, 1841. S

My Dear Sir:-Understanding the cause that induced you to come this way from Port Mahon, the Quarantine Department permitting me to communicate with you, I not only send by the Learer of this a mail for your squadron, but with pleasure inform you that the steam packet this mornhearing from England brings intelligence of the pacific disposi tions of the two governments. President Harrison was for. mally installed on the 4th ult., his speech bearing remotely on foreign relations. On motion of Mr. Buchanan, the Committee on Foreign Relations was discharged from considering the resolution requesting the President to communicate the correspondence with Great Britain on the North-Eastern Boundary. That there was no truth in the rumor of any angry correspondence having passed between Mr. Fox and Mr. Forsyth; that Great Britain had a sincere desire to bring things to a termination, and Mr. Clay said himself that he had not been appointed to a special mission] to England; he thought the resident ambassador able to do all that was necessary without difficulty, and without delay.

U. S. Frigate Brandywine, Port Mahon.

Memorandum.

U. S. FRIGATE BRANDYWINE, AT SEA,
April 10, 1841.

:

The squadron sailed from Mahon, on the 25th of March. after keeping company with Commodore Hull for nine days, McLeod was in prison at Lockport, would be removed to contending, for the greater part of the time, with adverse Albany for trial to facilitate his delivery, the British Gowinds, or delayed by calms, from getting out of the Medi-vernment had justified the burning of the Caroline; hence terranean, which was a first object. I determined to make he would be given up but the owners of the steamer would the best of my way, and shit for myself, although the Com- continue their proceedings to recover the value of the steamer. modore had implied a wish verbally, that I would accon:- All this was received in England by New York packet ship "Patrick Henry," dates to 8th ult. pany him past the Rock of Gibraltar.

At the time of our departure, it was believed that the ships would prove equal sailers-that we should be favored by winds-have a good run out, and could easily therefore,

accommodate each other. The reverse turned out the case; our ship surpassed the Ohio in an astonishing manner; and I am confident a loss of at least sixty miles ensued to us from this inequality of sailing, and my manœuvres to keep near him; which loss might have placed me, equally with himself, in the power of the heavy force reported as being on its way to capture or blockade us. Such support as I could give the Ohio would avail, comparatively, but little and it seemed to me, the surest way to avoid encumbrance to either, and to give chance for distinction, security or escape to both, was to separate. If war exists with such a power as Great Britain, it cannot be the policy of our Government to cruize in squadron on the ocean.

The views interchanged between Commodore Hull and his captains at Mahon, could not have undergone any material change, else he would have communicated it by signal; or by a boat, which, on one occasion, I sent to him at sea. It was apparent to me, that he could procure no information from the vessels passing in the Mediterranean, to be relied on, because it could only be derived through interested chan nels such as British steamers, or sources of doubtful authority-or of a date so recent as that which came to our knowledge at Mahon. By delay danger was increasing, and by my proceeding I could more readily meet it, and, possibly, convey intelligence of it to the Commodore.

The "Preble" separated from us both, under what circumstance I know not. My separation from the flag ship was first caused by bad weather at night. Whether the "Ohio" or the "Brandywine" was in fault, I cannot say. I met a detention of three days from strong head winds, in sight of the Rock of Gibraltar, which afforded time for the Commodore to have reached that point. He not doing so, I availed myself of a fine opportunity of passing through; and, persuaded that there was no American interest behind me to protect, I, on mature deliberation, determined, under my orders, to lay my course directly home, as the only point at which any satisfactory and conclusive intelligence-such as could be depended on-could be speedily gained: knowing that it was within my ability to make the passage to the United States and back again, if desirable, before I could possibly, elsewhere, be informed of the true state of the existing relations between the two countries. Respectfully submitted,

W. C. BOLTON, Captain. To the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, Washington.

On the 27th ult., I received from the Legation of the United States, Londor, a despatch for your good self, to be forwarded at the earliest moment, by such mode of conveyance as would answer, the certainty of its reaching you. A steamer starting the same day for Barcelona, I sent it under cover to the United States consul for that port, with directions for want of opportunity to send it to Port Mahon, to send it forward to Marseilles, to the care of the naval con tractors. I at the same time addressed a letter to those agents directing them, in case of their receiving the letter, and aware of your leaving the Mediterranean, to return it to me.

Allow me to add, and express the hope that the pacific have to visiting this port, being now so immediately in the news from England will remove any objection you might neighborhood.

I am, my dear sir, your friend and humble serv't,
HORATIO SPRAGUE, Consul.

Com. ISAAC HULL,

Commanding U. S. squadron

in the Mediterranean.

Original thus endorsed by Captain Bolton: "Received at sea, near Gibraltar, on the afternoon of the 8th of April opened by me in presence of Lieut. Mercer and Chaplain Stewart, in consequence of the superscription of the envelop, thus: United States Consulate, Gibraltar."

"To Commodore Isaac Hull, or to any of the commanders of the United States ships of war in the Mediterranean," Witness: W. C. BOLTON.

SAMUEL MERCER,
CHARLES SAMUEL STEWART.

Reply to the foregoing.

U. STATES SHIP BRANDYWINE, 2
Off Gibraltar, April 8, 1841. S

My Dear Sir:-I have received your communication of yesterday's date, addressed to "Com. Hull, or the commanders of any of the U. S. ships of war in the Mediterranean." I am in possession of the principal intelligence communicated, but I am not the less obliged for the attention of transmitting it. What I have received from you will not influence my movements. I am on a cruise, and shall not visit Gibraltar.

The late Joseph Parker Norris.

THE DROUGHT,

In the death of Mr. Norris the community has lost one of Under this head you published in your paper of Satur the few remaining old fashioned men who are fast disap- day last an account of the present prospect for the early har pearing from this scene of action. Having occupied a prɔ- vest in Ohio, Michigan and Western New York. We too minent station in society, he should not be suffered to de- are suffering severely in this neighborhood, particularly in scend to the tomb without some passing notice of his worth. regard to grass and the early garden vegetables. On referring He was descended from one of the oldest families of the to our records of the rain fallen during the last two months, State, his ancestors being the personal friends of Penn and and comparing them with the records of the same months among the first settlers of the province with him. Like for a series of years, I was struck with the comparative small then he was a member of the Society of Friends. Having quantity of the present season. It is but about one-half of received a good liberal education he was afterwards educated the least quantity in the same months for the last 17 years, for a mercantile life and entered the counting-house, of an and about one-third of the average quantity. I enclose a eminent merchant of this city, where he made himself prac-tabular view of the whole period which you are at liberty tically acquainted with the principles of trade though he to publish if you think it of sufficient importance. never embarked in it.

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For many years he filled the office of President of the Bank of Pennsylvania. This situation was as honorable as it was responsible. The history of his public life is the history of that bank, for he was identified with it. exception of one year, he was a director from the incorporation of the bank in 1793 until the death of Mr. Fox, in the spring of 1808, when he was elected president, and he continued to preside over it until shortly before his death, when he resigned the office after an administration of thirty-three years, and after having been an officer of the bank for fortyseven years, a longer period of time it is believed than any similar office has ever been held by any individual in this country. His accession to a place which he filled with eminent ability for so many years, constitutes one of the most memorable eras in the history of the bark. During the administration of Mr. Norris, embracing periods of great commercial revulsions and financial vicissitudes, and during the violent excitement of great political contentions, the management of that institution equalled the desires of all. A leading object in the establishment of the Bank of l'ennsylvania was, to promote the regular, permanent and successful operation of the finances of the State as well as to benefit trade and industry generally. With this view her capital was then deemed very large, and the State retained a large interest in it. After the experience of half a century it may be safely asserted that the object of the institution has been fully answered. The loans she has made and the facilities she has rendered to the Commonwealth in obtaining pecuniary assistance, especially in sudden emergencies, are well known, and as her financial agent, her important duties have been long and most faithfully performed.

[Extracted from the Inquirer.

[Boston Adv. & Patriot.

Bankrupt Law.

The Speaker laid before the House a Message from the President of the United States. enclosing a memorial from citizens of New York, praying the passage of a bankrupt law. The memorial was signed by 3,000 persons. The Message was read, and is in the following words: To the House of Representatives of the United States :

The accompanying memorial in favor of the passage of a bankrupt law, signed by nearly three thousand of the inhabitants of the city of New York, has been forwarded to me, attended by a request that I would submit it to the considera. tion of Congress. I cannot waive a compliance with a request urged upon me by so large and respectable a number of my fellow-citizens. That a bankrupt law, carefully guarded against fraudulent practices, and embracing, as far as practicable, all classes of society-the failure to do which bas heretofore constituted a prominent objection to the mea sure-would afford extensive relief, I do not doubt. The distress incident to the derangements of some years past has visited large numbers of our fellow-citizens with hopeless insolvency, whose energies, both mental and physical, by reason of the load of debt pressing upon them, are lost to the country. Whether Congress shall deem it proper to enter upon the consideration of this subject at its present extraordinary session, it will doubtless wisely determine. I have fulfilled my duty to the memorialists in submitting their petition to your consideration.

WASHINGTON, June 30, 1841.

JOHN TYLER.

The message and memorial were referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and the message was ordered to be printed. Nat. In.