at the secretary of state's office for the home de- his royal highness the prince regent, by certain partment, Whitehall, upon the subject of the prin- members of his majesty's most honorable privy coun Cess of Wales' letter; it is supposed it was there cil, to whom it appears, that his royal highness had determined whether any, and what measure should been advised to refer certain documents and other be adopted in consequence. evidence representing the character and conduct of Much has been said, and more insinuated, respect- her royal highness. ing a Billy Pucett, whose name stands connected "The report is of such a nature that her royal with what is termed "delicate investigation." We highness feels persuaded no person can read it withhave in a former paper informed our readers, that in out being sensible of the aspersions which it casts the course of that investigation the parentage of a upon her; and although it is so vague as to render it child of that name came under the consideration of impossible to discover the tenor of the charge, yet, the noble commissioners, and who, having carefully as her royal highness is conscious of no offence, she examined the necessary witnesses, stated in their feels it due to herself, to the illustrious houses with report as follows: which she is connected by blood and marriage, and to the people among whom she holds so distinguished a rank, not to rest under any imputation affecting her honor. "The child, Billy Faucett, was, beyond all doubt, born in Brownlow-street hospital, on the 11th of July, 1812, of the body of Sophia Austin.” The fact was this:-Some time previous to the in- "The princess of Wales has not been permitted to vatgton, her royal highness the princess of Wales, know on what evidence the members of the privy then residing at Blackheath, took under her protec-council proceeded in their investigation, nor has her tion, from poor parents, this child, to which she had royal highness been allowed to be heard in her own taken a liking. The father, as the people of Black-defence. She knew only by common run or that such heath and its vincity said at the time, was a black-an inquiry had been instituted, until the result was smith at Deptford. This child was taken into the communicated to her in the form of the report. She household of her royal highness and under her own knows not whether she is to consider the members eye; was frequently in her presence, and taken out of the privy council by whom her conduct has been for airings in her own carriage. This boy, it is said, inquired into, as a body, to whom she would be was alleged in the charges, which led to the investi-authorised to apply for redress, or in their indivi gation, to be a child of the princes, and was the dual capacity, as persons selected to make the report subject of the two main charges of pregnancy and on her conduct. delivery, which were fully disproved in the inquiry "The princess of Wales is, therefore, compelled in the very first instance. The minor imputations, to throw herself on the wisdom and justice of par which many think ought instantly to have been liament, and she earnestly desires a full investigation abandoned, remained on record till removed by the of her conduct during the whole period of her resicabinet minutes of the 21st of April, 1807. At the cabinet council of the 21st of April, 1807, Earl of Chatham Earl Bathurst dence in this country. Her royal highness fears no scrutiny, however strict, provided it be conducted by impartial judges, and in a fair and open manner, before a tribunal known to the constitution. "It is her royal highness' wish, either to be treated as innocent, or to be proved guilty. "Her royal highness desires that this letter may be communicated to the house of commons.' FROM THE LONDON TIMES OF FEBRUARY 11. And in the m'nutes then entered on the records, after declaring "that his royal highness, the prince of Wales, could not, consistently with his public Copy of a letter from her royal highness the princess of duty, have done otherwise than lay before his ma- Wales, to his royal highness the prince regent :jesty the statement and examinations submitted to "SIR-It is with great reluctance I presume to bim on the subject of the charges"-they said, "after obtrude myself upon your royal highness, and to the most deliberate consideration of all the exami- solicit your attention to matters which may, at first, nations, &c. they felt it necessary to declare their de- appear rather of a personal than a public nature. If cided concurrence in the clear and unanimous I could think them so-if they related merely to opinion of the commissiorers, confirmed by the con-myself-I should abstain from a proceeding which fidential servants of his majesty, that the two main might give uneasiness, or interrupt the more weighcharges alleged against her royal highness, were ty occupations of your royal highness's time. I completely disproved; and they further submitted should continue, in silence and retirement, to lead to his majesty their unanimous opinion, that all the the life which has been prescribed to me, and conother particulars of conduct, brought in accusation sole myself for the loss of that society and those doagainst her royal highness, to which the character mestic comforts to which I have been so long a stran of criminality can be ascribed, were either satisfac-ger, by the reflection that it has been deemed protorily contradicted, or rest upon evidence of such per I should be afflicted without any fault of my a nature, and which was given under such circum-own-and that your royal highness knows it. stances, as rendered it, in the judgment of his ma- "But, sir, there are considerations of a higher najesty's confidential servants, undeserving of credit. ture than any regard to my own happiness, which They therefore humbly submit their opinion, that render this address a duty both to myself and my her royal highness should forthwith be restored to daughter. May I venture to say-a duty also to my his royal presence, and in a manner suitable to her husband, and the people committed to his care? rank and station. There is a point beyond which a guiltless woman This record was followed by her splendid intro- cannot with safety carry her forbearance. If her hoduction at court, and into her box at the opera, by nor is invaded, the defence of her reputation is no the duke of Cumberland. longer a matter of choice; and it signifies not wheIn the house of commons, March 2, the speaker ther the attack be made openly, manfully and direct read the following letter from the princess. or by secret insinuation, and by holding such conduct towards her as countenances all the suspicions "The princess of Wales informs Mr. Speaker, that that malice can suggest. If these ought to be the she has received from lord viscount Sidmouth, a co-feelings of every woman in England who is conscious py of a report, made in pursuance of the orders of that she deserves no reproach, your royal highness "Montague-House, Blackheath, March 1. has too sound a judgment, and too nice a sense of pairable injury which my daughter sustains from the honor, not to perceive, how much more justly they plan at present pursued, has done more in overcom belong to the mother of your daughter-the mothering my reluctance to intrude upon your royal high of her who is destined, I trust, at a very distant pe-ness, than any sufferings of my own could accomplish; and if, for her sake, I presume to call away riod, to reign over the British empire. "It may be known to your royal highness, that your royal highness's attention from the other cares during the continuance of the restrictions upon your of your exalted station, I feel confident I am not royal authority, I purposely refrained from making claiming it for a matter of inferior importance either any representations which might then augment the to yourself or your people. painful duties of your exalted station. At the expi- "The powers with which the constitution of these ration of the restrictions, I still was inclined to de-realms vests your royal highness in the regulation of lay taking this step, in the hope that I might owe the royal family, I know, because I am so advised, tie redress I sought to your gracious and unsolicitare ample and unquestionable. My appeal, sir, is ed condescention. I have waited, in the fond in-made to your excellent sense and liberality of mind dulgence of this expectation, until, to my inex-in the exercise of those powers; and I willingly prèssible mortification, I find that my unwillingness hope that your own parental feelings will lead you to complain, has only produced fresh grounds of to excuse the anxiety of mine, for impelling me to complaint; and I am at length compelled, to aban-represent the unhappy consequences which the predon all regard for the two dearest objects I possess sent system must entail upon our beloved child. on earth, mine own honor, and my beloved child; or "Is it possible, sr, that any one can have attemp to throw myself at the feet of your royal highness, ed to persuade your royal highness, that her charac the natural protector of both. ter will not be injured by the perpetual violence "I presume, sir, to represent to your royal high. offered to her strongest affections-the studied care ness, that the separation, which every succeeding taken to estrange her from my society, and even to month is making wider, of the mother and the interrupt all communication between us? That her daughter, is equally injurious to my character, and love for me, with whom, by his majesty's wise and to her education. I say nothing of the deep wounds gracious arrangements, she passed the years of her which so cruel an arrangement inflicts upon my feel-infancy and childhood, never can be extinguished, I ings, although I would fain hope that few persons well know; and the knowledge of it forms the will be found of a disposition to think lightly of greatest blessing of my existence. But let me imthese. To see myself cut off from one of the very plore your royal highness to reflect, how inevitably few domestic enjoyments left me-certainly the on- all attempts to abate this attachment, by forcibly ly one upon which I set any value, the society of my separating us, if they succeed, must injure my child-involves me in such misery, as I well know child's principles-if they fail, must destroy her your royal highness could never inflict upon me, if happiness. you were aware of its bitterness. Our intercourse "The plan of excluding my daughter from all has been gradually diminished. A single interview intercourse with the world, appears to my humble weekly seemed sufficiently hard allowance for a mo-judgment peculiarly unfortunate. She who is desther's affections. That, however, was reduced to tined to be the sovereign of this great country, enour meeting once a fortnight; and I now learn, that joys none of those advantages of society, which are even this most rigorous interdiction is to be still deemed necessary for imparting a knowledge of mankind to persons who have infinitely less occasion to more rigidly enforced. "But while I do not venture to intrude my feelings learn that important lesson; and it may so happen, as a mother upon your royal highness's notice, I must by a chance which I trust is very remote, that she be allowed to say, that in the eyes of an observing should be called upon to exercise the powers of the and jealous world, this separation of a daughter crown, with an experience of the world more confrom her mother will only admit of one construc-fined than that of the most private individual. To tion-a construction fatal to the mother's reputation. the extraordinary talents with which she is blessed, Your royal highness will also pardon me for adding, and which accompany a disposition as singularly that there is no less inconsistency than injustice in amiable, frank, and decided, I willingly trust much; this treatment. He who dares advise your royal but beyond a certain point the greatest natural enhighness to overlook the evidence of my innocence, dowments cannot struggle against the disadvantages and disregard the sentence of complete acquittal of circumstances and situation. It is my earnest which it produced, or is wicked and false enough prayer, for her own sake, as well as her country's, still to whisper suspicions in your car,-betrays his that your royal highness may be induced to pause duty to you, sir, to your daughter, and to your peo- before this point be reached. ple, if he counsels you to permit a day to pass with- "Those who have advised you, sir, to delay so out a further investigation of my conduct. I know long the period of my daughter's commencing her that no such calumniator will venture to recommend intercourse with the world, and for that purpose to a measure which must speedily end in his utter con- make Windsor her residence, appear not to have fusion. Then let me implore you to reflect on the regarded the interruptions of her education which situation in which I am placed: without the shadow this arrangement occasions; both by the impossiof a charge against me-without even an accuser-bility of obtaining the attendance of proper teachafter an inquiry that led to my ample vindication-ers, and the time unavoidably consumed in the freyet treated as if I were still more culpable than the quent journies to town which she must make, unless perjuries of my suborned traducers represented me she is to be secluded from all intercourse, even with and held up to the world as a mother who may not your highness and the rest of the royal family. To the same unfortunate counsels I ascribe a circumenjoy the society of her only child. "The feelings, sir, which are natural to my un- stance in every way so distressing both to my paren exampled situation, might justify me in the gra- tal and religious feelings, that my daughter has cious judgment of your royal highness had I no other never yet enjoyed the benefit of confirmation, almotives for addressing you but such as relate to my- though above a year older than the age at which all self; but I will not disguise from your royal high-the other branches of the royal family have partaker ness what I cannot for a moment conceal from my- of that solemnity. May I earnestly conjure you, self, that the serious, and it soon may be, the irre-'sir, to hear my entreaties upon this serious matter, X even if you should listen to other advisers on things instantly separate; charging and requiring all of monarch. "I am, sir, with profund respect, and an attach-subversive of all laws divine and human, and whose ment which nothing can alter, your royal highness's ill-gotten riches cannot become the share of any man most devoted and most affectionate consort, cousin, without marking upon him an eternal dishonor, and exposing him to the severest punishment. and subject, (Signed) "CAROLINE LOUISA. "Montague House, 14th of January, 1812.” We [To make these papers more intelligible, the read- British Paper Credit. L. S. Given under my hand, and the seal of the By the governor, L. B. MACARTY, City of Baltimore. It is known, perhaps, to all our readers that by a statute law of Great Britain the bills or notes of the Bank of England are a legal tender, and that the bank cannot be compelled to give the specie for them, It is with uncommon sensibility that the Editor It is also highly criminal to deal in gold or silver, of the REGISTER feels it a duty to truth, to his fellow coined or in bullion, at a higher rate than at its citizens and his own affairs, to notice the annexed standard value, the guinea, in the weight of it, be- ungenerous and ungentlemanly and wilfully false ing rated at twenty one shillings, and no more. In a accusation against the people of Baltimore. Is it late debate the chancellor of the exchequer exulting- not enough that the foreign enemy has stopped all ly said he had been offered 27,000 guineas at twenty intercourse with this place by water, and cut off an Ave shillings each on which Mr. Whitbread rather immensely valuable trade, stinting even the commoreproved him for not making the purchase, saying, dities of ordinary marketing? Shall an internal foe "it was a very good bargain, for guineas were worth of the city, co-operating with him, alarm those ac27 or 28s. a picce." customed to deal with us from the interior, and deThe citizens of the United States, particularly stroy the whole trade and curtail the supplies for the those of the middle and southern parts, having subsistence of the people of this populous city? I say plenty of specie, will make a curions estimate of this publication is wilfully false; for every man knows, the real value of the notes or bills of this mighty who has the least acquaintance with the facts that bank of England. Louisiana. have occurred in Baltimore since the appearance of the British off the mouth of the Patapsco, that light is not more opposite to darkness than this thing to truth; and that, on the contrary, the most profound tranquil· By William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the state of ity has existed among us--not the ordinary quiet, or Louisiana, and commander in chief of the militia mere still-life, of good citizens, but a warm and of the said stateA PROCLAMATION. generous spirit of patriotism that has drawn into a Whereas I have been informed, that upon the common boud of union all classes of society, assoborders of the lake Barataria, and upon the shores ciating for a common object; and, without distinc adjacent, comprised within the limits and jurisdiction of names, rallying to defend their "fire sides,” tion of this state, a considerable number of banditti, against a common enemy. It is a glorious fact, hocomposed of individuals of different nations, have norable to the name of an American, that a view of armed and equipped several vessels, with the de- the British ships has suspended the ordinary politisign to cruize at sea, and to commit depredations cal discussions between individuals, to give place to and piracies against the vessels of nations who are the weightier matter of repulsing the enemy of all. at peace with the United States, in order to carry The whole, entire and united object of the citizens on with the inhabitants of this state, an illicit com- of Baltimore now is to destroy the British and promerce in provisions and merchandize, in contraven-tect themselves, in obedience to the laws of Heaven, tion of the laws of the United States, and to the nature and compact; to accomplish which the utevident prejudice of the revenue of the federal go- most harmony exists, with a tenderness of feeling, vernment, and of honest merchants; seeing also between gentlemen of different political sentiment, there is great reason to fear that the individuals who that reflects great credit on the general character make this unlawful war, cease to respect the proper- of the place. ty of the good citizens of this state; I have judged It is, nevertheless, true that such publications as it advisable to issue this my proclamation, by which this have had a sensible effect on the business of the I order all those individuals who participate in such city; keeping back, I believe, a very considerable criminal actions to cease from them, to disperse and portion of our usual supplies; the country people being alarmed by the tales so confidently toid and successive nights, by mobs. But charity will not unblushingly insisted upon, by unprincipled men, to put these things in "a note book," and hurl them in effect a favorite object, in concert with admiral the teeth of the innocent and the guilty. The vast Warren, of ruining Baltimore. But, we trust, that majority of every city must needs be presumed opneither the open force of the admiral, nor the covert posed to all such proceedings, as well as to the ge. operations of his allies, will break down the spirit of neral calumny of which we justly complain; and this people; though, for a season, they may harrass instead of countenancing either, will rather take and distress us exceedingly-truth will irradiate measures to guard against them in future. error, and the falsehood and fraud shall appear in their proper deformity. As was observed in vol. 3, page 47, "It has suited the views of certain persons, for many years to reThere are few places in the world (perhaps not present this city as the head quarters of mobocracy," one) that has so rapidly increased in wealth, popula- but the malignity of dæmons could only furnish one tion and commerce as Baltimore. Thirty years ago solitary case--the futile attempt of five or six indiit was an insignificant place; the greater part of the viduals to disgrace a brother journeyman with tar present scite of the city, was then occupied by corn-and feathers, was the only possible incident that fields, cut up by ravines, disfigured by high and could be urged in favor of the broad ground they broken hills, or covered by the waters of the basin, took. This man was rescued by the interference of swamps and quagmires. But it has outstripped all the prevailing party in Baltimore-yet he was conthe old cities in improvement; and is now the third sidered a martyr to the cause, and established in a in population, and the fourth in wealth and commerce shop to carry on the business of making boots and in the United States, making a daily comparative shoes. He was liberally credited and patronized.gain on those that yet precede it in either. It has In trade a few weeks, he pocketed all the cash he great natural advantages; and the steady enterprize could compass, and ran away; perhaps to fight the of its citizens have made the most of them, as their battles of Great Britain, as he had desired (which means increased. Good roads have been opened to caused the assault upon him) and left his friends in the interior of the country, and a generous rivalry the lurch, to settle their accounts by "profit and leads to a spirit of accommodation that makes it loss," or repent at leisure their mistaken liberality. the interest of a rich section of Pennsylvania and This case furnished the thousand columns of abuse Maryland, as well as of the western states, to consid- that have been heaped on the heads of the citizens er this their proper market. Hinc ille lachrymæ. A of Baltimore. This incident, skilfully managed, great part of this trade once went to Philadelphia, stamped Baltimore as a mob-governed city, long beand hence the steady persecution of Baltimore by fore the melancholy transactions alluded to. three or four newspapers published there, blinded We desire no better evidence of the general good by an illiberal party zeal, and urged to defamation government of this city, than to notice the improveby the avarice of a few dealing men, who have stop-ments that are daily making. A week hardly passes ped at nothing to undermine the business and destroy without observing some new street opened or paved, the confidence of country-traders in the credit and and a number of new elegant and commodious buildcharacter of the city. This persecution has been ings begun. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT ANARCHY AND co-existent with the prosperity of Baltimore; and THIS STATE OF IMPROVEMENT CAN EXIST TOGETHER. the Philadelphia prints have always treated us with Baltimore has established a new bank with a capital less generosity than others of the same political of a million and a half of dollars, and also subscrib character in other places; which shews that the ed three millions to the U. S. loan, within the last malignity has sources remote from mere differences six or eight weeks. Can these things happen in a of opinion. But while we thus reprehend and in-place governed by a mob? dignantly point out causes for the enmity of the few, Sensibly feeling the effects of these calumnies, let us express a belief that a vast majority of the and indignant at the persecution of Baltimore, the enlightened Philadelphians are as much opposed to editor felt bound to make this statement for the insuch wicked means of counteracting Baltimore in formation of the people at large, and in perpetuam her exertions for the western trade, as the things we rei memoriam. The REGISTER goes into the hands complain of are, of themselves, to honor and hones- of gentlemen of all political parties, and circulates ty. freely in those parts of the country that avarice That Baltimore has sinned, we humbly acknow- points out as the scene of its calumnious labors.-ledge-we feel the most sincere regret for the rise, It is a positive truth that no city ever enjoyed greatprogress and termination of the events of last sum- er harmony than has existed here for many months mer, never sufficiently to be deplored. But it is not past, and particularly so since the appearance of less true that party has made the most of our disas- the enemy. There is no confusion, bustle or hurry, ters, to disgrace even the very principles of a repub-as some honest men apprehend. The volunteers lican government for the licentious conduct of a few march and countermarch, where duty prescribes, individuals, goading and provoking one another to without disturbing the tranquility of others. Nor doleful extremities. Insulate the proceedings of two does a state of alarm exist: we have confidence in days, and, in a comparison of wrongs, we shall not ourselves, and the enemy is rather guarded against stand the most guilty of cities; and, if wrong is to than feared. But we sincerely regret that such arbe justified by wrong, we can furnish an incident rant falsehoods should have added to the privations that occurred in a neighboring state, justly proud of of the place, and interrupt the usual intercourse its civic and social virtues,far surpassing the events, and supplies, so needful to the subsistence of the even of those days, in barbarity and outrage. I have citizens; making positive enemies of those who are lived in Baltimore more than seven years, during really our friends. which I have heard of three houses being injured or demolished by mobs-in another city I saw the ruins of four houses that had been demolished in four Here is the extract.-Every line of it is news to the people of Baltimore: Philadelphia, April 17. The spirit of mobbing and murder has once Population-Phila delphia, New-York, Baltimore, more made its appearance in the degraded and devoted city of Baltimore. The people of that place Commerce-New-York, Philadelphia, Boston, Bal- have become apprehensive,from the late movements Boston. timore. of the British squadron, and from the defenceless state of the town and harbor, that an attack is m-, and was followed by a burst of applause, which the tended. The consequence is, that the cowardly music of Gow could hardly subdue, to the tune o and blood thirsty rabble, who there constitutes so "woo'd and married and a.' large a portion of the population, instead of prepar- Now suppose that the mayor of the city of BAL ing to defend themselves and city against an open TIMORE, for example, should, on the 4th of July and armed enemy, are magnanimously threatening next, give a toast expressive of his desire for the to murder such of their peaceable fellow citizens assassination of the Prince Regent, or my Lord as have happened to fall under the displeasure of Castlereagh, and drink success to poison-and that the mighty mob. Already have the wretches talk- his sentiment should be applauded by the company ed, in public meeting, of hanging individual citi- to ecstacy, what would the exclusive friends to relizens whom they named, for the supposed crime of gion and humanity say? not hating the British and loving Madison and war, with sufficient ardor.-In one of the newspapers which used, last summer, to direct the operations of the murderers of Lingan, after denouncing cer Amount of Inspections the 31st March, 1813. do. 2 half bbls. salmon 10 bbls. shad tain men by name, says: "The cord of justice will In the city of Baltimore, during the quarter ending have yet to relieve us from some of our internal foes; and with all our hearts we say, we care not how 133,471 bbls. wheat flour soon." This is the language of men who announce themselves to be the exclusive supporters of a republican system of government and laws, and who prescribe torture, and murder their neighbors for not believing and saying that such a state of things is the wisest, and happiest, and freest, and most equitable of all systems of government." Barbarism. In the proud days of the Roman commonwealth, when a certain wretch offered secretly to take the life of a prince at war with the republic, they seized the villain and sent him in chains to the person he would have murdered for pay, to receive the reward of an assassin. 7,366 half bbls. do. do. 36 half bbls. do. 458 bbls. beef 16 half bbls. do. 71 do. mackerel 8 do. cod 714 kegs butter 2,328 do. lard 541 hlids. flaxseed 51 half do. do. 9,198 casks domestic liquors 290 do. foreign do. 145 do. oil 1,297 ullages, JNO. HARGROVE, Reg. C. B. Biography. From Lee's memoirs of the war in the southern depart--` the 20th June, 1759. His father visiting South Carolina soon after the peace of 1763, brought with him this son; and, returning to England, confided him to the Rev. Wm. Richardson, his maternal uncle; who, becoming of his education, but adopted him as his son and much attached to his nephew, not only took charge heir. At the proper age William was sent to an The Cossack general Platoff, in the service of Russia, has offered the legal prostitution of his daughter, with a portion of 200,000 rubles, to any person who shall take the life of Bonaparts, even though he should be the vilest of wretches, as an assassin Heeds must be. That the demi-savage has made the proposal excites no surprize; but that at a public dinner given by a British knight, the prevost of the enlightened city of Edinburgh, should openly ap prove of the project, and be surrounded by a set of cold-blooded creatures that could applaud his sentiment, is truly wonderful. But it is a fair counterpart of the British trade in infant scalps-and is "e ligious," "humane,” “magnanimous !”- -Good hea-l academy in North Carolina; from whence he was, ven! how basely have these words been prostituted in favor of the "allies" of Algerines and savages. The following has been published with great applause in the London papers; and shews us that the horrid spirit still exists that doomed to starvation 11,500 Americans on board the Jersey prison ship, under the infamous Cunningham. FROM A LONDON PAPER. Hall in Princeton, New Jersey, then becoming the Returning home, young Davie found himself shut out for a time from the army, as the commissions At a dinner given by sir G. Clark, at Edinburgh, for the troops just levied had been issued. He went after his election for Mid Lothian, the lord provost of to Salisbury, where he commenced the study of the Edinburgh requested to give a toast. He said, that law. The war continuing, contrary to the expectahe hoped sir George would not think it presumption tion which generally prevailed when it began, Davie if he should for a moment interrupt the line of his could no longer resist his ardent wish to plant himtoasts, by giving a young lady! The lady, he said, self among the defenders of his country. Inducing was neither British nor Irish-nor belonging to any a worthy and popular friend, rather too old for mili. of the fetish dependencies-either in the east or tary service, to raise a troop of dragoons, as the west-her residence, he believed, at present, was on readiest mode of accomplishing his wish, Davie obthe banks of the Volga-her fortune was made tained a lieutenancy in this troop. Without delay, known, and the conditions of obtaining her fair the captain joined the south army, and soon afterwards returned home on furlough. The command He begged leave to give "Miss Platoff, the fair of the troop devolving on lieut. Davie, it was at cossack, and her patriotic father-may she soon be his request annexed to the legion of count Pulaski, blessed with a deserving husband, that both she and where captain Davie continued, until promoted by the nations of Europe may rejoice." The toast cre-major-general Lincoln to the station of brigade-maated a sensation seldom experienced in such meetings, jor of cavalry. In this office Davie served until the hand had also been announced. |