Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Col. Read, one of the senators of this state has, we learn, separated from the majority. whilst they persevere in those measures which have produced so much suffering and discontent. We have mentioned Col. Read's vote on the side of the majority, respecting Mr. Lloyd's motion for a communication of the information negociated with Mr. Rose, and we are told he has given others.

The reception of Mr. Lloyd's motion, is characteristic of the degraded and unmanly resort of party to eke out a confidence, to the end of which they find themselves approaching at full gallop. Mr. Giles asserted, in the senate, that it had been disclosed in an official negociation with Mr. Rose, that the british had in reserve other terms and demands, than those which were signified in the conversations and correspondence he held with Mr. Madison, and that they were of a nature to preclude an accommodation, if the point of revoking the President's proclamation had even been yielded by the executive.

In order to test the truth of this, Mr. Lloyd made a number of judicious observations, tending to show the propriety of the people, or at least of the senate being correctly informed concerning the points upon which the negociation had substantially turned, and moved for a communication of the informal conferences. - The motion having been laid upon the table, when it was called up, Mr. Giles thought proper to declare he had not obtained his information from the administration but from some inferior source; opposed the call, and obliged his party to vote against it. If Mr. Giles had been warranted in his assertion, his zeal would not have permitted such acts to want the corroboration called for.

Such proceedings as these have disgusted Colonel Read and other reflecting men, who have hitherto gone with the majority.--Balt. North American.