The New Hampshire Gazette

PORTSMOUTH.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1829.

We have no later accounts from Europe than those given in our last.

Fourth of July.—We are happy to learn, that preparations are making in several towns, for celebrating the approaching anniversary of our National Independence with unusual eclat. As it respects this town, we have heard little or nothing said about a celebration; but we cannot think for a moment, that the citizens will suffer the day to pass unnoticed.

The Legislature of this State will meet at Concord to-morrow. The editor of the Statesman is afraid that there will be a "change and proscription in our own State affairs." That there will be a change, we have no doubt. The times demand it; and if accounts are correct, (and we have no reason to doubt them) we have the power in our own hands, and to satisfy the people, will exercise it. Mr. Kent ought not to complain of proscription. His party set the example, and carried it so far, that even the poor doorkeeper did not escape its grasp. Displacing the present incumbents, will not only be an act of retaliation, but the means of placing better men in office—men who will harmonize with the republican party.

Our neighbor Cutter, of the Journal, in speaking of the next Legislature, says "Our opinion is, that we [the federal party] shall retain a majority in the House, and that Mr. Speaker Wilson will be re-elected." Stop Charles—not quite so fast. We don't believe a word of it. Your opinions and prophecies previous to the late Presidential and State elections, are fresh in our memory. They are not worth one of Jacob Binns Moore's monumental inscriptions.

The President's Inaugural Address.—Last week we gave an extract from the London Morning Herald, relative to the President's Address.—Since then we have received the following remarks from three other English publications.—The first is from a London Journal of the 12th April :—

"The transatlantic news of the week is not uninteresting; we have been favored, for instance, with the Inaugural Address of the new President of the United States, General Jackson. It is remarkable for its calm, moderate, and republican tone, and for the total absence of that soldierly hauteur which has been so freely anticipated.—Peace, economy, the extinction of all public debt, with pure constitutional government, are held out as the chief objects of his administration: and so little of a military spirit is exhibited in this primary delivery, that he even formally advocates the sufficiency of the naval force, arsenals and fortifications for the defence of the country, without any increase of the army at all. Much curiosity exists as to his views of the expediency of the lately adopted tariff; in respect to which both its friends and enemies think they can discover some intentions in their favor. On the whole, the new President, commences his high office with considerable eclat, and with a tide of popularity in his favor which is almost without example."

From the London Times, April 17.

We present to day (what we had not room for yesterday) the speech of the new American President—Mr. or General Jackson—on being sworn into office. It must be observed, that the late President Mr. Adams, had the singular fortune, after a very sharp contest, of holding the Presidency for only one term. He was not thought worthy as had been the case with others, of a re-election for a second course of years: but Mr. Jackson, his formidable rival in the first instance, has succeeded in ousting him on the second trial of strength. The new President has been thought a kind of Ultra-republican. His speech, however, is one of proper temper and moderation, in relation to his views both of the foreign and domestic policy of his country.

He promises retrenchment and economy in the management of the public finances, and assigns two very just causes for peculiar exertions in this respect—both because he shall thereby "facilitate the extinction of the national debt, the unnecessary duration of which is incompatible with real independence; and because he shall counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy, which a profuse expenditure of money by the government, is too apt to engender." This is real good sense.

From the London Sun.

The speech of General Jackson, the new President of the United States, is characterized by a tone of moderation and good sense, singularly at variance with all we have ever heard recorded of the defender of New-Orleans. Report has made him out a sort of Ultra-Republican, but his Inaugural Address bears a different impress.—The soldier is scarcely if at all visible in its spirit: the staid sober gravity of the citizen is its predominant quality. It is well worth an attentive perusal, if only for the excellent and discriminating sense that pervades the following sentence:—With foreign nations it will be my study to preserve peace, and to cultivate friendship on fair and honorable terms, and, in the adjustment of any differences that may exist or arise, to exhibit the forbearance becoming a powerful nation, rather than the sensibility belonging to a gallant people.