The Rhode Island Republican

A fair specimen of Bank Patriotism.—We find it stated in the Albany Argus, that during the very period when the Bank was curtailing its discounts to the immense sum of $28,000,000 in sixteen months, and thus doing its best to contribute to the "distress" of which its partisans so loudly complained, Mr. Biddle, who controls the Bank as the agent of its British stockholders "loaned two hundred thousand dollars to construct a canal in Canada, a rival to the Erie canal; and loaned, as has been alleged and not denied by the hired presses of the Bank, eight hundred thousand dollars to an agent of the Barings at London!" If this is an American Bank, or as Mr. Clay calls it, a "Whig Bank," we should like to be made acquainted with the properties necessary to form a British Bank, or a Tory Bank!—Boston Post.