his proclamation announcing the possession of the territory, and the authority of the United States. He also at once adopted rigorous measures for the introduction of a regular and efficacious administration of affairs.

The injury which his health had suffered from the personal hardships, inevitable in his campaigns, forbade him to protract his residence in Florida. Accordingly on the 7th October, 1821, he delegated his powers to two gentlemen, the secretaries of his government, and set out on his return to Nashville.

In this year, the corporation of New-Orleans voted $50,000 for erecting a marble statue appropriate to his military services.

On the 4th July, 1822, the governor of Tennessee, by order of the legislature, presented him with a sword, as a testimonial of the "high respect" entertained by the state for his public services.

On the 20th August, the general assembly of Tennessee recommended him to the Union for the office of president of the United States.

In the autumn of 1823, he was elected to the senate of the United States, in which body he has taken his seat.

Before his election to the senate, he was appointed by the president with the concurrence of the senate, minister plenipotentiary to Mexico, but he declined the honour.

In person, general Jackson is tall, and remarkably erect and thin. His features are large; his eyes dark blue, with a keen and strong glance; his complexion is that of a war-worn-soldier. His demeanour is gentle and easy; affable and accessible to all; of great mildness and kindness of disposition.

(JAY, JOHN, LL.D. chief justice of the United States, and a distinguished statesman, was born in the city of New-York, December 1, 1745. At the age of fourteen, he entered After taking his bachelor's degree, he studied law, and in a few years rose to distinguished eminence in his profession.

The commencement of our struggles with Great Britain found him at an age, and with feelings and talents, to render him an ardent and able supporter of his country's rights,) and a fit and worthy successor to his father, whose age and infirmities forbade him to take that part in the events of the time to which he was prompted by inclination. He therefore commenced his political career at a point which was justly considered the honourable goal of many an older patriot's ambition.)

In 1774, he was elected by the citizens of NewYork, a delegate to the first general congress which met at Philadelphia; that congress, of which to have been member, is a sufficient title to the gratitude of Americans.

In 1776, he was elected president of that august and enlightened body.

In 1777, he was a member of the convention of the state of New-York, which met to deliberate and frame a new constitution; and drew the first draft of that instrument.

In 1778, he was appointed chief justice of that state. In the following year, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary to the court of Spain, and sailed for Cadiz in the beginning of December.

The object of this mission was to obtain from Spain an acknowledgment of our independence, to form a treaty of alliance, and to procure pecuniary aid: but on the two first points he failed.

Early in the summer of 1782, he was appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate a peace with England, and was authorized to continue the negotiation with Spain.

In September, 1783, he signed a definitive treaty of peace with the former, and soon after resigned his commission, and returned home.

On his arrival in the United States, he was placed at the head of the department for foreign affairs, in which office he continued till the adoption of the federal constitution, when he was appointed chief justice of the United States.

In 1794, he was appointed envoy extraordinary to Great Britain, and signed the treaty which has since borne his name.

In 1795, he was elected governor of the state of New-York, and in 1801, declined a re-election, and withdrew altogether from public life.

In person, Mr. Jay is tall and of slender make; with a countenance indicative of the highest degree of intelligence. To his pen, while in congress, was America indebted for some of those masterly addresses which reflect such high honour upon the government; to his firmness and penetration, were in no considerable degree to be ascribed those intricate negotiations which were conducted, towards the close of the war, both at Madrid and Paris.

With a mind improved by extensive reading and great knowledge of public affairs; unyielding firmness and inflexible integrity; his character, perhaps, approaches nearer than any other of modern times, to the Aristides of Plutarch.

KING, RUFUS, a distinguished statesman, and one, of the signers of the federal constitution, was born in the year 1755, in the town of Scarborough, district of Maine.

(In the year 1773, he was admitted a student of Harvard college, and graduated in 1777. In this seminary he acquired great reputation for his classical attainments, and more especially for his extraordinary powers of oratory. From Cambridge he went to Newburyport, and entered as a student of law in the office of the late chief justice Parsons, with whom he completed his studies, and was admitted to the bar in 1780.

In 1783, he was elected a member to the state legislature of Massachusetts.

In the years 1784, '5, and '6, he was a member of the old congress, and on several occasions, he delivered some of the most masterly speeches ever heard.

In 1787, he was appointed by the legislature of Massachusetts a delegate to the general convention, held at Philadelphia, and bore a large share in the discussion and formation of our present system of government. He attended during the whole session of the convention, and was one of the committee appointed by that body to prepare and report the final draft of the constitution of the United States. He was afterwards a conspicuous and leading member of the Massachusetts convention, which met to ratify and adopt it.

In the year 1786, he married Miss Alsop, of the city of New-York, to which place he removed in 1788.

In the summer of 1789, he and general Schuyler were elected the first senators from the state of

New-York, under the constitution of the United States.

In 1794, soon after the promulgation of the British treaty, a series of papers was published in its defence, under the signature of Camillus. The ten first numbers were written by general Hamilton, and the remainder by Mr. King. In these masterly papers there is discovered a depth of research, and an acquaintance with the various treaties and laws of different nations, on the subjects of navigation, trade, and maritime law, which render them of inestimable value.

In the spring of 1796, he was appointed by president Washington, minister plenipotentiary to the court of Great-Britain. After an absence of seven years he resigned his mission, and returned home in 1803. During his residence abroad, few foreigners lived on more intimate terms with the public men of the day, as well those in administration as the opposition. He frequented the society of literary men, and has since maintained a correspondence with some of the most distinguished civilians of the old world.

In 1813, he was again chosen by the legislature of New-York, a senator of the United States.

In person, Mr. King is above the middle size, and somewhat athletic. His countenance is manly, and bespeaks intelligence of the first order. His conversation and writings are remarkable for conciseness, force, and simplicity.

As a statesman he is intimately conversant with the laws and constitution of his country, and familiarly acquainted with its various interests, foreign and domestic; as a civilian, well read in the laws of nations; as an erudite classical scholar, both in ancient and modern literature, and as an elegant writer, and a consummate orator, he may be said to rank with the first of his cotemporaries.