COURT MARTIAL.
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The Court met at 10 o'clock, Capt Biddle
being still absent from indispSsition.


Commodore Porter exhibited variety of
documents, and references to others to be
supplied, which were read by the Judge Ad
vocate, and annexed to the record.


The documents consisted of letters and
extracts Of letters which passed between
the Navy Department and Commodore Por-
ter, in the year 1928 and 1924; and one of
the main objects of their production appea ed
to be to establish the fact th;.t he had inti
mated to the Department his entention to re-
turn to Washington, and had received, in
reply, pei mission to return at any time
which would be least inconvenent to the
service, and most agreeable to his own incli-
nation. The anonymous note, ALSO which
appeared in the National Journal, of June IA,
and which was admitted to have been writ
ten by Richard Cox, Esq. WAS put i'll by
Commodore Porter, and annexed to the re-
cord. Some Of the other documents which
he submitted having been read iii the course
of the previous proceeding, the reading of
them was at this time dispensed with. A
mongst the papers referred to, were the
messages of the late President OF the United
States to Congress, at the commencement
of the lst and 2d. sessions of the Seventeenth
Congress, and the list. of the Eighteenth
Congress.
Commodore Porter having nothing further
to present to the Court, and having intmat-
ed his doubts whether his counsel could be
prepared with his defence by Monday,
morning, the Court adjourned until o'clo' k
on Monday to allow time forits preparation.


National Journal.
Great .MortalHv.-Thc Dysentery has
seldom il ever ragged in Hartford Md. with
more violence, than during the present sea-
SON. Some idea may be formed OF the cx-
tent of the mortality, when we are informed,
that one cabinet-maker, in the neighborhood
of Belle Air, has already made sirty coffins
within short time In some families three
and four deaths have occurred. Thus, in
the family of our esteemed fellow-citizcn,
John Kcan, Esq. en- Saturday last, while the
burial of second child was taking place, a
third expired.


General I.afayettc's claims under the late
law of indemnity for eonfscated property
during the French revolution amount, 1t is
said, to six hundred thousand francs
Should he receive that sum, about one hun
drcd and twenty thousand dollars, (of which
there is little reason to doubt, as he comes
within every principle Of the provislon) It
will make considerable addition to the do
nations of this country, and render the de-
cline of his life almost as ailluent as the
rnnmencemeut Of H.