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choosing to appear there, he paid the forfeiture, and went off 

 to Europe. There he wandered about from one monarch's 

 court to another, until 1811, when he returned to his native 

 country. During the remainder of his life, almost twenty-five 

 years, he lived in retirement, until he recently died, and was 

 buried, by the students of the college, of Nassau Hall, Prince- 

 ton, New Jersey, in their burying-ground, with every mark of 

 respect. There he was born and educated, and there his mor- 

 tal remains rest. 



Whatever his projects were, whether for conquest or settle 

 ment, they were defeated almost as soon as they were form- 

 ed. Late events on this same theatre do not hold out the 

 same terror to ambitious men, who would conquer adjoining 

 provinces, that Burr's fate did, in 1806-7. But Burr is now in 

 his grave. 



"No farther seek his merits to disclose, 

 "Nor draw his frailties from their dread abode, 

 "There they alike, in trembling hope repose ; 

 " In the bosom of his father and his God." 



Gray. 



SWEEPING RESOLUTION OF 1810. 



The next subject which during three or four years, produ- 

 ced a great excitement, in the minds of our population, was iii 

 its day, called, the " Sweeping Resolution." Our legislature 

 had passed an act, giving justices of the peace, jurisdiction with- 

 out the aid of a jury in the first instance, in the collection of 

 debts, in all cases, where the demand did not exceed fifty dol- 

 lars. Inasmuch as the constitution of the United States, gives 

 a jury in all such cases, where the amount claimed, is twen- 

 ty dollars; and inasmuch too, as any thing in our laws or con- 

 stitution, contrary to the provisions of the national constitu- 

 tion is utterly void, and of no effect ; the judges of all our 

 courts, declared this act of our legislature void and of no 

 effect. This independence of our judges inflamed the legisla- 

 ture to a high degree. So they proceeded to punish these hon- 

 est and conscientious officers of justice. The house of rep- 



