remove the opportunity of seamen being
tempted to decline entering the service of the United States, by the
hope of employment on board of merchant vessels, an embargo was passed."

The general does not seem to have been satisfied with the reasons of the
legislature for denying the power he desired, nor with their substitute
for it.

"The suspension of the writ of _habeas corpus_, and adjournment
of the houses, were measures which Jackson anxiously desired.
There was a great inclination in the members of both houses to
gratify him, in every instance in which they could do it with
safety: in these two only, they were of opinion it would be
unsafe to adopt his views."

General Carroll, with a brigade of Tennessee militia, arrived on the
19th, and the legislature were indefatigable in preparing for the
expected attack.

"At this period the forces at New-Orleans amounted to between
six and seven thousand men. Every individual exempted from
militia duty on account of age, had joined one of the
companies of veterans, which had been formed for the
preservation of order. Every class of society was animated with
the most ardent zeal; the young, the old, women, children, all
breathed defiance to the enemy, firmly disposed to oppose to
the utmost the threatened invasion. There were in the city a
very great number of French subjects, who from their national
character could not have been compelled to perform military
duty; these men, however, with hardly any exception,
volunteered their services. The Chevalier Tousard, the Consul
of France, who had distinguished himself, and had lost an arm
in the service of the United States, during the revolutionary
war, lamenting that the neutrality of his nation did not allow
him to lead his countrymen in New-Orleans to the field,
encouraged them to flock to Jackson's standard. The people were
preparing for battle as cheerfully as if for a party of
pleasure: the streets resounded with martial airs: the several
corps of militia were constantly exercising, from morning to
night: every bosom glowed with the feelings of national honour:
every thing showed nothing was to be apprehended from
disaffection, disloyalty, or treason."

On the 21st, the enemy landed with a strong force, and a proud one,
confident of an easy victory. They looked upon all the