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~;. •• • - .1. • " • _ 0 tem, not less important by the magnanimous end to be obtained, than by the novelty of the means adopted for its accomplishment. • # The conclusion of this Convention has been highly satisfactory to the President, whose entire approbation of the course pursued by you in the negociation of it, lam instructed to make known to you. He indulger the hope that it will, even as now m.►dified, contribute largely to, two subjects of high importance—to the friebdly relations between the two countries, and to the general interests of humanity. He sees in it, with much pleasure, that spirit of mutual accommodation so es sential to the continuance and promotion of their har mony and good- understanding, and welcomes it as an earnest of the same spirit, in accomplishing the adjust ment of the other interesting objects in negociation between the two parties. I am with great respect, Sir, your very bumble and obedient Servant, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Richard Rush, F.nvoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, U.S. London. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. RUSH TO MR. ADAMS. London, June 28, 1824. 1 have this day had the honour to receive your dis patch, No. 79, of the 29th of !Way, with the Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, as ratified on the part of the United States, under certain modifica tions and exceptions, annexed as conditions to the ad vice and consent of the Senate to its ratification. I shall proceed immediately to lay the Cbvention, as thus ratified, before this Government, and endeavour to recommend to its acceptance, the modifications and ex ceptions, now a part of the instrument, by all die sug gestions and arguments with which your dispatch has supplied me. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MR. RUSH TO MR. ADAMS. London, July 5, 1824. I have had one interview with Mr. Secretary Can ning, since the 28th of last month, on the business of t the Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade; but as yet am not able to communicate any of the sen timents of this Government in relation to it. You shall hear them from me at the earliest moment after I am myself apprised of them. , EXTRACT OF A fETTER FROM MR. RUSH TO MR. ADAMS. London, Aug. 9, 1824. w• I have the honour to inform you, that Mr. Secretary Canning has given me to understand; in an interview which I have this day had with him, that this Govern ment finds itself unable to accede to the Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, with the alter ations and modifications that have hen annexed to its ratification on the part of the United Statos. He said that none of these alterations and modifications would have formed insuperable bars to the consent of Great Britain, except that which had expunged the word America fr om the first article,' but that this was considered insuperable. The reasons which Mr. Secretary Canning assigned for this determination on the part of Great Britain, 1 f irbear to state, as he has promised to address a com munication, in writing, to me upon the subject, where they will be seen more accurately, and at large; but to guard against any delay in my receiving that commu nication, I have thought it right not to lose anT time in thus apprising you, for the Presidents information of the result. MR. RUSH To MR. ADAMS. London, August 50, 1824. SIR—I have the honour to apprise you, in my letter of the 9th instant, that Mr. Secretary Canning had in formed me, in nn interview that I had with him on that day, that this Government would decline acceding to the Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, as ratified in May, on the part of the United states, and that he promised to address to me an official note upon this subject. This note I received on Satur day, the 28th instant, the delay having arisen from an, attack of fever under which he had been labouring. A copy of it is herewith enclosed. I lost no time, after receiving your instructions of the 29th of May, in laying the matter of them before Mr.' Canning, h :lying, on the 30th of Jane, written him a note to request an interview, for the purpose of execut ing this duty, which he granted, me, at the Foreign Office, on the Ist of July. It was in that interview that I laid fully before him all the considerations and argu ments for the adoption of the treaty as ratified at Wash ington, with si Rich }opr abovz instructions had charged me, omitting no part of them. He gave no opinion at 'that time, on the course which this Government would be likely to pursue, hut afterwards, on the 9th of Au gist, info; med me, as I have heretofore mentioned, that ttre omission of the words, 44 and America," from the first article of the treaty, was considered by Great Bri tain as an insuperable objection to its acceptance on her part, and to this effect is. the note which I now transmit fram him. A copy of my answer to it, dated to-day, is enclosed. It may be proper for me to state, that while Mr. Canning, in the interview I had with him on the 9th of August, was assigning the reasons of this Government, as they will now be seen in his note, for not acceding to the treaty, he took occasion to remark, that Great Bri tain would readily give to the omitted words a mean ing that would restrict their operation to the southern ports of North America, as proximate to the British West Indies, excluding the range of coast which com prehended the' middle and northern States, if 'I thought that such a plan wculd be acceptable to my Govern ment. I immediately and most decidedly discounte nanced such a proposition, as objectionable under every view. He replied, that, having no other object in making the intimation than that of preventing the treaty from falling through, and not knowing himself in what light it might be received, he had i.f course nothing more to say,alter learning from me that it would be objectionable. 1 avail myself of this opportunity to 'forward to you a copy of the Act of the last Session of Parliament for consolidating the laws of this realm for the abolition of the slave trade, as requested in your communication of the 29th of have the honour to remain, &c. RICHARD RUSH. The Hon. John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State. • at R. GEORGE CANNING TO MR. RUSH. Foreign Mx. August 27,1824. SlR—ln pursuance of what I stated to you in our late conference, I ka-ve now the honour to address you od the subject of the qualified ratification, on the part of your Government, of the treaty for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade, which was concluded and signed in the month of March last,by you and his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries. His Majesty's Government have given the most anxious and deliberate consideration to this 'subject, and if the result of that consideration has been to de cide that they cannot advise his Majesty to accept the American ratification (notwithstanding the arguments by you, in the name of your Government, in, favour Of such acceptance). I entregt ,roottrbelieVe it is' 'ot from any diminished sense of tie importance of the matter.to which that treaty relates. Nor do they •at all underrate the desire which, as you have assured me, and as they really believe, was felt by the President of the United States, to adopt the provisions of the pvaty, such as it was transmitted to America. But the result is not the less inconvenient. A treaty, of which the basis was laid id propositions framed by the American Government, was considered here as so little likely to, be made a subject of re newed discussion in America, that not a moment was lost in ratifying it, on the part of his Majesty; and his Majesty's ratification was ready to be exchanged against that of the United States when the treaty came back; not as it had been sent to America, but with material variations—variations not confined to those stipulations, or parts of stipulations, which had been engrafted upon the original project, but extending to that part of the original project itself which had passed unchanged through the negotiation. The knowledge that the Constitution of the United States renders all their diplomatic compacts liable to this sort of revision, undoubtedly precludes the possibi lity of taking exceptions at any particular instance in which that revision is exercised; but the repetition of such instances does not serve to reconcile to the practice the feelings of the other contracting party, whose so lemn ratification is thus rendered of no avail, and whose concessions in negotiation having been made (as all such concessions must be undetstuod to be made) con ditionally, are thus accepted as positive and absolute, while what may have been the stipulated price of those concessions is withdrawn. In the instance before us, the' question is not merely of for in. A substantial change is made in the Treaty ; and, as I have said, on a point originally proposed by yourself, Sir, as the American Plenipotentiary, and un derstood to be proposed by the special direction of your Government. The r ight of visiting vessels suspected of slave-trading, when extended alike to the West Indies and to the coast of America, implied an equality of vigilance; and did not necessarily-imply the existence of grounds of suspi cion on either side. The removal of this right, as to the coast of America, and its continuance to the West Indies, cannot but ap pear to imply the existence, on one side, and not on the other, of a just ground either of suspicion of miscon duct, or for apprehension of an abuse of authority. To such an equality, leading to such an inference, hip Majesty's Government can never advise his Majesty to consent. It 'would have been rejected, if ptoposed in the course of negotiation. It can still less be admitted as a new demand, after the conclusion of the treaty. With the exception of this proposed omission, there is nothing in the alterations made by the Senate of the United States, in the treaty (better satisfied as his Ma jesty's GOvernment undoubtedly would have been if they had not been made) which his Majesty's Govern ment would not rather agree to adopt, than suffer the hopes of good to ss Welt this arrangement had given rise, to he disappointed. Upon this omission, they trust the Senate of the United States will, on another consideration of the subject, see that it is not equitable to insist. A full power will therefore be sent to Mr.Addington, his Majesty's Charge u'Aff tires at Washington, to con clude and sign, with any Plenipotentiary to be appointed by the American Government, a near, verbatim the same as the returned treaty would he, with all the alterations introduced into it by the Senate, exceptin , only the proposed omission of the words 6 , and America, in the first article; which treaty, if transmitted to Eng land,• with the ratification of the Government of the United States, his Majesty will be ready to ratify. But I am to apprise you, Sir, that his Majesty will not be advised to appoint Plenipotentiaries to conclude and sign the like treaty here, to be, as before, ratified by his Majesty, and to be again subjected, after rati fication by his Majesty, to alterations by the Senate of the United States. I am confident that you will see, in this distinction,' nothing more than a reasonable safeguard for his Ma jegty's dignity, end a just desire to ascertain, before his Majesty again ratifies a diplomatic instrument, to what conditions that ratification is affiaed. I bare the honour to bc, with the highest eontideration, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, . lre Richard Rush, Esq. &c. GEORGE CANNING. THE EVIIININO STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1825. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened 'at 954 for the Account, with little doing, and, up to this hour, they are 954 to 4; for next time 9.14 It is said that the remaining part of the Brazil Loan, to the amount of £2,000,000, will be contracted for by Neut. , . Baamo, lavu c, and Ilontscoms. FOREIGN FUNDS. In the Foreign Market there is still a great bustle in all the Mine Shares, but they are not so brisk alyesterday, and somewhat on the decline, as a great number of persons are bartering their profits, and selling. 'Current Prices: New Spanish 15, Old 214:4, Russian 964, Mexican 774 73, Colombian New 944, French Scrip 14 pre. Ckilian 87, Portuguese 884, Gas 14 4, Greek 561 57. Alliance Assurance SBA RES. - £lOO PAID. ?DKr TO-DAT. £lO 9* 10 pr. Do. Marine - 100 - 5 Anglo Mexican Mines 100 - 10 United Mexican ditto - 40 - 10 Real del Alonte ditto - 400 - 70 Brazilian ditto - 100 5 Columbian ditto - 100 - 5 Rio de la Plata ditto - 100 - 5 FOREIGN EXCHANGES. lIAMBURCII, DEC. 31.—0 n London 36. 4. 2 Us. 36.1. Si. PxyzitssunGll, Dec. 10.— O n L ondon, AMSTERDAM, JAN. 7.—On London, 59. 8. 2 M. 39. 6. Pit ICE UN STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. , Bank Stock 229% 230 per Cent. lied. 94% 3 / 4 5 / 8 3 per Cent. Cons. ex div. 93% 3 / 4 5 Si Or Cent. 101 ' Si per Cent. Red. 100 N 101 100% 4 per Cent. New ex div. 106 105% Long Ann. 2215.16 23—India Bonds 99 98 El,OOO Exam+ Bill. (2d.) 54 7 ; (I Wad.) 55 8 £5OO ditto (N e d.) 56 8 £lOO and £2OO ditto (2d.) 57 • . Commercial (1 V 2 d.) 56 5 8 Cons. for Acct. 95% Vs 3/8 - . 2 do. 150 130 1,350 54 56 86 66 64 66 We have received such of the French Papers of Sun day-as had sot previously-reached us, but they coma; no news of importance. It is stated in a private let troM Paris, that by 211.4 i -rival at Ancona, from Cork accounts had been rftei*ech dated the Bth of De cember, by which it would appear, that some misun derstanding had occurred between the Governor of Tiipolitza and the son of General CoLoooTnoNi,- and that the latter, in attempting to possess himself of Tripolitza,had lost his life, along with some of his troops; this, however, was only considered to have been an ebullition of private feeling ; and it was unknown both to the Government and to General COLOCOTRONI him self, who was occupied in the siege of Patras, until the death of his son was - announced to him. It will, it is said, in no manner disturb the harmony which is known at present to exist amongst the leaders of the Greek revolution. The Bremen Gazette, received this morning, contains the following article from Naples, of the 10th ult. 4 , It is well known that Count CANONICI, was con demned to imprisonment for life, in consequeacepf the troubles which took place some years ago in I.lm hardy, and in which he was unfortunately implicated. Application had been made from many quarters for a mitigation of the penalty, but in vain. At length the noble house of Mattei, at the head of which is the venerable Monseigneur Mattei, Patriarch of Venice, to a relation of whom Count CANONICI is married, ap plied to the Court of Bavaria, to which be has the ho nour of being known, and addressed a respectful Peti tion to his MAJESTY, imploring him to intercede with his august son-in-law. We need hardly say, that the King of DAV.% RIA Most willingly listened to this Peti tion, and on his first interview with the Emperor of AUSTRIA, solicited CA I'`NICI ' S pardon. The Emperor FRANCIS readily yielded to the natural impulse of his own humane disposition, and the request of his father 'in-law, and we learn that Count CANONICI hps been testorej to liberty." Getman *Papers to the 41h instant reached us this forenoon. They contain nothing worth quoting but ihe following article from the frontiers of Italy, dated the 29th ult. Letters horn Italy bting a piece of intelligence which must highly interest all the learned of Europe, both as supplement to the history of the difficulties which oppose in some pl4ces the progress of Science, and as an instance of the vicissitudes to which cele- ibiated and excellent men are exposed. • M. PONS, famous lo his discoveries of comets, astrono mer, at the Royal Observatory of Marlia, in the Duchy of Lucca, is no longer Director of that Establishment. A rather strange reform in the system of public jastrUc lion in dna country, suppressing some Professorships' in the Lyceum, has included, it is not known how, a place which is absolutely distinct from them. This measure scents the more singul at, because M. Pot's, who etijoied an ilonourable situation in the Royal Observa toty at Marseilles, left it only after repeated invitations and :almost against his' will, in compliance with the ar gent intreaties of the late Queen MARIA Louis*,Duchess of Lucca. • A decree was at that time issued, promising M. PONS, if he would come to Lucca, full indemnity for the lass l of.his place and of his country, and a provi s ion for his family. Though it can hardly be supposed that such a decree w ill fail of being executed as honour and justice requ ire, yet the uncertainty respecting the fu ture lot of so celebrated a man, nruA excite well founded inteyest, not only in the academies of London and Paris, from - which he has received honours and prizes for his numerous discoveries, but in all those persons who have long known M. Poss as a man of the nio.t excellent character. A private letter from Brussels, of the 24th ult. men tions the mysterious arrest of an English Gentleman of respectable connections, long resident in that city. He was taken out of bed by three °dicers of justice, and hurried to prison. On the remonstrance of Sir CHARLES BAGOT, he was, after an examination in the Hall of Audience, discharged, without any specific charge • being brought against him. By the late arrivals from New South Wales, we have , received a file or Sydney Gazettes, which afford ample' proof of the incteasing prosperity of that important Co- By a Proclamation, dated '26th May, 38 Gen tlemen, residents there, are appointed Justices of the Peace, ss ith power to punish offenders brought before them. This measure was expected to be followed up by the establishment of a Court of Requests ; although, at the law then stood, " for the ends of justice, proceedings could be obtained out of the .Supreme Court under 1L:10," so far as respects Government. We obsei ve with pleasure that other institutions have been established, indicating the progress of civili zation—the diffusion of knowledge—the propagation of religion. In addition to Churches provided for Divine Worship, as by law established, Government has encouraged the erection of a Chapel for Roman .Catholics on a large scale; and we perceive the arrival of an additional Clergyman of that communion, the Rev. SAMUEL COOTE, by the Ardent. We also find Benevolent Societies, Wesleyan Sunday School Unions, St. James's Sunday Schools, the Windsor Bible Asso ciation, am A Bank too has been long established. We are happy to remark, in addition, that luxury, the offspring of wealth, begins to be indulged in by our Australian fellow-subjects.. English chariots, barouches, dennets, gigs,,&c. are much sought after; even men cooks are advirtised for. Provisions, with the exception of butter and cheese, appear reasonable :—Bread was 2d. per lb. butter 2s. 41d. cheese (colonial) Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. wheat 4s. lid bu , liel; maize is. barley 2s. 6d. fowls 2s. jhd. per re; eggs ls. 9d. per dozen. %%e have evidence also of the superiority, or at least % the asserted superiority, of New South Wales ovtr its sister . colony, Van Diemen's Land. This is preyed by the preference given to it by numerous settlers who had 'sat down" or intended to have established themselve s i n the latter colony, but who have proceedei to the former. Among these are Mr. Rodcric (Roger) O'Connor; witi s his sons Arthur and William. We have only room to call the attention of our Readers to an interesting correspondence between Mr: Secretary CANNING and Mr. RUSH, Envoy from the United States, on the Slave Trade : we shall notice tie subject more at length, when the whole of the corre spondence is before us. Alleged b THE ARMY . Oficial Notice has been given, that,-in consequence of the in• tended augmentation of the Regiments in India to their full corn. plement, an addition of three or four thotumna men is required to be raised. For this purpose extensive recruiting partiesate buted throughout Ireland, where, it is hoped and expected, from the heroic character of the people, that the whole augmentation will be completed in a very short period. FASHIONABLE MOVEMENT& The Marquis Graham arrived yesterday at his father's, the Duke of Montrose, in Grosvenor-square, from the North. .'he Dowager Marchioness of Saiiabury arrived yesterday at her house in Arlington-street, from Hatfield. Lord Alvanley left town on Sunday, for Brighton. Viscount Barnard has left town for Melton Mowbray, tershire. The Dowager Duchess of Richmond, and the Ladies Lennox, are shortly expected in town from Ireland. Baron Delmar arrived yesterday at Blake's Hotel, Jermysi.street, from Et ighton. Arrivals at Reed's Hotel; Lower Grosvenor street:—Lady Bampfylde and Miss Bampfylde, from Devonshire ; James and William Drummond, Esqrs. from Brighton; Captain Castle, from ditto.—Messrs. Vansittart and. Meynell have left ditto, on a tour. The Earl of Stamford has arrived at his seat, &rifle Hall, S:af. fordshire. from Cheshire. Departvres from the Coburg Hotel, Charles-street, Grnsvenit square :—Mr. and Mrs. Sewell for righton ;J. Sherwood, Esq. for ditto. Major Gordon left town yesterday, for Brighton. Mr. K ROUSE, a King's Messenger, was sent off from the Foreign Office. Downing-street. on Saturday evening, with dis. patches for the British Consuls at Colombia, &c. in South America. Lord LIVERPOOL and Mr. Secretary CANNING have accepted the invitation to dine with the Common Council cf Bristol. Ye,terday morning, the CHANCELLOR of the ECctia. coma arrived at his residence in Downing-street from Beckenham. The Rt. lion. Gentleman returned to Beckenham in the afternoon. Mr. STRATFORD CANNING had an audience of Tile Emperor of Aymara on the 27th ult. which lasted an hour. It is said that he was to leave Vienna for St. Petersburgh on the 30th.. _ _ The Duke of MONTROM is much indis - po,ed, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Yesterday, the dispatches for Bengal and Chin; by the ship General Kyd, were closed at the East India lkitse, and delivered to the Purser of that ship. The Right lion. Lord GWYDYR'S collection of rents took place a few days ago, when his Lordship gave a return of more than twenty per cent. The Marquis of ExeTtit's distinguished party de. aimed about 700 head of game in two days last week. The Duke of WELLusoroN, the Marquis of HEtti 'nun, Lord CtinLitnnnaLcv, 'and the Right 11.mouratile C. As /BUTIiNAT, are spending the first days of 1825 with the Earl of Waerasoastastan, at his domain it Apthorp, near Stamford. At the Leicester Borough Sessions, on Friday, Tkos. Archer was convic ed of adminiAering a quantity of tai tat emetic to nine or ten persons, who were employed in the same shop, by infusing it with some ale, of which they all partook. Some of them did not recover for three or four days. The prisoner was sentenced to eighteen mouths' imprisonment. ROBBERY.—Sunday evening, a distressing robbery was committed in the house of a poor woman named Pittman, in Laundry-yard. Great Peter -street, Westmin ster, where the thieves entered by breaking the sashes and frames of the windows, and forcing the doors. The robbers then took away with them .the whole of the wearing apparel, clean and dirty linen, and comple:ely stripped the bed. Another robbery was twice attempted the same evening, on the premises of Mr. WALKER, a Doctor, living near Lady Dacre's Alms Houses. The villains, however, were frustrated in their design, by the report of fire-arms, when they made a speedy retreat. Sr. ANQRSW'S.—In consequence of the violent gale on Wednesday se'nnight, the west gable of the new Episcopal Church, which was in an unfinished state, was thrown down. The Court of France ha• offered to give the pilgrims, who go to the jubilee at Rome, a ship to convey them from Toulon to Civita Vecchia ; and the , Court of Rome has offered to lodge them gratis. SUDDEN DEATHlr..Yesterday, as a young man, named Samuel Walker, a baker, was proceeding along Little College -street, Westminster, he stopped and deli vered some bread at the house of Mr,Ginger, the book seller, and had scarcely melded a few yards farther, bef,•re he was heard to call out for help and a doctor, and blood flowed copiously from his left leg. Several persons went to his assistance, and he was conveyed to Mr. Stephen's, an Apothecary, in Wood-street, who instantly attended him ; but before he could render the poor man any assistance, he expired from the loss of blood, which was occasioned by the rupture of a blood vessel of the leg.-4 Lady fell dead from apoplexy, on Sunday, in Dr. Rees's Chapel, Jewin-street,Cripplegate, while in the act of prayer. We are sorry to state that Mr. Jour.rwo, the third Officer of the Hon. Company's ship Hythe, was drowned on Sunday afternoon at Gravesend, as be was passing from one ship to another ; in consequence of which accident the ship, though just on the eve of sailing, has been delayed until another Officer is appointed. Last week, a fine young deer or buck was shot by THOMAS WATT, Esq..of Allanhill, en the lands of Prior Moor, w ithin a short distance of St. Andrew's. Mr. KaLLY, of the Irish Times Newspaper, and Mr. LEECH, who were fined 1001. each, for nonaattendance on the Grand Jury in the case of Mr. O'CoNNELL, have had the fines remitted, they making affidavits that they had not been served with any legal process. - - The number of Teasels reported at the Custom House, Liverpool, for the last six months, is 5,260, viz. . • From Foreign parts ... 2,054 Tonnage. Ireland 656,601 tons. Coasters 1,681 In the year ending June 24th, 1824 : Foreign, 4,151 ; Ireland, 2 ; 200 ; Coasters, 5,650.--Tota 1 , 10 : 001 vessels. Tons, 1,180,914. MINING InTztumnser..—CoPper ores sold it Redruth, Jan. 6, 1625, 2525 tons. Average produce, 73. Quantity of Has 191 tons £126,1 n5 : Aver cwt. Amount of sale, £17,230. 10.. AveVUZ dud, I , - a tie of t hi O rel t he el a pps way, the g tweet tiona been ing tl sides court tesq bad F 1 en , to th fittin (orw GI T Bast T ball foes , Fria mail Gip! A sprit The than A ball Qua cony con the. witl 4 son did A mu: ham in ti and stun bit( PVCE torn Zam cien wetl of 2 4 ea 'eel he pf 0 1 toi t. !tat f uhl a Inc if hal r to 0 cei ret d Pr' ~ the cei e ko e DI th a e t. h 21 I 11 tt r, • r, al to to tie of xi an Le l rd 'as be of Ig o by for Ir. rte tire ley 104