Star. — London, England, 1815-01-31 00:00:00

THE EVININGT ' LONDON. ~...rr TUESPAY;44'NUAAY Si, 1815. ?RICE OF STOOGE DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCIi ;Word 554-4 pmr ClAraff—gs per Ct. Navy get Cools 85.1—f0r statu s... ll—Ontaktua falai Long Arms. Is ` beds is. pre. El:beget* BON tr. ry the arrivalof the Rebecta, Rows, in the Clyde, w : learn that Sir ALEXANDER COCHRAN*, with the (cce destined against New Orleans, consisting of .bout ten or twelve thousand troops, under General KEAN, sailed from Negril Bay, Jamaica, on the 28th c: November. , The run to New Orleans is generally made in a fortnight : the force would therefore reach I,s destination about the 12th ultimo. ... By the latest accounts from Madrid, it appears, that, notwithstanding the influence ofeavntans, the arrests continued up to the 12th of this month. It is true that some persons had been recallsit.fr94o 4 nishment—but they were cast into prison. .! ;,.. , At Cad;z they are busy with the Espeditinn tended for South America. The stssres*Were on board, and it was gspec ted to sail by the jsth The force which it carries out is about 42,000 sm. In the mean time a vessel has been seat off with sealed orders for Porto Rico t Havannah, and Vera Cruz; and the heliet at Cadiz is. that the parts in Spanish America are to be shut against all foreign vessels—that is, in plaits language, against the Bri ! It will not be their blame bat Our own if this' be submitted to : the nariverhssuA in the most une quivocal manner, declared !heir wishes, to have s, free trade with England. .b.Britain to sacrifice all her interests to the views of such a Government as now directs the affairs of Spain ; and at a moment too when the restraint is about to be removed from the commerce of the United States • , AMERICA. _ By New York Papen to_the 9th blatant, received. this morning, it appears that the Americans having Learnt chat a large force was collecting under Admi ral for an attack on- New Weans, were u.'der considerable alarm for the mink . In the STAR Of the 2Sd blatant we laid before our Readers Numbers 1,9, 10, 11, and 12,' of the Com munications from the American Plenipotentiaries at Ghent, seat to Congress on the lit of December with a Message from President MADISON. The file from which we gave these was imperfect; but having now received a complete series, and the documents being important, we shall lay before our Readers those Numbers that were wanting. To-day we can only insert Number 2. The others shall follow in succes sion as soon as We can make room t ' VIE SIINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY AND EXTRAORDINARY OF THE UNITED STATES TO THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES or MIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY. " GHENT, AUGUST 24, 1814. s , The undersigned, Ministers Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary from the United States of America, have given to the official note which they have had the honour of receiving from his 'Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiaries the deliberate attention which the im portance of its contents required, and have now that cf. transmitting to them their answer on the several points to which it refers. .They would present to the consideration of the British Plenipotentiaries, that Lord Castlereagh, in his letter of the 4th of Novem ber, 1813, to the American Secretary of State, pledges the faith of the British Government, that 4 they were willing to enter into discussion with the Government of America for the conciliatory adjustment of the digacnces subsisting between the two States, with an earnest desire on their part to bring them to a fa vourable issue, upon principles of perfect reciprocity, not inconsistent with the established maxims of public law, and with the maritime rights of the British Em pire.' This fact alone might suffice to :hew, that it ought not to have been expected that the American Government, in acceding to this proposition, should ' have extended its terms, and furnished the under signkd' with instructions authorizing them to treat witb Lie British Plenipotentiaries respecting Indians sheeted within the boundati4 14 the Uniterl i States. That such expectation was moventertained by•she British Government might alfo*ave been inferred from the explicit assnrapees which the British Pleni potentiaries gave, on the partOrtbeir Government at the first conference which the undersigned had the ho nour of holding with them, that no events, subsequent to the first proposal for this negotiation, bad, in any manner, varied either the disposition of the British Government, that it might terminate in a peace ho nourable to both parties, or the terms upon which thertvould be willing to conclude it. • de It is known th a t t h e diff erences w hi c h un- Nipatl .stosis t between G reat Britain and the United 1 - sobs, ;id which ultimately led to the present-war, ivitic i , eisedly of a maritime nature, arising piaci- TA.I troitt the British order s i n counc il, i n re l at i on T A' fies, and from th e i m p ressment o f mar i ners o soa 0 , board of American vessels.. The boundary of the }adieu territory had never been a subject of difference bretiaties she two countries. Neither the principles of ree i proica • *q e '.* maxims of public law, nor the mari cue a tlas of *.British Empire could require the , pe e toensot ostgaii4plent pf such boundary. The nove l pretens i on now. advanced weld Ito mars have been, anticipated - by the Clottoman of do United States) in forming instructions for this atijeklaticiii) than they seed' to haste 4m bflheOf Great Britain in Nottembatafai Castlereagh's note makes the lerin*ooo of the war to depend on a conciliatory adjustment of the diffe rences then subsisting between the - tiro' Stein ) * and on no other condition whatever. . • " Nor could the American Govern's:tent have•fore- --------- that Great Britain. in order to obtain peace for the Indians, residing within the dominions of the United States, whom she had induced to take part with herin thewar, would demand that they should be made parties to the treaty betweeithe two nations, or that the boundaries of ,their lands should be per manently and irrevocably fixed by that treaty. Such a proposition is contrary to the acknowledged print'. plea of public lasi, and to the practice of all civilised nations, particularly of Great Britain and the United States. It is not founded on reciprocity. It is un necessary for the attainment of the object which it Alums to have in view. gg No maxim of public law has hitherto been mote universally established among the powers of Europe , l 'pessessing territories in Ameri c a, lad t h ere i s none i t b t :rhich Great Britain has more • Multiemly . and in maimed, than that of sufteritiLio interposi tion of a • foreign .mower iri•she relations between,the. lisititnowiedged Sovereign of the e t e r i t o r y, S o d t h e 1114 OitfirmSsittiittedition it. Withoni the admission ofthis ; ,principle,' there •would 411 - "uo intelligible meaning at ptched to stipulations establishing boundaries between the dominionsin America of civilized nations posses. sing territnries inhabited by Indian tribes. Whatever &lay be the relations of Indians to the aation in whose ~ territory they are thus acknowledied to reside, they cannot be considered as an independent power by the nation which has made such acknowledgment. • 11 That the territory of which Great Britain now wishes to dispose is within the dominions of the Uni ted. States, was solemnly acknowledged by herself, in the Treaty of Peace of 1789, which established their, boundaries, and by which she relidquisbed all claims to the government, proprietory and territorial rights, within those 'boundaries. No condition respecting the Indians residing therein was inserted in that treaty. No stipulation similar to that now proposed is to be found in any treaty made by Great Britain, or within the knowledge of the undersigned by any other nation. !, The Indian tribes for which Great Britain pro poses now to stipulate, have thentsel7es acknowledged this principle. By the Greenville Treaty of 1795, to which the British Plenipotentiaries have alluded, it is expressly stipulated, and the condition has been confinued by every subsequent treaty, so late as the year 11110.-- 4 That the Indian tribes shall quietly en. joy their lands, 'hunting, planting, and dwellings, thereon, so long as• they please, without 'any molests. tion from the United States; but that when those tribes, or any of them, shall be disposed to sell their lands, they are to be sold only to the United States; that until such sale, the United States will protect all the said Indian tribes in the quiet enjoyment of their lands against all citizens of the United' States, and against all other white persons who intrude, , op: same ; and that the said Indian tribes again acknow ledge themselves to be under the protection of the said United States, and of no other power whatever.' " That there is no reciprocity in the proposed sti ptilation is evident., in prohibiting Great Britain and the United States from purchasing lands within a part of the dominions of the latter power, while it professes to take from Great Britain a privilege which ,she bad not, it actually deprives the linked States of :Aright exclusively belonging to them.. The proposi. tion is also utterly unnecessary for the purpose of obtaining a pacification for the Indians residing within the territories of the United States. The undersigned have already had the honour of informing the British Plenipotentiaries that, under the system of libaal policy adopted by the United States in their relations with the Indians within their territories, an oninter; rupted peace had subAsted from the year 1795, not only between the United States and all those tribes, , but also amongst those tribes themselves, for a longer period of time than ever bad been known since the 'first settlement 'of North America.. Against those 'lndians the United States have neither interest nor inclination to. continue the war. They . have nothing Asa- askof them but peace. Commissioners on their part have been appointed to conclude it, and an ar. mistice was at;ually made last autumn with most of those . tribes. The British Govenutient may 04 have induced some of them to take d . oer side at war, but peace with them will necessuolls ha l mei:Lately a peace with Great Britaiitise r _ “ To a provisional article , similar 40 whet has.hesel stipulated in some former treaties, engegiegthateneh party will treat for the Indiana withwits torriigitteri include them in the peace, and use ilstbes_tondarowit to prevent them from committing IMKihties,epieg the citizens or subjects of the Oda* party, the nod*, signed might assent. and rely-oaths approbation and ratification of their Government. They would also, for the purpose of securing the duration, of pe ace, and to prevent collisions which might iateleuptst, pro. pose a stipulation which should pentode the sebj l et or citizens of each nation, respectively, from tradi with the Indians residing in the territory of the other. But to surrender both the rihts of sovereignty and of soil over nearly one o f the territorial dominions of the United States to a number of Indians not pro bably exceeding 20,000, the undersigned are so far from being instructed or authorized► that they assure the British Commissioners, that any arrangement for that purpose waft be instantaneously rejected by their government. 14 Not only has ...wordiory dem Itra=diaVY iheile4,bees made a sine Om non, to be admitted without a discus " mit 11.*•Preliminaty basis...buck is accompa raiedljtratialt* equally inadmissible, which the Bri tish Hadipotentiaries• state to be so connected With . it. that they may 'reasonably infhtente the decision of the undersigned open it, yet leaving them uninformed howler these other demands may also be insisted OR. as indispensable conditions of a peace. As little are the undersigned instructed or employed to accede to the propositions of the British Government, in rela tion:ta the military occupation of the NVesterri Lakes. If they have found the proposed interference of Gre it Britain in the concerns of Indians residing within the United States utterly incompatible with any esta blished maxim of public law. they are no less at a loss to diicover hy what rule of perfect reciprocity the United States can be required to renounce their equal right of maiotaining anaval force upon those Lakes, and of fortifyi their own shores, while Great Bri tain resertas eiWitsively the corresponding rights to kerseg. ) 44 !niacin point.of military preparation Great Bri tain, in her possessions in Noah America, ever has heft-in a condision•to ba termed. with propriety, the weaker power, in eompavison with the United States, the anderskgned .believe, to be incorrect in point of fact. In regard ta the fortification of thushores, and to the forces actually kept . foot upon those iron ' tiers, they believe the superiority to have always been lon the side of Great Britain. , if. by the proposal to dismantle the forte upon her shores, strike for ever her military flag upon her lakes, and lay her whole fron tier defenceless in the presence of her armed and for tified neighbour, had proceeded, not from Great Bri tain to the United States, but from the United States to Great Britain, the undersigned may safely appeal to the bosoms of his Britannic Majesty's Plenipoten tiaries for the feelings with which, not only in regard to the interests, but the honour of their nation ; they would have received such 'a proposal. What would Great Britain herself say, if, in relation to ano. thee frontier, where she has the acknowledged supe riority of strengh, it were proposed that she should be Deduced to a condition even of equality with the United States. u The undersigned further perceive, that under the alledged purpose of opening a. direct communication petween two of the British provinces in America, the British Government require a cession of territory forming a part of one of the States of the American union, and that they propose, without purpose speci fically *Hedged, to draw the boundary-line westward, not from the Lake of the Woods, as it now is, but from Lake Superior. It must be perfectly immate rial to the United States, whether the object of the British Government, in demanding the dismember. ment of the:United States is to acquire territory, as su.ch, or for purposes less liable, in the eyes of the world, to be. ascribed to the desire of aggrandise ment. Whatever the motive maybe, and with what ever consisseacy.views of conquest may be disclaimed while demanding for herself, or . for the Indians, a cession of territory more extensive than the whole island of Great Britain, the duty marked out for the undersigned is the same. They have no authority to' cede any part of the territory of the linked States, and to no stipulation to that effect will they subscribe. . 4 The conditions proposed by Great Britain have aso relation to the subsisting , differences between the awn countries, they ate inconsistent with asknow. lodged ptiaciples of public laws they arc founded neither on reciprocity nor on any of the usual bases of negociation, neither - on that of the eti sturirldir, or of ,situ: ante kilns ; they would inflict the tarot vital in jpry on the United States, by dismembering their territory, by arresting their natural growth and in crease of population, and by leaving their northern and western frontier equally exposed to British inva sion and to Indian aggression i they are, above all, dishonourable to the United States, in demanding , from them to abandon territory and a portion of their Citizens, to admit a foreign interference in their do. mestic concerns, and to cease to exercise their natural rights on their own shores and in their own waters. —A treaty concluded en such terms would be but .m armistice. It cannot be supposed that America would long submit to conditions so injurious and de grading. It is impossible, in the natural course of events, that she should not, at the first favourable op portunity, recur to arms for the recovery of her terri tory, of her rights, of her honour. Instead of settling existing differences, such a peace would only create new causes of war, sow the seeds of a permanent ha tred, and lay the foundation of hostilities for an inde finite period. u -Essential] from her ditical institutions, —.wanly pacific _ from the habits of her citizens, from her physical tuation, America reluctantly engaged in the war.— She wishes for peace; but she wishes for it upon those terms of reciprocity, honourable to both countries, which can alone render it permanent. The causes of the war between the United States and Great Britain having disappeared by the maritime pacifiCation of * Europe, the government of the United States doei ,not desire to continue it, in defence of abstract prin ciples, which have, for the present, ceased to have any - -" effect. - , practical 44-The undersigned have been accordingly instruct ed tb agree to its termination, both parties restoring whatever territory they may have taken, and both reserving .all their rights, in relation to their respec tive souses. To make the peace between the two nations solid and permanent, the undersigned were elsoinstracted , and have been prepared to enter into theamicable discussion of all those points on which differences or uncertainty had existed, .gad which might hereafter tend in any degree whateirer to in terrupt- the harmony of the two countries, without, however, making the conclusion of the peace at all depend upon a successful result of the discussion. theeeforeowith deepregnt, that the under signed , have seen that other vows are entertained by the British Government, and that new and unexpected pretensions, are raised, which, if persisted in, must oppose an insuperable .obtack to a pacification. It is not necessary to refer such demands to the Annuli. can Government for its instruction ; they will Only be a fit subject of deliberation, when it becomes ne oessary te decide upon the expediency of an • absohite surrender of National Independence. !I The undersig ned request the British Plenipoten tiaries to, accept •the assurance of their high considera (SiVed) "JOHN 411thiCIEY • "H. CLAY, • • • !.aoLtrpus HUIB*LL. a A. OALIATIit." " TO elm Plenipotentiaries Obis Britannic Majesty; lice. N. 11711. INTEL' ICF,NCE. •t THE AMI RICAN l AIGATEI. '! The John, Parr Lit ..os, horn Liverpool to Leghorn, which was taken off Finisterre, by the Perry priva teer, was Oetaken about the 12th inst. near Faye', by the ',LANDER frigate : she bore down to that ship. supposing het to be the President American frigate'' having spoken the Whig privateer, and being infor med that the President and Macedonian frigates were at sea, and probably off the Western Wands. HEAVY GALE IN Tiir. NORTif: NEWCASTLE, JANUARY 1:8 —We have had a very heavy gale from the Sc. E. with a. good deal of snow, fbr the last three days, and are apprehensive a great deal of damage will be done . to the shipping on the ,coast—we have already ..head bf too much :—The Success from Arundel, with titiber. in attempting to enter Shields harbour, was wrecked on the Herd. Sand ; the Master and two men drowned.—Another vessel also lost at the same place ; two on shore near Whitt:un, and three near Sunderland, names, as yet, unknown ; one of them came on shore yester day a little to the south of Sunderland, with only a boy on board, who was found frozen to death in the cabin.—The colliers that sailed from Shields, on Mom day and Tuesday; were met Vrith to the southward of Flambro' Head. The weigher is now more moderate. FALMOUTH, JANUARY et,. Arrived the Windsor - Castle packet, with a Mail from Gibraltar and Malta, in 18 days frcim the for mer place ; Diana picket, with a Mal fmm Guada loupe, in 45 days ; Lady Arabella packet, with a Mail from Lisbon, - in 14 days. Came in the Mar garet, ANDERSON, froth Bourileaux for St. Michael's ; was taken on the 31st ult. is lat. 35. long. 16. by the Pdrtsmouth American privateer, and given up as a cartel.—Wind S. W. fresh breezes, fine weather. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY W. Arrived his Majesty's ship COUDELIA, from Cork ; Doncaster, Pi i NKNEY, from Halitia ; Quest, Fanny, and Elizabeth from Lisbon. The convoy in charge of his Majesty's ship WARRIOR, for the West Indies. will sail about the 4th of February.—Wind all day from the Eastward—this evening about South. DEAL, JANUARY W. • Came down from the River a large fleet of out• ward-bound, and sailed to the Westward, under con voy of his Majesty's ships LIVAH Ind &Away, with the rest of the ships that were before in the Downi. The Unity, Hardy, from Noon to 1 1 a:waster, which was de serted by the crew, was fallen in with on the 19th blatant , by the ♦Vyckham, Revenue cruizer, and carried into Broadhiven near the Shannon. • The Mary, of London, bound to Shoreham, was tBtally wrecked near Beachy Head, on Saturday &g t, most of Vat cargo, consisting of deals and latkwood, saved. HARWICH, JANUARY 30. Arrived the Thetis 487, Coaster 79, Commerc• 324, 'Mid Trill:agar 661, transports, from Woolwich, with ordnance and stores, bound to Antwerp. The ship Vriesland, front Harlingen for Cadiz, was totally lost on Friday night last on the Galloper Sand. Crew saved. WHITBY JANUARY 29. This morning came one shore, near the West Pier, the brig Golden Fleece, ROWNTRKE, of Sunderland, with coals fur London. Crew saved.—Wind blows hard. Last night Paris Papers of the 27th, and to-day these of the 28th reached us. They contain little in telligence from Vienna that can be relied on. An article from the Banks of the. Mayne statet, that all eyes are anxiously turned towards England, and that nothing decisive will be settled by Congress umil a Declaration from that country is published, and which is daily expected at Vienna. We know not what credit is due to this statement. The KING OF FRAWCZ has appointed the venerable Da Sus Presi dent of the Court of Cassation. He was the last re , maining defender of the unfortunate LoUis XVI: at the Bar of the Convention, and has beat compelled lo bury himself in obscurity ever since. What a lesson to posterity does not the elevation • this virtuous and enlightened man hold out ! After twenty years of honourable poverty, his attachment to the cause of truth and justice.' has raised him to the rank of the highest Judge in France. The Emperor Alexander declares that he will tilt leave Vienna till all the important matters aro dal. tlyoy settled. • ir,iniiv 4 . 1 price which is OGC This day the LORD . MAYOR ordered The -' ,„ 4 II I, 'I Bread to be lowered half an Assize, penny in the Peck Loaf. Colonel Bosons CAMAC t one of the Secretaries ois the British Embassy in Spain, arrived in Downing. street on Saturday last from Paris. Last night the Oratorio season at both Hnuset commenced with superior attractions in point of mu. sisal novelties. The lovers of harmony enjoyed the highest gratification. At the Salisbury Meeting on Friday last, in the Town Hall, the Petition against the renewal of t:,e Property Tax was not only carried unanimously, but with loud acclamations. By the Sarah packet, arrived at Gravesend from Ostend in fourteen hours, came over a number of mi litary Officers and Gentlemen attached to the Corn missariat. The whole of the communication with the Dutch coast has been cut off by the severe frost, and the port of Ostend is the only one no.v open to Antwerp and Holland. Cantonments were preparing for an additional number of troops expected trom Ha. tuner. Fresh changes ore daily taking place in the different public departments, in removing persons at tached to the French interest.,