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tured, may not be fully comprehended ; that the motives and bearings of those votes and resolutions may he mis. conceived. Some notice will betaken of the Fr •ceedings alluded to, for the purpose of correcting the erroneous impression which they seem to have made. A Petition from Baltimore, such as has been described by his Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, was presented w Congress. The Petitinwrs were un informed of the negotiations of 1824, and of the subse quent correspondence between the two Governments. The Petition was refitted in both Houses to ae regular Committees. A separate motion for the repeal of the discriminating duties had been previously made in the House of Representatives, and had been referred in the same manner. The Committee of the House of Representatives, whe ther knowing that the subject had been taken up in the Senate, or from any other cause, made no report. There was no Resolution discussed in that House, and come quently no deliberation or decisiOn upon it. The Committee of the Senate understood a compliance with the request of the Petitioners to be tantamount to an admission " of British vessels, indiscriminately, into the ports of the United States, with their cargoes, from whencesoever arriving, or of whatsoever coMposed, on the same terms as .(Lit!eric3ri vessels, or those of the most favoured nations,' whit h is the same thing;' and they reported, in substance', that there was a strong ground of preference fur an arrangement being effected, if practicable, by a Convention between the two Go vernments,•rather than to rely on independent Actsof Legislation, sometimes ambiguous, and at all tines subject to revocation; that a corresponding desire to arrange that intercourse appeared coexist on the part of the British Government; that the negotiations respect ing it dete expected to come to a definitive issue before the nut Session of Congress ; and that it was not, chef es fore, expedient at that time to legislate on the subject. This Report was made to the Senate on the 31st of March, 1826, nine days after Mr. Vaughaa's Comm. nication oo the renewal of the Negotiations. It was re-committed, with an understanding that a Bill should be brought in, repealing the discrim inating Duties. Suitt a Bill was accordingly repotted, a copy' of which the undersigned has the honour to enclose, containing a repeal, and nothing but a simple repeal, of these duties. The 818 was, on motion, ordered to lie on the table, by a majority of two votes. This vote, the only one taken upon it, had no other effect but tl prevent the Bill being. Acted upon on that day. It might have been called op ou any other day, but it had been brought in near the clue of the Session; and, whether from want of time, or, what is mole probable, ftom reliance on the rauccessful issue of negocituions, it was nct again taken into consideration. Had it being taken up and passed into a law, it would nut have been such a compliance with the terms of the Act of Pailiament of July 182.5, na was contemplated by Great Britain, since it did not repeal the restrictions laid by a former Actal Congress on the circuitous or indirect intercourse. It appears from the course of the proceedings, and from the result, that the subject was not taken up in sae of the Houses; apd that, in the other, the precise pl~tpost ot the tvms offered by the Act of Parliament eras not at that time mote distinctly understood than by the Executive, whilst the same reliance seems to have been placed in tire result of che expected negocia tioas. It is certain that the condit ons of the Act of Patliament, snob as they are therein expressed, were act taken into deliberate consideration by the American Congress, and that that body has never rejected not pronounced any decision on those conditions. "Up to this day, it is still uncertain whether the real Meaning of those terms is distinctly understood by the United States. The doubts entertained in that respect were stated at large in the Note of the undersigned of • the 28th of December last ; and no explanation has since, any more than at aqy former time, been given by his Majesty's Government. The preceding review bas been taken, not for the purpose of complaining ot the conduct of Great Britain, but with the hope of satisfying the Government of his Britannic Majesty, by this exposition of the acts of the United States, sod of the impressions under which it acted, that it hai-not, in regard 00 the Colonial trade, deviated from its uniform course, and relaxed its con stint endeavours to pseserie and strengthen the amicable relations between the two countries. • No' doubt is entertained. on the ether hand, of the disposition of his Majesty's Government, at the time when the Act dr radium's* was enacted, that, ennui. - doing die intercourse between the United States and the British West Indies as beneficial. it was their intention_ Omit should continue open on certain terms, and th,t *bough these differed trims those offeted to most ot'er Illbsomiticial nations, read may also have been misander • • Mend. they would not have been found, when properly • alaphined. to be altogether inadmissible. Had it been ogastwise, the iatendict laid on the American navigation • bp the Order ot Council of July, 1626, would at once • .brifee been embodied in the Act ot Parliament of July, I*s. Binh Governments, actuated by a sincere wish to, • Out a satisfactory acrangetareet. bees failed to attain tesik ca, fano a misconception of eaeh • ther's views • as to Are made of Accomplishing it. Whilst the Br • tish Government espectse the passage ot an Act of Congress. acceding to the conditions ot the Act of Par liament, the Government of the United States confided its me belief, that it•was still the intention of Great Iliitain t.s arrange the subject by a Convention. • . It is now unavail ng to dwell upon the past, and t • inquire whether either, or both Governments, had suffi cient reoeni for their expectations? The fact• is, that they entertained such expectations, and have both been disappointed; and it will he mote profitahle and con sistent with the friendly understanding between the two countries to attend only to the relative situation in which they are now placed. .The United States, though preferring a conventional arrangement, as more permanent. and, perhaps, more easily effected that one founded on mutual legislation, ate not exclusively attached to any particular mode. There is indeed this advantage in legislative regula-' tion nee conventional arrangement, in respect to sub.. jects nut tulle t iced by experience, that what may be deemed concession by either party. may at any time be modified, :f found actually injurious. Thus, tot instance, the President of the United States would too,' with( ut reluctance, have consented to a treaty stipulation, allowing thae ciicuitou , trade between the United kingdom and the British Coloniis, tin t ugh the United States, which, if permitted, must be enjoyed " eta:Wisely by the British navigation ; whilst he is will. jog that the experiment should be made by virtue of reciprocal laws, revocable at the pleasure of either Go. The undersigned is accordingly authorised to ray, that under the influence of these considerations. the Go vet narent . of the United State► acquiesce% in the decl aims which has been taken by the Government of Great Britain. that the iftercour►e between use United State, sad the British colonies shall be regulated by the laws et the two countries Osnd that the Pre:idiot is disposed to piomote a restoratOn.of that , intercourse, founded on such respective laws. The undersigned prays Loa Dudley to accept, &c. (Signed)_ ALBERT GALLATIN. Lord Viscount Dudley, arc. ENCLOSURE IN NO. I.—A BILL SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT, ENTITLED " AN ACT TO REOULATI THE COM MERCIAL INTERCOURSE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CERTAIN BRITISH COLONIAL PORTS." • . Be it enacted by t"e Senate and House of Reptilian tatiyes of the United States of America, in. Congress Assembled, that no other or higher duties of import or tonnage, and no other or higher duty or charge of any kind, upon any goods, wares, or merchandize, imported from the free ports of the British Colonies, viz. Kingston, Savannah Le Mar, Montego Bay, St. Lucia, Antonio, Saint Ann, Falmouth, Maria, blatant Bay and Anotto Bay, in Jamaica ; Saint George, in Grenada ; Roseau, in Dominica ; Saint John's, in Antigua ; San Josef, in Trinidad ; Scarborough, in Tobago; Road Harbour, In Tortola; Nassau, in New Prt.vi dence ; Pittstown, in Crooked Island; Kingston, in Saint Vin cent ; Port Saint George and Fort Hamilton, in Bermuda ; any Port where there is a Custom House in Blames ; Bridge town, in Barbadoes ; Saint John's and Saint Andrew's, in New Brunswick; Halifax, in Nova Scotia; Quebec, in Canada; St. John's, Newfoundland; George Town; in Demerara; New Am sterdam, in Berbice ; Castries, in St. Lucia; Bisseterre, in St. Kitts; Charlestown, in Nevis ; Plymouth, in Montserrat — In British vessels , be kvied or exacted in any of the ports of the United States (excepting the ports in Florida) than upon the veuels of the United States, and upon the like goods. wares, or merchan dise, imported into the ports of the United Statei, in the same : any thing in the third section of the Act to which this is supplemen tary, dated the Ist of March ISO, to the contrary notwithstanding. Section 2. And be it further enacted, that this• Act shall be in force from and after the SOth day of July next, provided-nevertheless, that upon satisfactory evi dence being given to the President of the United St rtes that any discriminating duties of tonnage or import are imposed or levied, in either cf the ports aforesaid upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, 'or upon merchand ze the produce or. manufacture thereof imported in the same, the. Presideht is hereby authorised to issue his Proclamation declaring the tact, whereupon this Act shall thereafter be suspended and discontinued so far as it respects the ports or places in which such discriminating duties are imposed or levied. No. 2.— ALBERT GALLATIN, ESQ. TO VISCOUNT DUDLEY. Upper Seymour-street, August 17, lan. The undersigned, Minister of the United States of America, had the honour to address, on the 4th of June last. a Note on the subje.t of the Colonial Intercourse, to Lord Viscount Dudley, his Majesty's Principal Secreo l Lary of &ate for Foreign Affairs. The principal object of that Note was, to remove such misapprehensions as might still be entertained of the views and proceedings of the Government of the United States on that subject. and. at the same time, to express the disposition of the President to promote a re•toration of that intercourse, founded on tae respective laws of the two countries. • Thii overture has been founded on the belief, that the present state of things has not arisen from any in tentional act of either Government, bat from miscon ceptions of each other's views, which must now be re moved. It was the avowed intention of that of Great Britain, at the time when the Act of Parliament cf July 1825 was enacted, that the intercourse should continue open on certain terms. For this there could be no motive but a conviction that the commerce, which had, almost wi:hout interruption, been carried, from their first settlement, between the British West Indies and the United States, was mutually beneficial. it is, therefore, presumed to be the wish of both patties, that an interdict, which has been the result of foitnitous circumstances, may, if practicable, be removed. Under that impression, the President of the United States is willing to recommend to Coast's: at its next Session, it. To open again the ports of the United States to British vessels coming from the British Colo nies; allowing the entry. into the said ports, of British vesels, laden with such British produce, or produce of the British Colonies, as American vessels can lawlully import. without paying any alien or discriminating du ties, and on payment only of the same and no higher duties or charges of any kind, on either vessels or car goes, than are under the same circumstances payable by American vessels or cargoel; 2dly, To abolish the re striction contained in the •Act of Congress of March, 182$, which confines the trade to a direct intercourse between the British Colonies and the United States. The effect of this measure will be to leave Great Britain in the exclusive possession of the ckcuitous trade between the United Kingdom and the United Slaw, through the British Colonies. All the provisions in former Acts of the Ametican Government, which had been deemed objectionable by that of his Majesty, will thereby be repealed. The condition contemplated by the Act of Parliament, as it is now understood, will be fulfilled: Every obstacle which had heretofore pie vented an arrangement,would, if this was still a subject. of negotiation, be removed. The Government of the United" States would have had no doubt that, upop the passage of an Act of Con gress of that tenour, the interdict laid on American Shipping under the Act of Parliament of 1825, would be removed as a matter of course. bad it not been for the declarations contained in the note of his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the undersigned. dated the llth of September 1826. , It was there announced, that " after having bees compelled to apply to any country the Interdict pre scribed by the Act of 1825, the British GOvernmenf cannot hold itself bound to remove that Interdict, as a matter 01 course, whenever it may happen to Snit the convenieice of the Foreign Government to reconsider the measures by which the application of that Interdict was occasioned." A subsequent Act of Parliament contains prtivisiona of a general nature, corresponding with that *declara tion ; but continues in force the discretionary powers vested in his Majesty on the subject. Under those circumstances the President cannot, it would indeed be useless for him is make the intended recommendation to Congress, and to agitate the ques don anew, without having previously ascertained the intention of his Majesty's Government. Though not bound to remove the Interdict as a matter of course, the question is, whether they are disposed, under certain contingencies, to do it at this time? The undersigned has, therefore, been instructed to inquire whether. if Congress should, during its next Session, pass a law to the effett above stated, the Order in Council of the 27th of July, 1826. will be revoked, the discriminating duties on American vessels in the , British Colonies be abolished. and those vessels be ale Imsed to enjoy the privileges of trade end intercoorse Aith thohe Colonies, according to the Act .ef Pat lie- • Malt of the sth of July. 181 I? He prays Lord Dudley to favoor him with an answer to that inquiry, the object of which is only to ascertain the intentions of his Majesty's Goeernmeat, in reference to an Act of the tenons abresaid, that should be passed, by Congress at its next Session. • It should be distinctly ondentoodohat thole mutual Acts would not have the character of *Compact, and chat thew only effect would be to open the trade for a time without at all finding the parties; each remaining • t'r J . , tw t 4 ; ; , 1•••• • r ' . .verr . in the complete possession of its tights with respect to tbsi intercourse, in conformity with the terms of the 1 colintnetcfal'Consention between the two conotries. • Tie Undersigned pray, Lord Dedley to accept, &e. (Signed) ALEigla GALLATIN. Lord Viscount Dudley, /cc. &e. &e. THE 10/ENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1828. STOCK EXCHANGI‘, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 861 to 87 for the Account, and at present may be quoted at 87 to I. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. - - - The Consol market is not quite so gond, and this may be owing to the continuance of the state of the weather, and the rise this morning of Wheat. Consols have been fluctuating between 86i and 87 to. f for the Account, and at present may be quoted at 87, alternately buyers and sellers, with little doing. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. Bank Stock India Bonds 112 3 per Cent. °Red. 88 7/ South Sea Stock 3 per Ct. Cons. 874 61 Old Annuities 34 per Cent. New Ditto 3/ per Cent. Red. 95/ 1 £lOOO Esclieq. Bills 73 1 3 4 per Ct. New,loll I £5OO Ditto 73 1 3 4 per Cent. 1826, 105 41 £lOO and £2OO Ditto 73 1 3 Long Atm. 19 15-16 20 Bank for Acct. India Stock 244 3/ Consols for Acct. 874 6/ FORKIIIN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. fiessillanikis. 5 pet. 63 Slex Bds. 5 p Ct. 281 DuAcct63 2/ 3 Peru,. lids. 6 p C. 23/ BOCIIO% Ayr: s lids. 6p C. Portug.Bds.spC. 53/ 4/ Do. Acct. 43 Do Acct. 53/ 4/ / / ....whim' i.oud., 6 per Ct. Russ.Bds.iBV., 5 per Ct. D0.80nd5,1624, 254 Do. Ace. 944 Do Acct. 24 Spanish Bds 5p Ct. 10/ 1 D•ssish Ikk. 3 pCt. 611 I Span. Ms. 1823, 5p.C. 7/ Do Acct. 611 Do. Acct. BRITISH AND' FOREIGN SOARES, TWO O'CLOCK. iHA R I. PA II). 100 95 274 35 20 69 70 40 28 21/ 22 21 20 2 rel 3s Anglo Nlezican Brazilian United Mexican Protector Fire " Honest men," says Pierre, ,4 are the soft, easy cu,hions, on which knaves repose and fatten." For •' !e'en" read " Governments," and we cannot help thioicing (At least our fears amount almost to opinions), that the sentiment of the Venetian traitor expresses the ondition of England IA ith regard to her allies. Let us not be misunderstood, nor our language strained, to " larger meaning* than we irtenj. But timely suspicion, which is only, in other words, sagacity stretching with an inquisitive eye beyond events, in stead of confidence merely looking at them, is often the saving wisdom to which nations as well as individuals are indebted for their security from evils of the greatest magnitude. The British Gnvernmect is proverbial (and may it ever continue so!) for its integrity and perfect good faith. That we have, more than once, paid the penalty of this unstained honour, it were as vain to deny, as it would be idle to expect the contrary. While, however, we willingly admit, that it is fir better to be the cajoled than the cajoling party. " our patience is not so predo minant," nor are we " so gospelled," as to court the distinction of being one of Pierre's soft easy cushions for continental statesmen to repose upon. The political state of Europe; lathe present moment . is one which contains the elements of general disunion, This we tearlessly assert, for who can cdntradict it? The moral influence Cr 01:ei4 Britain alone can restrain those elements from working out their natural conse qeences. We are no alarmists. Our confidence in the wisdom and firmness of the British Government is :WE:* cient to preserve us from irrational apprehension; but, on the other hand, our knowledge of what the experience of all ages teaches, forbids us to discard all apprehen sion. It is very true, as we learn from his MAJZSTY's• Speech, on the prorogation of Parliament, we have the mo-t pacific assurances firms, and there exists the most cordial understanding with, all foreignTuwers, Turkey and Portugal excepted. Far be it from us to dispute or question the grounds upon which this official de claration has been made. We are sure the Ministei s were sincere in their own conviction, when, in the etercise of a responsible di-cretion, they advised their Royal , Master so to address Parliament; and we be lievevas devoutly as may be, that Russia, and Amnia, and France, mean to act up to their respective profes sions. But here arises . a little difficulty. Events are more frequently our masters than we are theirs. The Emperor NICHOLAS, for eiample, might honestly in tend at St. Petersburgh what all his honesty of intention may not enable him to do at Constan tinople. Again—Austria, while , the Russian army was on the north bank of. the Danube, might have ban content to shape her policy in a manner which she may find no difficulty in demonstrating would be wholly ftwompatifile with her interests, now that that same army is in full march upon the capital of Turkey ; while France, in her turn, has only to put it civilly to us, whether she can be expected to do nothing amid all this turmoil? It is, we say, with all possible diplomatic decorum —the course of events themselves, and not what we are willing to consider the falsely imputed projects, of any one or more GovernMents, that creates in ui un easiness as to the future. There is commonly p great a dispat ity between the beginning and the end of a course of action—between what we set out to do, and what, some how -or other, we actually do—our reholutions are so acted upon by the varying circumstances which occur, and we find ourselves, at last, so entangled with complicated results—that, like a man who goes out with the intention of only robbing an orchard, and &kites by perpetrating morder—we find ourselves committed to issues far beyond what was originally contemplated. But we shall reserve, for another article, the application of this reasoning to the present state of political affairs in Europe. Last night we received the Paris Papers of Saturday's date; they ate chiefly occupied with his Majesty's Speech at the close of our Sebion, aid with she expel did= to the Mores. The Journal des Debuts takes the kad in severe animadversions on the passages in the r, ( •4, r - former, relating 14 tic garartelanricey, and ascribM , the language Irrid with respeft terlfreseia to timidi t y. The• Constitutionnii contains: mine passisular account of the Okers and regiments composing tie Greek ex. peditio* then any that has hitherto appeared.- The Prussian; 'State Gazette contains Officisi mete, from the Russian army, dated the 11th tilt: at which time the grand Headquarters were at Bajardjik. The . march to this place occupied three days. and, it wa s occupied without resistance, the inhabitants abandonip t it at the approach of t'ie Russians. The advanced guard of the Emperor's Army having proceeded a little distance beyond the town, fell in with a body o f Turkish' cavalry, 4,000 strong, which had sent, under the command of HUSICIN PACEM, from Schumla, to reconnoitre. They were, however, repulsed by the Russians, and retreated towards Schumla, pursued br the division of the Russian General RUDIGEIL Ac: cording to the lce,t accounts, the left wing of the Russian Army occupied Kovarna, on the sho re ( I the Black Sea—a place which is tonsidered portant on account of its port—and a division tad marched towards Varna, for the purpose of invert. ing it. Considerable reinforcements had reached the Imperial camp, and the fleet under Admir a l GREW, as welt as the forces which had been em, ployed in the siege of Anapa, were daily expected. It is impossible to witness these oonsplicated movement ( without admiring the skill by which they are directed, as well as the amazing resources which Russia hula its disposal; and the more we consider them, the more we are penetraied with the danger that menaces the Ottoman Empire.. • The German Papers received this morning cot* no news of much importance. It is stated from Coo. stautinople that, notwithstanding the fall of Brai 'together with other reverses of the Turkish arms were , known in that capital, the Porte continued to act with perkily composure, as if no danger was threateniag the empire. The following are extracts: CONSTANTINOPLE, Jinx a. No change of any importance has taken placebere since the 27th June. The news of the fall tsf Bailee seems no more to rouse the Turks from the indtfference with which they hear arreverses, than the pas aged the Danube by the Russians. The Porte c.rt , nueste act with an appearance of security and eomosure, at it no immediate danger threatened it. and as it, main this case, it were sure of the result.—(k may be interred from this letter, that up to the Bth July, the Gland Vizier had not set out for the army. and of the Prophet bad not been hoisted, and that the Sultan did not yet consider the et this last measure as necessary.) VIESNA, JULY 23.--Metalliques, 94. --Bark Shares, Algassine Zeitsurg, July 28. VIENNA, JOLT 21. According to the most recent accounts rest of 7th and 11th inst. the plague contint notwithstanding the precautions taken bi board of health. Above three hundred fat removed into the several • Lizzareitim, more under surveillance - in the-tots% itself peror's express commaadynne only all the, closed, but the meeting of the Divan, an( mony which might cause a concoarse. consequently occasion contact with ,th 4 strictly prohibited.—ifastriow Observer, ST. PETRA/lI:MEG% Jove L The Court has. gone into snettrning for the late Grand'Doke of Saxe Weimar. Up to the 12th July 6( ships had arrived 510 had sailed since the commencement JULY IS.—The George Fourth steam Cronstadt on the 16th in the evening, in Lubeck. Up to 3d July, the ,number of ships art , angel was 146—sailed 41.-.'Journal de ' July 19. (The St. Petersburgh Journal contain' the theatre •f war subsequent to the . Karassu, sth July.) WARSAW, JULY Vt. His Imperial Highness the Grand Dal will leave Warsaw in. a few daysi fib M tour to inspect the corps of the army in be absent about ten days. The Grand Duchess of Sate Weimar here on the I6th from St.Petersburgh, mar on the.2.oth. HAMBURGH, Josv 29. The St. Petereburgh Gazette of the 22 , tains an Imperial rescript 'addressed to eOnfirMing their privileges, especially the -Lugo. The Priests of the Lamaic religi entire libeity in the practice of all the ligion, and are commanded to impress Ilcssors of that religion the duty of an in , Ito his Imperial Majesty. BERLIN, Jusx 27. After the Prussian Ambassador, Baron 0110 15, Concluded with the Court of Brazil a Cot Treaty, in some respects more favourable than (concluded by, Brazil with England and, France , Hanseatic cities concluded a still more f.* Treaty, by which the Hanseatic flag is to env , whatever be their origin, so that they are tc advantage of low import duty. We are happi that Baron Olfens has now concluded a separate with the Court rf Rio, by which the Prussian( I lse considered as the most favoured M the with Btazil,;- Hamburg& Papers, Jay '27. • FRANKFORT; fine Qt. 6. • The Captain of a ship wbo has arrived at of that tirsaw a Russian man of war Modon, which was occupied by the Egyptian trol' The Ruuirurtroops have advance ,to irdit it war believed in the army that they wo uld agkiett Sabena& before they advanced to Yana. accOilats of Hussein. Pacha's fora', 4 Schum la riot's--sow make it 40,00 Q men. Up to the bel of June the Russians who had then reochcd be indifference the pas age of to c'knt , nues Oar eomosuie, as aL it, main aay be interred ily, the Giancl, the ttaadari d constgoently employ mentof ;hares, 3003 !!4.• from Bodo nued tosptesd, by the Russian unifies mese , :a,d so full E. By the Ear se,tribunalsr nd every rev of people, ad he infected, it July 23. 16i for it man* ke rrived at Rip; it of the seam boat auivedd six days bee irtived at Anil St. Petersistriii Is no news foe Bulletin dated uke Constantin make the as Ltithtlallili SW It: se , : o h; f a v o r ! 1 1. 1 4 ,0 2d of Jai!, cofr o the Kalmae k h le tribunal cilia pion are allog i sites of that ". a o n all the I aviulable ron Olfens, a Corna' erc'i rable than th Or a n a l, France , ` ll Dore favou r° to covet P a. ate to evi ol ✓e happy to sd ▪ separate are'c 'russian ' 3 the CoW I 27. 1 1 1