Star. — London, England, 1817-05-29 00:00:00

STATE PAPER. .i AMERICAN RELAI lONS WITH SPAIN. . MR. RIMING To. CRVALLoS. " Madrid, August 26, itt6. is Stn—The President is sincerely desirous of esta blishing the relations of amity between the United States and Spain on a solid basis, and that every ob stacle to a permanent good understanding between the two countries should be removed by arrangements honourable arid advantageous to both ; he does not doubt I,f finding corresponding dispositions on the part of Iris Catholic Majesty, therefore has readily acceded to the particular wishes of Majesty by receiving Mr. Onis, and in the same friendly confi dence as ordered me to repair to this Court. g , 1 am specially instructed to discuss and to settle with your Excellency all the ancient causes of mis understanding,.as well as the questions growing out of recent occurrences which are of a character unfa vourable to the object in view. It is desirable that no matter of future contention or jealousy should re main, to put at hazard or to interrupt the good intel ligence which the United States are always disposed to maintain with Spain, and to all the advantages' of srhich his Majesty's Government cannot but be wholly sensible. se In transactions where the parties enter with such dispositions and such motives to accord, a tratilt ex • position of all the grounds of complaint is at once the roost just and the most judicious course ; for to sup press or to sruot: , er any of them, in condescension to - temporary considerations, is but to leave the seeds of fetur , discord, and to substitute palliatives and expe dients for satisfactory and solid arrangements. " It is proper, therefore, that I shouid state dis facly all the points on which the United States seek for redress and indemnity, commencing with those claims which have heretofore been the subject of un successful negocation. lam well persuaded that the whole can now be settled in a manner satisfactory to both parties, and without reviving whatever animo sities they may have originally given rise We " In the pri•sr nt exposition, 1 may also forbear to enter into the details of the principal subjects to which it relers; because these have for the most part in.sonie term or other, been already brought to the view of the Spanish Government; and because your Excellency in particular has the most . perfect know ledge of them. • " The first point to which I must call your atten tion, is the claim of my Government 44 . cr,mpensa lion to its citizens on account .of the ravages com trifled ou their commerce previous to the year 1802. This is an ohje.ct which the United States never has, and never can lose sight of; indeed the justice of the claim has already been admitted by the Spanish Go vernment in a Convention negnciated and s'itned by your Excellency on the I Itli of August, Mi.!. The United States still expect that this claim shall be ad justed upon principles of law and equity, wilier cannot be called into question by his Majesty's Government. _ _ In the same manner, the United States expect that compensation will be made for all the injuries done to their commerce, under the authority of the Spanish' Government, or within its jurisdiction, pre •ious to the date of said Convention, not embraced by it, and the claim for which was especially re. served by that Convention; as weU as for all similar injuries subsequent to its date. ":he suppression of the deposit at New Orleans in the year 1802, violating the Treaty of 1795, forms another claim of great importance. " Ctuses of misunderstanding of a later date, and of another character, accumulated principally during the war betwten the United States and Great Britain. Thee were of so unfriendly, and in many cases of so violent A nature, as to threaten an immediate and serious rupture between the United States and Spain; but happily the pacific policy which has uniformly eraracterized the conduct of the United States to wards Spain was still uplteld, by considerations highly honourable to the moral character of the Ame iican Government—considerations growing out of the then unhappy domestic state of the Peninsula, and the miseties and disorders to which a most un just foreign invasion had made it a rey ; the Arne. rican Government always trusting that Spain, on the establishment n 1 its national independence, and die restoration of regular Government' evnl Tranquillity, would readily attend to the just dentanklt of the MU. ted States, and cheerfully embrace their conciliatory proposals. It will suffice for the p►eoent, that I men tion but succinctly the principal matters above ad. retied to. These are— •' tat. The encouragement which was given by the Spanish Ailtherities in East Florida, to the Indian tribes in Georgia, and generally on the southern frontkr, to make war on the United States. 66 ad. The aid given to them is that war. 4 f sd. The aid afforded to Great Britain by permitting sup. plies to be • sent throiigh East Florida to the lndian trilins; and afterwards by allowing her to establish a place of arnis In that province, for the purpose of es:cot:raging and supporting the In dianola their savage war. 66 These acts were evident and very irportant vio lations of the neutrality which Spain was bound to observe beiaren the belligerents. 6. Het duties as a neutral Power were altogether lost sight of, when the United States frigatc'Euez was attacked in the bay of Valparaiso. 64 The seizure of American property, and the im prisonment of American Citizens, in various modes and under various pretexts, both in the Peninsula and in the Colonies, afforded unequivocal indications of an unfriendly. temper ; several of these acts may hereafter require special represeotations.on my part— sny present object is to bring them generally to your view. The President relies upon the just sense which his Majesty must entertain of. the important crisis in our affairs, which such events are of a nature to pro duce, for the adoption of a policy congenial to the inter , sts of both countries : and the President per suades himself that the same just. and amicable 'dis position will,be prompt in affording the satisfaction required for the initiries c , miplained of, and that thus a i state of lasting peace and frierldly intercourse may be secured between two countries . 'Whose relative sitOations and interests render that state so peculiarly desirable. ge Finally, the questions respecting boundaries,' which have heretofore been supposed to offer some obstacles to a settlement of other differences, sh e America', Government considers as susceptible of amicable adjustment, and I am instructed to treat with your Excellenty on that subject.—l have the honour to be, ikc. " ( MUGS W. ERVINQ." EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTP OP BUENOS AYRES. The same_Ga7ette, from which we extracted, yes terday, the account of the victory in Chili, announced that many important papers were found in the escro toire of Don MAnco, after his flight from Chacabuco. Some of these, it says, could not be published with out disadvantage, while others may be safely given to public curiosity. •Of these latter is the following : DISPATCH OF THE VICEROY OF LINA, DON JOAQUIN DE LA PEZUELA, TO DON MARCO. " Lima, November 4, 1816. " Confidential.—l received the three dispatches of your Lordship the 13th and 14th ult. with copies of the correspondence of our Charge des Affaires at the Court of Brazil, &c. The packet from him, accord ing to your Excellency's desire, was transmitted from hence without delay to the Marquis de 11 Concordia, to whom it was addressed. But its contents were known to me on the following day, as in compliance with the injunction they express, he sent them to me, accompanied with his observations upon them. They contain a repetition of the orders to the General of the Army of Upper Peru, to put his troops in motion for locoman without delay, and to remain there in order to watch the movements of the Insurgents, on all the points which they occupied, and to ascertain their designs. This march to Incuman and Santiago, it executed quickly, will infallibly frustrate the plans of San Martin with regard to Chili, even if it were certain that he seriously meditated to invade it."— With regard to the defence of Chili, which is the most important part of the dispatch, the Viceroy says, " Upon the whole I am not confident in my opinion that I can send much assistance to your Lordship ; however, I send to your Lordship, by the Mexicali frigate, 186 firelocks, two pieces of artillery, with their corresponding carriage, and a proportionate number of the corps of artillery, together with four Officers, and 300 quintals of powder, and other ar ticles of war. Your Lordship may rest assured, that it it were in my power to send you more as,istance, I do not want inclination ; but it is absolutely neces sary to reserve here some resources as a provision against any event which may happen.—Goa preserve your Excellency many years. JOAQCIN DE LA PEZVELA. " Addressed to Don Francisco Marco, Petsklrot of CUE." CORRESPONDENCE EETWPEN THE SUPREME DIRECTOR or vorwos-kvars, DON JUAN MARTIN DE PCRYERREDON, AND THE PORTUGUESE GENERAL, LECOR, DATED SUENOS-ATIt ES, MARCH 2. GENERAL Lacoes PROCLAMATION, DATED FM IS. Article 1. Every party belongiug to the enemy who may rob or ill-treat any peaceable and delenceless inhabitant in his house, shall be individually treated, not as prisoners of war, but as high waymen and disturbers of the public peace. . . . . Art. Y. When the parties, after having . committed any crime against the peaceable and &fenceless inhabitants of any of the towns under the protection of the Portuguese arms, cannot be apprehended, the most severe reprisals shall pe made on the families and properties of the Chiefs commanding said parties, for which purpose strong detachments. shall go out of the Por tuguese army to burn their estates and escort their families on board the squadron. Art. S s A sufficient number cf cor.fidential persons shall be employed to watch over the security and tranquillity of the inha bitants, and to give in to the nearest respective Commanders a circumstantial repori, and- the latter to Headquarters, of the eaCtllltWb committed b) the enemy's parties against said peaceable itiliabitants, and of the persons of whom the same are composed, that the necessary meuures may conformably be adopted. Art. 4. The present Edict shall be communicated and publish• ed ira all the towns under the Portuguese arms. SUPIt DI 6 DIRECTORS ANSWER OcCASIONED EY THE EDICT. TO GENERAL iI.COR. ~ Stn—l have just received your Excellency's Edict, dated the 15th of February. Its extraordi. nary contents have put an end to my hopes of being able to keep up any kind of harmony with your Ex cellency and the troops under your command. Your Excellency pretends to have a right to the territory you occupy, founded on the protection you give to it, and 4.iii this basis y‘o reckon on the consent of the subjugated points. The brave Orientals (inhabitants of the Eastern bank) have resolved to prove that your Excellency's torcts are not capable of affording them any such protection, and'in conformity thereto have undertaken hostilities against those very towns your Excellency confesses to maintain in an uncle tended state, at thr same time you pretend to subject them to your yoke. To fill up this vacuum of power, your Excellency appeals to the strange resource of an ill-understood reprisal, and to the still stranger one of declaring the defender: of their liberties to be no other than highwaymen. With regard to the first, these magnificent pro mises o: protection very ill accord with the acts of violence your Excellency commits on the innocent families of your enemies. Such acts of violence are devoid of object, and will only contribute to render the war more bloody and shocking to humanity. The families your Excellency conveys on board your Equadron will increase your expenses, dangers, and the difficulties of providing subsistence, at the same time that it leaves the faithful Orientals free from carer, since exposing their lives for the freedom of their country, they are withheld by no fear of sacri ficing their families. The estates destroyed and &um ' by your Excellency will do a real injury to the coup -1 try to which your Excellency deigns to grant your protection, but nobody will thereby be so greatly af fected as your own army, whose provisions cannot be obtained from burnt and destroyed fields. ~ With regard to the second, under what right can your Excellency declare as highwaymen the inhabi tants of a country who make use of the means gene rally allowed among nations to defend themselves from unjust aggressors ? The French, when they occupied Spain, committed all kinds of acts of vio lence against the defencele'ss towns they met with, and what is more, Spaniards 41.c1 the same with their own countrymen, in order to deprive their enemies of resources, but were the French for this declared highwaymen? . 4 , The. Edict of your Excellency proves, that you are prepared to treat the Americans in the satne man ner as the Spaniards have done, and that it is at tempted to exclude these countries from that asylum which, in midst of the misfortunes of war, is granted by the rights of nations to belligerents. Even it the , Orientals were not, as in fact they are, our brethren, the sole reason of their being neighbours would au thorise this Government to interest itselt with all its 1 power in their behalf, for the infraction of a right it ! belongs to all civilized States indistinctly to vim:il lcats. Dut !ban *heady informed your Excellency .. that the inhabitant: nf the Oriental territory, by with- 1 drawing themselves from their dependence on deter mined Governments,. have not pretended to dissolve their bonds of moral unity with the rest of their countrymen, with whom they protest acted' the wish to strengthen their relations, and that the dr. marcation of limits agreed on in the treaty of 1812 was celebrated with all the provinces, and for the same reason I have constantly remonstrated against notorious violation. The Orientals sustain their own cause, and at the same time that of the western towns, and hence have they and will be aided by this capital till your Excellency.evacuates a territory of which you have taken possession by violence. u As long as your Excellency carries on the war with dignity, and conformably to the rights of na dons, corresponding conduct will be observed on our part ; but it your Excellency carries into effect the threats contained in your above-mentioned edict, I protest to your E.xcelleacy I will on my part exercise a more than rigorous reprisal, by executing on three of the subjects of his Most Faithful 'Majesty the same treatment of your Excellency on each one of the Orientals. For this purpose I have made arrange ments for all Portuguese subjects to be sent into the interior, to the guard of Luxan, though it has been extremely painful to put thew to this inconvenience, though after your Excellency's edict the measure was nece.;sary for the safety of the State, &c. &c." EAST INDIES. FROM THE MADRAS COURIER, JANUARY 23. Advices from Kohistan, of the .stle December, state that Runjeet Sing lett N edt:en on that day, on his re turn to Jawalannishee Monte RAM, with a stroll: , detachment, and Moondae had at length persu.ded the Rajah of that place to adjust the claims against them. The payments Also from the Rajah of Woo were to be made immediately, and the army to re cross the Not rpoor hills, and proceed Southward. According to the Ukbars, the moss Ant of the Ra jah of Jypore to Delhi has nut yet been succesdul. Sun!;ur Aug and Chuttur DAVI, the Vakeels entrus ted with the negotiations, after a discussion v.hich lasted five days, had returned ti► Muttia on the 2d December, to wait there a reference to the Supreme Government. The writer of the Ukbar has entered into a long exposition of the stipulations likely to be agreed upon by the two functionaries, chiefly consis ting of annual payments to the English Government for expelling the invader, and reaming the Jypetre State to tranquillity ; but they are so loose and vaeue that it would be useless to enumerate them. The arrangements are said to be in a fair way. The Rajah of Joudpore had actually sent hondees ' to the amount of two Lacs of rupees to Meer Khan, on the condition that he would forthwith .evacnate his country : they are, however, not payable till the enemy shall have passed the boundaries of the Joud pore territory. In consequence, Meer Khan had re tired to a greater distance from the capital. It is further said, that Dowlut Rao Scindea and the two oppressed Rajahs are closely connected by the ties of friendship, and have resolved on a simultaneous movement to crush the oppressor. The troops of Rajah Bahauder and Militate Khan had not, how• ever, in any degree remitted the course of exaction and depredation they had been so long accustomed to pursue. Misr Gimes?, Natrain a tmified by the approaches of Malitate Khan, had abandoned his Jagheer of Khooshalghur, and transferred it to Dowlut Rao Scindeab for some other possession in a different guar ter. Dowlut Rao consequently sent a new Killedar to that place, and had thus cheated Mahtate Khan of the plunder he expected. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1817. KING CLIAIt LES IL, It STORED.--Holiday at the Public Offices. This being a Holiday, no business has been done in the Fonds. Business is very brisk in the City. Large otders have been given within these two days for goods to be exported, and the demand for vessels is greater than has been known for many months. There are various rumours afloat in the City, con : fleeted with the affairs of Spain and Portugal. Go vernment, it is sai.l, have this day received very alarming accounts from Spain. The particulars have not yet transpired.—They came through France. It is also currently reported on 'Change, that Go vernment have given orders for the immediate equip ment of six sail of the line and twelve frigates. Their destination is said to be South America. The Underwriters at LLOYD'S have refused all in surances upoa vessels from Holland or the Hans Towns, in consequence of the Moorish privateer: that now iciest the Channel. We have rot for some time seen such a lively in terest etcited by ar.y passing occurrence as by the Insurrection ir. the Btazils. In every quarter the interests cf general commerce are considered as inti mately connected with the event ; and yesterday several Gentlemen interested in the Brazil Trade attended at the Admiralty, to be informed of any particulars which might have reached the Board on this very interesting subject. They were told, that all the information in their Lordships' possession was derived from Admiral HARVEY at Barbadoes, who received it from Mr. BOWEN, ilia arrived from Per nambuco. Mr. Bowni was with his ship, the Rowena, at Pernambuco, on the 6th March, when the Revolu tion was first effected, nearly in the same manner as has been already related : the following day (the 7th) the Insurgents were in ccipplete power, and the most perfect tranquillity prevailed ; persons and property were respected. On the 9th, a schooner was given up to the Governor, his son, and confessor, for the purpose of proceeding to Rio d: Janeiro, and they sailed AC cmdingly. No Proclamations or oilier da..urnent s were promulgated to explain the object and in:cotton s of the Insurgents; but it was generally u: r +nod, that, in the establishment t)f . 4 G •vernm Li y would take for a model that of the. United SI .... A general embargo was Laid on .41 vessels nanihueo on the 7th ; but Mr. BowcN, b in: '' - son of considerable infikence amongst the ro, in, ite.e, WAS permitted to :sail on or about the l.Stit March, with the understanding that lie was to precet'sl dire c t to the Chesapeake, and to return immediately ,.:ti, 4 cargo of flour, an article much wanted at Pernars. buco. When Mr. BOWEN sailed, there had not oern time (as we before intimated) to ascertain now 1., 1 the Revolution ha.l become gt ncral. To juke, how. ever, by the disposition of the re..ple on the .Tin t , a , I tor some distance from Pernambuco, they seensei . termined to change the Government of their minty. As connected in its consequences with the rerclu tinn in the Brazil!, o,e late wceess of the Patriot, is Chili acquires additional interest. The fon-ming particulars respecting the rrytaner in trhica MAaco and his suite were taltln have heen rece;ved a pri vate letter : We were impatient to know whether ..‘t.suco took :o E;ght, perfumed, dec..‘rated with v.- ow ,. , satin slices. But illcse %Olt) r.ok him 1! ...e n k fieJ our curiosity. We Are muted that they truth! :ons in a small cluml b gat, wrapped up, aZ,I v ;1 1 a wretched lu.,king straw u.tt nu th t his 4inr..d. ti were dresse4 hke strolling p!ayers, in t.•;.- tn..st ~x-travagant travagant disguise. MattAT Vro. , :oas, „n lA, k e who arrived at the port on the Di s h ut Lc ,t, embatked on the 1-1411, without joining Alisay., rt‘ a ,et k to their sstisfactioli, alter spiking the guns, wt.ica they left behind them, and with which they h eg4 , A ire ova the evening, with the success ut setting on fat .a t e house. Spanish ploject ! 'rite Patriots, aster amusing themselves at the expense of the dispast. ,tions made by the hovel 'intent, immediately unspiked the guns. " The cauie (if Attn:-so'e not having arrived at Valparaiso wa=, his haring been misled by sane inha siitants who tie.l:: retir•ng to Santiago, wfw, being questioned whether our :lice; had ail i.e.l at the pt.!, contended that they had not, but that et party was potted on the toad to level a ill. 13itt this party :vat of the enemy, expi.cted by MARCO Anil his stfcc i.lants to escort therm With this viev:, :hey won back and concealed themselves in a ninitiita'in. Wki:st there, they discovered the mistake they li.tl tillen into respecting the party, and sent an titier; I:se port, to learn it the port was not yet in the pcsse.sica of the Patriots ? The of/ices advised A tt , Arn of flit mission, and on the night of the I,iin took :!!e post which had been assigned him. Having crossed the mountain, he informed his companions of the capture. All the enemy laid down their aims, es cept MAnco, whom ALoaDo treated with distiretion.. " MARCO did not expect such kind trtatnient; b-t he was informed that such generous acts weir com mon among the Patriots. Miserable men ! Are they worthy of this treatment, who ought to derive heat the tame origin with us those virtues wtocti they t;•.- sult. The atrocities which were committed on l'errA Firma against our Generals, would surety justify in adopting towards them a very difforeut line conduct." We this day publish the correspondence of the Sc preme Director of Buenos Ayres, with the Purtugue:s General Leant, on the subject of a most extiaurdinar? Proclamation. Since the Portuguese have bevy... pr'•!- sessed of the Eastern bank of the Plate. arm r,..11 views' have been ascertained, and fortunately for , t!'. invaded Provinces the language of flattery has tiGt duce 3 its effect. The Portuguese intended to avai themselves of the dissentions existing between Lucile.% Ayres and ARTIGAS, in order to extend then swart.• far as Paraguay. and thus give a large and valuab:e track of country to their &minim in the New World. hoping at the same time that the Treaty conclaN! in 1512. between the Government of BJenos t 1),“•. and the American Monarch, would keep the former neutral till the whole work was concluded. Tr.: Edict in question has, however, tendt.il to retnove tic veil, and the attitude in which Director Pesiattraos is placed by the events of :4114.1 those liktiy follow, will spare the Allied Powt is the trouble vl tending out any more State Papers to induce . i.ts Most Faithful Majesty to desist from his ag:t,resi.3 and give them no Wither opportunities of pc:i; their encomiums on the seirdoin and modnaton Spain. The Princess CHARLOTTE and Prince LITP^ID f . l- 1 an interview of three hunts with the Pl:rxcf.: RyCl* 7 yesterday. Tuesday, the Pzineess CHARLOTTE and Pr-:! LEOPOLD visited the Duchc.s of GLoucra - 7: Gloucester House. Yesterday, the Duchess of GLOLTINTEII, arect: by Lady CHARLOTTE BrLASTsE, LOC:t an a:Tinq -r Hampstead and 11:gligate. ' The Duke of CLARENCE ViSiLrld the PRINCE:Z.:: yesterday. t Yesterday, the Duke of CVNYTIERLAND Farr dinner to the Dircctura of the Concert cf Arc: Music. The Duke of Yvitr: went ,tp Windsor yest-:': and returned to town in the afternoon. The cereminy of ti.e Marriage of the:V . :int: o c' I,Eopoupixt; with the Kilig of runnier tt. took 1 . - 1 by proxy at Vienna, on the 14th instant. Yesterday the Lc::: CIANCLLLOR had au anti;( 7l the Ptit:.(-1.; at Calton House. at Vi