The National Register. — London, England, 1815-02-26 00:00:00

~g In the second conference, lord astlereagli man& the hoinediate abolition, but was opposed by Spain :end Por tugal, the former declaring that she had fixed the definitiye abolition at eight ears.. The Portuguese Envoy asserted, that Portugal by the tieaty of - 1 . 810 had only promised the gradual abolition of the treaty, accusing us, at the same time, of having seized. froth) hu- subjects 10 or 1(2,0(a0 negroei destined to the Ili azils. Lord Castlereagh their attempted to prevail upon Cardinal 4 iousalviAo issue a declaration condemning the article as im pious and immoral. But the Cardinal refused% and coin pained of England's tolerating the attack of the Barbdry Corsairs upon the coast of Italy. Ito the sitting of the 28th of January, Lord Castlereagh pr...,pcsed a solemn declaration upon the initmo alit) , of the trade; but the other towers pi csseci a more simple document. S i *ain olaserved, that England was Lou eager to mite folio - Powers put an end to the trade, she herself having had it tinder discussion fur a period of nearly twenty years before she abolisLed it. Lord Castlereagh then proposed the esta biishtnent of a Committee of Ambassadors at London to watch over the execution of the condition': agreed upon. This was resisted as giving too much influence tq Englund• Ire then proposed to prohibit the importation of the rlmitice 4;i those cototties into which Negroes should continue to be intput•ted. This was opposed with great wartntli.•Si s tai,t even talked of reprisals! I At length, ot► thc 7th of February, a dtrliui•ti•vc ConvcnOoo was. drawn up, wbich abolishes the trade wadually. Whe ther in five or six years we know oat. Bnt it appears that no ctrort was left untried by LordCastlereagh to l it ocui c the im mediate abc.litiun i and that he pressed it with more warmth aed obstinacy than.any other measure subnlitte t l to the tlAs eVaLlioti cry' tic Couness. EXPEDITION AGAINST NEW OR LEA NS, A mail from Jamaica arrived on Monday, briii , -;ipg au thentic accooots of the success of 00/ first opciativiis against Nr‘v Oilcans. The expedition sailed- from Negril Bay, Jamaica, or, the bath of November, and arrived off the coast on the 7th of December. The enemy had previously abandoned a posi tion near Mobile Point. The shipping then plocerded to l`ines Bay, and on. the 13th December anchored off the I s l e , of eandilaria l near the mouths of the Mississippi. The ene my had assembled a flotilla consisting of six gun-boats, which ii beanie necessary to capture or destroy, before the troops cintil-d he landed. This was effected after a severe action, in s~ir~.:b Captain Lockyer was wounded. We then landed 1.):t of the troops, 0 . 6fi0, about 10 miles from New Orleans. The enemy, about 7000, strong, was undvr the American f;ezeral keanc. He was posted ; with the Mississippi on sight, and a wood on his left. In the night of the '2 lst Der. a schooner• of 16 guns dropped down the liver, and com mie! ced a heavy fire upon our men. The enemy attacked i>ur lot cc of 2000 men with his 7000, on '2 4 2 d- December, I.lut, after a sharp action, was beaten in all directions—we lust Ti()2 men, and some officers. Colonel St o vin wa s wounded in the neck. Captain Harris, Aid-de-Camp, was kilted. After this success we landed some guns, and de-- slioyeil the schooner in a short time with red-hot shot. Ge iketallaaketbam now joined the army with reinforcements., • .• • THE Bpd . troops were landed and took vanced position; but it became necessary to land construct batteries, and by the end of the month So guns in battery. The enemy were under Gene , son about 12,000 strong, and we were not more miles from New Orleans, General Lambert !al two regiments fi run England on the 2¢th Dreernhe the Ist of January a heavy firing was heats) by a yes: lett the coast on that day. Another account breu, mail says, that on the s.th,Taionny artillery we. ing a commanding fort, which the troops expecte, that night; on the fall of which New Orleans most as it is incapable of making any defence against which was advancing against it. In these attacks, and fysth regiments ‘t et e those which had suffered fleet of transports had sailed from .Jamaica, wi:h tli ginictit, and the necessary knead and cum. Ilalifax Papers to the 2d inst. and American to ► rived yesterday. New Oilcans was expected to fall without much Accounts had been received of our arrival off Rid; wade from Savannah, of the-if)th of D e cemb e r, the American Commodore Campbell having, wit' coasters and eight guns, been defeated by our ha d' hen hack to St. l‘lary's with the loss of two gun.' 'file Constitution and Congress frigates sailed ferent ports about the end of December, and join( _were pursued by the Leander, Newcastle, and Aeas The Conscription Bill has received its quictut nate, the. consideration of parts of it having been to a day after the breaking up of the Senate. Commodore Owen and Sir Geo,rge Murray an Wax on the 29th of January. It is reported that New Orleans was taker by ou the ;11i, after the defeat of General Jackson on General Pakenhain. The American General J abut 16,000 ineu. it is ru.noureci that Sir James Yco has had an with . the Americans on the ice, ma Lake Ontario, seamen defeated the enemy cutlass in 14.1114; it is the Ainiricaus suffered very severel/. Letters from CacUr. of the Stst of January stoat British Ambassador, n i otwithstan,ding the promises bv the Spanish Goyernmeot, has not succeeded i the reasonahrefiemand- of the British merchants the trading parts of Spain. The Br itiFtt have upon to pay contributions equally will', the Span, notwithstanding the several representati o ns of Wellesley on the subject, the demand continues forced. There is also some misunderstanding ain it-wine:lion of British manufactured goods into Spar Under good authority from Curacoa % - cs learn, number of British vessels cantuted by the Spar. West Indies we can add the following :—The li Jersey to La Guira and llavannah, taken by a Span and condemned in La Guira, and then equipped leer: an English schooner, from Gibraltar to La f 973 doubloons on board, to purcha.sc colonial r condemned, in La Guira ; two other vessels from and hound to Barcelona and Cumana, have be , the Spanish privateer the Esperauza. Spanish short, become numerous, and the chief pretext Spaniards require such a vessel as the Rover, to and the Government at home may pay for her; the British take Spanish slave ships ou the mist NATIONAL REGISTER. demanded n and the whole of our En• 26. c up an ad- Id guns to we had got neral Jack- than three ',tatted with ter, and on ease! which Light by the rt e h ra c h. ed to stoic) t surrender, st the force s, the 85th most. A he 40th re- , the Ist, ar- t resistance. lizc, and an speaks ~r th 40 or 1.:0 barges, and 1-bouts. from dif- ned. They !asta. in the Se- n postponed. rived at Ha: , ur troops on the sth by facksQn n encounter where our is added tbat ite, that the es made hint in obtaining; ; resident in been called alii.ardit;, and ▪ Sir llenry !.s to be en- thota the i 0. , that to tbsz.. ttiaids in the Hover. (min • tiotil!a; • 11 as a pri' a- t Goira, wi it irodtice, and St. Thomas, :en taken by c.iptures, in is, that the 3 fit hei out, and, besides, of Attica.. • •