The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-12 00:00:00

IR ~_. vt, . { EIR ~, -•••.,••••••- • - • fi r . ~,, ..:- pgr7-7 • • , , Amelia Island, relskitig them of the contemplated hostilities against that place. It h added, .he has directed Aury to defend the place to the last, unless attacked by a very superior force in which case he h to enter a solemn Protest in th;name.of - the South American Government, capitulate, and earrendek themselves prisonors of War. The Seminoles :tees tesisted the force sent against them. A skirmish has occurred, and five Indians' ' ItiVelbeeakilled. and three or fear made prisoners. Plon• Of. the Whiter crettrAlni- The accnisnts.arir to Nov. 17, via Georgia. Later ' more important' tad unpleasant acceauts bate bsen retnived vie • Tennessee. • MOUSE OF REPRIPIENTeTIVII 6 , Noweev. Dec. 8. AM ELI A ISLAND AND strained PATRIOTS. Mr. RHEA offered for considertistioe the renewing Resolutiost . -.• • " Resolved. That the Presidept be rarefied - to lay before the House of Representatives any ieforma . don he may possess and think proper to command .. tate, relative to the proceedings of, certain persons who took possession of Amelia Island, et the mouth St. Mary's river, near the boendary of the State , rof Georgie, in the summer of the present year, and ..onade an establishment there ; and. also any informs . tion he bath and may think paper to coueneedeate relative to an establishment at le earlier periodi by persons of the same deaetiptiee, to the Gulf of Mexico, at a place called Galvestewo, *lairs the B. . _ mits of the United States, as we contend, nodeOse '" cession of I.ouirisca, together with the rease,nstiat. diming him to issue orders to 'spree' the aid esta . blishments." • . Mr. FORSYTH moved to strike out the last clause r ,111 f the proposed Resolution. ileums Mesetchtmett's).—lle should • never be opposed to any call for information on any • subject, when scanted by the lipase, bet it appeared that the call now proposed was annecessary, since the Resolution adopted the other day would embrace the informatiers now required. lie thooght the j. ~house should wait a day or two to see whether they would nesolitetn, without any further call, all the in t formation they required from the Eseeitive. With this view he; moved, that the Resolution should be laid on the table. Theleastion to lay the Resolution on the table Mitehiletbdekaw— .litvis it v•ii liter etation•was lost: Mr. KURA having accepted Mr. Forsyth's proposed Aminriment as part of his own motion, the main gametal' wet taken on the Resointion, and decided its the affirmative without 'division, and a Committee " - ordered to be appointed to wait on the President 'therewith. 'A Bill was reported to repeal the Internal Doti's, N.-kfter. the alit day of the present meeth.—Twine Teed and committed. • .1 1 'i FINANCES OF THII UNITED STATES. BOSTON, Mt. 10.—The Inielligencer by yester -.4la)'s Mail mulleins the annual Treasury Report.-- . !fart het Revenue in 1815 was 49,552,852 dollars, of "Melt 36,303,251. 77 were from the Customs. The 14A Revenue in 1816 was 36,743,671. 67, of which 27,569,769. 71 were from the Customs. The Re. -1141.'1 •which has accrued from the Customs in three. . quiaters of the year 1817 is 17,000,000, and from other sources exceeds that of 1816. The redaction 4n• iheißevenue is owing to a redaction in the-Duties sad Tates. -The balance in the Treasury, Jaturtry 1,1817 (exclusive of 10,655,287 in Treasury Notes), , was 11,295,592. 86. The payments into the Tree. • nary the' first three-quarters of 1817 amount to i. 27,095,984. 14, of which 21,732,068. 22, are from the Customs (a pert of which was due in 1816). The • pas mettle - for the fourth quarter of 1817 from the • same sources ate estimated at 5,980,000; making the t.tal amount estimated to be received- in 1817, . 1 33,075,984. 14, which added to the balance in the efilioeury els the Ist January last, make 44,371,5 7 7. Th44aisentlitures to September 30, 1817, amounted - t0.32;./7110,102. 98; of which 20,761,462. 98, were for the/Public:Debt, interest, and principal. For shelostrth quarter, the expenditures are esti: ;.slated •atki 5460,000, making the aggregate for the ;t8K870,002, 83, leasin g on January 1, 1818 •(*sebusivel. of :8;682,607, o f Treasury Notes), a iitr-ii* the Treasury of 6,001,575. 88. • PUBLIC DEBI'. The auredeemerl debt cotstracte4l before 1812, and weredeetned ,October 1, ISlti, was 37,494,`267. 01. 'debt contracted subsequent tosfau.l,lBl2,amoont -74401,151. 28; aggregate 108,6:.i9,818. 21 ; whicla o temporary boats of 50,000 from the Cumberland Bank is to be added ; and on the Ist .1-tnuery, 1817, there was added (incleditsg ,000,000 in 5-per cent. subscribed to the •aed States Bank, and a temporary loan from the of S 00,000), 7,877,471. 51 dollars ' • from .rich, deduct old Sizes a n d deferred Stock reim. torsed in 1817, 815,464. ; and the Public Debt ,he lst of Jett. 1817, toned to amount to ,5,807,805. 43. In lat 7, up to the 30th of Sept. .ere, was, added to the Debt, -by:famlirig treasury. *owe, 1,097,315. 43 ;•• making the Debt on day, 116,905,120. 91. Daring the same pe , there was redeemed, (including 550,000 temporary loans), 16,993,275. 50, which tuned the Debt to 99,911,615. 41. Since Member -30, 1817, there has been redeemed, 135. 16; end Caere will be reimbursed of the dent an the lit of Jemmy, 1818, 709,513.70, Asking 1,042,748. 86., which will leave the Public Dent on tie War January, 1818, 98,869,696. 55.; - whole amount of Debt purchased or redeemed in .017, 18;036,083.72., including all the Funded Deht held by the Bank of the United States. The Sizes will be redeemed in 1818. The first in dolent of the Louisiana Debt is due October 21, ~1 8, wben it is proposed to pay one half, and the .other on the 21st of October, 1819. According to . terms of the• Loses, -no other part of the PubliC Debt can be :paid till • 1825, except the 5 per Cents. ',scribed to the 13ank_of the United States, whick cause on annuakserples to remain in the hands the . Cominissioaess of the Sinking Fund - u( ,000.000 till that year. The whole Debt, including 5 per Cents., will be eatinguidted in 1830, ea. cept the 3 per Ceuta, which are not redeemable at will of the Government. • 4 is recommended that the Revenue should not h ►. : 7 ..~...-~ DOW ferent times have ameented to 38,133,794; of which there have been cancelled.. 26,574,411. There are now inibe Treasury, which will be cancelled, when' settled (exclusiie of 422.510. 77, the estimated in. terest un them), 8,623,400, making together .35,497,831, . leaving ouwsnding 635,963. Thee*, It is 'mooed, will be tended, and and added to the' poblic debt. The outstanding Miuluippi stock is. estithated at 3,747,314, which ie expected to be received In pay ment far public lands, dialog the . two succeeding years. • The permaiteot anneal revenue is estimated at 24,000,000, 20,000,000 of which from the Customs. The Bank Dividends are estimated at 7 pereeet.,and are expected to produce 490,000. The sums dia. I posable in IslB (including the balance in the Tree- Isery)is estimated at 30,000,000. The probable es• penditurea in 1818 are estimated et 21,946,351. 74, *riving a balance on the Ist of January, 1819, of 6.578,648, which will be applied to the redemption of tie Louisiana Stock. ' "BALTIIIIOILL Dec. s.—The General iftesembly convened en Monday last. The Act to suppress duelling requiring that the Members should make oath not to be concerned in any duel, they, refused to take it. as being a qualification not prescribed by the Constitution ; and being fortified is this opinion by that of Luther Martin, Esq. They have proceeded to business without' taking it. Mustrittuaotio.ucit (Tee.) Nov. 21.--t e ex; press has just &MOM In town from General Ines, on his way to Operal Jackson, bearing information that the Spaniardi and Seminole Indians had marched a large force up to General Gaines, near the St. Mary's, had surrounded his lost, and were pushing him hard at all points; that they were . veasly eu. perlor in numbers to our troops, who, without im. nisitiiate assistance, would fall a sacrifice to Indian 1,9 I barity. PRICE OF STOCKS T Rank Stock 9 per Ceat. Re: owe 3 per Cent. Gomel, &Hi Consuk for Acc. 820 4 per Cent. 9911 L ' ONDVIV • • MONDAY, SANITARY 13, 1 I)AY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 5 per Ceot Navy 105fi• India Bonds 103 105 p. Stock Long Ann. It 13-16 k Ebeisequer 11111 s 5).1 tS p • .• A further arrival of American Papers enables - us to communicatesa: variety of interesting; information on the political - affairs Of the United States. The Boston Papers, which reach to the 19th ult. contain the latex t proceedings in the Congress. The trans action, .iss the Southern Heinispbere, it will be seen, naturally excite great interest hs the United States. There Is a strong party in the House of Representatives favourable -to . the Patriots, bat the questions upon which they may be expected to show_ their. strength, have not yet come befogs the House. A motion was made on the Bth for request ing the PREiIDENT to communicate the information he had received relative to the proceedings of the persons who had last summer taken possession of Amelia Island, and of the establishment at Galvestowu, in the Gulph of Mexico, together with the reasons • for the PRESIDENT'S orders to suppress thew establishments. The motion was opposed sin the ground, that it would be advisable to waits day Or kWe to see . whether they would ob tain) without say tea. c U, all the itsforatiiiion tkey desired from the Executive. The motion-was negatived, on a divisiOd, br. 81..t0 75, leaving only a majority Stain in favour of the GOVernment.— This matter is misrepresented in some of the Morn ing Papers, it being said that the party favourable to the Patriots endeavoured to create delay by opposing the motion for information, and that they may be thus considered as having already sustained a defeat. 'Dist the general feeling is in favour of the Spanith Colonies cannot be doubted, though some narrow minded. politicians in Canton are not so liberal, . beiag applekensive; probably, that if the' Patriots Shall eastwlT the yoke of the parent country, the emigrations from North • America would thin Its papulaiiets.' annual . details of the state ef the'Fluseces have beta laid before Congress by ihe secretary,.and.conGrie in every particular the l'au evesenbleasage, of the i .proviog state of the Re. venue compered with the windless*. We haett.init t‘acted from the Boston Papers of the 16th alt. u, Ada statement on' this subject, biginuiog with,, year 1815. In that yearvs.jear of. war with Saw bud, the • net Remote . /arising from tam was' 49,000,000; some hundred thoosanddollars of sthiits, extraordinary as it may appear, above 36,300,009 : dollars, or • one-fourtb, were from . the Custoassm' ao active was the commerce, of tho United States, ender the Iseveri (preiser* of :this British , arms. —The Revenue for last year is stated . it 33,000.000, dollars end opwarde,'ol;itifesberof having been compkiels 'abolished) ; SOthe anent *et dcbt paid deftsm the year sae . 18,000,009—. above heti the amount of the velatalegroes Remo& The Revenue' estimated at .the kern of `3iiikini Feud ptrepte ~, . N•• • • 7 • THE STATESMAN. ;.- (Mai ,000,000 of Net Revenue r aos Fund-. .frbiji.l* 41f let iteve4 nayiibOt l and to the tioltvelie ~ um statement spenks_telumes the eebjtv,t of comparative wealth, debts _ -sinking Funds. Eiery thing' seems sinking errs scale, and rising la the et4er. • It Is known that an expedition was preparing et St. Mary's to occupy Amelia Island. Bet it is silted trans Boston- that the'Veneznellan I)eputy bed sent orders to Commodore Aline to defend the place 'to the last, and if compellerkto yield to a superior force, to surrender himself and his garrison, under protest, is prisoners of wit. • Such &circumstance would lead to very serious Jesuits,' 414 It will be alleged, end justly, against the United States, that the Govetn. went had departed from its boasted 'neutrality, and a war would conseqently ensue that must aid Old Spain, in her endeavours to subjugate her Colonies. Such a measure would, doubtless, render the Government enpopolarond should he avoided. hostilities com menced between the Seminoles anti, en. GAINES, on the 20th Nov. on the Flint river.. There was, how• ever, only a petty affair, in which the. Indians lost five men ; and the American detachment retreated without any loss.. Advices had reached the United States from. Vera Cruz, that hitteis-lese within 100 miles of the capital of Mexico. • A writer in the Philudelphia neSSOCititic Press, who bas lately returned from St. Thomas's, states it as a prevailing opinion there, that the Spanish Province of Venesueta would finally become subject to the people of colour, 1. e. Indians, hlolattoes and No. groes. The same fate is espected for Guyana, where 50,000 fightingmen might easily be raised from moot the Indians. At Boston, the Eschengeopon London waist 14 per Cent. advance. • Cotton and troollen geode were sell. ing at fair prices; Floor at float nine to tett dollars per barrel. • . The Session of Congress will necessarily not be . 'very interesting for the first two or three weeks, which are usually occupied in propositions and ye. , quities respecting the public affairs which are to form the subjects -of deliberation in the more ado sauced period of the Session. It requires some time , for the new Members who come in at each Congresti,, and those who•have before enjoyed the honour of the Senatorial or Representative station', in become au., cosi tt led with each other, and with each of her's chant ters and sentiments—and such an acquaintance is Is. dispensable to a correct and intelligent transaction of public business. The difficulty is the greater, when , the renovation has been so complete as in the pre., sent Congress. But it 'appears that the Mernbrpri have coo e together at this Session with the belt dip positions for public business. The 'composition of the Senate, at the present day, leaves us no room to doubt it will sustain the elevated chewier which be longs to it. Of the House of Representatives,* large portion of the Members are at that period of life, when the spirits have lost none of their elasticity, the f;rculties none of their energy. From such a body activity and decision may he expected. We miss, indeed, the PINKNETS, the CALIICWNS, the GRoSPENORS, the RANDOLPH!, the WanstEus, who, with their compeers who remain, formed a galaxy of talent and eloquence in the last House of Repre sentatives : but, unless we ;are mistaken, equal ta lents will be developed in the present, more sc.. ceptablej perhaps, because public rumour has not dinned our ears with the report of them. The present Chief Magistrate of the United States, came into Ace seder more favourable au: spices than either of his predecessors. The vessel of state had just weathered the storm of war ; all mud. nous symptoms had subsided, and the whole crew, with very few exceptions, united in bidding welcome to their new Commenderr Confident of their own powers, and concious of being respected by the world, the proudest moment of their esi*tence as a nation, was that which saw another Patriot and Statesman elevated to tbe highemt office in the gift of a free people, while he who led his countrymen through theconeict width had just termicated, retired fees. the Presidential Chair to.his farm, covered with ,tie blessings of his grateful Feller:citizen, No .Man, except ArisutsPlow, has ever. stood Mgher In the affections of 'the American People, of, all parties, than Mosnot now dos. Be leas f r u.' *welled through the couutry, became acquainted with lie People, and knows ell their various wishes; who Abeswen doubt that his administration will be crowned Wooer and prosperity • ' - • • Thres days Paris Papers (reachiag•to the 901810 lase arrived since Saturday. Time of Thursday jest, contain the Report of ,tiie temminioss en', e• Law for Recruiting the Army, which 'was pre dilated to the Chamber of Deputies by the Comic Ni .AriißeGFaG .. It exhibits a striking picture of the • , :iiipkoess of the present Governoent, entwithsiand Aug all thet• lies been said of its increasing pipelartty... 'ls' &netted by the Report, 'that veliotarrealist. meat bad been found an teadequate meansaf supply.! log The Mifflin* Faiebtishtemt, weak astrwhi, *thick "was could, , under leer present circumstances, mails: , ttiln in active service. •The•military system adopted other Euvoptierr Pekelke:ii• said lolatiprise upon •Irrace• the rigorous dot% efemployine the same in. siremeuts and iniittrcis..7-to Wit, recratitmbot by _ A (oocfi,s( wipes potter then proceeds toperticaderlie theseveralenact. iiitOded la the C•m ewes. fri ft ik osa t opoiriij&.4,loe- filled up by sok diets teleeted from !WO*" eke*, elk ! army ; and 814 by volontary eoliatesesit. ThOtivalry, artillery Fond . corpo•Of teenier, ere to be tocroiled - bz"folim. pry enlistment, mid if ether menus be wentisig t by' draughts front the depaitimatal legioes t , ranks, of these logica• art to be sepplkd by we, invitee's, and if then defective, by . i0n5trip600...,.., Tim above cloven. -coovpriser the grind. ptinciple and outline of the measure; the details 4 of the es. 'ecatiOn are given it large in the Report. The most -important are, that the ago of V:), 11 91010tit t be. low .which oo youth shall be cultist his vertices; .that sic yenta is to thil~sak.ser. vice; that substitutes' tire 'floated; aindltat: tho .aptal of the conscription shelf lot locoed 40,1)00,41144. With respect to promotion, oco . Person:oN become a NontCaMmissiested Officer, who has not completed his 20th year, and served at least two years in a re giment ; :tone can be an Officer who has not served for two years a Non-Comesissione4 011icer in a re gator corps, or gone through a itigair r . Onerse of i n . stsection . at a Military 'School s llnd patiwfhimintrat rizacainationa with credit. A-groat °ember°, Mem . • • begs inscribed their names to support and oppose this 'Projet.de Lai. Among ite advocates are the beads of librcOi,.es they are called, and of the military. , Of its **ties, the moot distinguished is M. iritzza.— The Project is not to be discussed till Wednesday nest. M...LAISNEDV VILLEVEQUE submitted a proposition fot restoring the unfortunate Emigrants if:Fern/es which they possessed on the Grand °Litre in the year 1793. 'M. L l Alshlr, in defence of his proposal, made a streneous appeal to doe equity Of ,the Chem. bet ; calculating that the iiitige thus iecurred by the nation would not exceed on the widest estimate, tha sum of t,ooo,ooofrs. per annum. England, ,observed, v s induced by mere humanity,, to esperid a mich brier sum on their behelf l "... This she indeed slid, mad her humanity has got ao excel lent Seward. The Duke de Bums, and his emigrant .friends are now employing all their **Vona to suc ceed . to the military fame of Bookteaura, by col leciirg .the military force of the .and pre ' paring the elements of war under thsrernblanceii' of pacific intention. But let the BoualsOws beware of staking their precarious Throne - on the ispee of. ear. The fir,t battle would decide. 'their freosuc cessful,- the overthr.iw of tie Boußsoiti i iiiitatd be the neat event in the campaign. We regret to learn by these Papers, that" ihe King of DENMARK, at the solicitations of the Court of Spain, has been induced to prohibit the imports lion of arms and munitions of mar from foreign countries into the free port of Saint Thomes,i in the West Indies. This Island has been the general rendezvous of all the European adventorers who sere proceeding to join. the Independents in South America. .end had also been the principal mart whence the Patriots had been supplied with stores necessary for the attainment of their liberty. This prohibition' must therefore be felt as a very severe blow to the cause of loath American freedom. Ay An arrangement has taken place at Vienna, by which each class of sehjects of the Muse of Germans, Italians; and Poles (Sclavonians), is to have i separate Adrninist t ration. The Hungarians have one already. There were several long and secret conferences before this affair was settled, and oue of the three new Chancellors knew nothing of his appointment, till he received a letter, written by the etiipernr himself in the midst of his Council ! AtiSher rise is the price of French Stocks tends to help the French Minister in his negociatiuns witja Messrs. BARING, and ROTIISCRILD. • HAT MAIStTIr, it is said, will postpone her skit to, the Pavilion; uutil the arrival orthe bike of Cast- SKIMS Ices Hanover. Fridairti'ieeeting of all the Cabinet Ministers in town took place at Fife-house. The Eyrl of Urea root. tame to town from Coombe-wand, for the u p/P.!' purpose of attending the Meeting, and in the evenibg, after its breaking up, which took place be tween 'three and four o'clock, the Noble Earl re tornocrto Coombe-wood. The CHANCJILLOSt of the EXCiiFOUER -after attending the Meeting •left Wait) swan after four. It ia.ramoored, that among the measures to come 'before Parliament the ensuing Session, is the nntifi coition of. the marriage of the Duke of mail:long to a amt . nil Princely, the subject of which will be dis tossed and settled on the ar r ival of his Royal High ness, who is daily espected in this cue n iry from Hanover. • TkkSubycriptinn foe die Distreased Seamen pro. miss" tonsiderable irriniecliafe relief to • those merito- Aorta but 'unfortunate poor fellows. The Abundance store-ship is stationed in Ore.' River o ff the Tower, far the reception 'a *such gyi` them as have been taken not of the streets of the Metropolis by the benevolent cam of the Committee. .tque •hundred.:and fifty of , these pour fellows were're,.4 . elied on board yesterday. Besides the Abantlance r two others, the Persetissnd Plover : are to be grit ready Without delay. i t the t.tiil .133,073,! Vri•luteuri - i'r hri Pm -40.31.74 eherPubi Fora islated a eyesr;iBE Inteseliusii • liegieugee -10) .o`i c .10-ITlke a itliatearei The debt digit° 71 to- whit Cumber of J'ini 7,000,0 I United B4nk, c which, buried on the 115,801 •tkiete.* .. ) *mites, that di viod, t t of ten , S reduced &Timid I 33338. I old den making I Dent of the soh< i 1817, • . I Debt h• Ohl Si Melee' . i 1818, /Mier C the tei Debt C salami will ce of. tin , .• 5,000. tee 5 cept t the lei It i ae ' • , . . 'e Ef..- 'l -- reduced below the .110;4 appropriations, but rather ; stood!' at. Toot 99,00( li a that the surplus should be appropriated to t ..per- tips thiflienoihit of the lase 4 f 8 bilf!'• 460 jia . f -valor, IA ,a tbi l . • 4lpiAfnking F prised( pelt !it ooullf pa duce a Iseigift "tf t i kid :sej l uld4l - - the r Ni 40 lc pury se,Aa-icoseintisioners w td . jm ..,_._ . _ 4 . 4y...t0 ;1, at 41)11011 le percbalpit, roily hiving. peroration . y, - Ponwu according in their discretion or a limitation. fasal . es 52 to j j _ . This -'!":11fe Smarm , Dotes whiclrAtase* bees -isstred at dif. tvor.atitc.,!prosiper.ti, Nue . for Ibis the seffeedits. Yens le the at 21,600:,000 4;1 1 *(1.4 re4 7 leal Mai half t ae t0u . 41 4be iper,..olls„;tii! "if Obi tbe t Hid amouit's Ip,opopoord4krs...lb• of the I~atioti >+ t - Deby 141411101 iii1P.P.1 1 .1.111111.111”11.1,91P7 - . . . "-- - - • 'i *--• • r . . i • * ' i ' --) ) 1 • g . . . , • f dollarev-ooli-ffar Conscription ;splint the abase of • hick h er,the !enact NAM's, Most foliasoraraatees aro I l e be provided law., It is still assvAed AAA° objects of the Government niiii t4llti I are merely to se :dart its institutions, old tlds end is . • i fii e tote . v. ' e g proposed to be afield, by piacinit atitbtate s sal of nt speak times Q 0 the Government so i military /arc* is ybe h, deft, ai - F iji - o i, i nf l strictly requisite to dikbarge the foucautr fleece teems sinking is the Establishment, and by leaving to digit 'tern limit „IA ;, ** lei At • - • ba4 I 11 sk 4"0: • '.' fi.ll 384 ;411 • %mg si • ' 6 , 1 1 . I _- - - THE STATES 54 AN . IF" V I - a e ?~ .1 1 .• 441 ~ - f i I '1 1 2