The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-01-09 00:00:00

Could Pier have procured to you greater benefits ? No—the tomb of the Republic Pier was opening with his own hands, in order therein to bury the lives, property, honours, and glory, of the brave defenders/ of the liberty of Venezuela, as well as of their chil dren, wives, and parents. Heaven has beheld with horror thiscruel parricide,' aerrileesren ldss given him up to the vengeance of the laws. Heaven has not allowed that. ..man who had sinned against the D:rinity as well as the whole of the human race, should any longer profane the earth, which could no longer bear him after the nefarious crime be had committed. Soldiers! Heaven watches ; over your welfare, and the Government, which to you is a parent, has no other object in view than your good. Your Chief, who is also your comp.. ohms in arms, and who, always at your head, has shared in your dangers and hardships, as well as in • your triumphs, places his reliance on you. Confide, therefore, in him, well assured that he loses you snore than if he was in reality your father. Stead-Quarters, Aoguarra, 17 b OM. 1817. (Serwd) BOLIVAR. LAW FOR THE iIIsTRIIIUTION OF NATIONAL PROPERTY CLASSES B AMONG EPUB THELIC. MILITARY OF ALL SIMON O OF THE R LIVAR, SUPRENZ CHIEF OF THE RE PUBLIC Or VENEZUELA, &C. &C. &C. Considering that the first duty of the Government is to recompense the services of the virtuous defenders of the Republic, who, by rnerou:ly sacrificing their lives and properties for the liberty and happiness of their country, have sustained and still sustain the destructive war of independence, to the great loss of eltenrselves and families ' - and considering also, that •, in the territories occupi ed by the arms of the Re 4.lshic, as well as in that we are about to liberate, Omagh et present possessed by the enemy, a large quantity of property belonging to Spaniards and Royalist Americans, which, in conformity to the Decree and aegolations published on 3d September in the present year, is to be sequestrated and confis cated, I have deemed it proper to decree the follow ing, eiz : Article 1. All the fired and immoveable property which, in conformity to 'the said Decree and Regula tions, have been, or are to be sequestrated and con fiscated, and have not been disposed of for the bene fit of the national treasury, shall be distributed and made over to the Generals, Chiefs, Officers, and Soldiers of the Republic, respectively, in the man ner hereafter espressed. it. As the ranks obtained in the field are incontes tible proofs of various the services performed by each individoel of the army, theldistribution of theproperty alluded to in the above Article shall be made in the following proportions, viz.:— The Commander-In-Chief crnend of DiVibinn Gflleffil of Brigade Dollars. . 2.5,u00 20.00 J 15.003 Zoi.niet • 10,000 Lieoicirint•Colimel • 9.000 Major 8.004 • Captmin • 6.000 Lieutenant 4.000 Ensihn • 3.000 For3l and Screw! See'font 10,10 View and Second Corporal 700 Soldier• 5 10 3. The officers,seijennts, eorporsls, end soldiers who play obtain rank subsequent to this distribution, shall be entitled to claim the deficit that may arise Iwitween the amount they received when holding their previous rank, and that corresponding to them for chat afterwards conferred upon them, and held at the Awe of the last distribution. 11; after a calculation of the value of the pro perty susceptible of the said distribution, the same should not be found sufficient to cover the above ap propriations, the Government will supply the defici ency with other national property, and more parti cularly by grants of lands. 5. If, before or after the said property has been distributed, the Government should think proper to reward the valour, service*, or any distinguished ac tion of a military man, the same may be done out of the said property, without its being necessary to libido by the rank of the person so favoured, or the amount conferred upon him. 6. In, case any military person has merite d and Obtained the grant spoken of in the preceding Arti ste, he shall have no right to lay claim to the part *ivied him by Article 2, if the value of the pro. peity allotted to him is greater than that correspond. 114 i to his rat k. 7. When the property susceptible of distribution is of more value than the amount assigned to each rank respectively, the Government will take care that the allotments are made in a manlier most con trivable to the interests of all, and if so wished, partnerships can be formed for the holding of any par ticula estate. • IS. The distribution shall he made by a Special Committee; which in dee time Anil be named, and esalin'conforcnity to the regulations for that purpose ta be published. - O. The Government reserves to itself the immediate direction of this Committee. Head Quarters, St. Thomas, New Guyana, 10th Oct. IBM (Signed) BOLIVAR. J. G. PEREZ, See. PROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS. _ WASIIINGTON, Dic. 2. t• CONGRESS. ,Monday being the day appointed by the Consti- Mien for the Annual Meeting of Congress, the Members of both Houses assembled at the Capitol towards mid-day, and both Houses organized them selves, and adopted the usual preliminary roles of business. . IN TUE SENATE. At 12 o'clock, Mr. Gaillard (the President pro imports at. the time the Senate last adjourned) took the Chair. On calling over the liat of Senators, it appeared that the following Memhers were present, viz : From -New Hampshire, Messrs. Moral and Sto. rer : from Rhode Island, Mr. James Burril, jen.; trim Conneeticat, Mr. David Daggett ; frost Ver mont, Messrs James Fisk and Isaac Ticheaor ; from New York, Messrs. Rufus King and Nathan San ford • from New Jersey, Messrs. James J. Wilson and ilahlost Dickerson; from Pennsylvania, Messrs. Abner Lacock and Jonathan Roberts; from Vir ginia, Messrs. James Barbour and Jolla W. Eppes ; . • I I f • •, : $ 1 ' i r il t gi k , , 1 :..„ ) . ' . . • : • : . 1 ( i • Welter Leaky; - • -R. Vic The new Members probe!' haviees gedill‘d (with the exception of the Senators (reQ Mississippi, which State is not yet recognised by the Congress), the usual rules of proceeding anti arrangement *me adopted. A Committee was appointed to wait on the President, jointly with such Committee as the other House should appoiot. And the Senate ad. join-fled. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The !loose was called to order by the Clerk to the last Congress (Mr. Thomas Dougherty), aod, on calling over the roll of Representatives, it ap peared, tbat a large majority of Members were pre sent, viz. From New Hampshire, Messrs. Josiah !killer, Clifton Claggett, Salina Hale, Arthur Livermore, J. F. Parrott, Nathaniel Upham. From Massachusetts, Messrs. Benjamin Adams, Simnel C. Allen, Walter Folger, jun. Joshea Gage, John Holmes, Marcus Morton, Jeremiah Nelson, Benjamin Orr, Albion K. Parris, Nathaniel Ruggles, Kabdiel Sampson, Henry Shaw, Nathaniel Silsbee, Silomon Strong, Ezekiel Whitman. From Rhode Island, Mr. John L. Boss, iu,o. • From Connecticut, Messrs. Uriel., lielmes, Ebe nezer Huntingdon, Jonathan 0. Moseley, Timothy Pitkin, Samuel B. ,Sherwood, Nathaniel Terry, Thomas S. Williams ' From Vermont, Messrs. Heman Allen, Samuel C. Crafts, William Hunter, Orasmos C. Merrill, Charles Rich, Mark Richards. From New York, Messrs. Oliver C. Comstock, Daniel Croger, John P. Cushman, John K. Drake, Benjamin Ellicott, Josiah Hasbrouck, John Herki mer, Thomas 11. Hubbard, William Irving, Dorrance Kirtland, Thomas Lawyer, John Palmer, James 'Porter, John Savage, Philip J. Schuyler, Tredwell Scudder, John C. Spencer, Henry It. Storrs, James Tallmadge, jun. John W. Taylor, Caleb Tompkins, George Townsend, Peter H. Wendover, Rensellear Westerlo, James W. Wilkie, Isaac Williams. From New Jersey, Messrs. Benjamin Bennett, Joseph Bloomfield, Charles Kinsey, John Linn, H. Southard. From Pennsylvania, Messrs. 'William Anderson, Andrew Boden, Isaac Darlington, Joseph Hopkin. son, Samuel D. Ingham, William P. Maclay, David Marchand, Robert Moore, James Murray, 'nos. Patterson, Levi Pawling, Adam Seybert, Jacob Spangler, Christian Tarr, James M. Wallace, John Whiteside, Wm. Wilson. From lelaware, Mr. Louis M‘Lane. From Maryland, Messrs. Thomas Culbretb, John C. Herbert, Peter Little, George Peter, Philip Reed Samuel Ringold, Samuel Smith, Philip Stuart. From Virginia, Messrs.. Wm. Lee Ball, Philip P. Barbour, Burwell Basset, William A. Burwell , Edward Colston, Robert S. Garnett, Wm. M'Coy, Charles F. Mercer, Hugh Nelson, Thomas Newton, James Florian, James Pleasants, Alexander Smith, George F. Strother, Henry St. George Tucker: John Ty ler. From North Carolina, Messrs. Daniel M. Forney, Thomas H. Hall, George Momford, James Owen, Lemuel Sawyer, Thos. (Settle, Jesse Stocumb, J. S. l Smith, Felix Walker, Louis Williams. From South Carolina, Messrs. Joseph Bellinger, Wm. Low ndes, Henry Middleton, Stephen D. Miller, Sterling Tacker. From Georgia, Joel Abbott, Thomas W. Cobb, Zadoc Cook, Joel Crawford, John Forsyth, WM. Terrell. From Kentucky, Richard C. Anderson, jun. . H. Clay, Joseph Deshia, R. M. Johnson, Anthony New, Tonstall Quarles, jun. George Robertson, T. Speed, David Trimole, David Walker. From Tennessee, Messrs. Wm. G. Blount, Frei Jones, G. W. L. Mart, John Rbea. From Ohio, Messrs. Levi Hubei Philemon Beech. er, Job's W. Campbell, Samuel Herrick, Wm. H. Harrison. From Louisiana, Mr. T. B. Robertson. From Indiana, Mr. Wm. Hendricks. The House then proceeded to the choice of ti Speaker. On counting the votes, it appeared that of 147 votes given in, there were for Henry Clay 143—For Samuel Smith 6 Blank 1 ; so that Mr. Clay was declared to be duly elected Speaker ; and, being conducted to the chair, the usual oath was administered to him by Mr. Basset — when the Speaker made his acknowledgments to the House in the following terms : " If we consider, Gentlemen, the free and illus trious origin of this Assembly; the extent and mug. nitodc of the interests committed to its charge ; and the brilliant prospects of the rising Confederacy, whose destiny may be materially affected by the le gislation of Congress, the House of Representatives justly milks amongst the most eminent deliberative hodies that have existed. To be appointed to pre side at its deliberations is an emitted honour of which I entertain the highest sense. And I pray you to accept, for the flattering manner in which you have conferred it, my profound acknowledgments. " If I bring into the Chair, Gentlemen, the ad vantage of some experience of its duties, far from inspiring me with undue confidence, that esperieEe serves only to fill me with distrust of my own caps., city. I have been taeght by it how arduous those duties are,and how unavailing would be any efforts of mine to discharge them, without the liberal support and cheering countenance of the House. I shall anxiously seek, Gentlemen, to merit that support and countenance by an undeviating aim at impar tiality, and at the preservation of that decorum, without the observance of which the pubrte business must be illy traosacted, and the dignity aid.* cha racter of the House seriossly impaired." The Members !ming been severally qualified by taking the oath to support the Constitution, the , Hotrse peticeeded to elect a Clerk. On counting the ballots, it appeared that 144 Tikes were glyen in, all of which were for Thomas Delifteety, who resumed his place as Clerk of the Haile. After the usual incipient proceedings, and Inter changing messages with the Senate, the House ad journed till out day. concu.. . the . In the Noose of Representatives, Dec. 3, it was agreed, that the President's Message should be re- . ferred to different Committees, to one upon Foreign Relations and Internal Affairs, and to one for Manu factures. Mr. Clay, the Speaker, moved a very im portant Amendment, which he stated to be occasion ed by the arrest of officers end ethers from Europe, who were arrested in their progress through the Uni ted States, proceeding to join the Spanish insurgents. The Amendment was as follows; " And the said Committee (upon Foreign Affairs) be instructed to enquire whether any, and if any, what provisions of law are necessary to ensure to the American Colonies of Spain a just observance of the duties incident to the Neutral Relation in which the United States stand in the existing War between them and Spain." PRICE. OF STOCKS THI Rank Stock 4916 per Cent. Red. 81fi t i 9 per Cent. Cowls Blii 81 Coml.' for Acc. 82iiii 4 per Ceut. 990 [S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCKi 5 per Cent. Navy 10611 e India Banda kb 104 p ---- Stork Lang Um. 2( Exebower Bilk 19 2 p THE STATESMAN. LONbu : TRICRAY, JANUARY 9, TATS --.. , i1i11i...- - We give to-day some further extracts from the American Papers, containing the proceedings of Congress on the two days after its opening. Dif. ferent Committees have been appointed to take the subjects in the PRISIDENY'S Message into considera tion. An important motion, by Mr. CLAY, the Speaker, was agreed to in the House of Represents. tives, on Wednesday, the 3d ult. It was to the effect that the Committee on Foreign Relation should be in. instructed to enquire whether any, and what provisions of law are necessary to insure the American Colonies of Spain a just observance of the duties incident to the neutral relation in which the UnitedStates'staed in the existing war between them and Spain. This in struction is intended to have reference to the cue of the Officers and others from Europe who were ar rested in their progress through the United States to join the South American Colonists. Mr. CLAY, io proposing this Ameadment,eapressly stated the cases of detention mentioned in the Public Prints, and towards which the attention of the Courts of Jetties had been directed. &particularly adverted to the aloof the Bri tish Officers at Philadelphia, end seemed to admit, not only that the prosecution was at the instigation of an agent of the SFinish Government, but that the lit, 'plait another case, the Law of Ne State shall restrain the not require that one nation.. At Mr. CLAY justly obsetieci, if those nations choose to permit their means: to be etnploy e d in behalf of either party, " it is their business to look to it, not ours." The observations of the Anti rican Speaker are so satisfactorily explanatory en the subject of the arrest of these Officers, and the still more important topic of the views of the Ame ' rican Government regarding the South American coo test, that we shall add the report of them in this place. A knowledge of the fact of the arrest, he says, had collie to the ears of •the Public Authorities, or, perhaps, at the itstigation of some . agent of the Spanish Government, a prosecution was commenced against these Officers, who, from their inability to pr_ cure bail, had beta confined in prison. If, said Mc. CLAY, the circumstances attending this transac tion be correctly stated, it becomes an imperious duty in the Mule to institute the enquiry contemplated. .That this was an extadrirdiniry case, was dernen strated by the fact of the general sensation which if had excited on the Aubject in the place tchere it had occurred. Pilled as Oat respectable and populous city is with men differing widely on political topic', and entertaining various views of public affairs, Gs t one sentiment, Mr. CLAY ilid, prevailed on this sub ject, which was favourable to the persons thus ar- reigned. With regard to the conduct of the Court on this occasion, be would say nothing. The re spect which he should always shove to every depart. 111 nt of the Government ; the respect he entertained the Honourable Judge who had presided, forbad him from pronouncing the decision of that Court to have been unwarranted by law, but he felt hims, , lf per fectly sustained in saying, that if the proceeding was warranted by the existing law, it was the imperious duty of Congress to alter the law in this reaped. For what, he asked, was the neutral oation which one nation owed to another engaged in war? The es sence of it is thii, that the belligerent means of tie neutral shall not be employed in the war in favour of either of the parties: that is the whole of the obli gation of a third party in a war between two others: it certainly does not require of one nation to restrain the belligerent means of other nations. If the nations choose to permit their means to be employed in behalf of either party, it is their Wiriness to look to it, and not ours. Let the conduct of the per sons prosecuted be regarded in its most unflsenuroble light; let it be considered as the passage of troops through our country, and there . was nothing its our neutral obligations forbiding it. The passage of troops through a neutral country, according t o his impressions, was a question depending on the particular interest, quiet, or repose of the country traversed, and might be granted or refused at its dis cretion, without in any degree affecting the obliga tions of the neutral of either of the parties engaged in controversy. But, sorely, Mr. CLAY said, this was not a case of the passage of troop., the perilous apprehended not being in sefficieet numbers, not organized or equipped in such a manner as, under any construction, to constitute a military corps. If 111 law justified the proceeding that had taken place r that law ought to be immediately amended. That the House agreed with this view of the mat ter, appears from the proposition being adopted, that the law, if any such exists, authorising such detentions shall be amended. There is certainty great absurdity and injustice in that professoiu of neutrality on the part of a Government which ad mits the flags of Nations or Colonies into ifs pool:, whilst its laws pronounce that the moment the flag and property of such persons enter the ports of that State, they shall be seized, the one claimed by the Spanish Minister or Consul, as the property of Spain, and the others prosecuted as pirates. %Ise nsay infer from this admission of the American Legis lature that its neutrality is to be confined to the con. duct of its own subjects, and that this is to be rep hated according to the quiet, the inclinations, and the interests of the country. It would be seen by the Message of the Part in:ST, which we gave yesterday, that the indepen dence of the Spanish Colonies is anticipated as au event likely to afford a desirable crmercial cognac. tion to the United States. No spark of jealoesy can be traced in any part of the &position, or the proceedings of the Representatives of the People.-- As little will the legitimate Governments, that seek to re- establish despotism and the Inquisition in America, as well as in Europe, be able to draw corresponding ' aid to their illiberal pro jects from the moderate, bat manly document of the American Faestoeirr. We have already pointed out the most strikiog and important passages in this Expose, and remarkeditbe melancholy contrast which the deficiences in oarßeeenue, the deb * and berthene, aud miserable privations of this coun try, where palaces, and pensions, and hussar uniforo;s, occasion such an enormous draft from the comforts of the People, afford, when compared with the prosper ensth situation of the American Citiztos, and " state of their Treasury, which cut boast, after s- - ti-fying the eppropriationr mzd: isi !a • for the s"." ......-- — , , . . . . ... . . . .., ' ) ( , -.- . - - _. - iii . -....:44) . \._1..._ ~. THE STATESbIAN: . - - . .. - conclude( the Aid ritias and Courie_who had proZt . e ..z. from North Carolina . &giallo! hj,acoe,c*oni ' . ... 1 ... • GRESS I A : . S Elitt s. T E. . ;mig ate was flit' nkt Georgia, Mr. Cie , frai lEmsttacky; MK corded jgainftl w think . the orgen -I Jrahn J. Critt 6. 64 ' Teraina*, ga r . ;Obi ! a Committee appointed on that point of legal Ti. Williams _,_. frowi i o P . r• liPtiiteds Rlfiltl i tlf"ii - A a Resolution for theAdmissios of e Indiana, Messrs. filler ' Taylor and James obte it • State of in ssippi into the Union ; which was American (Woe of esea • la perfectly *ght gasegrasioskimigeßttetbautiler-1 in his vie be w rop itt rd hiS ed as t o r a , t fo o r f i t ro e o p p a s sseg oiresiot esaft I, gail. from Missit.sippi, Mosta. Timiewilwaitilikbome- cann o t sir.i... 1...tra...- oiistf . frcirLioiii arrinci,.ariaiheSenate m scljn:irn:d .... , _ _ a FRENCH PAPERS. Paws, JAN. s.—The Duke of Wellington set out yesterday morning at five o'clock for Cambray, having taken leave of his Majesty the 'preceding af ternoon. llis Grace will, it is said, return about the end - of this month. A new aerostatic experiment is. about to be made wjth *larger balloon than was. ever yet seen in Paris. We learn from Lille that M. de Maubreuil escaped on the Ist instant, at six in the evening, from the prison at Douay, where he was confined. The report in yesterday's Papers of the death of M. Goopy, sen. is unfounded. MADRID, DEC. 24.—The Russian Minister, M. de Tatischeft, returned here from Cadiz, and after staying here a few hours, set out again for that port, to wait the arrival of the Russian squadron. The crews of the Russian ships are to be lodged for some days in the barracks of the new village of San Carlos, near the arsenal et Carom, in the Isle of Leon. BERLIN, Dec. 20.—According to intelligence from Russia, the Emperor Alexander will not proceed direct to Warsaw. Ile will quit Moscow about the end of March or beginning of April, and proceed to the coasts of the Black Sea. Ifs Imperial Majesty will visit Choczim end Kammiesk, in Ladolia, and afterwards proceed in Warsaw. The Imperial Fa mily will remain at Moscow till the autumn of 1818, and the accouchernent of the Grand Duchess Nicholas will take place there. None of the letters from Russia •or Poland make any mention of a new journey of the Emperor Alex ander to Germany ; and the report of a Congress at Spa, or elsewhere. at which the Allied Sovereigns are to *Rend, is discredited. FRANKFORT. JAN. I.—There is a report of a new and more intimate alliance being in contemplation between all the Christian Powers of Europe, founded upon the principles of the Billy Alliance. VIENNA, DEC. 21.—1 t appears that our Court and that of Berlin have come to a perfect under standing es to the great objects to be discussed in t ermanic Diet, and that they will give uniform instructions to their Ministers in that Assembly. The Military affairs of Germany, the Representation in the States of the Germanic Confederation, the system to be adopted with respect to the I.iberty of the Press, and other points of importance, will be arranged by agree ment between the two Ceutrs. Dec. 25.—According to letters from Prague of the 18th, M. Las Cases had arrived at Egra, accompa nied by a Prussian Officer of Police, and had been delivered to the Austrian Military Authorities. LAWANNE, DFC• 30.—The Diplomatic Note re. specting Revolutionary Journals and Pamphlet!, which was delivered by the Aoatrian and French Ministers to the Directorial Canton, and by that communicated to the other Cantons in a Circular ac companied by observations, has given rise to en quiries respecting the works alluded to, and which were for the greater part before unknown. They scarcely merited this honour. EP 't 11 04. a 1` V to FI T ti le N as to a' 11 P • w • 7 hi * M to 111 IN le IF 'T II M at re F 111 •i /b 1 is At