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■ r t . vileneerdn. Ta 111 sock platen, the payment or direel or internal lamb *ln specie or io the notes of the Bstfk of the Vented States, will be impracticable. Preliminary to a re sort to intervial taxation of any kind, the charter of the bank of the United State. ought to he amended so as to ike the bills of all the offices of that Bank, except that at the seat of (»semiarid, receivable only in the States where they are trade payable, and in the stales Red territoeles where 1141 tifSee is established. The effect of thisimodifien lion would be to make the notes of the offices of the Bank of the ()oiled States, except the office in this district, a local currency, which will centre and gootauue in the Weld -virceelation of the Sl•tes in which they are issued. The times thus issued will render the local circulation of all the States sound, and furnish to the citizens the mums of dis charging their contributions to the Government. This measure Will also place the State Institutions to the south and west of dna city in a more eligible situation in re lation to the offices of the Bank of the United Slates, by enabling them so adjust their nee. ~,,, a w ith those ' A c es by the exchange of notes, instead a lignidaliag their ba. lances by the payment of specie. Should it, however, be judged expedicut by the Legislature to lay additional bur dens upon the people, fur the purpose of meeting the exult tut or airy probable fnture deficiency, it is respectfully sub mitted that the intptertniiien of foreign spirits he proh:bited ; and that a ditty upon doneealic spirits equal to the amount of that now collected upon foreign spirits, and In such de heiesicy, lw impulsed tin the distillation and sale of domestic spirits. in any event, a resort to loans, to the extent of the deficiency for the rear 1821, will be indispensahle. Of the *um of 3,000,000 it method:A by the Act of the 15th of Slay last, to he reined My loan, 2,1610,000 d. have beets uhtaisted it a preasiiird of two per cent. upon stock bearing Interest al Site rate .4'6 per ems.. per annum, redeemable at the will of the Coveroluent 1.000,000d01. at par, upon stuck bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. redeemable at any time after the I-1 .1m5.1632. There is no just reason to doubt that soy sum which may be necessary to he raised by loan, can I.e oblate...A upon terms not leas favourable: lent as it is puha- Melba' the surplus of the revenue, after satisfying all dementia upon the Tresses!, authorised by existiug laws, daring the years 1832,1843, and 1824, which will be yeast to the redemp• two of any debt which sway b• contracted in 1421, it is respect• Cully submitted that the President of the United States be authorised to borrow from the Bask of the United 'States, cr from other hanks tic individoalo, the sum which may be necomary for the service of that year, at par, avid at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent. per minuet, redeemable. at the will of the Government. All which is respectfully submitted. WM. H. CRAWFORD. SOUTH AMERICA. Arrows " The National Gazette," as Americas Paper.] PiezettWer's Messioe.—Among the principles of na tional policy which have been thought. to he generally ad mitted as fundamental fur the United States, is that of avoid ing all usneeissary sets in respect to a foreign P'• or country, tending to embroil its with any other. Pesce, in a word, was understood to be acknowledged as at oace our prim iry obligation and interest. It was nut to be era. rificed to party-designs and resentment, nor to romantic sympathies, Igor to martial impulses, to the lust of tern... vial sggrandieensest. From the time that the Federal Go. wertimitit resit its Commissioners to Buenos Ayres, of rather from the period of their return, until the last winter. the American people and Congress remained in the belief that the Executive Department had renounced the idea of re. cognising any of the South Americas provinces is insurrec tion against the Mother Country. It was farther understood that there was to he no interference between the contending parties; uo direct or collateral proceeding which voila give umbrage to either, so far as, in any likelihood, to expose us lo hoot Wes. (hider these impressions did Coagrem discountenance the wk... and reject the propositions of Mr. Clay; in so doing they had • sight, from the language and demeanour of the Executive Department, to suppose that they enjoyed its full concurrence and approbation. Those Member. believed its, mselves reasorsine in concert with it, who argued that the Federal Government wagon( warrooted to expose the peace of the nation to the slightest hazard, though the insurgents of Swills Attlee Ira mlinsid be abstractedly worthy of regard and mono. t Such as voted upon the ground that their rlieporitions and merits were in the highest degree equiv.,- cal—that they might themselves suddenly renounce, or cat. terly disgrace, the independence which we were called upon to •clitiowledge, also counted epos the same concert. All, in and ont of emigres', were surprised when one of the letters of General Vives to the Secretary of State, laid before that body, distlosed the fact that oar Executive Dr. pariment had actually proposed to the British Ministry a fr.., recognition of the provinces of La Plata. This measure, as ill-advised as unexpected, became a 110111Telt of double inostificatios from the circumstances which soon transpired—that what was coolidentially sub mitted by the American Minister to the British Cabinet, speedily reached the Spanish Court in the most invidious 'form, and that the very Government selected for recognition, had been engaged in eargociatiag away its own existence and the republican liberties of the people whose affairs it administered. Unquestionable proof is now extant, sot only Iliad it would have established a monarchy, and taken a foreign sovereign, but that it seriously deliberated upon couverting the countries of La Plata into an appendage of the Crown of Brazil; sad this, ostensibly at least, not so much on account of a distrust of their ability to defend their independence against Spain, as of their unfitness to hr left to themselves, and to exist prosperously or reputably wider any other than • monarchical constitution. The alleged motive has been proved to be sot unsound, by all that has since occurred in them, and by their present wild rid ilearolatiug anarchy. A a unbroken succession of profligate revolutions and a multitude of factions, military and civil, involved in the fiercest and most sanguinary strife, justify, as far as concerns them, the hesitstion which we have anewlioned as felt by Congress, and supposed to be common to the Executive. We have made the foregoing statement of considerations •nd facts, because they have an important reference to that part Of the President's Message which treats of the Spanish Colonies, and of which we will now speak particularly. It is acknowledged in this Paper, that ns the uufortnoate divi siuns at Buenos Ayres still prevail;" but it is said that .• the contest between Spats and the Colonies, according to the mast auflientic information, is imaiotaiood by the latter with improved success." In the Colonies here imentioised, she proisiocesi of La Plata could not he meant se he is. eluded, as they have bees long (erupt from say internal contest with Awe Mother Country; nor, we presume, could the traasactions of Lord Cochrane have been thought worthy of Whig taken into the account. Vesersela and Grenada eau be the only Colonies truly in question, and the contest there the only ones( which .‘ improved success" is alleged. They are, besides, specifically declared iti the Message " to bare acquired reputation, both for the management of the war, and for the order of the internal administration." iVe would eagerly wish to believe that the information *pow which the President has hazarded these assertions is she most authentic: but it is impossible for us to think it worthy of reliance. There are, we apprehend, good reamers for distrusting this advice' coining from the agents of our Iliovertinitut is that quarter, the newspaper and ship reports of patriot victories, and even the official biilletims of them, are knows to be demoniac of very little credit; the mani festos of the civil administration (which is but a pageant, the whole heiersailitary in tact), are sot lilted to inspire residence; their dsorecter Whig that of exaggerated imi tation of boa models, distortion of seutiminit, sod 'hea viest parody, for the purpose cif internal sod external de. Inrush bone of these, by the Peg, have contained stele t ores on slur isslitutinno, whist! on Ws entitle them to our favour fur their spirit in gellabell id doiliffiwes, as to our seeped for the sagacity sad knonfildr Of liner antlers. From the accounts published by tha 4tkh who have re cently sees the new republic of Colombia, and from die private intelligence which we posses, we would not id& Met any improvement had takes plene " in the order of in ternal a.haiiiistration." There is ets'evideoce of such Use. proverneut mast in detall—and, as Americans, we are the asSre incredulous, since nu reparation has as yet bees made for the spoliMioss of Americas property committed iu the i~ ` ~ a ~. 'ii: name, mad with thrinock jn.licisl processes of the republic. It were well if the eormsposdesse on tIVS between Bolivar and the lass 'gest of tits Uldtdl States at Angus' lora were produced, in order that It might ►s better kaisers how far the Supreme Dirdetees Mad Isis associates me ta erne consideration and &Malice. Appearasess of " im proved success" in their Military career, have existed,bat al most every attire! from a port of the Main gives• new aspect 'ton, and Neves the mind in a state of perplexity and auspease. The daybe fore yesterday we published articles from a Gazette •of Caraceaa;and the contents of a recent letter from the ewer place, ausigiecisig very severe reverses for the Patriot arms, and proposals of prate from Bolivar to Murillo. This iufurmstios may not be true, but uo Wacoa pretend that there is any impossibility or great improbability of its being so; and if it he, the declaration of the President respecting the progress of the war, made to the world, and his repre seistarisso of the magnanimous conduct of "the Congress of Angostura," mutt appear premature and improvident. Out a subject involved in so much doubt slid uncertainty, the greatest caution in affirming or denying should be practised, especially in s quarter where positive kuowledge torsos the only peeper fousidation of remark. The President asserts that " the late change iu the Go vernment of Spain by the re•establishnteut of the Coustitu lion of 1812, is su event which promises to be favourable to the Revolution." What is the evidence or sound conjec ture that supports this upiniou ? The present court:di of Spain arc known to be as averse to the independence of the Colonies as their predecessors; they are likely to be more formidable in military resources, as far as these may be re galin!, to prevent that consammatioe—they possess a moral itillueoce to the same effect tufinitety greaten, east deity strengthened by the isicreased distraction and exhaostiou Of the Colonies. The circumstance of a good coostituttostal gurcnimeut sit Spans, willing to treat span the basis of a liberal onion, and the reformation of abuses I. the colonial pulley, Callllol fail to be operative *post a divided papule lion. Although, according to the belief rspressed Su the Message, some of the Puweta of Europe 'Wald take part is the contest (ri matter, nevertheless, always *pets to doubt), we cannot see how their abstiseace would affect the result. No greeter likelihood of their armed interference existed, during the old regime in Spain, than at present.-I'be only solid relionce of the Mother Country has been always the same-i-the division of 11C/111111e111, and the destructive rage of faction su the Colonies. If the Royal forces be expelled from the Main, these causes of recoucsitstion between them may peeved there lit a more masked seater, and act with quicker effect. The paragraph of the Message concerning the Spaniels Coltman, has, we must couress, produced alarm as well as dissatisfaction in our minds. We suspect these gristle breathmes on the it side, and the aupererogatius is " friendly counsels" with the European Powers„ fur the acknowledg ment of their independence. The people of the Northern std Middle States of the Union ought not to consent to risk a war with Spain far the acquieition of new. This territory is avowedly soueht by the southern and western politiciens. It has been declared an indispensable object since the professed loss to the slave-holding interest, of a part of the region beyond the Mississippi, by the so-called Missouri compromise. The Treaty by which it was re nounced has been covered with obloquy, on this account, on the door of Congress, and iu must of the soot hers and western papers. The policy of recurieg it has, we believe, become more general sod systematic with those who have the ascendancy a our asthma! mffairs, and is coamected with that of the reilestioa of their domestic power —or, is other words, the preponderance of the slave•bnldirg Stales. We will not an ticipate the rejectioo of the Florida Treaty by the Spanish Cartes, becalm,* we are not yet prepared to expect this evil; but we will say that if it do happen, a strict and jea. lows inquiry should be instituted before Congress adopt the propositioas which may be made to them of the foreible enpation of the Floridas, mid the recognition of the Patriot Governments, a■ to the Mesas projects with which these measures may be cuanemest, and to the sins of com mission cod omission by which our Administration may have indoced the Anal miscarriage of the Treaty. PRESIDEft7' BUYER. [from " The Hartford (Cow.) Timees.l White the American people are feeling for the misfortunes of the British Queen, and the American newspapers are filled with sn account of her trial, there is another subject of much greater importance to the country, if not to mankind in general, passed over almost wtthoot notice. It is a fact very familiar to almost every itidividn.ll here, that the.ielend or Hispaniola was wrested not many years lig: , from the whites b► their slaves; and that its colour-1 inhabitants were divided into two separate Go►ern menta: the one elective. antler the late President Petion; and the other imperial, tinder Christophe. It appears by recent news, that General Boyer, the successor of Polon, is now overrunning the whole of this rich extensive island (Christophe being dead), and ettempting the establishment of republi can institutions upon the ruin of the cruel tyranny which existed under the Imperial Government. Should his plan► aucered, and his measures be pur sued with moderation, we shall soon be presented with • new era in the progrem of liberty and independence: the second republic of this hemisphere will be • re public of negroes; located in that part of the world where the moans of the enslaved African are most fre quently heard, and heard with the least sympathy. At such a time, any thing which serves to the character of Boyer, may not be uninteresting to our readers, as he will probably give a tone to the new Government. About fifteen or twenty years ago, for sonic cause that may never have been thoroughly explained, one of the •rtued vessels of the United States captured, and, it is said, moat shamefully plundered, one of the cruisers of Presi. dent Peti tttt . The crew of the captured vessel were brought in prisoners, lauded at New Loudon, in this State, and afterwards conveyed so Norwich, where they were confined several months in the county gaol. Among this number was • Lieutenant, alto belonged to a high order of masons, and who on that account partly, but perhaps inure from his external appearance and talent of insinuation, gained the fnendship of his masonic brethren in that vicinity, was freed from the tediuusitees of confinement by their interference, and boarded at their expense iii • respectable white family. This Lieutenant is the same man who now presides over the free blacks of St. Domingo. When soy black, situated as he was, charged, we believe, with the crime of piracy, and "the tenant of a dungeon, can obtain so much attention in this state, can find fliends in a laud of stranger,, and brothers among while men, he must possess some native superiority. Thus much of the mind ; for the heart we Cann tell a better tale, and produce a more distinct out line of • great wawa portrait. Since the comple. lion of his success, different from most other men in prosperity, he forgets not those who had be friended him in his adversity. Very recently in quiries have been made by him whether the family au which he had formerly boarded were in need of pecuniary asaista•ce; and although his offer of aiding them has nut yet been accepted, this sin gular imitntice of his liberality nod gratitude, after the lapse of so many years, and to • family residing in a distant country, is sio less worthy of being re membered to his honour. We have nut roof fur all the matt:time the situ- _;-' • stion of affairs in the island mickt suggest—the I effect it may have upon the Slave Trade, the West , Indies, &c. ; but if our ideas of General Boyer are correct, where can the free people of colour in the United States be transported with more propriety titan to St. Domingo? Would it not be more fee silite and more philanthropic for the American Co lonization Society to send them there than to the desert coast Of Africa ? At the former place they may expect to be received with open arms of friend- • - - ship upon • fertile soil ; at the latter they must be exposed to the fatality of disease, and the fe rocity of a barbarous population. SPANISH PAPERS. BARCELONA, I/ECM/888 2?. If our adherence to the Constitution has been notorious and sincere—if our love to our King has been pore and cordial—if respect to the legal authorities. has always been the rule of our conduct, we now think it more than ever 'memory to declare that Catalonia considers the Spanish Constitutiou as its property. which it will defend against all enemies of the public felicity, whether secretly or openly. —The accounts from Naples induce us to hold this language, since we unhappily know that the affairs of Europe are taking a turn which we did not cx. pect. It was thought that the Greit Power., as they are called, attacked only the principles of the Re volution of Naples; that is, what they called a military insurrection. But the mask is thrown off; it is not the 14ilitsry insurrection, it is the Si/moist' Constitution which is to be attacked at Naples. It cannot be any longer dissembled; it is Spain which is attacked indirectly in Italy, till an opportunity shall offer of attacking it directly. The injustice of the intentions of those who oppose the Spanish Constitution at Naples is self-evitlettt, as well as the manifest conttadiction into which they fall, ad leging that this Constitution gives too much power to the People, and too little to the Monarch. The Sovereigns who new think this. are the same who a few years ago solemnly recognised this Constitution, which then roused them from the lethargy, from the humiliation in which they were plunged. which was the basis to preserve their th es. to support their mediating sceptres. to recover their dignity, their honour, their rook. &c. &c. We are far from comparing Laybach with Ba yonne, Ferdinand I. with Ferdinand VII., or the Emperor Francis with Bonaparte. If any act of injustice like those committed by the usurper of the throne of the Bourbons should be seen in our dam we shall not impute it to the Sovereigns, but to their evil counsellors. Meantime, Ferdinand is gone to Laybach ; but for what ? It can only be to repeat by word of mouth what he has frequently declared to the whole world. And what may be the results of this new Congress ? The Neapolitan nation will not yield, the Monarch will maintain his oath, the Cabinets, meantime, will introduce delusion. enflame people's minds. excite parties, outrage the law of nations ; but at the same time they will animate in the people their love of liberty; they will cause men to reflect on their rights, and on the means of recovering theta, and of establishing them on more solid foundations than they have hitherto had, &c. Naples will be in vaded, and the Spaniards cannot look at its situation with indifference, &c.—(Gaceter de Gobierno.) FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY FS. We are assu►rd ihat Sir James Crauford has re ceived order s to quit Paris in twenty-four hours. According to his covtom, he exclaimed. it is said. View la Charte ! ■t the moment he was setting off. • MADRID, JANUARY 5. (Erhart of a Private Later.) I ante (0 yctit is gseirt hate, to ;Joint you that the Cortes ure convoked for Tuesday, the 9th in. ►taut, in order to take into consideration-the invita tion that has been sent to Ferdinand VII. by the Allied Sovereign., to repair personally to the Con gress at Layhich. Thin news has produced the liveliest seitsation. If the Cortes permit the King to leave his kingdom, it isprubable he will embark at Barcelona.—(Constittdionel.) It is rumoured in this capital that our Monarch has received, from the Sovereigns at Troppau, no invitatiou to repair to the conferences at Laybach. If this should he confirmed, there will, no doubt, be an extraordinary convocation of the Cortes to deliberate upon so important a measure. —lfinot idioms. They write from Madrid, under the date of Ja nuary the 4th, says the Gazette de France, that armed men of all descriptions have pasted through the town of Zamora, exclaiming, Long lire Re ligion I" In several villager the country people jumed them. A new conspiracy has been discovered at Sara goose, but the zeal and activity of the Civil Autho rities entirely disconcerted P.gUTL —lO our report of the proceedings of the Court Martial epos Captain Gouost, gives iu our Paper of yesterday, the property of obet gentleman its Shropshire is slated at the value of 500/. This is els error. It ap- peered by the evidence of Mr. £MuRY, a gentleman of that county, that 5,000/. bad been offered for part of the said estate.—ln the same report, fur " Lieutenant HILL" read " art t.t." THE BRITESii PRESS. LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, Mi. - A Flaoders Mail arrived list night with Papers from Brussels to the 16th instant. The following are extracts:— ISA ** JANUARY 10. We have the folloniog comwuuicuuuu frusu Balm, dated Ist of this mina, For some time past extraordinary activity has been observed to prevail in the War Depart ment ; purchases of horses continue to be made so remount , t he cavalry. The regiments of infantry and unitary can. timed is the provinces ass miticessively reviewed ; every thing anatinnees that our Goverasneat is taking samilium of proesolloe." savesati, JANUARY 15. • The wawa, from listlkat to the 6th of this swath do net yet speak of the 41Wf die King for Layboch. is -H Excellency the • Galen' of the Affairs of the a• Catboat Chartll his jest remitted it die kises smite to Mr. Plaskett, Bishop of F.lphis, in Ireland, a gold snail= box., met in diamonds, and ranched with his Majesty's cipher. The object of this prisms is to testify to Mr. Plaskett his Majesty's satisfaction at the seal with which be has lately administered the sacrament of confirmation to 110,000 persons in the province of Liege, and ordained several *Win of the Diocesan Seminary. Paris Papers of Monday last have arrived at our Office. The Aloniteur contains an official copy of the law as adopted by the two Chamber., and sp. proved by the KING, authorising the provisional receipt of the first six-twelfths of the taxes fur the current year upon the estimates of the last. The asme Paper also presented a Report from the Finance Minister to the KING, dated the ioth of December, giving a detailed account of the state of the revenue, and of the measures necessary for the definitive regulation of the budget for the year 1819. We find in the Constitutionel and Quotidienne copies of letters from Madrid, stating, that the Allied Sovereigns have desired the personal attend ance of the King of SPAIN at the Congress of Laybach, and that the Cortes are to be immediately assembled to consider the propriety of permitting the KING to accede to this request. .The letters state, that this intelligence hail excited the liveliest sensation in Madrid. Were the Allied Sovereigns influenced in their conduct by a strict regard to consistency, the information contained in these letters must necessarily be true : their Majesties must have transmitted the same requisition to the King of SPAIN arid also to the King of PORTUGAL as that which has dragged the poor old King of NAPLES from his Palace, to encounte r at their high pleasures the danger and inconvenience of a sea voyage in winter, and also a long and troublesome journey by land, that lie might appear before their august tribunal to answer such charges as they nay think proper to prefer against hint and his people. If Naples be guilty, Spain and Portu gal cannot be innocent. Still we feel some diffi culty in believing Ilost the Allies have ventured to insult a nation so powerful and so high-minded na is Spain, by requiriog its King so far to degrade himself. We are further disposed to dotebt the truth of the statement from the cousidcration that so grows an insult offered to Spain would be very likely to incite the Curter, from a mere feeling of indignation at their individual injury, to stretch forth their arms to shield and protect the Neapoli tans, and that the combined despots, apprehensive of this result, would be cautious in abstaining from au act so well calculated to rouse the angry feelings of the Spanish people. A story is told of a fellow, more remarkable for his wit than his courage, who once underwent the infliction of a severe chastise ment by a Nobleman for the inconsiderate indul gence of the fo►mer quality. This he bore with exemplary patience. The same Nobleman soon afterwards saw the fellow in a tremendous rage, ex ercising his physical powers upon one far inferior to himself in personal strength, and congratulated hint upon his new acquisit;ou of courage. ‘‘ No complimeos, my Lord," said our wag, s , your Lord. ship anti I know wisest we may venture to bent." A similar discretion. we doubt not, belongs to the ILO Allies, they know where they may venture to play the tyrants and the bellies. They know that ' Naples is one of the weakest states in Europe, no matter now from what cause arising—they know that the Neapolitans are not ■ warlike people—that the whole system of their government has long been, and still is, morally and politically disorga nised, and is cousequently devoid of that vigour which in extraordinary conjunctures might bring into immediate and condensated operation the whole power of the state—they know that there is nu mi litary force in the country that merits the timer of a disciplined army, and that weak and inefficient us the resources of the state a►e in general, they are at the present moment particularly distracted and divided by the unfortunate perversity of the Sici. l Bans in refusing to accept the liberty that is offer ed to them. They know from all these circum stances that Naples could not for a moment resist with any hopeof eventual success, the overwhelming advance of au army consisting of 100,000 disciplined troops of Germany, veterans in experience, and com maoiled by some of the best officers irt Europe. Na plea, therefore, offers an easy, almost an unresisting victim to be sacrificed upon the altar of their self. interest and jealousy. Best bow dtffereut is the situation of Spain! Spain may despise their threat...or resent their injuries, and in no way could she punish theta more effectually than by taking a generous interest in the fate of Naples, fur although the weight and influence of the Cabinet of Madrid in the system of European politics are as yet far i n f er i o r to what they were some century ■go. they even now are entitled to such consideration as, united with the strength of public opinion. and exerted in the cause of universal justice and the rights of au independent people, should. we doubt not, prove effective in checking the course of pro fligate ambition. But supposing that the Allied Sovereigns, with a •iew to the observance of consistency, did venture to sumtnon the King of SPAIN to appear before their tribunal, it is not to be expected that the Cortes of Spain will yield so reedy an acquiescence in the degradation of their Sovereign as the Cortes of Naples were compelled to grant. lodeed there could be no useful pu►pose obtained by the personal -. attenclihee of the iitNa at the Congress at Liy bach, because were the Kina to be wrought upon by the arguments or the personal influence of the Allies to admit the propriety of some alterations in the constitution of Spain, for the purpose of grant ing more power to the Throne—alterations which, fur our own parts, we should thiuluvery advisable— yet with what effect would his assent be attended? The Cortes would reject the alterations with cup tempt, and PO the condescension of the KING iu leaving his own dominions to meet other Monarchs, and to receive their instructions upon the domestic affairs of his own kingdom, would be followed by no other imaginable consequence than to expose his MAJESTY to the pity or de►i►ion of the world, and, still worse, to the conttmpt or displeasure of his own subjects. Spanish Pipers hove armed. from whic, we hare' made estroete. We have received a series of New York Papers► from the t►t to the 11th of December, containing the Aimed Report of the S. cretary of the Treasury. trattimittid to both [looses of Congress on the 4'h December. The whole of this important do cument is newly given at length in our preceding columna. The result is, there will be a balance against the Treavroy on the Ist day of the present month ofJanuary, of 4,638,169 dollar?, the receipts from the Customs having •falleit gr►atly short of the amount at which they were estimated in the last an nual Report.—" The Revenue for 1821 ia eitimuted at 16,550,000 dollars, and the certain sud contiogent expenditures at 41,363.417 dollars; which. added to the balance spinet the Treasury on the lvt of January instant, will make the sum of 24,001,586 dollars. and will consequently leave a balance of 7,431,586 dollars beyond the estimated means for which p►ovi►ion is to be made'." To meet this sum a loan considered indispensable, at !earl to the extent of the 2,638,169 dollars, the• amount of the deficiency of the last year. In the event of new timer, it proposes to prohibit the im portation of foreign opiiits, and to supply the defi ciency by a duty on home-made spirits. The Opposition are expected to muster in great force on Tuesday next, the first day of the Session, they being determined to lose not a moment ro express their disapprobation of the conduct of Minister,. We lately noticed that a meeting of the Bankers, Merchants, &c. of the City of London was in cots templation, fur the purpose of giving that great body of men a fair opportunity of expressing thrii sentiments on the state of public affairs, and corm. teracting the effect of the Declaration of the lirta partial meeting. It will appear from the Advertise.. ment in front of our Paper, that Wednesday next is fitted for this important discussion. under the ranction of a large and influential portion of the great mercantile interests of the City. including nut less than sixteen Members of the House of Corte• moos, and many of tha oldest anti most .it naive firm,. By advices from Coquerubn it was stated. that the Atuvrican twig 'Patriot. had bergs detained by Lord COCHRANE, but for what purpose. or under what pretence. we are not informed; probably she was conveying ammunition or other supplies to the Royalist party. His Majesty's ship Hyperion hdd sailed from Valparaiso on she 3d September. f,, s Lima and Panama, to protect the Bullish trade in that quarter. The information from Lima, received at Buenos Ayres, reaches down to the 15th of September. It was confirmed that Lord COCHRANE and SAN MARTIN hid effected • landing at Pico, but nothing further was known of their proceedings. nor were any favourable anticipations indulged re girding their success in this long-projected enter prize, in consegnence of the nature of the advices from Lima, and the territory under its control. It appears that the Constitution accepted by FERDI NAND VII, in Old Spain, had been promulgated is Lima and its dependencies. It had been declared with all the formalities belonging to so important a change ; and the various public authorities, with the Viceroy at theirhead, had proceeded to act upon it. This step. if we may believe the accounts in our hands, had given the utmost satisfaction, not merely to the Royalists, but to a large body of persona who were anxious for a change of system. bat at the same time were not disposed to assist is* cos plete revolution. These classes composed by far the larger portion of the population ; and even the Revolutionists themselves, tired of a state of dis tressing weir/are, had accepted the Constitution with symptoms of satisfaction. It is generally believed in the county of Wicklow, that Mr. GRATTAN, wito resides there, is the ' 1 popular Citinitlate" alluded to in Tin Gunn - . of the 10th iust.—( limes.) We cannot give credit to the above. Mr. GRAT TAN is now in London. and the prevailing *maim in the county of ‘Vicklow is, that Mr. Ttnustoou of the late WILLIAM TIGHE, Esq. who formerly represented that county, will be the Dem Member. NATURAL CURIOSITIT.—A tenant of the Rev.. J. Corms, of Warwicrt, has just presented to him u pert of • solid butt. of au ash tree. containing within it the skull of souse animal (unknown.) It was in the part of the tree, nine feet above the glound; and was perfectly enclosed in solid timber . The tenant has resided upon the form above "way years, and had never noticed any opening in the tree; nor was there the least appearance in the but or the wood, and the pint it now ,egilersly sad solidly occupires was ever vacant. Sew idatlol be tensed of the size of the skull, when IS stated that II ie part which held the brain is eked four inches diesnetes. at 'lie Congress at Liy- CM: to be wrought upon personal influence of the ' iely of some alterations in for the purpose of grant- 'hrone—alterations which, old thiuluvery 'advisable— d his assent be attended ? the alterations with coo- cension of the KING HI s to meet other Monarchs, fictions upon the domestic NI, would be followed by isequence than to expose or derision of the world, onttmpt or displeasure of lived, from which we have' cries of New York Paper, of December, containing cretary of the Treasury. uses of Congress on the hole of this important do- t length in our preceding Py there will be a balance the Ist day of the present- -18,169 dollar?, the receipts •follen grtntly short of the re estimated in the last an- reline for 1821 is eitirmatetl I the certain and contingent 117 dollars; which. added ' .he Treasury on the I.t of ke the sum of 24,001.55 G juently leave t a balance !yond the estimated means to be made'." To meet risidered indispensable, at the 2,638,169 dollars, the• r of the last year. In the ropcses to prohibit the im- Is, and to supply the defi- le-made spirits. - specter' to muster in great he first day of the Session, to lose not a moment to etion of the conduct of t a meeting of the Bankers, sty of London was in con- pose of giving that great inanity of expressing their , f public affairs, and corn. be Declaration of the late appear from the Advertise.. mer, that Wednesday next .ant diacualion, under the influential portiou of the s of the City, including tint ers of the House of Coos- oldest and most esti naive aerubn it was stated, that riot had been detained by for what purpose, or under ot informed ; probably she ion or other supplies to the rojesty's ship Hyperion had )14 the 3d September. for notect the British trade in • Lima. received at Buenos the 15th of September. It nrd COCHRANE and SAN a landing at Piaco, but loin, of their proceedings. anticipations indulged re.. 1 this long-projected enter- if the nature of the advices itory under its control. It tution accepted by FUDI- n, had been promulgated is wt. It had been declared it longing to so important a 'public authorities, with the id proceeded to act upon it. thieve the accounts iu our most satisfaction, not merely 5 a large body of persons change of system. but at disposed to assist ilea cone- ie classes composed by far e population ; and even the r es, tired of a state of dia. epted the Constitution with 1. in the county of Wicklow, "vivo resides there, is the ' y alluded to in Tux GLOBE. tto the above. Mr. GLIM. , and the prevailing °lnuits's u " sv .j is, that Mr. TlGna,„sou TIGHE, Esq. who formerly will be the ate Member. e.—A tenant of the Rev.. trt, has just presented to tt. of au ash tree. containing arse animal (unknown.) It tree, nine feet above the espy enclosed in solid timber. upon the form above sixty oticed any opening iu the least appearstsce us the bark part it now ipp Aral, asd er vacant. Sow idea say of the skull, when it a itch held the brain i. 'teat