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~~ ~~: i AMERICAN PAPERS. rem the supplement to the National Niarligrnre rof March 181 The following Message was yesterday tattistmated by the Presi dent of the United States to Congress : TO TIT SOVII Of 1112PRISENTATITTS Of TRIG UNITED STATES. Washington, Its compliance with the resolution of the House of the 3th ult. requsadng me to cause to be laid before the House, se much of the eoertespttndencebetween the Goverment of the United States and the new States of America. respecting the proposed Congress, or meeting of Diplomatic Agents at Panama, and such information ce.pecting the general character of that expected Congress, as may be in my possession. I now transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State, with the correspondence and information re euested by the resolution. With regard to the objects in which the agents of the United St.tes are expected to take part in the deliberations of that Con. grew, I deem It proper to premise, that these objects did not form the only, nor even the principal motive for my acceptance of the invitation. My first and greatest indscemere was to meet, in the spirit of kindness and friendship, an overture made in that spirit by three sister Republics of this hemisphere. The great revolution in human affairs which has brought into existence, nearly at the game time, eight sovereign and independent nations in our own quarter of the globe, has placed the United States in a situation not less novel, and scarcely less interesting, than that in which they had found themselves, by their own transition from a cluster of colonies to a nation of sovereign States. The deliverance of the Soathem American Republics front the oppression, tinder which they had been so long afflicted, was hailed with great unanimity by she people of this Union, as among the most auspicious events of the age. On the 4th of May. 1822, an act of Congress made an appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars " for such missions to the independent Nations on the American e . n meat as the Pre sulent of the United States might deem proper.' In exercising the authority recogrecd by this act, my predecea sea by the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed, succes sively. Minket% Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Colombia, BJenCtS Arres.Chill, and Mexico. Unwilling to raise among the traternity of freedom questions of precedency and etiquette. which even the European elorevehs had of late found it necessary in a great measure to discard, he despatched these Ministers to Colossi. Du, Buenos Ayres, and Chili. without exacting from those Re pehlics, as by the ancient principles of political primogeniture he .ght have done, that the compliment of a Plenipotentiary mis sion should have been paid first by them to the United States. The instructions prepared under his direction to Mr. Anderson, the first of our Ministers to the Southern Continent, contain, at much length, the general principles upon which he thought it desirable teat our relations, political and commercial, with these our new r.ew neighbours, should be established, for their benefit and ours, nn t! that of the future ages of our posterity. Similar instructions were furnished to the Ministers appointed to Buenos Ayres. Chili, anti 'Mexico I and the system of social intercourse which it was the purpose of those missions to establish from the first opening of our diplomatic relations with those rising nations, is the most effec tive exposition of the principles upon which the invitation to the ( °egress at Panama has been accepted by me, as well as of the objects of the negotiation at that meeting, in which it was expected that our Plenipotentiaries should take part. The House will perceive that, even at the date of these blame tions, the first treaties between sonic of the Southern Republics had been concluded, by which, they had stipulated among themselves this diplomatic assembly at Panama. And it it will be seen with what mution, so far as it might concern the policy of the United States, and at the same time, with what frankness and good wel towards those nations, he gave countenance to their design et inviting the United States to this high assembly for cop se:talon upon American interests. It was not considered a con ce.sive reason for declining this invitation, that the proposal for assembling such a congress had not first been made by ourselves. Tee first and paramount principle, upon which it was deemed wise end just to lay the corner stone of all our future relations with them was dislotereetedness ' • the next was cordial good will to them ; the t :lard was a claim of fair and equal reciprocity. Under these im. ereselons, when the invitation was formally and earnestly given, hail it even been doubtful, whether any of the objects proposed for consideration and discussion at the Congress, were such as that ins. mediate and important interests of the United States would be af fected by the issue, I should nevertheless have determined, so tar as it depended upon me, to have accepted the invitation, and to I ay.:appointed ministers to attend the meeting. The proposal well implied that the Republics by whom it was made, believed ,1 teat important Mimeses of ours orof theirs, rendered our attendance eeair desirable. They had given us notice, that in the novelty of tech situation, and in the spirit of detererce to our experience, teey would be pleased to have the benefit of our friendly counsel. To meet the temper with which this proposal erts made, with a cold repulse, was not thought congerial to that warm interest in teeir welfare, with which the people and Government of the Union bad hitherto gone hand in hand through the whole progress of their revolution. To insult them by a refusal of their overture, and then invite them to a similar assembly, to he called by ourselves, was an expedient which never presented itself to the mind. I would have sent ministers to the meeting, had it been merely to give them arch advice as they might have desired, even with reference to their own interval', not involving ours. I would have sent them had it been merely to explain and set forth to them our reasons for de dining any proposal of specific measures to which they might de. sire our concurrence, but which we might deem incompatible with our interests or our duties. In the intercourse between nations, temper is a missionary perhaps more powerful than talent. Nothing was ever lost by kind treatment. Nothing mn be gained by sullen repulses and aspiring pretensions. But objects of the highest importance, not only to the future wel fare of the whole human race, but bearing directly upon the ape. 1 fial interests of this Union, will engage the deliberations of the Congress of Parma, whether we are represented, may be offered by 1 our Plenipotentiaries, for consideration, having in view both these great results, our own interests, and the improvement of the con. deem of man upon earth. Among the topics enumerated in official papers, published by the Republic of Colombia, and adverted to In the correspondence now communicated to the House, as intended to be presented for discussing at Panama, there is scarcely one in which the result of the meeting will not deeply affect the interests of the United States. Even those in which the belligerent states alone will take an active part, will haves powerful effect upon the state ef our relations with the American. and probably with the principal European States. Were it merely that we might be correctly and speedily informed of the proceedings of the Congress, and of the progress and issue of their negotiations, I should hold it advisable, that we should have an accredited agency with them. placed in such confidential rela tions with the other members, as would ensure the authenticity and the safe and early transmission of its reports. Of the same enumerated topics, are the preparation of a manifesto, setting forth It, the world the justice of their cause, and the relations they desire to hold with other Christian powers • and to form a convention of Navigetion and Commerce, applicable both to the Confederated :+ta , es and to thelt allies. _ Without recurring to that total prostration of all neutral and eanimereial rights, which marked the progress of the late Eu ropean wars, and which finally involved the United States in them, and adverting only to our political relations with these American nations, it is observable that while in all other respects those eels dans have been uniformly and without exception of the mow friendly and mutually satisfactory character, the only causes of different_ and dissension between us and them, which ever have arisen. net gmated in those never-failing fountains of discord and irritation, discriminations of commercial favour to other nations, licentious privateers, and paper blockades. I cannot, without doing injus tim to the Republics of Buclua Ayres and Colombia, forbear to acknowledge the candid and conciliatory spirit with which they have repeatedly yielded to our friendly representations and remon strances on these subjects—in repealing discriminative laws which operated to our disadvantage, and in revoking the corbmissions of their privateers. To which Colombia has added the magnanimity of making reparation for unlawful captures by some of her cruisers, wwl of assenting, in the midst of war, to treaty stipulations favour. able to neutral navigation. But the recurrence of these occasion% of complaint has rendered the renewal of the discussions, whicli result tit the removal of them, necessary, while, in the meantime, injuries are sustained by merchants and other individuals of the United States which cannot be repaired, and the retnedy lingers in overtaking the pernicious operation of the mischief. The settle. Went of general principles pervading with equal efficacy all the American States, can alone put an end to these evils, and can slate be accomplished at the proposed Assembly. If it be true that the noblest treaty of peace ever mentioned in history is that by which the Car,haninians were bound to abolish tie practice of sacrificing their owo children, because it was stipu lated in favour of human nature, I cannot exsug rate to myself the unfading glory with which these United States will go forth in the memory of future ages, if, by their friendly counsel, by their moral influence. by the power of argument and persuasion atom they can prevail upon the American' nations at Panama t 4 stipulate by general agreement among themselves, and so far es any of them may be concerned, the perpetual abolition of private war upon the ocean. And If we cannot yet flatter ourselves that this may be accomplished, as advances towards it, the este blishment of the principle that the friendly nag shall cover the cargo, the curtailment of contraband of war, and the proscription of fictitious paper blockadint; engagements which we may reason ably hope • till not prove impracticable, will. if successfully ineul cated, redound proportionally to our honour. and drain the fast/nein of many a future sanguinary war. The late President of the United States, in his litmus to Congress of the 2d De. norther. 1823, while announcing the negotiation then pending with Russia. relating to the north-west coast of this con. titient, observed, that the occasion of the discussions to which that cadent haul given rise, had been taken for 'Aiming es a principle. i-u which the rights and interests of the United States were involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent con. diuon which they had assumed and maintained, were thencefor ward not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European Power. The principle had first been assumed in that negotiation with Russia. It rested upon a course of reason jr.g equally simple and conclusive. With the exception of the esisting European colonies, which it was in nowise intended to disturb, the two continents consisted of sternal sovereign and it nations, whose , covered their whole surfs -- lie independeat ins then, ; and they now propose. among the subjects of consulta.ion at Panama, to take into consideration the means of making effec tual the atsertion of that principle. as well as the means of resisting interference from abroad, with the domestic concerns of the Ame rii an Governments. . . In alluding to these means, it would obviously be premature, at this time, to anticipate that which is offered merely as matter for consultation, or to pronounce upon those measures which have been nr may be suggested. The purpose of this Government is, to concur in none which would import hostility to Europe, or justly excite resentment in any of her States. Should it be deemed ad visable to contract any conventional engagement on this topic, our views would extend no further than to a mutual pledge of the parties to the compact to maintain the principle in application to its own territory, and to permit no colonial lodgments or establishment of European jurisdiction upon its own sod; and, with respect to the obtrusive interference from abroad. Kits future character may ' be inferred from that which has been, and perhaps still is, exer cised in more than one of the new S ates, a joint declaration of its character and exposure of It to the world, may be probably all that the occasion would require. Whether the United States should or should not be parties to such a declaration, may justly form a part of the deliberation. That there is an evil to be remedied, needs little insight into the secret history of late years to know, and that this remedy may best be concerted at the Panama meeting, de. serves at least the experiment of consideration. A concert of mea sures. having reference to the more effectual abolition of the Afri. can slave trade, and the consideration of the light in which the political condition of the Island of Hayti is to be regarded, are also among the subjects mentioned by the Minister from the Republic of Colombia, as believed to be suitable for deliberation at the Congress. The failure of the negotiations with that republic, undertaken dur ing the late administration, for the suppression of that in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, in. dicates the expediency of listening with respectful attention to pro. positions which may contribute to the accomplishment of the great end which was the purpose of that resolution, while the result of those negociations sill serve as admonition to to abstain from pledg. ing this Government to any arrangement wbieh might be expected to fail of obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate, by aeon. stitutional majority to its ratification. Whether the political condition of the Island of Hayti shall be brought at all into discussion at the meeting, may bee question of preliminary advisement. There are in the political eonstitutuion of Government of that people, circumstances that have hitherto for. hidden the acknowledgment of them by the Government of the United States. as sovereign and independent. Additional reasons for withholding that acknowledgment have recently been seen in their acceptance of a nominal sovereignty by the grant of a foreign Prince; under conditions equivalent to the concession by them, of exclusive commercial advantages to one nation, adapted altogether to the state of colonial vassalage, and retaining little of independ. ence bu• the name. Our plenipotentiaries will be instructed to present these views to the Assembly of Panama ; and should they not be concurred in, to decline acceding to any arrangement which may be proposed upon different principles. The condition of the Islands of Cubs and Porto Rico is of deeper import and more immediate bearing upon the present in terests and future prospects of our union. The correspondence herewith transmitted will show how earnestly it has engaged the at. tension of this Government. The invasion of both those Islands by the united forces of Mexico and Coiombia, is avowedly among the objects to be matured by the belligerent States at Panama. The convulsions ro which, from the peculiar composition of their population, they would be liable, in the event of such an invasion, and the danger therefrom resvlting of their falling ultimately into the hands of sonic Eu , opean Power, other than Spain, will not admit of our looking at the consequences to which the Congress at Panama may lead, with Indifference. It is unnecessary to enlarge on this topic, or to say more than that all our efforts in reference to this interest will be to preserve the existing state of things, the tranquillity of the Islands, and the peace and security of their in habitants. And, lastly, the Congress of Panama is believed to present a fair occasion foriurging upon all the new nations of the South, the just and liberal principles of religious liberty. Not by any inter ference whatever in their internal concerns, but by claiming for our citizens, whose occupations or interests may call them to oc:asional residence in their territories, the inestimable privilege of worship. ping their Creator according to the dictates of their own con acieaces. This privilege, sanctioned by .he customary law of na tions, and secured by treaty stipulations in numerous national compacts ; secured even to our own citizens in' the treaties with Co. lambi& and with the Federation of Central America, is yet to be obtained in the other South American States and Mexico. Exist ing prejudices are still struggling' against it, which may, perhaps , be more auccessfully combated at this general meeting than at the separate seats of Government of each Republic. I can scarcely deem it otherwise than superfluous to observe, that the Assembly will be in its nature diplomatic, and not legis lative. That noting can be transacted there obligatory upon 28. y one of the States to be represented at the meeting, unless with the express concurrence of its own representatives, nor even then, but subject to the ratification of its constitutional authorities at home. The faith of the United States to foreign powers cannot otherwise he pledged. I shall, indeed, in the first instance, consider the as sembly as merely consultative; and although the Pleni potentiaries of the United States will be empowered to receive and refer to the consideration of their Government, any proposition from the other parties to the meeting, they will be authorized to conclude nothing, unless subject to the definitive sanction of this Government, in all its constitutional forms. It has, therefore, seemed to me unnecessary to insist, that every object to be discussed at the meeting should be specified with the precision of a judicial Ben tense, or enumerated with the exactness of a mathematical demon stration. The purpose of the meeting itself is to deliberate upon the great and common interests of several new and neighbouring nations. If the measure is new and without precedent, so is the situation of the parties to it. That the purposes of the meeting are somewhat indefinite, far from being an objection to it. is among the cogent reasons for its adoption. It is not the establishment of principles of intercourse with one. but with seven or eight nations at once. That, before they have had the means of exchanging ideas, and communicating with one another in common upon these topics, they should have definitively settled and arranged them in concert, is to require that the effect should precede the cause. It is to exact as a preliminary to the meeting, that tor the accomplish ment of which the meeting itself is designed. Among the inquiries which were thought entitled to considers. lion before the determination was taken to accept the invitation, was that, whether the measure might not have a tendency to change the policy hitherto invariably pursued by the United States, of avoiding all entangling alliances, and all unnecessary foreign con nexions. 31intlful of the advice given by the Father of our country, in his farewell address, that the great rule of conduct for us in re. met to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial vela (tons, to have with thetn as little political connexion as possible; and faithfully adhering to the spirit of that admonition, I cannot overlook the reflection, that the counsel of Washington, in that instance, like all the counsels of wisdom, was founded upon the circumstances in which our country and the world around us were situated. at the time, when it was given ; that the reasons assigned by him for his advice were., that Europe had a set of primary in. terests, which to us had none or a very remote relation. That hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which were essentially foreign to our concerns. That our detached and distant situation invited and enabled tis m putsue a different course. That by our union and rapid growth, with an efficient government, the period was not far distant, when we might defy material iniu►y from external annoyance• ; when we might take such an attitude as would cause our netttrdity to be respected ; and with reference to belligerent nations, might chew peace or war, as our interests, guided by justice, shotild counsel. Compare our situation and the circumstances of that time with those of the present day; and what, from the very words of Wash ington then, would be his colinscls to his countrymen now ? Eu rope has still her set of primary interests, with which we have little or a remote relation. Our distant .and detached situation with re ference to Europe remains the saute. But we were then the only independent nation of this hemisphere, and we were surrounded by European colonies, with the grecer part of which we had no more intercourse than with the inhab:ants of another planet. Those colonies have now been transformed into eight independent nations, extending to our very borders—seven of them Repubiies, like our selves, with whom we have an immensely growing commercial, and must have, and have already, important political connexions. with reference to whom our site ion is neizlit r tlistant nor detached —whose political principles amt • ystems of government, congenial with our own, must and will have an action and counteraction upon us and ours, to which we cannot be indifferent if we would. The rapidity of our growth. and the consequent increase of our strength, has more than realised the anticipations of this admirable political legacy. Thirty years have nearly elar,ed since ft was written, and in the interval, our population. our wealth, our terri torial extension, our power, physx tl and n aral, has neatly trebled. Reasoning upon this state of things front the st.und and judici ous principles of Washington, and must we rot say, that the period which he predicted as, then not tar off has arrived ? That America has a set of primary interests, which have none or a remote relation to Europe.. That the interference of Europa there fore in thaw concerns should be spontaneously withheld by her upon upon the same principles, that we hare never interfered with hers: and that, if she should inmefere, as she may, by measures which may have a great and dangerous recoil upon ourselves, we might be called in defence of our own altars anti titesides, to take an attitude which would cause our neutrality to be respected, and choose peace or tear, as out interest, guided by justice, shall counsel. The acceptance of this Invitation therefore. for from conflicting with the coutisel or the policy of Washington. is directly dedueible from and conformable to it ; nor is it less conformable to the views of my immediate predecessor, as declared in his annual message to- Congress, of the 2d of December, 1823. To the question which may be asked, whether this meeting and the principles which may be adjusted and settled by it as rulers of intercourse between the American nations, mar not give umbrage to the Holy League of European Powers. or offence to Spain, it is deemed A sufficient answer, that our attendance at Portant* ran give no just muse of umbrage or offence to either—and tlnit the United States will stipulate nothing there which can give such cause. Here the right of ' • and PRICES OF FOREIGN Brae Wan Bonds M S Colombian Bonds IRO° Bonds (124) 434 4 i 4 3 1 II I Ultto Acct. 434 4 3 4 It 2 14 I Danish Bondy (1821) 116. Ditto Act t. 544 Greek Bonds Clue Bonds (1825) 144 IS Guadalajara Bonds :S ON SATURDAY. Jae. Share. Paid. ...... 100 15 34 die ...... lOO 30 17 die 100 7* SI die 30 ft die Tlalpuzahua 4OO 60 10 die • CONIP•Nits. Protector Fire TOCKS ON SATVRDAY. Mexican Donde Ditto Honda '1625) 611 21 2I 11681 Ditto Acct. 62 I 2 I If 601 Peruvian Ronda 241 6 b 41 bi Ruamian Ronda 77 Ditto Acet. 761 Spaniad Bonds 9 N Ditto Acct. 91 Sf Ditto Honda (1823) 61 PRICES or 11/IAIII MI laminas ....... British Iron • ......... Oulombian Pnisii, La Par. andVeleviaa Association . 20 1 3ab i BON Liverpool and Manchester R111C1114.4 55555 . Canal Gal Engine West India Company T J - far ritisit gum. KING'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EYNNING will be performed ;by particular desire) Meyerbeer's Opera Serie. In Two Acta, entitled IL CROCIATO IN EGirre. . _ The principal Characters by Mademoiselle Bonin', Madame Castelli, Signor Veiled', Signor Carlon', Signor Devine, Signor Porto. After the Opera will be presented the mach-admired Mythological Ballet, la Two Acts, composed by Mr..l. H. D'Egyille, LA NAISSANCE DE VENUS. _ _ * B * Madame Pasta I;engagekanitwlllMakel;riirst appearance this season In the couple of the present month. Application. fur Boxes, &c. an usual. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, April 17, will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Macbeth, Mr. Macready; Macttuff, Mr. Walled( ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Bunn. After which the nem Grand Romantic Fairy Tale of OHERON ; or, THE CHARMED HORN. The principal Characters by Messrs. 0. Smith, Ben nett, Browne. T. Blanchard, Pope, Howell, Mercer, Patinae, W. Bennett. and G. South; Misses Smithson, Vincent, and Macdonald; and Mrs. C. Jones. COVENT-GARDEN, THEATRE. This Evening, MONDAY, Aprll . 17, will be performed (4th time) the Grand gamin& and Fairy Opera of OBERON ; or, THE ELP-KING'S OATH. The Overture and the whole of the Music composed by Carl Marla Von Weber. The principal Characters by if;;;;;;. firsharn, Cooper, Fawcett, C. Bland, J. Isaacs, and 'Pinney; Misses Paton, Lacy, and H. Cawse ; Madame Vestris, and Mrs. Davenport. To conclude with the Melo-Dransa of A TALE OF MYSTERY. Count Rnmaidi, Mr. Cooper; irinelsCo7 V.Farley ; Michelli, Mr. Blanchard. Selina, 141,4 e lone*; Ylarnelta, Mn. Davenport. already begin to show themselves, even in the vicinity of this capital. __ PAnzs, Aram 13. We learn, by letters from Germany. that the mission of the Mike of Wellington was drawing to a close, and that he had sent his last courier to London with despatches for Alr. ('inning. The Diario di limn, of the lit of April, says the Greek squa dron of Hydra was to sail on the 13th of March, to proceed to M issolonghi. Several students have lately been arrested at Leipsic, by orde r of the King of Saxony, and their papers put under seal. It is affirmed that the Police had just discovered the existence of a new secret association. A letter from Hanover, of Ist of April, says that Col. Schaeffer, who is raising recruits at Bremen for Brazil, has been received in a formal audience by his Royal Highness the Duke or Cambridge, as Charge d'Affaires from Brazil. [From the Quotidinenc.l MALRID. MARCH 30. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) The authorities in our provinces are sometimes too easily alarm ed on the appearance of enemies' vessels on our coaioa. However, these exaggerated fears have the advantage of exciting more active vigilance than hitherto. Our Minister of Finance has laid before the Council of State a view of our revenues, and of the application which should be made of them to the several branches of the administration. The sums destined to pay the interest of the consolidated debt and to the sink ing fund will be scrupulously inspected. His Majesty has again crdered that those funds shall not upon any pretext be diverted from their proper application.' A convoy escorted by two brigs of war, and coming from the Havanna'', has arrived in the port of Cadiz ; there were on board 12.4 Spanish military and naval offi cers; the Government has just received by this convoy the most satisfactory accounts of the state of the Isle of Cuba, and of the formidable forces of our squadron, commanded by Admiral !A lford'. On the 19th February that Admiral sailed from the Havannah with 5 frigates and 2 cutters, having 12011 troops on board, with the intention of cruising on the coast of Colombia. Thus, instead of fearing the preparations made by the Insurgents to invade Cuba, the Spanish fleet is gone to seek them on their own shores. The Guerrero, San Pablo, and Algesiras ships of the line, were ex. pected at the Havannah. The Gazette of to-day contains a decree allowing the importation free of duty of the arms necessary for the Royalist Volunteers, and coming from our exempted provinces. This decree again prohibits the importation of the same article from foreign countries. The Court sets out for Aranjuex to-day. (The Etoilc dated Saturday, April 15, contains no newt from Greece except two short articles; one from fame 4th March, the other from Napoli di Romania, of the 28th, copied from the Jonrnal des Debuts of Friday.) [From the Joarnat ties Dekits.l /.ANTE, AIARCII 20. Ibrahim Pacha, after having kept up a brisk fire upon „Miss°. longhi till the 19th, prepared to make a general attack, when the (;reeks, baying learned hi. design, determined to anticipate it by making a sortie to surprise him. The engagement was very warm, but the Egyptians, surprised at the hardihood of the besieged, were put to flight, leaving 100 men dead on the spot, and a great num ber wounded. The Christians afterwards re-entered the town in triumph, with several officers of the Arabian army as prisoners. Ibrahim Pacha was very much affected at this check, but has made preparations for a fresh attack. ‘Ve learn, on the other hand, that General Gouras is arrived in the environs of lllissolunghi with 7000 men, and that he has encamped at three leagues front the army of Ibrahim Pacha; that Colonel labvier is also approaching with 3000 well-organized and well.disciplined soldiers, determined to attack Ibrahim. The Capitan Pacha has taken possession of Vas. siladi, which he caused to be attacked by 3000 Turks. The Greek garrison, which only consisted of a hundred men, defended itself with extraordinary bravery, blew up its magazines, and was nts. s acred to the last man. Anatolie° capitulated some days after. The Greek fleet is expected every moment. It has gone to Napol i di Romania for provisions and reinforcements. The Greek Com mittee of /.ante, the sittings of which are private, has succeeded in obtaining a loan of 00,000 talari (400,000 francs) which the Greek Beet will bring here on its passage. ZANTE, MARCH 20. Since the taking of Vassiladi, the Egyptians have made a new attack on Missolonghi, which proved still more fatal to them than the others. If the fleet arrives in a few days, Vassiladi will be re taken. FLORENCE, APRIL 4. A courier has just arrived from Trieste, with letters to the 28th March, containing the news that the Greek fleet of sixty sail has arrived before Missolonghi. [From the Constitulionnel.] According to the most recent accounts from the More'. Colet, a member of the Executive, has marched towards Patras, at the head of 8,090 Pelaponnesians, The President Conduriotis having succeeded in reanimating the courage of the Alainotea, is iravers. ing Messenia, in his way to Modor•. and Coron, which he intend■ to besiege. Colocotruni is still before 'Fripolirzs, and Nicetas guards the confines of Arcadia, to cut off any succours which might be sent to that garrison. It is said that Colonel Fabvier, after having completely •organised his regular forces, wishing to exercise them against the Turks, before sending them against the disciplined Egyptians, has marched to Carababa, and taken possession of It. This place is the key of Eubeea, and the Turks will probably soon be iven from that island. We have received the Brussels Oracle of the 13th inst. which contains the following letter, purporting to come from a Belgian merchant, to the editor, and complaining of the delays and exactions on foreigners visiting France, on the score of passports : TO THE EDITOR 01' TILE ORACLE. " APRIL 12. " Allow me to employ the medium of your journal to point out the numnrous annoyances, and the arbitrary taxes, to which fo• reigners are subjected in France, whither, since the peace, they re loft in crowds from all parts of the world. " A Belgian merchant of my acquaintance was lately obliged to go to Paris on very urgent business. When he arrived at Va lenciennes, a provisional passport (for tvl.i:h he paid two francs) was given him in exchange for his own passport, which was sent to Paris to the Prefecture of the Police. On his arrival at Paris, he was to go within twenty four hours to the office of tile prefect, to have every thing in order. Ile received his passport, which had been marked, and which he had to deposit in the office of the Minis ter of the Interior, where he obtained a carte de surch:, for which he paid ten francs. On his departure, he took his passport back from the Foreign-office, and the signature of the Ambassador coat two francs more. here we have a sum of fourteen francs, twelve of which turn to the profit of France, which every stranger is obliged to pay, if he goes only for a few days. It would not be an exaggeration If we estimated at a million, every year, the number of foreigners who, since the peace, have gone into France, which would give a sum total of 120 millions of francs in ten years, with out any explanation of what was become of so enormous a sum. Independently Mate expense, all this running backwards and for wards occasions a loss of time equal to seventy-two hours at least. If it should happen, and I could mention instances of it, that the passport should be delayed or lost on the road, between its position and Paris; and if the destination of the traveller is for the depart ments, he is obliged, in spite of himself, to stop in the capital, and to lose, in running about, much valuable time, and which may be irreparable if,, for instance, he is in pursuit of a creditor, or eager to anticipate the dangers of a bankruptcy. " On the other hand, many thousand French annually come to the Netherlands. They themselves go and present their passport to the police, if they do even take this trouble, and receive in return a card of residence; on presenting which, at their departure, they receive their passport back, and all without the expense of a single centinte. Let us suppose that 100,000 foreigners annually enter the kingdom of the Netherlands, and that a fourth part of them are French, and that a system of retaliation were adopted in this respect, each traveller having 14 francs to pay ; this alone would ,000 1 4 1 4 1 , . THE BRITISH PRESS. Slate. can estimate the pmbahility of their giving it, only by thcright which :my foreign State could have, to take it from 'heir measures. Nee her the representation of the United States at Panama, nor any measure to which their assent may be yielded there, will give to the Holy beague, or any of its metnhers, nor to Spain, the right to take offence. For the rest, the United States must still, as here tofore, take counsel from their duties, rather than their fears. Such are the objects in which it is expected that the Plenipotee tiaries of the United States, when commissioned to attend the meet. ing at the Isthmus, will take part ; and such are the motives and purpoites, with which the invitation of the three Republics was ac cepted. It was, however, as the House wilt perceive fmni the cor respondence, accepted only upon condition that the nomination of Commissioners for the mission, should receive the advice and con sent of the Senate. The concurrence of the (louse to the by the appropriations necessary for carrying it into effect, is alike subject to its free determination, and indispensable to the fulfilment of the intention. With this unrestricted exposition of the motives by which I have been governed, in this transaction, as well as of the objects to be discussed, and of the ends, if possible. to be attained by our re presentation at the proposed Congress. I submit the propriety of an appropriation, to the candid consideration, and enlightened patriotism of the Legislature. JOIIN QUINCY ADAMS. PRICES OP BRITISH Beak Stnock 201* 200 per Cent. lied. 781 • I per Cent. Cone. 791 * Ditto Acct. 794 PI per Cent. Red. 04 W f New 4 per Cent. 9011 'OCKS ON SATURDAY. Long Ann. 19 9-16 1.16 lndla Bond. 5 6 pis kr. Hills 10001. tr 9 pea Ditto bOOl. 8 9 pm Ditto Small S 9pm Lotter, Tickets 211. I Is. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The Public 14 most re•pectfulty Informed that thia THEATRE WILL be OPENED for the SEASON THIS EVENING, with the Farce of FORTUNF:'S FROLIC. Robin Rongh-heed, Mr.Willthown ; Dully, Mrs. T. Hill. After which the Comedy of PAUL PRY. _ _ Paul Pry, Mr. Livtnn : ; Frank Hardy, Mr. Raymond; Harry Stanley, Mr. Vining. Eliza, Mi... P. Glover; Marian. Bliss A. Jones; Mts. vrubtle, Alm Glover; Phrebe, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with the Farce of LOCK ANI) KEY. Brummagem. Mr. NI illiams ; Cheerly, Mr. Pyne ; Captain Vain, Mr. Raymund; Ralph, Mr. J. Reeve (his first appearance at this Theatre). Laura, Mini George; Fanny, Mrs. C. Jones. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHI,:Ws AT HOME This Evening, MONDAY, April 15, wittiest entirely new Entertalament, in Two Parts, founded on 114, Ob,ervations on Characters. Mennen, and Peculimitim, entitled MR. MATHEWS' INVITATIONS. PART 111.—A Monopoly!ague, to be called THE CITY BARGE ! Seven Character, by Mr. Mathew,. Doors open at Half-past Seven (In tear) of Seven, es heretofore); the Performance begins at Eight preciAely. The BRITISH illness commenced publishing on Saturday morn ing at a quarter past five o'clock. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1826. The French jonrnalists still accuse the Ministers of pursuing s Machiavelian system of tactics with regard to the Jesuits, the Moniteur having published an article, pro hibiting the introduction of the " Giornale Ecclesiastico di Roma" into France, on account of its ultramontane prin ciples. A discussion arose in the French Chamber of Deputies, on the 1,^4-h April, in which various complaints were made against the commercial treaty with England ; and, in par ticular, it was asserted that an impost had been laid upon' French vessels in consequence of it—a proof, it was said, of the undue influence exerted by England over the in ternal affairs of France. The continual contradictions with respect to the affairs of Greece, prevent us from offering any comments on the extracts which we have made from the French papers on that subject. We shall merely remark, that a great deal of the confusion in the dates arises from the Greek mode of reckoning. The Courier Francais speaks of the 16th and 20th of March, as the dates which were at different periods assigned for the capture of the town. These correspond to the 4th and Hth in the com mon reckoning, which were the dates given in the Etoile. It therefore only remains to be determined whether the slates of the letters from Zante are to be taken as old or new style. If they are to be taken as new style, the hopes would still be very strong in favour of the continued resist ance of the Greek garrison. The following are attracts from the French papers re ceived last night:— 'From the Pilote of Friday, April 14.1 MADRID, APRIL 3. [PRIVATE CORRES:'ONDENCE.I 11. Cadova, Secretary to our Legation at your Court, has just arrived here. The object of his mission is not known. Several l'ortuquav! Monks havejust emigrated into Spain. To-morrow the Cnun sets out for the Royal residence at Aran. juez. As since the affair on St. Joseph's day the Swiss keep on their guard, and desire to remain united, they have requested to go altogether to Aranjuez, in order that their strength may not be di. aided, as has alwayahappenecl when the King has gone to take up his abode at one or the royal scats. We do not know what decision has been made on this subject. The French Society, at the head of which is M. Peeler, who gave concerts at the Cassino, has just become bankrupt; he could not be otherwise, for during Lent he was forbidden to give spiritual 7 ne con- tents are of comparatively little importance ; since the a?. counts in them from Greece relate to :nitwit; width took place before the fall of devoted Missolonghi, and with which our readers have long since been made acquainted. They repeat, however, the assertion, that our Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, Sir Fara,. A e , o, was anxious to avert the fall of that fortress. Doubtless, when he failed in that, he used his own personal character, consideration and office, as well as the high and command. ing name of his country, to prevent the horrid massacre which followed the storming of the place. If he did so, and he then failed to infuse feelings of humanity into the barbarian IBRAHIM, we cannot but think that an instant and powerful remonstrance should be made to the SaNiare l'orte on the subject, not only by England, but by all the other Christian P owers i n con j unct i on . A n E vening Paper, whose Editor repo r t s th e tiame thing, nearly i n t h e same words, in a Jou r n a l o f y ester d ay , ca ll s upon Russia march her armies across th e l' rut h, to attac k the ()thrum Empire, and deliver th e G ree k s f rom i ts yoke. Has this Editor been dreaming of th e va l ua bl e di amond -set gold snuff-boxes given by the lat e E m p eror AI EXANLER to all those who, calling themselv es lit erary men, prostituted their pens (talents we canno t sa y), to g i ve to the rest of Europe a magnified vi ew o f th e p ower of the still more than semi-barbarous empire of Russia, through a false and illusory medium ? And does he also dream that crosses of St. )Vladimir, of St. Alexander Newsky, of the Ist, 211, or 3d class, together with gold and jewelled snuff boxes, are to rain on his majestic head? In sober sad ness--does he really believe that the rest of Europe would tamely look on and see the Russian dismember Turkey, purely for his own aggrandizement, (for which alone it would undoubtedly be) in the same manner as sire of Russia (lid the unhappy kingdom of Poland? We trust, in (leaven, that such times are gone; and we are sure that our Foreign Seeretary, aided by the spirit which now pervades his Majesty's Councils, would, with the full consent of Parliament and the nation, resist any such at. tempt at enabling Russia to skirt the rest of Europe, and, as it wete, embay it from North Cape in the Arctic Ocean, to Cape Matapan in the Mediterranean. It is true that unless the Porte shall implicitly conform to the treaty of ISI2, as to the evacuation of the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia, Russia may insist on the fulfilment of that treaty, and might even send an army into the provinces to enforce it ; but that Europe would endure the march of Russian troops into Greece we cannot believe. The Duke of WELLINGTON may have failed in his mission for aught we know, not even knowing (as several of our contempo raries, most mithicakii, if we may coin the adverb, say they do) the object of his Grace's mission ; but we should imagine that the best mode of putting an end to this war of massacre and extermination, would be for all the great powers of Europe to join in a strong remonstrance to the Porte, offering, at the same time, their fair and unbiassed mediation between the contending parties. The following are extracts from the German Papert: STOCKHOLM, MARCH 24. Our Government has lately come to an important decision role. tive to the oak forests. That there may in future be no want of oak timber for the use of the navy, it is ordered that extensive tracts of land of proper quality shall be purchased, in order to make plants. tions of oak on the largest scale. At the same time. rewards of 1 to 2F, rix dollars are promised for every well•conditioned oak grown on private ground. It is to be observed, that by the ancient laws all o tka belong to the Crown, and this is to continue in force till the above mentioned plantations of oak shall he tit for use. Our mint has been enabled, by the acquisition of several new machines and by various improvements, to begin coining a much handsomer coin, with the date of 1827. The well-known M. Owen, who lint introduced into Sweden the use of steam boats, has invented a new printing press. which is said ro difier in many respects from that of M. linni t .T, at Wurtzburg. Ile has obtained a patent for ten years for the tale of this prcas. ROME, MARCH 30. M. Sykes, an Englishman, has purchased, for the trifling sum of 11,000 scudi, the beautiful Villa of Prince Poniatowsky, on the Via Flaminia, together with several works of ancient sculpture with which it is adorned. It is affirmed that, together with the furniture, it cost the Prince 60.000 scudi. Prince Camillo Borghese has returned here, after many years absence, but will. it is said, not remain here long, but go to spend a part of the tine season at Naples. A new road is now being made to his elegant Villa Pinciana ; a circumstance from w!!ich it is in. (erred that he may in theend accept the invitationof the Pope, and fix his abode at Rome. He isa great favourite with the peopleon account °lbis liberality. The same may be said of Napoleon's two brother+, the Count de St. Lett ( Louis) and the Prince de Alontfort (Jerome). It would be easy to quote many instances of their liberality in re lieving poor families. The former has indeed resided for some time, nn account of his health, in his fine country house, out of the gates of Florence, which he has had for about eight years; but he has not bought any palace in Florence, as the German Papers have stated. Jerome, on the other hand, has purchased large estates in the Papal territory, and is building a country house there, which sufficiently refutes the report of his intending to leave the domi nions of his Holiness. The Abbe Canova, brother of the celebrated artist, is nominated a bishop in partibus. It is thought that he will consecrate the church founded by his brother at Possagus as soon as it is finished. A Greek, of the name of Sehastiani, • most respectable and highly esteemed man, had resided here for two years with his wife and his brother. An ardent longing to see their own country induced this family some time ago to return to Greece; but they had scarcely reached the sacred soil when they fell into the hands of the Turks. The two brothers were beheaded in the presence of the wife, and she herself carried as a slave to Constantinople. But what are individual instance,' of cruelty to the sys!cms.ic murder (organized by Christian coadjutors) of whole tribes of the inhabit. ants of the ancient Hellas? Aletalliques, 88 7-18. Bank Shares, 1654. Since writing our introductory matt:r to the ti , nlean Papers, we have received the following from a source upon which we cannot but place the fullest relian re. Notwithstanding the fall of Missolonghi, and much as that event is to be d.-plored, we entertain no fear but that the Greeks will ultimately place themselves beyond the retch Of Ottoman oppression. The Chiefs are becoming every day more sensible of the necessity of union, and it only (e -(ikes that they should act cordially and in concert, to settle the power of the country on a sure and permanent foundation. Nothing can bespeak more strongly the ge neral impression that prevails in Greece itself as to the final success of their cause, than this most important fact, — that the sale of the national property is purchased as high as if there were no foreign enemy. The conscriptions, too, continue to be levied with a facility that of itself justiEes the most sanguine hopes. That highly venerable character, the Bishop of EGIN A, is an earnest partisan of regular troops ; and the importance of introducing a strict military discipline is now acknowledged and acted upon by all the Grecian leaders. MA (110 J ANN', a brave Roumeliote chief, has inscribed himself in the disciplined carps. FABVIER s forces, as well as his popularity, are hourly increasing. As for anyiopening to negotiation, it has long since been out of the question. It is, nevertheless, for the true interests of the Continental Powers that this sanguinary contest should he terminated ; but this can only be elected through the mediation of England. That we cannot be disinterested lookers-on is certain, for were Greece once brought within the grasp of Russia, the latter power would aeon be what she has been long desirous to become—the arbiter of Furrpe. n n- - -I . ••••11 • v0 r ,,,, 5.... ....,....• •.“ • ~,, .. "sow to ! my ; tins stone soma• . it deFiident nations. whose territory covered their wholesortsee. By the right of inquiry into our purposes and measures must stop. concerts, and now, on account of the Jubilee, all public places of add 1,400,000 francs annnally to the revenue. of which 3i0,000 ti ii. their independent condition, the United States enjoyed the right The Holy League of Europe itself was formed without inquiring amusement are a i m till the 21,t of May. would be paid by France. The Government of the Netherlands of commercial intercourse with every . part of theirpossessiona. To at. of the United States whether it would or would not give umbrage . Since the Emperor of Morocco no longer pays the Arabs for has nobly disdained to augment its revenue in this manner; but in tempt the establishment of a colony in those possessions would be to to them. The fear of toying umbrage to the Holy League of . usurp, to the e xclusion of others, a commercial intercourse, which Europe was urged as a motive for denying to the Amrricon nations lighting large fires on the mountains, to attract and destroy the return for this generous conduct, it might have expected not to 1 Ism the common poeasaffon of all. It co9lel .tet not be donewith ( o in itt t v f i l e e w a e r i r ) low i, led i gm , as et s o ti f i r t heiriidependence._ That _it would he winged locusts, which, crossing the mountains of Fez and Mequi. have been the butt of the attacks of a half of fi cial Journal." escroaching upo n existing rights of the I ni 1 .. S ta tes. T h e .. ) sernment of Russia has never disputed these positions, nor mani. declared y Th e Congress and administation of that tested theslightest dissatitifac:ion at their having been taken. Most daY consulted their rights and dutiel,and not their feats. Fully deter. year, and ravage our fields—those of Andalusia are covered with German Papers, amongst which was the Al/genuine l of the new American Republics hare declared their entire assent to muted to giyenoneedie ss displeasure to any foreign power, the United them, and it is much feared that the crops will be destroyed; they Ze4tung of the 9th inst., arrived yestc.v.lay, but their con- -1 t i i ' 1 'I 4 L P 1 11