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IF I Erka `►3~ i~ ' 41 11 : '1 THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA. OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS UPI 'VAPORS CONGRESS ON TRI INTIN o► SAIL, 'ILA TITS TO ?RE CLAIM OF ROMA To CERTAIN TeRRIPTO RIAL AND MARITINIZ 11411ITa OH The siong-wen `COAST OP AIIRRICA. Department of State, Washington, Aprill3, 1822. The Secretary of State, to whom has been referred the re solution of the House of Representatives of the 1614 of Feb ruary last, requesting the President of the United States " to rnaintuoieste to 'bat House whether any foreira Government has made claim to any part of the territory of the United butts upon the coast of the Pacific Ocean, north of the 42d degree of latitude, and to what exteut; whether any regills. lion% have been made by foreign Powers affecting the trade ios thet coast, noel how far it affects the interests of this Re poidic ; suit whrth. r any eummenications have been made this Government by fireless Powers, otiching the contem t•la;ed occupation of the Columbia river;" has the honour r"; submitting to the President sundry papers containtog the information embraced by the resolution. At the time when the subject of the proposed occupation of the Columbia river was pre..•nted to the consideration of Comet's, at'their kit {Minn, the Minister of Great Britain, it two several inerviews with the Secretary of State, sug- resting that Great Britain had claims on the North west coast of Amerista, with which he conceived that such comps tom no the part of the United States would conflict, h■d re- Tinted to be informed what were the int.-miens of the Go. vitae/gut of the United States in this respect. The Serre -1.41 of Stets declined answering those legume., or discuss /4'g those claims, otherwise than iu wsitieg. But so wilts* cuelmunicatioe upon the subject has been received. JOHN QUINCY *DAMS. Viol having room for all the documents aecompanying 'be report, we postpone all the eorresposwienee with the British rintheritiet e which terminated in 1818, in She surrender of • pent occupied by them on the Columbia liver; and piesent to sue renders the papers which are of more recent date and of 11.110 flt masetitate interest.) [TR a MS L•TIO N.] 7BC CRITALIEII POLETICA TO TNC SCCRItTART Or RATS. The nadessigned Envoy Eatraordiaary and Minister rleoipoteutisry of his Majesty the Emperor if All the Rue. start, 'is consequence of orders which have lately reached him, hastens heiewith to women to Mr. Adams, Seerelftry of Sate to the deportment of Fur. ig. Affairs, • printed copy of the reitolattois adopted by the Russian American Com °any, and sanctioued by hi. Imperial Majesty, relative to foreign commerce in the waters bordering the establishments atf the said COM patty on the north-west of America. The undersigned conceive, it to be, moreover, his ditty to iofpm Mr. Adams, that the Imperial Government, in adopt ing this regulatios, supposes that • fire-ice ship, which shall base called from a Europe's. port after the Ist March, 1822, or from one the ports of the United States after the Ist of Joiy, of the same year, cannot lawfully pretend ignorance of these uew measures. The undevoicoed eagerly embraces this occasion of offering to Mr. Adams she assurance of his high coosiderstion. PIERRE DE POLETICA. Mr. Adam., Secretary of Slate. Waithioctuu, Feb. 11, 1822. [Here follows a ropy ..f the edict, of which Notice has been herroofore more than once .akeu iu the National Milli gencer] .. .. TOE lITCRTTART OT STATE TO MR. TOLTTICA. Department of State. Washington, February 25, 1822. Sot have had the honor of receiving your note of the 11th mat., esschoiiihr a print. d copy of the regulations adopt erl:by the Romeo's American Company. auJ croctioned by hi. Imperial Mojesty, relating to the commerce"( foreigner, in She waters bordering oil the cs.tahlislimessto of that Com 'pant upon the north-wen coast of America. lam directs-I by the President of (be United States to in form yon, that he has men with surprise in this edict, the as. -serums of a territorial claim trio the part of Rsseis, extend ing to the blot &erre of north latitude on shit continent: Lost a regulation liars dieting to all commercial teosels, other than Rowan, upon the penally of seizure nod confiscation, the approach upon the high seas, a i•lain one hundred Italian molts of the shores to which that claim is made to apply. The relations of the Visited Mists s wish his Imperial Majesty bare aSways been of the most friendly character; and is is Oho earnest demise of she Government to pre ccccc them is lbat •tale. It was expected, before eft art abich should define the boundary hi tween she tend., is sot the Ursa. d States and R eosin on this continent, that she same would have been sr • by treaty between the parties. To exclude the yea. vets of Mir citizens 1 . 10111 the .hare, bey I the ordinary dis tawre to which that territorial Jurisdiction extends, has ex cited still greater surprise. . . . . . . Thus Orlilllillee offers' so deeply the rights of the United States, and of their citizens. that 1 am instructed to inquire %Pettier you are oath., izeil In give explanations of she grounds of right, upon yrs...ivies recurnised by the is.,. and USAttS of nsiauos, ssl,ith tau warrant she claims stud regulations coniaiiii d its is. I 'sail myself of this occasion to assure you of my distils su,stied consideration. JOHN QUINCY A DCIIS. The Chevalier de Poletiest, Envoy E•trsordinaiy sad Munster Pleuipott mussy Crum Russia. [TRANSI..4TION.] vir CHEVALIER DI POLETICA TO THE SECRETARY OF IIATE. SIR—I received, Iwo days since, the letter which you did me the honour In address to me, MI the saute day, by order cs , Inc President of the United Slat. s, in ao.wcr In nu' Slots of sir 11th current, by winch I disclose tt Gi I Ise orders of my Government In commuouraiing to you the clew regulation adapted by the Hosanna Americas Company, •nd sauctioued by his 51...0i1y the Emperor, my august Sovereign, ion the 411 , 161b)tleptember, l$ 1. relative in foteugs comm. rce in she wata.rs which horsier *Too the establishments of the said Company, on the Not th•west coast of America. readily yielding, Sir, to the dcsi C prcwed by you in ' - 4g the rights and pi 'mink s upon which 'taste humus of the Rigatoni possessious it of America lions fiehring's Strait to ttiincle, I am happy to fulfil this task attention to the follovriog historical of which cauuut be contested. The Russians on the scorth-west comfit...at 111 lb, time of the Dormice Peter I. 111 .'m plc myde towards the End of the ionaurli, to find • pussy from ace Icy hr.... wit Captain Behrioy; made 12;$ first diernvelics aitrairt.d the attention of I the Empres. Anne imirsmed to Cap. expediiroil in these same seed. s. She sent wish him the academicians Gme IMhie sie la Cr.yere, Muller, Steller, Fisher. Kvariluicoff, Krat ctiresidical, sod others; and the first ctivrt of these omit tripe which is known, was the remelt of their labours, pub limited in 17b8, Besides the Strait which bears the same of the chief of this expedition, he discovered a great part of the islands which are found between the two contineuts.— Cape ur Mount St. Elias, whirl still bears ibis statue upuu all the charts was su called by Caplan) liehriog, is bo dis <reered it on the day of the feast of this Swint ; and his se cure, Captain Tehiricot, pushed his discoveries as far as ale 48th degree of north latitude. The first private expeditious undertaken upon the oorth west coast of America go back as fur as the year 1713. In 17113 ilia Russian establishments had already extended smear as the island of Kodiak (or Kiclitark.) In 1778, Cook farad slime at Ossualaslikr, and some Russian inscrip tion,. at Kodiak. V saw the Rusaisu establishment in the bay of Kivai. In tine, Captains Mum. Pos sloth, La Peyroum, unsainsusisly attest the existence of Russian eats- Mishears.a is these latitudes. If the Imperial Gueerisuseist lied, at she shit . published the di ice mask by the Russian navigators. *fits BA. ram and Tchirieolt viz. ailed'leg Serebresuleoff, Kress'{oil cuff. Psyiroff. Puusdestreff, Lszercif, Medeedrff, Solowieff, lovasbar, Kresatsita, aid others, ou uuc could tern*. to „,....~3; , ..`y~ • Asia the right of first discovery, as eklil even any one deny her that of find oreepetioa. Moreover, when D. Jam Martine. was Dent in 1789 by the Court of Madrid to form an establishment in Vancouver's Island, sad to remove foreigners from thence, nailer tbe pre ! text that all that coast belonged to Spain, he gave not the least disturbance to the Russian colonies and navigators. Yet the Spanish Government was not ignorant of their ex istence. for this very Martinez had visited them the year be fore. The Report whieh Captain Maleopine made of the re sults of his voyage, proves that the Spaniards very well knew of the Russian ;• and in this very Report it is seen that the Court of &Wild aeknowledged dist its po ions upon the coast of the Pacific Ocean cued not to extend to the North of Cape Blanc, taken from the point of Trinity, situated under 42 deg. 50 min. of north latitude. When, in 1789, the Emperor Paul I. granted to the pre sent American Company its first charter, be gave it the ex clusive possession of the north-west coast of America, which belonged to Russia, from the 55th degree of north latitude to Behring's Straits. He permitted them to extend their dis coveries to the south, and there to form establishments, pro sided that they did not encroach upaa the t • ory occupied by other Powers. This art, when inade public, excited no claim on the part of other Cabinets, not even on that of Madrid, which con firms that it did not extend its pretensions teethe 60th degree. . _ Whets the Government of the United States treated with Spain fur the cession of a part of the north-went coast, it was able to acquirr,by the Treaty of Washington, the right to *II that belonged to the Spariards north eef the 41d degree of latitude; but this Treaty says nothing positive concerning the northern boundary of ibis cession, because, in set, Spaiet well knew th at she could not say that the coast a s as the 60th degree belusged to her. From this faithful exposition of known facts, it is easy, Sir, as appears to use, to draw the coorlnsion, that the rights of Russia to the extent of the sort's-west coast, specified in the regulation of the Remiss American Company, rest epos the three bases required by the general law of natioos and immemorial triage among rations—that is, upon the title of first discovery; upon the title of first occupation; and in the last place, upon that which results from a peaceable and uncontested possession of more then half a century—an epoch, consequently, several years anterior to that when the United States took their place among iodepeodent nations. It is moreover evident that, if the right to the possession of a certain extent of the worth-west coast of America, claimed by the United States, only devolves upon them i• virtue of the Treaty of Wasibingtosr, 1919 (and I believe it would be difficult to make good any other title), this Treaty could not confer upon the American Government any right of claim against the limits assigned to the Russian posses sions upon the same coast, because Spain herself had never pretended to such • right. The Imperial Government, in assigning for limits to the Russiau possessions on the north-west coast of America, on the one stele Behring's Strait, and on the other, the 61st de gree of north Istitude, bas only made a moderate use ems in contestible right, since the Russian navigators, who were the first to explore that part of the American continent in 1741, pushed their discos. ry as far as the 49th degree of north latitude. The Slat degree, therefore, is no more than a mean point between the Russian Establishment of New Archangel, situated ender the 57th degree, and the American colony at the mouth of the Colombia, which is found under the 46th degree of the same latitude. Ail these considerations united, have concurred in inspir ing the Imperial Government with an entire conviction that, in the last arrangements adopted in Russia relative to her possessions ma the unrth.west toast, the legitimate right of no foreign Power has been infringed. In this convict ims,the Emperor, my magma Sovereign, has judged that his good right, and the obligation imposed by Providence ttpoo him to protect, with all his power, the interests of his subjects, sufficieatly justified the measures last taken by his Imperial Majesty to favour of the Russian American Company, with out its being necessary to clothe them with the sanction of trestles. I shall he more succinct, Sir. in the expositioa of the mo tives whirl, determined the Imperial Government to prohibit fureigo vessels from approaching the north-west coast of America belonging to Russia, within the distance of at kast 1011 Italian miles. This measure, however it may at first view appear, is after all bat a measure of preveutiou. It is exclusively directed against the culpable enterprises of foreign adventurers, •ha, not content with exercising upon the coasts above-mentioned an illicit trade, very prejudicial to the rights res. eyed entirely to the Russian Ames can Com pany, take upon them besides to furnish arms and ammuni tion to the natives in the Russian p ions in America, exciting awns, likewise, in every manner, to resistance and revolt against the authorities there established. The American Government, doubt!. sr, recollects that their regular conduct of these adventurers, the majority of whom was composed of American citizen's, lies hero the object of the most pressing remonstrances un the part of Russia to the Federal Government, from the time that diplomatic mis sions were organised between she two countries. These res munstrances, repeated at different times., remain constantly without effect, and the inconvenience, to which they ought to bring a remedy, continues to increase. The Imperial Goverament, respecting the intentions or the American Government, has always abstained from attributing the ill success of its remonstrances to any other motives than those which how, if I may be allowed the expression, from the very nature of the institutions which govern the national affairs of the Ammar's Federation. But the high opinion which the Emperor boo always entertained of the rectitude of the American Government cannot exempt him from the care *bleb his subjects imposes! upon him. Pacific means not haring brought any alleviation to the just grievances of the Russian American Company,against foreign navigation in the waters which esvirun their establishments on the north-weat coast of America, the Imperial Government saw itself under the necessity of baring recourse to the means of coercion, sod of measuring the rigour according to the inveterate character of the evil to which it wished to put a stop. Yet it is easy to discover, our examining closely the last regulation of the Rosales American Company, that no spirit of hostility bad 81 1 thing to do with its formation. The Moat minute pee. captions have been taken in it to prevent *bows of authority on the pint of commanders of Rn'ssian cruisers appointed fur the esecotion of raid resolution. At the same lime it has not beets neglected to give all the limply publicity neer& sary to put those on their guard against whom the mensisie is aimed. Its action, therefore, ran only mach the foreign vessels. which, in spite of the notification, will expose themselves to seizure by Infringing upon the Hoe marked out in the regula. Lion. The Government flutters itself that these cases will be very rare; if all remains as at present—not one. I ought, in the last place, to request you to consider, Sir, that the Russian po►snssiuns in the Pacific Ocean extend uu the north-west coast of America, from Behring's Stroll to the olat degree of north latitude, and on the ospo•ite side of Asia mad the Minot*, adjacent, from th► same strait to the 450,,kgree„ The extmt of .es, of which these possessions form the limits, compi.hends all the conditions which are ordinarily attached to shut seas (mem fermees); and the Russian Government might conserlueutly judge itself autho rised to exercise upon this silt the rights of sovereignty, and especially that of entirely iiiterdicting the entrance of foreigners. But it preferred only asserting its essential rights, without taking any advantage of localities. The Emperor, my august Sovereign, sets a very high va lue upon the ussintenanee of the relations of amity sad good endersisuding which bave till cow subsisted between the two coratries. The dispositions of his Imperial Majesty in this regard have Hirer failed appearing at all times, sben an oc casion has ',resented itself in the political relations of the United States with the Eurupeau Powers ; ■nd, surely, in the midst of ■ general peace, Russia does not think of aiming a blow at the maritime interests of the United Gates , die who has constantly respected th►m is those difficult dream- Mantes in which Europe has beer sees In be placed is She latter times, sad the Influence of which the United States have been unable to avert. I have the honour to he, with high consideration, Sir, your must übedieut humble Small', PIERRE I.E POLETICA. Washington, Feb.2B, 182 g. TUB sICRITIIIT OT sTATIR TO MR. DR POLCTICA. Deparimesa or State, Washiogion, March 30. 310—I have bad the haulm: of reeelvieg your letter of the 211th tilt, which has been submittal to the consideration of the President of ehe United States. . _ . From the deduction which it contains of the growl& upon which the articles of regulation of the Russian Ameriean Company have now, for the Ann time, extended the claim of Russia on the north-weed moot of America to the 51st dec. of north latitude, its only foundation appears to be the ex. lettuce of the small sett lenseo t of Nov Archaisgelsk, situated, not on the American continent, but upon a small island in latitude 57. And the principle upon which you state that this claim is now advanced is, that the Slit degree is egos. distant from the settlement of Nov Archangelak and the establishment of the United States at the mouth of Colum bia river. But (ism the same statement it appears, that in the year 1799, the limits prescribed by the Emperor Paul to the Russian American Company were fixed at the 55th deg. of latitude; and that, is assuming now the latitude of 51, a new pretension is asserted, to which no settlement made since the year 1799 has given the colour of a sanction This pretension is to be considered, nut only with refer. once to the creation of territorial right, but also to that piohibitio• to the vessels of other notion., including those of the United States, to approach siibio 100 Italian miles of the coasts. From the period of the existence of the United States as ao independent nation, their vessels have freely na vigated those seas, and the right to navigate them is a part of that independence. With regard to the suggestion, that the Russian Govern ment might have justified the exercise of sovereignty over the Pacific Ocean, as a close sea because it claims territory hot on its Ann-rican and Asiatic shores, It may su ffi ce to say, hal the distance from shore to shore on this sea, in lati tude 1 worth, is out less than 90 degrees of longitude, ur 4,000 des. . .. _ As little ean the United States accede to the justice of the reason asaigoed for the prohibition above mentioned. The right of the citieene of the !Jailed States to hold commerce with the aborigsal natives of the north wept coast of Anse. rico, without the territorial jurisdiction of other nations, even in arms and munitions of war, is as clear and indis putable as that of navigating the seas. That right ban never been exercised in a spirit unfriendly to Resell' ; and although general complaints have occsoioaally been made on the subject of this commerce by some of your predeeesnors no specific ground of eberge has ever been allegtorhy them of any transaction in it which the United Stales were, by the ordinary laws and usages of nations, bound either to restrain or to punish. Had say such charge been made, it would bsve received the must pointed atientio,of this Govern. meat, with the sincerest and firmest disp6isition to perform every act and obligation ofjostice to your, which could have been required. I am commanded by the President of the United States to assure you, that this disposition will con li•ue to be entertained, together with the earnest ries.re that the well harmonious relations between the two coun tries may be preserved. Relying upon the asnurance in your note of similar disposi tions reciprocally entertained by his Imperial Majesty to wards the United States, the President is persuaded that the eitirens of this Union will remain unmolested in the prose cution of their lawful commerce, and that no effect will be given to au interdiction manifestly incompatible with their rights. I am happy to renew the asstoraneee of my dirtingui.hed consideration. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. The Chevalier De Poletiesi, Envoy Eatraordivary and Minister Pleniputentary from Russia. ---ii [TILANSLATIOII.I . . your leiter, of 'mowing 4e44lthe delefell, 4 * ." I r° 7l l b 11 he 'Olt Wow•I Y. , " f 4 ik ilPa glelbeeticily Areberieeirta ef the iserie., go hack 14 rift fro.n ir to the au %riga of the. treat Mon 11 es eato the Pacific Ur M 17MI, the celebrat ',Nage. The recital of hi. ill the Goveraniene, and I pin Sebring (1741)a . . _. r w, TOL CACTAUCR DI POLITICA TO TIM BECRITAXT Al rriTs. Washington, March 21 (April 2), 1822. Stu-1 had the honour yesterday to receive the letter which you were pleased to address in me, dated the 30th of March last, N. S, and not being authorized to continue the discussion to which it refers, 1 And myself under the neces sity of taking the contents of that letter ad referenda" re serving myself to communicate it to my Govci Daunt as soon as possible. _ . . Is the mean time 1 shalt take the liberty of submitting to your consideration some observations which have been pug- Ended to me by cc:leis passages in your letter, which re /like particular notice. Ili the first official ktter which I had the honour of ad dressing to you, dated thel6th (261 h) February all, thought 1 had succeeded in cleariy demonstrating that the rights of Rodia to the pommiesa of a certain retest of the north-went coast of America, as far as these rights can be rendered legi timate by the first discovery, the first occupation, and a pos session not contested fur more than half s century ; that these rights, I say, go back to times considerably earlier than the reign of the Emperor Paul 1. When this Sovereign granted, in 1799, to the Russian American Society its first charter of incorporation, there hail never been a quration about abandoning to that Company the right of sovereignly over one determinate portion of the north-west coast of America in all its plenitude. The Ties than was purely and simply of conceding to the said Corn patsy a part of the sovereignty, or rather certain exclusive privileges of commerce ; and it is in this view that the Acts of 1799, to which you refer. Sir. fixed the limits of the operations of the Russian American Conipsny. The rights of suvereigaty belonging to Russia, could lose nothing of their local extent in conseqwenee of the conces sions made to that Company in the reign of the Emperor Pawl. That these rights extended, in the opinion of the Im perial Government, farther south than the 55th degree of lati tude, appears evident from the structure of the 3.1 article of the Act of Incerporatioa, which authorizes the Company to form establishmeists south of the 55 th degree of north latitude. Hot, what will dispel even the shadow of doubt in this re gard, is the authentic fact, that, is 1789, the Spanish packet St. Charles, commanded by Captain Hare found in the lati. tulle 4s. and 49. Russia, ertahlishments to the ',umber of eight, consistiug io the whole of 20 families and 462 indi viduals. These were the descendants of the companions of Capt Tchiricoff, who were supposed till then to have perished. With este+ titles justifying the rights claimed by It ~, , you yourself, Sir, sill agree, that it is perfectly immaterial whether the Russian establishment at Nov Arebangelsk be small or large. If the right of territorial possessions were memiureil securdiog to the dimensions of the points occupied, what would become of those of the United States upon a very considerable extent of the same north-west coast ? for the only American establishment ever yet known is certainly very inferior in stability to that of Russia at Nov Archaegelsk. In the same matinee the great extent of the Pacific Ocean. at die 51st degree of latitude, cannot invalidate the right which Russia may have of considering that part of the oceaw as close. Bid, as the Imperial Goverment has not thought lit to lake advantage of that right, all further discussion on this subject would be idle. As fur the right claimed for the citizens of the United States of trading with the natives of the country of the moil west coast of America, without the limits of the jerk diction helouging to Russia, the Imperial Governmeot will not cudgely thank of limiting it, and still less of attacking it there. Bid 1 cannot dissemble Sae, that this same trade beyond the 51st degree will meet with difficulties and incon veniences fur which the American owners will only have to accuse their owe imprudence, after the publicity which has been given to the measures taken by the Imperial Govern. ment for maintaining the rights of the Russian American Compasy in their absolute integrity. I shall not finish this letter without repeating to you, Sir, the very positive assurance which 1 have already had the honour once of expressing to you, that in every care where the American Government shall judge if necessary to make explanations to that of the Emperor, the President of t'.! (lotted States may rest assured that these explanations will be always attended to by the Emperor, my august Sovereign, with the most friendly and consequently she most concilia tory disposition. Be pleased to accept, Sir, the assurance of my high consideration. PIERRE DC POLETICA. Early on Mondry morning, the sifting-house be lousing to the powder-mill at Cr ow hurst, in Sussex, the property of Mr. Lawatiaca, blew up with an explosion that greatly alarmed the neighbourhood, by winch accident one poor man, named PEASHAN, via unhappily killed. The deceased only being in the house at the time it blew up, it is impossible to say 111. w the:accident happeued.—(MaidsionePoper.) POREILV IN FE LLIGENCE. _ GERMAN PAPERS. coml. A ram d. The follow FAX Is the Menne e length, sent on the MI Of Math by Melted High Comasissioutr to the Legisla tive Assembly:— " When I had the honour, on the eth of this month, to 'address this Assembly, the Executive Government was very far from having any intuition to prolong the effects of mar tial law, which is now in force in ,ht several islands; sod the Bill, the first dense of which expressly declares the cessation of martial law in the respective islsods, with out exception, was on the point of being presented to the Assembly. Bat it is with regret that I am obliged to inform the Assembly, that with the concurrence of his Highness the President, and of the Senate, it appears advisable to delay for a short interval the presentation of this Hill. It is neces sary that I should develope to the Assembly the precise grounds on which the Government founds its decision. " I am obliged to my great sorrow to sunoonce to you that a violent outrage and act of aggression on the lonian territory sod its people, have been committed by one of the parties engaged iu war in our neighbourhood. I have order. ed the official reports on the subject to be laid before you. You will see by them that the squadron of the insurgent Greeks, which is at present in those seas, has made a land ing on Santa Mauro, pillaged the property of the inhabit ants iu contempt of the protection of his Majesty, and ex posed the population of these states in general to the dan ger of the plague. " I shall not fail to demand anti exact immediate and en• tire satisfaction for this unprovoked insult and 'Egression, which bins teen produced, I fear, by the great indulgence pur posely and universally shewn by all the British Authorities, in favour of these cruisers, notwithstanding reiterated sets on their part, nut justified by any principle recognised iu the contests between nations. " In this atilt of things martial law must necessarily re main in force for • short space of time, but longer than I contemplated •t the opening of the present Session. But I do not doubt that the present difficulty will be shortly re moved, and then the Executive Government will be able to follow its first intention; because I am persuaded that this aggression, though inexcusable in itself, will prove to have originated in the insubordination of a force of an irregular nature, and from a premeditated design of offering an insult to the louiaa Government, which enjoys the high and power ful protection of his Majesty."—(Journal de Frankfort, May 10) _ _ SPANISH PAPERS. MADRID, MAT 9. The Journals contain long accounts from San Sebsatiate, Vittoria, Bitbw, Vich, and Barcelona, respecting the operations against the factious in the Northern provinces. In Biscay the people seem to take no part with these deluded individuals. The bend of Mises being totally defeated and broken up, it is hoped that the tranquillity nt the part of the country which he infested will be completely restored. After his first defeat he had again rallied about 300 men, hut being unable to make a stand with them, fell back on the French Otl which the officer who commanded the troops opposed to him sent a messenger to the officer com manding the Frew h post, the latter offered to make the rebels lay down their arms, which he did, and had them burnt on the spot. A letter from the Havannah, of the 15th March, says, that persons have arrived there who positively assert that the Russians have seized on the greater part of California. FLANDERS AND RAMBURGH MAILS. ET. PETEMSBOSOH, MAY I. The Grand Duke Michael has left this city and goes by way of Witepsk to the first army, and thence be will go, it is said, for the recovery of his health to take the waters, but it is not stated where. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe ‘Veiloar will set out to return to Germany on the 21st of May. We hive the finest spring weather ; the trees are in Nil leaf. Thirty-tvro 'emir, chiefly laden with fruit, from the !Krth of Europe, have already arrived at Cron e:oil. A courier was lately dispatched in great haste to General Yermalolf. Belzoni, the traveller. has had the honour of being presented to the Emperor, in • private au dience. His blajesty conversed with him a consi derable time upon his extensive travels. BEZLIN, MAT 14. M. Antonio de Oliveira, the new Portuguese Charge d'Affaires at this Court, will shortly have his first audience of his Majesty. The town of Camiii, in Westphalia, was nearly burnt down on the Ist of May, only 28 buildings out of 803 having escaped. COPENTIAGEN, MAY 14. A squadron of 20 Pughrh merchantmen has just !mitred the Categat.—(Harnburgh Papers, May 17.) Exchange on London-36 71 36 101. FRANKFORT, lIAT 15. _ The accounts from Vienna of the 10th May, re ceived by express, say, that M. de Tatiacheff ar rived at St. Pettraborgh on the 29th April. No. thing had transpired respecting the result of his mission, but at the same time nothing indicated that war was about to be declared. The Emperor was at Zurskajeselo, and there was no talk of his departure for the army, thought the newspapers have so long since announced it as certain. A letter from Pslent)°, in Sicily, of 161 h April, says, thirty-six persons, confined in the prison at Alcorn, have succeeded in gaining the gaoler and the soldiers who guarded the prison; and on the 14111 the prisoners, the ►;aoler, and the soldiers took flight together.—( Brussels Papers, May 21.) VIENNA. MAY 10. Fux os —May 8, Inetalliques, 74 11-16ths—Bank Shares, 871 3.loihs. Slay U. Metalliques, 741—Rink Shares, 673 1-10th. May 10, Sletalliques, 74 I3l6tbs--Bank Shares, 674 1316,—(Am/flan Übserser.) DUTCH MAIL. HAMBURG% MAY 18. It is remarkable that though a report has bceo spread in Germany that M. De Tatischeff arrived at St. Petersburgh on the 29th April, the accounts from St. Petersburg!' as late as the Ist May do nut say a syllable of his arrival there, nor of the depar ture or the Emperor.—[This account ahew•a that there is no truth in the statement of the Paris Papers, that a Russian courier had brought the news that the Emperor had left St. Petersburg!' ea the 30th April ] MYRNA, •ratt. 15. We Learn the following newt from Cum (in :_ir On the lath of Felresty the ne n , r „{ the insurrection or Lill the provinces shunt 'arrived here, and made oar sitealion worse. " On the tad the Greeks surprised a caw's coming from Kisumu with oil. We were astotass. rd at their military appearance. Their a lth k e , glittered in the sun like those or European true r , ti a review. The Captains of merchantmen ski have their vessel's at Sude meet than 'whenever Owe coins to Canes by hind. One of them at w f aa r Greeks shot, after being sentenced to death by A court martial for insubordination. F rom their 'wanner, it seems that there is some found itioli ! the report of the arrival of a thnuieind musket., .1., of some officers sent from the blorea I y Priiie, Ypsilanti. Merck B.—The Greeks are every clay camiouslzut of the ramparts. They say they cll.'. r troops from the Mores to nttack the cry. " March 19.—Withisz these few days the Grec., have cot off the water that supplied the city, ;imi killed about thirty Turks. The latter, wlsi out of the city to protect the water drawers, hire been obliged to return without accomplishing object. They were 1,200 in number, but the Greeks had the advantage of the ground. " About ten Hoke from Canto, there is • (amid,. ble position called Platania,, which protects th e communication between the provinces of Kinafll,l and Cantu, along the sest-comt. The Greeks lure summoned the. Turks, who guarded this minion with artillery, to evacuate it within three derv, otherwise they would attack it with cannon, mud give no quarter. The insurrection of this island is connected with that of the Motel. HARLEM, M4Y The Crown Prince of Sweden left Stockh o l m on the 9th inst. Ile travels under the title of Count of Smola, and will be abaent some mouths.—(Dittrlt Papers. May 24.) An American Paper of the 25th last .tote•, that there a►e not les. than fifteen candidatea for the office of President of the United States at the enatia. 4 election, of whom the following is given as a correct list : Munch...etre—John Q. Adam,. New York--D. Clinton, Rufus King, &midi 'Molina, and D. D. Tompkins. Pennsylvania—H. Baldwin. Ohlo—W. H. Harrison. Virginia—J. Meerue and S. Roane. Kentucky—H. Clay. Nurlll Carolina—Nathoniel Macon. South Carolina-1. C Calhoun and Low°lin. Tennrseer—Andrig Jacksou. Georgia—W. H. Ctsvaurd. A petition was lately presented in the American House of Representatives, in the name of DAVID B. Len, of Philadelphia, who contends that and not Jilin BENNET, is the real inventor of the flying-machine, and therefore claims exclowre privileges for himself. The Petition w as refe rre d to the Committee on BENNET'S application. We have the satisfaction to hear that the di.. turbances in Monmouthshire are happily terminated, and that the misguided men ure quietly end peeve. ably returned to their work. Much praise seriat due to the employers and the Magistrate for :IL% precautions which they had adopted to pro', st outrage, as well as for their temperate judicious conduct siuce the arrival of a inikav,. force. Although there is a reduction which ti 'e times justly tequire, yet there are few pe rson , so s . are better paid for their labour than the collie , . and miners, whose wages are a third more, sod is some instances double those of agricultural la. bourers, and perhaps justly so, as the miner is sub ject to many serious accidents, and his labour is always severe, and often dangerous.—(Hereford Journal.) Extract of a letter from Stromnen, of the 14th instant, to the owners of the Norfolk, of Berwick " I am extremely sorry to inform you, thsit roar ship Norfolk put back this morning, little short of distress, having been struck by a tremendous sea, while lying to, in let. 55. 47. long. 37. 10. on the 24th ult., and melancholy to say, poor Captain SThwexus, and three of the seamen, were washed overboard and drowned. the mute and batten's severely bruised, the farmer unlit to proceed on the •oyage, by the stroke of the sea ; they have also lost two boars and part of the bulwarks, with some trifling articles." PRICE OF STOCI 3 Biank tit prr Ct.uck.. 0 ited. 2 . 4 ... 2 7 3 8 91 il . 78 7811 3 per Ct. Con.. 791 781 3i per Cent 4 per Cents."... 91 5 per Ct. N. An. 102 if Bank L. Ann. 191 15.16 South Sea Stock 9O :S YESTERDAY Wog Stock 243k Ditto Bonds.. 54 55 pr. Ex. Bills, 2.... I,ooof. 1 3 pr. Ditto Small ....3 5 p►. LottcryTickets, IS. Cons. for Account... 80 MARRIAGE. At hi■ Eteellency theßritiskAmbassador's in VIM. Henry Winston Barron, of Mount Barron, in the family of Waterford, E.q. to Miss Leigh Page Terser, only darighter of the late Mr Gregory Leigh Page T ,of Battleaden Park, Bedfordshire, Bart. The bride was given away by the Marquis of Miro. The brideasskis were the Misses Roche, nieces of Lord Mussily. The Guiltless of Claarickarde, the Hllll. Mrs. Roche, and a few other friends, wsi re at the ceremony, after which the hippy pair set ad Gr M ontmorcnci. DEATH'S. Oe Sunday sennight, at — the Vicarage, Balton', Augusta. wife of the Rev. Prebendary Bade, and third daughter of the Lord Bishop of Chester. Oa the 13th inst. at Lessons', near Bedale, in IserlSilt year, Slim Frances Arden,. maiden lady, sister of John Ai. den, Esq. of Pepper Hall, near Swam., nod sister of the late Lord Alvanley, Master of the Rolls. On the Bth iastast, at York, Lady Bowdon, wife of Sir Thomas Burdnn, of West Jesranad, near Newcastle.upoo- Tyne, and sister of the Right Honourable the Lord Chao cellor (Eldon) and Lord Stowell. is November last, at Arnednagwee, East Indies, Cathe rine, wife of Captain Frederick Nickels, of the regiment of native infantry, and eldest daughter of the late Captain Ruben! Billamore, of the Houourable Cquipany's Mince. On Wodatiellay morning, the infant daughter of Lord and Llity Wm. Samorset. On Thweellay. at his house on Patrick's Hill, Cork, Dr. Joho Milner Dem. —-- • HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mt ittiag 33 after 4. I Evening 57 after 4. Printed sad Published at 1116 BRITISH PHEW aril THE GLOOM OW% N. itnad, by C. COOOP WELL, of the Straid, Ii It' ,it ii