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AM*r:IRiCAN PAPERS. yesttrdali agitatiOa ite Svin I mople;€l3 le antiettt new ogeS re divide(' s (I';rmtie• levy con. ple. due to a a ppeared turned to. rected tom ilone that (14 :if Austritt 3 n on iiCeify .oceed to ammerciiat ►f a more n di scow [td intor- acrity end The spirit Is t) i 8 ani' dirt tubed inxious t° I often 00 a 811bie Ct /e and the of fluty is much 05 c.:rt whet The r Ira tO tbiS to pic for vernmenr ilisterbiog T o CO' - able point as a bu✓" ieficiai pe' Ingraci oll9 It ion, 0(1 ' Ottrab!e 0 IS reCenq 11°140 all MALE vao to Ler :24 to El ir tlfaaatle 4 ' , ed a t D°` would b° his Loo 10 red of the id in thil TI'S 3 She fliof ie, tie 00 means her t so nvich it. havi 4 itetit, goal (merit °t nmentr ic lerelicti° l/ jay coo' 1 the chi' t it la 00i e EXCOV art of til t ' Ve shoo o lion, persong,' gilt mak' warrants )emselv °l Ai in Ole ic _ and es ti , eet ly on' Id be °lli , beriefick‘ t ; ind riends fac' /JOUST OF REPRESEN F.% I IVES, _MARcii 10. RELATIONS WITII seattf. ~h. LOWNDRS , fromthe Committee on Fo rei g n 'elations deliverid in the following Report The Committee to whom has been referred so it ~,t lc h of the President's Message , at the. coin rileement of the Session, as relates to Foreign Affairs, respectfully report — That their attention was directed, immediately upon their ll PPointment, to the state of the relations of the United S tates with Spain, and that their delay in making a report li P at t thrill must be attributed to their wish " to afford an 6 1 i NitsiiIty for such friendly connmsnications, during the Present Session of Congress," as tine Government of Spain had authorised us to expect. They Cmught it better that Con gress should postpone its detertuinatia; l until events might enable it to make that determination definitive, than that 't 8130 4 1 d pass a Contingent Act for authorising measures which it Was not proposed immediately to execute; that it should found its determination upon relations ascertained to exist, than upon a calculation of events which might he expected to occur during its sitting. But more than a year has passed since the, signature of the T reaty by which it was proposed to teraninate the long dif ferences between the United States and Spain. More than Six months since, the appointment of a new Minister from Spain, who was " forthwith" to make known to the United States the inteniions of his Government, anal we have ad /anted so far in tine Session as to snake it necessary .to pro- Pose without further delay, any measure on which it is ex- Peetad that CongresS'shall'act before its adjournment. The Committee will not attempt to add any thing to the 'exposition of the rights of the United States and the obliga tluns of Spain, which is contained in the correspondence be tween the two Governments. We can hardly expect, from continued neg,ociation, the redress which has been claimed far 20 years, and promised for 18—which has been a second time promised, and a second time withheld. lii such a ncgo eiatinan, tine signature of a treaty seems to be a nacre incident, and not its term. • For the spoliations which have been eons upon the Property of our citizens, for the in vasion of c il,for the 'weakness or partiality which has made a Spanish territory the Plac , of r en d e reon3 and encampment of an enemy, and which less still more lately permitted the ludian inhabitants of that teiritory (whom Spain was hound by tneaty to restrain) to en gage in savage hostilities against us ; for all these acts of war, a people less attached to peace would seek redress only by war. To capture and confiscate the ships and property of the aeroug 'does , would be admitted to be a policy of mildness .and forbearance; but, by such reprisals, the Go; ernment that does the wrong suffers less than the unoffending subject. It seems a more just reprisal to occupy the province which has been made an instrument of injury, which has been designat ed by 'pain herself at-the fund for our indemnity, and whOse occupati on by the United States will stop the accumulation of these claims for compensation and redress, which the misgo vernment of that neglected colony continually produces. The Committee submit to the House a Bill to authorize the Pre- Slaeut of the United States to take posse4sion of East and West Florida, and estatlish a temporary government there. There appears too much reason to believe, from the mis take of the Spanish negotiator, as to the dates of the Spanish grants, which it seas intended to annaal, if the projected Treaty had been ratiscd, that the Crown lands inn forida may he insufficient to provide the expected indemnity for cur losses. But these may be applied, as far as they will go, to the compensation of wur citizens; and for the excess of our .claim, Spain, by whose act the dousainonf Florida has been xendeted inadequate, must expect us to look westward,' Per haps, wben our attentions is thus lot ced to a riireetionanore interesting to Spaint,lar Government may at last admit that it is as much to her' interest as ours, that the just claims of the United States should be- provided for by friendly contention, and we may hope that the next Treaty between the two na tions may be executed as wall as signed. • The Bill,.accompaaving the Repot t, provides by ' • See. t. That the l';esident of the United States' is thereby authorized to take possession, and occupy the territories of 'East and West Florida, and 'to employ any part of the army and navy of t!!e United States, and the militia of any State Which he may deem necessary. Sec. 2 That until the end of the next Session of Congress, 811 the military, civil, and judicial powers, shall lie vested in such persons as the President of the Uuited.Stat es shall di rect, for maintaining the inhabitants of the said territories in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and religion. • lie Impost Laws, and the'Laws relative to the importation of persons of colour, shall be extended to the said territories. Sec. n. Makes the appropriation necessary to carry the law boo tffdct. Irswicti ELecirioN.—We have authority to 'stale, that the Scrutiny I,)r the Borough of Ips wich closed . yesterday, when ROBERT ALEXANDER CalcKarr, Esq. and WILLIAM UALDIMAND, Esq. were returned, as Members ; and trot Messrs. LEN- Num and il.m.DImANn, as errooetiosly published in some of the Papers.—The numbers, on the 4 106 e of the•Scrutioy i were, • Crickitt 430 Round Lennard 428. Mi 4otst 'f HEATRES. —The Information against the Proprietors of the Cohourg Theatre bets heen set aside by the 51.1gistrates at Riegate, on the ground of Iqformality. VOCAL CONCERT —The fourth of the series of 'these excellent Concerts _took place in the Ha.- tover-quare Rooms last night, and had a nume ions and elegant auditory. The pettormances,. 'vocal and instrumental, were judiciously varied And well executed.--Mrs. SALMON vas encored in It fine Italian air ,by Ro:4ltsii, the only encore °f the evening.—Miss STEPHENS, BARTLEMAN, and VAUGHAN, ably contributed their talents.-- Violin Concerto by Senn R was most deservedly 8 1 ) Platttled. The .p.rintett Book stated, that Ma dame MARA was still suffering under the illness which affected her when she too hastily ventured to Came forward at the Opera House. The whole concluded with a Grand Choros, front the Mount of Olives, the flue Oratorio of BEETriovEN, 10 which this country is indebted for its intiodue lion to Sir GEORGE SMART. _ TIT ate seven carriages belonging to the late KING have been brooKht to London from Windsor, and r"Sed in the King's Mews, Chaiing-cross. POR THE SUN'. POLITICAL , CAN DOUR. " Carrcrc di ;K. Q. ii. O. Carp daily. Vulgar trinslatifiri. M. EDITO3-There is an old adage, that " the Devil speaks truth) sometimes ;" and there is another which, to a liberal mind, cannot be unpleasing, " Give the Devil his due I" Aciing on this principle, f stand tortvard tti do justice, not actually to his Diab , ,lical 411Ajesty, don't mean NAY, but to another Gentlemau whom you have rubbed devilish h fur smite time rust, forgetting that, as " those way laugh who win, so those who lose way grid," and bear it, if they can. Sir, you have recently accused the Morning Chronicle of want of candour. " Mind that, Mr. Ford ;"—The Morning Chronicle ! a Paper that always most candidly tells more than the errors of i's opponents, - and which, on Wednesday the 12th, not the Ist, of April, bas, with becoming liberali , y - , spoken the truth of its friends !!! You are no doubt surprised, Mr. Editor, and so was I ; but truth will out. Speaking of a pro. pyserl Income Tax, this liberal P.iper very intro.' e en;ly observes, " lie have learned (win severe experience, how artfully and gradually Ministers proceed frog► little to great,, when once they de lude Parliament, by sacred professions, to trust them." Now, Sir, in this confessional sentence, one word only has been omitted—WHlG Ministers — not that I accuse those talented Gentlemen of going Jctual;y from Little to GREAT, except in one instance, to which this confessional most strictly applies ; but who can be Wind to the tt nth of that paragraph, who remembers how the Whig Ministers jumped froth an Income Tax of per cent. to one Of TEN, th't is , .as far as re garded the GREAT, but Irom ONR, to TEN per cent, as regarded the Little.? No, , Sir, tviJ you doubt the " severe experience" of the gi,od peo ple of England, or the candour of the Chronicle P Your's, S CHO PANZA. The Regal Crowns were taken down to Btigh ton for his MAJESTY's inspectioo, on account of the change vvhir,b it is essential to make in the deemations. Our readers are aware that the Fleur de-lys is no I.)nger applicable as an emblem of pretence, since tl►e winds •' of Francr " ate o6:lited in The style and tide of the KING of the Kin dote. It is supposed that the rose, Ihistle, and shamrock, as - a bouquet in union, will he Entwituted in tha place of the ancient emblem►. The! E:!! Of LAUDERDALE ; who embarked at Dover on the I instan., in the Kiog fieorge pocket for ()stem!, on his route to Brussels, re- tuiped from thence on 'Thursday by the same pduktt. Lord CosissnmEtte having written home from the West Indies to decline the Government of c ev ; o n, which had been offered to him, Sir LOWRY COLE is tippoiliztd to the administration of that important Island. The Hon. Major CATHCART, !On of the 1 -, :arl of CATnCaf'r, succeeds the late Mr. L. D. CAsAMA AK J 0 ART iu the Secretaryship of th e B r i t i s h Etnhassy at the llussian Comt, and left town this day for S , . Petersburg!). • The Bight Hon. CHARLES BA GOT, the next , Ambassador, will not leave London till 164 Lady (whose accouchement was ryas expected yesterday) is able to atc ,,„, pwry , Yesterday the Duke of DevoNsimie; after par , t a king of a sumptuous breakfast with Prince Leo e PoLo, at his seat at Claremont, took leave his Highness, as well as of the Earl and Countess of DERBY, Lady Mary STANLEY, Mr. and Mrs. ABERCROMBIE, awl other Personges, who were on a visit to his Highness. His Grace set out for Dover, on his way to, Paris, where he intend passing three weeks or a month, after which lie will return to England. • Yesterday, Count WRBNA.left town for Ports mouth, to view the Dockyards and Arsenal, pre vious to his departure from this cow try, which is fixed for Friday next. The Count has purchased several Engli)h horses, which he will take with him to Vienna. The Dake of SAN CARLOS has given notice to i an his household domestics and tradespeople, that he shall dispense with - their services, the latter end of this month. His - Excellency is making every preparation for his departure. It is said that he is to be succeeded by Duke de SANTA CRUZ. The Freemasons' Lodge at Gottenburgh was lately burnt down. By the fall of two walls 30 persons were eilier killed or wounded. DUEL.--11 1 C arc happy to state, that -Mr. IluTcuts:soN is going on well. The finger that was wounded "as the third on the left hand : it has since been amputated.—(Cork Paper,April 7.) Lords MuLvILLB and other Commissioners of the Admiralty are expected to proceed, in the course of the ensuing week, to the new Dock yard, Pembroke, for the purpose of inspecting the works and ships building at that yard, where 17 vessels, including two 84-gnn ships, and several frigates, are untler orders to be built, some of which are in a state of forwardness, so as to be ready for launching in a few weeks. • EYTON, Stock-Broker, 2, Cornhill, begs leave to remind his friends the Pt.blic, the Drawing of the Lottery commences the 27th inst. when Two Prizes of 20,0001. Consols will be decided in the first live minutes. There ate also 100 other Ca pitals, including four of 30,0001. Consols, which Ev-ror! hopes he shall have the pleasure of dis tributing among his Friends. All Business in the Public Funds trail s acted with fidelity and (Hs . patch. WESTMINSTZR. BIBLZ SocinTy. The Seventh Annivel sary Meeting of tLe above. Society, comprising the LAdies' Assalciation, was bald yesterday at the King's Concert Rootn, Hay market, and was attend.d by a most numerous snd highly respectable assemblage of persons. At halt-past one o'clock the Rev. Dr. RAN DOLI6I4 Nag t!nanitimusly called to ,Le Chair. mud was suppmted by W. WILIMIVaRCE, RI. M. k'., J. BUTTEMORTH, Esc!, si. I'., atht A I,,rge Wit-A ber of eiiiinent Rev. Gentlymcn. The Chlairm,!n opened the hnsiness of. the MeelinL: by exnresing his regret at being iluexpect y called to the Ch4;r, by the illness of an Illustrious Personage, who would otherwise have attended, The Rev, Dr. WINTRtt read the Report, which ,was highty inter,siing.. After paying a just tri bute of respect to the memory of his late Ma jesty and to the Doke of Kent, ai also to their late Vice-Presidents, the Doke of Ituccleuch and the Duke of Richmond, it stated, that, dining the last year, 1666 Bibles and 555 Testaments had been dist ributed, noakirag a total, since the forma- Lion of the Society in 1814, of .20 G 77 copies. The subscription of last year amounted to 10211., of which 4001. had been collee:ed by the Ladies' Association, to whom the Report paid a merited compliment. The Report, after taking a review of the exertions of the Parent Society, who had hoely establis!%ed Bible Associations in Paris and at Athens, called upon the Meetiug• to lend their assistance in thr futtherance of this great work. Mr. - ,VILEEPFORCt, the Rev. Mr. M'CAernY, the Rev. Dr. STOINKoFFT. Mr. BUTTERLVoRTLI, and other eminent Gentlemen albh e t sett the Meet ing with great ability and at considerable length, in support of the Society. Officers were then appointed for the enqtting year, and the Meeting adjourned. A !theta; collection was made„ MysTErtious • - rotiv.—The following strange and mysterious story is in circulation in the neighbourhood of Keuningliall, but we will irtt attempt to vouch for its authority. One Oght last week, as a servent of Mr. Palmer, of Ban barn, was driving a loaded waggon, with corn, to be delivered at Thetford, in passing the plan tations at Eccles, about two in the morning, he saw a man rogaged in digging a place in the earth, apparently for the purpose of a grave, in which some person was to be interred ;, he went up to him and questioned hint as to his iiitenlio n s, in being so employed in such a place (uot less than a mile distant from any dwelling) at such an hour ; and not receiving any satisfactory answer, he bad the presence of mind to call aloud, as it to some person whom he had left with the wag gon, saying, " As we are two of us, we can mas ter him ;''' which so much intimidated - the man who, was digging, that he immediately fled into the plantation, leaving behind him the spade mod a good great -coat, which the waggon-driver took ti p an d.pat into his waggon, and proceeded to wards Thetford. fie had not gone far when he met a young woman, and he asked her where she was going at such an unseasonable hour ; she told him that site had an appointment to meet a young manyby ,m she was pregnant, and be gun to bewail herself bitterly; but the man per snadA her to rett4o back, telling her that he suspected the, person she intended to have met bad no w ood desighs towards her, and then related what he ;tali seen, she„wittg Litr by the light of the moon the great coat, which she instantly re- Cognized as that of the person in question, from which ,it has been conjectured that his intentions in decoying her to that solitat y place, at that time, were. to have murdered her, and buried her lii the grace lie had prepared, and which many per sons on Sunday last went to look at from Ken ninghall sad •the villages adjoining.---( Norwich Mercury, April 14.) The LORD MAYOR, accompanied by Sir G. NE. VILLE, Mr. GaatiN, and Mr. SMITH, B. A., re turned to ibis city on Saturday evening horn Lon don. His Lordship's mission was attended tvith many circumstances very flattering to the office he represented, and to himielt personally. his MA JESTY was graciously pleased to honour him with an invitation to the Pavilion at Brighton, where peculiar affability and attention marked the de portment of the KING to the Chief Magistrate of the City of p,,,bou. The Ministers of his Majesty,• and several of the Nobility, high in rank and im portance, also united hospitality of the most cordial description with their politeness towards his Lord ship.—(Dablin Correspondent, April I I .) At the Cattle Fair in Pembroke, on the 12th inst. there was a large show of all kinds of stock ; good beasts sold brisk, and at an advanced price; other descriptions met a heavy sale ; horse] but little in den►and. The' folloWing persons were on Tuesday es corted to our-Castle (Yolk), by a party of Dra goons ; viz. Thomas Blackburn, Nathaniel Buckley, and . John Lindley, charged with High , Treason, " in having,•oll the 31st of March last, at the parish of Huddersfield, with divers other persons, to the unthber of 500 and more, traitor• otisly assembled together for the pur,pose of levy ing, and in having levied, public war against our Sovereign Lord, the now King, against the duty of their allegiance, against the form of the statute it: such case made and provided, and against the peace of our said Lord the King." A Coroners Inquest was held at Trowbridge, on Wednesday last, on a poor child named Atkins, 9 years - of age, who met with her dew hin the tol- lowing awful manner : :—On Saturday night her, -parents put the rest of the children to bed, and locking the door went off to the ale-house, leaving this child up, to clean herself, ready for school the following morning. By 'some accident, her clothes caught fire, and with difficulty she got at the hack-door, A nd alarmed the neighboors ; hut before assistance came, she was in a dreadtul con dition, and her clothes nearly consumed. She laognialied till Sunday evening, and xpiretl. The Jul y returned a vt rdict of—" Accident.tl Death ;" but considered the conduct. of the parents as pe culiarly reprellepsible. LAW IN TELLIGENCE. couwr OF CHANCERY, Amu, 14. LYONS V. BANKLY. The Loan CHANCELLOR, on coming into Court this day, said he had looked very carefully over all cases with respect to the infants, and lie did . not think be could make au immediate Order to have them delivered up. He bad, ho'keevei,,,irtiwn up an Order, directing a reference to the `',lkis;er to , make timber inquiry, and to receive proposi tions, and he would hand it down in the course of the morning'; hefore he did which he would again look into it, as there was one point that he could not as ye► perrecily satisfy himself that he ‘‘. old(' be doing right were he to let it go as at present drawn. he'iemainder of the day was occupied h, hear e x cept ions. Ens Lordship rose at two o'clock. The VICE-CumicF,Ltoa disposed ut several causes of no interest. COURT OF KING'S - BENCH, APRIL 14. LIBEL. . CLEARY V. STODDART AND OTHERS. This aetLnt was brought by Mr. Cleary, the conveyancer, against Dr. Stoddart, and others connected with the New Times, for the publica tion of an alleged libel. The declaration charger' the defendants with publishing the above Paper of the '2B , h of November, ISIS, a letter, intput iug, that the plaintiff had been guilty of linnatut al practices ; anti that he was supported and Tulin-. rained by the same. The letter was addressed to sir Francis Burdett, and signed " Henry 110nt.7 Mr. BrtouGnAm stated the case to the ittry, awl represented the libel to be one which exceed.. ed the sting of any publication he had seen it; the course of his experience. He adverted to the time when Major Cartwright stood forward a Can::: ditlate for Westminster. Mr. Cleat yon that oc casion came ist contact with Hunt. During the contest a letter was read on the Hustings by Cleary. It was from Cobbett, and no intlividull doubted it was mitten by that person . however, denied the fact, and addressed a letter to Sir F. Burdett on the subject. In that letter, after some comments no the conduct of sir F. Burdett, he alluded to ',Nit.. Cleary, charged with forging the let ter, and secondly, with 'a crime before which forgery sunk to nothing. Ile %vad enare,ed wi;11 practices so vile and ttnuatnral, that Mr. Broogham could not enlarge upon the sub ject. Ile was to be told it was Hoot's hitch anti not Dr. Stodtiatt's, but that, in law, wouid be no answer to the action. James Mallison, from the Stamp-office, pro» dncecl the New Times of the 20 h of November, 1818. Hunt's le.ter was then put in and read. It was dated the 22d of April. It alluded to , Cobbett's letter, accused Mr. Cleary of forgery, and applied to him ;be name of kept man mitsrees. SCARLETT requested a paragraph in the New Times might he rt ad, in which Dr. Sioddart stated, that the letter was not written by him, but Hunt. _ . The CHIEF JUSTICE held the reading • of the same to be irregular. Mr. John Wright deposed, that he had known Mr. Cleary some time. He knew there was such a person as L - lenry Hunt.. He had known him. called in a Paper " Henry the Ninth." The letter evlmiCh Mr. Cleary was accused of forging, was wiitten by Cohbett. (leafy and Hoot had been in.the habit of writing letters to each other. 11e bad never heard Mr. Cleary was living wi i 1 a mistress. SCAULETT rose to address. the Jury, and first c omplained of delay on the part of the plain :A in bringing time action.. • Mr. BROUGHAM then called Major Cartwright' to prove the delay was occasioned by the bad state of Mr. Clcary's health. Maio! CARTWRIGHT said, Mr. Cleary was 41 a delicate state of health. In 1818, his health was so bad that witness invited him to his house at Tunbridge. His illness was a paralytic shock. Mr. SCARIATT then continued his address to the Jury. The alleged libel was not written by Dr. Stoddart ; it was Mr. Hunt's libel, and lh e plain tiff had omitted biinging his action against Hunt for :the purpose of prt.ssing for heavy damages against the defendants. As well :night :he Gre cian heroes, Agamemnon and Achilles, complain to old [looser (if the parties were hying), for words uttered by Thersites. Hunt was the person o f whom the plaintiff ought to complain.—Mr. Scarlett then conrended, that the meaning the plaintiff had affixed to the words was not a right interpretation. The words " kept Mall mistress" implied that the plaintiff was admired by the La dies, and in the habit of receiving rcuniary fa vours. Mr. Scarlett read a passage from an old Play written by Reaninont and Fletcher, entitled '' Custom ut the Cotintry," and proved. by the language, which was too broad and indelicate to quote here, that manytistress meant a man kept by a Lady. Dr. Stoddart did not know Mr. Cleary, and certainly never had supposed the letter con veyed the imputation stated-in the declaration. The CHIBII JUSTICE said, the qnestion k vas, whether the paragraph imputed. to Mr. Cleary 'unnatural practices, or whether it meant to charge him with being the visitor of females, and re ceiving presents from them - return? He re minded the Jury that a celebrated Novelist had made Tom Jones visit Lady flellaston and re ceive pecuniat y favours from her. It the Jury believed the paragraph imputed similar conduct to Mr. Cleary, they. ought to find a verdict for the plaintiff. The Jury retired from the box at four o'clock, and at six o'clock sent a letter, stating they conic[ not - agree. The letter was read, by the Judge's Associate, who communicated the contents to the parties. One party was willing to withdraw Juror, the other would not. About eight o'clock the Jury came into Court, and found a vet diet for the plaintiff—Damages 1001. At the Warwick Assizes on Monday, Ann Hey trey, aged 22, was convicted of the murder of Iter mtstiess, Mrs Sarah Dormer, of Ashton, and was executed on Wednesday. Mr. HARRIS has liberally given the free nu of the Dublin Theatre for the benefit of the per tormers who have been such heavrsarters under ctle Idle alan,iguinent.