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fulfil through any neglect or fraud of any kind,
litst had been prevented from fulfilling by the must.
The patty to whom he alluded had contracted to
fnrusst► • certain quantity of iron to the Comps's',
to be delivered ret their wharf on or before the 31st
December last, and ■ frost which hail set in pre-
►'•ulyd him from complying with that condition of
the contract, but he had offered to fulfil it a day or
••r Iwo ;Afterwards. Yet he hail been called upon
fur the penalties of his contract, and the only
mercy he had been able to obtain from ►hc Direc-
tots ergs a renrimerion of those iwoulties from 6 to 2
per rent.
flit !lon. H. LINDIAY saki, the person alluded
to ass not the actual contractor.' Me►sr.. Thump-
son and Co. and Messrs. Crawsholy and Co. were
the contraistairs with► the Company. On being
called on for the penalties, they had enforced the
same ugailist the other Ixr.osss who had taken the
cos tract at them. The frost, which way said to
have prevented him from fulfillisig his contract, had
'sot set nt until after the period nue/Inch the delivery
shout•! Isere hero mottle.
Me. RIGBY denied the concluding observation of
the la.t !weaker.
The CHAIRMAN and the DEPUTY CHAIRMAN
couraired to thinking that under the eircutns•ances
it was fivers'/Iffy in the ease which hell been alluded
. to that the prioritise el 141 be enforced ; and the
Couit had carried their tiirbsa►auer as farms it could
conveniently go in ►educing the penalties from five
to teen per cent. Not to have enforced them, or
entirely to have remoter! them, would have liven
productive of dangerous consequences, imismuch
as the penalties. were the only means of coin pc lin%
the inirties to adhere to their raig4gements.
,I►. H. LINDSAY arid. to cosivoqueore of the po-
sitive denial by an lion. Proprietor of whet he bed
stated %vitt' respect to the setting iii or the fens, he
Lid made inquiry, and now begged to correct his
former ist stesneist, inu.nirich as ir appeared that the
•et is, on the 24th► December, whereas the tinse
for dleli►ery wua the 31. t.
After a few other oheervati•sne from Mr. Lowndes
tr:tl NI r. Rigby, the question was pits, soil the lie-
solution carried, subject to the confirmation of the
next General Court.
Nit. RIGBY then gave notice, that nt the next
t:esteral Court lie should move that the memorial
pool petition of Measra. liortthlower and Co. to the
C..att of Directors be taken into consider:Moll; and
oleo that the penalties on Messrs. Thump ttttt and
Co. and M . Crawskay and Co. be reuutted.
Asijourned.
AMER/CAN PdPERS.

WASHINGTON. AUGUST 25.
Colonel Pereira, who had been obliged to retreat
to L. Guayra, with 900 men under his orders,
wirlorint any means of subsistence and defence, and
would have been forced to surrender or die bravely,
was happily rescued irom Iris painful situation by
1.1:e arrival of the French squadron, commanded
by (tear-Admiral Jurien, comisig from the South
Seas. Bolivar besieging La Guava with four
tlmusand troops, Rear-Admiral Juritil offered his
mediation between the two Chiefs. llolivar most
wri.lingly accepted it, and, a capitulation being
gives', Colonel Pereira emburked with his little
army on hoard the French vessels, and was con-
vict] to Porto Cithello. In that port they found
the Asia, u 64-Run ship, from Spain, having on
Loud the newly-appointed Viceroy of Meal, o,
that of Grenada, and the Plenspotesitiaries sent by
the Spanish Government to treat of in-ace with the
!.irtepeialents. As soon as they arrived a li-guent-
nun was set ou foot.
New VORIS, AUGUST 23.
Captain Clorzal arrived at Charleston (Hs the 14th
inosuit, in tvretaiy-live slays from Sisaiirlla (Spanish
NI it 1.). informs that it was reported there, and et
Santa Martha. that the whole cf New Grtriatla aas
in possersion of the Patriots, with the exrcption of
the town of Curthagena, and that 13.hr:a had ab.
dien'ed his command, but to whom the Caption
does not recollect. As Santulli:l is only twenty
guiles to the west of Santa Martha, this intelliget.ce
comes direct enough.