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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 Crow
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.

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GERMAN PAPERS.

coml. A ram d.
The follow FAX Is the Mennee 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)
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