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RECEPTION OF LA FAYETTE BY Mk
CONGRESS.

HOUSE OF

'ATIVES, FRIDAY, DEC. 10.

At an early hour the levies began to fill with spectators ; and
soon after eleven eidaarnally Betts entered into the hall, and took •
posuniton of sew egkaaad inertly.. Which Isere appropriated for their
reception. Ayala innenbur of additional soots faun became neces.
sary ; and, loos Weft the hour appointed for the reception of the
General, ►
the Home ramented an exhibition of beauty and fashion
which. we preeume, has scarcely ever been equalled. ,
The Senate being invited to attend, "meted. in procession, and
took the seats which had been vacated for them by the Members on
the right of the Chair.
At 1 o'clock, George Washington IA Fayette, Esq. Gad Col. lA
Vaasieur, the General's Secretary, entered the House, and took
their seats on one of the sofas by the aide of the Secretary of State
—and in a few moments,
General La Fayette entered the House, supported on his right by
Ale. Mitchell, the chairman oldie select committee, and on his lett
by Mr. Livingston. and followed by the Committee.
The Speaker and members then ruse, and the procession moved
towards the centre of the House. Mr. Mitchell introduced General
La Fayette in the following words :
"Mr. Speaker : The select committee, appointed for that pur-
pose, hare the honour to introduce (41140111 La . Fayette to the
House of Representatives."
The General was then osedncted to the sterapl*aced:fee his recep-
tion, when the Speaker, Mr. Clay, addressed .him lathe following
words :
" Gescenet—The Howie of Representatives of the United
States, impelled alike by its own feelings, and by those of the
whole American people, could not have assigned to me a more
gratifying duty than that of presenting to you cordial e.ongratula.
nons upon the occasion of your recent arrival in the United States,
in emiespliance with the wishes of Congrem. and to assure you of the
very high Benefaction which your presence abide on this early
theatte of your glory and renown. Although but few of the mem.
be who compose this body shared with you in* the war of the
revolution, all have, from impartial history or from faithful tradl.
non, a knowledge of the perils, the mutterings, and she sacrifices
which you voluntarily encountered, and the signal ;services, in
America and in Europe, which yob performed for an intent, a
distant, and an alien people ; and all feel and own the very greet
extent of the obligations under which you have placed oar country.
But the relations in which you have ever stood to the United
States, interesting and impoosneas they have been, do not consti.
tuts the only motive of the .esepect and admication which the
House of Representatives entertain for you. Your consistency of
character, your uniform devotion to rogalated liberty, in all the
vicissitudes of a long and arduous life, also conunands jts admire-
tion. During all the recent convulsions of Europe, amidst, as after
the dispersion of, every political storm, the people of the United
States have beheld you, true to your old principles, firm and erect,
cheering and animating with your well known voice the votaries
of liberty, its faithful and listless champion, ready to shed the
last drop of that blood which here you so freely and rably spilt, is
the same holy cause.
" The vain wish has been sometimes indulged that Providence
,would allow the Patriot, after death, to return to his country. and
"tiecontemplate the isitermediate 'changes which had taken place--
SO view the forests felled, the cities built, the ntountains
the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the
arts, the advancement of learning anti increase of population.
General, your present visit to the United States is a realiza-
tion of the consoling object of that wish. You are in the
midst of posterity. Every where, you must have been struck
with the great changes, physical and,,,moral, which have oc-
curred since you left us ; even this *my city, bearing a verse.
rated name, alike endeared to you anti to us, has since emerged
from the forest which then covered its site. In one respect you be.
hold us unaltered, and that is in the sentiment of continued devo.
lion to liberty, and of ardent affection and profound gratitude to
your departed friend, the father of his country, and to you, and to
your illustrious associates in the field and in the cabinet. lot the
multiplied blessings which surround its, and for the very privilege
of addressing you, which I now exercise. This sentiment, nor
fondly cherished by more than ten millions of people, wilt be tore
mitted, with unabated vigour, down the tide of time, through the
countlese millions who are destined to inhabit this continent, to the
latest posterity.
While the Speaker was addressing him, General Lx Fayette was
very evidently affected. At the close of the addrom, he seated Inn,
self for a few seconds, and then rose, and in a tone intinenced ht
powerful feeling's, made the following reply :
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Represents.
fives--
" While the people of the United States, and their honourable
Representative in Congress, have deigned to make choice of inc.
one of the American veterans, to signify, in his person, their esteem
for our joint services, and their attachment to the principles for
which we have had the honour to fight and bleed. 1 sin proud ani
happy to share those extraordinary favours with my clear reeolu.
tlooary companions ; yet it wou'd be, on my part, uneandid and un-
gratefull not to acknowledge my personal share in those testimonies
of kindness, as they excite in my breast emotions which no ade-
quate words could express.
" My obligations to the United States, Sir, far exceed any merit
I might claim ; they date front the time when I have hail the hap-
piness to be adopted as a young soldier, a favoured son of America ;
they have been continued to me during almost half a century of
constant affeaion and confidence ; and now, Sir, Menke to your
most gratifying invitation, I find myself greeted by a series of wel-
comes, one hour of which would more than compensate for the
public exe.tians and sufferings of a whole life.
' The approbation of the American people, and their represents.
dem, for my conduct during the vicissitudes of the Europeen tr.
vointlon, is the highest reward I could receive. Well may I stand
firm and erect, when in their names, and by you, Mr. Speaker.
I am declared to have, in every instance, been faithful to those
.Imerican principles of liberty, equality, and true• social order, the
devotion to which, as it has been from my earliest youth, so it shall
continue to be to my teem breath.
You have been pleated, Mr. Speaker, to allude to the pert.
liar felicity of my situation, when, after so long an absence, I ant
called to witness the immense improvements, the admirable coot.
munications, the prodigious creations, of which we find an exam-
ple in this city, whose name itself is a venerated palladium ; in A
word, all the grandeur and prosperity of those happy United State:.
who, at the mine time they nobly secure the complete assertion w
American independence, reflect, on every part of the world, the
light of a far superior political civilization.
" What better pledge can be given, of a persevering national
love of liberty, when those blessings are evidently the result of s
virtuous resistance to oppression, and of institutions founded on
the rights of man, and the republican principle of self-govern.
menr.
" No, Mr. Speaker, posterity has not begun for me, since, In
the sons of my companions and friends, I find the same public
feelings, and permit me to add, the same feelings in my behalf,
Which I have had the happiness to experience in their fathers.
"Sir, I have been allowed, forty years ago, before a Committee
of a ngress of thirteen States, to express the fond wishes of an
American heart: on this day I have the honour, and enjoy the
delight, to congratulate the Representatives of the Union, at
vastigeolarged, at the realization of those wishes, even beyond
every hamaa expectation, and upon the almost infinite prospects
we can with certainty anticipate. Permit me. Mr. Speaker and
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, to join to the expect.
con of those sentiments a tribute of toy lively gratitude, affectionate
devotion, and profound respect."
Both the address of the Speaker and the reply of the Gement
were listened to with the profoundest attention. Throughout the
whole of the members, and in all the assemblage, both on the flaw
and in the gallery, universal silence prevailed. Every eye as.
strained, and every ear on the alert, that not a movement of ff.
countenance, nor a syllable of the lir.guage of the venerable object
of so mach solicitude, should be lost.
As soon as the General had concluded his reply, and resumed
his seat,
Mr. Mitchell moved that the House do now adjmini ; which
was mated arm. die. and the House then adjourned till 31 null's.
As soon ae the adjournment had taken piece, the Speaker
the chair, and advancing to the General, offered his personal con-
gratulations, shaking hint cordially and repeatedly by the hand.
The Speaker then introduced all the Members of the House inte•
vidually, and thus closed a scene the most imposing in its character.
and iastructive in its effectaaoltich duns ever bairn ;mutated to tie
people of any nation whatsoever.

The people of the United States seem to be as eager for
Joint Stock Couipan;es as the population of this country
are. One New York Paper contains a l'st of twenty-eight
projected concerns, capital to be set apart for which
about ten millions of dollars.
Loris OF ins SHIP DIAMONO.—It is not known, with
any degree of accuracy, how many pen ns were on hoard
the ship at the time she struck ; nor how rosily were saved
from a watery grave. We fear, however, chat the nnmb.r
will be considerable. It is not known how many passen-
gers were on board ; but we may state, that she was adver-
tised, in the New York papers received by the Silas
Richards, "fir passengers only," and a gentleman wh•.
arrive-41 in the padlket informs us, that several passengers
had engaged places on board the Diamond before he pelt
New York. It is understood chat she sailed chance on the
Dab ult.— Li rernonl :Weer. tis,r.
The Rambler, of 400 tons, and the Mitlaspof 500 toter.
have within these few days arrived direct from New South
Wales, fully laden with cargoes of oil, seal-skins, wool, and
timber; the latter article is chiefly of the fine blue tree
plank, well adapted, from its lengths anti durable proper-
ties, fur the purpose of ship-building. The agricultural
interests of the settlement arc in a flourishing condition.
and the woods of this colony are likely to be brought to
quality which will rival those from the Uontinr nt of Eu-
rope. It is to the enterprise and exertion of Mr. Joins.
that our countrymen in Australasia will have been indebted
for this improvement in the growth of wool.
BRIDFOUT, JAN. s.—By an extract from the Barbour-
Master's book, it appears that the number of tons of ship-
ping, inwards and outwards, at Bridport Harbour, for tin
past year, was 36.539.

PRICES or 111ITIpll
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oft (IM 144.
le Coat. bees. ex dlr. 94
pus Asa 96f
1,7 Gest.
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litt• Scrip II le 111 pet
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•••••• Ara Bands 1.31 f S.
nue Acct. 94 5
'Vlllin Bonds 854 I
'tie Acct.
41emb. Bootle 92
Mite Ace. VI
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Denten IC
Pita Narks Banco 499
NIA Con. 44 per Cont.
Imllmie
remelt mentos lOW. 192 f. ItOc.
111 Se.
Esl eltaap Lit 19e.
Mut Scrip 14 pa

FOREIGN

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am, might - 11 19
119444rdes - 11 3
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ITOCKS YESTERDAY.
Liong Asa.
Semis its Stock
south Sea OW Annuities
Itieutit Sea New Annuities
1001.
Ditto, Small
Ditto, lid. 1,0001. 82 63 pre
Ditto, 4801. 62 63 pm
Ditto, ►mall 62 64 pm
Lottery Tickets

UV/CRS YES'rEIII)AIi.
Ditto Acct. 141 15 pm
Greek Bonds 5d bi
Ditto Acct. loril t 7 6} * 1 6
Mexican Bonds }GI } 1 1 1 1 1
7 hi 74
Diuo Acct. 701 171 7 1 1
Neapolitan Bonds 091
Ditto Bonds (1024)
Ditto scrip 2} 1 pm
Ditto Acct. 21 } pm
Peruvian Bonds 08
Ditto Acct. 80
Portuguese Bonds 661 1
Ditto Acct.
Prussian-Bonds 100}
Ditto Bonds (1022) MO}
Ditto Acct.
Russian Bonds 261 1
Ditto Acct. Na }
Spanish Cons. 22 1 11
Ditto Acct.
Ditto 610 Bonds

NGE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn - 4131
Genoa -
Venice - 27

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Oporto -
Rio Janeiro
11 Bahia • .
Mblin
Cork •

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118

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C. a. d.
Portugal Gold ia coin 0 0 0
Foreign Gold in bars 117 9
New Doubloons V 0
New Dollars 0 4 101

tither in bars

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Inc Sritifsh VreOfs.

TITF:ATRF ROYAL, DRURT-LAND''.
Tine KreninS, BATtRD V!. January 8, will St perfarrart
THE CABINET•
Prints Orlando. Mr. Saplo; Count furrow+, Mr. Cattle; Idarinna de
Grand Chateau, Mr. Browne; Lorena°. Mr. llorna Whlnvelculo. Mr.
Marley; Peter, Mr. Boyne. Floretts, Min accruing; Conalautia,
Mrs Bedford , Baluca. Mn. Marlowe; Curless, Moe Nicol
After which,
MARLEQt3IN AND•THL TALKING BIRD,
TVS SINGING TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS.
Marletalu, Mr. Auld & Pantaloon, Mr. Blanchard; Clown. Mr.
Kirby. Culasobine, Masa Barnett.
on Monday; Fatal Dowry.
The very extraordinarily popular new Pantomime *vary Evening.

THEATRE ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN.
Tills Evening, SATURDAY, Jan: B. will be performed
DER PRZISCHUTZ
Or, THE BLACK MUNTSIA AN or BOHEMIA.
Muter, Mr. Riker; Conrad, Mr. Egerton; C n aspar, Mr. Bennett;
Bert
Ifhlwh Iss.
iss Mr. Putman; the Bleck II nntsuzan of Bohemia, Kr. Evans.
s, M Palos Lens, M Leme-
After whleh,
HARLEQUIN AND Tilt DRAGON OT MANTLED;
Or, MORE OP MORE HALL.
Harlequin, Mr. Eller; Pantaloon. Mr. Barnes; Clown. Mr. J. S. Gri-
maldi. Columbine, Miss Romer.
On Monday. Romeo and Juliet, and the new Pantomime.

ADELPH! THEATRE,
1T STRAND.
id This traokas. SATURDAY. JIM. K. will be presented a new Conde
Barletta. called
A• THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR.
I- TIM Mineral Characters by Messrs. Wrench. J. Reeve. Wilkinson,
es rows:. Lee, Brown. Campbell. Salter. and Elliott; Misses Bodin,
C- DU?. Searle, and Bryau, kc. &c.
Atter wblzh a new Conde Pantomime, willed
MOTHER RED 4P;
Or. HARLYQUIN AND THIS FAIRIES OF THE Rosa.
P- larlseaia, Yr. Kirby: Pantaloon, Mr. Elliott Clown, Signor Paean.
; Columbine. Mrs. Searle.
of •
ur fkr Dalt ISM Paps Commenced publishing yesterday Morning
at tire o'clock.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, Mi.

The Paris Papers of IVednestlay are filled chiefly with
rides relative to the new projects of law. Some of the
rituals have not yet finished the speech of M. de MAR-
IGNAC. The royalist indemnity is the subject of every
mwersation ;
.all parties agree in objecting to the mode
s which, according to the project of law, the Board of

Claims is to 'be constituted. M. de VILI ELE, with his
characteristic love of arbitrary rower, has proposed that
it shall consist of four Ministers and three Councillors of
State, to be named in the law ; and that if any claimant
shall be dissatisfied with the judgment of the Board, be
may appeal to the Council of State, who are appointed and
removed by the Ministers. The whole disposal of the six
hundred millions of indemnity will thus he entirely at the

will and pleasure of M. de ViLLELE and his col.

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l'eliglkl. With them alone it will rest to decide who shall
partake of this vast gratuity, the largest ever bestowed in
the history of mankind.
1 The appearance of the project for the reduction of the
Reutes has eYcited a great deal. of surprise, after the re-
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of the former project by the Chamber of Peers last

Sen:on. It is remarked too that the Minister of Finance
has rather a singular notion of distributive justice, when,
in order to indemnify one Class or public sufferers, he
Beim on the property of another. The rise in the Funds
ER 'flintily is ascribed to the activity of the jobbers em-
ployed far that purpose. On Wednesday the Itentes de-
clined to 1021. 9.;C.

No legislative business was transacted on Tuesday, ex-
:•ering that in the Chamber of Peers four projects of law
Were introduced on various subjects. The third related to
he regulation of Convents, and the mode of allowing
heat to obtain or succeed to property. 'Fite fourth was
'or the repression of sacrilege; this is a favourite object
rith the Wrench Clergy. We shall be somewhat curious

D see what ion of a tnea-ure they have proposed.
By thz Elate it appears that FERDINAND of Spain 's
'trying on the work of " purifying" and proscribing u
ignrously as ever, against men and books.
latacar Ft:RIM—PARIS, JAW. s.—Five per Cents. cloned at
nt lef. 95e.; Bank Stock. 1,960 f. ; Neapolitan. 6 per Cents.
'alconet'seinitleates,B9,i ; Rebus d'Espagne. ; Royal Spanish
431. sL't Exchange on London, one month, 25r.; three months,
3+=,—Corti .eiNthent:que.

In the American Papers received yesterday, we have the
lastge of the PIINSIDF)IT of the United States on the
Penis; of Congress. We have transferred it at full
•ngth to our columns. It is a tranottll and dignified
/cement of the steady progress of • free and flourishing
°Plc It breathes the most friendly sentiments towards
is muntry, and a pacific tone towards all the world. It
onsisences with a highly favourable, but not in the least
• s;ygrated, view of the growth of the United States as a
'tion• The native population has every where increased,
' in':;11 it is daily 'tread over a more extensive territory, and
Ifni of unto') is strengthened by its very expansion.
In the part that relates to Great Britain, the PaEstnrNr
nnouneet that the trade of the Americans with our iVest
Wan Colonies, has not, as yet, been arranged, by treaty
ethmsise, to their satisfaction, but it is admitted that
many serious impediments" have been removed, and it
111seti that an agreement will ere long be made to placee .
cetnincrce with the Cultmies "on a footing of recipro-

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cal advantage." The Commissiontrs, under the Treaty
of Ghent, for settling the boundary, have disagreed, bat
as both Governments have resolved to establish it by ami-
cable negotiation, a satisfactory adjustment of the dif-
fference is confidently anticipated. The Message then ad-
verts to the measures proposed by the British Government
for the more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade, and
the PRESIDENT expresses his serious regret, that no ar-
rangement has be finally concluded to secure that
great object by the co-operation of the two Powers.
It appears that a Convention was signed in March
last, but in consequence of some objections which
he does not specify, though he states that they may
in►olve the re-consideration of the whole subject, he his
thought fit to suspend the ratification till the definitive sen-
timents of Congress can be ascertained. We learn with
pleasure, however, that " the differences between the par-
ties still remaining have been reduced to a point, not of
sufficient magnitude, as is presumed, to be permitted tode-
feat an object so near to the heart of both nations, and so
desirable to the friends of humanity throughout the world."
The PRESIDENT next Informs the Congress, that treaties
of commerce, on liberal principles, have been concluded
with Sweden, Russia, the Netherlands, Prussia, the Han-
seatic cities, Oldenburg, and Sardinia ; and he proceeds
to lay claim, on behalf of the United States, to an early
and constant desire to establish their commercial relations
with foreign nations, " on. the basis of free and equal re-
ciprocity:" Haring complimented the Emperor of his.
SCA for his very satisfactory conduct in the discussion of
his claim, on the North-west coast of America, which
question has been settled by a convention, and briefly al-
luded to the " great and extraordinary changes its the Go-
vernments of Spain and Portugal within the last two
years," the Message states, of course upon good autho-
rity, that " there is reason to expect that by amicable nc-
gociation the independence of Brazil will, ere long, be
recognised by Portugal herself." This gratifying an-
nouncement will give universal pleasure. The event will
be due to the sound and skilful policy of the British Go-
vernment mediating between the parties. It will be a
brilliant triumph of the diplomatic address of Mr. CAN-
NING over the selfish and alarmed ignorance of the Portu-
guese Ministry.
all the new American States commercial relations
mutually beneficial have been formed, and the Parst-
DENT has received Ministers Plenipotentiaries from the
Republics of Colombia, Buenos Ayres, Guatimala, and
Mexico. With the first of these a treaty has been con-
cluded, and a successful negotiation with the second was
interrupted by the decease of Mr. Rovxsr,'the Minister
of the United States, residing there.
'The finances come next under review, and they are re-
presented to be in the best condition. It is calculated, that
after paying all the charges of Government, and the inte-
' rest of the public debt, the revenue, with the balance in the
treasury, will be sufficient to discharge 11,633,011 of dol-
. lars, and leave a surplus of more than three millions of
dollars in the treasury. 'rite whole amount of the public
debt is only estimated at 86,000,090 of dollars. Since the
Ist of January, 1817, it has been reduced nearly thirty-
, asven millions and a half.

A considerable portion of the Message is then occupied
with the military establishment of the United States. The
l'ztasium has always manifested great anxiety to im-
press upon his fellow citizens the importance of this
branch of the public service. Ile speaks highly of the
state of the Military Academy, and points out the progress
made in the corntruetion of fortifications on the maritime
frontier, and he dwells with great emphasis on the pro-
jected improvements in canals, roads, and conveyance of
the mails throughout the different States, including a road
direct from Washington to New Orleans. Corps of top°-
, graphical engineers are to be employed to make stuveys
for (all those important objects. Hostilities, it appears,
still continue with some native Indian tribes on the Upper
1 Mississippi; hut others are peaceable, and making rapid
progress in the arts of civilized life.
The piracies in the Gulph of Mexico are next adverted to.
The: Governor of Cuba is acquitted of giving any
countenance to this atrocioue practice, which is attributed
entirely to the relaxed and feeble state of the local govern-
ments. The concluding passage of this paragraph is
worthy of observation :

•` Whether those robbers should be pursued on the land, the
local authorities be roads responsible for these atrocities, or any
other measure be resorted to, so suppress them, is submitted to
the consideration of Congress."

In connexion with this suggestion, ft is proper to notice,
that at a public meeting held at New York on the vti ult. a
memorial to Congress, very strongly worded, was passed,
respresenting the insecurity of the commerce in the Gulf of
Mexico, on account of the pirates which infest those seas,
and praying the Legislature to adopt some effectual mea-
sures for their extirpation. In this memorial it is affirmed
that the trade to Cuba is one of the most valuable branches
of the commerce of the United States. The memorialists
thus express themselves :
" It is a most advantageous market for our produce and manu.
factures, furnishes us with many useful articles of consumption,
employs a raft amount of American tonnage, is a nursery fur our
seamen, and yields a large revenue to our treasury. It is not in.
f?rior to our trade with France and ell her colonies."

The Americans arc suspected of looking at Cuba with
eyes of desire. They seem to long for a colourable pretence
for getting into the island. The PRESIDENT now states
that the local authorities are too feeble to do their duty,
and suggests that " the robbers should be pursued on the
land ;" In other words, that these feeble authorities should
be superseded. What would this be, in fact, but a seizure
of the island ?

The Message afterwards alludes to the relative situation
of the United States and the Governments of Europe, and
urges the augmentation of the navy and the extension of
marl time fortifications. The PRESIDENT conclu.les with
a reference to his approaching retirement from public life.
We ought not to pass over in silence the passage con-
cerning General L♦ FAYETTE. The PRESIDENT speaks
of this distinguished benefactor of the United States in
arms of becoming respect, and recommends that " a
provision may be made, and tendered to him, which
shall correspond with the sentiments, and be worthy
the character of the American people." Since the Mes-
sage was delivered, the venerable General has had a
public interview with the Senate. lie was introduced
by a deputation of the most aged Members, and re-
ceived by the Senators standing, and uncovered. The
honours were the same as those rendered to General
IVASHINcrost when he once attended the Senate as Pre-
sident of the United States, to consult respecting a treaty.
iVe may expect, therefore, to hear of a splendid instance
of national gratitude.

Yesterday 11. G. Ward, Esq., his Majesty's Commis-
sioner, accotnpanied by Mrs. IVard. left town for Mexico.
Letters from Gibraltar, dated the 10th December, state,
that cotton goods are to be admitted at 30 per cent. duty
into Spain.

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