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London, England, 1819-03-27 00:00:00

REPLY.

CAPTAIN —When 1 receivWacoMtnissionfront the Govern-
ment of my country, 1 accepted it with a view of doing my
ditty ' • and in the embarrassments 1 bad to encounter 1
pursued the system that my conscience dictated to be right;
and to receive the approbation of my Government and this
venerable company is one of the highest gratifications of
my life. 1 therefore return you and your company of
Veterans my sincere thanks.

(From the Washington City Gazette.)
Ai was intimated in our Paper of to-day, the
Preadent communicated to the Senate the Spanish
Treaty, recently concluded with the Chevalier de
Onis, on behalf of his Sovereign. Au inaportaut
feature of this Treaty has just been disclosed
to us, from a respectable source, which we hasten
to lay before our reader., touching our southern sad
western boundaries ; their limits are proposed as
follow :

" From the Golf of Mexico, along the Sabine to the
Louisiassa line; theory to the Red Riv r; thence along the
Red River to the 100th deg of West. longitude ; thence along
the 100th (1.-g of West lungit••de to the Arkansaw river;
thence op the t inn to its sour. e ; thimee It. the 41st deg. of
lat. thence slung that line to the Multnomah river; thence
along that river to the 42 deg. of let ; thence to the Pacific
Ocean." .

It is thought the Senate will not, without strong
opposition, relniqui h she territory between the
Sabine and the Rio ,ir I Norte, the line of deinarke-
lion originally contei.ded for, a league of which is
justly deemed of more value to the United States,
and which would include a considerable portion of
sea board on the Gull of Mexico, thin the whole
territory west of the Rocky Mountains, which for
centuries to come can be of very little importance
to the United States. We trust the Senate will
not agree to it.
We may expect to bear their decision on this
Treaty to-morrow.
NEW Toilt. FEB. 27.
PUBLIC DINNER TO GENERAL JACKSON.
On Tuesday the public d r, in honour to
General Jackson, was given at Tammany Hall.
The Mayor presided, and Johuathan Thompson,
Frederick Jenkins, George Buckmaster, Robert
Boga►dus, Gordon S. Mumfurd, and John Swart.
out, Esquires, acted as Vice-Presidents. Among
the guests were General Peter B. Porter, Commo-
dore Evans. Cul. House, and other military and
:mild officers. The band of the Washington, 74,
atteuded in the orchestra. The company consisted
of upwards of 400 citizens. The decorations of the
hall were such as excited the warmest admiration.
The two rows of columns which divide this ele-
gant room, like a church, into three aisles; the centre
one, hung wills garlands of laurel, entwined with
American pendants, emanating from the three ro-
settes which uphold the elegant cut glass chande-
hers, and diverging in tastefully-formed festoons,
until they reach the frieze of the columns, from
thence descesoling in winding meanderinga around
the columns, until they touched the shoulders of the
company—over the head table was a circle or crown
of laurel. embellished with a small Americas* flag,
suspended from another rosette over the centre of the
table. From the same point of suspension emanated
another set of festoons, hitching on Americas. flags
to the windows, &c. in elegant array. The whole
room was hung round with clean new American flags,
belonging to the Washington, 74, tastefully drawn
up in draperies. with festoons of garlands. Over the
head of the centre, or head chair, where sat our distin-
guished guest, was a large ulcer spangled slur, at-
tached to an American flag, with the name of Jack-
son. On the orchestra, opposite, were inscribed on
the flags that surrounded it, the names of Coffee and
the Cerro!. From the frieze atid cornice throughout
the rooms, were suspended full flowing equal fes-
toons of American pendant., that surmounted the
whole. The tout eusembk was national.

The following are -extracted from the list of
tooots:

" Andrew Jackson, the saviour of the South; white the
Mississippi bears her tribute to the ocean, his name and his
deeds want nu other remembrancer."
" The new States—we hail their accession to the Unto.—
the Pacific Ocean is the western limit of the Republic "

" The Spartan band of modern story—the vOlunteers of
Kentucky and Tennessee on the ramparts of New Orleans."
" The Army of the United States. It is au army of free-
men, alike terrible in battle to the civilized veteran and the
(ermines savage."
" The Navy of the United States. The boast of their coun-
try and the admiration of the world."
"The wives and daughter.' of our country—fair a►e they
and lovely ; their kalif, was worth all the chivalric defence
of New Orleans."

COURSE OF EXCHAD
Amsterdam .... C.F 11 7
Ditto at sight ll 4
Rotterdam .... 2 V. 11
Antwerp ..
liamburgh ....q U. 34 4
A1t0n5........21, U. 34 5
Paris 3 day's sight 23 80
Ditto ..... ....2 U. 24 10
Bourdeaup 24 14
Frankfort loa the
. Alain, Ea. M 1411
Madrid ....effettire 311
Cadiz ......effeetive 39,1
ROM* 3B
Barcelona 3B
Seville 3B
Gibraltar .. 3l
I.eghurn •
:71 Genes '

FRIDAY, M ARCM
_2B._

Venire . • .. Y 4 SO
Malta
Narles
Palermo.... per tn 123
Liebou
(fpueto
}fu Jmneiro
...... 121
C6lk .......
igio of Bank
Holland

MULLION.
Portugal Gold w / S.
Cuiu, per 111 i.• • .0.
Furcigu Gold in
Bare . . 0 0 0
New Doubloons 4 2 0
Nppw Dollars 5 5
gllsw in Dors 0 6 4

CAPS OP GOOD hOPE.
!roma* Cape Tows Gaulle, Jansen% IOW)

Nearly a twelvemonth has elapsed siege the attestion of
nor readers has hreu called to the affairs of cur freshen;
the i sad viellace of the slicers of the oat-posts, the
plan which had lino carried isle effect of requiring wattle
lion or equivalent for all robberies committed, sod the goad
faith chews, by the Caller Chief Gaika and his adherents, in
restoring all such stolen cattle as they timid seessre, had ren-
dered the astem of pluadm Mg the precarious,
that the frequesecy of inroads heean sensibly to rl•ininish,
and at length our fellow-citizens ou the Eastern frontier
began to • osjoy that seem ity and quiet which it had heels so
loug the masons wish of this Government to procure fur
them. But it is natural to suppose, that so great a clone
could not have taken place in Caller policy, without creat-
ing a strong venation among the marauding Chiefs. Fens-
fated in their attempts to disturb the trampsillity of the
border, they acne to have attributed the check they had re-
ettvid to the decided lose of conduct which Guilts and the
Chiefs adder him had adopted. Pio one of the border Chiefs
appears to have writhed more touter the constraint to which
the new order of things had subjected him, then 'Tflamhior.
Arrogant and restless, lie seems to have studied, from the
moment of Major Fraser's return in January last, how be
could soouest restore the marauding system ' • for this pur-
pose he excited a combination of the Caffer Chiefs against
Gaika, and called is Hines to his assistance: he inspired
the latter Chief with a jealousy of Gaika, as if (hike af-
fected a superiority over him, and thus induced Nina, who
otherwise from his positron is unconnected with the border
Chiefs and their bored r policy, to take up arms against
Gaika.
It was not long before the latter learnt that a serious
storm was bmoding over him, and he took all those mea-
sures which were calculated to repel it; the line Ise had
adopted was, however, unpopular, and he therefore could nut
anticipate all that assistance on his own aide the Fish River,
which, in any other quarrel, he might have commanded ; su
circumstanced, he sent messengers to Graham's Town to
pray fur assistance, in case his affairs should require it ; and
as soon as his Excellency the Governor was apprised of what
was going forward, the necessary normalises were given
for Gaika's effectual support. Meanwhile, however, his ad-
versaries advanced rapidly upon him, and coming lip with
him on the Ghonap, their numbers overpowered him afire
• short conflict, in which he two near 300 men ; he act
forced to retire towards the footman of the Winterbs rg.
Flushed with this first access, his savage enemies, as
usual, abused their victory; the cruelties they are reported
to have cummitted, hardly hear repeating; they have been
probably exaggerated by those who were sent to Grehion's
Town from Gaiks ; hut they are said to have burnt the ha.
bitations of Garka's people, to hare ;not the women to
death, and to have thrown the children into the tomes.
Gaiks's favourite son (the fine rune man who met his
Excellency at the Kat River in 1017), fell into their hands,
and was put to death in cold blood, and nearly 6,000 head
of Gaika's cattle were captured by the combined Chiefs.
Every support was now doe to a Chief who had so severely
saffl.red in our canoe, did Colonel Brereton paltered to
arry his Excellesey's instructions into effect. Major Fra-
ser was dispatched to (hike, to ascertain precisely his puei-
tMn, and to concert with hint upon his future operations ;
this difficult and dangerous service the Major executed Wish
his instal zeal, activity, and intelligence, and laving re.
turned to Graham's Town, measures were taken fur the pu-
nishment of 'TSambie and his adherents.
The necessary preparations having been completed, Lien-
tenant-Colonel Brereton moved from Graham's Town nu
the Ist of December, taking with him two pieces of urd-
mance, as much of the regular force as could be spared from
the duties of the frontier, and mounted burghers from the
Geaaff-Reinet and Utenbage districts; these last were
placed under the orders of Major Fraser ; he crossed the
frontier on the game day, at De Bruin's Drift. Oa the 3d
he was joined by Gaika, at the bead of 6,000 Coffers. On
the sth he crossed the Kat River, and the mounted iubabi-
lasts fell tiptoes Phoonah's Kraals, where they took 6,000
badefcattle,and put these Coffers to doght with great loss.
On the 7th, Lieutenant-Waal Breretuu crushed the
Choomie sad Keiskamma river., and reached "TSrorsbie'e resi-
dences; that Chief, however (aldiaugh at the head of more
sham MOW men), had mot ventured to await his approach,
but had retreated to those impenetrable fastuesats from
whence he bad so lung carried. An his operations or offence
against the eulogists; mean rile, parties scoured the Kraals
of ' f'Sansbie's adherents (riving their affrighted irrhalsitauts
before them. 'TSambie's maim force renialord io the forests,
but here the advantage of the artillery was manifested, the
shells which were thrown io amongst them having dia.
pseud them is every direction, and canoed them to abandon
their cattle, 10,000 bead or which, upon this occasion, were
captured; these Lieuteant.Coluoel Lhereton placed under
the protect' of Gaika's Callers, nut to lessen his own
force; but in order to dissipate the alarm which so large a
number of armed Callers in their rear appeared to have ex-
cited among the mounted inhabitant., lie requested Gaika
to order them to deposit their assagays with him while per.
forming this service, II request which was immediately com-
plied with. Such a mark of confidence the Caffess are nut
known to have shear's upon any other occasion, marking
thereby suit only their reliance mum our good faith, but
their opinion of the complete superiority of our force over
that to which we were opposed. The straggling parties of
Coffers were now successively attacked and dispersed, and
on the 11th another Iprge convoy of cattle fell tutu our
hands.
Thus after having destroyed the Kraals of all those Chiefs
who had combined with' iSarolue, baring re-poseesrl Gaika
of the lauds from which he had been driven, kiting captured
as much cattle as was greenery to replace the losses PISS.
tained by Gaika, and by our own farmers, from former Caffer
depredatious, Lieutenant-Colosiel Breretun returned on the
15th from his successful incurs' into Cassia, having
loot only one man, who was killed in the affair at Phounah's
Kraals, sod one wounded at a subeequent period.
Gaika's gratitude is !Will litSCribed in bis own words, as
reported by the Lieutenant-Colonel. " He cap himself
indebted to his Excellency the Governor fur his life, fur the
land he holds, and fur the properly which has been restored
to him (about 11,000 bead of cattle), and at parting
Lieutenant-Wain-I Brereton be shed tears."
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It is to be expected that this blow will put a final stop to
the attempts to renew the former aggressions on t►e colony,
and dant henceforward, by means of the friendly Chief who
is in one interest, an intercourse, mutually silvantageoui,
may be established with Ike tribes under his influence, thus
■ut only replacing the present settlers of the fertile border
In a must enviable attitude, but bolding out the strongest
wsoliees to further settlers to establish themselves in a country
unrivalled for fertility and beauty.

NAVAL IN7'ELLIGENCE.

)ARCH 25.

Arrived ibc Sir S. Loshiocton, SPlCellar, from the Dierrov
for Bombay; elsarlotta, ; and hammer, Kemal.,
from ditto for ('Nutt; aNd Peter, Hetelrics, fawn &taw k
fur Liverpool.

FA! MOUTIN, MARCH 23.

Sailed the Norton packet with wails fn; the Leeward
• Islands. but has put hack again. The Neptumr, Browning,
from Charleston fur Liverpool with China clay, which put in
here kaky a few days since, is discharging her curgo to roan .
r.tetnenc.t., sway 24.
The Mary, M'Grougliy, from Port Balientine for Liver.
pool, is totally lost—crew and butter saved.
Arrived the Atlantic, Matlock. from New Yo►k ; sailed
22th February; on the 611 i instant, in lat. SS. tong. CO. spoke
the Ann, Crocker, from hence for New York ; she had hires
struck by lightning the day before. The Lady Banks, from
Calcutta fur London, sailed 13,1 November, m company
with the Georg Cn 1111 l ng. The Hyperion, of Whitby,
passed op the Riiir Ilse mole dry, under jury, fore, and
main.topkoasts.
DIAL,.MARCR lb.
Arrived this snotaing, earl sailed for the Kiser, the
Waserkiii, Jones, frogs ChsAbstun, with the loss of anchor
and cable, bowing beep ten shore oe the Fn ash toast, hut
gist elf by the assistance of some t rcnch Coherence, and
bionght into the Deena; Badesvoor, Boyd, from Belfast ,
and sere►wl others, maws oaken'''.

BIRTII.
On Thurtilisy, the 18th ini:tuitt, the Duchess of San Cas
of a daughter. The King of Spain confers on ihe Duke iniJ
Ducitess the honour of being sponsor tu their

MARRIAGE.
4.,
On ihr Eol of Febrnary last, at the English Amb loi'4,
at Paola, Shammy le Compte Augusta de Palmer,o nrirr lii
the Limiters of the Garde Royale, iu Miss M Nos ugh.
tel of the late Richard Power, Est of Claibino a the
county of Waterford, mealy plum Member foothill e..aut).
and sister to Richard Power, Earl. Menaler for raid comity
The bade was gireu away by Muniorur k Doc de Caairivi,
whose beautiful iambi daughter acted with Madrmuiselle Ate
Palmer as bride's maid. His Grace tine intaguificeot &n-
-ore and a chuldreu'a ball cm thr occultly.
Ou the 2511 i instant, at NI. Marsin'ednthe-Fitldo, 51r
Thomas Fenurll, of Camberwell, to Priscilla Mary, lis •• Aht• •
of the late J. falr Raise, Est of the Paragon, Sto Mt i i
ToWii.

dicn WATER THIS DAY AT lOS DON I DOE
Mornistg it) after 1. I Lversmx id .ifirr J.

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