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information of his health to the above individual,
who is an old acquaintance.
MADRID, MARCH 19.
The Sittings of the Cortes have hitherto afforded
but little occasion to the Deputies to display their
eloquence. They are-ehietly taken up with peti-
tion., complains. dud ordinatiee•, referring various
affairs to the Committee, either permanent or
temporary.
DUTCH PAPERS.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.
The squadron of the Netherlands ne the Medi.
terianein has left Port Mahon and for
where it arrived ou the 17th, except the
kltine 'twine, which is gone to A lwers.

AUGSBURG. MARCH 23.
We learn from Italy that very large annuities
nre forming in the kingdom of Lombardy for the
Austrian nriny ; 4.000 men have' parsed through
Clugenfurth width, these four days, on their march
to Italy.
Leiters from Venice contradict the news of shit
pnrti bring blockaded, but some Neapolitan ships
of BUT appeared ill the Miliherti part of the Gulf,
aud serious apprehensions were' entertained of their
having cepturtd borne 'merchantmen mailer the
A ustium flag. As soon as it, was known at Venice
thit the Neapolitans had shown themselves in the
(Jim., the premium of insurance and freight rose
iinniediatel. The smelt Abittian armed respell'
which were in the Adriatic took refuge on the lip.
',roach of the Neapolitans iu the ports of Ancona
and
Numerous reports, each more alarming than the
preceding, are circulated, stuns% others', it was
stated iltat a getters! ',Mit a agitation prevailed iu
Lombardy. There is Ito further trails in all this
than iolue measuirs of precaution token by oho Nli-
litnry Governor, General Burma, when lie heard of
the ii.ouirection w the States of the Kilig of Sar-
dinia. Several fresh regiments from the interior
of Austria were expecied at Milau.--(Dmich
Papers, March 31.)

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ItICAlv PAPERS.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
We have received a mass of American Papers,
hicludiug a seder Irma New York to the 11111 of
March. The Autiosul Intelligencer of the 6th
contsieis I copy of the PRESIDENT'S Speech, de.
livered to toogrtss on the preceding It giver
a full and ratiblaciory view of the internal and fit-
reign relations of the Untied Stales, exprehaed in
the usual clear and unaffected stele. Time PRESI-
DENT contnietices with expressing his grutittide Inc
the honour conferred ou him in his re--del:firm,
and complimenting his predeeeesiirs. . fie then
notices the fortifications 110 W erecting on the
coati., as the means of defence agaurit 'ova-
" se," lie say!, " it treed scarcely
hr iemarkeit, have not Levu resorted to in a
spirit of hostility to other Power.. Such a die.
position does not exist towards any Power. Pence
and good will hive been and will hrreafter.be cue.
tivated with all, and by the most faithful. regard
to justice." He next adverb to the war betwees
Strain and the Colonies in Smith America, and the
system of neotrahty betatten the parties observed
by the
,United States; Alter which the Speech
thus proceeds : _ .

" Respecting the altitude which it may he proper for the
United Stairs to maintain hereafter beta ecti the parties, I
have nu hesitation is stating it as my opts $ i 111 l that the new
Uglily heretofore tiltsersed should still he •t trotted to.
the change in the Government of Spain, and the negotiation
now depending. invited by the Corers mid accepted by the
Cul ' .5, it may be presumed that their tl.lfireuces will he
settled on the cern, proposed by the Colonies. Should the
war be continued, the !Roiled States regarding its occur-
rcurrs, will always have it in their power tu adopt such
measures respecting has their honour and iuterest may re-
quire.
Shortly after the general peat..., a !ind of adventnrers
look advantage of this cutitlict, and uf the facility which it
afforded, forst/oldish a system of bees-niter, ing in the neigh-
beano( eras, 10 the great attneyatice of the connotive •.f the
United States, and. as was represented, of that of oilier
11111Versi. Of this spirit, and of its injurious hearing ou the
Unit. d States, strong proofs were allUrded by the establish.
meat at Am. ha Island, and the purposes to which it was
made instrumental, by this band itt 1817, and by the
occurrences whirl. to.k place in other 'tarts of Florida in
1618, the derails of which, in both instances, are ion well
kaolin to require ill be now recites!. lam satisfied, had a
less decisive course been adopted, that the worst coitus-
quesces would have resulted from it. We have seen that
tsese checks, decisive as they were, were not sufficient to
crush that piratical spirit. Matey culprits, brought within
our limits, have been condemned to sniffer death, the punish-
ment dor to that atrocious crime. The derisious of upright
and enlightened tribunals fall equally on all, *hese crimes
skied them, by a fair interpretatiow of the law, to its
censure. It belongs to the Executive not to suffer the ex•
entions, under these decisions, to transcend the great par.
pose fur whirl, punishment is lit cc...ly. 'Use full benefit
of ricititple being secured, policy, as well as hentauity,
equally fist bids that they should be car►ied further. I have
a. teal on this principle, parch ' g those who appear to hove
been led astray by ignoraure of the criminality of the acts
they luau committed, ■nd suffering the law to take effect on
those only in whose (atone uu exteuuutitsg arcwntstanets
(amid he creed.

Great confoterice is entertained first the Isle Twisty with
Spain, which has been ratilled by both the partied., mud the
ratifications whereof have Merit exchanged, has placed
the trimmer of Slue Iwo countries un a basis ut per-
manent friendship. The provision made by it for
such of our citizens as have claims on Spain, of the
character described, will, it is presumed, be very satiafac.
tory to ilium ; and the bruludary whirls is established be.
tuceu the territories of the poetise westward of the Miusis-
sippi, beretriture in dirpute, has, it is thought, 'wen set-
*l4.l im conditions just and adventurous to both. But
to the acquisition of Florida leo much importance
cannot be attached. it serous to the United Sates
a teruitiny important in itself, and abuse imp(); twice
is much increased by its hearing fits many of the lidgtuest
interests of the Union. It opens to 'eyelid of the neigh-
bouring Stales a free passage to die ocean, through
the province ceded, by several rivers having their sources
high up within their limits. It secures us spinet all fissure
annoyance from powerful Indian tribes. It gives us accrual
excellent harbours iu the WI( of Mexico for ships of war of
the largest size. It curers, by its position in the Golf, the
Mississippi and other great water* within our extended limits,
and thereby enables the United Stales to afford complete
protection to the vast and very calrodbio productions of our
vre.tern country, which find a market through those streams.
Iry aTreats will, the British Government, bearing date on
the 20th of October, ISIS, the Convention regulating the
commerce between the United States and Greet Britain, eon-
eluded on the 301 day of July, ISIS, which was about ex-
piring, was revived and continued fur the term of ten years
from the time of its expiration. By that Treaty, also, the dif.
remises which bad arisen under the Treaty of Ghent, respect-
ing tho right claimed by the United States for their chines's,
to take and cure fish oie the coast of his Britannic Majesty's
dOmtutone la America, with other difference' oa important