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I but they willin ill probabillt/ lead to some measures of
concession by the party which is equally wrong and weak.
The news from South Afetrica is not so recent as we al-
, ready possess. The most interesting paragraph is tLat de-
scriptive of the provisiiins of the treaty between Great
Britain and Brazil. A forged proclamation had been cir-
culated in New York, purporting to have been issued by
Bourne, on invading Brazil. Its authenticity was
promptly denied by the Colombian Consul in that city.
[From the Xere York Gazette of Dee. 31.1
PROCEEDINttti IN CONGRE>S.
Roost: or ItErwEsisrra-rtvEs, Dec. 27.
The Speaker communicated to the House a message from the
President of the United States, this day received by the hands of
Mr. John Adams, jun. enclosing a report from the Department of
State on the subject of correspondence with Great Britain relating
to the ShVe trade, which was ordered to b, printed.
On opening another message received from the President, the
Speaker announced the same to boot a confidential natnre. The
galleties were cleared and the doors closed, and so remained for
some time. When they were opened again, it was ascertained that
the injunction of secrecy in regard to its proceedings had been so
far removed as to allow the publication of the messai;e of the Pre-
sident, which was as follows :
Washington. Dec. 27, 11125.
To the House of Representatives of the United Suites.
In compliance with a resolution of the !louse of Representatives,
of the Nth inst., I now transmit a copy of the Message of Presi.
dent Jefferson to both Houses of Congress, of 18th January 1803,
recommending an exploring expedition across this continent. It
will be perceived, on the perusal of this Message, that it was con.
Wound; for which reason, the copy of it is now communicated in
the same manner; leaving to the judgment of the House to deter.
mine whether any adequate reason yet remains for withholding it
from'publication. I possess no other document or infortmaion io
relation to the same subject, which I consider as coming within the
scope of the resolution of the House.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
The letter of Mr. Jefferson, referred to in the message. is yet
concealed under the veil of confidence, which may or may not be
removed by a subsequent vote of the House.
Before r.rangers were again admitted, the House adjourned.
[From the New York Daily Adrerlier of Dec. Sl.l
TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND BRAZIL.
A paper forwarded us by our correspondent at Rio Janeiro pub.
fishes, though not officially, this Treaty, which is said to have
been signed at Rio on the l llth of October last.
The sing of England acknowledges the independence of Brazil,
and the imperial dignity in the person of the Emperor Don Pedro 1,
' and his legitimate heirs and successors. The Treaty promises per.
petual peace and amity, and provides for the appointment or Con-
sots; grants the most perfect liberty of conscience to subjects of
each State, and all privileges granted to those of the must fi.
soured nations; prohibits the reception into either country of
deserters or traitors from the other; grants reciprocal liberty of
commerce and navigation between the subjects of both, either in
Brazilial or British vessels, in all ports, cities, and territories of
each, except those which are positively prohibited to any foreign
nktion—.and to establish stores, &e. &c. The treaty requires that
each British and Brazilian vessel shall hare the Captain and three.
fourths of the crew natives of their respective countries; and for-
bids commerce only in ankles the property of enemies, contraband
or reamed by the Crown of Brazil. Provision is matte for the
establishment of packets between the two countries, for warehous.
ing goods not auntitted, fur the equal allowance of established
bounties and drawbacks to ships of both nations, and for a free sale
of English goods to customers of all descriptions in Brazil. with-
out regard to particular companies. esrept in cases where all corn.
merce is placed under the same restrictions.
A document professing to be a Proclamation of Bolivar to the
Brazilians, on entering their country front Upper Peru, has been
recently received from Pernambuco, and published in several pa-
pers. la addition to some circumstances relating to dates, &c.
which appeared to render Its genuineness questionable, it was un-
equivocally denied in the Evening Papers yesterday by the Colon.
bin Consul, Mr. Medina.

[From the New York Gazytte of Dec. 291
The ship of the line now building at the Navy Yard, Philadel-
phia, is to be called the Pennsylvania ; and the frigate which is
finished, but not yet launched, is to be called the Raritan. The
Act of Congress directs the ships of the line to be named after the
States, and the frigates after the Rivers.

[From the National luttllieencer of Dec. 21.1
FIRE AT THE CAPITOI..—AbOIIt twelve o'clock on Thursday
night, Vincent, the sergeant of the guard on duty at the capitol,
being apprised of an unusual light in the apartment of the Library
of Congress, shunted the libranan, who instantly came to the spot,
and, on opening the doors, perceived a part of the gallery (of wood)
which runs round the apartment, to be on tire. Ile immediately
removed the books in the alcove adjoining; and the alarm being
spread, the citizens promptly assembled. An engine and hove
were brought, and by the very active exertions of the firemen, nit'ed
by a number of members of congress, who vied with one another in
their exertions to save the Library, the flames were extinguished
in less than an hour.

Very few of the books, and those of little value, are con-
sumed. Some others, of course, are injured by the wet. and by
a hasty removal, but the Ins& is trifling to what might have
been expected. The ceiling of the saloon is partly destroyed, and
one of the alcoves of this beatriful apartment.
It is believed that the fire originated front a candle left in the
gallery by a gentleman who was reading there till a late hour,
and which, being up stairs, was not noticed when the library was
closed. The unusual light was perceiv.d by Air. Everett, of the
HOLM! of Repress entative% who was returning to his lodgings front
an evening party, and who indicated it to the guard.

We had understood, for some time previous to its appear-
ance, that the number just published of the Edinburgh
Reeieuw would contain an article on the .Silk Trade. From
the talent which has, from time to time, distinguished that
periodical work, we had promised ourselves that it would
have thrown a considerable portion of new light on this
most important subject. (laving been ourselves hitherto
unable to approve the legislative measure which has pro-
duced such afflictive results to this important branch of
our domestic commerce, we began to hope that we had not
properly directed our inquiries, and that we should be
made to see distinctly that there were certain causes in
operation that we hail not taken into our account, which
would show us that our apprehensions were chimerical.
But no sooner had we gone through the few pages that are
devoted to the examination of the subject, than all our
expectations were at an end. We did not find in it II
review of any publication respecting the Silk Trade, but a
misplaced mass of crude and ill-considered remarks, thrown
together in the form of an original dissertation. It pro-
fesses to develops "the progress and in-event state of the
Silk Manufacture," and of that state it says not a word.
The article thus commences:—

" Foreign silk goals are at present, and have been for
more than a century, prohibited from being imported into
Great Britain. But according to the provisions of an Act,
passed during the Session of IS2I, foreign silk goods are
to be freely admitted after July next, on payment of an
ad valnrcm duty of 30 per cent. It was natural, consider-
ing the present magnitude and importance of the silk ma-
nufacture, that so fundamental a change in the circnm-
stances under which it has been long conducted, should
excite the earnest attention, not only of the persons whose
interests are more immediately involved, but in a consider-
able degree also of the public : And as very different opi-
nions have been advanced at the public meetings that
have been held on the subject, with respect to the
policy and probable operation of the new Act, we believe
we shall not be doing an unacceptable service, if we avail
ourselves of this opportunity to make a few observations
on the subject. When once we have ascertained the effect
of the restrictions under which the trade has hitherto la-
boured, we shall be the better able to form a correct esti-
mate of the consequences that may be expected to follow
from their abolition, and the introduction of a system of
free competition in their stead."
What does the Reviewer mean by " being the better able
to form a correct estimate of the consequences Mat may be
expected to follow" from the admission of foreign silk
goods? Why, the consequence—and of a most direful
description they are—have already fu in:red—they are be-
fore our eyes. To speak of the result as if it hung in con•
jecture, is wilfully to mislead the public as to a situation
of things upon which it most behoves it to be well-informed.
The silk trade is stagnant. The weavers are thrown by
thousands out of bread, and unless Ministers can be en-
treated " to step between them and the brandisli'd bolt,"
the utter extinction of that branch of industry by which
they have hitherto subsisted must inevitably follow.
B.thnal•green and Spitalfields at this moment present a

spectacle of wr-tchedness so appalling, that those who
would fain relieve it. shriek from its contemplation.
this Rerierner go to the spot—let him form his "comet
estimate" from the heart-breaking scene of misery that
every house in that populous district will present to him.
Let him count the number of pawnbrokers' shops full of
the implements of trade that have been pledged to raise
money for the next day's meal—let him count, as he goes
along, the number of looms that lie piled together in the
shops of the 10,mi-brokers—let him call to mind that the
instrument of Ais trade is the last article that a workman
parts with ; and let him reflect on what must have been
the pressure of that distress which forced such numbers to
make this /as sacrifice. Let him behold all this with his
own eves, and be will no longer talk of the consequences
that "may he exlK•cted to follow" from the operation of the
law to commence on the sth July. If the very prospect of
it has wrought (.11 this misery, what further, in the name
of neaten, would he wait for ?

"It was not to be expected,'‘ says the Reviewer,
" considering the peculiar circumstances under which
the silk manufacture had previously been carried on,
that so great a change should be very cordially ap-
proved by many of those engaged in the trade ; and
the fears that were at first expressul by several, of our
incapacity to withstand the competition of the French
under the new system, have latterly become more universal ;
and meetings have in consequence been held in London,
and memorials presented to Ministers, in order, as we un-
derstand, to induce them to postpone Me period for Me
repeal of Me prohibition. But while we hope and believe
that Ministers will make no concession uhatever on this
point, we are, at the same time, ready to admit, there are
others connected with the subject that undoubtedly have a
strong claim on their Immediate attention."

And what are these "others ?" Why, forsooth, " the du-
ties un organzine, dye stuffs, and soap." This, in his esti-
mate of the matter, is the source and the summing up of
all the grievance !In London, in Coventry,—iii Mac-
Derby,—in every town and village in the
kingdom, in which British silk is manufactured—the trade
is at a stand—the discarded workmen know not where to
look for food. And this cold-hearted b. eonontist proposes,
by way of remedy—a repeal of the duties on hari Ha, tallow,
and dye stuff.; !

All that would be "immediately lost to the revenue" by
this measure, he tells us, " would not exceed 236,0001."
A most humane legislator this, and a most admirable
financier ! A law is passed which brings ruin on a
trade that employed annually twelve millions of capital—
that turns /bur hun.frzd thouvind wa-haten adrift,—that
takes from the revenue the amount of eight hun-
dred thousand a year paid on the raw material,—and
creates all accumulation of n:isery, discontent, and des-
peration that—coupled with the necessity of the times—
threatens to paralyze, more or less, the whole manufacturing
industry of the country; and this sage adviser proposes, by
way of setting all to rights, to throw away 226,000/.
more rf the revenue, by reducing the price of tallow, and
diminishing the prime cost of pot and pearl ash ! ! •
There is a sacred relation in every country between its
Rulers and the population committed to their care; and
there can be no sound policy in any measure, be it what it 1
may, that begets alienation on either side. With regard to
the Silk Trade, it is of no service to indulge ourselves in
fulminations against monopoly, or to heap our praises on
the principles of free trade. We must come at once, and
specifically, to the grievance. With the high price of
labour here, compared with its lute price on the Conti-
nent, can the British silk-manufacturer enter into com-
petition with the foreigner, or can he not? That
he cannot is clear, because it is proposed to protect
him by a duty of thirty per cent. on foreign wrought
silk. Supposing this protection not to be frustrated by
the sniug;der—but which it most assuredly will be—against
what is our home manufacture to be protected ? You
answer, against competition. But if you are desirous to
guard him against competition, uhy expose him to it ?
Why remove that prohibition which was his security, and
force him to encounter a rivalry which may, and, to
all appearance inevitably will, lead to his ruin ? Is be
availing himself of the benefits you proffer him ? No, on
the contrary, he is flying from protection, while the fo-
reigner—the Frenchman—is alive, and full of glee ;be is
watching the arrival of the moment when he shall pounce
upon the market, and his only cause of astonishment is,
how he ever came to be admitted to it. France on her side
offers no reciprocity. She will owe all the obligation you
please for your liberality, and she will not fail to profit by
it to die full extent of her means, lawful and unlawful.
But ask her to open her heart, or her purse, in return—
ask her to relax the strictness of her prohibitory system, and
you have a flat refusal, given, however, with the most em-
phatic shrug, and pronounced with the best possible grace.
We lament that Ministers—who are greatly and moat
deservedly popular—should resolve to adhere to a measure
fraught already with consequences so tremendous, and
which threaten consequences more tremendous still. All
the sufferings which fall upon the thousands, and tens of
thousands, that this measure will cast upon the world will
be attributed by them to the Government. This is a state
of feeling above all things to be deprecated. • It is dan-
gerous to all public order, and cuts deeply at the root of
those principles which should bind all ranks of people to
their rulers.

iVe hear it said by some, that the experiment as regards
the Silk Trade may, at least, be tried ; and that if it fails,
we may then return again to the prohibitory law. There
is no consolation in this sort of languaee ; it is full of de-
lusion, and those who adopt it arc, we are afraid, very ill
acquainted with the. state of things to which they apply it.
The time will very soon be past within which it will be
possible for Ministers to retrace their steps, or to recover
the ground they will have lost. They may persist, and
their march onward may not be difficult ; hut that their
counter-march, should it become necessary, will be possiMe
is more that human foresight can predict, or human wisdoin
can promise.

CITY, SATVADAV Evextsa.
There has been some improvement iu the 11:itish Funds
to-day, which was the more unexpected from the unfa-
vourable opinion entertained for the last few days as to
their future condition, and it was for this reason that, on
Thursday last, the price of Consuls for Money was one-
eighth per cent. higher than that for February; under
those circumstances it was presumed, almost us a matter of
course, notwithstanding the recent depression, that the
commencement of the February Account would be very
similar to the last. Consols for Account left off yesterday
at 80, opened this morning at 79; HO, when Money Stock
became so much in demand that 3 per cent. Consols for
immediate transfer, as well as for Account, advanced to
Sul, and by two o'clock touched NOS, but left off a shade
lower. There having been so few failures during the last
Account, credit has suffered very little injury, and the
jobbers and dealers have recommenced their operations as
briskly as ever.
An unpleasant circumstance occurred yesterday afternoon,
which, although attended with no ill consequences, still
shows the necessity of extreme caution in the adjusting of ac-
counts on the part of bankers. The checks of a highly re.

spectable member of the Stock Exchange x, e
honoured in consequence of Ii hanker having
wrong account a large stim which lie had Ic'el
which, until the blunder was csirreeted, paced
very awkward predicament. The mistake was too
to affect his credit in the slightest degree,.
There continues to be a great deal of spernic
New 1 per Cents., which no doubt will ten.ain
feverish state until the uncertainty respecting a
shall leave been removed. Yesterday afternoon
4 per Cents. touched 96Z, but soon after the eo
ment of business this morning fell to 961, being
fraction of the lowest quotation during the week,
about one-half per tent. in the course of the
lice transactions in this stock appear to be very ,
nected with those of the 3 per Cent. Annuities.
The gloom which has prevailed at the Foreign
Market for some days past has been dispersed 08,
noon, and the prices of the Republican Secari
Improved nearly 1 per cent., which is the efflet
money having become more abundant. Mexican
which opened in the morning at 6.4, have been
afternoon as high as 61, but closed about 4 t
lower; the improvement in Colombian New Bonds,
for money and acoount, has been from .171 to 591
closed at 39i. In Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and
Bonds scarcely a bargain has been made, hut
be quoted nominally about 1 per cent. above the
the morning.
An Express reached town this afternoon from St.
burgh, bringing, we understand, accounts from that
tal to the 7th inst. up to which date affairs remained
very tranquil state, the military having shown
'Rion to oppose the authority of the new Etm
least that portion of the army in the immediate vi
St. Petersburgh. This news operated favourably c
mian Stock, which advanced from 83/ to 84, and
steady at the latter quotation. In Danish Bonds
improvement occurred. Austrian and Prussian Bonds
nominally a shade higher.

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tuuate, as several of
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