The National Register.
London, England, 1818-02-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIJ, re!. L—The Moniteur contains a Royal ordinanre.
elevating the Count de Cares to tltr dignity of a Peer of the
realm, as a reward " fur the good and loyal vemet s
he ItAs tell'lcretiondeontinue4 to render to the King'. perpoa,
and the Slitie."

The Duke of iVetlinfton ariivccl ou Saturday at nine
o'clock. Ilk Grace 1.4i1 in I. carnage the Due .tt.
litigtori, his sister-io-law, and Col. Harvey, his hi:4
Camp : iu another earriiii;e were Col. Fit:mantle and Lul d
Arthur Hiii.

AMERICA.
STIRRI.NDER OF AMELIA ISLAND.

fly the Commodore Porter, we fear that the United States
corvette John Adams, Commodore lieulcy ; I.tigs Enterprise
and Saranac, tool Schooner Lynx, with one gun-boat, arrived
off Amelia Island on the 18th ult. On the 2241 Commodore
Aury was summoned, in the name of the United States, to
surrender the island to the United States force ordered there
for that purpose, which summons was cow plied with on the
23d, when 2SO United States' troops from Point Petre took
possession of the island. A messenger to Washington, die.
patched by Commodore Aury, arrived in the Commodore
Porter, nod furni•hes a copy of the document ;
The Answer of General Aury to a letter from the Ametiean
officers, demanding the surrender of Feu nandina.
Ileadluarters, Fernandina, Dec. 02. 1917.
" Gentlemen,-1 have received your official letter of this day, by
%Inch. in the name of the Government of the United States, you sum-
mon Its to csactiate this place with the troops under my command,
as soon as it will be convenient, as pessession tiiereof is to he taken by
the forces under your connuand, under certain conditions specified in
your said letter.
" Neither this republic, that of Mexico, nor any other of South
America, being at war with the United States, obliges me to state to
you, that the contents of your letter greatly surprised this Govern-
ment and the people of this State. You have, nevertheless, intimated.
that in case of our acrieseence in your demand, we shall be Fer-
ri:Sled to evacuate this island, which neither is, nor ever has been, a
part of the United Btates.
" Allow me to observe to you, gentlemen, that from the moment
we took Fernandina, by the force of our arms, we ecured into the
tall possession of all the rights appertaining to our enemy, and to
this day we have supported these rights, at the risk of tur list:1111%4
fortunes.

" The boundaries between the Fioridas, and the United States
haring been fairly settled on the 47th Oct. 1795, we are at a loss ht.w
to ascertain your authority to interfere in our ino2mal eoneeriss.
" Our surprise increases when we reflect, that your ci.:,pmitinica-
tion comes authorised by the Government of apt who, in ;Lis
respxt. :.,11ory in the right.: of catinns, whether great (sr small. awl
aria), no doubt, sympathize with their sonthern bit:herr, ia the straE-
gle for liberty and indepentler.;:.e ills which they are engaged, as were
the united States ao years ago.
" Oa the other band, you promise to hold sacred such •,,f vi;:r p,,-
perty as tutquestior.ably belongs to our citizens. Who :::o IA toe
judge nt that arse? The United Stater? They can by no 'nears
shut any kind ofjurisdirtion. from the source of the river St. Mars
down to the ocean, on this side the centre of the channel. We enter-
tain ton much veneration to believe fire a mor.scnt that res.
(suppoied already in poscr:sion of this isione, which has never bievn
conceded by the King of Spain; or by its inhabitants, to the United
States) can bring with you a competent tribunal to decide upon this
quection. The only law you can adthr.:e in your behalf is that of
force, which always Is
.reptignant to a republican Government, andtothe principles of a just and imp:nine nature. The same obser-
vation way be applied to yoar interference for thb property of the
inhabitants. winch we have always respe,:ted ar.d constea-exl as, ca.
cred.

You order us, also, as if we were sub:ects of your Governna; rt,
to leave behind. when Fernandina is evacuated, all the public 'crte.
petty that was Munt'l at its surrender. l'hisdetni.nil is directly ci,as
trary to the public rights, by which public property captured from
the enemy is avowedly that'll the captors, when not otherwise stip'.
dated. Xre you acting in the name of the King of Spain or of EIS
Allies 1 As we consider the people of the United States to be skt
questionably the only free people on the sarfs.ce of the globe, we
cannot admit that you have already an•ivcd to stt.th a poilit of dev,ra..
dation. Otherwise your demand is i:udlnirsih:e and unjuititiat,!,
in the eyes oldie world ; and if w•e must ►USatlt to it, all the
rests with you.
•' Permit, me therefine, gentlemen. to request you to lay be .:re
the President of the United States these remark,, in ondtr that a
matter of so serious a tendency may he duly considered. We h.:ye
read his Excellency's Message at the opening of Congress with !I-A
ueinost concern, and have concluded that the political situation rt
this Republic has been greatly misrepresented in the United Ststc•,
through the intrigues of our enemies. We have certainly a right to
be heard; for winds purpose I shall have the honour of forwarding
to your Government the necesiary documents if you aro not di,.
posed to let the thing remain in :tout trio, until the Presidt-nee
further determination beknown, I am authorised toassure youthatwe
respect end esteem too highly the people oldie (Jutted States, to carry
matters to extremities.

" 1 hive the honour to remain, with the liiihest wnsicicration,
Gentlemen, yours, &e. (Signed) " Aux
" S. L. Holmes, Stcretary."

The alledged indecent and mercenary coruiuet of
aome persona attached to St. George's Chapel, at Wind-
sor, on the ceremony of the funeral of the late lament.
ed Princess Charlotte, lnes drawn upon them the an.
ger of the Prince Regent . Not only,
it is smo, were
immense sums demanded for admission to the body 4
the chapel, but the Prince Regent's Pages, :Ind °the,
Members of the Royal Household, trere e \eluded, to
make room for this profitable traffic. This subject has
brought about a new arrangement.-14 order of the
Prince Regent, the Canon! are remo,7cd front the Stalls
wilicit they have occupied for tentny years, and arc now
to sit I.);:ltind the poor Kniilits.

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