The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

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AMERICAN PAPERS.

ST.ITE P %PER.
Nave-Yotta., MARCH 7.—The following, message
was yesivi day transmitted by the President of the
United S•Ates to the House of Representatives:—
To the House of Representative' of the United States.
In transniitt,ug to the House of Rept inieniatives the do-
commits called fur by the resolution of that House of the
80111 Jatilillry, I consider it ms duty to invite the attention
of Cents: ess to a very impoi tam subject, and to commu-
nicate the sentiments of the Exeentive on it, that ahoohl
Cusigress en tot min sentiments, thine may be Snell
co-operation betweeli the tan Departments of the tio.
verntnent, as their respective rights and ditties may re-
quire.
The revolutionary movement in the Spanish Provinces
in this lomispliere, attracted the attention. and excited
the sympathy of our fellow citizens, from its commence-
ment. This feeling was natural and bottom able to theta,
from causes which need not be co iiiii tuideated to you. It
has been gratifying to all to see the general acquieacenee
which has been manifested, in the policy which the con-
&tinned anthoritica have deemed proper to porsne, in le-
gate, to this contest. As soon as the movement HAS ttttt ed
'melt a Measly and consistent (Olin as to intake the success
of the Provinces probable, the rights to which they were
entitled by the law of stations, as eipial parts to a civil
war, were extended to them. Each party was permitted
to enter our ports with its public and private ships, and to
take from them every article which was the subject 01
COII4IIIO ce with other nations. Our citizens also carried
min cuininsace with both parties, and the goverhineiit has
protected it, with cacti, in articles not contraband of war.
the whole of this contest, the United States have
'enmitied neutral, and have fulfilled, aith the mutual
11111141 nobly, all the obli4ation. Melds ni to that character.
This contest has now reached such a stage, amid been
attended with such decisive stiecess on the part of the
Provinces, that it meths the most profound cousideration
whether their tight to the rank of iodepeodent nations,
all the advaiit-i;es incident to it, in their intercourse
'with the Voile(' States, is not complete. Itnenos Ayres
assumed the rank by a formal declaration in 1616, anti has
enjoyed it since 1510, free front invasion by the parent
terimitry. 'lime eiVitiCee composing the Republic of Co-
Itimbia, after having sepal at el), declared their inileoend-
epee, were mimed by a fundamental law of Dee. 17, t.tifi.
A +along Spanish bore occupied, :it that tine, her!,ll.l
pm tit of the teri itoi y within their limits, and witi4.ll a de-
structive war. That tome has since been re pt. ate& y de-
feated. null the whole of it either made poisoners, cr de-
stroyed, or expelled front the country, with the exception
of an inconsiderable petition only which is blockaded iu
two fortresses. The Provinces on the Pacific have like-
wise been vet), successful. Chili declared indepentielice
in 1818, and has since enjoyed it undisturbed ; and °E late,
bey the assistance of Chili and liiiesios Ayres, the revolti-
tom has evendeil to Peru. Of the movement in Mexico
Our information is less authentic ; but it is, nevertheless,
ciistinetly lohletstood, that the new governmen: has de.
clai rd its tiollienilent e, and that that c' is now uu opposi-
tion to it Melt , nor a force to make any. Fur the last
%Ince yt ma the got ea ment of Spain has not sent a single
evrps ii item• to any part of that country; nor is there
1 ta,Vii 10 Ii irve al with send any in till use. Thus it is
seamiest that ail those provinces are only in the foil en•
jeymeut of their MM. pen fence, but considering the state
,it the war, and other eiteanustauces, that there is nut the
most remote propect in their hi iug declared of it.
Win n the result of omit a contest is manifestly settled,
the new governments have a claim to Recognition by other
Powers, ahich ought not to be tesisted. Civil Wrlls too
011111 tacit. feelings which the patties cannot control.
The opiniou entertained by other Powers as to the result,
Is 4y assitage those teelings, and promote an uccomitioda-
tiou beta cen them, useful and honourable to both. 'Pile
delay which has Lien observed in making a decision on
this impel tont ct, will, it is pi esiiineid have allorded
an unequivocal prom* as it twist have done to
other Poweis, ui hm high re•peet entertained by the
United States for her tights, and of their detei ' ation
motto niterleie 551111 thew. The provinces belonging to
Una liemispliete ale our mielibotti s, and have successively,
as each ;tuition attic country acquired its independence,
revolt the it recoguition, lty an appeal to facts iiot to be
toitteated, and which, they thought, gave them a just title
1a it. To motives of intetest this (lover nt has inra•
lli:bly disclai tttt all pretension, being resolved to take no
pail in the controversy, or Mimi- ineasme in regard to it,
winch should not molt the sanction of the civilised world.
To other claims a just sensibility has been always felt, and
pally at knowledg. (I, but they, iii themselves, took' never
Income au ad.. quo IC tuttae of action. It was inemittient
011 this Ouse' ttttt esti to look to es my important tact and
eireimistance. mt whit:it a sound upiuiuu could be folioed,
which has Iss..eti dusts'. Nilleit wa regard, the great length
itif time which this war has heels piuseented, the cosuplete
miecess which hes attended it, in favour of the provinces,
the present condition of the parties, aid the tiller inability
of Spain to produce any change in it, we are compelled to
conclude that it• fate is vettltil, and that the proviiicett
'which have declared their uidrpendence, and ate in the
enjoyment of it, ought to be secugiiised.
Or the views of the Spanish Government on this subject,
no particular iumrmation has been le. coil, reetistot. It
may be presumed, that the suecessfal prmsretai of the 11.V11111.
lion, through melt a Ling series of years, gaining sireogth
and exiesidiag annually iii every direction, and midst:wing,
by the late imam-mot events, with little exception, all the
doinioious of Spain South of the United Slates, on this Con-
tinent; pi:lrina fliers hy , the complete sovereiveity over the
hole in toe hoods 01 the in °plc, will reconcile till' parent
country to on decision-m.lmi tt silt ile in, on the basis of
Mir unqualified todeptudenee. Nor lioa tiny authentic in
formation been recruit). received or the disposition of other
powers respecting it. A sincere desire leas been cherished
to act iii C11111:ell with them in the proposed I eiuguilloll,
lit
si limit Woeful were some time WO dui) ,Iprifed. but it was
wades-400d thin they woe out prepared for it. The 'm-
olt:oat: woes; brines 11111.1 SC PUN rrs, virtu timer ahirkborder
1111 III!' Atlantic. alai toese prosinCee, makes the movement
ruralfuir of It sit iittelest auJ eXciteusrul to them thun to us.
It is inututhle, tixieforr, deal they have been lets attentive
to Its I. rut. rase than ae h.ve tutu. It may be ',remitted,
Irunever, that the late es. MS will dispel till doubt of tue

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