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hesion lasting. Discontent wottld urravoidably rage throughout
their states, and to keep our vassals, we should be obliged to
maintain beyond the Atlantic, a still greater force than to
conquer them. Other nations would, besides, interfere in
their behalf. France herself has already publicly avowed her
:ears lest our purpose should be that of subjection, and her
intention to support the indapendence of Areerica. Let her
therefore retain a nationll existence, but
.let her secure it by
concessions, which will at once disarm our vengeance, and
compensate for the evils the ha, I.n.iiik.tly done us.

A Gentleman lately returned f; om Pails, who witnee,asi the
First meeting of Marshal Soule and the Duke of Wellington,
represents that the Marshal, on being informed his noble
aatagonist was present in the room, discovered an inclination '
to rctbe, hut was ptevailed upon to be introduced to the
Duke. The first impressions of the interview appeared some- ,
what repulsive on both sides, but terminated in a walking
cons'elence rat in arm.
The following singu!ar circomstance took place on Sator- !
ctly :—On the arrival of the Dover mail coach at Roches- ,
ter, on its way. to town, the guard was unexpectedly and
peremptorily called upon by Sharpe, the Custom-house ofE i
ear, to deliver up an official parcel in his care, addressed to
t:.e Right. Hon. I d Castlereagh, purporting to be from
Lis Glace the Duke of Wellington. This the guard with
much fear and reluctance complied with ; it was instantly
opened, and found, instead of important clispatches, to con-
tain many small valuable packages of contraband lace and
other articles, addressed to distinguished persons in the coun-
te-y. Slanlie's seizure of course was made, but he allowed
the mad to corrione its journey, although both coach and
berses became lega'ly folfeited.
LION HU 'r.-.--I.ly a let ter front a correspondent at kurnau I
we are informed ofih' particulate ofa Lion Bunt, in the vici-
nity of that station.dui ing which Col. Thompson, nnd a patty
of 0 facers kili«l a lion of enormous size, and supposed to be
the largest ever seen in India. His dimensions were the Colima.
ing:—Letigth Item the end of the nose to the tip of the tale.
ten feet two inches ; front the wound to the top of the
shoulder, foul feet six inches ; ciremnierence of the fore leg,
two feet tour inches. I,le had killed eight villagers, a number
of eullocks, and otherwee done much damage, previous to
in'orn.ation being sent to cantonments of his being in the
beiahbourhood.
A match has been made betwixt a sporting Kentish
Kni..;ht, and a gentleman of fortune, which has excited
ninth interest. The former has undertaken, for a bet of •
'2OO guineas, to pioduce a horse which shall give any man
ia England fourteen miles and a half in one hour, and the
animal is not to he tkorough bred. Reiner is the fastest ren7
ner for an hour or furl/ea, in this country, and he, it is sup-
pesed, will run against the horse. The start will take place
within ten days from this time, 30 forfeit.
Box iNG.—A • most resolutely contested pitched battle took
y.)17 e on Mow bray Downs, below the vale of White
on Monday last, betwixt Messrs. Crosset end Wingfield,
ft ,tic s, in Wil!shi'e, for 1001. aside. In the first round hitg
male exchanged, es if by agreement, but with considerable
weight and quickness for seven minutes ; and the tonne'
ois!i:.(i by erosset doubling up his adversary by a body blow.
Se: enteen rounds of this sort worse fought without
shifting of
seat! ine for wind ;it was spent in death-like 'titling until
neither bad the remnant of a feature. Both at List fell, after
fialetie;, fif,y loi!doe,, and a.; Ciniet could not rise again,
‘‘. seas declared conqueror.

OCT. 21,

AMERICAN STATE PAPER.

WASHINGTON, SEPT. S

DY THIS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA'L'ES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.
~Whereas the enemy by a sudden incurson have succeeded in in-
vadieg the capital of the nation, defended at the momeot by
troops less Dinnertime than their •t.% n, and almost entirely of the
militia; daring their possee.ion etf which, though for a siuele day
only, they wantoely destroyed the piddle edifices having err rela-
tion in their structure to operations of war, nor used at the time for
military annoyance ; somelef these edifices Irvine also costly imotiu-
meets of taste and of the arts, and other repositories of the pub-
lic m chives, not only preciens to 11,e nation as the memorials of its
firigits and its early transactions, bat inteiestine U. all *nations,
eontributions to the general stock of historical instruction and p-
a.' t ical ficience.
And whereas, advantage has been taken of the loss of a fort,
more immediately gnarding the noezhbotiring town of Alexandlia,
to place the towu within the 'liege of a 'meal force, toy apd
too much in the habit of abusing its tt ctiority where, er it cart he
applied. to reqiii FP, au the alternative el a genet al eoi.flagration,
malinturbed plunier of private preperty which has t 'teemed
in a mintier pecidiarly distressing to tie inhabit:sat, r 3 ho had, irc,ne.
siderately
.cast, themselves upon the justice and generosity of the
victor.
And whereas, it now appears, fly a direct conminnication from
the British Ceminander on the American station, ti be his avowed
purpose to employ the knee under his dirt coon, iu " destreyiug
and laying waste steel' towns and districts men,: toe coast as may tie
found as.ailaule;" adding to (hie deelaratitni the instill:lag pretext
that it is in roaliation for a wanton destituttion co:width d by the
army of the United State- in Uoper Counia, mho' it •is notnrions,
that no destruction has ht en committed. which, pots% ithstandiut
the multiplied outrages pi eviotoly committed by the enemy, was
itot unauthorised and promptly show' ; and that the Utd.
fed States have been as constant in their enikiivours to reclaim the
enemy trim such outrages, by the contrast of their own example,
as they have been ready to terminate, -on rcastinabic conditions, the
war itself.
Aud whereas, these proceedings and declared pnrposei, which
exhibit a deliberate disregard of the principies of 101101111ity, and
the rules of civilized warfare, and vvhieb must give to the existing
war a character of extended devastation and barbarism, at the
very moment of iiegociations tier peace, invited by the enemy him-
self, have no prospect et* safety to any tiling Withia the reach of
his predatory and incendiary operations, bet in manful and finiver•
sal determination to chastise and expel the ia Yoder.
Now, therefore, I, James Madison, Preeident of the United
States, do issue this my proclamation, exhorting all the good tee-
pie thereof to unite their hearts and hands in tiring effect to the
ample means possessed for that purpose. I enjoin it on all °dicers,
civil and military to exert themselves in executing the duties with
which they are reweetively charged. And mere especially, I re-
quire the officers commanding the respective military districts, to
be vigilant and alert in providing for the defence thereof; for the
more effectual accomplishment of which, they are autherked to
call to the defence of exposed and threatened places port:oi.s of
the militia most convenient thereto, whether they be or ht not
parts of the quotas detached for the service of the United States
under requisitians of the general govertiment.
On an occasion which appeala so forcibly to the proud f‘etings
and pats none devotion el the Amelican people, none will 6)1.0'
what they owe to thetrimlyto, what they ov‘e to their conetry and
the high destinies which await it ; what to the glory acquired by
their father', in establishing the independence %illicit is now to be
maintained by their son., whit the augmented strength and resources
with which time and Heaven had blessed them.
In testimony v.:hereof I have hereunto set my hand, and cause&
the s, al of tee-United States to be fixed to these presents.
Done at the City of Waihington, the first day of September, in
the year of oar Lord .1814, and of the Independence uf
United States the 59th.

J VC. MADISON.
By tile. President, JAS. MONROE) SeC• of State
(Maryland Gazette, Sept. 8)