The Sun.
London, England, 1806-05-31 00:00:00

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PRILADELPII/g, APRIL 1.6. --.On Tuesday, the
15th inst. the Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives laid before the House the following Letter from
the Secretary of the Treasury

" Treasury DepartMent, April -15.
" In answer to the request contained in the Resolution, of
the House of Representatives of the, ith inst. I have thelo-
nour respedfully to state,, that no application has been made
to draw money from the Treasury, for the purchase of the
Floridas, before an appropriation made by the law for that
purpose. The circumstances which 'may have produced an
Impression that such an application had been made being un-
conneded with any Matter appertaining to the Office of Se-
cretary of the 'Treasury, are not presumed to come within
the scope of the information required from this Department
by the House.

(Signed)

" A. GALLATIN:a

A Philadelphia Paper of the same date says.—
" The Ambassador from treeßey of Tunis having
been sent to the Unitdd States, in consequence of
the seizure of a' small Cruizer, under the flag of
Tunis, With three Vessels, her: prites (all of trifling
'value), off Tripoli ; which Vessels the Bey insisted
should be restored, with threats of war, if refused ;
it was refused ; and, in reaped for the Bey, the
Ambassador was informed that the Vessel Would be
restored; upon which the Ambassador insisted upon
a quantity of stores being sent to Tunis for the use
of the Bey, which was also refused, and the Ambas-
sador was about to depart for his own country."
The Senate of the United States have consented
to, and advised, the ratification 'of the Tripolitan
Treaty. The votes were—Ayes 22—Noes 18.
On Tuesday the 15th inst. the Senate passed the
Bill.from the House of Representatives, prohibiting-
the importation of certain British goods, without
amendment—Ayes 19—Noes 9.--This Bill now
wants only the signature of the President to become
a law.

-PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 21,-4 letteffrom a Gen-
tleman at Was4ington, dated on Saturday, says :

" The Senate have this day received from the President a
nomination 91 JAMES Mtriv twit and W t.t.t PUICKNE't
(the latter of Maryland), to be ppmmissioners Plenipotentiary
and Extraordinary, for settling all our differences wi th Great
Britain, relative to wrongs' committed between the parties
(the United States, and Great Britain), on the high seas'orother
waters, and for establishing the principles of Navigation and
Commerce between them."

131,YmouTif, MAY eg.—Arrived the Portuguese
Schooner Rosalie, Capt. CIIEVEY, • from Lisbon,
bound to Nantz, laden with sugar, Or.c, 'detained by
the Milbrook Schooner. Arrived also the Kent, of
74 guns, from the Channel Fleet.
Sailed the,lliercurius;Tifoasow, for Hamburgh ;
and Diana, ROMEll,.for. London.
The Lalona Frigate; lately arrived froni the In.
shore Squadron off Brest, has come in to be repaired,
On the 22d inst. the- signal was made from-the Ints
petueux for that Frigate to go as close in as possible
and reconnoitre the Eriemy- in doing which she un-
fortunately •struck upon a rock. She almost Muller
diately threw out a signal that she was making three
inches of, water in .a minute. The Fleet hove
sight, and • the Diamond was. ordered to see the
Latona safe into Plymouth ; which service having
performed, the Diamond immediately returned tp
her station off the Black Rocks.
The Latona fell in; -a few days since, with a
French Fishing-boat, from the crew of which in 4
formation was'obtained, that the Enemy's Fleet, at
Brest, consists.of ten Sail of the Line, one of which
is in dock; the remaining nine Sail, with two Fri-
gates aft 3 a Brig of War, have their sails bent; but
the general state of the Ships is very bad, and greaily
out of repair, and extremely ill manned, grpt part
of their crews having been drafted to complete the
complement, of men sent in the Squadrons which
have been detached, at various times, from thence
for the East and West Indies. Naval stores are
stated to' bb very scarce, for the want of which the
artificers in the Arsenal are not employed more than,
two-thirds of their time. The names of the 5111134
at Brest are stated.to be as follow .
kepublicaine, Invincible, L'Ocean (three decker), lean
Part, TourviLle, Batave, W ate, L'Ailiance Julie, and Len-
citieror, of 74 guns each Topaze and I,lll:dien c iigates, and
a Brig.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY. 30.—Arrived the ~/itzte/ope
Brig, and has made signal for the East India Ships
to drop down to St. Aden's to-morrow, and will sail
on Sunday.
Also arrived La Fleelie Sloop of War, from off
Havre.; Moitcheron Gun-brig, Lieut. HAW SS, from.
a Cruize ; Union; DONALD, .• from heath; Hope,
HUTTON, from Chepstow; and the&solution Packet,
GODFREY', 'from Jersey.

yesterday a Ballot was taken at the East India
House on the following question, viz.
That this dourt having considered the Papers laid before
" it, most highly approves of. the.teal.inanitested and the
" conduct pursued by the Court of, Di.eztJrs, and regards a
" firm adherence to the principles in4l;ll4mM by the Court
" of Directors to be indispensibly 11Cce,sray to preserve the
" salutary authority over the Goveintnents-of India, vested
" by Law in the -ColVf of DirecUrr, ;o restrain a profuse
" expenditure of Public Money. arid to prevent all schemes
" of Conquest and extension of. Dominion, measures which
" the Legislature has des,lared to he repugnant to the wish. ,
" the honour, and the policy 01 the Nation ; and this Court
" cloth assure the Court of Directors of its most cordial and
" zealous Support, with a view to preserve unimpair"ed the
" Rights and Privileges of the Last India Company. •
At sit o'clock the Glasses were finally closed, and
delivered to the Scrutineers, who, at eight o'clock,
made theirreport, when the 'numbers were as fol-
low, viz-.
,For the Question 928—Against the Ques-
tion 195—Majority.733.
KING'S. BIRTH PaV,.H.Tviierity-five Thousand
Pounds will be given toilieiVirst-drawn Ticket next
Wednesday, June 4, being thesixth day's drawing
of the present Lottery. Tbe advantage ,of purchas-
ing-at this period is obvious, when so great a propor-
tion of the Tickets are drawn, and the Wheel still
contains nearly 140,0001. in Prizes:r--Tickets and
Shares warranted -undrawn continue on sale" at
SWII7 and Co.'s Old Office, in the Poultry.
TWENTY THOUSAND POUND.—NO... 4700, enti-
tled.to 20,0001. as first drawn Ticket yesterday, was
sold in one Quarter, one• Eighth, and ten Sixteenth
Shares, at. Blstes truly fortunate Offices, No. 4,
Coruhill, and. No. 9, Charing Cross ; where the-
last 30,0001. the. last 20,0001. and the last 10,0001.
ever shared, were 011 sold and registered. Undrawn
Tickets and Shares are selling at the above Offices
in great variety, and the' first drawn Ticket next
Wednesday, June 4; is entitled to 25,004:

LoNnoir; Printed b.; R. HARR. is (of Martleg-court,
Bow-street), and published by W. A.. SCRIPPS (01. Scoth,
Moulton-strect), the-Sun-Ottice, 113, litrtutti.