The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-22 00:00:00

AMERICAM PAPETtg.

NEW' YORK, SAN. I4.—The acting Secretary
of the Treasury made his annual report on &lon-,
day. The Loan now demanded is twenty-nine_
tuillions three hnndred.and-fifty thousand 'dollars!
A -letter from Wa'stlington, alkiding to tire ap-
polatbient of Air. (lay, says, '" This Gentleman
'bet:bone of the most influential in bring-
ing about a state of hostility with Great Britain,
and being still strenuous in favour of the war,
notnination is com.idered as very unfavour-
able to the prospect of a spee.dv pence. He is the
intimate friend and. adviser pf the President ; and
being from Kentucky, is more deterniined ago :10
a cessation almost any mau,who
Might have .been Selected."

HOUSE OF. REPiII:,I',NnTIVES, JAN. la.

TIT it REAWS LItTTER.—The House of Repre-
sentatives was engaged in the discussion 'of Mr.
Hanson's- Resolutions, calling on the President
for information respecting the insolent letter re-
:-e,:ed some time ago at. the Departtnent of State
frhm Turreau, the French Minister. Pee subject
excited much-debate, and no little' warmth on the
part of the majority. They contended that the
Resolutions ought not to be adopted, because the
Mover of them ought
riot specii.ied the object ‘vilich
he expected to accomplish-by them, and rib prac-
tical consequences could result from their ad{p-
tion. 'They considered the inquiry p. ()posed to
he instituted into this }lntl of Coe
,conduct of the
Executiye an infringement cal. . l
to
is epema as
a' co-ordinate brancli' of . Government,. and
therefore highly improper. ,
The minority fliltended, that_tbe incluh..Y pro-
posed by Mr. Hanson was legitimate and honour-
able. It was high lime to know the true state of
our affair s' with. France, and, 'the resolutions be-
fore the Honse, if adopted, would afford the op-
portunity Of nequiring t in;t. important inforneatlon.•
They insisted that the President was bohnd to
have communicated the letter from the Freheli
Miniiter to the Congress and to the people, iutis-_
much as,it expressed the views, feelings, and in-
tentions of' his master towards the United States,
and by the suppr'ession of it, he had been guilty
of a high, misdemeanour, and ought to.be consti-
tutionally proceeded against by the House.
After considerable debate on the passiige of the'
Resolutions, Mr. FisK, of.New,Vork „ moved that
the further consideration of the question be post-
poned till the ft-rst Monday in
.Mar'eh. This mo-
tion 'vas negatived—Ayes 37 ; Nays 127.
The question was then taken on the adoptiOn of
tha,Resolutions, and last"—Yeas SO—Nays 100..
Mr. GeosvEtcoli supported the Resolutions.—
He declared, that if the facts were proved, the
President merited- impeachment for, correeaiing„.
them ; and appeared to conceive, the permission
of the withdrawal of the letters to be no less an
offence than he considered its concealment to have
been, because the same rule extended would sane-
tic;', the destruetion.or giving away of any.publie
document at any time, or even of all the papers in
the Department of State.. . -;
Mr.' CALItt OUN observed 4 oil the subject .of French subserviency, which had been designated I
as oue of the subjects of inquiry.. Mr. Calhoun I
' ridiculed the idea uf an inquiry by this Houseln- i
-to thht baselessaecnsation,.and on a document too,
which on the face of it proved, if it were perniitted
to prove -my thing, that no , such subserviency
existed. The very docutnent by which Gentle-
men wished to prove a French influence, cut up
by •the roots the fanciful absurdity, being predict-
ed imi tile'supposed existence of an influence of -a
very different character. I

• Mr. WRIGTIT, Of Md. said, in reply to some_ob-
'servations made by some Gentleman in favour of•
the motion, who had drawn a parallel or contrast
between this case and that of Jackson, the former
Bi-itiSh Minister, remarked, that a vast difference
at least was perceivable in the conduct Of the op-
position, in the two eases, and adverted to the
dinners_given to the dismissed Minister at Plipa-
delphia and at :Pannell Hall, in Boston, and to
the inemorable.toast given at the latter dinner by
a , venerable Muni cr of this House—'' Britain's
fast anchored isle the bulwark of our holy reli-
gion." These dinners, 8:c. he believed to have
been under British infitunrce, if not under that of
Dr. Henry's pills., lle Wa3 piceeeing to remark
rather harshly on the motives of the advocates of
the proposition :

Whe-n the SPEAKER checked him forpei:sonality
in debate.

• Mr. MAcON said be should. Vote for the Reso:
because he believed the )resident inno-
cent—he being IC a pure, man, like'pure gold, peed
fear no scrutiuy."

WEDNESDAY, JAR. 12. '
Mr. RdBERTS, of Pennsylvania, introduced the
following resolution :

Resoivec, That the President be, and hc'i a herChy request-
ed tosea!tstz to be. Tnid Gefure thi;4 414 cOrrei4poneeoce
with, or COlllMUnication in writing from, the tate Minister
of France, resident at Washington, on or about the 14th
:June, 1803, or subsequently, with his sneeessor, Serrn-
rier, prescribing or declaring the terms arid canditions upon
which that Sovereign would- consent to treat ,of amity and
commerce with the -United States, if any such correspondence
orr:.ormuuniecition be in the liossi%sion of the Executive,. and
if. none such he in the possession of the Exeeutive, thlit the
President be., and he is hereby requested to inform. this Flutist,
nr.!ess the pnblie interest- forbid such disclosure, whether
therelitis not been such a correspondence or communication,
whieli was withdrawn from the archives of the Departmetif
of'S'iate, and...if so, when and how the- same, was su
drawn.

This resolution has occasioned another ani-
nn debate, nearly the whole of this day. Mr.
Webster, of N. LE, moved an amendaent, by sub-
stituting the substance of Mr. Tianson's resolu-
tion of yesterday, viz: the appointment of a Com-
mittee by the House to make the inquiry. This
was supported with much ability by the Mover,
Messrs. Hanson, Grosvenor, Shipherd,, Stockton,
Bigelow, Ac. A motion Was made. by Mi.Yay-
lor, W postpones the whole subject until the .first
of July next: negatived.— -Mr: Barnet moved the

previous question : negatived—Ayes 64, Noes K
The amendment of Mr. Webster was negatived :
ayes .and noes taken—Ayes 62, Noes 98.—Mr.
Hanson then moved an amendment; in substance
as follows :—" That the House will, on the
day of receive
evidence at the bar of the House, respetting said
letter, and how it came' in the possession of a,
member of this House." • This ailieudalent was