The Sun.
London, England, 1814-10-13 00:00:00

AMERICAN CONSTITUTION,

Extracts from the evn:tititten if thi- Unit(.( Sta:es.

Congress. has the power to 'declare war, grant. lette.rs of
marque and reprisal. . •
To raise and support arrniesand navies.
• To suppress ins arrections and repel 11WaSiO;t.c.
To make all laws necessary and proper for the eXeentitin-of
the foregoing powers.
To dispose of and make all needful rules aiid regnlations
respecting the territory or tither prtipertV, belOuging to the
United States.
The executive power shall be vested in a.President of the.
United states, who shall serve durnig four years.
Incase of the death, resignativii, or limoility of the Pi e-
Sident, the office shall devolVe upon the Vice-l'resident ;, and,
the Congress may by law appoint what Officer Shall act as
President and Vice-i'resident.

The President shall hai e pwvcr, d ith the advice and cun.
sent of the Senate; to uiake treaties; iircltidod l‘vo-thilds of
the Senators couttir.

The President, Vice President, and all Civil .Officers of the
United States shall be removed uti iaipeaChtrient; and Convic-
tion, of treason, briberp, and other high crime§ and misde-
meanours.
the CongreSs shall have power to dispose of and make ail
needful rules and regulations respecting toe territory or other
property belonging to the United States---and nothing herrn'
shall be so construed as to prejudice any elailas of the United.
States or of any particular State.

it• We stippose this articlC must hare been rescimled.—ED.

COMMERCE.--BRUNSWICK, SEPT. 2G.—' Our
late fair was generally good, except, for hides,
which, in consequence of the peace, did not find
the same demand as formerly. The English trailers
were deceived in'their calculations, They had not
only inundated the fair with their goods, whic!i
naturally • tended to lower the prices, but them
was,little anxiety on the Part of the buyers to
purchase thew. Our commercial relations with
Hainburgh'are re-established on their old footing,
and have resumed their ordinary course."
CoLS.—Notwithstanding the late" fine weather,
the price of coals has continued high, very few
ships coming to the London market. In the
course of last week, however, no fewer than 400
sail of laden colliers arrived in the river, when it
was naturally expected that the price ivould he
considerably reduced but, to the great disap-
pointment of,the public, it has increased, which
is thus accounted for.
.There are only seventy
Meters in the port of London, appointed for the
measurement of conk ; and this small number is
greatly inadequate to attend to the business %rhea
,large fleets of colliers arrive in quick succession,
as in the instance otlast creek; and as every ship
is cleared out in the rotationsin which their car-
ries arc purchased at the market, the coal mer-
chantS in times of scarcity are in a great meaSiire
compelled to buy early at almost any price, rather
than run the hazard of waiting several ‘veek's,,
until the Meters are at leisure to clear out the
ships. Coals rose Is. yesterday, anti are now 76,
'per chaldron for town delivery. Alight not the
number of Meters he increased ; or those already
appointed be allowed assistants in cases of enter-
e ?—(Times.) _
gln'clie arbitrary prohibition of British cottons in
Spain is attempted to be palliated, by alledging a
petition of the manufacturers of Barcelona to that
effect..
ST. JOHN'S, NEAR LAKE CHAMPLAIN, AUG. 14,
1814.--1' 'We are now buying all the horses and
Waggons we can lay our hands upon, -t6 carry for- .
ward the supplies for the army: about 5000• men
will be in motion on the 20th towards the Lake,
1 suppose fol. the purpose of destroYing the Attie-
',dean fleet."

The Adams destroyed at Hampden, was a cor-
vette of 24 guns, commanded by a Capt. illoaats.
The John Adams is rated at the same force.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was hell at. the
East, India House, when Capt. Loca was Sworn
into the command of the ship Grant, destined to
Bombay and .China.

GigRALTAR, SEpr. 17.

WEEKLY RETURN OF SICK AND DEATITS, PROM TIIE
10TII I'o THE 16TII SEPT. INCLUSIVE.

'Remained nth St.pt.
Admitted, since

Lazaret. Town. Total.
8 92 30
3S 32 70

, . T,irkl 4r; , 54 iOn
Cnnralescents.... ......
Deaths.... .
Rculaining 1.2 , V 39
. „ (Signed) 'IS' AiLeFRASI',R,
Actin,'Deptfty Inspector of Hospitals.

The admissions of fever cases have materially
decreased in the regiment of Dillon for these last
few flays. The rest of the, garrison continue as
reported last week. • . •
A Lieutenant of DillOn's, and two merchants,•
(their names, I believe, Moore and Melville) arc
the only deaths during the week, -except'ainong
people. of the lowest class, to whom in a great
meanre the fever seems confined. Every pos-
sible prudent precaution continues•to betaken to
prevent the contagion spreading.

IMPORTANCE of OUR LAST CONQUESTS.

The possession of Penobscot has long been an
object of solicitude : the error committed in 1783
was soon felt, and the 'chances of this war enable
t,osv tee a rroot 7t-_ On this 'subject we subjoin
Ifi-Fr(Ttiowing extract from Mr..ACHESON S nook,
published in 1803, entitled " Aniefican Encroach-
rinirlts on Biitish Rights."

" On the termination of the American war, it
appears to have been the intention of the British
Government that the river Penobscot should have
been the boundary line between the United Stares
and the Ning's Colones ; but, unfortunately,
either through the want of local information in the
English Commisslinters, or the intrigue of the
Court of Versailles with the American Minis-
ters, that negociation was carried .on,
tikis line of boundary was .abandoned, and the
Unitvl States allowed 10. go as far to the eag-
ward as the river St: Croix ; thus yielding up to
tikenl an extent of sea coast of nearly fifty leagues.
&reference to the maps will chew that the river
Penobscot %vas the natural houndary, and which
Great Britain should endeavour to obtain by ne-
gOciation,i orotherwise, in the event of war ; in
order, not only in the former instance to preclude
a repetition of the claims of the. United States to
_ _

each simeceedog Administration, and to prevent
in future the furtherencroachments Of their sub-
jects on the British frontiers;. but, in the latter
' instance„ tod6feat any .suddetr attack on Canada:
Adwitting the river St. Croix to be the boun.;
• dary, and the line from its• source to run as de-
scribed by the Treaty of 1783, the commmmica-
tion between New .Brunswick and Canada is com-
piztely i'nterseeted, and' a large tract of country,
within:fiftY Miles- of Frederktota, the late seat of
the 00vvrinuent that province, -would belong
to the Unitea- States,. ••On this tract of country
(ptring. the negotiations respecting the intention of
the pa.. ies as to the true direction of the boundary
line); the Government of the United States have
for sotne'timqyast been fixing settlers,. and form-
establishments there. This circumstance is not
perhaps, gent:rally known ; it is, however, im-
portant, that the same should be settled before
the renewal of-any treaty with the United States.
• The letters in the Appendix to the 2d vol. of Ex-
tra-oßicial Papers:' dearly sitcw it was a favou-
rite_object oldie British Government, that the river
Penobscot should be the boundary line between
the two conntr:es-, and arrangements were shade
far -establishing- a new colony there, which
pears even to have. received the sanction of his
Majesty'. ''Frimi what I have said upon time sub--,
ject of Colonization, .and the popers.l have an-
nexed to tl,'s and a farmer publication, a part Of
the. plan upon which a new Colony iit-
' tended to' i,ive been settled, which I • referred
to in °my letter to Mr. PITT, may be Collect!.
emi ; hut from the'copies and extracts of twit let-
ters fro-m Lord S CKV LLB to me upon- time subject
of the new colony, which I have given in the Ap-
pendix,, No. 20 and .21, the approbation, I said,
my plan had net with, will be confirmed."—“.The
country where it' was proposed to' establish the
colony 61,- New Ireland, is known by the name of
- the province of Main.t It is included in the an-
cient Chart-er of Ma'ssachtiSsetts Bay; but the ge-
neral Courts of that province were restrained by
the charter from' niaking pants of time lands
without the consent of the Crown ;-..-Which having
been .generally refused,' few settlements ha:l been
made to the east of the river'Kennebeck, and nOne.
to the-east of. Penobscot. By the, latter river,
thereiore, until the St. Croix, the western boun-
dary of Nova Scotia, was the _new' province to
, have iiieeti bounded."

ti
It is to be regretted that the management and
tue.. snowises of his Majesty's arms in other.
parts of the. American Continent, have nut been
equally splendid with those at:Washington, Pe-
nobscot, and in the Bay of Funcly. The loss of
EL() Many brave and gallant men in Upper Canada
must ever he a subject of deep and lastingregret, -
especially when it is recollected, that had sue- .
cow's from tire Lower Province' been sent early
in the Spring, N.Kben demanded, they might have
been staved to their country, and the war in that
quarrel• terrhinateci with little 'bloodshed, by the
expulsion of the enemy from the frontier, wol
the desrruction of 'Sachet's Harbour and their
other'lcirts cm the borders of the Lakes !

See Knox's Extra-official Papers, published by • De?
brett, 1789.
Krix's tetfe.is; also thC! British •Treaty, 14 Go-
vcr►wr Morris, Esq. p.

Tue,,:dny morning- the family of the Hon. Mr.
HERuptIT, at Mitelimn, ,ire alarmed by the re-
port
of.,a,spriog-gun, which had 'been placed in
the
garden (and of which the regular notice had
been given).: the.servants, on repairing 'to the
spot 41 a Wali lying.a ire yards distaut; life-
; 11e was
,djscm-Ptoq! to be an old offender,
;:0,,0103r a! few days before, had been detected,
'itiki;m. report, in another gentleman's gar-
only a f.ol' shins bring lOdged in his
.91(4.'1* the idea of: this eircui4stance
. set at liberty. •