The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-13 00:00:00

FRRNCII PAPER:4.

CFrom 0.1 Ccnrier Francai4 of And:ly.)
PAtets, :,Plitt. 9:
Sixty of the first banking and eo►n+nercial hotw.s
in Paris have just presented au Address to the
King, in which they solicit his Panjesty to Fetid,
as England has done, Consuls to South,AMericd,
and to make treaties of commerce with all those
nations to which the French have free effrea, 1 t
is affirmed also that the merchants of Ijordea;ox
have signed a similar Addres,,
,and that all,,the
Chambers of Commerce in the kingdom act 544,-
taneously for the sante purpose.
The Eloile and the Drapeau will not fail*,
say, to-morrow, that all the merchants of Frani e
are seditious. ,

The following are the words of the Address:- -

TO THE KIN(}.

" SI ItEi—The merchants of Paris will never forget the m--
morable words pronounced by your Majesty, when you latciy
came to visit the monumental edifice which is consecrated to
commerce. They explain the confidence which brings us t)
the foot of the throne—they dictate the request which we vet,.
ture to make.

" Sire,—lmmense countries in Ainrica, which Spain alaiL7
formerly supplied, have opened their ports to all the other na-
tions of the globe. France, which holds so high a rank as
commercial and manufacturing nation, naturally should parti
cipate in theie new relations—so immediately useful, so pro-
mising for the future. The Government, far from opposing
them, seemed to encourage them by legitimating them. They
were also powerfully encouraged by the people of these coun-
tries, whom religion, language, and manners singularly attach
to the French.

" But while a rival nation, by its policy, its marine, its suc-
cours, and its treaties, endeavours to form the closest ties wit`.
America, it is only at long intervals that a French frigate is
seen in its ports ; and the French, when they arrive, have no
Consuls to protect them. Yet the French merchants are not
inactive; and if their interest in these new relations is not what

it might be, it still merits the attention of the Government, anti
the powerful support of your Majesty.

" The moment is besides come when urgent consideratio:ls
threaten these relations with total interruption, if they are long'
treated in France with as much reserve and timidity as Eng-
land shows publicity and pride in protecting hers.
Bourdeaax and Havre alone sent fifty ships to these parts of
America last year, laden with French produce and !amour...-.
tures to the value of 25 millions, besides 60 ships from the sari,
ports to Cuba and Brazil ; whereas 200 ships for Martinig..c.
Guadaloupe, Newfoundland, Cayenne, Senegal, and Pomi i -
cherry, have not exported hall' the value.
" All our agricultural produce and manufactures suit An:e-
rica. Those of Parisian manufacture in particular are certai::
of a vast sale. We possess an equivalent of what it used to
receive from Spain, and most of the productions of America,
which England receives directly from its Colonies, find ii:
France a certain market almost without competition.
" Your wisdom, Sire, forbids us to dwell on facts so !al
portant, and consitler:tions so striking; and your Majesty,
whose royal soul cannot but be powerfully moved by the great
interests of France, has already comprehended our wishes.

" Yes, Sire, we supplicate your Majesty to order that ofEci,sl
agents, in all respects worthy of so important a mission, be
sent wherever the Frenc'a commerce can penetrate, and parti-
cularly to the American Continent, to legalise and protect its
relations, that the vessels of the State may follow its ships ;
lastly, that treaties of commerce may stipulate for its interests
all the securities and advantages which a great nation can
a right to pretend to. It is by such dispositions, Sire, that
this great social movement, which draws all nations nea-er
together, which multiplies their relations and increases their
happiness, France, governed by yOur Majesty, will maintain
herself in the first rank of the most civilized nations of the
world.

" are, with profound retpect, Sire,
[Here follow the Signaturtnt.l
The _Etude makes the following remarks on 0.4:4
mportant document :

" 'We do not blame the step they have taken, but we wish to
make them easy respecting the figure.
" The Government has said to the merchants--1 (Jo to An-le .
r.ca : you are permitted.' ro which they reply—i We do go:
but protect us there, as everywhere else.'
" This is very well ; and it seems clear that the Government
does protect them. We learn from the }.lnglish journals, that
a French ship of t3O guns, and other vessels, had been to La
Quays to demand the restoration of the Urarlie, a Hence
vessel taken by a Colombian privateer on pretext of having s
Spanish cargo on board.

" The message of N. Santander spooks of the arrival of
some Frenchmen, whose object seems to be to visit Colombia,
and evritnine the state of affairs, which indicat's that our Cu-
vernment has its eyes open to all that part of the cm:linen%
The French squadrons in the South Sea, in the Gulf of Mesico,
and wherever they ate wanted., surely protect our noerchan:-
men. Do not agents in Brazil, and wherever they are useful,
afford our trade support and defenders ? Hue not the fiTenc'i
Government obtained from King Ferdinand a royal decree,
opening to all nations the Spanish colonies ; anti is theie in all
the stipulations of the new republics any thing particular to
any one power ?

" Neither the United States, who have recognized these 7e -
publics these two years, nor England, which has made treaties
and sent consuls to the authorities that might be establishe4.
(the terms of hie Britannic Majesty's letters), have obtained
any advantages ; the tariffis the same for English, French, anti
American ♦essels."

Quoting the statements iu the address relativs
to the commerce actually carried on, thskEtoiie
says—
" We do not see any reason to be alarmed for our new rela-
tiona with the Spanish Americas, or dread their interruption.
" What remains, then, but the desire of protection by eOnattle
and treaties ? But this is the political question, for we have
shown that the commercial interests are duly protecte
ed d. In th
ign lat
east, we may observe to the persons who have s the
address, that this part of their application is' a question of
rernrnent, which must be left to the wisdom of the Monarch,
whotie Royal Soul, wholly engaged in the welfare of hie subjects,
knows all that roust be done for the interests of France and for
its dignity, which is also an interest and one of the first or‘ei."

AMERICAN PAPERS.

East night we received New York Papers to
•
• .
the 17th ult. Vhe.followin are the chief articles
4 interest which they contain
": (From the IVational Inteltigencer, Marcia 10.)
s"u Ms. Secretary Clay and-Air. Secretary 'Barbour yesterday en-
''? , seyed tipon the discharge of the duties of the Department of State
. 'Old the Department of War, to which they have been respec-
. tbrely called by the President, with the advice and consent of the
,thsate of the United states.-
SLAVE-TRADE CONVENTION.
• The most important decision made_ by the Spate yest*t'ay,
vie presume, was the rejection of the convention lately forined
t: with the Government of Colombia; in relation to the African
t • save-trade. The injunction of secrecy having been removed
th the Senate froM that part of their proceedings which re-
,
Wes, to this convention, we shall be enabled to give 'a full
eereeeat of them. At' present we can only state, that the first
.'lbetkle of the treaty (giving the mutual right of sateh on the
eeas:und coasts of Africa and. the West Indies) war Stricken
eat by a vote of 28 to 12. The treaty was then rejected,
wi en. cos.
eta, ,e (Fro,* the National Intelligenrcr, March 8.)
THE_ INAUGURATION-
t an early hour- yesterday morning, the avenue& to the Ca.-
;ti n (presented aaively and animated scene. Groups'
of citizens.
• „ inasfehntif to the,great theatre of expectation, *ere eo-be seen in
4a direenens • carriage* were rolliaag.to and fro, and ever and
hiensh the soured of the drum and trumpet at a distance gave no-
dee.thatthe military were' in Illation and. repairing to their.
' 'different parade grounds. The crowd at the:doors'orthe Ca-
.ool began to accumulate. about nine o'clock, and; althotagle
'lladias were allowed the privilege of their sex _in being adriliee,
" ed to seats reserved-forThein in the tabbies Of the-Ilialse of Ilea
reeentatives, they had to attain the envied station a; no smell
_ .2 terifiee, -and-the gentlemen who led and guarded . them were
obie,,ecl, in Some ii minces, almost literally to right their wee" to,
• ' Se7l, doertg.
Towards 12 o'clock, the military, coneisting,pf gerseral and
tier °MTN and the voluetary comp taics of _the bit and 2d
•Isee4ion, received the-President at his residence,- with his pre-
• . *motor, . and seyeral. officers. or the Government.. Thee very
hid 'the way, and the prozeesion moved in very handsome array,
. • sefth•the Music of the several corp.-a to the Capitol, attended by
aahetzsands of citizens. The President was attended on horse-
-lea•k by the Marshal, with his assistants for the cley, distin-
faiehail by blue badges, Etc. On arriving at the Capitol, the'
President, with hie-escort, was received by the marine corps,
under command of Colonel Henderson, stationed in line in front
at' the Capitol.
Within the hall, the- sofas between the columns, the entire
space of the circular lobby without, the bar, the spacious pro-
meaade. in the rear of the Speaker's-Chair, and the three outer
rewa of the members' teats, were all occupied with a splendid
array of beauty and fashion. Or. the left, the diplomatic corps,
in thh costume of their respective Courts, occupied the places
.ukatighed them, on the innernioq range of 3:eds. immediately
'before the steps which lead to the chair. The oflizers of our
s'awn army and navy were, seen, dispersed among the groups of
1.1. die., exhibiting that most appropriate and interesting of as-
soefations-, valour guarding beauty. Chairs were placed in
. front of the Clerks' tahle, on the sehrizircle within the members'
seats, for the Judges of the Supreme Court.
.The hoahof 12
aarrived, and expectation was on tipthe-hthe march of the troops,
aimounced by the marine corps hand; was heard • without., and
• matey a waving plume :and .graceful head within beat time to
the martial sounds. The geliteles, though filled to overdowing,
were remarkable for the stillness and decorum which (with a
very few exceptions) prevailed. •
At 20 minutes past 12, the Marshals made their appearance
in blue scarves, succeeded hy the officers of both Houses of
Congress, who introduced the President elect. Ile was followed
by the .venerable I':z-President and family, by the Judges of
the Supreme Court, in their robes of o Tice, end the Members of
the Senate;preceded 1 y the Vice-President, with a number of
Meteiberehf the,House of Representatives. • Mr, Marne, in a
plain 'reit of black, ascended the steps ,to the Speaker's chair,
aiet took ila seat The Chief-, ruetice was placed in front of the
Clerket.tab/eahishlog Wore hiM another table, oo'the floor of
Ehe frail; on thecipposite side of which sat the temainiag.Judges,
with their faces .towarde the chair.. Silence having been pro-
• ttiainietleihd -' the daniet of the,htill closed, Ilre Adams reset and
t3t4,-evitli a clear and ,deUherate asticaleticha,theeddrees. the
titrie occanleil by' the delivery or this addreas was about 40 Psis
kithsi" Ais'ackin'as thilitAt'sentence was pialeunced; a general
pheetllt,- commencing in. the eallefies, hueehaendiagain. a-
,nree throughout the whole aesepahly soutiaued„tetesonae mi-
atthie. "The Pthielaene 'elect then deacended from dia. chair,'
and.,phitinghtmeelf art the villa hand, of the Judges', sable,
fh,em the Chief. Justice aeed,unts -of the ,laws cif -;lie
titilliel'gtates from whihli, he read; 'in aloud and clear voice,
• t4tt•-otth inf owe; 'at the clbie of WhiCh, the plaudits 'were re-
phatetle mingled with cheers from the spectators who failed the
gefleries,,ancl immediately followed by the discharge of a salute
. etharlllery:
. ,-The-congrataladons which then poured in from every-side,
neeupied the hands, and could not but reash the heart of the
foresid'ent. The meeting between him and hie venerated pre.
-411'4...:sirehid.'in If eornething peculiarly affecting. Gen. Jack-
sane we were pleased to observe, was among the earliest of those
witat'we the hand of • the President ; and their looks and de-
-- pottraent toward each other were a rebuke to that littleness of
Marty spiehawhich cat see no merit in a rhea', and feel no joy
in.Sti'Ticit:orrr-Ota"conipetitor. tiliortly after one o'clock, the
proc-ersi6n commenced leaving the hall; hut it was nearly .an
. th.:4l; before the clustering groups which had crowded every seat.
areilhaeenue completely retireth
-41fe Pitaidint was then escorted back as he chine, and, on
his arrival at his residence, received the compliments and re-
. eoettef of a great number of gentlemen and ladies who celled
tteciralsirrt, who 'also generally paid their respects at the mansion
octopi...el by the ex-President.
Of the several inaueurations which ws have seen, that of
yeiterdey was most nearly approached by the second ineugura-
tiart of 'Mr..3fadisort, as President of the United Steers.,
INA UG URA L ADD R ESS.
Vriday, at the appointed hour, John Quincy Adams
took the oath of once, as President of the United States, at the
Capitol,. and on the occasion delivered the following inaugural
.I.l6rees:

" In compliance wish an usage coeval with the existence of
cot-fatter:if Constitution, and sanctioned by the example of my.
. prctiesseisors in the career Updn which Lam about to enter; I ap-
pear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence, and in that of
/leaven, to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obliga-
tion •to 'the faithful .ssetformance of the duties allotted to the in
Us:star/oh to which I have been called.
In unfolding to my countrymen the principles•by which I
shall be governed in the fUlfilment of those duties, my first re-
sort will be to ,that, constitution, which I shall swear, tC, the
lx of my abilAy7, to preServe,'nroteets and defend. That re-
v instrument enumerates the powers, and prescribestke
duties of tips, Executive Nassistrates ; and, in its first words,
• alctirextha purposes to which these, and the whole action of the
• tiovenmeint instituted by it, should 'hit invariably and sacredly
Sevotet:l-4.0 form a more perfect union, • eStablish justice, en-
,. susesdomeatic tranquillity, provide for the common defence,
pruftsoee the general welfare, and secure the blessings'of liberty
to She People of this union, in their successive generation A—
. the adoption of this social compact, one of these genera-,
tionn has passed away. is the work' of our forZ•fathers. Ad-
ministered by some of the most eminent risen who contributed to
its formation, through a most eventful period in the annals of
the world, and through all the vicissitudes of peace and war,
ineWittal to the condition •of associated men; it has not disap-
pointed the hopes and aspirations of those illustrious benefac."l
tent of their age and nation. It has proMoted the lasting wel-
fsie of that cstintry. so dear to us all ; it has, to an extent far
}w and the ordinary' lot Of humanity, secured the freedom and,
happiness of this-people. We nor; receive it as a precious in-
herttaf ce• from those to whom we are indebted for its establish-
nsent,llOutsly bound by the cxsniples which - they have left us,
and by the blessings Whish we have enjoyed. as the fruits Of
theirlsbours, to transmit the same unimpaired to the v.:cm:ding
generation.
"-"lts the compaSs of 36 years thi's great natioxal cove-
nantwas instituted, a 1:ody of laws, enacted under its authority,
and in conformity wits: its provisions, has unfolded its powers,
end carried into practical' operation its effective energies. Sub-
ordinate departments have distributed the executive functions in
theic various relations to foreign aF2airs to the revenue and ex-
penditures;' and:to the inllitary force Of the Union; by land and
mak A coordinate dePartreent of the judiciary has expounded
the 'constitution .and.the
,lawse settling, in harmonious coinci-
(kneel-with' the legislative- •:Ail, nunierous Weighty questions of
oonxtruction, which the imperfeetien of human language had
rendered. unavoidable. Tile.year of. Jubilee, since the first for-
. motion of our union, is just elapsed that of the dsclaration of
" oar independence ix ut'hand. The consummation' of- both was•
effected By this constitution.
" Sistee that period, a population of roar millions has multi,
plied. tk7 ; a territory bounded by the Mississippi hax
been mended from sea to sea ; new States hare been admitted
. to thq numbers nearly equal to those of, the first con-.
141eration treaties-Of peace, amity, and cornmerce, have been
, concluded with the ,prmcip4.clonsintons of the earth : the pea-
„pie- of ht4abliarits of regions aCquired, not by
corn:110ot, but by coinpact,have"been united with Os in the 'par-
ticipation of rights and duties, of our.burdens and blessings ;
Etas 14,, thin axe of,our woodsmen; the' soil hair'
.been triode
it tap by thatillage of• our farmers : our commerce
has White/led iirery ocean the dissnihien of man over physicil
nature .41utsbeen, extended', bY the invention of our "artists ;
berty ffider as,re, marched. barid,ia,laud all the purposes of