The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-21 00:00:00

AMERICA.

Two vessels have arrived from New Brunswick
by which some further information has been ob
tabled of the state of affairs in the neighbourhood
of the Lakes of America. A letter from Cunas-
daigua of the I Ith ult. mentions that the English
crossed the river on the 15t of that month, and
that the schooners Arca, Little Belt, Chippewa,
and the sloop Trippe, laying.near Buffalo Creek,
devolved into. their possession.
The American private armed schooner Rapid
was, on the 20th ult. chased by the British sloop
of war Herald, and being struck by a heavy sea,
upset, and. went down : the crew was saved by the
boats of the Herald.
The British schooner privateer Wolverine, John
Roberts, commander, of 18 guns, was in Decem-
,ber cruising off Cape Ann, near Boston, and had
'on the 9th of that month taken 14 coasting ves-
sels, eight of which she had manned and ordered
to Halifax. When the Wolverine departed-on the
cruise, she had 80 men ; but from the number of
prizes she had taken and manned, bet crew was,
• on the-13th December, reduced to 10 men.

A British naval force, consisting of the Herald,
of 26 guns, Forrester, 22, lontest, 18, with a
tender, arrived 'off New Orleans in December, and
captured most of the coasting vessels
Application was intended to be made to the Le-'
gislature for the incorporation of Eighteen new
Banking
.Companies in the State of New York,-
7 at Albany, and I 1 in New York, with an aggre-
gate capital of fifteen millions of dollars.
Mr. Jones, Acting Secretary to the Treasury, pre-
sented on the Bth January, the annual reports and
estimates from that department. It appears from
these documents that the payments from the Trea-
sury during the last year, amount to nearly forty
millions. The receipts, Principally from loans,
were nearly 42 millions. The estimates for the
year 1814 arc nearly 50 millons, most of which.
is to be borrowed. For the year 1813, not one
word is said about the debts incurred by the
United States, not paid from the Treasury, which
arc said to be more than 30 millons, nor for the
year 1814 are any calculations made for militia
expellees, &c. but barely for the pay and rations
for the army and navy. The whole expences for
1813, paid and unpaiil, will exceed 75 millions.

Those for 1814 exceed 100 if the ',"/
continues.
Two letters from Captain Porter,
of the Linitc4:
States frigate Essex, dated July 2, were publishea,
at Washington on December 16. They are writ
ten without much gasconade, and detail the po-
ticulars of his laNe long cruise in the Pacific Oceob•
He states, that the Policy and Georgiuna,
letters of marque, mounting between them 16
_
guns, and having 56 men, struck, without tirin,4,;
shot, to seven armed boats he bad fitted out.
adds, with much exultation, " Be assured, Sir"
that Britons have either learned to respect the
courage of Americans, or they are not so courat,e-
ous themselves as they would have us believe.
He states, that the Governors in Peru were s'
alarmed at the formidable appearance of his fleet;
that they would if they dared have treated him fl
an open enemy. They had obstructed the sale of
his prizes at Quiaquil.
An Act of the American Congress providec'
that a bounty of 25 dollars be paid to the ovrf7
crs, officers, and crews of private armed vessel''°
the United States, commissioned as letters °f
marque, for every British- prisoner of war by the.: •
captured, brought in, and delivered at a port
the United States, to an agent authorised to el
ceive the same.
The New York Gazette of December 3, ld
" the President frigate has sailed. We sholl6
not be surprised to bear of Commodore Rodger
e
making a dash at the Plantagenet,"—Bute
should.

SECRET PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The following Message was received from the
President of the United States, which was read
and referred to the Committee on Foreign
tions _

" To. the Senate and House sf Representatives if a*.
United States.
" The tendency of our commercial and nevgill:y:l laws'
their present state to favour the enemy, and therebacc,
long the war, is more and more developed by experi`-oly
Supplies of the most essential kind find their not co,
to British ports and British armies at a distance, but the p,
mks in our neighbourhood, with which our men are coot-e ie..
ing, derived from our ports and outlets a substance, attt
able with difficulty, if at all, from tither sources. Eve°,loo
fleets and troops infesting our coasts and waters, are b) „Ty
supplies accommodated and encouraged in their pre
and incursive warfare.
" Abuses having a like tendency take place in our imet-or
trade. British fabrics and products find their way into .6.0
ports, under the name and from the parts of other cottettio.
and often in British vessels disguised as neutrals by false, 0..
lours and papers. To these abuses it may he added, that,
legal importations are openly made with advantage to et
violations of the law, produced by under valuations or oe'pi
circumstances involved in the. course of the judicial prOC, „ae
ins against them. It is found also that the practice Or !sue
sowing is a cover for collusive captures, and a channel for
telligence advantageous to the enemy.
epal
'• To remedy as much as passible these evils, I recoMrtitd,
That an effectual embargoon exports be itnmediatelYenafi or
" That all articles known to be derived either not at a; 401
in an immaterial degree, only from the productions mice
other country-than Great &Main, and particularly the ex get
sire articles made of wool and cotton materials, and o'lo4
spirits niade front e). W e the cane, be expressly and absolutely
hihited, front whatever port or plate, or in whatever Choi
the same may be brought into the United States, alidel to
all violations of the Non-importation Act be subject
adequate penalties.—That among the proofs of the ;not
and national character of foreign vessels, it be requirclt
the masters nail supercargoes, and three-fourths at M-400
the crews, be citizens or subjects of the conntry under'
flag the vessels sail.—That all persons concerned in co:g) le
captures by the enemy, or in ransoming vessels or thei:es,"
goes from the-enemy, be subjected to adequate permit' .4.0
To shorten as much as pyssible the duration of this wars ~ff
indispensable that the enemy should feel 'all the press
dttemntcr be
will b
e given
bornetowi
t,
hatni e the
greatestrestraintscheerfulness
btyh:lti
e,itc,„do
citizens, as the restraints will affect those most who are ni
ready to sacrifice the interest of their county in pursle`a
their own. - " JAMES INI,EID/SOi‘" •