The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

AMERICA.

By the arrival of the Montreal at Portsmouth
on Saturday, we have received • news from New
York to the 19th ult., for which- we are indebted
to the Hampshire Telegraph, ten days later than
the papers brought by the Cambridge. We re-
gret to say that the intelliwence is by no means
of a pleasant character. l n addition to the unea-
siness already excited by the question of the Ca-
roline, there are now some personal quarrels on the
borders of Maine and New Brunswick. Three Am( -
riems complain of having been grossly insulted
and ill treated at Madawaska; while Sir JOHN
HARVEY complains, in his letter to the Governor
of Maine, that the English authorities have
been treated with personal violence, and threat-
ened by the Americans, while performing the du-
ties imposed on them by her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment. Troops are proceeding to the point where the
dispute and quarrel have arisen, and it was re-
ported in Canada that a put tion of the militia had
been ordered out. Money matters, too, seem by
no means settled in America, and m resumption
of cash payments is by some of the banks in-
definitely postponed.
ALBANY, JAN. 8, 1841.—Our relations with Great Bri-
tain and the burning of the Caroline, are beginning to
excite considerable attention here, and I shall not be sur-
prised to see, very soon, the subject introduced into the
Legislature in some shape. One thing is very certain,
the people of Boston and New York will suffer no inter-
, ference in the trial of Mr. M'Lcod from any quarter.
And if the British Government supports the high ground
taken by Mr. Fox, a rupture seems inevitable. The loco
foco leaders here are putting out feelers to ascertain bow
it will do to charge upon the whigs, and Gen. Harrison's
administration, in advance, a design to plunge the country
into a war with England. But it will do them no good ;
the people understand the question, and would not be
sorry for a brush with their old antagonists. -
(Flom the Journal of Commerce.) •
• Hollowell, Me. Jan. 13, 1841.
_ _

KENT, GOVERNOR OF MAINE,—The Committee, ap-
pointed by the Legislature of Maine, to count the votes for
Governor, made their report in the Senate on Monday.
The whole number of votes counted by the Committee
was 91,179—Edward Kent had 45,574—J0hn Fairfield
45,507—others 95. The report was accepted by both
branches yesterday, and the House elected by ballot, from
the four highest candidates, Edward Kent and John Fair.
field, and returned their names to the Senate as the two
constitutional candidates, from whom the Senate should
elect a Governor. The Senate elected Edward Kent by
16 votes, to 8 for' John Fairfield. A committee was ap-
pointed to notify the Goveror of his election, and to-day at
twelve o'clock he is expected to be inaugurated.
MORE TROUBLES DOWN EAST,—The Boston Herald of
yesterday states, on the authority of a gentleman who ar-
rived in that city late last Sunday evening, from Maine,
that three gentlemen, whew names are given as Thomas
F. Templeton, George Cady, and John H. Kenwick,
while proceeding on their way from Bangor to Canada,
were stopped near Madawaska by a party of British armed
soldiers, who insulted them and, without provocation, ar-
saulted them. Mr. Cady was knocked down with a blow from
a musket, Mr. Templeton received a bayonet wound in the
shoulder, and Mr. Kenwick, trying to escape, received a
bullet in the thigh. An officer then came up and checked
further hostilities.

If this statement is correct, the occurrence will not tend
to allay the excitement on the subject of the North East
Boundary.
Connected with the above, or some such similar occu-
rcnce, we have no doubt, the following letter from Gene-
ral Sir John llarvey was written, and it fully shows the
Aritish Authorities are on the alert

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF

MAINE.

Government House, Frederickton, N B.
Dec. 10, 1840.

Sir,—As your Excellency will doubtless be informed
that a detachment of her Majesty's troops has lately ar-
rived in the Madawaska settlement, I deem it to con-
sist with that frankness by which I trust my intercourse
with the authorities of Maine has always been charac-
terized, to acquaint you that the movement in question,
made by order of the Governor-General of these Pro-
vinces, has no other object than to give support to the civil
authorities of that settlement—one of whose magistrates.
Francis Wee, Esq , has been grossly insulted, threatened
with personal violence, and obstructed in the discharge
of his duties by persons professing themselves to be citi-
zens of the State of Maine—and another, James M'Laugh.
lan, Esq., also a Magistrate of this province and holding
the office of " warden of the disputed territory," has been
threatened by the armed posse stationed at " Fish River,"
with being arrested and sent as a prisoner to Augusta, in
the event of his persevering in the performance of the duty
imposed upon him by the Government of the Queen and
that of this province.
Whether the assertion made, as I am assured, by this
person, that in holding this language he is only act-
ing in accordance with his instructions, be correct or
otherwise, your Excellency will best know; but refusing,
as I have done, to believe that he can have received any
authority for a proceeding which I must regard ns in.
consistent with other engagements, I have not hesitated
in expressing to the Governor General my conviction
that an armed civil posse, corresponding in amount and
description with that maintained by Maine, will be found
quite inadequate to effect the object in view, via., the
prevention cf acts of unauthorised aggression or inter-
ference, as regards the inhabitants or authorities of the
Madawaska settlement—and I have accordingly no rea-
son to doubt, that, acting upon this suggestion, his Ex-
cellency will forthwith give direction for the troops to be
withdrawn to their former stations. _

I have the honour to be, with great consideration, your
Excellency's most obedient servant, J. H A RVE Y.
CANADA.—TIIC British Colonist says it, was currently
reported that orders had been received by the Adjutant-
General to call into active service two companies of each
regiment of militia in the province.
An ordinance has been published by authority, as about
to be passed, fur making the Temisconata Turnpike, a
part of which the Quebec Gazelle says is in the territory
claimed by the United States.
MOVEMENT OF, TROOPS. The last St. John City
Gazelle says, " We learn that the light company of the
29th Regiment, now in the garrison, are under marching
orders for Madawaska, to relieve the detachment of troops
now stationed at that post, whose period of service there
has expired."
THE NEGROES OF THE AMISTAD.—It Seems to be the
general impression at Washington that the negroes of the
Amistad will be given up to the Spanish Minister, as
the lueslion of Spanish property can be best determined
in the Spanish Courts. Now that this is the general
impression at Washington, I can well believe ; as from
the slave holding relations of a great portion of that com-
munity, it is not likely that they would be looked upon
with much favour. But that such an impression can be
founded upon truth, seems to be absolutely incredible. If
these men arc to be sent to the Havannah, every principle
of lax—every dictate of justice—every sentiment of hu-
manity, is to be made to bend to a manifest determination
to make them victims to the sanguinary spirit of Spanish
slavery—a determination against which every man in the
land, who has any regard for the great cause of human
liberty, or any sympathy for the oppressed, ought to speak
in tones of loudest and most indignant reprobation.
•DIITIES ON LRAD.--The proposal of Mr. Ruggles to
abolish those duties was met in the Senate by a general
laugh. This is all very well, but it is very probable that
the Foreign Powers will take a memorandum of this laugh,
and return it, when they are called upon to make altera-
tions in their corn and tobacco laws.
_ _ .

( From the Nov Orlean's Bee, of Jan. 7.)
YUCATAN.—The bulletin of yesterday contains a cor-
respondence between the Government 'Secretary of Bri-
tish Honduras, the Commander of H.B. M. ship Comus,
and the military Commandant of Sisal, respecting the cap-
ture and condemnation of the schooner True Blue, belong_
ing to British subjects, alleged to have b;en seized while
engaged in the act of smuggling.
The British officers insisted upon the production of the
master and crew of the vessels that captured the True
Blue, to be examined by them to ascertain the particulars
of the seizure. With this request the Commandant of
Sisal was not able to comply ; but informed them that
their request had been forwarded to the Supreme Govern-
ment at Merida.
The British officers declined recognising the authority
of the Supreme Government at Merida, inasmuch as
the existence of such a Government was not known to
the authorities at Honduras; adding that no other Go-
vernment was known hut that of Mexico, which had pro-
claimed the parties holding power in Yucatan as insurgents.
After some further negotiation the British ship Comus
captured a brigatine, Eusebio, bound for New Orleans and

belonging to citizens or Yucatan, by way of reprisal. when
the Commandant at Sisal was told that unless indemnity
was given in two days the said vessel woald be taken 10
the Baliz.i and sold for the bern.fit of the owners of the. True
Blue. 8,103 dollars were then given vp to the British•
with a protest against the seizure of the Euscbio, as repttg-
nant to the laws of nations. Shortly afterwards, it is said,
the True Blue was recaptured by the Comus.
The questions arising out of these proceedings, wbe'
ther the British authorities had a right to resort to this
extraordinary spode of redress, and whether the officer*
of a foreign power have any authority to determine
the existence or non existence of a Government
in YuCatan, fur the purposes of suppressing infringeteet
of the revenue laws. sir this meter we think the 13titisP
authorities have transeeneed tin )rjust powers—a practice
in which they have got into the Anbit of indulging lately

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N KVf YORK, JAN. 16.
MONEY MARKET.—The dct ermination of the Baltimore'
Banks not to resume until the Banks in Virginia lead the
way, is a meet extraordinary course of conduct. The,
friends of those institutions have constantly declared they
waited only for Philadelphia; now, it appears that those
professions were groundless. Public opinion is against the
course the Banks have taken in that city, and this opiiett
will be heard most speedily. Tho Merchants and Me:
chanics' B.snks of that city have determined to resume, a"
let the others do as they please.
The Girard Bank in Philadelphia resumed specie Par
ments on Wednesday. a of
THE GARRICK.—We learn, by the arrival yesterday
two vessels with part of the cargo of the Garrick, that the
tide ebbs and flows in her, and that she is full of water at
high tide. The between deck has been cut away, and the
cargo is fished out by means of a boat. At low eater 0!
Tuesday the tide left her nearly dry, and it is probable all
the cargo will be saved, with the exception of the salt, 01
which she had about 500 bags on board.
The British steamer Dec, stated in a Halifax paper fe`
supposed to have been lost, arrived at Port Royal on tu
28th ult., in twenty days from Halifax.
The new steam frigate was launched at the Navy-Y„eatir
yesterday morning. She is callbd the Missouri. n
dimensions are as follows :
' Length of keel
Breadth of beam 36
Breadth of outer works
Depth of hold
Whole length between perpendiculars 220
Draft of water forward
Draft of water aft
Anest
She is to be taken to West Point to receive her OD
and will be ready fur sea in about five months;
MONEY MARKET, JAN. 21.
(From the New York Daily Express.) , s
A fair amount of business was done today.v* S.
Bank rose I ; Vicksburg a ; Delaware and Hudson up s'
SALES 'AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 21. •
50 shares U. States Bank .., s 60 521
100 do do blb 621
50 do do b 10 51
1.00 do do a 60 61
75 do do ...
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25 do North Am. Trust Co co 30
b 301
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75 do do n w 36
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50 do. do b 30 days - n
20 do American Exchange Bank ............. . ....... 91
81
60 do Farmers' Trust
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100 do Stoniagton Railroad s 30 days -
200 do do n days
26
26
50 do do
100 do
6
75 do Harlem Railroad
100 do do 20 days 37
96
50 do Canton Company
50 do do
75:
30 do New Jersey
20 do Long Island Railroad b 60 days
50 do.
50 do do
10 do North River Bank Bi
60 do Mechanics' Bank Ass
50 do Bank of Commerce scrip 97
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SALES AT THE SECOND BOARD.
300 shares N. A. Trust Co
10 do Delaware and Hudson .................... .... ..... s.
g 4
75 do Vicksbnrg reg. 9
75 do do .. reg. 551
50 do Long Island Railroad reg. fr
50 do do b 60 days 07
25 do Stonington Railroad b 60 (Jar 9
. 27
25 do do b n - 611
50 do United States Bank
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LATER STILL FROM AMEL.--hus
By the arrival of the packet-ships Colg%g,
and Roscoe at Liverpool, on Saturday evelliocl
we have received New York papers to the de
ult. The following extracts front them inclu
all the news they bring of any interest.
THE CASE OF MR. M'LEOD.

The
Theofllowing is from the New York Herald : excite
" trial of Mr. M'Leod will soon take place ; the - in'
ment is increasing ; and every day we receive accounts of Won,
creased bad feeling between the frontier settlers on the IP2 eis
dary line. All this the arrogance displayed by Mr. fox
correspondence will only have the effect of increasing'
look with great anxiety for the result."
'the Sun has the following on the same subject :-- ke
" THE CASE of M'Lxon.—The Canada papers Oa, to
in
great deal of noise, and bluster in a characteristic oinceee'r'oef
reference to the arrest of Mr. M'Leod. The Toronto xi 00
somewhat distinguished for its blood and thunder nartrosited
is particularly furious. He not only menaces the _oft
States, but England also. He says that the latter "'eat, na
must not, dare not, submit to the insult upon the nari"
the person of Alexander M'Leo." „ff Cer..
"We perceive, also, that orderds are published, ei
tain arrangements in the army, with the view of having
cient force at all times ready for any sudden emergency Abe
ther this has any special reference to M'Leod, or iv hetheretet," sbe
rebellion is anticipated, or whether it is done to frig'
Yankees, we of course have no means of judging.
" We can assure Canada, and all the world beside, °f °U
thing, that is, the authorities of New York will proceed :Ilene!
and resolutely in the discharge of their duty, and in 0,11„
to the laws, the administration of which is committectra4lon
charge. Mr. M'Leod will be tried for the crime allegeuNsl
him and if he is innocent, as we sincerely hope he if, fih
no doubt of his acquittal. If he is guilty, he ought to "e'ce le
we trust, he will be, convicted, without the least refert°
the absurd demand, made in a tone of gross insolence, hi
g
BritisNewh Minister. esrti
A York paper states, that " an American fishalbon
from Vermont, and some anadians met at Telnusi thekeait Cr
Lake, when from words they proceeded to blows, .epu bor
nadians were beaten. The latter threatened to cross te
der and burn the houses of their opponents. In ihe;;7obl
bourhood of Waterloo they had formed a party, and, , 'cola
making a descent upon Lockport, for the purpose or r
Mr. M'Leod.
The Rochester Democrat reports, on the authority of re"
sengers from Lockport, that Mr. M'Leod was about toy
moved to Rochester for sate keeping, to be escorted PTOOOI
companies of United States troops. The Buffalo flere from
states that two companies of artillery have been ordereede
that station to Lockport, on account, as rumour 01,1'01, ,
anticipated attempt of Canadians to rescue Mr. IT."„ for
The folllowing is from the correspondence of the Pre'
Courier and Enquirer tion°
4 6 WASHINGTON, JAN. 15, 1841.—1 invite your atop
roil:,
the recent correspondence between Mr. Fox and Mr. Flinn at
in relation to the destruction of the steam-boat Caress' tbey
Schlossar. When analysed in connection with the hilt, ooli
are understood to be, it contains an extraordinary, and behind
as extraordinary feature. There remains tometh:lig
the curtain not yet developed, Le OP
" I proceed to state briefly what I understand to be t,"010,4,
During the last year, Mr. Stevenson and Lord Palmer.% Lore
had a tart correspondence respecting the Caroline. ri,:at
ship justifies and defends the attack upon the ground le' .1,
Adams assumed on a well-known occasion. Mr.
letter of the 29th of December, uses the argument of .'"er,thrd P l
merston, but in a blind way ; clearly indicating, hewn that 11$er
he was not unacquainted with the correspondenceletter's
taken place on the other side of the Atlantic. To tll°'-ree,°,7
Lord Palmerston Mr. Stevenson replied, and, I haveo gaere
'
to believe, in a tolerably able manner. At all events, Po,ree.
Gee of our national honour was made in the slightest (lee s
NORTH-EAST BOUNDARY QUESTlol4,:jetill!
MAlNE.—Governor Kent, in his address to the Leg'i of lb,"
of Maine, just delivered, expresses himself on the sukicAcrier or
North-Eastern Boundary in the following terms• l'oforen‘
lulling to the imtediments and delays which have here or"
terfered to prevent an adjustment of the question, h_ettio
,u The time cannot be far distant when the question4e; sod
sume a more definite shape, either peaceable or uari.i,eries
much as we may deprecate the awful evils and in!), afivoi
war, we ought to be prepared to meet the issue, if atco",',ess_,,i
all, is the determination of our opponents, with th:fir t
men who feel that they have the right, and who viii.l,en:riflbe
to threats or force the inheritance of our fathers and '"Cearele
betel`'
ful ful territory of our state. The unanimity which has 0, c
gilt,,
tensed our State on this question, in the midst of all °rue
cal excitements, is a sure guarantee that the people $4,11
to sustain their rulers in all judicious, temperate, y..s
too
decided measures, and that it is regarded by them t
cred and too solemn a subject to be made the instrusneP
mere party schemes or movements."
•"0 °f _ -er
On the subject of the recent military occupatie 60,
waska, by order of the Governor-General of Corn"
nor Kent says— ern
Go/e-elS'
lie adverts to the occupation, by order of the ito,l ei
General of Canada, of the posts of Tamiscouta Lake_tisolat
dawaska, by British troops, in direct violation of the Wei, en
agreement between the authorities of New Brunt e*
Maine, and says— s°,
" I cannot but view this proceeding, as my Pr-eelsjpab.°
in his reply to Sir John Ilarvey, as 'a direct and l'iarig
fringcment of the subsisting arrangement,' and es t" A 13,11.0
possession of that Portion of the contested territory.not 7,4
suggestion of Lieut.-Governor Harvey, who seers'? &died, tot
been consulted in relation to this new act of jt.olineetnellors
who evidently regards it with regret, if not as an 10:Tritile 11
subsisting arrangements, is disregarded, and the ", it oIY go'
are permanently located at Madawaska, I shall feei_oesi !yid
to reiterate the request already made to the Peatiee 'se
vernment, and to ?true upon the Government the art 019
expediency of takiny military possession on ti" Geilitp.
United Stales of
it/tote territory in dispute. .11 this woo
Government owes
ter, with promptness and energy, with a sinecr.eit,firm
anxious de3ire to preseria: peace, but with an egad
ar S
termination to maintain subsisting eogageinents ,ort.iker
and to insist pon a full performance from the othe.k. .
In the house of Representatives, on Friday,_ s be,
submitted the following resolution for considerati leciationleee
" Resolved—That the Committee on Fereigaingit to b. 700
caus .ebates
.olee
instructed to inquire into the expediency of
cured and submitted to the Senate, copies of the tot_ 600 s._ d
British Parliament, prior to the year 1820, in re'4 010,70,
north-eastern boundary of the United States, ant reintrisldt
land titles emanating from the British Governincr',ol-bi e
in the ealls of said titles to the boundary now
Government."
of the rei°
Mr. Preston objected to the adoption„wee
din~f be
presenting us in the aspect of regulating our P
British legislation. sod
r airy rit,
Mr. Walker said the resolution was one „ailiaine „yer
haul read one of these debates of the British r 501,01
conceived it ought to be of the utmost importaen,e`...forotg,
ought to be published in an official form for th rroVP
the people of England, of the people of the 130"