The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

The United States mail steamer Fulton, Capt. J.
A. Wotton, which left New York on the 17th inst.,
arrived off Cowes this evening, shortly after 8
o'clock, and went on to Havre, after transshipping
mails, &c., for this port. She brings 31 passengers
for Southampton and 84 for Havre.

President Lincoln had issued the following im-
portant

PROCL A.MATION.
"WASHINGTON. AUG. 16, 1861.
"BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
'AMERICA :
" A PROCLAMATION.

" Whereas, on the 15th day of April, the President of the
United States, in view of an insurrection against the laws,
constitution, and the Government of the United States, which
had broken out within the States of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and
in pursuance of the provisions of the Act entitled an Act
to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws
of the Union, suppress Insurrections, and repel Invasions,
and to repeal the Act now in force for that purpose,' ap-
proved Feb. 28, 1795, did call forth the militia to suppress
said insurrection and cause the laws of the Union to be duly
executed, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the
time directed by the President;

" And whereas such insurrection has since broken out and
yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, and Arkansas ; and whereas the insurgents in
all the said States claim to act under authority thereof, and
such claim is not disclaimed or repudiated by the person
exercising the functions of Government in such State or
States, or in the part or parts thereof, in which combina-
tions exist, nor has such insurrection been suppressed by
said States;
" Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the
United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress passed
July 13, 1861, do hereby declare that the inhabitants of the
said States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Florida (except the inhabitants of that part
of the State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany Moun-
tains, and of such other parts of that State, and the other
states hereinbefore named, as may maintain a loyal adhe-
sion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be from
time to time occupied and controlled by the forces engaged
in the dispersion of said insurgents) are in a state of insur-
rection against the United States, and that all commercial
intercourse between the same and the inhabitants thereof,
with exceptions aforesaid, and the citizens of other States
and other parte of the United States, is unlawful, and will
remain unlawful until such insurrection shall cease or has
been suppressed ; that all goods and chattels, wares, and
merchandise, coming from any of the said States, with
the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United
States, without the special licence and permission of the
President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or pro-
ceeding to any of said States, with the exceptions aforesaid,
by land or water, together with the vessel or vehicle convey-
ing the same, or conveying persons to or from said States,
with said exceptions, will be forfeited to the United States,
and that from and after 15 days from the issuing of this
proclamation all ships or vessels belonging in whole or in
part to any citizen or inhabitant of any of said States, with
said exceptions, found at sea or in any part of the United
States, will be forfeited to the United States.
" And I hereby enjoin upon all district attorneys, mar-
shals, and officers of the revenue, and of military and naval
forces of the United States, to be vigilant in the execution
of the said act, and in the enforcement of the penalties and
forfeitures imposed or declared by it, leaving any party who
may think himself-aggrieved thereby to his application to
the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any pe-
nalty, or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is authorised
by law to grant, if, in his judgment, the special circum-
stances of any case shall require such remission.
" In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
" Done in the city of Washington this 16th day of Au-
gust, in the year of our Lord 1661, and of the Independence
of the United States the 86th.

"ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

" By the President,
" W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State."

By arrivals from South American ports we learn
that the Southern privateers are actively engaged
in that quarter, as well as about the West India
Islands. Several of them have recently been seen
off Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro. The Jeff Davis
ran into San Juan, Porto Rico. on the 26th ult., for
provisions and water. She had been overhauling
American vessels in that neighbourhood for some
time previous.