The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-17 00:00:00

"VALUABLE ISLAND, FISHING STA-
Y TIONS, &c. on the West Coast of Invernt4s.shiro.—To
be SOLD by PRIVATE BAROAIN„-:-the ISLAND of
ERISKAY, situated between South Vist and Barra. It con-
tains nearly 1,700 acres of the richest pasture, and 1H acres of
arable land. This island is capable of producing annually
about 50 tons of excellent kelp, and its principal harbour is one
of the safest, most commodious, and centrical, in the west coast
of Scotland. Eriskay is by far the hest fishing station in the
West coast of Scotland ; herring and cod, and other lists, are
abundant ; lyng is no where to be found in larger quantities,
and with such remarkable facilities for killing, curing, &e.
The neighbouring lochs are noted. forlserring, &c. Eriskay
will either be sold with theie exclusive advantages, or a certain
portion of it may be fued to any person desirous of establish-
ing a regular fishery. For further particulars; apply to 11u41
laic Queen, W. S., 61, Great King street, Edinburgh, who is
in possession of the titles, and has authority to conclude a pri-
vate bargaSa.

VOW MADRAS and CALCUTTA, will leaze
12 the river in a feu, il&ya, the.44le- teak .Shit CITY of
UDINISIJIIGH; A I, GNORGE 1411.1 q F., Commander ; hM
a poop and forecastle, and is in every.respect fitted a* regular
Indianian. tier accommodation for passengers in excellent.
The round house and great cabin are still unoccupied. nos
room for a few tons of light goods only. Carries an estpe•
rienced Surgeon. Apply to Messrs. Inglis, Forbes, and Co. 2,
Mansionhouge-place; Mr. William Masson, 8, St. Swethen's.
lane; or to Buckles, I3agster, and Buchanan,l3, Mark.lane.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

.From the Supplement to the National Intelligencer, March 18.

The following Message was yesterday transmitted
by the President of the United States to Congress:—
TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED

!PATES.

Washington, 111rech 15, 1196.

In compliance with the resolution of the House of the sth
tilt; requesting me to cause to be laid before the House, so
much of the correspondence between the Government Of the
United States and the new States of America, respecting the'
proposed Congress, or meeting of Diplomatic Agents at Pana-
ma, and such information respecting the general character of
that expected Congres's, as may be in my possession. I now
transmit to the House a report from the Secretary of State,
with the correspondence and information requested by the reso-
lution.

With regard to the objects in which the agents of the United
States are expected to take part in the deliberations of that con.
gress, I deem it proper to premise, that these objects did not
form the only, nor even thet)rincipal motive for the acceptance
of the invitation. My first and greatest amusement was to meet,
in the spirit of kindness and friendship, an overture made in
that spirit by three sister Republic 4 of this hemisphere. The
great revolution its human affairs which has brought into exist.
ence, nearly at the sametime, eight sovereign and independent
nations in our own quarter of the globe, has placed the United
States in a situation not less novel, and scarcely less interesting
than that in which they had found themselves, by their own
transition from a cluster of colonies to a nation of sovereign
States. The deliverance of the Southern American Republics
from.the oppression, under which they had been so long afflict•
ed, was hailed with great unanimity by the psfiple of thi►►
Union, as among the most auspicious events of the age. On
the dth May, 1822, an'act of Congress made an appropriation
of one hundred thousand dollars " for such mksious to the

Independent Nations on the American continent as the Presi-
dent of the United States might deem proper."
In exercising the authority recognised by this act, my pre-
decessor, by the advice and consent of the Senate, appointed
successively, Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Republics of Co.
lombia, Buenos Ayres, Chili, and Mexico. Unwilling to rise
among the fraternity of freedom questions of precedency and
etiquette, which even the European Monarchs had of late found
it necessary in a great measure to discard, he dispatohes these
Ministers to Colombia, Buenos Ayres, and Chili, without 'ex-
acting from those Republics, as by the ancient principles of
political primogeniture he might have done, that the compli-
ment of a Plenipotentiary mission should have been paid first
by them to the United States. The instructions prepared
under his direction to Mr. Anderson, the first of our Ministers
to the Southern Continent, contain, at much length, the gene-
ral principles upon which he thought it desirable that our rela-
tions, political and commercial, with these our new neighbours:
should lie established, for their benefit and ours, and that of
the future ages of out posterity: Similar instructions were
furnished to the Ministers appointed to Buenos Ayres, Chili,
and Mexico ; and the system of social intercourscs which it
was the purpose of those missions to establish from the first
opening of our diplomatic relations with those rising nations,
is the most effective 'exposition of the principles upon which
the invitation to the Congress at Panama has been accepted by
me, as well as of the objects of the negotiation at that meeting,
in which it was expected that our Plenipotentiaries should take
part.

The,House will perceive that, even at the date of these in-
structions, the first treaties between some of the Southern Re-
publics had been concluded, by which, they had stipulated
among themselves this diplomatic assembly at Panama. And
it will be seen with what caution, so far as it might concern the
policy of the United States, and at the game time, with what
frankness and good will towards those nations, he gave counte-
nance to their design of inviting the United Suttee to this high
assembly for consultation upon American interests. It was not
considered a conclusive reason for declining this invitation' that
the proposal for assembling such a Congress had not first been
matlety ourselves. The first and paramount principle, upon
which it was deemed wise and just to lay the corner stone of
all our future relations with them was disinterestedness ; the
next was cordial good will to them ; the third was a claim of
fair and equal reciprocity. Under these impressions, when
the invitation was formally and earnestly given, had it even
been doubtful, whether any of the objects proposed for consider-
ation and discussion at the Congress, were such as that itnme-
diate and important interests of the United States would be af-
fected by the issue, I should nevertheless have determined, so
far as it depended upon me, to have accepted the invitation and to
have appointed ministers to attend the meeting. The proposal
itself implied that the Republics by whom it was made believed
that important interests of ours or of theirs, rendered our attend.
ance there desirable. They had given us notice, that in 'the
novelty of their situation, and in the spirit of deference to our
experience, they would he pleased to have the benefit of our
frieedly counsel. To meet the temper with which tbis proposal
was made, with a cold repulse, was not thought congenial to
that warm interest in their welfare, with which the people anti
Government of the Union 'had hitherto . gone hand in hand
through the whole progress of their revolution. To insult
stliineinniatriy astiaoremfubsiy, to
refusal of
btheetsiriozderbtuy ourselves, was an expedientre, and then invite them to a
which nover presented itself to the mind. I would have sent
Ministers to the meeting, had it been merely to give them
such advice as they might have desired, even with reference to
tnleininnglear4nlyy to explain
of specific measures to which
proposaland set forth to them our
their own interests, not involving ours. I would have sent
rethasoemnirfdorit4
they might desire our concurrence, but which we might deem,