The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

We last night received by the Silas Richards, which
arrived at .1.41-;C:TtO an Monday, New York Papers to the
12th of December. The foildi,,,ite are extracts
WASHINGTON, DEC. 4.—The reading t'if tiv President's
Message to-day was interrupted by a painful oiciiireirec.
Mr; Van Horne, of Pennsylvania, who was suddenly
seized with an apoplectic affection, gave a frightful shriek,
and fell convulsed arid lifeless Upon the floor ! He was car-
tied into the Rotunda, bled copiously, and revived after
Thit attack idattributed (it is notorious
here, and I see no impropriety hi Mentioning it) to the
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[Our Correspondent states the causes of this attack, whicl
we think it most prudent to omit.]
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It is said that the Jackson men of Pennsylvania and
r4ii• Toril ebtaifted an assurance from Mr. Stevenson or
his friends, that lie would, if elinseti, give them a Tariff
Committee. There was nothing like " corrupt bargain
and sale" about this. It is called magnanimity 1
Mr. Randolph was net in his seat to-day. It was said
that he was about to indicate his disrespect for the Presi-
dent. His voice is quite broken--so much so, that he
tannot speak above a whisper.
Dxc. 3.—The opposition has triumphed, and Mr. Ste-
venson, of Virginia, is elected Speaker of the House of
Representatives. Three New England members voted for
Stevenson; one from New Hampshire; and two, I be-
lieve, froth Maine. Sixteen only of the New York re
presentation voted for Taylor, and one, Mr. Oakley, was
absent. Of the Pennsylvania members, only six or eight
are supposed to have voted for Taylor. Several of the
Virginia administration members also voted against Tay-
lor. The two members who declined voting are unknown.
Perhaps they were the two leading candidates.
This is a mortifying and unexpected result. 'We may
now look out fbi• a lott and alarming array of Jackson
anti-tariff Committees and Chairmen, Who, in their hosti-
lity to the administration, will delay or defeat every twat.
sure calculated to promote the public good.
Those of your readers who hare never before heard of
Mr. Stevenson, and, as he has not hitherto filled a very
large space in the nation's eye, he can be known to but
few, will, perhaps, inquire who:he is. He is a native of
Virginia, and is about 44 years old. At an early age he
was placed, for be had not the benefit of a liberal educa-
tion, in a clerk's office at Richmond, from which, about
twenty years ago, he came, ad saltum, to the bar. Here
he has toiled ever since without much profit or fame,
having never risen to eminence iu his profession. He bits
been a member of the Virginia Legislature, of which body
he was Speaker. During Monroe's administration he op-
posed Adams ; and, in the newspaper discussions growing
out of the Seminole affair, he took part against the hero,
with whom he considered Mr. Adams as identified. He
came into Congress six years ago, where he opposed the
Bankrupt Bill exclusively on the ground that it was uncon-
stitutional. The Tariff he opposed on the ground that
Congress could not, constitutionally, impose a duty whose
object or effect should he to encourage domestic. manufac-
tures! Having by these, and one or two other speeches,
given 'ample proof of his devotion to the Virginia anti-
national state-right principles, and having recanted his ob-
jections to General Jackson, the eyes of the Virginia Re-
presentation became fixed upon him, and their votes were
ultimately united on him as Speaker, in preference to Mr.
I3arbour, who is infinitely superior to him in talent and
parliamentary experience, and who, poor man, had re-
signed his Judgeship in Virginia, and come to Congress
with the expectation of being elected to that honourable
station.

In temper Mr. Stevenson is irascible and violent, and,
when a little irritated, is regardless of decorum; for in-
stances of which, I could refer you to his legal career.
In person Mr. S, is tall and handsome; his feelings are
said to be social, and his morals are irreproachable.
Herald Office, Montreal, Nov. 12.—A gentleman ar-
rrived from Quebec informs us, that on Wednesday after-
noon, the 11th inst., the House of Assembly again elected
Mr. Papineau to the office of Speaker by the same ma-
jority. After which they passed resolutions to the effect
that they would have no other Speaker.r--and that in case
his Excellency should refuse to receive him, they would
leave Quebec.

Capt. Basil Hall, accompanied by Lis lady, hare arrived
in Philadelphia.

NEW YORK, Dc-c.-3.—We have received by the packet
ship Yirginitto in the short passage of 15 days from Vera
Cruz, papers from that place to the 15th of November.
By a decree of the Mexican Congress of October 16, all
Spanish Ecclesiastics are ordered to leave the country,
and all the property in their convents to be forthwith
delivered up to the Mexican Ecclesiastics. They are, by
the decree, forbid to remove any thing but their own per-
sonal effects.

We learn ♦erbally from Captain Collins that all Spanish
subjects had been ordered to Mexico, in consequence of
which they bad bncoine alarmed, and were embarking for
the United States and Great 13ritain/
The Mexican So/ of November 6, says that the last snail
from Valladolid brought information that the famous Mejia
had, with others, escaped from prison on the 31st of Oc-
tober, for the purpose of joining Vasquez. There was, in
Consequence, a great deal of excitement, and the political
atithorities wore about to take into consideration the state
of affairs. The editor remarks that the public firmness of
the Sovereign Congress in January, 1824, should serve as
a salutary lesson and glorious model in the actual circuits.,
stances of the case.

A convoy,, with two millions of dollars, left the city of
Mexico on the 6th of November, for Vera Cruz.
Brigadier-General D. Pedrd Yaldivieso has been ap-
pointed Minister of the Supreme Trilitnal of WAr and Ma-
rine, in the place of General Bonilla.

By an aril'eal at New Orleans on the 7th instant, infor-
mation was received in that city of the capture of the
Havanna Packet, from Cadiz, with a valuaWe Cargo, by the
Mexican brig of war Bravo, which was cruising to the
westward of liavanita, where she encountered the packet.
Both vessels mounted a Ilhe number of guns.—
The Spaniard *at superior in tonnage and the calibre of
her Otis:. The etinhothitie hilted tircequarters of an hour,
when the Mexican commander determined von boarding,
and succeeded in taking the Spaniard with a loss of 10
killed and 25 wounded. Both vessels are said to have
entered key West shortly Afterwards.

COLOMBIA.--We h!re received by the brig Athenian,
files of CaraCeas and Bogota Papers. Out latest dates are
from Carthagena, November 4, and from Bogota, Oct. 17.
The Senate have determined on calling the proposed
Convention, to deliberate on altering the Constitution,
A letter from the Secretary of Bolivar to the Intendant
of Magdalena, directs Lint to cause to be collected and
burnt all papers which appeared during the late period
of public excitement, in xthich private persons were at-
tacked, that every thing calculated to awaken acrimonious
feelings May be biried in forgeifniness, and hie decree of
general pardon and c'divion may be carried into complete
effect, and prove the means of restoring and preserving en-
tire tranquillity. It also requires them to endeavour, by
all means in their power, to restore the respect and supre-
macy of the laws, which are " essential to the public
good." Gen. Paez has also published a very pacific pro-
clamation in Venezuela, in which be exhort, all persons to
preserve unity and good order.

The proclamation of Bolivar, of June, had been just
received in Guayaquil at our latest dates, and had greatly
quieted the public mind. It was said that the battalion
Vencedor was going to declare in favour of him.
Every thing, as far as we were able to learn, remains in
a state of quietness, and in the country there ar• no ap-
pearances or threats of disturbance, and the Congress seem
to he lending their efforts, in combination with Bolivar,
who is still at the capital, to meliorate the condition of the

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people. In conformity with a proclamation from him,
they have recently passed a decree to relieve them from the
unnecessary municipal taxes, by 1E25.
We find, with regard to Central America, a proclama-
tion by General Cascara to the national troops, dated Santa
Ana, Aug. 23, frost which it appears that the rebels from
Saint Salvadore were approaching to attack them. The

proclamation speaks of them and ill-cola-

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