The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-31 00:00:00

44MERICAN PdPERS.

NEW-YORK, DEC. 4.—A ;otter from our Cor-
respondent at, Washington, dated last Thursilay
evening,. says :—Owing.to,bad roads, neither Gen.
Verytim.,. the Speaker of the House of Representa-
lives, nor many of the Members, have yet arrived;
and I amssatisfied there will be no House on Mon-
day, so that
,you need not look for the President's
Message to be delivered before Wednesday."

DECEMBER I. •
The following extra& of a letter is from a Gen-
tleman of the first respecitabtlity at Washington,
Mksissippi territory, to his•. friend in the c!ry of
Washington, hearing date oJoher 30, r S
" The situation of Florida m-st certainly claims
the earliest possible attention of our Government,
for unless they are adopted intp our 'amity of
Governments, there is :nuch rooor to fear that one
of the Great'Belligerents- of Europe will attempt
laying violent -hands _upon these provinces, .to the ;
incalculable injury, of the United States : indted,
I verily bdieve there is a strong party in that coun-
try in far our of its pupilage, to ,Great Britain ; vet,
I am persuaded, such a measure could pot be ef-
fected without a noble and manly struggle by every
real American witiln the Province, aided by hun-
dreds without."

The two 'following Queries have been proposed
to Mr. Gallatin, to which he hasgiven the sur•joined
repties

Ist. \Yhether goods shipped. from England prior
to the P-d of February next, Out arriving subsequently
thereto, would be subject to seizure, or. admitted to
an entry ?•--=And 2dly, whether a vessel with a cargo
.of British goods Would be permitted to call within
the waters of the:United States tor,orders, or nalearn
the coat.nuance of the No- intercourse answer
to the first, Mr. Gallatin. stated, that all goods im-
ported from •thedorninions r;f Great Britain, ,end ar!.
riving within the United ,States subsequent to the
2d of February, will becOrne forfeited, .if Great Bri-
tain shall not on that day have revoked her eclids.
It follows. that. if • no kt:owledge of such .1-evocation
is-known here by the 2d of February, goods import-
ed as aforesaid will be subject to seizure.'
• In answer to the second, viz. whether vessels
would be permitted to call,-&c. Mr.-Gallatin was
not so explicit, but said it would • be left to the
Courts to decide; that the-law would be rigidly en-
forced in all cases of arrivals atter the t,cl February;
and belted it to be understood,
.that there would be
no release froin the Treasury Department. He men-
tioned this, he said; because several releases had been
made.under different • circumstances, which 'be 'ex-
plained, upon the arrival of vessels after,the revival
of the law under Mr. Erskine's arrangement. In
that case, it was the act of the Executive, and of th.e
British Minister, Which induced merchants to git,e.
orders—here it was under a law well known, and
that it would- be unsafe to make any risks ; and
that all shipments from England will be attended
with ,risk and hazard, unless the revocation on her
part is free, and perfeelly eatisfaCtory. Mr. Gallatin
is-also of opinion, that the Orders in Council. of No-:,
yea:her are done away by the Order of Blockade of
April; so that a repeal el,er Paper Blockade (so
called) is the principal thing dernaeded. The Pre-
sident, by making the letter of the. French Minister
the basis-of his Proclamation, has taken it with the
conditions annexed ; one of which is, that England
shall repeal her blockades. From this it is interred,
that a formal repeal of the Orders in Council of
November Will not 'be 'cle:ined satisfaaory by this
Government for-preventing the Non-Intercourse.,