The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-10 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.'

( From the Washington Gazette' Jan. 12.)
It is reported that on Tuesday last, the -President of the
United States transmitted to the Senate an Executive communi.
nication on the subject of sending a diplomatic mission to
Panama. Probably this fact may account for the considerable
time spent on Executive business on Tuesday, by that body.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS or THIS DAY.—The Re-
solution laid on the table yesterday, calling on the Department
of State for a list of the printers of the U. S. laws, &c. was
considered and passed. The Resolution laid on the table by
Mr. Cooke, calling on the President of the United States,
for a statement of the expences relating to certain
Courts' Martial and Courts of Enquiry, was also considered
and passed. Two bills from the Senate—one for the relief
of Annadumford, and another fixing the salaries of the
Secretary of the Senate, Clerk of tho !louse, and Con-
gressional Librarian, were twice read -and referred. ' The
bill on the judiciary system was resumed in Committee, when
Mr. Dorsey, of Maryland, rose, and oifered an extensive argu-
ment in its favour.. he was followeel by Mr. Williams, of
N.,C., in defence of . the bill, and in reply to Mr. Mangum.---
Finally, on motion of Mr. Powell, of Virgini, the Committee
rose, eke. and the House adjourned.—The Senate have ad-
journed over till Monday next.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.---A New Orleans Paper of the I4th
of December, says that two or three thousand bales of first
quality cotton'had arrived within the last four days, and a sale
had been made at 18 Cents, which was higher than the article
was expected to bring during the season. It is remarked of this
year's crop that at is cleaner than usual, owing to the
favourable season for picking,and more abundant, but shorter in
staple. CoMplaints are made of the scarcity Of beef in the
New Orleatir market. Al! the Creole cattle had been slaugh-
tered ; and the water being low, a supply could not be expected
for a considerable time; as. per lb. is mentioned 104 the pro-
bable price by the end of Jan. J. Chardon, keeper of a licensed
gambling house, has been sentenced to pay a fine of one theusend
dollars and be imprisoned one month, for an infraction of the
law which prohibits keepers " from carrying on their trade on
the ground floor, in front of any street or road exposed to public
viov.

that James Rumney, of Virginia, in 1782, invented a steam
Vutoma.—lt is "stated in the Rhode-Island Republican,
apparatus to propel a boat, by drawing water into a 'trunk
placed lengthways the boat and forcing it out of stern. With
• this machinery he propelled a boat on the Potomac, at the rate
of three miles an hour, against the current. In 1783, he pa.
tented his right in Virginia and Pennsylvania. In 178 he in-
vented a tube boiler (now called a generator,) of two inches in
diameter, and had it in use on board his steam boat, apart'.
cular description of which, with a drawing, is given in the Co-
Itunbian 11Iagaxine for May, 1788, pruned in Philadelphia, by
Spotteswood.
TexxEssEE.-4n the year 1780, a. small colony of about
40 families, pnder the direction of James Robertson. :ttossed
the mountains, and passing through a wilderness of 390 miles,
settled on Cumberland riper, and founded the town of Nash-
ville. In _1782,: the Legislature of North Carolina appointed
cOmmissioners to explore the western' part of the•• State;
and to report to the succeeding Legislature which part was
most suitable for the bounty lands promised to the officers
and soldiers of the continental line. According to their re.:
commendation, the Legislature, in 1783, laid off a' tract of
land on the Cumberland river, t'or the discharge of the military
Lunatics. This district included the infant colony at Nash-
ville, a small tract having been allotted tts each of the settlerS:
In 1705 the inhabitants of this district, feeling sensibly the in:,
convenience of a Government so remote as that in the capital of
North Carolina, endeavoured to form an independent one, to
which they intended to give the name of " the State of
Franklin," but differing among themselves, the scheme was
abandoned for a time. rn 1789, the Legislators of North ca.:
rolina passed an Act ceding the territory to the United States,
on certain conditions. Congress accepted the seAlon, and
provided for its Government, by an Act undtr the title of the
Territory of the United States south of the Ohio." Oa the
11th of June, 1791, the President appointed Willhith Blount
Governor of the territory,
which dice ,he held during the
continuance of the territorial Governmint. Six years after.
wards Tennessee was admitted as a sovereign state into the
Union.

On Wednesday evening about six o'clock, his
Grace the Duke of WELtakrrom left his resi-
dence in Piccadilly, to proceed on his embassy
to on his special mission to the
Emperor,Bl. ieti)torscti.ggil.':tulate his Imperial Majesty
on _his accession to the throne. His Grace's car-
riage was followed by two others, in which were
his Grace's suite,--consisting of Lord Fitzroy So-
inerset, the Hon. Captain Cathcart, (the Duke's
Aide-de-camp), Lord Dunglas, Mr. Jerningliatn,
Lord Francis Gower, (although not in his
Grace's suite), Dr. ,Hume, Mr. Havilaud. the
King's Messenger, and a German courier.
Grace was to proceed to Dover, and to embark.
mu board a steam-packet commanded by Captain
Hamilton.