The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-12 00:00:00

CABINET TRANSACTIONS

As soon as the news of General JAcxsos's
Conquest of Pensacola reached Washington, the
PRESIDENT, who wns much embarrassed, sum-
moned his Cabinet Councillors, when the follow-
ing questions were propounded by Mr. MoNROP,,
and the answers given by the Cabinet, which are
annexed :

Firtt—May Pensacola be retained, risking all coasequences
at home or abroad 1'

.Iw-ever—No: it wool(' he declarative of war.

Second—Shall the captured Spanish ports be restored, and
General Jackson put on his trial before a Court-martial for
breach of orders and unofficer-like conduct ?

Auszttr—No : it wilt not appear that the General has vio-
lated the spirit of his orders ; nor will his conduct be proved
unofticer-like.

Third—Shall the port he restored, and the acts of General
Jackson he disavowed, at the same time justifying his ;natives?
dinswer—Yes : requiring of the Spanish Government gar-
risons adequate to fulfil the requisitions of the Treaty between
Spain and the United States,

The Democratic Press gives the following
itn-
portHnt ilitormation

" On our parts, war was in every respect
thereby a war de veto, without any previous
declaration. But what shall we say of the fate of
AMBRISTER. ARBUTHNOT was executed as a spy;
on this charge the Court expressly acquitted him.
It appears from Gen. JAcxsoN's own order on the
subject, that lie was shot in direct opposition to tl►e
Court. It is true that the Court in the first instance
entered up judgment of dead► against hint, but im-
mediately thereafter, and before the prnceeding
had been laid before the General, the Court re-
scinded that judgment, and sentenced the pri-
soner to be dogged and imprisoned. General
JACKSON, however, in the plenitude of his seve-
rity, dashed his pen against the sentence, and
ordered the wt etched victim to instant execution.

" Now, let it be considered that a Coort-
martial had the right to try these men, but which
there is abundant room to doubt ; and let it also
be supposed, that the Court, instead of flogging
and imprisoning, had sentenced AMBRISTER to be
shot, still the question will recur—Why this in-
decent hurry in the Commander-in-Chief ; why
were not the two cases referred to the President
for his decision ?—By the 65th Article of War
(Act of Congress, 10th April, 1816), it is ex-
pressly enacted, that no sentence of a General
Court-Martial, in time of Peace, extending
to the loss of life, shall be carried into execu-
tion, until the whole proceedings have been laid
before the President of the United States ; but to
this, perhaps, it may he objected, that these Men
were executed in time of War; bo this War slwrild
have been declared by the Congress of the United
States, and not by a General-in-Chief.
" General JACKSON, in his Orders, justifies the
execution on this ground—that ARBUTHNOT and
AmaarsTEß were subjects of a neutral Power ;
but let this be thrown aside ; has any body read
or heard of an execution in modern times on the
ground as assumed by General JAcKsoz; ? There

are many foreigners vtlin brave Aervcs:i in
F.vrqg
and America at the present day, but Iv" re'lr
dreatn that they would march to bai tit will' baiter(
b
round their necks; nor was ever a single foreigne
executed by the British on the grounds take" I):
Gent ral JAcitsort. If so, let the precedent t
cited for his justification, and that of the Cltiri:
which sat under his Orders, so far as respects
case of ARBUTHNOT, for the Court is giiildeSS°
the blood of AMBRISTBR.
" To the foregoing fact may be added
JacxsoN has left positive instructions vri!li ti°
Officer commanding in Florida not to yield t 1
Spanish posts to any authority whatever, nor'°
to the orders of the President of the United stotes'
wit bout giving him (Gen. J.) days' PreliQu

notice."

The President of the United States has jos"
a special order for the trial of Captain IVII°11:
for ,\I order, on the following section of ale%
of the United States, " that any person or cid°
that shall go into any town or settlement I)o°4'
ing to the In&ans, and shall commit muiller bi
killing any Indian or Indians belonging 1° ant
tribe of Indians in amity with the United Sti
such offender, on being convicted, shall 06'

de,,th."
FROM HAYTt.—Copt. BIRD, from Aux haler,
,
informs, that CFI I:I‘.JTOPH a and his forces rell°.(l
ed quietly about fourteen leagues from Part.6tia
(7,
Prince, and that the troops which had been ,1t
tiered by BovER to Port-au-Prince had reldri't:,
there being no longer any apprehension of ail.sos
tack from CFI RIsToPHE, and the force there be'
deemed sufficient for its protection.
Further accounts by a Gentleman oh“°
Cape Henry on the 28th July, informs, (I''itl,o
reports of CH RISTuPH E'S military exPellii„lo
against the Haytian Republic are entirely oith-i,
foundation ; that he was only on a tour of
vivion through his territories, and has no glib(
force with him whatever.

At length the OFFICIAL DisrATclits „,
Ships employed on the Discovery of TO S•110LI:
WEST PASSAGE have been received, anti 'le ud
derstand are most satisfactory. They are istijo
July 28th, at which time the Isabella onu
Alexander were in tat. 75° 30' N. long. 6° tho
W. well over to the American Coast, the
serene and perfectly clear. The variation Jif
compass, by accurate observations repe4tedie
made on board both ships, was 89' 11:e
84° 30', which led them to conclude that retiC
re
were approaching very nearly to the I\Dsiti
Pole. It bad been perfectly calm, and tile s, (tic
smooth as glass for three or four days, An('
current drifted them to the South-east4 elf
which raised their hopes of an open 110VIi‘
round the point of America, from which ert.lmils
appeared to proceed. All the way up the ellll,l of
of Davis' Strait they skirted an unbroken ,rot
Ice on the left, but as they proccedd it becoeto
thinner and apparently rotten, and they ti?
sanguine that the moment the breeze 517ruij:0?
the Ice to the tVest ward would open 010.9 igo
sage, and allow them to reach the °11,,,ip
shores of America. The utmost harmonY
ell among the Officers and every part of tl,e"
still
Company, and all were in perfect health "boo
is the substance of the accounts which Ile eof
nC
been able to learn. 'There are ebtl d'itioo
private letters to the friends and relations ottod
who have embarked in this most i(pportillt

interesting enterprize.
The Extracts from Madras Gazettes to (13e
1 9111
of May will be found in our Fourth Pdge. iiote
chiefly confirm the intelligence which Wevret
before presented to our Readers, 30 the ors'
that the prompt, efficient, and decisive nle:sl/00
of the Marquis of HASTINGS are likelY to recto
and to secure tranquillity.
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letter to Sir S. ItomiLLY, that his ()tier of lii,"seli°,t‘tire%
the Board of Honorary Commissioners, to "l'i'bi. liiiiefl'''i
was affixed, was rejected by the eminent be3d °'.li oir 'l°°b,f
Department with silent contempt. The coll"trY‘ ii6,;3ti'''';
duly appreciate that purity of taste and eselq 040
politeness, which could almost rush into the 11,'1:,:rreil°11i'
fitTNT, Esq. whilst it repudiated the taint of au}
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;:ett"," to he included in the Board of " Honorary
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hlntlers, and must prove that the latter are only
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