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London, England, 1811-08-07 00:00:00

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Nt:',V YORK, JUNE 24.

CON FIDENTIAt.

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THE SLCKET ou r AT LAST.

from the' ConnfeliCitt Mirror, fret Ivey' this morn..
Ing,- we copy tike Confid,tival Message which the.
Prosideitt sent to Congress early in the last Session,
the ;Documents \A huh accompanied hat Message,
and ittr Oeclatat.,on and the Law which, after
much secret di,cnssion, were finally adopted.
Tue law eippTwers the PreSi.tent to take pos..
.Est Flo; ida, in the name of the United
States, and to govern it accordingly.

TO TUB SENATE AND IJOU4B OP INEPPMNTATIVES.

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reco.iline.nd '0 Congies,, io confidence, a lei-
ter rat the of December, irom Governor Fold),
of Wrxt I,l,rtdai to the Secretary of Slate, -and
Swot het, of the same date, trout the same to Jobs)

as 1 recommend, in like manner, a letter from the
British Charge d'Affaires to the Secretary of State,
with the answer of the latter. Although the letter
Cannot have. been written in consequence of any
instruction from time British Government, founded
on . tilr late order fur taking posse,ssion or 'West Flo-
rida, well knowti to be claimed by the United
States, although no communication has been trade;
by that Government to this of any,
.st tpul3tion 'with
spain, contetn,,Liting ;.in interpositiok, which ;night
so itiaterially affect the United States; and although
tin call can fLivy been made by Spain, in the present
instance, for toe lulfiltnent of any such. subsisting
egagernent, yet the spirit and scope of the docu-
ment, with the accieilited source from, which it pro-
ceed 4, that •it should not be withheld from
the et.nisiderition Of Congress.
‘,` -Taking . into vitivir the tenor of these severil
commuoicittions,-»the posture of things with which
they are connected--the; intimate relation of the
count y adjoining the United S!atts, eastward of the
river Perdido, to their security—and tie peculiar in-
c.,iest they Otherwise have in ttr destiny ;—.

" T FeCUrninend to con,ideiation of Congress,
the seasonableness of a Declaration, that the United
Sates; could not sec, without serious incittitinclef, any
part of a nicigiiihmring itTrituly, in which they
have, in different respects, so dity and just a cup.
cern, pass t I:001 the hands of Spain into those' of
other foreign power.

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"" I recommend to their consideration also, the.
expediency of authorising the Exeetitite to take
temrorary possesttion of the said territory, in ptirso-
nitc, ot arrangements, which may be'deSired by 'lit
Sop;.ilh ittithoiitivb, and making priviska tot; the
G,,verotilent of the sant:during welt itossecsion.
"lANILES M.ADISON."
" Jammu 3, q.,tr,

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(on receii4 of the above confidential tleclarations from
tbv Prraktent, Congress AVVIIC: isle& tmcrct conclavc, and passed
tnltoo nig Act an(' Deciar,ition
Fiero Clipic3.ol the Declaration, stating that
iro tc> thvil aait-ty compels The tinned
i.ro,tde for the ternilorary occupation of
:said tt ;too,. and a eoptof the AO fonndril, upon
that D.:cl-.l4tion, by which it ti 3 enacted, that -the
Presidi'm o the trintrri Suites be, and be is hereby
nothoiiseil to take possession ot, and occupy all or
an) p,lrt of the terrinay lying exist iof the river Per-
' did° (k ~...ht Florid.), alai iorlt ti (.); tilt: State 'OfGeor-
gia and the Mississippi tertitory, in case an arrange-
ment has belt. ii, (lf shill!, De made with the local au-
-01104 tit Ihe s eriitoiy,, for delivering op of
pr)-vssion of in, same, or any vein thereof, to the
Unite(' St,tes,' or in the elfent of an attempt to oc.
copy tic said territory, or any part thereof' by any
foreign Gavel htnent....-To these is annexed a corre-
spondence between Cl,l, MAO, Governor of East
Floritti aiid Col. .M`Kee. 'rite following letters con•
elude the seiirti :