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THE SUN.

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LONDON,
MONDAY, JUNE 5. 1820.

Washington Papers to the 14th May, and New
York and Baltimore to the 121 h, have been re-

ceived :

(From the Trashinvo* Paper e the itth May)

Our Relations with Spain, and the Rejection of
the Florida Treaty, are at length officially disclosed.
It appears nothing can be dune towrat Els an
amicable adjustment of our differences.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

TO THIS SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
" I communicate to Congress a Correspondence
which has taken place between the Secretary of
State and the Envoy Extraordinary, and the
Minister Plenipotentiary of his Catholic Majesty,
since the Message of the 27th of March last, re-
specting the Treaty which was concluded between
the United States and Spain on the 22d February,
1819. After the failure of his Catholic Majesty
for so long a time to ratify the Treaty, it was
expected that this Minister would have brought
with him the ratification, or, that he would have
been authorised to give an order for the delivery of
the territory ceded by it to the United States; it
appears, however, that the Treaty is still unrati-
fied, and the Minister has no authority to surren-
der the Territory ; the object of his Mission has
been to make complaints and to demand expla-
nations respecting an expected system of hosti-
lity on the part of the Citizens of the United
States against the Subjects and Dominions of
Spain, and au uniriendly policy of their Govern-
ment; and to obtain new stipulations against those
alleged injuries is the condition on which the
Treaty should tar ratified. Unexpected as such com-
plaints and such a demand wereonder existing cis-
cumetances,ir was thought proper,without compro-
mising the Government as to the course to be_
pursued, to meet them promptly, and to give the
explanations that were desired on every subject
with the utmost candour. The result has proved
what was sufficiently well known before, that the
charge of a systematic hostility being adopted and
pursued by Citizens of the United States against
the dominions and subjects of Spain, is utterly
destitute of foundation, and that their Govern-
ment, in all its branches, has maintained with the
utmost rigour that neutrality -hi the C:vil War
between Spain and her Colonies, which they were
the first to declare. No force has been collected,
nor incursions made, from within the United
States, against the dominions of Spain, nor have
any naval equipments been permitted in favour of
either party against the other. Their Citizens
have been warned of the obligations incident
to the neutral condition of their Country.—
The Public Offices have been inspected to see
that the Laws were fully executed, and seve-
ral examples have been made of some who
violated them. In regard to the stipulation pro-
posed as the condition of the ratification of the
Treaty, that the United States shall abandon the
right to recognize the Revolutionary Colonies in
South Atnerica, or to form other Relations with
them, when in their judgment it may be just and
expedient so to do, it is manifestly so repugnant
to the honour, and even to the independence of
the United States, that it has been impossible to
discuss it ; in making this proposal, it is per-
ceived, that his Catholic Majesty has entirely
misconceived the principles on which this Govern-
ment has acted, in being a party to a negociation
so long protracted, for claims so well founded and
reasonable, as he likewise has the sacrifices which
the United States have made, comparatively with
Spain, in the Treaty to which it is proposed to
annex so extraordinary and improper a condi-
tion. lied the Minister of Spain offered an un-
qualified pledge that the Treaty should be ratified
by his Sovereign on being made acquainted with
the explanations which had been given by this
Geverement, there would have been a strong
motive for accepting amid submitting it to the
Senate fur their advice and consent, rather than