The Sun.
London, England, 1818-08-06 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

We have received letters and papers from Phi-
adelphia and Washington, of the 7th and 8(h

PHILADELPHIA, JULY 8 —Don Oujs has pro-
tested against the capture of Pensacola : it is said
to.contain a great variety of amusing arguments.
Mr. Quincy Adams is said to be drawing up a
Manifesto, explaining to all the world the pacific
policy of the invasion of Florida. It is said that
it will be s.,perior, as a composition, to the cele-
brated M oiitesto of the Court of Great Britain,
drawn up by Gibbon, against France. Among
Other theme- yet the new Manifesto, it is said that
t e spoliation. of Spain will be avowedly aban-
doned, in tudor to prove that the war upon Flo-
rida is a In, re pacific operation of diplomacy.
Among other proposit,ons to be explained in
the Manifesto is the following, which is a new
species, and kind of counter-demonstration to the
celebrated non sequitur of the memorable Judge
Chase. It is %hewn first, that the attack upon
Amelia Island was an act of devotion to the cause
of liberty and independence; and in the second
place, that the takine of Pensacola, as war was
not authorised by Congress, must be an act of
amity and good faith towards Spain, on the part 1
of the Executive.

to of the messengers who brought dispatches
to Don Oois last week, was not from Pensacola,
hut from Spain, by the route of Bourdeaux. The
nature of his dispatches is only guessed at.
BALTIMORE, JULY 7.—The Spanish Minister,
Don Onis, has removed from the pasture-fields of
Bristol, above Philadelphia, and this morning ar-
rived in this City, on his way to Washington.

The following is an important communication
relative to our West India Trade ; it is a letter
ft um the Treasury Department at Washington,
addressed to Mr. Baker, the British Consul-
General :

" TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
" TO ANT. ST. JOHN BAKER, E 61.. WASHINGTON..
Comptroller's-Office, June 2.5, 1818.
" Stll,—l have attentively considered the question pro-
pounded in the inclosed documents, which were a few days
since presetftedlo me under your direction.
" Ist. Whether .a Bermudian vessel will he allowed to
bring West -India produce to the United States from Ber-
muda, which had been imported into that place from some
other possession of his Britannic Majesty -in the Vest
Indies.

" 2d. Whether. according to the Navigation Act of the
United States, which is to take effect sirs the Ist of October
next, a vessel owned in Bermuda cars he allowed to enter the
United States, and discharge a cargo which had heen laden
on board in the West Indies, brought to Bermuda, unladen
there, and again taken o❑ hoard.
" As applicable to the first question, I have to observe,
that the ports of St. George and Hamilton, in the island of
Bermuda, are considered open to the vessels of the United
States, according to the ordinary laws of navigation and
trade. A British vessel, therefore, which was cleared out,
whose cargo was actually laden, and whose voyage commenc-
ed at either of the said ports of St. George Or Hamilton, may
enter and discharge her cargo. in a port of the United States,
with this express understanding, however, that rib part of such
cargo was brought in the same vessel to the island of Ber-
muda ft um one of his Britannic Majesty's possessions closed
to the vessels of the 11►nted Stares. And moreover, that such
vessel is not employed in the transportation of goods to that
islandlrom British colonial ports, which were closed against
the vessels owned bvcitizens of the United States.
" With respect to the second question, I have to observe,
that according to the provision of the Act., a British vessel
sailing from a port, not open to American vessels, and enter-
ing a port that is open, unloading there, taking the same, or
some other cargo on board, and clearing thence to the United
States, cannot he admitted to entry.
" This kind of trade, heretofore considered a lucrative
one, is declared by the Act to he a direct trade from the
excluthil port, and is in express terms prohibited.
I. ant, &c.
•' J. ANDERSON, Comptroller."

(Signed)

LAW.—The proceeding,' in the Court of Chan-
cery yesterday were .of no public interest what-
ever. The LORD CHANCELLOR came into Court
soon after nine o'clock, and said, that before the
business of the day was gone into, he wished it
to be understood, That when a cause was called
on, and the Counsel and Solicitors on both sides
were not present, he would, without the slightest
hesitation, strike the cause out. He would_ wait
for no man; for, attacked as he was on account
of his delays, he would ask how could lie possibly
(10 wherirk., when he was not attended to by
those who ought to do so ? The rule was now
hnow•n, and be was determined to be inflexible,
andAberefore, if causes were struck out, let those
bkine themselves for the consequences to whom
blan:c was justly imputable,

P 0 E r It Y.

SONNET

OH the TRANSLAIION of " THE t'ENEIS."
By the Rev. CHARLES SYMNIONS, D.D.

When VIRGIL his immortal Work design'd,
k'in'd by ambition Epic heights to gain,
And rival mighty HOMCH'S lofty strain,
t Jr deein'd, perchance, that Work would be ensbriu'd
Yu Latian lore, by Fame to be consign'd
To adamantine tablets, and remain
Long as Imperial Rome should stretch her reign,
‘Viteres'er the waves should roll or rove the wind.
And though proud Rome has sunk to rise no more,
, O'erwheltn'd by Superstition's dark eontroul,
Yet Vutom's Muse, still bonnur'd as of yore,
SYMNIONS, possess'd of all the Poet's soul,
Has arn,'d in BRITISH FoucE that will explore
Whcreler the wind shall rove or waves shall roll