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London, England, 1815-02-02 00:00:00

THE ANIERICAN TO TILE BRITISII COMMISSIONERS.

Serr. 9, 1814.

di With respect to the mere question of peace with
the Iniii ins, the undersigned have already explicitly
assured the British Plenipotentiaries, that so fir as it
depended on the United States, it would immedi-
ately and necessarily follow a peace with Great Bri.
tain. • If this be her sole object, no provision in the
treaty to that effect is necessary. Provided the In-
dians will now consent to it, peace will be imme-
diately made with them, and they will be reinstated
in the same situation in which they stood before the
commencement of hostilities. Should a continuance
of the war compel the United. States to alter their
policy towards the Indians, who may still take the
part of Great Britain, they alone must be responsible
for the consequences of her own act in having induced
them to withdraw themselves from the protection of
the United States. The employment of. savages.
whose known rule of warfare is the indiscriminate
torture and butchery cf women, children, and pri-
soners, is, itself, a departure from the principles of
humanity observed between all civilized and Chris-
tian nations, even in war. The United States have
constantly protested, and still protest against it, as
an unjustifiable aggravation of the calamities and
horrors of war. Of the peculiar atrocities of Indian
warfare, the allies of Great Britain, in whose behalf
she now demands sacrifices of the United States,
have, during the present war, shewn many deplo-
rable examples. Among them, the massacre, in
Cold blood, of wounded prisoners, and the refusal of
the rights of burial of the dead, under the eyes of
British officers, who could only plead their inability
to controul these savage auxiliaries, have been repeat-
ed and are notorious to the world.

" The United States might, at times, have em-
ployed the same kind of force against Great Britain,
to a greater extent than it was in her power to em-
ploy it against them ; hut from their reluctance to
resort to means so abhorrent to the natural feelings
of humanity, 'they abstained from the use of them
until compelled to the alternative of employing them-
velves Indians, who would otherwise have been drawn
into the ranks of their enemies. _ _

66 The undersigned, suggesting to the British Ple-
nipotentiaries the propriety of an article by which
Great Britain and the United States should recipro-
cally stipulate never hereafter, if they should again
be at war, to employ savages in it, believe that it
would be infinitely more -honourable to the Chris-
tian temper of both parties, more advantageous to,
the Indians themselves, and better adapted to secure
their permanent peace, tranquillity, and progressive
civilization, than the boundary proposed by the Bri-
tish Plenipotentiaries.
64 With regard to the cession of a part of the Dis-
trict of Maine, as to which the British Plenipoten-
tiaries are unable to reconcile the objections made by
the undersigned with their previous declaration, they
have the honour to observe, that at the conference of
the 9th ultimo, the British Plenipotentiaries stated,
as one of the subjects suitable for discussion, a revi-
sion of the boundary line between the British and
American territories, with a view to prevent uncer-
tainty oud dispute s and that it was on the point thus
stated, that the undersigned declared that they were
provided with instructions from their Government:
A declaration which did not imply that they were in-
structed to make any cession of territory in any quar-
ter, or to agree to a revision of the line, or to any
exchange of territory, where no uncertainty or dis-
pute existed.
66 The undersigned perceive no uncertainty or
matter of doubt in the treaty of 1783, with respect
to that part of the boundary of the District of Maine
which would be affected by the proposal of Great
Britain on that subject. They never have under-
stood that the British Plenipotentiaries who signed
that treaty, had contemplated a boundary different
from that fixed by the treaty, and which sequins no-
thing more, in order to be definitely ascertained, Ulan
LI be surveyed in conformity with its provisions.—

This inbjecknat /raving beep a matierof ancertalaty
inidispute, the undersigned are fOll illitflieted upon
it; and they cis have so asthocity to tea: any part
of the siAte of Massachusetts, eyen for what the Bri-
tisb cove/malt aright consider:a fair equivalent.
" In regard to ,the boundary of the North•westem
Frontier, so soon ae the proposition of Indian boun-
dary is disposed of, the undersigned have no objec-
tion, with the explanation given by the British Pleni-,
potentiaries, in their last note, to discuss the subject.
" The undersigned, in their former note, stated
with frankness, and will now repeat, that the two
propositions--I st, of assigning in the proposed treaty
of peace a definite boundary to the Indians living
within the limits of the United States, beyond which
boundary they should stipulate not to acquire, by
purchase or otherwise, any territory 2dly, of secu-
ring the exclusive military possession of the Lakes to
Great Britain, are both inadmissible ; and that they
cannot subscribe to, and would deem it useless to
refer to their Government any arrangement, even
provisional, containing either of these propn;iti,,ns.—
With this understanding, the undersigned are now
ready to continue the negociAtion ; and, as they have
already expressed, to discuss all the points of diffe-
•rence, or' which might hereafter tend in any degree
'to interrupt 'the harmony of the two countries.
41The undersgnell Nquest the British Plenipoten-
tiaries to accept. Ili iiiiir:mce of their, high consi-
Aeration. `• •
•
is Au* (Amin ADAMS,- --
a JAN= A. NAYA4D,
44 JfibIATUAN 11117MELL,
" To the PleuipOts.ntlaries of Lis Britannic Majesty, &c."

4'II. CLAY,
" A. GALLATIN."

NO. V.
TILE BRITISH TO THE AMERICAN COSIMISSIONZIIII.
" Glton, Sept. 19c 1814.
" The undersigned have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of the note addressed to ihein by the Ante .
rican Plenipotentiaries on the 9th inst.
" On the greater part of that note, the under-
signed have no intention to make comments, having
proposed to themselves throughout the negociation
to avoid all unnecessary discussions, more espe-
cially when tending to create irritation. On the
question of the north western frontiers, they are happy
us find that no material difficulty is likely to arise.
With respect to the boundary of the district of Maine
the undersigned observe with regret, that although
the American Plenipotentiaries have acknowledged
themselves to be instructed to discuss a revision of
the boundary line, with a view to prevent uncertainty
and dispute, yet, by assuming an exclusive right at
once to decide what is or is not a subject of uncertainty
and dispute, they have rendered their powers nuga-
tory or inadmissibly partial in their operation.
" After the declaration made by the American
Plenipotentiaries, that the limited States will admit
of no line of boundary between their territory and that
Of the Indian nations, because the natural growth
and population of the United States would be thereby
arrested, it becomes unnecessary further to insist on
' the proof of a spirit of aggrandizement affirt:eil by
the purchase of Losisiana irons France, against the
known conditions on which it had been ceded by
Spain to that country, er the hostile seizure of a great
part of the Floridas, under pretence of a dispute re-
specting the boundary.
44 The reason given by the American Pleniplisin-
daries for this declaration equally applies to the as-
signment of a boundary to the United•StateS. on any
'tides with whatever views proposed; and. the unli.
mited nature of the, pretensions would alone have jus-
tified Great Britain in seeking more .effectual, recuri-
ties against its application to Canada then any which
the undersigned have had the honour to propose..---
Had the American Plenipotentiaries been instructed
on the subject of Canada, they would not have as-
serted that its permanent annexation bad not been the
declared object of their Government. It has been dis-
tincily avowed to be such at different times, parties&
early by two American Generals on their respective
invasions of Canada. If the declaratit n first made
had been disapproved, it would not have been repeat-
ed. The declarations here referred to are to be foond
in the proclamation of General Hull' in July, 1812,
and of General Smyth in November, 1812, copies of
which are hereunto annexed.

" It must be also from the want of instructions
that the American Plenipotentiaries have been led to
assert that Great Britain has induced the Indians to
withdraw from the protection of the United States.
The government of the United States cannot have
forgotten that Great Britain, so far from inducing
the Indians to withdraw themselves from the protec-
tion of the Unied States, gave the earliest int"rma-
don of the intention of those nations to invade the
United States, and exerted herself, though without suc-
cess, to prevent and appease their hostility. The Indian
nations, however, having experienced, as they
thought, oppression instead of protection from the
United States, declared war against them previously
to the declaration of war by that country against
Great Britain. The treaty by which the Indians
placed themselves under the protection of the United
States is now abrogated, and the American govern-
ment cannot be entitled to claim, as a right, the re-
newel of an article in a treaty which has no longer
any existence. The Indian nations are therefore no
longer to be considered as under the protection of
the United States (whatever may be the import of
that term) and it can only be on the ground that they
are regarded as subjects, that the American Plenipo-
tentiaries can be authorised to deny the right of Great
• Britain to interfere on their behalf in the negotiation
for peace. To any such claim, it is repeated, that
the treaties concluded with them, and particularly
that of Grenville, are in direct opposition. It is not
necessary to recur to the manner in which the terri-
tory of the United States was at first settled, in•order
to decide whether the Indian nations, the original in-
habitants of America, shall have some spot assigned.
to them where they may be permitted to live in tran-
quillity ; nor whether their tranquillity can he secured
without preventing an uninterrupted system of en-
aotchment upon them under the pretence of pur-
chases. If the American Plenipotentiaries are • au-
thorized peremptorily to deny the right of the British
government to interfere with the pacification of the
Indian nations, and for that reason refuse all nego-
ciation on the subject, the undersigned are at a loss
to understand upon what principle it was, that at the
conference of the 9th ultimo the American Plenipo-
tentiaries invited discussion on the subject, and added,.
that it was not possible fur them to decide without
discussion, whether an amid' could be trained which
should lie mutually :satisfactory, and to' 11 Wei! they

should think dmitteltet, stodgy *sir disavii?lun7
powers, warranted in acceding. "The emdetstgned
must further observe, that if the American govern-
ment has not furnished their Plenipotentiaries with
any instructions since January last, when-the general
pacification of Europe could not have been inimedi.
ttely in contemplation, this subsequent silence, after
an event se calculated (even in the view which the
American Plenipotentiaries have taken of it in their
note of the 24th ult.) to influence the negociation is,
to say the least, no proof of a sincere desire to brine
it to a favourable conclusion. The British gnverr-
ment has entered into the negociation with an anxiou;
wish to effect an amicable artangement. After con.
vulsions unexampled in their nature, extent, and du.
ration, the civilized world has need of repose. 'l'o
obtain this in Europe, Great Britain has made con.
siderable sacrifices. To complete the work of gene.
ral pacification, it is her earnest wish to establish t.
peace with the United States, and in her endeavours
to acccmplisli this object, to manifest the same pine'.
pies of moderation and forbearance ; but it is tittetle
inconsistent with her practice and her principles eves
to abandon, in her negotiations for peace, those who
have co-operated with her in war. The undersigieel
therefore repeat, that the British government is wiliing
et) sign a ereaty of peace with the United States on
terms bsmournizte to both parties. it hes not ()feted
any terms which the Unitedatates can justly repre-
sent asdorogatoryao their honour, nor can it be in..
ductal to accede • t,, any which are injurious to its
own. it is on this ground that the nedersigned at e
anthorieed distinctly to. declare, -that they are ia-
strutted nut to sign a tieety of peace with the Pleni-
potent'aries of thet. United. States unless the Indian
nations are included in it, and restored to all the
rights, privileges, ancherritcwies which they enjoyed
in the year 1811 previous to the commencement of
the war, by viititz of the treatya of Grenville, and
the treaties subsequently concluded between them and
the United States. From this point the British Pie-
nipotentiaries cannot depart.
They are further instructed to nffer for disco-;.
sion an article by nhich the contracting parties shall
reciprocally bind themselves, accoiding to boundaries
to be agreed upon, not to purchase the lands occu-
pied by the Indians within their respective lines of
demarcation. By making this engagement, subject
to revision at a given period, it is hoped that the cb.
jection to the establishment of a boundary beyond
which the settlements of the United States should be
for ever excluded, may be effectually obviated.
66 The undersigned have never stated that the ex-
clusive military possession of the Lakes, however
conducive they are satisfied it would be to a good
understanding between the two countries, without
endangering the security of the United States, was
to be considered as a sine qua non in the negociation.
Whenever the 4uestion relative to the pacification of
the Indian nations (which,subject to the explanations
alreedy given, is a sine qua non) shall be adjusted,
the undersigned will be authorised to make a final
proposition on the subject of Canadian boundaries,
so entirely founded on principles of moderation and
justice, that they feel confident it cannot be rejected.
This proposition will be distinctly stated by the un-
dlersigned, upon receiving an assurance from the -
American Plenipsnentiaeiei..thae they cnnsider theme
selves authorised to conclude a provisional article en
di subject, and upon their isreviousle esnuenting so
iticlude the Indian oat one 4-theing:icy, 1.4.41 e WN'
ter above described. . . _ .
? 4, The undersigned ava'il tbeenselees of thia oppor.
'unity of renewing to the 4mericati Plenipotenttarige
flue assurance of their high consideration.
(Signed) 66
46 kUOIRY ontnewasn
66 WILLIAM ADAM..
14 The Ministers Plenipotentiary and reatraardioary
of the United States, Am"

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, NOVEMBER as.
THi IN VEATIGATAON.

Mr. Johnson, of Kentucky, from the Committee to
inquire into the causes of the success of the enemy itt
his invasion into this district in August last, delivered.
in a report, of very great length, together with a 'go-
luminous mass of documents.

This report (principally of a narrative .character)
Mr. Johnson moved to be printed, together with the
following documents, selected from the mass laid he.
fore the Committee, as tending to give an impel:dal
view of the whole transaction
1. A report of the army, its number and distribution, previous
to Ist of July, 1814.
2. Letter of Colonel Monroe, then Secretary of State.
3. Letter of General Armstrong, late Secretary of War.
4. Letter from the Hon. William Jones, Secretary of the Navy.
S. Letters from the Hon. Richard Rush, Attorney-General.
6. Communication from the War Department, including the
orders in relation to the loth Military District, the requisition of
the 4th of July, and the Correspondence with the Governors of
Pennsylvania, Virginikand Maryland, and with General Winder.
7. The Narrative of General Winder.
S. Reports of Generals Stansbury, Smith, Young, Douglas, .
gad Hengerford, Colonels Sterrett, Miner, Taylor, Laval, and
Major Pinkney, and Captains Burch and Caldwell.
IL Report from tbe, Navy Department, Wading the ofacid
*sport of Commodore Barney.
10. Letters from General Van Nees, Dr. Catlett, and John
Law.
lir Reports from the Ordnance Depemmat.
sit, Sentence of the Coort-Martial in relation to tptsin
Dyson, and the correspondence between him and the Secretary
or War.
IS. Report from the Corporation of Alexandria, including the
capitulation, and letter from General John Mason.
14. Report from the Superintendent of Public Banding,.
15. Letter front William Sinamone:
Mr. Gaosvamon, of New York, observing the great
volume of the report and documents, objected to the
prihting of these papers, lest. the length of time it
',add occupy should delay a Consideration of the
Repots.
Mr. Witansa, of N. H. (a Metnbie the Coin•
mittee of Investigation) hoped these Open would be
printed: He dissented altogether from the . manner
in which the report had been prepared, thou b
was willing to do justice to the asiiiluify of the
Man of the Committee in maturing the j I
soon as the documents should be properly in
session of the House, Mr. Webater said he - onl4
think it his duty to make some motion on the.subjeii.
The report itself had indeed been a product of greg:
labour ; it was a sort of Chronicle:—but, in his viele,
it answered no she purpose for Which the Commit*
who made it had been appointed. So tar from desiring
up the causes of thi failure of our arms at this place.
he thought it *a* cakutai.edg though intended, to
;over up pa=cils Kik), and &tail.what he
Onsideted a-most ttisgiiteful triinsactjon.
, Mr. G.202V nA ystladruff his .Optiositiort. •
*Mr. trOifie*tnilefaim- its judg-

meat of the Mailer at Which dis•
charged their Any, bum the documents
Witty
it and presented to the House, and from the start
ments of fact, snd the conclusions which they had
drawn therefi.m. The Committee had deemed it
their duty, and that duty they performed without fa-
vour or affection, to speak freely upon all subjects
arising ironi the transaction, the developement of
which had been committed to them, except on the so.
litany question of military conduct. They had col-
lected all the facts 'that had come to their knowledge
in relation to the military movements, and had
thought proper to leave, for the decision of those
equally qualified with themselves to judge what bet-
ter might have been done. If the Committee had
erred in any of their opinions, those opinions were
subject to the will of the House: In relation to the
mere military questiob, whenever the proper oppor-
tunity presented itself, he was not disposed to with-
);old either censure or praise when it should appear
to him to be due. He would venture to say, what-
ever ditference of opinion might arise on those points
on which the Committee hail not expressed an opi-
nion ; on those on which it had expressed an opinion,
its views would receive the sanction, not only of the
House but of the whole world. In relation to him-
self, Mr. Johnson said, he claimed no other merit than
having toiled with the rest of the Committee in making
up an opinion on the subject.
Mr. WEBSTER said he should be sorry to be sup-
posed to have found fault with the manner of execu-
tion of the principle adopted bf the Committee. He
complained that the Committee had not thought pro-
per to express any decided opinion on the transactions
submitted to their investigation. Although the fact
was announced that the enemy had landed within 50
miles of this place, and that 1200 men of their army
had overthrown all the force collected here with tivo
months' notice. no opinion was expressed of these sir-
cumstances. Neither would it be seen in the Report
that the burning of the Navy-yard was justifiable, or
whether it was not an act of infatuation.—[Hero the
Speaker interrupted Mr. Webster, and called •his at-
tention to the question].—Mr. Webster said, he ob-
jected to the Report, because it expressed no opinion,
and served in no degree to lead the public sentiment
in respect to this disaster, and it was therefore that
he proposed to question its correctness. He heartily
concurred in the motion for printinigpheorleport.
Mr. Jourisoti moved to refer the to a Com-
mittee of the whole, and make it the order fir the
third Monday in December. This would leave the
Report open to discussion, in which, come when it
would, he proposed to be in the front rank, and not

•
in the rear.
The reference and printing of the lteport, as moved,
were both agreed to. ,

NEW YORE, DECEMBER Seii.
On Wednesday, the 21st of December, in the
House of Representatives, the Members resumed the
consideration of the Bill for laying a direct tax of six
millions of dollars upon the United States.
Mr. YANCEY moved to amend the Bill, by striking
therefrom the 41st section, which pledges the coati-
motion in force of this Bill, for the purpose of esta-
blishing an adequate revenue to pay the expenses of
the Government, the principal and interest of the
public debt, &c. and to create an adequate sinking
Fund. -
On this motion a very interesting, bat desultory
debate arose, in which great opposition was shown
mike Bill.—Yancey, Calhoun, Rheee, Linton:. Ind
Telfair were in labour of the Motion ; and Messrs.
kffes. Ingersol, Potter, Theval, Fmdley, Grosve-
nor, Hawkins, Webster, Pickering, Nelson, and
Newton, against it.
The question being at length taken on the motion,
vas decided in the negative by the following vote:—
For the motion, 48—Against it, 105.
On Thursday, the 22d, after undergoing some va•
tiotion, the Bill laying 44 direct tax of six millions"
on the people for the support of the Government,
and pledging the faith of the Government that the
tats shall continue until the war debt be paid, &c.
wac read a third time.
Upon the question, 44 Shall this pass.?" the ayes
and noes were called by Mr. Vow.
Mr. 1300HAU made a few remarks against dull
F,i!l, upon the ground that the money was required
f)r Canadian conquest; that it was for the support
of a war which he ever had opposed, and never would
s'ipport. He said that Mauachussets was left by the
general government to support and defend itself, and
wc. ought not to vote away her resources, &c.
The Bill passed.—Ayes, 106—Noes, 53.
The Militia Draft Bill next occupied the attention
the House. This Bill was for the object of call-
into the service 80,000 militia. A debate of con-
siderable length arose thereon.
The Bill was strongly opposed. upon the principle
t'..it it would create an expense, according to Owes-
tamite of the Committee of Ways and Means, of
millions of dollars, withoat the certainty of pros sing
2 single beneficial result.
Mr. Ltlvits moved the indefinite postponement of
the Dill and the amendments thereto.
This qnmion was decided in the negative by the
icalawing votes :—For the motion ti9—Againt k 83.
bore amendments were introduced to extend the
period of service; but that of one year was in the end
:greed to.

NEW YORK, PECE/ABER 24.
te-"Kt,,iat—r,,,---: of a Lem* from Major-Georral Joebson to
"""n" XzdY, dated IleaSquoisors, Soveotb htilitary Das-
..rict, nem Fort Mimmi, Nov. 16, 1614.
" Before ibis reaches yolk iriforsnation will have
been received of r. 17 iihit to Pensacola. It was occa-
sioned by the unprecedented Conduct of the Gover-
nor of Pensacola, in harbouring, aiding. and counts-
riincing the British aad their red allies. I entered
itiliebrd in hand, with about 30100 brave follroarrrs
in the fare of the Spanish batteries, and a British
fteet ijenesseil anchored abreast apposite the town.
The Rao* by intrigue and base falsehood induced
the Spaniards to abandon the works commanding
the harbour, entered them and blew thaw up, other-
wise they would have fallen a sacrifice to their own
plans. When this took place, the fleet being at li-
berty to p out, did so g and I evacuated the towns
leaving the Spaniards favourably impressed with our
conduct, and disgusted with their British friends.—
The hostile Indians fled across the bay at, our ap-
proach, and have no doubt lost all confidence it "the
assurances they have received of British protection.
They have retired, it le believed., "arch 6Pala.
chicola, in great Au%
"The Bentiaolies*Ot* sit ippeare, from info:-

1111160 Rivalrelkolitawkitd, it. itepsiridi to
amine say baulk attiep*:' *ben .Ihei heir eifthe
shamefal -13111111er in *Nth' ale Red Sticks vrtre de-
serted by their aim they: wilt wish Itio '
After writing the above, Gentled Jaeksoislifiiiii
the eve of departure fbvNew Orleans. '•
General Jackson, by thelatestaccountt, war Mire&
ing to defend New Orleans.
CAPTURS or WASN—Thcrurnotir of the eitp-:
tare of this vessel, it is strongly to be feared, will even.
tuaUy prove to have been correct.
The Norfolk Ledger, in copying the rumour pub-
lished in the Commercial Advertiser last evening,
from the Wilmington Gazette, adds the following :
--61 We understand that Admiral Cockburn stated,
that on his passage from Bermuda he spoke a vessel,
from which he obtained information that the Wasp
had been taken off Charleston after a bloody con-
flict." Taking this in connection with the other re-
ports in circulation, there is some grounds to appre-
hend that the Wasp is captured.

NEW YORK, DECEMBER 22.
The British Lieutenant who commanded the brig
Locust last year is stated to have deserted to the
Americans. On his arrival, at flarhatt's Harbour,
on the 13th of Decembefe) tjgeill,lgualuation that
the enemy's new frigate. at wpm is nearly ready
!for launching, and that they have had down the keel
for another ship of the Beant size,as the St. Lawrence,
and are collecting large guaiAttaa Of ;imber. He
further states, that they have got buff the frames of
two frigates, near Lake Erie, and intend bringing
them down to the Lake, and setting them up, as
soon as the sleighing becomes good. He also states,
that the enemy are building two 20-gun brigs on
Lake Huron.

(Fran the National Intelligence: of Friday.)
Tux LNIMII IN RAPPANANNOCE.•••From the Ricb-
risOnd'papers and other sources, we learn that a large
British force, consisting of one 74, five frigues, and
a number of schooners and barges, containing, it was
estimated, about 2000 troops, suddenly entered the
Rappahannock on the 30th ult. and ascended that
river as high as Tappahannock, where they ar.chored
and fired some time upon the town. The latest in-
formation from thence states that the town was al-
most wholly destroyed, and that the enemy had ad-
vanced about five miles above Tappahannock. The
purpose of the enemy appears to be, as heretofore, to
steal n , stock, tobacco, &c. plunder the houses
withinetErsreach, and burn what they cannot carry
off. A considerable number of militia troops are in
the vicinity, and others are hastening thither from
various quarters-600 have marched from Richmond.
A sufficierit • number, we doubt not, have ere this
reached the scene of action to repel the incendiaries.
Major-General Scott passed through this city three
days ago, to Fbrt Washington, and has since, we
learn, crossed the Potomac on his way to the Rappa-
hannock.

From the National Imelligencer of Saturday.
Tot ENEMY.—We learn that the enemy have de-
scended the Rappahannock. An account from there
states, that their ascent up the river was marked by
a conduct evert wary worthy of the infamous Cock
burn, plundering and burning on both shores almost
every thing within their reach. Their conduct at
Tappahannock was scarcely exceeded at H.impton
for its brutality aad wanton destruction of property.
They have laid in ashes the court-house, prison, col-
lector's office, clerk's office, and a large warehouse,
arid scarcely a building escaped plunder or damage.'
It appears likewise. by letters published in the Alex.'
marls Herald, that the negmes who joined the enemy
were armed by them, and turned into the town with
license to commit any excess; and, what we could
not have believed of Cockburn himself • had he not
shewn himself capable of any villainy, they broke
into the family vault
.of Colonel Ritchie, and ran
sacked the ashes of the dead. " Five coffins (says
a letter) were opened, their escutcheons torn off and
cast away, and their mouldering contents mutilated
and left exposed ; the plea was the hope of plunder."
HAVANNAH, DECEMBER a.
MORE COASTERS CAPTURED.--On Tuesday last the
schooner Nancy, Captain Chace, and shop Factor,
Captain S. Smith, were captured by British barges
in Doboy sound, and carried to sea : and in the after-
noon of the same day, the schooner Delight, Captain
Handy, schooner George and 'Joseph, Captain Sher-
wood, were all taken in Teakettle Creek, manned,
and sent to sea.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1815.
?vuIIcATZO or TOL VIRGIN hiAeltiiaidity at the Bank.

In addition to the official documents respecting the
negociations at Ghent, which we have continued in
our columns, we have this day given some interest.;
ing extracts from New York and other Americai,
Papers to the 29th of December. They all tend to
prove how nearly JAM: MADISON had got to the *ad•
of his reign, when saved by a reprieve—the Treaty of
Ghent. No sooner was advice received in Maryland,
that the Conscription Bill had passed the House of
Representatives of the United States, than the HOW!
of Delegates of Maryland assembled, and declared
that they would take measures for 14 maintaining thel
sovereign rights" of that State, and for misting all
“ arbitrary and unconstitutional acts of the general
government." The Bill for raising st direct Tax of
six milieus of dollars passed the House of Represea..
tatives with much opposition, but it was thought
that it would not be of easy enforcement.
The New York
.Gazette of the 20th December,
announces that si already the new Bill of 25 Cents,
recently issued by the Corporation on Bank paper,
has been counterfeited,,, and expresses a fear that the.
SO and 75 Cent Bills may also have been forged.
Descents on various parts of the American cos
by boats from our men of war had also proved very
annoying, and, if we may judge from the language i
of the Official paper, had caused much uneasiness to.
the Government. The paper alluded to talks ef,
46 incendiaries," di brutality," and 44 villainy," and
" •
speaking of oar Admiral, IllanoM

Creintin.6 idevitpiper AU may be
tolerated, but what *veld the world think of oor
Goveiranseato were It, io tie London daiettei to
afildr inch epithek Posit to the Waitrons JAM

A Mestenger artiVed this morning from Vienni
And Rolland with dispatches. We have reason to be-
lieve he announces the departure of Lord CASTLIS.
AZA.GH from Vienna to London.

This morning two Dutch Mails arrived. 'They
brought us an abundant supply of Continental Jour-
nals, but they contain little or no intelligence of in-
terest. The Prussians are digging canals in Saxony
the more intimately to connect it with Prussia : this
does not look as if the claims of th.l latter to Saxony
had been disallowed at Congress.
We have also received, since yesterday, Paris
Papers of Sunday last. From Vienna they profess to
have received no information of an authentic charac-
ter, and yet it is evident that all the great points are
at length amicably settled. With respect to Naples
the Allies seem to have left MURAT to settle his claims
.with his neighbours the POPS and the Kiag of the
Two /Heflin, and both these Powers have long since
declared their sentiments.

We announced yesterday the sailing of the Stritrir.e
American privateer from Brest for the purpose of
cruizing in the Channel ; and this morning we have
received intelligence from Plymouth of another
American privateer, the Reindeer, of seven guns and
140 men, having captured a rich vessel from the
Cape of Good Hope. The particulitrs.are detailed
among our Nautical articles.

A Gentleman who left New Yrrk on the 28th of
December informs ns, that the Guerriere, Commo-
dore Roorßa, was ready for sea : that the Independent
was likewise ready, at BostOn ; as also the Con-
gress; and that no frigate had put to sea except
the Constitution.—There is no truth that the Bill
for establishing a National Bank, has passed into a
law ; on the contrary, as was stated before, it has been
rejected.

NAVAL INTILIIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 31.

This evening the sloop Unity, of Dartmouth, W.
PASSMORR Master, arrived here, in twelve days, from
Lisbon : on the 24th instant, she fell in with and was
captured by the American brig privateer Reindeer,
of Boston, Captain SNOW, in lat. 40.39. long. 11. 11.
after being plundered of part of her cargo, stores, and
all her papers, she was released, and five prisoners
put on board her, late belonging to the schooner
William, of and from Whitehaven, for St. Michael's,
MEM= BARON Master—which vessel was captured

on the 20th instant, in lat. 42. 39. long. 16. 40. and
, burin the following day. The Reindeer is quite new,
on her first cruize, about 400 tons—mounted with
three long 24-pounders, midships, on pivots.; two 18-
pounders, and. two 9-pounders, with a complement of
140 men. From the prisonsers it is learnt that the
Reindeer had previously captured the Daphne, with
a valuable cargo, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and
a schooner, from Newfoundland, with oil, for Dub-
lin—the former had been sent to America, and the
latter destroyed.—Arrived the French sloop le Dori
Didien, GRACIIPfs from Charente for Rouen, dismas-
ted ; also arrived the Icaaus frigate, from Ports-
mouth, and is to sail immediately, on a cruize—
said to be in quest of a privateer that captured two
vessels off this place last night ; also the Lzi sloop
of war, on the same service.—Sailed the ZEPHYR and

SZALLRE sloops of war, on a crnise.—Wind S. E.

PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY 1.

Arrived several ships from the Downs and remain.
Sailed his Majesty's ship TERMAGANT with dispatches
for the Cape of Good Hope. Convoys as per last.
DEAL. FEBRUARY 1.

Arrived his Majesty's ship HAMADAYAD from
Portsmouth. and sailed for Woolwich to be paid off.
Remain his Majesty's brigs as per last. Wind S.W.

GRAVESEND. FEBRUARY I.

Arrived the Jesdff Thsuber, Nihon, from Norway; John,
Seale, from Havre; Providence, Esker, item ditto; Henry,
Ferguson, from St. Michael's ; Johanna, Green, from Sweedland;
Apollo, Edwards, from 3:. Andero.—Sailed the Urania, Peaks,
for Serbia: Patrk:t, OraE, for Hamburgh k Rover, King, for
Ostend; &prance, Porgrout, for Rouen; Catherine Anna, Pen.
hoick; Hoop, Hass; Prow Alide, Noyes; and Twee 04tbros-
4ers, Swires. for Antwerp ; George, Mazwell, for Belfast.

The Thames, Scott, from London to Aberdeen, was totally
lost, with all her crew, the 47th ultimo, near Aberdeen.
A Danish vessel, name unknown, was wrecked the filth
at Berwick on Tweid--two of the crew
The Crows Prince, Walker, from the rtrerranean to Lon.
don, is taken by the Pottsmouth privateer.
The Alonzo, Weckbar, from Uddervalla to the Mediterra.
man, run on shore en the Goodwin, on Monday, but was got
.11 with loss of rudder, leaky, and carried into Ramsgate.
The Weetuier, Jansen, from Dantzic to London. and Anna
Amanda Amelia, from Stockholm to the Mediterranean, were
driven on shore on the Lincolnshire coast—the cargo of thel for-
fuer is expected to be saved, and the latter expected to begot of.
STSAY BOOT. ...A new Steam-boat is launched to ton between
London and Gravesend. It performed its fine journey last week,
against wind and tide, in flf hours. The vessel is very commo-
diously fitted up, and capable of bolding SOO persons. It con-
sumes, during the viya‘e half chaldron of coals. The ex-
pence of each passenger 'Axed's ad.; bath has the edema-
uge of binding its passengers without the aid of wherries, as it
throws a platform from it. side to the wharf—avoiding, thereby,
not only the danger, but the extortion practised by the watermen
A slight shock of en earthquake was felt in various
parts of America on the evening of the 28th Novem-
ber last.
New Loivzay.—This day the following Gentle.
men waited on the CHANCILLOR of the EXCHtQUZII,
to contract for a new Lottery of 20,000 Matt::
BIDDING., PLR TICKS'S*.
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