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London, England, 1822-04-09 00:00:00

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STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Very ode business is doing this wiendmvisiegrilliiket• and
Consols are rather heavy i k may birialeibiiMeins4lllapproach-
ing Account-day, which will be as Ilinniday next;
Poznan Maamm—There appears a greatdvimess hr the Fo-
reign Market this morning, and scarcely a price can be obtained
for all descriptions of foreign securities.—Spaakh 151 to 6, no
buyers; Pmsaisl lid; Danish 85e 66; Neapolitan 674.
STOCK EXCHANGE—ONE O'CLOCK.
A good deal of business has been doing within the last hour.
Consols are now 7611. •

ROYAL EXCHANGE—ONE O'CLOCK.
The Forqign Market continues heavy, except in Colombian
Bonds. There has been a good deal of inquiry this morning
after these Ronda, in consequence of the arms ban the United
States, that the Congress was about to acknowledge the inde-
pendence of the Republic of Colombia, which, it is considered.
will lead to the Governments of Europe doing the same. The
New Bonds are at 113/..—01d 10 per Cent. Bonds, 107.

This forenoon we received New York Papers to the

12th of March. They bring intelligence of consi-
derable importance. On the Bth ult. the PRESIDENT
of the United States sent a Message to the House of
Representatives, recommending the acknowledge-
ment of the Independence of the whole of Spanish
America without distinction. The following is the

PRESIDENT'S Message on this subject :
g, To the Howe ^f Reilresentatives e the Mated State:.
* In transmitting to the House of Representatives the docu-
ments, railed for by the Resolution of that House of the 50th
of January, I consider it my duty to invite the attention of
Congress to a very important subject, and to communicate the
sentiments of the Executive on it, that, should Congress enter-
tain similar sentiments, there may be such co-operation between
the two Departments oe the Government, as their respective
rights end duties may require.
" The revolutionary movement in the Spanish provinces in
this hemisphere, attracted the attention, and excited the sym-
pathy of our fellow-citizens, from its commencement. This feel-
ing was natural and honourable to them, from causes which need
not be communicated' o you. It has been gratifying to all to see
the general acquiescence which has been manifested, in the policy
which the Constituted Authorities have deemed it proper to
pursue, in regard to this contest. As soon as the movement as-
sumed such a steady and consistent form as to make the success
of the provinces probable, the rights to which they were entitled
by the law of nations, as equal parties to a civil war, were ex-
tended to them. Each party was permitted to enter our ports
with its public and private ships, and to take from them every
article which was the subject of commerce with other, nations'
Our citizens also have carried on commerce with both parties,
and the Government has protected it, with each, in articles not
contraband of war. Through the whole of this contest, the United
States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled, with the utmost
impartiality, all the obligations incident to that character.
" This contest has now reached such a stage, and been at-
tended with such decisive success on the part of the provinces.
that it merits the most profound consideration, whether their
right to the rank of independent nations. with all the advantages
incident to it, in their intercourse with the United States, is not
complete. Buenos Ayres assumed that rank by a formal decla.
ration in 1816, and has enjoyed it since 1810, tree from invasion
by the parent country. The provinces composing the Republic
of Columbia, after having separately declared their independ-
ence, were united, by a fundamental law of the 17th of Dram.
ber, 1819. A strong Spanish force occupied, at that time, cer-
tain parts of the territory within their limits, and waged a de-
structive war. That force has since been repeatedly defeated, and
the whole of it either made prisoners or destroyed, or expelled
from the country, with the exception of an inconsiderable portion
only, which is blockaded in two fortresses. The Provinces on
the Pacific have likewise been very successful. Chili declared in-
dependence in 1818, and has since enjoyed it undisturbed ; and
of late, by the assistance of Chili and Buenos Ayres, the revolution
has extended to Peru. Of the movement in Mexico our infor-
mation is less authentic ; but it is, nevertheless, distinctly under-
stood, that the new Government has declared its independence,
and that there is now no opposition to it there, nor a force to
make any. For the last three years the Government of Spain
has not sent a single corps ortroops to any part of that country ;
nor is there any reason to believe it will send any in future.—
Thus it is manifest that ell those provinces arc not only in the
full enjoyment of their independence, but, considering the state
of the war and other circumstances, that there is not the most re-
mote prospect of their being deprived of it.
" When the result of such a contest is manifestly settled, the
new Governments have a claim to recognition by other Powers,
which ought not to be resisted. Civil wars too often excite feel-
ings which the parties cannot controul. The opinion entertained
by other Powers, as to the result, may assuage those feelings,
and promote an accommodation between them, useful and ho.
nourable to both. The delay which has been observed In making
a decision on this important subject, will, it is presumed, have
afforded an unequivocal proof to Spain, as it must have done to
other Powers, of the high respect entertained by the United
States for her rights, and of their determination not,to interfere
with them. The Provinces belonging to this hemisphere are,
our neighbours, and have successively, as each portion of the
country acquired its independence, pressed their recognition by
an appeal to facts not to be contested, and which they thought
gave them a just title to it. To motives of interest this Govern.
ment has invariably disclaimed all pretension, being resolved to
take no part in the controversy, or other measure in regard to it,
which should not merit the sanction of the civilized world. •
44 To other claims a just sensibility has been always felt and
frankly acknowledged, but they, in themselves, could never be-
come an adequate cause of action. It was incumbent on this
Government to look to every important fact and circumstances
on which a sound opinion could be formed ; which has been
dons. When we regard, then, the great length of time which
this war has been prosecuted ; the complete success which has as-
tended it, in favour of the provinces; the present condition of
the parties, and the etter inability of Spain to produce any change
in it, we are compelled to conclude that its fate is settled, sad
that the provinces which have declared their independence, and
are in the enjoyment of it, ought to be recognized.
" Of the views of the Spanish Government on this subject no
particular information has been recently received. It may be
presumed that the =crustal progress of the revolution, through
such a long series of years, gaining strength and extending annu-
ally In every direction, and etnbradng, by the late important
events, with little exception, all the dominions of Spain, south of
the United States, on this Continent; placing, thereby, the corn-

dentood that they were not prepared We k. The lounnee
between those Powers, even those which border en the Montle,
and these Provinces, makes the movement an afar of less Wet-
test and excitement to then than to us. It is probable, there-
fore, tint they hove bees less attentive to its progress this we
have been. It may be presumed, however, that the late events
will dispel all doubt of the result.
" In proposing this meseare, it is.not contemplated to change
thereby, In the slightest manner, our friendly relations with
either of the parties, but to observe In all respects, as heretofore,
should the war be continued, the most perfect neutrality between
them. Of this friendly dispodtlas an assurance will be given to
the Government of Spain, towlsam, it is presumed, it will be,
u it ought to be, satiefacteirS° 3 The measure is proposed under
a thorough conviction that kels in strict accord with the Law of
Nations ; that it is just and right, as to the parties, and that the
United States owe it to their station and character in the world,
as well as to their essential interests, to adopt it. Should Con-
gress concur in the view herein presented, they will doubtless see
the propriety of making the necessary appropriations for carry-
ing it into effect. " JAMES MONROE.
" Washington, March 8, 1822."

A Jamaica Mail arrived this morning, with Papers
of the 16th February. The following are extracts :

ST. THOMAS'S, JANUARY 20.
An arrival from Coro brings accounts of the Ex-
pedition of La ' Torre being at that time at Les
Jaques. The greatest patriotism is manifested at
Coro on the occasion, the male population, to a man,
having taken up arms to defend themselves against
La Tone.

The Caraccas Gazette, of the 4th January, states
that General Antonio Ramos was shot in the city of
Caraccas, on the Ist December last, for the crime of
high treason. Ramos was formerly an Officer in the
Royal service, but, on the capture of Caraccas, went
over to the Columbians, from whom he again de-
serted, and was taken prisoner.

The intelligence received from the Continent this
morning adds little to our information relative to
Russia and Turkey ; that little, however, strengthens
the opinion we have always held, iu opposition to
many of our contemporaries, that war will be the
result, however it may be procrastinated by negocia-
tion, or by the indecision of the parties. An article
from St. Petersburgh, dated March 13th, in one of
the German Papers, states, that the activity which
had been for soma time remarked in the Department
for Foreign Affairs, was then pursued also in the War
Departnient. Almost every day couriers were dis-
patched to the Commander of the troops stationed on
the frontier of Turkey ; Officers of the Staff, and par-
ticularly of the Artillery, likewise go to join those
troops. A numerous list of appointments and pro-
motions in the Army was expected immediately.—
In Poland the prices of grain had risen considerably,
in consequence of the large purchaFes lately made
for the armies. The Austrian Observer, so long fer-
tile in rumours, has been for three days entirely silent
on the affairs of Turkey, Greece, and Russia. From
Frankfort we are told that it was affirmed that the
Porte had consented to evacuate Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, but had absolutely rejected the other demands
of Russia : it was, therefore, expected at Vienna that
the Emperor ALEXANDER would declare war.
An article from Augsburg states that the Austrian
Generals are at present reviewing the troops which
form the cordon on the extreme frontier of the Aus-
trian :Rates adjoining the Turkish Empire, and that
it is believed that Austria will act together with
Russia. At Constantinople nothing is talked of but
the great preparations that are making for war in all
parts of the Empire. The standards of the Crescent
are surrounded with persons in arms. The march of
troops towards the Danube is accelerated as much as
possible, and the approaches to the capital are fortify-
ing with meat activity.

At a late hour this forenoon we received two Ham-
burgh Mails, bringing Papers to the Sd instant.
They are as barren of intelligence as .those from
France or Germany. A mutiny is said to have
broken out at Jassy, among the Turkish garrison,
on the 10th ultimo, when the city was plundered and
set on fire. Massacres bad taken place at Bucharest
on the 25th and 27th February.

An article from Frankfort, of thevailth March,
states, that reports had been in circulation on the
previous day of the death of the King of FRANCE,
and of the Duke of Botransaux—the general mas-
sacre of the. Austrian troops in Naples—the attack on
the Russians by the Turks, &c. These, which had
considerable influence on the Government Securities,
were found to have been mere stock jobbing rumours.
The accounts from Hamburgh state the dreadful
injury that has been done to the shipping by the late
violent and continued storms. Among the vessels
lately wrecked on that coast is one that had on board
a valuable collection of Egyptian antiquities, be-
longing to the Prussian General Baron
After having made the voyage from Alexandria to
Trieste, and thence to Hamburgh, the vessel was to-
tally lost in'a dreadful storm, between Heligoland
and Cuxhaven. A few light chests floated on shore
in the Duchy of Bremen: they contained mummies;
and the peasants who opened them, terrified at the
sight of the dead bodies, immediately buried them.
They have since been taken up, and delivered to the
Prussian Authorities.
In the year 1819, a Swedish vessel, laden with steel

nl_l9r°

the Dutch toast. During the
Sea, it has been canon short
great part of the cargo saved:
persons who have perished in the
I the coast of Jutland, is esti-
I 500.

The French Papers of Saturday are ertremely bar.
ren of intelligence. The only articles of the slighteit •
importance will be seen in a preceding column.

It is an old saying, that " a falsehood, a fortnight
old, is as goOd as a truth r and there is no doubt that
there are many persons who, having once given cre-
dit to an assertion, are very indifferent as to its con-
tradiction. Some of our brother journalists are well •
aware of this, and act upon it accordingly-. It will;
perhaps, be in the recollection of some of our !leaders,
that in December last the Courier had a fabricated ,
account of the massacres by the Greeks at Tripolitxi,
which was said to have disgusted Mr. Gonnosr, an
Englishman in the service of the Greeks, so much
that he quitted their service. We denied the staie-
ments of the Courier at the time ; and we have now
the pleasure of announcing the arrival of Mr.Gesnex
in this country; and we are authorized to give the most
positive contradiction to the assertions of the Couricr.
—Mr. Goanos left Greece on a regular leave of ab •
sence, in consequence of extreme illness, which con-
fined him in bed at Zante for two months, and that
so far from having abandoned the Greeks in disgust,
he considers himself in their service, is highly satis-
fied with the reception he met with from them, and is
as much attached to their cause, and as bound to
serve them as ever. So far from having been under
the necessity of escaping by stealth, as asset ted in
The Courier, he was saluted in every town he pa-,sed
through all the way to the coast opposite Zante. lle
now holds the commission of General, in the servi..e
of the Greeks.

Sunday the Princess AUGUSTA went from her resi-
dence at Frogmore to Windsor, and attended Divine
Service at. St. George's Chapel, and heard et_Sermon
preached by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. STOPFORD ; after
which, her Royal Highness received• the Sacramen•.
MONSIEUR, instead of his brother, the Kivu of
FRANCE, washed the feet of the youths, representing
'the Apostles, on Maundy Thursday ; and on ihe same
day the Duchesses of ANGOULEME and BERRI went
to adore the Cress.

Mrs. CotrrTs, accompanied by her Physician, Dr.
THOMAS, and a large retinue of domestics, were for
some days last week at the Royal Hotel, Plymouth,
whence she proceeded on a tour through Cornwall,
preparatory to her stay at Teignmouth, where a house
is preparing for her residence.
It is reported that a matrimonial alliance is nego-
rciating between Lord PRUDHOE, brother to the Duke
of NORTHUMBERLAND, and Lady CAROLINE GRA-
HAM, youngest daughter of the Duke and Duchess
of MONTROSE.

Mr. GREVILLE will, this week, lead to the altar cf
Hymen, the lovely and-accomplished Miss LOCKE, of
Leatherhead, in Surrey, grand-daughter of the Lite
DuChess of LSINSTER.

Sunday se'nnight, while Colonel SMYTHE, of Meth-
yen, and his Lady were attending public worship,
Methven Castle, their residence, was discovered to be
in flames. The accident is supposed to have ori-
ginated among some of the joists which are near the
fire-place. The same part of the castle took fire
about two years ago, and was considerably damaged.
is We feel sincere regret in stating that great ur-
easiness prevails among the work-people at the iron-
works in Monmouthshire and South Wales, on ac-
count of the low rate of wages and want of work.—
A reduction of 2s. 4d. to Is. 3d. per ton has taken
place, and several hundreds of people are out of
employ in consequence. These reductions, we un-
derstand, however, are absolutely necessary to
enable the proprietors to carry on the work at all.—
Sunday week (Assize Sunday), considerable sensation
was caused at Monmouth, by the arrival of Mr.
Lewis, the Commander of the West Monmouthshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, in order to get his attendance
dispensed with, having been suddenly called nut to
preserve the peace at some of the iron-works on the
hills. Two active Magistrates likewise left Mon-
mouth, with the sanction of the Judge, before ,he
Grand Jury was discharged; and Government having
been applied to for troops, a detachment of the Scotch
Greys are arrived in this city, where they are inrea-
diness, should their assistance be wanted; but up to
the latest accounts no commotion has as yet taken
place to render foreign aid necessary."—Gloucester
Paler, April 8.
THE LATE UNFORTUNATE DUEL IN SCOTLAND...a
In the STAa of yesterday we stated the arrest of
Mr. BORTHWICL, of the Glasgow Sagami, tor having
abstracted several letters and other roanuscriptslrcm
the printing-office of that Paper. The legality of Mr.
Boaruwica's conduct (says the Editor of the Dun-
dee Advertiser) is, we understand, involved in a ques-
tion still pending, as to whether, at the time of his
taking the papers, he was or was not a proprietor?
His statement is, that he was so : that he had agreed,
no doubt, to sell his interest in the concern to his part-
ner ALEXANDER; but that the latter not having ful-
filled the conditions of the bargain, Boarnwicz had
obtained a udgment of the Magistrates of Glasgow,
reinstating him in the possession ; that he had accord-
ingly resumed possession, before witnesses ; but was
immediately thrown into prison, on an old caption
for debt; that he was liberated by his Alen on the
evening of Sunday, the 10th March ; that about seven
o'clock next morning he went to the office, and took
from one of the desks which was open, and from
another of which he still retained the key, the manu-
scripts in question; that he conceived himself entitled
to do this, and that he had a strong inducement to it,
namely, to save himself from the consequences of
prosecutions brought against him through the acts
of his partner. A. young man, who had been a com-
positor in the Sentinel Office, and who, it is said, was
employed by BORTHWICE to carry the papers to the
Tontine, has also been committed on a Justiciary
warrant, as his master's accomplice.

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