Star.
London, England, 1815-07-27 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

GUADALOUPE AND ITS DEPENDENCUM
BY ROYAL AUTHORITY.
Charles Alexander Leon, Count Durande de Limas. Go-
vettior, &c. &c. •
The late news received front the Metropolis, threatening the
Colonies to be left in an abandon. ! .:ate, the duration of which
it is impossible to fortiee, and of which the effect wouik: be to
expose them to the want of sustenance and articles of the first
nedessity, w;th which sire has until now supplied 'bent, and the
diffictisty which exists already, and which will increase, in con-
sequence of the impossibihty of exArting the colonial produce
to France in her own vessel.:, whidll6lll deprive act:culture, in-
dustry, and ciatormrre, of a!! Claris' support, &c. &c. we nave de-
el e•-‘l, and do decree, as follows :
Art. 1. '1 hat from this dap the Ports already open in the
Island of Geadapupe an.l us I.Xpendencics, shill be open to the
salads of all lit penile:ales, as well for as CipOTIRP
con of all kind, of produce or merchandise.
1. The duds a of importation or exportation in foreign vessels
are the same as those already established for French vessels,
which on imports are '2.1 per cent. and exports t per cent.
.(Froir articles ate superadded to thc.abote, the third article
relats.s to the proceeds of the imported comindities, which are
always to he out in the produce or inerchandize of the Cot
lony ; the fourth article directs iliac the duty'an exported rtlns.
in !unmet{ per cent. ad v.aloreer ; tilie fifth stipulates tlut the pre.
sent arrangement will nut be altered until the circumstances
which have given rise to it shall have ceased. 'she conclusive
article merely orders the publication of this-document.]
(Signed) , LINOII. sialusitasse.
In giving notice of arrangements for the payment
of Treasury notes, the American Secretary mentions
that the amount of the Treasury notes at New York
and Boston is very great, that curreni money cannot
be obtained to pay the holders; they are therefore
offered the choice of funding the notes for 6 per cent.
stock, at 93 dollars for 100 dollars in stock,.or re-
ceiVing drafts payable in Baltimore or Philadelphia;
or new Treatury Bills at 6 per cent.
Six per cent. stock at Boston may be purchased at
the rate of $4 or 85 dollars in money for 100 dollars
of the stock : the discount of the Government paper
is therefore stated at 12 per cent.
The Secretary has also given public notice, that
all taxes and other payments to Government will be
taken only in private bankers' notes, who pay in
specie, or receive Treasury notes at par.
The New Tork Gazette of the! 19th gives an extract
of a letter from New Orleans, dated the 20th of
May, mentioning a great overflow of the river Mis-
sissippi. The damage done is said to be incalculable ;
entire settlements are stated to be many feet under
water at Palmyra, Concordia, and a part of Point
Coupee. Many sugar and cotton plantations were
entirely ruined.
A Philadelphia paper, in an article relative to the
state of South America, makes the following obser-
vations on the intercourse between Great Britain and
' the SFanish Colonies:—" The commerce that Eng-
land has been, and is now enjoying with those coun-
tries, is of far greater importance than has been gene-
rally known. The peculiar situation of Europe and
the united States, has given to England for some
time past, an entire monopoly of this valuable trade.
T,'tc amount of British fabrics that has been shipped
from London and Jamaica, through the Isthmus of
Darien, to every part of the Pacific Ocean, and the
consumption of British merchandize at Buenos Ayres,
New Grenada, Venezuela, the Bay of Campeachy,
- and Mexico, may be computed at least to be twenty
miMont cf sit,: earl per annum ; the returns of these ix.
pcirts.with considerable augmentation of profit, are
made generally in specie and lullien, and other valna,
ble commodities."
NEW YORK, JUNE DI
Captain Aderton, in 13 days from Port-au-Prince,
confirms the account of the Spanish squadron from
Spatn, with trcops, having arrived off and taken poi-
aes,sion of the island of Margaretta ; and that they
had put to death indiscriminately, all the men, wo-
men, and childrtn on the island. A Spanish 74 had
blown up, and every person on board 0400 in num,
ber) perished. Carthagena had been bombaried for
AO days, and the cause of the patriots was despaired
of in that quarter. The Chieftains, fiction and
Christophe, were in a state of peace, although they
bad made no treaty with each other.