Star.
London, England, 1814-12-27 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

1014 DON.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1814. h,,
ST. Jonu.—Holitl-s at the Bank.

• Yesterday we informed our Readers of the strong
impression made upon the Funds by a confident ru-
mour that Peace between this country and America

had actually been signed at Ghent. We could hardly
allow ourselves to believe that the fact was actually

so, and would be announced in a subsequent edition.
Bat very late in the afternoon all doubts on the sub-

Sect vier e.cornpleiely removed•by the following
LETTER SENT TO THE LORD MAYOR,

44 FOREIGN OFFICE, DECEMBER 26, 1514.
"My LORD,--I have the honour to acquaint your
• Lordship, that Mr. A. S. BAKER• has arrived at
• this Office this morning from Ghent, with the in-

telligence that a Treaty of Peace was signed be-
" tween his MAJESTY and the United States of Arne-
" rica; by the respective Plenlpotcntiaries at that

66 place on the 21th ipstant.
66 It is at the same tini my duty to acquaint your
" Lordship, that it is understood by the Treaty that
66 hostilities will cease as soon as it shall have been ra-

tified by the PRESIDENT of the United States, as
" well as by the PRINCE REGENT, in the name and au
" the behalf of his MAJESTY.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,

tg Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant,
" BATHURST.

" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor."
(A True Copy) SAMUEL BIRCH, Mayor."
The following are understood to be the principal
Terms of the Treaty that has been signed by the re-

spective Plenipotentiaries at Ghent
The Americans have waved any stipulations on
the subject of Maritime Rights, as well as respecting
• compensation for captures under the Orders in Coun-
cil, or on any other,account.
" The interests of the Indians, Allies to Great
Britain, in the war, are provided for in this Treaty by
a stipulation that they are to be restored to all their
possessions, rights, and privileges, which they en-
jqyed, or to which they were entitled antecedent to
the year 1812.

All the diputed questions of territory to be re-
ferred to Commissions, to be respectively appointed,
(under the conditions named in the Treaty, and until
the differences respecting them are decided, the islands
in Bay of Passamaquoddy are to remain in the posses-
sion of Great Britain. All other conquests on both
sides are to be restored.
_ _

•« It is understood that there is to be no renewal of 11
the Right of Fishery on the Newfoundland Coast,
and no Trade to our Indian possessions."
Though the Dispatches arrived in the morning, no-
thing was suffered to transpire from the Government
Offices till the afternoon. This delay was occasioned
by the etiquette of summoning the Ministers; after
which it was necessary that the Dispatches should be
laid before his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT,
which was done by the Earl of LIVERPOOL. In con-
sequence of this delay (for even the Park and Tower
guns remained muzzled) none were in the secret for
some time but those connected with the. American
junta and in consequence many were taken in by the
Peace Policy-mongers, who gave 50 guineas to receive
100 if peace was signed by the Ist of January,, and
75 for the 15th ; soon afterwards they gave 75 for the
Ist of January, and 85 for the 15th ; and 50 guineas
to receive 100, if an/ Treaty or Convention should
be signed before twelve o'clock last night.—We have
not heard that any demur has yet been made to the
equity of giving money to be returned with increase
upon the condition of a certain fact taking place be-
fore a specified time, the party giving, knowing at
the same time, that the tact was put beyond the power
of contingency to affect. Had a COCHRANE JOHN.
NTOHE been there and on the tap side, there would
bare been noise enough..
In the evening the news was announced in both
the Theatres. It was received with plaudits; but
tbere were many dissentients, who expressed their
dislike of the terms by groans and hisses.
Some of the terms that have been announced are
unquestionably satisfactory ; but on one point we find
treat difference of opinion to prevail ; namely, leaving
the question of disputed territory—or, in other words,
the settlement fif a now boundary line, to Commissioners
to be respectively appointed.
. T.o this one of the principal objections urged is,
that a treaty having been signed, Ministers will pro.
bably relax in their exertions for maintaining by force
of arihethe ffiji claims of this country to a safe
barrier; that in the mean time the Americans, in the
tear of a protracted war, will every day be in-

• creasing their means both of defence and offence ;
. That thus the relatisie position of the two countries
will iti theinterim be changed to the disadvantage
of Britain; and that, consequently, an advantage
will thus be given to the United States in the future;
discussinns, which they never could have obtained
.under a syst..m ref vigorous warfare carried on for
the purpose of commeang the proper terms.
in support of these .objQations to the Treaty, it is
urged, that Moenon's letter is an avowal of thedeter-
mination of the American GOrtsccosent not to concede
a single riot far whictirltiecontest was carried on.
He deciatei in that Letter; mint The United States
most sereluish no right, or per3sk o, the struggle

'here is no intermediate ground to rest on; a eances-
sit -• of one point, leads directly to the surrender of
every other." It is therefore contended, that as the
American Commissioners have conceded more than
one point, the Treaty will not be ratified by Marmot,
and that, in the mean time, by the possible relaxation
on our part, already hinted at, we may, and probably
will be put in worse circumstances than before the
signing of the Treaty.
Now it is true, certainly, that the Treaty does con-
cede certain points denied by MONROE'S letter, and
therefore it is possible that the American Commis-
sioners assumed, without possessing the powers of Ple-
nipotentiaries ; and their conclusions may be rejected.
But, on the other hand, it ought not to be overlooked
that our Ministers, and much more so our Plenipoten.
tiaries at Ghent could know nothing of MONROE'S let-
ter at the time they came to a conclusion on this
Treaty. It was only on Monday se'nnight that the
draft was acceded to by the Cabinet, with the addi-
d'tion of the clause that hostilities-should not be consi-
dered as terminated till the Treaty should be ratified

by the PRESIDENT.
Now it was not till Thursday last that the copy of
Mosnor's letter reached this countiy—and on Satur-
day the Treaty was signed—probably before that let-
ter was seen by our Plenipotentiaries s for it could not
be sent off from London before Thursday night.

It is exceedingly probable that new instructions
were sent with a copy of that letter, as soon as possi-
ble ; but it would be absured to blame Ministers for not
possessing powers denied to man. Who could possibly
tell that within three days after agreeing to the terms,
a production of 'such a quality as MONROE'S letter
should arrive ?
We have no hesitation in saying, that to have
agreed to such a Treaty, in the face of such a letter,
would have betrayed great weakness, but Ministers
have not done this—they could not possibly know of

its existence.
But the letter does exist, and the Treaty bas been
signed. What should follow ? A degree of exer-
tion and preparation for war even exceeding what
they might have oontemplated as requisite and neces
sary, in the event of the Negotiation proving fruitless.
For it must not be disguised, that every evil is to be
apprehended from the delays that may be interposed
by the quirking, quibbling chicanery of Madisonian
pettifogging diplomacy. A single blow that can be
inflicted upon the enemy ought not to be withheld ;
for in spite of the Treaty, we are convinced that MA-
DISIN'S signature will, even now, be obtained only by
threihing lam into compliance.
When MADISON'S signature shall have been obtained
will the danger be then over? No. the principal
business will still remain to be settled—the neurloun-
ddry line, In the mean time the Americans will keep
improving their means to command, it they cannot, as
in the Treaty by which the last boundaries were set-
tled, outwit our Commissioners, and obtain by nego-
elation, such -a boundary as may enable them at any
time to invade Canada, and ultimately to rob us of
that possession.
Our opinion is—and we state it without disguise,
that, if we relax in measures of hostility before the.
boundary be actually settled, Canada will be lost to
this country at no very remote period. The appear-
ance of MONROE'S letter certainly gives to our Mi-
nisters a right to demand, notwithstanding the Treaty,
that the`frontier boundary shall be settled definitively
before the cessation of hostilites—upon this plain
ground, that the •American Government stands con-
victed of want of good faith ; for either the President
has spoken falsely to the United States through Mon.
ItOE, or the 'United States have spoken falsely through
their Commissioner* at Ghent, and it is highly proper
that this contradiction be cleared up before this coun-
try act upon the present Treaty.
This morning (though a holiday at the Bank) the
Stock Exchange exhibited a scene of as great bustle
and confusion as we ever witnessed. Consols opened
ut 671, at which price they continued very steadily
for some time, and much business was done ; but
afterwards the Funds declined. The following were
the fluctuations up to twelve o'clock :
Consols for account, 67} f.
Reduced, 66}
ti f, 66.
Omnunn, fi
ttift.. This day we understand the Treaty with America
received the Ratification of his Royal Highness the
PRINCE REGENTe

To-day we received Paris Papers of Friday and
Saturday last. Their contents, so far as they relate
to Vienna, are interesting. To many other absurd
measures, King.FERDINAND of Spain has superadded
that of sending an Embassy to. BONAPARTE! It had
for its object, however, an act of justice towards so-
ciety at large, in the punishment of the PunicA of
the PEACE.

PARIS, DECEMBER 22.
On the 19th instant a Neapolitan Courier travel-
ling in great haste to London, passed over from Calais
to Dover.

1 • His Majesty by an Ordonnance, dated on the 16th,
hls directed a Regiment of Infantry to be raised un-
der the denomination of the Foreign Colonial Regi-
ment, in which the Spanish Apd Portuguese Officers
and soldiers in the pay of France, and who are in a
condition to serve, Willi* admitted. This regiment'
will have an Etat-Major and three battalions.

DEcEmßut 24.
A Gazette of Franconia assures us that the news of
tie rerkuctiol of•the Alstriau army and of the dissolu•