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to
Sir Jour Mmotair had no objection to the paper
being received, or to acknowledging that he did make
out a requisition: It did not follow, however, that
this was an exact amount of what was actually em-
barked. The Court laid, Certainly not.
Sir BENJAMIN HALLOWELL then tendered a paper,
purporting to be a letter from Colonel Manuel Lo.
tier, a Spanish Officer, to be received as evidence, if
the Cow t should decide to receive as such the letters
of other Spanish Officers, to be produced in his de-
fence by Sit John Murray.
On the suggestion of Sir Samuel Aticfsmuty, that
unless thslatter was now admitted, in order that Sir
John Murray might be prepared to meet its contents,
it could not afterwards be brought forward on behalf
of the prosecutiop ; the Court determined that the let-
, ter, on being regularly authenticated, should be read
and receiWa In evidence.
Admiral ilaccewau, having then stated that he
could proie the band-writing by two witnesses, and
'testified Int oath tb his belief of that fact, and the
itrandatiOn having been submitted to and approved
by Sir John Murray, the letter was read, and was in
substance at ftillOwl : —lt bore date Reus, June 14,
1813, and was addressed. to Captain Adam, R.N. re-
, ;presenting, that be had jaw arrived with three batta-
lions cad one squadron, with which force he had ex-
pected the enemy, who were potted at Viltafranca
with 6.500 men ; that the enemy retired from Villa.
franca in the night of the 12th, at ten o'clock, 'to-
ward; Barcelona; that the transport having on board
the clothing for his troops, of which he stood much
in need; had gone round, and he should be much
obliged to Captain Adam to send her back to Sa-
lonne, as he had come there for that purpose, and to
communicate whatever intelligence he might have re-
ceived of the enemy's movements, &c.
Admiral HatLeowata, observed, that he had intro.
duced this document for the purpose of :hewing that
up to the 14th, the enemy had not appeared before
Balaguer.
'The Court having now enquired whether there
were any further ;misers to be produced, Admiral
Hallowell stated that he had closed the prosecution
of his case. Although he had not had an opportu-
nity of bringing forward his Spanish witnesses, nor
been allowed to strengthen his evidence by any proof
toff transactions subsequent to the 12th, he had to
thank the Court for the handsome manner in which
his applications for that purpose had been refused.
Sir JOHN MURRAY then observed, that as there had
been two distinct openings, and two separate prose.
cutors had appeared against him, be hoped that he
might be indulged in making the several statements,
and supporting each separately, by the evidence, on
his defence. • ri;
The DEPUTY JUDGE ADVOCATE saw no objection
to this, reserving to himself his own individual right
to reply on the two first charos, although he did not
at present see that it would be at all necessary, as the
letters of Sir John Murray and the instructions of the
Duke of 'Wellington were now before the Court.
The Pamperer said, it certainly rested with Sir
Jahn Murray to urge his defence in such a manner
as be should deem most advantageous to himself;—
and it was now for him to say, what time he would
require for its preparation ?
Sir Joint Muttatte replied, that the Court must be
aware that he was not disposed to take up their time
unnecessarily, or for a longer period than should be
indispensably necessary for this • defence. The great
variety of matter, bowever,'which had been intro.
duced, and the evidence. almost entirely. false (be
Meant with respect to the information on which it
was founded), that had been adduced, compelled
him to solicit from the Court the indulgence of five
days, as he conceived that he could not be fully pre-
pared in a shorter space of time.
The PRESIDENT said, it was for the prisoner to name
what period he should deem absolutely necessary, and
if that should appear unreasonable, the Court must
be cleared to take the question into consideration.
'The Court was accordingly cleared, but in a short
time assented to the request of Sir John Murray, and
adjourned till Friday minima nest.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

DISPATCHES FROM GHENT.

MESSAGE

TO TUE SINATIN ARO *Ollll at arrassitirrivretss, 01 TEE

1/41110 /TATES.
41 I transmit, forth, information of Congress" the communi-
cations last rocehred oat the Ministers Extraordinary and Ple-
nipotentiary of the United States at Ghent, explaining tbe course
and actual state of their negociation with the Plenipotentiaries of
Great Britain. (8111" ed) • " lasses MADISOII."
44 Dec. 1, 1814.
No. 1.-.-COWT 11/ A trrrna /1014 1111141/. ADAMS, I.IITAILD,

CLAY, RUSSELL, RFD OALLATIN,.TO TSUI SACRITAILY or
STATC, DATRD GRINT, OCTOBRR HS, 1514.
Sir—We have the honour of tranimitt herewith, copies of
all our correspondence with the •Bridsh PleDipeteDtlariei, since
clieideparture of Mr. Dallas. /lithos* the negodation•has not
teridnieed so hbruptly as we expected at that period that it w.euld,
we have no realm to retract the opinion which we then cora.
sod, that no hares of peace as likely to result from It could be
entertained. It is true, that the terms which the British Govern-
ment had so peremptorily prescribed at that time have been ap-
tly abandoned, and that the .me pa am then required u a
to all discussion upon other topics, has been reduced
on derortielii sechriag merely an Indian pas:laud= whisk we
have speed to , abject ib the ratification or [ejoaden of
nor Government. But you will perceive that our request far the,
melange of 5 project of a Treaty has been eluded, and that in
their last time, tic *Walt Pkolpotendaries have admmeed a de-
'Maud not only new and inadmissible, but totail Iscesspadble
with their uniform pesolous declarations, that Greet Detain bad
no view in ihist oqociatioo to any acquisition of territory. It
will be perceived that this new pretension was broil* forward
immediately alter the aconite, had been received that a &Web
force had taken postcodes of ail that part of the State of Mas-
sachusetts, situate east of Penobscot river.
The British Ptenipottlistiaries have invariably referred to their
Government every note received Worn ps, and waited the return
of their messenstr before they have trenanitted to us their an
ewer, and the whole tenor of the correspondence, as well as the
manner in which it has bests conducted on the part of the British
Government, have coneurrad to convince us, that their object
has been delay; their motives for this poi cy we presume to have
beep, to keep the alternative of peace or a protracted war in their
own lands until a general arrangement of European affairs
*mold be as;ainsplishesi at the Congress of Vienna, and until they
could avail themselves of the advantages which they have and.
:dilated from the success of their moo dodo( the present.ciuu•
paign in America.
Although die Sovereigns who had determined to be present at
the Cowen of Virus& have beep already several weeksassemblee
illtrso' adeee rat aPPEOF Or diciest advice. front.that place that

the Congress has tieettfuentally epersesL Od the soothryebycv,
declaration from the Plenigmeallieries 'et the Prorate wheleel/1;
parties to the peace of Paris of the4Odt May het, the °peeler of
the Congress appease to bare beeer'peepoited to the Ist of No-
vember. A memorial is said to bare been presented by the
1 French Ambassador Talleytand, in which It is deohnid, dry
France having returned to her ',modifies-In 1792, can recognme
_
=Writs of n!'"'

of the aurandisenuoits of the mbar pea Pagano( EOrope.
WM, that period, although not iniendittra oppose dim by war.
These circumstances indicate that the sew basis far the poN.
deal system of Europe will not be so speedily settled as had b.er •
(Wand. The principle data assumed by Prance is very erten.
sive in Its effects, and opens a field for negotiation much wide
OAP anticipated. We dunk it doss not pirmalse an aspect of ire..
mediate tra►►quility to this Continent, and that it will distontort
particularly the measures which Omar Britain has been taking
with retard to the future destination of this country, atnsnq•
others, and to which she has attached apparently much inipor-
Cante.—Ws have the honour to be, dr.t.

[The following arethe Notes referred to ie the above Le'er
NO. 11..1111111111111 NOTCI VAIONI IHt 11171111 TO TNt

CAN 1111511111T1111, DATED OCTOBER 21, 1814.
'the undersigned have bad the hocour of receiving the No.p "
the American Pleuipotentiariee, of the I Sib instant, commun.:
letting the acceptance of their article, whiab the undersigned ha
proposed on the subject et the pacification and rights of the Ir.
Illan Nations.

:Ile undersigned are happy in being thus relieved from the
necessity of recurring to several topics, which, though they arose
is the course of their discussions, have only an incidental cur-
veetion with the ditl'erenoe• remaining to be adjusted lietwen
the two countries. '

Witt a view to this adjustment, the uodenigned preferrire
in the present state of the pegociation a general statemect to tie
formal Arrangement of articles are willing so far to comply with
the request of the American Plenipotentiaries, contained in thea
lest note, as to wave the alvantage to which they think they
were fairly entitled—of requiring front them the figs ,Projet t..
a "
• • •
'The saderalgolid laving sated at the 'first. -conference the
poluts upon which his Majesty's Govenunent considered the dl.. •
(union' bet ween the two countries as likely to tura, cannot
better satisfy the request Of the American Plecipotentiaries thus
by ttlerting them to that conference for a statement of the points,
which, in the opinion of his Majeitrs Government, yet remain
to be adjusted. With respect AG the totals leisure of mariners
from on board merchant vessels on the-bigh *ems and she right
of the King of Great Britain to the allegiance of all his native
subjects, and with respect to the Maritime ;igloo of the Briti-is
Empire, the undersigned conceive, that after the veil salons as.
serted by the Government of the United States, a more satisfac-
tory pr of of the conciliatory spirit of his Majesty's Government
cannot be given, than by not requiring any stipulation on those
subjects, which:though most important in themselves, no longer,
in consequence of the maritime pacification of Europe, produce
the same practical results. On the subject of the Fisheries, the
undersigned expressed with so much frankness, at the conference
already referred to, the views of their Government, that they
consider any further ohservatious on that topic as unnecessary at
the present time. On the question of the boundary betweea d.e
dominions of his Majesty and those of the United States, the
undersigned are led to expect from the discussion which this
subject has alrea 4y undergone, that the North Western boun-
dary from the Lake of the Woods to the Mississippi (the Wen-
ded arrangement of 1606) will be Admitted without objection.
In regard to Other boundaries, the American Plenipotetitiaries.
in their note of Angust 241 appeared in some measure to object
to the prwmktooe then made by the undersigned, as not being
on the basis of ea maiderit. The undersigned are willies to crestt
on that basis, subject to such modificatiOu as mutual convenienve
illy be found to require; and they trust that the American kl:-
nipotentiariti will skew, by their riady acceptance of this basic,
that they duly appreciate the moderation of his Majesty's Go-
vernment in so far consulting the honour and, fair preteasions of
the United States, as, in the relative situation of the two coun-
tries, to authorise such a proposition. The undersigned ay.ei
themselves of this opportunity to renest.iii floe American nem-
. is entiaries the assurance of their higCconslderation.
(Signed) °AMAMI,. 111 CORT Opupousim. enc. ADAMS.
NO. 1.--AMILRICAII NOT; FROM Tilt aseeatenti TO sue
MUTSU! mienrreas, PATIO (MTOBILI 80.
The undersigned have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of the Note of the British Pierdpotendarles of the 216 t instant.
Amongst the general obserrations which the undersigned,' in
their Note of the Lath of August, made on the proposition, then
brought forward on the part of the British Government, Aar
rennuted, that those propositions were founded neither oe the
basirof isaipernieris nor on that of state, elite &slim. But so far
were they irons suggesting the.eti roitidetit as the basis on which
they were disposed to treat, than hi the same-note they expressly
stated, that they had been instructed to coarAutie-a peace on the
principle of both parties restoring whatever territory they might
have taken. The undersigned alp declared, in that note, that
they had no authority to code any pan of the territory of the
Untted States, and that to no stipulasiotentehat effect would they
subscribe; and in the note of the ikth,e4 %mother. after having
shewn that the basis of Nti peak/etas, such as it was known to
exist at the commencement of the negotiation, .gave no claim to
his Brkansie Majesty to cessions of territory .founded upon the
right of conquest; they added, that even if this chance* of war
should give to the British arms a =memory possession of other
parts of the territory of the United States, such events would.
not alter their yaws with regard to the terms of peace to which
they would give their consent.
lhe undersigned can now only repeat those declarations, anti
decline treating upon the basis of tall possidais, or upon any other
principle involving a cession of any part of the territory of the
Mind States. As they have uniformly stated, they can treat
only upon the principles of a mutual restoration of whatever ter..
ritory may have been taken by dtherpany. From this principle
they cannot recede: and the undersigned, after the repeated de-
clarations of the British Plenipotentiaries, that Great Britain had
no view to acquisition of territory in this negotiation, deem it
necessary to add, that the utility of its continuance depends on
their adherence to this prieciple. •
The undersigned having declared in their note of 21st of
August, that although instructed and prepared to enter into an
amicable discusaion of all the points on which differences or un-
certainty had existed, and which might hereafter tend to inter-
rupt she harmony of the two countries. they Would not make
the tended= of the peace at all depend upon a successful result
of the discussion: and having since agreed to the preliminary
article proposed by the British Government, had believed that
the negociadon, already so long protracted, could not be brought
SO an early conclusion otherwise than by the communication of a
project, embracing all the *thee sped& prepositions. which
Greet Britain intended to offer. They repeat their request lu
that respect, and will have no objection to a simultaneous
change of the projects of both parries.
Chia coons will being fairly into dhesegen the other tellies
embraced in the last Dec* of the kid* iftiniesatentlarles. to
whr the undersigned have thumbs, it noneseeepty to advert at
the esent . • 7/ y. •
'1 he undersigned renew to the &kith Plinalpamathries the as.
satinet of their high cousideradaa.
J. q. ADAM,. aossett.

J. A. IAVAID A. dALLATIN.
IL CLAY.

NO. Xt...COPT Ol A LITTILI PROM out COMMISSIOXIM TO

THE SZCRITART Of STILT; HAMM ;RENT, 00T. SI.
Bat —The detention of the Chauncey at Ostend enables us to
send the inclosed note from the British Plenipotentiaries, which
we have just received.
NO. ZII....ERITHIN NOTE, fION THE BRITISH TO THE Milli.

CAN minute's, DATED act. 31.
The midenigned have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of the note addressed to them by the American Plenipotentiaries
on the 24th Ina. In which they object to the basis of uti periletis
proposed by the undersigned, as that on which they are willing
to treat in regard to pan of the boundaries between the domi-
nions of his Majesty and those of the United States. The Ame-
rican Plenipotentiaries, in their note of the 13th inst. requested

the underlined to communicate to them the project of aireaty,
embracing all the points insisted on by Greet Britain, engaging
on their part to delver immediately atter a counter projec as to
all the articles to which they might not agree, and as to all the
subjects deemed material by the United States, and omitted in
the projet of the undersigned.
The undersigned were accordingly instructed to wave the ques-
tion of etiquette, and the advantage which might result trent re-
ceiving the first communication, and confiding in the engagement
,of the Americtualanipotentintes, consusitsilemed in their notes
of the !Ist instant, all the points upon whit thspureinstrectei
to insist. . . .
The American Plenipotentiaries have objected to one essential
part df the prtjet thus cOnnannicated; inttbethee the undersigned
can soar WM*. dia:ttespo of this isligisliesi they must respire

fortes of every description, !bids Sir John Mu r.
bad-applied to him to p!4 are for raterviog on
in tat Meant. He shaviiitaild' io 'this, that he
bt l takers 'on boitftl a a:bundrei bones more
a was stated id this r :IsitiOn.
rhe Court:tried 'O3 ' 'vs the return, but said
t.they expected. tia• receive exact official returns of
actual force.