Star.
London, England, 1825-01-11 00:00:00

MR. RUSH To MR. ADAMS.

London, August 50, 1824.
SIR—I have the honour to apprise you, in my letter
of the 9th instant, that Mr. Secretary Canning had in-
formed me, in nn interview that I had with him on that
day, that this Government would decline acceding to
the Convention for the Suppression of the Slave Trade,
as ratified in May, on the part of the United
states, and that he promised to address to me an official
note upon this subject. This note I received on Satur-
day, the 28th instant, the delay having arisen from an,
attack of fever under which he had been labouring. A
copy of it is herewith enclosed.
I lost no time, after receiving your instructions of the
29th of May, in laying the matter of them before Mr.'
Canning, h :lying, on the 30th of Jane, written him a
note to request an interview, for the purpose of execut-
ing this duty, which he granted, me, at the Foreign
Office, on the Ist of July. It was in that interview that
I laid fully before him all the considerations and argu-
ments for the adoption of the treaty as ratified at Wash-
ington, with si Rich }opr abovz instructions had charged
me, omitting no part of them. He gave no opinion at
'that time, on the course which this Government would
be likely to pursue, hut afterwards, on the 9th of Au-
gist, info; med me, as I have heretofore mentioned, that
ttre omission of the words, 44 and America," from the
first article of the treaty, was considered by Great Bri-
tain as an insuperable objection to its acceptance on her
part, and to this effect is. the note which I now transmit
fram him. A copy of my answer to it, dated to-day,
is enclosed.
It may be proper for me to state, that while Mr.
Canning, in the interview I had with him on the 9th of
August, was assigning the reasons of this Government,
as they will now be seen in his note, for not acceding to
the treaty, he took occasion to remark, that Great Bri-
tain would readily give to the omitted words a mean-
ing that would restrict their operation to the southern
ports of North America, as proximate to the British
West Indies, excluding the range of coast which com-
prehended the' middle and northern States, if 'I thought
that such a plan wculd be acceptable to my Govern-
ment. I immediately and most decidedly discounte-
nanced such a proposition, as objectionable under every
view. He replied, that, having no other object in making
the intimation than that of preventing the treaty from
falling through, and not knowing himself in what light
it might be received, he had i.f course nothing more to
say,alter learning from me that it would be objectionable.
1 avail myself of this opportunity to 'forward to you
a copy of the Act of the last Session of Parliament for
consolidating the laws of this realm for the abolition of
the slave trade, as requested in your communication of
the 29th of have the honour to remain, &c.
RICHARD RUSH.
The Hon. John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State. •
at R. GEORGE CANNING TO MR. RUSH.
Foreign Mx. August 27,1824.
SlR—ln pursuance of what I stated to you in our
late conference, I ka-ve now the honour to address you
od the subject of the qualified ratification, on the part
of your Government, of the treaty for the more effectual
suppression of the slave trade, which was concluded
and signed in the month of March last,by you and his
Majesty's Plenipotentiaries.
His Majesty's Government have given the most
anxious and deliberate consideration to this 'subject,
and if the result of that consideration has been to de-
cide that they cannot advise his Majesty to accept the
American ratification (notwithstanding the arguments
by you, in the name of your Government, in,

favour Of such acceptance). I entregt ,roottrbelieVe it is'
'ot from any diminished sense of tie importance of the
matter.to which that treaty relates.
Nor do they •at all underrate the desire which, as you
have assured me, and as they really believe, was felt
by the President of the United States, to adopt the
provisions of the pvaty, such as it was transmitted to
America. But the result is not the less inconvenient.

A treaty, of which the basis was laid id propositions
framed by the American Government, was considered
here as so little likely to, be made a subject of re-
newed discussion in America, that not a moment was
lost in ratifying it, on the part of his Majesty; and his
Majesty's ratification was ready to be exchanged against
that of the United States when the treaty came back;
not as it had been sent to America, but with material
variations—variations not confined to those stipulations,
or parts of stipulations, which had been engrafted
upon the original project, but extending to that part of
the original project itself which had passed unchanged
through the negotiation.
The knowledge that the Constitution of the United
States renders all their diplomatic compacts liable to
this sort of revision, undoubtedly precludes the possibi-
lity of taking exceptions at any particular instance in
which that revision is exercised; but the repetition of
such instances does not serve to reconcile to the practice
the feelings of the other contracting party, whose so-
lemn ratification is thus rendered of no avail, and whose
concessions in negotiation having been made (as all
such concessions must be undetstuod to be made) con-
ditionally, are thus accepted as positive and absolute,
while what may have been the stipulated price of those
concessions is withdrawn.
In the instance before us, the' question is not merely
of for in. A substantial change is made in the Treaty ;
and, as I have said, on a point originally proposed by
yourself, Sir, as the American Plenipotentiary, and un-
derstood to be proposed by the special direction of your
Government.
The r ight of visiting vessels suspected of slave-trading,
when extended alike to the West Indies and to the coast
of America, implied an equality of vigilance; and did
not necessarily-imply the existence of grounds of suspi-
cion on either side.

The removal of this right, as to the coast of America,
and its continuance to the West Indies, cannot but ap-
pear to imply the existence, on one side, and not on the
other, of a just ground either of suspicion of miscon-
duct, or for apprehension of an abuse of authority.
To such an equality, leading to such an inference, hip
Majesty's Government can never advise his Majesty to
consent. It 'would have been rejected, if ptoposed in
the course of negotiation. It can still less be admitted
as a new demand, after the conclusion of the treaty.
With the exception of this proposed omission, there is
nothing in the alterations made by the Senate of the
United States, in the treaty (better satisfied as his Ma-
jesty's GOvernment undoubtedly would have been if
they had not been made) which his Majesty's Govern-
ment would not rather agree to adopt, than suffer the
hopes of good to ss Welt this arrangement had given rise,
to he disappointed.
Upon this omission, they trust the Senate of the United
States will, on another consideration of the subject,
see that it is not equitable to insist.
A full power will therefore be sent to Mr.Addington,
his Majesty's Charge u'Aff tires at Washington, to con-
clude and sign, with any Plenipotentiary to be appointed
by the American Government, a near, verbatim the
same as the returned treaty would he, with all the
alterations introduced into it by the Senate, exceptin ,
only the proposed omission of the words 6, and America,
in the first article; which treaty, if transmitted to Eng-
land,• with the ratification of the Government of the
United States, his Majesty will be ready to ratify.
But I am to apprise you, Sir, that his Majesty will
not be advised to appoint Plenipotentiaries to conclude
and sign the like treaty here, to be, as before, ratified
by his Majesty, and to be again subjected, after rati-
fication by his Majesty, to alterations by the Senate of
the United States.
I am confident that you will see, in this distinction,'
nothing more than a reasonable safeguard for his Ma-
jegty's dignity, end a just desire to ascertain, before his
Majesty again ratifies a diplomatic instrument, to what
conditions that ratification is affiaed.
I bare the honour to bc, with the highest eontideration, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant, .
lre Richard Rush, Esq. &c. GEORGE CANNING.

THE EVIIININO STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1825.
THE FUNDS.
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Consols opened 'at 954 for the Account, with little doing, and,
up to this hour, they are 954 to 4; for next time 9.14
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amount of £2,000,000, will be contracted for by Neut.,. Baamo,
lavu c, and Ilontscoms.
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Shares, but they are not so brisk alyesterday, and somewhat on
the decline, as a great number of persons are bartering their profits,
and selling.
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774 73, Colombian New 944, French Scrip 14 pre. Ckilian 87,
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We have received such of the French Papers of Sun
day-as had sot previously-reached us, but they coma;
no news of importance. It is stated in a private let

troM Paris, that by 211.4 i-rival at Ancona, from Cork
accounts had been rftei*ech dated the Bth of De-
cember, by which it would appear, that some misun-
derstanding had occurred between the Governor of
Tiipolitza and the son of General CoLoooTnoNi,- and
that the latter, in attempting to possess himself of
Tripolitza,had lost his life, along with some of his troops;
this, however, was only considered to have been an
ebullition of private feeling ; and it was unknown both
to the Government and to General COLOCOTRONI him-
self, who was occupied in the siege of Patras, until the
death of his son was- announced to him. It will, it is
said, in no manner disturb the harmony which is known
at present to exist amongst the leaders of the Greek
revolution.

The Bremen Gazette, received this morning, contains
the following article from Naples, of the 10th ult.
4, It is well known that Count CANONICI, was con-
demned to imprisonment for life, in consequeacepf the
troubles which took place some years ago in I.lm-
hardy, and in which he was unfortunately implicated.
Application had been made from many quarters for a
mitigation of the penalty, but in vain. At length the
noble house of Mattei, at the head of which is the
venerable Monseigneur Mattei, Patriarch of Venice, to
a relation of whom Count CANONICI is married, ap-
plied to the Court of Bavaria, to which be has the ho-
nour of being known, and addressed a respectful Peti-
tion to his MAJESTY, imploring him to intercede with
his august son-in-law. We need hardly say, that the
King of DAV.% RIA Most willingly listened to this Peti-
tion, and on his first interview with the Emperor of
AUSTRIA, solicited CA I'`NICI'S pardon. The Emperor
FRANCIS readily yielded to the natural impulse of his
own humane disposition, and the request of his father-
'in-law, and we learn that Count CANONICI hps been
testorej to liberty."

Getman *Papers to the 41h instant reached us this
forenoon. They contain nothing worth quoting but
ihe following article from the frontiers of Italy, dated
the 29th ult.

Letters horn Italy bting a piece of intelligence
which must highly interest all the learned of Europe,
both as supplement to the history of the difficulties
which oppose in some pl4ces the progress of Science,
and as an instance of the vicissitudes to which cele-

ibiated and excellent men are exposed.
• M. PONS, famous lo his discoveries of comets, astrono-
mer, at the Royal Observatory of Marlia, in the Duchy
of Lucca, is no longer Director of that Establishment.
A rather strange reform in the system of public jastrUc-
lion in dna country, suppressing some Professorships'
in the Lyceum, has included, it is not known how, a
place which is absolutely distinct from them. This
measure scents the more singul at, because M. Pot's, who
etijoied an ilonourable situation in the Royal Observa-
toty at Marseilles, left it only after repeated invitations
and :almost against his' will, in compliance with the ar-
gent intreaties of the late Queen MARIA Louis*,Duchess
of Lucca. •

A decree was at that time issued, promising M. PONS,
if he would come to Lucca, full indemnity for the lassl
of.his place and of his country, and a provision for his
family. Though it can hardly be supposed that such
a decree w ill fail of being executed as honour and
justice requ ire, yet the uncertainty respecting the fu-
ture lot of so celebrated a man, nruA excite well
founded inteyest, not only in the academies of London
and Paris, from- which he has received honours and
prizes for his numerous discoveries, but in all those
persons who have long known M. Poss as a man of the
nio.t excellent character.

A private letter from Brussels, of the 24th ult. men-
tions the mysterious arrest of an English Gentleman of
respectable connections, long resident in that city. He
was taken out of bed by three °dicers of justice, and
hurried to prison. On the remonstrance of Sir CHARLES
BAGOT, he was, after an examination in the Hall of
Audience, discharged, without any specific charge
•
being brought against him.

By the late arrivals from New South Wales, we have,
received a file or Sydney Gazettes, which afford ample'
proof of the incteasing prosperity of that important Co-
By a Proclamation, dated '26th May, 38 Gen-
tlemen, residents there, are appointed Justices of the
Peace, ss ith power to punish offenders brought before
them. This measure was expected to be followed up by
the establishment of a Court of Requests ; although, at
the law then stood, " for the ends of justice, proceedings
could be obtained out of the
.Supreme Court under
1L:10," so far as respects Government.

We obsei ve with pleasure that other institutions
have been established, indicating the progress of civili-
zation—the diffusion of knowledge—the propagation
of religion. In addition to Churches provided for
Divine Worship, as by law established, Government
has encouraged the erection of a Chapel for Roman
.Catholics on a large scale; and we perceive the arrival
of an additional Clergyman of that communion, the
Rev. SAMUEL COOTE, by the Ardent. We also find
Benevolent Societies, Wesleyan Sunday School Unions,
St. James's Sunday Schools, the Windsor Bible Asso-
ciation, am A Bank too has been long established.
We are happy to remark, in addition, that luxury,
the offspring of wealth, begins to be indulged in by our
Australian fellow-subjects.. English chariots, barouches,
dennets, gigs,,&c. are much sought after; even men
cooks are advirtised for.
Provisions, with the exception of butter and cheese,
appear reasonable :—Bread was 2d. per lb. butter 2s.
41d. cheese (colonial) Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. wheat 4s. lid
bu,liel; maize is. barley 2s. 6d. fowls 2s. jhd. per
re; eggs ls. 9d. per dozen.
%%e have evidence also of the superiority, or at least

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the asserted superiority, of New South Wales ovtr its
sister
.colony, Van Diemen's Land. This is preyed by
the preference given to it by numerous settlers who had
'sat down" or intended to have established themselves in
the latter colony, but who have proceedei to the former.
Among these are Mr. Rodcric (Roger) O'Connor; witis
his sons Arthur and William.

We have only room to call the attention of our
Readers to an interesting correspondence between Mr:
Secretary CANNING and Mr. RUSH, Envoy from the
United States, on the Slave Trade : we shall notice tie
subject more at length, when the whole of the corre-
spondence is before us.

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