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or the erited stater, unless a cumin preperdera et the Maria*,
ea board the same shall be Citizens of the United states.
Considered pid agreed to, and a bill ordered by
the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures,"
The Yational Intelligenter of the 20th ult. gives a
avail of the easureichsthe foliowd wit is the substance to by the America
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Legislat mh
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FOREIGN REI,ATIONS.
Mr. Macon, from the Committe on so much of the
message of the President of the United States as re-
lees to our Foreign Relations, reported a bill respet-
t4 the commercial intercourse between the tTnited
States and Great Britain and France; and for other

purposes.
The Ist section prohibits all public vessels belong-
;fig to Great Britain or France, from entering the
%arbours of the United States, subject to the certain
' recified exceptions.
The ‘2d section prescribes the punishment of those
shall aid the infraction of this proviiion.
The Sd section prohibits all vessels sailing under
t::e flag of Great Britain, or France, or owned in
v,;:oie or part by any citizen of either, from entering
the harbours of the United States.
The 4th section prohibits the importation into the
united States, of goods from Great Britain or Ire-
land, and France, and their colonies ; or of goods
from any foreign port which are the growth, produce,
or manufacture of Great Britain or France ; unless
in vessels owned wholly by citizens of the United
S:ates.
The above provisions to take immediate effect.
The sth section prohibits after the 15th of April
next, the importation of goods from Great Britain
and France,ancl their colonies, unless imported directly
htrefrom.
Tie 6th, 7th and Bth sections affix penalties to the
iairaction of these provisions.
The 9th section authorises the President, in case
tither France or Great Britain shall so revoke or stro-
a-y her edicts, as that they shall cease to violate the
r..:tral commerce of the tThited States, to declare the
same by proclamation, after which the prohibitions
of this act on the commerce of the nation so doing
51;41 cease.
The I Ith section repeals the act to amend and con-
true in force certain parts of the act entitled an act
to interdkt the commercial intercourse between the
United States and Great Britain and France and their
dependencies, and for other purposes.
12th section limits this act to the end of the
:sit stssion of Congress.
The bill was read a second time, referred to a come
rcitt of the whole ; and made the order of the day
for Friday next.
Mr. MACON) from the committee appointed to pre-
pare and report rules and orders for the government
the House, reported the same. Referred to the
Committee of the whole House, to which was referred
ISacoN's motion on the subject of order.

We this mcrning received two Cottenburgh Mails. I
An article from Constantinople states, that after the
battle of Silistria rh Russians applied for an armis-
tice for two months, which was refused by the vic-
torious Turks. The Ex-King and Queen of Sweden
had arrived at Stralsund, on their way to Switzerland.
—The Swedish Papers are still filled with adulatory
addresses to the Crown Prince of Sweden, as the
Prince of ACGTSTENBURGH is now called. He is pro-
4-tains towards Stockholm.

TEE PERSI.V Ameassanott--Yestercity was the day
appointed for his Excellency to visit the Prince of
WALES. Soon after twelve o'clock, hit Royal High-
ness's carriage and six beautiful bay horses, with new
harness, and handsomely decorated with ribbons, the
coachman, postillion, and two footmen, in rich state
tries, also his Royal Highness's hussar footman in
his superb dress, and his Royal Highness's armourer,
Mr. BOOTLE, in an elegant dress of green and gold,
to his E xcellency's house, in Mansfield-street. His
Ircellency was accompanied in the Prince's carriage
y Sir GORE OCSELY ; his Excellency's carriage fol-
Txcd with Mr. MoRIEn, his Excellency's Secretary,
.age, and Master of the Mules. They arrived at
(lrleton House at one o'clock. His Excellency en-
..7:1 at the west gate of the court-yard, where the
-•::trs attended with :heir elegant state liveries. His
jl').7a! Highness's attendants, in their full dresses,
were at the grand entrance, to receive his Excellency,
• tfi conducted him through the Grand Hall, in which
die of the Yeomen of the Guard, and an Usher.
'I his being conduc into the presence of the Prince,
Royal Highness ileceived his Excellency with all
dignity, affability and elegant manners, for which
ke is so highly distinguished. His Royal Highness
4'as accompanied by his Royal Brothers. They were
.1 dressed in their regimental uniforms, except the
Duke of CLART'NCE, who wore a blue coat ; all their
Poyal Highnesses wore the Order of the Garter. His
xcellency continued his visit about three quarters of
an hour, and then with his attendants, returned in the
!me order as they came.
Yesterday, about half past three o'clock, as the car-
t:age of Lady CHARLOTTE Ftscu wa. passing down
St. James's-street, the front part of the axle-tree broke,
which frightened the horses, their feet getting entan-
gled with the broken part ; they in consequence set
off, and ran away with the coach at full speed, till
they came in contact with a post at the bottom of the
~trees, the corner of Cleveland-row. The coachman
vas thrown a considerable distance, but was not ma-
terially hurt. The coach was thrown upon its side
En the foot pavement. Mrs. Fr ELLANG, her Ladyship's
daughter, was got out in great Agitation, but we are
nappy to say, she only sustained a few slight bruises.
`he was conducted to Lady OM Rion E FINCH'S
4!,art!ments in the Palace.

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you,yourLordship, in reply to that which I teceilts
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respecting the Petition with which haft
are charged. This form of communication I callillV
der as most satisfactory to your Lordship ; it is gig
best calculated to do justice to the sentiments of son*
of the most distinguished advocates of your cause, in
that concurrence with whom My decision has been taien. I
I must in the first place assure your Lordship,
my opinion remains unchanged as to the object of
your petition. It would, I think, be an act of undeni.,
able wisdom and justice to communicate to our fellow-1
subjects, professing the Roman Catholic Religion,'
the full enjoyment of our Civil Constitution. Such
it measure, accompanied by suitable arrangements,
maturely prepared, and deliberately adopted, would,
I am confident, above all others, give strength and
union to the Empire, and increased security to its re-
ligious and civil establishments. Your Lordship is
well awur, that on this conviction only have I sup-
ported it. To those establishments lam unalterably
attached ; their inviolable maintenance I have eves i
considered as essential to all the dearest interests 1
of my country. But they rest, lam certain, on foun-
dations much too firm ; they are far too deeply rooted
in the affections of that community to which they
dispense the blessings of religion, order, and liberty,
to 'require the adventitious and dangerous support of
partial restrictions, fruitful in discontent, but, for se-
curity, wholly inefficient.
With respect to the present application to Parlia-
ment, I knew not, except from public report, that
such a measure was in contemplation ; or that it was
the wish of the petitioners to place their petition in my
hands.
I have twice already, at the request of the Catholics
of Ireland,moved the House of Lords to take this sub-
ject into consideration. I did not, in either case,
think myself responsible for your determination as to
the time of agitating the question ; a determination
which, in the first instance, J had not suggested, and
which in the last I had in my place in Parliament
publicly dissuaded. Recent events had in both cases
imposed upon me a peculiar duty, not merely for my
own honour, but in justice also to your cause, to
prove, by my conduct, on the earliest occasion affor-
ded by yourselves, that no change of public situation,
no prejudice, no calumny, no Clamour, could either
vary or suppress my opinions on this great national
question. This duty I willingly performed.
Deeply impresed with the importance of the
measures which I recommended, I have spared no
sacrifice, omitted no exertion, by which I could con-
tribute to their accomplishment. And if I could now
deceive myself with a hope, that a renewal of my
weak efforts, in the present moment, could expedite
or facilitate their ultimate success, it would be my
highest gra, ification once more to stand forward as
the chosen advocate of national conciliation.
Circumstanced as this question now is, both in
England and in Ireland, it is, on the contrary, my
deliberate opinion, that no motion grounded on your
petition could, at this time, in any hands, certainly
not in mine, be brought forward, without great and
permanent disadvantage to its object.
This opinion is founded, not only on the present
known dispositions of Government and Parliament,
but also on the unexpected difficulties which have
arisen in Ireland, on the impressions which they may
create, and the embarrassments which they unavoid-
ably produce.
It would be an invidious task for me to recapitu-
late , in this place, the transactions of the last three
years, or to discuss the temper and spirit, the lan-
guage and the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers
towards your body ; nor would it become me to cen-
sure, though I may be permitted to lament, the deci-
sions of the Legislature.
To these two topics it is sufficient briefly to have ,
adverted. The obstacles which, in the present mo-
ment, they oppose to any favourable consideration
of your cause, and the advantages which they afford
to the misrepresentations of your adversaries, are too
lobvious to require explanation.
1 Many circumstances compel me to speak to your
Lordship at large of the recent proceedings in ,
Ireland with ; reference both to their origin and to ,
their consequences. For this purpose, I must beg
leave to recall to your Lordship's recollection, then
grounds on which the consideration of these Petitions
has uniformly been recommended to Parliament.—
That which you have asked, and which has been sup-
ported by the greatest Statesmen of our time, now
no more, is not in its nature a single or unconnected
measure. Its objects are, the peace and happiness
of Iceland, and tire union of the empire, in affection
as well as in government. Vain, indeed, would be
the hope of accomplishing such purposes, solely by the
repeal of a few remaining disqualifications, which,
by a strange anomaly, are still left subsisting
.amidst
the ruins of a whole code of proscription. To impute
to you this visionary pretension, has been the artifice
of your opponents. The views of your friends have
been more enlarged.
With the just and salutary extension of civil righd
is
to your body, must be combined, if tranquillity asid
union be our object, other extensive and complicate
..rrangements. All due provision must be made for
the inviolable maintenance of the religious and civil
establishments of this United Kingdom. Much must
be done for mutual conciliation—much for common
safety ; many contending interests must be reconciled,
many jealousies allayed, many long-cherished and
mutually destructive prejudices eradicated.
Such at least have always been my own declared
opinions. When this matter was last under the con-
sideration of Parliament, I had occasion to dwell,
with particular earnestness, on this necessity ; I invi-
ted the suggestions of others for providing for it; and
I enumerated several measures which eight years be-
fore had been in the contemplation of Government,
in conjunction with which I then cherished the vain
hope of rendering this great service to my country.
Among these measures, I pointed out the proposal
of vesting in the Crown.an effectual negative on the i
appointment of your Bishops. That suggestion had i
pieviously been brought forward in the House of
Commons, to meet the just expectations, not of any
bigotted or interested champions of intolerance, but,
of filen of the purest intentions and most enlightened
judgment. Mnc willing to do all justice to the loyalty

aye

hereafter be gaitedwith a
a.. interest, Hostile to the tranquility of your
nry, A danger recently Wry much increased by
. captiVity and deposition of the Head of your
Church, by the seizureschis dominions, and by the
declared Intention of that hostile government to as-
sume in future the exclusive nomination of his succes-
sors. The suggestion thus opened to Parliament,
produced there impressions highly favourable to your
cause; it was received as the surest indication of
theie dispositions, without which all concession must
be nugatory, and all conciliation hopeless. To my
mind it had been recommended by long reflectione—
It had formed a part of the original conception of
those measures as consequent upon the union. It was
now again brought forward with the concurrence of
the two individuals, from whose opinions those gene-
rally prevalent among your body might best be in.
ferred ; of the agent of the very persons to whose
office it related, and a your Lordship, to whom, in
addition to every other claim to respect and confi-
dence, the exclusive charge of the petition had re-
cently been committed. What I said on the subject,
in the House of Lords; was spoken in the hearing of
both, and 1 received from both, while the impression
was yet recent on your minds, the most gratifying
acknowledgments of your satisfaction in all that I had
stated.
It was never, I believe, imagined by any of us,
that what then passed could be binding on the opi-
nions of the petitioners. The Roman Catholics of
Ireland are not a corporate body. They speak
through no common organ. Their various wishes
and interests, like those of their fellow subjects, can
be collected only from general information ; and any
opinions, erroneously attributed to them, they, like all
other persons, are fully.entitled to disclaim.
I learnt, however, with deep and heart-felt regret,
the subsequent proceedings which took place in Ire-
land, in consequence of this suggestion. To discuss
the grounds of those proceedings would be foreign
from my present purpose. Their effect obviously
must be, not only to revive expiring prejudices, but to
clog with fresh embarrassment every future consider-
ation of any of the measures connected with your pe-
titions. To myself unquestionably the difficulty of
originating at this time any fresh discussion of those
easures, does, in such circumstances, appear almost

insuperable.
Let me not, however, be misunderstood. When I
speak of the necessity of combining with the accom-
plishment of your wishes, provisions of just security
to others, I am no less desirous of consulting every
reasonable apprehension on your part.
To the forms, indeed, of these securities, or to the
particular details of the proposed arrangements, I at-
tach comparatively little importance. A pertinacious
adherence to such details, ►n opposition even to
groundless prejudice, I consider as the reverse of legis-
lative wisdom. I look only to their substantial pur-
poses ; the safety of our own establishments, the
mutual good will of all our fellow-subjects, and the
harmony of the United Kingdom.
That adequate arrangements may be made for
ill
these purpose✓, consistently with the strictest adhe•
rence, on your part, to your own religious tenets, is the
persuasion which you have long been labouring to
establish, and of which I have uniformly professed my
own conviction.
Were it otherwise, I should indeed despair. But
that these objects may be reconciled, in so far at least
as respects the appointment of your Bishops, is known
with undeniable certainty. It is proved by the ac-
quiescence of your Church in similar arrangements
under other Governments, by the sentiments which
many of yourselves still entertain as to the proposal
suggested in 1808, and, most of all, by the express
consent formerly given to that proposal, in a decla-
ration signed by the most considerable of your own
Bishops.
I see, therefore, in the present state of th;s subject,
much unexpected embarrassment, and many difficul-I
ties, which renewed discussion, in the present moment,
must, instead of smoothing, inevitably aggravate.—
There is, however, no ground for ultimate discou-
ragement. The sentiment of reciprocal confidence,
the spirit of mutual conciliation, would surmount far
greater obstacles.
But nothing, permit me to remark it, can in the
mean time be more injurious to your cause, than any
attempt by partial and precipitate decisions, to pre-,
judge itrseparate branches, or to limit its unreserv-
ed discussion. No course can be more grateful to
your opponents, none more embarrassing to your

supporters.
To Parliament, when any more favourable con-
juncture for this discussion shall arise, every infor-
mation may properly be supplied, every wish impart-
ed,l
every apprehension communicated. There only,
by a systematic and comprehensive arrangement of
this extensive subject, can all its difficulties be sur-
mounted, all its relations finally adjusted. To be
effective and permanent, such an arrangement must
be mutually satisfactory.
This is alike the interest of every member-of the
British empire, but to none more important than to
the Catholics of Ireland. The stability of all your
civil rights, both of those which you already enjoy,
and of those to which you seek to be admitted, es-
sentially depends on the tranquillity and harmony of
your country, on banishing from it every hostile in-
fluence, and composing all its internal differences.
These opinions I have expressed to your Lordship
with the freedom of a tried and zealous advocate
of your cause. On these grounds alone have I ever
attempted to do justice to it. To have argued it on
any other would have been a dereliction of my own
principles..
I need hardly add, that by the same principles my
present conduct must equally be directed. Should
the petitioners continue to entertain the desire con-
veyed in your Lordship's letter, that I should lay
this petition upon the table of the House of Lords ;
with that request I cannot hesitate to comply. It
would be highly improper to deny to such a body of
men the opportunity of submitting, through my
hands, if they should so desire it, and at their own
I time, their wishes to the Legislature or their coun-
try. It would be still more inexcusable in A case,
where all my opinions and all my wishes are favour-1
able to the object of their application. Qn the measure
itself, if any motion respecting it be originated by
others, I shall not fail to urge, with unabated ear-
nestness, all the same sentiments which; I have de-