Star.
London, England, 1818-07-28 00:00:00

burnt by Sir ALEXANDER COCIIR Ixs, were of this
species of oak, and it is well known that the Ameri-
calk Government hive long set all their hopes of a
future supply of this article on the svcibds of Florida.
Interested as Great Britain thus is in demanding
an explanation of the seizure of these territories, and
incumbent as it is on.the United States to give it,"we,
certainly have little hope that any explanation which
it is in their power to make will be suffident to do'
away the valid grounds of objection which, es :facie,
exist against it.
We all know how easily explanations in affairs of
this sort are trumped up, to suit occasion, and how
little real regard they generally deserve. it must
have been as clear as noon-day to every person who
has paid the least attention to the pioceedings of the
American Government towards Spain for some years
past, that it had formed the settled determination of
attaching, per fits ant nefas, the Spanish Floridan to
its dominion ; and as long as we are satisfied of this
general fact, it is really of little use, except as it may
serve to chmelope the greater flagrancy of the trans-
action, to enquire by what various artifice and in-
trigue it has contrived to get this object accomplish-
ed, and to obtain something like a semblance of
justice for an act of deliberated robbery.
The argument of the United States will, we are
thoroughly persuaded, notwithstanding all the spe-
cious sophistry with which the American Executive
may be ingenious enough to embellish it, resolve
substantially into the shape in which it is thus put
by a writer in the Washington Gazette of the 17th
ultimo We want the Floral!, and must have
them !"

It has been hinted as a probable case, that the
seizure of Pensacola may have been made by Genei al
JVKSON without the authority of the American Ex-
ecutive, or from a misconstruction of its orders.—
We can see no reasonable grounds for supposing
that General JACKSON would venture on any such
extraordinary stretch of power, although, indeed, we
should not be surprised to find the American go-
vernment resorting to some such subterfuge or other,
in the event of its conduct being taken up by the
Powers of Europe in a light different from what it
probably anticipates.

On referring back to the PRESIDENT'S Speech at
the opening of the last meeting of Congress, we find
him declaring, that " orders had been given to the
General in command against the Seminole Indians,
not to enter Florida, unless it be in pursuit of the
enemy, and in that case to respect the Spanish autho-
rity wherever it is maintained;" but there is in the
language of this very prohibition enough to shew a
double purpose concealed under it, which more than
countenances all that General JACKSON has done, or I,
may yet do, in pursuing the same coarse of masked
invasion and conquest:

We copy the following ti-um an American Paper.
It shews &a: It is not on the South alone that we have
reason to look with alarm so the spirit of conquest
and separation, which distinguishes the people and
Governmsmt of the kinked States, and which we need
not say, must at all tunas Le one of the grsratest vices
of a ltepnblican State: