Star.
London, England, 1816-02-26 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

American Journals to the f.)Bth ult. have come to
hand. They confirm the report .of the Senate having
reiected the But for carrying into effect the Commer-1
cial Treaty with this country. This decision took ,
place on the 19th ult. when a motion for the third
reading was negatived by 21 to 10. It appears,
however, that the objections made to the Bill by the
leading Members in both Houses of Congress, had.
no reference whatever to the merits of the articles of
the Treaty. It was opposed on the ground, first, of
its beii.g unnecessary, as the sanction of the Presi:
dent and two-thirds of the Senate, which it had al-
ready received, gave it the full force of law; and,
secondly, that to re enact it in the way of a Bill,
tended to give to the House of Representatives the
privilege of a concurrence in the ratification of trea-
ties, which the Constitutiochad denied to them, and
even put in their power to cancel arrangements with
foreign States constitutionally concluded and ratified.
Congress has passed an Act tor creating the office
of Admiral in the American navy. In the course
of the debates upon this subject in the ot Re-
presentatives, the Executive was loudly charged with
favouritism in the naval appointments ing the
late war.
The Bill for the establishment of a National Dank
is still baore a Ci.ininintt-e of the Representatives.
The S. cri tau of the Treasury, in a Report upon
this stv,jeet to the Committee, recornin,,nds a provi-
sion, that the notes of such Banks as do not agree to
receive, re-issue, and circulate Tieasury notes, or
National Bank notes, shill not be received in pay.
meats, either to the Government or the National
Bank.

In the discussion respecting the continuance of the
double duties 03 inapor tation, Mr. R andolph strongly
supported an amendment for prolonging them to the
Ist of January next. It was, however, negatived by
77 to 56, and the Bill finally passed with the origi.
nal period of the 30th of June, by which time a new
tariff will be forthcoming. A Report had been pre-
sented from the Treasury, containing the estimates
of the appropriation for the service of the present'
year, amounting to 19,915,131 dollars.
The Treaties of Peace with the different Indian
tribes on the north-west frontier have been ratified
and published in the official journal. Orders have
also been issued, .that such Americans as have, with-
out consent, settled within the territories of the he
dians, shall forthwith withdraw from the same.
Should they become refractory,. they are threatened
with expulsion by a military force.
Lieutenant Conkling has inserted, in one of the
public journals, a contradiction of the report, that
a Lieutenant of a British frigate had assured him,
that the Wasp American sloop of war had been sunk
by the frigate alluded to.
Mr. Madison has appointed Peter B. Porter, of
New York, to be Commissioner of the United States'
to carry into effect the 6th and 7th Articles of the
Treaty of Peace with Great Britain; and John
Holmes, of Massachuset's, to be the Commissioner)
under the 4th article of the Treaty.
It is asserted that the defeat of the Mexican insur-
gents was nut to the extent previously rumoured ;
that it was only a detachment which the Royalists
overpowered, and that the main army was still en-
tire, in a position between the city of Mexico and
Acapulco.

On the 15th ult. the doors of the Bank of Virgi-
nia were closed by the Sheriff of Richmond county,
for contempt of Court, at the suit of an individual,
to compel the Bank to pay specie. -
The coinage last year in the United States, amount-
ed. only to the value of 3,175 dollars in gold, and
17,308 in silver.
Among the petitions to Congress, there is one
from a James Loins, praying a remuneration, for
having, unaided, taken a midshipman and four sea-
men of the Navy of Great Britain, and bringing
them prisoners of wax into the United States' during
the late wax.