The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-05 00:00:00

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Ilse decision of the competent authority, to be re.
stored no more. _

In the mean time,, es Congress only have the
power, under our Coustitetidn, of deckling war,
end had made no such declaration allainst'Spain, it
Isrettnirrittood that the President does rot conceive
himself at thmrited to retain the Spanish posts, inn'.
leech es Mich reention would be an act of war. ft
is sto this amend, we understand, that • the resolu-
tion haihren taken to restore the posts., and 40 de.

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officers, whose improper conduct led to their piston,.
The President, no doubt, seem in yeomen 'glib',
ihiaglatentr,msta,thegrekt advatitages which the United
:States would derive frorithoestite possession of the
'.44lerida• • bet, confessedly greet as. hern adventages •
oteeld be, he is noewilliog to gain.thm bet by the
sanction of an Act' of Congress. To.lSave retained
tkeat posts, eerier puniest circeastencep, would ter.'
itaissiy have had the eclat of being a strong measure;
Int we hope 'peer tone a President of the United
States aivesed to be stronger than the Constitution
of his country, fat that is the palladipm of interests
'far inure sacred, and of idfinitady higher import to
the general ("sae of human liberty,: than any acqui.
Attlee of territory, however vest or advantageous. •
Notwithstandieg this enespected collision in the
**WM.,. we treat that the relations et amity between
Viet*o nations will be preserved ; nor scan we *ban.
lien the hope, that their differences may yet be settled,
-en fair and honourable conditions. We can even in.
'dote the hope, that the Incidents which have grown
Alive the Seminole war, however adverse their ten.
deity may hive appeared to be, may contribute
eseetttialty to produce that happy result: Spain most
eee, auditors practically confessed, her iticeespetency
to maintain her authority in the Floridas, against the
"Seutinoles, end foreign adventurers; and we hope
she wilt-see that it will be much wiser for her to cede
Orme provinces at ono., than attempt to hold them
ott tke impossible rendition of fulfilling her treaty
with as; or on the condition now brought home to
ter, by experience, of subjecting herself to perpetual
tollisens, and eventual losses, which she may now
ovoid with *sae and hoarier to herself.
[crow 7111 TOIMMIRCI AL AVVERTISSR or A IYO. 101
Enos Aux CANSI.—By the arrival this forenoon
tor the schooner William and Mary, in 17 days from
Ass-Ceres, we learn, that three or four days before
'she sailed,`an order arrived from Port-su.Prince for
lin the Mops to repair to that capital, for its de.
ifienciegeinst ChrlatOpite, who, it would, was in full
march, frith. all his force, to attack that place. The
*deli wSsliessediately complied with, and the militia
lit'S.Wg.Cgieb were enmpolled to do garrison duty.
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kat-t.a.CitatheraM, Au*. 29.—His Royal High.
mess the Prince Chancellor of State returned here to-
day, and has taken up Ms abode in the house of
Xkllendorff, in the great *quern, where he will reside
(Whig the whole of the conferences.
His Excellency the Minister of State and High
Chancellor Beyme is arrived at Cologne.
Among the new arrivals here are, Count Harden.
berg, Brenda', Privy Councillor to the King of
Denmark, Mr. Rothschild, George Smith, Esq.
)4. P., ke.
A, Ames. W.—Prince Blocher, who is at
Carlsbad, begins to recover, and there is room to
ihope that the use of the waters stilt restore kite to
BOOMS, Auo. 93.—We learn that General
Fres/Wet, who resided some time at Antwerp, ar.
vived on the 10th af May at Buenos Ayres, on hoard
the American frigate Aurora, Captain Warner. It
is affirmed, that he is going to join the Insurgent
General San Martin, who has already in his army
another very well-known French Officer, via. Gen.
Brayer.
Atm 31.—Lord Stanhope and his family hue ar.
rived here from Spa, on their way to Paris; Gen.
Baillie, also from Spa, and going to Paris; Lord Pon-
sonby and family, from London.
A letter from the Hague of 29th of August says—
" We have just received here the news, that General
Mendell, Governor of our possessions on the coast of
Guinea, has died suddenly in an -apoplectic fit."
A letter from Ais.la-Chapelle of the 28th says,—
" A report is current, that his Highnesi Marshal
Prince Blocher, of Wahlstand, has died at Carlsbad,
where, by the last accounts, he arrived much indi.-
.posed."— [The Aix-la-Chapelle Paper of Aug. 30,
does not mention this report.l
STRASBURGII, AUG. 23.—1 n the course of this month
the last operations will be proceeded in which are ne-
cessary to fie definitively the demarcation line of the
Rhine between France and Germany, from Bonin.
guen to Lauterburg. It is not expected that there • ill
be any difficulty on either side, as all the preliminary
operations are already terminated. The two officers
oppointed to settle this demarcation are, on the part
of France, Lieutenant. General Gullleminot ; and an
the part of Baden, the able Colonel of Engineers, M.
de Tulle. The entire regulation of this part of the
frontiers is to be completed before the winter.
COLOGNE, AUG. 28.—A letter from a merchant at
'Vienna says—" The shares of our national Bank
are always In great demand; people convert into
them alt the kinds of Vienna currency which they
can spare for the bank ; though it has arisen only
within this half year, from the provisional adminis.
Vuitton, it may rival, in respect to solidity and cre-
dit. the Banks of Paris and Amsterdam. What
proves the aboodance of specie at the Bank is, that
It lends money on bills of esehange at 5 per cent.,
and upon gold and silver at 3 per cent., without
being able 'to pot out ill its funds ; for this reason it
enjoys credit abroad ea well as among ourselves."

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FRENCH PAPERS.

1/ARIM, Seer. I.—lt is said that the Allied So-
vereigns will make a public entry into Aix-la-Cha-
pelle. The number of troops there will be more
considerable than was at first announced.
The Doke de Richelieu sets out on Saturday to
vim some days in the country.
A most violent storm from the sooth•west was ex-
perienced on the 12th ult. about noon, in the ter.
Atoll? of Villenouvette, in the arrondissement of
Lodieve, and department of Remelt. lllail•stones
fell of the size of 2R egg, buildings were unroofed,
sad the whole produce of the harvest destroyed.

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