The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-21 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

sed, and ait reJetted and the weetion which authorises the -
iag frigates was :track out.

" A motiou was thee carried to appropriate 200,000 Mists
annually, for three sear, for the supply of Ship Thisbe, &e,--
Adjourned."

TOTIVt ILIWATZ MID MOM or REFTMENTA 41/ *VIZ

IJIVITPD STATES.
" I lay before Congress a Letter front the Envoy Extraordi-
eery sad Minbter Plenipotentiary of Great Britain, to the Se-
cretary of State, with the answer of the letter,
" i. MADISON.
" Washington, Jan. 17,1814."

Int. PtSTER TO Nit. 11101WILOE.

" 'WASHINGTON, Dre. 18.
92114—1 have been Wormed by Mr. MOlllift, that so long
ago as the 3d of last jatrasty, is mitnemoence of a written cos- I
1
~.,_
muniestiort from Sir Janes Out% Majesty's Governoi•-tve-
moral and Commander-in-Chief in Gamils, dated the 25th of
November, 1810, acquainting him with his sotplctoos of its be-
iag the intention of some of the India tribes, from the great
fermentation among them, to make an attack on the United
States, and nut °rising him to impart his suspicions to the Ame-
rican Secretary of Smte; he had actually done so verbally to
Mr. %writ, your predecessor in office, and in searching mon
the archives of this mission, I bare Blend the letter allodoi to
of Sir J. Casio, by which he did authorise Mr. MOMS tO
make the communication in question, as well as a usemoraadain
of its having so been made; as also an express deciaratioa of Sir
J. Casio, that although he doubtedehere would not be wanting
persons who would be ready to attribole the movements of the
Indians to the influence of the British Go% eninsent, yet
that at his departure he was actually making every exertion
in his power to mist in preventing their attempts.—This
evidence, 81r, of a friendly dintosition to pat the United
States Government on their guard aping the moultbostioos of
the savages, and even to aid in plevrotbag the aim* 'wadi
has taken place, is so honourable to the Govetiser•Geneeal of
Ommoda, and so clearly In contradictioa to' nit tote ilidesoned-
reports which have been spread of a
_contrary INV Ure, that I
cannot resist the impulse I have to draw ?our nsttkatioa towasiii
it, not that I conceive, however, that it is oreesitry
ts produce this proof to the United States Government
i the falsity of such reports, which the character of the
British nation, and the seaaifeet inutility of nrgii.g the lodising
to their dearer :ton should have rendered improbable ; bat is
order that you mould be enabled, in case it shall seem Attiiiilio
you, by giving publicity to this letter, to correct ke mistaken
notions on the subject. which have unfortunately found their
way., even among persons of the highest respectability, only,* I
am convinced, from their having been misinformed. .
" I have the honour to be, &e. &c.
" AUG. J. FOSTER'.
" The Hon. James Monroe, &c. &c."

DLOPFROZ TO R. POSTER.

" Department of State, Jas, 9, 1812.

Sta,—l have bad the honour to receive your triter of the
20tb nit. disavowing any agency of your Government in the
hostile measerca of the Indian tribes towards the United Stater.
If the Indians desired any encouragement from any persons, in
whose measures of hostility it is very satisfactory to the PRESI-
DiNT to receive from you an assurance that no authority, or
countenance, was given So them by the British Government.
JAS. MONROE.

" His Excellency Anginas F. Foster, &c.
FROM THE NTATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, ims. 21.

An important letter of the Secretary of the Treasury to the
Committer of Ways and Melon, was yesterday laid before the
House of Representatives, by Mr. 13Acon, Chairman of that
Committee. The great length of the Report prevents us front
Inserting it in this day's paper, though the importance of its con-
tents claims for it the earliest publication. It is in reply to a
letter from the Committee, requiring at his hands information oa
several points, and his opinion of the best means of producing
a revenue, adequate to the payment of interest is di! present
Public Debt, and inch new loans as may be authorised is
the event of a war: The Committee contemplate an annual
loan during a war of Ten Millions of Dams. —On
this basis the Secretary estimttes the revenue accessary to be
provided for the year Hill, in addition to the loan, at 9,600,000
dollars.—ln the event of a war, the receipts ham the Customs
cannot, the letter states, be relied on with certainty, at the pre-
sent rate of duties, to produce more than 2,501,000 dollars par
annum. It is stated that these duties is time of war may be
doubled, and will produce , 5,000,000
A duty on imported salt of Al cents pm bead, is
. . . .

recommended, estimated to produce . 400,000
The proceeds of sales of public lands is calculated

as usual at -

600,000

Mating 6,000,000
And, deducted from the 9,600, 00 dollars above-mentioned,
leaves a deficiency to be provided for of 3,000,0 0 dollars.—To
supply this deficieocy, the Secretary miwaits the propriety of
imposing direct and indirect tames, calculated to produce a
gross revenue of five sailliailiai the met prodoet if which is mai-
-1 mated at 4,200,000. Of diesellvenalltioos, three are proposed
to be raised by a direct Mx, ame• two by as indirect tax,
; the latter te be levied ea dames* distilled spirits and
licences to distillers, reamed sugar, licences to retallen,
sales at auction, carriages fisr the conveyance of pee-
-sons, and stamps, cstionated to produce two teßlhesa, making,
with the proposed direct tar, lye emillhomos from whichededect•
lag 750,000 uollars, the estimated apemen ecalieetien and assess-
ment, there m ill accrue to the Treasury, a met amount of 4,250,000
dollars. But as experience kw preyed that taxes are several pro-
ductive in the first year they are imposed, as whew they are in
fall operation, the product of these taxes is estimated for 1819,
at only 3,000,000, which completes the sum estimated as neces-
sary for the service of that year. The Report goes much into
4etall,and the above 'sketch motormen but one point in it, which, I
we apprehend, to the generality of MN readers, will prove most
Intenrsting, and have therefore anticipated our publication of
the report, by giving the abovabrlef abstract."
Paris Papers to the 17th inst. being a day later
than those which arrived on Wednesday, reached us
this morning, but they do not bring any further in-
telligence respecting the affairs in the Pectinsula. The
following isaltn extract :
HAMBURGIL FEB. 5.
44 A letter from Embden furnishes us with the fol-
lowing details.of a fresh disembarkation effected by
the English, on the 13th of Jan. on the coats of
the Eastern Etas :—•

Nine individuals, among which were two me.
..ehanics, an Hanoverian Officer retired from the. En-
g service, four Hanoverian soldiers, and two wo.
men, were embarked atlieligoland to be conveyed b
the Continent. Arrived off the island of Unwept
the English put in a boat three soldiers, a woman,
and the Hanoverian Officer, and conducted them to.
wards the island, in order to land them. The
four first were, in reality, landed ; but as the
alheinbarkation took place at a part severer feet
deep with water, the Hanoverian Officer, .orbo'
was advanced in years, and who had considerable
property with him, requested to be taken on hoaid
the cutter, to his four remaining companions;ffil
they could be put on shore at a less dangerous.
mint. The sailors preteuded to take him back.

'the
a—..

ideals who had bees landed -saw Mtn
bwt those on hoard the *utter did not
see him arrive. It Is thereof% promised he was
'robbed and thrown into the ptt by the English sat-
lors, and this with the more reason, as during the
voyage he bad the impridence to show the crew of
' the cutter a girdle, filled with gold and silver pieces.
It is, however, certain, that on the following day
his body. was found on the neighbouring coast, and
the girdle which conteined his money had disappearedl
as well as his watch, which had been visibly snatched
away by the English, the fob being turned inside
out. In the night, between the 23d and 24th, the
English disembarked the 4 other passengers, but so
far from land that one of them, by birth a Russian,
was carried away by the current, and drowned.—
The wife of this man owes her preservation to the
two military men who formed a part of the second
disealbarkation."'—(Journal de 1' Empire) Feb. 11.)

We received Dublin Papers this day to the 18th
and Cork to the 15th inst. The following arc ex.
tracts:—

".We have not as yet (5 o'clock, Friday) been
able to ascertain whether the vessels alluded to, were'
of the hostile dature mentioned ; the general opinion
is, boat they wese not, but probably some West India
yells--one large Honduras ship has arrived, and it
le imagined, that she was ot.e of those supposed to be
Vorntng Chrontiel
" No satisfactory information has yet (Saturday
evening) been received as to the nature of the ships
seen from the signal station at the Seven Heads.—
But it is generally believed that they were merchant..
men. One very large Brazil ship, which may have
been mistaken for a man of war, has since arrived in
oar harbour."—(Cork Advertiser.)
deferring to the letter from the Sovereign of Kin
I •
sale to the Mayor of Cork, which appeared in our
Journal of Tuesday, the Dublin Correspondent, of i
I%looday, says—" We feel much satisfaction in hav-
ing it in our power to remove any apprehension
which it may have excited. "There were no enemy's
ships or cruisers upon this coast. The rumour of
their appearance originated in some misconception,
at nee of the signal towers, of the real character of
several merchantmen, one of them a large ship, which
were seen off the land."

By whose advice die PRINCE REGENT wrote the
Lena/ to the Duke of Yoaa, which we published
on Wednesday, we presume not to conjecture; bat
of this we are sure, that he is no friend to his Royal
Highness, who maintains, that a letter containing so
inadmissible a proposition, could have proceeded
from that Illustriout Personage himself. Whoever
dictated that letter must have known, that he was
proposing a coalition of parties, in circumstances, in
which no man of honour on either side could accede
to it. Lord Gaze and Lord GIIRMYSLEX bad re-
cently declared in the Holum of Lords, that Catholic
Emancipation was, in their opinion, a vital question,
essential to the safety of the State ; that the danger
of withholding it was imminent, and, therefore, that
it admitted of no delay. Within the same short pe-
riod„ Mr. PEaCEVAL had declared in the House of
Commons, that at no time, and :mkt. no (*cum:
stances, he could ever accede to (hat measure. How
I were such opposite opinions, so recently expressed, to
! be reconciled ? Or, how could persons honourably
holding them, deliberate in the same Cabinet, or con-
s cert together the operations of Government ? Was Mr.
PERCIVAL to abandon his opinions in deference to
Lord GREY ?* Or, Lord GRRY to give up a measure
essential, in his opinion, to the safety of the Empire,
in order to partake of office with Mr. PencEvAL ?
Which of them was expected to relinquish his opinions,
I and which of them could have done so, and retained his
; honour ? But no honourable man ever proposes to
! another that which must dishonour and degrade him.
The letter of the PRINCE REGENT, cannot, therefore,
have proceeded from his own honourable mind. It
must have been hastily and incautiously adopted, at the
suggestion of some complaisant, simpering parasite, or
some wavering, mean-spirited, time-serving politician.
It is possible, that during the last year, the Paine'
REGENT may have changrd his opinions with regard
to Ireland, and that he is now as adverse to Catholic
Emancipation as Mr. PIRCZTAL himself. In that
CUR be is 'perfectly in the right in not desiring to
have Lord Gaze and Lord GneNvir.LE for his Mi-
nisters. Bat if so unfortunate a changer has taken
'place in his Royal Highness's opinions, we are sure'
that, if he had consulted his own honourable mind, ,
or taken the advice of auy honourable man, he would
have signified to Lord GREY and Lord Gnus mi.&
is a frank and Manly manner (if he thought it.pro-
per to have any communication with them on the
subject), that, since his conferences with them last
year, he had renounced his opinions with regard to`
Catholic Emancipation, and become a convert to-the
system of Mr. PcacevAL.

A. packet is arrived from Malta and Gibraltar ; the
latter of which places it left on thebth Inst. The
intelligence rom Sicily mentions, that the Xi me was
engaged in forming a new Administration. His M
antit is said to have published an Edict, forbidding
the communication of his subjects with these persons
who bad been deprived of their ascendancy in the
Government. The Malta letters state, that trans-
ports were sending from thence on the 2th ult. with
British troops, to garrison the city of Palermo.
irk ordnance store-ships, which lately returned
from a secret service in the Baltic, are now at Spit-
head, destined for Gibraltar, where their cargoes
are to form a depot for the service. of the southern
?revinces of Spain.

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