The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-08 00:00:00

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tut soy doubts should he entertained; 'but it seems
woe difference of opinion subsists on the sub.
jed. The proposal of the Nieman to pot the
qsestion at rest by espresslx vesting the power
in Congress, or by declaring it to he so, is the
easiest mode of settling the point in dispute. Ma-
Innfsctores are recommended to the continued care of
congress, and we have the word of the PRESIDENT
that their preservation and encouragement ie con-
pecud with the high interests of the nation. In
;ailing the attention of the National Legislature to
the'sirsetion of those.survivors of the Revolutionary
army who now suffer the evils of poverty in their
pld age, and inviting them to make some provision
for their declining days, the PRESIDENT speaks with
the feeling of a man and the sympathy of a brother
soldier. Ou the whole, the picture of State affairs,
which Mr. MuNitoc has thus had the good fortune
to 'Omit as the foundation upon which he com-
mutes bisPreaideatial career, is one which may well
• warrant congratulation, and is not inferior in any
of the requisite characteristics to the ezpositioncof
arty,oylis predecessors.

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Both Ibises of Congress met on Monday, the
lit ult. and were organized. The attendance was un-
usually full. Mr.-CLAY was elected Speaker.
The National Inlelligencer of Tuesday Says, that
the Congress have met ender auspices as favotmble,
political and personal, as could be wished by the most
sanguine friends to the national interests and the har-
mony of intercourse. All the Members appear to
bring health with them. The elections in the House
of itepre►entatives were characterised by an unprece-
dented pnanimity, highly flattering, its particular to
the Speaker and Clerk of the House, Mr. THOMAS
DOUGHERTY, whose stations are enviable, but who
yet were not opposed.
Among the Members of both Houses were to be
seen very many who were strangers to those Bodies
and to each other ; but what was particularly re•
marked, was the somber of highly respectable Mem-
bers of Congress anterior to the last Congress, who
have returned, by recent elections, is Peblic life.
The Commissioners to South America arrived at
Norfolk on the 28th of November; and on the same
day, the frigate Congress, Capt. SINCLAIR, which is
to convey them to their destined port, dropped down
to C►aoey Island, with the view of sailing the first
fair wind.
M. HYDE DE Netreim.e, the Minister of France,
has taken op his winter residence in Washington city.

More Paris Papers have reached us, from which
we have made extracts. But there is little interest,
Jo the intelligence thus communicated.
We regret to state, oit authority from LLOYD'S,
that the Expedition, BAXTER, Master, from New-
castle to St. Lucia, was totally lost near Aberdeen
on the 4th instant, end it is feared all the crew are
drowned.

EFFECTS OF THE LATE GALE IN THE WEST
INDIES. _ _

The New Providence, BUTLER/ for 1111ifax, was
wrecked on the south side of Antigua on the 17th of
October. The Rebecca, NI‘CALLAtt, from Philadelphia
to St. Thomas's, was wrecked at Barbuda on the
20th of October.

The James, the Lark, the John and Mary, and the
Young William, belonging to Halifax, were driven
on shore at St. Lucia, on the '2lst October k the
Harriet, BEvEntneE, for Charleston, was abandoned
at sea on the 17th October ; the Maria, PENCE,
from Trinidad to Liverpool, put into St. Vincent's
on the 11th November, having proved leaky soon
after leaving the Bocas ; the Westmorland,Thwaites,
from Virginia, lost her rudder at St. Vincent's, '2lst
October, and pot into Grenada, 11th November, to
repair; the Charles, Bronham, from New haven to
Demerara, pet into St. Thomas's Ist November,
with the loss of mainmast during the gale.

A Leeward Island Mail arrived to-day, brought to
England by the Queensbury packet. She sailed
from narbadoes on the 6th November, and from St.
Thomas's on the '29th of the same month.
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The New Yoik Mail arrived to day, came by the
Lady* Wellington packet, in 28 days, to Falmouth.

WINDSOR, JAN. 6.---Yesterday Lord ARDEN left
the Castle for London. The Dowager Countess of
PESIBROILE the Countess HARCOURT, Lady SYDNEY,
and Lady lIARRINGTON, are the Ladies in Waiting
at present. This day her M Altsty and the Princess
ELIZABETH took au airing through Maidenhead, and
returned to the Castle to dinner.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
Fast India-house, when the following Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective ships,
viz. Capt. T. H. HARRIS. Prince Regent, Madras
end Bengal; Capt. T. E. WARD, Fairlie, Bengal and

Bombay:
The first of the series of Subscription Concerts
went off with great eclat, on Monday, the sth inst.
at the London Tavern, in Bishoptgate.street, which
was ettremely well attended. Amongst the company
we observed the Right Hon.the LORD M tlfOtt, Lady
Miyoness, Alt{e►man IhYGATE, &c. &c. The
Duke of Sussex (one of the Committee if Subscribers) ,I
was prevented attending from indisposition, his Royal
Highness has promised to be present at the next.—
Sir GEORGE SMART was she Conductor.; Mr. F. A.
CLARKE, the Treasurer, acted as Master of the Ce-
remonies; and Signior Mogi was the Leader of the
Band. Mock credit attaches to the Gentlemen of
the Committer, for their judicious Arrangements,
*hid gave universal satisfaction.