Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1824-12-10

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Iforn'al Gem 3ssion. wkicb was instituted
Immediately liter the conclusion ofthsis
Revolutionary struggle, for the purpose. 81.
negotiating :4aties Of commerce with eve
Fry Enropeanpower. The FIRST treaty o.
Ithe UnitedsS1tes with Prussia, which was
negotiated byAthat commission, affords a
signal illustraton of those principles. The
act Of Congress Of the third March, one
thousand eiga hundred and fifteen, adopt
ed Immediately after the return of gene
| raj peace, was new overture to foreign
nations to establish our commercial rela-
tons with them on the basis of free and C.
quail reciprocity. That principle has err
vaded all theac of Congress, and all the
negotiations of the Executive OH the sub
ect since.
"A convention for the settlement of i'm
portant questions in relation to the North
west Coast OF this Continent, and its adj
| joining seas, vas concluded and signed at
st. Petersburg, on the - day of -
last, by the Minister Flenipotentiary of the
United States, and Plenipotentiares of the
| Imperial Government of Russia. 1t will
immediately be laid before the Senate for
the exercise Of the constitutional authority
OF that body, with reference to its ratifica-
ton. 1t is proper to add, that the manner
In which this negotiation was invited and
conducted on the part of the Emperor,
has been very satisfactory.
The great and extraordinary changes
which have happened in the government,
of Spain and Portugal, within the last two
years, without seriously affecting the friend
~ relations which, under all of them, have
been maintained with thpse powers by the
United States, have been obstacles to the
adjustment OF the particular subjects of dis
cussio., which have arisen with each. A re-
solution OF the Senate, adopted at their last
: session, called for information as to the Ell
feci produced upon our relations with
Spain, by the recognition, on the part of
the United States, of the Independent South
American Governments. The papers con-
tanning that information are now commn-
nicated to Congress.
Charge d'Afla;res his been received
from the Independent Government of Bra
I'll. Thai country, heretofore a colonial
possession oil Portugal, lad, some years
since, been proclaimed, by the Sovereign
OF Portugal himself. an Independent king
dom. Since his return to Lisbon, revo-
luton in Brazil has established a new 90
vernment there, with ali Imperial title, AT
the head of hich, is placed the Prince.
in whom the Regency had been vested by
the King, at the time Of his departure.
here is reason to expect that, by AMIGA
BILE negotiation, the Independence of Bra.
I'll will, ere long, be recognized by Per-
tugal herself.
With the remaining Powers of Europe.
with those OH the coast of Barbary. and
with all the new South American States.
our relations are of friendly character,
We have Ministers Plenipotentiary rcsid-
ing with the Republics OF Colombia and
Chill, and have received Ministers of the
same rank from Colombia, GUATEMALA.
Buenos Ayres, and Mexico. Our com
mersial relations with all those States are
mutually beneficial and increasing. With
the Republic of Colombia, treaty of
Commerce has been formed, of which a
copy is received, and the original daily
expected. A negotiation for like treaty
would have been commenced with Buenos
Ayres, had it not been prevented by the
indispostion and lamented decease of MIR.
Rodney, our Minister there; and to whose
memory the NEST respectful attention has
been shown by the Government of that
Republic. An advantageous alteration in
our treaty with Tunis, has been obtained
by our Consular Agent residing there the
official document of which, VIXEN received.
will be laid before the Senate.
The attention of the Government has
been drawn, with great solicitude, to other
subjects, and particularly to that relating
Ia state of maritime war, involving the
relative rights of neutral and belligerent
i'll such wars. Most of the difficulties
which we have experienced, and OF the
losses which we have sustained, since the
establishment OF our Independence, have
preceded from the unsettled state of those
rights, and the extent to which the belli-
gerent claim has been carried against the
neutral party. 1t is impossible to look
back on tile occurrences of the late wars in
Europe, and to behold the disregard which
was paid to our rights. as a neutral power
and the waste which was made of our
commerce by the parties to those wars
by various act of their respective Govern.
ments, and under the pretext, by each
that the other had set the example, with
ont great modification. and a fixed mr.