Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-09-24
ONE DAY LATER FROM ENGLAND.

The ship Courier, Capt. Hudson, arrived
at New-York on the 19thin The following
extracts have been made by the New York
papers.
Sir Hudson Lowe, late Governor of
ST. Helena, is appointed second in COM
mand at Ceylon.
A London paper. in abiding to the
ordinance of the King Of France, which
has been accepted by the Hayden Co
yernment, says, that the principle Of
legitimacy has been confirmed, instead
of being weakened and abandoned, by
the mode in which the independence OF
ST. Domingo has been recognized
The whole, in fact, seems 10 have been
a question Of FORM"
The Hampshire Telegraph of the
l4th says, Captain Clapperton, r. N.
accompanied by DR.. Wilson, and Capt.
Pearse, r. N. accompanied byDr Nor
rison, will embark in the Brazen %,
Capt. Geo. Willes, tomorrow, for the
purpose Of proceeding tothe Blight OF
Benin, and commence their Journey
thence into the interior Of Africa, the
former party taking the course to The
newly discovered city Of Sowdan, the
latter to Timbuctoo."
We have been favored with the fol-
lowing letter, dated
Liverpool, .ang, II, ls25.-Wc regret
to say that another extensive house in
the American trade suspended pay
ment yesterday, * which little damps
the cotton market for the present 1t
is said, however, that good deal of
cotton will in consequence these fail
ures, be locked up from the market for
some time, owing to several causes
want Of orders to sell in some cases,
and in others the intricacy of the &C.
counts, and also the hope that some de-
lay may obtain better prices, and ena-
bic the parties to make more salts
factory arrangement for their creditors
The market may possibly under these
circumstances, remain steady; but the
state ofcommcrcial affairs here is such,
that we are not sanguine of any amend
ment. The sales of the three DAYS Of
this week are about $500 bales, but
those yesterday were bat 1000, after
the failure was known. The great
proportion Of The Uplands selling are
from 81 to O., & few lots above lO4.
Spectators continue TO buy OCCASION
ally, finding that prices are so mode
rate that any great loss is not likely TO
be incurred.
We have not much to notice in gen
eral business, il is rather fiat, as might
be expected.
London, .7ug. l5.-Lettcrs this mo-
ment two O'Clock received from Cor
iu, Of the 18th July, and from Zante Of
the 9TH do. confirm in every re Spect tie
defeat OF lbrahim Pacha, and of his be-
ing wounded, but not captured Sun
The .4Rgemeiae letting, Hcelvc1 this
morning TO the 9th inst. contains ir;ci-
ligcnce relative 10 the war setweer the
Greeks and Turks, the spe alter PAT q,
which seems to confirm The TCDo,tst
capture Of Ibrahim Pacha. I'll t.e
principal facts have reac he'd us by other
channels, at various periods during the
last fortnight. 1t appears that the ia,e
dispatches from Constantinoplc were
wholly silent respecting the rumorcd
defeat of Ibrahim Pacha.
We have now before us the official
ordinance of the King of France, de-
claring the full and entire independence
of the Government of St. Domingo
1t is acurious document, and, like the
Commonwealth Of Gonzales, "the latter
end of it forgets the beginning" In
fact, the anxiety to assert in theory
what was denounced in practice, or, in
other words, TO unite substantive act
cf authority with the mere phantom of
it, has led to whimsical tumble in the
enactments Of this ordinance. Thus,
for example, it begins with ordaining
thar the ports Of the French part Of ST.
Domingo are open 10 the commerce OF
all nations, as if it really depended on
the will of France what ships should be
allowed TO visit the ports of her former
colony. 1t is in this way that the prin-
ciple Of legitimate sovereignty is sup
posed TO be maintained; a principle
whose "dignity,' as we learn from the
Etoile, would have been compromised
by negotiating a treaty with the Hay
ten Government, as we did with the
United States, when we acknowledged
their independence. Well-be it So
The manner of the thing does not sig
Nifty much, when the end sought is et-
tectuaily secured. We confess, how
ever, there is looseness in the wording
Of this Contract, which, if France could
ever have motive to recede from it
hereafter, would seem TO afford her the
opportunity. "We grant," says the
Ordinance, "to the actual inhabitants OF
the French part of the Island of St.
Domingo, the full and entire Indepen-
dence Of their Government" This is
more like a bargai n which gives life