The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-02-01
Thursday, Feb. I, 1927.


Joan OF 200, ,0e0 dollars having been OBJ
,,;red in Philadelphia by the Chesapeake
..J M nelaware Canal Company, it is expect
ID that the work will progress without fur
..ar DELAY until completed. We have been
.redi.ably informed that in such high re-
.,n,. is the credit of the canal, that had so
,orre sum been wanted, 100000 could
have been readily obtained.
rhe New-York Commercial Advertiser
,,os received, by the ship Star, from ha-
.n. ,dyiccs dated 18th January; by which
:, ,rnears that Commodore Porter was at
..a, ,;me block AIDED at Key West by the
J,vapa Squadron. 1t is stated that direct
~ after I.abordc left port, in pursuit OF Por-
.er. he discovered the Mexican iieet; but
.,or found that it was not the intention OF
:,.conmandcr =. to give battle. Com Por-
,er succeeded in getting into Key west
where he was strictly blockaded. lhe 10
v.rnment of Havana we're using every ct
s,,t 10 get ready for sea the other vessels in
mort which will join Labordc as SOON as pos
eible.
F., we have received adviccs from our cor
,csnondcnt at Buenos hyres dated 31st Oc-
,ober. 1926. Our letter. bearing the Balt-
more DOS, mark, we believe was broughtby
.be brig Sylph, at Annapolis, from Rio Ja-
metro. The Captain of the Sylph states that
the English frigate Ranger arrived at Rio
IN ,he od December from Montevideo, bring
;np the Rio mail, taken from the British
nacket King Fisher from Buenos Ayres,
which latter ran on the English bank on the
10th November. Files of the "Argentne
News" directed to us, were sent by the
same vessel, but, as usual. have arf'ea oy
the 4vav. Nothing of moment had transplr-
ed by sea or land since our last dates.
Lord Ponsonby has been, quite unsuccess-
full in his attempt to settle the differences
between the Governments of Bucnos Ayrcs
and Braz-his propositions to the former
we're so unreasonable as to be rejected with
Indignation. In allusion to the English med
iation our Correspondent remarks:
"Various propositions of peace, it is said,
! have been made by Lord Ponsonby to this
Government, since his arrival, but all of so
\ unreasonable nature as to preclude all pos.
sibility of their reception. First, that the
Banda Oriental be declared independent
that independence guaranteed by G. Britain,
IN thp y,ln nf
Montevdeo and Coonia, the Republic and
and the Emperor mutually withdrawing
their forces: rejected, as may readily be
/ supposed Then, that this Government pay
IS millions Of dollars, in fifteen annual in
atalments, as a remuneration to the emperor
for the expenccs of the occupation-the
English. in this case, too, to hold Montevd-
co and Colonia, or Colonia alone. until the
payment Of the said IS million dollars be
completed, which they are to guarantee
This, which forcibly reminds one Of the an.
! ecdo,e related by the sage Doct. Franklin
/ would. truly, be paying the Brazilians 'Jo'
heating the hoker," and was likewise reject
/ ed, exciting no small degree of indignation
! in the public mind. Again, that the forces
4 Of both parties be withdrawn, and the inhab
itants of the province left freely to express
their will, as to the question of their indie
! pendence. their continuing as member o
] the Republican compact. or their incorpora
ton with the empire: freely, so far as sucl
will may freely be expressed, while the tw'
important places above mentioned, are oc
cupied by British troops, which is, still, th
appendaged condition likewise to this propo
sal.
There is something which, at the frs
blush, prescinding the British occupation
would appear fair enough in this last prop
osltion; but here, too, the Argentine Cab
met finds grand difficulty, inasmuch a
Its reception would be aifording a pre-
cedent for, and. indeed, acknowledging th
right of. province to secede, at will, from
she political association; the very principl
on which the = enarnl (sovernm ent 10 at fhi