Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-10-04


The Uea India Trale.-Wc have at length
a rumDr. to which credit may be attached, that
Mr. McI.ane has finally succeeded in making
some arrangement With Great Britain. BY treaty,
respecting the trade with her West India Colo
MES Mir. Mci.ane was at Liverpool when the
Napoleon sailed. and put into the hands OF Capt.
Smith packet OF dispatches tor the American
Government, addressed TO the care Of the Collec-
tor of this port, hich he stated privately to Capt.
5. contained treaty for opening the colonial
ports 10 our commerce. The terms. rs Capt. ;.
unders God from Mr.. N'Lane, are similar to
those not aceeded 10 BY the last administration.
upan the ground that they were not only iacon-
sistent with the dignity of the national character,
but calculated to give British ships undue aIvan-
taces over those Of tn L. States. Should this
new treaty have been adjusted upon terms al
together reciprocal! and just and fair. we shall
rejoice at the result 1t will be for The Senate to
determine whether in the anxiety to accomplish
something upcn this subject. the dignity ct the
nation has been compromised. The results OF
this negociltion had not transpired in England
the British papers being entirely silent upon the
subject.
Since the foregoing paragraph was IN type. we
learn that the basis of the new treS'v i the pr
ftsh act IF Parliament Of 1925 NJ. MLane,
himself FASTENED down TO Liverpool with the
treaty, instead Of sending 1t by an at,ache--a
movement for effect. Mr.. Walsh, oneoi Mr.
M'Lane's Secretaries, came passenger IN the
Napoleon. WHY. then. was not the treaty sent
bv him. Instead Of being 50 ,pecially contided to
the captain? -'rhss is a small movement which
we do not understand.
: French (iaialS. We understand that our col
lectos, Mai Swartwout, ans received a letter
Lila mr. at I,N
in rhieh it Is stated that there is strong proba-
bilitv that the new French government viii spec
div come to an anicahle settlement OF the
claims Of the American Merchants for the spo
liations IF the Imperial government npon oni
commerce.. Such result we have eagerly been
expecting from The favorable crisis in French at
fairs. and the great iniluen La Fayette no"
exercises in the French Councils. w. II. Com.
Execution of Joha Francis Knapp.-Ihe
Boston Courier contains the following account o'
the last moments of this unhappy man.
:. Another scene in the history of the Salem
murder has ssed.-John Francis Knapp ha'
paid the forfeit of his life for his agency in TIM
Incarceration of the horrible crime. Thus have
perished two of the criminals Richard Crownln
shield. Jr and j. +, Knapp, the FiendliSe as
sassin and the accomplish. Still the work o.
Justice is not finished; all the guilty have no
yet been tried.
:. We understand that the sentence OF dealt
was executed on Knapp with decency and IN or
der. The arrangements were all completed oi
, Meaday; on that day he was visited in his cell b
his relatives TO take their final leave OF him. IL
; minated to the Sheriff a wish 10 be left alon
. during the night, but the Sheriff deemed ii hi
duty to station an officer in his cell In the morn
ing he was assisted in his religious devotions b
the Rev. Bishop Griswold. who with the Rev
!. DR.. Flint, had before visited him. he pretsrre