Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-12-14
AFFAIRS WITH FRANcr.-The New York Cou.

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AFFAIRS WITH FRANcn.-rhc New York Cou-
fier of Saturday has the following paragraph
MosT IMPORTANT FROM rnANcE.-We are en-
abcd To say, on authority of one of our most re-
spectacle commercial houses, that letter from
London, dated October 2Sth, received Yesterday
by the Josephine, states that IA formal demand had
been made by our Charge d Ailarcs ON the French
Government, for the payment of the instalmenis
due the United States, as settled by the indemnity
treaty. That long conference was in con>c-
quencc held between the President of the Council,
the Duke de Brogc. and the Minister Of Finance,
NJ. Human, and that ON the Doth a refusal was
communicated TO our Charge, and a full and
explicit explanation otihc Presidents Message re-
CURED"
The following paragraphs from London
paper of the 29th October:
Pans, Oct. 27.-On Sunda, there was "A long
conference between the Minister OF Finance and
NJ. dc Broglie, ia consequence OF a visit made by
the Charge d Allares Of the ntcd States tn the
President of the Council 1t was said that NJ
Human persisted in resolving not to make any
payment without obtaining clear and absolute salts.
faction. Courier Francois.
"Thorc can be no doubt that Mr.. Barton was
urgent for an immediate decision OF the French
Government relative TO the demands he was a,-
may have obtained that decision in time to for
ward it by tle first of November packet from
llavre.
The London Public Lcgcr of the 2S,h says
TWAS stated on Change Yesterday at late hour,
that bills drawn by the American Government OF
that of France. in liquidation of the American
claims, had been refused acceptance"
We do not wish to speak at large of the French
question at tins moment, respecting which we
shall, in the course of the day, have more direct
information, we suppose, through the medium OF
the Presidents Message. We will therefore only
saw at this present that this information, suppose it
TO be all exactly true, does not appear to us to
vary, in any essential degree, the state of our
controversy with France. Nat. ,Intd
W,sHINGroN December, s.
We hear that NJ. CALprRoNA DE IA BAncA, the
new Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pen-
ipotcntiarv from SPAIN, was Yesterday presented
to the PRESIDENT OF the L nitcd States by the SE-
cRETARY OF STATE. Nat. Int.
W,snr>GroN, Dec. 9.
We have mournul duty to discharge. in
nouncing an event, which in the age Of superstition
would have been deemed IN inauspicious omen,
in the sudden dcccasc, at his lodgings in this city
of the Honorable Nathan. Smith Senator of the
United States from the State of Connecticut.
This very worthy and respectable Senator
arrived in this city day or two ago. in the en-
oyment, apparently, of all the health and vgor
which ordinarily he possessed in remarkable de-
gree. lie complained on Saturday of pain in
the region of the heart, but recovered from it ate
his dinner as usual, was soon after again seized
with the same pain followed by spasms which
dcd his life early yesterday morning He died Sit
ting in his chair. post norton examination
showed his disease to have been an enlargement
title hent and of course beyond the reach of
medicine.
Mr.. Smith in the Goth year of his age a
most excellent Citizen, profound Lawyer, and,
what was his next peculiar characteristic, Gen
tcman of the Old School, of which few survive.
Nat Int
DEATH OF RoBERT :. RosE.-Thc Hon. Rob-
cr :. Rose of Seneca county, died at Wacrioo
on Tuesday oflast week. His residence was in
the town of Fayette, on the eastern shore of Sen
cca lake. He was in the enjoyment of his usual
health, and engaged in the transaction of business,
when stroke ofapopcXy summoned him suddenly