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given by tbe. Brit *'l< gbvcroinienr, on lift* point, fto fay tinth'im* of various other powerfu' confider.itioin) tli* prompt rt» linquifhment of the fyftrm' to whrh yout lord (hip's reply to mv nnteof the 23t!i of Auguft. itlJacrj.:»indmpenfable. .1 need fcarr.efv mention how important it is to the trade of the United States, that the government of (irrat R.itain fltould lofc no pirne in disclofing with lrankncfs and precifion its m'entions on tliis head Intelligence of the French repeal has reach'd America, and com .mercial expedition* have doubtless hern founded npotr it. It will have bren ta ken f or granted that the Ilritifli obftruc tion* to thofe expeditions hiving thus loll the support wi\,cli however timiffici ent in its-if was the anly ooe that could ever be claimed for them, have hern with drawn , and that the seas are oner more retlored to the duminion of law and jus tiee. I purviade mvselt that this confi dence will be aubsinntiitlly justified . by the event, and that to tlie speedy j recal of such orders in council us j were subsequent in date to the de crees of France, will be added the i annulment of the antecedent order I to which my late letter respecting j blockades particularly relate*, lint if, notwithstanding the circumstan ces which invite to such a course,the British government shall have deter mined not to remove those obstruc tion* with all practicable prompti tude, I trust that my government will be apprised, with as little delay as possible, of a determination so unex pected, and of such vital concern to its rights and interusts ; and that the reasons upon which that determina tion may have been formed, will not be withheld fronf it. I have the honor to be with high consideration, my lord, your lord- ship’s most obedient humble ser vant. (Signed) Wm. PINKNEY. "1 he Message and documents were referred to the committee of Foreign Relations, and tbe House adjourned at four o’clock. wiliij'i toe liiyhigci the states with out. their c nsent, that they might have an opportunity of making thfc bill as favorable as thev could, and guard agti n-t all the abosvr, to which such an mslitution was liable. It was important in every point of view that it should be decided as speedily as possible, whether as it regarded the people, the stc»ckholdcrs or the pecuniary arrangements of the go vernment. If the genileinau would, consent to postpone the discussion of his motion to Monday, it would meet his approbation. Mr. BASSE 1, complying with the wishes of his friend, withdrew his motion for rejection, and movqd to postpone the further con-id'eratibn of the bid to Monday. One of the great arguments used in favor oi the renewal and against the constitu tional objection, was tlVe acquies cence of the states in the act; he was desirous to reject this bill before ar guments of an acquiescence on the | part ol tins House could be drawn from their consideration ol it. 1 Mr. MITCH EL said he was a- gninst the motion for postponement; toe chuittpan of the committee, he said, had well expressed the reasons which had induced the committee to report this bill. They had been dis posed to bring this subject beiorc the House, that it might be there acted on in committee oi the w hole House.— The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Basset) who had first spoken had ex pressed his manly and honest disaji- probation of the bill, and had p ous ted against it as unconstitutional.— Mr. M. said he washed after having expressed his opinion, that the gentle man would ha\e permitted this bill to take the ordinary course of bills. That was the wish of the committee. The bill contained an insulated sec- :;. w t •. .,;c mguae Tjeubvrx.iji tpc bid. Nevvrfheicsf.lv;-"as Very W’ilimj; to hear the sublet liwuwd, and to re ceive light on it. He thought gtn* tlrincn were toy much in a hurry. This was a subject in which the whole Union tvas mu<h interested, and ought tube i'ullvdiscussed. Mr. DAWSON said, that al though he belieted the bill uncon stitutional, he mast vote against re jection, because re believed it ought to be.lnily discussed. ftfY. If A (JON saw! he was opposed to the bill on constitutional grounds ; but his mind wa> nut so fully made up $ he had not ary much confidence in his own infallibility, that he would rij.-ct all discussion. He should therefore vote against rejection j but he hoped that this vote would not be considered as precluding him from voting against the bill. Mr. SM I LIE said, whatever they might ultimately do, the question was of too great magnitude to be de cided without debate. It was a res pect due to the intt rest which the sub ject had excited' in the public mind that it sould take the usual course of business. Me hoped ihe House would not reject the hi}! without hearing the arguments in favor ol it. By voting against rejection, he did not consider himself committed as to his future vote. Mr. WRIGHT said, he wished the subject postponed to Wednesday next. II thegejitieinan from Virgin ia would consent to withdraw his motion for rejection, it would be a great accommodation, and give an opportunity to’examine the subject. His present impression was that no -charter ought to be granted. Mr. GOLDS BOROUGH said, that the vote on this question would „r,.ve?f.nn tit b.’.'e. »■> avw IO 'oil *■' | ciii« sji y a* »'o treat with one ^Mcav t<-r '!»• ucciioatioa of unotoer, they -.vtui'i nero a'ul julllv receive the r< probation <>l eve. ry ho'-eli nn, i ni society- l idea is v> p epo terous £: unprincipled, bia: ivc can not. dwell on it. HORRID MUR Dll ii /—A. most horrid murder was committed on the. 11th ult. within one bundled yards of Englehearl’s (being hall a mile it d extraoi l the Roy: owing has .!••) irv Goiter., - • cmhlcd 1 Islam' of Leon, the fol- bven r.solved and de- cri The general and extraordinary Cort ;s confirm and sanction the in- !if pi-nsai.le opinion tiutc the Spanish dominions in both hemispheres form but one and the same monarchy, one and the same nation, and but one- family, and that lbr the swme rea- ;t the natives of raid dominions, IronTTincastlv.) It appears dial two ; European or L T llfamarinc, r.r>t mtn, supposed to be Situics and Taylor of Tennessee, were taking out 11 Negroes to that State j but on the a- bove mentioned night they turned on their masters with clulis, ::ud,mur- dered them wliilc asleep. I hey then made for Bath, where five ol them were caught and lodged in Jail, when they confessed the crime, and told that they had hid them in a gully ad jacent to their encampment, . Two men from Bath came over and in formed the citizens of the circum stance, who immediately turned out in search of them, and in a short time discovered them, hut torn and man gled in a most horrid manner. Their bodies we brought to town and buried j [ >e g ur j’.,j after ml inquest wasJu-Ul over them, i Lynchburg Slur. ■ uqual in rights to those of the Penin sula, it being for the Cortes to deli berate, on a more convenient •Occasi on, on every thing which may con duce to the well are of those citizens beyond the seas; add likewise to treat of the share both hemispheres are to have in the national represen tation. i he, Cortes iikevdse ordain, that as soon as those Ultramarine provinces vvii-ii b have evinced a spi rit oi insubordination, shall, return to their duty, and make due acknow- iedement to the legitimate sovereign authority established in the mother country, they shall receive a general pardon, and all that has passed shall cbhiion. The forego ing order of the Cones, the council of regency is directed to publish-and circulate for the due observance there of. (Signed) Ramon. Dtzaro ek Don, President. Evariste Perez de Castro, Sec r rv. We are informed that a poor man, near this place, having tost a Cow, which had been the. principal depen dence of his family, a number of his neighbors assembled, ostensibly wi,h a view to sympathize with him, and to relieve him from his loss. While they, each in their tjjrn, were vocife rous in expressing their sorrow at the poor man’s misfortune, a French Gentleman (who is pa well known j placed on its former footing. An attempt was . made by Malta, Oct. 1. All American property recently seized in Tunis, in con»cqu<aice of the affair of the 'American ship Li berty, is liberated, and every thing not be conclusive of any thing. He tion for renewing the charter, a mo- j had been happy that gentlemen, in tion to strike out which would give ! principle opposed to the bill, had de- ample scope to debate on the cornu- dared that they should vote against BANK OF THE U. STATES. Mr. BURWELL having intro duced the biii'to continue the charier of the Bank of the United States ; winch was read througn lor informa tion— Air. BASSE T said he had a con stitutional objection to the bill, and could not by his vote sanction it in any shape. He therefore moved that the bill be rejected. He did not wish' to discuss the motion to-day, but would rather it should lie over till Monday. He made his motion now to enter ilia protest at the threshold against the bill on consti tutional grounds. He had hoped the committee, who had the subject under consideration, would have sub mitted the question of constitution ality, in some shape, before they had gone into derails i that not having been the case, he was compelled to make this motion. Mr. BUR WELL concurred with his colleague in his objections to the principle of the hill, it was his con viction that the constitution did not give to Congress the power to es tablish a Bank of the United States. Thts being his impression, and a most deliberate one, because he had view ed the subject in every light lie could, jn the situation he occupied as a mem ber oi the committee, he could not but vote lor the rejection of the bill ; although he had intended to move that it should take the usual course of all btlis. In this wole business he said he had been guided by the in structions of the committee. When first the subject had been presented to the committee, he had urged the same objections as were now stated ; but without effect. On the details of the bill tlie committee had differ•- cd very materially ; and reporting it in its present form was tlie result of a mutual accommodation in order to bring the subject before the House. The hill as now reported, he said, .was very similar to tbe one reported to this House at the last session : i. differed but in two points, the one was in repealing the 12th section of the net of Ifyi, which precluded the government from establishing any o- thcr bank, the other in authorising the government to increase the ca pital and uke shares itself with a proportionate direction. If the ques tion of rejection was put, he was bound to vote for it, because he could not vote for the renewal either on the grounds of constitutionality or expediency. Hut he thought it would be fair to take up the discus sion at a future day; and if a majo rity should be really of opinion that the constitution had given to Congress power to establish corporations tutioir.il question Mr. GHOLSOX rose to make a question of order, whether, wiienob jcciion was made to its passing to a second reading, any motion m rela tion to the bid could be received, unless to reject it. Believing the bill to be unconstitutional, and feel ing himself bound by his oath to Vote against it in all its stages, he tvas desirous to take a vole on rejec tion. Messrs. Basset, Ghblson, Pitkin, Burweil, Newton, and Sheffey, spoke to the question of order. The Speaker decided that when opposition was made to the second reading of a bill, the motion of rejec tion superceded every other motion, except a motion of adjournment. Mr. GHOLSON renewed the mo tion to reject the hill. Mr. SHEFFY intimated that as he was not satisfied that it was within the power of Congress to pa is such a law, and therefore wished die subject discussed, he should vote a- gainst rejection. Air. MACON said this was a great question, touching the whole monied interest of the nation, ant! materially affecting the collection of the revenue. He was as clearly of opinion that it was expedient to rem vv the charter, as he was that it was unconstitution al. He did not believe the wisest man among them could teil tlie evil, which would result from the disso lution of the bank. Nothing but the most perfect conviction in his own mindjlrat they had not the power to pass the bill would compel bun, when the question was put, to vote against it. A decision ought not to be delay ed. They must decide whether they would take the paper of the state banks, or leave a powerjin the Secre tary ol* the Treasury, or somebody else, as great a power almost as could be given, to say what state piper should be received, in payment of the revenue, or whether nothing but spe cie. He wa3 against any postpone ment. Mr. SOUTHARD said, he thought it would be proper to per mit this bill to take the common course. He could nut see any thing so .very obnoxious in it as to induce the House to reject it. He w as hitft- selt unfriendly to the renewal of the charter ; but, as the people were much interested, and petitions on the su'4-tt had been received from many respectable citizens, it was their du ty to meet the question fairly, to give it that consideration which the impor tance of the subject required. His reason for voting against the rejecti on was that they should meet the question fairly. Mr. BEYBERT said, if he was compelled to give a decisive vote, he rejection because they wished for dis cussion. He hoped no gentleman would consider himself committed by this vote ; he certainly should not. Mr. M’KEE said he had not ex pected that so great a qursi ion as this was to have been decided in a few hours. He had reserved to himself time to examine difficulties in relati on to the subject ; and, not having done so, must now for that reason vote against rqjection. Mr. GIIOLSON had supposed, thrt, as the question.of conptituticin- ality had been the subject of discus sion for twenty years past, every gen tleman’s mind was made up on it; hut, seenig so many gentlemen un* Iricndly to the bill afiout to vote a- gainst rejection, and finding that the question, when taken, would decide nothing, he withdrew the motion Jor rejection. The bill went to a second reading of course, and was referred to acorn- ini' tee <|f the wh,°Ry 'domestic. for his liberality and nobleness of spirit, as for his genteel address and deportment) came lip, and thus alternately accosted them-—“ yon are sorry—and 'you are sorry—and you are sorry !—Pray bow ail cii are vou sorrv l For tnv part, I am sorry TEN DOLLARS !” at the same time tendering the money to the poor man. The reader is kit to immagine the confusion of his very sympathi zing neighbors ; however being irre sistibly overpowered by such a noble example, they contributed to make up the poor man’s loss on the spot. (Morri stoivn paper.) FQEfiltiN. Uatchkz, December 17. WEST-FLORIDA. Lieut. Patterfon ot’tue ravy a: rived in lint city yesterday ineming. oirectly from da toil' Rouge—-From; him we learn, that prlkssiuii was uktn by our troops, ol me iort ot Batsii Rouge «n Monday last, witlrou. uftpaiu&u- Tuc di#uacts of Bald) lV'Mis e 4UU New Fcliuana arc perfectly tranquil—tne guu boats have gone to New Orltam, ana the troop tnat tTuiclied uiidir Cot. Bike, aie on the r return to cantonment W .llnngton* Fio n mis movement we mtei that no oppntition is expected tiom tue dutnets of St. ritlfna, fanclupaho and at. her d.naild—- But who can s..y wtiat will be die icception Col. Cuilnug wilt aieei with at Mobile i i wo rtpo ts have been hi general tn- cuia ion here, lincc our lull publication, neither of winch, in oui opinion, is enti tled to credit —Tiie hrii n that Col. Kein per has taken Mobile, with the lots ot loity men—The sec, nd that IV5 has been defeated and is hiraieif a prifoner. We have t»ten told, on nspetabe au thority, that Folch has at t'cn;>a..oia, 7OO mtn, and hasjent off me women ana children, it this report lliould. prove true, his farce, conceutiated at Mount, will amount to about 1000 men—-unu lliould he resolve on deiemiiftg the place to tne iait rxtrrrou j»f*will H sopmiea witn amumti n and pruvilion.nuKc a &efp„iate re fid n-c. Again we are. told, that nolw.thdaiia- ing this force, Folch is icidy .0 lurren- per Mobile to Col. (Juthingf in coaae- qjcnce ol a secret convention between our government and the captain geneial of tne Ifiind of Cuba. However we may oe inclined to believe that Fo.chis ill-paled to lurrcnde^MoOiie, we esunot attach tbe Ihghtelt ciedit to the idea, that it it in consequence of a lecret under* Itanuing between our government and that of tbe illaud of Cuba. Could ogr the French'a few days since on Sicily. Four thousand men landed, 2<)00 of which, with 2 colonels, 4G ofii' ,-rs, and (') gun-boats were taken. The residue re-euibiuked in the night ami escaped. There has been a seizure of Ame rican property in Turkey, iu conse quence, as we hear, of a non-compli ance with a demand of ii per ct. on inward and outward cargoes ; !>ut we suppose the property re leased and the difference settled on payment of the duties. Luoien Bonaparte and family are here, prisoners. Cadiz, Ndv The French forces in Sp in i r v ;ve ii- ber Lft. were computed a', ah Ut 2vd,tJOO men. diftiibuted as follow-. • QO OOO un. der Mafleni in Par'tigai 40 000 under Soult in Andalnlia , 20,000 uudatr Macdo nald in Catainnia ; 20.00 > unde«- Suchyt in Arragon and brfo-e Toiio a ; t e ie- tidue divided in the province- of lb .cm , Navarre and in the two Coftilrs. "Jo- sept Banapar e was at Madrid but with Philadelphia Jan. 9. late English infers. By the ship Amity, from Liver pool, London papers to the 9th of Nov. have been received at the of fice ot the Register, from which the subjoined arcicles are taken. The Amity brought despatches from Mr. Pinkney, which were sent on by this morning’s southern mail very little authority ’’hr F*encli gene Decree of the Grand Duke of Frank- ‘ al * act ] n a ?er Y d^poock and a vt a,y J 0 rt, I martfer in the provinces under ,htir »ub- WE, Charles, Uy the Grace of God, Prince Primate, &tc. By desire of his majesty, the Em peror of the Frencjh, king of Italy, protector, Sic. we have dtcreed aud do .decree us follows. That is to say. Art. I. All newspapers,, whether French, or German, published in. our grand duchy, shall cease on the. first of December of this ve:ar, and we herebv revoke the privilege granted* II. F rom the first of January, eighteen hundred and eleven, only one official newspaper shall be pub lished in our chief city of Frankfort, and no other political print shall appear throughout the whole territo ry- ill. This official paper shall hear the title of Gazette of the Grand Duchy of Frankfort, and the articles contained shall be inserted in the Frenclymd German languages. IV. Our minister of the police shall appoint the editor of the official Gazette. V. Our director of the Police at Franklort, shall lie the censor of this official gazette, and shall Le answer able to us for its conduct. Our min ister ot police shall communicate to the-director those instruction# by which he shall be governed. > VT. Our ministers'ot the interior, of justice, and of the , police, are charged with die due enforcement of this decree. (Signed); CHARLES, Grand Duke. Frankfort Oct. 16. CORTES. Don Ferdinand y.h, by the grace of God, king ot Spain and the Indies, and in his absence and captivity the council of rtgency, provisionally au thorised, make known to all whom it may concern : that in the general provinces jection The provinces of Spain >Hat •we frpe are Gallicia. F.strema.iu a Mar cia and Valencia bsfrVs part of A oni- a , AmLIulia anil (vital >tva. T”'':.3pa» 11 111. forces ot regular uootv fnav b conr. pnteit at about i00 000 nt-n viz 1 f t<> 1 IS 000 in (iallida. un-wr M,hy ; under Rom ilia p irt,isi Pwrttigal.H"-, * 1 Vi r t in Esti'emadmaf ir.ooo.n t hr III. a net Cid'Z, uud<r pc 1 era I Pena ; b Ivivsi from 4 to .5000 Englifh a •".' Po-tugui f-’jj; and further.. the nilitia and V jlunteja 1 amount to about To no. In Muecio, 14,000 under Blake j i Valencia I4 00il aider BelTc 'urt •, and 18 000 ind- r O . Donnell in Catalonia. Belide- theft-, aty; a mi nber ot parties of arniru' patricts* in the different p. ovincis occun -d br ibe F ench, lome Conlifting > f Irom t to >009 men These parties annoy the French ettrem<-Iy by intercepting their cuu. riers and convoys and seldom give quarter, but are at the same time a great nuisance to the poor inhabi tants whom t ier frequently these vexations and those co n nutetL by the French, have reduced th-. .in-' teriour country to the greatest dis-» ress and misery. Tiie French forces to the neighbourhood! of Cadix, computed at f-onri fourteen t u jg} thoufand, are too ioconfi (eraMe to attempt: an attack »n the iftind— Our fo-ufici|jon-| are fo-oiMahle helidei i'U' Hr .n* «irrifon >, The Fren-h l»>ve ereftt d several (Iron® »>ai„ ferieii .<» the n-.elr of Ian i ailed the Troca- dero that run* nv:o rmrnbij^- wtVe' ,rf * ard’ from the <:a Me of St- Catalina, at the fi-te'ftt* P >r* St. Mwys they thr m flint and (folfsi nmonpft the fli oping,bui annof reach the’ town ; we are abundantly fupplied with all kind* of provifion*. Our Goru-s, Na ioniil Assembly,, composed of the represent.ives of* the different provinces ol Spain and irs colon cs, had its first sitting on the 2+th Sept, last at the I-t.i. T'l1- ■ oti- r stitutioi it not vet formed, but sup posed it will be similar to that of Engi.tnd. 1 he .liberty of the press is grunted, and the colonies declared