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V From the National Intelligencer. THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. During- the period of Mr. Dallas's administration of the finances, the plans ef the department, with slight va riations, have received the deliberate sanction of con gress, and have been stamped with the general appro bation of the nation. lie may, therefore, contemplate, tvith an honorable pride his official participation in the establishment Of a system of internal revenue, advantageous i-i peace, and indispensable in war; Y Of a tariff of duties on imports, founded upon princi- ‘ pies equally favorable to commerce, agriculture and manufactures; jPfa national institution, operating to relieve the com munity from the evils of a depreciated paper mo '' tiev, and to restore to the government its constitu tional power over the coin and currency of the na tion; C* a fund competent to the extinguishment of the national debt, in the short period of twelve years. In the details of the treasury department (which have $fc : en rendered, beyond all former experience, intricate and perplexing, by the necessities of the war, the inade quacy of the revenue during the war, tiie depression of public credit, and the failure of the n stiona! currency) a laborious and systematic perseverance has led to the most benefcial results. Availing himself of the auspi cious influence of peace upon the public “credit and re sources, the secretary,at the moment of surrendering his official trust, appears to have realized the most sangmne anticipations. Thus, 1. Therembarrassvnenls of the treasury, owing to the disordered state of the currency, have been so subdued, Without die aid or co-operation of the state ban’-s, that Qie public engagements can be paid in the local curren cy wherever they become due except in the eastern Slates; and, even there, the measures now operating are calculated to restore the cap .city to pay in the local currency, before the expiration of the present v ear. ~ ’ 2. The floating debt, consistingof n mporary leans ob tained bv the treasury, since the commencement of the 'lat e war, hap been paid ,1. The Routing debt, consisting of treasury notes of all the denominations u-licit lv\ e been issued, ii-s been reduced from the sum of 36,133,794 dollars, tiie aggre gate of the issues, to an estimated outstanding .-.mount, ifet exceeding 5,00v),OOU dollars; which cannot fail to be discharged before the expiration of the present ye..r. 4. The amount of the funded debt h..s, on tiie one hand, been augmented by the operation of funding trea- <airv notes; a.id on the other h.uul. it has been reduced ft- the quarterly reimbursements of the principal of the did stock, as well as by purchases. The aggregate dmount of the public debt, funded and floating, was -stated, on the 12th of February, ISIS, to be tiie sum Mississippi territory, and payable Georgia) 676,710 4C Amount of receipts in revenue, from :he 1st .January to 1st August, 1S16, 36,035,995 46 7th. To winch add the receipts from loans, by funding treasury notes, and from the issues of treasury notes about 9,790,825 21 The estimated gross amount of re- e.eipts at tie- treasury, from tiie 1st Janua ry to the 1st August, 1816, be.ng 8th. But it is estimated tiiat front the 1st of August to the 31>l of December, 1316, die amount of receipts into tiie trea sury will be about 45,825,920 67 19,876,710 4 Miking the gross annual receipts at tiie treasury, for the ye.,r 1816, about tile stun of 65,762,651 111 Sketch 'f the probable receipts, at the treat’ ry compared ■at:h 'he p-'-buhle c.; e ■ litures "J 1516. 1st. The gvoss annual *e opt tiie trea- surv fur tiie ' e..r 1510, ,is..bovc stated, is estimated at tin s .if 65,7'j2,631 V7 2d. The amount of m e of . But, on the first of January, 1817, (the floatingd.-btbeing extinguished, and ad ditional reimbursements of the principal W the old stork being effected) the 123,63d,692 95 Whole amount of the public debt will, Tjrobubly, not exced tiie sum of 109,748,272 11 Making a general reduction, between 1M6, and the •of January, 1817, of public debt b- itig interest, amounting to the sum of the 12th of February, of 1st ; r- 13, 882,429 82 5. The whole amount of the liquidated and ascertain ed arrearages of the war expenditures, has been paid, and ample provision exist to discharge all the unliqui dated claims, for supplies and services, to the extent cf the highest estimates hitherto formed. 6. The whole amount of the demands upon the trea sury, for the principal and interest of tlie public debt, payable abroad as well as at home; and the whole amount of the demand to satisfy the debts contracted in Europe, on account of the war, are the subjects of ail ample provision. 7. The annual surplus of the existing revenue, besides furnishing ample means for public improvements, w ill enable congress to enrich the sinking fund, so as to insure the extinguishment of the whole of the public debt, in a period not exceeding twelve years. 8. The public credit stands high, both in Europe and America. Tiie apparent depression of the public stock and of treasury notes, in some of the American markets, Vi to be entirely ascribed to local caiftes, which are ra pidly passing away. The revival of a metallic currency is alone wanting to give to the public stock, in the Eu ropean markets, a value beyond that of any other gov ernment. In illustration of the preceding general results, it will be a gratification to the public, to receive the following sketches, taken from the records of the treasury depart ment. They afford the best answer to ail the iatne illa tions which deplore the ruin of the country, and to all the calumnies which assail tiie reputation of the gov- tfnment. I. Sketch of the appropriations and payments for 1816. 1st. The demands on the treasury by acts of appro priation for the year 1816, amounted to 32,475,303 93 For the civil department, appropri. inns for year 1.16, .s b-. fare siated, is the sum ol 3d. But it is corn, nted tiiat the demand.-- from tiietre«surv fur lolc will exceed tiie a:i la.nt of the annual appi , i- alion (the excess • ..e provided fur by i_w) by toe sum of 4th. And ciiar,.::g the whole of the uus.i- sfied appropriations of 1315, upon tiie hums accu mulated in the ireasu- n (hiring the year laid, the amount may be estimated at *>,01/5 93 6,270,395 29 j, erpool office, _ Westminster, .August 15,1816. 8/n—A question having arisen whether the equaliza tion of duties on the produce of the United States im ported in American and British ships, established by the late commercial treaty, ought not to extend to the auction duty on the first sale after importation for account of the importer; and a rtcomendation having been addressed by the foreign offic.e and the board of council to the treasury to adopt that construction of the treaty most favorable to the ships and products of the United States—notwith standing the opinion entertained by some law authorities, that the'auction duty being an internal add (to the par ties paying it) an optional duty, and not a duty on im- iiortatioii is not fairly witliin the meaning of the treaty; uc lords of the treasury have this day ordered the board .if excise to direct their solicitor to prepare a bid fir ' ie luxt session of parliament to legalize the sale by auc- • mil of American product imported in American ships, an ttits .m- terms is if i •■ported in British ships. And they have further directed the excise, henceforth ji -t to require the payment of auction duty on such sales • American produce, and to refund all such duty, if any • efi shall have been paid since the 26th August, 1815; the narties in both cases giving security for the amount of the duty sc unpaid or refunded to them to abide the de cision of parliament. • This latter condition, you will feel is unavoidable in a case like the present, it being in the competence of par liament alone to impose or remit government duties; and if the nominal liability to the ultimate payment of auc tion duty should have a tendency, as it probably may, to prevent individuals from availing themselves of the indul gence which this order is intended to convey, it must be remembered on tbe other hand, that there is no instance of ' ,i«. government having failed to redeem such a pledge as is virtually given by the order in question. I am, with great respect, siryour vary f.hlhful and obe dient servant. __ J. Backhouse, j’in. To the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce. 7-anga, mentioned that he was fired at v,,,. , one of tiie cruisers on his w fyto Havana/w,*7 mg him m good English suffered mm to pnW ^ further molestation. IVe understand tl.at " ho, « at. measures •trs; l)Vlt P°co. — U.ut nifov.. in preparation at Havana to curb these fVebom? they proceed on the true Spanish system, p oco “* St. TrtowAS, September 23. r ^^ ie JMa nc ht3tcr Packet arrived here 15th ult. Important intelligence w..s comn.unir ^ ' e "1 ’* gentleman who arrived here in her, as a passenger Burbadoes; we sincerely hope that a report so-’., 11 may have been misrepresented to him. We t!-/*/' 13 shall soon have to announce to our readers j’i'V tranquii/ty of all our companion Islands in the -'• • '' ie mains undisturbed. ^ On the 21st arrived here ip/distress, Kr n c i, from Bordeaux, bound to Havana, bavin . passengers. J? BUENOS AYllES 1 PAPERS. O.i buaiq £ ••1 of *,972,277 86 -46,717,977 08 Making- the probable surplus ofreccip.s be; oiid Inc- probable demands on the treasure for ifcl6 tl.c sum of 1« r 14.653 09 5th. Hut elediictiiia from this surplus, t ie amount cr.-; led i. r tiie leans and trea sury notes, the sum of 9,790,821 9,193,831 88 The uhimate surj.les of prc-b.-ble ^re ceipts, bc-yonu the pr.-;b..bie demands up on the treasury tor tin* v e..r 1316, sub ject to the disposal ot congress, may be staled at the sum id In diis ski icii, it is to be noted, that there is n>. discri mination as to tiie time, when tiie revenue accrued, and when it became payable; nor as to the svsttm from wtiicli die revenue vv;.s derived, whether upon the war, or tne peace, establishment; the mam object being to shew the probable receipts'at the treasury from the 1st of January to tuc 51st of December, loio, „s well as the prob..hie expenditure during the s..mc period. IV. Sketches of the pc abut >f the customs from .1 latch, 1315, to Julu, 1816, both months inclus. ve. FIRST, 1st. Tiie aggregate of the dulies received at the custom-houses of tiie United Stales, during the above specified period, may be estimated at the sum of 23,271,143 50 2d. The aggregate of tlie debentures payable during- the same period, may he estimated at the stop of Leaving the product of the customs from March, 1315, to July, 1816, both months inclusive, subject only to the ex penses of collection, at tne sum of 25.646,721 34 SECO X II. 1st. The aggregate of the duties received at the cus tom houses of the United States, from Mat ch to Decem ber, 1S15, both months inclusive, amounted to the PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. The following is an extract of a letter from London dated the 3d August, received by the Mary. “Perhaps beforeyou receive tnis, you will have heard of a rumor winch has caused some alarm in London, which is, the transport board of this country having ad vertised on the 31st Julv for between five and six thou sand tons of shipping, fart..e ordnance to Canada purpose of Tiie e.i.tors of the trun-mc have, as may be expected, put different ag papers iiert constructions upon the occurrence—some a war measure, and others not so. However, one thing T can inform yon fr.uu tiie best authority, it had the effect of lowering the funds of this country yesterday one half per cent; but this may be only for the moment, and taking advantage of by spe culators. It is as difticidt to form an opinion here of the measure, as it is with you. lime alone must show.”— Charleston City Gazette, 9th inst. Nkw-Youk, Septembi r 30. A gentleman of tins city has favored r,, { Mercantile Advertiser with an impirfi-’ct fi. r f. Ayres Gazette to the 2'Jth of July, recciv. d n A ' ‘' n °S line, arrived at Philadelphia. That of the Cs;' , j de nounces that the gmemnient had been duh ' a -'>* the sailing of the Portuguese expedition from Hi, 1 , and it was supposed they were to pav a vi>n tn ver La Plata. The paper expr, sses aiui:h s'.rm'j 1 , n ' the Portuguese, whom dux- iiave never urn. . !,i ... n ‘ :t come against tliem in a hostile manner. It a<!,i. er they come as friends or fo-.-s, we arc n.sov to - them.” The same pajjer gives a detail fr-n »g* , j'f papers, of the termination ofadmiral Brow..', , in February last. It appear* from -, .s a.'. -,.', . ‘ j : Brown and a part oFliis squadron h. d ix - >■ ‘ ' carried into Guayaquil, and that t: ; i-.sidu. ; ; ( rou attacked that town, made a numbt r of -i.. - inhabitants urisoners, and did some damage vyiicn a tl oce was finally settled on l.,t 25d, the admiral was exchanged for tla n.. ;i [.,c*,| ;,_ captured; and one of his vessels restored for 22,U‘JO dollars. >n nf’ v cri;ment 2,624,421 66 ot 2d. The aggregate of the debentures payable during the- last mentioned pe riod, amounted to the sun of 6,916,399 76 794.857 33 6,121,542 43 Leaving the amount of duties for the last memiomd period, subject onlv to tiie expenses of collection, at the sum of Tin ii n. 1st. The aggregate of the duties received at all the custom houses of the United States,from January to July, 1816, both months inclusive, nu.y be slated „t the suin ot d. The aggregate of the debentures payable during the last mentioned p.riod, -.1,o54,743 7‘, 1,829,561 33 foreign intercourse and miscellaneous expen ses For the military depart s' ment, current expen diture 7,794.250 75 Arr. 8,935,373 3,540,770 18 For the naval establish ment For the public debt, (ex clusively of the balance . of the appropriations of the preceding year) -16,729,622 4,204,911 8,000,000 2d. The payments made at the treasury on ac count of the above ap propriations to the 1st of August, 1816, a- mounted to the sum of For the civil depart ment, &c. Por the military depart ment, current expen- ■diture 4.235,236 76 Arr. 8.935,372 >2,475,303 93 26,3.32,174 89 1,829,015 02 amounts to the- sum of Lca\ iiigtlie-aniount of duties fir the hist mentioned period, subject only to the ex pellees of codec non, at the sum -of Fdr MTU. A comparative view of the gross product of the cus toms in some-of the principal districts, (embracing Ml 19,525,179 41 the districts producing more than 409,01 O' uoiiars) from March, 1815, to July, luiG, both mouths iiie'iusive. 1. New York 2. Philadelphia 3. Boston 4. Baltimore 5. Charleston 6. New Orleans 7. Savannah 8. Norfolk 9,926,188 30 5,085,2u6 65 3,579,lo-J 77 3,339,101 11 1,047,546 73 732,0-83 13 521.287 53 491.150 36 Lpon the foregeing brief exposition of the state of the' finances, the operations of the treasure', and the national resources, comment would be superfluous. We must lament tiie present' depression of our commerce, from causes, which equally affect the commerce of every other nation; but witli becoming gratitude to providence, we may ask, what other nation presents a scene of public and private prosperity, such as the United States exhibit to the world! A letter from an intelligent gentleman at Paris to the editor, dated the 12di of August, is just received, from widen we extract tlu following: “I sb-i -1 send von a file of papers, such as tU y are. It is possible that thty may become more i v ;eresung hereaf ter; for it is rumored that there is to be a resurrection of the liberty of the press, some time in the course of the present month!! the law restricting it being about to ex pire. This report may perhaps be as well fou-uled as tiiat which brought or was to bring the world to an end on the 18th of lust month. “Fht re is taik of war in Europe, but we do not cltarlv understaiid who are to he the partita—some say- Eng land. Fr .nee and Sfsain, against Russia, Prussia, and the Low) Countries: tins, however, is, with most people, mere conjecture, as yet. “ f he age of revolutions is not vet past. “It is highly gratifying to an American, to know the prosperous state ot our country; for I do not believe thu’ tne momentary stagnation cf commerce in our sea ports, or the embarrassii.i nt of bank paper speculators, c.’ii impede its general prosperity any more than the possession of Eastport by the British, or the neutrality of Nantucket, could affect our national independence.— Notwithstanding- tbe commercial distress which prevails throughout the Union, the United States is as much hau- • M.v n,o>t ‘ ?c> i’k.i* •J'iMil-crf. re*.,'. ■’ P^.li n 3 t'f Rio tU. V U’2. I k ir S.Wi r. v M.ti. _ ^ - 1 1 is d:.v s.it!r*. pro- pter than any other country m the w orld, as “The Bid- i f'orr'om^wii liout 001 '^ 0 " n ci. wark ot Religion” is more miserable than any other coun try in Europe—and surely, that is not a lirie. The same commercial distress prevails there asm the United States, and to a still greater degree—and we have one inappreciable advantage over them, in as much as a man who can no longer gain a livelihood behind tiie counter, may become independent behind tiie plough—if he be not too proud (mean r—licr;) and if he be, he surely deserves Lirve.’—-\t-a--i urk Coiumbian. to sLu IVi.,.; . toment’s delay to the z' ns ot this capital, by means of toe p i-st-n' bu ( a shall be published in the most solemn manner, ar of it posted in all the suborns. And as this m st public places of tic in some (ley day, a but- r one for tvi THE TR AITOR FOUGHT.. A private letter from Paris, (noticed in the Dublin Eve ning Post,) informs us, that the .Memoirs of Fouche, writ ten b\ himself, are ready for publication; they will appear in two volumes, and, it is s..id, the ia.-.t phrases are—“1 do not complain of my exile.' f have been banished by the pi iiices to whom I extended a friendly hand to aid their entry into France. And mav the word lagitiniacj prove tothe country thesource of many tears, al much bloodshed as that of equality itself.”-—-V Columbian. Uacy n not as rk For the naval depart ment For the public debt, (ad ding to the appropria tion of 1816, a part of ; the balance of the ap propriation of 1815) -13,170,608 75 1.977,788 S3 l 9,354,762 82 26,332,174 89 Making an unexpended “balance of the animal appropriation on the 1st of August, 1816, of 6,143,129 04 6,298,652 26 This balance, however, is to be t n dited for die sum taken from the surplus of the appropriation of 1815, for the sinking fund (1.354,762: 6‘2) ami tiie whole is ready to be paid, upon demand, at the treasury. IT. Sketch of the actual receipts at the Treasury for 1816. 1st. The cash balance in the treasury (excluding, of course, the item of treasury notes) on the 1st January, 1816, was .2d. The receipts at the treasury from the customs, during the first seven months of 1816 (from the first of Janua ry to the 1st of August) without any al lowance for debentures on drawback, ■which may be estimated at 1,829,554 33, amounted to 3d. The direct tax including the as sumed quotas of New-York, Ohio, Soutb-Carolina and Georgia, for the di rect tax of 1816, has produced the sum Lo>do> 4th. The internal duties have produc ed the sum of 5th. Postage and incidental receipts, 6th. Salesof public lands (excluding the sum ot 211,440 50, received in the August 19. An article in a Paris papir, dated Naples, July 19, says “\\ e are daily expecting to hear of lord Exmouth’s expedition. The opinion here is, that it has been much too long delayed. The pirates profit by’ the interval, in sweeping the Mediterranean, and putting their fortifica- <t ons i' 1 a state of defence* It is even feared, that, with out an army for debarkation, it will not be possible to rc- i.uce the regency of Algiers, the most dangerous of the three Barbarv regencies. The dev will care very little tor the destruction of the houses of the town, which be long to tin*Jews Ind Moors, while lie and his.Turks can secure their treasures in their country houses, which cer tainly have nothing to fear from English rockets and bombs. It is even doubted whether the Congreve rock- c-ts wiU have any considerable influence on the houses of Algiers, as they are built with stone with flat roofs, on wine a a layer of dump earth may be spread in sufficient juiintitv to counteract the effeefof any inflameable pro- jcctllc.' 9 j 1 On Wednesday morning some apprehensions were felt k re, that serious riots liu«l occured in Preston, in cpnsc- [Hence of a letter which had been that morning received «>>• the mayor, from that place, requiring the aid of the military then in this town, and who were iininediately .narched to Preston. But we are happy to say, that a u tter was received here by the mayor on Thursday morn ing, stating, that the disturbance had completely subsid ed, and that the military had been ordered to return. \\ e understand that the outrages which had taken place have been confined to the breaking of a few windows, and damaging the plantation upon the premises of Mr Horrocks. Hague, August 20. 2,o54,743 74 A report having been circulated by several newspapers that a great many foreign officers who had lately emi grated to the United States of North America, had been placed in the military service of that country, we have i cceivud from an authentic source a request seriously to contradict this error, and to at^l, for the benefit of all such as may be interested in it, that not one of the above mentioned foreign officers has obtained any kind of situ ation in the American service, and all vacancies that /nay happen-will be filled by natives of the country, and pro bably by officers lately disclaimed.—Hague Cowant. FROM HAVANA A gentleman who arrived from Havana on Surdav last, informs us, that the “expedition” which has been so long fitting out there to drive away tiie Carthugenian cruisers, was completed during his stay at that place, and had Soil ed on its first cruize. After being out 10 uavs, it return ed into port again, without meeting-any thing with which to try the “tug of war.” This grand fotilla, which lias been three months in preparation, consists of the Young Wasp privateer (formerly of Philadelphia) and a sooner! ■Charleston City Gazette. ree unto that on which Gor-ez t.-".r ships, with tiie magnanimous resolution to le.e e- companion^ no uiternijive but \ictorv, will ex*. i;t .1 Strations of the purest jov on the part if i.n c.ti/.i . alted at la^t to the glory of belonging to a f lateness ot the present moment not admadigi f mediate display of all the pomp due to tne ceied-. the majesty of so memorable an event, the got. makes known that after to night there will h f daysconsecutively an illumintation of the p.-fi..c' esnlence,and of the town house, leav ing It at till- 0 ot t..c. inhabitants of this eminent city to exercise th . own pleasure as to equal demonstrations bv some tot- that may utinounce tlieir real satisfaction, and in t. mean time fetes arc preparing suitable t;. tiie- happy <* casioigno-. forg-ettingtlie tribute to Provifience of tfiemi heartfelt tuanks in the fortress of ISucnos Ayres, t: 19tii of July, lol6. Miguel i>e IltiGorr.y, Francisco Avton :o dl Escalxc- AIani el Obligado, secretary. To the Commission of Government 3,713,963 68 3,864,000 127,025 38 Nassau, (v. r.) August 17. As a proof of ti.e efficacy of the copper cement in pre serving the bottoms of vessels, we insert the following fact: Six innntns ago, the schooner Marv-Ann, of this port, eyas payed with this cement, and has made several voy ages since to the United States, without any cleaning whatever. Having lately taken the ground, and." injured part of her ta'se keel, it became necessary to heave her down, which was done on Thursday last, when the cement was found to be in the same stale nearly as when first laid on, except where it was rubbed off by taking the ground and per fectly free from grass or barnicle. September 7. Accounts from the Havana mention that the merchants have come forward with voluntary, subscriptions! in aid ot the government, in order to oppose and suppress, they can, the depredations of tbe cruisers under the indc- pendant flag. These subscriptions are to be lodged in tli Consulado, are to be expended in the purchase and equip ment of several large and fast sailing brigs and sclTooners to be commanded bv officers at the appointment of the Consulado. The measures which have been taken by tiie government hat e bee'n quite inadequate to any success ful opposition to the audacity' of the insurgent, cruisers; indeed they have been in themselves but measures evinc ing rather its weakness than its efficiency. Out of the rencontres which now appear to take place in cpnsc- ^q ,lent >y between bis majesty's ships on the coist of Africa, and Portuguese and Spanish slave vessels, it will not be surprising if more serious consequences soon arise, and if these consequences be promoted by -n as sumption of right requiring redress, on the side of those having least pretention to it, who bv tod far an interfer ence in the trade of the subjects of other governments bring on themselves the insult or aggression complain’ September 21. Yesterday morning the Zanga, arrived from Havana — One of passengers of the schooner Cement, of this port came up m her. It is reported by him, as we are inform! ed, that the Cement was captured on her passage to HavanJ by the Curthagenian privateer SeiitinelU, and Carried to the rendezvous at the Tortugas, where were lyin<r on her arrival, se ven insurgent cruisers, and ten sad of different nations which they had taken. The crew and such of the passengers of the Cement, tiiat had property was r the W n™^K edi ah ° Ut 130 P™s, amo^L was Hie person above mentioned were nut 'X » on horn a SunixAtu, July 19. Yesterday, died here his excellency major-genera! ' Pauuuts; w!io after sharing laurels with the heroes of \vaterloo, arrived in this colony about six months a) and assumed the government of it on the 26th Fcbr—7 last, wiien it was restored to Holland. THE CHICASAW INDIANS. William Colbert and James Colbert, the former hr Ti dier general of the Chickasaws, and the latter A r.:ti States’ interpreter to the same nation, have pubk-jrai *. the Nashville Whig', an address to the whites, in Itvbic.i they acknowledge, with expressions of gra itu.il. friendship and generosity with which both thin s-iv i and their nation have been treated by our goverr.n'tT, and by the citizens of the United States in gt u-- r.<l Hut they declare tiiat they consider it their t;u v :i r. ac known an opinion which jfrevails in tlieir nation, which was unanimously expressed bv a late council cf the Chickasaws, that the pedlars who have so long mi« posed upon their people, will, if they are not prohibit* from coining $niong them, endanger the good un. cr- standing winch at present subsists betwe uitf( n. and ris United .states. They therefore warn such irregniar ishonest traders, wiiom the chiefs declare to b. no mcra like merchants than “Jew broke rs” are like bankers,tron ntering tiieir territories and renewing their iniposifi 01 -:’ which (says the address) are “too often foliov d by '*• olence on tiie part of our people, whose minds have n t vet undergone so radical a change, as to feel tiieiiiscn: 5 (intent with that redress which is drawn from the tardj though certain) process of the law.” The chiefs appear to be sincerely desirous of remains at peace with the United States, and conclude their ad dress by thanking the people of Nashville and other places, for tlieir hospitality, which tlfey declare, with b- han simplicity, they would be happy to return.—6 -' lfJ Gazette. Translated for the Baltimore Bi znos Av m.», .liiiv 25. I -,[>'■ INDEl'ENDENCE. The most cxceilent, tiie commissi the st-ite:— Whereas, under date of the 9th i:,y the director has communicated die lution, fallowing, t‘> wit:— The sovereign congress of th( ma de la Plata has this day declared tii rica indcj '-:i lent of thedomination . and i s metropolis, by the following “ 1 he angi:st tribunal of the nation ha ed by tile unanimous acclamation of ah tne ri-nnse-i •' tives of the united provinces, in congress -<sst ii.!i ■ . ir./l -.rvA. »->. I ^X'ii . a T . i , ‘ ‘ ’ lur^ucn (/t tl.c independence of the country from tj,. kings of Spain and i’s metropolis. T! » in,e ort . >nt w is i-onimunicated to your excellency fir vaur n.forma, tion and satisfaction, and to be publofied in all vinces and towns of the unt -n. In congress at Tucunui, the 9th t-f July 1-315” Francisco Niiinso de l.iraim, .'.reside-: J-ise Mariano Boeoo, vie■ president. Jose Mahivno Sehrano, sicrrt.rru Ji an Jose Passc, depute -cre'.ury. I communicate it to your excellency that von rrrif cy<* this happy event to be solemnly jri!>iish-.-u and rtl.Us- i and that you may transmit your orders to that iff c: \ all die towns and autiiorides of di.n province. GoJ art- serve j our excellence for niauv years. Tncuman,July 9, 1816. J:"As tun nv i,E Frr.i tirft.on SilviSTTn. Ir.iziTF,secretary. To the most excellent, the ilirertor ad.r.e-im, Buenos .lyres Now- therefore, and in the effusion of the p- rfict jov, at an event longed for by qj-erv American bn<t, since the provinces wearied -.vi’tu tv earing for three cer. t unes the chains of Peninsular o; - re-, ion, i - ■ hre.-k them, obliterating by die m-ast - v r f » - remembrance of their passed humiliation, the g.L-;.. inent ioni* wiMi A. -t i •>: i We noticed a few weeks ago a paragraph in Grimm 3 correspondence, in which it is asserted that Messrs. Franklin & Adams were instructed by congress to re quest of the Abbe Mably a sketch of,a constitution ot government for the United States. We have since found that die paragraph is contradicted in a subsequen- part of Grimm's book, and have learned the rumor 0 uch a fact is noticed in Mr. Adams’s defence of the con stitution. We understand that an interesting correspon dence on the subject, between Mr. Adams and the be Mably, will appear in the next number of the American Review-.—Boston Daily .Idvertiser, 28th ult. Dr. Mitciiell’s literary labors, says a corresponden the Albany Argus, are receiving distinguished attcn ( ! ]V . from the learned men in Eyrope. By a letterjust _ in diis city, we learn that the doctor’s history of the rican Earthquakes, and memoir of the fishes of New . ^ are about to be turned into German, by professor '‘-Am of Leipzig) ami that his inquiry into’the clwwrtiff