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MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1821.
No. 51.
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
IN THE SENATE.
Wednesday, January 10.
Mr. Lloyd submitted for considerati
on ttic following resolution :
lit solved. That the committee on the Pub
lic La-sls be instructed to enquire into tim
justice and expediency of granting lamj for
the purpose of education within the limits of
the old states, corresponding with the ap
propriations which have been made for the
same objects within the limits of the new
states.
The bill making a partial appropriati
on for the support of the Military Estab
lishment for the year 1820, was consi
dered as in committee of the whole, and
ordered, with a small amendment, to be
read a third time to-morrow.
Thursday, January II.
Mr. Smith, from the committee on the
Judiciary, to which was referred the
Bankrupt Bill, reported the same with
out amendment.
The resolution submitted yjptenlay
lay Mr. Lloyd was considered and agreed
to.
The bill to continue the act establish
ing Trading Houses with the Indians,
was, on motion of Mr. Holmes, of Miss,
taken up, and having beeu considered in
committee of the whole, was postponed
to Monday.
BELIEF TO LAND PURCHASERS.
The Senate then, agreeably to the or
der of the day, took up, in committee of
the whole, the hill for the relief of pur
chasers of public lands prior to the 1st
day of July, 1820.
Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, chairman of
tbs committee on the public lands, deli
vered his views at large in favor of the
passage of the bill
Mr. Edwards, of Illinois, followed, and
io a speech of considerable length, sup-
f orted the same side of the question.— :
The debate will be given hereafter.]
The bill was then laid on the table un
til to-morrow.
The bill making a partial appropriati
on for the military service for the year
1021, was read the third time and pas
sed, (with a small amendment requiring
the concurrence of the other House ;)
and
The Senate adjourned.
Friday, January 12.
The President communicated to the
Senate a Report of the Secretary of the
Navy, made in obedience to a resolution
of the Senate of the 1st of May last, re
quiring the Secretary of the Nary to
cause to be revised the rules, regulati
ons, and instructions for the naval ser
vice j which report was ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Walker, of Geo. from the commit
tee on Naval Affairs, made a report on
the petition of Samuel Tucker, accom
panied by a hill for his relief; which
were read.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
The Senate took up the bill reported
by the committee on finance, to amend
tfce act to incorporate the subscribers to
the Bank of the United States, (propo
sing penal enactments against violations
of their trust by officers of the bank or
Its branches ; and authorizing the np
pointment of two officers to sign the
notes of the bank, instead of the Presi
dent and Cashier.)
Mr. Sanford laid before the Senate, ;n
A speech ofsonio length, tlie views which
operated on the committee on tinauce in
recommending this bill ; the reasons in
favor of its provisions, and those which
induced the committee not to recommend
the other two objects petitioned for by
thd^ank.
Mr. Roberts moved to amend the bill
by adding thereto the following sections :
Sec. S. Be it further enacted, That the
hills or notes of the offices of Discount and
‘Deposit of the said bank, excepting those
of the office in the District of Columbia, on-
finally made payable, or which shall ha\c
become payable on demand, shall he receiv
able in all payments to the United States,
imly in the states and territories in which
they are made payable, and in the states and
territories in which no Office ot Discount
.and Deposit shall be established; any (lung
in the fourteenth section of the act incorpo
rating the subscribers to the bank of the U.
States to the contrary notwithstanding.
provided, That all notes of the denomination
of five dollars, issued either by the bank or
any of its offices of Discount and Deposit,
made payable on demand, shall be receivable
at the bank or any of its offices. And pro
vided further, That it shall not lie lawful for
the directors of the said bank to establish
more than one office of Discount and Depo
sit in any state, without the consent ol the
legislature thereof first had and obtained.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That so much
rectors of the said corporation shall cause a
listol tho stockholders of the said hank, to
gether with their places of residence, to he
<cpt in tile banking house, at Philadelphia,
open to the inspection of any and every
stockholder of said bank, who may apply for
the same within hours of business, for at least
ninety days previous to every annual electi
on ot directors ; and no person who may be
entitled to vote ataoy election for directors
ot said bank, as attorney, proxy, or agent,
lor any other person, copartnership, or bo
dy politic,shall, as such, give a greater num
ber than —— votes, under any pretence
whatsoever; and no letter of proxy shall be
of any force or effect longer than years,
or until it shall have been revoked.
Sjec. 6. Be it farther enacted, That, when
ever the said corporation assent to the pro
visions of this act, and certify such assent to
the Secretary of the Treasury Department,
by writing, only authenticated, this act shall
be of full force and effect and not otherwise.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, Jan. 8.
Mr. Trimble submitted the following
resolution for consideration :
Resolved, That tho Secretary of tho Trea
sury be instructed to inform this House,
when and why (lie Agency of the Treasury
of the United States for the War and Navy
Departments was first established, and whe
ther the same, may not be discontinued with
out detriment to the public service.
. This resolve lies on the table one day
of course.
The resolutions moved by Mr. IVil
liams, of North-Carolina, calling for in
formation of the amount of money neces
sary to complete the contracts which
have been made for the increase of the
navy and for building fortifications, were
taken up and agreed to.
Tuesday, Jan. &.
The House on motion of Mr. Trimble,
proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution yesterday offered by him, cal
ling on the Secretary of tlm Treasury
for certain information, and i^eed there
to.
Mr. Archer of Va. moved that the
House do now proceed to the consider;!
lion of his proposition for instructing (he
Judiciary committee to enquire into the
present condition of Missouri, and repor
whether any, and if any, what legislative
measures may be necessary in reference
thereto.
The question on now taking it up was
decided by Yeas and Nays—Yeas CG,
Nays 73.
So the House refused to take it up.
Mr. Archer then gave notice that he
should renew this motion daily until the
House should agree to consider the sub
ject.
The House then again resolved itself
into a committee ofthe whose, Mr. Whit
man in the chair, on the bill to reduce
the Military Peace Establishment of the
United States.
Mr. Williams, in an address of about
two hours, concluded a speech which he
yesterday commenced, in favor of a re
duction of the Army even greater than
that proposed by the bill now under con
sideration.
Mr. A. Smith of Virginia, then rose,
and moved the following as an amend
ment to (substitute for) the bill under
consideration :
Be it enacted, tfc. That, from and after the
first day of may next, the Military Peace
Establishment of the United States shall
consist of six thousand non-commissioned
officers, musicians and privates, in such pro
portions of artillery, light artillery, infantry,
and riflemen, as the President ofthe United
Slates shall direct.
And be it further enacted, That the corps
of artillery shall consist of one colonel com
mandant, four lieutenant cokmcis, four ma
jors, forty captains, eighty lieutenants, and
eighty second lieutenants, divided into four
battalions, each to consist of ten companies.
And be it further enacted, That the regi
ment of light artillery shall consist of one
colonel, one lieutenent colonel, one major,
ten captains, ten lieutenants, ten second lieu
tenants, divided into two battalions, each to
consist of five companies.
And It it farther enacted, That the regi-
menlof riflemen shall consist of one colonel,
one lieutenant colonel, one major, ten cap
tains, ten lieutenants, ton second lieutenants,
divided into two battalions, each of live
companies.
And be it further enacted, That the corps of
infantry shall consis t of eight colonels, eight
lieutenant colonels, eight majors, eighty cap
tains, eighty lirsf lieutenants, eighty second
lieutenants,divided into eight regiments, each
to consist of ten companies.
And be it further enacted, That there shall
tie retained in service three brigadier gene
rals, each of whom shall tie allowed an aid-
de-camp, to be taken from the subalterns of
the line.
■ And be it further enacted, That there shall
be a department of order and inspection, to
consist of one adjutant and inspector gene
ral, who shall have the pay. rank, and emo
luments of a colonel of cavalry, as heretofore
established, and of three assistant adjutants
and inspectors general.
And be it further enacted, That the quar
ter-master’s department shall consist of a
quarter-master general, with the rank, pay,
and emoluments of a brigadier general, two
deputy quarter-masters general, and sixteen
assistant deputv quarter-masters general.-
two military store-keepers. The subsistence
department shall consist of a commissary
eneral with as many assistants as the ser
vice pay require, to bo taken from the subal
terns of tho line. Tile medical departmeht
shall consist of one surgeon general, one a-
pothecary general, twenty-five surgeons, and
twenty-four assistant surgeons, the latter to
' ave the pay and emoluments heretofore al
lowed to surgeons’ mates.
And be it further marl'd, That the corps
of engineers shall be retained iti serviep, and
consist of one colonel, one assistant engineer,
one lieutenant colonel, two majors, six cap
tains, six lieutenants, and six second lieuten
ants ; that one half of the officers ofthe corps
of ordnance, and one half of the topograplii-
at engineers and their assistants, shall be re
tained in service.
And he it further enacted, That there shall
lie appointed a judge advocate general, who
shall have the pay, rank, and emoluments of
a colonel of infantry', who shall keep an of
fice in the city of Washington ; and, in addi
tion to the duties which may lie assigned to
him by the President of the United Slates,
lie shall keep a record of all trials by general
courts martial, and report the decisions, an
abridgement of which shall he published from
time to time, as the President shall direct.
And be it further enacted, That all officers
ofthe army, whose continuance in service is
not provided for by this act, shall lie discharg
‘ fr
Sec. 4. Be it further ena e , ,' a | qq 10 paymaster's department shall consist of
■*» l^-ter generalb and nineteen pay-
tained in the 11th section of the act incoi po-
rating the subscribers thereto, as provldesthat
no director of the said bank or any ol its <>t-
ficcs of Discount and Deposit, shalLnold ins
office more than three years out of four in
succession, be, and the same is hereby re
pealed, ,
Sec. J. Be if further enacted, That the dj-
masters, The purchasing department shad
consist of a commissary general of purcha
ses, with a salary of two thousand dollars per
annum: and one assistant commissary ge
neral ofpurchases, whose compensation shall
not exceed two and a’tndf per centum on the
public monies disbursed by him, nor the sura
of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, and
ed from the service of the Unit ed States; and
that, to each commissioned officer who shall
lie discharged by virtue of this act, there
shall lie paid, in addition to the. pay and e-
inoluments to which he shall be entitled at
the time of his discharge, three months’ pay.
On motion of Mr. Cuthbert, the com
mittee then rose.
The Speaker laid before the House a
letter from the Secretary of War, trans
mitting a statement shewing the expen
ditures cf moneys appropriated fur the
contingent expenses of the military Es
tablishment for the year 1820.
The letter was ordered to be printed ;
and tbe blouse adjourned.
Wednesday, January 10,
Mr. Williams from the committee of
Claims, to whom was referred the bill
from the Senate for the relief of the offi
cers and volunteers engaged in the late
campaign against the Seminolie Indians,
made a report recommending that the
same do not pass ; which report was re
ferred to tho committee of the whole
Mr. Storrs, from the committee on
Roads and Canals, reported the follow
ing bill:
Be it enacted, fyc. That the President of
the United States be, and he is hereby au
thorised to convey to any state or states
which shall provide by law for the laying out
and completio *-ofany canal or canals, with
in such btate or states, such parts of the pub
lie lands of the United States which shall be
occupied by the route of any such canal or
canals,and the necessary towing paths, ditch
es, aqueducts, locks, culverts, feeders, dams
wasteiveirs, or other works connected there
with : Provided, that the plan or plans of
every such canal, and the works connected
therewith, with its route, and an estimate fc
survey of such lands through which the same
shall pass, shall, before the construction of
the same through such lands shall he com
menced, lie laid before the President of the
United States for his approbation, and rio
conveyance of any such lands shall he made
until such proposed canal or canals he entire
ly completed and navigable for boats.
Mr. Archer, of Va. then moved that
the House proceed to the consideration
of the resolution moved by him, direct
ing the Judiciary committee to report
certain facts with regard to the present
condition of Missouri, and their opinion
of what legislative measures may be ne
cessary in regard thereto.
An^the question being taken by yeas
and nays, on proceeding to the consi
deration thereof, it was decided in the
negative—Yeas 05, Nays 85.
.So the House refused now to proceed
to the consideration of the resolution.
On motion of Mr. Cobb, it was
Resolved, That the-, committee on Naval
Affairs be instructed to enquire into the ex
pediency of making an appropriation for
making an experiment of a machine, (a in
del whereof is now in the office ofthe com
missioners of the Navy Board,) for raising
ships of warfrom the water and placing them
under cover for repair or protection.
The House then having again resolv
ed itself into a committee of the whole
on the. bill for reducing the Military
Peace Establishment—
Mr. Cuthbert delivered his sentiments
iu opposition to the hill, and Mr. Fisher
in favor of it; Mr. Srni.h, of Maryland,
made some explanatory remarks; arid
Mr. Baldwin spoke at large against the
bill. When
The committee rose, and the House,
adjourned.
Thursday, January 11
Mr. Southard, from the committee on
Indian Affairs, reported a hill to conti
nue in force for a further lime the act
establishing Trading Houses with the
Indian tribes ; which was twice read unc!
committed.
On motion of Mr. Whitman, it was
Resolved,That a committee be appointed
to enquire into tho expediency of reviving
and continuing in force for a limited time,
so much of an act, the prov isions of winch
parity expired on the 1st of November, 1319,
entitled “ An act regulating tin*, currency
within tho United Slatesof ilic gold coinsof
Great. Britain, France, Portugal, and lipafti
end the crowns of France, and 5 franc piec
vs," as relates to the gold coins of those
countries. .
Mr. Cobb submitted for consideration
the following resolutions ;
Resolved, That the committee on Naval
prdicncy of limiting by law the number of
able seamen, ordinary seamen, and boys, to
lie annually employed in the service of the
United States; and also the expediency of
reducing the number now in actual service.
Resolved, That the committee on Revolu
tionary Pensions be instructed to enquire in
to the expediency of reducing the pensions
now allowed, under the aets of Congress, to
eertain persons engaged iu the lund and na
val service of the United States, on conti
nental establishment, during the Revolution
ary war ; so that hereafter the pension al
lowed to each officer shall be twelve dollars per
month, and to the privates five dollars per
month.
The first of these resolution* was a-
greed to without a division.
The second met with great olqection ;
in consequence of which Mr. Cobb mo
dified it so as to make the enquiry gene
ral, by erasing the words in italic.
On the resolution, thus modified, there
were ayes 63, noes 69. So the resoluti
on was not agreed to.
Mr. Archer, of Va. rose and said that,
is, by the notice given yesterday,* by a
gentleman from Massachusetts, the con
dition was realized upon which alone,
recording to his former declaration, he
should not repeat that call until after
Monday next, the day named by the gen
tleman from Massachusetts for calling up
his resolution.
From the National Advocate.
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.
The National Intelligencer of Monday
contains a portion of the correspondence
called fur by Congress, between the Execu
tive of thr United States and the maritime
pcnVers of Europe, in relation to the African
Slava Trade. The note of Mr. Adams,
which accompanied the communication of
tho papers, furnishes the following state
ment :
“ With the exception of a note'from tbe
late Spanish Minister Onis, communicating
a copy of tho Treaty between Spain U Great
Britain on this subject, the only government
of Europe with whom there has been such
L'orrespondeuce is that of Great Britain—and
these papers contain uN that has passed be
tween them, on the subject, iu writing.—
Since the arrival of Mr. Canning, various in
formal conferences between him and the se
cretary of state have been held, in which the
proposals on the part of Great Britain have
been fuf
* This reference Is to n notice, yesterday giv
eri by Mr. Emtis, that on Monday next lie
should move for the consideration of his reso-
lution for the admission of Missouri into the
Union, conditionally Hint she expunge from her
constitution the clause concerning tree people
of color.
THE UNITED STATES BANK.
The outline of a debate of a very in
teresting character will be fbtind in our
paper of this day. Strong constitutional
doubts are very gi s rally entertained,
as to the right of Congress to incorpo
rate any associations to exercise powers
beyond the district of Columbia ; they
have, however, incorporated an im
mense Bank, anti its pressure is felt in
various parts ofthe United States. This,
however, does not seem sufficient for
some gentlemen ; they are for making the
United States Bank absorb or at least
have a controlling power over all other
Banking Institutions in the Union. There
is a disposition in all associations of men
to increase their own power, and Con
gress are by no means an exception to
the rule. They seem inclined on every
occasion to encroach upon the sovereign
ty of the States. This is their beset
ting sin, and it behoves the People, and
the State .Governments, to be watchful
„n this subject.
Let us for one moment inquire at what
tidie, and under wlint circumstances it is,
that Congress are considering the propri
ety of enlarging the powers and increas
ing the influence cf the U. Stales Bank.
In this city we have lately been publicly
told, that the President of the Bank, Mr.
Clieves, has already secured a sufficient
number of proxies to cuable him to put
in, and to put oat, of the Direction,
whomsoever he pleases. Having this
power, lie is the Board of Directors, and
at all times and upon all occasions, com
mands its vote. The United States B
has more than twenty Branches ; the
Directors, the Cashiers, the. k.c. of all
those Branches, are appointed by the
Board of Directors of Philadelphia, who
are themselves declared to lie selected
ned elected by the contfidiug influence
ofthe President ofthe Bank.
Thus is the well-being of thousands,
the interest and accommodation of the
government, and under particular cir
cumstances, the existence of the nation,
made dependent on the w him, the cap-
i ice, the ambitioA or any other feeling or
passion of an individual ; yet u.e Con
gress engaged in discussing one proposi
tion after another, tending to increase
the power and influence of this individ
ual. It is not necessary to animadvert
upon such a state of things ; a mere state
ment of facts is sufficient to awaken pub
lic attention and excite watchfulness in
the people and constituted authorities ol
tbe country.—Phitad. Press.
fully discussed, without effecting a re
moval ol' the objections upon which the pre
sident had, in the first instance, found him
self under the necessity of declining them.—
They have not yet terminated, nor have any
written communications passed on the sub
ject, with the exception of the. notefrom Mr.
Canning, and tho answer to it herewith sub
mitted, both of a date subsequent to that of
the resolution ofthe House.’
The note of the Chevalier de Onis in a
characteristic contrivance of diplomacy.—
He traces the share which Spain lias had in
the African slave, trade, entirely to her Hu
manity and Piety. “ By t;he introduction of
this system,” he says, “ the negroes far from
suffering additional ills, or being subjected
While in a state of slavery, to a more painful
life than when possessed of freedom in their
own country, obtained the inestimable ad
vantage ofthe knowledge of tiic true God,
and of ill the benefits attendant on civilizati
on.” This odious sophistry and misrepre
sentation is of an antiunt date, nnd was tlio’t,
long before the repetition of it in this way by
the Chevalier de Onis, to bo completely ex
ploded. We. may wonder that any one
vvouid now hazard it on any occasion, much
less in an official note addressed to an en
lightened government. The hardihood of
the writer degenerates into burlesque, when
ho proceeds to relate the motives which in
duced his sovereign Ferdinand VII, to form,
in 1818, the treaty with Great Britain, stipu
lating that Spain wholly renounced the slave
traffic from the month of May, 1820.
“ His majesty,' (it seems,] discovered that
the number of the natives agd free negroes
had prodigiously increased under the nrm*|
regimen of the government, and the humane
treatment of the Spanish slave owners*—that
the white population had also greatly in
creased—that the climate is not so noxious
to them us it was before the lands were clear
ed—and, finally, that the advantages result
ing to tho inhabitants of Africa, in being
transported to cultivated countries, are no
the Report ofthe African Institution above
mentioned.
The letter of our Secretary of State, of
the 2d November IBIS, to Messrs. Gallatin
and Rush, which concludes the proportion
of the communication*, at yet published in
tbe Intelligencer, presents In detail the rea
sons of the American Executive for avoid
ing the arrangement proposed by Lord Cas-
tlereagb. Among those reasons are the fol
lowing, which we ahall quote as stated in tha
litter.
“ The admission of a right in the officers
of foreign shine of war to enter and Search
the vessels of the United State* in time ef
peaee, under any circumstances whatever,
would meet with unjversai repugnance in
the public opinion of this country—that there
would be no prospect of a ratification, by
advice and consent of the Senate, to any sti
pulation of that nature—that the search by
foreign officers, even in the time of war, is
so obnoxious to the feelings and recollecti
ons of this country, that nothing could re
concile them •« extension of it, however
qualified or restricted, to a time of peace-—
and, that it would be viewed in a still mure
aggravated light, if, as in the treaty with the
Netherlands, connected with a formal admis
sion that even vessels under convoy of ships
uf wur of their own nation, shall be liable to
search by the ships of war of another.”
We detest the slave traffic as much as Mr,
WiJbcrforce himself, and would as readily
concur in any national sacrifice eubscivicnt
to its real abolition; but we do not believe that
thu plan here stnted, is meant primarily for
that end, or that it would or could be effect
ually applied. We «lo not hesitate, therefore,
to express a wish, that those consideration*
against the concurrence of the American go
vernment, which we have quoted, rqtnniu in
equal reality and force as when so emphati-
longer so decided and exclusive, since Eng
land mid tile United states have engaged i(
the noble undertaking of civilizing them in
their native country !’’
How mnchjyore ofthe sublime and beau
tiful there is In all this, than iu the tenor of
tiie reasons assigned at the Congress of Vi
euim u 131-1, by Count Labrador, tbe Span
ish plenipotentiary, for the refusal of Eerdi
naud’s Cabinet to accede to any plan of abo
lilion at that period. The Chevalier de Onis
warily forgot that Ilia master received four
hundred thousand pounds sterling as the eon
Treaty with Great Britain
Affairs be instructed to enquire into theexr
FnANKFORT, (Ken.) Doc. 21.
The following amendment lias been
made by the Senate, to the supplemental
bill to the. Bank ofthe Commonwealth of
Kentucky :
Provided, The salaries of any of the
officers of said branch banks, which
be allowed under the provisions of thii
t, or the net to which this is a supple
ment, shall not commence until the
branch of which tlipy are officers, shall
have commenced banking—and Provided
also, t lint tbe board of directors of nay
of the Branch Banks, shall not allow
their cashier move Ilian $ 8C0 per an
num, nor their clerks more than $ GOO
per nnn.
A bill has passed the House of Repre
sentatives leasing the Feniienliary to Jo
el Scott of Scott county, for the term of
seven years—on the condition, that he is
to establish a Woollen Manufactory, suffi
cient to give employment to fifty persons.
The convicts are contemplated to be em
ployed in this business ; and for the
purpose of promoting enterprise, the
Legislature have appropriated four thou
sand dollars.
aideraliouTor the Treaty
We need not add Hint tile island of Cuba has
since continually' served as the great entre
pot of tile trade, and that it yet remains lor
tiie new Spanish government to attempt the
correction or diminution of die evil fc sii
The letter published nex( in order to that
of Mr. de Onis, is one f rom Mr. Rusii, dat
ed London, February 8, 1818. After sug
gesting that “ the American legislators led
Hie way in tbe. transccniiant moral reform,”
lie mentions that it is “ jt triumph which as
little tiie courts us the public uf Europe
seem willing in any shape to acknowledge.—
America is oven placed in fault. In ids
Speech on tiie Spanish Treaty, delivered in
tiie House of Commons on tho Ulh instant,
Lord Castlereagh observed, that it was in
ruin fur Britain alone Iu shut tiie door of her
colonies against tiie slave trade—for that uu-
b-»s there was a concert of exclusion, the o-
ther islands of the West Indies, and the south
ern provinces of the United States would be
come the asylum and depot of it.”
• Tiie Southern provinces of the U. States!
language used in Parliament by a British
Prime Minister iu 1818! This is worse than
the ease of lung Charles, the father of the
present Ferdinand VII of Spain, who always
styled the American Ministers successively
at Ids court “the Ministers of the Colonies.
Mr. Rush has been at pains t-> infuse a little
knowledge into tbe mind of Lord Castle-
reagh, respecting the nature of our laws and
Union, and out share iu the enterprise of
abolition.
Then follows die correspondence between
Mr. Kush and his Loidslnp, and Al;'. Adams
and Mr. Kush, in relation to the proposition
ofthe English cabinet, that the U. States
should consent to u mutual right of search in
tnc African seas, with a view to the more ef
fectual suppression of the slave traffic. We
Imd already seen the substance ofthe cor
respondence in tiie thirteenth Report of the.
Afrieah Institution in Loudon, and are well
satisfied with the conduct,of tile American
Executive in declining the proposition.—
Lord Castlereagh, according to Mr. Rush's
second letter to Mr. Adams (April 1ft, 1818,
said that “’Great Britain had lately pressed
France upon the subject of tiie mutual search
between them and that there was no doubt
oflhe everftual agreement of France.” But
Lord Castlereagh, whs, to say the. least, far
too sanguine on this point. France perunipto-
rily refused at tiie Congress of Aix la Chap-
elie, and has not yet been prevailed upon to
acquiesce. Great Britain succeeded so far,
only, we believe with Spain and the Nether
lands. The other continental powers inani
cully alledged by Mr. Adam*.
The fdliowing at e the latest cf tho of
ficial documents on this subject, which
have been communicated to Congress.
Extract of a Utter from Mr. Hush to the Secretary
of Slate, dated London, A'ov. 10,1819.
“ On the 7th of this month I received
a note from Lord Castlereagh, request
ing that 1 would call upon him at his
house on the 9th. 1 wailed upon him at
the time appointed. '
“ Ilia object, he stated, was to say to
me, that the government of Great Britain
had lost none of its unxiety to see pro
duced among nations, nance universal and
effective co-operation than had yet hqeA
witnessed, for the total abofitiou of the
slave trade. It was still carried on, he
observed, to an extent that was afflicting.
Iu some respects, us the evidence col
lected by the African Institution and
from other sources, would show, tbe
voyages were marked by more than all
their original outrages upon humanity.
It was the intention of the Prince Regent
again to invite the Uuited Stales to nego-
ciate upon the subject, in the hope, not
withstanding what hud heretofore passed,
that some practicable mode might stilt
be adopted by which they could consent
to become a party to tbe association for
finally extirpating the traflic. That I
was aware of the addresses which had
been presented to his Koyui Highness
by hotli Houses of Parliament ut tbe close
of the last session, for the renewal of
uegociations with the governments both
of the Untied States and France, to effect
uate this most desirable end. That it
was his Lordship’s design to euclose to
me, at au early day, copies of these ad
dresses, as a foundation upon which to
build iu tiie new endeavour which this
government was now prepared to make.
In doing so, his object, however, merely
would he, that of bespeaking my inter
position towards making known to the .
President the measures contemplated ;
since it was intended that all further
negociution should be carried on at
Washington. This he thought indispen
sable alter the past failure, u3 it could
not be supposed that I was prepared
with any new authority or instructions to
resume i^upon this side of the water.
That the new minister, Mr. Canning,
who, his lordship now informed me, was
to sail as early in theSHining as practica
ble, ^yould accordingly have the whola
subject ingtharge, and be prepared fo
cuter upon it oti his arrival, under ar
dent hopes for an auspicious termination
of his labours. 1 replied that 1 would,
in the same spirit as before, make known
the communication to my government,
i adverted again to the obstacles which
the constitution of the Uuited States in
terposed to the project ; and also to the
peculiar and extreme caution with which
the momentous question of search min
gled with it would he looked at through
out every part of the country. I said,
that these reasons superadded themselves
to that derived from the failure of the at
tempt already made here, to give great
propriety, as it struck me, to a change of
the scene of negociution. That if anf
thing could be done, it could be done on
ly, or at all events, be done best, at
Washington. That the President, 1 was
sure, continued to possess all his origin
al sensibility to the importance of the
subject, and would entertain any propo
sals, differently modified, that were sub
mitted with the same anxious dispositions
fested an incurable distrust of her motives, I as ever, for a favourable result to theiff
and proposed schemes of their own, which, | objects.
though tending as directly and more surely I 'f he conversation went off by >e-
to the same end, ware steadily ^ected on | ferencc 0B rt to th , Koly League,
her side. It would be well for taosf aiMng ( J .. _ v_ *
us upon who:; attention the suhjeat may be J reanara-d, that, as the government cf