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Sj -eciiks live periods &
which tire regulation was enfor
ced.] ‘ :
The consignees of goods are
requir „*d to make an entry of them
in twc weeks after arrival, and in
failure thereof, to pay double du
ties for the same.
If on examinationof goods there
shall be found more or less than
is expressed io the bills of lading,
the officers of the customs are to
conform to the 29th article of the
snaratime regulations, heretofore
established in this case, even al
though they should have been al
ready apprized of the same by the
owners or consignees of the
goods.”
From the N. 2 . Columbian .
We are indebted to a corres
pondent for the very interresting
translation below. Marshal Mon
cey’s letter to Louis XVIII was
written on the occasion of las re-!
fusing to preside in a court mar
tial at th-i trial of Marshal Ney.
The reader will recollect that this
refusal of Monccy was treated as
contumacy , and he was ordered
to he imprisoned for three months
letter, ‘from marshal moji
-4
c e y,
To Louis XVIII. on /ns refusal,
to sit oti the court martial for
the trial of Marshal Ney.
Sire—Will your majesty per
-nit rue to raise my feeble voice
io you ? Will it be permitted to,
one who has never deviated fror.ij
the path of honor, to call tlie at- j
tention of his sovereign to the]
dangers that menace his person |
and bis kingdom ? Yes, sire, no
thing less than the imminent dan
gers of the state, would allow me
?c express my sell to you with the
frankness Which you ought to
expect from ah your faithful sub
jects, and especially from your
Marshals : from those who dart
ed “to uplift their voice, on the
most dibicuit occasions, when the
absolute will and blind ambition
of a master were every thing, and
the counsels ui wisdom and pru
dence were nothing.
.1 believed, that after my letter
of yesterday to the minister of
war, he would have judged suf
ficient the reasons which I gave
for refusing to sit in a court mar
tial where I could not preside.—i
i find myself mistaken, as he'has
transmitted me a positive order
from your majesty.
Placed in the cruel dilemma
oi c trending your majesty or dis
obey ing the dictate of my con
science, it becomes my duty toj
explain nay seif .o your majesty. |
I enter not into the enquiry!
whether Marshal Ney is guiltyi
or innocent.—Your justice and
the equity of his judges will an
swer it to posterity, which weighs
>n the same balance kings and
their subjects, Nut the subject]
on which 1 cannot be silent, and
on which I must speak distinctly
to your majesty, is the critical
position Into which you are rush
ing,—Alas ! has not enough of
Trench blood been shed ? Are
not ‘our misfortunes sufficiently
great? The of Trance
—ik.u cot. pushed to the nut ex
feme? And when it is neces
sary to realty, to r Tien, to calm,
it is then you arc required to
sign new proscriptions ! Oh
sire ! if those who direct your
councils had only in view your
good, they would tell you that
never did the scaffold make
friends. Do they then believe
that death is terrible for those
who have so often braved it?—
Is it the allies who require of
France *************
* * . —But sire is there no dan- 1
ger for your person and your au
gust dynasty from them ? They
entered the country as. your al
lies, and what title do they merit
from the people of Alsace, of
Lorraine, and of the capital ?
They have ck nanded the price
of their iriendcfliy— they have
required securities from those
they came to deliver—-they have
required the inhabitants of the
countries they occupy to deliver
up their arm?); and in two thirds
of the kingdom there remains not
a single fowling piece. They
have requited that the French
army should be disbanded ; and
there remains not a single man
at his colors; not a single piece
of cannon is harnessed. They!
have demanded the delivery of
lour fortresses, and if some of]
them still held out it is because]
their commandants cannot be-j
lie veyo u r ma\e sty has ord ere and j
their surrender. So much cor--1
desceosion ought surely to have j
! gofrened <heir passions. But,
| no i they wish to render your ma-j
jjestv odious to your subjects;—|
j they guard against every j
possibfo conger by striking off the i
heads of those soldiers & states--j
men whose names they damiot s
hear without being reminded of]
their own humiliation. j
,J2h he coniitilted*} j
8 PAN I bid AFFAI its.
r
Hie Secretary of State, to the)
Chevalier de Oni.% En,ov Lx |
traoidmary and Minister Plead
ipoientiary of his Catholic Ma-j
jesty.
Detft.oj State, Jan. 19, 1816.!
Si it —1 have iiad the honor to I
receive your letters of the 30thI
of December and 2d of January,
and io submit them to the Presi
dent.
j You demand that your sover
eign shall be put in possession oi
West Florida: that certain per
sons, whom you have mentioned,
shall be arrested and tried on the
charge of promoting insurrection
in the Spanish provinces, and el
iciting citizens of the U. States
jto join in it : and thirdly, that the
| dags of Carthagena, the Mexican
■ Congress, Buenos Ayres b oth
er revoking provinces, shall be
excluded from the ports of the
United States.
On the re-establishment of the
(diplomatic relations between the
United States and Spain, it was
hoped that your government
would not have confined its at
tention to the objects in which
Spain alone is* interested, but
have extended it to the injuries
oi which the United States hatfe
so long and so justly complaintdJ
> ‘ V
r .vuh h. view to sucn reparation
ju might now be able to make.—
[The subjects are, in their nature,
[intimately connected. In some
[important circumstances, indeed,
it is impossible to separate them,
since the exposition of the wrongs
of the United States affords the
proper answer, in those instances
to the complaints of Spain. It
is my duty to bring these wrongs
into view, that they may be duly
considered and provided for, in
case your government has, as I
am bound to presume, invested
you with adequate powers for the
purpose.
At a period anterior to either
of the circumstances mentioned
in your letters the United States
had suffered great injury by the
unlawful seizure and condemna
tion of their vessels in die ports
of Spain. A treaty, providing
an indemnity for those spoliations
was agreed to and signed by a
Minister duly authorised by each
government, but its ratification,
though negotiated and concluded I
m the presence of the Spanish]
government, was afterwards de
clined by in At an anterior pe
riod, too, the deposit at Ncw-Or
leans, stipulated by the treaty of
11795, was suppressed. As the
[United States had done no injury
fto Spain, these acts, so hostile in
itheirnature, St injurious in their
I effect, excited much surprise
| It had been the uniform ooject of
i tills government to make such ar
jrangements whh Spain, respect
ing the free navigation of the Mis- ]
jsissippi, and the boundaries, as (
I securing to our citizens the full
ienjoyment of their right*, would
i place the peace and friendship of
the two countries on a solid and
: durable basis. With this view
it was sought to obtain of .Spain,
at a tair equivalent, the territory
eastward oi the Mississippi.—
Overtures to this erect were,
made to the Spanish government
and rejected. Being renewed,
the Minister of the United States
I was informed that Spain had ced
h and Louisiana to France, to whom 1
she was referred for the acquisi-j
loon of such territory, in that
j quarter, as he might be instruct- *
ed to make. On the last very
(important event, the suppression j
[of the deposit at Nevv-Orieans, a
I special mission was instituted to
[France and Spain, the object of
which was to avert, b)’ amicable
negotiation and arrangement, the
calamities of war. Affairs had,
mote especially, by this act of vio
lence and hostility, reached a cri
sis, which precluded the idea of
temporary palliatives. A com
prehensive and permanent ar
range ment had become indispen
sibie, of which, it wa& presumed,
the governments of France and
Spain would be equally sensible.
The cession of Louisiana by]
l ranee to the L T ui f .ed States, was
the immediate consequence of
this mission, with such a des
jeription of its boundaries by the
treaty, as it Was presumed,
would leave no cause of contro
versy with Spain,
j The mission had thus sticced
j ed in a very important object, but
there were others of a similar
[character, which remained to bt
■‘trusted. Y ne diucietices witl
Spain still existed, and to the r
ivas added, a circumstance o
milch interest proceeding from
the of Louisiana, the
unsettled boundaries of the pro
vince, which were now to be es
tablished with Spain. Under the
influence of the same polity, the
special mission was ordered, soon
afterwards, io Madrid, to invite
a negotiation, for the arrange
ment of all these import vat con
cerns. Spain still held territory
eastward of the Perdido, which
by her cession of Louisiana, ani
its transfer to tae United States
was separated from her other dos
minions, and lay, except on the
side of the ocean, exclusively
within our limits. The irtinar-
tance of this territory to Spain 7a
consequence of these events, in
any vLw which might oc taken of
it, seemed to be much diminished
if not entirely lost, while in cer
tain views, of which it was sus
ceptible, it might prove highly
injurious. There was danger
j that ttie continuance of a Span*
ish colony there, might produce
jealousy and v aria not between
the tvvo nations. On the otlit t
hand, the United States had ac-.
qutred territory westward of the
Mississippi, adjoining the pro r*
diets of Spain, which it was su|>-
nosed, she might be desirous of
obtaining. By muttjfd -cessions
of territory, in quarters most con
venient to each other, and by
[forming art interval between their
j possessions, to remain vacant, the
j danger ol collision mrght be a
voided, ani their good under*
• staniiiigmere wtudiy pie
served. By rendering justice
likewise to the claims oi the U*
jSu.es, their citizens would he
contented; and their government
be better enabled ;o control their
conduct beyond their Ihnlts.——•
llere then seemed to be a fair
ground for amicable compromise
between die parties. Aa op
portunity was presented lor ter
minating every difference, auci
|securlng their future harmony,
j wit horn loss or sacrifice by either.
O i the result of this mission 1
need not enlarge. I snail re
mark o dy, th at the friendly pc’
jcy which produced it, was r
reciprocated by your gove
]ment; it was pemaps not f
it was certainly disregarded.*
Every proposition of the At
can ministers having these
jects in view, was rejected,
none made in return by yout j
vemment.
(To be concluded next week.)
CONGEEff S.
IN SEN ATE.—Jan. 25.
Mr. Bibb submitted the follow
ing motion for consideration i
“Resolved, by the Semite and
House ol Representatives o/'tf
United States of Amer ica in ( on
gress assembled, twrfhirds of
both Houses concurring, That the
following amendments to the
constitution of the Untied Sraie#
be to the Legislatures
of the several states, which wfien,
ratified by ihfte-fotmhs of fit
states, shall be valid, to all intefif
and purposes, as a part ofthe sa
constitution: