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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: