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A % ,SFT? T> A ’ XT A tAXTA/S A HP?"^ AMLKICAN ADVOLA ih. NO. Til] Published ever? Thursday! Morning, by George W.j Wheeler G? James Clarice, AT THREE DOLLARS A YEAR' — ONE IN ADVANCE. •WSM i amiSKL? •>., ‘ -JA >UU'MIM J* WJ* ■ From tne Baltimore Patriot, Important Development. The following extraordinary me morial, addressed to the Span ish g ivemment, bv Richard Rtymil Keene* a native Amer scat, has been recently recCiv ed from the Mediterranean : 0 f.CFENE*S MEMORIAL. tv The democratic govern tnerit of the United States, xmder the administration of the French ified Jefferson and Madison, no? only dn ing the actual war. bn long before that period, had giv en the strongest and most une quivocal proof. of its and sires and intentions to effectuate a separa tion of the Spanish Americas horn the mother country. 1 1 the sum mer of I $ 10. broke ! ‘©tti the msurrect on ot West FI or-, ida, instigated by the American! *jove; T merit, whoseAinresiraincd; pnd r c * e * l( * iT ‘ uVt) (j u stim ulare and 1 it to profit of the ir juries ana uus-’ forttmes which threatened to o- Ver whelm the Peninsula, and to get possession ot Baton Hogue, which was the theatre of the in tur ruction. The unworthy p-e-j text of the spoliation, as a Hedged by Mr. President Madison, was tint the country thus spoliated; belonged to Louisiana, notwhh-! standing that the same territory had b en denominated by his Britannic Majesty, and his Cath-j o!ic majesty successively as art) integral part of Florida, since the’ year 1 763, until the month of Au-j gust, 1 H\ 0 the date of the afore• ■ suul insurrection. In the tiioi th of June, JO { i, in OoniWmi if with his r> ques ! , corn grass granted to Madison author! ty to annex to the United States ’ the entire possession or both the Fioridas, although under condi ’ tons involving m them, the cor fiction and treachery o£ the chi f i of said FloricUs. rive persons eneharged with the revolutionary government of: Carraccis, received from Mr. J President Madison and his min- the most expressive declar ations of the profound interest they took in rh * good success oi the revolution of that country, <k of similar results in all the other | provinces, for the establishment | of which, he caused to be pre-j seated to such agents, a sample of the democratic model of the po pliucal constitution recommended Sbr their adoption, under the per v suasion and seductive suggestion Ifethat the president himsdf had W-ittei the aforesaid model, in , ebnsetuence of his great philarx f ia order i 6 ameliorate ;*r . *2l Louis vil Le, rn ur sna t, u arch zh, ta is. the lot of the sons of Spanish A : ! meric a. Emissaries and democratic a gents were sent to all the Spanish provinces to execute and organise the insurrection of the inhabit ants, and .as soon as any tempora ry advantages,were gained by the insurgents, certain special revo lutionists called consuls, were sent there with a view of assist- said insurgents by ah ack ‘ nnwledgement of their avuheru-, -?nd sovereignty ; am mg the nu me reus envoys, ra-iy he mention ed with exactness, the names • Mathews, Shuler, Robinson.K. ■ nr- S O | iron, and Poinu cite, destin ed for the Floridas Mexico, Havana,! Carracas and Chili, in the pre-| sent year the aforesaid govern | ment, tempted by the impunity of! their former proceedings with iv-j spect to their insiduous posses sion of Baton Rogue-, took by vi olence Mobile and the country east as far as the liio Perdido. Before the present war. and during the Presidency of Mr. j ! J ff trs on, a m iHtar y ma n n a mod! j Pike, penetrated into the interna] I ! orovinecs of Mexico, with the >b ! :.ject, as avowed hy the em issuryd | to collect all the statistical and to-j pograpbical information possibhuj in order to facilitate his govern-* ment in the extendon if their ter | ntbry to the Kio Grande, thus in-j ‘eluding to the west of Louisiana j i the entire province of Texas, part of that of New Saint Ander, New; Leon, Cahuaila and New Noille j Mexico, If any corroboration of the insidious and hostile attempts of said emissary, were necessary, the y are to be found in the memo rial of William Peter Baptiste Pina, deputy ot the cones for New Mexico. i By positive ard unquestion able information it is known, that an assemblage of vagabonds and criminals, instigated and abetted by the Amcricah’ government, have taken possession of the ter ritory between the above mention ed River Grande aftd Louisiana* calling it the state of Texas thus indierdng their confraternity and new relationship with the other I States to the North. From these facts and data, it is manifest, without doubt, from the practice of the American government, that it is its firm ami unalterable rlc termination to diminish and finally to annihilate the dominions ot Spsirfin the Ameiicas, and Ly i means of clandestine fraud, and open force, to promote its.own; aggrandizement by the infamous sacrifice of the legitimate rights and interests of the Spanish mon archy. . ■'The means St resources which ; tliat government possesses, to obtain the accomplishment of their plans and designs, are cer tainly many and powerful, par*! dcuiaily as relates to New Spain.; l m account of their proximity to. drat country, and the est-ibbV | ment and triumph of D movrac i and its comp ini m / ithtism. Once secured in the itnmens i regions of that province, its irn O 1 # A pious and destructive dominie cannot be lo r 'g retarded in the • ther provinces ; but as it sons times ban pens, that D vine Fa , id- nee in the spirit ot its goon >ess and benificen'ce, resolves t To portion competent means t iceiper and even to counteract th great calamities which thtcate. Hie dissolution of societies ; thu • t is, in the actual dangerous state jut Spanish America, exposed to he deluged by t e venomous lav? jot the twin DcvHs Democracy & | Jdidsm, that certain resources & j expedients present thVmselvts, | which being availed of \ y pdn Jmay be conducive to the estaV dishment of an intransuable end inseparable barrier for the de ter, ce and preservation of the * poEsesdons already to much ! threatened. j Louisiana, by the treaty of .St. | Ildefonso, of the year 1800, was I ceded by Spain to Franco under | certain conditions in favor of the j queen oi Etruria ; ana under the j express stipulation, tha: the s >a. \ pend nee could not be dLposta;: U;f to any other power, j Nip >leoti, notwithstanding this istiDuiaiion, always disposed to jvh.hite and treat wt.h contempt Rhe most solentn so id to president Jefferson.-, in the ; year. 1 TANARUS) j, the aforesaid territory 7 . File stipulation in the treaty of, St. iidelbnsG thus violated by Na poleon, by his ra e of Louisiana, was well understood by Mr. Jet far so vi. The president also knew that the purchase of Louisiana invol ved in it, the most fiagatious fraud as related to Spain, and likewise the violation of the political con sthution bf Ins own country.-—— Since then it is evident shat the government of America, has on ly the mere possession bf Louisi ana, stript of every species of le gitimacy, whilst the right cl pro party of said territory belongs to the Spanish monarchy ; it ha i been tlius declared and is still de dared by the citizens of the Uni ted States most distinguished sci their talents and virtues. From my residence more than three years in Louisiana, after the cession to the American govern ment, in the practice of the lav as a counsellor cd jurisprudence | and also in a military command,) had die very best means of col lecting the most exact iiitorma itiQn of every circumstance re 1. fsve to the country, and of the o pinions of its inhabitants, w ith re spect to its incorporation with the United States : and in all truth. 1 am authorized by my knowledge thus acquired, and by my sub.se quent correspondence with cci tain individuals oi the gtsatestin luence ii tliat country, io prove o i declare, and make evident, nt there L rot as important % or j-ct in the woffd of so easy atl a:c <tnphshment as that of the se* )iva to i oi Louisiana front said •ites. The principal motives vitich dispose the people of that v unity in the aforessid separa* ion may be reduced to die follows : igy— First The display f the vuiga ilies and excesses of j nre sirai ri c and r \< m o era cy. Secondly. 1. he scandalous c!e* grf elation of the ancient religiotj *f tha’conn'ry ; the Catholic, A rosndic and Roman Church be* ing subjected to the dominion of tiie civil tribunals, which mav al ways be presided in by Jews and Herbies, die most violent and m* vet crate. 3 thirdly. The prohibition of the lntro‘dur-ion of slaves for the cultivation of sugar, cotton, indi go and tobacco— the cultivation of which will have to he abandon* ed, unless ‘ihe introduction of slavespermitted—but the-e productions already so dimmish* ed in their quantity, ate reduced in their value ir> the extreinest most ruinous cheapness, on ao count of the impossibility hf the ( east exportation, in cnnsequence of site ctmrinual blockade of the Mississippi by the English squad* ron. Front these United causes oi disgust ahd discontent, pro* eecd* the most at dent desire of ttie people oi Louisiana, to separ* ate and 1 1 iv ut ce titeits* 1 ves fto vci their incestuous connection wit!* the democratic government, anti rcligiot.s and ?nd commercial, 6c in whose embraces they have been forced i\ violated by means of the nm cTiri a lions and ntiigues ot S;>rs. Lena Dane ai.ci Jet* fersqn. Since then it is true that the United Sian s have only the mere possession ol'Louisiana, strip! of all jii lice and legitimacy ; and this terrin-ty tints {rauduF ntiy and deceit!ally acquired, the said governrm nt make use of as the focal point or Jccus trem wh.ich the officers and rent gaco soldieiy of usurpation and disorganize* r ion meet to digest and mature teir flagitious plans; it is dear ly proved that both moral rights and sound and ‘iiue policy, cn the part of the Spanish govern* ment, unite in favor of, the p.<ro* iect of converting^..ouisiana, from. actual state, so prejudicial <k injurious, into an iiuraiisitable Sc tnexpugnable ban ier fb r tlte cle • ffnee and protection of the ad joining possessions of the Spani sh monarchy. The transmutation of ! oinsi* aria, a destructive chorny, irn.o Louisiana a friend and protedtor, is a project, the r< suit of which, s easy and practioaLVeJ v rms T the erection and cstablishtrßnt >jt tli&li iUvO r. J-0\ fVOL. I.