Santa Martha, to the river Atrato, inclusive of the I must, however, observe to you, sir, that general latter, by the commander in chief of his Catholic Morillo bas a naval force disposable and competent, rajesty's forces, and that if any vessel is met south as I conceive, to the object in view. That on the of ihe mouths of the Magdalena, or north of the pa- 3d of February there sailed from Cadiz, a squadron rallel of Cape Tiburoon, on the Mosquito coast, and of a ship of the line, two frigates, and several smallbetween the meridian of those points, she shall be er vessels as a reinforcement; that on the coast inseized and condemned as a prize, whatever may be tended to be blockaded by the said general, there her documents or destination. You state also, that are no other ports of entry for Merchant vessels than the ports of Santa Martha and Porto-Bello, are left those of Carthagena, Santa Martha, and Porto-Bello; open to neutrals. and finally, that the measure taken by him not being I have to state that this proclamation of general directed against an enemy's country, is not, as sta Morillo, is evidently repugnant to the law of nations, ted in your esteemed note, contrary to the laws of for several reasons, particularly the following: that public rights. The object of the general's proclait declares a coast of several hundred miles to be in mation is to notify the traders of forcign nations, a state of blockade, and because it authorizes the thiat he will maintain the laws for the regulation of seizure of neutral vessels at an unjustifiable distance the Indias, in their fun force; the observance of from the coast. No maxim of the law of nations is which had been relaxed in the latter times, by the better established, than that a blockade shall be con effect of circumstances, though modified, however, finel to particular ports, and that an adequate force in favor of neutrals, by leaving two ports open to shall be stationed at each to support it. "The force their commerce. You are aware that, agreeably to should be stationary, and not a cruising squadron, those laws, no foreign vessel was allowed to trade and placed so near the entrance of the harbor or with the dominions of his majesty, on that continent mouth of the river, as to make it evidently dangerous without a special license, and that vessels found for a vessel to enter. I have to add, that a vessel near, or evidently shaping a course towards, them, entering the port ought not to be seized, except in were liable to confiscation as interlopers. Not only returning to it, after being warned off by the block that part of the coast lying between Santa Martha ading squadron stationed near it. and the river Atrato, but the whole coast eastward 1 an instructed by the President, to state to you and southward of those points, from the Oronoco to these objections to the blockade, which has been the territory of this republic, belongs to the Spa. announced in your letter, that you may communi-nish monarchy, and, consequently, any vessel whate. cate them to your government, and in confidence ver, found nešir it, or standing towards it, can have that you will, in the mean time, interpose your good no other object than to carry on smuggling, or stir offices, and prevail on general Morillo to alter his up a civil war in the king's dominions; in either proclamation, and practise under it in such a man. case, the laws of nations recommend the seizure of ner, as to conform in both respects to the law of na- the vessels so employed. Actuated by a constant tions. desire to prevent the misfortunes which such inju. In stating to you these well founded objections to ries might occasion to the citizens of this republic, the blockade of general Morillo, I have the honor to I have, on other occasions, suggested a very simple observe, that your motive for communicating it, is mode of putting an end to them, namely that the July appreciated. President would be pleased to issue orders that no Thule the honor to be, &c. vessel should be cleared at the custom-houses, save JAMES MONROE. a specified port, according to the general prac(TRANSLATION.) tice of nations: the practice of clearing many vesDon Luis de Onis, to the Secretary of State. sels, for the West Indies generally, carries with it Sir---I have received your official letter of the a suspicion of a design to carry on a contraband trade, 20th of this month, in which you state that the pro- or to disturb the public tranquility in the dominions clamation of general Morillo is repugnant to the laws of the king, my master, and tlierefore the owner who of nations, as well because it declare. a coast of se- clears out liis vessel in this way, and without the veral hundred miles in a state of blockade, authoriz- certificates of the Spanish consuls, cannot complain ing the capture of every neutral vessel at an unli. if it be detained as suspicious In fact, what diffi. mited distance from the coast, is that it is an estab. culty can a merchant, acting fairly, have to specify lished maxim among the nations that a blockade the port of liavana, Kingston, Santa Martha, Guayra, should be limited to the ports where there may be a Porto-Bello, Rio Janerio, or any other of an indestationary and not a cruizing force sufficient to make pendent nation? None, unquestionably; since, in the entrance of the harbor or river where it may be case of not finding a good market at one place, he placed, dangerous, and finally, even in this c.se, a proceeds to another, with a declaration made at the vessel ought not to be captured when she is about port he touched at, of the motives which obliged to enter a port, save only when, after having received him to alter his destination. The wisdom and hu. ed notice of the blockade, she attempts to infringe manity which eininently distinguish the President it. You are pleased to state to me, that the Presi, and the administration, cannot fail to perceive the dent desires that I will communicate these observa- solidity of these observations, nor to approve the tions to my government, and that I would use my policy of his majesty in taking the most suitable good offices, confidentially, with general Morillo, so and effectual measures to secure his subjects from to modify his blockade, is to conform to the laws of the civil war which a number of adventurers are ennations. deavoring to kindle in bis dominions; and I there. I will communicate to his majesty, in compliance fore fatter myself that he will be pleased to take into with the wishes of the President, what you have sta- consideration, the expediency of adopting the meared to me in yo'ır note, and I will with ple: sure avai! sure I have had tlie'honor to suggest to you, by premyself of the departure of Mr. Hughes, to write to venting the collectors of the customs from clearing general Morillo, inviting him, in the execution of his out vessels except for specified ports, and notifying Blockade, to avoid the injurious etiects resulting merchants trading with the possessions of the king therefrom, 10 the citizens of this republic, so far as to conform to the established rules and orders, regumay be compatible with the security and tranquility lating, not only neutrals, but Spanish vessels also, of his majesty's dominions under his command that they may avoid the consequences of their non a observance, notwithstanding his majesty's desire to to your excellency upon this disagree.ible sung cf. afford them within his dominions, all'the benefits It is vain, sir, to liope that the United States will ord advantages compatible with the public safety ever consent to blockades upon the principles of and his royal interests. general Morillo; they will acknowledge none to be I hope that the explanation which I have thus ta- va which are not strictly conformable to the well ken the liberty to make, until I have received the known principles of public law; principles most answer of the king, my master, will quiet the anxie clearly defined and quite indisputable, to which the ty of the President as to the proclamation of gene. United States have always adhered in their own pracral Morillo, an l that it will be viewed by him as a tice, and to the infringement of which, in any forin, continuation of my earnest desire to reinstate the in any degree, or under whatever pretext, they have commerce of the two nations reciprocally, on the always opposed themselves. most liberal and favorable footing. The blockade of general Morillo is repugnant to I renew my respects to you, sir, and pray God to the law, because it extends over several hundrel prescrve you many years. miles of coast, and to an indefinite distance from the LUIS DE ONIS, shores, of course cannot be enforced as a blockade, Philadelphia, March 25, 1818. but remains a bare pretext for spoliatioi': A block ade by sea, to be acknowledged as valid by the Uni. Extract of a letter from the Secretary of State, to Mr. ted States, must be confined to particular ports, each Erving, dated having a force stationed before it, sufficient to inDEPARTMENT OF STATE, tercept the entry of vessels, and no vessel shall be July 20th, 1816. seized even in attempting to enter a port so block"You have been apprised already of a similar mea- aded, till she has been previously warned away froin sure, which was taken in regard to the vessels which that port. had been seized at Carthagena, and the citizens of I may be excused from dilating on rules 20 per. the United States who, under various pretexts, had fectly established, so consonant to justice and to been arrested and imprisoned there. i bave the reason, in writing to a person of your excellency’s pleasure to state that the applica ion succeeded, as knowledge and experience. to our citizens, though it failed as to the vessels. llis majesty, who does not fail, through his minisYou will interpose directly with the Spanish go-ter, Mr. Onis, to assure the United States of his convernment in favor of the latter, documents respect-stant disposition to cultivate relations of friendship ing which shall be forwarded to you either by the with them, and to that end to satisfy all their just present or some other early opportunity." reclamations, will certainly be sensible to the vio lent proceedings of which my government now comMr. Erving to his Excellency Don Pedro Cevallos, plains, and I persuade myself will not hesitate in first Minister of State, &c. ordering that the proclamation of embargo issued by Madrid, 26th September, 1816. general Morillo, be declared null, and that the Ame. Sir-I am ordered by my gover ment to apply to rican property which may have been taken under it his majesty, through your excellency, for the resti- be immediately restored to its owners. tution of sundry American vessels and cargoes which In this confidence I annex hereto a list of the ves. have been seized and brought into Carthagena, or sels already known to have been captured. other places within that command or vice royalty, Renewing to your excellency assurances of my under the pretext of a pretended blockade, issued very distinguished consideration. GEORGE W. ERVING. by Don Pablo Morillo, in December, 1815. When that blockade was communicated to the American government, Mr. Monroe, secretary of Schr. Adeline, of Baltimore, at Carthagena. State, in a note of March 20th, 1816, addressed to Friend's llope, or Baltimore, at Carthagena. his majesty's minister at Washington, formally pro- Schr. Count, of Baltimore, at Carthagena. tested against it; and it was hoped that on proper Charles Stewart, of New-Orleans at Santa Martha. representations being made by that minister to gen. Edward Graham, at Santa Margarita. Morillo, he would retract his measure, or if not, that Gien', of Norfolk, at Puerto Cavalo. his majesty, being made acquainted with the remon- N. B. It is believed that the cargoes of several of strance of the American government, would imme-these vessels have been confiscated without even the diately send out orders which might produce the form of trial. same effect, and assure for the future, due liberty to the American commerce in those seas. [TRANSLATION.) But it now appears, that as late as the month of Don Pedro Cevallos to George W. Erving, minister June, no alteration had taken place in the measures plenipotentiury of the United Stairs. of Morillo, no attention had been paid to the inter. Sir_ilaving communicated to the king your note ference of Don Luis de Onis, and finally the com- of the 26th ultimo, on the subject of the seizure of missioner, Mr. Flughes, who was sent by the govern- several American vessels in the port of Carthagena, ment of the United States to Carthagena, for the pur- (S. A.) in consequence of the blockade established pose, amongst others, of reclaiming the property on those coasts by general Morillo, and your demand seized, was obliged to return to the United States, of their restitution, his majesty has been pleased to on that point altogether unsatisfied. Indeed the determine that information shall be requested (se vice roy of Santa Fe, Don Francisco de Montalvo, pida informe) of the court of adiniralty on this bugives this cominissioner to understand by a letter, siness. of June 9th, whereof the enclosed is a translated ca. I renew to you the assurances, &c. py, that he the viceroy does not pretend to be ac. PEDRO CEVALLOS. quainted with the law of nations, and, at the same October 17, 1816. time that he goes on executing the arbitrary ad illegal decrees of general Morillo, devastating the Extructs of a letter from Mr. Erring to the secretary commerce of the United Staics, he refers the Ameri of Soute, late! can government to his majesty for redress. "Vari!, Dec. 15, 1916. 1: is therefore that I now find it necessary to write! “I had the honor, by my letter :. 93, (of October zarro. 27) to communicate to you the continuation of my is released, the Spanish government must refund the correspondence with Mr. Cevallos on various sub- money which it compelled him to deposit in the royal jects, and hy that of October 31st, (No. 24,) to in- treasury! What a wretch is the "adored king form you, that he had been dismissed from his em- for the paltry sum of 50,000 dollars. ployments and succeeded in them by Now Jose Pi- Petition of Mrs. Meade, and papers communicated by her in relation 10 Richard W. Meade. "I herewith submit to you copies of my corres To his excellency the president of the United pondence with this new minister States—the following case is respectfully submit"He has not replied to my note the 25th Oc ted: tober respecting Morillo's blokade proclamations." Richard W. Meade was born in Chester county, in Pennsylvania, in June, 1778. He went to Spain in (TRANSLATIO3.) 1803, to claim restitution of property detained at Don Luis de Onis to the secretary of State. Buenos Avres, in which claim he was unsuccessful. Sin-His excellency the viceroy of the kingdom He then established a commercial house at Cadiz, of New-Grenada, communicates to me, under date where he has ever since resided, in the character of of the 2d September last, that tranquility being res- an American ci:izen; and having held from 1806, tored throughout the whole kingdom of Santa Fe, till the present year, the station of nary agent of the and all its provinces having submitted to his majes- United States for the port of Cadiz. str. Meade has ty's government, the commander in chief, Don Pablo a wife (the undersigned) and nine children, now reMorillo, has thought fit to raise the blockade which siding in Philadelphia. he had established on those cousts, the causes having in their late struggles he rendered essential servi. ceased which obliged him to impose it; and that in ces to the people of Spain, as repeatedly and pubconsequence of this determination, the before men- licly acknowledged. In 1812, being in actual" adtioned viceroy has been pleased to open the provin. vance to the government of Spain, to the amount of ces of that kingdom, and particularly the port of near eight bundred thousand dollars, and being sa. Carthagena, to the commerce of the powers in ami: tisfied that the treas'rer general, Don Victor Soret, ty with his m:ajesty, under the regulations specified was using the funds, wilich by contract had been apin the printed papers, which i have the honor to propriated to repay that advance, he appealed to the transmit herewith. I hope, sir, that you will be pleased to bring this regency against the conduct of the treasurer; and receiving no satisfaction, published a pamphlet, conto the knowledge of the president, that he may see taining a statement of his contracts with the govern. the disposition of his majesty to favor the commerce ment, and its injustice towards him; in consequence of this republic in every thing that may be compati- of which publication, he was imprisoned for three ble with the security of his dominions, and that com- months, and then released on bail. On an appeal to. ports with his interests. the cortes, Mr. Meade obtained an order for the payI renew my respects, &c. and pray God to preservement of his advances, which order has been but par. you many years. tially complied with, and that under enormous saLUIS DE ONIS. crifices, amounting in many instances, to one third Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1817. of the capital, besides several years' interest, for which no allowance has ever been made. Mr. Estract of a letter from Mr. Irving to the secretary Meade also appealed to the cortes against the unof State, dated just proceedings of the regency in imprisoning him: “Madrid, March 10, 1817. ilie cortes reported the proceedings as illegal and (Proclamation of Morillo.) “On this affair I wrote on the 26th September, gainst the minister who gave, and the judge who, unjust, and decreed the constitutional penalties a1816, and was answered October 17th, that an “in executed the order. The dismissal of the regency Forme" should be taken of the ad. iraltazgo; I wrote by the cortes, and the subsequent dissolution of the again on the 25th October, and remain without any cortes itself on the arrival of king Ferdinand, pre. unswer." vented the report of the cortes against the regency being acted on, and, the affair being revived by the Case of Mr. Meade. supreme council of war, composed of men subservi. ent to the old regency (who are now all in high ofWe have received and attentively read the docu. fices round the court) it was lately decreed that Mr, ments laid before the house of representatives, at Meade should pay a fine of two thousand ducats for its request, by the president of the United States, the publication which they termed a libel on the in the case of Richard W. Meade, confined in the late regents. dungeons of St. Catalina, at Cadiz, by the Spanish It is to be understood that the affair above related, government. of the imprisonment in 1812, is altogether distinct The documents reflect great credit on our minister from the present confinement of Mr. Meade and its, at Madrid, Mr ERVING, for the unwearied zeal causes, though often erroneously blended with it: and great ability with which he has plead for the it will clearly appear, however, that the rancour prorelease of this injurell citizen-but he might as duced by the events related, has operated with many well have talkerl to "stocks and stones”; and the now in power in stimulating the present persecuwhole exhibits (to use a vord exactly suited to tion, the circumstances leading to which are as folthe case) one of the most rascally transactions that lows: we ever heard of. It is worthy of a king! In 1811, Mr. Meade was appointed assignee to We have not room for the whole of these documents, the estate of James W. Glass, of Cadiz, declared nor is there m'ich need for us to publish any of bankrupt in England, in consequence of his connec. them, excepung the following perition from Mrs. tion with the house of Hunter, Rainey, & Co. of Lon. Meade, to the president of the United States, and don, against whom a commission of bankruptcy had its accompanying papers: after stating that the his. issued: the appointment of Mr. M. wis made by the tory of the transactions as hy her related, are every tribunal of commerce of Cadiz, with the approbation way supported by competent testimony. There is of all the creditors in Cadiz, and was confirn.ed by no other cause for his imprisonment than that, if hel the assignees in London--the tribunal of commerce having cognizance of all commercial affairs in Spain, Catalina, at Cadiz, confined in a dungeon, with a senand all persons carrying on trade there (even fo- tinel at his door, and for several months locked up reigners) being amenable thereto. Mr. M. gave at night. bonds accordingly, to take charge of the effects of the estate, and to be responsible solely to the tribunal has made strong remonstrances to the Spanish goThe minister of the United States, Mr. Erving, for the proceeds, being prohibited, under the penalty vernment against these unjust and cruel prosecutions of the bonds, from disposing of the funds without of an American citizen; those remonstrance have the sanction of the tribunal. drawn from the king an order to the council, to des Having settled the affairs of the estate, and paid patch Mr. Meade's case; but there is at this time all demands thereon, there remained in his hands strong reason to believe, that, while such an order about fifty-two thousand dollars, which he several is given, to amuse the American ministers, a secret times petitioned the tribunal to be permitted to re-order is given to delay the decision, as the present mit to the assignees in London. The delays attend-state of the treasury would render the payment of the ing all Spanish proceedings prevented the petitions money inconvenient, it being apparent that the money being acted upon until Mr. Duncan Hunter, one of must be paid on the liberation of Mr. Meade. the principals of the bankrupt bouse, was sent to Cadiz, and when on the eve of getting the business foregoing statement, and particularly those respectFor corroboration of the principal facts of the settled, Mr. Glass (escaping from his bail in England) ing the deposite, and the circumstances under which appeared also in Cadiz, and laid an embargo on the it was made, the President is referred to the docufunds, under the pretence of having been illegally ments herewith sent. Copies of those relating to included in the bankruptcy. John M'Dermot was Mr. Erving's correspondence with the Spanish go appointed as the agent of Hunter, and Mr. Meade vernment have also been transmitted to the Departoffered to pay to Hunter or M'Dermot the amount in ment of State at Washington. his hands, on their giving bonds satisfactory to the tribunal of commerce, in lieu of his own: those persons not being able to procure such sureties as the tribunal would accept, that body, suddenly, and of its own accord, decreed that Mr. M. should, on the following morning, place the money in the king's treasury, until M'Dermot or Hunter should give the security required; it being declared that all Mr. Meade's property should be embargoed in case of non payment at the time limitted. In pursuance to the said order Mr. M. made the deposite on the following morning, and presented to the tribunal the receipt in which the treasurer acknowledged to have received the sum in question by order of the tribunal, to be held subject to the future disposition of that body. A question having been made, at the instigation of M'Dermot, whether the sum had been paid into the treasury in specie, or in treasury notes, the intendant answered, to an official enquiry of the tribunal, that "the deposit had been made in due form under his inspection, in effective specie, and that whenever the tribunal should order its payment, his majesty would pay it in the same coin." President, will not presume to add a single comThe undersigned, in making this appeal to the ment, but must await the result with trembling anxiety; she cannot however avoid respectfully intimating a hope, that if kindly disposed to act efficiently in a case so interesting to Mr. Meade and his family, the President will adopt some other means of attaining his purpose, than through the agency of Mr. Erving, it being now perfectly ascertained, that the representations of that gentleman to the Spanish government in Mr. Meade's case, are not received with that respect, or attended to with that promptness and desire of accommodation, due to their justice, to his station and conduct, or to the character of the country he represents. On the contrary, his communications have been treated with marked disregard, or answered by trifling equivocations insomuch as to render his exertions, however well intended and spirited, utterly useless. MARGARET MEADE, Wife of Richard W. Mende. Philadelphia, Dec. 4, 1817. Copy of an official letter addressed to Don Victor So ret, treasurer general of Spain, for the year 1817, to the treasurer of the revenue or provincial rents of Cadiz. Notwithstanding this, a suit was brought against Mr. Meade by M'Dermot, and the tribunal, aware that it had done wrong in ordering the deposite, decided that Mr. Meade should pay the money a second time! An appeal was entered from this decree to the superior tribunal, called abradas (Mr. M. having state, if the deposite exists, as yet, which R. Meade By return of post, without fail, you will please a right to that appeal by the 7th and 20th articles made on the 19th February, 1814, of reals, 1,050,327, of the treaty between the United States and Spain.) and 20 Maravedis, in virtue of a sentence of the roy While the cause was there pending, the plaintiff al tribunal of the consulado of the day prior thereto. (through the English minister) procured an order for the removal of the case to the council of war, at God preserve you many years. Madrid, where the sentence was confirmed. Mr.Madrid, 22d of April, 1817. (ANSWEU.) VICTOR SORET. Meade had a right to appeal but was refused. He petitioned the king, who commanded that he should beheard by the same court; but, as Mr. Meade conceived the judges to have evinced a partiality in the of the 22d of the present month, relative to the de In the moment that I received your official letter case, at Mr. Meade's request five new judges were posite of R. Meade, I sent a copy of said letter to the added to the five, of which the court was before administrator general of the revenue of the province, composed. In this state of the case, M'Dermot on the 28th of the same mouth, in consequence of presented a petition, stating that Mr. Meade was a-all the archieves corresponding to the year in which bout to leave Spain, and praying that he should be the said deposite was made existing in his depart compelled to pay the money or to be put in con-ment, and under his control, and under this date he finement, and the order was accordingly granted answered me as follows: (through the influence of the British minister) by the five primitive judges, though the king had ex-vince. By the archieves of judicial deposites, and "General administration of the rents of the propressly decreed that no measure should be taken in corresponding to the year 1814, which exist in this the case of Mr. Meade, but with the presence of the administration, it appears unquestionably that R, new judges. On the 2d of May, 1816, Mr. Mead Meade deposited, on the 19th February of said year was seized and imprisoned in the castle of Sta, in virtue of a sentence of the royal tribunal of the SENATE. ! &wer. consulado of the day before, the sum of reals of vel., same in the aforesaid document; and it is the strong. lon 1,050,327, and 20 maravedis, and that no sum has est proof that the deposite exists at the disposition eyer been returned to the present day, on account of of this tribunal, from the circumstance of the auto, of said deposite, which I beg leave to state in answer of suit, being still pending in the appeal before the to your official letter of yesterday, in which you supreme council. This tribunal cannot resolve to transmit me a copy of the letter received by you whom the sum so deposited is to be returned, and, fro:a the treasurer general of the 22d of this month. whilst the suit is dependent on the appeal, this triGod preserve you many years. bunal cannot regulate its sentence or proceedings. ANTONIO Y. SARBE. MIGUEL DE MARRON, Cadiz, 29th April, 1817. NICHOLAS BLANCO. CONGRESS. February 20. The president communicated to the Senate the memorial of the governor and judges letter 14th March. Copy of an official letter addressed by Don Julian of the territory of Michigan praying that the boun. Fernandez Nuvanete, treasurer general of Spain, of Ohio may be run and established agreeable to dary line between that territory and the state for the year 1816, to the prior and consuls of the the provision of the ordinance of congress of 1787, royal tribunal of commerce of Cadiz, and their an. and of the several acts heretofore passed on the In order to answer, with due or correct know. subject; which was read and referred to the comledge, a certain information or request, which has mittee on public lands. been demanded of me by my superiors, with the least Mr. Wilson submitted the following motion for consideration: possible delay, you will be be pleased to inform me, Resolved, That the president of the United States as early as possible, whether, by order of your tribunal, R. Meade made a deposite in the treasury of be requested to cause to be laid before the senate royal finances, or in that of the revenue? Of what a list of all pensioners of the United States, the annount said deposite was?. If it exists at present tories in which the said pensions are respectively sum annually paid to each, and the states or terri. and whether there is any impediment to returning paid. [Agreed to, on Monday following.) the same to him? God preserve you many years. The senate resumed the consideration of the JULIAN FERNANDEZ NAVANETE. bill for the relief of general Anthur St. Clair, which Madrid, 19th Nov 1816. was read the third time and the question stated "shall the bill'pass?” (NEPLI.) Mr. Barbour and Mr. Morrill spoke in opposi. Under date of the 19th instant, you were pleased tion to the bill, and Mr King in its support , when to say to his royal tribunal, that, in order to answer ed in the affirmative as follows: The question on its passage was taken and decid. certain information which had been demanded by YEAS.Messrs. Burrill, Crittenden, Daggett. Fromentin, Gailyour superiors, that this tribunal should state whe- laed, Goldsborough, Hunter, King, Morrow, Noble, Otis, Ruggles, ther it was true, that, by its order, R. Meade had Santord, Stokes, Storer, Tait, Talbot, Taylor, Vau Dyke, Williams, made any deposite in the royal treasury of finance, NAYS.. Messrs. Barbour, Dickerson, Eppes, Lacock, Leake, Maor that of the revenue? Of what amount it consist. con, Morrill, Roberts, Smith, Tichenor-iv. ed? Ifit existed at present? And if there was any So the bill was passed and returned to the house impediment to its being returned to him? of representatives. In reply to these questions, the consulado begs Resolutions were offered having respect to the leave to state, that, at the suit o John M'Dermot, supply of troops, on the Georgia frontier, with ra. who claimed from R. Meade, for ballance of accounts tions, the sum of reals of v. 1,050,327,16 maravedis, in the February 23. Mr. Storer having presented a course of the proceedings, this tribunal gave its sen- memorial from the owner of sundry fishing vessels tence, commanding R. Meade to deposite the afore. of Portmouth, N. II captured by the British and said sum in the royal treasury of the revenue, and carried into Nova Scotia, and praying relief-sub. this was done in treasury notes of effective cash, mitted a resolution directing the committee of comwhich said Meade bad to receive from said depart. merce and manufactures to enquire into the expement, and the deposite was thus made, the treasurer diency of providing by law for cases of a similar obliging himself to hold the amount at the disposi nature; (which resolution was on the following day tion of this tribunal. The sum deposited subsists, agreed to.) and though M‘Dermot afterwards pretended that R. [The senate adjourned on receiving a message Meade should deliver him said sum, without any re- from the house of representatives announcing the gard to the deposite, it did not take place, on ac- decease of col Goodwyn; and the next day passed count of R. Meade having appealed. The said Meade a resolution to wear crape in respect to his memo. applied to his majesty, and, through the minister of ry.) finance, there was issued a royal order, dated 10th t'ebruary 24. The senate further considered August, 1815, in which it was commanded that, in the motion about contractors for the army-of no the mean time, funds could be collected, wherewith present importance to detail. to return the aforesaid deposite, this tribunal should A message was received from the president in suspend its proceedings. This tribunal consulted compliance with the resolution of the senate, rethe supreme council of war on this point, and in specting the armories, &c. in the United States. virtue of a despatch, of which the adjoined is a Also a message respecting the reservations of literal copy, they submitted the auto, or proceedings, certain sections of the public lands for the pur. to the supreme council, as commanded by said royal pose of laying out and establishing towns thereon. order. The supreme council makes mention of the February 23. Several bilis passed through dif. of Ten. Wilson--21 2 |