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.VVJ77'.
irsiA.. jav. 7 Mr. Will 1 1., of
Trttn. Uum U i - t'oniui'ntec on Military
Affairs, to which was irlerred tins iesol
(ion relative to the Ceorgu Claim tor
military scrvicc-Ti ic:)!'-ied i; I7D2, 3, and
4, m.idu a n port, rticui.iMviiui-d by the fol
lowing resolution :
llmbhtd, 'Mi.it the Committee on Military Af
fair be iitntructcd to report a lull appropriating
Sl -V.Jri in C'tll discharge id the militia
claim of Georgia.
J IE CLMHF.IU AND K(l ISII.L.
The engrossed bill making an appro
priation for repuii'm;' the National l'.o.id
from Cumberland. to the Ohio river, was
id io read the third time, and, the ques
tion whether it should pass, being about
to he put,
Mr. Macon asked that the question
should be decided by Yeas and Nays,
which were ordered.
.Mr. Taylor, of Virginia, then rose,
und in an argumrnt of about an hour, sub
mi'ted hit views of the inexpediency and
unconstitutionality, not only of thin bill,
hut also of the exercWe by the Ceneral
Government of the power to make inter
nal improvements at all in the States; of
the impolicy and unconstitutionality of de
parting from the exercise of express and
? i li Ui i powers, to exercise concurrent
powers; the advantage and necessity of
adbering to the ttttc line of dcrrwrkulion
between the powers of the l'edcral and
State Governments ; his opinion as to the
ni l tier by which that line was to be as
certained, and where it exists, Sec. Jtc.
Mr. I aibot, of Kentucky, replied to
Mr. Tayi.oii. at considerable length -
co'itrovi'rtin and arguing against all his i
Ie oling opinions ; defending the constitu
tion dity of the power to nuke, and the
public adv intakes of internal improve-j
Tncnts; urging the particular value and
utility to the Uuion at large, of the Iload
in question, the necessity of preserving
it, hie
Mr. Smith, of Maryland, followed on
the same side. He urged particularly the
breach of faith which, if the Cumberland
Road were allawed to fall into decay, would
ensue with the state of Maryland, which
liad given her consent to make the road
through thjt state, and had subscijwe.ttly
taxed her citizens to make connecting
ro .ds. He also contended for the consti
tutionality and the expediency of internal
improvements by the General Govern
Tirnt, and replied to Mr. Taylou, on that
point.
Mr. Maco merely remarked, in refer
ence to an argument used in the debate,
tint, as this road was authorized original
It m be made through the respective states,
with their consent, there bad not been, so
far as the constitutional question went.
an broad constitutional question settled
bv th nukinp ' f tbe road.
Mr. Van lU nrs offered a few obser
v. 'ions i n iti incidental point touched by
Mr. Taylor; adding the npiu'nn, that
the lanre fxpenditute in making this road
will have been worse than useless, if it
were now suffered to go to decay, and his
desire to see it preserved.
The question being then taken on the
passage of the bill, it was carried by the
following vote :
Yeas Mcsrs. Barton. Ilenttn, Hoard
m ;.n. Brown, of I.ou. lirovtn, of Ohio.
D'Wclf. Dickerson, F.dw rds. Holmes, of
M .ine.II .Imcs, of Miss. Johnson, of Ken
tur'x v, Juhnson, of Louisiana. Knight, L in
;i, i. Pario't, Uugglei, Seymour, Smith,
of Mb Stokes, 'albot, Taylor, cf Indi
.aia. I homas, Van Uuren, Van Dvkc,
W illiams, of Miss. Willi uns of I tntics-
N vs. Messrs. (handler, rituliav,(',l.
.i.rd. l.hyd, of Mass. Lowric, Macon.
'lmi'h. of S. C Taylor, of 'a 0.
I I c bill wis then orJered to be sent to
.! II juse of Representatives for concur
;ct ( e, un I
1 be Senate sdjo.irnrd.
st rpitr.ssiuN of piracy.
v, t DNKsnsY, JA!. 8. The resolution
oH nil liy Mr. KoosFVion Monday, in
,ti urtin the (.'ommittce on N"vl A (Tail s
o inquire into the expediency of allow
in a bounty to the public armed vessels
an I pnvate aimed vessels of the United
Si iti s. for prisoners captured and the guns
takiM by them in:.nv piratical vcs'ic!,ivas
read lor consideration, and agreed to.
lilt.VWHACK i.N COUDAOE.
The Siuate then, arcouiing to the cr
t r of the day, resumed the consideration
i.f the bill to allow a drawback on the ex
puliation of cordage manufactured from
ftnMgn hemp- the question being on the
amendment proposed by Mr. Chandler.
whiih prnvidedth.it the hemp of which
t'.e i ordage claiming drawback is ntunu
I n tuted, had been imported within one
uif prp ceding, JcC-
1 l.e cuesiion ws taken, by yeas and
tiats, en ftitossing the bill and leading
it a thiid time, and negatived, by the fol
lowing vnte Yeas 1G Nats CI.
iHi nsnAY, jam. " -I he Senate, ac.
n i'tg to the order of the dav, took up
vhe Li I to abolish imprisonment for debt.
Mr. an Ikatsi nmved, by way of
unnff ('nifiit. u substitute for the bili, em
Srating several tec lions, and a Taricty of
prOvi i,i,s, at.4 tj i.ili Mi...raoiTi of ihs broad
principle l.dd down in the oiigin.tl bill.
lie taliped hh motion with some re
ni.nks i .vjn.iiuit.ji y of the amendment he
offered, iul the reasons why he deemed
the bill inexpedient without hi, modifica
tion. ,
Mr. Mills, of Mass, also submitted
hi icily his objections to the bill as tnigin
ally proposed, the reasons whv he could
not support it unless materially modifn d,
and certain amendments which he should
oiler in addition to those already proposed.
. Mr. Johnson, of Ky. replied to both
the preceding gentlemen, and defended
the bill against their objections.
I he bill was then laid over until to
morrow, to Rive time to prepare the fur
ther amendments which had been ug-Rested.
AMKNDMRNT OK TIIK ('('INSTITUTION.
fkiuay.jan. 10 Mr. Tayloii, of Vir
ginia, rose and asked leave to iuttoduce
the following joint resolution:
I, H'.lvil, bj li"' .SVuf will Hume. Hrpwit
Itttiw uf the 1'ititi il Slutr iif Amrrira, tivn ihirth
nf both ll'iiisrs conniiiin'f, That tin: following
amendment of the Constitution of the United
Slate In: proposed to the Legislatures of tuc
several state.
" The electors of President ami Vice l'resi-
dint shiill nie:t on the day of next
preceding the expiration of the time for which
the existing President may have been appoin
ted, vote fir a President and Vice President, ac
cording to the constitution, and make two lists
of all persons voted for, to he signed and certi
lieil by thcinj one to he delivered sealed to the
President of '.he United States, within days
thereafter, to he opened and examined by him ;
and if it shall appear that no person has receiv
ed the votes of u majority of the electors ap
pointed, the President of the United Slates shall
forthwith, by proclamation, and also by notifica
tion to the Executives of e ich state, puhlibli the
number of votes given to each person as Presi
dent, whereupon the said electors shall aain
meet on the day f next succeeding
their first tut i timr, and vote fur one ( I the two
person at President, ln nlmll hate, received,
at their lirst inettiiig, the greatest number ot
totes fur that oMice ; or, if it should happen that
more persons than two should have received the
greatest number and also an equal number of
votes, the said electors shall vote fir one of them
as President. The said electors shall transmit
one of the lists to he made at their first meeting,
and also that to he made ut their second, should
it take place, to he proceeded upon as the con.
sliliiiion has prescribed, except that the person
having the greatest number of tote ut the sc.
coml mt'cting of the electors shall he the Pres
ident, lint if taoor inure persons shall have re
ceived the greatest, and an equal number of
votes at the scrum meeting of the said electors,
il'.e lb-Mis- of ltrprrrnl:tttves shall choose one
of them for Pr si. lent in the mode prescribed by
the Constitution.
The leave ttas granted, ann the resolu
tion was read and passed to a second rca-
timer-
The bill from the other House, to con
tinue the present mode of supplying the
army, was taken up in the committee of
the whole.
Mi. Williams, of 'rennessee, obser
ved, that when the act f;rst pj,sed adop
ting the commissaiiat system, as it was an
experiment tn our military establishment.
it was made temporary and limited to five
years. If the system were to he continu
ed, it was now necessary to legislate on it.
He for one wished the system to be made
permanent, as it had completely answer
ed the expectations of its fiicnds ; but the
House of Keprcserta'.itcs had thought it
best to limit it to five years longer, and
he acquiesced in the limitation.
I he lull was reported without amend
ment, and ordered to a third reading.
IKH mK (iF lil.PIO.sF.NI ATlVP.s.
vtFnvK.sntY. jam. 8 Un motion
Mr. Moki.an. it w is
It.-.n'iri!, That the Committee on Naval
of
Af-
fiirt be in'nii ti ll to impure into the expedien
cy id iillouing Inthe wi.hmed mother ot Junes
Di ittics . late airunner inthe sen it c of the t'ni-
ted sitnUS ho was killed in the boat tilth l.ieut.
Allen, Ihc sum of one hundred and twenty dol
lars a tea:-, for fno teal's.
Mr- IsciitM laid on the t-b!c the fol
lowing resolution :
Hf.'.vrJ, That the Secretary of the Treasury
be dircne I in report to this House a statement
of the taistmn House bonds outstanding on the
I st of December, and falling due t ithin the
year lr.'.), tt itli the amount of debenturcschargc-
aiue upon me same, ami the probable expense
of collection-, idsis a statement of the amount
,,f bonus outstanding on the Ut of Januan . 1S.M,
sml at tlieruinmcucement of ea h ouurter dur-
ing that Hitr, with the debentures chargeable
upon the same at the respective periods; also.
the amount of revenue from custom which mil
pronaniy accrue in tt.e year l.s.'.,, ami tiie por -
turn thereof Wh will probably he re, eited in
the course nt that tear, statin? the svcrairr
amount which has been received on the nist......
also, a statement uf the tt hole amount of tl un- i rf Sf.uint with the intmlion cf concurring
expended balances of the ulnkiug funds, tl.stlti-. with all their firce in tuch fiana 'J txecif
at Frmee lhallbt in a Uua:ion tz
ci le lie ihstinpuislies the balances that x ill nr. '
crue against that fund in 1823 and 18: from ' ,
those of pr. ceding years hy Inch he proposes' " taking this resolution, the high
in hi annuul report of the i 2.1 of December, Continental Powers must have acted on
72, to charge the estimated unexpended bal. , an idea so simple and so just, that it will
anccsof 13..; and 124 umm the revenues ofi(),rjke a reasonable persons: they nmst
j have confided for the decision of a qucs
Ti e House then proceeded to the con-1 tion which interested them all, in that
sii'.rration of the unfinished business of.
yestentay, me diii "to incorporate the Na -
val fraternal -ssoi wtion when
Mr. McLask, of Del. -reca!ly to the
inumaiion nc gate esicruuy, ui litered, at
considerable length, his views in favor
the t)ill,uml was succeeded by the billow-' which have too long disturbed her: she
ing gentlemen : 'owes it, above all, to the virtues of her
Mr. ViLt.tAMS,of N. ('.against the bill. 1 King, to the measures which she has ta
Mr. Ki ccles, after a few remarks, of- ken lor nl.iciinr the coumrv in a suitable
fered the following additional section as an
amendment :
.2 hi Ai .i J.jit',i'r , uCci-ul, I n.'i ih.S S'.'Ulllll
not ha const rued to have any further force, au
thority, or etl'cet, out of the District of Colum
bia, than acts of incorporation granted hy the
Legislature of any one of the United States ought
to iuiti; in any other of the United States."
The amendment was agreed to 58 to
jj.
Mr. Wood then spoke against it, fol
lowed by
Mr. Hemphill, likewise opposed to it.
Mr. I' ill eh, in reply to its opponents.
The question lectu ring on the engross,
mcnt of the bill for a third reading, the
yeas and nays were taken as follows yeas
69 nays 92.
TH L' US!) A Y , J A X. Mr. C A M nil KJ.KNC
rose and said, that, when the icsolution
relating to the cane of Mrs. Denny, was
yesterday adopted by the House, his col
league, (Mr. Monc an,) was not aware
that he (Mr. Ci had then in bis posses
sion a petition and document upon that
stibject, which he had been prevented
from presenting by a rule of the House
he would now ask leave to present it.
Leave being granted
Mr. C. presented the petition of I'cnel
ope Denny. Mrs. Denny, he said, had a
double claim on the liberality and justice
of the nation : She was the widow of a
revolutionary officer and the mother of
James Denny, late a quarter gunner of
the .United States' schooner Alligator,
who fell at the side of his gallant comman
der. Accompanying the petition was a
certificate of Gen. Rout. Swartwout, sta
ting that the deceased, dining his life time,
had appropriated the half of his pay to
support his aged and destitute mother.
While the House were passing a bill for
the relief of the mother and sister of his
commander, it would not dishonor the
memory of a brave man, if it should be
accompanied by a bill for extending the
same justice to the mother of an humble
but gallant sailor.
The petition was referred to the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs.
INTFJX1C FAXT.
lie comes, the herald of a noisy woild,
New s from all nations lumh'riog ut his b:u k.
liti: .iv LH'(iur.uT mo.u i.v.
AO'.'.
rooM tiik x. i. MLNctsTtir oivtirinn,
IJic Packet ship James Mutuoc, arriv
ed below yesterday morning from Liver
pool. She left that port on the 17th of
November, but put into Milford Haven on
the 25th, in consequence of iolent wes
terly gales, and sailed thence on the 7th
December.
("apt. Marshall has obligingly sent tis
tip in a pilot boat (which brought up his
letttr bags,) London papers to the even
ing of the 5th of last month
Fr'ini llit Lvmlun (Wire, Dec. J.
A very speedy confirmation, indeed.
has anived of the important intelligence
we announced yesterday" That Trance
had succeeded in enforcing the clair.i
which she had urged from the commence
ment of the sitting of the Congress to the
right of an armed intervention in the af
fairs of Spain." We announced at the
same time, that some of the ministers to
the Congress, probably the Duke of Wel
lington and isrouutc de Montmorency,
had taken their departure. TheMMii:rur
of Sunday last announces the return of M .
Je Montmorency on Saturday the Duke
of Wellington was to leave Verona on the
2 ith of last month M. I'ozzo di Uorgo,
the Russian Ambassador to Trance, was
to arrive at l'aris to day the King of
Prussia was to leave Verona on the C?d
to return to his capit I and ti ns the
mtlin points which have occupied the at
tcntion of the Congress tuny be consider
ed as having been derided.
From the .Vniitfttr of Sn'uhii' hut.
His! xcclletiry Viscount Montmorency
jariiied here yesterday, on his return fiom
j the Congress of Verona, and had an inter
view with the King.
" After such contradictory rumors as
have been current on the state i f cur te
lations with Spain after the discussions
which have taken place on this inexhaus
tible subject durinir the conferences at
jVeiona after the indecision which so
t h
, ' , , . r , . '
! W,,erf P' ll"",!' e fchall find, perhaps, a
; sufficiently solid basis for new conjectures
! in the assurance ihut France hai iccufiit '
. at the Cunrtt of Vtrma the flare which
j 4f ow?f ,0 hrr a'wg ,hf momrthirt rf .'.
1 . , , , ,
! rof'r ' Bnd "ial .'enrrj leave
; to hrr the end aid lernwiatiun cf the affairs
Power whose interest in this question was
; the most immediate. Ibis mark of con
j fidenre, soimpotta-it for Trance, she owes
j to her own wisdmti, to the power she has
, recovered since ideas ol order have tn
ofjumphed overtlmse Uissrntions and errors
a'titude to observe the serious etnt of
I the Peninsula ; finally, she owes u to that
ufiuiiiniilf ct" wishes uiid ..ctitiriiCi.ia 1
'tbich ;t whole pc'iple have recently testi
lied the confidence which it places it) the
government. Doubtless this important
result must be to all the Interest!' enga
ged in this question a pledge of security
with rcspec. to the ramifications which it
may assume."
From the I'tirie pc:frr.it Dec. '2.
The Congress has changed its place $ it
is no longer at Verona. According to an
article in the Moniteur of yesterday, it
will be for Spain at l'aris for Italy at
Vienna and for the Ka'..t wherever the
Lmperor Alexander may happen to be.
A new political system is to take the
place of the old. Instead of admitting
into T.iuope only one single interest (that
of the Holy Alliance) the new r.ystcm of
policy reduces every thing to the particu
lar interest! of each separate State.
We remark, however, i hat th Moni
teur seems indirectly to exclude England
from that honorable union which has pla
ccd in the hands of the Trench Govern
ment the balance on which, relative to
Spain, the body cf the Muropeuri Cabinet
ought to rest. Will that Power consent
to be thus ilisrcgiirdeil ? Hut if Lnglund
docs not consent to the intervention, will
it preserve ut least neutrality J The Mon
iteur has not released tis from this dii'.i
culty. He this as it may, it neccs'iarily results
from the article in the Moniteur, that
Trance, in the name of the high Conti
nental Povvt-is of T.urope, is goin;; to cu
ter into new negotiations with Spain.
We know not whether Trance ought
on this accMint lo congratulate herst lf on
the triumph of her diplomatists. We al
so do not know whether our merchants
ought to rejoice at that triumph. At
present, from the nieie fear of war, it is
difiknlt to insure at London the n turn of
a Trench ship fiotn India ;.t '') per cent.
What will the insurance be if war break
out ?
Hut it is not yet deride!. It i at Pa
lis the fpicstion is now t. bu agitated,
since it has not been iUcideil.it Verona.
The speedy arrival of the Tuil.u of Wel
lington and the Russian Ambassador is
announced, who may be regard til as the
representatitesof peace and war. Il they
have any thing to say to our Cot eminent,
it will no longer be in the gem-rat inter
est of the Holy Alliance, but iti the par
ticular interest nf tncir Cabinets. Such
is the nevjj diplomatic jutisprudence e.
tablishcd at I.aybai h, and confirmed at Ve
rona. 'The Holy Alliance is nothing, the
vicinage is every thing;. It is in virtue
of this light that Austria invaded Naples,
that Trance wishes to invade Spain, that
Pussia will, without doubt, invade the
Last. If we do not elective ourselves,
this was the law of nations before there
was ony Holy Alliance, and the IIolv Al
liance was only created to make this law
of the nations disappear.
.'.rfrdi "fll Vl ilfc'. '.'e-.J
i.HOSA, Nov. '21 The principal, and
pcihaps, in rcalitt, the only object for
which the Congress was assembled at Vc
rona, wjs the politic-l situation of the
Spanish and Portuguese Mon:uciics
The conferences an, I deliberation upun
that point are terminated. With the ex
ception ,f the Sovereigns and Ministers
who have taken a share in tin r.i, there is
nobody who is positively acquainted wi'.h
their result.
There have been f.iiir or five sittings of
Congress t-prtially !rsnti to the alVa'ns
of Spain. I he Duke of Wellington has,
on eat h nri-asioti, declared in u formal
tnannrr. his hostility to ctcry s;nicscf
at mcd intervention ; and in so doing has
been supported by Austria and 1'iussij.
lli.soia luss appeared tj incline ta the op.
positc side, but withr-tit urging1 her opin
ion with much weight. I he Trench di
plomatists were busily employed in point
ing out the danger to which their country
would be exposed, wcic royal aulhorily to
be left as feeble as the constitution of the
Cortes had made it-
At the last sitting, it is said the Trench
diplomatists endeavored to destroy the ar
guments against a rupture with Spain,
and have succeeded in obtaining; this de
cision in their favor s that every power
having the indisputable right to make war
against the other, when it thinks that it
has just and imperative reasons for so do
ing, Trance may employ that right against
Spain, if she thinks propcr,but that in such
case the other Powers should be bound in
honor to remain neutral.
It is added, that, after this decision of
Congress, the Kmperor of Austria, and
even the T.mpcrorof Utissia, as well as a
majority of the Ministers, particv.htly the
Duke of Wtllintun. hate, in a friendly
manner, advised the Ministers of Trance
not to undertake this war, or at least, re
flect 0:1 it well and maturely beforehand,
as it might place in dancer the repose of
T.urope ; an event of which it is not diffi
cult to foresee the melancholy conse
quences. Tar sonic dm past there has arrived
here positive intelligence that many for
eign merchant hate demanded letters of
marque from the Spanish Government,
for the purpose of arming privateers in
case a war should take place between
Trance and Spain ; and that a great ipian
tity cf these letters of marpie have al
ready been transmitted to different Span
ish tVi'-t-W. particti' irlv those tesidt nt in
Lnglans n order that they may bedeliy-
ercd to the privateers at the very moment,
that they may receive official knowledge
of the declaration of war.
There are other subjects to he acted
upon ; it is said that the conduct of the
Porte has been severely characterized by
the Congress, and even by the Duke of
Wellington himself ; that the Kmperor
Alexander has shown great indignation at
it ; that his Imperial Majesty has no long,
er any hope of an accommodation ; and
that he only waits for the arrival of the
Count dc Lutzow, to declare his definitive
determination respecting Turkey. The
envoys from the Creek government havo
not been ''uialtj admitted to the pres
ence of the Sovereigns.
With regard to Naples and Piedmont,
the report b very general that the sove
reigns of these two countries and their
ministers have uacd every exertion to get
the Austrian troops withdrawn front them,
but that Austria has thrown threat obsta
cles in the way of their demands, which
found onlv a very feeble bupport in one
of the principal members of the Con
gress. People arc in consequence con
vinced that the two extremities of Italy
will still for a longer time be occupied by
Germans. It ii believed that the princi
pal reason urged by Austria was the sit
uation of the Spanish Peninsula.
F.xtruct uf u Utter to the London Courier.
PABiS, DEC. 2.
" Despatches were sent ofT this after
noon to Spain. The question of a decla
ration of war, will, in all probability, de
pend upon the answer to these despatches.
The decision of the Congress was sent
olV to Madrid from Verona, and the des
patches now spoken or, are supposed tj
conl-iin a statement of the views of Trance,
and a icijui.sition to ;!o certain acts, on
the refusal to comply with which requi
sition, a war is threatened.
" The I.te accounts from Madrid by
no menus lead to the expectation, that the
present government of Spain will be will
ing to make any concessions for the sake
of preserving peace. The last advices
fin m Madrid ate only eight days old, and
by them we find that ' the Cortes wa,
adopting- very ctivc and vigorous mtas
iiie to rai c a large military f:rce.' The
conduct of Trance was fitely spoken of,
I and loudly condemned, in a recent debate.
when it wuj again required, that Tnucc
should giic a clear and categorical an
swer to the question, as to her intention
in bringing so large an ainiy on the fioii
tiers. It stems that this demand wa;
answered hy a statement on the put m
the Spanish ministry, that negotiations
were pending on the subject. It was de
clared in'this decision, according to 4 pri
vate letter, that but for the aid of Trance
in money, arms, and protection, the re
bellion in the north-cast would have been
terminated long since.
The above is the substance of the in
telligence received at London, where i:
produced an unusual sensation. Cabinc".
councils were frequently held, and the
stocks had fallen to T). The Trench
stocks had fallen to 86, 80. TheCotiric -of
the 4th remarks that " war must lake
..'.! : bmveen France and 'Spain, unlos .
nie of two things happen, which we have
not, at present, the least right to expect
1st, that the Cones will abandon their
constitution, and consent to model one on
the views and principles of the continen
tal powers ; or, 'Jelly, that Trance has per-
si tcd with such constancy and drtcrmi-
nation in getting her claim of a tight to
an armed intervention with the auVirs ot
Spain acknowledged, without hating the
intention of exercising it. What a ti
dimlous fig'ire would she cut in the eye
of T.uiopean powers particularly inthoso
of Spaiii ! They would argue in this
tv.iy " I he 'I-ily Alliance think to in
timid.iie us by thieats, hut dare not cany
them into execution." W hy, in that
case, infinitely more injury than bene!'',
would be done to the cau,c f legitimacy,
ami it would have been bet!cr that the
claim of linht h id never been enforced,
but that Spain had been left u.mvxieci!
and untouched, to all the mischief of ev
olutionary warfare.
Upon these grounds, which appear to
us perfectly p!ain and natural, we cannot
but he of opinion, that war will take plare.
And, us far as we are able to ascertain,
both pai ties have for some time been
making preparations for such an event.
Nor has Trance been backward on her
part. She has been gradually increasing
her army on the Spanish frontiers; and
! we sec, by a decree inthe Moniteur of
Sunday, that she has ordered 40,000 men
of the class of Z22 to be called out.
With respect to the leports in the
Trench papers, of a commercial treaty
between Lngland and Spain, we can say,
that no such treaty has been made tho'
it is understood that in two or thiee sit
tings f the Cortes about the 2oth of last
month, authority was demanded by the
Minister for Toieign Affairs, to ticgotiato
not only a commercial treaty, but a treaty
of alliance offensive and defensive with
this country. Whatever foundation there
may be for the report of such a demand
hating been made, we may safely take,
upon ourselves to assert, that next to t! ,t
wish that T.urope should remain at pea re.
is the detetmination of our governr ictif
to be strictly neutral in the war th, , ap
pears to he impending. Of course such
a determination will be totally ihec mpati
ble yiih the policy of entering 1 tto ar.