ton. A report was in circulation that Mr. Clay intended to throw his influence into the interest of Mr. Adams, by which the latter would gain the votes of several states.

Official documents were published towards the end of October, with a prefatory address from the President Boyer, in which the inflexible resolution of resisting all attempts upon the independence of Hayti is very strongly expressed. He states that the most pressing instances were repeatedly made to him by the French government to send commissioners to negotiate; that the first mission that he despatched was frustrated by chicane on the part of the French ministry; and that the last miscarried by an incomprehensible fatality which always diverts the French cabinet from that adjustment which it appears always so desirous to effect; by a tergiversation, which does not allow it, at the moment of concluding, to sanction propositions already admitted; or which causes it to renew pretensions which it had abandoned." The scheme of the French government appears to have been one of espionage and delusion.

The expedition which the Portuguese government had so long announced against Brasil has terminated as we predicted. The minister for the marine department has given orders for disarming all the ships of war, of which it was to be composed, except two frigates, two corvettes, and two brigs, which are continued as guard ships on the coast, and which are cruising in the Mediterranean.

At an entertainment which took place, some time after the victory of Junin, the President Bolivar drank a toast to the army of Peru, to the patriots confined in Lima, and to the triumph of liberty; he then added: "May the swords of the VOL. 1. No. 3.

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brave men who surround me, pierce my bosom a thousand times, if I ever oppress the nations whose deliverance we are now accomplishing. May the authority of the people be the only power on the earth; and may the word tyranny be erased from the language of nations!"

When the house of Braganza ascended the throne of Portugal, it signed the formula of an oath, all the copies of which were destroyed by the succeeding monarchs. One of the Portuguese ex-ministers, now in London, has nevertheless discovered a Dutch copy in the British Museum ; which shall be translated and rendered public. The Spanish and Portuguese refugees attach much importance to this document.

The entertainment which the members of the two chambers of the congress gave to General La Fayette, took place on the 1st of January. Mr. Gaillard, president of the senate, had been nominated to preside at the entertainment. On his right, was the president of the United States, and on his left, General La Fayette, the guest of the nation, with several American generals.

Among the persons invited, were M. George Washington La Fayette, and General Bennard.

The health of General La Fayette having been drank, he rose and replied in these terms:—

"Gentlemen, members of the two chambers, I cannot find words to express the gratitude and respect, with which the distinction of which I am the object inspires me, I hope you will render justice to the ardent sentiments of an American heart, and I request permission to give the following toast:

"To the perpetual union of the United States! it has saved us in moments of danger; it will save the world."

In the evening, Mr. Clay gave the following toast :"General Bolivar, the Washington of South America, and of the Colombian republic."

In one of the last sessions of the congress of the United States, the bill relative to the indemnities claimed by the inhabitants of Niagara, gave place to a warm discussion, in which England was accused of having, during the last war, violated all the existing laws. An allusion was made to the cruelties of Hampton and Havre de Grace, to the barbarities exercised there, to the massacre of the Americans, &c. &c. A member said, that Englaud, and not the American government, ought to give the required indemnities. This point is not yet adjusted.

It is said the new Spanish ambassador, M. Los Rios, declared, that the measure adopted by the English government was premature, because at that very time, negotiations were earrying on with South America, for the purpose of putting an end to all differences, and that the colonies ought to be declared independent of Spain, if they would consent to be governed by Spanish viceroys.

Risum teneatis, amici!

Some hireling journalists of the continent, at a loss to know how any longer to retain their honorable salaries, pretend that England not only set a bad example, by encou raging rebellion, but that she violated the express stipulation of treaties; and they refer, on this subject, to the 3d article of the treaty of peace, of amity and alliance, signed, at London, the 14th January 1809, between Mr. Canning and Admiral Opadoir. This article is thus stated,—

"His Britannic Majesty engages to continue to assist, as much as he can, the Spanish nation in the struggle between the tyranny and usurpation of France; he promises to acknowledge no other king of Spain and the Indies than his Christian Majesty, Ferdinand VII., his heirs, or the legitimate successors which the Spanish nation may recognize; and the Spanish government engages, in the name of his Christian

Majesty Ferdinand VII. never to cede to France, in any case, any part of the territories or possessions of the Spanish monarchy, in any part of the world whatever."

But it appears to us that, to the present moment, England has completely confined itself within the terms of this treaty ; for she has not abandoned Spain in the struggle against the tyranny of Bonaparte; and, as to the Indies, we do not see that she has acknowledged any other King than Ferdinand VII., for the treaties into which she has just entered, have been formed with republics.

When the English ambassador, Sir W. A'Court, took leave of the Spanish king, the royal family was at Ildefonse; as there was not a convenient hotel in the town, the ambassador requested of the minister of state a lodging for the night, which of course he could not refuse him; but the public building, destined at all times for this use, being now in a state of ruin, the person whose office it was to provide the ambassador with lodging, sent instantly a complete set of furniture into the pearest house, Sir William passed the night there, and departed the next day, without suspecting that he had slept in a prison; for his hotel was in fact a prison, in which there had been no prisoners confined for some time. It was not till some days after, that this circumstance was known in Madrid, where it became a subject of mirth to the diplomatic corps. It is also pretended that this was not a mere mistake; but that the king, stimulated by an inveterate hatred against Sir W, A'Court, designedly made him pass a night in prison,

This Number of the American Monitor was almost entirely printed when the news of the last triumph of Bolivar reached us. This happy event, however much a subject of joy, excited in us no feeling of surprise, for it was one which we had long foretold and which indeed it was not difficult to anticipate. In our next Number we shall be enabled to offer our readers an accurate detail, written on the spot, of this memorable battle which has at length put a termination to the long struggle that not long ago, held in suspense the destiny of the New World. At present, we confine ourselves to the statement of its results. Generals, armies, Spanish flags, all in this glorious day fell into the hands of Bolivar, all passed under the yoke. The last hour of the Spanish domination is arrived, and of the numerous kingdoms and provinces which, during three centuries, this monarchy possessed in America, it has now nothing left except a mere dungeon; the castle of St. Sien d'Ulloa. Yet will this tremendous blow be sufficient to crush the hopes of conquest with which Spain appears still to deceive herself? We think not, if we may judge by the ridiculous efforts that, in the last stage of her decline, she is still exerting to collect in some of her ports a new armament against America,

It is said, but without sufficient foundation to obtain credit, that a revolution has taken place in Cuba;