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On the 16th, (lie British plenipotentiaries ad dressed to uh & note, enclosing the conire projet (marked 2) t and on the 17th we transmitted our answer (marked 3.) Tho whole subject was -discussed at large in conferences held on the 19th a lid 31st. The British plenipotentiaries, in a note of the 20th (marked 4) stated the sub stance of their answer to dors of the 17th. In the conference of the 21gt we delivered the ad ditlonal clause to the 2d article of the eonlrs profit (marked a,) and afterwards on the same day, we transmitted our note (marked 6.) It will be perceived by those notes that we had come to an understanding as to the inter course between the United States and the Bri tish territories in Europe, and that w? disagreed on three points ? tho intercourse with Canada | placing, generally, both countries on the same tooting or tho most favored nations ) and the intercourse with the British Kast Indies. On the first point the British plenipotentiaries persisted in refusing to admit that the citi7.cn* of the United 8tates should have the right to tako their produce down the river St. tawrence to Montreal, and down the river Chainbly (or Hcrchtothe St. Lawrence. And witliout that permission the article was useless to us, and un equal in its practical operation. The provision that tlic importation of our produce into Canada should not be prohibited unless the nrohibition extended generally to all similar articles, afford ed uh no security i as no similar articles arc im ported into Canada from any foreign -country | whilst the corresponding provision, respcctiib the importations into the United States, through Canada, of the produce and manufactures of Oreat Britain, effectually prevented us from pro hibiting such an importation since this could nut be done without extending the prohibition to tlio importation of all similar articles, either of British or other foreign growth or manufac ture in the Atlantic ports of the United States. The article for placing respectively the two countries on the footing of the most favored na tion, limited, as was insisted on by the ltritisli ilenipotentiaricB, to the intercourse between the 'niteil States and the European territories of fireat Hritain, was unnecessary ?* since all that appeared desirable on that subject -.vas secured by the second article } and a provision of that nature, unless offering some obvious advantage, was deemed embarrassing, on account of the dilTirultics'attachcd to its execution. With this view of the two subjects, and find ing that to arrange them in a satisfactory man ner wan impracticable, we proposed in our note of the Cist inst. to omit altogether the articles relating to them. On the subject of the intercourse with India, the British plenipotentiaries, contrary to the impression made in the unofficial conversa tion on Messieurs Clay and Oallatin, had insisted on our official conferences, that our admission to that trade was, on the part of Great-Britain, a concession altogether gratuit ous j and for which, particularly as to the pri vilege of indirect outward voyages, she ulti mately expected an equivalent. Whilst we strenuously contended that an equivalent was found in the trade itself, which was highly bene firialto India, or at all events, considering the nature of the commercial intercourse generally between the two countries, in the other provi sions of the convention. On tho same ground we urged our claim to|>e placed in Indie on the samo footing, ru least, as the most favored na tions. To which was replied that they made a distinction between nations which had posses sions there and thone which had none. Tho re fusal not being altogether explicit, we renewed our proposal to that effect in our note. The British plenipotentiaries, in a note of the Jl$d, (marked 7) acceded to our proposal to omit the fld and 5th articles, and refusing that on the subject of India, offered to omit the arti cle altogether and toilgtf * convention embrac ing only the provWont. rejecting the inter vourse between the United States and the Bri tish territories in Europe* This proposal we rejected in our note of the ?Mth? (marked 8.) But in order to meet, if practicable, the views of the British government, and to avoid making any distinction between tho East-India trade and the other branches of commercial intercourse, we proposed to limit Jhe duration of the whole convention to four years, and we offered, as an alternative* an ar rangement for the sole purpose of establishing the discriminating duties In conformity with tho act of congress of the Istft session. In li note of the 20th, (marked 0] the British plenipotentiaries informed us that they found it ncceseary to refef our last proposal* to their go vernment, and by their note or the 29th, (mark* ed 10) thoy accepted our oflVr of a convention embracing the East India article, and limited to four yean, to bo calculated from the date of if ft signature. We replied to this in a note dated .Kith of June. and (marked 11) and on the same day arranged, in a conference, detaiU of the convention. .? We beg leave to add that the name restriction which confines our vessels to the principal port* of India, lit, except in special canes, imposed by the act of parliament on British subjects \ and fliat, besides the discrimination in the export du ty from England, the difference on thn import duty on the article of cotton, had, by a late act of parliament, been increased to two pence ster ling per pound in favor of every species import ed in British vessels, and even of Brazil cotton imported in JPortngteae vessels. We have the honor to be, respectfully, air, your most obedient Mrv|nts, flUimii ' JOIIV q. ATUMfl, 'Mi II. CI, AY, ' AUtKRT OA1.LAT1N. I ' . Hon. Jamks Moxtaor., Secretaryof State. (The letters now published embrace all the correspondence on the subject of the British Treaty, except the documenta accompanying there letter* from No. 1 to 10 inclusive, which will, as soon os convenient, app'.ar in this pa per.] MOM TNI MAILT CONMLhR. T1IK WAR ON TIIK OtJKAN. Thus U headed an interesting article in Nile*' Weekly Register for January 0, ittiG. That article exhibit* tables of navahransactions, be tween the British and the Americans, during the late war, great!/ to the advantage of the latter. \Ve regret the impossibility of copying the whole. ( Wo can give only the exordium and conclusion of that valuable document* " Of the twenty-three naval engagements which occurred during the war, between the na tional vessels and private armed and national Vessels, seventeen resulted in the capture or de struction of the enemy ? and two only of the five victories of tho British, if so they may be called, were gained by any thinglike an cquali ty of force. These two were the cases of the Chesapeake and Argus, in tyth which, however, the enemy was the superior | in the othor cases of the Kmcx, tho President and of the flotilla on lake Horgne, the opposing force was over whelming. Abating, therefore, ihe capture of the Alert by the Essex from the list as there was no euuality in that ? aflair," and the account stands? American victories seventeen j British victories two ! If to this we add tho fearful dif ference between tho killed and wounded on ei ther aide, we have a prettv just view of the vast ly superior courage and skill of our seamen o vcr the " lords of the ocean." Our reflections on this gratifying subject may be advantageously pursued in contemplating the ??fleet of our naval victories } for the character gained by thein is of inestimate volue. liefore the war, accustomed to pursue and only to en quire where their enemy wan, the British officers in their intolerable arrogance and pride, were pleased to hold the most contemptinle opinion of our " fir built frigates, manned by bastards and outlaws"?" things with a bit of striped bunting at their mast-head." Hence it was the fool Bingham, of the Little Be!tv hoped to gain honor, by insulting Commodore llodgers, in the President j who, if mere/had not prevailed o ver justice, would have sent him to the bottom, in the twinkling of an eve j and that Captain Uugharne of the Alert, falling in with tho Hs sex, emulous of distinction, and determined to be mode a knight or a lord of for capturing a " Yankee frigate," ran upon the weather quarter of our ship, gave three cheers and commenced tho action ! The generous Porte*, pitying the deluded creature, and sure of his prize, order ed only a partial discharge of the guns of his shin j and, in eight miuutes, away goes all the high notices of the KngliBh captain with the fall of his flac, and the rise of six feet of water in the hold ! Five or six days after, the Guerriere, ?4 one of the finest ships that ever floated," the crack frigate of the liritish navy, falls in with the Constitution. Captain ftaeres and his crew fun. The captain would allow them fifteen mi* nutes to take the Constitution, but they would do it in ten, and toitthev went with three cheers, flnng a considerable time before Hull conde' wended to give them a gun in return. But when the proper season had arrived, he opened such a terrible cannonade that the enemy thought his ship on Are, and shouted again, certain of victo ry. Vain hope? in fifteen minutes thf Guer riere is like a log on the water?a ,niere wfeck torn to pieces, and one-third of her late joking crew are lying dead or. wounded on the deck.? Still it was thought that the question of super! oritywas not decided? the Guerriere's masts were ? rotten" and her shot ? worm eaten but the subsequent capture of the Frolic, the Macedonian, the Java And the Peacock follow ing with such rapidity* without a solitary victo 5fin .W? British aide, made them hegin to think differently us. An English frigate had been considered a match for a seventy -four of any o thtf nation, but now the " tightest" vessels of their navy were found to bo mere " cock boats," compiled with tho " non-descripta" of the U. states j and a million of pitiful oxcuses were manufactured to sustain the falling glory of their thousand ships of war. ' From meanness they retorted to that " better part of valor," cal led discretion t it was ordered that British fri gates should avoid h cqmbat with American frl g*tes I and further to protedhthem they were generally convoyed by a class of ships that we had none of. Tfieitrm " cruizing fri gate" was expunged from tho Admiralty book j for they always sailed in the squadron wherever it was thought probable a Yankee might be j and we were therefore obliged to seek the laurel in unfrequented seas, or on the British coast, where they apprehended no danger. The Plantagenet 74, neglected to bring tlio President frigate to actum off Handy Hook t and Utc ridiculous cap tain < i the Phwbe and Chorob, in their vile at tack upon the little Kssex, at Valparaiio," must forcibly bfjng to tho mind of everyone the fears of Fatstaff, when he saw the denil body of Per cj. I lio batllcn of tht flccU on Krio arid wlain, also, shewed our seamen in a new charac ter? a character they afe destined to All with even > greater glory thato they have acquired in single combat, ship to shin. The Uritlsh have condescended to acknowl edge our iiuperiority in many thing* belonging to tho construction* equipment and management , of vessels of war. This is humiliating enough to thole who thought they knew a little more than every thing. And they were alto relieved of a complaint that tliey always preferred a gainst their othee enemies, viz. the difficulty of bringing them to closri action, for they them selves universally clawed off after they knew the effect of our "Are, except in the case of the fthannon* which waa aM wnii.t ship" when l.aw rence fell, and the command devolved on unex perienced men. If he had kept the deek unhurt five minutes longer* Captain Broke would not hftvebeen made a knight of for beating an infe rior foe. (ller* follow the tables alluded to.) Concluding remnr/r#.? While we carefully re view the preceding exhibits* we have ample rea sen Indeed* to feel proud of our doings on the sea* coping with an enemy that had blocked up the ship* of Kurope* combined at one time a gainst her* in their own porta. Let this fact be remarked aa we go Along* for it it a volume of praise j and possibly, flrcat-Bi italn bit more vessels (*ho undoubtedly lost more- honor) in our little brush with her than ahe lost in all the wur? that sprang from the Vrencb revolution, commencing some thirty years ago, and contin uing with very little intermission, until nearly the middle of the la?t year i But the fact it? the losses suffered in the late war are but the typo of what wilt bo done in another, come when it will. In a short space of time we shall have ships of tho line, frigates & sloops enough ? vessels superior to nny that float, in their con* Htruction and equipmeu'ta | which, collected in bodies or moving aWit the sea with tho rapidi ty that peculiarly belongs totham, will, pel hap*. Kivn employto ten times their number, and In deed, be too many for the ships of UrvaMlritain, (calculated to fight or catch them) to manage t while a numerous living squadron (such v?h hvIs kh no other people than, ourselves ever built or mailed) will bo dashing every where? even into the midst of convoys, laughing at the slug gish ships appointed to guard' them j and their orders will be to cleat* the ocean so far as they can ? i. e. to destroy the prices they make, a* well to keep thoir own force entire as to sccurc us againhl recapture. If the wan had lasted 5 months longer, astonishing effects would have resulted from the force of this species that wa* fitting out under the -ikill of Porter. We cap eqi:;p and man one hundred such vessels in si/ weeks.'* ADULT SCHOOLS. Tlic following interesting letter on this sub ject, auyH a New-York paper, ha* been com municated to us for publication. Wo insert it in our column* with much pleasure, and hope it may lead the pious and benevolent to reflect seriously on the importance of establishing schools for Adults in this city. Among our poor, there are doubtless thousands who capnot read, and who are destitute of all the means of moral instruction t nrittol, (P.njf.) 19th Oct. My dear friend? I was requested on Sunday to meet the seamen, at their Adult School, w here I had the pleasure to see the veteran Jack Tar, associated with Prussians, Greeks, Portuguese,] nincks, 8tc. &c. of various ages, all sitting down harmoniously together, forgetful of Iho horrors of war and the toils and dangers they had cuca ned, endeavoring to learn to read the Holy Scriptures which are able to inako them wise unto salvation. An aged black with a white head seemed so anxious to learn, that he came* up at the close, to request permission to take home the adult book, that he might learn during the leisure hour* of the week t this bcim: readily granted, several others preferred a simi lar request and were not refused. 1 addressed them in a strain of sympathy for their lost time, and encouragement to redeem the future* for t)ie important purpose for which life wo be stowed, the salvation of their souls* pointed out the sins peculiar to seamen* illustrating the pointn, with anecdotes, particularly of a swear ing lieutenant, who died an awful death, and a seaman who, having drank to excess, wax drowned here ) alive in perfect health at fiv* o'clock on Saturday evening, and in Ids grave at five o'clock on Sunday evening f as his ship was on the point of sainm^ I touched these two points in r. way to produce a burst of tears from eyes unaccustomed to .bedew tho manly check. The conductor thei) concluded with praver, and all went away in a state of mind I seldom felt before. One of the visitors told me that he had been with the commanding officers of the Westminster militia, to renuost permis sion for the soldiers to attend Adult Schools, which they chcerfully complied with. Billets were printed, and the captains. drafted off 5, 10, la or 20 men from each company as they could be spared, to the Adult Schools 1 Surely some of the seed sown must fall upon prepared good ground, and bring forth mucn fruit to the praise of the Lord of tne harvest. A meeting has been held at High Wycombe, tho 20th ult. Lord Grenyille in the chair, the Prince Regent, patron ? about 25 of tho princi pal nobility and gentry were present, and were deli^ht^d with the progress made by the adults during*J(fe past year, so that you see tho thing f>rogres*es. Captain Cow^n accompanied me ast evening to tho Sunday school, Union quar terly macting of teachers, and friends to Sun day school* t he appeared dtlb&ted to see so many denominations of Christians forgetting their points of 'difference, united in the great object of tutoring the rising generations -for this lire and thst which is to come. Tens of thou sand are under tho superintendence of this n nion j the particulars you will find in one of the parcels. A boy of 7 yevs of age* who has just learnt to read, was exhibited, who could re peat tho whole or St. John's gospel j another hsd been rewsrded for learning ?y heart all the Kpistles. Such instsnces of retentive memories are very numerous. In one school the children learnt every w eek the three texts printed on the rewsrd tickets?thus storing their minds with 150 selected text* of scripture. CONfiliFiSS. " Iff DRXATti. Tutnl If, Jnuum !/ 9. Mr. Bibb, from th? committer on Foreign Re* latione, to whom the subject w m referred, re ported the following bill, which was reed, and panned to a second reading t u A bill concerning the Convention to regu late the Commerce between the territories of the United Htaten and Hit Britannic M^enty" Dn it enacted, Sfr. that to much of any act or act*, an is contrary to thf* provision* of the con vention b?t ween the United fttates and Hie Hrl tannic Mf?Jr>?ty, the ratification* wheroof were mutually exchanged, the twenty-second day of December, one thousand eight hundred and (If* teen, ?hail be deemed, ana taken to be of no force or effect. Jtmutiry 10. Tlie above bill was read a aecond, and by the unanimous content, a third time, panned, end ' sent to the Mouse of Representatives for con currence. V . 1 V,v >i; ? novsr. or np.rnr.jiRNTATivf ?. Mtmhy, January 8. The House resumed the comiUcrKion of bill to reguluto tho Commerce of. the l.'n ?States, according to tho Convention of < merce with Ureat-Hritain. Tho question b on the motion of Mr* Was ton. to postiKina bill indefinitely? Messrs. Forsyth &. Barbour supported thi tion, And Mossrs. Gold and llopkinson opt it? Tho ground occupied wa* wholly that 3 constitution, without at alt inVelring the i of the treaty. The nnestiou on postpone was dceided in the negative, 61 to (X). The question recurred, on agreeing to t mcndnient made in commltteo of tlie whole which a debate took pl&ce tho pthcr day. objects of the amemitoetits *ss to except the" equalization of. duties, all such ltritisl nel? as did not come direct from Europe, amendment was negatived without a divisi Home other amendments wei*e proposed, ? which was agreed to. vfc>. to striko out the Indie# from tho number of exceptions to perations of the act. Tlie qucstionthen having been stated, 1 the bill be engrossed for a third' trading debate arose, which continued until a 1at< on tho pas* age of the bill'to a third rauli Mr. Calhoun, from the committee on t! tional bank currency, reported a bill " to pot ato the subscribers to the Dank of the ' Accompanying tho bill was a. letter fru Secretary of the Treasury, to which wi nexed the following " Outline, " which v publish, as containing, with few unesscn riations, a correct synopsis of tho plan e ed bv tho voluminous bUl reported by tl mittee* "W;. OUTLINE or A PLAN tORTfe* MATIONAI. I. Tlio Charter of tho H|nk*r II To cu twentv. one years? 2. To bo exclusive. II. The Capital of the Hank : I . To be 1 < fH> ut present? -2. To be augmented bv Cc to 50,000.000, and the additional sum distributed among the several Mates? 3. divided into 350,000 shares of ?100 end Ofth (oi 70.000 shares) to be subscribed l\ S. and the retraining 280,000 shares1 poiiitlotis or individuals. ? 4. To be com; ed dI public debt, mid in gold end silvei the Hubrrriftiniis ?f corporations and in nU in the proposition* ; of funded'" fourth*, equal to ?1 tOOO, 000 $ of gold ver,one fourth, equal to 7,000,000, (*i8.00? The subscriptions of G per cent stock t par : the subscriptions of .1 per cent stoc at 50 per cent ; the subscriptions of 7 i>< stock to be at 100 51 percent. ? :?. 11 Kcriptions in public debt may be discha fdeasuro by the government at the rate at t is subscribed, ? 0. Tho subscriptions < porations or individuals to- ba (oyable stolments, as follows : Sfxce, at vubacriblng, 'h On rxcb khaie 5 doUara, ? I ? AtC months i doll jw, ' 1 At 13 month* 5 dollnrs, 1 At 18 months 10 dolturn, - ir 7 n.tch Mire 35 dollar*, At 9 months 25 dollar*, # . J At 13 monthi 05 dollar*, ? ; ; .: 3< r. The subscriptions of the United Stat paid in inatalraentSf not exceeding b period of seven year* | tie first instalr be paid at the time Of subscribing, and t merits to be made at the pleasure of govc either Ju coldi and silver, or in 6 per cec redeemable at the pleasure of the govei or in treasury notes, not fundable, nor interest, nor payable nt a particular tii receivable in all payments to the bat the right on the part of the batik to the treasury notes so paid from time untlt they are discharged by payment governments? 8 'Hie bank snail bo at li sell the stock portion of its capital to an tiot exceeding in any one year * In sales are intended to be effected in the States, notice thereof shall be given to cretary of the Treasury, that the Cow ? era of the Sinking Fund, may, if the. become the purchasers at the market pi exceeding; par. III. Ilie government of the bank.* bank shall be established at Philndclp: Kwer io erect two branches, or to en?| nke as branches elsewhere. 2. Thai 23 directors for Philadelphia, and 10 for each or the branches, where brar erected, with the usual description nn> of officer*. 9* The President of th< Statea with the advice and consent m nate. shall annually nnpoiut 5 of the di> the hank at Philadelphia. 4. The stockholders shall annually elect 20 ? rcctorsof the bank at Philadelphia, bu tlon of the directors ahnll be changed annual election, upon the principle of 8, Tlie directors of the bank st I'hil; shwll annually, ut tln*ir first meeting Aft lection, chuge one of the five dlreclois ed by the Pr jslilent and Senate of the States to be President of the bank j and sident of the bank shall alwaya.be re if reappointed* 0. The directors of tl at Philadelphia shall annually appoint I tore for each of Ml# branches, where I . are erected, and ahall transmit a list of sons appointed to the Secretary of the ry. 7, 1 he Secretary of tho Treasur the appreciation oi the President of tht state* shall annually design ate from th branch directors th?(perion to lie the P .?f (lie respective iH-attohae* None dent eitiaens of the United States sha)* rectors of the bank or ita branchet. stockholders may vote for directors in p by proxy t but no stockholder, who is i< dent witliin the United Statea at tht tim lection shall vote by proxy J nor shall ,.?? person vote as proxy a greater number of than he should be entitled to vote in o*vu according to a atalo of voting, to he g by the number of shares, which tfte v? spectively hold* 18. The bank and it