labour for its confirmation and perfection. They solemnly acknowledge, that their duties towards God and the people whom they govern, make it peremptory on them to give to the world, as far as is in their power, an example of justice, of concord and of moderation; happy in the power of consecrating, from henceforth, all their efforts to protect the arts of peace, to increase the internal prosperity of their states, and to awaken those sentiments of religion and morality, whose influence has been but too much enfeebled by the misfortune of the times. To prevent the citizens of Lubeck who contribute towards the support of the state, from being injured, the senate has decreedThat all strangers and Jews are prohibited from carrying on trade within the jurisdiction of the city. For the first offence they are to pay a heavy penalty, and the loss of their goods For the second offence they are not to be permitted to dwell in the city, and themselves and families are to be sent to Moisling, or else where. Every citizen and inhabitant is hereby required to refuse their assistance to strangers and jews in carrying on an unlawful trade; and all offenders in this respect shall be subject to a heavy penalty, or imprisonment; and for a second offence, a still heavier punishment shall be inflicted : and if the offender is a citizen, he shall lose his citizenship. It shall be lawful for the guild of Grocers, after information has been given to the magistrates, and with one of their officers, to enter the houses where such unlawful traffic is carried on, or suspected to be carried on; and if such traffic should be found to exist, the above regulations are to be carried into effect. All superintending officers of trade and navigation are to be particularly vigilant in discovering such unlawful traffic, and are referred to the decrees of 1768 and 1778, and other ordinances. This decree is to be printed, and made public in all the inns and beer-houses; and to be made known to all Jews resident at present in this city; and the proper officers are required to act according to the spirit of this publication. Given in the senate, on the 2d day of December, 1818. Ordinance of the King of Spain addressed to the Prime Minister and General Secretary of State. Most Excellent Sir;-The King our sovereign, to whom I gave in due time an account of what I was directed to do by the royal order of the 23rd of November last, respecting the urgent necessity of finding some means for preventing those evils which had accrued accrued in the dominions of his majesty beyond sea, in which turbulent individuals of foreign nations have arrived, for the purpose of taking part in the insurrection, to which they have contributed both by their personal services and their intrigues, and have supplied the insurgents with arms, ammunition, ships, and other aids of war, and without which war could not exist in many of those provinces; his majesty thought proper to command, that the supreme council of war should deliberate on what should be offered, or should appear connected with those facts which that department had already in its possession, relative to this subject. In consequence, the council made a report on the 22d of December last, demonstrating the imperious necessity which existed for punishing with all the rigour of the laws such foreigners as might be taken with arms in their hands, in the American dominions, under the banners of the insurgents, and such as should be found supplying them with arms, ammunition, or ships, adding thereby fuel to the devouring fire of the insurrection, which unfortunately still exists in some points of those valuable possessions, and proposing by such iniquitous and detestable means to build their own fortune on the ruin and total destruction of these incautious subjects of his majesty. At the same time it was agreed that justice, policy and equity, cried out with one voice for the adoption of this system, notwithstanding the well known feelings of mercy which reign in the heart of the king, in order that the benign clemency and pardons which his majesty, by virtue of his sovereign power, and in mitigation of the severity of the laws, has thought proper to grant in favour of those miserable subjects who were to be treated as deluded persons, who, by the influence of perfidious suggestions, had deviated from the paths of honour and virtue, and not as persons guilty of the unutterable crime of treason, might not be extended to those intruding foreigners, respecting whom, in addition to the non-existence, in their case, of those circumstances which dispose the mind of his majesty to exercise clemency towards his own subjects, it is well known that similar acts of clemency, though voluntary on the part of his majesty, merely had the effect of inviting to partake of it such persons as were expressly included in them, while they attributed the obligation to motives which did not, and could not, exist in the mind of his majesty at the time of his granting such pardons; and that, consequently, the royal ordinance communicated to the vice-roys and captains-general of America, on the 30th of April in the preceding year, ought to be modified so as to accord with this distinction and view of the subject; informing the said functionaries, that on all foreigners who should be taken in the insurrectionary provinces with arms in their hands and under the banners of the insurgents, the same punishment should be inflicted as on the natural subjects of the country of whom they had become the associates and coadjutors: and, lastly, it was declared, that according to the principles of the law of nations, universally recognized, the individual foreigner who should introduce himself, of his own authority, into the territory of any sovereign, to disturb the public peace and to commit excesses and crimes of any description, subjects himself by such delinquency, to the authority and jurisdiction of the country in which he so offends, without his government having the power to claim him, or to interfere in any case. Therefore the King our sovereign, being hereof informed, has been pleased to declare, once for all, that all foreign adventurers who shall be apprehended with arms in their hands in his dominions beyond sea, under the banners of the insurgents, or shall have supplied them with the aids of war, shall suffer, without remission, capital punishment, and also the confiscation of the goods belonging to them in the dominions of his majesty: which punishment is the one assigned by the laws for the chastisement of such delinquents who are not to be included in the acts of grace and the pardons which his majesty has granted, or may grant, in favour of his own subjects, for the reasons already manifested. Wherefore I communicate this royal ordinance to your excellency for your information, and for its proper execution. God preserve your excellency many years. At the palace, Jan. 14, 1819. TREATY between the States of Buenos-Ayres and Chili. His excellency the supreme director of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, and his excellency the supreme director of the state of Chili, in possession of the powers conferred on them by the provincial constitutions of the respective states, desiring to put a period to the tyrannical domination of the Spanish government in Peru, and to bestow on its inhabitants that liberty and independence of which they are so unjustly deprived, and with a view to giving that assistance which the inhabitants of Lima have solicited of both the contracting states, have resolved to conclude the present treaty. For this purpose the contracting parties have named as their plenipotentiaries, to wit: On the part of his excellency the supreme director of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, Don Gregorio Fagle, minister of state in the departments of the government and foreign affairs. And on the part of the su preme director of the state of Chili, col. Don Antonio José de Yrisarri, officer of the legion of merit and minister of state: Who, having exchanged their full powers, and having found them in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: Art. 1. Both contracting parties, agreeing with the desire manifested by the inhabitants of Peru, and especially by those of Lima the capital, that they should aid them with an armed force, in order that they may drive thence the Spanish government, and establish that which shall be more analogous to their physical and moral constitution, the said two contracting parties oblige themselves to undertake an expedition which for that purpose is already prepared in Chili." Art. 2. The combined army of the United Provinces and of Chili, directed against the actual authorities at Lima, and in aid of these inhabitants, shall cease to exist in that country the moment it has established a government by the free will of the inhabitants, unless being required by that government, and being suitable to the circumstances of both the contracting parties, the three estates of Chili, the United Provinces and Lima, should agree that the army remain for a period in the same territory. In that case, the generals empowered, or the other ministers of Chili and the United Provinces, must treat upon this point with the government which shall be established in Lima; the execution of such treaties being always subject to the respective ratification of the supreme authorities of Chili and the United Provinces. Art. 3. In order to avoid all cause of disagreement between the two contracting states and the new one which is to be formed in Peru, respecting the payment of the expenses of the liberating expedition, and desirous of removing henceforth all pretext which may be formed by the enemies of America, in order to attribute to that expedition inte rested motives which are utterly foreign to it, both contracting parties agree not to treat of levying these expenses before they can be arranged with the independent government of Lima; the combined army observing, both till then and subsequently, such conduct as is conformable to its object, which is to protect and not to act in hostility to these inhabitants, respecting all which both governments shall give express orders to their respective generals. Art. 4. The statements of the expenses of the liberating expedition and of the Chilian squadron which conducts it, from the time of its passing into the Pacific sea for that purpose, shall be presented by the ministers or agents of the governments of Chili and of the United Provinces, to the independent government of Lima, arranging with it amicably and conveniently the quantities, periods and manners of the payments. Art. 5. The two contracting parties mutually guarantee the independence of the state which shall be formed in Peru, when its capital is liberated. Art. 6. The present treaty shall be ratified by his Excellency the Supreme Director of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata, and by his Excellency the Supreme Director of the State of Chili, within the space of 60 days. Dated and signed in the city of Buenos Ayres, on the 5th of Feb. 1819. ANTONIO JOSE DE YRISARRI. GREGORIO FAGLE. Report Report on the Seminole War. United States. Senate in Congress, Feb. 24. Mr. Lacock, from the committee appointed in pursuance of the resolution of the senate of the 18th of December last, "That the message of the president and documents relative to the Seminole war, be referred to a select committee, who shall have authority, if necessary, to send for persons and papers: that said committee inquire relative to the advance of the United States troops into West Florida; whether the officers in command at Pensacola and St. Mark's were amenable to and under the control of Spain; and particularly what circumstances existed to authorize or justify the commanding general in taking possession of those posts." Reported; That they have, under the authority conferred on them, called for and examined persons and papers. The testimony obtained is herewith submitted. The committee, after the most mature and dispassionate examination of the subject, offer for the consideration of the senate, the following narrative of facts, and the opinions and deductions clearly arising from, and growing out of, the facts thus presented. On the origin of the hostilities between the United States and the Seminole Indians, the committee ask leave to remark, that the different savage tribes living within and on the borders of the Floridas, denominated Seminole Indians, were principally fugitives from the more northern tribes resident within the limits of the United States. After the treaty of 1814 with the Creek Indians, a considerable addition was made to the number of those fugitives, as the Indians who were dissatisfied with the provisions of that treaty took refuge in the Floridas, cherishing, there can be little doubt, feelings of hostility to the United States. These feelings seem to have been strengthened by the influence of foreign emissaries who had taken up their residence among them; among them, as the most conspicuous, were Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister. In this state of things, it appears that the executive department of the government deemed it necessary for the security of the frontier, to establish a line of forts near the southern boundary of the United States, and to occupy those fortifications with portions of the regular forces; and by these means peace was maintained with the Indians until the spring or summer of 1817, when the regular forces were withdrawn from the posts on the Georgia frontier, and concentrated at Fort Montgomery, on the Alabama river, a considerable distance west of the Georgia line. But it seems that about this time a border warfare was commenced between the Seminole Indians and the frontier inhabitants of Georgia. It is difficult to determine with certainty who commenced those hostilities, or on whom the greatest injuries were inflicted: general Gaines, however, demanded a surrender of the Indians who had committed outrages on |