r .~ '1 ~~ I ' IS' , AMERICAN PAPERS. (From the New York Gazette, Dec. 21.) LATEST FROM THE SPANISH MAIN: The fast sailing ship Hippomenes arrived last evening from Curacoa, whence she sailed on the 6th instant. By this arrival we have accounts from Porto Cabello to the 22d instant, which represent the affairs of that place as in a wretched condition ; the Royalists were unable to obtain any fresh provisions from the inte rior; the destruction of the outer fortifications had afforded them materials for fortif. ing the inner ; and all the privateers had been hauled up in consequence of a report that an American and English squadron had arrived at St. Thomas's in pursuit of picaroons. The American schooner Union, and English cutter Ardent, had been captured, sent into Porto Cabello and condemned, and the crews treated in a most shameful manner; the British frigate Falmouth had been off the harbour, and demanded all English property which had been captured by privateers; the demand was not complied with, and she sailed for Jamaica to obtain a competent force to compel them to restore such property. A French brig of 16 guns had put into Porto Cabello, with a schooner under convoy. The authorities ordered the schooner to be taken possession ot, but the cotnmander put 30 or 40 on board of her, which induced the govern ment to suffer him to depart without molestation.— The expedition which appeared off La Guayra re turned to Porto Cabello, on the 231 ultimo, with the loss of four killed and six wounded, having been in a small Patriot port, six leagues from Porto Ca bello, and plundered the inhabitants of every thing: the frigate and brig were stripped and hauled up.— An expedition of 500 strong, under Colonel Garcia, had marched for Caraceas, but on arriving at Va lencia, they found the Patriots so strong that they made a precipitate retreat. In consequence of the numerous piracies on the Dutch flag, by vessels fitted out at Porto Cabello, the Governor of Cora vat had written to Suriman for an additional naval three. The Dutch vessels had been captured by Spanish privateers. THE LIBERATOR BOLIVAR —On the Ist of Oct. this extraordinary man, on being called upon to take the oath as President of Columbia, addressed an eloquent letter to the President of the Congress, earnestly desiring to be excused from serving in that capacity, but he was overruled by thzrn. On taking the oath he delivered an energetic speech, full of the heart warming eloquence which distinguishes times of public trial and eras of national regenera tion. On the I 4th of November the General Congress of Columbia passed votes of thanks, separately, to Lord Holland, the Abbe De Pradt, Mr. Speaker Clay, Colonel Duane, and to James Marryat and Sir Robert Wilson, Alembers of the British House of Commons. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A Caraccas paper ufNov. 22d contains an account of the acquittal of Gen. D'Evereux, who had been tried before the Supreme Court of the republic for having written a letter to the late !Vice President, Antonio Narino, which letter was supposed to contain a challenge. The facts, we understood, to be briefly those:—Mrs. English having various claims on the government in right of her deceased husband, Brigadier-General English, who died in the service, applied to the Vice-President Narino, who not only refused to acknowledge her claims, but used personally very gross language, General D'Evereux, with ►hat spirit which always distinguished hint, espoused the cause of this unfintunate lady, and remonstrated with Narino. In the course of the controversy, the ehalleage complained of was given, and General D'Evereux was put under arrest by Marino. This detained hint fur some time from the army. How ever, on an inquiry into all the facts, the Congress approved highly of the course pursued by the Ge neral, admitted the justice of the claims made by Mrs. English, and dismissed Narino from his office of Vice-President. He, notwithstanding, perse vered in his prosecution of General D'Evereux be fore the Supreme Court, and the result hus been his acquittal. In the whole of this trunsletion, the President, the illustrious Bolivar, and ell the audio rides of the republic, were distinguished for libe rality, a high sense of honour and justice, as svell as for the great estimation in which they held the services and virtues of Gen. D'Eevereux. BALTIMORE, Dec. 20—By the ship Chase, the editors of the Gazelle have received St. Thomas's papers to the 28th ult. Commodore Daniels has b.eu appointed admiral of the Columbian navy, in thc place of Brion. Admiral Daniula, in the brig Conueror, had met General Morales with a fleet, intending to make a deseent on the coast with 800 teen, gave them chase, and the fleet escaped, and ;pc Inck to Porto Cabello.' LosroN, 11:e. 12.—8 y the following accounts received from Capt. Mackay, of the brig Alexander, from the coast of Africa, a'. the Vineyard, it appears that the odious tralE..l i I slaves is now in the most flourishing state:— THE NATIONAL REGISTER Veisels•left on the coast of Angola, July 16th:— Portuguese brigs, Sixth of February, Cris; and Grn, all from Rio Janeiro, slaving, each to take SGO, the first nearly full. At Burma, Aug 17th, seven Portuguese schooners and several small craft, slaving. On the coast of Congo, Aug. 29th, Por tuguese ships Tumigo, Captain Silvera, Henriquele, Firmo, and the San Joe Americana Domingo, slaving: the first to take 630, the second the same (nearly full), and the last and largest, being a fri gate-built ship, mounting twenty-eight 24 and 18 pounders, 1,200 slaves: the officers anti men of these vessels all more or less sick. On the coast of Loango, Sept. 15, English ketch Fame, Burroughs, tender to the ship George Canning, of Liverpool, which lay at Old Castlebar, in search of illegal trade, all hands (with the exception of the mate and one seaman) sick on her arrival—sent some of our crew to furl their sails, &c. they being unable. At St. Thomas's, Oct. 8, four Portuguese schooners bound south, slaving ; French brig Neptune, of Nantes, slaving, last from Celebar ; had but few on board, all hands dead but the mate and two men ; the last very sitl. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND, s ic. IVe are requested to give publicity to the fol. lowing " MENIORANDUNI. " Enquiries and applications having been addressed to the Colonial Department, respecting emigration to his Alajesty's foreign possessions, it has been deemed convenient, with a view to the information and guidance of individuals interested in this subject, to state, that— " lstly. Persons arc not provided with passages, at the public expence, to any of his Majesty's setlements. 2ndly. Persons proceeding at their own expence to North America, and to the Cape of Good Lope, and desirous of settling there, require no previous authority front his Majesty's Secretary of State to enable them to obtain grunts of land, the Governors of ills-se settlements being fully empowered to a.ss;gn lands to applicants, proportioned to the mean; which they actually possess for bringing them into a state of cultivation. The extent of those grants must depend upon their quality, position, and other which can only be asoirtained in the Colony. " Silly. Persons desirous of settling in New Swath %Vales or Vun Diemen's Land, mast be proviled with the sanction of his Majesty's Secretary of State; and dis ran only be obtained upon written application, accompanied b/ references to two or more respectable persons, as to the character of the applicant, and the extent of his capital, which must amount to Five Hundred rounds, at the lest. . . " Cobnial Department, London, January 1422." TREASURY MIAUTE. The following official circular, dated January 8, con tinning a digested arrangement of the rules which arc to be generally applied, in the '1 reastiry and other public offices. for /h. reduction of salaries, and fur the regula thou of superannuation and other allowances, has been issued from the Tteasury. The new establishments will be formed on the principles and spirit of the Treasury Minutes of August, 18!.. I, though with some difference in the details. Tne precise number of clerks to be re tained in each office is not yet determined upon ; but as their Lordships have before thrill the remnrth made from :he varous offices 111 pursuance of their M . s ul . the 10.1 i August, " trey will hereafter communicate their determination or opinion thereon to each office, an far as the estab!ishment of such office may be concerned." l'he Treasury Minute states-- That upon vacancies occurring in any of the superior classes in any office, the situations shall not be supplied by seniority only, but the fittest individual shall be se lected to succeed by the heads of the department in which the vacancy may occur. 6th. In she cases in which clerks upon the establish ment of any office are discontinued in consequence of the present reductions, their Lordships would be disposed to grant to them the following allowances:— If they have served less than three years, a gratuity of one year's pay. If three years and tinder fire, a gratuity of two years' pay. If they have served five years, and under ten year; an .10111411 allots:ince not t so-et:ding one third of their sala ries, until otherwne provided for in the public service. If tell years and tinder twenty years, all allowance not exceeding one half of their saiaries. 11 20 yews and upwards, an allowance not exceeding that to which they would be entitled tinder the proposed scale of soperainitiation ; and it any of the clerks It eve, previously to their appointment upon the establishment . of any office, served as extra clerks therein, and shall have been not less than three years upon the establishment, they shall, in computing the allowances to which they may be entitled, have the benefit of such period of ser vice. Their Lordships, however, desite that the Cases of all those persons who may be einitled to such gratuities or ailowan .es may be specially reported to them, in order that they may sanction the paymenu in continunty to the Act 50 Geo. 111. c. 117. 7th. That in lieu of the respective deductions of 151. 10s. nil and 5 pet cent. 'directed by the Minute of this Board of the soils Aii4wo Itsr, to be made towards the formation of a Stsperamin Moo Final, irons the salaries of all remota holding offices, which would give them claims to be superannuated under the Act ot the both Gem 111. c. 117, the fo.lost log deducuol shall he made, Irian the commencement ol the year Ism by the person pa)ing the salaries, from all salaries amounting to 1001. pa annum and upwards. From so ouch of the salary of every individual as he would be entitled t", awarding to any new scale about , be sanctioned by authority of Parliament, or other wise, a deduction of 5 per cent. and a further deduction of 40 per cent. from the excess only (if any) of salary,of which he may be in the receipt, beyond the salary to which he:would be entitled according to such new scale or regulation. That a deduction of 21 per cent. be made from J , ll persons holding utlices entitled to superannuation muter the Act So Geo. 111. C. 117, the salaries of which shall exceed MA and he less than 104 per Annum. Bth. In the event of any person at present upon the establishment of any (Alice, from whom a deduction may be made tow irds the formation of a Superannuation Fund dying in office, and consequently witl having had any superannuation allowance granted to hint, bite representative of the person so dying shall be entitled to reeene the total amount of the several deductions made nom his salary, but Winona interest. It is net tin ruled that this regulation should apply to any person who sn..y be hereafter appoimed to the public service. By the Prince Regent packet from the Leeward Islands, letters dated the '2 Ist of December were received on Friday last from St. Thomas's. On the Spanish Main nothing of any moment had occurred, nor had there been any interruption of tranquillity in those places occupied by the Independents. It has been mentioned in the American papers, that a Spanish squadron blockaded the ports of the Main along the whole range cf cost ; but it appears it that is really the case, to be extremely deficient in vigilance, as traders were in the habit of' passing from St. Thomas's to Lagnayra, and other places within that limit, without the least molestation, and the merchants of the island do not seem even to be aware of the,tlockude. We learn by letters from St. Domingo, received at St. Thomas's, that the Spanish part of that island is making effiarts for its indepen. dence, which had every prospect of being successful. The Independents, it is said, have become masters of the city of St. Domingo, the capital of the iriand : and the surrounding country has unittal with them in asserting their freedom. We are tuirther in formed, by letters of the lfith of November from Port-au-Prince, also received by the Leeward Islands' mail, that a similar spirit had manifested itself at Monte Christo, where the Patriots had gained the ascendancy. Many fugitives from Monte Chris.o, attached to the Royalist cause, had arrived at Bin an-Prince, where they were permitted to land by President Boyer, and treated with kindness and hospitality. Some letters assert that the President, encouraged by the disunion that reigns in the Spa nish possessions, is collecting troops with the view of conquering and annexing them to his own terri tories : but this does not rest on very good thunda tion. Much complaint is made in the mercantile letters from St. Thomas's, of a singular piece of negligence either on the part of the master of tile Prince Regent packet, or the agents of the Post office, by which the merchants of that island have been prevented receiving their English letters.— Whether the bag for St. Thomas's was left behind at Falmouth or at Barbadoes, is not clearly ascet tallied; but it is certain that the packet arrived at the former island without it. We need not advert to the obvious inconvenience this would occasion to merchants, especially those who were expecting remittances ; but we trust this culpable neglicence will be noticed as it should be in the proper quarter. On Thursday his Majesty arrived at Carlton. house from Brighton, at twenty minutes beil.)re one o'clock. His Majesty soon after held a Council, which was attended by Lord Liverpool, the Mar quis of Londonderry, the Duke of Wellington, &c. Lord Sidmouth resigned his seals of office to the King, as Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, and is to be succeeded by the Right Hon. R. Peel ; who kissed his Majesty's hand. Mr. Charles W. Wynn, was sworn a Member of the Privy Council, and also kissed hands, on being appointed President of the Board of Controul. His Majesty appeared in good health, and after the Council, gave audience to the Marquis of Londonderry. Judging from the state of the country, and the important procaedings at the late county meetings, it is very likely that there will be a total change in the ad ministration, and that these gentlemen will not long endure the fatigues of A CONLINDRUM.-At u party of juvenile fahliion ables, a conundrum was given, in the following terms:—Tell me what will increase, what will de crease, and what will metamorphose? The whole party were wrapt in astonishment ; each made a a vain attempt to unravel the mystery. A your.g mily, at last said, I will explain. Rowland's Ma cassar Oil will increase the hair; his Extract of Alsana will decrease the pain of the tooth-ache ; and his Essence of Tyre will change the colour of any person's hair. A commercial letter of the 26th ultimo, from Trieste, states, that news had arrived there, by a vessel from Smyrna, of an embargo baring been laid by the Turks on all Greek property. There was, however, according to the report, no want of ships, of difkrent European flags, in the Archipe lago, for the protection of their commerce. - w r 0"