BRITISH ORDER in COUNCIL, prohibiting the exportation of Gunpowder, Arms, &c. to Spain, to certain Parts of Africa, to the West Indies, or to certain Parts of America. 18th May, 1822.

At the Court at Carlton House, the 18th of May, 1822.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council of the 14th of November last, for prohibiting the exportation of gunpowder, arms, or ammunition, to the Places therein specified, will expire on the 30th day of this instant May; and whereas it is expedient that the said prohibition should be continued for some time longer; His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no Person or Persons whatsoever (except the Master-General of the Ordnance of His Majesty's Service) do, at any time during the space of 6 months (to commence from the 30th day of this instant May,) presume to transport any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms, or ammunition, to any Port or Place within the Dominions of the King of Spain, or to any Port or Place on the Coast of Africa (except to any Ports or Places within the Streights of Gibraltar,) or in the West Indies, or on any part of the Continent of America (except to a Port or Place, or Ports or Places in His Majesty's Territories or Possessions on the Continent of North America, or in the Territories of the United States of America,) or ship or lade any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, on board any Ship or Vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such Ports or Places, within the Dominions of the King of Spain, or into any such Ports or Places on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted,) or in the West Indies, or on the Continent of America (except as above excepted,) without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from His Majesty, or His Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the 29th Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act to empower His Majesty to prohibit the exportation of gun-powder, or any sort of arms or ammunition, and also to empower His Majesty to restrain the carrying coastwise of salt-petre, gun-powder, or any sort of arms or ammunition;" and also by an Act, passed in the 33d Year of His late Majesty's Reign, cap, 2, intituled "An Act to enable His Majesty to restrain the exportation of Naval Stores, and more effectually to prevent the exportation of salt-petre, arms, and ammunition, when prohibited by Proclamation or Order in Council."

And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord

High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

C. C. GREVILLE.

DECLARATION of the Bey of Tunis, relative to the Duty on Rice imported in British Ships, 28th May, 1822.

FROM the created of God Almighty, and who expects his mercy, Mahmoud Bashaw, Bey of Tunis, to the Commander Captain Warren, and to the Aid-de-camp, Ponsonby.

I have received your Letter, dated the 6th of Ramadan, in which you say that the English Consul resident here has informed your Government, that a duty of 3 per cent. has been laid on rice imported into Tunis by British Subjects, which is an infraction of the Treaty between me and the British Government, and that you have been directed by your Government to speak on this affair, and to say that your King feels persuaded that I should give up this duty on rice, not to interrupt the peace and long friendship which exists between the two Governments; and all that you continue on to say, I have well understood.

The answer to what has been said, is, that this custom duty on rice, was formerly on all Merchants who brought rice into Tunis from all Nations, and we do not find it otherwise specified in the Treaties with England.

As it appears to you that this affair brings interruption of the peace and ancient friendship between the two Governments, it is hereby, from this moment, given up for English Merchants who may bring rice into Tunis, and they will not pay on the said article any custom duty, as I am not desirous of disturbing that friendship for such a trifling thing. After this, however, I shall send some one on my part to speak with your Government on this affair, if God Almighty pleases.

Written the 7th of Ramadan, 1237 of the Hegira; 28th of May, 1822, of the Christian era. [Seal of the Bey.]

BRITISH ORDER in COUNCIL, prohibiting the exportation of Gunpowder, Arms, &c. to Spain, to certain Parts of Africa, to the West Indies, or to certain Parts of America. 15th November, 1822.

At the Court at Brighton, the 15th of November, 1822.

PRESENT,

THE KING's MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the time limited by His Majesty's Order in Council of the 18th of May last, for prohibiting the exportation of gun-powder,

arms, or ammunition, to the Places therein specified, will expire on the 30th day of this instant November; and whereas it is expedient, that the said prohibition should be continued for some time longer; His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, doth hereby order, require, prohibit, and command, that no Person or Persons whatsoever (except the Master-General of the Ordnance for His Majesty's Service) do, at any time during the space of 6 months (to commence from the 30th day of this instant November,) presume to transport any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms or ammunition, to any Port or Place within the Dominions of the King of Spain, or to any Port or Place on the Coast of Africa (except to any Ports or Places within the Streights of Gibraltar,) or in the West Indies, or on any part of the Continent of America (except to a Port or Place, or Ports or Places in His Majesty's Territories or Possessions on the Continent of North America, or in the Territories of the United States of America,) or ship or lade any gun-powder or salt-petre, or any sort of arms, or ammunition, on board any Ship or Vessel, in order to transporting the same into any such Ports or Places within the Dominions of the King of Spain, or into any such Port or Place on the Coast of Africa (except as above excepted,) or in the West Indies, or on the Continent of America (except as above excepted,) without leave or permission in that behalf first obtained from His Majesty, or His Privy Council, upon pain of incurring and suffering the respective forfeitures and penalties inflicted by an Act, passed in the 29th Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Second, intituled "An Act to empower His Majesty, to prohibit the exportation of gun-powder, or any sort of arms or ammunition, and also to empower His Majesty to restrain the carrying coastwise of salt-petre, gun-powder, or any sort of arms or ammunition;" and also by an Act, passed in the 33d Year of His late Majesty's Reign, cap. 2, intituled "An Act to enable His Majesty to restrain the exportation of Naval Stores, and more effectually to prevent the exportation of salt-petre, arms, and ammunition, when prohibited by Proclamation or Order in Council."

And the Right Honourable the Lords Comissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, the Master-General and the rest of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and His Majesty's Secretary at War, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

JAS. BULLER.

MESSAGE of the President of The United States to Congress, relative to the Governments of Spanish America. 8th March, 1822.

Message from the President of The United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 30th Jan, last, Communications from the Agents of The United States, with the Governments South of The United States which have declared their Independence; and the Communications from the Agents of such Governments in The United States with the Secretary of State, as tend to shew the Political Condition of their Governments, and the state of the War between them and Spain.

To the House of Representatives of The United States.

In transmitting to the House of Representatives the Documents called for by the Resolution of that House, of the 30th January, I consider it my duty to invite the attention of Congress to a very important subject, and to communicate the sentiments of the Executive on it, that, should Congress entertain similar sentiments, there may be such co-operation between the two Departments of the Government as their respective rights and duties may require.

The revolutionary movement in the Spanish Provinces in this Hemisphere attracted the attention and excited the sympathy of our Fellow-Citizens from its commencement. This feeling was natural and honourable to them, from causes which need not be communicated to you. It has been gratifying to all to see the general acquiescence which has been manifested in the policy which the constituted Authorities have deemed it proper to pursue in regard to this Contest. As soon as the movement assumed such a steady and consistent form as to make the success of the Provinces probable, the Rights to which they were entitled by the Law of Nations, as equal Parties to a Civil War, were extended to them. Each Party was permitted to enter our Ports with its publick and private Ships, and to take from them every Article which was the subject of Commerce with other Nations. Our Citizens, also, have carried on Commerce with both Parties, and the Government has protected it, with each, in articles not contraband of War. Through the whole of this Contest The United States have remained neutral, and have fulfilled with the utmost impartiality all the obligations incident to that character.

This Contest has now reached such a stage, and been attended with \such decisive success on the part of the Provinces, that it merits the most profound consideration whether their right to the rank of Independent Nations, with all the advantages incident to it, in their Intercourse with The United States, is not complete. Buenos Ayres assumed that rank by a formal Declaration in 1816, and has enjoyed it

since 1810, free from invasion by the Parent Country. The Provinces composing the Republick of Colombia, after having separately declared their Independence, were united by a Fundamental Law of the 17th of December, 1819. A strong Spanish Force occupied, at that time, certain parts of the Territory within their limits, and waged a destructive War. That Force has since been repeatedly defeated, and the whole of it either made prisoners or destroyed, or expelled from the Country, with the exception of an inconsiderable portion only, which is blockaded in two fortresses. The Provinces on the Pacific have likewise been very successful. Chili declared Independence in 1818, and has since enjoyed it undisturbed; and of late. by the assistance of Chili and Buenos Ayres, the Revolution has extended to Peru. Of the movement in Mexico our information is less authentic, but it is, nevertheless, distinctly understood, that the new Government has declared its Independence, and that there is now no opposition to it there, nor a force to make any. For the last 3 Years the Government of Spain has not sent a single corps of troops to any part of that Country; nor is there any reason to believe it will send any in future. Thus, it is manifest, that all those Provinces are not only in the full enjoyment of their Independence, but, considering the state of the War and other circumstances, that there is not the most remote prospect of their being deprived of it.

When the result of such a Contest is manifestly settled, the new Governments have a claim to recognition by other Powers, which ought not to be resisted. Civil Wars too often excite feelings which the Parties cannot controul. The opinion entertained by other Powers as to the result, may assuage those feelings and promote an accommodation between them, useful and honourable to both. The delay which has been observed in making a decision on this important subject, will, it is presumed, have afforded an unequivocal proof to Spain, as it must have done to other Powers, of the high respect entertained by The United States for her rights, and of their determination not to interfere with them. The Provinces belonging to this Hemisphere are our neighbours, and have, successively, as each portion of the Country acquired its Independence, pressed their recognition by an appeal to facts not to be contested, and which they thought gave them a just title to it. To motives of interest this Government has invariably disclaimed all pretension, being resolved to take no part in the controversy, or other measure in regard to it, which should not merit the sanction of the Civilized World. To other claims a just sensibility has been always felt, and frankly acknowledged, but they in themselves could never become an adequate cause of action. It was incumbent on this Government to look to every important fact and circumstance, on which a sound opinion could be formed, which has been done. When we regard, then, the great length of time which this War has been prosecuted, the complete success which has attended it in favour of