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• KINGSTON VOL. II] CHRONICLE. FRIDAY, (afternoon) DECEMBER, 8, 1820. [No 49. PROCLAMATION. UPPER-CANADA. P. MAITLAND. GEORGE Urn FOURTH by the Grace of GOD of the U- nitccl Kingdom of Great Bri¬ tain and Inland, King, De¬ fender of the Faith : To our beloved and faithful Legifiativ* Counfellors of Our Province of Upper Canada, and to Our KoMjhrs, Citizens and Burgefles, of Our faid Province, to Our Provincial Parliament, at Our Town of York, on the ninth day of Oftober inftant, to be commenced, held, called, and elefted, and to every of you Grefting :— WHEREAS, by our Proclamation bearing date the twenty-fifth day of Auguft h(l, We thought fit to Pro¬ rogue Our Provincial Pailiament to the ninth day of O&ober Inftant, at which time, at Out Town of York, you were held and conftrained to appear, NOW KNOW YE, hat WE taking Into Our Royal confideration the eafe and conveni¬ ence of Our loving fubjeft-, have thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Exec utive Council, to relieve you and each of you, of your attendance at the ti ne afore- faid, hereby convoking and by thele pre fents enjoining you and each of you, that on Thurtday, the fixteenth day of Novem¬ ber next enfutng, you meet us in Our Provincial Parliament, in oor Town of York, there to take into confederation the *!■»♦- n«fi iTtflf^rpof Our Province of ITp- per Canada, and therein to do a9 may feem neceflary, and herein fail not. In testimony whereof, WEhavecaufed thefc Our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of Our faid Pro vince to he hereunto affixed, Witness our trufly and well beloved SIR PE REGRINE MAITLANH, Knight Commander of the Mod Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Lieutenant Governor of our faid Province, and Major General Commanding Our Force* therein, at York, this fourth day of Oftober, in the year of Our Lord, one thoufand eight hundred and twenty and in the firft year of Our Reign, P.M. By His Excellency's Command. D CAMERON, Sec'y. GENTLEMEN who reside at York, Upper Canada, or at any place between York and King- fton,can be CuppKed with the Spectator on application to John Macaulay, Esquire, Pelt Matter, Kingfton. John Crooks, Efquire, Poll Mailer at Niagara, U. C. and William G. Hepburn, Inquire, of Qucenston, are also Agents for the Speftatcr. LANDS FOR. SALE the Council Office. 1 , ±th October, 1820. j" Executive Tori, 4 TVTOTIC*-* u hereby given that the J^j Ferrv acrofs the mouth of the Ri¬ ver Trent in the Townfhip of Murray In the Dtdria of Newcallle not having been Leafed this day, Sealed Propofals for the fame will be received at this Office wntil the fifteenth of November next, It being underftood that the faid Ferry will be fuVieft to fuch raies and regulations as the Magistrates in Quarter Scffions (hall fee fit to ellablifh. JO'hM O I* ' *. (-•>•". -&.V 'jun Government Honfe, 1 6th March* 1820. J HIS Excellency the Lieutenant Go¬ vernor is plcafcd to direct that no Location tequiring Settlement Du:y fhall by Confirmed by Patent, without a Cer¬ tificate from the Land Hoard of the Diftrift in which fuch Location may be fituate, that the Settlement Duty requir¬ ed by the Order in Council has bona fide been performed within the time fpecified by the Location Ticket JOHN SMALL, Cli. E. C. NOTICE. THE Suhfcribers return their grateful and unfeigned thank" to their friends and the public, for the liberal patronage they have received while in bufinefsin this place, and mult inform them that they have juft received tram Montreal a frefh fupply of GOODS, in addicion to their former Stock, which they will difpofe of very low for ca(h* fhort approved credit, or in exchange for good Merchantable WHEAT, as they are now wanting 2,000 Bushels, To be delivered to A. MacPherfon, Efq. Napane Mills, a Sample of which they will requite to be delivered to them at thv'ir Store in the Village of Bath, one week previous to the delivery of any at the Na pane Mills, as Wheat that ha? Rye, Chefs, Cockle, orSmu: in it cannot be received. GEORGE HAMSc Co. Bath, 27th Nov. 1820. 48 HE subscriber, "being ap¬ pointed Administrator of the eftateof DANIEL WASHBURN, late of Kingfton, Efquire. ( deceafed, requefts all perfons having claims ajjainil faid eftate to exhibit ;hem, properly vouched ; and all pufons indebted, to iettle and make payment without delay. B. DIDVVEi L. Kingfton, Qftcfte* Vjfa rtta. 4-3*1 BELONGING to the Eftateof the late Charles Stuart^ Efquire* Lot No 20, in the 51I1 Conceffion of Pittsburgh, containing 200 Acres. Lots Nos. ?.o and Eaft half o* 19 in 8th Conceffion ofdo. 300 Acres. Lot No. 19 m the 12 Conceffion of [Jr con. 200 Acres. Lot No. 11 in the 3d Conceflion of A7/<V>, con. 200 Acre5. Lot No. 16 South half in 8th Conceflion, of Augusta con. loo Acres. Lot No. \ 1 in the 4th conceflion of Escot now Tonge, con. 200 acres. Lot No. 1J do do. con. 2co acre-? Lot No 12 in the 6th conceffion of lYo'i ford, con. 200 acres. Lot No 8 in the 4th conceflion of Nepeany con. 200 acres. Lot No. 37 in the 7 conceflion of Camden, con. 200 acres. Lets Nos. 6 and Weft half of 14 in the 2d conceffion of Richmond con. 300 acres. Lot No. 25 in the 6th conceffion of do. con. 200 acres. Lot No 14 in the 5th conceffi n of Port /and, con. 200 acres. Lot No. 38 in the til conceflion of Hun- gerford, con. 200 acres. Lot So. 24 in 2d conceflion of do. con. 20c acres. Lot being letter G and I of FF, Prince Edward's Cliff, fouth fide of great Welt bay, MarysUuvgb, con. 300 acres. I Lot No. 26 1 ft conceflion, in Weft Bay fouth of Black River, do* containing 200 acres. Lot No. 1 front conceffion eaft of Van Alftine's Lake, d* con. 200 acres. Lot No. 5 in ift conceflion, welt of no. 1, weft of the Hock, do. con. 150 acre? Lot No. 8. in the 2d conceflion, [ouch lide of Eaft Lake, in Hallowell, contain¬ ing 200 acres. Lot No. 10 in the 13th conceflion of Ranudon, con. 200 acres. Lots No. 10 in 9th concelfion,and no. 11 in 10th conceflion of Cramahe, con 350 acres. Lot So. 24 in the 7th conceffion cf Mur ray. con. 200 acres. Lot No. i$ in the 7th conceflion, do. con. 200 acre*. Lots Nos. 22 and 23 in 9th conceffion do. con. 400 acres. Lot No. 23 in the 4th conceffion of do. con. 200 acres. Lot No. 19 in the 6th conceflion of do. con. 200 acres. Lots Nos. 28 and eaft half 29 in the 4th conceffion of do. con. 3C0 acrts. Lot No. 29 in the 4th conceflion of Haidi mand, con. 200 acres. Lots Nos. 9 and 10 in the 5th conceflion of do. con. 400 acres. Lot No. 12 in the 51I1 conceffion of do. «'V<yu.- a ocn acre*. Lot No. 10 in the 5th conceflion cf Percy, con. 200 acres. Lois Nos. 17 and weft half of no. 18 in the 9th conceffion of do. containing 300 acres. Lot No. 59 I id conceffion other- wile 2d .Range from the Bay of Quinte, Sophut,burgh, con. too acres. Lot No. 29 in the 7th conceffion of Dar¬ lington, con. 200 acres. Lot No. 18 in the 8ih conceffion of Whitby, con. 200 acres. Lot No. 7 in the 7th conceflion of King, con. 200 acres. Several Lots for Building, and improve¬ ment, confiding of one, two, three, four, five or fix acres in Stuartville at the eaftern extremity of the Town of King flon. — Application for the purchale of the above Lands and Lots to be made tj ALLEN McLEAN, Esq. GEO. OKILL STUART. Acting Executors to the Estate of C. Stuart Esq. Kingfton, October, 6th 1820. Office of Ordnance, Kingston, If. C. t^th Nov. 1820. ANY persons willing to fupply the Ordnance Office at Point Henry with Fifty Ccrds of Fire Wood, to confift of Beech, Maple, or Hickory, and to be delivered whet sleighing commences, are requefted to "end in sealed Tenders, ad- dreiTed to " The Refpedive Officers of H. M. Ordnance" by Monday the 18th of December next, at twelve o'clock. 47 ISURNS'S ALE, Just received, and tor SALE, by the Subscriber* VTVL BAYARD SMYTH Kingfton, :6th Nov. 1820. 46tf To Clothiers. n sale, a quantity of PRESS-PAPERS. Tho S. Wintaker & Co. August 19 1819, 34 For "ale. at this Office, Tlt'E Rnht Reverend the Lord Bi- ihop's Charge to the Clergy of his Diocefe—dei veied in the year 1820. Nov. 24, :82c YORK Land Price-Current Office, KING STREET, WANTED, Axe-men to contraft for clearing Lands in the Town- fhip of Lincoln, Niagara Diftrids and in the Pownmips of York. ('hinguacowcy, and Simcoe, .n the Home Diftrift. Land will be given in exchange for la¬ bour, at a price to be agreed upon. ALSO. * 'he use of 3s acres of newly cleared land, ':• :n*-i ! "ntktrii nn*> mC!- •>"<* -» l«n|f Ui- the Town of York, will be ftiven for a yeai, to any ptrfon who may be defirous of enclosing and cropping the fame upon e- quitabh- termi with the Proprietor. CapitaliftE wifhing to purchase impro¬ ved Farms, <r Wild Lands in Upper-Ca¬ nada, may bt furnifhed (monthly) with a periodica) Prce Current Lift of Estates, on fale in varous Townfhips, on payment f Four Dollars per annum—one quar¬ ter in advanc?. Commiffio-.sfor buying, letting,leafing, and regifterisg Kftates, faithfully execu¬ ted. terms For the Registration of Land For 100 A:re8 and under From 100 and not exceeding 200 ------- 200 to 250 ------- 250 to 300 ------ 300 to 500 500 awi upwaidS ■- I 2 2 3 4 5 d. 3 o 6 o o C3* All letter addrcfled to Mr Akgell, Director cf this office, mud be poll paid. On the 1 ft day of September next, will be puhlifhtd a Monthly Land Price- Current lift <-f Eftates on ^alc in Upper Canada, to U» circulated hereafter in En- gland% Ireland and Scotland, and Wales. 14* NOTICE. tfOH SALSO, A HOUSE and Town lot, in the Town of Kingston, with good Stables and other convenient out-hou- fes; likswife, a FARM of too acres of land in the Township of Frederickiburgh, with 50 acres improvement ; a large fram¬ ed DWELLING-HOUSE, a good log- barn, and a fmall orchard ihereon, in a good settlement and is a good fituation for I any public lUifincfs. ftlfPi loti No. 4, third concelTion Rich¬ mond, too acres ; and the W'eft half of lot No. 16, 3:xth conceffion Kingfton, 100 acres, with 10 acres improvement ; the a bovc mentioned property may be had very reafonable for ca^h. For particulars apply to SAMUEL MERRILL. Kingfton, 2J Nov. 1S20. 44tf' application to Yoik. T;IR Land Board, for the Midland District lor the eriiwing 5x months, will meet on Wednes¬ day in e<^*h week, at the Court Houfe in the To«0 of Kingfton, at the hour of 12 o'clock *t noon, foi the purpofe of receiv¬ ing applications for lands, from the under- mentiontd defcripiion of perfons, viz. Emig^3nt«!, and others coming to the Province and bringing due Certificates of being B'iliih born fubjefts. All able fcttlers that have refided in the Did rift previous to the late war, and pro¬ duce Certificates of having done their duty in its defence. The terms of the grants are the perform¬ ance of the fettling duties within Eighteen Months from the date of the location, and the payment of the following fees; eftablifhsd by an order in Council of 14th December, 1819. On Grants of 50 acres to Indigent Emi¬ grants 00 fees. On Grants of 100 acres, £\t Sterling. On Grants of 200 do. 30 Payable in three equal inftalmtntss, viz. The irft on the receipt of the Location ticket ; the fecond on Certificate filled of fettlement ; the third on the receipt of the Fiat for the patent. No petition can be entertained unlefs accompanied by a written character, or a fciisfaftwy reafon (hewn for fuch not being produced. By order of the Board. JAMES NICKALLS, Junr. ClerL Kinglon, Feb. 14th, 1820. 8 N. B To prevent difappoiutments to perform applying for lands : it is neceflary to (bte .nat the Board has no power to grant l,ands to the Children of U. E. Lpyalutg ; Militia men who ferved in the Flank companies during the war ; Naval I or Military claimants, all fuch mull make * * * M ESSAOB OF THE President of the United States, To balk li<,u<cs% at thiO fining of the Second Ses¬ sion of both tfvuses of Congress. Felloe Citizens of the Senate, and of tie House of Representatives : In communicating to you a juet view of public affairs, at the commencement of your present labours, I do it with great sa¬ tisfaction; because, taking all circumftan- cesinto confideration which claim attention I tee much cause to rejoice in the felicity of our fituation. In making this remark, I do not wish to be underftood to imply that an unvaried prosperity is to be seen in eve¬ ry intereft of this great community. In the progess of a nation inhabiting a territo¬ ry of such vait extent, and great variety of climate, every portion of which is engag¬ ed in foreign commerce and liable to be af¬ fected, in some degree, by the changes which occur in the conditions and regulati¬ ons of foreign countriep^it would be ftrange if the produce of our soil and the induftry and enterprise cf our fellow-citirenB, recei ved at all times, and in every quarter, an uniform and equal encouragement. This would be more than we have a right to ex pect under circumflances the moll favour¬ able. PrefTures on certain inierefts it it admitted, have been felt; but, allowing to these their greateft extent, they detract but little from the force of the remark already made. Informing a juft eftimate of our present situation, it is proper to look at the whole—in the outline as well as in the the detail. A free, virtuous, and enlightened peo¬ ple know well the great piinciplca and caufes on which their happinefs depends; and even thofe who fuffer moll, occafion- ally, in their tranlitory concerns, find great telicf under their fufferings, from the bles- fings which they otherwife enjoy, and in the confoling & animating hope which they auiimuuu. fiom whence uo uric ^k*- fores come ? Not from a government which is founded by, adminillered for, and fupporied by the people. We trace them to the peculiar character of the epoch in which we live, and to the extraordinary occurences which have fignalized it. The convulfions with which fevcral of the pow¬ er** of Europe have been fhaken, and the long and deilructive wars in which all were engaged, with their fudden tranfition to a Hate of peace, prefenting, in the full inflance, unufual encouragement to our commerce, and withdrawing it in the fe¬ cond, even within its wonted limits, could not fail to be feufibly felt here. The fta- tion too, which wc had to support thro* this long conflict, compelled, as wc were, finally, to become a party to it with a piincipal power, and to make gteat exer- tion^, fuffer heavy loffes, and to contract confiderable debts, dillurbing the ordinary courfc of affairs, by augmenting, to a vail amount, the circulating medium, and there¬ by elevating at one time, the price of every article above a jul) ftandard, and depttfling it at another below it, had likewife its due eff. ct. It is manifeft that the preflures of which we complain, have proceeded, in a great meafure, from thefe caufes. When, then, we take into view the profperous and hap¬ py cordiiion of our country, in all the ) great circumftances which conftitute the cfniay'ui Ct l.aiion-—cvdy rr.uivi&u&£ ul the full enjoyment of all his rights ; the Union blefTed with plenty, and rapidly rifing to greatnefs, under a national go¬ vernment, which operates with complete effect in every part, without being felt in any, except by the ample protection which it affordsy and under ftate governments which perfotm their equal lharc, accord¬ ing to a wife diftribution of power be¬ tween them, in promoting the public hap¬ pinefs—it is impoffible to behold fo grati¬ fying, lo gloiious a fpectaclc, without being penetrated with the moft pro¬ found and grateful acknowledgments to the Supreme Author of all good for fuch manifold and inellimable bleilings. Deep¬ ly imprcficd with thefe fentiments, 1 can¬ not regard the preflures to which I have adverted otherwife than in the light of mild and initructive admonitions; warn ing us of dangers to be Ihunned in future ; teaching us leflbns of economy, conefpon- ding with the fimplicity and puiity of our inftitution*, and bell adapted to their fup port; evincing the connection and depen¬ dence which the vaiious parts of our happy Union have on each other, thereby aug¬ menting daily our focial incorporation, and adding, by its ftr-.ng tics, new ilrength and vigor to the political; opening a wider range, and with new encouragement to the indudry and enterprize of our fellow-citi¬ zens ai home and abroad; and more efpe- ci.illy by the multiplied proofs which it has accumulated of (he great perfection of our mod excellent fyflem of government, the powerful iuflrument in the hands of an all merciful Creator, in lecuring to us thefe bleffings. Happy as OUT fituation is, it does not exempt us from folicitude and care for the future On the contrary, as the bleffings which we enjoy ate great, proportionably great fhould be our vigilance, zeal, and activity to prelerve them. Foreign wars may again expofe us to new wrongs, which would impofe on us new duties, for which we ought to be prepared. The Hate of Etnope is unfettled, and how long peace may be preferved> is altogether uncertain \ in addition to which, we have interelH of our own to adjuft, which will require par¬ ticular attention* A corre£ view of our relations with each powet will enable you to form a juft idea of exifting difficulties^ and of the meafurcs of precaution beft a* daptcd to them. Refpefling our relations with Spain^ nothing explicit can now be communica¬ ted. On the adjournment of Cbngrefa, in May laft, the miniller plenipotentiary of the United Stntes, at Madrid, was in- flru&ed to inform the government of Spain that, if his Catholic Majefty fhould then ratify the treaty, this government would accept the ratification, fo far as to fubmit to the decifioa of the Senate the qucftion whether fuch ratification mould be received in exchange for that of the United States, heretofore gi7en. By let¬ ters from the miniilere of the United States to the Secretary of State, it ap¬ pears, that a communication, in conformi¬ ty with his inltru&ions, had been made to the government of Spain, and that the Cortes had the fubjeft under confideration. The refult of the deliberations of that bo¬ dy, which is daily expefted, will be made known to Congrefe as foon as it is receiv¬ ed. The friendly fentiment which wat exprefTed on the part of the United State* in the meflagc of the 9th of May la(lf it ftill entertained for Spain. Among the caufes of regret, however, which are infe- parable from the delay attending this trans¬ action, it is proper to ftate that fati* faftory information has been received that mcafures have been recently adopted by defigning perfons, to convert certain part* of the province of Eaft Florida into depoti for the reception of foreign goods hocn whence to fmugglc them into the United States. By opening a port within the limits of Florida, immediately on our boun¬ dary, where there was no fettlement, the objeA could not be mifunderftood. An early accommodation of differences will* It is QWpCUf pfCvCtlt <_.•-*<..•-* - s pernicious practices, and place the relation* of the two countries on a very amicable and permanent bafis. The commercial relations between the United States and the Bri*i(h colonies in the Weft Indies, and on this continent, have undergone no change ; the Britifh government ftill preferring to leave that commerce under the reftri&ions heretofore impofed on it, on each fide. It is fatis- fadory to recollefl, that the reftrainta re> forted to by the United States, were de- fenfive only, intended to prevent a mono¬ poly under Britilh regulations in favor of Great Britain ; as it likewife is, to know that the experiment is advancing in a fpirit of amity between the parties. The queftion depending between the United Mates and Great Britain, refpeA- ing the conftru&ion of the firft article of the treaty of Ghent, has been referred by both governments, to the deciiton of the Emperor of Ruffia, who has accepted the umpirage. An attempt has been made with the go» vernrocnt of France, to regulate, by treaty, the commerce between the two countries, on the principle of reciprocity and equali¬ ty. By the laft communication from the Minifter Plenipotentiary of the U States at Fan's, to whom full power had been given, we learn that the negotiation had been commenced there, but lerious diffi- taiJ-wb'TJavng roceu*rcurr*fc 1W.Jo^.*** " vernment had refolved to transfer ii to the United States, for which purpofe the Mi¬ niller Plenipotentiary of France had been ordered to repair to this city, and whoft: arrival might foon be expefted. It is hoped that this important intereft may be arranged on juft conditions, and in a man¬ ner equally fatisfa&ory to both parties* It is fubmitted to Congrefs to decide, un¬ til fuch arrangement is made, how far ;t may be proper, on the principle of the aft of the laft feffion, which augmented the tonnage duty on French velTels, to adopt other meafurea for carrying more com¬ pletely into effefl the policy of thar aft. The aft referred to, which impoles nevr tonnage on Fiench veflkls, having been in force from and after the firft day of J«!y» it has happened that feveral veflels of that nation which had been defpatched from France before its exiilence wan known, have entered the ports of the U- -tatee, and been fubjeft to it* operation, without that previous notice which the getaeral fpirit of our laws gives to individual in fimilar cafes. The object of th-rt law having been merely to countervail the in¬ equalities which exiiled to the difadvan- tage of the United States, in their corr> mercial intercourfe wirh France, it is fub-1 mitted alio to the confideration of Con- grtfs, whether, in the fpirit of amity and conciliation which it is no lefs the inclina¬ tion than the policy of the United States to prefervc in their intercourfe with other powers, it may not be proper to extend relief to the individuals interefted in thore cafes, by exempting f»om the ope'atton of the law all thofe vefleh which have enter¬ ed our porta wi'hout having bad the means of previously knowing the exiftence of the additional duty. The conteft ' e ween Spain and the Co¬ lonies, according 10 the moft authentic in¬ formation, is maintained by the latter with improved fuccefi, The unfortunite divi- fions which were known to exift fome time fince at Buenos Xytes, it is under¬ ftood, ftill prevail. In no part of Soatb