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th,e fear of now increasing his sor- 

 rows, have dissuaded his highness 

 from resorting to that measure. 

 His highness has limited himself 

 to command, that the disapproba- 

 tion of your excellency's conduct 

 be expressly declared ; as also that 

 he expects that your excellency 

 will keep in future, within the 

 limits of your mission, without 

 availing yourself again of the op- 

 portunity which your character of 

 foreign prelate affords you, to take 

 the same or similar steps ; but that 

 all your remonstrances will be 

 made to government through the 

 medium of the secretary of state ; 

 and your excellency may be sure, 

 that should you henceforward for- 

 get the duties of your charge, his 

 highness will find himself in the 

 painful, though absolute necessity, 

 of exercising his full power in the 

 execution of those duties which he 

 swore to fulfil when he accepted 

 the high trust committed into his 

 bands — God preserve, &c. 



Antonio Cano Manuel. 



Cadiz, April 23rd. 

 To his Lordship the Archbishop of 

 Nicea. 



The reasons which have com- 

 pelled me to this resolution, and 

 the incontrovertible truths which, 

 as protector of the sacred laws of 

 the church, I have pointed out in 

 the manifesto, make me trust that 

 the worthy prelates of the Spa^ 

 nish church, and their respectable 

 chapters, will contribute, by means 

 of their authority and sound learn- 

 ing, to the fulfilment of the good 

 wishes of the sovereign congress 

 and my own, in favour of religion 

 and the state. 



(Signed) L. De Bourbon. 

 Cardinal of Scala, Archbishop 

 of Toledo, President. 

 Cadiz, April 23rd, 1813. 



Message of the President of the 

 United States. 

 " Felloiv Citizensnftke Senate,and 

 of the House of Representatives .• 

 " At an early day after the close 

 of the last session of congress, an 

 offer was formally communicated 

 from the emperor of Russia, of his 

 mediation as the common friend of 

 the United States and Great Bri- 

 tain, for the purpose of facilitating 

 a peace between ihem. T!ie high 

 character of the emperor Alexan- 

 der being a satisfactory pledge for 

 the sincerity and impartiality of his 

 offer, it was immediately accept- 

 ed ; and as a further proof of the 

 disposition on the part of the 

 United States to meet their ad- 

 versary in honourable experiments 

 for terminating the war, it was 

 determined to avoid intermediate 

 delay, incident to the distance of 

 the parties, by a definitive provision 

 for the contemplated negociation. 

 Three of our eminent citizens were 

 accordingly commissioned with the 

 requisite powers, to conclude a 

 treaty of peace, with persons cloth- 

 ed with like powers on the part of 

 Great Britain. They were autho- 

 rized also to enter into such con- 

 ventional regulations of the com- 

 merce between the two countries 

 as may be mutually advantage- 

 ous. The two envoys, who were 

 in the United States at the time of 

 the appointment, have proceeded 

 to join their colleague already at 

 St. Petersburgh. 



" The envoys have received 

 another commission, authorizing 

 them to conclude with Russia, a 

 treaty of commerce, with a view 

 to strengthen the amicable rela- 

 tions, and improve the beneficial 

 intercourse between the two coun- 

 tries. 



«' The issue of this friendly in- 



