We are all well, and unite in remembrances to Mrs. Gallatin, Miss Frances, and the young gentle

men.

From, Dear Sir,

Yours with faithful respect,

ALBERT GALLATIN, Esquire,

Envoy Extraordinary and

RICHARD RUSH.

Minister Plenipotentiary

from the United States-Paris.

CHAPTER XIII.

NUMBER OF AMERICAN VESSELS IN BRITISH PORTS. DINNER AT THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER'S. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT AN EARLY SESSION CALLED ON ACCOUNT OF THE DISTURBED STATE OF THE COUNTRY. LEVEE AT CARLTON HOUSE. FETE AT THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR'S-THE HORSE GUARDS CALLED OUT. DUTY ON TOBACCO, SNUFF AND HOPS. DINNER AT MR. COLQUHOUN's. INTERVIEW ON OFFI

CIAL SUBJECTS WITH LORD CASTLEREAGH. ENGLAND CONSENTS TO THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA AS UMPIRE UNDER THE DISPUTED ARTICLE OF THE TREATY OF GHENT.

November 19. In a dispatch of to-day to the Secretary of State, I mention the following facts: viz. that at the close of last month there were but two vessels of the United States in the port of Liverpool; and during the first week of the present month, only a single one in the port of London.

The number of United States vessels annually arriving at Liverpool before and since the war of

1812, has frequently been from three to four hundred, sometimes more, the most of them ships of good size; and the arrivals at London since the spring of 1815, until the close of 1818, have been sixty-four annually, taking the average.

The extraordinary falling off is ascribed to the numerous commercial failures, and to the depression of business generally in the United States; of which the condition of the state banks, and bank of the United States, is given as one of the causes. Many of these institutions have failed, and others been greatly embarrassed in their affairs; whilst all the resources and energies of the country, remain the

same.

At seven in the evening, I went to dinner at the Chancellor of Exchequer's, where we had several of the diplomatic corps and other company. Again we were in the dining room of Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Walpole, with memorials of the times of each around us; and none were better able to call them up, with appropriate anecdote and allusions at his table, than our hospitable entertainer.

November 24. Parliament was opened yesterday by the Prince Regent in person. I was in the ambassador's box, with the rest of the diplomatic corps. As the Regent read his speech, the Duke of Wellington stood on the throne by his side, holding the.

sword of state. The speech began as usual with announcing in terms of regret, the continued indisposition of the King; and it told both Houses that his Royal Highness continued to receive from foreign powers, the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards England.

Parliament has been opened at a day unusually early, and the speech assigns the disturbed state of the country as the cause. Seditious practices stated to have been prevalent in some of the manufacturing districts, (Manchester, and the riots in that vicinity in August, being chiefly meant,) had led ministers to make some addition to the military force, with a view to their more effectual suppression. For this step, they desire the sanction of Parliament, as well as for other measures contemplated by them in aid of the public tranquillity, and due execution of the laws.

The usual address, reflecting back the speech and adopting its sentiments, was moved in both Houses, but strongly opposed by Earl Grey in the House of Lords, and Mr. Tierney in the House of Commons; each of whom moved an amendment. After debate, the ministers triumphed by large majorities in both Houses, thus carrying the address as it stood.

The speech had also a paragraph relating to the depression existing in certain branches of the manufactures, and consequent distress among those connected with them. Speakers in both Houses whilst

handling that part of it, made allusions to distresses existing in the United States, some of them alleging that they were more general and severe than in England. Even the speech from the throne stated, that the depressed condition of the manufactures was in a great measure to be ascribed to the embarrassed situation of "other countries."

It is worthy of remark on the other hand, that in the United States, our newspapers and public documents ascribed our distress in a great degree to the depressed condition of business and industry abroad, but chiefly to the distress in England.

Both, to a certain extent, were true; and what can more show the dependence of countries one upon another? And may I not, in this connexion, be allowed to recall the declarations made to Mr. Gallatin and me by Lord Castlereagh, when opening an important negotiation between the two countries at North Cray? Upon that occasion, amongst other sentiments which he uttered, he said, "Let us, in short, strive so to regulate our intercourse in all respects, as that each nation may be able to do its utmost towards making the other rich and happy."

A liberal sentiment, and wise as liberal; one in unison with the spirit of an age, which seeks to lessen the causes of national dissension and war; a sentiment, than which no better motto could be chosen by all nations entering upon negotiation;