Mr. Jaudon ltas concluded arrangements with Messrs. Hope and Company,
of Amsterdam, for a loan of 430,000t. on account of the United States Bank. The price is 00, the interest 3 per cent., and the principal to be repaid in five years.
The 'New York Courier and Enquirer published, on the 19th and 90th of December, two articles, alleging gross breach of faith on the part of Messrs. Baring and Company towards Mr. ;Tendon and the United States Bank. It will be recollected that the first public notice of this affair appeared in a letter of the " Genevese Traveller " in the Time» newspaper ; and when copying his statement, we expressed our disbelief that Messrs. Baring had acted in any way db,honottraldy, though there might have been a misunderstanding between that firm and Mr. Jaudon. It seems, however, that there was no misunderstand- ing ; and that Messrs. Baring have throughout the recent difficulties of the United States Bank aided and supported that establishment. The New York paper repeated the Genevese Traveller's charge with many additional circumstances ; alleging that not only had Messrs. Baring been deceived Mr. Jaudon by the promise of a loan whielt they never made, and transmitted a list of' the liabilities of the Bank to New York, with an announcement of Mr. Jaudon's inevitable stoppage ; but that they prevented shipments of produce Prom St. Petersburg and from Monte Video to Mr. Jaudon, by the sat tie declarations of Mr. Jaudon's certain bankruptcy. These articles having been copied into the Horning Chronicle of Monday last, Messrs. Baring were induced to publish a correspondence between themselves and Mr. Jatelon, °ea:a- rmed by the appearance of the Genevese Traveller's charge, in which correspondence Messrs. Barings assert. and Mr. Jandon in the fullest manner confirms the assertion, that every engagement of the English house was by them readily fulfilled, and that not the slightest imputa- tion rests upon them.
"I can have no hesitation," Mr. Jandun writes, "iii saving to you what I have taken pleasure in stating very frequently to others, that the conduct of your house towards me personally has uniformly evinced the most friendly dis- position ; end that I have repeatedly received from you important and valuable aid in my arrangements to meet my heavy enpgentunts tbr the Bank orate United States.
" In the particular transaction alluded to, so far from having acted with gross deception and perfidy ' in refusing to do On the 2:31 of August last what volt bad previously agreed to do—which was to unite Nvitit other friends in a large purchase of State Stocks, or aavances upon them—you not tml.y punctu- ally and cheerfully performed yottr engagement, but I find on reference to my letter of that date to the President of the Bank of the United States, that I mentioned to him m3: consultations with you about the pm'posed arrangement, and expressed the opinion that I could not fail to accomplkh it. "As to the other part of the charge in that letter, viz. that Mr. Bates sent out by the steamer of the 24th August a list oh' my ptvables, with a declara- tion that the Bank must titil on the 266, ani that these were used for the purpose of stock-gfunbling' 1 need only say, that although you. may have con- sidered it right to send such a list, yet I am quite sure, (whatever others may Or may not have done, of which 1 know nothing,) your house is entirely in- capable of using any confidential information for any unworthy purpose."
Messrs. I3arings deny that they wrote at all to Monte Video on the subject, and only to St. Petersburg after the public dishonour of the United States Bank drafts in Parts. The list of Mr. Jatalea's " pay- ables" was sent to their New York correspondent with instructions to show it to the President of the 'United States Bank in strict confidence ; and they have no reason to believe that he disobeyed his orders.—C'ein- ni«lGazttle.
The New York packet-ship Skidoos, Captain Palmer, which brought the President's messaso to Liverpool, has made a remarkably quick
passage for this period of the year ; having been out only seventeen
days. She experienced a continuance of severe weather ; and on passing Ttaskar Light, a signal of distress was observed flying there, but owing to a very heavy sea no communication could be effected. The Siddons had a most rapid run from the last-mentioned place— eleven hours only.
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