AOSTSCRI PT.
SATURDAY.
By the arrival of the Ramona packet at Falmouth, intelligence has been received from New York to the 10th of January. The message. sent by President VAN BUREN to Congress, on the Caroline affair, (dated the 8th January,) was in these terms- " To the Senate and 'louse of Representatives, United States. " In the highly excited state of feeling on the Northern frontier, occasioned by the disturbances in Canada, it was to be apprehended that mews of complaint might arise on the line diiirling the United States from her Britannic Majesty 's dominions. Every precant ion was therefore taken on our part, authorised by the existing law ; and as the troops of the provinces were embodied on the Canadian side, it was hoped that no serious violation of the rights of the United States ‘,011111 to occur. I regret, however, to inform you that an outrage of a most uggrarolcd character has been committed,accompateed by a hostile, though terninonor ill% vision of our territory, pro- during the stroogest findings of resentment on the port of or citizens in the neigh- bourh,,od, and on the whole border line ; and that the excitement previously exi.ting has been alarmingly inereated. To guard against the possible recurrence of any similar act, I have thought it indispensable to call mit a portion or the Militia, to be posted on that frontier. The documents I ierew it it presented to Congress show the chat octet' of the outrage committed, the measures taken in consequence of its oceurreuee, :old the ne. cesiitv for resorting to them. It will also be seen t hat the subject was immediately brought to the notice of the British Minister accredited to this country, and the proper steps taken on our part to obtain the fullest information of all the circumitances lead- ing to arid attendaut ninni the transaction, preparatory to a demand Pr reparation. I ash such appropriation as the circumstances in which our country is thus unexpectedly placed require, " ALVAN Dumas." The tone of this message is certainly not pacificatory ; but in the debate that followed in the House of Representatives, there appeared to be a full understanding, on the part of nearly all the members who spoke, that the attack 011 the Caroline bad not been made without pro- vocation. One member said, that "people who lived in glass houses must not throw stones." The fact is, that although the belligerent spirit is pretty strong in the United States, and cannot be repressed on the Canadian frontier, the ruling powers are aware that, with their slave. population, a foreign war must not be lightly hazarded.
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