Phenix Gazette

We give a summary of late English news received at New-York by the packet ship William Thompson, none of which is either important or interesting. John A. King, Esq. late Secretary of Legation, and Mr. Waring, King's Messenger, both with despatches for Government, came passengers, and proceeded immediately for Washington, where, we learn, they arrived on Saturday. Conjecture is busy as to the nature of these despatches; and great importance, of course, is attached to them from the rare circumstance of their being attended by a King's Messenger. To-day will probably dispell all anxiety. In the mean time, the following extract from the New York American, and the one which follows from the New York Gazette, will show that nothing very important need be looked for. "We guess," says the American, that he (the messenger,) does not bring any thing in any way disagreeable or unfriendly—but rather otherwise; and that he does not bring any thing that relates to Cuba, nor to the West Indies, nor to any other question of external policy. What he does bring will probably soon be made known to us all, until which we are satisfied with the assurance, that this visit is one of good & not of evil.

The Gazette says, "the arrival of a King's Messenger seems to have excited some speculation; but there is no particular cause for it. The British Government has withdrawn the Falmouth Packets from the United States, for two reasons:—firstly, that heretofore, every month, about one third of the seamen of each Packet deserted while in this port,— secondly. that a Messenger, with a mail, can be sent out in the American Packets at a trifling expense, compared with that of dispatching a vessel. There is therefore, no cause of extra surmises respecting the arrival here of Mr. Waring, the Messenger, who came out in the packet ship William Thompson. In future, the arrival of a King's Messenger in our Packets will be so common, that no surprise will be excited, as, frequently, quick dispatch is an object. Occasionally, a British mail will reach the United States, via Halifax and Bermuda. The present commercial differences between the two Governments will, doubtless be amicably adjusted, and British Government mails will be sent out in the New York Packets, in charge of a confidential messenger."