The Providence Journal, And Town And Country Advertiser

June 10.

We understand that the President of the United States has vacated the Legations to Lisbon and the Hague: The reasons on which this step have been taken are almost too obvious to require enumeration, and certainly so evident as to require but little amplification.

By it, two important effects will be produced; the immediate saving of a considerable annual expenditure, and a supersession of some of those delicate diplomatic ties which united us to European powers. Economy dictates the former, no less powerfully than sound policy recommends the latter. An annual expense of probably more than 20,000 dollars will be retrenched, without in the least injuring our commercial relations with Portugal and the Batavian Republic, as we have no doubt, but that, in the room of the diplomatic agents, respectable Consuls will be appointed, with powers strictly appropriate to the intercourse of trade. Nor can the least umbrage be taken at this procedure by the belligerent powers, as it equally affects both contending parties, Portugal being allied on one side, and the Batavian republic on the other.