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AMERICA. WASIIINGTON, FEURUARY 21. PILF.SIDF.N f't; MEN;SACM. The following most interesting Message was yes terday transmitted by the President of the United States to bath Houses of Congress : E &nee and Howe of Reprettagive: of the. • * Mired States, ' • 6 ' I lay before Congress copies of thd Treaty of Peace and Amity between the United States and his Britannic Majesty, which was signed by the Com missioners o both perties at Ghent, on the 2tth of December, 181 te and the ratifizetions of which have been duly exchanged. While performing this act I congratulaie you and our constituents, upon an event which is hiehly honourable to the nation, and termi. netts with p.culiar felicity a campaign signalized by the most brilliant SUCCCSSCS. 46 The I.lle war, although reluctantly declared by Congress, had become a necessary resort, to assert the rights and independence of the nation. It has been waged with a success which is the natural re sult of the Legislative counsels, of the patriotism of the people, 01 the public spirit of the militia, and of the valour of the military and naval fortes of the eeuntry. Peace, at all times a blessing, is peculiarly welcome, therefore, at a period when the causes of the war have ceased to operate.; when the Governs' merit has demonstrated we etliciency of its powers of defence ; and when the nation cen review its conduct without regret and witheut reereach. " I recommend to your care and beneficence the gallant men whose achievements, in every &Tait :pent ef military service, on the lend and on the water, have essentially contributed to the American Wm. ) and to the restoration of peace. The leeliags of conscious patriotism and worth will animate such men, under every change of fortune and pineult ; but their country performs a duty of itself, when it be stows those testimonials of apt wobation and applause which are, at once, the reward, and the incentive to great actions. " The redaction of the public expenditures to the demands of a peace establishment will doubtless en. gage the immediate attention of Congress. There are, however, important considerations which forbid a sudden and general revocation of the measures that have been produced by the war. " Experience has relight us, that neither the pa cific dispositions of the American people, nor the pa cific character of their political institutions, can alto gether exempt them from that strife which appears, beyond the ordinal y lot of nations to be incident to the actual period of the world; and the seme faith ful monitor demonstrates that certain degree of pre paration for war is not mile iiidispens dile to avert disaster in the onset, bin etrords also the best security for the continuance of peace. " The wisdom o 1 Congress will, therefore, I am confident, provide for the niaiotenance of an ade— quate regular fie ce ; ler the gradual advance of the naval establklruent ; for intr.roving all the means of harbour defence; fer aeilline discipline to the distin guished bravery of the sniitia ; end for cultivating the military art in its essentiel branches under the li beral patronage of Government. • " The resteirecs of cur country were, at all times, competent to the attainment ef every national oaject, but they will now be enia;lied and invigorated by the activity which peace will introduce to all the acmes of domestic enterprise and labour. 44 The provision that has been made f.r the public creditors, during the present Session of Congress, must have a decisive effect in the establishment of the public credit b..th at hone, and abroed. The reviving interests of commccree will claim We Legislative at tenion at the earliest opportunity ; and such regula tions will, I trust, be seasonably devised, as shall se. cure to the United States their just proportion of the navigition of the world. The most liberal policy towards other nations, if met by corresponding di:- positions, will in this respect, be found the most be neficial policy towards ourselves. But there is no object that can enter with ereettr force and merit into the deliberation of Congress, than a consideration of the means to preserve and promote the manufactures which have sprung into existence, and Attained an unparalleled metes ity throughout the United States during the period of European wars. This source of national independence and wealth, I anxiously re commend to the prompt and constant guardianship of Congress. 44 The termination of the Legislative Session will soon seperate you, fellow citizens, from • each other, and restore yies to your constituents. I pray you to bear with yue the expression , : of my sanguine hope that the piece which has been just declared will nut only be the foueilation of the inoFt friendly inier• course between the Ualeal States anti Great Britain, but that it will also he productive of hapeiness and harmony in eV( iy section of our fiche/ea c .unary. " 'rite influeoce re your precepts and example must be every where raved - al ; and while we accord in grateful :icknowiedeeervas for the protection which Yeovioraice. has bestowed upon us, let us never cease to inculcate obedience to the laws, and fidelity to the Union, as constituting the palladium of the national independence end preeperity. " Washington, Feb. I 5." 44 JAN:ES AIAD:SON." DO:innsi, MARCH 12. WAR WI Cli ALGIERS: PnEgineNT's (cosvilmwriA mEssAcs. " To the Senates and 1-louse of Xepreseittatives. of the Unit:A Stares. et Cralgress will it tvc seen, by the communication from the Consul General of the United Stares at Al ters laid before them on the 17th November, ISI2, t h e hostile proceedings of the 11. y agi.iiitst that Func tionary. have been followed by act% of more o'ert and direct warlsie ag:tinst the Citizens of the United States tra..iing ivi the Mediterranean, some of whom are still de:a:tied eaptiviiy, notwithstand ing the attempts which bare hieen nride to ransom them, and aie trtated will' the rii4t ur usual on the coast of liarb.iry. 66 The eow:idermions which rend.wil it unneces sary and ii:4inlportant to coma:vine ;.tm:ile operations on the pats of the United States, being now rermi. rated by the Peace with Great Britain, which opens tic prospect of an active and valuable trade of their Citizens within the range of the Aigerine eitsezers • „ pew ,. mend rt. Cvnigre..s the expecltenc7 of an Act declaring the existence of a stare of war between the United States and Cie Dey of Algiers ; anti of such' provisions as may be requisite for a vigorous prose cution of it to a successfnl issue. (Signed) " JAMES MADISON. gg Washingtou; Feb. 21, 1815." The House of Representatives having, 2d instant, removed the injunction of secrecy from the proceed ings which have taken place in conclave, it appears that a Bill, of which the following is a copy, has passed both Houses of Congress, and now awaits the signature of the President, which it will dnubtbss receive. , The measure embraced in the following Act is one which has been anticipated. by every Reader, conveisant with the history of our relations with Algiers, from the moment Peace was proclaim ed ; and, we feel assured, will receive the almost un animous approbation of the Nation : AN ACT FOR TIIE PROTECTION OF VIE COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES AOAINsT TILE ALGERINE cRUIZERS. gg Whereas, the Dey of Algiers, on the Coast of Barbary, has commenced a predatory warfare against the United States— " Be k enacted, by the Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States of America in Con gress assembled—That it shall be lawful fully to equip, officer, man, and employ such of the armed vessels of the United States as may be judged re quisite by the President of the United States for pro tecting effectu illy the commerce and seamen thereof on the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, and ad joining Seas. gg Sec. t. And be it further enacted—That it shall be lawful for the President of die United States to, instruct the Commanders of the respective public yes- sels aforesaid, to subdue, seize, and make prize of all vessels, goods, and effects of or belonging to the Dey of Algiers, or to his subjects, and to bring or send the same into port, to be proceeded against and distributed according to law ; and, also, to cause to be done all such other acts of precaution or hostility, as the state of war will justify, and may, in his opi nion require. " Sec. 3. And be it further enacted—That or the application of the owners of private armed vessels of the United States, the President of the United States may grant them Special Commissions in the form which he shall direct, under the seal of the United States ; and such private armed vessels, when so commissioned, shall have the like authority for sub duing, seizing, taking and bringing into port any Algerine vessel, goods, or effects as the before-men tioned public armed vessels may by law have ; and shall therein be subject to the instructions which may be given by the President of the United States lor the regulation of their conduct, and their Com missions shall be revocable at his pleasure. Provided, that before any Commissien shall be granted as afore said, the owner or owners of the vessel for which the same may be requested, aid the commander thereof for the time being, shall give bond to the United States, with at least two responsible sureties, not in terested in "itch vessels, in the penal sum of seven thousand dollars, or if such vessel be provided with more than one hundred and fifty men, in the penal sum of fourteen thousand dollars. with condition for observing the treaties and laws of the United States, and the instructions which may be given as aforesaid; and also, i:r satisfying all damages and injuries which shall be done con.rary to the tenor thereof, by such commissioned vessel, and for delivering up the Cominis.aoa wilco' revoked by the President of the United States. " Sect 4. . And be it further enacted—That any Algerine vessel, goods, or effects which may be so captured and brought into port, by any private armed vessel of the United States, duly commissioned as aforesaid, may be adjadged good prize, and there upon shall accrue to the owners, and officers, and men of the capturing vessel, and shall be distributed according to the agreement which shall h ive been made between them ; or, in failure of such agreement, according to the discretion of the Court having cog nizance of the carture." The vote in the Hansa on the Bill to declare War against Algiers, was 91 to 32. The question on the Army Bill WAS decided in the Senate 15 to B—in the House 70 to 38. The reduction of men (to 10,000) to take place the Ist of May. The Act to authorise a Loan of 18,452,000 dollars, which passed, is for the purpose of redeeming Trea sury Notes, charged on the Sinking Fund. Of these Notes there would fall due in the year 1815 eight millions and upwards, and in the mouth of March, 1815, ten millions of dollars, being the whole amount now in circulation. The &nate have refused to accept of General Dear b,rn, and appointed Mr. Crawford (late Minister to France) Secretary of War. BOSTON, MARCH 9. The public, contrtry to our expectation, still re. main in suspense with regard to the recent reports of the capture of New Orleans. From the source through which the intelligence originally came to this nothing further is received ; but from Washington we have several letters containing New Orleans dates to the 4th February, at which tune the e late was not only still in our hands, but no eitemY investing it. although they agree in stating, that the British faces were still quartered on Ship Island. This circumstance, and the strong prObability that reinforcements must have reached them from the %Vest Indies, by the last of January, his created con siderable alarm for the safety of the lives of the inhabitants, and the immense property, that must have fallen a sacrifice in the event' of its capture. A few days (perhaps hours) will, however, remove suspence; in the mean time, we can only discharge our duty, by giving to the public such conjectural ac counts, as we receive. Extract wf a letter from a respectable Gentleman at Washington, dated February 28 :—" I omitted to mention to•you, that this day letter; are received from NOW Orleans, dated the 3d of February, which state, they have satisfactory reasons for believing the British intended at that time another attack on that city : Jackson is, however, said to be quite prepared rivet die enemy. If not attempted very soon alter the date of these accounts, they must have the ile..vs of peace from the arrivals at Bermuda, and probably at the Mississippi." Extract of a letter from New Orleans, Feb. 4:— .. We are now tranquil, and the enemy are at Ship [,land on board their fleet, said to he building boats. It is possible they may attempt Mubille, but they are Destitute of provisions, and are in 4 most crippled and Distressed state. • HAMBURG!! MAIL. VIENNA,. MARCH 10. Forty disguised Frenchmen made an attempt last night to seize the King of Rome, and carry him off to France, and the plan nearly succeeded. Our ever watchful Police was led to suspect something from the circumstance that sixteen hackney coaches were ordered at the same time to one place. Soon aft.,r, the preparations made at the next stations were also discGvered, and so the whole plan was immediately found out. Among the persons arrested on this oc. casion are a General and two Colonels. It is now known that relays of post horses were bespoke as far as to the Rhine. It has therefore been judged proper to prepare roomy apartments for his august mother and him in the Imperial Palace. They have already left Sehoenbrunn. Besides a large army of observation in Tuscany, Austria will have a main army of 120,000 in Italy, in order to act towards the south of France. Prince Schwartzcnburg will command this army. The Prussian army on the Rhine wilt be 180,000 strong. The whole Bavarian and Wurtemberg armies will take the field : the hitter are to enter to-day, March 20th, the Swiss territory. Switzerland joins the common cause, and the troops are to observe very strictly the French frontiers till orde:l to ad. vance shall arrive. A large Russian army of reserve is to be staConed between Munich and Ratisbon, in order to act as cir cumstances may require. FROM ANOTHER LETTER. The Monarchs have agreed Cu reirrtin together till this new war shall be ended. The gra head quarters remain here till the war shall really begin, when they will be removed to Frankfort on the Maine, when the Congress will also fiaish its sittings. Positive otdcrs have been sent to-d ty to convey Jerome Bonaparte to Bruna. The Prince of Conic is expected here ; lie is known to have passed through Frankfort on the 16th. Tile Doke a Wellington set off to-day fur Brus sels, to take the command of the numerous army there. As this celebrated Commander is well ac quainted with the great men in France, and enjoys in a high degree the confidence of Louis XVIII. it is expected, with good reason, that under the plesent circumstances his presence will be of the utmost iin• portance. FRANKFORT, MARCH 21. It is affirmed today. upon authority which it is said may be depended upon, that King Joachim has under the present circumstances, odeied his whole army to the Emperor of Austria, with the adJitiGr: that he is ready to place it under the command u: any Austrian General his Imperial Majesty shali propose. Letters from Naples of the Ist, Leghorn of the 6th, Genoa of the Bth, and Milan of the Nth, state that all, is tranquil in Italy : it was also supposed that the misunderstanding between the Ken t ; Naples and the Pope would be very shortly ad; ,ted. The little Napoleon has rooms in the Palace bi.iweeti the Emperor and the Crown Prince. General Nugent is gone on an important niis.:iou to Italy. BERLIN, MARCH 21. At the same time, with the important declaration issued at Vienna on the 13th, the Allied Powers took the resolution to make rapid And elier:_;etic prepara tions for the possible event of a new war. The divi sions of troops which recently came hither from thc banks of the Rhine, are immediately to rcvrrt, ; and numerous detachments of Prussian troops wil at the same time repair to the same gum ter hum WeA phalia. The King has conferred, by a C ibinet letter, the chief command of the army on yield-Marai—ii Prince Von Bucher Wahlstadt. At the same time, the Emperor of Russia has summoned again towards the Rhine the greater part of his troops now stationed in Poland. The head quarters will have entered Breslau by the 25th. Of the Prussian troops rourning to the Wrin(,, twn companies entered this capital yesterday, and well to morrow resume their march. HANOVER, MARCH 20. The troops, generally, in this country brie re ceived orders to march. This morning the Hussar regiments of the Duke of Cumberland and (q the Prince Regent, broke up o n t h e i r march. It is un derstood that the troops will assemble in the reigh bourhood of Osnaburgh, and there await further orders. Lieutenant-Gencral Decken will command the Hanoverian corps. The Hessian and Brunswick troops are also in readiness to march. BANKS OF THE MAINE, MARCH 19. - A Wurtemberg army corps has been ordered to the frontiers. We learn from Switzerland, that by a resolution of the Diet, 15,000 Swiss troops have been ordered to occupy the frontiers during existing circumstances. Two battalions had already been sent °trio sit engtlien the garrison of Geneva. STUTTGARD T,, MARCH is. Yesterday his Majesty opened the sittings of the States• General with the tollowing Speech from the Throne :-- " For the first time I see the representatives of my people• assembled around my throne. I have anxt ously looked forward to this moment. It was my wish to connect in the closest manner all the different portions of territory and subjects which PROVIDVXCE has placed under my sceptic, for the common main. tenance and welfare of all. As soon as external' events permitted it, and when those obstacles were removed which separated various districts, I sought to attain this object; and unity of constitutional piin ciples, and sameness at action in all the various parts of the realm, were the first fruits ot my Libours. The divisional separations of districts disappeareJ ; the restraints placed on tree and reciprocal intercourbe are removed. The vations territories are now inse. parable portions of one whole. Diversity ot r.'ligion, and ot rank, in future make no difference in the en joyment of civil rights. All contribute in like pro p.irtion to the cilarges of the State. They know now only one interest; they live as citizens of one and the same community. There are now only Wurtem bergers, and their wciiate and honour constitute the happiness and the glory of the State. With satis faction 1 give my people this testimony, that they have faithfully and duteously promoted these tuy views, and have co-operated in the conservatiom o f r-the kingdom. My army has done honour to t'a , name ot Wurtemberg by its valour and perseverance in the path of honour and of danger. My Min'w,, r , have supported me in my labours; and my subj.etr. of all classes have borne the borehens of the time, albi submitted to the efforts at every kind by which corky and independence were to be atoired, voluntary devotedness. 6. And now Alio, after the restoration of gen-e' peace, I come under nn enzagena,nt to the maintenance of the States, as the key-stone ot conititutional structure, by tivaig my pet: l ) l .e t h,, pro +f of my paramount regard for their wants welfare. The pers:inal freeic•rn and chit all classes are thereby sin: tired, It:y1 the inelon mone , i, by means of its represenr.t;ye.., to 4,.;it: with the Authorities at the State, :nr the er..rei..• the most considerabk rights of (hero ;tent. T.. constitution will, I trust, lay the foal - 4.46(n ry: lasting felicity of my people ; tkey lay a..id.; little and merely pervet..l % kwr., :And mani'..est a which %i it for . ever acti;dy ta ~: terests of the State, a.nl Ole v aitaie constitutional wish at tidy pcoi,k, Ines:l.Pd to it; through their repre,ent .tives, shall always ruzii from me a gracious audieece. 66 Princes, Cru.,;-, Lords, Mi t t ,ors :,( elected Represent:46% t...) i'e , • f . .t. the proine:iozi of ile; !cr.' 2V:q . :he sacred contr.:e: .t. •. . . soujocfs. one intt Lst, th.,t f • one i pi r ;t, that o: all ! So shall w:! vowel:y.l ..; this day be the finest tit rvii;n. the gre.:test reward r.f my S:. s rtnwen }cart_' i the faithful attach , roilt of my I v.•:. ty ruitltain fitiim ai prtd, a:itl e Lt.4L:.z - .it cestors." FR EA.C.' PARTS, r: *.ItCII rct. this NLljesty lAA to-day at :our niclock in ti: tethoon, a Council of : .W.ll Eu!.si hall past nine at Right an Extraortin:ary et ;tad, which all the Ministers of &ate have becnsatnnae:ie PARIS, MARCH so, ABOLITION O flfl SLAVI; TRADE. " NIPOLEONT, F..•apert:r l.f the French. " Vb'e hive decrees!, and decree as follows: • " Air. I. Flom the date of the pres:al),:;.: , : the Skye Trade i; " No ekpettitOil sitali be sent out to cur: re! tither ftoiu dr: ports el France or li . .c4e o:, Co!c.r S. " '4 There shall not be intnnleccd to Lz our Colonies any Black produced by the trade, tiler carr:cd no by Frenchmen or fore:7•odc. " 3. The violation of the present Deerce f.!!:t111 putt lied by the coniscation of the ship aad which shall be pronounced by our Couris aid i bunal s. 66 4. Nevertheless, dic merchants who may, pri vious to the date of the present Decree, h ive cut expeditions for the tude, may be allowed to t... ihe produce in our Colonies. (Sign , ..l) 61 By the Emperor, 66 NAPOLZJN. 46 The Minister Secretary of State, •6 The Duke of BAssnxi." The Emperor is about to name dr! Ladies of 11: :I , mr to her Majesty tie Empress. There ate ine.l cloned among the number Madame de Beau/mat:. Duchess of Rovige, the Duchess of Bassano, Countess Duchatel. The Emperor h.is presided at the Council of the Ministers. It is sAid that a commisson, composed of persons, among whom are rgriltiliNi M. R.-311111c de St. Jean d'Angely and Rlderer, is charged to prepare the Constitutional Projet, which is to Lc sib milted for the approbation of the Eievoral Collo* They write from Ghent, that the Ceuta de Lick passed Menin on the 2`341, on his way to O!c , lJ, ac• companied by the Duke of Tarentum (Macdonali). the Duke of Ragusa (Marmont), and the Prince de Conde. His carriage was escorted by six Freir! hussars. Marshal &tallier, Prince of \V gram, passed Gtvnt in the night of the 28d, going to Os:end to Count Lille. The Institute assembled yesterday to prepare an Ath!ress to the Emperor. They have begun to replace on the public mole . ments executed under the nigh of the Enperer, :e monogram, &c. of his Majesty, which the last Cre. ' vernment had caused to be efraced. Prince Joseph and the Princess Hortense have this day paid a visit to his Imperial Majesty. By order of his Majesty, the Minister of the I le• rior has issued a Decree which suppresses the Cyr:- ea of Public Institution, and re.estahlishes the Inr"' rial University, conformably to the decrees tor 11: , organization, with the exception of the changes his Majesty reserves to himself to make in the poiatments of individuals. Thursday evening, at half-past nine CNincil Extraordinary was held, to which all the No nisters of State were summoned.—Funds are 69t. Two hundred thousand pieces of gold ('2.) maw; each) will be stamped at the mint iu ei4ht dap teem the present time. We are assured that M. de Montron has been sent I to Vienna with important dispatches. There arrive continually at Paris ingots of geld and superb blocks of crystal front the hie of E The Emperor, during his stay in that bland, caused its mines to be explored with great activity. The soldiers sent on the Itith from Parris to a? camp of Villejr.it against the Elnperor, had put W