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Ipin, from the year 1 . 810 ; Entre Reos, and Paraguay, all of which are also tilde d with the present Govern mat Chili has declared itself rely connected with Buenos as also declared itself inde ins the conflict with various wining parts of South Ante and such other portions of s Plata as are held by Por ession of Spain, or in a eel , uenee. addressed by the Ministers l 'ewers with whom they are it appears that the Allies ate between Spain and the n, and that the manner and ion would be settled by a are met at Aix-la-Chapelle policy and course of pro llied Powers in regard to that they will confine their scion of their sentiments— cation of force. I state this 11 not be applied, with the use it is a course more con-. likewise authorizes a hope • will be confined to the par honer duration. of this subject, founded on re have been able to obtain, be satisfied with the course United States in regard to lude that it is proper to ad te present state of affairs. tio'n in stating, that our re ,ia, and other Powers, can ir basis.. cerns, we have ample cause ipts into the Treasury der e of the year have exceeded the demands which have appropriation's, including old six per cent. stock, and .ty of the Louisiana debt, it ill remain in the Treasury, next, more than two mil- at the gross revenue which istoms during the same pe rne millions of dollars, and hole year may be estimated x millions. is lands during the year has oth in quantity and price, and there is just reason to ovement in that source of re know, that although the an :it increased by the Act of ess providing for revolutio. , unt about equal to the pro ❑ties, which were then re [se ensuing year will be pro and that, while the public ly remain stationary, each to the national mourees by our population, and by'alas our latent sources of natio- of the revenue laws, result-, salutary provisions of the last, amending the several s presumed, secured to clo the relief that can be deri ch have been imposed , upon &heir protection. Under the several branches of this im 'lave assumed great activity, d that others will gradually iumph, over every obstacle, •ariting further protection is leration. Fence authorized by existing th the zeal and activity due to so s all the dispatch practicable in so taking. The survey of our marl been continued ; and at the points' t fortifications, the work has been 'stances considerable progress has rich resolutions of the last Session, were diricted to examine in a par se coast therein designated, and to it suitable sites for two Naval De of execution. *The opinion of the plan of all the works necessary to o far as it has been formed, will be port from the proper Department, appropriations of the last Session, ith the Quapaw tribe of Indians, Arkansaw, and with the Great and White River; with the tribes in the sclera' tribes within the State of ory ; and with the Chickasaws; by of territory have been nude to the I are now depending with the tribes with the Choctaws, by which it is e cessions will be made. I take the cessions already made, which to the United States, have been atisfactory to the Indians. ity of our inland frontiers, it has ablish strong posts at the mouth of at the Ilandan village, on the Mis t. Peter', on the Alississippi, tao tern bdundaries. It ern h.trdly be are maintained in the rear of the venture to attack our peaceable in entertained that this measure will ch good to the tribes themselves, gmt object of their civilizatioa..-. nitrated, that independent savage it within the limits of a civilized the latter has, alnaost invariably, of the former, especially of the a of this hemisphere, among whom, Bantry in action, have been conspi- Id even to prevent their extinction,' that their independence, as coin hat the controul of the United States e and undisputed. The hunter state tinned, and recourse will be had to F land, and to other pursuits tending Nmnect then together as a savage .meter to every individual. I pre deration of Congress, on the pre nand expedient and practicable to sinus, having these objects in view, our Settlements. ... luring the pesent year, to maintain Mediterranean, and in the Gulf of abfic ships aloes the southern coast, 37 these means, amicable relations ice been preserved, our commerce rights respected. The augmentation of our Nary iii otivaaeing Witit. a Ready progress taffetas tie Skit oatenspland by law. " I communicate with great satisfaction the accession of am( other State,. Illinois, to our Union; because I perceive,. from the proof afforded by the additions aiready made, the auler progress and sure consummation of a policy, of Which Weasel affords no example, and of Which the good elfat cannot be son 4 highly estimated. By extending our goverdine t, on the prin ciples of our Constitution, over the vast ory within oar, limas, on the Lakes and the blisdadppl, its munesmal streams, new life and vigour are infused into everyoart.of our system. By increasing the number of the States, the confidence of the State Governments in their own security is increased, and their jealousy of the National Government proportionably dimi nished. The impracticability of one consolidated Gore:talent for this great and growing nation will be more apparent, and will be universally admitted. Incapable of exercising local au thority, except for general purposes, the- general Government will no longer be dreaded. In those cases of a local nature, and for all the great purposes for which it was Instituted, its aotho rity will be cherished. Each Government will acquire new force, and a greater freedom of action, within its proper sphere. Other inestimable advantages will follow : our produce will be augmented to an incalculable amount, In articles of the greatest value, for domestic use and foreign commerce. " Our navigation will, in like degree, be increased ; and, as the shipping of the Atlantic Statetwill be employed in the tram portation of the vast produce of the western country, even those parts of the United States which are the most remote from each other will be furthel bound together by the strongest ties which mutual interest can create. ---- ; ;; fluTsit;tatioaof;his district, it is thought, requires the at tention of Congress. By the Constitution the power of Legts• lotion is exclusively vested iu the Congress of the United States. In the exercise of this power, in which the people have no par ticipation, Congress legislates In all casey directly on the local concerns of the district. As this is a departure, foe a special purpose, from the genecal,principles of our sysonn, it may merit consideration whetheran arrangement better adapted to the prin. 'ivies of our Government, and to the particular interests of the people, may'not be devised, which will neither Infringe the Goo stitufion, nor affect the object which the provision in question was intended to secure. The growing population, already con siderable, and the increasing business of the district, which, it is belLved, already interferes with the delibetations of Congress on great national concerns, furnish additional motives for regain- , mending this subject to your consideration. " When we view thelreat blessings with which our country has been favoured, those which we now enjoy, and the means which we possess of handing them down, unimpaired, to our latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source from whence they flaw. Let us then unite in offering our most grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Denise titrroos of all good! "JAMES MONROE. " November 17, 1518." THE EVENING STAR, LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER '2l, 1818. THE FIWDS. • PRICK Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE CI . CLCCK 3 per Cent. Reduced 77}i --S per Cent. Costs. shut Cons. for Account, 781-3 i per Cent. 86;1 4 per Cent. 94i-5 per Cent. Navy shut India Bonds 76 78 pre.—Omnium par. Exchequer Bills 10 16 pre. The late hour at which we yesterday received the Speech of •the Paestrusir of the UNITED STATRS, and its great length, prevented our inserting it li terally, or offering any remarks on its contents. Like all the American Speeches it is very lengthy, and aims at the avoidance of argument, under an at-- tempted garb of oratory. The subjects of which hi treats are naturally those of the internal condition of the United States, and their external relations. On the first of these we were prepared to expect that the Message would give accounts not the least favour. able, which the actual state of the country could jus tify. It is no part of the American character to veil its importance under any kind of reserve ; and if Mr. MONROE states the whole truth, the people of the United States are prosperous to the fullest ex tent—their commerce extending—their revenue flou rishing—and themselves contented and happy.—The complexion of their Foreign Politics is more varied. The poor American Indians, (for the policy of the United States makes them foreigners, at least in all points of mere form, independent of their helpless ness), the Kingdoms of S pain, and of Great Britain, are the Powers chiefly mentioned by the PRESIDENT in stating the external relations of the United States. As for the Indians, a discussion as summary as the measures pursued towards them, may well suffice . The territory of the United States extends in propor tion as they drive back the Indians, and those tribes that do not quietly. by treaty, ce.le their domains, piece by piece, as the proud Republic demands, ar.- "to be reduced into subjection." This Mr. Moxroa states for the satisfaction of Congress, and surely, as heretofore, it will satisfy that august Body—the re- `presentative wisdom of the " most free, prosperous, and enlightened nation on the face of the earth." The relations of the United States with Spain are not unconnected with those which subsist between them and. the Indians ; and, in the policy pursued to wards both, the same principles may be traced.— There is this difference in the policy, if not in its principles, that the Spanish territory which has been seized, will, as Mr. MONROE states, be delivered up " unconditionally" to any Spaniard with proper authority: Why was it seized? The Message states the same strong reason which the Manifestoes of the United States Military Officers had previously an nounced, namely, that the Spanish Governor of Pen sacola had abetted the Indians in their hostilities against the United States, and supplied them with munitions of war.—But to object to furnishing the Indians with gun-powder is the same as to object to all trade with them ; for without this article they cannot destroy the animals whose skins form their only article of commerce. The Pagsrovir admits the inconvenience which Spain must have felt from the seizure of the Floridas, bat suggests that Spain might have easily prevented them—not by putting an end to a system which allowed the Indians to be assisted by the Spanish Authorities there in their operations against the United States—not by sending a sufficient military force to prevent all such dis t'ers--hut cuing • the whole tlorhlas ta the ted Statesl A very effectual remedy this, to prevent a hostile htVasien, by ceding the territory 'which is threatened.! With the subject orSpanish relations the affairs of the South American Insurgents are very naturally connected. This has not been overlooked by the Go• eernment of the United States, and the PRIIIIIDINT announces that the RepOrts of the Commissionersl 'sent to spy into the progress of the insurrectionary, war in the Spanish Colonies are soon to be laid before the Congress. With regard to our own country, the relations of the United States are, so far as the Speech informs us, in a most grAtifying state. A Commercial Treaty, to subsist For eight years, is now negotiating with the most friendly and cordial dispositions on both sides, as the existing Commercial Convention ex pires in July next. Besides the Commercial Treaty, all the other subjects ou which any difference has existed between the two countrier—the Boundary Line—the Right of Impressmeat--and the Fisheries, are now the subjects of friendly negociation.-- The " steady progress" of the Navy ot the United States affords no subject of utkeasinev; to us. It is perfectly natural that all Powers should seek legiti mate means of strengthening themselves, and we know there is no Power in the universe with which the energies of Great Britain cannot keep ample pace in this respect. There is only one matter as be tween this country and America which has worn an ugly aspect—we mean the military execution of our fellow subjects, ;Messrs: ARBUTHNOT and ANBRISTER, and on this the Speech yields little or no information. The proceedings of the Court-Martial in the trial, and the correspondence of the Commanding General with the Secretary of War, « justifying his conduct," are to be laid before Congress. But nothing is. said of any correspondence with the British Govern ment respecting this murder olf British subjects. Are we to infer that our Government has taken no notice of that act of wanton bloodshed? That is impossible. Or shall we conclude, the atrocity hav ing taken place in Spanish territory, that our Mi nisters have tnede the application for redress to that imbecile Government? We shall not attempt to un riddle this mystery. In a short time it will probably become a matter of discuuimi in our own Parliament, and then we may hope for some inforniation that shall satisfy the Public that British subjects are not to be butchered with impunity by the servants of any GoVernment upon earth.—The very question of the assault op thelndians, in the same quarter, deMands the interference of Great Britain ; for they were, our Allies, and by the Treaty of Peace, their rights and possessions were stipulated for, and engaged to be l'egarded•' The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday have ar rived.—The King has almost entirely recovered from his late attack of the gout, and continuer daily to transact a great deal of budness with the Ministers of the different departments. The Chamber of Deputies met oa Saturday, when the new President, M. Ravi; opened the sitting with a very eloquent harangue, which was ordered to be printed ; after which the Members proceeded by bureaus to the choice of a Commission, for pre paring an Address to the King, in answer to hit opening Speech—when the following Members were appointed for that purpose :—MM. BELLART, de 'Suite, Count BEUGNOT, PORTAL, General DEVONT, FoRNIER de ST. LAM, BARTHE de la BASTIDE, Count SIN EON, and Count Bonin. ' The Commission named by the ahamber of Peers for drawing up an Address ;o the iiNc, was to make its report to the Chamber on Tuesday last. • A further hearing toot place on Saturday in the mutual causes of calumny between General Calm Et. and MM. SENNEVILLE and FABVIER, when they were again adjourned for another eight days. SAusn-Gootam-Mrsont, an Indian Prince, said to be a Vakil or Delegate of the NABOB of BEDNORE, and to be proceeding on a mission from his High ness .to the British Court, has arrived at Paris from Marseilles. We ob s erve with much pleasure that societies for the propagation of the Lancasterian System of mu tual instruction are fast multiplying throughout the Departments. 'Already there are 39 schools esta blished on this plan. The accounts from Spain in these Papers are very scanty, but throw considerable light on the real con dition of affairs in that country. Of the increasing strength of the Mountain Banditti, as they are called,. but which are in fact no other than associated bodies of armed rebels, several examples are given which af ford lamentable proof ofthe state of expiring weakness to which the existing Government, or more properly speaking, no Government of Spain, is reduced. In La,Nancha and Andalusia there is no travelling in safety without a military guard ; and in the latter Province the Couriers are obliged to be accompanied with an escort of thirty men. A body of criminals, condemned to the gallies, who were lately on their way to Cadiz and Ceuta, under a guard of twenty infantry and twelve horsemen, were attacked by a rebel party of fifteen horsemen, and after a smart combat, in which several of the Guards were killed, some of the criminals were libe rated. Another party, more numerous, actually pre sented themselves, in the early part of this month, at the town of Ocana, distant only ten leagues front Madrid, where they exacted contributions, and com mitted many excesses. .ARMY. - • Monday and Tuesday, the ad Itegutirnit i has lately arrived from France, marched into bury, in two divisions, on their Mute fee where they will perforrn the duty at that itartisll6 Thursday, two troops of the 2d Queen s Bays'. rived in Limerick from Caher, and on Friday pro ceeded for Gort and Loughrea. Detachments have also proceeded'te Clogheen and Itostrea‘ NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 21. Wind. N. to N. E.—. Arrived the Princess beth packet, with . Mails, from the Leeward Is, last from Sr. Tharn-rs's, in 27 days. Sailed the P. Ernest packet, for Lisbon ; Countess of Chichester' packet, for Gibraltar and Malta ; Pox packet; tot the Leeward Islands, all with Malls. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER st. Wind E. N. E.—Arrived his Majesty's ship nova' from the Mediterranean, put tinder quarantine; Elia tish Army, and Lot al Briton transports, from Dept. ford. Sailed his Majesty's ship LEVEN, for the Cape of Good Hope ; Alfred o and Lady Hamilton trans'. ports, for Cork. Came into harbour his Majesty's brig Dimas, from Spithead. COWES, DECEMBER Sailed the Avow frigate, for Spithead. DARTMOCTII, TIRCEMBER ltasterday arrived the Telemaque, frog slam, bound to Calcutta; to-day arrived the • 'ern, from Malaga, for Ostend, lost an and cable. DEAL, DECEMBER ts. Wind East.—Sailed the Ann, Rerwours. whole of the homeward-bound for the Rivet 1, Baring, convict ship. for Sheerness, to repair. rived and sailed for the River the Archimede, ' oars, from Manfridonia ; Thomas and Judith, from Newfoundland for Flushing-..the latter to Ramsgate harbour. Passed at the bac! Goodwin Sand yesterday, all well, the Asia, from China for Antwerp. Your o'Clock—Arrived and remain for orders, Endymion, MUNN, from Miramichi. RAMSOATE, DECEMBER 2s. Sailed most of the trade bound westward. have not heard of the brig Effort yet; a boat this place, and another from Broadstairs, have absent since Monday—it is the general gpinion that the must have fallen in with and got of her. Two rudders having been seen near it is presumed one of them belonged to her. CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, DECESIBER 81111711 &MIR= ImwAanse—TU Riehard and Ann from Peteriburgh ; and Iris, Pearson, from Archangel Yesterday the Duke of Yong transacted business with the Niece REGENT. • The Earl of LIVERPOOL had an audience , PRINCE REGENT, yesterday, at Carlton-house. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council held at the Foreign-office, in Downing -street, Y WAS attended by the same Cabinet Ministers • which was held on Tuesday, at the haute of _ CHANCELLOR, with the etc( p ion of the Learned The Duke of WELLINGTON attend rd. The.Cabi sat but a short time in deliberatit.:. : they F and s'parated soon after two o'clock. Lord REAGH remaii el at his office till a late hour acting business. The French Funds experienced on Saturday considerable rise. The Five per Cents. opened being If. 20c. above the concluding price of t ceding day, and finally closed at 64f. 90c. Yesterday a Deputation from the bod• tractors for the last Loan and their Subsc , an interview with the CHANCELLOR of the Quilt, .to prefent their Memorial'aainst to Cash Payments. . . It would be curious to of the signanwes to this notable document, more tp learn tfie arguments by which they to support the prayer of their Petition. The' departure of the Marchioness of for India, takes place about the 80th of Ja Yesterday a Court of Directors was het East India House, when Lieure , -- •• Sir CHARLES COLVILLE, G. C. B. was sworn Commander-in-Chief of the Company's forces, Member of Council at Bombay. The General wards dined with the Directors at the Lon& rem. The under-mentioned Commanders - of the Court, previous to departing for their tive destinations, viz. Marquis Camden, Captain T. LArrehs; Charles Scorr ; Lowther Castle, C. Moarcoca ; Inglis, T. ' Essex, A. NISRIET ; Vansittart, R. S. Dataxurta; and China. Ye terday, December 23d, No. 2387, another of £30,000, was sold by G. CARROLL, at ' State Lottery Office, No. 19, Cornhill. Two Grand Prizes of 1:30,000 still in the which are on Sale at his Old Office, No. 26, street ; and at his :drew Fortunate Officr Cornhill. DRATH OP SIR PHILIP FRANCIS.--011 evening, soon after five o'clock, Sir PHILII died, at his house in St. James's-square, ness of upwards of five months. An express immediately sent off to Mr. FRANCIS, his was on a visit'to the Earl of BRISTOL, at Park, Suffolk. It is a 'ingular coincidence is the fourth death, within a very short t that corner of St. James's-square, viz. Lor. CHAMP, Lord ANSON, Lord EL LENISOROUGII, PHILIP FRANCIS. LORD ELL...NEOROIJCII'S WILL.--The property bribe Learned Lord, it is said, exceeds L 244: To the present Lord he has bequeathed L, 'arid d to each of the other children. The house in St. James's. square, which is • is directed to be sold, and also the villa at ton. The late Peer gave £lB,OOO for the dente, but it is worth considerably more. HURRICANE AT NEW YORK.•-•-EXITaCt vat, letter from New York, dated November ceived in town this morning : " During the last three days we hive been visited hurtle aces, followed by heavy . rains. I am sorry to of the loss of the fine ship Andrew Jackson, Captain from Bristol, bound to this port. It is not expected of her cargo will be saved.—The ship Samuel, from to this port; Insatiate= entirely lost, and am sorry six men, who pat off yester to save her manifest a were all lest.—lt is also fea rs that the ship Martha, verpool, alio for this 'port, has either been drives on &masted, as she was spoken with two days ago; the harbour." ts which • Shrews' Chester i treistlas • Bays E • a I Iday pro- ems hay* !sll Vizi& Mande, - he Ptince - Itithester whet, Cot , - • „is, . Ipttooi." 7 . . ow Dept. • the Cape • ton trans. T• Majesty'', • Attester. . Ie Writtct• an anchor P 7. ' 1 s. and the " r t also the -, pair. Ar- • de, Matua •, I h, Sromas, ter is gone • .ck of the ORIANBY, orders, the rand. We boat frown have been • Union here possession • the Sand, • r. 25. ta, 31111t10111 . Ise!. • , r 1 Military nce of the Ise. ounc:l was ect, which, • era as that the Lord rued Lord. he-Cabinet broke up d CASTLE- poor trans- day a very tied at Esf. • of the pre- , ly of• • Con- :ribers had we Excira- the relurtt' o see a list ' it, and still hey endea- Lion. Hasrnwca a 'nary. • teld at the al the Hon. • worn in as .1 forces, and nerti after- ..ondon Ta. s took care heir resiec- lea Grant, II . 1301111ADAILI ; for Bombay • V 'other Prize it his New There are the Wheel, • 26, Oxford- :e, No. 19, I . V Tuesday tr FRANCIS • after an ill- express was is son, who • at Ickworth ice that this t period, in Lore. BEAU- mu, and Sir • noperty left Is £240,000. • 1:10,000 per en•tls,ooo. c a freehold, . 4 t Roehamp-. e town real-; I I I ▪ from a p. nber 21, re- ed with severe to inform ycu tatn MetavoN, mud that any . rom Greenock wry to add thAt eat and paper*, lithe, from Li- nt on shore, or gob makhig ter