Star. — London, England, 1828-12-29 00:00:00

----..-- fair reciprocity which intertwine with the exchanges of commerce the principles of justice and the feelings of mutual benevolence. This system, first proclaimed to I the world in the first commie isltredty ever concluded ' by the Ulited States, that of 6th February, 1778, with France, has been invariably the cherished policy of our union. It is by treaties of commerce alone (hat it can be made ultimately to prevail as the established system of all civilised nations. Wi•h this principle our fathers extended the hand of friendship to eves y nation of the globe,'and to this policy our country hat' ever since ad ° hared ; whatever of regulation in our laws has ever been adopted unfavourable to the intere,t of any foreign nation has been essentially defensive and counteracting to similar regulations of their's operating against us. . Immediately after the close of the war of indepen. Bence Commissioners were appointed by the Congress of the Confederation, autholised to conclude treaties with every nation of Europe disposed to, adopt them. • Before the vats of the French Revolution such treaties 'had been consummated with the United Netherlands, Sweden, and Prussia. During those wars treaties with 'Great Britain and Spain had been effected, and those with Prussia and Fiance renewed. In all these some concessions to the liberal principles of intercourse pro posed by the United States had been obtained; but as, in all the negociations, they came occasionally in col lision with previous internal regulations. or exclusive and excltrAng compacts of monopoly, with which the other parties had been trammelled, the advances made in them towards the freedom of trade were partial and imperfect. Colonial establishments, chartered com panies, and ship-building influence, pervaded and en cumbered the legislation of all the great commercial States; and the United States, in offering free trade and equal privileges to all, were compelled to acquiesce in many exceptions with each of the parties to their treaties, accommodated to their existing laws and ante rior engagement.. The colonial system by which this whole hemisphere was bound has fallen into ruins—totally abolished by revolutions, convetting colonies into independent nations throughout the two Ametican continents, excepting a portion of territory chiefly at the northern extremity of our own, and confined to the remnants of dominion re- Seined by Great pertain over the insular Archipelago, geographically the appendages of our part of the globe., With all the re,t we have free trade—even - With the in sular colonies of all the European nations, except Great • . Britain. Her government bad also 'manifested ap . proaches to the adoption of a free and liberal intercourse between her colonies and other nations, though-, by a sudden and scarcely explained revulsion, the spirit of exclusion has been revived for operation upon the United S aces alone. The conclusion of our last treaty of peace with Great Britain was shortly afterwards followed•by a commer vial convention, t lacing the direct intercourse between the two countries upon a footing of more equal recipre city than had ever before been admitted. The same principle has since been , much farther extended by treaties with France, Sweden, Denmark, the Hanseatic Cities, Prussia, in Europe; and with the Republics of Colombia and of Central America, in this hemisphere. The- mutual abolition of discriminating duties and charges upon the navigation and commercial inter itirsebeta een the parties is the general maxim which eireracter:zes them all. There is reason to expect that it will, at no distant period, be adopted by other nations, both of Europe and America, and to hope that, by its universal prevalence, one of the fruitful source) of wars of - commercial competition will be extinguished. Anions; the nations upon whose Governments many eirour fellow-citizens have had long,pending claims of. Indemnity for depredations upon their property during a period when the rights of neutral commerce were dis legardeal, was that of Denmark. They were, soon after the emits occulted, the subject of a special mission • 'from the United /Irate., at the close of which the is ''-eura.t.ce. was givewby . his Danish Majesty that, at a ' •peitod of more trarAitillity and of less distress, they sedold be considered, examined, and decided upon, in a . epitit of determined purpose for the dispensation of • price... I have much pleasure in informing Congress - that the fulfilment of this honourable promise is now in • ptogresi; that a small portion of the claims has already been settled to the satisfaction of the claimants ; and that we have reason to hope that the temaieder will shortly be placed its a train of equitable-adjustment.— This result has alivays been tonfidently expected, from . the character cf personal integrity and of .benevolence, which the Sovereign c f the Danish dominions has, thiowth every vicissitude of to, tune, maintained. The genet al aspect of the affairs of our neighbouring American nations of the south has been rather of ap proaching that of settled tranquillity. Internal distur bances !save been more frequent among them than their cenitnon -rids would have desired. Our intercourse wish all'has continued to be that of friendship and of enuteal good will. Treaties of commerce ai:d of beun dates wi h the Unit•-d Mexican States have been nego ciaied, but [ram various successive obstacles, not yet hr-ught to a final conclusion. The civil war which im ps: cue telv still prevails in the Republic of Central America has been unpropitious to the cultivation of out commercial relations with them ; and the dissensions and tevolusionar, changes in the Republics of Colom bia and fern hive been seen with cordial regret by us, .who would gladly contribute to the happiness of both. It is with great sati.faction, however, that we have wit nesied 'the recent conclusion of a peace between ti.e Ciievernment of Buenos Apes and Brazil, and it is equallt grat.fying to observe that indemnity has been obtained for some of the injuries which out fellow citi zens had sustained in the latter of those countries. The test, are in a train of negociatien, w hich we hope may termina.e to mutual a.atisfaciion, and that it may be 'aucceeded by a treaty of commerce and navigation upon Liberal, principles, propitious to a greet and grossing conimerce, already important to the interests of our country. The condition and prospects of the revenue are more favourable than our most sanguine expectations had anticipated. The balance in the Treasury on the first of January last, exclusive of the monies received ander the Convection of 13th November, 1826, with Great Britain, was five millions eight hundred and sixty-. ne thousand Wore hundred and seventy-two dollars and eighty-three cents. The receipts into the Treasury horn the first of January to the 30th of S...ptember last, so far as they have been asce.tained to form the basis of an estimate, amount to eighteen millions six hundred and thirty three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-dhven cents. which, with the receipts or the present quartets estimated at fire millions lour heated and sixtyikine thousand two hundred and eighty three dollars aAd forty cents. fo m an aggregate of receipts during the year of twenty-four millions arid stingy-four thous .nd eight hundred and sixty three dollars and silty-seven cents. The expenditures of the year nuy probably amount to twenty-five millions six bunched and thirty-seven thousand five hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-three cents. and leave in the 'beltway on the first of January neat, the sum of five • millions one hundred and twee ti -five thousand Six u 'died and thirty-eight dollars fourteen cents. The receipts of the present year have amounted to near two millions mote than was anticipated at the commer cement of the last Session of Congress. TI e amount of duties secured on importations, from the lsf of January to the 30th September, Was about twenty-two millions nine hundred and ninety-seven thousand, and that of the estimated accruing revenue is five mi lions; leaving an aggregate for the year of near twenty-eight millions. This is one million more than the estimate made last December for the accruing revenueof the present year, which, with allowances for drawbacks and contingent deficiencec, was expected to produce an actual revenue of twenty-two millions three hundred thousand dollars. Had these only been re alixed;the expenditures of the year woulJ have been also proportionally reduced; for, of these twenty-four mil lions received, upwards of nine millions have been ap plied to the extinction of public debt, betting an interest of six per cent. a year, and of course reducing the bur then of interest annually payable in future by the amount of more than half a million. The payments on account of interest during the current year exceed three millions of dollars, pieseneng an aggregate of more than twelve millions applied during the year to the discharge of the public debt, the whole of which remaining due ott the Ist of January next will amount only to fifty-eight millions three hundred and sixty-two thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents. That the revenue of the ensuing year will not fall short (if that received in the one now expiring, there are indications which can scarcely prove deceptive. In our country an uniform experience of fraty yeats - has shown that, whatever the tariff of duties upon articles imported from abroad has been, the amount of imyrtations has always bone an average value nearly approaching to that of the exports, though occasionally differing in the balance, sometimes being more, and sometimes less. It is, indeed, a general law of prosperous commeice that the real value of exports should, by a small, and only a small, balance, exceed that of imports, that balance being a pet manent addition to the wealth of the nation. The extent of the prosperous commerce of the nation must be regulated by the amount of its exports: and an important addition to the value of these will draw alter it a corresponding increase of importations. It has happened, in the vicissitudes of the seasons, that the hat vests of all Europe have, in the late summer and autumn, fallen short of their usual average. A relaxa tion et the interdict upon the importations of grain and flour from abroad has ensued ; a propitious market has been opened to the granaries of our country ; and a new prospect of reward presented to the labours of the hus bandman, which, for several years, has been denied.— This accession to the profits of agriculture in the middle and western portions of our Union is accidental and temporary. It may continue only for a single year. It may be, as has be. n often experienced in the revolutions of time, but the first of several scanty harvests in suc cession. We may consider it certain that, for the ap proaching year, it has added an item of large amount to the value of our exports, arid that it will produce a cor• responding increase of importations. It may, therefore, confidently be foreseen that the revenue of 1829 will equal, and probably exceed, that of 1828, and will afford the means of extinguishing ten millions more of the principal of the public debt. This new element of prosperity to that pelt of our agricultural industry which is occupied in producing the first aid, le of human subsistence, is of the most cheering character 'to the feelings of patriotism. Pry ceeding from a cause which humanity will view with concern, the sufferings of scarcity in distant lands, it yields a consolatory :election that this scarcity is in no respect attributable to us—that it comes from the dis pensatiPo of him wilts ordains all in wisdom and good ness, and who permits evil itself only as an instrument of good—that, far from contributing to this scarcity, our agency will be applied only to the alleviation of its severity ; and that, in pouring forth from the abundance of our oan garners, the supplies which will partially 'restore plenty to ttto.e who are in need, we shall our selves reduce our stores, and add to the price of our own bread, so as in some degree to patticipate in the wants which it will be the good fortune of our country to relieve. The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing oat oa are so linked in union toge ther, that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can (met ate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protect ing power of the legislative authority ; and the duties of the representative bodies' are to concili ite*thens in harmony together. So far as the object of tax aim it to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defray-. ing the expenses of the community, it should, as much as possible, suit the burthen u ith equal hand upon all, in proportion t • their ability of bearing it j without op pression. But the legislation of one nation is sometimes intentionally madeto bear heavily upon the interests of another. That legislation, adapted, as it is meant to be, to the special irate eats of its own people, will often press most unequally upon the several component interests of its neighbours. Thus the legislation of Great Britain, when, as has recently been avowed,, adapted to the depression of a rival nation, will natut ally abound with regulations of interdict upon the proJuctions of the soil or industry of the other which come in competition with its own; and will present encourage. meta, perhaps even bounty, to the raw material of the other State which it c tonot produce itself, and which is essential for tht use of its manufactures —competitors in the tnarkets of the world with those of its commercial rival. such is the state of the corns mercial legislation of Great Britain as it beats upon our loaves's. It excluder, with interdicting duties, all im portation (except in time of approaching famine)of the great staple productiuni of our middle and western States; it proscribes, with equal rigour, the bulkier lumber and live stock of the same portion. and also of the northern and eastern part of our Union. It refuses , even the rice of the south unless aggravated with a charge of duty upon the northern carrier who brings it to them. But tlie cotton, indispensable for their looms. they will receive,almost duty tree, to weave it into a fabric for our own wear, to the destruction of our own manufactures, which they are enabled thus to undersell. Is the self protecting energy of this nation so helpless' that theta exists, in the political institutions of our courts try, no power to counteract the bias of this foreign le gislation; that the grow ers of grain must submit to this exclusion from the foreign markets of their produce— that the shippers must dismantle their ships, the trade of the not th stagnate at the %shams, and the manage toter: static at their looms, while the whole people shall pay tribute to foreign indu try to be clad in a foreign garb—that the Congress' of the Union are im potent to rotor: the balance in favour of native indus try desttoyed by the statutes of another realm ? More just and more generous sentiments o ill, I trust, prevail. It the tariff adopted at the last Session of Congress shall be found by experience to bear oppressively upon the Wenn of any one itCllO4, Of one Won t it °Debt to be, • and I cannot doubt v ill be, so modified as to alleviate porno its hu n rt States end people will never tu rn•awa y their ears. . Bias ofiltntheirTocotnhsetivtuoeicnetsi.fthjeuslit ecpuirtieseinaiteftlthrricsninof ably so bang as the dtstref the foreign shall Oper ate only as a bounty upon the domestic Reticle—while the planter, and the merchant, and the shepherd. and the husband man, shall be found t h tisia gin their uccupatit ns tinder the duties imposed f the protection of domestic menu factures—they will not repine at the prosperity shared with themselves by then fellow-citizens of other profes sion,, nor denounce as violations of the Constitution the deliberate acts of Congress to shield "from the wrongs of foreign laws the native industry of the Union. While the tariff of the last Session of Congress was a subject of legislative delib 'ration, it was foretold by some of its opposers that one of it, ne cease, y c , nsequences would be to impair the revenue. It is yet to, soon to pronounce with confidence that this pi ediction was er roneous. The obstruction of one revenue of trade not ui.fiequently opens au issue to another. Thu conse quence of the twill will be to increas2 the export tion, and to diminish the importation, of some specific arti cles; but, by the general law of trade, the increase of exportation of one article will he tolloned by an in creased importation of others, the duties upon which will supply the deficiencies which the diminished im pot tation would otherwise occasion. The effect i.f taxa tion upon revenue can seldon, be foreseen wiih certainty. It must abide the test of experience. As yet no symp toms of diminution are perceptible in the receipts of the treasury—as yet little addition of cost has even been expetienced upon the articles borthened with heavier duties bj the la t tariff. The domestic manufacture, supplies the same or a kindied article at a diminished rtice, and the consumer pays the same tribute to the labour of his own countryman which he must otherwise hay, paid to foreign industry and toil. • The tariff of the last Session was, in its deta ls, not acceptable to the great interecs of any poi 'nit of the Union, not even to the interest which it vial specially intended to subsetve. Its object was to b .lance the but thews upon native industry , mpu,ed by the operation of foreign laws; but not to aggrav to the butthrhs of one section-or the Union by the *chef aff rded to ant they. To the Teat principle sanctioned by that act, one of those u s am which the Constitution was foamed, I hope and trust the autho•ities of the Unien viii A.:bele. lion if any of the duties imposed by the act only r.l.cve manufacturer by aggravating the burthen t f th. planter, let a careful revisal of its provsioes, enlightened try the practical eat erience of its effi cts, be directed eo team:, those which impart protection to native industry, and remove or supply the place of ihote which only r one great national inetest by the depression of :tam het. The United States of America, and the pen i le of every state of which they are compose.!, are each of them sovetign powers. Tile legislative author ity tit the whole is exercised byCongress under authority granted them in the common constitution. 'fire legislative power of each state is exercised by Assemblies deriving their authority ftom the Constitutii.n of the State. E •ch is sovereign within its own province. The di,tribution of power between them pi esupposes that these author i des will move in harmony with each other. The Mem bers of the State and general Govertimelas ale all under oath to support both, and allegiance is due to the one and to the other. The case of a conflict between these two powers has not been suppmed, nor has any provi sion been made for it in our _lnstitutions; as a sit mous nation of ancient times existed more than five centuries without a law for the punishment of parricide. More than once, !weever, in the progress cif our tory, have the people and the legislatures of one or more States, in moments r f excitement, been insti gated to this conflict. and the means of e frecting this iivpulse have been allegations that the Acts ot,Coo: gress to be resisted were unconititutionat: The people. of no one State have *ver delegated to their L-gisla ture the power of pronouncing an act on .Congless un constitutional ; but they have delegated to-them powers, by the exercise of se hich the ezecu: inn of the laws of Con gress within the States which may be resisted. If we suppose the case of such conflicting legislation sustained, by the corresponding executive and judicial authot ities, patriotism and philanthropy turn their eyes from the' condition in which the parties would be .placed, and From that of the people of both,which must be its victims. The Reports born the Secretary of War, and from the various subordinate offices of the resort e f that de partment, present an exposition of the public adminis tration of affaii s connected with them through the course of the curt/WOW/. The present state of the army, and the distribution of the force of which it is composed, will be seen Iron, the report of the Major General. Several alterations in the disposal of the troops have been found expedieilt in the course of the year, and the discipline of the al my, though not entirely flee from exception, has been generally good. The attention of Congress is particularly invited cos that part of the Report of the Secretary of War which concetns the existing system of our relations with the Indian tribes. At the establishment of the Federal Government, under the present Constitution of the United States, the principle was adopted of considering them as foreign and independent Powers, and also as pro prietors of lands. They were, moreover, considered as savages, whom it was our policy and our duty to use our ii.flaence in converting to Chr istianity, and bring ing within the pale of civilization. As independent Powers - we negotiated with them by treaties , as proprietors ue purchased of them all the lands which we could prevail upou them to sell; as' brethren of the human race, rude and ignorant, we en deavoured to bring them to the knowledge of religion and of letters. The ultimate design was to ineurpo. rate in our own institutions that portion of them which could be converted to the state of civilization. In the practice of European Sates before cur revolu tion they had been considered as children to be governed; as tenants at discretion to be dispossessed as occa sion might require; as hunters to be indemnified by trifling concessions for removal from the mounds upon which their game was extirpated. In changing the system, it would seem as if a full contemplation of the consequences of the change had not been taken. We have been far more successtul in the acquisition of their lands than in imparting to them the principles, or inspiring them with the spirit of civilization. But in appropriating to ourselves their hunting grounds, we have brought upon ourselves the obligation of pro viding them v ith subsistence ; and when we have had the rare good fortune of teaching them the at ts of ci vilization, and the doctrines of Christianity, we have unexpectedly found them forming, in the midst of our selves, communities claiming to be independent of ours, and rivals of sovereignty within the territories of the Members of our Union. This state of things requires that a remedy` should be provided; a remedy which, while it shall do justice to those unfortunate children of nature, may secure to the members of tier confedera tion their rights of sovereignty and aged. As the out lines tf a project to that effect, the views presented in t he report of the Secretary of Wee 'are recommended g o the coo&delation of Congress. . . !":. et tootstii blri t ie r b d lif i st 0 f The tieport from the engineer departmei t pretests co.i.prebee:sive view I f the progress which has made its the great systems promotive of the public • terest, commenced and orgaossed under the stuff the . r e o to t the e s e h c o u t r io l tuy: and d they :will ty o hi e ther e. en f h t a e et t i Ifie l r a B. 4,f io i these great systems is that of fniti o f Cungtesf, and the effects of which have ahead, odium ii Cete ra ti,.ns, commenced immediately after th e tine of eincayclwhich the valve last war, under the salutary experience w' ich th ee , of that war had impressed upon our countrym in . of neces-ity. Introduced under the au.p icr , of 011,11 1 mediate predecessors, it has been contii,u d sith ii, persevering and liberal encoutagement GI cure ; and, combined w . th correspondint exertio n , f ( the gradual increase and improvemei t . f the n. 4 „ . . 1 , 4 adaptedpatesf i ne r a t: e t:t i t ; course of events may bring, froth. Our advances! " to oll ai r ty el c t r r i n, these ccuicerfeJ systems have, for the la s t ' en yt4l been steady and progressive; and in a few years m,„ • will he so cimpleted as to leave no cause f ur ail . pension that our sea coast will ever again offer 4 a to of hostile invasion. The next of these cardinal measures of policy preliminary to great and lasting svot'..s of publi c , provement in the 'wails of roads, examination of • course of canals, and labs urs for the removal of t , obstiuctions of rivers and harbours, first monk, by the Act of C ngress of 30th of April, 182% The Report exhibits in one table the funds app, r ., p ,. aced at the last and weeding Ser.si , ,ns of Cons, for all these fortificati ns, survey., and work: of 13 lic improvement ; the manor in vitich the s e rands 1. 0 been applied, the amount expended upi.n the so u wot ks under con.,truction, and the tui ther surn s ai rh may be necessa , y to complete them. In a second I t e works projected by the Boarded Er4,ineers, '81) 1 06, not been commenced, and the estimate of 01,4 co , t. In a third, the Report of the annual hoard ()f s i „ toti at the it litary Academy at Wed. Print. For ti itve l fortifications erecte J on various points of our A . iai,tc coast, front Rhode Island to Lonis , aita, the aggi expenditure of the year his fallen a little short ct 3 41 oollion of &dials. Er the preparation of five additicnal repoits of cohnotsatices and surveys since the last Session of cu. gross, for the civil constructio• s upon 37 different pai works commenced, eight others for which sieciac + propriations have beers made by Acts of Cong , e,f, a q t a city other incipient surveys under the authcrit) else by the Act of 30th April, 1324. abt at one million ar 4 .rf do Lis have been drawn from the Trea:ury. To Giese two millions of. dollars are to be aiVeiltle ipptoprrations 4'250,000 dollars, to commence etectimi of a brzak. %met near the mont:s of e, 4 ' Delaware river ; the subsctiptions to the Delorat and Chesapeake, the Louisville and I'm (land, N Dismal Swamp, and the Crieiai.eAlte and Oi.io mai; the large tion..tions of lands to the States r I Orlio, It. diana, 11.i..0i5, and Alabaina, fir objects of impor t . went. u Wins these States, and the sums appropriatd for light Ise.urei., buoys, and piers on the coast, malt .ull view will be taken of the munificence of the thilict .in ibe application of its resources to the improvema of its own condition. 01 these great national undertakings the Acsdem 4 West Point is.among the most important in usi,4 and the most comprehensive in its consequences. la:!ut institution a part of the revenue of the nation is.appiad to defray the expense of educating a competent portico of her youth chiefly to the knowledge ot duties et mi. limy life. It is the living armoury of the intim While the other works of improvement enumerated a I the reports now preented to the attention of Congress are destined to ameliorate the face of nature; to muli• ply the facilities of communication bzt weer' the dilate parts of the union; to assist the labours, increase the comforts, and enhance the e:•joymeatsid the instruction acquired at We;t Point enlarges the do minion and expands the capacities of the mind. Its beneficial results are already experienced in the comps. sition of the army, and their influence is felt in them. tellectual progress of society. Tne initit upon is suscepi• ble still of great improvement from benefactioms pia posed by several successive boards olvisitors, towhee ease :t and repeated recommendations l cheerfully 14 my own. , With the usual amnia reports from the Secretary of the Nog and the Board of Commissioners will be ezbibited to the view a Congress the execution of the laws relating to that departmet.t the public 'evoke. The repression of piracy in the West Itids.t, and in the Grecian seas, has been effectually maintained—seam - It an excnition. liming the war between the Governments of Meta Ayres and of Brasil frequent collisions between belligerent acbsi power and Ilse rights ot neutral commerce oecurred. Licesbost blockades, is regularly enlisted or impressed seamen, and the re perty of bonen commerce seized witji violence, and even plulaitrel under legal practices, are disorders never separable hum the ca . filet ot wars upon the ocean. . . With a portion of them the correspondence of our Comnismito on the eastern aspect of the South Ameticats coat, and among tie islands of Greece, discover how far we have been involved. 11 these the honour of our country and the rights of our citizens he been asserted and vindicated. The appearance of new squadrea in the Mediterranean, and the blockade of the, Datskonelles, km cave the danger of other obstacles to the freedom of commerce, ;A the necessity of keeping weave' force in those seas. To the sisk ' potions repeated in the Iterunt of the Secretary ot the Navy, cal tending to the permanent improvement of this Institution, I Una the favourable consideration of Congress. A Resolution of the House of ltepresentativea, requesting the one of our small public vessels should be sent to the Pacific Oce.i and South Sea to examine the coasts, islands, harbours, shoals, aid reefs in those seas, and to ascertain their true situation and de scription, has been pot in a train of execution. The vessel is neaey ready to depart. The successful accomplishment of the exp.ilitiot may be greatly facilitated by suitable legislative provision.. 0- 4 particularly by an appropriation to defray its necessary eapenie.-- The addition of a second, and, perhaps, a third vessel, with a stisn aggravation of the colt, would contribute much to the safety di the citizens embarked on this undertaking, the results of winching be of the deepest interest to our country. With the report of the Secretary of the Navy will be subra;ttel. in conformity to the Act of Congress of the 3d ot March, Is - a, for the gradual Improvement of the Navy of the United S;ates, state' mental of the expenditures under that Act, and of the nwoll" taken for carrying the same into ;effect. Every section at that statute contaios a distinct provision, looking to the frail object of the whole—the gradual improvement cl the Navy.-- Under its salutary sanction stores of ship• timber have been pro cured, and are in process of seasoning and preservation fur the Isom uses of the Navy. Arrangements have been made fur the presets's• tion of the live oak timber growing on the lands of the United StAtes and fur its re-production, to supply, at future and distant days, the waste of that most valuable material for ship-building by the god consumption of it yearly for the commercial as well as for the military marine of our country. The consteuetion ot the ten dry docks at Charlestown and at Norfolk Is making satisfactsy. progress towards a durable establishment. The exaininatiens es 4 inquiries to ascertain the practicability and expediency of a mania railway at Pensacola, though not yet accomplished, have been pa:. potted but to be the more effectually made. The navy y..rds the United States have been examined, and plans for the improve; meat and the preservation of the public property at IV: , mouth, Charlestown, Philadelphia, Washington, and Go w n e, " to which two others are to be added, have been prepared, sou re. celved my sanction ; and no other portion of m y public Busies bo been performed with a more intimate conviction of its imputes. to the future welfare and security of the Union. a e W t tr o v il fi e v t v he e i view sßeporti of hL o g c r e r t a l T 7 u s a l ri t cc u ' r a t e lt b a eisesr time—in n t e h r a a t l e t i it e a s u s m e x h i bit ed n b i e e r e t a o , f c i Fr : offices, which has growls from less than two hundred to nearly el th.thelan:duhuinsaplauste4Pliuninuandmlllehrs forty . feurtren thousand Ave hundred mid thirty ; while in the ism' ... the da Mond forme: Coop locum late a elitect , octal i of Sta those tavern wash the %1 so tam /131st sbon dons, corbel able a metal contai •till ►l first a cuunt in but be su, by sa effect' theme years. colum man 1 that a Amy it, venni ceede the rk the L DIUSI by th stitut &btu w, Al the= inert DI I T testa Cu. 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