Star. — London, England, 1814-01-27 00:00:00

71 1 11111 " 1 — WV"' . . IMMlrommarmilllMlrmumearars .IXERICA 1141fUNGTON, DECEMant 7. - This day s at twelve, the President of thAtrik States transmitted the following Message 4 to gk WenallWeengreisr firtlir-eairvfiis Paiyate. five. tify • .4 Fe" ••• gthe Sok, cud . -7:— In " d In meeting. yod at- the peesteseinteresting juncture, - it, would have 'been kighly.fiatisinctorl , if :I coeld•have ooltameniedted a favourable. resultbf mission charge teeth ilc g t;giattotii*ieszofitiii • AS. It was • josteapeitatitm, from illerespeet duetathei 4sff9igeishid SOvereign who bactitteited,gints br bit. offer of mediation —Trout the readiness _with: which the int;iiaticsi was accepted on the part 4tl ellnited iltateti 7 -Arid from the pledge tote ftnittti itkait s Ackof their Let datirefor 'the libentlitipilifeltil4,rldii- , - potentiaries would carry into the isegoniations, that, Ito time Would heltist:by the,BritielrGeorsateneeit unabvacing thessiperiment forlptsiening asstep to the gusion of 1100 d.. A 'prop& and cortlial accept of the sneciiition cm that side was the less to be as it rtes of a nature not to suhmit rights ',tensionless either side to the decision of in re, but to, nirrord merely an 9pportunitz, borutt. „tyible and desirable to both, for discussinels4ol,l4l, • iptiskible, adjusting them, for the interest of both; • " The British Cabinet, either mistaking our &Sire Of peswe fora dread Of British power, Or:104 by • fallaciout calculations; has ditappOinsad this sonable anticipation, Xkln •cornmunicatiots from cot Envoys having reatthed nits ito information on" cite subject has Bien received *:fronst:;that source; but - it is known that the sniellation;p*declined in the . firs; iipttsessee ; and ther . it no .evidence, nOts:rith ;tin .' ding the laffie of time, :tbiSt , !..tbange of disposition in the British councils has taken Oafs ? :t!pl•be expected. ` " Under such eirettritalsces r iiillti4l644itilief its rights, and.conseionsuf itt StreUgthlAjfkl4*ce • • but an exertion of: the one In suppert-dtbe ether:, ss To this deteriainstlon t the best ettointagessent is derived from i l ieric witfi which h lifts *ailed' 4 1 )4 , taiGiqi,14 4 1440.4 ernisi j 01.1014 • • • '• • • • and on the watiy.„ • !.. Whilit ptuislitipintieren continued Hof *Meer- rise and skiircif 4titimeellters, public And Pirko, o n e The_cesso l 'aid a 'Jo lfiaohy 'gained in the capture. o fd 4iossieta *noel of war, after an ne.l • ion si.vie( \celebrity to tbnAhnie of . the victastotti Zosnosander ; tyke ;pit inla4d !raters, on which *el Amoy wsi itlN *lse encountered, have *prennsted -pciiievensen4itf tie naval anus, as brilliant in their iberaeterliidlOYUart been - its‘porte% 4eis fol!, aneenees. ti " On 44 Erie, the squadron under Connita nd Captain Perry, hall% met the British squadron; bf is superior force, si inniguinary conflict ended in the captnre of the whole. .The conduct _of that officer, *droit as it was daring, and which was so well le,. 4tiodad 4y );is cotnratiess justly entitles ;them to the *...osiration and gratit!sde of their =atty. - Aid will l it an early page in lexpaill annals, with a vie*, • never surpasied in)natre, hoiveVer it may have 106 in magnitnde. " pis Qntario, the : eaption of the Bei" Oak Q:nnEnnii(rer, fsfoired by contingencies, fru trued the efarts of the Anterican Pommender to bring eon decivire action ? captain gb i tiney wee . able, however, to establish an asceudancy on that important theatre; and to ,prove. by the Venner ip which he effected every thing possible, -that opportu . nitres only were wanted, ifor a snore shining display of his ohs talents, adapjibe gallant!) , Otto* rder his command. . . . " The neon on take Erie havingalpened a pas rip to the tetylipri,ofhe etteraT.. thO•lbffieer Forio- Ponding she Noril Western Amy transferred the • war thither; .and rapidly pursuing the trupga, 411 1 esipg_wfehOeii Prase associates, (creed a general flactiott,lit** quickly tertainated ,in the capturis of E▪ lse Peitinh, semUispersion of the.savageforce. • " This me* it signaHY honourable. to Ikelajorpe. lona liprisen ? by whose Military Ealern , 4 it way*. pared; to OplonelJohnson and hisFriounteCY Leers, irbose impetuous onset gave aidecisivlt** . to the ranJis of the enemy; and ea*. joisiff 4'04 ' volunteer militia, 'equally brave ae;d pat:444.Th* thorn an interesting part in the. scene r . r niore .espe cially to the Chief Magistrate of Kentucky at the .I ) aid of them, whose heroism, sigdalised in the war pphicii established the independence of his country, . Fought, at an advanced age, a share in hardship:and, Ilsjigles, fps' Naipcailgps its rights and its sifety. • t The effect of these,snceesses bait been se resew inhabitants of Michigan frees their oppressions, .isigravated by gross" infractiont of the capitulation Ish4i4; subjected them to a -foreign power --to p;lliti savages Of nAnnerons tribes from* enemy, • ifershom they were disiopitsted and abandoned to relieve an extensile :region of country From a tiles* ways re, wilift.oso l ?t k ed its kontirfs p andi , • 4 0 its filimwesl4o litsrasbing services. 1 • • * Io g ß osisquinee ot oar nayalstleriority on I..ake * A tari% aid tise. v* 014? eirlurded 13y u IQ; FORti c 4 ntrithlgoP ° f9T es 9 1 . 1e 1f n PP I 7- 463 Ps 13044 pag!Floopih , iplapfielki****Bl,4 ag the Poweseines «r tbsasfin. plifisost4o4o4,o. gft!.c.fo mow.iv* Ow *bit: p4Ni roed. _:#0110, - *4 b 7 *we: ***her swasoal Ojai* ong al& Fmaafrr 4 A4 FirctinStessces **ending 'She - 4 . . .. - .. • - .; • 4. :~ _a:_ ~. IT 1 N L _ ~.• !" F . . I I I- I I k' • i-; „ • .- „ . . ,~ , P • ~. , . . • • final movehmats of ilpylay.'"at top! y 4 so (pwarablek ;issi ant s#,he cruelty ofyllitimost, 110 - 411 is ;KO a war 'kith a Pith* ht mitigatiagits chlangtills, Confuted to anyone quarter. Wherever t sp be turned against us. no exertion; to hlteet lt been spared. On our attutblipst t ell iferdeTZ, Creek tribes. who, Yielding to ot!OpipOiraring e • trattes, were gradoilly aequisinr WOW beCaninthe unfortunate victims of ieductitts4:: A war in that . ouarter has been the conseqeenses itt,l fariuted by a bloody fanaticism rem* propagated among them. . 11 It was necessary to crash such a Waft WO,* i t cOisicl spread among the contiguous tribes an4lbsiars ft could favour . enterprises of the enemy into thak gaily. With this view, A force was called intoll,l Tanis •csf the United States, from the Stales afi Georgia and . Tennessee, which with the nearest re. gular troops, and other corpi from the Mississippil territory, might not only chastise the savages 401 preseot peace, but make a lasting illtiyatiolk their fears. 4 , The progress of the expedition, sn.fas sue it* knov.rn, corresponds with the martial zeal with fitlik,V It was espoused ; and the best hope of a satisfacallit issue are authorised by the complete success with whith a . well planned euterprixe was executed agepat a body of hostile savages, by a detachment of 0 16 .11 6 - lunteer militia of Tennessee, under the gallant 40m-' rmand of general Coffee ; and by a still more impor tant victory over a larger body of them, gained under the immediate copunand of Major f e e eneral Jacksoo ; an officer equally distinguished for 124-patriotism pad his military talents; . The systematic perseverance of the enemy :in `courting the aid of the savages in all quarters, hid the natural effect of kindling their ordinary prepen sky to war into a passion, -which, even among that& best dispoied towards the !Jolted States, w snatlpi if not employed on our side, te be tinned aping us A 4parture from our protracted feteloarance to cept the services tendered by them has thus been forced upon us . . But, in yielding to it, the retaliation has been mitigated as' much as possible, both iu its• Advil and in its character, stopping far short of din, : nitomPle of the enemy, who•owe the advantages they, bare occasionally gaitted inbatde, chiefly to the**, her of their savage associates ; and who hate 'tot CI)11—. trolled them either from their usual practice of indis criminate massacre on defenceless inhabitanus, or frear scenes of carnage without a parallel, on prisoners *V ; the British arms, Omitted by all the laws of hunit.A. pity mkcl honourable war. . 0 4 For tlre enormities, the enemy are equally sit] sponsible, whether, with the power - terevenethetn„. they want the ; or, with the knowledge of a *aft of poWer they still avail themselves of such inure . mtgs. 4 , In other respects the enemy are pursuing a course which threatens oonsequences most afflicting - to hu. manityi. 66 A standing law of Great Britain naturalises, as 'is well known,' - iii aliens complying with con4itiois limited to a shorter period than those requited by'the United States ; and naturalised subjects are,. in war, employed by her Government in common with native subjects. In a contiguous British province, regula. 'tions promulgated since . the commencement of, t$ war, compel citizens of the United Statei, being the*: Under certain circumstances, to bear arms; 'hike of the native emigrants from the United States, who compose much of the population of the province. a number have actually borne arms against. the Unised i States :within their limits ; some of whom, aktar having done so,, have become prisoners of war, sad "are now Our possession. The Bsitioh Commando! in that ptovinceiaavettheless, with the sanction, * *Wars, or bis Government, thought proper to seltct from America* prisoners of war, and send to Great Britain for trial as criminals, a number of in dividuaiso who had emigrated from the )3ritish dominions long pripr to the state of war between the two nations, 1 0 0 bad incorporated thetnselves into our political society,. in the *vides recognised by the law and the practise of Cireatleitaie, and who were made :pri- i Omani' war, Ilifiiii the banners of their adopted' couniii; fightleg - foe its rigittirand its safety. - . K. - , " The protection due to these citizens requiting, an effectual interposition in their behalf', a like nons. l her of British prisoners of war were pee ism() eol4Bll+, ment, with a notificatjon that they would experitics i whatever violence might be committed on the Aim. rican prisoners of War sent to Great Britain. .. , se It was hoped that this necessary consequeacal 'of the step unadvisedly taken on the part of Oleg Britain, would have led her Government to•relleet, [on the inconsistencies of its condu c t, and that a spa. pathy with the British, if not' with the Amerian suf, r few!, would have *pound the cruel career opened I by its ersmple. 1 • , - of This was unhappily_m the case. In violation both of consistency and of bnmanity," American Dili , ; eteTs *d non-commissioned officers, in double An number of the )3ritish soldiers confined here, wpm 'ordered into close conAnement, with formal 'ntilie!i t . that-in the event of a retaliation for the death whikisf :Might he innictesl-on she prisoners of• war gots" Great Britain for trial; the officers cii? confined *Old .. :b . apat io itettlialso., It OAS notified at the tin*, Ott tba eigitasan i ders of the 1 1k#tisis fleets and aruliSl4 "I 40-fat P are i}steuft.edp ill OP We n i fil;l fr . • war in one hands. were immediately put iato close ensfeneassot, to abide the fete ef those ceofined by *smug ; awl the British crouton*** has been ap. ed of ille* determiaadon of phis pepoqueesot, to 'retaliate any other preereaior a i fisfaier to the legitimate nudes of warfare. tF , rt is as fortunate lby the United StatoZ ehledert s w i m it in aseir power to Meet the county in dis kilerage contest. as it is hneourable to them. t hie `they de ant join in it but Bader the Bost imperious obligations. and with the humaae Organ of shigg tuaiing a return to the established usages of war. 1! libe views if day r m oc k i Government on the Fut jects which have been so loug committed to neLocia• lion, have received uo - cluxiclation since the close of your late Session The Minister plenipotentiary of Abe United States at Paris has not Ipert enabled, Ity proper opportunities, to press the *guts a his psis 'ske*, as prescribed by his instructions. '! The 00de 'King always to Ite regarded as the great bulwark of defence and security for free Ptates,J and the constitution haying wisely commikt i ed oitho national awhority a use of that farce, as the best ink vision against'an unsafe military establishment, as: Well as a resource peculiarly adapted to a country, having the extent and en:wince of the United States ; I recommend to Congress a revision of the militia laws, for the purposes of securing more effectually, the services of aH detachments called into the em ployment, and Oacpi upder the got/eminent pf the United States • 14 It will deserve det consideration' of -43oltglPts also, whether, among other improvements in the mi litia laws, justice does not require a regulation, under due precautions, for defraying the expenseinchilest m the first assembling es well as to the subsequent movements of detachisents called into the national ... • . service. - • - 1 ~ - 44 To give our vessels of gap, Odle and ' fifiVaile.l the requiAte advantage in their males, it is of *Olt! iusporunee that they should haste, both for &teak ! selvesaud their prices. the use of airports offsiendly , Powers. With. thii view, I recommend to congress the expediency of such legal provisions as mg.:ap ply the defects, or remove the doubts of the Ex u-, tive authority, to allow to the cruizers of other powers', at war with the enemies of the United &atm,. such use of the American ports and starbus as may tor , . with theitrieileges allowed' i r OA power:.; ita 4inerioan gruisert. . : :,. sg During the year ending on the SOth of Sepia., ber last, the receipts into the Treasury have encoeiesl thirtp.seven millions and an half of donate, of which near twenty-four millions were the produce of batty, After meeting all the demands for the public emipl vice, there remained in the Treasury oa that thyl near seven millions of dollars. Under the authority contained in the Act of the 2d of August last, for borrowing seven millions and as ball of dollars, that sum has been obtained on terms more favourable to the United ,States than those of the preceding 1 made during the present year. gg Further sums to a considerable amount will be necessary to be obtained in the same way during the ensuing years and from the incceased capital al she country, from the fidelity with .which the public en. gagements have been kept, and- the public credit maintained, it may be expected on good grounds that the necessary pecuniary supplies will not be wanting. gg The expences. of the current year, from the 50u1... tiplied operations falling within it, have necessarily been extensive. But on a just estimate of the eam. ' paign, in which the mass of them has been incurred; the tog will not be found disproportionate tci - lhe ad: vantages which have been gained. The campaign has indeed in its latter stages, in one quarter, been less favourable than was expected ; but in addition to the impertance or our naval success, the progress of `. campaign has been filled with incidents highly : tiourabie to the American' arms.' I • al The attacks of the enemy on Crane) Island, Fort Meigs, on Sackett's Harbour, and on Sandusky, ha;re been vigorously and successfully repulsed ; nor have they in any case succeeded on either frontier,l excepting when directed against the peaceable dwel. bugs of individuals, or villages tutprelporertor unde fended. " On the other hand, the movements of the Amt.; rican army have been followed by the reduction of York, and of Forts George, Erie, and Malden ; by the recovery - of Detroit, and the extinction of the Indian war in the West ; and by the occupancy or command, of a large portion of tipper Cannds. Battles haw also been fought on the borders of the St. Lawrence, which, though not accomplishing their entire objects, reflect hopoUr on the discipline and prowess of ours soldiery, the best auguries pf eventual victory. /n 1 the same scale are ro be paced the late successes in the south, over one of the most powerful, which hadj tepome one pf the most bpstile also, of the Wien tribes. !' It would be improper to Flo4e this communica tion, without expressing a thankh4neu, in which all ought to gait*, for the nuesert.)93)4esshigs with which our bplOved country continaei to be favfMed; for the 3bundattipe which averse:pis out 144 awl ;be prrtuiliog health of its ishabitapts mama- Oopiff o9c is epalcuturiligX• *ll4 t4e It our • • • ars mad above all fee doe Wit of Di. the protection Omer aim% con. enjoyment of it. Asid although among cannot.number. a9lkeatption from these will never hi regarded as the greatest of evils .by the frleaola. eilherty and of the rights of nations. Our ootuttry Die befits. pre. ferred them to the degrading condition which was the alternative, wball thiLaWord was draws in the cause which gave bin 'to our national independence done 'who conatimplaft the magnitude, and feet the value of that gkeiloes event, will shrink from f straggle to Maintain the high and hippy ground Is which it platted dssAmericao people. With all good citizens, the justice sad necessity tifcesisting wrongs and usurpations no longer to be borne, will sufliciently outweigh the privations and eatcrificssinseparclileirom a spite of war. Bat it is reflection, moreover, peculiarly consoling, that whjlat wars aft generally aggravated by their bane. Ail effects on the internal itsiproremeat, and perma nent prosperity of the nations engaged fa them, such is the.favoured situation of the Visited States, that Ole calainitieiof the contest into which they hare been compelled to enter, are mitigated by im i pm e . . an 4 a4rantagr4, of which the oaten jtself js "ig ff h i e war * inereased the interruptioas of or commerce, it has at the same. time cherished sad emoo24ed our manufactures, so a; to m4e its inde. resident of all Other countries for the more essential Orcheat' for which we ought to be Ope,defu on none ; and is even rapidly giving them an edam which} will create additional ataplef Wpot *imp CCrcovr . .e with foreign market*, !," If much treasure has been expended ? no incest. siderabie portion of it hay been applied to skiers durable in their voile, !Ltd ufcesslsj W oeip nent safety, " If die war 414 espose4 us to stifieelad *pea ! dons on the ogee!, and to Pre44 9 ,7 10 01 0. 11 $ on the lanik bat 4tlielVed fhe 4 a a 1 Mal/ if ye taliatk. the fonder._ and Pf; : erft.e.idi4ff proteFtioo againit the latieri "dealonstrating..to all y that every blow aimed at °I! 11 0 6 tigni 1 40.ers4eqcN Is a 9 !tn. pulse; NePlailitil?g.thf:oo.4 OCatwarifikt?”karm . !4 . grt d4nata !hrliish *lie Maas of the nano° the elements :of military discipline intd instractioo,. by urgent:iv* nad - fiatnrbimesiariikepreparations ap. OF fl? fiße Oa! §7. 414acig prep arations and v 4. .lour with which they will lje inmployo, and the cheer ? ii4nea prith Wrett4taifaaarY bbl 0 4 1 ) ri4 be bcriti a greater Prot for cc 0044 rind a longer when of Ost. feign! rime, am promised, than POW be•Wequ4 wilbc* theOe regif RE 04 4 , Assaf charactirr and resonrces. TO war * POPO, Arelt9Teri that 0 1r NI somorainear., like ether fro governments, though .slow in its sari' nicTionentsi acquires In iu progress $ force paoportimspd s 4 iti fseednm ; and that the Usk* pi dime &mei, the itutrdian of the freedom) and lesfety, s all and of each, Is stresigalssised ky eyery liatkpilou that inits it to the casts w• In fine, the war, with all its vicissitudes, kilhur Wiling the capacity and the dcsticy of the Vnite# States, 111 . be a great, a Nqurishing, and pveffo; ROO!, *itchy of the friendship which It is disposed ca)elmnte with all others t and, authisirilbY it; Maii"thitapis,* to require from 41 ? an Oserfancikof she 'kw" bf Oftiff and reciprocityr 14400 01,14, . thei Ottio4:llave parts.itsteoded aniL j 4 plopOiag for theft, we 603014 a subject for out coogrotul4tionf a itrtha daily Mttig i tcaglift of increasing h,asonyituouglip cis the'olooo. AO - may hunoi47 repost 4 .t i t is the aMiles *art; kn 1 9 fig) a 11 0* • • :iiiirset) 400,010w?'• hiVI4NO.IO 440NPQN, • . . *. • Tin T MAY. JANUA RY 181#: Ycsterdai* gave a ;hart. bin *VAMP eskPtch Qf the Asneiriemt - Pre;ides;'s Speech to Congress. To? day wegive..it at 41 a, literary composition it II bakw tlye 4ritiClic*7 eta QE 1444. tales nOmblc ,taleatb As an argumentative 4w. Paper, it is without digaitTo iscausedastlippecif trath w apd *4. out energy at elegance, *pp* It ¢ o at gut tow from any generous an otigns-4 is tis‘osilisiOkiQf •. miser table and illiterate.sophis4 in Fidel; be enderons to conceal his yaneplous Fujian fry) ;he view even of his auociAtes. He is the same Savoyard, with the magic lanthorn, at We:bloom, which Bose /Arra ,is at Paris. His, popularity i; founded on the same hollow fcatuslatiOn y and..let u; hope, that it vabe•coeval in itveTistetuai . • w'rolsoie, the leamote and tender President of the ;Jailed §tates of America, begisiy. li4C BOMAPARTI, with proiesstug a most ardent desire for Peace. Fa ;his purpose he eagerly es brased the offer of mediae. Lion made him by the Emperor 45.caaszoris, and is highly offended that grF,F &itain shonl4 haws armed 4; the idea of all , hip:tie:v[lm - 144ntaori goes oh syith the • warms-ssieFessfolly if ;re are to believe him, both on the land and on thi waters."-.An 4merican has captured a British ship of warl-4nel his " cruigets on the ocean. pulsic and private, give proofs of me:prize and kkill.P The capon of oric of our gon•brigz and a few raerchank men, are theacquisitinns which MAtlsots hem Auudo is under j e denomj,nmioo of pejo/401 Un Lake Elie he gains Friar! frophips;" CAW ' * 1 • k . . •.. .., .44 ...• r. , • sniabylollll.4lAitiiii Oa dbil filleeik et V•ifia. _lielltender. s free jaitita3 ol lli mud I IPO WL ' 4 . s . • . • ' Via. night and ' the II fir estlistiag till Sii.t . • That it• al* Wirt wilb gie fainiy of science i s the enjoyme i 'desirous of asovlSl - cabana to the retaliating resist 'apposed Go us, our blessings we cam oi t ii ss h a i net bo s s' s-inerespeadsat lllMltiler of Ilritisb eliasss. rianners the evils of war, yet 1 .2„iii,____,... ____ L__ J- ----- t--..----lf.-..-1........... :....0... 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