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dlic RICA. CONGRESS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. vs. The following Melttge was delivered to each :joule by Mr. Lewis, Secretary to the Prefident: '• To the Saute and Houk of Rcprefentatives of the United “ States. 44 When we affemble together, Fellow Citizens. r. , confider the nate of our beloved country, our ;an attentions are fire drawn to thofe pleafing ..i.cuzuriances ultich mark the goodnefs of that It-ing horn whole favour they flow; and the large itsr.tr.tre of thankfulnefi, we owe for his bounty. _lnotlicr rear has come around, and finds us ftill i.:cifed with peace and friendtbip abroad ; law, (ii der, and religion at home ; .good :dation and 11.n-twiny with our Indian neighbours, our bur t!,:c. lightened, yet our income fofficient for the ~ iblic wants, and the produce of the year great ; a .oild example. There, fellow Citizens, are the flr--timitances under which we meet ; and we re- Walk, with fpecial fatisfaßion, thofe which, under the smiles of Pao•lnsace, refult from the fkill, , ;nairtiry, and order of our Citizens , managing I their own affairs in their own way , and for their I , v-n ufe, unembarrafed by too much regulation, unoppreffed by fifcal exaaions. On the renovation of peace in Europe, that portion of the carrying trade which had fallen to , our share during the war, was abridged by the returning competition of the Belligerent Powers.. This was to be expelled and was juft. But, in addi- I tion, we find, in fume parts of Europe , monopo. I lizing difcriminations, which, in the form of du ti tics, tend effettually to prohibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own veifels. From exining amities, and a fpirit of juffice, it is hoped that friendly difcuffion will produce a fair and adequate reciprocity. But fbould falfe calculations of in tete' defeat our hope, it rafts with the LegiOature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities at home, or pro vide for the evil in any other way. "It is with fatisfaaion I lay before you an AR of the Britilli Parliament, anticipating this fubjea, fu far as to authorife a mutual abolition of the duties, and countervailing duties, permitted under -the Treaty of ma. It flews. on their part, a fPirit of juaiee and friendly accommodation, which it is our duty and our interen to cultivate with all nations. Whether this would produce a due equality , in the navigation between the two coun tries, is a fubjea for your confideration. ” Another circumftance which claims attention, as direCtly affeßing the very fource of our naviga• tion, is the defea or the evafion of the law pro viding for the return of feamen, and particularly of thole belonging to veffels fold abroad. Num bers of them difcharged in foreign ports, have been thrown on the hands of our Confuls, who, to rekue them from the dangers into which their ditlreffes might plunge them, and five them to their country, have found it necelfary, in fume cafes, to return them at the public charge. " The cefficn of the Spanifh province of Loui liana to France, which took place in the courfe of the late war, will, if carried into effed, make a change in the afpeß of our foreign relations, which will doubtlefs have jun weight in any deliberations of the Legiflature conneßed with that fubjeß. " There was reafon, not long luxe, to *tante bend that the warfare in which we were engaged with Tripoli, might be taken up by fume other of the Barbary powers. A reinforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the veftels already there. Subfequent information however has re moved thefe apprchcnfions for the prefent. To fecure our commerce in that fea, with the fmalleft force competent, we have fuppofed it bell to watch ftriftly the harbour of Tripoli. Still, how ever, the lhallownefs of their coati, and the want of fmaller velfels on our part, has permitted Come cruizers to efcape unobferved ; and to one of tliefe an American velfel unfortunately fell a prey. The Captain, one American leaman, and two others of colour, remain prifoners with them ; unlefs ex changed under an agreement formerly made with the galhaw, to whom. on the faith of that, Come of his captive fubjeCts had been reftored. " The Convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their Leginature, and a re purchafe from the Creeks has been confequently made, of a partial the Tallalrcee county. In this purchafe has been alto comprehendedl part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee rivers. The particulars of the contra& will be lard before Congrefs fo foon as they than be in a Lite for communication. " In order to remove every ground of difference poffible with our Indian neighbours, I have pro ceeded in the walk of fettling with them, and marking the boundaries between us. That with the Chataw nation is fixed in one part, and will be through the whole within a short time. The country to which their title had been extiuguilbed before the revolution is fufficient to receive a very refpcinable population, which Congrefs will pro bably fee the expediency of encouraging, fo loon as the limits fball be declared. We are to view this pofition as an outpoft of the United States, furrounded by bong neighbours, and diftant from its fupport. And how far that monopoly, which prevents population, thould here be guarded againft, and afloat habitation made a condition of the continuance of title, will be for your confi- Iteration. A prompt fettlement too, of all exit!. mg rights and claims within this territory, preknts Well as a preliminary operation. 44 In that part of the Indiana territory which in cludes Vincennes, the lines fettled with the neigh bouring trii,c, fix the extirtaion of their title at a breadth rt . :.4. leagues from Eaft to Wen, and abort' 11 : -ame length parallel with and including the W.i!..dh. They have alto ceded a track of four mil..s twiate, including the Salt Springs near the m ., ; . it of that river. 44 li, the al vartment of finance it is with plea- Ito e I n.fcr ni yi.n that the receipts iif external do t:-.. I. r' • • ,11Prellve months, have exceeded th 1 its: 1 . k _,,, v • . and that the ratio uf ~.Slic • ' e L• , _; ,j, . r than ufual. This has ei., ~.i i''' . 1 4 - ; 1 1 regular exigencies o! t • P.* id 1 • t;• • *••• ..1 . , ! 4t t r . e'l maims!, within .1 (4 0 ,, ' , Oll. 'Try r 7 r 4f.: - - _ aULL.4:II one year, upwards of eight millions of dollars, I principal and interef, of the public debt, exclufive of upwards of one million paid by the Cale of bank I dock, and making in the whole a reduction of nearly five millions and a half of principal, and to have now in the Treaftiry four millions and a half of dollars, which are in a courfe of application to the further difcharge of debt and current de mands. Expel ience, too, fo far authorifes us to believe, if no extraordinary event fupervenes, and the expences which will be aCtually Incurred (hall not be greater than were contemplated by Con grefs at their laft feflion, that we (hall not be dil -1 appointed in the expedations then formed. But, ncverthelefs, as the effect of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully afcertained, it is the snore neccffary to praftife every ufeful economy, and to incur no expence, which may be avoided without prejudice. " The colledion of the internal taxes having been completed in fume of the States, the officers employed in it are of courfe out of commiffion.— In others they will be fo (bortly. But in a few, where the arrangements for the dired tax had been retarded, it will dill be Come time before the fyf rem is doled. It has not yet been thought need(- ' fary to employ the agent authorifed by an Mt of the laft Salon, for tranlkaing bufinefs in Eisrope relative to debts and loans. Nor have we ufed the power, confided by the fame Mt, of prolonging the foreign debt by re-loans, and of redeeming in (lead thereof, an equal fum of the domeftic debt. Should however the difficulties of remittance on fo large a fcale, render it neceffary at any time, the power (hall be executed, and the money thus unemployed abroad mall, in conformity With that law, be faithfully employed here in an equivalent extindion of domeftic debt. When effects fo tary refult from the plans yon have already lane timed, when merely by avoiding falfe objeas of expence. we are able, without a &reit tax, without internal taxes, and without borrowing, to snake large and effectual payments towards the difcharge of our public debt, and the emancipation of our poftcrity from that mortal canker, it is an encou ragement, Fellow Citizens, of the higheft order, to proceed as we have begun in fubftituting econo my for taxation, and in purfuing what is ufeful for a Nation, placed as we are, rather than what is praaifed by others under different circumfances. And whenfoever we are defined to meet events which (hall call forth all the energies of our coun trymen, we have the firmeft reliance on thofe energies, and the comfort of leaving for calls like there, the extraordinary refources of loans and in ternal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we are liberating, ennui ally, portions of the external taxes, and forming from them a growing fund, fill further to leffen theneceffityoirecurring toextraordinaryrefources. " The dual account of receipts and expendi tures for the laft year, with an eftimate of the ex pence' of the enfuing one, will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treafury. " No change being deemed neeeffary in our military eltablittment, an eftimate of its expences for the enfuing year, on its prefect footing, as alfo of the funs to be employed in fortifications, and other objects within that department, has been prepared by the Secretary at War, and will make a part of the general eftimates which will be pre fenced to you. • Confidering that our regular troops are em ployed for local purpofes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and fudden emer gencies, you will doubtlefs think this in(litution worthy of a review, and give it tilde improve ments of which you find it fufeeptible. • Eflimates for the naval department, prepared by the Secretary of the Navy for another year, will in like manner be communicated with the ge neral eftimates- A (mall force in the Mediter raocan will fill be neceffary to refrain the Tripo. line crnifers and the uncertain tenure of peace with Tome other of the Barbary Powers, may eventually require that force to be augmented.— The neceffity of procuring tome (mailer veffels for that fervice, will raife the eftimate; but the dif ference in their maintenance will loon make it a meafure of economy. • Prefuming it will be deemed expedient to expend annually a convenient furn towards pro viding the naval defence which our fituation may require, i cannot but recommend that the firft ap propriations for that purpofe, may go to the laving what we already polfefs. No cares, no attentions, can preferve veffels from rapid decay, which j lie in water, and expoled to the fun. Thefe ' de cays require great and conflant repairs, and will confume, if continued, a great portion of the monies defined to naval purpofes. To avoid this wafte of our refources, it is propofed to add 'to our navy-yard here a dock, within which our prefcnt veffels may be laid up dry, and under cover from the fun. Under thefe circumftances I experience proves that works of wood will remain fcarcely at all affected by time. The great andndance of running water which this fituation padres, at heights far above the level of the tide.' if employed as is praCtifed for lock navigation, fur , nifhes the means for railing and laying up our refits, on a dry and fheltered bed. And fhould the meafure be found ufeful here fimilar depofito ries for laying up, as well as fo r building and re , pairing veffels, may hereafter be undertaken at • other navy yards, offering the fame means. The • plans and ell Mutes of the work, prepared by a perfon of (kill and experience, will be prefented to you, without delay; and from there it will be • teen that fcarcely more than has been the colt of • one vac' is neceffary to rave the whole, and that I the annual furn to be employed towards it maple ! tics may be adapted to the views of the Legins r tore as to naval expenditure. r .4 To cultivate peace and maintain commerce and navigation in all their lawful enterprifes ; to roller our &lurks as nurferies of navigation, and - for the nurture of man, and prated the manufae • tures adapted to our circumilances ; to preferve I •he faith of the nation by an exact difcharge (silts debts and contra Rs, expend the public money with .lie fame cave and economy we would Karaite with our own, wad import on our citizens no on ...ceeffazy bunt:cm ; to kc:p in all things the pale of our conflitutional powers, and chains the federal union, as the only rock of f.tfety ; there, fellow citizens, are the landmarks by which we are to guide ourfelves in all our proceedings. By con tinuing to make thcfe our rule of aaion, we !hall endear to our countrymen the true principles of ►heir conilitution, and promote an union of fenti. ment and of anion, equally aufpicions to their hap. pinefs and fafety. On my part you may count on a cordial concurrence in every meature for the public good ; and on all the information I porch which may enable you to difcbarge to advantage the high funaions with which you are invelled by your country. (Signed) THOMAS JSFFS *SOH." EAST INDIES. CALCUTTA. JUNE sir.. Amour Rao has written to the Englifh General Psaaow, defiring him to evacuate the diftries of Rampoora and Nnutuck, an hereditary poffeifion of his family, and in the occupation of the Hol kars, when forcibly taken from them by the orders of General PERRON : that it was neceffary for him to provide for the eftablifhment of the widowed Baces, whom, if he knew right, he ought to look upon as his true Sovereigns. The laft care he recommended to him was his own particular inte rens ; to which, however, he maned, the General would' have the kindnefs not to be inattentive; that he hoped General Psalm* would treat there feveral (objets with the confideration their retpec live merits demanded ; if not, that he and his mailer mould prepare to refill the pretenfions of the Englifh General in the field. Soul:Kali, it is faid, is not a little dirconcerted by there extraordinary propofirions. To add to his alarm, the movements of his army are impe• ded by the menacing pofitions which his enemy has affumed ,in feveral different places. He ap pears to be totally cut off from all poffibility of a retreat to Hindoftan ; while a fcarcity, little fhort of famine, owing to the devaftation of the coun try, and the entire.neglein of agriculture, conti nues to prevail throughout his camp. It is fur ther Rated, that SCINDRAN will not permit Gene ral Pitaosi to leave him ; that he had, it would appear, appointed Colonel Suritaaxawn to the uncontroulled management of his affairs, and or dered him to fet out for Hindollan ; in which cafe his arrival might be daily expeeed. The Holkars are now completely united, and engaged at this moment in laying "vane the territory on the oppo fite fide of the Burinda, where no one had yet ventured to oppofe their ravages. Amour Rao's forces are encamped on the banks of the Sohun, near Salamatpoor, where it is fuppofed he will Coon arrive to take the command of his army in perfon. FRANCE. PARIS. JANUARY 24. ACTS Or OOTItWMINT. Sslat Mad, January 23. The Government of the Republic, on a Report by the loGnifter of the Interior, with the advice of the Council of State, decrees as follows : Arr. I. The National Inftitute, now divided into three claffes, Sall in future confift of four, namely, al, The Clair of the Phyfical and Ma• thematical Sciences. 2d, Clafs of the French lan guage and Literature. 3d, Clafs of Ancient Hif tory and Literature. 4th, Clafs of the Fine Arts . The prefent Members and Foreign Affociates (hall be diftributed in thefe four claffes. _ _ _ A commit ion of five Members of the Inftitute, nominated by the Ft ILIT CONSUL, fhsll prefent to him this labour, which -than be laid before Go vernment for its approbation. IL The firß clafs (hall be formed of the ten feeions which at prefent compofe the firs clafs of the iniiitute ; a feaion of _geography and naviga tion, and eigt foreign affociates. Thefe fettions !hall be compofed and denominated as follows :- 1 Atithensaikal Sehnert—Geometry, 6 Members, Me chanics 6, Agronomy 6, Geography and Navi gation 3, Phyfics in general 6.—P! cal Stiepreg— Cherniftry, 6 Members, Mineralogy 6, Botany 6, Rural Economy and the Veterinary Art 6, Ana tomy and Zoology 6, Medicine and - Surgery 6. The firft dais, with the approbation of the FIRST Collso L, (hall appoint two perpetual Secretaries, one for the Mathematicall and the other for the phyfical Sciences. The perpetual Secretaries (ball be Members of the dal's, but grail form no part of any feelion. 111. The fecond clafs Iball be compofed of forty Members: It is particularly charged with the care of compiling a diaionary of the French language. It Blatt examine in regard to language important works of literature, hillory and feiences. A collec tion of its critical obfervationsfhall be pnblifhed at lean four times every year. It &all nominate from its Members a perpetual Secretary, with the ap probation of the FIRST COOPOL. IV. The fourth clafs (hall be compofed of forty Members, and eight foreign Allociates. The learn ed languages, antiquities, and monuments, hi Rory, and all the moral and political fciences,asthey relate to hiflory, fhaU be the obje&s of its labours and refearches. It fhall endeavour in particular, to en rich the French literature with the works of the Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers not yet tranflated. It (ball employ itfelf with the continuation of diplo matic colleetions. It null appoint from its num ber a perpetual Secretary, with the approbation of the FIRST CONSUL. V. The fourth daft hall be compofed of twenty eight Members and eight foreign Afro:whites.— They ball be divided into fetaions, denominated and compofed as follow :—Painting to Members; Sculpture fir; Architeaure fix ; Ea graving three; Marie (compoStioo) three. It flan appoint with the approbation of the num Conant., a Perpe tual Secretary, who (hall be a Member of the clefs, but ball not form a part of the reeks& VI. The foreign afociates mall have a delibera tin rote only in regard to objelts of fcience, litera ture, at the arts. They ball not form a part of any ration, or have any falary. Correfoondent• cannot aflame the title of members of the inflitute. (Here follow tome other articles refeeaing nomi nation to the vacant places, Sre. &c.) The Tzth article Rates, that the Inftitute (hall receive annu ally, from the public treafury, 1500 francs, for each of its members not affociates I 6000 for each of the perpetual fecretaries, and for its expences a rum which than be determined every year, on a demand from the Inßitute, and comprehended in the budget of the Minifter of the Interior. Ac. _ cording to article 13, each des (hall, every year, diftribute prizes, the number and value of which (hall be regulated as follows :—the firft clafs a prize of 3000 francs; the fecond and third cleres each a prize of 5500 francs ; and the fourth clafs grand prizes in painting, fculpture, architeanre, and mufical compofition. Thole who gain thefe four prizes (hall be tent to Rome, and maintained n the ezpence of Government. The prefea of Maine and Loire has culled to be puhliflied, that it is the intention of Govern. ment, that no aft of marriage between a white man and a negrefs, or negroes and white women, (hall be authorifed. Five per Cents. 56 fr. 95 c. FROM THE PARIS PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 10.—The Reis Effendi has received new difpatcbes from Egypt :—they confirm the defeat of the Ottoman army t. but it appears that it was not fo difsfirous as the finft re. - ports announced. The Pacha of Cairo is Rill matter of Upper Egypt. He bad indeed no hopes of forcing the Beys to refume that pofition which they were in before the tail battle. At prefent they occupy the whole of Lower Egypt. At the dillance of Come miles from Alexandria they have a camp of 3soo men, Arabs and Mamelukes, which has obliged the Anglo Turkifh garrifon of that city to double its polls to guard againa any furprize. The Secretary of State, GALII Emit- DI, arrived yefierday in this capital, from his mit - - fion to Paris; he brings with him the ratification of the Treaty of Peace with the nail. Coosuz.. FRANCICTORT, JANUARY la.—We have received here by the way of Vienna, intelligence from Con. fiantinople, which (peaks of the important difputes that have lately taken place between the Ottoman Porte and England. The divan is at length con vinced, that the Englith troops which are Rill in Egypt, continue privately to atilt} the Beys, by furnithing them with arms, ammunition, an even light artillery, and alfißance in money. To this conduit the Porte afcribes the fuccefs which the Beys have lately obtained over the Ottoman army, which is confequently reduced to a very critical tituation. The Porte again multi on the evacuation of Egypt by the Englith, and though the latter Rill refufe, under a pretence that they have not been reimbnrfed for the expences they incurred, in compelling the French to abandon that country, it neverthelefs hopes to obtain .this evacuation through the media tion of France and of Ruffle. It is remarked in general, that it is with there two Power that the Divan withes to renew its conflation' of amity and alliance. It has alto ref:Relied M. de ST me sa, the Außrian Internuncin, to intereß hingelf for the fame objet} with the Englifis Envoy ; but , flria does not teen difpofed to interfere in this difpute. LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 4. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCKI 3 pc Cent. Reduced ytff 3 per Cent. Csa money, yollit—far Feb. 'cc. 7/i; Olds per C. zooff—New ditto Io3olnliglaill 4i. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY: Dank Smelt tid ii 7 Long Ann. so st-toSi 9-16 3 per C. Red. yt Imp. Ann. t t 9-14 3 per C. Coat yo l iti Exam'. Dills per. is. dif. 4 per Cent. Cant Sy $64 87 Omit= 44 diL s per C. Ann. ma Lottery Tickets t7l tens 7 per C. my, to; los* Cott for gee. yitit We mentioned yenerday that the Americans dii not feem to be altogether fatisfied with the near approach of the French. We have this day laid before our readers the Meffage of the Prefident of the United States of America to Congrefs, on the tsth ultimo, which will be found an interefling article, as it exhibits what may be confidered as correa a pi lure of the Rate of the country as is ge nerally given in fuch documents : the ceffion of Louifiana forms a prominent pelage in the meffage. Some intelligence from India, not uninterelting. will be found in the preceding column. We have received Paris journals to the asth in. Rant. They prefent Tome curious details refpett. ing the new arrangements taking place in the French National Intlitute.—They prefent alfofome accounts from Contlantinople of a later date than any before received. Thefe accounts Rate that. by frefh difpatehes from Egypt, they have learnt that the defeat of the Turkifh troops was not C. difebous as at firft reported. The report of a mifunderftanding between the Turks and Britint is again repeated ; and it is Aid, the latter refute to evacuate Egypt, till certain con ditions have been complied with. On this head we can Rate, and on better authority than any thing that can come through fuch a channel as the above, that orders were fome time ago fent out I for our troops to leave that country, and to pro ceed to Malta; and from all circumilances we thould not be furprized, if it turn out that one troops evacuated Egypt in the Mt week of the prefent month. The French papers confirm what we mentioned lately of the French corvette la Matins having put into Gibraltar, in diarefs, and having experienced a polite reception, and every alEftance from the exalted ch.aratter who has the command there. They alto pick= tome very vague and imper