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AMERICAN STATES. IN CONTINUATION FROM THE ' , ALCMS° T 448. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. WASIIIIIGTOII, OCT. 17 --This day, agreeably to the Prefideot's Proclamation, quorums of both Hodes affembled in this city. The Prefident being informed thereof, at three o'clock communicated to bo•h Hodes, b) Mr. HARVIE, his Secretary, the fol. luwing MO - age: To the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States: " In calling you together, fellowcitizens, at an earlier day than was contemplated by aft of the lad fellion of Congrefs, I have not been infenfible to die perh.nal inconveniences neceflarily relishing from an unexpated change in your arrangements; but mat ters of great public concernment have rendered this call neceffitry ; and the interefls you feel in thefe will Iliperfede in your minds all private conliderations. Congrels witnefled, at their laß Sefton, the extraordinary agitation produced in the public mind by the fufpenfion of our right of depofit at the port of new Orleans, no alignment of another place hav ing been made according to treaty. They were fen. fible that the continuance of that privation would be more injurious to our nation than any confequences which could flow from any mode of redrefs. But re poling juR confidence in the good faith of the Go vernment whole Officer had committed the wrong, friendly and reafonable reprefentations were reforted to, and the right of depofit was rellored. " Previous, howev.:T, to this period, we had not been unaware of the danger to which our peace would be perpetually expofed, what" fir important a key to the commerce of the weßern country remained under foreign power. Difficulties, too, were prefenting themfelves, as to the navigation of other Breams, which, arifing within our territories, pals through thole adjacent. Propofitions had therefore been au thorifed for obtaining, op fair conditions, the love. reignty of New Orleans, and of other pale/lions in that quarter interefling to our quiet, to fuel extent as was deemed praftkable and the provifional appropriation of two millions of dollars. to be ap plied and accounted for by the Prefident of the United States, intended as part of the price, was confidered as conveying the fanaion of Congrefs to the acquifition propofkd. The enlightened Go vernMent of France law, with jolt difeernment, the importance to both nations of fuels liberal arrange ments as might bell and permanently promote die peace, friendfhip, and interefts of both : and the property and fovereignty of all Louifiatrar, which had been ranted to them, has, on certain conditions, been transferred to the United States by inaruments bearing date the 3oth of April laff When thefe (hall have received the confiitutional fang ion of the Senate, they will, without delay, be communicated to the Reprdentatives alto, for the exercife of their rune. tions as to thofe conditions which are within the powers veiled by the Conilitution in Coopers.— Milli the property and fovereignty of the bCfSffippi and its waters fecure an independent outlet for the produce of the Weflern States, and an uncontrouled navigation through theit whole cootie, free from collifion with other powers, and the dangers to our peace from that fource ; the fertility of the country, its climate and extent, promife, in due lesion, impor tant aids to otnitredury, an ample provifion for our pollerity, and a wide fpread for the bleifings of free dom and equal laws. 66 With the wifdom of Congrefs it will ref) to take thofe ulterior meafures which may be necellary far the immediate occupation and temporary government of the country; for its incorporation into our onion; for rendering the change of government a.blcffing to our newly-adopted brethren ; for fecuring to them the rights of confidence and of property ; for confirm ing to the Indian inhabitants their occupancy and Pelf government, ellabli filing friendly and commercial relations with them, and for afcertaining the geogra phy cf the country acquired. Such materials for your information relative to its affairs in general, as the Mort (pace of time has permitted me to collet, will be laid before you when theiubjea Dull be in a Rate for your confederation. Anther important acquifition of territory has alfo been made fince the laß feffion of Congrefs.— The friendly tribe of Kalkalkia Indians, with which we have never had a difference, reduced by the wars and wants of a favage life to a few individuals, un able to defend themfelves againd the neighbouring tribes,has transferred its country to the United States, referving only for its members what is fufficient to maintain them in an agricultural way. The con. fiderations flipulated are, that we fhall extend to them our patronage and proteftion, and give them certain annual aids, in money, in implements of agri. culture, and other articles of their choice. This wintry, among the moll fertile within our limits ' ex tending along the Miffiffippi from the mouth of the Illinois to and up the Ohio, though not fo necelfary as a barrier, fince the acquifition of the otter bank, may yet be well worthy of being laid open to imme diate fettlement, as its inhabitants may delccnd with rapidity, in fupport of the lower country, fhould future circumflances espofe that to foreign cuter prize. As the flipulations in this treaty .4110 involve matters within the competence of both Hooks only, it will be laid before Congrefs In fours as the SCII/IC *ail have *deiced its ratification. With many of the other Indian tribes, improve. ments in agriculture, and houfehold manufalture, sue advancing ; and with all, our peace and friend. !hip are ellablifhed on grounds much Sinter than heretofore. The meafure adopted of ellablilling trading houfes among them, and of Ittrniating them secatries in exchange for their commodities, at fuch moderate prices as leave no gain, hut rover us hen) ' , ifs, has the mod conciliatory and ukful drat on Cietn, and is that which will bell fccurc thin pease sad good will. The (mall ?arch aothorifed by Cringrefs, with NI view to the Mediterranean lervice, been Ilia tuts that fee, and will be able more effeetually to *online the Tripoline crnizers within their harbour,, end fuperfede the neeeffity of convoy to our com merce in that quarter. They will fetifibly 'circa the oxpences of that fervice in the enfoing year. A further knowledge of the ground in the North Rattan and North Weller') angles of the United States, has evinced that the boundaries ellablillsed by the treaty of Pati:, beta-Lea the Stitifis trrho• tics and oun in thole parts, were too impel fealy de feribed to be fufceprible of execution. It has there. fore been thought worthy of attentin, for preferv ing and ehci ailing the harmony and add inter. coolie between the two nations, to remove by timely arrangements what unfavourable incidents might other* ale render a ground of future mifunskr (landing. A convention has therefore been entered into, which provides for a praticable demarcation of thofe limits, to thefatisfafjion of both. parties. " Au account of the receipts and expenditures of the year ending the 3oth of September lift, with the climates for the Arvice of the enfuing year. will be laid before you by the Secretary of the Treafury fo loon as the reeeiptsof the fall quarter (hall be returned front the more dißant States. It is already afcer tained, that the amount paid into the Treafury, for that year, has been between eleven and twelve mil lions of dollars, and that the revenue, accrued during the fame term, exceeds the Turn counted on, as fuffi cient for our current expences ' and to extinguith the public debt, within the period heretofore propofed. " The amount of the debt paid, for the fame year, is about three millions one hundred thoufand dollars, exclutive of interel, and making, with the payment of the preceding year, a difcharge of more than eight millions and an half of dollars of the principal of that debt, betides the accruing intereft ; and there remain in the Treafory nearly fix millions of dollars. Of thefe eight hundred and eighty thoufand have been refereed for payment of the firli inflalment due under the Britith Convention of January Bth, 18oz, and two millions are, what have been before mentioned, as placed by Congrefs under the power and accoun tability of the Prefident, towards the price of New Orleans and other territories acquired; which, re maining untouched, are Rill applicable to that objeft, and go in diminution of the fum to be funded for it. " Should the acquifition of Louifiana be conftits tionally confirmed, and carried into effeft, a fum of nearly thirteen millions of dollars will then be added to our public debt, molt of which is payable after fifteen years ' • before which term the prefent exiling debts will all be difcharged by the elablifhed opera tion of the finking funk. When we contemplate the ordinary annual augmentation of impoft, from in creating population and wealth ; the augmentation of the fame revenue, by its extenfion to the new ac quifition; and the economics which . may Rill be in troduced into our public expenditures,. I cannot hope that Congrefs. in reviewing their refources, will find means to meet the intermediate interelkof this additional debt, without recurring to new taxes, and applying to this objet only the ordinary pro nfants of our revenue. Its extraordinary increafe. in times of foreign war, will be the proper and Inf. ficient fund for any mature of fafety or precaution. which that Rate of things may render neceffary incur neutral potation. " Remittances for the infbslments of our foreign debt having been found predicable without lots, it has not been thought expedient to ufe the power given by s foggier ad of Congrefs, of continuing them by Moans. and of redeeming, infleaul thereof. equal rums of domeffie debt, although no difficulty was found in obtaining that accommodation. The funs of fifty thoufand dollars, appropriated by Congrefs for providing gun boats, remains unexpend ed. The favourable and peaceable turn of affairs on the Isliffiffippi rendered an immediate execution of that law utrneeeffary ; and time was defirable, in or der that the inflitution of that branch of our force might begin on models the moll approved by expe. rienee. The fame iffue of events difpenfed with a retort to the appropriation of a million and a half of dollars, contemplated for parpofes which were diet ed by happier means. " We have Peen with (incere concern tbellanses of war lighted up again in Europe, and nations, with which we have the molly friendly and ufeful relations, engaged in mutual defirudion. While we regret the miferies in which we fee others involved, let us bow with gratitude to that kind PILOVIDENCE, which, infpiring with wifdom and moderation our late legiaative councils, while placed under the ur gency of the . greatell wrongs, guarded us from hat aly entering into the fitnguinary conteft, and left us only to look on and to pity its ravages. There will be heavieß on thofe immediately engaged; yet the nations purfuing peace will not be exempt from all evil. In the cosmic of this conflia let it be our en. deavour, as it is our intereß and defile, to cultivate the friendfhip of the Belligerent Nations by every aft of jutlice, and of innocent kindnefs ; to receive their armed veffels with hofpitality. from the dip. tre&s of the fea, but to adminifter the means of an noyance to none; to efiablifh in our harbours fuch a police as may maintain law and order ; to retrain our citizens from embarking individually in a war in whir.ti their country takes no part, to puniih feverely thofe perfons, citizen or alien, who nfurp the cover of oar flag, for vellcls not entitled to it, infecting thereby with fufpieion thofe of real Americans, and committing us into eontrovetfies for the redrefs of wrongs not our own; to else from every nation the obfervance. towards our veffels and citizens, of thole principles and prallices which all civilized people acknowledge; to merit the cha rafter of a jult nation, and maintain that of an inde pendent one. preferring every cnnfequence to inftilt and habitual wrong. Congrefs will confider whether the exiling laws enable us efficacionfly to main tain this condi with our citizens in all places, and with others while within the limits of our jurifdic. tion, and will give them the new modifications met lazy for the& objeds. Some contraventions of right have already taken place, both within our juriffbc tional limits, and on the high leas. The friendly difpolition of the governments from whole agents they have proceeded, as well as their wifdom and regard fur jußice, leave us in redonable ezpeda. Lion, that they will be recited and prevented in fu ture I and that no aft will In countenanced by them which threatens ‘o diftorb our friendly intercourfe. Separated by a wffie ocean from the nations of Eu rope. and from the political intents which entangle them, together with prodndions and wants which render our commerce and frieusilltip ufcful to them, and theirs to us, it cannot be the interell of any to serail us, nor ours to dißarb them. We (tumid be molt unwire indeed, were we to call away the fin. Ruler Welling* of the polition in which Nature has placed us; the oppoitunity me has endowed us with of put fuing. at a diilance from foreign contentions. the paths of indnfiry, peace, and happmers, of r,encral frimulthip, and of bunging collifions of inte►eft to the impirage of reafon, rather ilisn of force. How defirable then mull it be. in a Govern ment like ours, to fee its citizens adopt individually the views, the interells, and the condo.% which thcirl country fhould purfue, diverting themfelves of thofel paifions and partialities which tend to leffen ufefel friendlhips, and to embarrafs and embroil us in the ealannitosts kyles of Europe. Confident, fellow ci tizens, that you will duly ellimate the importance of neutral difpolitions towards the obfervaassof neutral conduit; that you will be fenfible how much it is our duty to look on the bloody arena fpread before us, with commiferation indeed. but with no other with than to fee it clofed ; I am perfuaded you will cor dially cherifh thefe difpofition s in all difcullions among yourfelves, and in all communications with your cps. fiituents. And I anticipate, with fatisfallion, file meafures of wifdom, which the great interells now committed to you will give an opportunity of pro viding, and myfelf that of approving, and of carrying into execution, with the fidelity I owe to my country. October 17, 1803. THOS. 'EVERSON." NEW YoaK, OCT. zz.—The following Meffage was received from the Prefident of the United States: To Tits sgs,tTe 4NO /SOUSE or RRRRR SILMIATIVIS 01 Tit UNITED STATES. To my communication to you, of the t 7th initaut, informed you, that Conventions had bee n entered into with the C0ve...0-nion nion of France for the ceilion of LuulGana to the United States. Theft, with the advice and confent of the Senate, having now been ratified, and my ratification exchanged for that of the Flrft Cunful of France in due form, they arc communicated to you, for conilderation, in your legillative capacity. You will obferve, that tome important conditions cannot be carried into execution, but with the aid of the Legiflature, and that time preffes a decifion on them without delay. The ulterior proviliona, alto fuggefted in the fame communication, for the occupatioa and government of the country, will call fur eariy attention. Suck infarmatian rela tive to its government, as time and diftance have permitted me to obtain, will be ready to be hid before you within a few days. But as permanent arrangements for this &deft may require time and deliberation, it is for your eanikieration. Maher you will not forthwith make fuck temporary proeigans for the prefers's tion, in the man while, of order and trantriliity in the country, as the cafe may require. (Signed) TllO.l aaaaaa oa. o.9ober as 1 803. Mr. RAIIDOL II moved, that the faid Treaty and Convention be referred to a Committee of the whole Houle ; and in another motion, that provifion be made for carrying the fame into immediate exec's. then. which was agreed to, and made the order cf the day for Monday. PARLIAMENT4Rr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, DEC. S. 'Their LossMips met at a Nude after three, when the appeal from the Court of Salon at Scotland, in which Chriltle and Ray were Appellants, and Proudfoot Refpondent, came before them. Mars Adam and Grant MSC heard on the part of the Appel lants, and Mr. Routine for the Refpondent. The farther hearing of Quad was deferred until the ant day.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON& The Bill for dividing aad enclofing certain comntottable lands in the par& and moor of Falboek, is the county of Uncoils, was read a fecond time, an d ordered to be coononitted. _ _ _ _—.._ . . . Mr. Marsaiso inrought up the London Dori Bill, which eras read &MA time, and ordered for a fecund reading . . Mr. Coaar;in purfuance of a notice which &gm on Sitar day kit, moved for leave to bring In a BM of holentsiry for the Proclamation tithe Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, poshiltiting the Ezportatioa of Oats ; and that a dads fhanid be added. empower ing the Lord Lieutenant to prohibit, for a time to be hodted. the Databases of Spirits from Oats. The Right Hoo. Geodes= ob fervel, that when the motives which influenced his Excellency in (Siting this Proclamation were confident!, be did not doubt but that they would oseet with the approbation of the Houk. A great deficiency of the crops, added to a general failure of the potasoesk three out of four provinces, was the imperious motives which I often this endure. It was well known. that this its /peeks of food afforded an univerfal fuedniumont to the poor, who fubfifted on this nutritive vegetable; and It ..posed by the new tattoo of t►e average of the tab November lilt, that the price of was was fo high as to prohibit the exportoloo. Under thefe clr contained he hoped the Houfe would be fadsfied with Ms nut meat, and feel no palotay, as his Excellency had no other induce ment than a benevolent &fire of providing for the fulteninee of ■ large portion of people. Mr. FRANCIS perfedtly concurred in the meakre propofed by the Right Him Gentleman, and inveighed melon that pernkious liquor, Whikey, which hod been the fawn of inch great calami ties .eave granted, Mr. Coker °Maned, that in order to raids the kficitude which 'night be entertaloed by the Diftillers,a body amen whole buena was columned with the Rennet, be Mold make them the Cubical of a modem on a future day. COMMOTION WITH MIMIC • Mr. Secretary Yong& brought up a copy of the Convention between his Majedy and the King of Sweden. UST INDIA BOND BILL. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the fecond reading of this Bill, oa which Mr. Casco& made fome obiervations, endeavour. ing to thew its impralicability, in certain cafes; on which fubjett he had letters, confirming his own fen.' timents, from two CommiHioners. After a few words from Mr. Vanfittart, the Bill was read a fe cund time, and ordered to go into a Commium to morrow. 1411INAS CORPUS suS►RNSION. Mr. Secretary Yottis moved the Order of the Day, for the fecond reading of the Bill for the Sufpeulton of the Habeas Corpus in Ireland,—Carried. MARTIAL LIW IN IRELAVD. Mr. Secretary Yoaaa next moved the Order of the Day, for the fecond reading of the Irifh martial Law Bill. Mr. W. ELLIOTT rofe, for the purpofe of offering his opinion to the confederation of the Horde for a thort time, on this Rage of the Bill. His duty to the country. as a Member of Parliament, rendered it indifpenfilile in him to break filence on this important . fubjeet. Thofe who, like hitnfelf, had given their votes in favour of the Incorporating Legiflative Union with Ireland, mull feel that upon them a molt pecu liar, fulemo, and bounden duty, was impofed, to look with attention to the affairs of the Sifter Ifland. It behoved thole who had taken their (hare in extin guilhing the local Legiflature of Ireland, to take care that, as a fubilitute for it, this Parliament Ibould be fully adequate to all it had undertaken I fully equal in zeal, attention, and diligence with relpeft to Irifh interelts, with that local Legiflature now no more.— But before he could be induced to give his fupport to &eh an important mcafure as was now propufed, he mutt have more proper information upon the fob. jolt, and take into his confideratinn what is the attual state of Ireland. The Inquifitorial Power was the very foundation and effence of the Britifh Houk of Commons. Before we paired new laws, or fufpended the operation of thole that cuilt, we ought to know the grounds and reafons °flitch a proceeding. What in fan, did this BiU go to etre& ? Why to deprive a vaR number of our fellow.fubjees of the privileges they enjoyed. That bad bees frequeatly done be• • fore, he readily confeffed ; but net. aria a rrm clear and fpecitic catife being (fated. Ireland when fuch a triestfure was, in the Ertl refotted to, and he remembered the particul•tr cir cutntlances that then attended it. The Hon. Member then weld into a detail of the pra9ice in the hill: Parliament on the various orcafions when it was found ratectfary to resew the Aft. The Inftureftion Bill Rated, in its preamble, the grounds on which it was framed, and there are two Reports of Secret Committees of that Parliament. In tdoo, the Lord Lieutenant Rated. in his fpeech to the Irith Parliament. that there then emitted a great difpofi. don to rebellion. In aot. the Ad was renewed a fecond time. But how ? After a report from aS. cret Committee. The Speaker himfelf introduced that meafure, and Elated the reafon for adopting it. But at prefent, the Houle i. not favoured with a pat. title of information, by Minifters, on the fubjed of Ireland. All they can know is inertly to he taken from the reports of the difi..rent newfpapers. A mei - - rage come down to the Houle, mentioning the atro cious murder of Lord Kilwarden, but now p,i, ticulari were communicated which could tend to thew the Hoeft: clearly whatwas the condo& of Gov; ument in that tranfaetion. He thould not vote againtl the Tina fere, but he would not give it that kind of filent fupport which might lead pe• plc to fuppofe that Mi nifters were confidered as being perfedly free hots all imputation in that linfinefs. He wanted only information. That which might be called ur.fafe or dangerous to difclofe. might be withheld ; but furely there was no reafon to fay that none what. ever could be afforded. The Houle had a right to exped it. The confpiracy itfelf, which formed the ground-work of the Bill, had not been laid be.. fore Parliament in any regular (tape ; but when Minifters fpeak of it. it is always in - a vague and ttn. fatisfadory manner. Sometimes it is expanded into a mot alarming and dangerous infurredion : at others it is contraded into a contemptible riot. The Speech, at the commencement of the prefent Sawn, informs us, that the people are becoming convinced of their errors, and learning how to make fatisfadory and jolt comparifons between the advantages they poffefs, and the mifery of French fubjugation. Here the Hon. Member read fome paffages of a pamphlet (publi(hed lately in Dublin), containing a narration of the tranfaelions of the 23d of July,. and in which ,the whole affair is confidered as a contemptible riot. though tragical in its confequences. What, then, ho afited, was the inference he was to draw from this ;contemptible confpiracy ? Martial law ! When isfi• triflers had been told that the Irith Government was ,furprized, they exclaimed, " No ; by no means,"-. and yet they had but juft before been reprefentiog every thing in that country as in a Rate of perfeft • suet. Now, all that he folicited was, in one word. information. Snppofing that a plot of a fimilar na ture had been formed, not in Dublin, but here. ha this city, about a year or fo, after the nstated peace of Amiens; that there had been explofions of pow. der, that depots had been formed, that all the appa• rates of rebellion had been ptepued, that at length it foddenly broke forth, aid that the Lord Chid , Janice fel l one of its very firft ridims and that, uposi the prelTure of the orcafion, Parlia ment had area pawed an Ad fueh as this, without information, and that on the commencement of a new Seffi on, after hearing from the Throne that the danger is Co far over, that the minds of the people are much ;captor. ed, we were called upon to pafi a renewal of the, meafare without a tingle fpecies of information on any one point cosneaed with it; would Parliament (offer loch a proceeding as hearing on this country ? Would any Minitter dare to aft This, he might be told, was a tnifchievons fiateznent ; he thought other wife. If the ftatement of truths in Parliament, fuck as thefe, notorious troths, be censured. the charade, of our meafuses would be loft. The affairs of Ire land did not appear to excite that attention in the Honfe, which he thought they merited, and which it was proper topay to them, more efpeciallyconfidering that they had now no Parliament of their own. For the fake of that great tneafnre, the Union, itfeff s which he hoped to fee matured mud confolidated for Ireland, for England, for their own fakes, be begged and exhorted Members to paufe a little, and to alk for information before they gave their votes., Mr. Secretary Tom. —.44 Sir, The Hon. Member who has jolt fat down has made a variety of obferva tions : as to thole which particularly apply to the prefent fubjeft, I than make a few remarks. He hap made two attacks, one on his Majesty's Government in Ireland, and another un this fioufe, for inatten. lion to frith affairs. He has made life of many very Rrong terms undoubtedly, bat he has produced no fails to fubfiantiate his various allegations. What he means by the negligence of this Hoofe tell:teeing the interells of Ireland, I really do not know. Let him bring forward falls . • let him fpecify fomething ; bet till that is done, I mutt feel jultified in refitting charges which confift only of unfupported affertioes, by denying them. He tells its that thole who voted for tt.e Union are particularly bound to attend to lath affairs. Sir, they arc bonod, and every Mem ber is bound alto, and equally with them, to look with attention at frith affairs ; and I am confident that they have that difpofition, feel that duty, and will excrcife it. The Honourable Member then proceeded to his charge 'phut Adminiaration for, what he thinks, a want of information. Now. Sir. he tells us, that he will not negative the Bill. So far he is fatisfied with its necellity, that he will vote in its favour; and I think it is fufficivot %o elk Mina what kind of information, which he has not received, is need:try to gain his content ? Our information is this: We know that this rtobellinus (pink did break out in the capital of Ireland that it was accompa nied with cireonefiances of great atrocity ; that the Lord Chief lattice fell a victim. We know alto it is one great objeet of nor fnc, to make the utmoi ufe he can of Ireland. for our annoyance or de( tion. Knowing thefe two falls, and coons hug conficleration of them at the prelim momcn think the Houle had quite enough in their rag to joilify them in paling the Bill. I fay that Government of Ireland were not forptiled ; they took precautions. The garrifoo of the Ci Dublin eonfifted of four regiments of regular L try, and the t6th Regiment ref Dragoons, altogether a force of near aOOO men. But it wi in their power to prevent the infurritaion from hi ing out, to the fort of way in which it appear( There was nu place of importance in Dublin ia ger of falling into their hands. They fct out at the r , b that it limit u tliruc- it 'g the tl tot. 1 ni reireon fi at the a 1 fay el 'ity of di loran- a taking a rasa* it break- Si red.-- vs a das- ; b from a ~~ 1~