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tions of Royalty, He concluded by saying, he protested against doing the public business by unconstitutional modes, when they had it in their power to avoid it all, 'y instantly constituting a Regent by Address, which was agr. cable to the dictates of com mon sense, and the opinion of the nation. Mr. Du Nnas supported the proposals and conduct of the chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir ART u R PAcz - r supported the conduct of Lord Grenville as constitutional. Mr. 1' oax E contended that the proceedings in Parliament had sane toned alt that was now proposed. Messrs. Tierney, C. Wynne, Whitbread, and Homer, op posed the Resolutions. After some further remarks from the Chancellor of the Eat chequer, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Wilberforce, and Sir J. Newport, the qa,.:stion was put upon Amendments proposed by Mr. W. Wynne which were negatived without a division. The original question was then oarried, the House resumed, and the Report oi . the Committee was brought up, read, and agreed to.—After which, on the motion of the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Resolutions were ordered to be submitted to the Lords on Saturday. that the British system would be relinquished at *owl as the re pezel of the Freet.h decrees should have actually takto effect, and the comme; ce of motral nations have Leen restored to the condition in which it stood previously to the promulgation.of these decrees. This pledge, although it does not necessarily import, 4006 not exclude ,the intention of relinquishiny, alons . : with the or ders hi council, the practice of these novel biodcades which have a I;ke effect in interrupting our neutral commerce. And this further justice tithe United States is the rather to be looked for, inasmuch as the blockades in question being not more con trary to the established law of nations, that consistent with than rules of blockade formerly recognized by Great Britain herself, eoula have no alledged basis other than the plea of retaliation alledged as the basis of the. orders in council. Under the mo dification of the original orders of Nov. 1;.;07, into the orders of April 1809, there is indeed scarcely a nominal distinction between the orders and the blockades. One of these illegiti- mate blockades, bearing date in May 1806, having beenex pressly avowed to he still unrescinded, and to be in effect, com. preliended in the Orders In Council was too distinctly brought within the purview of the Act of Congress, not to be comprehended in the explanation of the requisites to a compli ance with it. The British Government was accordingly ap prised by our Minister near it, that such was the light in which the subject was to be regarded. In this new posture of our relations with these powers, the con sideration of Congress will lie properly turned to a removal of doubts which may occur in the eeposinon, and difficulties in the execution, of the Act above recited. The commerce of the United States, with the north of Eu rope, heretofore much vexed by liceniious cruisers, particularly under the Danish flag, has latterly been visited •al fresh and exteleive depredations. The measures pursued in behalf of our injured citizens, not having obtained justice for them, a further and more formal interposition w'.'t the Danish Government is contemplated. The principles which have been maintained by that Government in relation u) neutral commerce, and the friendly professions of his Danish Majesty towards the United States, are valuable pledges in favour of a successful issue. Among the events growing out of the state of the Spanish Monarchy,our attention was imperiously attracted to the change, developing itself in that portion of West Florida, which, though of right appertaining to the United States, had remained in the possession of Spain; awaiting the result of negociation for its actual delivery to them. The Spaniili authority was subverted; and a situation produced, exposing the country to ulterior events, which might essentially affect the rights and welfare of the Union. In such a conjecture, I did not delay the interpo sition required for the occupancy of territory west of the river Perdito; on which the laws provided for the teritory of Orleans, are applicable. With this view the proclamation, of which a copy is laid before you, was confided to the governor of that territory, to be carried let° effect. The legality and necessity of the course pursued, assure me of the favourable light in whic<t it will present itself to the legislature; and of the promp titude with which they will supply whatever provisions may be due to the essential rights and equitable interests of the people thus brought into the bosom of American family. Our amity with the powers of Barbary, wi,h the exception of a recent occurrence at Tunis, of which an explenation is just received, appears to have been uninterrupted, and to have be come more firmly established. With the Indian tribes, also, the peace and friendship of the United States are found to be so eligible, that the general dispo si•ion to preserve both continues to gain strength. 1 feel particular satisfaction in remarking that an interior view of our country presents us with grateful proofs of its sub stantial and increasing prosperity. To a thriving agriculture:, and the improvements related to it, is added a highly lute restin7, extension of useful manufactures ; the combined p roduct of professional' occupations, and of household industry. Such, indeed, is the experience of economy , as well as of policy. In these substitutes for supplies heretofore obtained by foreign com merce, that, in a national view, the change is . justly regarded as of itself more than a recompence for those privations and losses resulting from foreign injustice, which furnished tbe 4encral im pulse required fur its accomplishment. How br / it may be expedient to guard the infancy of this improvetrient in the tribution of labour, by the regulations of the commercial tariff, is a subject which cannot fail to suggest itself to your patriotic reflections. [ The Message then of Congress the folio\ navigation, so as to place .on a velsas, vartlcularly mu transpur rican proper attention to the militia—and the suppression} carried op under the THE NATIONAL REGISTER proceetto recommend to the attention wing pq nts:—The encouraging of their ace it on alevel of competition with foreign transporting the procitietions of the Arne- shment of a natio* seminary for learning to the army and navy—disciplining of the oression of the traffic in enslaved Africans, .4bute of the American nag. It concludes MALT DUTY. Mr.Wrl.Linss SMITH called the attention of the House to a report which had gone forth through the medium of the public papers, stating, that his Majesty's Ministers had entered into an agreement with the Malt Distillers, to suspend the Malt Duty Act for the ensuing six months, and representing that this complaint would be attended with the worst effects, as it went to promote speculation. He felt it his duty to bet the public right on this subject, and to state that so far was the measure, which had been adverted to, from creating a spirit of ?peculation, that it had a contrary ttnde►;cy, and put an end to that speculation which had already proved so injurious to trade. Adjourned at half past eleven. SATURDAY, JAN. 5. The House, by Deputation, forwarded the Resolutions re verting the Is.;ue of Public Money, to the Lords. The Commons then received from the Lords certain ;mended Resolutions, desiring their copcurrence.—Adjourned to Monday. _ _ AMERICA. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. WASUINGTON, DEC s.—The President of the United States this day communicated by Mr. Ed. Coles, his Private Secretary, the following Message to Congress: Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, The embarrassments which have prevailed in our foreign re latioas, so much employed the deliberations of Congress, make it a primary duty, in meeting you, to cominueicate whatever may have occurred, in that branch of our national affairs. The Act of the last Session of Congress " concerning the Commercial Intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies," having invited in a new form, a termination of their Edicts against our neutral commerce, copies of the Acts were immediately forwarded to our Ministers at London and Paris, with a view that its object might be within the early attention of the French . and British Governments. By the communication received through our Miaister at Paris, it appeared that a knowledge of the Act by the French Government was followed by a declaration that the Berlin and Milan Decrees were revoked, arid would cease to have effect on the first day of November ensuing. These being the ouly known Edicts of France, within the description of the Act, and the revocation of them tieing such that they ceased, at that date, to violate our neutral commerce ; the fact. as prescribed by law, was announced by a proclamation bearing date the 2d day of November. It would have well accorded with the conciliatory views, in dicated by this proceeding on the part of France, to have ex tended them to all the grounds of just complaint, which now re main unadjusted with the United States. It e was particularly anticipated that, as a further evidence of just disposition to wards them, restoration would have been immediately Wade of the property of our citizens seized under a misapplication' of the - principle, of reprisals, combined with a misconstruction of the lalw 4t . the United States. This expectation has not been fulfilled.,'' From • the • British Government • no, communication on the subject Of the Act 'has :been received. To a communication from. our Minister at Loudon of the revocation, by the French PoVerntraett *the 13...r1in . and Milan* decrees , Ira& answered, . - • •••