The National Register. — London, England, 1822-01-06 00:00:00

-- 11, AMERICAN PAPERS. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. WASHINGTON CITY, Dec. 5. At twelve o ' clock this day, the President of the United States transmitted to both Houses of Con gress, by Mr. S. L. Gouverneur, the following mes raige :- " RI/ow Citizens of the Senate, and of the house of Reptesentalines,—T lie proArcss of our allairs since Ilse Lst session has been such as may justly be claimed and expected, under a government deriving all its powers Irons an enlightened people, and under laws trained by their It presentatives, on great coissicleroion, bur the sole purpose of piontoting the welfare awl hap pities* of their constituents. In the exectitiou of those laws, and of the powers vested by the constitution in the executive, miremitted attention has been paid to the great objects to which they extend. In the concerns which are exclusively internal, there is good cause to he satisfied with the result. The laws have tireir due ope ration and effect. lis those telating to foreign Powers, 1 am happy to state that peace and amity are preserved with all, with a strict observance on both sides of the rights. n matters touching our commercial intercourse, where a difference of mitoion has existed its :thy case, as to the cviiditions on which it should be placed, each party has pursued its own policy, without giving just cause of acme to the other. In this annual continuo'. cation, especially when it is addressed to a new Con gress, the whole scope of our political concerns mama lly comes into view; that errors, if such have beets coin nutted, way be corrected ; that detects, wine.' have be- Collie ntalutest, may he reinedird ; and out the oilier hand, that measures whicis were adopted on due deliberation, which experience bias siIOWII 119 are just its themselves, and casesstial to the public welfare, blond , ' be preserved in and supported. lo present ing this necessary and very important duty, I shall endeavour to place before you, on its merits, every subject that is thought to he entitled to your particular attention in is distinct and clear a light as I may be able. " By act of the 3.1 of .Nlarch, 1815, so snitch of the several acts as imposed higher duties on the tonnage of of foreigis vessels, and on the manufactures and produc tions of foreign nations, wh, u imported into the United States in foreign vessels, than when imported in vessels of the United States were repealed, so far as iespected the manufacturer and productions oh the tenons to whicis such vessel belonged, on the condition that the repeal should take effect uuly its favour of any foreign nation, when the Executive should be satisfied that such iliscrisninaiiiig duties, to the disadvantage of the United Stales, had likewise been repealed by such nation. By this act, a proposition was made to all natimis to place our coils 'twice with each on a basis, which it was plestinied, would be acceptable to all. Etery nation was allowed to bring its manufactures and productions Soto our ports, and take the manufactures :soil productions ul me United States back ho their ports, its their own vessels, on the same condition that they might be transported in vessels of the United States; alit, in return, it was required that a like accommodation should be granted to the vessels of the United States in the ports Of oilier Powers. The articles to be admitted or prohibited cni either side formed no part of the proposed arrana,einent. Each party would retain the right to admit or prohibit such articles from the other as it thought proper, and on its own conditions. • In placing thus the navigation perfectly on the same ground in the transportation of imports and exports between the United States and other countries, it was presumed that all was offered that could be desired.— Alany considerations of great weight gave us a right to expect that this commerce should be extended to the colonies as well as to the European dominions of other powers. With the latter, especially with toe countries exclusively manufacturing, tile advantages was uuui festly on the other side. When no article is admitted which is required to supply the wants of thc party ad mitting it, and admitted then, not in favour of any par ticular country to the disadvantage of others, but on conditions equally applicable to all, it seems just that the articles thus admitted should be carried ioniser in the vessels of the country ationlinj, such supply, and that the reciprocity should be found in a corresjxnuliog accommodation on the other side. " Such was the intent of our system as established by the Act of 1815. In the year in which this act was passed, a treaty was coticluded with Great Britain, in direct confortimy with its principles in regard to tier Etiropeati dominions. T. her colonies, however, in use %Vest ladies; and on MIS continent, it was not ex tended, the British Got - eminent claiming the exclusive supply of those colonies, amid from our port,; and of tue peidoetions of the colonies in return, in lor own vessels. To this claim the United States could not as. fem. The ,ante COIIIIIIIOII9 W 1.11: offered to France, but wa accepted. Her goverisment detssailill: I COIIIIIIIOII9 imire favourable to tier Isdsl,2lllllll, and to this it was ill. roper to accede. It is 11111Cil to be regretted. 11111 itilllUtl:411 a isegociation has been lung penning, such is lite eiversity rat views entertai:ied, that mere does nut appear to be any ft:30011.1111t prospect of its early conchs. Won. it IS my duly to state, that very serious dilferrucea have occurred in this isegociation respecting the con struction of tile eight article of the treaty of 18113, whereby L 0111,141111 was ceded to l'ac United States; alto haetvise respecting the St IZllte 01 the Apollo, in 18'iO, till a siol ullt 111 Uinta revenue laws. By we rig article ni the treaty reit . ll,l to, IL is SlynlinCtl, that after the • vx;aratani of itveky years, the ships of Fiance should for ever alter b^ prayed tin the footing of ttie most ta vonred nation. By we mit iinis coneltision it was in waded t no favour snook! me granted to any power It) iIIIICII I : rauce 1101 ac BA, 11 mitts sminti,l be so cinis.roed as mat Fiatice should enjoy of flew, and witimat p Tie.; ine ego:tau:tit, all use ad t..tirtages of Doc!) as might lie allowed to other powers, in actual fur co:icvssions made u) went, site WOLI!d nil THE NATIONAL REGISTER S be placed on the footing of the most favoured nation, but on one held by no other nation. " As little cause has the government of France to plain of the seizure of the apolla, and the removal of other vessels front the waters of St. Mary's. It will not be denied that every nation has a right to regulate its commercial system as it thinks fit. The violation of its revenue laws is an offence which all nations punish; and in this case every thing which occurred indicated a fixed purpose to violate our revenue laws. Llail the party intended a fair commerce, he would hate entered our ports and paid the duties. But his conduct was dif ferent ; he entered the river St. Mary's, the boundary between the United States and Florida, and took his volition on the Spanish side, no which there was no town, no port, and scarcely ally settlement. His pur pose, therefore, was not to sell his goods to the inha bitants of Florida, but to the United States, in exeliange for their productions, which could nut be done without a breach of our laws. " The principles of the system of reciprocity, founded on the law of the 31 of March, 1515, have been since carried into effect with the Net herlauds ' Sweden, Prus sia, I lanaturgh, Bremen, Lubeck, and Oldenburg, with a provision made by subsequent laws for the Nether lands, Russia, Ilaniburgh, and Bremen. Toe govern. went of Norway has opened the ports of that kingdom to the vessels of the United States, upon the pad went of the duties that are paid by their vessels to us. " 'foe question concerning the first Article of the Treaty of Ghent has been, by a joint act of the Repre sentatives of the United States and Great Briiain, at the Court of St. Petersburgh, sulanitted to his Majesty the Emperor of Russia's decision : the result has not been received. The Commissioners under the Grit article of that treaty not having been able to agree upou their de cision, their reports to the two goeeruments, conthrm ably to the provisions of the treaty. may be expected at an early day. With Spain the treaty 0! 1809 has been partly carried into execution, although, from a contra vention of the orders of their Sovereign, the Governor. of the Floridas have omitted to deliver up the archives and documents relating to the property of those pre. settees. Tins omission has given rise to several accidents of a painful nature, the which will be hereafter dis closed. " It has been seen, with much concern, that in the performance of the duty of receiving the provinces, agreeably to treaty, a collision arose between the Go vernor and the Juke appointed for the northern district. This subject, titer, fore, is reemnmentled to the early con sideration of Congress. A Board has been appointed to make provision for the payment of such of our citizens as have well-founded claims on Spain. The Cot ttttt is stoners and Surveyors, appointed by Spain, have not yet arrived in the United States, but are scent expected.— The diplomatic intercourse between the United States and the Portuguese Govt.:moment, interrupted by tile re volution which has transferred the seat of Government to Lisbon, has stopped the intercourse between us ; the renewal of that intercourse is advisable at an early day. It is understood that iSonth America has had great suc cess during the year in her struggle for independence. — To promote a happy 'milt, by lriendly concert with the government of Spent, will be our object. To conduct our operations et: h ive raised a loan of five millions of dollars. There has been all actual increase of the pub licitlebt contracted during the year, of one million five hundred and thirty-eight thousa nd two hundred and sixty-six dollars, sixty-nine cents. " A loan of 5 millions of dollars has been negociated, under the sanction of an Act of Congress, to pay off a part of the public debt at the rate of 5 dollars 59-100111 per cent. The total receipts of the Revenue from the st January to the 30th September exceeds the demands by 1,7('2,370 dollars, and on the remainder of the year it is probable there will be a still greater increase of re ceipt. " Under the influence of the most unfavourable cir cumstances, the Revenue for the next and subsequent years, to 1625, will exceed the demand at present au thorised by law. Had the deficiency been such as to subject its to the necessity, either to abandon tneasuies of defence, or resort to outer means for funds, the Com se presented appeared to be a plain one.—lt nmet be gr.,. tiiying to all to know that this necessity does not extst. It is believed that a moderate additional duty on certain articles would have a good effect. " A considerable increase of domestic manefectures, by diminishing the importations of tereign, will probably tend to lessen the amount of the public revenue. " It cannot be doubted that the more complete our internal resources, and the less dependent we ere on fo reign powers for every national as well as domestic pur pose, the greater and more stable will be the public felicity, by tile increase of domestic manulacture. "The examination of the whole coast newly acquired will be completed in the present year. " Due progress has been made in the construction of vessels of war, according to the law providing for the gradual augmentasion of the navy, and to the eetent of existing appropriations. Tne vessels authorised by the act of 1820 have all been completed, and ate now in actual service. None of the larger ships have been, or will be, launched fur the present, the object being to motect all which may not be required for immediate service from decay, by suitable buildings built over them. A squadron has been maintained, as heretofote, in the Mediterranean, by means whereof peace has been pn served with the Barbary Powers. This equation' hes ceen reduced the resew year to as smell a force as is compatible with the fulfilment of the object intended by it. From past experience, and the best information res pecting the views of those Powers, it is distinctly and. r. stood, that, should our squadron be withdrawn, they would won recommence their hu.ul ties and depredations upon our commerce. Their fortifications I aye 'ately toeen relatuit, and their oteritime force increased. It his also been necessary to maintain a naval force in the Pa cific, for the protection id the very important interests of our eeizens engaged in commerce and the fisheries in tat sea. Vessels have likewise been employed ill cruis ing along the Atlantic coast, in the Golf of Mexico, on the coast of Africa, and in the neighbouring seas. the latter many piracies have been committed on aur comm.:me, and so extensive was becoming the range of those unprincipled adventurers, that there was cause apprehend, without a timely and decisive t ffort to ,up press them, the worst consequences would ensue. For tunately, a cotusiderable check has been given to that spirit by our croizers, who Lave succeeded in capturing and destroying several of their vessels. Nevertheiess, it considered an object of high importance to continue these cruisers until the practice is entirely suppressed. Like success has attended our efforts to sunless the slave trade. Under the flag of the United State, and the sanc tion of their papers, the trade may be considered as entirely suppressed ; and if any of our citizens are engaged in it under the flags and papers of other Powers, it is only from a respect to the rights of those Powers that these offenders are not seized and brought home, to te em" the pottlishotetat which the laws inflict. 11 every other Power should adopt the 111111 C policy, and pur-aie the same vigorous means fur carrying a into effect, we trade could no longer exist. " Drenly impressed with the blessings which we en. jay, and of which we have Each manifold proo:S, my mind is irresistibly drawn to that Almighty ttie great source front whence they proceed, and to whom our most eraiefnl acknowledgments are due. •• 11 it.hiq,4tort, Dec. 3. " JAS. MUNROE." Extract of a letter from Paris:—" The following anecdotes, relating to two or three of the Ministers, are current here. Whether they arc true, or weak inventions of the enemy,' I cannot pretend to pro nounce; 1 give them as ott-dits only :—M. de Villele felt particularly anxious that one of the City's. de Bureau, whom he found, on entering into (act:, placed in a kind of sinecure by the former Minister:., should be recalled into active service. The latter had no objection, on the sole condition that a pet - manent provision should be made for him in case of a change,'—meaning, of course, a change of Mi nistry. M. de Villele took the words in a diErent sense, and assured him, ' Monsieur, I will never dismiss you ; you shall always remain in my Mi nistry'—as if he had obtained a perpetual diplome of office. M. de Corbiere gave great offence to thd chief officers of the National Guard, who wa;tca upon him on his appointment to the Ministry of the Interior. The Duke de Choiseul, Major-General of this force, was at their head. M. de Corbiert., allowing his political partialities, or his sense of official importance, to outweigh his regard for the usual forms of society, looked about among them fpi if he had missed some one, and asked, in an affected manner, 'ls not M. Sosthene La Rochefacault here? It is lie I wished to see.' The Duke de Choiseu., and other officers present, immediately sent in their resignations, as you will see by the public prints. The Minister of Marine is said to tor. sea a short tenure of office. When his private secretary asked him what apartments he was to occupy in the resi dence of the Minister of Marine, he replied, ' Stay where you are; I shall probably soon rejoin you.' " Extract of a letter, dated Chittkdroog (East Indies), July 25, 1821 :—On the morning of the 16th inst. some aficers of the 2d battalion 14th Native Infantry, stationed at Chittledroog, Frt.- cecded on an intended party of pleasure, to the hills on which the figt is partly situated, meaning to spend the day there. Breakfast wa• prepared mid. a tent pitched for that purpose. Having eaten tip meal (the last, poor fellows, which two of them were destined to eat in this world), they all set out to gether on a ramble among the rocks. They soon separated, however, and two of them, Captain Nei. thropp and Ensign Powell, with their serrams, shortly afterwards returned towards the tent. Their path lay by a magazine which had been recently emptied of soma damaged powder. Near this wr< a cavern, into which the lascars, from idleness, I so i • pose, and thinking, perhaps, that no harm was likely to arise from it, had thrown part of the powt:ei, instead of depositing the whole in a well, situated a little farther off; and appropriated solely to that pu , - puse. The latter officer said to have been smoking a segar at the time, and, on passing the cave, to gave thrown the lighted remains into it, little dreaming, poor fellow, of the dreadful consequent • that ensued. The whole exploded; and these too unfortunate officers, with one of their servants, were in an instant hurled into eternity; and a native boy so shockingly mangled, that he followed them in a fix/ hours. Prorogation of Parlianicnt.—The Parliament re assembled on Thursday. At three o'clock the Lord Chancellor, attended by Lords Cholmondeley and Melville, the three Commissioners entered the Hous.; of Lords. The Yeoman Usher (Mr. Quarme) sum moned the Commons. Mr. W. Ley (in the absen , k! of Mr. Rickman, mho is out of town), and other officers of the Commons, appeared below the ha , -. The Lord Chancellor said, that they, as Comm:c sioners, were authorised to declare the Parliament, by proclamation, to stand further prorogued till Tuesday the sth of February, and then to meet " for the dispatch of business."