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, . ".RICA. ..ENT'S MESSAGE. V.ASOINGTON, NOV. e, 1801.• . "Thls da ~ at twelve o'clock. the Pa csiDENT of the United Stew. by Mr. Burwell, his Secrtuiry, de liveted• the following Mess.s,;e to botn Houses of Citngroott TO Tilt SENATE AN') HOUSE OT RETRESVNT•TIVLS OF THE. UsITIED STATES. Tea peepio, m, who 'inure) , ettiire the happi ness and prosperley of other n Lucius, to tlioat who ju.tly ealcu- late, that their ewn weL-being w adsanc•d by that of the ns. tiona with which they have intercourse, it will be a satisfaction to °Were-, that the war, which W 4.1 lighted up in Europe, little before our !art meeting, has not yet extended its flames to other nations, nor been marked by tic calamities whi, h some times stain the footstep= of war. The uragulartties. ti:o, on the Aces'', which generals , harms. the commerce of newts! na tio have, , n diitaftt parts, disturbed outs less than nn former n..c %lions. But, in the Ameriean seas, they have liefli hem peculiar causes; and even abouis to I luris infrunta.n on th nt the laws hay been committed, - whi.7.l have called far seriods attention. Toe. ken.* conduct of the Governments, from whose Officers and eabteeis those acts Nave pro.-...t,-(1, in other r•srects, and in Owns more ender their olaservn, , , , i and controJl. •Af CO , 1• ilidence that o u rentecmt.iti ,its on this subject wili have been properly regraded. \Philo noticing th e ittegulariti., elmmitted on the ocean Others, those on our own part thou'd not be omitted, flu left uoprovided !be Conip'.atnts have beca neeived, that orwsons, teiiding within the Un'ted Ctatev, hive talcro on themselves to yin merchant vessels, and to force a commerce into certain parts and coirttries, in , Isßance to the laws of those euuntr4s. That indvn In.'s should undertake to wage private tar, nide- pendently of the authority of their country, cannot he per nutted in a well ordered society. Iv tendency to produce eg. reennn en the laws and rights of other nations, and to endan ger the peace of our own, is so obvious, that 1 dousit not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future. Soon arter th • pass use of the act of the last session, autho rising the establishment of a A.stnet and port of entry on the waters •if the Mub le, wr learned that its r)sj.:t was rni.under• striod on the part of Spain. Card d explanation, were intme. &stet, given, and asmrances that, reserving our claims in that quart ran a sa'aiert of ilianilsion and arrangement with Spain, no act wa: meditated in the mean time incori•irte.it With the Peace and friendship existing between the two nations : and that conforma'aly to these intention, would be the exeriitien of the law. That government had however thought proper to suspend the ratiAeation of the convention of 11102. Bat the eiplanatious which would reach them soon alter, and still more the conAnnatiooof then by the tem.., agile in,tritrainit establtshing the port and district, mar reasnlaYy be expected Ws replace then in the dispoMions and views of the whole sub. jest which originally dniated the con,ention. 1 have the satisfaction to inform y.au that the objections which had been turd by that govenunent against the validity of our title to the country of Louisiana have been withdrawn . te exact limits however remaining still to be sent d between us. Add to this is to be added, that having prepared and de Beefed the stock crested in execution of the croisemi, of Paris of April 90th, 1801, in consideration of the Cel.loll of that eMmtrv, we have received from the Government of Trains art ackmawledgment in due Cain of the fulfilment of that stipulatvm. With the nations of Europe in general our friendship and int , reourse are undisturbed; and from the Goverinn ,t the Belligerent !opera especially, we continue to receive than frseulty manifestations which are ita , tly due t • an honest rimm trality, and to such good olfi:•es cunsistent with tsar, as w haw/ opportunities of rendering. The activity and success of the small fer.e employed in the Meddling/mean in the early part of the present yelf, the rein iereements sent into that sea, , i nt the 'wry of the nfry...., Ite•mg roternand itv the Kemal tell!, I vw.t, by the sulTvn•les el wee, retitle. the Barbartans of Tripoli to t h e rk pre of peace on proper term:. Great kojury, however, anams to ourselves ag well a. to others inter , Acd, (corn the .11,tanc. to which ono-, must be brought for adjudiettion, and fros. the imprsetscabdity oc brlnvng hither such as are nst s:a worthy. The Bee of Tunis having me le requisitions unauthorised by ' ear treaty, their reje-nn„ has produced from Wm some ex pressions of iitsroittent. Rilt to these who expect its to cal eulate whether a compliance with mitten 00.11a11411 will nut cyst its G s than a war, we most lease ris a torsion. of calculation for t •,crii also, whether to retire from onkel demands will n o t t tacos* them less than a war. We can do to each other very sen bible ih e uries by war. But the mataal atestitages of pv-ace make that the best interest of both. Peace and riteic ',use with Pte other power.% no the same coat 0•0641/11 on the footing oo which EA" are established 017 VOW ' In plawnente of the act providing he the temporary Govern• •iit of Louisiana, the necessity officers for the teriitorr of (idiotic were appointed in due time to com,ence the arrri, , • o their ftroctlo.ii on the lit day of Oetrilscr. The distance however of some of them, and Vac inili:pen.aWie pr. %MA. i•ogements, may have muerte I its commencement in s .113, of its par% The form Griveinntent thus pros olcil beeo coilsiti:riid but as temporary, and open to such future im provements as further tufo, m atom of the circumstances of our Bretheen ever* might soggest, it will of curiae he subject to your consideration. In the district of Louisiana it has been thought hest to adopt the division int* subsrdiaate districts which had been establish e.l under iu fo,aner G reemmeut. Tiara *acute fuse hi number, a cnonnan4ini .1S:1r has been appointed to each, aceordiug to the provisivn of the law, and, vo soon as they can be at their stations, the! ail. iet will also be in tri due state of organisation. In the mecn time their places we supplied by officers helot erimmlnling there, aryl the funet.-... , of the Governor and Judges of Indiana having co.Oinenced, the Government, we presume, is pr•N Ain( in its new form. The lead mines in that vhstriet Wier so rich a supp!y of that metal as to merit at tention. The report now eummunicated will inform you of foe the purpose reestablishing a geed understanding and neigh boutly relations between us. So far as we. have yet learned, we have reaso t t believe that their dispoetioes are generally favourable and frie •41y. /old, with these tspoaitions on their part, we have in our own hail& means which cannot fail us, for preserving their peace and friendship. By pursu ing an uuderai course of l.ntice towards them, by aiding them in all the impmvements which may better their condition, and especially by establishing a commerce on terms witch ah be advantageous to them and only not losing to t ie and , e cc ,gulatod as that nu incendiaries, of our own, or any other nation, mat be permitted to rikturb the natiir.ii effect of nue just and friendly ofSees, we many render ourselves so neeesaary to their coinf at and prosperity, that the protection of fur citizens from their disorderly member, will become their interest and their voluntary care. Instead, therefore, of an ang nienatinn of military force proportioned to our extention of tronti.-r, I propose a moderate enlargement of the capital em ployed in that commerce as a more effectual, economical, and humane instrument for preserving peace and good neighbour heed with them. On this side the Misnitsippi, an important relinquishment of naive title e.ll been received from the Deiawares. That nil, e desiring to extinguish in their people the spirit of hunting, and to convert superfluous lands into the names of improving what they retain, hasceded taus all the country between the W.ibisli arid Ohio, South of, an I induct:lig the road from the Rapids tower la Vincennes, (or which they are to receive annuities in ~ n ;.nals arid implements for agriculture, and Mother necessaries. Tors acclaiming' is important, nut only fir its extent and fertil:ty, but as fronting three hundred miles on the Ohio, and near half the on the Wabash, the produce of the settled country descendmg those Rivers will no longer pass in review of the Indian frontier, but in small portion ; and, with the ces sion beret:item made by the Kaskaakins, nearly consolidates our posseasions North of the Ohio, in a very respectable breadth from Lake Ern- to the Mississippi. The Platikeshaws having some claim to the country ceded by the Delawares, it has been thought nest to go- t them by fair purchase also. So soon as the treaties on this subject shall hare received their constutu.. tMnal sanctions, they shall be laid before both homes. Tae act of Con h iese of February 26, IRO), for building and einploi ins a number of gun-boat., is now in a course of exe cution to the extent there provided for. The obstacle to naval enterprise, which vessels of this construction offer for our sea port towns ; their utility towards supporting within our waters the serhority of the laws ; the promptness with which they will he manned by the seamen and militia of the place in the moment they ate wanting; the facility of their assembling from diffi•rent parts of the coast te any paint where they are required in greater fluter than ordinary ; the economy of their maintee stance a id preservation from decay when not in actual wivice; run the connive:nee of our finances to this defensive provision, without auy new burthen, a , c considerations which will have doe weight with Illongresi in deciding on the expediency of adding to their number frorn year to year, as experience than test their utility, until all our important harbours, In these and auxiliary means, shall be secured against insult amid op position to the laws. No circumstance has arisen sine your last session which sans for any augmentation of our regular military far.•p. Should .iny improvement occur in the militia system that will be al ways seasonable. Accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the last year, with estimates for the eusuing one, e ill, as usual, be laid before The .tine of our finances continues to fulfil our expecta tions Eleven millions and an half of dollars, received in the course of th- year ending on the :30th ei September last, hove etiabred u. , atter melting all the ordinary expeilees 01 the year, to pay upwards of three six hundred thou• NIA dollars of the publre de,t, excluove of interest. This. payment, with those of the two pureed.' years, has calm guiihed upwards of 12 millions of principal, and a greater sum of interest within that perir.d, and by a proportionate diminu tie!, of interest raiders already sensihl: the effect of the growing sum yearly applieable to the discharge of principal. It is also ascertained that the revenue accrued Bering the last ♦ear exceeds that of the tiseceding ; and the probable receipt. o f the ensuing year may sahly be relied on as .ufficient, with the vim already in the treason, to meet all the present de mands of the year, to discharg► upwards of three millions and an half of the engagementa incurred under the ftrit.sh and Flinach conventions, and to advsnce in the further rodeinp troll of the funded debt as rapidly a. had barn contemplated. These, Fellow Citizens, are the principal matters which I have thought it necessary at this time to communicate or your cons. leration and attention. Soiree others will be laid be fore you its the course of tie semion. Rut, iu the discharge of thc great duties core Bed t.i von by our roorrt:.:, you will take a broad •r view of the hail.' of lilts:anon. Wnether the great interests of aviculture, nirsufactures, commerce, or flAVi ;anon, can, within the pale of your constitutional powers, be aided in any albeit . relations'. Whether laik are provided .11 all eases where they are wanting' tVhether Picot pmvAcd are exactly what they should be' Whether any shales take place in their administration, or in that attire public revenues! Whether the organisation of the pu , ,lic agents Of of the patdic force i• perfeet in all its parts! In fine, whether any thing can he done to advance the general good '—are questions within the limits of your functions. which will neet , sarily occupy riiir attention. In thic.a &tidal! other matters, which you to your wi.do.n may propose for the good of our country, ).d: a tont with assurance en my hearty cu-operation and f :obra *lineation. TII JEFFF.I:soN. rtittaDrLPatA, NOV. Estr2 R of a letter from New York, dated " The French frigates. Atha and Sylitile. went through Hell-gate on Friday afternoon a quar:et past three o'clock, and are now probably at sea. The English ships within Sandy Hook could not get under way on account of head wind and tide. The Frenchmen had most favourable winds to cited their escape." NV, YORK, NOV. 8. The pilot boat. Fairplay, which attended the French frigates through the Sound, returned yes terday. By her we learn. that they met with no ac cident that caused them any trouble nr detention on their way to the ocean. While parsing opposite the a little way above Hell Roe, they slightly the bottom, but did not on this account way. About S o'clock on Saturday morn hove to for a short time, in order v. have LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12. We have received New York Papers to the 16th last. Their contents are more than usually inte. resting. On the Sth, the Congress of the United States met at Washington, and on the Bth a Mes sage was transmitted to it by the PRESIDENT. In this message, which we have given at full length, he touches upon the complaints of the merchants of New York against the stri'tness exercised by the English frigates in that harbour, and the remon strances of France against the conduft of some of the Ant/oilcan merchants, in trading with the Blacks in St. Domingo ; but in a manner so lightly, as chews that no serious consequences were to be apprehended from either cause. The dispute between Spain and America, relative to Louisa-ma, appears to have been settled. The message attributes it to a misun derstanding on the part of Spain, and expresses a confident hope, that the explanations given have re moved all doubt and difficulty. Mr. Suet: took his seat as President of the Se nate. These Papers also mention the escape of the two French frigates, La Sae& and Lu Didon, from Nese York, whore they had been so long blockaded by the Cam!riaa and the Leander. The English frigates were at the time laying at Sandy !oaks from whence they sailed in pursuit of the French men, as soon as they were apprised of their escape. A report prevailed that Jr :tom E BONARARTE WAS on board La Spit& ; but it does not appear intitled to any credit, as a New York Paper of the 13th asserts, that he and Madame ISom APAR r E were on the 2d, the day when the frigates sailed, at their de. gant seat near Baltirnote. Another experiment has been tried against the enemy—On Saturday last Lieutenant S rcw Aia r , a vet y skilful and :Wive officer, was dispatched with an explosion vessel to destroy some of the works which had lately been eretied at Calais to annoy our cruisers when close in shore. He carried the vessel in in the middle of the night, placed her bow sprit right in between the piles of Fort Ronn, or the Crown Battery, and made her fast with two grap lines ; the enemy were taketaby surprise. At half put three in the morning the vessel blew up, knock ed down the west end of the fort, and the platform giving way, the guns were precipitated down be tween the piles. Lieutenant SI-mast and his brave comrades, .1 1, 7 r they had set fire to the vessel, re turned on board the Monarch, without receivirg the least injury. At Deal it was said that the pier -heal had been greatly damaged. The full particulars of the experiment have not yet transpired. After a very boisterous passage M seventeen days, His Mort Chrictian Majesty Louis XVIII. king of France and N,varre, arrived at Riga. Upon his arrival thore, a tisansberlain from the Emperor of How:, Connt De Sot Tutor?, presented hirn a let ter from ALL:A C the FIRST, which induced His MAJKSTY not to proceed further Lpon his journey. Hi, Royal 1 lighness the.Dnlce of AncouLt sin went, however, to Warsaw to join his Duchess, the ami able daughter of the unfortunate Louis XVI. Yesterday, the RUSSIAN ANIAZiAI)(iII fromages! Inisiness at Lord Hiss now Di% Office, from two, till half-past three o'clock. Yesterday morning, the LORD CoANCkLLOR •i -sited Mr. PITT. SeverAl eAptares have been made in the Mcdi. terranean, by the ships under Lord NFLION'S corn. mind. ME EMMETT. Wht) WAS one of the Irish Diredtory, has arrived at New York from Bourdcaux. Government, it is said, have re,eived intelligence by the l.isbnrs Mail, which an yr,' yesterday, that as Mr. 1. it ARE w.ay o❑ the point of setting out from Madtii, he was requested ►y the Spanish Govern ment to defer his departure fora few days; a request which be thought it his duty to comply with. their state. and of the necessity of immediate inquiry into marsh. then Olletlollll4ll An 1 1.1 grazed I With Ilia I .than otiblished within our newly ae- use ttity Nand Waits, i bat.; ices.. .1 wormer, to exit Poisfiseacts ing they sufficient light while passing a shoal named the Races. This day proved foggy and calm, so that they did not make great progress, wind S. %V. Between six and seven o'clock, P. at. the Eirplon left them a little to tl.e west of Block Is shaping their course betweea that Island and the Continent, so as to run into Rhode Island, should the English frigates make their ap ;,earance. In the emir,. of Saturday night, how ever, a fine breeze sprung up from the N. N. E. which carried them quite out to sea ; at dawn next morning they were no longer in sight. Both of the frigates sail well, so fast indeed as to outstrip the pilot boat. Nov. 13. Jerome Bonaparte and his lovely bride are now at their elegant little retreat near Baltimore, and were at the theatre of that city on the evening of the 2d inst. The report that favourable dis patches have been received by them from the Em peror Napoleon, with an ins itation to come to France by the earliest opportunity, is received with credit. It is thought that Jerome's little American Prin cess will not be the lea-t brilliant ornament of the emperor's court. We shall certain') seise the first opportunity of drublv lig The Courie, , for its illiberal Conduet respectiog the Young nevi.... THE BRITISH PRESS• THE4TRES. nWVWY LAT•II Last night the Comedy of The Herres was p m . formed at this theatre for the first t i me t h ese , eves years. The character of Lady Emily was Written to t Miss FA WREN, and on her retirement from the st ar, this elegant Comedy was laid aside. Miss Desc.i.': success in Lady Tea rle and Lady Townly raged the managers to bring her forward in Lade Enti/a. Though labouring under a severe cold, she gave a finished picture of this elegant chiiractei In the serious parts she was extremely interesti ng . It she did not increase, she did not dimirish her claims to public favour. Miss DECAMP, in AN, ifilsorrit, performed with her usual good sense, as. crinsination, and spirit. Her dress was extremely elegant and becoming. Mrs. MOUNTAIN, in Alton, was &very thing that delicacy and sen t & litv could express. She sang,the beautiful soil., For Tenderness _leaned," in th... t e.xquisite styr.. Mr. POP r was an excellent Ch j:,, J. I -deed all die characters were well supported. .sirs HA [mows read the pas t of Mrs. Blandish ;Mrs Scurs bting preven t . eJ by indisposition from undertaking it. The hoes: overflowed with an elegant company. We di a l not be surprised to see this Comedy resume its station in public favour. C'WILI4T GAitlttS, Mr. DIBDIN'S new Opera was again perform , last night, and none of the hostility shewn upini its first representation was renewed. The songs were universally encored; the music es beautiful, particularly the overture. And if we may judge from the reception it met with, the sweet umrodt hA, S completely soothed all discordant passions is tae breast of the audience. ARRIVALS. Mr. and Mrs. Larking, from Germany, to Penstone'ilr)te:, Cork- street. The Archbishop of Dublin, from Dublin ' to Miller', Sir Robert Leighton, Bart. from Lowton Hall, Shreir.bul, to Batt's Hotel, Jetinvii-street. Earl of Abergavounr, to Penstonv's Hotel, Cork-street. Loot and Lady Carbery, (ions their seat, Lemon, is Rut. landshire, to Sr. James's-4treet. .4r. Sueyd and family, from Margate, to Arlington ' , net Lord Rancliffe and Sir K.or, Al 4 de-carpe tothe Earl of Moira, from Scotland to his Lorchhip's bum:, St. James's Place. I.urd Callan and family, foil Cranham 1!. Erse; to fu rov.squJie. Si- John Harrincon and fairdly, from Manor Park, Wind. sor e to Berkeley square. Yesterday morning, His MaJeff v and the Duke of CASIBui not took the diversion of stag-hunting. The Pr inCeSSeS SOP 14 I A and Alt EI.IA tOOk WS Ad . ins on horseback in Windsor Great Park. - Monday afternoon, the Duke of YORK left Wind sor for Oatlands. The Earl of Wesv storm' AND set off on Monday from his house in Berkeley-square, to his seat, Ape. thorpe-park, Northampton. The Earl of WEST MEATS' has taken up his resi dence for the season in Charlotte -street, Fitzroy. square. Sir DAVID RAE has taken an elegant house in Grosvenor. place. RoNAPARTE has presented the Port with a new triple-crown, set round with diamonds, valued at 50,000 livres ( 4 20,0001.). We understand, Lot d S rouerow. Lord Haiti. woo l s, and the two Mr. HORLS, are to be compe titors for Thor wale Royal. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has received from Bore lir Am, a di.unand-cross, worth 50,000 livres (2,1001.). Lord DARLINGTON has had three weeks of the best sport eve known, even to his hounds. Lady COOPER will remain at her beautiful seat, Haveringharn-hall, Haverhill, Suffolk, till after Christmas. Sir HENRY Daswwooo, Bart. and General Lord Foams, have both purchased new houses in Giou cester-place, Portman-square. The Hon. Major Jolly CesT, OD of Lord BROWN Low, has left the command of his regiment at I 1011, for his father's seat, Belton-house, Gran tham, Lincolnshire. The Bishop of BATH and WELLS is expeael in town on Monday, to take pOssession of his new resi sidence in Curzon -street, May-fair, late Colonel Crtairono's. . The Dowager Lady DE CLIFFORD and sui:e left South Audiey-szreet yesterday, to join Lord mid Lady Dc Ciirroars, at Brighton. The Earl of ABERDEEN will succeed Lord Has.. YEI" in his late house in Cleveland-square. Lady Ms oval/ is etrie:led in town the beginnitg of next week, at her house in Cl:sizes-sin:a, from Edinboryli. The Following list of the Nobility and Gentry who went to enquire, on Sunday, atter Lord Has lowltY• miy give an idea of the present 'taw of the fashionable world : The Lo•ii Chancellor. Rosier Amhat.adsr. Count rr tr. too. Archbishop of York 'rue Lord Chid Union.. Di'. et Montrom. Cerceto. Earlt•-•4:2.1 den, Rad , tock, Clermrit, Malliobu,y, Cardigan. Mot Wenovorland. Viacounta—Farli.ori:, Sudlrr. Itar,n+--lla WAN.. Nolckon. Lord.--Wd,otigliby Do ltrok liawke.bury, Grenvoite, ward,' Scott, John ?iodate W wen, G Rumbold, !)shorn, C. Morgan. Mohr rifler - al Thornton. Genesi! Whetlism Cnliud Vi;itert and Newshant. Mew. George Vidiera, A. Mee*, Vaisittart, Talbot, Howsd, J. S. Girdler, COOV. Hrlderit.k, T. Grenville, Gro.ole, llill, Howard, G. Clog , isondeley, Windhain, W Man, a,.IJ. Reeves Dueh..set--llevon.hire, Sotnereet, btootra.e. March ones of Ater.orii. Couitteasiol)owav , Mt.:Jab- 44 r Clermont, Westbury, ManmietJ, Deana isuenitiest, Ely. Viteountess Sudlev. Ladino—M. Pa/kw, St , lan• Elliot, Loraine, S Lennox. noutbuld,thbornei C. Gre•ille, M. Bentinok, Hayske.burv, Grenville, bg• vale, N. Manners, Mark Kerr, L. MtDoisald. Mistret‘oe— George Glkeford, Warren, Huse. Corneal/It. George Villiers, A. Paipps, Howard, Walpole, G. Cholinotaloter, Markhm., Pete:, Windham, W.Burit. Walrobr M'Donald. DOVERIDGE COURSING MEETING.—/hrAysi ; re .-- This Meeting is just over. Some of the Snorkel: 4 were to start there for the Ern time. Mr. Mum! Y. the celebrated Courser, was unfoitunate in having al his dogs taken ill. Lord Ewan SOMERSEr. and the Officers of the 4th Dragoons, command She Steeps to Coutwee, and Rilsisz the ;rind, at the Lewes Theatre, on Fnday next ; and on Thursday last, Me &mete freklrnar was very appmpriately performed under the patron' age of the °th em of the R oya l Monmouth and Btecon Militia. TO! i 1 1 1