The Sun. — London, England, 1805-04-16 00:00:00

AMEIaCA. THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. „WAsHiNcoroN, IMAttort 4..—This day at twelve e.'clock TWOMM JEFFEI4SON, President of the 'United States, took the Oath of Office ; and deli vered the following inaugural Speech, in the Senate Chamber, in the presence of the Members of the two Houses, and a large toneourse of Citizens: ” Proceeding, fellow.citizens, to that qualifica. tion which the Constitution requires, before my entrance on the charge again cmilerred on me, it is my duty to express the deep sense I entertain of this new proof of confidence from my fellow citizens at lye, and the zeal with which it inspireS roe so to conduel myself as may best satisfy their just expeaations. " On taking this station on a former occasion, declared: the principles on which I believed it my duty to administer the affairs of our Commonwealth. My conscience ters me that I' have on every occa. sion acted up to that declaration according to its obvious import, and according to the understanding of every candid mind. " In the transadion of your foreign affairs we have endeavoured to cultivate the friendship of all nations, and especially of those with which we have the most important relations. We have done jus. Lice on all occasions, favour where favour was law. ful, and cherished mutual interests and intercourse on fair and equal terms; we are firmly convinced, and we ad on that conviction, that with nations, as with individuals, our interests, soundly calcu.r lated, will ever be found inseparable horn our moral duties. And history bears witness to the fsa, that jest nation is trusted or) its word, when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others. " At home, fellow-citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill, The suppres. :pion .of unnecessary dikes, of useless establish: , meats and, expences, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These, covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had a lready began that process.of domiciliary vexa. Lion, w hien, once entertained, is scarcely to tie febtrained from teaching successively every article o f produce and of propel ty, If, among these taxis, some minor ones fell, which had not ,been,incon. venieni, it was because their amount would not have paid the officers who collected them, and be. cause if they had any merit, the State Authorities might adopt them instead of others less approved. " The remaining revenue, on the consumption of foreign articles, is paid chiefly by those who can ifr or d to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. Being colleded on our sea-board and frontiers on ly, and incorporated with the transactions of our mer. cantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the plide of an American to w,k, what farmer, what mechanic, what labourer, ever sets a tax gatherer of the United States ?---These contributions en. us to support the current expences of the Go. veroment, to fulfil contracts with foreign nations, to extinguish the native right of soil within our limits, to extend those limits, and to apply such a surplus to our public debts as places at a short d a y their final redemption; and that redemption cnce tfirlted, the revenue thereby liberated, may, by a just 'reoartitiou am,lng the States, and a cur. re;rwdent amendment of the Constitution, be ap. its rtrie of to titers, canals, roads, ;,rte;, maeulatlores, education, and other great ob. zo‘.ts within ekeir State. Its time of war, if in justice_, by our selves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will lie by increased population and consumptiab, and aided by otlitr resources reserved for that crisis, 'it may oncet within site year all the expences of ti o s, year, without encroaching on the rights of twine winerations, by burthening them with the ciehrs ot' the past. War will then be but a sus. t,..nsion of earful works, and a teturn to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improve.: swot. - 7-- " I have said, fellOw.eitizens, that the income reserved•had enabled us tb extend our limits ; fiat that extension may , possibly pay f o r it s elf b e f ore tee are called,on, and in tlie mean time may keep down the accruing interest. In all events it will rephee the advances we shall hate made, Lknow `that the acquisition of Louisiana- has been. ditap. retried by some, from a candid apprehension that .the. enlargenient of our territory may endanger its union ; but who con limit ihe extent to which ihe 'federative, principle may operate effeflively later our assoCiation, the less will it be shaken by local passions, and in any view, is it not better that the opposite bank of the MissisSippishould be settled by nut own brethren aed children, than by r;trangers of another family ?—With which shall we be most likely to live in harMony and Identity in. tercourse " In matters of religion, I have considered, that ,fts free este teise is placed by the Constitution in. &pendent of the powers of the general govern. merit. I .. have therefore undertaken, on no peed treprteeribe the religious exercises suited to it ; but have left them as the Constitution found :Liter, lie der the dire4lion yr disci, line of the SW. nr Citureli Authorities acknowledged by the ieveral religious societies, • • The aboriginal infiabliarivi 9f these countries I e„ ee mol d e d lilt the clirnrrliSti 141 iOn then his , • too y inspires. Endowed with the faculties and the r i tf ,ni s ini!ti, breathing ardent love of liberty indet eittlenee, and octupying a country which left them no deiire but to be undisturbed, the Stream sit overflieving' population from othee regions di.' itOcti itself on ;hose shores. Without power to divert, or habits to contend against ir, they have peen Overwhelmed br the current, or driven before reduced within limits too earrow.for the hunter state, hurniniity enjoins to teach them itgliculture a.nd the domestic am ; to encourage- them to that indusiiy which alone can enable them to maintain their elace in existence, and to prepare dicier in time for that state id society, which, to bodily comforts, adds the improvement of the mind cod morals. We have therefore liberally furnished theM with the implements or hitNbandry a bd h o us e . hold cse : we have placed among them instrutiors in the tarts of first necessity; and they are Foterett with the zgia of the law agairiA aggressors front among eurailves. " Rut the endeavours to enlighten them on the fate which awaits their present course of life, to in. duce them to exercise their reason, follow its tates, and 'change their pursuits with the changes of circumstances, have nowerful obstacles to en. counter. They are combated by the habits of their .bodies, prejudices of their minds, ignorance, pride, and the it fluence of interested and crafty individu. als among them, who feel themselves something in the present order of things, and fear to become no. thing in any other. These persons incekate a sandimonious reverence for the customs of their ancestors ; that whatever they did must be done through all time ; that reason is a false guide, - and to advance under its counsel in their physi. cal, moral, or-political condition, is perilous inno. vation ; that their duty is to remain as their Crea. tor made them, ignorance being safety, and know. ledge full of danger. In short, my friends, among them also is seen the adion and counter.aCtion of good sense anti of bigotry. They too have their 'anti-philosophises, who find an interest in keeping things in their present state ; who dread reforma. tion, and exert all their faculties to maintain the ascendancy of habit over the duty of improving our reason and obeying its mandates. " In giving these outlines, I do not mean, fellow. citizens, to arrogate to myself the merit of measures. That is due, in the first place, to the refieeting rafter of our citizens at large, who, by the weight of public opinion, influence and strengthen the pub. lic measures. It is due to the sound discretion with which they seled from among themselves those to whom they confide the legislative duties. It is due to the zeal and wisAom of the charafters thus seleded, who lay the foundation of public happi. nest in wholesome laws, the execution of which alone remains for others : and it. is due to the able and faiihful auxiliaries, whose patriotism has as. sociated them with rue in the Executive fundions. " During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the Press has been levelled against us, charged with whatever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness, and to sap its safety. They might, perhaps, have been correded by the wholesome punishments reserved to, and provided by, the taws of the several States against falsehood and defamation. But public duties more urgent press on the time of public servants, and the offenders have therefore been left to find their punishment in the public indignation. It Nur was it uninteresting to the world that an experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not sufficient for the propagation and protection of truth ? Whether a Government, conduding itself in the true spirit of its Constitution, with zeal and purity, and doing no ad which it would be unwilling the whole world should witness, can be written down by falsehood and defamation ? The experiment has been fried. You have witnessed the scene. Our Fellow.eitizens have looked on cool and collected. They saw the latent source from which these out. rages proceeded. They gathered uround their Pub. lie Fundionaries .; and when the Constitution called them to the decision by suffrage, they pronounced their verdid, honourable to those who had served them, and consolatory to the friend of man, who believes he may be entrusted with the controul of his own affairs. " No inference is here intended, that the laws provided by ate States against false and defamatory publications, should not be enforced. He who has time, renders a service to the public morals and public tranquillity, in reforming these abuses by the sa l utary aocre iens-of the law. But the experiment is noted to prove that, since truth and reason have maintained their ground egainct false opinions in league with false facts, the Press, confined to truth, needs no other legal restraint. The public judg. ment will could !else reasonings and opinions, on A full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press, and its demoralizing licentiousness.— If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion. " Contemplating the union of sentiments now manifested so generally, as arguing, harmony and happiness to our future course, I offer to our Conn. try sincere congratulations. With those too not yet rallied to the same point, the disposition to ocl: so is gaining strength.. Fads are piercing through the veil drawn over them; and our doubting tare. thren will at length see that the mass of their Fellow. citizen, with whom they cannot yet resolve to ad, as to principles and measure's, think as they think, and desire what they desire. Tliat our with as well as theirs, is, that the public efforts may be direded honestly to the public good, that peace be cultiv ate d,. civil and religious liberty unassailed, law and order preserved, equality of rights maintained, and that state of property, equal or unequal, which result to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers. When satisfied of these views, iris nut i n human nature that they should not approve and alp. port them. In the mean time, let us cherish them with patient affedion. Let us do them justice, and . a l nd gat their iler more than justice, in all competitions . of int erest ; and we need nut doubt that truth, reason, own interests, will at length prevail, will them into the fold of their Country, and will com 'pieta that entire union of opinion, which gives to a Nation the blessings of harmony, and the benefit of all its strength. " 1 shall now enter on the duties to which m y fellow.citizens have again called me; and shall proceed in the spirit of those principles which they have approved. I fear not that any motive or in. terest may lead me astray ; I am sensible of no passion which could reduce me knowingly from the path of justice ; but the weakness of human nature, an d the 1;101..4 tit toy own understanding, will pro. duce errors of judgment sometimes injurious to your interests. T snail need ‘ therefore, all the indulgence I have heretofore experienced ; • the want of it cer. tainly will nut lessen with increasing years, 1 ,hall need too the favour of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their natie land, and pionted tlitit to a country flowing with the necessaries aril comforts or life ; whci has coveted our infancy widi his providence, and uur r years with his wisdom and hi; power ; and to whose goqdness I ask you to join with me in krill - liCarions, that he will so enlighien the minds of your set • ants, guide their councils, and prosper their measures, that whatever they do shall result to your goOil, and hhall secure to you the peace, friendship, and approbation of all nations. Tuot.tAs JEFFERSON." Alta tvt D—r Gottenhumh, T Dublin. Du s—r Cottenburi;h, 3 DuliUn, 2 Waterford. THE SUN. &OLEN! QUIS . DICER& FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL )6, :Sas. We last night received Paris and Dutch Papers , the former to the loth, aril the latter to the 14th inst. BON AP ARTE has at length commenced his journey to Italy, attended by a moat numerous Suite. A long account is given in the Moniteur of the reiric. ings which took place on his arrival at Troyes. Indeed it would be singular if the People of the different towns thtough which the new Em peror passes did not testify their satisfadion in a manner perfeetly agreeable io him, for he is preceded in his route by a Sub-Master of the Cere monies, who instruas the good people of France in what manner they are to shew' their loyalty, and points out, with the utmost precision, the periods at which they are to shout " Vive L'Em . pereur," &c. It was eXpeaed that BoNAPAITII would pass his Easter at Lyons. Letters from Madrid state, that hostile opera. dons have commenced between the Garrison of Gib. falter and the Spanish Troops at St. Roche. One of the English Oot.posts is said to have been surprised, and an Officer and three men made Prisoners. The French Papers do not contain any intelli. gence respeding the Rochefort Squadron, hut the Brest Fleet represented as being in .1i state fit for sea; and it is positively stated that General Au. GER/AU has embarked on board it- with all the Troops under his command. it is said that a Fri. gate belonging to our Fleet blockading Brest late. ly got becalmed under the Batteries Of Fort Saint Mathew, and sustained some damage before she was towed off by the boats sent to her relief. If is confidently rumoured that Lord HAWIELI. U sctr will be appointed to the Admiralty. On Sunday the Sacred Oratorio of The Messiah , and Dr. BOYCK'S Anthers, If .we brlieve that jeJus died, were performed in the Concert Room at Wind. sor Castle, before the ROYAL FAMILY, and a seled party, by Hatt MAjesTY's Band, and the Gentle. men of the Windsor Choir. Yesterday Flu MAJESTY and the DUKE of CAM. BRIDGE, accompanied by Generals FITZKOY, GWY NNE, &C. took the diversion of stag.lionting ; the Deer was started at Ascot Heath. Yesterday HER MAJEiTY and the Pit INC EssES took an airing to Filmore. Princess AmeLIA, accompanied by Count MUM. suit and the Hon. iVlrs. F.GEK Toti, took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park. His Royal Highness the PRINCE of Vint.ss town yesterelay for Brightoo. The following, we. understand, are the six Knights of the Bath appointed to attend fin Idl t JEST and the PRINCES of the Blood Royal, at the Banquet which will succeed the Installation of the Garter : Right Hon. Lord WII - rwoRTH, Right Hon. HENLEY, Right 11/41. Sir J.. BANKS, Sir ALUILED CLARICE, Sir THwmAs and Sir JOHN COLPOYE. They will ako panied by their &quires, as. at the late installation c.)l the Bath. Most of the Nobility who arc invited to the In. stallation, will tern:4in at Windsor to celebrate the PRINCRSS MARY'S Birth-day, the 25 , h inst. which will be kept at Froginure. There wtii be a !►all and breakfast, IT• has been thought very extraordinary that the Commissioners of Naval Inquiry did not put the same questions to Sir A. S, FlAramoND re apeding the application .of the Secret Service Money :as they put to . Lord SP ENC t a and Lord Sr. VINCENT. and still more extraordinary that nut a single veestiou on the subjeet was put to Sir A. linsamoito I ! Yesterday the First Surrey Regiment of Volun teer Infantry and lagers, with the Second Surrey, or Lambeth and Christ Church Volunteers, were brigaded in Montpelier Gardens, and inspected Colonel ADDRNBRO6KE. They went through the whole of the manccuvres of a battalion ; after which every man was regaled with bread and cheese and a bottle of putter, at the expellee of the respettive Commanders. It was intended to have had a grand Sham Fight at Sytlenhatn, but it was p )stponed on account of the indisposition of Gen. CROWE NOlt, who was to have commanded the . English party. Yesterday afternoon the two Battalions o f Q ueen ' s Royal Volunteers, under the cow and of Colonel Roe:toots, were reviewed in Hyde Park, when they went through their eyolutious and firings with great cexterity. day, there being Court of Aldermen, the LORD MAYOR, atter iuspening /ha Meat WriBhels' Returns, ordered ircad to tall tl. i , the Peck Lu 4 .4 NEWS. PLYUOTMII AP RI ---ArtiVed the Prussia* Galliot Zw' Gesesters, Captain Da Vans, lade* with fruit, sugar, and salt, from Lisbon, ballistic° Amsterdam, detained by the Spy Privateer, of Dot 4 mouth. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 15._Dropr down to St. Helen's the Dragon Man of War, with her signal flying for Lisbon and Oporto. Sailed the Plumper Gun Vessel, on a Cruize. Lieut. HOWARD, of the Endyttion Frigate, appointed to command the Nell; Schooner, which is to return to Barbadoes in a few days. Sir Raoul BARLOW is appointed to the Triumph. The j%. ilynion Frigate, Hon. Cant. PAGST, was this undoCked, and the iirliona, of 74 guns, is isken , in. Arrived the Derthrido, from Lisbon, bootlace' Nantz„ detained by the Mazer. The MAO Frigate, Sir- JotiN Goat, with Marquis Calk WALLIS, which sailed yesterday, has anchored Lymington. An Officer belonging to her is waitiat here for Dispatches, which are expeled by the P° 6 to-morrow. The gxpedition purposes oiling 00 Wednesday. DEAL, APRIL 15..-•SAlied His Majesty" 911 Arab, Harpy Sloop, Blazer and Mariner. 00: brigs, for their nations off Calais. aai Came down the ii h ri,scourt from the Isfotvr - sailed to join the Channel Fleet. Sailed the Galgo Slaop, for L eith ; D;1(141"/ Wirob, for the Nore. The Warlty, H. Wz vo x ; Gages, T. T. 140* RINOTON ; Devonshire, JAMts MuttltAl ; skirt, R. H. BstwN, Eist Indiamen, earool4/1/1 Biro from the River, and sailed for Spithead. In the Downs—Monarch Utrecht, Diomede, L e 4l6 .do C ti: tor, Pomona, Ariadtae, DeVastation, P ropey,. ..-,100 Hebia, Zebra, Ritleman,Thrasher and Watchful Gut. Afire;;lncietlitigable I fielder, Osborne, , Williagtent "' and Bellona , Armed Defence Ships. of COWES, APRIL 15.—Arrived here three Si h C w a Transports from Waterford, having on b cli ' id , e tooth Regiment of Foot, comm anded bY iis FAuce Ni ; the Regiment is n ow landing, to be quartered in different parts o f the bid. snu and Sailed the Bp', tfip t , ,Rowtm,. novan, Transports, with the 99th Regime from Ireland, for Jersey. IntGaliragßulCeloNi\n°,frcoty'veaA,rePajulLst ig3e*—ttinTglieupr,esstr°2ltist:":ll4:B6Ce ..-- f' rt Spanish ilvi S hi p , deeply laden, ' Prize to the Letter l tn u hu n emA g e i bo n eF g mtr.len t , n o ; e Messrs, WALTER RiTcut' an d Sclnla --- 55 W e h ave ul o j t r tLC"joaolPiditni:eGt.lll:4l::::: i ch ' l i f fli O ft j e t :1: 11 ii;111;4.::tvir,11)161:9; ii‘t board a num ber rent ordnance, and in --....!...-- br (r)::intehtrieyn,i,g,etor I ts log °I Sio o P P. j - fo's Martinique.lß ET. Sin was bound, it is sa l ' , by . A. Lisbon Mail of yesterday, says :--" s;„ c , ° , hoe .ifVessel,,a SOOO stand ttlßedoeiet_Arnl,aatllse_YiYannragc;dr.rahihcibrenetroe,'e,olxvCre,ottirnoi:e9nifniss'ldin'sPeov:tid.rhi.istinhtoal‘rudivl4tallehtSuelisrdnEe:clVlCte(ll. 3) e t. 4l n g l u i ill v u ; s0 : :: : : : : fh i l nIrl : 1 1: : ; ; : rd - ' 1111k .. $ ! 1 ': i n t li f n C : 1:1 ,1 e !! C.C w pro:fE- ! va l on in rmll i ePt.int i gvih c r e dl'i: h :TaistnetV' a genC h let a s s 0 an d e and not fi n not ar Ipelv:evsneseed:h;ear;oPirenaerfv9heerg' :culnliniale:irli; ptotedion of the Carrie - they a re not 1 / 2n e tr Os" come danger i s 0,,,, 10 the B't' The ,-, - - ra ; o p _ i The Brig Aii,eßtirontl:RiTrewabsileric,oanTti, tha,/,:eb'el'ern-covio: rii and sent to one of the neighbouring Pcl t . s* e yed Captain, pat w ihnothies arrived dty tomfreViig"o„Y!,'llltuull:ft.obit‘riltes2:''re little • and several are nearly 'Taw 7 Oft preparing, received A ..E,h.e, i, House,bt.yraanotvtoeturia.BmeinDgaisli,uotichtl.te 30th Whcr. nkiof. Intelligenee was yesterday direßion, 1 aof the 4th, and tr um Bvrobay 'of th e / 1 , g light *k it : It is confirmed that L 011.11400 ha d a : it ()Jibe., mish with HOLEAR'S Army, on th e 7 OP near Moltra. That formidable Chief'4l°' herb' l'ericnced much lo . Sce Der° ,1 0 ant , ss. clew' A, reeve c as if towards Delhi, 0 WOW O f g li)11. onl , - • tse f t -) o l o tnfT : a l; r . : l :l° n lelv i tt e vi l a i n v ritrti : eas ß i o kiLni m e g r Po' gaEoi:fd'Oluntioentercbg(nsliNteastatisciin:villaeeisfravteajetnellit:rt,nlPal:gi:lsriratit:frt'laelergnere:l:3:ll t rel::::1 \ 4'l::liC rnnseC:1:;)::::Iiih:11:::4;11ebi;%:°#'1 l a o . r i a Li o;,o had movetrlenta were 50 iliplelt that o f eE l' ll/1 lad not been ahie at that period eithe r I° h og „ . The Cambrian, DENtiraselov:,". '''fg:1:1;r1.t:01:1's;:t. been c a ptur ed, aartrivenclatakt,,bCiy.dcgtuitteatr:"l'otitge, irr. 061,,b af ter Ceylon. • . i iOr, The Corrlri f r . c • Wnon, ". 1, Pi frigate, Ca} „Ate 0 4 ofF Point jtgat, La "Watt piivagoth G „lpilt , 5 r done so much mischief• in the l'ersi3hcoininalog 1 carried . her into lillinby, 'where he r ' k LE MEM a, again obtained his pArole, , t filfr l o r 1‘",,,, Ltd ~ Mr. HO D s-ota, of Catisey Fools • j el .' d is - I d ; 1 , Crtinberiatd, Iris an ewe living, `ll3l,:risib 5° ',10 3,4, or 33 years" tort 4ge. Site has lbol el 13 ,e 0 'i t , Ally for 29 year, 1, 1 1 8 0 3, s he wils 5° 4 1 Ol t ' j, lA2'h of August ; but lasr year, at the °s°,lio DO April, —This ,uterising anintal is 001.1