The Rhode-Island Republican — Newport, R.I., 1810-12-26 00:00:00, page 2

2. That no such revocation has as yet been made
by England, who has only made a promise partially
anl contingeotly o repeal her edicts. g
3. That the illegitimate blockades of Eagland must,
in the opinion of the President, Be revoke 1, before she
can be considered as having :roﬁbd her orders that
violate our neutra Irghits ; a -
. 4. That *“on the other important subjects depen;
* ding vetween the United Stutes and that government
(Goeat Britain) no progress has besn made, from
wiich an carly and satisfactory result ean be relied on
U aese facts, alihvagh they 4y not Whsoluiely pre.
olude the hope that ﬂn‘la.ml will eense to violate bud
peacal rigits, properly hapeoved, should prepae
The=e iy a ccraent hetween those of one
seLL ‘ligitm ‘which biigly stronger than
éhy f./."i'k’.l lie. '!'h' ¥ t()‘;"b"'i h*“|
who, wid rm.? ambitious n,#ny”ln_
L povery pd insolent in the use of it. heir
-dlg ed by iawyers, who say ‘&f
thing but their prayers ; and them they whis-.
the. T ‘“’: I 8 ¥ scot wpwlﬂmmq
~selves m yme dupes,* or ure contended
i b 'WJ'. B '~ ::" ¢ | y were Cd"cd byf. |
Nearued Doctor of their éwn order, their m4l v
'z'é.”"';\"” ” "f"’ on ‘ e (writer will ct?ll the‘"
§ ’d‘":\, v * hen smitten b’: their .“‘," '
\“‘ hey ar oftencr than Balaain’s Ass of old
" was) meekly remonstrate—* Am not I thine
e "’J’j’"’ ch thou hast ridden ever since 1
qwas ehin s until this day.” .
. Winking eut of sight the merits of the po-
Jitidal differences between the parties, and {
_ attempting to balance the personal virtues or
vices of prticular men out of the partes, if
_ done ever so fairly, would beiursy s want of
coulidence in the goodtess of a cause, as well 1
as reveal vns sud truth, that insieud of wishe
ing 0 promoie tooffite the best principled
men for our country’s good, there is cnly a
shameful scrambiing for power.
* There is no doubt a serious intentien 1o
drive out of ?qc the native, and prevailing
. kind of peopl ?lbis State—and to place in
their stead the gudgeons of Herrmg-river
and others longer commorant here of the
same kidney. For this purpose a novel Soci
ety has been instituted, and a still more novel
newspaper edited-=by the force of combina
tiowt and defamation to bear down all, suve
one description of people.
T'o conelude. ‘Vie writer of these lines
from the deféar and discomfiture of his enes
mies, belicves that their credit is already low
enough, and considers them objects of pity
ratiier thun ¢uvy. He knows that the wick
ed are like the wroubled sea, when it cannot
rest, whose waters cast forth mire and dirt
continnsily. Any party is welcome to the
benefit of writinsey whercof the meanest of
its members would be sshamed to own him
self the writer, and which cun only present a
case before the publick, wherein even Solo
mon’s wisdom failed hiro, for he says, ¢ An
swer not a fool accordingly to his folly, lest
- thou be like unto him ;” and in the next
verse, * Answer u fool accordingly 1o bis folly
lest he be wise in his own cenceit.” From
which it manifestly appears, that he had not
made up his own mind what course to take
with a fool.
The Rhode-Island American, or 4 common
acwer of filth and all unclcanness,” as it is sty
led by ‘one writer in the Providence GGazewme,
or “ Providence Stander- Mill,” as it is called }
by another, shou!d display in, its frontispiece
the following appropriate dedication : ¢ Om
nibus nebulonibus, et meretricibus, hic et übi
cunque.” Translation—+¢ To ull our patrons
angi readers both in town und country.” And
embluzon iws escutcheon with the following
motto : « Presbytere «luce, et auspice Pres-
Cbyterst ‘Translation-
C BTI true blue stand both steersman and pilot,
% Roar shall the winds, the crew shall riot,
# Nor golly matron pray in quiet.”
Al which is most respectfuily submitted
"fo the consideration of the good people of
_this State, at their fireside, some of these
Eﬂ.ng winter evenings, ‘
o gy ROGER WILLIAMS.
" % peflection ought to be confined to the town
‘ ovidence—for, it is believed, that nine-temhs
of the Biplists throughout these Stutes are Republi
cany—mas t knawn ihat they were in the time of
onr Reve n good Whigs. ,
L'l‘hey muke feats, ans‘ot 18 eat at them; they
endow a College and luppu* Schools, and others
from abroad crowd in (o take bencfit by them ; they
- puy taxes, and othe™ rule them; they are at the
cost of clectioneering to put others into office. Let
who wiil dance, they pay the fidler.
Genesis, 49- 14.
¢ Not one of that sect has been insulied in the
Slander-Mill,
e eeAT A ———
From the National t’ucw‘encer.
THE MESSAGE.
This document offers a lucid view of the most im
portaut concerns of the nation. In purity and l)reci- ,
sion of diction it is worthy of the pen which has,
on so many occasions asserted with cfg:ct the rights
of the American people. To foreign powers the
style is at once firm and respectful, evincing a deter
+ mined purpose to maintuin ground, taken with cir
cumspection. Every remark appears to have been
deliberateiy weig'hc(i, and adopted after the most
mature exercise of judgment. We shall be mnch
mistaken, if any civeumstances whatever will wrest
a judgment, thus solemnly formed, trom its purpose,
or suffer a solitary right of independence or neutral
ity to be sacrificed (0 propiiiate the injustice of those
who, feeling power, I!urg\-t vight. Itis by such ex
plicit deslyrations, and an invielable adﬁemee to
thom, that the Chief M .gistrate of a free people
most correetly manifests that firmness nl energy of
charactc r which is the best shicid of the important
rights pliced under his protection. By such & course
the excoutive power fullrls its duties, and leaves i,
according to the constiiution, to the legislature to
discharge theirs An executive, thus resolved, will
abindon no essential right of a nacion, and will as.
scrt, ageording to the means he possesses, all its
Just rights; leaving it to Congress, 1f sodisposed, to
confer farther power, in the full confidence of ity be
ing \’ig'.nwsly used ; n other words, to ‘lshu
war, or impase restiictions on the commerce ag
gressmg powers. WA
The view of our fyreign relations furnishes us
with foar important facts =
1. That Feance has revoked all her known edicts
“that violated our neutral commmeree.
cherished as our sheetaanchor in the worst i
that can assailus, All 3:; itneedsis the wise
position of the government, so to fos.er pur
interior concerns, as that no foreign shock can mas
terially injure us, This, however some minds may
hesitate on the subject, is requisite, is indispensable.
Without ity the impulse given by publick sentiment
and an unususl concurrence of causes, will be wan
sient, and the proud establishments that are now
springing up in every quurter of the Union, may fall
_in ruing benéath the golden wind of England, who,
in the immensity ot her riches, can and probably will
sacrifice millions to imped: our infumt manufactures.
Proper duties, restrictions, and probibitions shoulkd
beinposed, without any mistuken regurd to their ef
fects on the treasury, which can, at uny time, be read.
ily replenished, provided our mternal lubors and pur
suits are prosperous.
The imvitation to a navigation act is highly season
able. It has become necessaay to return the poisons
ed chalice to the lips of those who persist in injur
ing us.
We have now reached that part of the message,
which recommends the estublishment of a national
seminary. of learning. I diction and sentiment
is above all praise. We rejoice ghat a Madison
has thus trodden in the footsteps of a Washington,
and has thus unequivoc.lly joined his suffrages to
that of adefferson and an Adams, Wiil Congress
feel the generous inspiration, and lay the foundation
of what we most want, a national character ! With
out it, we cannot be an independent people. Will
_they thus called upon, by Washington, Adams, Jef.
ferson and Madison, in the high character of Repre
sentatives of the whole nation, refuse to lay the foun.
dations of « structure, which no great nation has ve -
glectcd. and which is peculiarly essential to the wel
are, stubility and glory of a free people ! Will they
not on the contrary, scize this happy occasion to
Seoncur in a measure altogether unconnected with
arty ?
‘?‘*p 'g{\e message presents many other interesting to
picks, on which our time does not allow us to dilate.
We cannot, however, omit noticing the p-isperous
state of pur fiscal concerns ;we say prosperous ; for
surely they may be considéred so, when they enable
us, o soom after the embargo, to discharge all the
_extraordinary demands occasioned by the defensive
- measurcs enforced \?mn usy and all currentelaims,
_leaving only a part of the capitaliof the debt reim-
Bursable, tobhe paid by 4 temporary loun, itself only
excecding by 750,000 dollars, the balance in the
Treasury.
» ——p 3t
THE MESSAGE. :
The highest meli" which the Presi
dent’s Message could have e exed,'has come
frons the President’s worst enemy. A para
graphist in the New-York Evening Post says :
"ﬁlcmm express my opinion of this Message
er in the wortlla of Solomon, *“ Hlis werde
are s 01, yeta sword is in his hand.”
The &:nu'. sthen, is exactly what it
pught to'be. It discovers & ml‘dﬂ the
Emr, but Bn"u in thaibin‘.‘ Inother
rthﬁhih the n‘” 10 the style
of a gentleman, the style befiding his
station, the wrongs his country had sustained
from loreign po‘r:.d he'evinces at tl:xmo
time that determ n#t of x: eto
"\hoo‘e wtongs, which™ the of his
Oumry,g-‘ to applaud him. 3ﬁ 1‘
4 ' il ! ‘:‘ & ‘
Not having room here to examine the title given
the United States by Frunce to this country, we shall
in & few days laya ‘history of the transfor and the
gmuum‘o‘ the title before our readers; contenting
ourselVes for the present, with observing, thut there
s 1o doubt of its including the territory designated
in the proclamation of the president. Vhe laws pase
sed by Cengress, whenthe tercitorial government of
Orleans was orgunized, lookin {; to « period when the
United St tes shoold by amicuble negociation obtain
or by arms extort, from the Spanish govermuent,the
posscssion.of the territory claimed by them as part
of Florida, have embracced in their provisions as well
that part of Louisiana retained by Spuin, as that for
mally transfurred to the U, States. But litte, there
fore, remauins for the legislature to perform ; and no
sanction becomes necessary to the conduct of the
executive, as i what the prosident has done he is
berne cut by the express provisions of the statute.
It would be neediess 1o expatiate on the benefits
acerumg to the United States from the posscasion of
this tervitory. The reuscn why it has not been oce
cupied hefore, is safficiently expluined inthe procia.
mution, and inthe letter of Mr. Secretary Smith to
Governour Hoimes. If the ucquisition promissed no
other beneficiul tendeney, the exemption of our Wes
tern cituzens from the tribute heretofore paid to the
Spanish government on allimports and exports th. -’
the Mobile, would be an object of more than suflici
ent mm;ude to have warranted the step which has
been . ; :
The mcou‘se next announces &~ amity, with one
exception, of the powers of Boivarry, and the ln
dian wribes. Strange that while wrong upon wrong
i 8 heuped upon us gy civilized ard christn powers,
we should be justly trewicd by Harberians ! Can
there be a keener reproach on the piinciples and
conduet of those powers, who, i proportion o the
claims of virtue snd k.owledge, despise them 7 AVell
may they blush at this humiliiting contrast. May
we be permitted to add, that this fuet furnishes -
gent argument in favour of the scasonable sduiiis.
tration of physical foree ! EL 3
We are highly pleased with the marked no'ice, ta
ken by the message, of the exension of wseful monw
JSucturen and improvemen's in ay viculivre, an particu:
Larly with the boid and enbghtencd observationg jhat
“W(V are more thuny a recompence for the privations
andd losses resulting from forcign injustice, This
fact, in its whico't‘qlatitud«-. i uue. It should be
us for the opposite w bnd:lnd to t% »
- doption of meesures requ g'l. This iho sea
son mmporid:g; our government has pursued
i the st course of messures that did not invche s
‘ surrender - *.ponum. rights ;.a caurse which has
*‘bm beluw ick feeling and expectation. This
scotrse cannot il'utct" The government must
¢l ue:\:'qn nit without modific or advance.
To . ignomi must repeal
. ow'gm n Sv cgal blockulure:r
| intérgourse with hor must terminate.
w Duppy to learnthat the™ princ'tglen andd
profes AJ, His Danish w.ly are friendly ;
although we must candidlysay, We should be much
more gratified by measures comporting with them,
. Whe seps tuken by the exceutive in relation to the
tefritory belonging o the United States, but latcl‘
clzimcu andl possessed by Spain, cannot fail to LS
gratfying 1o every une who views the subject in its
proper lIE‘IW “The follow’mﬂ» the cleuse of the act
uf.(l:m;o‘e"ruodgju Octuber, 1803, under which
the ot has doubtless acteds
” 2 i
Be it enacted, &e. That the President of the U.
States be, and he is hereby suthorized w 0 tuke pos
uu&%of. and occury the territor{ ceued by Prance
to the U, Siates, by the treaty concluded at Paris on
the 30th day of April last, between the Lwo nations,
wnd thist e may for that purpose, and in order 1o
maintain in the said territories the wuthority of the U
Stwtes, employ any Jon of the army and navy of the
United States, &e.
V. pa o e ol Rel o e
T S
Ll Y DEPARTMENT,
A ng,':sxo.
‘ ’“lt‘lu\’t the Ronour to enclose 2 Report, pre-
Patd in obtdicn&wmwd an act to es
tublish the Treasury Departn
1 haye the honour tobe, 7
Very respecfully, -
" sir, your obedient servant.
¥ ALBERT GALLATIN,
The Hmourable
The Speuker of the House of ilepresentatives,
REPURT.
Treasury DtPnt of the Treas.
IN cbedienee tothe direc of the act supple
mentatary to he .ct ent led “ L 10 estublisli the
ury respecifully submits the “‘»* g Report and
Estimates : - T
REVENUE. .
The nett revenue arising from duties on merchan.
dizs and tonnage which acerued during the ‘v;m- iBOB,
amounted to ' " 8 ’3“'000
The nett revenue ariniﬁg from the s: me sources,
which acerued during the yeur 180 y, u nted, as
will appear by the statement (A) 1o ..*'.':?:5.521 O
The stutenent (B) exhibits in detail the soveral
specics of nrerchandize and other sources trom which
that revenue was derived during the year 1809,
It is aseertained thut the nett revenue alising fiom
the same dutics, has for the first three quarkas of
the year 1810, excecded 7,500,000 ; and 1t s be
fieved thut it will not, for the whole year full short
of 812,000,000
The sales of publick lands, north of the river O
hio, have, during the yeur ending on the 30th Scpt.
1810, as appears by the statement (€) amounted to
150,000 acies, and the payments by purchasers
to ~ $610,000
The same statement shows that the totul amount
of sales, from the estublishment of the land offices
in the yesr 1800, t the 30th Scpt. 1810,have amount.
ed 10 3,163,000 acres, which have produced $06,681,
000 ; of whieh sum $1,646,000 remain dae by pur
clmu* The sales in the Mississippi Territory, be
ing (ufter deducting expenses) appropriated in the
first place 1o the puyment of $1,250,000 to the siale
of Georgia, are’ distinctly stated. e y
. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
1 Year ending on the 30th Sepe. 1810. .
The actuul receipts mio ‘
the Tauggswy, during '
the y ding cu the '
50ch ept. 1810,
" have wmounted to $8,688,861 17
Muking,logether with the
balince in the Treus
ury, on the Ist of Oc
foher, 1809, and a
mounting 1o $5.828,936 01
An apgrepate of 815.517.797 18
Yhe disbursements diving the sorio ccar have consisied
in the folluxwing stems, viz : v
Civil Departinenty -
cluding miscellaneous
expensesy, and those
incidental 1o the inter- ~ _
corrse with foreign
naiions 21.249,200 06
Miitty and Ine
dian Depart
niels 2,514,538 75 .
Nuvy . 1,674,735 50
e 4,189,259 25
Interest en the publick debt 2,735,898 91
P TG
Total current expenses $8,174,358 22
Puyments on account of
the principal oithe pub
tick bt " 3,884,409 20
Amounting together, as
wiil appear more in de
tail, by the statement :
(EYto 11,058,767 46
Ang leaving in the Treas
ul'y, on the 30th Sept.
1810, a balunce of 3.459,029 72
$14,517,797 18
It therefore appears, that the aciual re
ceipts into the Treasury have exceeded the
curfent expenses of government, including
therein the interest on the debt, by a sum of
£500,000 : The expenses had during the
preceding year excceded the receipts by
a sum ol $1,300,000. The difference arises,
not from =n increase in the receipts, but from
a diminution In the expenses, particulariy
those of the military and naval departments.
2. Laat guarter of the year 1810, -
The receipts for that quarier will, it is be
lieved, be more thun sufficient to defray the
current expenses and interest on the debt ace
cruing duiing the same period. But the pay
ments to be wade on account of the principal
of the debt ingrder to complete the annual
appropriution $8,000,000. umountins o
more than 5,100,000, a loan first negociated
for 3.750.000,and afterwards reduced to
$2.750,000, became necessary.
The veceipss and dhgursmmu for' that quarter, are
. th-refore estimated as follows :
Receipts into the I'reas- :
ury from the ordinary - .
revenue - . 2,500,000
Procceds of the loan re- : &
ceivable on the 31st of
Decewgbery 1810 2,750,000
B#‘nce l"ﬁv!lly,
on the Ist of October,
1810 . Y 3.460,000
» 3 D
" 88,710,000
Expenses, civil, military . »Q.?
and naval, estimited @,370_,000 :
lmcres!t'wc"uingw' . .
domestick debt .m ' .
L 2,070,000
Puyments off accqunt of -~ . |
the pnblickmhou‘ = N ‘f
der to co Jo »
annual appropriation of .
.Qt'co\:mc ..‘ ‘“" -
. ¥ .
ing the u.ms .
of the 31st £ ‘ .
_6 P v
» a
;s Al W
3.751,125 exchanged
. 6 per cent. stock 4.640050
E 0,710,000
Probuble balance in the - Vs
Treasury on the 31st
of December, 1810. 2,000,000
——_— e
‘ £8.710,000
: Year 1811.
The outstanding revenue bonds, afier de
cucting the expenses of colicction and alfowe
ing for bud debts, will not probubly, on the
Ist day of Junuary, 1811, fall short of
- $11,500,000 ; the actual receipts for the year
1811, cn account of the sales of lunds, may
be esiimated at $500,000 ; and it is presume
ed that the porton of the revenue arising
from importations subsec uent to the present
year, which ww received in 1811, will be
more than suff®icut to puy the cebentures
payable in that year. The uctval receipts in
to the Treasury duiing hat year may theve
fore be estimated at $12,590.000
Estimating the exrfenses of Covernument for the year
: 1811 net to exceed the enount acinuiy expended dure
dng the year ending on the 3Uik of Sepiem g 1310,
that is to suy—
Expenses ot # civil pature,
* both domestick and for
cign - . 81,240,00
Military and naval depart
ments 4,120,000
; " 5,430,000
And adding thereto the
"mcrcst of the publick
‘debt, estimated at 2,550,000
The aggregate of the cur
rent ¢xpenses, exclusive- '
ly of the payments on ac- -
count of the principal of
- the debt, would not ex- ,
- ceed Y,980,008
- The payments on account
. ofsthe principal ol the .4
~ debt will be applicable to
~ the annual ‘reimburse-
F mwent on the 6 per cent,»
anddeferred stocks 1o the e
re-payment of the low ) ‘
. $2,750,000, eﬂ'c%ﬁ " }
~ ycar, and to the reims A
~ bursement in the partof
~the converted 6 per cent,
stock ; and wmust, in or
_der to complete the anu
~al appropriation ol $B,OOO
OvY, amount L 0 5,450,000
Muking for the whole a.
mount of the- expendi- | .
tures af the year 1811 13,130,008
Or about $1,000,000 s.ore '
than the receipts of the .
same year.
If thercfore, the estimate conld be relied
on, =n authority to borrow $ 1,000,000 wouli,
be sufficient to enable government to puy a
the current expenses, und to reimburse nears
Iy $4,500,000 of the principal of the debt,
lew¥ing ut the same time in the Treasury a
balance of 2,000,000, a sum not grcaterngu
whaty under existing circumstances, it is eli
gible to reserve. But a deficiency may take.
place in the receipts if the amount of deben
tures should exceed what has been estimated
and the expenses for the military and naval
departments (which, according to the esti
mates of those departments, and exclusively
of the min necessary for fortifications, a~
mount to $4,916,000) may be greater than
the amount actually expenced during the
- year ending on the Soth Sept. 1810. In or
~ der 10 provide for these and other unforeseen
contingencies, the propriety of anthorizing a
re-loan, not exeeeding in the whole the ae
- mount of the principal of the debt reimburs
ed during the same year, is respectiully sub
} mitted.
PUBLICK DEBRT.
Tt appears by the statcwnem (D) _that the
- paynients on aecount of the \nincid of the
publick debt huve amounted duning the year
. ending on the 30th sept. 1810,10 §2.6884.000
[ and during the 9 years and a hall ending on
the same duy, to near 37.700,000 ; exclu
sively of more than 6,000,000 paid in con
formity with the provisious of the copvention
with Great Briwin and of the Louisiuna con
vention.
Tuking the calender year 181¢ by itself
the principal of the debt actually reimbursed
will amount to $5,163,376, viz. - '
Anouval reimbursement of
6 per cent' and deferred
stocks 2 $1,412,251
Reimbursement of the 6 o
per cent. exc.anged stock 5.751,12§
——
5,103'37‘
Fromy, which ‘educting the
loan from the bank of 2,750,000
-—--—_~
Leaves for the actnal de- :
crease of the debt during |
the year . 2.413,376
‘t* ' 4'—---
" The loa%mhqrized Ly the act of last ses
~ sion bad at first been neguciated in the latter
end of Muy, fop 3,750,000 dels. Lut' the ex
- penses having proved less than had been sup.
posed, it wue}t;gomumul consent reduced in
Oct. to 2,750,000. With thatwhject in view,
~in order that no gr‘er sam should be ulti
mately bom? thah might be necessary.and
_also in order 16 avoidas Jong as pnﬂicm
~ap increase of stock in the market, and
of a 801‘ perma sper'q of debt's tem
[ porary loan ffrom the bank of the U. States
was preferred oany cther mode. Itis r
" hursable on the ltd.”m. 1811, with a
~ peservation, that t mm in case of &
_mog-rengwal of its C » deinund an earlier