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FIRST CLASS.
—And this further justice to the u.
nited States is the rather to be looked
for, inasmuch as the blockades in ques
tion, being not more contrary to the
established law of nations, than incon
sistent with the rules of blockade for
merly recognized by Great-Britain
herself, could have alledged no 1 basis,
other than the plea of retaliation, al
ledgcd as the basis of the orders in
council. Under the modification of
the original orders of Nov. 1807, into
the orders of April 1809, there is indeed
scarcely a nominal distinction between
the orders and the blockades.—-One of
those illegitimate blockades, bearing
date in May 1806, having been express
ly avowed to be still unrescinded, and
to be in effect, comprehended 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 compliance withit. The British gov
ernment was accordingly apprised by
our minister near it, that such was the
light in which the subject was to be re
garded.
On the other important subjects de
pending between the U. States and,that
government, no progress has been
made, from which an early and satis
factory result can be relied on.
In this new posture of our relations
with those powers, the consideration
of Congress will be properly turned to
••••
From the Nat. Intelligencer—Extra.
WASHINGTON CITY, DEC. 5, 1810.
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 pre
vailed in our foreign relations, and so
much employed the deliberations of
Congress, make it a primary duty in
meeting you, to communicate whatev
er may have Occurred in that branch of
our national affairs.
The act of the last session of Con
gress “ concerning the commercial in
tercourse between the United States
and Great Britain and France and
their dependencies," having invited, in
a new form, a termination of their e
dicts 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 minister at Paris, it ap
peared, that a knowledge of the act by
the French government, was followed
by a declaration that the Berlin and
Milan decrees were revoked, and would
cease to have effect on the first day of
November ensuing. These being the
only known edicts of France, within
the description of the act, and the re
vocation of them being such that they
ceased, at that date, to violate our
neutral commerce; the fact, as pre
scribed by law, was announced by a
proclamation bearing date the second
day of Notem^er.
It would have well accorded yith
the conciliatory views, indicated by
this proceeding on the part of France,
to have extended them to all thegrounds
of just complaint, which now remain
unadjusted with the United States. It
was particularly anticipated that, as a
further evidence of just dispositions to
wards them, restoration would have
been immediately made of the proper
ty of our citizens seized under a mis
application of the principle of repri.
sals, combined with a misconstruction
of a law of 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 commu
nication from our minister in London
of the revocation, by the French gov
ernment, of its Berlin and Milan de
crees, it was answered that the British
system would be relinquished as soon
as the repeal of the French decrees
should have actually taken effect, and
the commerce of neutral nations have
been restored to the condition in which
it stood, previously to the promulga
tion of those decrees. This pledge, al
though it does not necessarily import,
does not exclude the intention of re
linquishing, along with the orders in
council, the practice of those novel
blockades which have a like effect of in
terrupting our neutral commerce.
President's Message.
Our amity with the Powers of Bar
bary, with the exception of a recent
occurrence at Tunis, of which an ex
planation is just received, appears to
have been uninterrupted, and to have
become 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 disposition to preserve both
continues to gain strength.
I feel particular satisfaction in re
marking that an interior view of our
country presents us with grateful
proofs of its substantial and increasing
prosperity. To a thriving agricul
ture, and the improvements related to
it, is added a highly interesting exten
sion of useful manufactures; the com
bined product of professional occupa
tions, and of household industry.
Such indeed is the experience of econo
my, as well as of policy, in these
substitutes for supplies heretofore ob
tained by foreign commerce, that, in a
national point of view, the change is
justly regarded as of itself more than
a recompense for those privations and
losses resulting from foreign injustice,
which furnished the general impulse
required for its accomplishment. How
far it may be expedient to guard the in
fancy of its improvement in this distri
bution of labor, by regulations of com
mercial tariff, is a subject which can
not fail to suggest itself to your patri
otic reflections.
It will rest with the consideration of
Congress, also, whether a provident, as
well as fair encouragement, would not
be given to our navigation, by such
regulations as will place it on a level
of competition with foreign vessels,
particularly in transporting the import
tant and bulky productions of our
own soil. The failure of equality
and reciprocity in the existing regula
tions on this subject operates, in our
ports, as a premium to foreign compe
titors ; and the inconvenience must in
crease, as these may be multiplied,
under more favourable circumstances,
by the more than countervailing en
couragements now given them by the
laws of their respective countries.
Whilst it is universally admitted,
that a well instructed people alone
can be permanently a free people? &
whilst it is evident that the means of
diffusing and improving useful know!-;
edge form so small a proportion of the.
expenditures for national purposes, I
cannot presume it to be unseasonable
to invite your attentibn to the advan
tages of superadding to the means of
Among the events growing out of
the state of the Spanish monarchy, our
attention was imperiously attracted to
the change developing itself iri that
part of West Florida, which, though
of right appertaining to the United
States, had remained in the possession
of Spain; awaiting the result of nego
tiations for its actual delivery to them.
The Spanish authority was subverted ;
arid a situation produced, exposing
the country , to ulterior events which
essentially affect the rights and welfare
of the Union. In such a conjuncture,
I did not delay the interposition re
quired for the occupancy of the terri
tory west of the river Perdito; to
which the title of the United States ex
tends, and to which the laws, provided
for the teritory of Orleans, arc appli
cable.- With this view, the proclama
tion, of which a copy is laid before you
was confided to the governor of that
territory, to be carried into effect.
The legality and necessity of the course
pursued, assure me of the favorable
light in which it will present itself to
the legislature; and of the prompti
tude, in which they will supply what
eCTr--f,ns may be duelq the es,
sential rights and equitable interest of
the people thus brought into the bo
som of the American family.
a removal of doubts which may occur
in the exposition, and of difficulties in
the execution of the act above cited.
The commerce of the United States,
with the North of Europe, heretofore
much vexed by licentious cruisers,
particularly under the Danish flag, has
latterly been visited with fresh and ex.
tensive depredations. The measures
pursued in behalf of our injured citi
zens not having obtained justice for
them, a further and more formal inter
position with the Danish government
is contemplated. The^rinciples which
have been maintained by that govern,
ment in relation to neutral commerce,
and the friendly professions of his
Danish Majesty towards the United
States, arc valuable pledges in favour
of a successful issue.
Among the commercial abuses still
committed under the American flag,
and leaving in force my former refer
ence to that subject, it appears that A
merican citizens arc instrumental in
carrying on a trafficin enslaved Afri
cans, equally in violation of the laws
of humanity, and in defiance of those
of their own country. The same just
and benevolent motives which produ
ced the interdiction in force against
this criminal conduct, will doubtless
be felt by Congress, in devising fur
ther means of suppressing the evil.
In the midst of uncertainties, nec
essarily connected with the great in
terests of the United States, prudence
requires a continuance of our defen
sive and precautionary arrangements.
The &riuoiry nf L.&- .•
tary of the Navy will submit the state,
ments and estimates which may .aid
Congress in their ensuing provisions
for the land and naval force. The
statements of the latter will include a
view of the transfer of appropriation,
in the naval expenditures, and the
grounds on which they were made.
The fortifications for the defence of
our maritime frontier have been prose
cuted according to the plan laid down
in 1808. The works, with some ex
ceptions, are completed arid furnished
with ordnance. Those for the secu
rity of the city of New York, though
far advanced toward completion, will
require further time and appropriation.
This is the.case with a few others, ei^
ther not completed or in need of repair.
The improvements, in quality and in
quantity, made in the manufactory of
cannon and small arms, both at the
public armories and private factories,
warrant additional confidence in the
competency of those resources, for
supplying the public exigencies.
These preparations for arming the
militia, having thus far provided for
one of the objects contemplated by
the power vested in congress^ with
respect to that great bulwark of the
public safety ; it is for their consider
tion whether further provisions are not
requisite, for the other contemplated
objects of organization and discipline.
To give to this great mass of physical&
moral force, the efficacy which it mer
its, and is capable of receiving, it is
indispensable that they should be in
structed and practised in the rules by
which they are to be governed. To
wards an accomplishment of this im
portant work, I recommend for the
consideration of congress the expedien
cy of instituting a system, which shall
in the first instance, call into the field,
at the public expense, and for a given
time, certain portions of the commis
sioned and non-commissioned officers.
The instruction and discipline thus ac
quired would gradually diffuse through
the entire body of the militia a practi
cal knowledge and promptitude for ac
tive service, which are the great ends
to be pursued. Experience has left
no doubt either of the necessity, or the
efficacy, of competent military skill in
those portions of an army, in fitting
it for the final duties, which it may
have to perform.
The corps of Engineers, with the
Military Academy, are entitled to the
early attention of Congress. The
Buildings at the Seat ? fixt by law,
for the present Academy, are so far
in decay, as not to afford the necessary
accommodation. But a revision of the
law is recommended, principally with
Such an institution, though local
in its legal character, would be uni.
versa! in its beneficial effects. By en
lightening the opinions: by expand,
ing the patriotism : and by assimilat
ing the principles, the sentiments and
the manners of those who might resort
to this temple of science, to be re-dis
tributed in due time through every
part of the community; sources of
jealousy and prejudice would be dimin
ished, the features of national charac
ter would be multiplied, and greater
extent given to social harmony. But
above all a well constituted seminary in
the centre of the nation is recom
mended by the consideration that the
additional instruction emanating, from
it would contribute not less to strength
en the foundations, than to adorn the
structure of our free and happy sys.
tern of government.
education provided by the several
States, a seminary of learning, insti
tuted by the national legislature, with,
in the limits of their exclusive juris
diction ; the expense of which might
be defrayed, or reimbursed, out of the
vacant grounds which have accrued to
the nation within those limits.
[No. 31.