Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1803-11-22 00:00:00, page 2

The annual app >priation of 7,300,000 dollars
r 'he payment of the principal and tntereft of
he tebt ; of which ah u? three millions and an ;
half are at present applicable to the dilcharge of
the principle, & the residue to the payment ot in
terest. • Dolls. 7,300,000,
2 The current expenses of
government which according
to the'eltimates for the year
2804 coriflit of the following
items, viz.
For the civil department &
and all domeflic expends of
a civil nature, 791,009
For expenses attending the
intercourse with for ign na
tions including the permanent
appropriation sot Algiers, and
all other expenses relative to
the Barbary powers, 134,000
For the military & Indian
departments, 875,000
For the naval establishment
calculated on the supposition
that 2 frigates and 4 smaller
vedels shall be kept in com
miffioD, 650,000
2, 500,000
9,800,000
And deducted from the per
manent revenue ot 10,400,000
Leave a surplus revenue of 600,000
Six hundred thousand dollars applicable
to other objects.
The following extraordinary resources &
demands not being of a permanent nature,
are not included in that calculation, to wit :
The specie in the treasury,
which on the 30th day of Sep
tembet last amounted to, dols. 5,860,000
The arrears of the direct
tax estimated at 250,000
1 he outstanding internal
duties, amounting to near 400,000
And the sum which will be
paid to the U. S. cn account
of advances heretofore made
in England for the prosecution
of claims estimated at 150,000
Constituting an aggregate of 6,661,000
More than fix millions fix hundred thou
find dollars, which, after reserving the fun
it is necessary to keep in the treasury, will
be fufficient to discharge the demands due on
account of the convention with Great Britain,
and amounting to dolls. 2,464,000
Sundry extraordinary ex
d penf.s in relation to the con
ventions with France and G.
Britain, estimated at 100,000
The loan obtained from t'e
state of Maryland for the city
of Washington amounting to 200,000
And alfu to pay two millions 2,000 000
dols. 4,964,000
of dollars on account of the purchase of
Louisiana, being the fame sum which was
referred for the purposes, contemplated by
law the last feflion appropriating that amount'
for the extraordinary expenses attending the
intercourse with foreign nations.
It appears by the ellimate [D] that dur
ing the year ending on the 30th of Septem
ber last, the payments (or the treasury on
account of the public debt have amounted to
dols. 3,096,700
Which together with the in
crease of specie in the treasury
during the fame period,amount
ing to. 1,320,000
4,4'6,70c
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makesan adual difference in favor of th
United Statas of more than four hundred
thousand dollars during that year.
Tae payments on account of the princi
pal oflhe public debt, from the firft day of
April, iß>i, to the 301 b day of September,
1803, have amounted as appears by the esti
mate [E; tj dols. 9,924,004
The specie in the treasury
on the firft day of April, &„.
amounting to 1,794,000
And on the goth day of
September, 18 g, to 5,860,000
Making an iucreafe of 4,066,000
Those two it ms constitute an
aggregate of Dollars 13,990,004
From which deducing the ex
traordinary resource arising from
the sales of the bank (hares,which
produced 1,287,000
.Leaves for the amount of the
true difference 12,702,404
in favor of the United States, for that period, <>t 2
y»r& and an half, twelve millions ft ven hundred
thousand dollars.
From that view of the present filiation of the
financial concerns of the United States, it seems
mat th* only question which requires considera
tion is, frother any additional revenues are want
ed in oraer to provide for the new debt, which, if
2d. Noin< tea* of exp-nce in the military eftab
liGnreot of the U. States, is contemplated on ac
count of th- acquifitirn of territory; but the ex
pences of the civil admin ftration of the province
and those in idem to the intercourse with the In
dians, are est mated at 50,000 dollars ; leaving for
the nett revenue derived from the province, amo
applicable to the payment of the interest of the
new debt, 200,000 dollars, as above Gated.
The only provisions which, if that view of the
fubiea be corred,appear necessary, and are refpea
fully lubmitted, are
1. In relation to the flock of eleven million two
hundred anl fifty thousand dollars to be created in
favour of the government of France or of its assign
ees; ~
Congress (ball prfs the laws necessary to carry the
treaty with France into effed, will reluk from the
purchafc of Louisiana.
The sum which the United States may have to
pay by virtue of that treaty, amounts to fifteen
millions of dollars and con lifts of two items. First,
11,250,090 dollars, payable to the government of
France, or its affignecs, in a flock bearing an
interest of fix per cent, payable in Europe, arid the
principal of which will be difeharged at the Treafue
rv of the United States, in four inflalmeius the firft
of which thall commence in the year 18x8. —Se
condly, a sum which cannot exceed, but may fall
short of 3 750,000 dollars,payable, in specie, at the
Treasury oi the United fiates, during the contle of
the ensuing year,to American citizens having claims
of a certain description on the government of France.
It has already been dated that two millions of
dollars may be paid from the specie now in the
treasury, on account of the last item ; and the whole
amount of the new debt which may be eventually
created, cannot therefore exceed thirteen millions
of dollars, the annual interest of which is equal to
^BO,OOO dollars ; but on account of commission s,
and variations of exchange, will be estimated at
800,000 dollars.
It is ascertained that the exportations from the
United States to Florida are so trifling that that
statement may be considered as applying solely to
New Orleans; and it is also known that almost
rhe whole of those importations were conformed
within that colony, and that during the war the fup
lies from the United States constituted by far the
greater part of its imparts.
From thence it results that the annual importa
tion into the ceded territory, of articles destined for
the consumption of its own inhabitants, and which
will under the revenue laws of the U. States, be lia
ble to pay duty, may fafely be efiimaed at two
millions five hundred thousand dollars ; an amount
which, at the prefect rate of duties, will yield a rev.
enue of about 350,000 dollars. From that reve
ue must be deducted 150,000 dollars, for the fol
lowing items, viz.
isl. The amount of duties on a quantity of Su
oar and Indigo equal to that which shall be import
ed from New-O leans into the U. States ; as thole
articles being imported free from duty, will dimin
id) by so much the revenue now collided in tlx
ea ports of the U. States. The whole amount of
tugar exported from New. Orleans is hfs the ll
4000,000 of pounds, and that of indigo is Gated at
?j,ut thirty tboufaod pounds. Supposing (which
on account of th d exemption, is not improbable)
that me whole of those articles fliould hereafter be
exported to the United Scite% the loss to the rev
enue w'l! be abut 100.0C0 dollars.
That that debt be made acharge on the finking
fun<i, directing the commiflianers of the fund to ap
ply so much of its proceeds as may be necessary for
the payment of interest and reimbursement or re
demption ofthe principal, in the fame manner as, by
the txtfling laws, they are dirt fled to do in relation
to the payment of interest and difeharge of the prin
cipal of the debt now charged on that fund.
That so much o f the duties on merchandize and
tonnage as will be equal to feveo hundred thousand
dollars, being the sum wanted to pay the interest of
that new stock, be added to the annual permanent
appropriation for the fink ng fund—making togeth
er with the existing appropriation, eight millions of
dollars, annually app icable to he payment of the in
terest and principle of the public debt.
And that the said annual sum of eight millions of
dollars remain thus pledged and be veiled in the
commissioners of the finking fund in trust for the
said payment, until the whole of the exiting debt of
the United States, and of the new flock, fliall have
b en reimbtirfed or redeemed.
Asa sum equal to the interest accruing on the
new flock will thus be added to the finking fund,
the operation of that fund, as it relates to the extin
£iiifbmei)t ofthe exiting debt, will remain precisely
on the fame footing as had been heretofore provided
by Congress. The- new debt will neither impede
nor retard the payment of the principal of the old
debt ; and the fund will be fufficient, betides paying
Toat opinion refts' on the supposition that Con
grels (ball place that port on the fame footing as
those of tin U. Gates; so that the fame duties shall
be collect'd there on the importation of foreign
merchandize as now by law levied in the United
Gates; ant that no duties Giali be collided either
n the exportation of produce or merchandize from
New-Orleans to any piece ; nor on any articles im
ported into the U. Gates from the ceded territories
from the U. Gates.
The Gaiements F. G. H. exhibit the annual ex
ports ano imports of the United Gates to and from
Florida and Louisiana, for the years 1799 to 1802 ;
and the ftitement [G] particularly (hews that the
exportation from the Atlantic Gates to those colo
nies, of articles, not of the growth, produce or man
ufa-ure of the United States amounted tor the years
1 790, 1800, 1801, andißoz to 6,622,189 dollars ;
0; king an average of more than two millions two
hundred thousand dollars of foreign articles liable to
pay duty, annually imported into Florida and Loui
tiana from the United Gates alone.
The exiting surplus revenue of the United Gates
will, as has been dated, be fufficient to discharge fix
hundred thousand dollars of s hat sum, and it is ex
peaed that the nett revenue crikaed at New. O
rleans will be equal to the remaining two hundred
thousand dollars.
if Every armed vessel forming part of the
National Flotilla, flhill have her crew complete,
in. conformity to the order of the 18th last Mef
fidor (July 7.)
2. The Commander#>nd Officers, both by sea
and land, embarked on board these vessels, the
crews and the troops of debarkation, mull regu
larly eat and deep on board.
3. The regulations for manoeuvring for ap
proaching the coast and landing, must be obfetw
ed with the greatest ftrianefs, shall be written ful.
It is evident that the peffibility efthus providing
for the payment of the interest of a new debt of
thirteen millions of dollars, without either retiring
to new taxes on interfering with the provision here
tofore mace for the payment 1 of the exiling debt,
depends on the corredntfs of the tfiimhte el the
public revenue which has been submitted. Al
though it is not without diffidence that the hepe of
such favourable rc-fult is entertaii ed, 4mt reliance
is placed on the solidity of the tafis on which the
est mate is grounded. It rests principally on the
expectation that the revenue of the entiling years
shall not be less than that which accrued in the year
1802. No part of it depends cn the probable in
create which may result from the neutrality of the
United States during the contiruance of the war in
Europe; nor even on the proguffivc augmentation,
which, from past expedience nay naturally be cx
ptAtd to ante from the gradual increase of popula
tion and wealth. Not has that effid teen taken
into confide ration w hich the uninterrupted free na
vigation of the M ffifippi, and the acquifitiou of
New-Orhans nm, have, either on the Gates of the
public lands, or on general resources of the inhab
itants of the wvft.ru Gates.
All of which is rcfpeaively submitted,
^lber T GALLATIN,
Secretary of the Treasury.
From a London paper.
Admiral Bruix has fedbli/hed the fallowing
PROCLAMATION.
Head Quarters Boulogne, Jtly 30.
" E. Bruix, Counsellor of State, and -dn iral
to the national flotilla, destined to carry war to
England:
" The First Consul, when Ie lignified to me
your destination, honored me wi,h the title of
your Admiral. He fends me to you to c< ndud
your exertions in the career of glory, which his
genius has prepared for you. What man, at this
distinguished proof of the confidence of a hero,
would not be railed above himfelf ? Who could
doubt of his (own powers? Brave fearren, the
choice of Bonaparte tenders me worthy to
march at your head. Your zeal and your brave
ry are pledges to me that we shall fulfil h:s ex
pedations. Already you hear the cry of ven
geance. Our towns and diftrids bring in their
voluntary gifts ih multitudes. All Frenchmen
are ready to match to punish a government
which is an enemy of the peace of the world,
and especially an enemy of the glory and welfare
of ohr country. You are firft called to this great
enterprize. To you your country firft commits the
care of fatisfying her just Vengeance. Be cer
tain that you will fulfil your noble destination —
Recoiled that the vidory begins in your docks;
and in your marine and military exetciles. Let
those Grips which insolently cruize along our
shores, at fight of your labours, return and fay
to their Government, " A fearful day is pre
paring. The winds and sea again favorable to
the Conqueror of Egypt, may in a few hours
bring him to cur coatis, and with him the innu
merable companions of his glory.'' T^ batten
this tefult, it is my firft duty to establish a severe
discipline in the National flotilla. Subordination ,
will regulate your efforts ; that alone can add to
the activity of your labours ; ; failoi s, we are on
the field of battle ; to lose a moment will be
criminal cowardice. Red< üble, therefore, your
zeal, multiply your service, and the nation which
oppresses the leas will be conquered by terror, i
before it experiences the fate of arms, and links
beneath the blows of your nerves.
[Signed] "BRUIX."
The following are the regulations to be ob
served on board the National Flotilla to be em
ployed againtt England, as issued by Admiral
Bruix, the Commander in Chief.
Thu a sum not exceeding 3 750 oco dollars in
clusive of the two millions appropriated by a law of
lire last feffien of Congress hr defraying the extra
ordinary expences in< iticut to the intercourse with
foreign nations, be appropriated for the payment of
those claims, to be paid out of any monies in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.
That for the purpose of effiAing the whole of
that payment, the President of the United States be
authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding one mil
lion seven hundred and fifty ibouiand dollars, at an
interest not exceeding fix per cent a year.
'And that so much of the proven sos the duties
on merchandize and tonnage as msy be necefl^y,
be appropriated for the pa, ment of ihe in cleft and
the reimburfemeut of the principal of the loan
which may eventually be effi^ed by virtue of the
prece<ling provision.
the interest on bdib, to discharge the principal of the
oki cebt; before the year 1818, and that of the new,
within one year and an halt after that year.>
2. In relation to the American claims, the pay
ment of which is aflumed by the convention with-
France.
It isfout proposed to charge that loan on the link
ing fund, because its amoum, in case it shall be es.
feded, cannot at ptefint be afeertaiued ; and be
cause it may, perhaps, under then ex ; fting circum-
Gances of the treasury, be found more expedient not
to borrow the money ; and, in lieu of it, to pay cut
of the finking fund the whole or pare of the two
last inftalments | ayable by virtue of the convention
with Great- Britain, as auihoriled by the adt making
provision fur the payment of the whole of the pub
lie debt.
1, cut, and placed in fight of the crew in the
most cenfpicuous part of the veffd. rs
4. Before the Grips fail, a beard flail be fixed
up, the contents ct which shall be , ead akud
„f " S ,. te L in ^ placed in lhe fi; r, on v hich
shall be mfcritcd the name of :L e individuals "to
be cn ployed in fucceffen in Gated works in civ
mg assistance to such vessels as may require it or
forth pur pole of extinguiffiing any flame which
may break out in the pens or road. A com
, missioned officer, or in his ic<m a Midflripman,
or MaGer, shall be at all times ready to corduft
this detachment, and of ccurfe his name will be
inscribed in the board alluded to.
French Aimy of England.
The follow ing arrargerrents reffcatog the cettmanders
of th,s ain>y is Bated ?s fcvirg been detcrtiined co.
RIGHT UJNG-
Gen Devoust, Cmmardcr of the Cons Guarf Under
him, Gen. Dumas, CLki of the Staff.
CENTRE.
Bonaparte, Cen zander in Chief. Under him, Gs
E.r:hicr, Secretary of Wa, and Chief cl the Gen. Sts,
LEFT WING.
: Gen. Socle. Urdcflfo, Gen. Ardreeffi, Chief of ,
Staff the
1 United States frigate Fhiladd|hia, halt 01 Malaga, about
to mika—
MONDAY, AUG. 29th 1803.
JAMES SIMPSON, Esq.
Dear Sir,
I wrote you from Gibraltar on the 24th inst.
mentioning that we should fail the next morning
for Malta.
I Hearing at the Rock, that two Tripolitans
were off Cape de Gatt, made me proceed with
all expedition, to examine that part of the Span
ish coast. On the 26th, it blowing very ficfh : at
8 P. M. being nearly up with Cape de Gatt fell
in with a (hip carrying only her forefail which
! had a brig in company, under the fame fail. It
being irght, and her guns hetrfed, prevented an
immediate difeovery of her being a cruiser. Af
ter hailing for feme time, found that fte was a
;veffel of war from Barbary on which informa
tion I caused her boat to be sent aboard the fri
gate Philadelphia, with her paffports,frcm which
I difeovered, that (he was a cruiser belonging to
the Emperor of Morocco, called Mefhboha com
manded by Ibraham Lubareg, mounting 22
I guns, and manned with ico men. By not mak
ing ourselves known to the officer who came ch
board, he confefled that the brig in company was
an American, and had been with them three or
I four days, was bound to force port in Spain, had
been boarded by them but not detained.
The low fail the brig was under, induced me
' to fufpe& that they bad captured her notwitb-
I Handing their having your paffport,which it muff
I appear from the sequel was only obtained to pro
; test them against the American (hips of war. I
I sent my firft lieut. cn board to examine if they
had any American prisoners : on his attempting
to execute my orders, he was prevented by the
captain of the ci uifcr. This increased my fus
'picion, and I sent a boat with armed men to en
force my inftruftions ; after they were on board
- they found capt Richard Bowen, of the Ameri
can brig Celia, owned by Mr. Amafa Thayer, of
Bolton, and federal of his crew, who was taken
on the 17th ink. from Barcelona bound to Mal
aga, within two or three leagues of the Spanish
shore, and about 25 miles to the Ealiward cf
Malaga. The captain and 'he crew t ev had
confined below deck which they always did when
speaking a vessel. After B aking this difeovery
, J inttantly ordered all the Moorish on board the
frigate, ft : I made no hefiiation in capturing her
after futh proceedings on them part and violation
of the faith of passports which ought to be ficred.
Owing to the high w rd and sea, it tock me the
greater part of the night to get the pr£ <ners on
board and man the prize, which detention occa
finned losing fight of the brig.
The following morning difeovering many vef.
fels in divers difedions, the day 0 as spent by the
frigate and prize in chafing to find the captur
ed brig ; about 4 P. M. made her coming round
Cape de Gatt from the EaGward, (landing elofe
in ffiore for Almeria bay,owing to the wind being
very frefh we were going flow in approaching
her ; the great exertions were made by lieuten
; ant Coxe in towing and rowing the prize. For
tunately the wind increased in the evcning,&we re
! captured her at 12 o'clock at night. 'lhe Moors
confeffed that they came a cruifirg for the idle
purpose of capturing Amercans to be sent to
Tangier. I have received a paper from them
written in Moori(h,w hich they fay is their author
ity from the governor of Tangier for so doing,
I enclose this to Joh^Gavino, efq. vith a partic
ular lequeltto have it fafely conveyed to you that
you may lie informed of the circumstance and aft
accordingly. I believe the governor of Tan
gir is much difpnfed for hostilities with the Uni
ted States; the Moorish piifcncrs accuse him as
the sole cause of their prefcut fixation. I fincerel,
hope that the capture nay be productive of good
I effects to the United States with the Emperor,
who may be assured, that if he urjuftly gees to
war with the United States, he will lose every
large cruiser he has ; and God grant that it may
not in the least prove a difadvanrage to you. My
officers and felf have made it a marked point to
treat the prisoners not only with the lenity that
is due from humanity, but with particular at
tention and civility to impress on their minds a
favorable opinion of the American character.
That you may receive this information as earlyas &
possible, I difpath my boat cn (here at Malaga,
to request Wm. Kirkpatrick, efq. Conful,to fend
it ^ express to Gibraltar. I Grill be extremely
anxious to hear from you ^ also for the arri
val of commodore Preble, to receive his inthne
tions relative in the captured Grips. lam bound
to Gibraltar Bay with the prize, but am fearful ,
we shall be detained for want of an eaftwardly
wind. I am, &c. WILL'M BAINBRIDGE.