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Treasury Department, March 3.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 1st
*nst. I have the honor to state :
1st. That the five per cent, reserved
by the act of 30th of April, 1802, or) the
net monies received for public lands in
the state of Ohio, sold since 1st fulv,
1802, lias amounted to the following
sums, viz.
. 1 ot J uly,l S02,to 30 th J une, 1803,
0220 00
Do. 1803 do. 1804, 8310 17
Do. 1804 do. 1805, 13994 30
Do. 1805 do. 1806, 31442 20
Do. 18^6 do. 1807, 28827 92
;)°*k i or - t0 3-!St 1 1 5000 00
eember, 180, , estimated, j
S103894 59j
And that the said 5 per cent, will
henceforth probably amount to 30,000
dollars a year.
2d. That of the 30,000 dollars appro
priated by act of 29tn March, 1306,
there has been expended in hiving out
the Cumberland road from Cumberland
to Brownsville, about 10,000
That there may be wanted to
complete the location about 5,000
S 15,000
3d. That contracts have been made
for opening r.nc hall of the breadth of
said road, which, as verbally informed
in one of the commissioners, will re
quirt about 3000 dollars, leaving pro
bably about 12000 of the appropriation
for the further improvement of the
road.
4th. That the portion of the road ac
tually located and confirmed, no part of
which exceeds an angle of five degrees,
extends from the navigable water of the
Potomac, at Cumberland, to the navi
gable waters of the Mononge.hela, at
Brownsville, (Jfedstone old fort) and
s stated, though no official report has
been math to me, at about 70 mile s.
5th. That that road can be considered
a* a rational object, only if completed
as .» turnpike, whe reby all the flour and
other produce of the west* rn adjacent
countries mav be brought to a market
on the Atlantic shores, and the trans
portation of all the salt, commodities,
and merchandize whatever, imported
from the Atlantic ports to the western
country, generally, may be reduced
probably one dollar per hundred weight.
* And lastly : That the expence of
completeing that part of the road in
such manner, is estimated at 400,000
dollars.
1 have the honor to be
Respectfully, sir,
Your obedient servant,
Albert Gallatin.
Hon.John Montgomery, of Maryland,
chairman, Ike. in congress.
In the House of Representatives,
March 17th, a message from th' presi
dent was delivered by Mr. Coles, his
sccretarv. The president states that
the recent additional decrees of Spain
and France, and the increasing dangers
of the seas, furnish another proofofthe
wisdom of the embargo law. With
the message, were transmitted the Spa
nish decree of the 3d of J inuary 1803,
and the French decree of December 26,
1807. The president in his message,
remarked, that he had received no offi
cial intelligence of the French decree ;
but there could be no doubt of its au
thenticity. The message and docu
ments were read and refered to a com
mittee of die whole on the state of the
union.
IN TE L L IC ENCE.
London, January 23.
Hamburgh and Altona papers have
arrived to the 19ih. In the prosecution
of that . vsiem of overthrowing every
ancient establishment and government
on the continent, Bonaparte hi about to
change the form of the government of
Switzerland ; and Berthier, to whom
some time ag® the principality of Netif
chatel was to be given, ;s to be king.—
Another of Bonaparte’s ministers is to
■ be rt warded with a crown, and Talley
' rarnl, for whom the crown of Holland
J was at first said to be destined, is to be
the new king of Portugal.
Thursday, the merchants in London
interested in the American trade, sent
a deputation to Mr. Percevei to know
how far it would be prudent to send
goods to America. Mr. Percevei, of
course, was silent as far as respected of
sensive measures on the part of Ameri
' ca, but expressed his willingness to
grant licences to vessels going from
hence to America with British goods.
In consequence of this assurance, seve
ral vessel* will be immediately dispatch
ed.
i The aiders of Gloucester and Nor
folk, earls Gray, Lauderdale, & Moira,
and Lords Sid mouth and Holland, have
entered the following protest on the
books of the House of Lords, against
that part of the address which relates to •
Copenhagen.
u Dissentient—B cause no proof
of hostile intention on the part ol Den
mark has been n Iduced, nor any case
of necessity made out, to justify the
attack upon Copenhagen, without
which the measure is in our conception,
discreditable to the character, and
ini jrious to the interests of this coun
try.
W. Frederick, Vassal Holland,
Rawdon, (Moira) Norfolk,
Lauderdale, Sidmouth.
Grey,
Lord Erskine has entered another ve
rv long one, which we must postpone
till our next.
February 4.
Letters from Oporto ol the 20th ult.
have been received in town. The wri
ters describe their present situation at*
lamentable, and their prospects equally
deplorable. They .ire suffering under
a scarcity of provisions : and this cala
mity is aggravated by the obligation of
supporting 15,Goo Spanish troops.
A report prevailed on Tuesday mor
ning, said to be founded on intelligence
received from Holland, that Russia had
declared war against Sweden.
Private letters state that a levy en
masse had taken place in Sweden, by
order of the government, and that there
is not a male in the kingdom capable
of bearing arms, who is not a soldier..
In Stockholm alone, the militia con
sists of 10,000 effective men. To the
pretensions ol Russia, the kingol Swe
den is determined to make every resist
ance, *
Gukknock, January 22.
Accounts from Holland, received by
a Portuguese vessel arrived in the
Thames, from Amsterdam, states that
most of the neutral vessels which were
seized under the first operation ol Bo
naparte's decree, in consequence of be
ing laden with Bihish merchandize,
have lately been condemned by the
Dutch Courts, and their cargoes order
ed to be publicly sold. A regulation
how ever lias b'-rn adopted, bv which the
owners or persons to whom the cargoes
were consign-d,are nllowcdto repurchase
them, if they choose to pay at the rate