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tt wilt via rites dm, inatilltat of toslgiesi to
decide how far the change in our externs! prospects
mitt' authorize any modilltetiona of.the laws re4ar-
ingo the army and navy establishments.. •
The works of defence for our sea-port towns
Atqct harbours have proceeded with as much activity
*.the season of the year and other circumstances
would admit.---It is taecesiary, however, to slide,
that the appropri.tioas hitherto eta tde being found
to be deficient, a further provision will claim the
early consideration of Congress.
" The whole of the 8 per cent. stock rein. g
due hr the United States, amounting to 3,300,000
dolly% had heen reimbursed on the last day of the
Teat 1804. Anti on the IA day of April last, the
'emu in the Treasury exceeded nine and a half mil-
lions of dollars. This, together with the receipts of
She current year, on account of former Revenue
bonds, will profitably henearly, if not altogether
suffieient, to defray the exilenwa of the year. But
the suspension of exports, and toe consequent de-
crease of iroportations, duriag the last li months,
will necessarily cause a great diminution in the re-
ceipts of the year 1810. After that year, should our
fmeigo relations be undistisibed, the Revenue will
again be more than commensurate to all the exited-
ditures.
" Under the existing aspect of our affairs, I have
thought it not inconsistent tN sth a just precaution, to
hate the gun-bouts, with the eirception of those at
New Orleans, placed in a situation ineurriug no ex-
prose layotof that requisite for their preservation
and convetiienry for future service; and to have the
crews of those et New Orleans reduced to the nuns.
l.er required for their navigation am! safety.
" I have thougbt also, that our citizen► detached
in quotes of militia, amounting to 100,000, mailer
the Act of March, MP, might not improperly
be relieved from the state in which they were h.ld
for immediate service. A discharge of them has
been accordingly directed.
" The progress made in raising and organizing
the additional 'winery force, for which provi.ion
was made he the Act of April, lsuB, together with
the disposition of the troops, will appear by at Re-
port which the Secretary at War is preparing, and
which will be laid before you. •
" Of the additional frigates required by all Act ,
of the lent Ses►ion to be fitted for actual +larvae%
two are in readiness, one nearly so, coil the fourth
is expected to be ready in the month of July. A
Report, which the Secretary of the Navy is pre-
paring on the subject, to be laid before Congress,
will spew, et the same time, the progress made in
°Seams and 'nautilus these shipc. It will allow
also the degree in which the pstoisions of the Act
Mantis to the totter public armed vewicklutve been
carried int* effect.
" Aware or the inconvenience of a protracted
Session at the present season of the year, I forbear
to call the attrution of the Legislature to any mat-
ters not !mutat uiarly urgent. It retusists therefore
only to assure you of the fidelity soil alaerit•r with
which I shall co-op eratc for the welfare and happa-
lie.s or our cotiotry, and to pray that it tray expo-'
of the Divine blessings by

td.idttydacn, still tordintiesill bold lie seats
of office. We war not wit!, indiiidnals, at with
measure& It is not the-Duke of Purrann, or
Earl COMM, or Lord Ctisrt.staeindc sgain4
whore we desire personally tar point our enintnents.
It is the varillatiao, contrasted with the pr,•Noi-
fancy ; the sauctunonious affectation of larotertin
church which is not attacked, colulnoett ehtli the
narrow and intolerant spirit of their legislation ; it
is, ahuve all, their atter inaptitude, et this awful
period, to direct the external nod foreign interests
of g natieu, contending for its existence and for the
cmieleipatinsi of Europe, with a ruvulationary‘
S.,verrigii of Hoexdrople4l energies sad ability !
These are the vital point., in which they are alto-
gether inedequate and defective. to order to pore
the allegation. it is only necessary to throw 14 1..-ty
glance over the great features of the Sessoui psi
concluded.
Can, or does any men doubt, however way
vote there any General, or any Field Officer in
the service--who does not admit, that, to the con-
tradictory, illjildiClOUS, or impracticable
sent to Sir JOHN MoOali from the SECet-
rAar for the WAR DEPARTHIaIe, and slid more
peremptorily inculcated or enforced by Mr. Facac,
the ruin of that flue artily sent to Spain, was enii-
nently, we may say exclusively, due ? Dial 'tot
the debates on that melancholy and
subject, in both Muses of Padiaineii at the be- '
ginning of the Session, sufficiently prove the fact
to demonstration ? floe not the Cabinet been
compelled to recall the ;Moister who thinr urged
and propelled Sir JOHN MOMM to advance from
Salamanca towerds Madrid, when he wosild other-
wise have led back his troops. without the loss of
a single man. to Vigo? IVhere are the eight
thousand Brnish troops who perished between SA-
liegon and COMMIX ? We may exclaim, as Au-
ousrus dial, under the anguish of a similar .calisusity,
" R.4ds milai, Value, legion*!"
But, like bun, we must submit to deplore a astir
fortune which is not to be redressed.'yt
Is it, thou, in the conduct of Ministers;dtiring
the last Session. when ernploy,,,l or dOnteitie ti;ZUS.
actions, that we shall find any counterpoise or any
ennsolatiou, for the incapacity manifested in their
external relations and measures? How did they
conduct the business of the late CoItIIIANDER-1,1-
CHIEF ? How did they defind him ? (1/. rather,
how did they expose him ? flow can tooter
the apartment, how stand in the pretence of, th/fr
ROYAL Muria, whose regal, end whose reroute.:
feedings, they equally riolate,g As belie did they
consult the dignity of the Hummer cominon. or
the seurtinenta•of .rod:,Atiop at 'larks.. ty teat inju-
dicious, as well as intiecrkeits Wm* of examination
and inquiry which they thought -proper to adopt.
iertead of referring it to a Committee above stairs !
Mr. PERCETAL'S only aim seems to have been to
! prove the culpability, to es4.aase the misconduct,
hot to demount and to enforce the acquittal of the
Duke of Vomit. Sri. Vlcate admirably recoiided
the efforts of the ChANCF.I,LOR of the EELHEoutte.
in eleyating the character of the accuser, and .in
I;oppreesing that of the accuse I. But, we believe,
'tat Ministers are content to let the veil of oblivion
ie extended over the merifs of this part of their
,conduct, without challeugio; for it either the
thanks of the Crown, or the approbation of the
subject.
Do they assume a triumph from the proved and
avowed traffic of seats in Pailiament, by a Member
of the Cabinet and of the House; because that

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