The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-12-08 00:00:00

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.s...ver• aloe in thosa necuirsiotts and pursuit.. which
• best preetiose theit own well being.
• tbeappopri4tismts. of the last 'session, foe the
ti !race of oar sea-port towns and barb lure, were
so.tde Wailer elpettatina that. a continuance of our
pe ice would permit us to, pTUCeei 1:1 that welt te-
sc.,rsting to oar couvzaience. It has been thought
better to apply the sums then given t,,wards the
defence of New-York, Charleston, and New Oi-
lcan., chiefly, as most open and most likely tipst
1., need protei iun. and to leave pl was less imme-
diately in danger to the provisions of the present
srssion.
• l'he gin-boats, ton, %beady provided. have on
a l'ke pnaciple beets chiefly assigned to New York,
New Oii•ans, and the Chesapeake. Whether our
moveable force m. tile water, so material in aid of
vie detenitve %voile% on the lead, should be augment-
ea in this or any other term, is left to the wisdom of
• r LegiJatute. Fur the purpose of manning these
irem.ets in sut.den attacks on our h Arbours, it is a
t• racer for consideration whether the seamen of the '
t nit •d States may not justly be formed into a spe-
e ai imlom, to be called on fur tours of duty in de-
••^ace ur the harbours, where they shall happen to
the ordwery militia of the place furnishing that
p •tti .st which may consist ol leadsmen.
•' The moment our peace was threatened. I
deemed it indispensable to secure a greater psoveion
or tnose articles .f military store., with which our
inagaaines were not 'Witt. fitly furnished; to have
awaited a previous and 1; eepal can Rion by law,
svuul.l hare lost occasions which might not be re-
Xeres!. 1 did fiat hesitate, therstiose, to auttiorise
tessigataents for such supplements to our.ejtsting
stack, as wou;.l render it adequate to the ellielgell-
Ctes threaten g us ; and 1 trues that thelorgulature,
leelsus the same ahmety for tire safety of ow coun-
try. so mateitatly advanceJ by toss precaution, will
apprion, when dune. what they would hoe seen so
lit/Mica to be Juice, it men asstinbled Lammers,
anti unproved, cl tor. altellt CUL of the necessity tef
eailii g all our gu,i hews into initial service, fur the
t..-fence ct our 1145 btsurs„ ail %shun iconlitita wail be
tail boom you.
• Whether 4 rcg..lar s)my is titt be raised, and to
Wilat is,. nt, mu.. drieeiiiii On the Wolin itiou
stnattly exp tted Its toe mean time I have celled
Ind the Si ices t.ir geoids of militia, to be in le4l/1011$6
fin present d. 1.1,e ; and hove, unaittivcr, cum"-
the acceptance tit .iu happy
rii inform you, that these Isaac offered themselves
with great ala-rity every vet r.l the uniutt. Thar.
are masted to be urganiaed, and ita.iy, at a mu- •
menee Warning, mu proceed stn Ail act Vilt a to ,4111C/1
th y may be ; and every peps' a:ion withos"
tie rtecutive rowers has beets Maas', 10 114 Ute ILS
tile betwixt of caly exertions.
or• I intermed Coni;ress, at their last session, of the
miMerptises against the public peace, whish ware be-
fewest so be in preparation by Aaron Burr and his
associasee, and of the nieottir es taken to defeat them,
:rat totems the off noels to justice. Their enter-
print were happily defeated by the patiiupc cael
tiIMS lit the militia, wherever called into action, by
the fidelity of the army. and energy of the COM-
soar.clet an Chief, in promptly arranging the diffi-
culties presenting themselves on the Sabine, prepar
ing to meet those as icing m; tbe Mississippi, Mad dis-
"yams. beloie their ezplunue, plots engendered
these. 1 *hail think it my duty to Icy beim' you
the proceedings and the evidence publicly exhibited
on the arraignment of the principal offenders before
the Disuiet Coo tof Virginia you will be enabled
so judge whether the detetl was in the testimony, in
clue la*, or in the edministrat.on of the law ; and
wherever it shell be bound, the Legislature .lone
. cam apply or originate the remedy. 'I be ft anii r. ut
a-ut Constitution certainly supposed they- had guard-
rd, as Welt their doveimlieut against ilesumflion
by trea.en. as their citizens against oppression un•
der pretence of it ; sad if these eons are not at-
tained, it is of impost:Mee to inquire by what meant
more .ffedually they
.may be stens est.
4 The accounts of the receipts of revenue during
the year e dtng on the 30th day ut September last.
bring not yet made up, a cussed statement will be
hereafter transmitted from the Tieatury. Its the
mean time it is ascertained, that the receipts have
amounted to near sixteen millions of &Hats, which,
m•tth the five millions and a half its the Tteasury at
the M•gissiinsg of the years have enabled us. atter
iiiact.ng the curt eat Clr:ilell4 Wad Miami incurred.
to pay more than !cur millions of the principal of
our funded dent. 'Flies, payments, with those of
the preceding five and an half years, haye extin-
guished of the funded debt teeenty-five millions
and an half dollars, being the whole which
could be paid or purchased within the limits of
the law, and 61 our couttads, and haste left us in
the Treasury eight niihions and an halt of dollars,
A portion ot this sum May be considered as a cons.
InitScettleitt of accumulation of the 11:111WICS of
• the Seventies which. alter paying o.e instalments of
debt as they shall become pay able, will remain
*Will= an, 'petite &'j.- t. it may partly, Indent
be implied' tuvril4llcon:pleting the .;e:eist:: ot the
esplased pnixts of nor uotintiy, no such a Seale 1111
AA be adapted in our in inci pies and co cu mstancts.
Phis °hied it, doubtless, among the first ents:led
to etention, in rock a state tit our tinaot.rs ; and it
i• ride which, whether we have peace or war, will
prcei le security where it is due. ‘Vlieth...r what
snalfremain of this, with the future surpluses, may
tie applied to purposes alread; actliorised,
or sdcte usefully to others re:pi:mg new atititori-
i ~ tor how otherwise :hey snail he di.pmed tif,
•. e vestions c filling 1.4 ti:e nJtie.? of Cougres4, tl4-
, a. as they 01,11 superse.l,l by a Cillfl.;C 1$ 'Alf
public relatiwis, now itwaitic7 Pie dezernsinatida of
u:bars.
" Whlteeer be that determinati.n, it is a great
:rnts'•lstirri, that it will become known at a moment
..erf the hopreme Council of the na•ion is assern-
iged at I:, po.s, and ready to give the aids of its
wlsoittn and authority to whatever course the good
of nit country shall then call it. to pursue.
S' Matteis of minor importance will be subjeds of
finale commit icaiiuns ; and nothing shalt he seam-
ing nn my part, which may give information or
dii-
pateb to the pee:islets' of tole leesishettre, in the
earehae of their high duties, and at a uninseat so
t,, the public artier,.
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