The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-04-17 00:00:00

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MANSION HOUSE.

Yesterday the LORD MAYOR, attended by Sir
C. Puce, Aldernain Huss as, the RECOKOLI,
CH &lIIIIERLAtN, the Sheriffs and Law Officers, with
the Lao v M svossas,and sante of her female friends,
after partaking of a cold collation in the hall, re-
ceived the boys from Christ's Hospital, who went in
procession through the Mansion-House, aid, on
their irrivil in the hall, the Cts• useitlA I • presented
them with two burns and a glass of wine, each;
when th Lordship, agreeable to ancient custoui,
:tare each boy .3 net, sixpence; and then, attended
by the Sulfurs' A.. 4 his suite, went in state to
Ch' t-Chu.ch, when. tliey heard a most excellent
sermon, preached by the Rev. C. H. Gt. AEA, Kee,
ter of Hanwell, Middlesex ; from whence they a 1
went at St. Bartholoatew's Hospital, and dined xith
the Governors or that ancient and valuable insti-
tutivn.

Yesterday the LIR D MAYOII erdered the price of
bread t.t be redu. ed nalf an ast:7.-4 or a penny in
the pack loaf, to cornmener to rontrow, nth. a the
el./engin loaf wheaten will be sold for Is, 3d. and
household ls. e
A. Common hall will be held at Guildhall to-
morrow, for the oorposr of co:tilde/in. the flagrant
abase, in the mar. :;;eraeat and expe..ditt.re of the
pu tlic mower, brought to light by the :ports of
the t;otritoiesioners Opp-invert by Parliameat to in-
vestigate-she same, to instruCt the Representatives
for this t:ity in Path cue u.strennotisly to promote
and pro,ecur all enquiries into the rod abuses, and
to voic'toi urMons as may have for their ob-
jeCt the vet-nov-11 -from His MA I Y'S Councils,
or any place of trust and profit under the Govern-
ment, all persons who may be implicated in the said

abuses.
Extrad of a Letter (rim Bombay, dated ISlrre.93:
Le Fortune French privateer is taken by the
Concord frig rte. The Portuguese ship JAR..
MaJoa. is arrived at Bengal. Oa th • 10th of line,
a small privateer arrived at the entrance of Pequer
River ; she has captured the brig Tria! from :Madras,
and the Harriet. Hassel'. a new coppered ship,
pierced for IS gore. laden with piece ponds and
4,500 t'ollars. • he .Ifeywid,flotiot AS, left the Pdia
all well the 19th or Oaotser ; and we exped her, as
well as the Aoa ant' ?law, from China, the b o
gi riving of next month'
Mi.s Jactsos, Miss Evans, and their fa her,
who were so miraculously saved firms the wreck of
the lliergarenov East Indianian, are now going out
in the Hope. Those young ladies, although Pos-
sessing the most gentle and feminine manners, on
that melancholy occasion displayed the most un-
common heroism.
The Sweoisn Miters-riga and suite arrived at Har-
wich on Monday morning, by the Diana packet,
from Gottenburg.
The South Essex for
began their march from
Harwich Barracks, for Chelmsford, on Saturday
morning.
Advice, it is said, has retard the Ad-iicaltv,
from. Admiral DOUG!, AiS, stating, that the flotilla at
11 •ologne had, during the last week, resumed much
of its former activity.
Capt. Goouaui, who so much distinguished him-
-'f towards the conclusioa of the last war, and the
commencement of this, as the commander of 3 pri-
vate ship of war, has I,een killed in an anion, and
the vessel widen 'ost commanded, the Westmoreland,
of I averpaol„ captured.
The Austrian i e on the frontiers of Turkey has
bete lately reiisfioced, s., th.lt the renewal of hosti.
Idles in Sereia is no longer a stesjed of any doubt.
M. K. vzesut Las now printed at Berlin an ac-
e ,nit of h. bawls in I ialy.
The Spaninish Admiral Gauvtns is to hoist his
flag on board the numerm s quadrons equipped m -
d r his &maim at Cadiz. This sq:iadron will soon
sail. in order to relieve the port of Ferrol from the
blockade, and form a jundion with the force in that
harbour. In cue of such a junction, the two squa-
drons will foram a rispeda'sle. fitiet, competent to
undertake some important enterprise. Gun-boats,
bomb-brigs, and other vessels of twat description, we
preparing with more activity than ever in the Bay of
Algesiras. The camp at St. Ruch is also to be re-
inforced with a fresh body of light troops. The
Spanish Conn seems fully determined, it• we may
judge by their preparations, which are of a magni-
tude un,isual in that country, to prosecute the war
with vigour ; and offensive operations will shortly
conor,-;lce on many poiuts at the tame time.
Within a tew days, m my individuals in Frankfort
have put an end to their existence ; some who were
miabie to endure the consequences of their miscon-
dad, others vidims of a leash love. The laws of
tlic country inflict on this kind of weakness a just ig-
nominy Suicides are exposed for two days, and
then abandoned to the school of surgery, to be die.
seded. In certain cases they are even buried at the
foot of a gibbet.
The Professor Ro atlases, who is now at Peters.
burgh, proposes, in the second volume of the
Areal:us de don!, to ectistruft a balloon, which will
measure 132 feet in diameter, will carry 74,400
ponn.ls, and in which fifty persons, with provisions
and other necessaries, may embark for many months,
in order to m..ke researches and experiments in na-
, 'mid philosophy and askronomy at all heights, in all
seasons, in every kind of weather, and over every
point ot the earth therthink proper.

SIR,

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE=

Rf.urtfr*OM,.l. dpN 16, 11105.
Cops of a Letter from the •Ilet:t Hoo. Lord G.odocr. Admif.l
rit We Sloe, dee. Williams .rade.t, Esq. data! at boati
the Hi'aeroO, tiff U.lsai.t, stput 10. IY, 5.
SIR-1 herewith y.ro, for their Lord.hips• u,
forwsathat, copy of a letthr, d rod We 25th ultimo, trot', (SIP •
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Prouse,.uf ttae Sirius (aatires.e-1 so the goo. ‘d owl Cos ,
wiii u 1 re: towed this ialt.using a lett, r ot th-
rone date, which he lad r:•criv d finni Lieut. Juno Row,
of the Growl:. fao.brig (cnpv of *limb I ..140 mitred), K"
tog an amount id' his ',attn.( Ceiptur d tw.. of the ottesuy's guil-
ts-iv, between oho Bee du Kee and the Peutuarki.
I have tee honour to be, doe GA RDNER .
His 1111.4ostes Ship Sirius, off the
Peoniarks, Masoll

!tic 0.e.1 is • letter Gum I, iitenant Rote, commanding
14d.edt,'11 gun !vie o.ow:er, of his haviog captured ter,
Freud. get • boid4, el the third class, close in with the Pwrinterks ,
one, Nu. 445, being so :wad a vesseJ, I did not chink her snot
worthy to co,. the Channel, and ordered the lone bract nine.
!ounder, too ;mall cattonades, kc. to be taken out, and t
clettroy her. I am, &c. W. PROWSE.
Honourable %Villiers Cot nw.llis.

Majesty's Grin Brig Growler, off the
SIR, Penmarks, March 2% 11105.
I beg leave to inform you, that this mor g, between eleven
and twelve, as I was standing in shore, between the Pamaiee du
Rae and the Penmarks, I unnerved fifveri cal of the enemy'.
gun boats standing in shore; I made sail in cha:-e of the head
most, but not finding it practicable to cot her off, I bore up
and made sail for the leewardrimat, and succeeded .n capturing
two of them; they proved to be Nu. 443, with fifteen men,
and No. 450, with twelve men on gqani; the remaining
thirteen having anchored under the Penmarks preventing m.-
from capturing any more.
I nave the lionoor to be, lee. JAMES ROSE.
William Protege, Eau. Captain of His Majesty.* ship Sirius.

Copy of a Letter from Rear-Ml:nand Rosen ti. !ham
Mar-den, Esq. d dial on board His Mejeeitie Ship the Mon-
MAIM, in Yarinonth-R the 14th Instant.
SlP—Enclosed herewith you will receive the copy of a
letter from Captain Carteret, of the Scorpion, inf..rrniog me to'
his having, in i:umpany with the Providence arineel A 1.., cap.
tumid the schooner L'llomicur, Captain Ano.me arudet.
I have the honour to

T. M. RUSSEI.f..
His Majesty's Sloop Scorpion, Yarmouth-
:ClA, Roads, Ai ill 3,
By Ctptain Rye's letter, of HIS Majesty's hit 1 armed brig
the Pt twirl. :ice, their Lordships are already appris,,, 1 believe,
of the capture of a Dutch schooner, under national colon's,
on the I ILi instant, off Schelling ; the bid quii.ted Pelt', el
on the preceding day ; was chased on the ensuing morning :or
a considerable time by the P.atidence, as well as by Ili. Ma-
jetty's armed poop the Thomas, anti wan finally taken ~oste---
,101.1 of oy thasslutip.
The vessel proved to be the ifonneur, of twelve guns, hay-
ing tine thou and stand of arm: on beard, a complete set of
c.oathuig for Viet number of men, and a considerable quiui-
my of oarlike stores ; .he has beAdes two fi«ld piac.?s, twelve-
pJunders, and two mortars, baides tents, &e. for troopt
Jean Saint Faust, so not‘.l for his succeishal depredations on
tb Blatant eon:attar in these seas, is a passenger ou board of
ber. I have the honour to be, &c.
(S.gned) PHILIP CARTBRET.
To T. M. Russel, Esq. &c. &c. &c.

Cony of a 'other Letter from Rear-Admiral Russell to William
Marsden, Esq. dated on Want the Monmouth, Yarmouth-
Roads, the 14th Instant.
Mkt —I enclose a truer hyena Cantaia Barltost, of the Ada
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mutt, transmitting one front Captain Bayley, of the Infleni•
ble, respecting the capture of L'Alert French privatuer, on th..
I.2th instant, and the recapture of the bug Mary, of Lynn.
.e latter arrived here this morn.ng.
I ant, kr. T. \L nussELL.
grtt, Adamant, at Sm, April IS, 1165.
IN come! •enee of information I rereired of an enemy's
lour ewer being to the S. W. of the Inflexible and Ada.
to I doesled • court:, re by steered in hopes of meeting
with her, and hare the tumour to inform ynu we snomeded in
capturing thread luggtr, named L'Aiert (as you will perrea:
be Csittaiin Bar:ey'a letter), we also recantured the brie; Mary,
of Lynn, and it le probehl, we m ty be abbe to ,top the `Kilikln.
Cr. I have the honour to be, Ac.
Rear-Adruiral Russell, ke. GEORGE BURLTON.
Maj-ay's ship Inflexible, at Sea, April 12, 1205.
SIR—II have the pleasure to inform you, that the boats r f
Majesty's ship I command, this die captured, after a charm
of between tome lint four helves, L'ilert "awn luggar
pri-
patter, of four small carriage g •••., and small ar•ns, Egide
Oullagry, Commander, haying thirty two men, ten of whom ha
had pia• • a hoard an Engl sh schooner and brig, Lamed in rtes
margiii•, captured close off the Spurn o t the Ith in-tart
The captive of this •-ry fortunate, at she nih re-
markably well, and has done 'nue., change to our tr.4e
I am' .lre. 1' BAYLEY.
George inalton, Esq C ipt of ,fa Maj sty'rstki Arlao.a.a.
N.A. 1 hare the i.leasure to ..orm you, toat e e tins morn-
ing recnprured the bug n tined in the margin.
April W, 1605 T. BAYLEY.
• Nimble Schooner of Aberdeen. Brig Mary of Lynn.

While-hail, April 15, 1805.
A Dispatch, of which the following is a copy,
was this day received by an ovrtlan3 conveyance
at the Fast India House, from the Governor and
Council of Bombay :

To the Secret Committee of the Hon. Court of Diree) for
• the Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England
trading to the East Indies. London.

HONOURAELE SIRS.
1. In addition to the information communicated I
in our last overland dispatch, on the subjed of the
events of the war with Jeswant Row Holkar, we
take this occasion to report, that we have since been
advised of an attack made by a division of Holk it's
infantry and artillery on the city of Delhi, on the
tits ult. Lieutenant Colonel Burn, the Officer in
command of the British troops at that station, re-
porting that, during the whole of that day, the ene-
my continued a very heavy cannonade t and that
on the 9th they advanced and (odic.' a tour-gun
battery, very near to the smith east bastion of the
city well, where their shat had great elle& To
check their progress in that quarter, a sortie was
determined on. The party employed, consisting of
about 950 men, under the command of Lieutenant
Rose, of which number, 50, with a six-pounder,
composed the reserve, under Lieutenant Dickson.
The while are stated to have been speedily and well
concluded to the enemy's battery, and to have soon
got possession of their guns, and spiked them; the
party then returning under a heavy discharge of shot
and grape. Lieut. Rose, who led the detachment,
and the whole of the Officers, are reported to have
executed that duty to the entire satistadion of Lieu-
tenant Colonel Burn, who also ineations in favour-
able terms Captain Carnagie and Lieutenant Wood-
ville, of Captain Harriott's battalion, and Lieute-
nants Evans, Heathcote, and Lockett, of the 2d bat-
talion 14th regiment, besides some others, whos.
names he adverts to as having been reported to the
Commander in Chief in a former dispatch, which
has not reached us.
2. On the 14th the enemy attempted an assault
on the town of Delhi. but were repulsed with con-
siderable loss. The details of the assault had not
been received up to the date of our latest advice.
from Calcutta ; but, in a dispatch from the Com
mender in Chief to His Excellency the Governor
General, he thus adeerts to the spirit and gallantry

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of the troops at Delhi The tgeritor;ons condlet
f our troops, on both'of The ar,ovemenii• ned ucta-
si ,ns, reflests •,a their ct,u-age and perseterante the
oigh est cledt. My letter from Lientenca Colonel
Anchterlony, the sifting re,ident, speaks in the !-
Igb..
est terms or the conclJek of the tr., )ps under r
orders. 1 beg to assure your Excelleacy that the
arrangements made hy that Officer merit my warm-
est praise and approbation en which I wall have
*0 honour more fully to report hereafter."
S. Official advices had been receirA at Foie
William, in a letter from the Commander in Chi-f,
dated Sicrie, the 16th of Oaulsei, s.ating that
troops ot Jeswnnt how Milker had made a fr•lcipi-
tate retreat on the morning of the 15th, from their
position near the town of Delhi.
4. Since taking possession of Chandore, llhootp,
and Galna, the force employed in the Decicau, ander
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace, has
been advancing towilds the River Taptie. Actorat-
ing to the latest accounts from that offi.-cr, a party
of the Peshwa's troops, detached from CiAna, had
obtained possession o: the town of Notwerbar, "and
of the greater part of that distria, withoir m-eting
with any opposition. As soon as the Pethwa's t.ffi-
cers should be is possession of the trail west of his
position on the River Rani*: and south of the Tap-
tie, Lieutenant-Colonel Wallace intended to maw
to Borenair. Holkar's mtainers in Candeish appease
now to be reduced to two or three incur,siderable
Chiefs, with but few telk,wers.
We have the honour to be, Ike. &c. &c. •
(Signed) Jos. Dcr.cair. •
0. Nicisor hs.
L. COCK SAN.
1./10. LLCAIIII4 ERB.
Bombay-Castle, Noseintserti3, 1804.

The foll ;wing, we understand, are the ft Knighti
of the limb appointed to attend Ms v, and
the ?JUNCO of the Blood Royal, at the allislielele
which will .ucceed the Installation of the Galilee s
Right Hon. Lord Watswla7M, Right Hon. Loe4
liswi.tv, Right lion. Sir Jos. Basics, Sit Units
C A iiKll, Sit TllOlllll6 Tamar, and :Sir JOl4ll COL.
roes. They will also appear, accompanied by their
Esquires, as at the late installation of the Bath.
Tile 7th Regimcnt of Loyal London Volunteers
will master this day in Am,.rica-square. and will
march to the renter ground, Goodman's Fields, to
be inspeaed by General LA YA ID, and from thence .
will proceed to Westham, for th- purpose of firin
for a gold cup, given by M.:jor feet r, Cirnmatu,
ant in tke absence of Lieutenant Colonel 541/.7/11,
who is on a •is:t in Scotland.
To-morrow the p-isoners, charged on suspicion of
having committed various felonies, will be removed
from the several prisons in the City of London, and
County of Middlesex, to Newgate, in order to rake
their trials at the ensuing Old Bailey Scssic.ns,
which commences on Wednesday next, the 26th
instant. .

On Friday last a most daring outrage was com-
mitted in Hyde-park by four men, on the persons
of the Hon. Mr. *Dom • so, son of Lord M.Do-
ti A ED, Mrs. WHEEL ER of South-street, and her sets-
vault, by firstikulting and Then striking them and
on Mr. Bras, the constable, being sent for, they as-
saulted hilts, and were with some difficulty secured.
On Saturday morning they underwent an exami..a-
tion before the Sitting Magistrate at Marlborough-
street, and gave bail for their appearance at the tu-
sling We amituter Sesnons. -
Early yesterday morning, Mr. Lovsnets, who
formerly kept the tap at t...e Opera-house, put a
period to his existence, by cutting his throat, at h s
lodgings, at Hammersmith ; he has been considel el
in a deranged state scat tins-. accumulated mis-
fortune haysnr h,rne he vile n
List week died, at Osbastou, near Mon mouth;
• Dime MORRIS, at the a age ot nearly 90
years. We arc induced to notice her de;rarture •
from Iris transitory world, from the arrange-counts
adte ;,.td made for it during life, by having he- cof-
fia prepaid many years previous to her deerace,
?illicit she kept in her house, devoted to the pur-
poses of holding the necessaries of I fe, and
when it carne to be appropriated to its real use, it
was found nearly filled with apples, which gave
place to the good Old Dame's accommodation.
At Ferrybridge there is a ;wimp in one of the
yards of the Angel-Inn, which has been recently dis-
covered to pump very hot water ; the longer it is
pumped the hotter the water becomes; there is a
tube which conveys the water to the 'to torn of
the pump, and which goes for About 20 yards under
a dunghill of horse manure. It is by some supposed,
that the heat is caused by the water passing under
the dung hill. It is to be observed, twat the rm.re it
is pumped, the warmer and hotter the wa.er be-
entries. We are requested, by our Correspondent, to
mention by way of question. whether the heat of the
water could be produced from the hc.it of the Jung-
hill, or from what natural cause? It is to be observed,
that the water has no uncommon taste.
An affray happened on Wednesday evening be-
tween some Gentlemen returning from the Gasps Ts.:
Concert; it went to the length of swords being
drawn, and a mond (happily slight) being inil.aed.
We feel satisfabion in adding, than an adjustment
at last took place betore the Magistrates. wi.en 3CI.
paid as acknowledgment eAS generously added by
the offended parties to the fund for soldiers' wives.
Na market in the metropolis has experienced, for
the last month, a brisker sale, than that all attraftiee
oni-,the I.nttery Market. Two thirds, at least, of its en-
t ie stack ATO al7eady bought up,an advance in las ice
has in consequence taken place, and as the remain.
ing part of the Stock of Tickers and Shares will not,
most probably, be near sufficient to in -ply future
:ustomers, this market is likely to become, in
another week or two, the dearest ever experienced
in tLe sphere of adventure.
It is a well-known fa 3, that Islosta.sav and Co
were the first who sold two Prizes of 30.(0ui. I
Nos. 33,979, and 42,3'i9. T'ne present L..trery af-
fords the Adventurer - -
one:, besides an ext
Prizes, such as never
Lottery. floesi
ot acqualnth.g
Tickets and Shares

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b.is incnrased, is
tinnc to increase
such, they beg lea%
chase their Chances
considerably.

alarm two Chances nt chat Import-
n extraordinary number of cp,
al
lever were before introitteed enr
ssnv and Co. have the satidiat.no
the Public. that the Demand for
nes at th it (Mice, tti, Conssix
increasing, and. uo J•nolst, will con-
ae as the Draw. it appr-rache,b; 4111
leave to advise then Friends to pur..
aces without dalay, at, they wiU sacs

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AMERICA.

111 F. i2l•s11)! . SNEECIT.

WA6IIINUTIN, MARCH 4.
This day, at twelve o'clock, 'Piton ts .1 c
Presideut of the United State, too': the eatli of
office; and delivered the follo,sing inaugural speech,
in the Senate Chamber, in the presenci• of the Nle,,,-
beTs of the two Icirs:s, and a large concourse of
citizens
^ Proceeding, Fellow Citizens, to th ;t qualifica-
tion which the Constitution require., bet': re my n
e-
trance on the charge. again ctin!erte.l Coi me,
.ir is
my duty to express the deep sense I eacertaiii ot this
new proof of confidence from my tellow-citizens at
!arr. and the zed with which it invires pie so to
conduß myself as may best satisty their just expec-
tations.
" On taking this station on a former occasion, I
declared the principles on which I bAirtved it my
duty to administer the affairs of our Commonwealth
My conscience tells me that I have on every occa-
sion afted np to that decbiration according to its
obvious import, and according to the understanding
of every candid mind.
" Ls rheitransitaion of your foreign affairs, we
have endeavoured to cultivate the friendship iif
all
nations, and especially of those cs th which we have
the most important relations. We liave done them
justice on all occasions, favour where favour was
aWiLli, and cherished mutual interests and inter-
course on fair and equal terms ; we are fiiinly con-
vinced, and we aa on that co.ivietion, that with tu-
tinos as will, individuals, our interests, s.,undly cal-
culated, tvill ever he found inseratahle from out
moral du:i,s; had lii arty Ise.lis witness to the fait,
that a just nation is ildsted on its word, when re-
rourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle

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eriers.
At home, felloveciti /erns, you bust know whether
we have done well of id. The siiiiFtession of un-
necessary offices, of useless establishments and ex.
peaces. enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes.
These covering our land with officers, and opening
our d•eirs to their intnisions, had already begun
to it process of domiciliary vexation, which, once
eeterteined, is scarcely to be restrained from reach-
ing successively rarely article of produce and of
pt operty. If amolg these taxes some minor ones
-fell, wnich had not been inconvenient, it was because
eteir amount would not have paid the officers who
colleaesl them, and because. it they had any merit.
the e'n'te authorities might adopt them instead of
others less apptoved.
.• The remaining reveille on the consumption
of foreign arttehrs, is paid chiefly by those who
Can afford to Add foreign luxuries to domestic com-
forts. Being celleCted on our sea-board and
frontiers only, and inceiporated with the trans
aaions of our mereantile citizens, it may be the
pleasure and the ',side of an American to ask,
whet farmers what mechanic, what labourer, ever
ices a tat gatherer of the United States ? these con-
trihotions enable us to support the current expences
cif the Government, tee;elfil contra with foreign
W 'ipes. extieguish the melee rig tfloor soil within
out limit, eetead terise limns, and to apply such
it surplus to oar pulse.: debts, as p`..:.-es at a short
slay their final redemption—and. Cit.it reJetnption
once efieZled, the revenue thereby liberated, may,
lsy a lust repartitinn among the states, and a corre-
spending amendment of the constitution, be applied,
e: time of peace, to rivers, canals, roads, arts, ma-
irifanures, education, alisl other great objeas within
each ,t,ee, in time et war, it iiijustce by our-
selves or others must sometimes procinee war, in-
creased as the slimr r.:ventte will be by increased pi.
pulatiun and censumpt, el, and aided by other re-
,s.enrce reserved tor th Ct Cr;..:S, 1611ln meet within
the year all the expences of the year, without en-
rreaching on the rigins of future generations, by
hurtle-fling diem with the debts of the pi.se 'War
will then be but a suspension of useful works, and
a return to a state of peace, a return to tile p: ogress
of improvement.
.6 i have said, felleviecitieens, that the income re-
served had enabled sit to extend our bmits ; but that
exrers:on may possibly Fey fur itself before we are
called on. and in the nit an time may keep down the
• accruing interest. In all events it will replier the
advances we shall have made. I know that the ac-
quisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some,
from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of
our territory may endanger its union ; but who can
limit the extent to which the federative principle
may eeerate effectively?—The larger our a ,eocia-
tion, the less will it be shaken by local passions; and,
in Ater view, is k not better that the opposite bank of
the Mississippi should be s tried by our own brethren
and children, than by strangers of another family ?
With which shall sue he most likely to live i. har-
mony and friendly intercourse?
'6 In matters of religion I have considered that its
free exercise is placed by the constitution,independent
eit the powers of- the general government. I have
therefere undertaken, on no occasion, to prescribe the
religiout exercises sliced to it ; but have left them
as the crinstit at on feunsl theta, under the direftion or
discipline of the state or church authorities acknow-
'edged by the several religious societies.
" 'flat aboriginal inhabitants of these countries I
have regarded with the commiseration their* his.
wry ioseires. Endowed with the faculties and the
rights of men, breathing an ardent love of liberty add
independence, and occupying a country which lift
them no desire but to be undisturbed, the stream
of overflowing population fom other regions di-
reeled itself on these deare e Without power to di-
vert, or habits to coat:lel e it, they have been
overwhelmed by the cutter!, or 'driven before it.
Vow reduced within limits too narrow for the hunter
state. humanity enjoins us to teach them agriculture
sad the domestic arts ; to encourage them niche in-
dustry which alone can enable them to maintain their
place in eeistenee, and to prepare them in time for
Wet state of society, which, to bodily comforts, adds
the improvement of the mind and murals. We have
tbirreWre Dberally furnished them with the implements
of basbendry and household use : we have pieced
agtong them instro/fors in the arts of first necessary ;
add they are covered with the agis of the law against
segvisors front astring ourselves.
e_itagatrvllzterirs to enlighten them on the f4e
'r present course of life, to induce
it reAlotia, follow its dilates, and
Its with the change of eireurn-
obstacles ta escoditim They

are combated by the habits of their bodies. prejadices
id their wind', ignnta ice, pride, and Ow influence of
interested ani crafty individuals among them, who
feel th,:rnsel; es someLhinz in the present order of
thin4s, and feat to bec me nothing in ..nv other.
These persons inculcate a sanetimonious reverence
for the customs of their ancestors: that whatever
they did must be done through all time; that rea-
son is a false guide, an ± to advance under its counsel
in their physical, :rascal, or pol:tical condition, is pe-
boils innovation : that their duty is to remain as
their Creator made them, ignorance being safety,
and knowledge full of danger. In short, my friends,
among them also ate seer the action and t ounterac-
don of ;owe! sense and of bigotry. They too have
their ant-pl:ilosopti,t,, who find an interest in keep-
ing things in their present state; who dread reforma-
tion, and exit all their faculties to maintain the as-
cendancy of habit over the duty of improving our
reason and obeying its mandates.
" In giving these outlines, I do not mean, fellow-
citizens, to arrogate to myself the merit of measures.
That is due, in the first place, to the refleiding
eha-
rater of our citizens at large, who, by the weight
of public opinion, influence and strengthen the pub-
lic measures. It is due to the sound discretion with
which they select from among themselves those to
whom they confide the legislative duties. It is due
to the zeal and wisdom of the charaders thus sele&
ed, who lay the foundation of public happiness in
wholesome laws, the execution ofuwhich alone te-
mainsfor others: and it is due to the able and faith-
ful auxiliaries, ivhose patriotism has Associated them
with me in the executive legations.
" During this course of administration, and in order
to disturb it, the artiste: y of the Press has been level-
led against us, charged with whatever its licentious-
ness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institu-
tion so important to freedom and science, are deeply
to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen
its usefulness, and to sap its safety. They might
.perhaps have been corroded by the wholesome pu-
nishments reserved to, and provided by, the laws of
the several States against falsehood and defamation.
But public duties more urgent press on the time of
public servants, and this offenders have therefore
been lift to find their punishment in the public in-
dignation.
" Nor was it uninteresting to the world that an
experiment should be fairly and fully made, whether
freedom of discussion, unaided by power, is not suf-
ficient for the propagation and protedion of truth?
Whether a government, conducting itself in the
true spirit of its Constitution, with zeal and purity,
and doing no at which it would be unwilling the
whole world should witness, can be written down
by falsehood and defamation? The experiment has
been tried. You have witnessed the scene. Our
fellow-citizens have looked on cool and colleded.
They saw the latent source from which these met-
rages proceeded. They gathered around their pub-
lic Mationarics: and when the Constitution called
them to the decision by suffrage, they pronounced
their verdict, honourable to those who had served
them, and consolotary to the friend of man, who
believes Iv may be eliuusted with the controul of his
own affairs.

" .o inference islere intended that the laws ro-
vided bi the States against false and defamatory pub-
lications should rest be enforced. He who has time
renders a service to the public morals and miblic
tranquillity,in urforming these abuses by thesalutirry
coercion of the law. But the experimett is noted
to prove that. since truth and reason have maintained
their fzioond against false opinions in league with
false f'aCts, the press, confined to truth, needs no other
legal restraint. The public judgment will coned
false reasonings and opinions, on a full heariurof
all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn
betwaCn the inestimable liberty of the press, and its
demoralising !licentiousness. If there be still impro-
prirties uraicii this rule wuuld not restrain, its,•upple-
m6 it craw be sought in the censorship of public
opinlotl."
Conternp!ating the union of sentiment dove ma-
nifested so generally, as arguing harrormY and hap-
piness to our future course,
.1 offer to our country
sincere congratulations.. With those ton not yet
rallied to the same point, disposition so do so is
gaining strength. I..aels are pies cir 4. through the
veil drawn over therm;. and .our doubting brethren
will at length see that the mass of their fellow-citi-
zens, with whom they cannot yet resolve to at, as to
principles and measure*, think as they think, and de-
sire what they desire. That our wish as well as
their's, is that the public efforts may be direCted
neatly to the public good, that peace may be culti-
vated, civil and religious liberty unasuiled, law!and
order preserved. equality of rights maintained, and
that state of property, equal or unequal, which re-
sults to every man from his own industry, or that
of his fathers. When satisfied of these views, it is
not in human nature that they should not approve
and support them. In the mean time let us cherish
them with patient affection. Let us do them jus-
tice, and more than justice, in all competitions of in-
tet zst ; and we need not doubt that truth, reason,
and their own interests, will at length prevail, will
gather them into the fold of their country, and will
i.nmplete that entire union of opinion, which gives
to a nation the blessings of harmony, and the benefit
of ell its strength.
I shall 114 w enter on the duties to whicb my fel-
love.citizehs have again called me; and shall pr. -
ceed in the spirit of those principles which they have
approved. I fear not that any motives of interest
may lead me astray; I am sensible of no passion
which could reduce me knowingly from the path of
justice ; but the weakness of human nature, and the
limits of my own understanding, will produce mere .
of jardgment sometimes ii:jutious to your interests. I
shall need, therefore, all the indulgence I have here-
tofore experiniced; the want of it certainly will not
lessen with increasing years. I shall nett; too the fa-
vour of that Being in whose hands ae are, who led
our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land,
and planted them in a country flowing with ell the
necessaries and comforts of life; who lids .-overed
our infancy with his providence, And tau riper years
with his:v.s4°m and his power ; :and to whose good-
.oess I ask $u to jobs with me in supplications. that
he will soeolightou theisninds of your servants, guide
their councils, ,apd, Isscespee their measures, that,
whatsoever sliey site shall
.proult in your snot!, and
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