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tions of Royalty, He concluded by saying, he protested against
doing the public business by unconstitutional modes, when they
had it in their power to avoid it all, 'y instantly constituting a
Regent by Address, which was agr. cable to the dictates of com-
mon sense, and the opinion of the nation.
Mr. Du Nnas supported the proposals and conduct of the
chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir ART u R PAcz-r supported the conduct of Lord Grenville
as constitutional.
Mr. 1' oax E contended that the proceedings in Parliament
had sane toned alt that was now proposed.
Messrs. Tierney, C. Wynne, Whitbread, and Homer, op-
posed the Resolutions.
After some further remarks from the Chancellor of the Eat-
chequer, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Wilberforce, and Sir J. Newport,
the qa,.:stion was put upon Amendments proposed by Mr. W.
Wynne which were negatived without a division.
The original question was then oarried, the House resumed,
and the Report oi. the Committee was brought up, read, and
agreed to.—After which, on the motion of the. Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Resolutions were ordered to be submitted to
the Lords on Saturday.

that the British system would be relinquished at *owl as the re-
pezel of the Freet.h decrees should have actually takto effect,
and the comme; ce of motral nations have Leen restored to the
condition in which it stood previously to the promulgation.of
these decrees.
This pledge, although it does not necessarily import, 4006
not exclude ,the intention of relinquishiny, alons.: with the or-
ders hi council, the practice of these novel biodcades which
have a I;ke effect in interrupting our neutral commerce. And
this further justice tithe United States is the rather to be looked
for, inasmuch as the blockades in question being not more con-
trary to the established law of nations, that consistent with than
rules of blockade formerly recognized by Great Britain herself,
eoula have no alledged basis other than the plea of retaliation
alledged as the basis of the. orders in council. Under the mo-
dification of the original orders of Nov. 1;.;07, into the orders
of April 1809, there is indeed scarcely a nominal distinction
between the orders and the blockades. One of these illegiti-

mate blockades, bearing date in May 1806, having beenex-
pressly avowed to he still unrescinded, and to be in effect, com.
preliended in the Orders In Council was too distinctly brought
within the purview of the Act of Congress, not to be
comprehended in the explanation of the requisites to a compli-
ance with it. The British Government was accordingly ap-
prised by our Minister near it, that such was the light in which
the subject was to be regarded.
In this new posture of our relations with these powers, the con-
sideration of Congress will lie properly turned to a removal of
doubts which may occur in the eeposinon, and difficulties in the
execution, of the Act above recited.
The commerce of the United States, with the north of Eu-
rope, heretofore much vexed by liceniious cruisers, particularly
under the Danish flag, has latterly been visited •al fresh and
exteleive depredations. The measures pursued in behalf of our
injured citizens, not having obtained justice for them, a further
and more formal interposition w'.'t the Danish Government is
contemplated. The principles which have been maintained by
that Government in relation u) neutral commerce, and the
friendly professions of his Danish Majesty towards the United
States, are valuable pledges in favour of a successful issue.
Among the events growing out of the state of the Spanish
Monarchy,our attention was imperiously attracted to the change,
developing itself in that portion of West Florida, which, though
of right appertaining to the United States, had remained in the
possession of Spain; awaiting the result of negociation for its
actual delivery to them. The Spaniili authority was subverted;
and a situation produced, exposing the country to ulterior
events, which might essentially affect the rights and welfare of
the Union. In such a conjecture, I did not delay the interpo-
sition required for the occupancy of territory west of the river
Perdito; on which the laws provided for the teritory of Orleans,
are applicable. With this view the proclamation, of which a
copy is laid before you, was confided to the governor of that
territory, to be carried let° effect. The legality and necessity
of the course pursued, assure me of the favourable light in
whic<t it will present itself to the legislature; and of the promp-
titude with which they will supply whatever provisions may be
due to the essential rights and equitable interests of the people
thus brought into the bosom of American family.
Our amity with the powers of Barbary, wi,h the exception
of a recent occurrence at Tunis, of which an explenation is just
received, appears to have been uninterrupted, and to have be-
come more firmly established.
With the Indian tribes, also, the peace and friendship of the
United States are found to be so eligible, that the general dispo-
si•ion to preserve both continues to gain strength.
1 feel particular satisfaction in remarking that an interior view
of our country presents us with grateful proofs of its sub-
stantial and increasing prosperity. To a thriving agriculture:,
and the improvements related to it, is added a highly lute-
restin7, extension of useful manufactures ; the combined product
of professional' occupations, and of household industry. Such,
indeed, is the experience of economy, as well as of policy. In
these substitutes for supplies heretofore obtained by foreign com-
merce, that, in a national view, the change is
.justly regarded as
of itself more than a recompence for those privations and losses
resulting from foreign injustice, which furnished tbe 4encral im-
pulse required fur its accomplishment. How br /it may be
expedient to guard the infancy of this improvetrient in the
tribution of labour, by the regulations of the commercial tariff,
is a subject which cannot fail to suggest itself to your patriotic
reflections.
[The Message then
of Congress the folio\
navigation, so as to place .on a
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proper attention to the
militia—and the suppression}
carried op under the

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proceetto recommend to the attention
wing pq nts:—The encouraging of their
ace it on alevel of competition with foreign
transporting the procitietions of the Arne-
shment of a natio* seminary for learning
to the army and navy—disciplining of the
oression of the traffic in enslaved Africans,
.4bute of the American nag. It concludes