The National Register.
London, England, 1812-12-20 00:00:00

E NATIONAL REGISTER.

inehoing a necessary reimbursement r,f near three millions of the
„eine' pal or the public debt. In these receipt: are it:chided a
Acts sli of
recciv-1 on accoult of the Hans authorised by the m id.
t Session, The whole it ui ctually obtainel on loans attiounts to
miliions of a-nars, the residue of which being tree, vahle sub.
.:equent to the 31th of Septein'ier, o toe,eth-r the current
revenue, citable us to defray all the expellees or' this year.
The duties of the late unexpected Mayo: tations nf British Mann-
factures, will render the revenue of the ensuing t. ear nacre productive
I ban could have been anti:,ipated. The situation of our country,
fellow-citizens, is n^t without its cl;‘T'culties, thongh it ..bounds in
Aninuting consid.l.eions, of which the view here presented of our ,
pecuniary resotirces is an exarip!e. Wi:11 more than one nation we have
serious and ttrHett led i.entroversie,:: a;:d with one powerful in the menus
and habits of war we are at war. l'he spirit and streugth of this
nation are nevertheless equal to the so oporr of all its rights, and to
earl it through all its trials. They can b. met in that confidence,
above all, we have the inestimable consolation of knowing, that the
war in which we are actually enieged, is a war, neither of ambition
or vain glory : that it is waged, not in violation-of the rights of others,e
but in the maintenance of 'air own , that it was pr:.ceiled by a patienc
without examiale,!iluder wrenes accumulating without end : anil that
it was finally not (Ice! rid, until every hope of averting it was extin-
guished by the transfer of the British sceptres into new hands,
clinging to former Councils, and until rieclarations were reiterated in
the last hour throaqh the British Envoy here,• that the hostile edicts
against our commerci.:l rights aud nlif maritime independence would
not be reveked : nay, that they could not be revoked, without vio-
lating the obligations of Great Britain to other powers, as well as to
her ia•vn interests. To have shrunk under such circumstances, from
wanly resistawe, would leave hcen a degradation bla:Jing our best and
proudest hopes. It would have struck us from the highest rank where
the virtuous stiuggles of our fathers had placed us, and havc'bct rayed
the magniii.:ehr legacy we luld in trust for future generations. It
would have acknowledzed that on the element which forms three-
fourths of the globe we inhabit, and xvlrre all is le;aendent nations
have equal and common rights, the American people were not an
indwendent people, but colonists and vassals.
It was at this m utent and with such an alternative, that war was
chosen. The nation felt the necessity of it, and called for it. The
ppeal was accerilinely made in a just cause, to the just al,d powerful
Being who holds in his hands the chain of events and the destiny of
nations It remains only that, faithful to ourselves, entangled with
no connect: n; with the views of other powers, and ever ready to ac-
cept peace troll the hands of justice, we prosecute that war with
united council, and with the ample faculties of the nation, until
oeace be so obtained, and as the only means under the divine essing,
of soeechly ohtaining it.
Nov. 1, 1512.

JAMES MADISON.

DEC. c_)p.

Prrtug..l, t
gnciations he stated, to by nettling witit sp ,i„
Lea
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, but, at ,oreseat it would be utem‘•
tune to state !tow far I he‘ had proceeded.
ASSISTANCE TO 1 lIE SUFFERING RUSSIANS,
Lord Lt v Ett rbot., after bri-tly noticing the ov-tits of ttie camna'g,r
the gallant r•s istaree tryttle by she Russian, to the immetrA •r_
tries brought against them .bt the French, %%null had amount e
360,001 men, moved an Address to the Prince Resent, diSlifjpg t.::n
t hat they would concur in such rmasures as would eatable him to
int n eirect the object of his N.: essaf..e.
After some obset vations from Lord HOLLAND the motion v.as
agreed to without a dissenting voice.
The Gold Coin Bill went thro,t, h a Committee.—Adjourned.