The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-03 00:00:00

" A state Of'Our progress in exploring the Princi,
pal-rivers of that Country, and of the information
respeCting them hitherto obtained, \will be commu-
nicated so soon as we_s4 al I receive some farther rela-
tions: which we have reason shortly to exped-. . -
The receipts at the Treasury during the year
ending on the 30th of September last have exceeded
the sum of 13,000,000 dollars, which, with hOt
quite 5,000,000 in the Treasury at the beginning
of the year, have enabled us, after meeting other
demands, to pay nearly 2,000,000 of the debt con=
tratled under the British Treaty and Convention,
upwards of 4,000,000 of principal of the public debt,
and 4,000,000 of interest. These payments, with
those which. had been made in three years and an
half preceding, have extinguished of the funded debt
nearly 18,000,000 of principal.
" Congress, by their a& of Nov.. 10, 1803, audio-
tized us to borrow 1,750,000 dollars towards meet-
ing the claims of our Citizens assumed by the Con-
vention with France. We have not, however, made
use of this authority because the sum of four mil=
lions and an half, which remained in the. Treasury
on the same 30th day of September last, with the
receipts which we may calculate on for the ensuing
year, besides paying the annual sum of -8,000,000
dollars appropriated to the funded debt,. and, meet-
ing all the'current demands which may be exped-
ed, will enable ps to pay the whole sum of 3,750,000
&liars assumed- by, the French- Covention, and still
leave us a surplus of nearly a million of dollars at otir
free disposal. Should you concur in the provisions
Of arms and armed. vessels recommended by the cir-
cumstances of the times, this surplus will furnish
the means of doing so.
• "On this first occasion of addressing Congress
since, by the choice of my constituents, I have en-
tered on a second term of administration, I embrace
this opportunity to give. this public assurance, that I
\vill exert my best endeavours to administer faithfUlly
the Executive Department, .and will zealously co-
operate with you in any measure which may tend
to secure the liberty, property, and personal safety.
of our fellow-citizens, and to consolidate the repub-
lican forms and principles of our GovernMent.
" In the course of your Session you shall receive
all the aid which I can give for the dispatch of the
public business, and all the information necessary
for your deliberations, of,which the interests of our
own country, and the confidence reposed us by
, others, will-admit a communication.
Dec. 3, 1805. " TH. JEFFERSON."

FIRE.—At near seven o'clock yesterday morning '
a fire was discovered in. ,the back premises of Mr.
Tyrrell, a coach-maker in . Long-acre. The work-
men bad not at the time come to their daily labour,
and there had not been any person in any part of
those premises since the night before ; so that it is
imagined that a snuff of candle must have fallen in-
to the painting loft the night before, and smothered
there till morning. Soon after the fire was disco-
vered, it communicated to. the Red Lion, in Hart-
street, and also to the premises of Mr. BOTT, a far-
rier and veterinary do6tor. The upper parl of each
of theSe houses was destroyed in a very short time;
but, by the active working of a pump op the pre-
mises of the latter, and the throwing of pails-full of
water on the places contiguous to them, the pro-
gress of the flames was arrested before they had
reached a quantity of turpentine, and other com-
bustible matter, which might have endangered the
whole neighbourhood, as the greater part of the
work-shops and back-buildings between Bird-in-
hand-court and Banbury-court, where the fire broke
out, are bUilt in wood. Notwithstanding a num-
ber of engines arrived very soon after the dis--
covery of the flames, and the exertions of Bott's
and the publican's servants, the fire was not •com-
pletely got under before ten o'clock, though it was
prevented from extending its calamitous effeas.
The neighbours evinced a most humane feeling
for the unfortunate sufferers ; but one villain stole a
hammer and a file, of stamped leceipts amounting
to nearly the value of 5001. belonging to the farrier.
Howevdr, he happened to offer the hammer for sale
to a friend of the owner, and upon the Juan's name
being' known in thereceipts, be absconded, leaving
the receipts.to be returned to owner, whose ac-
counts would have been left in a state of the utmost
confusion if they had not been,reStored. Though
very material damagliwas done in the Workshops of
the coach-maker, the flames did not reach to the
front part of the building, which forms the dwell-
ing-house
and the repository fot the carriages.
BATH, Jilt:. I.—About nine o'clock, on Sunday
evening an alarming fire broke out in an old tene-
ment at the bottom of an obscure
,pa;isage called
Slippery-lane, situate near Mr. Mary's. house, in
.Bridge-street. By the exertions of the neighbours,
0 and the timely assistance of the engines, the fire
, was subdued without having extended be the,