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diction by either party, tvhile the negotiation Was pending,
should change the state of the question of right to be defi-
nitively settled. Such collision had nevertheless recently
• taking place, by occurrences, the precise character of which
has not yet been ascertained. •A communication from the
Governor of the State of Maine, with accompanying docu-
ments and a correrspendente bet Ween <the Secretary of
State and the Minister of Great Britain, on this subjett,
are now communicated. Measures have been taken to as-
certain the state of the facts more correctly by the employ-
ment of a special agent to visit the spot, where the alleged
outrages have occurred, the retnit of whose enquiates,
' whenxeceived, will he transmitted to Congress.
While so many of the subjects of his interest to the
friendly relations between two countries have been se far
adjusted, it is matter of- regret that their views respecting
the commercial intercourse between the United States end
the British Colonial possessions have not equally approxi-
mated to a friendly agteetreilt.
• At the commencement of the last Session of Congress,
they were informed of the sudden and unexpected exclu-
sion:by the British Government, of access," iu vessels of
the United States, to all their colonial ports, excepi those
immediately bordering upon our own territories. In the
amicable discussions which have succeeded the adoption
of this measure, which; as it affected harshly the interests
of the United States, became a ,übjett Of expostulation on
our part, the principles upon Which: I its justification has
placed hate been of a 'diversified characters It has
been at once ascribed to a mere recurrence to the old long
established principle of colonial monopoly, and at the same
time to a feeling of resentment because the offers of an Act
-of Parliament, :opening, the colonial ports upon certain
conditions, had not been graepediat with sufficient eager-
ness by an instantaneous conformity to them. • At a sub-
sequent period it haw been intimated that the new eXelu-
sion was in resentment because a prior Act of Parliament
of 1322, opening certain colonial ports under heavy and
burdensome restrictions to vessels of the United States,
had not been reciprocated by an admission of British ves-
sels from the colonies, ane their cargoes, without any re-
striction or discrimination whatever. But, be :he motive
for the interdiction what it May, the British Government
have manifimted no disposition, either by nenociation or by
corresponding legislative enactments. to recede from it, and
we have been given distinctly to understand, that neither
of the bills which were under the consideration of Congress
at their last Sesion, would hrve deen deemed sufficient in
their Concessions, to have been rewarded by any relaxation
from the British interdict. It is one of the inconveniences
inseparably connected with the attempt to adjust by reci-
procal legislation interests of this nature, that neither party
can kuotv what would be satisfactory to the other ; and
that after enacting a statute for:the avowed and.'sincere
purpose of conciliation, it will generally be found utterly
inedequate to the expectations of the other party, and will
terminate in mutual disrppointment.
The session of Congress having terminated without any
act upon the subject, a Proclamation was issued on the
'l7thof March last, conformably to the provisions of the
6th section of the Act of let March, 1823, declaring the
fact that t:e trde and intercourse authorized by the British
Act of Parliament, of 24thJune,1822, between the United
States and the British enumerated Colonial Ports, bad
been 'by the subsequent Acts of Parliament of the hill
1025,-and the Order of Council of 27th July, 1826, pro-
hibited. The effect of this Proclamation, by the terms of
the Act under which it was issued, hai 'been, that every
provision of the Act concerning 'Nevi:lotion, of 18th April,
1310, and of the Act supplementary thereto of the 15th
May, 1820, revived, and is in full force. Such, then, is
the present conditionof the trade, that useful as it is to both
parties, it can, with a single momentary exception, be car-
Tied on directly by tke vessels of neither. 'Thai exception
itself, is found in a Proclamation of tne Governor of the
Island of St. Christopher, and of the Virgin Islands, invi-
Aing, for threemonthr4 from the '2Bth of August last, tie
importation of the articles' yf the produce'of the United
States, which constitute their .export portion of this trade,
in the .vessels of all nations,. That period having already
expired, the state ofimuthal interdiction' has again taken
place. The British Goren:merit 'have not onirdeclined
negociation .upon this subject, but, by the principle they
have assumed: with- reference to it, have-precluded even the
means of negutiiition., become* uli theself-respecf of the
United States, either to solicit gratuitous favours, or toiac-
eept as the grant of a Irianr that for- which an ample
etuivaleut is exacted. It remains to be determined by the
respective Governments, whether the trade shall be opened,
by ads of reciprocical legislation. It is in the 'mean time
satisfactory to show, that apart from the inconveniences re-
:Suiting from a disturbance of the usual channels of trade,
no loss has been sustained by the commerce, the navigation
or the Revenue of the United States, and -none of magni.
tude is to be apprehended from this existing state of mutual
.interdict.

With the other maritime and commercial Nations o
Europe, our intercourse continues with little variation.
Sit.ce the cessation, by the Convention of the '4th of June,
1822, of all discriminating duties upon the vessels of the
United States and of France. in either country, our trade
with that nation has increased and is increasing. A dispo-
sition on the part of France has been manifested to renew
that negotiation ; and, in acceding to the proposal, we
have expressed the wish that it might be extended to other
objects, upon which a good understanding between the
parties would be beneficial to the interests of both. The
origin of the political relations between the United States
and France, is coeaal with the first years of her independ-
ence. The memory of it is interwoven-with that of our
arduous struggle for national existence. Weakened as it
has occasionally been since that time, it can by us never be
forgotten ; and we should hail with exultation the moment
which should indisate a recollection equally friendly in
spirit, •on the part of France. A fresh effort has recently
been made by the Minister of the United States residing at
Paris, to obtain a consideration of the just claims of
citizens of the United States, to the reparation of wrongs
long since committed, many of them frankly acknowledged
and all of them entitled, upon every principle of justice., to
a candid examination. The proposal last Made to the
French Government has been to refer the subject, which
has formed an obstacle to this cocsideratiou, to the deter-
mination of a Sovereign, the common friend of both, To
this offer no definitive answer has yet been received; but
the gallant and honourable spirit which has at all times
been the pride and glory of France, will not ultimately
permit the demands of innocent sufferers to be extin-
guished in the mere consciousness of the power to reject
them. •

A new Treaty of Amity, Navigation, and Commerce has
been eonlltuled with the Kingdom of Sweden, which will
be submitted to the Senate for their advice with regard to
its ratification. At a snore recent date, a Minister Pleni-
potentiary from the Hanseatic Republics of Hamburgh,
Lubeck and Bremen, has been received, charged with a
special mission for the negotiation of a Treaty of Amity
and Commerce between that ancient and renowned league
and the United States. This negNiation has accordingly
been commenced, and is now in progress, the result of
which, if successful, be also submitted to the- Senate fo'
their consideration.

Since the accession of the tmpCror Nicholas to too Im-
perial tLrone of all the Russia; the friendlydispositions to-
sv.-cds the United States, go constantly manifested by hit
predecessor, have continued unabated ; and Ir:Ve recently
been testified by the appointment of Minister Plenipoten-
tiary to reside at this place.—rront the interest taken by
this Sovereign inbelialf tit the suffering Greek, and from
the spirit with which others of the treat European
Powers are co-operating with hiin, the friends of freedom
and of humanity nia,y indulge the hope that they ob-
tain relief from that most unequal of ,corqias, which they
have so long and so gallantly sustained ; that they will en-
joy the blessing of self-pveinment, Which-, by their stiffer:-
ing-s in the cause of liberty, they have se tidily earned;
and that their independence Will he secured by those liberal
institutions, of which thti.t country furnished the earliest
examples in the history of mankind, and Whiebt be.\re nu-
scanted to .immortal remembrance the ~r&y ;oil for which
they are now again profusely pOttring forth their blood.
The sympathies with which the People and 'Government
of the United States have so warmly indtdgeti witn their
Gauge have been acknowledged by their Government in a
letter of thanks, vvbit:li I have received from their illustri-
ous President, n translation of which is now communicated
to congress, the Representatives of that Nation io whom
this tribute of gratitude was intended to be paid, and to
whom it was justly due.
In the Araeican hemisphere the cause of freedom and In-
dependence has continued to prevail ; and if signalized by
none of those splendid triumphs which had crowned with
glory some some of the preceding years, it has only been
from the banishment of all external force against which
the struggle had been maintained.. The shout of victory
has been superseded by the expulsion of the enemy over
whom it could have been achieved. Our friendly wishes
and cordial good-will, which have constantly followed the
southern nations of America in all the vicissitudes of their
war of Independence, are succeeded by a solicitude, equally
ardenl and cordial, that by the wisdom and purity of their
instituttions, they may secure to themselves the choicest
blessings of social order, and the best rewards of virtuous
liberty. Disclaiming alike all right and all intention of
interfering in those concerns which 'it is the prerogative of
their Independence to regulate as to them shall see fit, we
hail with joy every indication of their prosperity, of their
harmony, of their persevering and infleiible homage to
those principles of freedom and of equal rights, which aro g

alone suited ,to the genius and tetnyer of the American
nations. It has been therefore with some concern that we
have observed indications of intestine divisions in some of
the Republics of the South, and appearances of less union
with one Another, than we believe to be the. interest of alll,
Among the reults of this state of things has been that the
Treaties concluded at Panama do not appeat to have been
ratified by the contracting parties, and that the meeting
of the Congress at Tacubava has been been indefinitely
' pestponed. In accepting the invitations :to be represented
at this Congtess, While a inabifestotiott • was intended on
the port.olthe United Statei, of the most friendly dispo-
sition towards the Southern Republics by whom it bad
been proposed, it was hoped that it would fvrnish an op-
portunity for bringing all the nations of this hemisphere
to the common acknowledgement and adoption ,of the prin-
ciples, in the regulation of their, International relations,
whioh would haire r;eciired a lasting' peace and harmony be-
tween them, and bait proinoted the cause of rnntital bene-
volence throughout the globe. But as obstacles appear to
have arisen to the re-assembling of the Congress, one of ahe
two Ministers commissioned on the part of the Uaited
States has returned to the bosom of his country, while the
Minister charged with the ordinary mission to Mexico re-
mains
autlibriked iti attend at the conferences of the Con-
gress
whenexer they may be resumed. • -
A hope was for a short time entertained, that a Treaty
of Peace actually signed between the Government of Buenos
Ayres and Brasil Would Siipereede all further occasions for
those collisions between belligerafit pietensions and 'neutral
rights, which are so coMmonly the result of maritithe war,
and which have unfortunately disturbed. the harmony of
the relations between the United States and the Brazilian
Governments. At their last session, •Corigress were ,in-
formed that some of the naval officers of that Empire had
advanced to and practised Upon principles in relation to
blockades aue neutral navigation, which We eoidd not sanc-
tion, and which our commanders found it 'necessary to re-
sist. It appears that they have .not been sustained by the
Government of Brazil itself. Some of the vessels captured
under the assumed authority of these erroneous principles,
have been restored ; and we trust that our just expectations
will be realised, that adequate indemnity will be made to
all citizens of the United States who have suffered by the
unwarranted captures which the Brazilian tribunals them-
selves have pronounced unlawful.
In the diplomatic discussions at Rio de Janeiro, of these
wrongs sustained by citizens of the United States, and of
others, which seemed as if emanating immediately from
that Government itself, the Charge, d!Affaies of the United.
States, under nn impression that his representations in be-
belt of the rights and interests of his countrymen were totally
disregarded and useless, deemed it his duty without waiting
for instructions, lo terminate his officiol functions, to de-
. mand his passports, and return to - the United States. This
movement,' disctated by an honest zeal for the honour and
interest of his country ; motives which operated etclusively
upon the mind of the officer who resorted to it, has not been
disapproved by me. The Brazilian Government, however,
complained of it de a measure for which no adequate inten-
tional cause had been given, by them ; and upon an explicit
assurance, through their Charge d'Affairs, residing there,
that a successor to the late Representative Of the United
States near that Government, the appointment of whom
they desired should be received and treated with the respect
due to his character, and that indemnity should be promptly
made fur all injuriee inflicted en citizens of the United
States, or their property, contrary to the laws of nations,
a ternpory,' commiesion as Charge d'Affairs to that country,
has beets iSstleci, which it is hoped will entirely restore the
ordinary diplo'natic intercourse between the two Govern-
ments, and the friendly relations between their respective
nations.

Turning from the momentitous concerns of our Union,
0 ;its intercourse with foreigh nations, to those of the
deepest interest in the atlminittratioit of othainternal af-
fairs, we find the revenues of the present year correspond-
ing as nearly as might be expected with tne anticipations
of the last, and presenting an aspect still more favourable
to the promise of the next. The balance in the treasury
on the Ist of January last, was (1,358,686 dollars and 18
cents. The receipts from that day to the SOth of Sep-
tember last, rs near es the returns of them yet received
can show, amount to 1ta,886,581 and 32 cents. The
receipts of the present quarter, estimated. at 4,515,000,
added to the above, form un aggregate of 21,100,900 dol-
lars of receipts. The expendstures of the year may per-
haps amount to 22,300,000 dollars, presenting a small ex-
cess over the receipts.
tut of these twenty-two millions, upwards ofsix have been
applied to the discharge of the principal of the public debt ;
the whole amount of which, approaching seventy-four
millions on the; first of Jar-lma, last will oil the first day of
next year fall short of sixty-seven millions and a half: The
balance in the treasury on the first of January next, it is
expected, will exceed five millions four hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; a sum exceeding that of the first of Jan.
1825, thokSgh falling short of that exhibited on the first of
January last.
It was foreseen that the revenue of the present year
would not equal that of the last, which had itself been lers
than that of the nevt preceding year, But the hope has
been realized which was entertained, that these deficiencies
would in nowise interrupt the steady operation of the dis-
charge of the public debt by the annual ten millions de-
voted to that object by the Act of 3d March; 1817.
The amount of ditties secured on merchandize imported
from the commencement of the year until the 30th of Sep-
tember laets it tWenty-one millions two hundred and
twenty-six thousand, and the probable amount of that
which will be secured during the remainder of the year, is
five millions seven hundred and 71 thousand dollars ; form-
ing a sum total of twenty-seven millions. With the alio*,
ances for drawbacks and contingent deficiencies which may
occur, though not specifically foreseen, we may safely
estimate the receipts of the ensuing rear at twenty-two mil-
lions three hundred thousand dollars; a revenue for the
next equial to the expenditure of the present year.
The deep solicitude felt by our citizens of all classes
throughout the Union for the total discharge of the pub-
lic debt, will apologize for the earnestness with which I
deem it my duty to urge this topic Upon: the eoftsiderit
tion of Cotigtess—of recommending to them again the
observance of the strictest economy in the application
of the public funds: The depression upon the receipts
Of the revenue which had commenced With the ";ear
1826, continued with increased severity' during the two
first quarters of the present year. The returning tide
began to flow with the third quarter, and so far as we
tan judge from experience, may be expected to continue
through the course of the ensuing year: In the mean-
time, an alleviatirn from the ',awn of the public debt
will in the three years, have been effected to the ambisfit
of nearly 16 millions, and the charge of annual interest
will have been reduced upwards of one million. But,
among the maxims of political economy *bielt the stewards
of the public loonies should never suffer without urgent ne-
cessity to be transcended, is that of keeping the expendi-
tures of the year within the limits of its receipts: The
apprdpriationt Of the two last years, including the yearly
10 nfillioht of the sinking fund, have each equalled the
promised revenue of the ensuing year. While we foresee
with confidence that the public coffers will be replenished
from the receipts, as fast as they will be drained by the
eipetidittiree, equal in amount to those of the current
year, it should not be forgotten that they could ill suffer
the exhaustion of larger disbOrsements:
The condition of the Army, and all the braiielleti of the
public service under the superintendence of the Secretary of
War, will be seen by the report from. that officeis and the
&Senn:lents With *Lich it is acCompailled.
burin the aourse of the last summer, a detachment of
the Army has been usefully and successfully called to per-
fortis their tinpropriate duties. At the montent when the
Commissioners appointed for carrying into execution eett'aita
provisions of the Treaty of Aug. 19th, 1825, with various
tribes of the Northsvestein Indians, Were abont to arrive at
the appointed place of meeting, the unprovoked of
several citizens, and other acts of unequivocal hostility com-
mitted by a party of the Winnebago tribe, one of those ass
sociatred in the Treaty, followed by, the , indications of a
nielSteliik character, among other tribes of the seine :Lcg/O.i,
rendered necessary an immediate display of the defensive
and protective force of the Union in that quarter, It was
accordingly exhibited by the ithnwliate and
.koncetted
riovaiiients of the Governors of the State of Illinois and
of the Territory of Michigan, and compotent levies of
militia under their authority; with a corps of seven hun-
dred men of United States troops under the command of
General Atkiiisbn, who, at the call of tio'iertior Cass, iris,
mediately repaired to the scene of danger, ftditi their
station at St. Louis. Their presence dispelled the alarms
of oar fellow-citizens on those borders and overawed the
hostile purposes of the Indians. TIM perpetrators of the
murders were surrendered to the authority and operation
of our laws ; and every appearance of purposed hostility
from those Indian tribes has subsided.
Although the present organization of the Army, and the
administration of its various brances of service, are, upon
the whole, satisfactory, they are yet susceptible of much
improvement in particulars, some of which have been here-
tofore submitted to the consideratson of Congress, and
others are now first presented in the Itcpert of the Secretary
of War.

The expediency of providing for additional numbers 01
officers in the two corps of Engineers will, in some degree,
depend *pen the number and extent of the objects of na-
tional importance upon which Congress may think it pro-
per that surveys should
•be made, conformably to they Act

of the soth of April,' 1.924. Of the surveys which before
the last Session of Congress, bad been made under the au-
thority of that Act, reports were made :
I. Of the Board of, Internal Improvement, on the Che-
sapeake and Ohio canal:.
2, On the continuance of the National Road from Cntn-
herland to the tide waters within the district otrColumbia,
8. On the continuation of the National Road from Can-
ton to Zanesville.
4. On the locational of the National Road from Zama-
vile to Columbia. • -
b. On the:continuation of the same road to the seat of
Government in Missouri.
6. • On a Post Road from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
7. On a survey of Kennebec River (in part.)
s. On a National Road from Washington to Buffalo.
9. On the survey of Sangattick Harbour and River.
10. On a Canal from Lake Pontchaatrain to the Missis-
sippi River. .
11. On a survep at Edgartown, Newburyport, and Hp-
antda Harbin.,
12. On survey of Lake Plaisance Bay, in the TerritorS
of Michigan.
And reports are now prepared, and will be submitted
tO Congress:—
On surveys of the peninsula of Florida,. to ascertain the
practicability of a canal to conneci the waters of the At-
lantic with the Gulf of Mexico. across that peninsula; and
also of 'the country between , the Bays of Mobile and of
Pensacola, with the view of connecting them together by
a canal. '

On surveys of a route for a canal to connect the waters
of the James and Great Kenhawa rivers.

On the survey of the Swash in Pimlico Sound, and that
of Cape Fear below the town of Wilmington, in North Ca-
rolina.

On the survey of the Muscle Shoals, in the Tennessee
t.liveri and a route for a contemplated communication
hetWeen thy Iliwussee and Coosa rivers, in the -State of
Alabama. •

Other reports of surveys upon objects poicted out by the
several acts of Congress of the last and preceding sessions.
are in the progress of preparation, and most of them may
be completed before the close Of this scission. All the offi-
cers of both Corps of Engineers, with setae' other persons
duly qualified, have been constantly employed upon these
services, from the passage of the the Act of 30th April,
1824, to this time. Were no other advantage to accrue to
the country from their labors, than the fund of topographical
knowledge which they have collected and communicated,
that alone would have been a profit to the Union more
than adequate to all the expenditures which hate been
devoted to the object; but the appropriations for the .re-
pair and 'continuation of the Cumberland Road, for the
construction of various other • Roads, for the removal
cf obsiructious from the Rivers and Harbors, for
the erection of Light-houses, Beacons, Piers and Buoys,
and for the completion of Canals undertaken by individual
associations, but needing the assistance of means and re-
sources more comprehensive than individual enterprise can
command, may be considered rather as treasures laid up
from the contributions of the present age, for the benefit of
posterity, than as unrequited applications of the accruing
revenue of the nation, TO euch objects of permanent im-
provement to the condition of the country, of real addition
to the wealth as well as to, the comfort of the people by
whose authority and resources they have been affected, from
ehree to four millions of the annual income of the nation
have, by laws enacted at the three most recent sessions of
Congress been applied, without intrenching upon the ne-
cessities of the Treasury i without adding a dollar to the
taxes or debts of the community : without suspending
even the steady and regular discharge of the debts con-
tracted in former days, which, within the three years have
been diminished by the amount of nearly sixteen millions of
dollars.

The same observations ate, in a great degree, applicable
to the appropriations made for fortifications upon the coasts
and harbours of the United States, fur the main;enance of
the Military Academy at West Point, and for the various
objects tinder the superintendence of the Department of
the Navy. The Report of the Secretary of the Navy, and
those from the subotditate branches of both Military De-
partments, exhibit to Congress, in minute detail, the pre-
sent condition of the public establiehmentss dependent upon
than j the execution of the acts of Congress relating to
them, and the infnrrs of the officers engaged in the several
branches of the service, enneernin the improvements
which May tend to their perfection. The fortification
of the Coagts; and the gradual increase and improve-
ment of the Navy, are parts of a great system of national
defence, which has been upwards of ten years in pro-
gress, and which, for a series of years to come, will
continue to claim the constant and persevering pro-
teceion and superintendence of legislative authority.—
Among the measures which have emanated from these
principles; the Act of the last Session of Congress for the
gradual improvement of the Navy, holds a conspicuous
place. The collection of timber for the future construction
of vessels of war ; the preservation and re-production of
the species of timber peculiarly adapted to that purpose ;
the consideration of dry docks for the use of the Navy; the
erection of a Mating Railway fur the repair of the public
ships, and the improVement of the Navy Yards fur the
preservation of toe public property deposited in them, have
all received from the Executive the attention required by
the Act, and will continue to receive it, steadily proceed-
ing towards the execution of its purposes. The establish-
ment of a Naval Academy, furnishing the means of theo-
retic instruction to the youths who devote their lives to the
service of their country upon the ocean, still solicits the
sanction of the Legislatnte. Practical seamanship and
the art of navigation may be acquired upon the cruises
of the stinadrons, which, from time to time, are despatch-
ed to distant seas bat a competent knowledge even of the
art of ship-building, the higher mathematics and autro-
noinn the literature which can place our officers on a
level of polished edocation with the officers of other mari-
time nations; the knowledge of the laws, municipal and
national, which, in their intercourse with Foreign States
and their Governments, are called into operation; and,
tanni; all; that acquaintance with the principles of honour
and justice, with the higher obligations of morals, and of
general laws, human and diVine, which constitute the
great distinction between the warrior patriot, and the li-
censed robber and pirate ; these can be systematically
taught and eminently acquired only in a permanent school,
stationed upon the shore, and provided with the teachers,
the instruments, and the books, conversant with and
adapted to the communication of the plincipies of those re-
spective sciences to the youthful and inquiring mind.
The report from the Post Master General exhibits the
condition of that Departments, as highly satisfactory for
the present, and still more promising for tile future. Its
receipts for the year ending the first of July last amounted
to one million tour hundred arid seventy-three thousand
five hundred and fifty-one dollars, and exceeded its expen-
ditures by upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. It
cannot be au over sanguine estimate to predict that in less
than ten years, of which one half have elapsed, the receipt
will have been 'more than doubled. In the mean time a
reduced expenditure upon established routes has kept pace
with increased facilities of public accommodation, and ad-
ditional services have been obtained at reduced rates of com-
pensation. Within the last year the transpor.ation of
the snail in stages has been greatly augmented. The
number of Post Offices has been increased to seven
thousand ; and it may be anticipated that while the facili-
ties of intercourse betwen fellow citizens in person or by
correspondence, will soon be carried to the door of every
village in the Union, a yearly surplus of revenue will ac-
crue, tOsiels May be tpplied as the wisdom of Congress,
under the exercise of their constitutional powers, may de-
vise, for the furthsr establishment and improvement of the
pnblic roads, or by adding still further to the facilities in
the transpottation of the mails. Of the indications of the
prosperous conditions of our country, none can be more
pleasing than those prosented by the multiplying relations
of personal and intimate intercourse between the citizens of
the Union dwelling at tha tetnotest distances from each ether.
"'Among
the subjects which bate heretofore occupied
the earted solicitude and att;ntion of Congress, is the
manageiheltiernt and disposal of that portion of the pro-
perty of the Nation shit consists of the public lands. The
ocqnitition Of them, made at the expellee of the whole
IThion, not only in the treasure, but in blood, marks a right
of property in them equally extensive. By the roport
and statements from file Otnefal Land Office now com-
municated, it appears that under the preseut Govern-
ment of the United Stater a sum little short of thirty-
three
millions of dollars has been 'said from the com-
mon Treasury for that postion of this property which has
been purchased from France and Spain, and for the ex-
tinction of the aboreglnal titles. The amount of lands ac-
quired is near 260,000,000 of acres, of which, on the Ist
ofsu ca,.yrtioda,r y,
and lf3 21
intatlß bout
el 309,1 a Onolo,o 0,000000,
of
oaocroefs
altrreds
been sold. The amount pail into the Treasury by the
purchasers of the lands .old is not yet equal to the stuns
paid
fso ttlieiet proceeds of
leaves
ofsrna blaalnatinseehtaovebeiorne -
fe
been pledged to the creditors of the Nation ; a pledge.
from which we have reason to hope that they will in a fen
years be redeemed. The system upon which this great
fled by the progress of our population, and the lessons o
experience, it has been hitherto eminently
tuslicesdual tn
d ofnl,(odsgi
successful.--.
interestnd persie persevering has
egnn deliberationanage d
w ;a s m thea
Nanaxtiiooluica,l
More than nine-tenths of the lands still remain the commof