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adapted to the communication of the principles of, those re-
apectit-e S'etnees to the yottliful and inquiring mind.
The report from the Post Master General exhibits the
condition of that Department, as highly satisfactory for
the present, and still more promising for the future. Its
receipts for the year ending the first of July last amounted
to one,: rnillion,lour .huodred,•and seventy-three , thousand
five he ,died f:fty'-eire tioliai4i, .ent.i.:eLled
ditures by upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. It
cannot be an 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.
tiltional seri-leo:4re beeri obtainer" at, red#ed fateS of suttl-,
Within the last year the traii'Vortatib i of
the mail in stages has been greatly augmented. The
number of Pont OffiCes has been increased to seven
thousand ; and it may be anticipated that while, the faf
ties of intetchttieie *wen fellow eltiteni
,in personn, or by
Correspondence, will•soon be carried to the door Of every
village in the Union, a yearly surplus of revenue will ac-
crue, which may be applied as the wisdom of Congress,
under the exercise of their constitutional powers, may de-
vise, for the further establishment and improvement of the
public roars or by addif,s still fitrther to. flze facilities in
sue transportation of the mails. Of the indications Of tht
prosperous conditions of our country, none can be more
pleasing than those presented by the multiplying relations
of personal and intimate intercourse between the citizens of
the Union dwelling at the remotest dietances from each ether.
Amen the Silb,iett:i h'ei•etefuee trcUpied
the earnest solicitude and attention of Congress, is the
managemement and disposal of that portion of the pro-
perty of the Nation which consists of the public lands. The
acquisition of them, made at the Aneneks of thv whOla
Union, slot otq!, is the treasure, but in blood, marks a right
if property in them equally extensive. By the report
and statements from the General Land Office now com-
municated, it appears that under the present Govern-
ment of the United States a sum little short of thirty--
three millions of dollare has been paid from the cosn-
mon Tretteuryfor thet.portion of tins property sViiieh
been pin'cliased Boer! France and Spain, and for the ex-
tinction of the aboriginal titles. The amount of lands ac-
quired is near 260,000,000 of acres, of which, on the lit
of January, 1826, about 139,000,000 of acres had been
surveyed, and little more than 10,000,000 of acres had
been sold. The amount paid into the Treasury by the
purchasers of the lands
.sold is not !,,et equal to the rums
paid for the Whole, but leaves a small balance to be re-
funded ; the proceeds of the sales of the lands have long
been pledged to the creditors of the Nation; a pledge
from which we have reason to hope that- they will its a few
years be redeemed. The system upon Which this great
Natioaal interest has been managed was the result of long,
anxious and persevering deliberation ; matured and modi-
fied by the progress of our population, and the lessons of
experience, it has been hitherto eminently successful.—
More than nine-tenths of the lands still remain the common
property of the Union, the appropriation and disposal of
which are sacred trusts in the hands of Congress.
Of the said lend sold, a considerable part Were cdii-
veyod under extended credits, which in the vi-
cissitudes and fluctuations in the value of lands,
and of their produce, became oppressively burdensome to
the purchasers. It can never be the interest or the po-
licy of the nation to wring from its own citizens the
reasonable profits of their industry and enterprise, by
holding them to the rigorous import of disastrous engage-
tnentet In March, 1821, a debt of twenty-two millions
of dollars, clue by purchasers of the public lands, had
accumulated, which they were unable to pay. An act
of Congress, of the 2d of March, 1821, came to their re-
lief, and has been succeeded by others, the latest being
the Act of the 4th of May, 1826, the indulgent provisions
of which expired on the 4th of July last. The effect of
these laws has been to reduce the debt from the pur-
chasers, to a remaining balance of about four millions
three hundred thousand dollars due ; more than three-
fifths of which are for lands within the State of Ala-
bama. I recommend to Congress the revival and cons
tinuance for a further term, of the beneficient accommoda-
tions to the public debtors, of that statute; and submit
to their ionsidetatioh, in the same spirit of equity, the
remission, under proper discriminations, of the forfeitures of
partial payments on account— of.Pursl.•••' *"--I.`"W'
lands, so far as to allow of their application to other pay-
ments.

There are varions other subjects of deep interest to
the whole Union, which have heretofore been recom.
mended to the consideration of Congress, as well by my
predecessors as, under the impression of the duties de-
volving upon use, by myself. Among these are the debts
rather of justice than gratitude to the surviving war-
riors of the Revolutionary tear; the extension of the
Judicial Administration of the Federal Government, to
those extensive and important members of the Union,
which, having risen into existence since the organiza-
tion of the present Judiciary establishment, tid tort-.
stitute at least one third of its territory, power, and po-
pulation ; the formation of a more effective and uni-
form system for the government of the Militia, and the
amelioration, in some form or modification, of the di-
versified and often oppressive codes relating to Insok
vency. Amidst the multiplicity of topics of great na-
tional concernment which may re.commend themselves
to the calm and patriotic deliberations of the Legisla,
ture, it may suffice to say, that to all these, and other rnea-

sures which may receive their sanction, my hearty co-
operation will be given, conformably to the duties enjoined
upon rne, and under the sense of all the obligations pre-
scribed by the constitution.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
Washington, December 4, 1827.

FOREIGN INTELLIGEN'CE►

?RENCII PAPERS.
(From the Moniteur. of Sunday, Dec. 30.)
PARIS, DEC. 29.—1 n reply to the article extrated from
the Precurseur of Lyons, and inserted in the Journal du
Commerce of the 29th of December, Ave are authorized td
declare that the pretended discussion on the communication
or nt,.n.communication to the officers of the Crown (Mi-
nistrie public) of the investigations relative to the events
of the 19th and 20th of November, has not taken place,
and, that the most perfect harmony prevails between the
Commission of Inquiry and the Parquet, in any thing that
may tend to the discovery of the truth.

(From the Gazette de France of Dec. 81.)
PA Itl3, DEV. Wl—The affairs of the East may be con-
sidered under three principal points of view,—viz. the
situation of the Porte, that of the Paella of Egypt, and that
of the Greeks.

The Porte is sullen and threatens : this is a habit, per-
haps it is calculation. Its sullenness will not last,—lts
threatenings will end in nothing.,
We have asked where was its field of battle? It has
none on the sea, and Heaven preserve it from having one
on the land ! The existence of the Porte will be main-
tained even in Europe, but conditions will be annexed to
it. Is not this all that in the decline of the colossus would
be hoped ?
Let us take another• point of view. if we may believe
what the Attgsburgh Gazette publishes respecting the
late events at Scio, the letters from Trieste and Frankfort
which we have received, and those which have been in-
' serted in the German journals., a Greek flotilla has suf-
fered the fate of the Ottoman fleet. Fabvier at Scio, Ibra-
him at Modon, leave the field open to intervention and ne-
gociation. This event would prove that the three Powers
are resolved to attain their• object—the pacification of the
sea, the extirpation of piracy, the liberation of European
commerce. ' They prosecute the execution of the treaty of
the 6th of July.
For it is, doubtless, the three Powers who have acted
at Scio. Whom will our liberals persuade that there lies
not been any connection in the operations; and a perfect
understanding between the three Admirals, if it has been
found necessary to muse the armistice to be respected, or
to act with severity towards the pirates? Does not the
letter, written in common to the Government of the
Greeks, explain every thing? Has the proOamation of
Lord Cochrane need of a comment? Have not the ves-
sels which were in a condition to fight, whether they
were Russian, English, or French, remained ender the
command of Admiral de Itigny, as they were at Navarin
under that of Admiral Codrington?
Why should not the three great Powers execute what
the Greek Government orders, and what it cannot attain ?
Are we not told that forty Greek vessels are armed to de_
stroy the pirates?
The policy of Mahomet Paella is the inexhaustible sob_
Jett of the conjectures, and even of the reproaches of the
opposition, for they almost make a crime of the sangfroid
which he shows.

It is true that French commerce might suffer by the re-
sentment of that Prince,—that it does suffer even from the
uncertainty which is affected respecting his instructions.—
But what matters it? The debtors' side of the account of
the .Ministers would be the more swelled. One journal of
the party alone has comprehended the indecorum, and
even the absurdity of these attacks and these doubts. It
takes it for the text of a very wise lecture to its brethren,
who will not pay any regard to it. For how should they
fill up their papers, if they were to insert nothing but
truths?

We have becu rallied for having announced this event ;