Star.
London, England, 1803-01-28 00:00:00

dlic RICA.

CONGRESS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. vs.
The following Melttge was delivered to each
:joule by Mr. Lewis, Secretary to the Prefident:
'• To the Saute and Houk of Rcprefentatives of the United

“ States.
44 When we affemble together, Fellow Citizens.
r., confider the nate of our beloved country, our
;an attentions are fire drawn to thofe pleafing
..i.cuzuriances ultich mark the goodnefs of that
It-ing horn whole favour they flow; and the large
itsr.tr.tre of thankfulnefi, we owe for his bounty.
_lnotlicr rear has come around, and finds us ftill
i.:cifed with peace and friendtbip abroad ; law,
(ii der, and religion at home ;
.good :dation and
11.n-twiny with our Indian neighbours, our bur-
t!,:c. lightened, yet our income fofficient for the
~ iblic wants, and the produce of the year great
;a .oild example. There, fellow Citizens, are the
flr--timitances under which we meet ; and we re-
Walk, with fpecial fatisfaßion, thofe which, under
the smiles of Pao•lnsace, refult from the fkill, ,
;nairtiry, and order of our Citizens, managing I
their own affairs in their own way, and for their I
, v-n ufe, unembarrafed by too much regulation,
unoppreffed by fifcal exaaions.
On the renovation of peace in Europe, that
portion of the carrying trade which had fallen to ,
our share during the war, was abridged by the
returning competition of the Belligerent Powers..
This was to be expelled and was juft. But, in addi- I
tion, we find, in fume parts of Europe, monopo. I
lizing difcriminations, which, in the form of du-
ti tics, tend effettually to prohibit the carrying thither
our own produce in our own veifels. From exining
amities, and a fpirit of juffice, it is hoped that
friendly difcuffion will produce a fair and adequate
reciprocity. But fbould falfe calculations of in-
tete' defeat our hope, it rafts with the LegiOature
to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad
with countervailing inequalities at home, or pro-
vide for the evil in any other way.
"It is with fatisfaaion I lay before you an AR
of the Britilli Parliament, anticipating this fubjea,
fu far as to authorife a mutual abolition of the
duties, and countervailing duties, permitted under
-the Treaty of ma. It flews. on their part, a
fPirit of juaiee and friendly accommodation, which
it is our duty and our interen to cultivate with all
nations. Whether this would produce a due
equality, in the navigation between the two coun-
tries, is a fubjea for your confideration.
” Another circumftance which claims attention,
as direCtly affeßing the very fource of our naviga•
tion, is the defea or the evafion of the law pro-
viding for the return of feamen, and particularly
of thole belonging to veffels fold abroad. Num-
bers of them difcharged in foreign ports, have
been thrown on the hands of our Confuls, who, to
rekue them from the dangers into which their
ditlreffes might plunge them, and five them to
their country, have found it necelfary, in fume
cafes, to return them at the public charge.
" The cefficn of the Spanifh province of Loui-
liana to France, which took place in the courfe of
the late war, will, if carried into effed, make a
change in the afpeß of our foreign relations, which
will doubtlefs have jun weight in any deliberations
of the Legiflature conneßed with that fubjeß.
" There was reafon, not long luxe, to *tante-
bend that the warfare in which we were engaged
with Tripoli, might be taken up by fume other of
the Barbary powers. A reinforcement, therefore,
was immediately ordered to the veftels already
there. Subfequent information however has re-
moved thefe apprchcnfions for the prefent. To
fecure our commerce in that fea, with the fmalleft
force competent, we have fuppofed it bell to
watch ftriftly the harbour of Tripoli. Still, how-
ever, the lhallownefs of their coati, and the want
of fmaller velfels on our part, has permitted Come
cruizers to efcape unobferved ; and to one of tliefe
an American velfel unfortunately fell a prey. The
Captain, one American leaman, and two others
of colour, remain prifoners with them ; unlefs ex-
changed under an agreement formerly made with
the galhaw, to whom. on the faith of that, Come
of his captive fubjeCts had been reftored.
" The Convention with the State of Georgia
has been ratified by their Leginature, and a re-
purchafe from the Creeks has been confequently
made, of a partial the Tallalrcee county. In this
purchafe has been alto comprehendedl part of the
lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakmulgee
rivers. The particulars of the contra& will be
lard before Congrefs fo foon as they than be in a
Lite for communication.
" In order to remove every ground of difference
poffible with our Indian neighbours, I have pro-
ceeded in the walk of fettling with them, and
marking the boundaries between us. That with
the Chataw nation is fixed in one part, and will
be through the whole within a short time. The
country to which their title had been extiuguilbed
before the revolution is fufficient to receive a very
refpcinable population, which Congrefs will pro-
bably fee the expediency of encouraging, fo loon
as the limits fball be declared. We are to view
this pofition as an outpoft of the United States,
furrounded by bong neighbours, and diftant from
its fupport. And how far that monopoly, which
prevents population, thould here be guarded
againft, and afloat habitation made a condition
of the continuance of title, will be for your confi-
Iteration. A prompt fettlement too, of all exit!.
mg rights and claims within this territory, preknts
Well as a preliminary operation.
44 In that part of the Indiana territory which in-
cludes Vincennes, the lines fettled with the neigh-
bouring trii,c, fix the extirtaion of their title at a
breadth rt. :.4. leagues from Eaft to Wen, and
abort' 11 : -ame length parallel with and including
the W.i!..dh. They have alto ceded a track of four
mil..s twiate, including the Salt Springs near the
m.,;. it of that river.
44 li, the al vartment of finance it is with plea-
Ito e I n.fcr ni yi.n that the receipts iif external do-
t:-.. I. r' • • ,11Prellve months, have exceeded
th 1 its: 1 . k
_,,,v• . and that the ratio uf
~.Slic • ' e L• ,
_; ,j, . r than ufual. This has
ei., ~.i i''' .14- ;11 regular exigencies o!
t • P.* id 1 •
t;• • *•••
..1., !4ttr . e'l maims!, within
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one year, upwards of eight millions of dollars, I
principal and interef, of the public debt, exclufive
of upwards of one million paid by the Cale of bank I
dock, and making in the whole a reduction of
nearly five millions and a half of principal, and
to have now in the Treaftiry four millions and a
half of dollars, which are in a courfe of application
to the further difcharge of debt and current de-
mands. Expel ience, too, fo far authorifes us to
believe, if no extraordinary event fupervenes, and
the expences which will be aCtually Incurred (hall
not be greater than were contemplated by Con-
grefs at their laft feflion, that we (hall not be dil-
-1 appointed in the expedations then formed. But,
ncverthelefs, as the effect of peace on the amount
of duties is not yet fully afcertained, it is the snore
neccffary to praftife every ufeful economy, and to
incur no expence, which may be avoided without
prejudice.
" The colledion of the internal taxes having
been completed in fume of the States, the officers
employed in it are of courfe out of commiffion.—
In others they will be fo (bortly. But in a few,
where the arrangements for the dired tax had been
retarded, it will dill be Come time before the fyf-
rem is doled. It has not yet been thought need(-
' fary to employ the agent authorifed by an Mt of
the laft Salon, for tranlkaing bufinefs in Eisrope
relative to debts and loans. Nor have we ufed the
power, confided by the fame Mt, of prolonging
the foreign debt by re-loans, and of redeeming in-
(lead thereof, an equal fum of the domeftic debt.
Should however the difficulties of remittance on
fo large a fcale, render it neceffary at any time,
the power (hall be executed, and the money thus
unemployed abroad mall, in conformity With that
law, be faithfully employed here in an equivalent
extindion of domeftic debt. When effects fo
tary refult from the plans yon have already lane-
timed, when merely by avoiding falfe objeas of
expence. we are able, without a &reit tax, without
internal taxes, and without borrowing, to snake
large and effectual payments towards the difcharge
of our public debt, and the emancipation of our
poftcrity from that mortal canker, it is an encou-
ragement, Fellow Citizens, of the higheft order, to
proceed as we have begun in fubftituting econo-
my for taxation, and in purfuing what is ufeful
for a Nation, placed as we are, rather than what
is praaifed by others under different circumfances.
And whenfoever we are defined to meet events
which (hall call forth all the energies of our coun-
trymen, we have the firmeft reliance on thofe
energies, and the comfort of leaving for calls like
there, the extraordinary refources of loans and in-
ternal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of
the principal of our debt, we are liberating, ennui
ally, portions of the external taxes, and forming
from them a growing fund, fill further to leffen
theneceffityoirecurring toextraordinaryrefources.
" The dual account of receipts and expendi-
tures for the laft year, with an eftimate of the ex-
pence' of the enfuing one, will be laid before you
by the Secretary of the Treafury.
" No change being deemed neeeffary in our
military eltablittment, an eftimate of its expences
for the enfuing year, on its prefect footing, as alfo
of the funs to be employed in fortifications, and
other objects within that department, has been
prepared by the Secretary at War, and will make
a part of the general eftimates which will be pre-
fenced to you.
• Confidering that our regular troops are em-
ployed for local purpofes, and that the militia is
our general reliance for great and fudden emer-
gencies, you will doubtlefs think this in(litution
worthy of a review, and give it tilde improve-
ments of which you find it fufeeptible.
• Eflimates for the naval department, prepared
by the Secretary of the Navy for another year,
will in like manner be communicated with the ge-
neral eftimates- A (mall force in the Mediter-
raocan will fill be neceffary to refrain the Tripo.
line crnifers and the uncertain tenure of peace
with Tome other of the Barbary Powers, may
eventually require that force to be augmented.—
The neceffity of procuring tome (mailer veffels for
that fervice, will raife the eftimate; but the dif-
ference in their maintenance will loon make it a
meafure of economy.
• Prefuming it will be deemed expedient to
expend annually a convenient furn towards pro-
viding the naval defence which our fituation may
require, i cannot but recommend that the firft
ap-
propriations for that purpofe, may go to the laving
what we already polfefs. No cares, no attentions,
can preferve veffels from rapid decay, which
j lie in water, and expoled to the fun. Thefe '
de-
cays require great and conflant repairs, and
will confume, if continued, a great portion of
the monies defined to naval purpofes. To
avoid this wafte of our refources, it is propofed
to add 'to our navy-yard here a dock, within which
our prefcnt veffels may be laid up dry, and under
cover from the fun. Under thefe circumftances
I experience proves that works of wood will remain
fcarcely at all affected by time. The great
andndance of running water which this fituation
padres, at heights far above the level of the tide.'
if employed as is praCtifed for lock navigation, fur-
, nifhes the means for railing and laying up our
refits, on a dry and fheltered bed. And fhould
the meafure be found ufeful here fimilar depofito-
ries for laying up, as well as for building and re-
, pairing veffels, may hereafter be undertaken at
• other navy yards, offering the fame means. The
• plans and ell Mutes of the work, prepared by a
perfon of (kill and experience, will be prefented
to you, without delay; and from there it will be
• teen that fcarcely more than has been the colt of
• one vac' is neceffary to rave the whole, and that
I the annual furn to be employed towards it maple-
! tics may be adapted to the views of the Legins-
r tore as to naval expenditure.
r .4 To cultivate peace and maintain commerce
and navigation in all their lawful enterprifes ; to
roller our &lurks as nurferies of navigation, and
- for the nurture of man, and prated the manufae-
• tures adapted to our circumilances ; to preferve
I •he faith of the nation by an exact difcharge (silts
debts and contra Rs, expend the public money with
.lie fame cave and economy we would Karaite
with our own, wad import on our citizens no on-
...ceeffazy bunt:cm ; to kc:p in all things

the pale of our conflitutional powers, and chains
the federal union, as the only rock of f.tfety ; there,
fellow citizens, are the landmarks by which we are
to guide ourfelves in all our proceedings. By con-
tinuing to make thcfe our rule of aaion, we !hall
endear to our countrymen the true principles of
►heir conilitution, and promote an union of fenti.
ment and of anion, equally aufpicions to their hap.
pinefs and fafety. On my part you may count on
a cordial concurrence in every meature for the
public good ; and on all the information I porch
which may enable you to difcbarge to advantage
the high funaions with which you are invelled by
your country. (Signed) THOMAS JSFFS *SOH."

EAST INDIES.

CALCUTTA. JUNE sir..

Amour Rao has written to the Englifh General
Psaaow, defiring him to evacuate the diftries of
Rampoora and Nnutuck, an hereditary poffeifion
of his family, and in the occupation of the Hol-
kars, when forcibly taken from them by the orders
of General PERRON : that it was neceffary for him
to provide for the eftablifhment of the widowed
Baces, whom, if he knew right, he ought to look
upon as his true Sovereigns. The laft care he
recommended to him was his own particular inte-
rens ; to which, however, he maned, the General
would' have the kindnefs not to be inattentive;
that he hoped General Psalm* would treat there
feveral (objets with the confideration their retpec-
live merits demanded ; if not, that he and his
mailer mould prepare to refill the pretenfions of
the Englifh General in the field.
Soul:Kali, it is faid, is not a little dirconcerted
by there extraordinary propofirions. To add to
his alarm, the movements of his army are impe•
ded by the menacing pofitions which his enemy
has affumed ,in feveral different places. He ap-
pears to be totally cut off from all poffibility of a
retreat to Hindoftan ; while a fcarcity, little fhort
of famine, owing to the devaftation of the coun-
try, and the entire.neglein of agriculture, conti-
nues to prevail throughout his camp. It is fur-
ther Rated, that SCINDRAN will not permit Gene-
ral Pitaosi to leave him ; that he had, it would
appear, appointed Colonel Suritaaxawn to the
uncontroulled management of his affairs, and or-
dered him to fet out for Hindollan ; in which cafe
his arrival might be daily expeeed. The Holkars
are now completely united, and engaged at this
moment in laying "vane the territory on the oppo-
fite fide of the Burinda, where no one had yet
ventured to oppofe their ravages. Amour Rao's
forces are encamped on the banks of the Sohun,
near Salamatpoor, where it is fuppofed he will
Coon arrive to take the command of his army in
perfon.

FRANCE.

PARIS. JANUARY 24.
ACTS Or OOTItWMINT.

Sslat Mad, January 23.

The Government of the Republic, on a Report
by the loGnifter of the Interior, with the advice of
the Council of State, decrees as follows :
Arr. I. The National Inftitute, now divided
into three claffes, Sall in future confift of four,
namely, al, The Clair of the Phyfical and Ma•
thematical Sciences. 2d, Clafs of the French lan-
guage and Literature. 3d, Clafs of Ancient Hif-
tory and Literature. 4th, Clafs of the Fine Arts.
The prefent Members and Foreign Affociates (hall
be diftributed in thefe four claffes. _ _ _

A commit ion of five Members of the Inftitute,
nominated by the Ft ILIT CONSUL, fhsll prefent to
him this labour, which -than be laid before Go-
vernment for its approbation.
IL The firß clafs (hall be formed of the ten
feeions which at prefent compofe the firs clafs of
the iniiitute ; a feaion of
_geography and naviga-
tion, and eigt foreign affociates. Thefe fettions
!hall be compofed and denominated as follows :-
1 Atithensaikal Sehnert—Geometry, 6 Members, Me-
chanics 6, Agronomy 6, Geography and Navi-
gation 3, Phyfics in general 6.—P! cal Stiepreg—
Cherniftry, 6 Members, Mineralogy 6, Botany 6,
Rural Economy and the Veterinary Art 6, Ana-
tomy and Zoology 6, Medicine and-Surgery 6.
The firft dais, with the approbation of the FIRST
Collso L, (hall appoint two perpetual Secretaries,
one for the Mathematicall and the other for the
phyfical Sciences. The perpetual Secretaries (ball
be Members of the dal's, but grail form no part
of any feelion.
111. The fecond clafs Iball be compofed of forty
Members: It is particularly charged with the care
of compiling a diaionary of the French language.
It Blatt examine in regard to language important
works of literature, hillory and feiences. A collec-
tion of its critical obfervationsfhall be pnblifhed at
lean four times every year. It &all nominate from
its Members a perpetual Secretary, with the ap-
probation of the FIRST COOPOL.
IV. The fourth clafs (hall be compofed of forty
Members, and eight foreign Allociates. The learn-
ed languages, antiquities, and monuments, hi Rory,
and all the moral and political fciences,asthey relate
to hiflory, fhaU be the obje&s of its labours and
refearches. It fhall endeavour in particular, to en-
rich the French literature with the works of the
Greek, Latin, and Oriental writers not yet tranflated.
It (ball employ itfelf with the continuation of diplo-
matic colleetions. It null appoint from its num-
ber a perpetual Secretary, with the approbation of
the FIRST CONSUL.

V. The fourth daft hall be compofed of twenty-
eight Members and eight foreign Afro:whites.—
They ball be divided into fetaions, denominated
and compofed as follow :—Painting to Members;
Sculpture fir; Architeaure fix ; Ea graving three;
Marie (compoStioo) three. It flan appoint with
the approbation of the num Conant., a Perpe
tual Secretary, who (hall be a Member of the clefs,
but ball not form a part of the reeks&
VI. The foreign afociates mall have a delibera
tin rote only in regard to objelts of fcience, litera-
ture, at the arts. They ball not form a part of
any ration, or have any falary. Correfoondent•
cannot aflame the title of members of the inflitute.
(Here follow tome other articles refeeaing nomi-

nation to the vacant places, Sre. &c.) The Tzth
article Rates, that the Inftitute (hall receive annu-
ally, from the public treafury, 1500 francs, for
each of its members not affociates I 6000 for each
of the perpetual fecretaries, and for its expences a
rum which than be determined every year, on a
demand from the Inßitute, and comprehended in
the budget of the Minifter of the Interior. Ac. _
cording to article 13, each des (hall, every year,
diftribute prizes, the number and value of which
(hall be regulated as follows :—the firft clafs a
prize of 3000 francs; the fecond and third cleres
each a prize of 5500 francs ; and the fourth clafs
grand prizes in painting, fculpture, architeanre,
and mufical compofition. Thole who gain thefe
four prizes (hall be tent to Rome, and maintained
n the ezpence of Government.
The prefea of Maine and Loire has culled to
be puhliflied, that it is the intention of Govern.
ment, that no aft of marriage between a white
man and a negrefs, or negroes and white women,
(hall be authorifed.
Five per Cents. 56 fr. 95 c.

FROM THE PARIS PAPERS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 10.—The Reis Effendi
has received new difpatcbes from Egypt :—they
confirm the defeat of the Ottoman army t. but it
appears that it was not fo difsfirous as the finft re. -
ports announced. The Pacha of Cairo is Rill
matter of Upper Egypt. He bad indeed no hopes
of forcing the Beys to refume that pofition which
they were in before the tail battle. At prefent
they occupy the whole of Lower Egypt. At the
dillance of Come miles from Alexandria they have
a camp of 3soo men, Arabs and Mamelukes,
which has obliged the Anglo Turkifh garrifon of
that city to double its polls to guard againa any
furprize. The Secretary of State, GALII Emit-
DI, arrived yefierday in this capital, from his mit--
fion to Paris; he brings with him the ratification
of the Treaty of Peace with the nail. Coosuz..
FRANCICTORT, JANUARY la.—We have received
here by the way of Vienna, intelligence from Con.
fiantinople, which (peaks of the important difputes
that have lately taken place between the Ottoman
Porte and England. The divan is at length con-
vinced, that the Englith troops which are Rill in
Egypt, continue privately to atilt} the Beys, by
furnithing them with arms, ammunition, an even
light artillery, and alfißance in money. To this
conduit the Porte afcribes the fuccefs which the
Beys have lately obtained over the Ottoman
army, which is confequently reduced to a very
critical tituation. The Porte again multi on
the evacuation of Egypt by the Englith, and
though the latter Rill refufe, under a pretence
that they have not been reimbnrfed for the
expences they incurred, in compelling the French
to abandon that country, it neverthelefs hopes
to obtain .this evacuation through the media-
tion of France and of Ruffle. It is remarked
in general, that it is with there two Power that
the Divan withes to renew its conflation' of amity
and alliance. It has alto ref:Relied M. de ST me sa,
the Außrian Internuncin, to intereß hingelf for
the fame objet} with the Englifis Envoy ; but ,
flria does not teen difpofed to interfere in this
difpute.