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have been chiefly employed as a cruizing guard to ahe
rights of our coast ; and such a disposition has been
made.Of oar land forces. as was thought to promise'
the seriices most appropriate and important. In this
disposition is included a three consisting of regulars
and militia, embodied in the Indiana territory, and
marched towards our North-western frontier. This
asure was made requisite by several murders and de-
predations committed by Indianssbut more especi4y
by tie menacing preparatiOns and aspect of a combi-
nation of them on the Wabash, under the influence
and direction of a fanatic of the Shawanese
With these extepticins, the Indian tribes retain their
peaceable dispositions towards us, and their usual
pursuits.
I must now add, that the period is arrived which
claims from the, Legislative guardians of the national
rights, a system of more ample provisions for main-
taming them. notwithstanding the scrupulous justice,
the protracted moderation, and the multiplied efforts
ort the part of the United States, to substitute for the
accumulating dangers to the peace of the two coun-
tries, all the mutual advantages of re-established
friendship and confidence. We hare seen that the
British Cabinet perseveres not only in withholding a
remedy for other wrongs so long and.so loudly call-
ing for redress, but in the execution brought home
to the threshold of our territor7, of measures, which,
under existing circumstances, have the character as
well as the effect of war on our lawful commerce.—
With this evidence of hostile inflexibility in trampling
eon rights, which no independent nation can relin-
quish, Congress will feel the duty of putting the Uni-
ted States into an armour and an attitude demanded
by the crisis, and corresponding with the national
!spirit and expectations.
" I recommended accordingly that adequate pro-
vision be made for Jilting the ranks and prolonging
the enlistments o(the regular troops ; for an auxili-
ary force, to be engaged for a more lim;ted tom ;
for the acceptance of volunteer corps, whose patriotic
ardour may court a p:trticipation in urgent service ;
for detachments, as they may be wanted, Of other
portions of the militia ; and for such a preparation of
the great body as will proportion its usefulness to its
intrinsic capacities. Nor can the occasion fail to re-
mind you of the importance of those military semi-
naries which in every event will form a valuable and
frugal part of our military est iblishment. The ma-
nufacture of cannon and small-arms has been pro-
ceeded in with due success, and the stock and re-
sources of all the neeepary munitions are adequate
to emergencies. It will not be inexpedient, however,
for Congress to authorize an enlargement of them.
Your attention will, of course, be drawn to such
provisions on the subjects of our naval force as may
be required for the services to which it may be best
adapted. I submit to Congress the seascnableness
also of an authority to angment the stock of such ma-
terials as are imperishable in their natre, or m,ty not
at once be attainable.

" In contemplating the scenes which distinguish
this momentous epoch, and estimating their claims to
our attention, it is impossible to. overlook those deve-
loping themselves among the great communities
which occupy the Southern portion of our own hemi-
sphere, and extend into our neighbourhood. An en-,
larged philanthropy and an enlightened forecast con-
cur in imposing on the National Councils an obliga-
tion to take a deep interest in their destinies, to che-
rish reciprocal sentiments of gnAl•will, to regard the
progress of event', and not to be unprepared for what.;
i ever order of things may be ultimately established. 1
." Under another aspect of our situation the early
attention of Congress will be due to the expediency
of further guards against evasions and infraotions'of I
our commercial laws. The practice of smuggling,
which is odious every where, and particularly trim-
nal in freeGovemments, where, the laws being made
by all for the good of all, a fraud is committed upon
every individual as well as on the State, attains its
u• most guilt when it blends with a pursuit of igno-
minious gain, a treacherous subserviency in the trans-'
gre,sors to a foreign policy, adverse to that of their
own country. It is then that the virtuous indignation
of the Public should be enabled to manifest itself,
through the regular animadveisiuns of the most com-
petent laws.
" To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag,
and to the honest interest which it covers, it is exile,
client also, that it be made punishable in our citizens,
to accept licences from foieign Governments, for a
trade unlawfully interdicted by them to other Ame-
rican
citizens, or to trade under false colours, or pa-
' pets of any sort. A prohibition is equally called fur
against the acceptance by our citizens of special
licences to be used in a trade with the United States,
and against the admission into particular ports of the
United States, of vessels from foreign countries au-
thorised to trade with particular ports only.
44 Although ocher subjects will press more imme-
diately on your delibcrauong, a portion of them can-
not but be well bestowed en the just and sound policy
of securing to our manufactures the success they have
attained and are still attaining in some degree uhder
the impulsz of Causes: not permanent; and to our
'navigation the fair extent of which it is at pusent
abridged by the unequal regulations of foreign .po-
vernsneziti. &sides the reasonablencur of savinglaur
manufactures from sacrifices which A change ofxir-
curt:stances might bring on them, this national inte-
rest requires that, with respect to such articles atieast
as belong to our defence and our primary wants;' \`: C
should not be left in unnecessary, dependence on:ex,
uTnal supplies ; and whilst roreign Governments
adhere to the existing criminations in their ports
I .o.ainst our navigation and. an equality or leaser
t* *
tincriniination is enjoyed by their navigation in our
Ports, the effect cannot be mistaken, because it has
been seriously felt by our shipping interests, and in
Iproportion as this takes place, the adv_antages of an
independent conveyance of our products to foreign
Markel:, and of a growing. body of ntatioes trained'
Iby their occupations for the service of tkeir country in
the time of danger,. Must he diminished. • .
• .i* The receipts into the Treasury during•tlut7ear.
ending on the 80th ti. September last, hive kr.anted4
thirteen million: and a hall of dollars, and bare en.
able(' us to.xlefiay 'the current expente4 incinding
the iirerests on the public debt, and to reimbursl•
more than five millions of dollars of the ?rinciPal
without' recurring to the loan, authorised by the Act
of vie last Session. .'ilia temporary loan, ootained in
the latter end of the year'lslo, has also been 1
reian-
bursed, and is not Mended ,in thatatnount,
" The deercal: of revenue arising fronasthe Aux-

•
tion of our commerce, and the 'extraordinary expences
which have and may become necessary, must be taken
into view in making commensurate provisidn for the
ensuing year; and I recommend to your considera-
tion the propriety of ensuring a sufficiency of annual
revenue, at least to defray the ordin2ry expence of
Government, and to pay the interest oh the public
debt, including that on new loans which may be
authoribed.

" I cannot close this communication without ex-.
pressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are
assembled ; my confidence in a wise and honourable
result to your deliberaticns, and assurances of the
faithful zeal with which my co-operating duties will
be discharged, invoking at the same time the blessing
of Heaven on our beloved country, and on all means
that may be employed in vindicating its rights and
advancir.g its welfare. (Signed)

64 JAM SAADI/lON.

" Washington, Nov. 3, 1811."

The Message being read by the Clerk, he then
proceeded to read the correspondence of Mr. Mun-
roe, and the British Minister Mr. Foster, relative to
the situAtion of the two countries, &c. The affair of
the Little Belt, and the correspondence respecting the
II Floridas, being postponed till to.motrow.
The reading of the correspondence this day conti-
nued till half past three o'clock, when the House ad-
journed.
The first was a letter from Mr. Foster to Mr. Mun-
roe, declaring the regret of the Prince Regent at Mr.
Pinkney's departure, &c. dated Jaly 2.
In a letter of July 3, from Mr. Foster to Mr. Mttn-
roe, the British Minister endeavours to prove, from
the ambiguous wording of the letter of the Duke of
Cadore to General Armstrong, August 5, 1810, from
the character cf Bonaparte ; from his address to the
deputation of the Hanse Towns, declaring the de.
trees the fundamental laws of the empire ; trom the
edict nf Fontainbleau, October, 1810 ; from the let-
ter of the Duc de Massa to the Council of Prizes, from
the capture of the Ntw Ot leans packet and other ves-
sels, &c. &c. that the Decrees of -Berlin and Milan
are not repealed ; and that, thtn fore, the law of
March last, prohibiting the introduction of British
goods, &c. ought to be repealed. Mr. Foster strives
to justity the British Orders in Council as a necessary
measure of self-defence, and as perfectly justifiable in
retaliation for the monstrous unprecedented edicts of
Berlin and Milan. He complains of the American
povernment,fi ir continuing the Non Intercourse, and
thus joining Bonaparte in his measures to destroy Bri-
tish commerce. The Blockading Decree of May,
1806, Mr. Foster endeavours to justify as legal and
proper ; not a mere paper blockade, but the whole
coast from Brest to Elbe being invested with an ade-
quate naval force for all the purposes, as a blockade
in fact. Mr. Foster urges the repeal of the Non In-
tercourse) and declares, that unless repealed, his Go-
vernment will be obliged, though painfully and un-
wiliingly, to resort to measures of retaliation. He de-
mands, in a letter, Shortly after, a direct reply, whether
or not the Non Intercourse will be repealed ?
Mr. Munroe considers our Government bound to
respect the solemn declaration of the French Govern-
ment, August 5, 1810, that the decrees were repealed;
augurs that they are repealed, so tar as we are con-
cerned. from the release of the New Orleans pat ket,
the Grace, Anne, and other vessels ; endeavours to
avoid the meaning Mr. Foster gives to the declata-
Lion made to the deputation trona the Hanse Towns :
to prove that the repeal by Massa's letter to t'a.!
Council of Prizes, and tne edict of Fontain)lean were
not inconsistent with the repeal. He also urges the
'illegality of the Blockading Decree at ltaai ; and
declares the intention of our Government to continue
the .on Intercourse unless the orders are revoked, &c.
This correspondence seems to h.tve ceased about
the last of July. During the last month it was re-
newed ; and, October 17, Mr. Munroe informs Mr.
Foster of further proof of the repeal of the obnoxious
Decrees ; sending him copies of letters from our
Charge des Affaires at Paris and London. And a
letter from Wellesley to our Charge des Affaires at
London, mentioning dispatches sent to Mr. Foster,
which, howevtr, Mr. Foster has.not received, though
in daily expectation of them.

FROM THE NEW YORK EVENING POST OF NOV. 7.
" SUOCIRISIVE CONFIRMATION OF TUB EXTINCTION
oF THE FRENCE DECREES !"

The following letter, it iiill be seen, is directly lh
point to prove the truth of the above extract from
the President's Message:

Extract of a Letter to a Mercantile House in this City of the first
respectability, dated Copenhagen, September 22.

•
44 It is with the utmost grief that I must inform
lou of my further misfortunes, after the date of my
ast respects from Farsand, previous to my deparaare
from that place. On the 22:1 ult. being a little within
the Koht Poinr, and in sight of Elsineur Castle, was
boarded by a Danish privateer, who, after examining
my papers, ir.formed me of a French lugger being.
.near Elsineur, who captured every American vessel
that he saw. As the wind blew in, it was impossible
for me to escape. I therefore persuaded the Dane
to keep possession of my vessel and irately papers,
at the same time hauling the ship directly over to the
Danish shore, in order to be within tileir jurisdiction I
before the lugger would board me, who by this time
made her appearance, standing out for us : luckiy '
we were within an English mile and a half of the
shore before he boarded, and although the Danish
Captain told him he had taken possession of the ship;
he boarded and put two hands on board; and after
we came to anchor at Etsineor, the Dane suffered the
French Captain to Out his seal with ours to the pa-
pers ; but I succeeded in preventing him from get-
ting possession of them until our arrival at this places
when they were delivered up to the Prize Court, and
On the second day after our arrival here, I was'
brought on shore for examination. The usual inter.
rogations were put to myself and crew, as well as to
the privateer's men. I protested before the exami-1
nation begun, against the French having any claim,
on account of jurisdiction, as well is being in posses-
sion
of the Danish cruizer. Alter the Mize Court
had finishectwith the proceeding. the were laid'
before the Chancery, and are now ore his Majesty.
--I sen'e to Elsineur and got an esagnination of his
a tealjesty's 'Officers and men helm 'air to the gun..:
boats on that station, to prove my within. the
jurisdicti in wbeu boarded tor the Prenl . and have 1
every reason to expect a favourable decision within a''
full' days. Mr. Erring, front the IROAleilt Of my cap-

a
tire, has been indefatigable. in obtaining my release.
Of the other five vessels taken by this lugger, although
two of them were in possession of the Danes first, thew
trials will go to Paris, as the French have pessessios
of the:r papers, and will not give them up. When I
left this to go on to Norway, there were no French
cruizers to be dreaded ; but at this moment there at,:
two at Elsineur,. and one arrived in thi, port two da) s
since. Many otheri have passed through the can it
from Tonningea to Kiehl, and are all in the Baltic,
swell as six gun-boats—more are expected. 511k.u1..1 I
find it too dangerous wtigi cleared to uttimpt the
Baltic. I shall endeavour tlf obtain permission to sell
here, which, with Mr. E.'s assistance, I think I may
obtain, and the markets are notch better than of St.
i Petersburgh. I shall write you more fully as soon as
I g.:l my papers, of what are my prospects. With
the greateit respect, your unfortunate servant,
a a: LAW."
RENVARIM-It appears from the above, that down
to September, the French keep their p:ivateers upoa
the look out, on the coast of Denmark, so that no: An
American can escape them, although their hostile
'decrees have been extinguished more thin r year.
;It appears also that the Danes afford them the uie of
their ports and harbours fsr Weir convetvience and
necessities, in which they arm, equity, and recruit, &c.
and into which they may send their prizes, although
Denmark, the President intimates, is now our very
good friend. But, I must candidly confess, that I de
not see how we can find any fault with the Danes for
this, for, do we not do it eurtelves ? As to those res.
sals mentioned in the letters wie lately published frets
Mr. Bell at Paris and Mr.Alibott at Dantric, cap.
tured. as Mr. Law was, en a voyage to Pelesabere,
,what shall we say? Does .not Mr. Madison tell us
that we aro tia the best f: o:ing of friendship nil'.;
Russia ? How then cAn our Vessels, in a trade ail!:
her, be considervd as violating the French decrets,
, since those decrees are only directed agamst the com-
merce with England ? We would r.or, for all the
world, call it piracy--but tho vessel; ipokeu of 1w
Abbott and Bell bad been convoyed by the Britil!..
1 and that bmnght them within the decrees. True;
(so it did. This then is our case. There are four or
five French privateers which cruize in the Baltic for
American vessel, and they take every one they meet
with ; while certain it is, that the sloop Hornet Alois;
if sent there, could clear those seas, in a vay short
time, of every privateer that infests them. She, bow.
ever, is not'sent ; that would hardly accord with the
views of an imperial master : Nothing is sent. The
Americane, thus left dofenceless,. are driven to seek
for safety under British convoy, which brings them
directly within one of Bonaparte's decrees, and for
wisich, they are condemned and fall into his clwehes,
the said decrees being reitealed and extiegttisliad. Who
but must envy Americans the blessings they cloy, 41
being thus protected by their porn reareerumett ?

FRENCH PAPERS.

• PARIS, NOVEMBER 27. •

Their Imperial Majesties, it is said, will leavtrthe
I Palace of St. Cloud next Saturday to return to the
Thuilleries. There wilt be a mass and music at the
'Chapel of the Palace on Sunday, and on Monday a
' performance at the Theatre of the„Court.,
i His Majesty has ordained the suppressinn of all the
religi .us corporations in the department of La Lippe.
'chitty-three ships laden with grain are expected an
Holland. They are on their way boat Pushover,
and eutered the Weser on the 11th instant.
Of all the discoveries which have dine honour to
the artillery, since the time of General Gribeaueal to
this day, there is certainly none more important that
that of the howitzer die rillantrois, so called trim the
name of its inventor, a Colonel of Artillery.
This howitzer carries its ball to the distance cf
5000 toises, or one league and an half French. The
artillery of the Guard, who were conaniiisimied by
has Excellency the Minister at War, *make trial of
this piece of artillery, hate lately dote so at the pa
lygon of La Fere, under the iorection of General
Aboville, Commandant of **School, and of M. dr
Villantrois himself. Thealleixials had the most suc-
cessful result. Public ezpeetation having been excited.
a crowd of people were mlected to witness the elects
of a machine, the very dimensions of which presented
to the eye something terrific. Without entering into
much detail, we shall only mention, that this gun
and its carriage weigh 10,000 kittgranis. This howit-
zer,. notwithstanding its enormous weight, is not ma-
nceuvred with more difficulty than the ordinary mor-
tars ala Gonnner. The number of men employed in
its management is the same. This great advantage
is owing to the peculiar construction of its carriage,
invented by M. Thirrion, ColonePot Marine Artillery.
and improved by M. de Villamnis.
This howitzer requires a charge of from 45 to 501 b.
of gunpowder—die weight of the ball is 180th.. It
was thought that a charge so considerable would pro-
duce a very violent detonation, but the explosion was
less violent than that of other mortars bither:o em-
ployed ; which appears ta be owing to the form date
gun. The time in which the projectile performs its
arc, is from 36 to 40 seconds. The greatest heigh:
iOf projection is 600 wises, The rapidity of the ben-
end its elevation, do not permit it to be visible to the
eye.—Since this discovery, it may be justly said, tha:
ithe French artillery, which seems to advance every
day towards the greatest possible perfection, has ac.
Iquired tne means of throwing its proketiies to a slit-
-1 tame unknown to every other artillery.
The range of this new howitzer, exceeds by 1200
i toises that of Congreve's rockets. It as well kienea
that our artillery, alter having discovered some time
ago, the composition of these rockets, has imiir.,ved
the discovery by new experiments, and the range of
their rockcts is now greater than that of the Edgusti.

FROM THE MONITEUR.
Revisits on the accounts from Sicily given u:tt
English Journals o .
What is pasbing between England and the
lian fikivecoment, resembles the fable of the wit, .1
the lamb. 411 discussion; tberetorc, on the sub.',
becomes puerile.
" Never had Wawa a o.eatereneiny than the Coin L
atlfing•Ferdinafid. • - •
• 44 Englagd never had an.. ally more steadilf
blindly attached to her. iirr •
"The Prinse whveigiits in Sicily has log a k
dons. in egniequence or haring.rem•tiod will, :o
hilt alliance with SElgilad.
P 7hes Englith'gre debited in WY; The Etv.4.41
character does not sympathise with cwt of v...“