Star.
London, England, 1803-12-06 00:00:00

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASIIIIIGTOII, OCT. 17 --This day, agreeably to
the Prefideot's Proclamation, quorums of both
Hodes affembled in this city. The Prefident being
informed thereof, at three o'clock communicated to
bo•h Hodes, b) Mr. HARVIE, his Secretary, the fol.
luwing MO-age:
To the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of
the United States:

" In calling you together, fellowcitizens, at an
earlier day than was contemplated by aft of the lad
fellion of Congrefs, I have not been infenfible to die
perh.nal inconveniences neceflarily relishing from an
unexpated change in your arrangements; but mat-
ters of great public concernment have rendered this
call neceffitry ; and the interefls you feel in thefe will
Iliperfede in your minds all private conliderations.
Congrels witnefled, at their laß Sefton, the
extraordinary agitation produced in the public mind
by the fufpenfion of our right of depofit at the port
of new Orleans, no alignment of another place hav-
ing been made according to treaty. They were fen.
fible that the continuance of that privation would be
more injurious to our nation than any confequences
which could flow from any mode of redrefs. But re-
poling juR confidence in the good faith of the Go-
vernment whole Officer had committed the wrong,
friendly and reafonable reprefentations were reforted
to, and the right of depofit was rellored.
" Previous, howev.:T, to this period, we had not
been unaware of the danger to which our peace would
be perpetually expofed, what" fir important a key to
the commerce of the weßern country remained under
foreign power. Difficulties, too, were prefenting
themfelves, as to the navigation of other Breams,
which, arifing within our territories, pals through
thole adjacent. Propofitions had therefore been au-
thorifed for obtaining, op fair conditions, the love.
reignty of New Orleans, and of other pale/lions in
that quarter interefling to our quiet, to fuel extent
as was deemed praftkable and the provifional
appropriation of two millions of dollars. to be ap-
plied and accounted for by the Prefident of the
United States, intended as part of the price, was
confidered as conveying the fanaion of Congrefs to
the acquifition propofkd. The enlightened Go-
vernMent of France law, with jolt difeernment, the
importance to both nations of fuels liberal arrange-
ments as might bell and permanently promote die
peace, friendfhip, and interefts of both : and the
property and fovereignty of all Louifiatrar, which had
been ranted to them, has, on certain conditions,
been transferred to the United States by inaruments
bearing date the 3oth of April laff When thefe (hall
have received the confiitutional fang ion of the Senate,
they will, without delay, be communicated to the
Reprdentatives alto, for the exercife of their rune.
tions as to thofe conditions which are within the
powers veiled by the Conilitution in Coopers.—
Milli the property and fovereignty of the bCfSffippi
and its waters fecure an independent outlet for the
produce of the Weflern States, and an uncontrouled
navigation through theit whole cootie, free from
collifion with other powers, and the dangers to our
peace from that fource ; the fertility of the country,
its climate and extent, promife, in due lesion, impor-
tant aids to otnitredury, an ample provifion for our
pollerity, and a wide fpread for the bleifings of free-
dom and equal laws.
66 With the wifdom of Congrefs it will ref) to take
thofe ulterior meafures which may be necellary far
the immediate occupation and temporary government
of the country; for its incorporation into our onion;
for rendering the change of government a.blcffing to
our newly-adopted brethren ; for fecuring to them
the rights of confidence and of property ; for confirm-
ing to the Indian inhabitants their occupancy and
Pelf government, ellabli filing friendly and commercial
relations with them, and for afcertaining the geogra-
phy cf the country acquired. Such materials for
your information relative to its affairs in general, as
the Mort (pace of time has permitted me to collet,
will be laid before you when theiubjea Dull be in a
Rate for your confederation.
Anther important acquifition of territory has
alfo been made fince the laß feffion of Congrefs.—
The friendly tribe of Kalkalkia Indians, with which
we have never had a difference, reduced by the wars
and wants of a favage life to a few individuals, un-
able to defend themfelves againd the neighbouring
tribes,has transferred its country to the United States,
referving only for its members what is fufficient to
maintain them in an agricultural way. The con.
fiderations flipulated are, that we fhall extend to
them our patronage and proteftion, and give them
certain annual aids, in money, in implements of agri.
culture, and other articles of their choice. This
wintry, among the moll fertile within our limits' ex-
tending along the Miffiffippi from the mouth of the
Illinois to and up the Ohio, though not fo necelfary
as a barrier, fince the acquifition of the otter bank,
may yet be well worthy of being laid open to imme-
diate fettlement, as its inhabitants may delccnd with
rapidity, in fupport of the lower country, fhould
future circumflances espofe that to foreign cuter-
prize. As the flipulations in this treaty .4110 involve
matters within the competence of both Hooks only, it
will be laid before Congrefs In fours as the SCII/IC
*ail have *deiced its ratification.

With many of the other Indian tribes, improve.
ments in agriculture, and houfehold manufalture,
sue advancing ; and with all, our peace and friend.
!hip are ellablifhed on grounds much Sinter than
heretofore. The meafure adopted of ellablilling
trading houfes among them, and of Ittrniating them
secatries in exchange for their commodities, at fuch
moderate prices as leave no gain, hut rover us hen)
',ifs, has the mod conciliatory and ukful drat on
Cietn, and is that which will bell fccurc thin pease
sad good will.
The (mall ?arch aothorifed by Cringrefs, with
NI view to the Mediterranean lervice, been Ilia
tuts that fee, and will be able more effeetually to
*online the Tripoline crnizers within their harbour,,
end fuperfede the neeeffity of convoy to our com-
merce in that quarter. They will fetifibly 'circa the
oxpences of that fervice in the enfoing year.
A further knowledge of the ground in the North
Rattan and North Weller') angles of the United
States, has evinced that the boundaries ellablillsed
by the treaty of Pati:, beta-Lea the Stitifis trrho•

tics and oun in thole parts, were too impel fealy de-
feribed to be fufceprible of execution. It has there.
fore been thought worthy of attentin, for preferv-
ing and ehci ailing the harmony and add inter.
coolie between the two nations, to remove by
timely arrangements what unfavourable incidents
might other* ale render a ground of future mifunskr-
(landing. A convention has therefore been entered
into, which provides for a praticable demarcation of
thofe limits, to thefatisfafjion of both. parties.

" Au account of the receipts and expenditures of
the year ending the 3oth of September lift, with the
climates for the Arvice of the enfuing year. will be
laid before you by the Secretary of the Treafury fo
loon as the reeeiptsof the fall quarter (hall be returned
front the more dißant States. It is already afcer-
tained, that the amount paid into the Treafury, for
that year, has been between eleven and twelve mil-
lions of dollars, and that the revenue, accrued during
the fame term, exceeds the Turn counted on, as fuffi-
cient for our current expences' and to extinguith the
public debt, within the period heretofore propofed.
" The amount of the debt paid, for the fame year,
is about three millions one hundred thoufand dollars,
exclutive of interel, and making, with the payment
of the preceding year, a difcharge of more than eight
millions and an half of dollars of the principal of that
debt, betides the accruing intereft ; and there remain
in the Treafory nearly fix millions of dollars. Of
thefe eight hundred and eighty thoufand have been
refereed for payment of the firli inflalment due under
the Britith Convention of January Bth, 18oz, and
two millions are, what have been before mentioned,
as placed by Congrefs under the power and accoun-
tability of the Prefident, towards the price of New
Orleans and other territories acquired; which, re-
maining untouched, are Rill applicable to that objeft,
and go in diminution of the fum to be funded for it.
" Should the acquifition of Louifiana be conftits-
tionally confirmed, and carried into effeft, a fum of
nearly thirteen millions of dollars will then be added
to our public debt, molt of which is payable after
fifteen years ' • before which term the prefent exiling
debts will all be difcharged by the elablifhed opera-
tion of the finking funk. When we contemplate the
ordinary annual augmentation of impoft, from in-
creating population and wealth ; the augmentation
of the fame revenue, by its extenfion to the new ac-
quifition; and the economics which.may Rill be in-
troduced into our public expenditures,. I cannot
hope that Congrefs. in reviewing their refources,
will find means to meet the intermediate interelkof
this additional debt, without recurring to new taxes,
and applying to this objet only the ordinary pro-
nfants of our revenue. Its extraordinary increafe.
in times of foreign war, will be the proper and Inf.
ficient fund for any mature of fafety or precaution.
which that Rate of things may render neceffary incur
neutral potation.
" Remittances for the infbslments of our foreign
debt having been found predicable without lots, it
has not been thought expedient to ufe the power
given by s foggier ad of Congrefs, of continuing
them by Moans. and of redeeming, infleaul thereof.
equal rums of domeffie debt, although no difficulty
was found in obtaining that accommodation.
The funs of fifty thoufand dollars, appropriated by
Congrefs for providing gun boats, remains unexpend-
ed. The favourable and peaceable turn of affairs on
the Isliffiffippi rendered an immediate execution of
that law utrneeeffary ; and time was defirable, in or-
der that the inflitution of that branch of our force
might begin on models the moll approved by expe.
rienee. The fame iffue of events difpenfed with a
retort to the appropriation of a million and a half of
dollars, contemplated for parpofes which were diet-
ed by happier means.
" We have Peen with (incere concern tbellanses
of war lighted up again in Europe, and nations,
with which we have the molly friendly and ufeful
relations, engaged in mutual defirudion. While we
regret the miferies in which we fee others involved,
let us bow with gratitude to that kind PILOVIDENCE,
which, infpiring with wifdom and moderation our
late legiaative councils, while placed under the ur-
gency of the.greatell wrongs, guarded us from hat-
aly entering into the fitnguinary conteft, and left us
only to look on and to pity its ravages. There will
be heavieß on thofe immediately engaged; yet the
nations purfuing peace will not be exempt from all
evil. In the cosmic of this conflia let it be our en.
deavour, as it is our intereß and defile, to cultivate
the friendfhip of the Belligerent Nations by every
aft of jutlice, and of innocent kindnefs ; to receive
their armed veffels with hofpitality. from the dip.
tre&s of the fea, but to adminifter the means of an-
noyance to none; to efiablifh in our harbours fuch a
police as may maintain law and order ; to retrain
our citizens from embarking individually in a war
in whir.ti their country takes no part, to puniih
feverely thofe perfons, citizen or alien, who
nfurp the cover of oar flag, for vellcls not entitled to
it, infecting thereby with fufpieion thofe of real
Americans, and committing us into eontrovetfies for
the redrefs of wrongs not our own; to else from
every nation the obfervance. towards our veffels
and citizens, of thole principles and prallices which
all civilized people acknowledge; to merit the cha-
rafter of a jult nation, and maintain that of an inde-
pendent one. preferring every cnnfequence to inftilt
and habitual wrong. Congrefs will confider whether
the exiling laws enable us efficacionfly to main-
tain this condi with our citizens in all places, and
with others while within the limits of our jurifdic.
tion, and will give them the new modifications met-
lazy for the& objeds. Some contraventions of right
have already taken place, both within our juriffbc-
tional limits, and on the high leas. The friendly
difpolition of the governments from whole agents
they have proceeded, as well as their wifdom and
regard fur jußice, leave us in redonable ezpeda.
Lion, that they will be recited and prevented in fu-
ture I and that no aft will In countenanced by them
which threatens ‘o diftorb our friendly intercourfe.
Separated by a wffie ocean from the nations of Eu-
rope. and from the political intents which entangle
them, together with prodndions and wants which
render our commerce and frieusilltip ufcful to them,
and theirs to us, it cannot be the interell of any to
serail us, nor ours to dißarb them. We (tumid be
molt unwire indeed, were we to call away the fin.
Ruler Welling* of the polition in which Nature has
placed us; the oppoitunity me has endowed us with
of put fuing. at a diilance from foreign contentions.
the paths of indnfiry, peace, and happmers, of
r,encral frimulthip, and of bunging collifions

of inte►eft to the impirage of reafon, rather ilisn of
force. How defirable then mull it be. in a Govern-
ment like ours, to fee its citizens adopt individually
the views, the interells, and the condo.% which thcirl
country fhould purfue, diverting themfelves of thofel
paifions and partialities which tend to leffen ufefel
friendlhips, and to embarrafs and embroil us in the
ealannitosts kyles of Europe. Confident, fellow ci-
tizens, that you will duly ellimate the importance of
neutral difpolitions towards the obfervaassof neutral
conduit; that you will be fenfible how much it is our
duty to look on the bloody arena fpread before us,
with commiferation indeed. but with no other with
than to fee it clofed ; I am perfuaded you will cor-
dially cherifh thefe difpofitionsin all difcullions among
yourfelves, and in all communications with your cps.
fiituents. And I anticipate, with fatisfallion, file
meafures of wifdom, which the great interells now
committed to you will give an opportunity of pro-
viding, and myfelf that of approving, and of carrying
into execution, with the fidelity I owe to my country.
October 17, 1803. THOS. 'EVERSON."

NEW YoaK, OCT. zz.—The following Meffage was
received from the Prefident of the United States: