Star.
London, England, 1818-12-24 00:00:00

Ipin, from the year 1.810 ;
Entre Reos, and Paraguay,
all of which are also tilde-
d with the present Govern-
mat Chili has declared itself
rely connected with Buenos
as also declared itself inde-
ins the conflict with various
wining parts of South Ante-
and such other portions of
s Plata as are held by Por-
ession of Spain, or in a eel,
uenee.

addressed by the Ministersl
'ewers with whom they are
it appears that the Allies
ate between Spain and the
n, and that the manner and
ion would be settled by a
are met at Aix-la-Chapelle

policy and course of pro-
llied Powers in regard to
that they will confine their
scion of their sentiments—
cation of force. I state this
11 not be applied, with the
use it is a course more con-.
likewise authorizes a hope
• will be confined to the par-
honer duration.

of this subject, founded on
re have been able to obtain,
be satisfied with the course
United States in regard to
lude that it is proper to ad-
te present state of affairs.

tio'n in stating, that our re-
,ia, and other Powers, can-
ir basis..

cerns, we have ample cause
ipts into the Treasury der-
e of the year have exceeded

the demands which have
appropriation's, including
old six per cent. stock, and
.ty of the Louisiana debt, it
ill remain in the Treasury,
next, more than two mil-

at the gross revenue which
istoms during the same pe-
rne millions of dollars, and
hole year may be estimated
x millions.

is lands during the year has
oth in quantity and price,
and there is just reason to
ovement in that source of re-
know, that although the an-
:it increased by the Act of
ess providing for revolutio.
,unt about equal to the pro-
❑ties, which were then re-
[se ensuing year will be pro-
and that, while the public
ly remain stationary, each
to the national mourees by
our population, and by'alas
our latent sources of natio-

of the revenue laws, result-,
salutary provisions of the
last, amending the several
s presumed, secured to clo-
the relief that can be deri-
ch have been imposed, upon
&heir protection. Under the
several branches of this im-
'lave assumed great activity,
d that others will gradually
iumph, over every obstacle,
•ariting further protection is
leration.

Fence authorized by existing
th the zeal and activity due to so
s all the dispatch practicable in so
taking. The survey of our marl-
been continued ; and at the points'
t fortifications, the work has been
'stances considerable progress has
rich resolutions of the last Session,
were diricted to examine in a par-
se coast therein designated, and to
it suitable sites for two Naval De-
of execution. *The opinion of the
plan of all the works necessary to
o far as it has been formed, will be
port from the proper Department,

appropriations of the last Session,
ith the Quapaw tribe of Indians,
Arkansaw, and with the Great and
White River; with the tribes in the
sclera' tribes within the State of
ory ; and with the Chickasaws; by
of territory have been nude to the
I are now depending with the tribes
with the Choctaws, by which it is
e cessions will be made. I take
the cessions already made, which
to the United States, have been
atisfactory to the Indians.
ity of our inland frontiers, it has
ablish strong posts at the mouth of
at the Ilandan village, on the Mis-
t. Peter', on the Alississippi, tao
tern bdundaries. It ern h.trdly be
are maintained in the rear of the
venture to attack our peaceable in-
entertained that this measure will
ch good to the tribes themselves,
gmt object of their civilizatioa..-.
nitrated, that independent savage
it within the limits of a civilized
the latter has, alnaost invariably,
of the former, especially of the
a of this hemisphere, among whom,
Bantry in action, have been conspi-
Id even to prevent their extinction,'
that their independence, as coin
hat the controul of the United States
e and undisputed. The hunter state
tinned, and recourse will be had to
F land, and to other pursuits tending
Nmnect then together as a savage
.meter to every individual. I pre-
deration of Congress, on the pre-
nand expedient and practicable to
sinus, having these objects in view,
our Settlements.

...
luring the pesent year, to maintain
Mediterranean, and in the Gulf of
abfic ships aloes the southern coast,
37 these means, amicable relations
ice been preserved, our commerce
rights respected. The augmentation

of our Nary iii otivaaeing Witit. a Ready progress taffetas tie
Skit oatenspland by law.
" I communicate with great satisfaction the accession of am(
other State,. Illinois, to our Union; because I perceive,. from
the proof afforded by the additions aiready made, the auler
progress and sure consummation of a policy, of Which Weasel
affords no example, and of Which the good elfat cannot be son
4 highly estimated. By extending our goverdine t, on the prin-
ciples of our Constitution, over the vast ory within oar,
limas, on the Lakes and the blisdadppl, its munesmal
streams, new life and vigour are infused into everyoart.of our
system. By increasing the number of the States, the confidence
of the State Governments in their own security is increased, and
their jealousy of the National Government proportionably dimi-
nished. The impracticability of one consolidated Gore:talent
for this great and growing nation will be more apparent, and
will be universally admitted. Incapable of exercising local au-
thority, except for general purposes, the- general Government
will no longer be dreaded. In those cases of a local nature, and
for all the great purposes for which it was Instituted, its aotho-
rity will be cherished. Each Government will acquire new
force, and a greater freedom of action, within its proper sphere.
Other inestimable advantages will follow : our produce will be
augmented to an incalculable amount, In articles of the greatest
value, for domestic use and foreign commerce.
" Our navigation will, in like degree, be increased ; and, as
the shipping of the Atlantic Statetwill be employed in the tram
portation of the vast produce of the western country, even those
parts of the United States which are the most remote from each
other will be furthel bound together by the strongest ties which
mutual interest can create.

----;;;fluTsit;tatioaof;his district, it is thought, requires the at-
tention of Congress. By the Constitution the power of Legts•
lotion is exclusively vested iu the Congress of the United States.
In the exercise of this power, in which the people have no par-
ticipation, Congress legislates In all casey directly on the local
concerns of the district. As this is a departure, foe a special
purpose, from the genecal,principles of our sysonn, it may merit
consideration whetheran arrangement better adapted to the prin.
'ivies of our Government, and to the particular interests of the
people, may'not be devised, which will neither Infringe the Goo-
stitufion, nor affect the object which the provision in question
was intended to secure. The growing population, already con-
siderable, and the increasing business of the district, which, it
is belLved, already interferes with the delibetations of Congress
on great national concerns, furnish additional motives for regain- ,
mending this subject to your consideration.
" When we view thelreat blessings with which our country
has been favoured, those which we now enjoy, and the means
which we possess of handing them down, unimpaired, to our
latest posterity, our attention is irresistibly drawn to the source
from whence they flaw. Let us then unite in offering our most
grateful acknowledgments for these blessings to the Denise
titrroos of all good! "JAMES MONROE.
" November 17, 1518."

THE EVENING STAR,

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER '2l, 1818.
THE FIWDS.

• PRICK Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE CI.CLCCK
3 per Cent. Reduced 77}i--S per Cent. Costs. shut
Cons. for Account, 781-3 i per Cent. 86;1
4 per Cent. 94i-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 76 78 pre.—Omnium par.
Exchequer Bills 10 16 pre.

The late hour at which we yesterday received the
Speech of •the Paestrusir of the UNITED STATRS,
and its great length, prevented our inserting it li-
terally, or offering any remarks on its contents. Like
all the American Speeches it is very lengthy, and
aims at the avoidance of argument, under an at--
tempted garb of oratory. The subjects of which hi
treats are naturally those of the internal condition of
the United States, and their external relations. On
the first of these we were prepared to expect that the
Message would give accounts not the least favour.
able, which the actual state of the country could jus-
tify. It is no part of the American character to veil
its importance under any kind of reserve ; and if
Mr. MONROE states the whole truth, the people of
the United States are prosperous to the fullest ex-
tent—their commerce extending—their revenue flou-
rishing—and themselves contented and happy.—The
complexion of their Foreign Politics is more varied.
The poor American Indians, (for the policy of the
United States makes them foreigners, at least in all
points of mere form, independent of their helpless-
ness), the Kingdoms of Spain, and of Great Britain,
are the Powers chiefly mentioned by the PRESIDENT
in stating the external relations of the United States.
As for the Indians, a discussion as summary as the

measures pursued towards them, may well suffice.
The territory of the United States extends in propor-
tion as they drive back the Indians, and those tribes
that do not quietly. by treaty, ce.le their domains,
piece by piece, as the proud Republic demands, ar.-
"to be reduced into subjection." This Mr. Moxroa
states for the satisfaction of Congress, and surely, as
heretofore, it will satisfy that august Body—the re-

`presentative wisdom of the " most free, prosperous,
and enlightened nation on the face of the earth." The
relations of the United States with Spain are not
unconnected with those which subsist between them
and. the Indians ; and, in the policy pursued to-
wards both, the same principles may be traced.—
There is this difference in the policy, if not in its
principles, that the Spanish territory which has been
seized, will, as Mr. MONROE states, be delivered
up " unconditionally" to any Spaniard with proper
authority: Why was it seized? The Message states
the same strong reason which the Manifestoes of the
United States Military Officers had previously an-
nounced, namely, that the Spanish Governor of Pen-
sacola had abetted the Indians in their hostilities
against the United States, and supplied them with
munitions of war.—But to object to furnishing the
Indians with gun-powder is the same as to object to
all trade with them ; for without this article they
cannot destroy the animals whose skins form their
only article of commerce. The Pagsrovir admits
the inconvenience which Spain must have felt from
the seizure of the Floridas, bat suggests that Spain
might have easily prevented them—not by putting
an end to a system which allowed the Indians to be
assisted by the Spanish Authorities there in their
operations against the United States—not by sending
a sufficient military force to prevent all such dis-

t'ers--hut cuing • the whole tlorhlas ta the
ted Statesl A very effectual remedy this, to
prevent a hostile htVasien, by ceding the territory
'which is threatened.!

With the subject orSpanish relations the affairs of
the South American Insurgents are very naturally
connected. This has not been overlooked by the Go•
eernment of the United States, and the PRIIIIIDINT
announces that the RepOrts of the Commissionersl

'sent to spy into the progress of the insurrectionary,
war in the Spanish Colonies are soon to be laid before
the Congress.
With regard to our own country, the relations of
the United States are, so far as the Speech informs
us, in a most grAtifying state. A Commercial
Treaty, to subsist For eight years, is now negotiating
with the most friendly and cordial dispositions on
both sides, as the existing Commercial Convention ex-
pires in July next. Besides the Commercial Treaty,
all the other subjects ou which any difference has
existed between the two countrier—the Boundary
Line—the Right of Impressmeat--and the Fisheries,
are now the subjects of friendly negociation.--
The " steady progress" of the Navy ot the United

States affords no subject of utkeasinev; to us. It is
perfectly natural that all Powers should seek legiti-
mate means of strengthening themselves, and we
know there is no Power in the universe with which
the energies of Great Britain cannot keep ample
pace in this respect. There is only one matter as be-
tween this country and America which has worn an
ugly aspect—we mean the military execution of our
fellow subjects, ;Messrs: ARBUTHNOT and ANBRISTER,
and on this the Speech yields little or no information.
The proceedings of the Court-Martial in the trial,
and the correspondence of the Commanding General
with the Secretary of War, « justifying his conduct,"
are to be laid before Congress. But nothing is.
said of any correspondence with the British Govern-
ment respecting this murder olf British subjects.
Are we to infer that our Government has taken

no notice of that act of wanton bloodshed? That is
impossible. Or shall we conclude, the atrocity hav-
ing taken place in Spanish territory, that our Mi-
nisters have tnede the application for redress to that
imbecile Government? We shall not attempt to un-
riddle this mystery. In a short time it will probably
become a matter of discuuimi in our own Parliament,
and then we may hope for some inforniation that
shall satisfy the Public that British subjects are not
to be butchered with impunity by the servants of any

GoVernment upon earth.—The very question of the
assault op thelndians, in the same quarter, deMands
the interference of Great Britain ; for they were, our
Allies, and by the Treaty of Peace, their rights and
possessions were stipulated for, and engaged to be
l'egarded•'

The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday have ar-
rived.—The King has almost entirely recovered from
his late attack of the gout, and continuer daily to
transact a great deal of budness with the Ministers of
the different departments.
The Chamber of Deputies met oa Saturday, when
the new President, M. Ravi; opened the sitting
with a very eloquent harangue, which was ordered
to be printed ; after which the Members proceeded
by bureaus to the choice of a Commission, for pre-
paring an Address to the King, in answer to hit

opening Speech—when the following Members were
appointed for that purpose :—MM. BELLART, de
'Suite, Count BEUGNOT, PORTAL, General DEVONT,
FoRNIER de ST. LAM, BARTHE de la BASTIDE,
Count SIN EON, and Count Bonin. '
The Commission named by the ahamber of Peers
for drawing up an Address ;o the iiNc, was to
make its report to the Chamber on Tuesday last. •
A further hearing toot place on Saturday in the
mutual causes of calumny between General Calm Et.
and MM. SENNEVILLE and FABVIER, when they
were again adjourned for another eight days.

SAusn-Gootam-Mrsont, an Indian Prince, said
to be a Vakil or Delegate of the NABOB of BEDNORE,
and to be proceeding on a mission from his High-
ness .to the British Court, has arrived at Paris from
Marseilles.

We observe with much pleasure that societies for
the propagation of the Lancasterian System of mu-
tual instruction are fast multiplying throughout the
Departments. 'Already there are 39 schools esta-
blished on this plan.
The accounts from Spain in these Papers are very
scanty, but throw considerable light on the real con-
dition of affairs in that country. Of the increasing
strength of the Mountain Banditti, as they are called,.

but which are in fact no other than associated bodies
of armed rebels, several examples are given which af-
ford lamentable proof ofthe state of expiring weakness
to which the existing Government, or more properly
speaking, no Government of Spain, is reduced. In
La,Nancha and Andalusia there is no travelling in
safety without a military guard ; and in the latter
Province the Couriers are obliged to be accompanied
with an escort of thirty men.
A body of criminals, condemned to the gallies, who
were lately on their way to Cadiz and Ceuta, under
a guard of twenty infantry and twelve horsemen,
were attacked by a rebel party of fifteen horsemen,
and after a smart combat, in which several of the
Guards were killed, some of the criminals were libe-
rated. Another party, more numerous, actually pre-
sented themselves, in the early part of this month,
at the town of Ocana, distant only ten leagues front
Madrid, where they exacted contributions, and com-
mitted many excesses.