The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-16 00:00:00

amount of capital seeking that mods etlereoPhaeat. at a
rate of interest not exceeding lite per anneal per

annum.
It is proper to add, that there is now due to the Trea-
sury for the sale of public lands, twenty-two millions
nine hundrtil and ninety-six thousand live hundred and
forty-live dollars. In bringing this subject to view,
I consider it my duty to submit to Congress, whether it
may not be tat-feeble to extend to the purchaser of
them lands in consideration of the unfavourshle cheep
which has occurred since the sales, • reasonable indult.
Bence. It is known that the purchases were made when
the price of every article bed risen to its greatest
height, and that the instalments are becoming due at a
period of great deprsssion. It is presumed that some
plan may he devised, by the wisdom of Congress, com-
patible with the public interest, which would afford
gnat relief to the purchasers.
Considerable progress has been made during the pros
sent session in examining the coast and its variou; hays,
and other inlets ; in the collettion of materials, and to
the construction of fortifications, for the defence of the
onion, at several of the positions, at which it has been
decided to erect seeh works. At Mobile Point and
I I)anphin Island, and at the Rigolets, lead: ng to Lake Pee-
cliartrain, materials to a considerable amount have bees
collected, and all the necessary preparations made for
the commencement of the works. At Old Point Com-
fort, at the mouth of James River, and at the ltio-rap,
on the opposite shore, in the Chesapeake Kay, materials
1 to a vast amount, have been collected ; and at the sold
Point sonic progress had been made in the construction
of the fortification, which is on a very extresics scale.
The work at Fort Washington, on this river, will he com-
pleted early in the next spring; and thaton the Pea:pitch,
in the Delaware, in the course of the next season. Fort
Diamond, at the Narrows, in the harbour of New York,
will be finished this year. The works at Boston; Nei*
York. Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, and Ringers,
have been in part repaired ; and the coast of North Ca-
rolina, extending south to Cape Fear, has been examin-
ed, as bare likewise other parts of the coast eastward vi
Boston. Great exertions have been made tot push for •
ward these works aWI the utmost dispatch
.possible ;
but, when their extent is considered, with the suiportact
purposes for which they arc intended, the defened of the
whole coast, and, in consequence, of the whole interior,
and that they are to last for ages, it will he nutnifest
that a well digested plan, founded on military princl-
plea, connecting the whole together, combining security
with economy, could not be prepared without
:repeated
examinations of the most exposed and difficult parts,
and that it mould also take comb' • ,ble time to collect
the materials at the several points where they would tse
1 required. From all the light that has been shed on tbit
subject I am satisfied that every favourable anticipation
which has been formed of this great nntlertaking, will
lie verified, and that, when/completed, it wili *turd very
great, if not complete, protertiou to our Atlantic few.-
tier, in the event of another tear; a protection se v::.
cient to counterhalantO in a single campaign, with a!,
enemy powerful at ota, the expense of all these works.
without taking intohe estimate the saving of the Het i
of so many t f our citizens, the protection door tows,-
and other i roe/fly, or the tendency of such works to
prevent war.

have been maintained at Bee
Umiuncil Bluff, oil the Missouri.
ississippi, and at 6reett Bay, on
=odious barracks hare already
these posts, with such nor;;; as
defence. Pro,zress bas also been
mit:mines between them, and in
for the support of the troops, by
cularli• those most remote.
pew has been preserved. am! a
into effect the act of Congress,
for their civilization, with the
results. As ronnectol eqnally
out trade with those trilse it
ottrtition of Congrks. In their
heir sultenattee, and war their
fins no employment from civi-
'y each other. Left to them-
is inevitable. By a judicious
with them, we supply their
it comforts, and gradually, at
illetli to as. By maintainina.
posts ...emir, we marl red more thorough and
direct control over them: withont which it is confi-
dently believed that a complete change in their manners
can never be accomplished. By such posts aided by a
proper regulation of our trade with them, and a judi-
cious cis it administration over them to be provided for
by lair, we shall, it is presumed, be enabled not only tv
protect our own settlements from their savage incursions,
and preserve peace among the several tribes, but accom•
plish also the great purpose of their civilization.
Considerable progress has also been made is the con-
struction of ships of war, some of which hate been
launched in the course of the present year.
Our peace with the powers on the coast of Barbary has
been preserved, but we owe it altogether to the pre..ence
of our squadron in the Meiliteranean. It has been found
equally necessary to employ some of our vessels, for the
protection of our commerce in the Ingham sea, the Psvi.
tic, and along the Atlantic coast. The interests which
we have depending in those quarters, which have been
much improved of late, are of great extent, and of high
importance to the nation, as well as to the parties con-
cerned, and would undoubtedly suffer, it such protection
was not extended to them. In exeeution of the law of
the last session for the suppression of ohe Slave Trade.
some of oar public ships have also been employed on time
coast of Asrira, where several captures have already
been made, of vessels engaged in that disgraceful trad.m.
JAMES MONROE.
-sin, November 14, IS
to hear, has been

His Majesty, we are conv—.... _
indisposed for the last two days.
THE Qtman.—Htr Majesty had a select party• to
dinner yesterday. Among the company were, Lord A.
Hamilton, and the Marquis of Tavistoric.
A list appears in the papers of this morning:, of nn less
than thirty-three Addresses to be presented to her Ma-
jesty on Monday next. To these we have to add fire
others ; from ./tlnrylehone, Worcester, Ringm-r, in
Sussex, and Shampirliam, in the county of Dorset.
Divas Lame TURATRIL—A new drama, called Po-.
cohontae, was successfully produced at this Theatre last
night. It does not possess a sufficient degree of novelty
or interest to re win a firm hold upon the public laicals..
During the time that .Noun's Alitawark was coot-
ducted by the late Henry Andrews, of lloysto; the
sale rase to four hawked antl thirty thousand annu-
ally, for which this extraordinary man, it is said, never
received more than 25/. a year.
Sir Richard Phillips has Ibis month completed 'the
Pftieth Volume of the Monthly Magazine, being aboyek
twice as many as were published of the Gentleman's
Magazine, by the celebrate I Edward Cave. Enc?.
Care too, he has fired to see his Journal become the
most celebrated and prosperous of its time. It is Wor-
thy of note that during thi; lodg period he has never
been prevented by ill-health from superintending
every Dumber during its publication ; and, being still
in the
_prime of life, it is said that he entertains the
apt of bring able to extend his saperinteuilance .T
sserieseven to a centenary of voluums.

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at St. Pet 's, on the Mist
the Upper Lakes. Comm
been sitat4d at most of thi
a eregicessary fur thi it de
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ma in opening common
rai ng supplies at each foi
own labour particula
th the Indiana peat
4rogress made in carrying
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aspect of favourable II
both these objects,
dm ht to merit the atte
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ocrupatt ; and if they fil
hard posse they destrol
selves, theirNettirpation
regulation of Otir trade
wants, administer re their
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posts far in the interior, w,