Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-18

/ that we shall extend TO tncm our patronage
| and protection, and give them certain annu-
| al aids, in money, in implements of agri-
| culture, and other articles Of their choice.
This country, among the mostfertile with
in our limits, extending along the Missis-
sippi from the mouth of the Illinois to, aud
up, the, Ohio, though not SO necessary as a
barrier, since the acquisition of the other
bank, may sset be well worthy.of being laid
open TO immediate settlement, as its inha-
bitants may descend with rapidity in sup
port az theslower country, should future
circumstances expose that to foreign en-
terprize. As the stipulations, in this trea-
ty also, involve matters withintthe compe-
tence of both houses only, it will be laid be-
fore Congress SO soon as the Senate shall
have advised It's ratification.
With manysof the scther Indian tribes
improvements in agriculture and house
hold manufacture, are advancing and, with
all, our peace and friendship are establish
ed en grounds much firmer than hereto
fore. The measures adopted OF establish
ing trading houses among them and of fur
nishing them necessaries in exchange for
their commodities, at such moderate pri-
ces as leave no grain, but cover us from
loss has the most conciliatory and useful
effect On them, andis that which will lest
secure their peace and good will.
The small vessels authorised by Con-
gless, with a view to the Mediterranean
service, have been sent into that sea and
will be able more effectually to confne the
Tripoliae crui2ers. within their harbours,
and supersede the necessity of convoy to
our commerce IN that qnarter. They will
senslbly lessen the expenses Of that service
the ensuing year.
a further knowledgeofthe ground in the
north eastern, and north western angles of
the United States has evinced that the
boundaries established by the treaty of Pa
ris, between the British territories and ours
IN those parts, were too imperfectly de-
scribed to be susceptible OF execution. 1t
has therefore been thought worthy of at
t%entloa, Tor preserving and chcrishing the
harmony and useful intercourse su5sisting
between the two nations, to remove by
timely arrangements what u%nfavourable In
cidents migat otherwise render a ground of
future misunderstanding. A convention
has therefore been entered into, which
provides for a practicable demarcation Of
those limits, to the satisfaction OF both par
ties.
Ar account of the receipts and expendi-
lures Of the year ending the 3oth Of Sept.
last, with the estimates for the service of
the ensuing year, Will be laid before YOU
by the Secretarycf the Treasury, SO soon
as the receipts ofthc last quarter shall be re-
turned from the more distant states. 1t IS
already ascertained that the amount paid
into the treasury, for that year, has been
between eleven ead twelve millions of dol
lars, and that the revenue, accrued during
the same term, exceeds the sum counted
on, as sufficient for our current expences.
and to %extinguish the public debt, within
heperiod heretofore proposed.
The amount of deot pald, for the same year, is
abost three millions one hundred thousand dol. |
lars, exclusive ct interest, and making, with the
payment of tic preceding year, a discharge OF
mere than eight million: and an half of dollars of
tie principsl Of that debt, besides the accruing
interest: and there remain in the treasury nearly
SIX millions OF dollars, Of these righr hundred
and eighty thousand have been reserved for pay.
menr Of the FIRST instalnient due, under the Bri.
sish Convention of January 8, 1902, and two
millions are, what have been before mentioned,
as placed BY Congress under the power and ac-
countability of the President, towards the price Of
New Orleans and other territories acquired,
which, remaining untouched, are still applicable
TO that Object, and so in dln,inntion of the sum
to be funded for il.
Should the acquisition Of Louisiana be consti-
rutionalIyconhrned and carried into effea a sum
of nearly thirteen millions of dollars will then +be !
added to cur puelic debs, most Of whichiis payable