Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-12-03

4 Messrs. Lewis and clarke anu thcll
brave companions, have by this arduou'
service deserved well Of their country.
4 The attempt to explore the Red Hive
under the direction OF Mr.. Zee mao, tho
! conducted with a zeal and prudence me
{ riting entire appreciation, has not been e
susllv successful. After proceeding az
4 il about six hundred miles, yearly as tai
[ as the French settlements had extended
j while the sountry was in their possesslonl
our geographsrs were Obliged to return
! without complaining their work.
Very useful additions have also beer
| made to our knowledge OF the Mississippi
| by lieutenant Pike, who has assembled 1t &c
| Its source, and whose journal and map, Civ.
| ing the details Of his journey, will shortly
be ready for communications both houses
| Of congress. Those OF Messrs. Lewis
Clark and freeman, viii require further
time to be digested aud prepared These
Important Surveys, in addition to thosebe'
fore possessed, furnish materials for com.
meuciug an accurate map OF the Miss'ss1p.
pi ard It's western waters. Some principal
riversshoweves remain stilleo be explored,
towards which the authorization of congress
by moderate appropriations, VIII be reqal-
site.
congratulate you, fellow ci,izens. on
the approach OF the period at which you
may interpose Your authority constitution.
ally, TO withdraw the citisens Of theU ni,ed
States, from all further participation 10
those violations of human rights, which
have been so long continued on the unof.
feading inhabitants Of africa, and which
the morality, the reputation, and .he best
interests of cur country, have lcug been
eager to prescribe. Although no law you
may pass can take .prohibitory efecr I'LL the
first day Of the year one thousand eight
hundred and eight, yer the intervening pc.
Rod is not soolong 20 prevent, by sie,ely
notice, expeditions which cannotbs coa,-
pleaeed before taat-day.
The receipts at the treasury, during the
year ending on the SON day Of September
last, have amounted to nesr6f'etn millions
of dollars.; which have enabled us, sfter
meeting the current demands, to pay two
millions seven hundred thousand donars OF
the American claims, 10 part of the price
of Louisiana; to pay, of the funded debt,
upwards IF three millions of principal, and
nearly four of interest, and, ia addition,
to re. nkurse in the course Of the presept
| month, near two millions Of Ave and hass
per ceat stock. These payments and re.
! endorsements of inc rfupded debt, with
those which had been made in the four
years aud half preceding, viii, at the
| close OF the present, year, have extIngnish'
ed upwards Of swensy-thrse millions Of
principal.
! The duties composing the Med!serrane.
| 40 f.,ndrw,ll cease, by law, at the end OF
! the present session. Considering, howe
yer, that they are levied chiefly On iuau
ries, aud that we have an imposs oa salt, q
necessary of life, the free use Of which o
therwise is SO important, Isrecommend e
your consideration the suppression Of the
dusies on salt, and the continuation oe the
Mediterranean fund, instead thereof, ~,
! shor. time. after which that also will be
come unnecessary for any purpose gov
withip,con,et aplatios1.
When both Of these branches OF Eevensc
| shall, in this way. be Felinqu:shed, there
! will sill, ere long, De an accumulation q
aacnies ia ths treasury beyond The install
/ ..nenss of public debt which We arc permit
| ted by contract to pay. They cannon, 4hsr
without a modification, asseatsd to by tht
public creditors, be applied TO the extin
esishmeDt of this debt, and compleas.libe
ration Of oar-revenues, the most desirable
of all objects. Nor,.if our peace cont
nues, will they be wanting for any othe,
existing purpose. The question, Therefore
now comes forward, to "ha, other objects
shall these SURPRISES be appropriated, ans
( .he ,rhnl. enrni,. r,f innnst after The entirl