Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-10-28

ne moment our pc ace was thfeatencd
4 deemed il Indispensable 70 SECURE g
greater provision Of those military stores
with which our magazines were not sufii.
Sciensiy furnished. To have awaited = pre-.
Rvious and special sanction By law would
have lost occasions which might not be
retrieved. = did not hesitate there fore
10 authorize engagements for such s0pple-
ments toour existing stock as would render
il adequate 10 the emergencies threatening
MS and 1 trust lhat the legislature feeling
the same anxiety forth safety ot our coun
Try. SO nsa.erially advanced by this pre-
caution, will prove when done, what they
would have seen 50 important 10 be done,
! if then assembled Expsnces also unpro.3
vided for, arose out Of The necessity Of
calling, ali our gun 6oa.s into actual Service
for shs defence Of our harbors, Of an Ehich
accounts will Be. laid before yon.
Whether a.reg,llar army is to be Fa::srd,s
Saild to. what extern, must depsnd on the infor-
NATION SO shortly expected. In the mean
time have called on the States for quotas of
militia, to be lii readiness for present defence,
and have morcoversn couragetl the acceptance
Hof volunteers, and I am happy to inform you
that these haveSoifered themselves with great
.alacrity In every part Of the union. They are,
ordered to be organized, and ready at a mo-
ment's warning, to proceed on any serviceto
which they may be called, and every prepare
tion within the executive powers has been
I made to ensure us the benefit of early exert
ons. E
Informed Congress. at their las session,
Of the enterprises against the public peace,
which were believed to be in preparation by
Aaron Burr and Els associates, Of the inea-7
surcss taken 10 defeat them and to bring the.
offenders to Justice. Their enterprises were
happily defeated, by thepatriotic exertions Of
the militia, whenever called into action, bv
the fidelity of the army, aud energy of the
comnanderin Chief, in promptly arranging
the. difficulties presenting themselves on the
Sabine, repairing to meet those arising on the
Mississippi, and dissipatins before their cx-
plosion plots eEg ons.eripg there: I shall think
it my duty to lay before ycu the proceedings
and the evidence publicly exhibited on the ar
raignment scf the principal offenders before
the district court of Virginia. You will be e.
nabled to Judge whe Their the defect was in the
testimony, in the law, or in the administrati-
on of the law and wherever it shalt be found
Z the legislature alone can apply or originate the
remedy The trainers OF our constitution GER
tainly supposed they had guarded, as well
their government against destruction by trea-
son, as their citizens against oppression, I'M
der pretence oft; and if these ends are not
attained, it is Of Importance to enquire by
what. means, more cffsectual, they may be Sc
cured.
The accounts ofthereceipts Of revenue au-
ring the year ending on the thirtieth day of
September last, being not yetn,ads up, cor
rect statement will be hereafter transmitted
from the Treasury. La the mean time it is
ascertained that the receipts have amounted
to near sixteen millions Of dollars; which
with the five millions and an half in tile Trea-
sury at the beginning Of the year have enabled
us, after meeting the current demands and in
terest incurred, to pay more than four milf
ons of the principal of our funded debt. These
payments with those of the proceeding five
and half years, have distinguished of the
funded debt twenty-five millions and half of
dollars, being the whole which could be paid
or purchased within the limits of the law, and
of our contracts, and have left us in the Trea-
sury eight millions and half OF dollars -
portion of this sum may be considered as q
commencement of accumulation OF thessur-
pluses of revenue, which, after paying the
sinstalments Of debt, as they 81 become
payable, will remain without any specific OBJ
-ject. 1t may partly indeedbe applied towards
completing the defence of the exposed points
Of our country, On such a scale as shall be a.
dapted to our principles and circumstance
This Objects doubtless among the first enti-
tied to attention, is such state of eur finan-
sces, and it is one which, whether we have
peace or war, will provide security where it
is due. Whether what shall remain Of this,
with the future surplusses, may be usefully.
applied to purposes already authorised, or
more usefully to others requiring new autho-
rites. or how otherwise they shall be OPPOSED