The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-12-11

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ed unsettled, that it required consider
able length of time for their adjust
ment. BY report from the First
Com otroller Of the Treasury, it appears,
that on the 4th of March, 1917, the ac-
counts then unsettled, amounted TO one
hundred aud three millions sixty-eight
Thousand eight hundred and seventy-six
dollars aud forty-one cents, of which,
on the 30th September of the present
year, ninety-three millions one hundred
and seventy-iye thousand three hundred
and ninety-slx dollars and tifty-six cents
had been settled; leaving on that day,
balance unsettled of nine millions eight
hundred and ninety-three thousand four
hundred and seVenty-nine dollars and
eighty-hve cents. That there have been
drawn from the Treasury, in paying the
publlck debt, and sustaining the Govern
ment 10 all its operations aud disburse-
ments, since the 4th of March, 1917,
one hundred and 6tty-seven millions one
hundred and ninety-nlne thousand three
hundred aud eighty dollars and ninety
SIX cents, The accounts for which have
been settled to the amount of one hun
dred and thirty-seven millions five hun
dred and one thousand four hundred and
filiy-one dollars and twelve cents Ieav-
ing balance unsettled of nineteen mil
lions SIX hunaed and ninety seven thou
sand nine hundred and twenty-nine dol
lars aud eighty-four cents. For precise
details respecting each of these balan-
ces, | refer TO the report of the Comp
troller, and the documents which accom-
pany it.
From this view, it appears that our
commercial differences with France and
Great-Britain, have been placed in
train OF amlcable arrangement, on con-
ditions fair and honorable, in both in
stances, 10 each party that our finances
Elm a very productive state, Jour revenue
being at present fully competent TO all
/ the demands upon it; that our military
force is well organized in all its branch
es, and capable of rendering the most
important service, in case of emergency.
| that its number will admit Of that due
progress has been made under existing
appropriations, In the construction of for
tihcations, and in the operations of the
ordnance department; that due progress
| has, in like manner, been made in the
construction of ships of war; that our
navy = in the best condition, and felt and
respected in every sea in which it is en-
ployed for the protection Of our COM
merce that our manufactures have aug
mented in amount, and improved in quail
ity; that great progress has been made
in the settlement of accounts, and in
the recovery of the balances due by in
diyiduals and, that the utmost economy
is secured and observed, in every de-
| partmenI OF tne Administrations Z
Other objects will likewise claim your
attention because, from The station
which the United States hold, as men,
Der of the great community of nations.
they have rights TO maintain, duties TO
perform, and dangers TO encounter.
A strong hope was entertained that
| peace would, ere this, have been con-
cluded between Spain and the indie
pendent governments south Of the Unit
States, IN this hemisphere. Long ex-
perience having evinced the competep-
cy of those governments to maintain the
independence which they had declared.
it was presumed that the considerations
which induced their recognition by the
United States, would have had equal
weight with other powers, and that
Spain herself, yielding to those magnan-
! irnous feelings, of which her history
furnishes so many examples, would
have terminated on that basis, a con-
troyersy so unavailing, and at the same
time so destructive. We still cherish
the hope, that the result will not long
be postponed.
Sustaining our neutral position, and
allowing to each party, while the war
continues, equal rights, it is incumbent
on the United States to claim of each.
with equal rigour, the faithful obsery-
ance of our rights, according TO the
well known law of nations. From
each, therefore, like cooperation is
expected in the suppression of the nj
ratical practice which has grown out
of this war, and of blockades of extern
sive coasts on both seas, which, consid-
ering the small force employed 10 sus-
tain them, have not the slightest foun-
| daiiOn to rest on.
| Europe is still unsettled, and although
the war long menaced between Russia
| and Turkey has moi hrnkan ont thouo