The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-12-10

SO members were present; in the House,
l67 members, being quorum OF both
branches.
In the Senate, in the absence of the Vice
President, Hon. S. Smith of Maryland, took
the chair. A committee was appointed Ito
be joined by the House,) to wait on the
President of the United States, and inform
him of the organization of Congress.
The House was called to order by Mr..
Speaker Stevenson, and four new members
were introduced and qualified, viz: Messrs.
Taber of New York, Sinneckson and Ran
sdolph of New Jersey, and Chambers of
Kentucky. No other business of impor-
lance was transacted.
On Tuesday, Dec. 2, the President trans
mitted to both Houses of Congress the fol-
lowing
TO THE SENATE Axp HOUSE OF REPREsENrA-
TIyEs OF THE UNITED STATES.
Felioc citizens of the Senate, and Of
the House Of Representatives.
If the enjoyment in profusion of the bounties
of Providence forms suitable subject of mutu-
al graduation and CRATE full acknowledgment,
we admonished at this return ofthe season.
when the Representatives of the Nation are as
sembled to deliberate upon their concerns, to
hearts, for the never-failing mercies of Him who
ruleth over all. He has again favored us with
healthful seasons and abundant harvests. lie
has sustained us in peace with foreign countries,
and in tranquility within our borders. He has
preserved US in the quiet and undisturbed pos
session eff civil ard -sli=<ieu~ -)ss0reJ' Tie mas
crowned the year with his goodness, imposing
on us no other conditions than of improving Tor
our own happiness the blessings bestowed by
his hands; and in the fruition of all his tavors,
of devoting the faculties with which we have
been endowed by him TO his glory and to our
own temporal and eternal welfare.
In the relation of our Federal Union with
our brethren of the human race, the changes
which have occurred since the close of your
last session, have generally tended to the pres
ervation of peace, and to the cultivation of
harmony. Before your last separation, war
had unhapply been kindled between the En-
pire of Russia, one of those with which our IN
tercourse has been no other than constant ex-
change of good Offices, and that of the Otto
man Porte, nation from which geographical
distance, religious opinions, and maxims of gov
eminent on their part little suited TO the for
nation of those bonds of mutual benevolence
which results from the benefits of commerce,
had kept US in state, perhaps too much pro-
longed, of coldness and alienation. The extern
sive, fertile, and populous dominions of the Sui
tan, belong rather to the Asiatic, than the
European UiNiSlOuS Oh Tue AhOy
enter but partially uto the system of Europe
nor have their wars with Russia and Austria,
the European States upon which they border,
for more than a century past, disturbed the pa
cihc relations of those States with the other
Great Powers of Europe. Neither France, nor
Prussia, nor Great Britain, has ever taken part
in them; nor is it TO be expected that they will
a: this time. The declaration ofwar by Russia
has received the appreciation or acquiesence of
her allies, and we may indulge the hope that IFS
progress and termination will be signalized by
the moderation and forbearance, no less than by
the energy of the Emperor Nicholas, and that
IT will afford the opportunity for such collater-
al agency in behalf of the suffering Greeks, as
will secure to them ultimately the triumph of
humanity and of freedom.
The state of our particular relations with
France, has scarcely varied in the course of the
present year. The commercial intercourse be-
tween the two countries has continued TO IN
crease for the mutual benefit of both. The
claims of indemnity tonumbers ofour fellow cit
liens for depredations upon their property here
tofore committed, during the Revolutionary
Governments, still remain unadl usted. and still
form the subject of earnest representation ana
remonstrance. Recent advices from The Min
lister of the United States at Paris encourage
the expectation that the appeal to the justice
of the French Government will ere long re-
ceive favorable consideration.
The last friendly expedient has been resorted
TO for the decision of the controversy with
Great Britain, relating to the North Eastern
boundary of the United States. By an agree
ment with the British Government, carrying
into effect the provisions of the fifth article of
the Treaty of Client and the convention of 29th
Sept. 1927, His Majesty the King of the Meth
erlands has, by common consent, been selected
the umpire between the parties. The pro-
posal to him to accept the designation for the
performance of this friendly Office will be made
at an early day, and the United States, relying
upon the justice of their cause, will cheerfully
commit the arbitrament of it to a Prince equal
~ distinguished for the independence of his
spirit, his indefatigable assiduity TO the duties
ofhis station, and his inhexible personal probity
Our commercial relations with Great Britain
will deserve the serious consideration of Con-
gress, and the exercise of conciliatory and
iorbearing spirit in the policy of both Govern
ments. The state Of them has been materially
changed by the Act of Congress passed at their
last Session, in alteration of the several Acts
imposing duties on imposts, and by Acts of
more recent date of the British Parliament.
The effect of the Introduction of direct trade
commenced by Great Britain, and recprocated
by the u States, has been, as was to be FORE
seen, only to substitute different channels for
IN exchange of commodities indispensable to
The colonies, and profitable to a numerous class
of our fellow citizens. The exports, the reve-
nue., the navigation of the United States, have
suffered no diminution by our exclusion from
direct access to the British Colonies The
Colonies pay more dearly for the necessaries of
life, which their Government burdens with the
charges ofdouble voyage, freight, insurance and
commission, and the profits Of our exports are
somewhat impaired, and more iniuriously trans
ferred from one portion of our citizens to anoth-
cr. The resumption of this old and otherwise
exploded system Of Colonial exclusion has not
secured to the shipping interest of Great Brit
ain the relief which, at the expense of the dis
Sant colonies, and Of the United States, it was
expected to afford Other measures have been