The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-12-10
Nj Il s s A G. f.

In performing my duty at the opening
Of your present session, it gives me pleas
ure to congratulate you again upon the
prosperous condition of our beloved coun.
try. Divine Providence has favoured us
with general health, with rich rewards in
the fields of agriculture, and in every
branch of labor, and with peace to cult
vate and extend the various resources
which employ the virtue and enterprise of
our. citizens. Let us trust that in sur.
veying a scene so hattering to our free in
stitutions, our joint deliberations to pre-
serve them may be crowned with success.
Our foreign relations continue, with
but few exceptions, to maintain the favor
able aspect which they bore in my last
annual message, and promise to extend
those advantages which the principles
| that regulate our intercourse with other
nations are so well calculated to secure.
The question of the North Eastern
boundary is still pending with Great-Bri.
tain, and the proposition made in accord
ance with the resolution of the Senate for
the establishment of line according to the
treaty of 1888, has not been accepted by
that government. Believing that every
disposition is felt on both sides to adjust
this perplexing question to the satisfaction
of all the parties interested in it, the hope
is yet INDUCED that it may be effected on
the basis of that proposition.
With the governments of Austria, Rus
sa, Prussia, Holland, Sweden and Den
mark, the best understanding exists
Commerce, with all, is fostered and pro-
tected by reciprocal good will, under the
sanction of liberal conventional or legal
provisions.
In the midst of her internal difficulties,
the Queen of Spain has ratified the Con-
vention for the payment of the claims of
our citizens arising since 1919. Ii is in
the course of execution on her part, and
copy of it is now laid before you for such
legislation as may be found necessary to
enable those interested to derive the be-
nefits OF it.
iIeIding to the Iorce OF circumstances,
| and to the wise counsels of time and eX-
perience, that power has finally resolved
no longer to occupy the unnatural position
in which she stood to the new govern
ments established in this hemisphere.
have tbe great satisfaction of stating to
YOU, that in preparing the way for the
restoration of harmony between those
who have sprung from the same ancestors,
who are allied by common interests, pro-
fess the same religion, land speak the same
language, the United States have been
actively instrumental. Our efforts to ef-
feet this good work, will be persevered
in while they are deemed useful to the
parties, and our entire disinterestedness
continues to be felt and understood. The
act of Congress to countervail the dis
eliminating duties, levied to the prejudice
of our navigation in Cuba and Porto Rico,
has been transmitted to the Minister OF the
u. S. at Madrid, to be communicated to
the Government of the Queen. No In
teligence of its receipt has yet reached
the Department of State. If the present
condition of the country permits the Go.
vernment to make a careful and enlarged
examination of the true interests of these
important portions of its dominIons, nc
doubt is entertained that their future inter
course with the U. s. will be placed upon
a more Just and liberal basis.
n The Florida archives have not yet been
selected and delivered. Recent orders
= have been sent to the agent of the u. .
ii at Havana, to return with all that he car
l. obtain. so that he NAV be in Washington
u u before the session of the Supreme Court
2. to be used in the legal questions ther'
" pending, to which the Government Is
V party.
n n Internal tranquility is happily restore'
to to Portugal. The distracted state OF tn
country rendered unavoidable the post
ponement of final payment Of the JUS
claims of our citizens. Our dlPlomati
relations will soon be resumed, and tn
h. long subsisting friendship with that pow
or er affords the strongest guarantee that IN
balance due will receive prompt attention
~ ~ The first instalment due under the con
IS. vention ofindemnity with the King OF tn
ID, two Sicilies, has been duly received, an
N, an offer has been made to extinguish ID
" whole by prompt payment-an offer
n did not consider myself authorized to at
il cept, as the indemnification provided
the exclusive property of individual cit
: zens of the L. 5. The original adJus
ment Of our claims, and the anxiety dl
nv PLAYED to fulfil at once the stipulation
ng made for the payment of them, are high
honorable to the government Of the L"
Sicilies. When il is recollected that the
=, were the result Of the injustice Of an u
r.. r.. trusive power, temporarily dominant
its territory,a repugnance TO acknowledl
- and to pay which would have been Meth
rd- unnatural nor unexpected,the circums,a
liz ces cannot fail TO eNar It's character ]
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