~~ / | pp —————— equall advantageous to both parties. . PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE The decision of bis imperial ma 2 ; : / oh tante ti ussia, on the . 4'his day the resident of the United 1° 7 ne “ppsior of Ruma 2 Be: 3 transmitted to both houses question sabmatted to i » 7 4 t ' v A ’ . % -h oly &. i= preserved in it, and the youth areition, or concentrat@@ wit marrowe § 10 nd r ationg with otl} bs well instructed in every science con. Jims where they are. With thejtries, which impose on us they 2 accted with the great objects of the limited means in the power of the ex-jtion (0 cherish and sustain oul niiiy- They are aiso well train: {ccutive, lustructions were given (o the !factures. Satisfied, however, I tik. ——— Ax by hs institution. b Fellow citiz=ns of the Scnate & , free © ly advanc<d to such a maturity, thal y ¥ en gnire, imposes, annually, an import- tbat 5} a conviction, that taking all its stipu- advantage, deemed it my duty, in {.compliance with the authority vested OQ hor causes exist which are highly - Interesting to the whole civilized world, ob he interests of the Union, 1 shall States of congr:s s the following Po ; MESSAGE. cerning the coustruction of the - ‘oe ~ |article of the treaty of Ghent, ih 4 cen received. A ceunvenilon has Many causes unite to make your becn concluded, between the parties present meeting peculiarly Interesting under tie pediation of ns HE fo our constituents, The operation TM2Jestys 10 Ds em Tine of our laws, on the various subjects to which that afucle Shas I Ga Ie Yooh which they apply, with the amend-| eect, 1n Sonfarmity with at de , hic} they occasionally re-|S100. I shall submit this convention main ito the senate for its advice and con 'sent as to the ratification, and if ob- tained, shall immediately bring the subject before congress, for such pio visions as may require the Interposi tion of the legisla'u'e. In comphance with an act session, a territorial government has necn established in Florida, on * the! niinciples of our system. By this ac tive inhabitants are secared. inthe ful enjoyment of their rights and hibertics, and to admission into the union, with equal partieipation iy the governmen! with the origival states, on the con ditions heretofore prescribed to other lterritories. By aclausz in the ninth article of the treaty with Spainy by which that territory w s ceded to the Untied Statesyit is stipulated that sat isfaction shall be made for the injuries. if any, which by process of law, shal be established to have been suffered by the Spanish officers, and individual Spanish inhabitants, by the late oper: ations of our troops in Florida. No provision having yet been made, u carry that stipulation into e ffectyit it submitted to the considerationof cor gress, whether it will be Top Cy vest the competent power, 1 th c trict court of Pensacola, or in some tribunal, to be specially organized for hots: of Representatives . nt duty on the representatives of a ree people. Our System has happt- your cares in be augmented X am not aware that respect, will of Jas! and to no potion of & more so, in cer tain views, than to the United Sta‘es Of these c.uses, and of their buariog communicate the sertimen ts which | have ‘formed, with that freedom which a sense of duty dicrates. It is preper however, to invite your aitentlof, In the fist irs’ance, to those concerns resp: cling which legislative provision is thought to be particularly urgent On the 24 hof June jast a conven- tion of naviga ian and commerce was consluded, in this city, between the United States snd France, by minis- ers duly authorised fer the purpose, The s notion of the executive bhavine been given to this convention, under lations ini0 view, it (ested essentially on a basis of reciprocal ard equal i ti eexecutive, by the second sec- tion of the act of the last session, of he oto 3 : ; 40. Ke 6h of May, concerning navigation, 3 A the : Fs 2 > The fiscal operations of the year suspend, by proclamation, until the fosuspend, p ? ave been more successtul than had end of the pext session of congress, n J | . . 1 o 1 the operations of the act, entitied «an been anticipated at the commence Act to impose a new tonage duty | onjhent of the last session of congress. act POSE g ge ; N . . ) " ’ Fo h shins and vessels, and for] The receipts into the Treasury dur- reich hips @ § g . ol fe TS ’ [ing the three first quarters of a year, othee purposes,” and te suspend, hike {75 : : . . _. {have exceeded the sum of fouiteen| wize, all other duties on French ves | ° seo} ' the rooda imported in them militons seven hundred and forty-f scls, or the goods ported 1 i , AN "a ot which exceeded the duties on Ameri thousand: © doliais, « The piyimcuis ean vessels; and on similar goods im made at the 'reasury during the sam: a YOSSCIS,y © {10 G . anh 1 : ple je eXcec twelw ion: ported in them. 1 shall submit this PP" wd have excecded tw Jve mii : ion forthwith to the senate] 2 hundred and seventy -nine thous sonvention fe 1 ¢nate : ; : oie 4 Fs adrice and consent as tiie’ rati [nd duilars 3 leaving in the treasu'y f eh : on the 30th day of September last, in See ur last sessions the prohi cluding one milion one hundred and i Cc asl D3 18 : Pine ya be p helsixty eight thousand five hundred biton which had been tmposed on the : e between the United States and piuety-two dollars and twenty enmmerce betwe : United. States" art pnb Doda and the British colonies, if the. Wes: four cents. which were In the treasury lon ¢} st da { ww last. a sun y : : n the first day ol January last, a sum wdie wis continent, has like-| ; . rp , Indies, and on this 2 exceeding four millions one hundred wise been removed. Satigciony Sv {ond twenty-eight thousand dollars, ldsuee having YSeD Po GH » id "2°1 Besides discharging all demands poss of EY gh Gata fur the current service of the year, in- Rts om ps the British parlia- cluding the Interest and. ges ment, bearing date en the 24th ofjnent of ioe pe Seb, hi Ly, Jire last, on the conditions specified £eat s.ocx : 9 17508 ys roe therein, I deemed it proper, in com. eighty Na dollars. ie iter pliance with the provisions of the Sa Aly Ssiimase: . of ti e fi s' section of the act of the last ses- defraying the current ASHE , sion above recited, to declare by proc. present quarter, and rec Ee i. Jamation, bearing date on the 24th of {tW? millions of IX per So Stoc 0 Agunst lust, that the ports of the Unit: 1820, tiste will remain.iq be treasy. ed States, and thence {oreward, and un- ty, on the first day of Jengary, Da til ‘he end of the next sassion of con- rearly three millions of dollars. It Fess he opened to the vessels of}!S estimated that the gross amount of ent Rist erinthy ‘d in that trade, duties which have been secured, from ; pea re atic sheciBied in thatjtic Borst day of January to the 30th of under the aun $f September last, has exceeded nineteen, HEE entertained whether] Millions five hundred thousand doilars, ie Rit PE congress appiied to thejand the amount for the whole Fo Tritish colonies on this contigent, as probabl ot fall short of twenty-three well 25 16 those in the West Indies ; nillions @f dollars. ; 3 atoas tbe act of varliament opened Ot the actual force in ervice under but, as ti 2 I Ally with both.J:!'e present military establishment, the 2 mien js re toate of posts at which it is stationed; and the wea a S a rhe obvious nol |-ondition of each post, ‘a report from py 5s + Siatts. and ds me he secretary of war, whicn is now joy 4 he Uni Ee ats orRes to] -ommanicated, will give a distinct idea. je 1 she uretideyt some. discretion By like reports the state of the acade- cs y of it, I thoumht it ad. {MY at West Point will be seen as well 2 hate vo a t it a corresponding »3 the progress which bas been made : al “{in the fortifications along the coast, chnsipaclion, and at the national armories and arsen- als. The position on the Red River, and that at the Sanlt of St- Mare are the only new pos:s that have been taken. These posts with those already occupi- ed in the meerior, are thougiit to be well adapted to the protection of our frontiers. Ail the force not placed iu the garrisons along the coast, and ir the ordinance depots, and indispensi- bly necessary there, is placed cn the frontiers. "Wn wu it was the ct of congrs eon vO Shonld the cons:t utinpal sanction of! the senate be given to the ratification of the convention with France, legis- lative provision will he necessary to carry it fully into effect, Tas it like- wisa will be to continue it in force, on such conditions as may be deemed and propery, the intercourse which las b en opened between the United States and British colonies. | Rvary light in the possession of the exacutive wi'l, in due time, be com- municated on both subjects. * 4st 1 S 1tal IS ~ol ited States and Great Britain, con jed and ficst|parts of the , protession. bas| ways been found difficult to direction. disciplined in the practical) It bas .ne ardor inseperable from « al Iso ceatrol ible, wh that age,|' rovernotr to accomplish this object, wise arn, that the interest of every part far as it might be found practica- of pur Union, even of those most - t ich was proveatad by the dis- cfitted by manufactures, requires t ressing malady bsfore referrefl (0 [this subject should be touched with 1 in such manner astogive it a properiTo carry: it fully into effect 1a either| he greatest caution, and a €ritical too often pressing which toa far, necessary ) struction, in every such siuadon, are} sometimes lost sight of. The great objeetito be accomplished is the straint of thet ardor, regulations” and government, diracrine 21 the energies of the youth: ful mind to the attainment of useful! knowledge, will keep it within a just] subordination, and at the same time ~levare it to the highest purposes. This object scems to be gssentialty | obtaines in this institution, and with great advantage to the union. 1 he milijary acalemy form basis, in rea d to science, on which the military establishment ests. I furn’sics anoually, after due examina: tion, and on the report of the academic siaff, many well informed youths, to 511 the vacancies which occur in the several corpss of the prmy, while others, who retire to private hile, car- ry with them such atiainments, as un- ler the rights reserved to the scver- al states to appoint officers and’ train the militia, will enable them, by al fording a wider field for selection, to promote the greaf object ot the power vested in congress, of providing for he organizing, arming, and discipling the miliga, Thus by, the mutual and narnonN@co.operation of the two rovernments in the exccution of a power divided between them, an ob- ject always to be cherished, the at tainment of a great result, on which our libertics may depend, capoot fail to be secured. I have to add, that, in proportion as our regular force is small, should the instruction and dis. cipline of the mi'itia, the great re- gs the o © 'ssurce on which we rey, be pushed to the umost extent that circumstances will admit, ih ; A report from the secretary of the navy will communicate the progiess which has bezn made in the construc- tion of vessels of war. with other in ‘cresting details, respecting the actu- 11 state of the affairs of that depart nent. [It has been found necessary for the protection of our Pomme, «0 m:intain the usual squadreps oo the Mediterranean, the Pacific, and along the Atlantic coas!, extending the cru #88 of the latter into the West ludies, where piracy, organiz ed into a system, has preyed on the commerce of every country trading thi her. A cruize has always been maintained on the coast of Africa. when the season would permit, foi the suppression of the slave trade ; and orders have been given to the commanders of our public ships, to scize our own vessels, should they find any engaged in that trade, and to bring them infor adjudication. In the West Indies piracies are ol recent dare, which may explain the cause why other powers have not com- bined against it. By the documents commuricated it will be seen that the cfforts of the United States to sup- press it have had a salutary effect. The benevolent provision of the act, under which the protection has been extended alike to the commerce of other nations, cannot fail to be duly appreciated by them. In compliance with the act of the last session, entitled *¢ an act to abolish the United States’ trading establish- ments,” agents were imm: diately ap- pointed and instructed, under the di- rection of the secretary of the tressu- ry, to close the business cf the trad- ing-houscs among the [odian tribes, and to settle all the accounts of the] actors and sub-factors engaged in that trade, and to execute, in all other respects, the injunctions of that act, in the mode prescribed therem. A final report of their proceedings shall be communicated to congress as soon as itis received. It is with great regret I have to state that a serious malady has de- prived us of many valuable citizens at The organization of the several corpse composing the army is such| 1S to admit its expansion to a great] extent, in case of emergency, the afficers carrying them all the light which they possess to Restive essentially on a basis of re- eiprocsl and cqual advantage, it has been the object of the executive, in tratsaciicrns with other powers, to meet ronositions of each othet 3 rai epirit, believing that thereby the interest of our country would be most eff etually promoted. fins been systematically seeurd in the late occurrences with wee ond Great Britain, and 1m ot acentd with the views of the A confident hope is en- t-rrajred, that by the arranerement thee commenced with each, all differ-| ene § toanceiing navigation and com- pero with tle dominions in ques- tien will te adjusted, and a solid foun- daticp be laid for anactive and per- Lutercourse, which will prove with h the new) corpse to which they wight be ap | pointed. With the organization of the staff, there is equal cause to be satisfies. By the concentration of every branch, with its chief in this city, in the] presence of the departrient, and with] a grade in the chief military station. to keep alive and cherish a military] spirit, the greatest. promptitude in J ! ~ o Jib a hia course 5 a ws Ir r er 3 ciglatore. greatest economy and efficiency, are secured. The same view is taken of the military academy. Good order i. AllL Pensacola, and checked the progress! of some of those arrangements which are important to the territory. This effect has been sensibly felt in res- pect to the Indians who inhabit that territory, consisting of the remnant of} several tribes who occupy the middie ground between St Augustine and | Pensacola, with extensive claims but undefined boundaries. Alihough peace Is preserved with those Indians, yet their position & claims terds es- sentially to interrupt the intercourse between the eastern and western parts of the territory,on which our inh.b:- tants are principally settled. Itis es- sential to the growth and prosperity of course of the union, that these Indians should be removed, by a special eon- The rights of manhood are mode, addition.l funds will be. neces. (knowledge of the effect to be p claimed prematurely, inisa'y, to the provision of which theled by the siightest change. the respect congress alone are competent. which is due to age, and the obedicnce|a view 10 such provision a8 may be (0 a course of study and in-{deemed prop.r, the subject is sub re- (suspended. by sach wise| tion and sovereignty over the territory] have been able to obtain, it appears OD P1® that our manufactures though depiess-led by the attack of the racoon, screams ed immediately after the peace, have increased, and are still increasing, un-| der the encouragement given them by the Tariff of 1816, and by subsequent maintained his hold upaen the boy’s laws. be the abstract doctrine in unrestricted commerce, provided all natiens would concur 1a it, and it wasiprosght to his assistance Mr. the execution of orders, with thelthe territerv, as well as the inter-(nut liable to be interrupted by war, ? which has never occurred, and cat not be expected, that there are otherian uc- OD {uil consideration of the subjecy, in all its elations I am persuaded that a fur- her augmentation may now be mads mitted to your consideration, and inlofihe duties on ceitain fircign artis the interim further proceedings are With les, in favor of our own, and without fecting injnriously, any other inter- It appearing that so much of the |sst staff of the army.) which passed on the 14th April, 1818, as Ceclates to the commissarial, wil expire in April next, and the practical’ operation o made to Cong session. ; Bo great was the smoant of monies fladvanced during the late war, in ad- ress (during the last |ihat department, having evinced itsidtiion to others of a previous date, |W hich, mn the regular operations of © y necessarily remained great utility, tre propriety of its renew al is submitted to your considerayion. the government The view which has been taken of uns flied, that it required a consides the probable productiveness of the{rable length of time for their adjusts liad mines, connected with the im [ent portance of the material to the public! deferce, makes it expedient that they | should be managed w th peculiar care. [accounts then unsettled amounted to It is thercfore suggested whether iijone hundred and three millions sixty- would not comport with the public in |{¢ight thousand eight hundred and s y= ter2st to provide by law for the ap-jcn'y sig doilars and forty-one cents, pointment of an agent skilled in wil eralogy, to superintend them, unde;|present year, ninety-three miliions one the direction of the proper depart.| vndicd and seventy five ment. three hundred. and pincty six doll.rs It is understood that the Cumber-{and fifry-six cents had been setiled ; land road, which was constructed at all aving on that day a balance vusettled great expenses has already suffered{ol rine nilions eight hundied and from the want of that regular superin.|Dincly-three thousand four hundred tendance, and of those repairs, which are indispensible to the preservation of such a work. This read is of incalcu- tuble advantage, in facilitating the in- tercourse between the Western and the Atlantic States. Throogh ity the whole country from the Southern ex- iremity of Lake Erie to the Mississip pi, and from ‘all the waters which enip- ty into_each, finds an easy and direc communication to the seat of govern: ment, and from thence to the Atlantic Che tacility which it affords 10 | military and commercial operations and also to all those of the post office department, cannot. be estin asd too sighly. somplioiicr of the treasury, itappeais five cents. That there have bern drawn fom the treasury, ini paying zovernment in all its operations and disbursements, since the 4th of March, 1817, one hundred and fifty-seven mill- uns one huudred and ninety-nine then. sand three hundred and eighty dollars nd nincty-six cents, tie accounts for which have been settled to the amonnt ions five hundred and one thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and twelve cents ; icaving a balunce unset led of nineteen mililons hundred This'g: eat work is likewise [20d ninety-seven thousand nine hupd- er oi For more precise details, 1 refer as, by lact, entitied, An aot reguiaiing the(you to communications which were By a report from the First son the 4th of March, 1817, the § of which on the 30th September of thes 1 thousand * and seventy-nine dollars end eighty. the public debt, and sustaining the f one bundied and thirty-seven mile | an ornament and an honor to the na red and twenty-nine dollars and eighty. { tion, Believing that a competeat|lour cen's. For precise details res- f internal improvement has not been to the report of the Comptroller, granted to Congress, but thet such athe documents which accompany J ower, confined to great national pu | From this view it appears th poses, and with propsr limitations, commercial differences with 1 would be productive of eminent ad. and Great Britain have beens place vantage to our union, I have thought 10 @ train of amicable arranggge it advisable that an amendment of (he on conditions fair and Wi | and our in recommended to the several states, — finances are in a very productive state ; A bill which assumed the right to our revenue being at present fully adopt and execute such a system hav- competent to ail the demands upon it; ing been presented for my signature, that our military force is well oveani- it the last session, I was compelled zed inal its branches, and capable of from the view which I had taken of renderine the most important service, the powers of the General Government In case of emergency, that its number lo negative it, on this occasion [Will admit of ; that due progress has thought it proper to communicate the been made under existing appropria- sentiments which I had formed. op ‘ions, inthe constructing of fortifica- mature consideration, on the whole tions, and in the operation of the ordi subject. To that communication, in [panee department ; that due progress all the views in which the great inter. (has, In lite monner, been made in the st to which it relates, may be SuPpos- constructio; ol sips of war ; that onrs ed to merit your attention, I have now [navy is in the b.st condition, and leit to refer. Should Congress, however Jana respected. in every sea in which deem it improper to recommend sucht is employed for the protection of our 0 my judgment, the right to keep the [have augmented in amount, and im- road in repair, by providing for thelproved in quality ; thar great progress superintendance of it, and appropria- [has been made in the settlement nf ace most economy is secured and observe ed ip every department of the admin- istration, (The remainder next week.) priate money to make the road, they have arightto appropriate it to pre- serve the road from ruin. From the exercise of this power no danger is o be apprehended. Under our bap py system, the people are the solc and exclusive fountain of power.— Each government originates fron them, and to them alone, each to 1: proper constituents, are they respec tively and solely responsible, for the faithful discharge ofitheir duties, with in their constitutional limits, And that the people will confine their pub. lic agents, of every station, to the strict line of their constitutional duties there is no cause to doubt. Having, however, communicated my senti-| ments to Congress, at the last session, fully, in the doeurnent to which I have Mr. Stone’s houses to perform this ser- referred, respecting the right of ap propriation, as distinct frem jurisdic a — From the Boston Daily Advertisers * HYDRAPHOBIA. Izaiah Kidder, 2a boy belonging te Ipswick, in the employ of Mr, Grego- 'y Stone, of Lincoln, died atthe latte® 00 place on the 29th uliimo, of hydrapho- bia. The circumstances attendant up~ on this case, as far as they have reach- ed us, are as vice. Whilcon his way he espicd a racoon at a short distance from him in q 1estion, 1 deem it improper to en {which ran immediately towards fis large en the subject here. > : sprang over a ience and fastened up- From the best information that I hand, The boy much frighten led and ran towards home, dragging with him the furious animal “@hich Satisfi-d, I am, whatever may hand in spite of all his efforts to re. favor © 3 \lease himscif. Q J tof r whose endeavors to releass.the boy's tract with them, to some oiher posi- sirong reasons ap plicable to on situ- {rasoon Were; power to adopt gud execute a system (pecting each of these balances, I refer nt; constitution, to that effect, should Le both instances, fo each party; that our follows : About six ing cows from pasture, the lad left an amendment, they have, according|commerce ; that our manufactures ting the money necessary for repairs [counts, and in the recovery of balances Kaus op x { + ea : . (ig Surely if théy had the right to appro-{duc by individuals; afd, that the wot= : : t dries weeks since, at the usual time of driv The cries of the a \ i d from the clenched jaws of the | i fibavailing, valil be Suc i
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