- ‘er as hostages. Secure in the justness ity ; experience must ‘have taught it, ul when Spain is governed by feeble hands, i necessarily submits to any who can impose zonditions upon it. All Europe cannot bug be pleased to see a Government revive 8pain which has so much contributed to the * liberty and iwmdependence of all States Which has been recognized and treated with by the Kings of Prussia and Sweden, and the Magnanimious Emperor of Russia England, our first ally and companion, %hat nation rich and happy in its -Constitu. tion, which has seen with horror the di truction of the Cortes and the pérsccution ‘of its members; will Be thé first to applaud us, as it was first to assist usin our insur- rection, to acknowledge the Cortes, and % praise the patriotism and the virtues of the people. * Our object (says the Junta) like that ofall Spaniards, is no other than the estab- lishment of the monarchy under wise law which at the sdme time that they secur the prerogatives of the king, may likewise tusure to usour rights. We require the convocation of a Cortes named by the Peo- ple, who may make in the Constitution, proclaimed by the extraordinary Cortes, shose chenges which our situation demand; which experience has taught us and which the constitutions of the limited monarchies of Europe require. “For such holy purposes, we invite ou? sister provinces to unite with us, with the brave defenders of the coutry, with their worthy officers, and their illustrious Gen- erals ; in short with all the Spantards of al) classes. Fum in ous purpasc we will not lay down our arms (if we should be obliged to employ them) till we have obtained i: ; and ‘we shall embrace every Spaniard whe shall offer to join the banners of our country wewhall prosecute without mercy these who without love for their country, and éncmies to the king, avould rather leave higrto the hands Bithe vile Counsellors than to rescue him from their power, and open his eyes to their pernicious councils Our conduct shell be a modle to our ene- Mies ; property shall be respected, and per- sonal liberty rot disturbed; but woe to those who availing eo of i gust name of the kin all venture to Th- dividual ; they shall sult or persecute any de responsible, and if the cannot be taken, those persons shall be so, whom we consid- of the cause which we defended, the world shall see that Spain, vallientand persever- Ing in defending her country, is no less il- defend her rights and her liberties. * By the members of the Junta, “JUAN DIEX PORLIER” By Capt. Davis, from Lisbon, we have Peccived the papers of that city to the 20th ult. containing Madrid dates to the 14th, and furnishing the Spanish official partic-, ulars of the commencement, short continy- ance, and end of the insurrection in the Pro- vince of Galicia, “The fire was extin- ” grished as seo as kindled."—=Maj. Gen, or'ter marched against St. Jage, as here. vited to Detroit acceded readily to a renews tofore stated. He had about 800 soldiers and 6 pieces of cannon. The loyal troops game to engage him, when he was desert- ed by those who had followed him. The Qe | gnd 34 other Officers were Made pn s and committed to goal in eperate a | au ore re-instated wherever he had deposed them. The people are said to have taken ®o part in the revolt- gaged. Having prepared the way by this demonstration of American skitl and pio- wess, he hastened to the port of Algiers, where peace was promptly yielded to its victorious force. Inthe t:¥ms stipulated, were particularly consulted, by a perpetual relinquishment on the part of the Dey of] all pretensions to tribute from them. “The ‘mpressions whicli have thus been made, strengihened as they will have been, by stibsequent transactions with the Reg encies of Tunis and Tripoli, by the appearance of the larger force, which followed under come modore Bainbridge, the chief in command + the expedition; and the judicious precan- reach of the Barbary cruisers. i Itis another source of satisfaction that the treaty pl'peace with Great Buitgin has been succeeded by a convention bn the sub- a potentiaries of the the countries. Iii this resulta disposition is manifested on the part of that nation, corresponding with the > improved, into liber er subjects, on which al interests, or which & American €1; a measure t might have In conformity with the articles of the Ticaty of Ghent redating to the Indians, as Western and North Western frontiers, measures were taken to establish an ime mediate peace with the several tribes who had been engaged in hostilities against the United States.=~3uch of them as were in- the other tribes who were invited to a sta- tion on the Mississippi, the greater nume ber have alse accepted the peace offered to them. The residue, consisting of the more distant Tribes er parts of Tribes, remain to be brought over by farther explanations, or by such other means as may be adapted to the disposition they may finally disciose. The Indian Tribes within and bordering on our Southern frontier, whom a crue wary on their part, had compelled us tole chastise into peace, have latterly ghewn a restlessness, which has called for prepara- tory measures for repressing it, and forle protecting the commissioners engaged in carrying the terms of the peace into execu. tion, The execution of the Act for fixing the jo military peace establishment has heen. at. canonly be overcome by legislative nid. The selection of officers ; the payment and discharge of the troops enlisted for the war ; the payment of the retamed troops. ln ¢ Here lies the ashes of Don Juan Diex Porlier, General of the Spanish armics, who was fortunate in what he undertook|of the army has been accomplished : but against the enemies of Liscountry, and di- « Feeling souls ! reepect the ashesof an This day at 1¢ o'clock; the President of {ting a just sensibility to the merits ef the the United States trahsmitted to both Hous- i _ ak @® hospitals nod garrisons, render a complete execution of the act impractica- € on the first of May, the peried more 0 pd contemplated. , As sgon. how § ery as circumstances would p a8 far as it has been practica iy withthe public interests, the reduction the appropriations lov ite pay, and for other brariches of the military service, having proved inadequate; the earhest attention to that subjer.t will be necessury ; and the ex- pediency ofcontinuing upon the peace ¢s- tablishment the siaff officers, wio have] hitherto bien provisionally reinined, is also recommended to the consideraiion of Cou- gress. In the performance ofthe executive duty upon thig occasion, there has not Leen wap» merican army, during the late war: but the obvious policy and design in fixing an efficient military peace establishment, did not afford an opportunity to distinguish the aged and infirm, on account of their past services, nor the wounded and disabled, on account of their present sufferings. The extent of the reduction, indeed, unavoidably involved the exclusion of many meritorious officers of every rank from the service of numerous, were the claims to attention, that a decision by the standard of compara- 7: ; ; 5 » temporary evil, iit, be rendered the: general medium of change, it Cortes BIess, to provide ps RO y RG iis RS countrys ‘I'he arrangements of the fins : toplkhe receipis - J ugress d true that the pubiic revenue, will not only afford the means of mamtaining the fuith of the poe Le Ba improved cond vermment with its creditors inviolate, and of praseeuling successtully, the measuvessof the most liberal poitcy ; tly an immediate alloviation of the burthe ens Mmposed by the necessities of the wars IL 1s however, essential to every modificas ton of the finances, that the benefits of aw urorm national] currency should be restos red to the gominunity The absence of tha precious metals will, it is believed, he a until they can again exe ty the pros terms ups 4, os weil 28 with the roarnrebs’ or witly cs off try of all the officers and men actually en-{ Valid ; to display the bencficence, as wel the rights and honor of the United States rency have not been dinmnished, since the adjournment of Congress, great satisfacti cy of the public resources. The receipts into the Treasury, from the various branch- us of revenue, during the nine months, end. been estimated at twelve millions and 2 half of dollars; the issues of Treasury. Notes of cvery denomination, during the onary arrangements left by him in that same period, amounted to the sum of four- qaarter, afiord a reasonable prospect of fu- tegn millions of dollars : and there was, al- tare security, for the valuable portion offse, obtained upon loan, during the same our commerce, which passes within th period, a sum of pine millions of dellars ; of which the sum of six millions of dollars was subscribed in cash, and the som of three millions of dollars in Treasury Notes. With these means, added to the sum of one million and a half of doliars, being the bal: ance of money mn the Treasury on the 1st of January, there has been paid. between the 1st ot Junuaryand the 1st wi¥ Detober, heir future hatmony. {me Congress will decide on the expediency of promoting such a sequel, by giving effect to the measure of confining the : a balanee t lustrious and courageous when she has to uavigation to American seam at the sum of three millions of dollars. dependent, however, of the arrearages due for military services and supplies, it 1s pre- sumed, that a further sum of five millions. of dollars, including the interest on the public debt payable on the Ist of January next, will be Gemmnded a the Treasury to complete the expendit well as with a view to the tranquility of sur|year, and for which the existing ways aud means will sufficiently provide. on the Ist of Oct. * last, amounted in the whole, to the sum of one hundred and twenty millions of dollars; consisting of the ; i : unredeemed balance of the debt contract | al of the former treaties of friendships Of ed before the laie war, (thirty nine millions of dollars) the amount of the funded debt, cantracted in consequence of the war, (six ty four millions of dollars] and the ‘a- mount of the unfunded and floating deb including the various issves of treasury notes) seventeen millions of dollars, which is in a gradual course of payment. There will probably, be some addition to the pub- lic debt, upon the liquidation of the vari: ous claims which ave depending; and a con- may lead honorably and advanta to an equitable arrangement of the militi~ without the previous sanction or authority of the govermnent of the U.S. But when it is considered that the new as well as the in the assertion of the national ¥ights and independence ; and when it is recollected that the public expenditures, not being ex- clusively bestowed upon subjects of a tran- sient nature, will loag be ‘visible in the navy, in the military works for the defence tive merit could seldom be attained. Judg- cd, however, in candor, by a general stan. dard of positive merity the Army Register will, it is belicved, do honor to the estal. lishment ; while the case of those officers, whose pames are not included in it, de- volves, with the strongest interest, upon the legislative authority, for such provision, as shall be deemed the best calculated to give support and solace to the veteran and the justice of the government, and to in- spire a martial zeal for the public service, upon every future emergency. Although the embarrassments arising {rom the want of an uniform national cur- or: has been derived in contemplating the revival of the public eredit, and the eflicien- ing on the 20th of Scptember last, have ageount of the appropriations of the receeding and of the present year, (ex- ely of the amount of the Treasury pscribed to the loany and the a- cenied in the payment of dutics | the aporegate sum of thiny ots and a half of dollars, leaving hen in the Treasury estimated In- mi ¥ res of the present The national debs, as it was ascertained ifatory disposition on the part of Congress geously, xpenses, incurred by the several states Id pertion of the debt has been contracted umber and eguipraents of the America” and their re-union from and dis- tant stations ; the collection a security of the public prepert ~Maste be put in a chest LAR SL 3 Commis Ys in the | sary, and Ordngnce () nl fof our harbors and our frontiers, in the sup- 3 ems and Magazines ; longer required as an instrament of credit shall be issued, upon motives of ras} policy, as a common medium of cireulge tian. Notwithstanding the security for future repose which the United States ought te find in their love for peace, and their cone stant respect for the rights of other nations, the character of the mes papticularly ioe culcates the lesson, that, whether to pros vent or repel dangor, we ought not to be unprepared iorat, Tils consideration will suiliciont ly recommend to congress a lites ral provisio for the Immediate extension and gradual completion of the works cides fence, both fixed and floating, on our. mas ritime frontier 7 and an adequate provision for guarding our inland frontier, againeg cangers to which certain portcns of i mag coiitinge to be exposed. As an improvement on our military establishment, it will deserve (lie considers ation of ‘congress whether corps of jivae fids miglit not be so organized and employs ed, as at once to aid in the support of merie torious iudividuals, excluded by age or in firmities from the existing establichment, and to preserve to the public the benefit of their stationary services. and of (heir ex- emplary discipline. I'recommend also aw enlargement of the military accademy al- teady established, and the establishment of others in other sections of the union. And I cannot press oo much on the atteption of congress, susha classification and organie zation of the militia, as will most effectoale ly vender it the safeguard of a fice state, If experience has shown in the late splofie did achievments, the value of this re source lor the public defence, it has shewn also the importance of that skill in the use of arms, and that familiarity in the essential rules of discipline, which cannot he CX pece ted from the reguiations now inforce. With this subject 18 immediately connected, the necessity of accommodating the laws in every respect, to the great object of ena. bling the political authority ot the union to employ promptly, and effectually the phys sical puwer of the union, in the cases dee signated by the constitution. The ‘signal services which have beeg rendered by our navy, and the capacities it has developed for successful co-opeiition in the natural defence, will give to thet portion of the public force its full value i the eyes of Congress, at an epoch whick calls fae the vigilance of all governments. To prescrve the ships now in a sounf stats; to complete those aircady com templated ;'to provide amply the unpers ishable materials for augmentation, and 0 Improve existing arrangements, for the construction, the repairs, and the sccus rity of vessels of war is Cictated by the soundest policy. In adjusting the duties on imports, to the object of revenue, the influence of the ariff on manufactured will necessarily pre- sent tse: for consideration However wise thetheory may begvhigh leavesto the sugacily and interest of andividuals the ape plication of their industry and resources, their are in this as in othr cases exceptions to the general rule. Besides the candition which the theory itself implies, ofa reels procai adoption by other nations cxpes rience teaches that so maoy circumstances must oc cur introducing and maturing mane afacturing establishments especially of tho more complicated kinds. that a coum. iry may remain, leng without them, ale though sufficiently advanced, 2nd in some respects even peculiarly fitted for carying diem on with success. Under circumstane ies giving a powerfulimpulse to manufactuy rin,; industry it has made among us a pro- aress, and exhibited an efficiency which justify the belief, that witha protection hy citizens whose interest are now at sok it will becomes in mn carly day, wot aot more than is due to the enterprising but will ale jus. oh the wisdom of Colle : a substitute which shall equally engage the confidence, and accom + modate the waats of the citizens throughe outthe union. , Ifthe Operation of the state Banks cannot produce this resyl : bable operation of a national Bank will nice rit consideration ; and, if neither of these their country ; and se equal, as well as sol ¢XPedients be deemed effectual, it may be- come necessary to ascertain the on whieh the notes of the government, ( ne od ERE A