-
‘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-<but to have remained
6 cnt spectators im the insurrection of the
troops. This cannot be called active loyal.
Porlier was hafided over to a Council of
ar, tried, convicted, and, pursuant to its
sentence, executed on the 3d of Oct. and his
editions publications burnt by the hang:
nan. Theinstirrection commenced on the
19th of Sept. and its chief was executed on
the 3d Oct.~~one fortnight afterwards De-
feated revolt strengthen a government.
No mentionis made of commotions in any
other part of Spain. hs
It'was reported at Lisbon that aVl the of-
ficersiin Porlier’s insurrectiou, and every
onth mao taken, had been exccuted.
General Polier left orders in his testa.
ested in seeing our pation well govertied be given to his wife, with & hapdkendhue
=it is the surest pledge of its tranquil-
jectof commerce, concluded by the Pleni-
disposition of the United States, which, it
may be hoped,”
al arrangements ¢
the parties have
might endanger *
which, at the same time that it
chat conciliatory tendency, would have the
further advantage of mcreasing the inde-
pendence of our navigation, and the reson -
ces for our maritime defence. p
tended with diffictlties, which even now
ances should permit be should be pla.
d in a pantheon, with the foliowing in
scription :.
Jal
in
ed a victim of civil disseniions.
unforiurate.”
ingly 12 2 —
President's Message.
From the National Intelligencer Extra,
S- Tuesday Dec. 5.
cs of Congress the following Message, by
Mr. Todd, his Secreary :
Fetlow- Citizens of the Senate,
and ofthe House of Refircsentatives
I have the satisfaction, on our present
meet.ng, of being able to communicate to
you the successful termination of the war
which had been commenced against the
United States by the Regency of Algiers
¢§ The squadron in advance, on that service,
under commodore Decaturydost not a mo-
ment after its arrival in the Mediterranean
in s.eking the Naval force of the enemy,
then cruising in that sea, and succeeded in
capturing two of his ships, one of them, the
principal ship, commanded by the Algerine
admiral. The high character of the A
merican commander was brilliantly sus
tained onthe occasion, which brought his
own ship into close action with that of his
adversary ; as was the accustomed gallan-
>
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
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