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JLAWRETCCEBbJIIGSI, (IA.) SATURDAY, DECSainKBS418Sl. IN. 51.

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MESSAGE tho PRESIDENT Or THE UNIT

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, ilreMth-from a rank tcarcely marked referred to him. The pape.s in rela- lions; at the same time that the frank n th! .cleTlla ions to . b.gh place lion to lh subject will be commun.cat- acknowledgement and prot.s.on for Ibe ,D mine hbicui nauuim or tt,a nrAnr navmont n ihmp which were address-

ceive an impulse from that high sense

UI . . j u - re8Deci. ea.oj a fPec,ai "!dc lu."Ic.vrj

states to uom u. - This iag advantage is one that hat branch of the Uoveruraeni, wuo me it the commcDCcment of the tirsl 1 .hu la ii nprfeei confidence that its wisdom will

Session of the 22d Congress. Fellozo Citizens of the Senate and House

. i iaimiron in n itipmi nryicci i u iij uiv I w - w -

Session of lhe 22d ingress. - . measures as will secure an

principles wuicu nave uiu. v.ji r- -

e n . orirhi. RPtilemeut of the controversy,

cMiria nun rnrpurn l unti et eiuio " i - :

o Representatives: . nnnnai ctarlon am0n2 without infringing any constitutional

Th? renresentalion of the people has . . hsnrp .ha unnual account right of the Spates immediately inter-

been renewed for the twenty-second which fae Etecutiire renders to the eited. . time since the constitution tbey formed counlry of lhc manner in which that It affords me satisfaction to inrorm has been in force. Fur near half a cen- brancl; of hij duties has been fulfilled, you that suggestions made by ay ditury, the chief magistrates, who have cg instrucliTe and salutary: ruction, to tbe Charge d Allairs ot His been successively chosen have made Thg .fic and wise policy o( our B,itanoic Majesty, to tbu Government, their annual communications of the Go?ernnent kept us in a state of neu- have bad their deeired ettdct in produo f th ntion toits reoresentatives. ,u0 that haP at dif- cine the release of certain American

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Ueneraliy, tnese commuun.a.iu. erenl period! uDce our pomicai eaisi cmxeu, wuu ---

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been of the most gratifying nature, tea- p bcn CRrfied on by other powers: ting up tha authorily of the tifying aa advance in all the improve- - hU wbile it gave activity Maine, at a place in the disputed

ments of social, and all the securities of . e't t0 our commerce, exposed ritory under tbe actual jurisdiction oi

political life. But frequently, and J- u in tha game proportion to injuries His Britannic irlajesiy. rrom mw, i. vn havp hpen called on to be , uii:ar0nt nntinno. Hpnrp I and the assurance I bve received, ot

grattful for the bounties of providence, have arigen ciaims 0f indemnity for tbe desire of the local authorities to at few periods have they been more (hosQ injurie,. England, France, avoid any cause of collision, 1 nave Ine nbundanily or extensively bestowed g Holland, Sweden, Denmark, best hopes that a good uouersUnding than at the presert; rarely, if ever, NKapie8 aQd atey Portugal, had all in will be kept up uniil it is confirmed by have we had greater reason to congral- a heater or less degree infriDged our the final disposition of the subject, the continued and B4i ui Tv,m, for rpn.n.J Thft amicable relations which now

increasing prosperity of our beloved llon wcrcade upon all. They have subsist between tbe United states aud ,n,.rr. L?:n , Jin,,P fn hnPA in nmP Great Britain the increasing inter-

.WUtJ . jail III ll UU VUHHHuw ' - ' . .. I ,1 Agriculture, the first and most im cageg a eading influence on the nature course between their citizene, and the portant occupation of man, has compen- q relations with the powers on rapid, obliteration of unfriendly prcjuatrl iVia Uhora of the husband nan ,AFam9liP dices to which former events naturally

with plentiful crops of all the variea Qf the ms upon England it is un- gave rise concurred to present this as nrnrfitrlB nf niir ftXtengiVQ COUOtry. lr further (hnn Incnv. H fit npriod for renewing our endeavors

riWMUiv w - - I ncCcBBury IU 5UCOB) Uluw imhii J ) I f - r Blanufactures have been established, in . , ' ule 0f lhing3 lo which their to provide against the recurrence oi

which the funds of the capitalist hud a eculion aDd denial gave rise has causes of irritation, wnicn, in iue nrn fitahl investment, and which give aa k arrnorpmnlg. nrn- I nf WftT between Great Britain and any

employment and subsistence to a nu- ductive 0fmutUal good feeling and ami- other power, would mevitably endani KrltT r( inrltiatri- I . . . I r.a Ar.imntp.rt bv the Sin

nieious aim iucicciiug wvuj w. . caDje relations oeiweeu iue two couu- gci vui yy. nna and dfixteroua mechanics The L. .. . ;a unnoA -ill nt ht mtpr. rprpst desire to avoid such a state ol

laborer is rewarded by high wages, in 0ne of these arrangements is things, and peacefully to secure, uuder the construction of internal improve- rgialing to the colonial trade, all possible circumstances, the rights ment, which are extending with unpre- which was communicated to Congress and honor of the country, 1 have given cedented rapidity. Science is steadily Qt tho la8t geggion; and although the such instructions to the Minister lately Denetraling the recesses of nature and . . npriofi Hurin? which it has been sent to the Court of London, as will

disclosing her secrets, while the inge- . f t eDable me to form an evince that desire; and if met by a cor

nuity of free minds elements to the power

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is subjecting the accurate judgment of its operation, respondent disposition, which we canof man, and mak- . A.nn tn bpliRve that it not doubt, will nut an end to causes of

i W nnniinol nuriliarv tn his ... 11. I I .li;e!n uKirh- without advantage tO

lug catu uc fcuuijuwcii w.- will prove nigniy ocuciiuii. x uc uinciwn, iui, comfort. By our mails, whose speed is lrade thereby authorized has employed, either, tend to estrange from each othregularly increased , and whose routes Q the 30h September last, upwards of er, two nations who have every motive are cverv rear extended, the commu- rt c Apriran. nnd 15X00 to Dreserve. not only peace, but an in-

j 4 JJJ IUU3 wl 4i"i',,w J j- m - - . nication of public intelligence and pri- ton3 q( forejgn shipping in the outward tercourse of the most amicable nature, vate business is rendered frequent and voyae8. and, in the inward, nearly an In my Message at the opening of the afp thp. intercourse between distant i r a morirnn. nn A on noo last session of Congress, I expressed a

cities,which it formerly required weeks 0jy 0f foreign tonnage. Advantages, confident hope that the justice oi our to accomplish, is now effected in a few t have resulted to ouf agricultural claims upon France, urged as they were ilavsi and in the construction of rail- :4 r .into Cih. tnulp hP. with nprseverance and signal ability by

J I lUlClCUlS IIUUI IUC Oioi u i.-M- , - I J r I I L ri mad?, and the aon ication of steam . r nri TrritnripS ami our Minister there, would tinauy oe

-7 If 5WCCU UOIIOUO auu uui " - , power, we have a reasonable prospect State8 bodering on the St, Lawrence acknowledged. 1 his hope nas oeen that the extreme parts of our country and (he which may prove more realized. A Treaty has been signed will be 80 much approximated, and loan equivalent to the loss sustained by which will immediately be laid before those most isolated by the obstacles tUr jjrimirmn mad to favor the tho Senate for its approbation; and

of nature, rendered so accessible as to frade of (he Northern colonies with the which, containing stipulations tnai reremove an apprehension sometimes en- yest Indies. quire Legislative acts, must have the tertained, that the great extent of the After our'transition from the state of concurrence of both houses before it can Union nrnnlrt pnrlancrpr i f a nprmnnpnl . .1 r j 1 Kn arr!orl intn PtTpr.t. Bv it. the

wu v x s VUwwb.. ... r u MW I colonies to inai oi aii uiuepeiiucui na-1 vauu existence. tinn, manv nnints were found necessary French Government engage to p

if il i-fj -t I r . i

11, irom iuc GHiisiutiury view 01 uui agriculture, manufactures, and inter-

nal irnnrovements, we turn to the state ru.1nri,r;a not toarihpd with will vet.it is believed, under all circum

of our navigation and trade with for- L..ffio;Dn. r,;fl;on in tho Trpntc nf stance?, be deemed satisfactory oy

eign nations and between the States, we peace Some of the line that divide those interested. The offer of a gross thall scarcely find less cause for gratu- lhe states and Territories of the Uni- sum, instead of the satisfaction of each lation. A beneficient Providence has fpfl caiPa from the British provinces, individual claim, was accepted, because

provided, for their exercise and encour- nave Deen definitively fixed. That, the only alternatives were a rigorous agement, an extensive coast indented however, which separates us from the exaction of the whole amount stated to bv capacious bays, noble rivers, inland n.,;oa nfPanJ, 9nri Rmns. be due on each claim, which might, in

ea?, with a country productive of every wjck to the North and the Eet, was some instances, be exaggerated oy uematerial for ship building and every stiU in dispute when 1 came into office, sign, in others overrated through.error, commodity for gainful commerce, and j3ul j founfj arrangements made fonts and which therefore it would have been filled with a population, active, intelli- settlement, over which I had no control, both ungracious and unjust to have ingent, well informed, and fearless of Tne commissioners who had been ap- sisted on, or a settlement by a mixed danger. These advantages are not po-inted under the provisions of the commission, to which tho French neneglected; -nd an impulse has lately Treaty of Ghent, having been unable goliators were very averse, and which been giveu to commercial enterprise, to agreRi a convention was made with experience in other cases had shewed which tills our ship yards with new coo- Great Britain by my immediate prede- to be dilatory, and often wholly madestructions, encourages all the arts and ppe5ftr ;n 0fr1PP. with the advice and quate to the end. A comparatively

branches of industry connected with consent of the Senate, by which it was small sum is stipulated on our part, to them, crowds the wharves of our cities agfeed "that the points of difference R to the extinction of all cbims by with vessels, and covers the most dis- which have arisen in tbe settlement of French citizens on our Government: tant seas with our canvass. lhe boundary line between the Ameri- and a reduction of duties on our Cotton Let us be grateful for these blessings can and British dominions, as described and their Wines has been agreed on, as to the beneficent Being who has confer- in the 5lh Article of the Treaty of a consideration for the renunciation ol red them, and who suffers us to indulge Ghent, shall be referred as therein pro- an important claim for commercial pna reasonable hope of their continuance vided, to some friendly sovereign or vileges, under the construction they and extension, while we neglect not the state, who shall be invited to investi- gave to the Treaty foi the cession ol means by which they may be preserv- gate, and make a decision upon such Louisiana. cd. If we may dare to judge of His fu- points of difference:" and the King of Should this Treaty receive the proture desiens bv the manner in which the Netherlands having, bv the late per sanction, a source of irritation will

his past favors have been bestowed, he President and his Britannic Majesty, be stopped, that has, for so many year., has made our national nrosneritv to de- hn dpsicmated as such friendlv sove- in some degree alienated from each

pend on the preseivation of our liber- reign, it became my duty lo carry, with ether, two nations, who from interest,

ties our national force on our federal good faiih, lhe agreement so made into union arid our individual happiness full effect. To this end 1 caused all the on the maintenance of our State rights measures to be taken which were ne and wise institutions. If we are pros- ceasary to a full exposition of our case perous at home, and respected abroad, io the Sovereign Arbiter; and nominaK is because we are free, united, in- ted as Minister Plenipotentiary to bis dufrioua and obedient to the laws, court, a distinguished citizen of the White we continue so, we shall by the State most interested in the question, blessinv of Heaven, go on in the happy and who had been one of the agents pricarier have begun, and which has viously employed for settling the conbrongSl uv, in the short period of our troversy. On the 1 Ot h day of January political exigence, from a population of last, His Majesty the King of the Nelhthree to thii;eti millions from thir- erlands delivered to the Plenipotentiateen separate Colonies to twenty-four ries of the United States, and of Great United States from weakness lo Britain, his written opinion on the cae

as well as the rememberance of early

association?, ought to cherish the most friendly relations an encouragement will be given for perseverance in the demands of justice, by this new proof, that, if steadily pursued, they will be listened to and admonition will be offered lo those Powers, if any, which may be inclined to evade them, that they will never be abandoned. Above si!, a just confidence will be inspired in our fellow citizens that their Government will exert all the powers with

which thfcv have invested it, in soport

payment of those which were address

ed to our equity, although unsupported

by legal proof, atlords a practical illustration of our submission to the divine rule of doing to others whatwe desiie they should do unto u. Sweden and Denmark having made compensation for the irregularities committed by their vessel?, or in their ports, to the perfect satisfaction of the parties concerned; and having renewed the Treaties of Commerce entered into with them, our political and commercial relations with those Powers continue to be on the most friendly footing. With Spain, our differences up to the 22J of February, 1819, were settled by

the Treaty of Washington of that date; but at a subsequent period, onr com merce wilhthe States,formerly colonies

of Spain, on the continent of America,

was annoyed & frequently mterrupieu by her public and private armed ships. The? captured many of our vessels pro

secuting a lawful commerce, and sold them and their cargoes: and at one

time, to our demands for restoration aud indemnity, opposed the allegation that,

they were taken In the violation oi a blockade of all the ports of those States.

This blockade was declaratory only,

and the inadequacy of the force to main

tain it, wos so manifest, that mis allegation was varied to a charge of trade in contraband of war. This, in its turn,

was also found untenable; and the minister whom I sent with instructions to

press for the reparation that was due to

our injured fellow citizens, has trans-

mitted an answer to nis aemana, vy

which the captures are declared to have been lecal.and are justified, be

cause the independence of the Slates of

America never having been acknowl

edged by Spain, she had a right to prohibit trade with them under her old

colonial law?. This ground of defence

was contradictory, not only to those

which bad been formerly alledged, but to the uniform practice and established

laws of nations; and had been abandoned by Spain herself in the convention which cranted indemnity to British sub

jects for captures, made at the same

time under tne 6ame Lutuimuuc-,

for the samo allegations with those of

which we complain. I however indulge the hone that further reflection will lead U other view?, and feel confident thai when IliaMajesty shall be convinced of tho justice of the claim, hi3 desire to preserve friendly relations between the two countries, which it is my earnest endeavor to maintain, will induce him to accede to our demand. I have therefore despatched a special messenger with instructions to our Minister to bring the case once more to lib consideration; to the end that if, which I cannot biing myself to believe, the same decision, that cannot but be deemed nn unfriendly denial of justice should be presisted in, the matter may, before your adjournment, be laid before you, the con-

slitutionaljudges of what is proper io oe done when negotiation for redress oi injury fails.

The conclusion of a Treaty for in

demnity with France seemed to present a favorable opportunity to renew

our claims of a similar nature on other

powers: and particularly in tbe case of

those upon Naple?,more especially as in the course of former negotiations with that power,our failure to induce France

to render us justice was used as anprgu

ment against us. The desires of lhe

merchants who were the principal suf

ferers have therefore been acceded to, and a mission has been instituted for thp snfril nnmose of obtaining for

i them a reparation already too long delayed. This measure having been resolved on, it was put in execution without waiting for the meeting of Congress, because the dale ol Europe created an apprehension of events that might have rendered our application ineffectual. Our demands upon tbe Government of the Two Siciliea are of a peculiar nature: The injuries on which they are

founded are not denied, nor are the atrocity and perfidy under which those injuries were perpetrated attempted to be extenuated. The sole ground on which indemnity has been refused is the alleged illegality of the tenure by hich the mou?rch who made the seizures heS his crown. This defence, always unfounded in any principle ot the law of nations now universal!) abandoned, even by thoae powers upon whom the responsibiht) for acts of past rulers bore the most heavily, nill up-

quesiionably be given up by His Sicil

of honor and regard to justice which are said to characterize him; and I feel

the fullest confidence that lhe talents of lhe citizen commissioned for that purpose will place before him the just claims of our iijured citizens in such a light as will enable me, before your adjournment, to announce, thatj they have been adjusted and secured. Precise instructions, to the effect of bringing the negotiation to a speedy issue, have been given and will be obeyed. In the late blockade of Terceira, some of the Portuguese fleet captured several of our vessels and committed other excesses for which reparation was demanded; nnd 1 was on the point ol despatching an armed force, to prevent any recurrence of a similar violence and protect our citizens in the prosecution of their lawful commerce, when official assurances on which I relied, made the sailing of the ships unnecessary. Since that period frequent promise have been made that full indemnity shall be given for the injuries inflicted and the losses sustained. Iu the per-

formance Ihere has been some unavoid

able delay; but I have the fullest con

fidence that my earnest desire that this

business may at once be closed, wuich

our Minister has been instructed strong

ly to expres?, will very soon be gratified. 1 have the better ground for this

hope, from the evidence of a friendly disposition which that Government bag 6hewn by an nctual reduction in the duty on rice, the produce of our Southern StateF, authorizing the anticipation that Ihis important article of our export will soon be admitted on the same footing with that produced by the most favored nation. With the other powers of Europe, we have fortunately had no cause ot discussions for the redrew of injuries. With the Empire of the Russians, our political connexion is of the most friendly, and our commercial, of the mo6t liberal kind. We erjoy the advantages of navigation and trade, given to tha most favored nation: but it has not yet suited their policy, or perhaps has cot been found convenient from other cen sidcrationF, to give stability and reciprocity to those privileges, by a ccrn-

: mercial Treaty, The ill health of the

Minister last year charged with mak

ing a proposition for that arrangement, did not permit him to remain at St. Pe-

tersburgh; and the attention of that

Government, during the whole of the

period since his departure, havirg been occupied by lhe war in which it was engagtd, we have been ftfsured that

nothing could have been effected by his

presence. A Minister will soon bo nominated, as well to effect this important inject as to keep up the relations of amity anil good understanding, of which we have received so many assurances and proofs frrm His Imperial Ma

jesty and lhe Emperor his predecessor.

lhe 1 reaty ith Austria is opening to us an important trade with the hereditary dominions of the Emperor, the value of which hps been hitherto little known, and of course not sufficiently appreciated, While our commerce fiods an entrance into the South of Germany by means cf this Treaiy, those we have formed with the Hnnsealic Towns and Prussia, and others now in negotiation, will open that vait country to the enterprising spirit of our merchants, on the Norih: a country abounding in all the materials for a mutually beneficial commerce, filled with enlightened and idustrirus inhabitants, holding an important place in the politics ol Europe, and to which we owe so many valuable citizens. The ratifica

tion cfthe Prtaty vith the Porte waa sent to be exchanged by the gentlemen appointed our Charge d'Atlairs to that Court. Scme dithiultiee occurred on his arrival; but the dale of his last official despatch, he supposed, tbey fcad been obviated, and that there was every prospect of the excharge being speedily i fleeted. This finishes the connected view I have thought it proper to give of our political and commercial relations in Europe. Every effort in my power will be continued to strengthen and extend them by Treaties founded on principles of ti e most perfect reciprocity of interest, neither asking nor cencedinr , any exclusive advantage, but liberal ias far as it lies In my power the acti

v . I . J t ? . ifrorn

of their just claiuw upon Foreign nu- tan Majesty; whose ccucseli will re

the tbackles which foreign res'

may impose. To China and the East 1 cemmrrce continues in its and with increased facih

.riciions

Concluded cn I

.ctlicp, our j3ual extent

4. which tha