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lit it enacted by the Senate-$. House of lie preventatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the following sums he, and the same are hereby, respectively appropriated for the Military Service ot ., the United States, for the Year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, eight, to wit:|

For pay of (he Army and suk tence of Officers, including the

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itarv Academy, one million and l|t-ty-six thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents,

For subsistence, in addition to an unexpended balance in the 'treasury, on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twentyseven, of §ixty-five thousand dollars, two hundred and eighteen thousand dollaM.

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For forage for Officers, forty thousand one hundrei and twenty-eight

clothing for servants ofOffi-

cers of the Army, and the of Military Academv, and twenty supernumerary Second Lieutenants, graduates of the Military Academy, nineteen thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.

For the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance in the Treasury on the thirty-fisrt of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, of thirteen thousand six hundred dollars, twenty-two thous•andsix hundred

St seventy fourdollars.

For the contingent expenses ot the recruiting service, in addition to an unexpended balance of three thousand three hundred dollars, Jn the Treasury on the thirty-first ot De •cember, eighteen hundred and twenty seven, fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

For arrearages of the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, bein"- the difference between the amount appropriated by Congress for the pay and subsistence of the Captains and Subalterns and that allow--ed by the act of the second of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, thirty-eight thousand and seventyseven dollars and eight cents. .J For the Purchasing Department, in addition to materials on hand,, aciounting to forty thousand dollars, viz: for clothing for the Army, cauip .Aqpippage, cooking wtens.ls, and hospital furniture, one hundred fc seve11' ty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and iorty-njne cents.

For the purchase of woollens, during the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, in advance far the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, twenty thousand dollars.

For the Medical and Hospital Department, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars

For the (Quartermaster General's Department, three hundred and for ty-three thousand dollars.

For arrearages in the Quartermaster GeneraHs Department, forty two thousand dollars

For Quartermaster General's Department, viz: barracks for two additional companies, and quarters lor the graduates from West Point, ordered to join the Infantry School of Practice, and to complete storehouses and hospital, engine and hose, firebuckets, barrack quarters, defences, &c for four-companies at Prairie du Chien, to complete quarter barracks, hospital and storehouses at Fort St. Philip to complete the buildings and enclose .the grounds with pickets, at the establishment near Savannah for engine and hose complete for fortress Monroe, and for tire buckets, fortyfour thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-four cents.

For fuel, stationary, transportation, vie. repairs, and for improving barracks, erecting new buildings, procufins articles for the mathematical, drawing, chemical and mitieralogical departments, and lor the library .and contingencies, for the Military Academy at West Point. "-Excluding the items for Quartermaster's Clerk, .Adjutant's Clerk and Quartermaster's Sergeants, thirty-two thousand "two hundred and thirty,.four dollars and fifty eight ceuts." V'"

For defraying the expenses-of the Board of-Visitors,, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingencies of the Army, ten thousand dollars. For arrearages prior to the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and lifteen, ten thousand .dollars I For Natiopal Armories, .three hundred and sixty thousand dollars,

Ff»r-current expenses-of the Ordinance Service, sixty-fiv& thousand *|«tloilars. *v •*,,

For Arsenals, fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. For completing the Arsenal $t Apfusta,jn Maine,.thirty thousand dolJars.

Sec. 2. And he it further enacted, That the several sums hereby appropriated, be paid out of any money in J, the Treasury, not aHterwise appro?Ypriated.

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Sec. 3 And be it further emitted, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to settle,.adjust, and pay, in conformity with the provisions ol' the act of the second of January, one thousand seven hun dred and ninety-five, regulating the pay of the Militia, when called into actual service, the claims. the

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litia'and Indians of the State ot Illinois, and Territory of Michigan, called out by competentauthonty, or received into service by any General or Field Officer of the United States, on the occasion ot the recent Indian disturbances, and that the expenses of transpoitation, supplies, materials, ferriage & \york incident to the expe ditionshall be settled,according to the justice of the claim., and with stnetre«rard.to the law and usage heretofore established for the settlement of such c{aim3 and that the sum ot thousand dollars be appropriated lor thje aforesaid objects, to be paid out any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *7

Sec. 4 And be it further enacted. That the sum of five htintired and fourteen dollars and twenty-c ne cents being part an appropriation made by the act fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, tor the relief of Lieutenant Colonel William Lawrence and others, and which was carried to the Surplus Ftind on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twentysix. be, and the §ame Js hereby, reappropriated.

Sec 5 And be it further enacted, That the unexpended balances of appropriations lor the following objects be, and the same are hereby, re-ap-propriated, viz:

For balances due certain States on account of militia in the service of the United States during the late war, sixty eight thousand eight hundred and eighty five dollars and seventy cents &

For a Road from Little Rock to Cantonment Gibson, live thousand five hundred and fitty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents

For extinguishing the Creek title to lands in Georgia, four thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine dollars and fifb'-seven cents.

For claims against the Osages, by citizens ot the United States, eight hundred and thirty-four dollar?, and qft PPPtS

Approved—20th Ma-ch 18S8.

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A Commentary on the letter of John Mains, to Leavitt Harris, ad dressed by Americans" to their fellow citizens. Strike—but hear."

Perhaps no single act of our present Chief Magistrate, private or public, in the course of a long life, has been the theme of so much oblequv and misrepresentation as the ieuer above mentioned Desirous that every act of Mr. Adams', having a tendency to illustrate his principles and character, should be subjected to the closest scrutiny, we have undertaken the office ot presenting to our fellow citizens the let ter itself, together with its history and character. When this task shall have been accomplished, every honest and reflecting man in the community will be surprised and shocked to find thata private letter, written in the course of businass and duty, and containing nought but sentiments the most pure and patriotic, should be made the foundation of the most wanton and reckless calumny. It has-been falsely asserted, and believed by many, that this letter was written with a view, traitorously to expose to the«I?ritish the misfortunes and weakness of our country—then engaged in an arduous conflict with their nation, liy other enemies less fool hardy and unblushing, it has been denounced as a wanton and profligate attack by the writer on his own government. Single sentences in this letter have been torn from their context, and published in a detached manner, thereby conveying a meaning totally opposite to the writer's and every uuworthy artifice has been resorted to, to make the letter instrumental in the destruction of Mr. Adams' reputation as a patriot and man of honor." $ut to the history of the letter

In the latter part of I&13, or early in 1814, Mr. Adams, then American Minister at the court of the Emperor ot Russia, left St. Petersburg by the orders of our government, for the purpose of proceeding to Gottenbu.rgh in Sweden, in order to negotiate a treaty of peace with England, under the mediation of the Emperor Alexanders ^On arriving at Gottenburgh,it was found that the British had started some difficulty about negotiating in Gotteaburgh, and had transferred the discussions relative to a treaty to Ghent, whither our several ministers plenipotentiary, (Mr. Adams among the. number,) repaired Mr. Leavitt Harris, the "euUeman to whom the letter was addressed, was Mr. Adams'' secretary of legation pt St. iPetersburgh,

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and bf order of our government* was entrusted with managing the relations subsisting between our government and Russia, in the absence o! Mr. Adams. From secretary of legation, Mr- Harris became charge d'affaires or diplomatic agent, under Mr. A4ams. Mr. Adams w$s still continued by our government ambassador, and as much recognized by the governmeijt of Russia^ Of course it became Mf. Adam,8' imperative duty to acquaint Mr, Harris, with all interesting information derived from the United States, It was Mr Adams' particular duty as American auibassaifor, to the Russia.n government, to see that the charge d'JJJj'uir&s was correctly ad­

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of all important events in his own country. Holding this public relation to Mr Harris, as also, (it is to be presumed) the private one of friendly intimacy, he addressed Mr. Harris the following letter.

Letter of John Quincy Adams, addressed to Leavitt Harris, Esq. Chaise d'AH'aires of the United

Statts, at St Petersburg!!.*, Ghent, 16^ Nov 1814 Pear Sir—I have just now the pleasure of receiving your favor of 14 (26) October, and am happy to learn om yourself, th§ confirmation of your recovery ot which, and of vour illness, I had a few days since been iqformed by a letter from my wife

Near the close of the month of August, it was our expectation that the negotiation here would have terminated in a very few days. It soon after became apparent that the intention of the British government was to'keep it open? and to shape its demands according to the course of events in Europe and America. This policy still continues to pervade the British cabinet- Nothing decisive is yet known to them to have occurred either at Vienna, or in the other hemisphere, and accordingly they temporize still. Unless something should happen to fix thei: wavering pretensions and purposes, it will belong to the American government alone, to bring our business to a poiut. This on their part would certainly be an honorable and spirited course of conduct, and I should have no doubt of its being pursued, il .the desire of peace were nut paramount to every other consideration.

The occurrences of the war in Americahave been of a diversified nature* Success acd defeat have alternatly attended the arms of both belligeents, and hitherto have l?ft them rearly where they were at the commencement of the campaign. It nas b«en on our part merely defrn sive,tvith the single exception of the takiig of Fort E:ie, with which it begai. The battles of Chippewa and Bridgewater—the defence of Fort Erie on the 15th of August,

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and the naval action on Lake Cham plait on the 11th of September, have leduinded to our glory as well as to our advantage—while the loss ot Waihingtou, the capitulations of Alexaider and Washington county Massachusetts, and of Nantucket, have been more disgraceful to us than injurious.—

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more+as given us little moretobcproud of than the demonstratiqn against it has afforded to oily enemy Provost's retreat from Plattsburgh has been more disgraceful to them than nonorable to us, and Wellington's veterans, the fire eater Brisbane, and the fire-brand Cockburn, have kept the rawest of our militia in countenance, by their expertness in the art of running away. The general issue of the campaign is yet to come, and there is loo much reason tp apprehend that it will be unfavorable to our side.

Lett, by a.concurrence ,ef circumstances unexampled iu the annals of the world., to struggle alone &. friendless against the whole cullossal power of Great Britain, fighting in reality against her lor the cause of all Europu, with all Europe looking coldly on, basely bound not to raise in our favor a helping hand, secretly wishing us success, and not daring so much as to cheer us in the strife, what could be expected from the first furies of this unequal conflict, but disaster and discomfiture to us. Divided among ourselves more ip passions than interests, with half the nation sold by theirprejudices and their ignorance to our enemy, with a feeble an.d penurious government, with five frigates for a navy, and scarcely live efficient regiments for an army, how can it be expected that we sho.uld .resist the mass of force which that gigantic power has collected t.o crush us at a blow

This too.is the moment which he has chosen.to break through all the laws of war acknowleded and res-1 pec ted by civilized nations. Under the false ^pretence of retaliation Cochrane has formally declared tiie determination to destroy and lay waste all the towns on t|ie.sea-coast, which may be assailable. The ordinary horrors oi war are .uulduess,

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and mercy .n comparison with what British vengeance and inilice ha»c denounced upon «». We most go through it all—I trust in qU shall rise in. triumph oyer it all .. but the first Shock i? t!e most terrible part of the process, and il isjwt which we ar,e now ei|i}u'ing.

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bv Mx. F.orbes'wiJ1 go in her, if we get them in time. 1 have heard nothing Croiu Count Nesselrod.e. The Congress at \ienoa fy* scarcely yet .opene.d—but all the important arrangements a^e made, anil ttere is no doubt that the termination will hi* nftrinr am, with high regard and consideration, dear sir, jour vfrjr humble and obedient servant,: •£,

JOHN Q. ADAMS.

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iae the letter, let us take it paragraph by paragraph, and sentence by sentence, and see what there 19 il, that ought even to prejudif^ much more destroy the character ot the writer.

In the first place, it is addressed by one American to another American. By one officer ot our government to another officer, holding a subordinate relation to the writer. The letter notwithstanding it ft private and not a public letter, and would

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hibited to the American people, had not Mr. Harris, to whom it was addressed, some twelve months ago in a suit at Philadelphia, wherein he was a party, had occasion to refer to it, probably with a view to ascertain certain d*tes. The letter was read in open court, and although private in its character, it was eagerly laid hold of by the enemies of the administration, and detached sentences and parts of paragraphs published, with false glosses, inuendoes and surmises, with a view to blacken the character of the President. S§

But let us look into the letter The first paragiaph is entirely private.—The second paragraph gives a history of the progress and then state of the negotiation with the British, which terminated iu the treaty of Ghent—and represents the British as wayeriug and temporising, and maneuvering to make as much out of us as they could. It then goes on to state that

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thing should happen to fix their wavering pretensions and purposes, it will belong to the American government alone to bring our business to a point. This on their part [that is the American government] would he an honorable and spirited course of conduct, and 1 should have no doubt of its being pursued, if the desire of peace were not paramount to every other consideration Whose desire of peace, we would ask that of the American government, most surely—not Mr. Adams'. The last part of th above paragraph has been printed in italics by the anti-admin-istration papers—for the purpose, either of slurring Mr Adams with the imputation of desiring a peace, himself, at all events, honorable oi not or of having it appear blame worthy in him to state a notorious fact. Now, to every man, who recollects the history of our government a::d country in 1814, it is notorious that the desire of peace was the general and prevailing sentiment. This is abundantly proved by the state of the times, the derangement of our finances, the feelings of the people, & most emphatically proved by the employment of the unusual aud unparalleled number of five commissioners to make a 'Preaty of Peace Mr. Adams in the last paragraph evidently alludes to the instructions of our government, which were to make a peace, to ask for nothing, to make what politicians call the etatus ante Helium, the basis of the Treaty, which was accordingly done. So far as language can be understood, there is ao .insinuation that in Mr. Adams' private opinion, a more spirited course wot^ld be preferable. The public have read the discussjons between the British and Atnericap commissioners of that period, the composition of which on the part.of the Americans, was universally attributed to Mr. Adams, in which, the insolent demands of the British for a surrender of the Luk :s and a portion of our territory, were hurled in their teeth with indignant scorn. So far then we see nothing incorrect or unpatriotic in the letter. The next and third paragraph of the letter, describes the progress ol the war and gives the result of the several engagements between our forces and those of the enemy, up to Octo-: ber 1814 The latter part of this paragraph has been italicised by tluJacksoti presses, on account wo pre uine of what they alFect to consider the obnoxioos character of its s.enti^ ments. But we invite any intelligent and unprejudiced American, to repernge it, ami point out a single improper or unworthy sentiment. Some men object to the stvle/ ,r X*

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other.9,might differ in* opinio^ the writer, some might place a er estimate on the ti ?fence or timore, and be more affected by't* capture of Washington city if. the writer but the cjaestiorj wish to try before our feUoiy citizo!6 'in reference to this subject, is thig** are t,here any sentiments' or llC ions or statements in this para

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derogatory to Mr. Adams as merican, as a statesman, or hi«h J} .cer of the government impeach his patriotism or indi any coldness or indill'erence of? country? We think there is consif .erablfi point and wit in the carr .ture ihere drawn of the lo^ .ICa* marauding expeditions of CockV^ and Brisbane, who frequently h!r ed on the coast of Virginia ai-a ter stealing negroes and plantations, n^pst valiantly /iqay,."

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warmth and seriousness. Itii's0 that th^ whole soul of the Patriot'8 developed, and every thought aad feeiiog absorbed in seal aad Hevot on to his b&loved country. We ca not whether Mr. A's opinionsw theoretical notious on some of th^ subjects meet the concurrence of all or of a majority of those whoread the letter. It is not our purpose at this time t9 investigate the question whether, our governmeut about or during the period of the war,erred on the side of parsimony and p3nu. riousness. Jt is sufficient for us to know that these sentiments were honestly entertained aud freely pressed by thousands of as souatl heads and pure hearts as America could boast and these paragraphs bear internal evidence of the painful sensations, which the above cpuviction excited in the bosom of thewiter.

In order that it may be fairly seen that we render no more than simply justice to Mr. A. we here reinsert that part of the 4th paragraph, which has been printed in Italics—hiefc has hundreds of times, by the enemies of the President, bepn detached from the context and printed ty iiselif tor the charitable purpose of making the people oi the U. Sfates believe that Mr. Adams ia ifq&ign country, deliberately wrote a studied libel on his own country and Government.

The 4ih paragraph is evidently intended to explain to his correspondent, Mr. Harris, the rcosoHS of our misfortunes and reverses. It commences with observing, that, left»loneto struggle against the colossal power of Great Britain, without: even $he cheering sympathy of singld European power anil taking into consideration our unprepared state, and the divisions then prevalent among us, what could b^e expectjed from thejfirsf furies oi this anequal contest but disaster and discomfiture, 3fc.—It then proceeds:

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Divided among ourselvea in passions than in interests, wiA. half the nation sold by their prejudices and their ignorance to our euemy,with afeebleand penurious government, with live frigates l«ra navy, and scarcely five efficient regiments for an army, how can itbe expected that we should resist the mass ot force which that gloan^ power has collected to crush blow

But marK me residue h« ?oeson in paragraph 5th thus" f1-8 is the uio,ment tyhich has been cio sen to break through all the 'av,s0 war acknowledged and respeptec civilized nations. Under I-he of retaliation, 'Cochrane has formally declared the dctcm uation to destroy and lay

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