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among them, and the character cf the agitator? pointed to the sources of excitement. Men l ■sures were immediately taken for providing •gainst that danger: instructions were given to . require explanations, and, vu h stsui antes ol 1 our continued friendship, to admonish the I tribes to remain quiet at home, taking no part i.. quarrels not belonging to them. As far as we are yet informed, the tribes in our vicinity, wno .lie most advanced in the pursuits of nidus try. are sincerely disposed to adhere to their friendship with us, anti to their peace with all others. While those more remote do not pre sent appearances sufficiently quiet to justily the intermission of military precaution on our part. The great tribes on our south western quar ter, much advanced beyond the others in agri culture and household arts, appear tranquil and identifying their views with out ’s, in proportion to their advancements. With the whole of these people in every quarter, I shall continue to inculcate peace and friendship with all their neighbors, and perseverance in those occupa tions and pursuits which will best promote their own weli-bcing. ‘The appropriations of the last session, for the defence of our sea-port towns and harbors, were made under expectation that a continu ance of peace would permit us to proceed in that work according to our convenience. It has been thought better to apply the sums then given towards the defence of N. York, Charles ton and New-Orleans chiefly, as most open and most likely lb st to need protection ; and to leave places less immediately in danger to the pro visions of the present session. The gun-boats too. already provided, have, on a like principle, been chiefly assigned to New.York, New-Orleans arid the Chesapeake. Whether our movable force on the water, so material in ..id of the defensive works on the land, should be augmented in this or any other -form, is left to the wisdom of the legislature. For die purpose of manning these vessels, in sudden attacks on our harbors, it is a matter for consideration whether the seamen of the Caked States may not justly be formed into a special militia, to be called on for tours of duty in defence of the harbor where they shall hap pen to be ; the ordinary militia of the place furnishing that portion which may consist of landsmen. The moment our peace was threatened, I deemed it indispensable to secure a greater pro vision of those articles of military stores with which our magazines were not sufficiently fur nished To have awaited a previous and speci al sanction by law, would have lost occasions which might not be received. I did not hesi tate, therefore, to authorise engagements for such supplements to our existing stock as would render it adequate to the emergencies threatening us; and I tniV that the legislature, feeling the same anxiety for the safety of our country, so materially advanced by this precau tion, will approve, when done, what they would have seen so important to he done, if then as sembled. Expense, also, unprovided for, arose out of the necessity of calling all our gun-boats into actual service for the defence ol our har bours; of all which, accounts will be laid before you. Whether a regular army is to be raised, and to what extent, must depend on the informa tion so shortly expected. In the mean time, I have called on the states for quotas of militia to be in readiness for present defence ; and have moreover encouraged the acceptance of volunteers, and I am happy to inform you that these have offered themselves with great-ala crity in every part of the union. They are or dered to be organized, and ready at a moment’s warning, to proceed on any service to which they may be called, and every preparation with in the executive powers has been made to en sure us the benefit of early exertions. I informed Congress, at their last session, of the enterprises against the public peace, which were believed to be in preparation by Aaron Burr and his associates, of the measures taken to defeat them, and to bring the offenders to justice. Their enterprizes were happily dc fea ed; by the patriotic exertions of the militia, called into action ; by the fidelity of tiie* army, and energy of the commander in chief, in promptly arranging the difficulties pre senting themselves on the Sabine, repairing to meet those arising on the Mississippi, and dis sipating before their explosion plots engender ing there : I shall think it my duty to lay be fore you the proceedings, and the evidence publicly exhibited on the arraignment of the principal offenders before the district court of Virginia. You will be enabled to judge whe ther the defect was in the testimony, in the law, or in the administration of the law ; and wher ever it shall be found, the legislature alone can apply or originate the remedy. The framers of our constitution certainly supposed they had guarded, as well their government against des truction by treason, as their ci’izens against op pression, under pretence of it ; and if these ends are not attained, it is of importance to en quire by what means, more effectual, they may be secured. The accounts of the receipts of revenue dur ing the year ending on the thirtieth day of Sep tember last, being not yet made up, a correct statement will lie hereafter transmitted from the treasury. In the mean time it is'ascer tained that the receipts have amounted to near sixteen millions of dollars ; which with the five millions and an half in the treasury at the be ginning ofthe year,have enabled us,after meet ing the current demands and interest incurred, to pay more than tour millions of the principal ’ pfour funded debt. These payments, with those of the preceding live ind a half years, have extinguished ofthe twenty five millions and 1 half a dollars, being iff whole which could me paid orpurchased within flic limits cf the law, and of our contracts, ar-J have left us n the treasury eight millions and an half of dollars. A portion of this sum may be considered as a commencement of accumu lation of the surpluses of revenue, which after paving the instalments of debt, as they shall be come payable, will remain without any speci fic object. it may partly indeed be applied towards completing the defence of the expos ed points of our country, on such a scale as shall be adapted fOour principles and circumstances. This object is doubtless among the first enti tled to attention, in such a state of our finances, and it is one which, whether we have peace or war, will provide security where it is due. Whether what shall remain of this, with the future surplusscs, may be usefully applied to purposes already authorised, or more use fully to others requiring new authorities, or how otherwise they shall be disposed of, are questions calling for the notice of Congress; unless indeed they shall be superceded by a change in our public relations, now awaiting the determination of others. Whatever be that determination, it is a great consolation that it will become known at a moment when the su preme counsel of the nation is assembled at its post, and ready to give the aids of its wisdom and authority to whatever course the good of our country shall then call us to pursue. Mallets of minor importance will be the subjects of future communications; and no thing shall be wanting on my part which may give information or dispatch to die proceed ings of the legislature in the exercise of their j high duties, and at a moment so interesting to i the public welfare. TH : JEFFERSON. Tuesday, October 27, 1807. Af'cr being read, the meflage was committed to a committee of the whole heufe on the state of the muon, and loco copies ordered to be print'd An election took place for a ferjeant at arms, wh eh, after two bidet tags, i tided in favor of Tho mas Dunn. Thomas C'axton was appointed door keeper without opposition, and Jefie Edwards affiitant door keeper at the firlt ballot. Mr Dawson moved the appointment of the ftaud- j nig committees ; but a difference of opinion .anting whether they tliould be named by the fpeaker 3 heretofore, or eUfted by ballot, the appointment , was pollpoi ed till to-morrow. Washington City, October 27. It will be perceived by our congressional journal, that the national legislature have as sembled without the least delay. On Mon day, on countingthe members of the house of representatives, one hundred and seventeen were found to he present, and one delegate from the Mississippi territory. In the senate twenty-five members were present. Such a prompt and general attendance manifests the I zeal and attention which may be expected 1 from the new congress. The hull of the house of representatives was on this day opened for the first time. VVe risque nothing in pronouncing it a chef d’ceuv re of architectural skill. It was anticipated, by those who had paid a critical attention to the plan, and who were acquainted with the talents of the architect*,that it would lie the handsom est room in the world occupied by a delibera tive body. Those who have seen the rooms occupied bv European public bodies attest the accuracy of the prediction. We shall not at present attempt a description of it ; reserving this gratification for some future period of lei sure. In the mean time w'e shall barely re mark, that, on entering it, the spectator leels a new and strong sensation of pleasure, from the splendor and elegance of all that surrounds him. The Vice-President yesterday took the chair of the senate at the opening of that body. We have pleasure in stating him to be in good health. It is with regret we learn that Mr. Macon, the former speaker of the house of representa tives, is disabled from taking his scat in the house by a severe indisposition. * Mr. Latrobe. Hugh Ross, CONTINUES TO TRANSACT Factorage &. Commission Business, on Messrs. Smith & Bourke’s wha-f. He has for Lie, a few bales of Welch PLAINS, and a quantity of Weeding Hoes. November 10 T 12.5 Just Received, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, RAMSAY’S Life of Gen. Washington; AND BUCHAN’S Domestic Medicine, (h OI F’s NEW EDITION) With cr without the ADVICE to MOTHERS. ALSO, Hoff’s Agricultural and Commercial Almanac, for 1308, For GEORGIA and the CAItOLINAS. lO* ‘The Subscribers to Hoff’s Editon of BUCHAN’S DOMES TIC MEDICINE, wil be pleased to call at this office tor their copies. November 10. 125 Powers of Attorney Far sale at this office. Savannah, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER !0, lfto7. A deni re to give the earliest publicity in out power to the Congressional Intelligence , received by last night's mail, has induced tit: to issue our paper this morning, instead of the tftehiCon. In the list of members present on the 26th of October, see observe, Messrs. Milledge, Jones, Smelt, Bibb, Troup ami Cobb, from this slate. A gentleman who arived in town last evening, from Halifax, via Plymouth, and who left the former place the lGth instant, informs, that the English September Packet had arrived there from England, bringing London papers to the 7th September, and letters to the 9th. The letters mentioned, that admiral Berkley had been recalled ; but that the order was counter manded soon after. The dispatches received by the Revenge were made known ; and that 6000 troops were ordered out to Nova-Scotia. He also observes that orders had been received from England, for ot ganizing the militia that several companies had been mustered previous to his leaving Halifax ; and that the people there were very averse to a war with the Unit ed States. Two of the Jason’s milliners had been lutng at her yard-arm, and the remainder reprieved. The Triumph, and the Leopard, had arrived from the Capes of Virginia.—Bos ton paper. The elections throughout this state, are gen erally much the same as to the result as they were last year ; the majority on the democratic side may be expected to be increased about fourteen votes in the house of representatives and four in the senate.— Aurora. Gueenesborough, Geo. October 20. The militia of the 3d division of this state would not suffer themselves to he drafted ; but with zeal and promptitude highly to their ho nor, have furnished their quota by the volunta ry offers, ready to march at a moment’:, warn ing. From accounts received from other parts of the slate, there remains li tie doubt but the other divisions have done themselves equal ho nor. Baltimore, October 24. By the arrival of the brig Happy Couple at this port, we have received our t egular file of the Paris Moniteur, from the Ist of August to the 4ih of September, inclusive. The only ar ticle of importance from Denmark, which we notice at the first glance, furnishes intelligence from Copenhagen to the 20th of August, and from the extremity of Zealand io the 22d ,of the same month. It is represented that the ■ Danes had been successful in two sorties a gainst the British on the 19th and 20ih ; that they commanded all the avenues leading to Co penhagen, together with such other positions as incommoded the British considerably in their approaches to the city, and compelled them to proceed with the utmost caution. We understand that the captain of the Hap py Couple reports that batteries were erecting . by tire Danes and French on both sides of the ; Great Belt, with the intention of acting against the British ships \\ hich guarded that passage, and that a French army of 50,000 men were , ready to pass over to Zealand, at the first op ’ portunity, to compel the British to raise the siege of the Danish capital. Part of the su . burbs of Copenhagen were reported to have j been burnt by order of the Danish commander ” Peyman. We find this corroborated in our ‘ Paris papers, by an article under the head of Kiel, August 21, The circumstance of there being no account of the surrender of Copenhagen at Bordeaux, on the 12th of September when captain Lovell, of the Happy Couple, left there, furnishes ground for believing that the capital of Den mark did not yield on the 24th of August, as mentioned by information received at the east ward. If it had capitulated, it is highly proba ble that** intelligence of the event would have reached Bordeaux in 19 days after the occur rence took place. The cessation of the firing that was heard on the 24th, is no proof of a surrender ; for, as the editor of the New-York American Citizen very shrewdly observes, the Danish batteries were as likely to silence the fire of the British fleet as the latter were to si lence the cannon of the Danes. Died in Charleston on the 3d. instant, after a few days illness, the venerable Michael Kalteisen, esq. commandant of Fort Johns ton, and captain in the United States regiment ol Artillerists. His death was announced by 17 minute guns from Fort Johnston, which were answered by the same number from the gun-boats in the harbour. Captain Kalteisen had passed his 78th year. All the vessels in the harbour paid the tri bute of respect, by hoisting their colors half mast, from the moment of the commander’s death to that of his interment. 7 o bestow an eulogium on a man, whose me mory will long !r; revered by the inhabitants of this state. Would be useless : suffice it then to say, that he was brave and good—-despisinf dan ger—alike intrepid and firm.—His heart was yet susceptible to the tale of sorrow—and tears of sympathy have oflen bedewed his furrowed cheek.—l'or nearly fifty years he was a servant ol the country, and found equally faithful and capable. He was a member of our first arid , several succeeding Legislatures.— C ; >y Gaz. Grand Exhibition. The public are re3pcctfdlly informed, that MR. ItAJVNIE will exhibit TO-MORROW EVENING, at! the Exchange, WHEN HE WILL GIVF. A Grand Display of Various Per formances, YY’hirh never bits failed in giving general satis faction throughout Europe', and the different dities of die United States, He practises that SINGULAR FACULTY, \ entriloquism; To which will be added, his surprising Philosophical Deceptions and Thau maturgic Experiments, Newly invented and performed only by himself. BY DFMHE, He will exercise his much-admired Art ot Balancing. jr?’ The room is in the most ample order for the rec ption of the public. TICKET Sto be had at the place of performance. November 10—125 John Gribbin & Cos. ARE NOW RECEIVING The following GOODS, From on board, Manchester Packet, from New-York, which will be disposed of for cash, cotton, or approved paper,on reasonable terms, at the store lately occupied by John Hilion ; 15 pipes Cogniac brandy 12 hhds. Northward rum 8 pipes Holland gin 10 do. country do. 10 quarter casks Sherry wine 14 hhds. Musdovado sugar 1 do. loaf do. 1 do. lump do. 14 chests Hvson tea 2 do. young do. 30 cannihtet s imperial tea 30 do. gunpowder, for family use 40 boxes Doolittle’s soap 10 do. do. candles 15 do English mustard 20 do. negro pipes Russia, Swedes and country iron German, blister and Crawley’s steel 100 Shear-Moulds 1 bale rose blankets > r 1 do. London cluffil \ f,om ? ' 4 :o 2 do. negro cloths. 4 do. humhums 1 do. superior quality 4 do. great coals, well assorted 2 boxes Irish linens. November 10 125 GERMAN GOODS. August G. Ouinler & Cos. Have received from Bremen, via Baltimore, in addition to their former stock, The following Goods, viz. A complete assortment of Looking Glasses Fine and middling sort Violins Violin-strings, bridges and screws Hand-Organs, Trumpets Lanthorns assorted Slates and slate pencils Marble Images, Chessmen Glass anti Stone Beads Velvet Bindings Silver Spangles, Masks, Cloth-brushes Ladies elegant dressing and work, boxes Wafer-boxes, in nests Pictures on glass Crayons in boxes Counters, spectacles, fine tooth combs, tec.lie. ALSO ON HAND. Coffee-mills, needles, silk umbrellas, needle cases, elegant flower-pots, segar and snuff, boxes, garnets, tapes, silk handkerchiefs, chil drens cotton frocks, hilk and thread fringes, checks and stripes, German rolls, shirting, thread and cotton stockings, hempen osnaburgs platillas, time-pieces, gold and silver watches ; and a variety of other useful articles in their line. Which they offer for sale low for cash or approved town-notes at short sight. November 10 125 NOTTcrr THK fuhfcribrrs to the CITY and OAPOMNA GAZETTES (printed in Charted 11, South Carolina) who live in Savannah, or its vicinity, are refpedlfully informed, that we hive appointed IV: ill IT & I VANS, our agents, to receive fublcriprions and all monies due us, in Savannah, &c. We hope those in debted to u%, or the former firms, will not fail to call on them, and pay up the fame. Elliott £t Richards, Editors of said Gazettes. Charleston, November tj —l2s. Georgia. 1 By Thomas Bourke, cko k L S- Vof the court of Ordinary for the C'un- Th : JUurke. j ty of Chatham, and ft ate aforefaid. WHEKJ'.AS, William Scot has made application f>r letters of ailrmiinftration on the ettate and efleft* t William late of this city, house-Carpenter, dece tied, 113 print itlal creditor : J hele are therefore to cue anil admomtb all and nn;p:lar the j/n dred and creditors of the dec-afed, . file their otij- ct ons (if any they h-v-) in mv of tice on or he lore the yti day of I) cemlier next, . herw ite let*era of administration will h * granted. Given under my hand and seal, this yth day of No. vemher, in the year of our lord ■ ne th ufami ei s h ’ hundred and seven, and in the thirty fe. co.i j je r of A;:.*-. i.id peudence. 1a;