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F) ’ This day, ibt following Me/age was delivered to each Umfe, !y Mr. Lewis, jecretary to the Prrfident. MR 5 S AC, R. Te tie senate, r.nd I hu/e of* Repre/entatives cf tbs XjYllkd S */! t* ~ ’ WHEN we afTcmblc together, fellow citizens, to conlider the fhate of our beloved country, our just attentions are firft drawn to thole pleating circunr.ftances which mark the goodnels of that being from whose favor tney flow, and the large roeafure of thankfulnefs v:c owe for his bounty# Another \t?zr hus come around, and finds us (fill bit fled with pence and friendfhip abroad, law, o r der and religion at home, good afFdtion and harmony with our Indian neighbours, our burthens lightened ; yet our income iurheient for the public wants, and the produce of rhe \eai g?eat beyond example. 1 heie, fellow-citi zens, aie the circumflatices under which we meet; and wc remark with Ipeci and fitisfaftion thole which, under the smiles of piovidence, result from the (kill, induitiy and order of our citizens, managing their own a flairs in tncii own way, and for their own uie, unembarrafled by tco much regulation, unopprefitd by exaftions. , j On the reflcration of peace in Europe tnatj portion of the carrying wmch had tall-1 en to our (hare during t./V war, was auudgeo j by the returning competition of the belligerentj powers. This was to be expected and was {tiff. But, in addition, we find, in fome parts; of Europe, monopolizing difcriminations,j which, in the form of duties, tend effeftual!y| to prohibit the carrying thitner our own pro* ! Puce, in our own vtffids. From ex,king artu- | ties and a spirit of juilice, it is hoped that! friendly discussion will produce a t-ur aF. j cjiuite ieciprocitv. But iliotdd l-ui c*dcu,a tions of filtered defeat our h tfie leg!(lature to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad, with countervailing inequalities at home, cr provide lor the cvii in arv other wav. It is with, firisfaftion 1 lay before you ar, a fit cf the Brioffi parliament anticipating this lub jrft, lo far as to authorise a mutual abolition of the duties and countervailing du iiC3 , per mitted under the Treaty of 1794. It Pnews on their part a spirit of juffice and friendly accommodation, which it fi our duty and oui interest to cultivate with all nations. Whe ther-this would produce a due equality in the Diivig.-i*ion between the two countries, is a {libit fit {or your consideration. Another circumttance which claims atten tion, as directly affecting the very iource of our navigation, is the deleft or the evasion of the law providing for the return of fcamen, and particularly of those belonging to vessels fold abroad. Numbers of them, diicharged in foreign ports,-have been thrown on the hands of the consuls, who, to refeue them from the dangers into which theirdiftreflesmighr plunge them, and favc them to their country, have found it ncceffary, in fome cases, to return them at the public charge. The ce{fieri of the Spanife province of j Louiliana to France, winch took place in the , course of the late war, will, if carried into et fefil, make a change in the afpefit of our for eign relations, which will doubt-els have just j weight in any deliberations of the legifiutuie connected with that Uibjefiß There was reason, not long to appre hend that the warfare in which we were engaged with Tripoli, might be taken up by lome other of the Barbary powers. *A reinforcement, therefore, was immediately ordered to the vel fels already there. Subsequent information however has removed these apprehensions for the prefect. To fccure our commerce m that lea, with rhe final left force competent, we have supposed it belt to watch drift ly the har bour of Tripoli. Still, however, the shallow - nets of their coast, and the want of imailer velTels on our part, has permitted fome cruisers to cfcape unobierved : and to one of theie an American veffei unfortunately fell a prey. The captain, one American learn in, and two. others of colour, remain pri loners with them ; un-lels exchanged under an agreement former ]y made with the Bafhiw, to whom, on cue faith of that, fome of his captive iubje&s had been restored. The convention with the dare of Georgia, has been ratified by the legiff.uure, and a rc purchafe from the Creeks has been consequent ly mace, of a parr of the T nil a file county. In this pinchafe has been rdf) tended a part of the lands within the fork of Oconee and Oakrnuln.ee rivers. The particulars of the contract wli be laid before congrels lo loon as they (hah be in a ffate for communication. In order to remove e very difference poi fible with our Indian neighbours, I have pro- I ceeded in the work of fettling with them,and I marking the boundaries between us. T hat I with the Choftaw nation is fixed in our part, land will be t-hrough the whole within a fhorr ■ time. The country to which. their title had (been exnnguifhed before the revolution is fuf- Bficient toreceive a very rei]>eftable population ■which congress will probably fee the expeui so f,.on a? the innits fnall be declared. We are to view this pofi ticn as an cutpoft of the United states, sur rounded by strong neighbours, and distant from its support. And liow far that mono poly, which prevents population, fiiould here be guarded agair.fr, and actual habitation made a condition of the continuance of title, will be for your conflderation. A prompt fettiement too of all cxiftmg rights and claims wirhin this territory, presents itself as a pre liminary operation. . In that part of the Indian territory which include Vincennes, the iines fettled with the neighbouring tribes fix the cxtin&ion of their title at a breadth of twenty-four leagues from Fail to Weft, & about the fame length par allel with and including the Wabaih. They have also ceded a tract of four miles fquarr, including the Suk-iprings near the mouth ot the r;ve r . In the department of finance it is with plea iure I inform you that the receipts of external dunes, fur the la ft twelve months, have ex ceeded those of any former year, and that the ratio of increffe has been also greater than ufnal This has enabled us to a-nfwer all the regular exigencies of government, to pay from ‘he freaftirv, within one year, upwards of 8 millions or dollars —principal and interest, of the pub!'c debt, excluflve of one million paid by the tale of bank stock, ahd making in the w!ro!e a redudlion of nearly five millions and an half of principal, and to have now in the ueafury four motions and an h df of dollars, which are in a combe of application to the fur*-! rher difehanre of debt, and current demands > Experience too, ft) far, authorizes us to be-j lieve, if no extraordinary event supervenes, and the c\peaces which vv,!J be actually incur | red (hall not be greater than were contempla ted by conereis at their Lift: feflion, that we fnall nor be disappointed in ihe expectations then formed. But neverthcleis, as the efleft of peace on the amount of dudes is not vet itdiv afeertained, it is the more neceflary to pradlife every ufeful economv, and ro incur no expcr.ee, which may be avoided without pre judice. The col left ion of the interna! taxes having been completed in fome of the f ates, the officeis employed in it ait* of course out of comiui(lion. In others they will be fnoi dy. But in a few, where the arrangements for the direct tax had been retarded, it will still be fome nme before the system is clojihd. It has not yet been thought neceflary to employ lie agent aurhorift dby an a 3. of the lull feflion, for tranftkting business in Europe relative to debts and loans. Nor have we used the power, confided by rhe fame ad. of prolong ing the foreign debts by relaons, of redeming instead therecg an equal sum cf the domcftic debr. Should, however* the difficult? .of re mittance on so large a fcalc, render it r>*r.*ef fary at any rime, the power shall be exerted, and the money thus unemployed abroad, (hall iii conformity with that law, be faithfully applied here in an equivalent extinction of d<Jureftic debt. When effects so salutary refuit from plans you have already fan&ioned, when | nrierdy by avoiding falfe objedts of expense, we are able, without a direct tax, without in ternal taxes, and without borrowing, to make | effectual payments towards the difeharge of our public debt, and the emancipation of ourj poftericy from that mortal canker, it is an en couragement, fellow citizens, of the highclt cider, to proceed as we have begun, in fub ftiruting economy for taxation, and in purfu lng what is useful for a nation placed as we are rather that what is pradifed by others under different circumstances. And whenso ever we are cieftined to meet events which shall call for.h all the e nergies, of our country-! men, we have the fir me ft reliance on thole energies, and the comfortof leaving for calls like these, the extraordaniary relources of loans and internal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we are liberating, annually, portions of the external taxes and forming from them a grow- i mg fund, frill further toleffen ahe neceliUy or recurring to extraordinary resources. The usual account of receipts and expendi tures for the lull year with an estimate oi the expentes ot the ensuing one, will be laid before you by the iecretary of the treaiury. No change being deemed neceffkry fn our military cflablifhment, an eflimatc of its ex- Denies for the ensuing year, on its pielent I footing, as a.fo of the sums to be employed in k>ruhacano:rs,and other objeds within that department, has been prepared by the fecratary at war, and will make a part of the general eflimates wich will be prefemed you. Considering that our regular troops are em ployed for local purposes, and that the militia is our general reliance for great and iudden emergencies, vou willdoubtiels think this in tiitution worthy of a review, and give it those improvements of vvnich you tind it lufceptibie Estimates for the naval department, prepared by the Secretary ot ? the Navy for another year, will in like manner She comnioaicated with the general cfiimatesTA iufall force in the Medl-j tcrrancan will still be necefiary to re train the Tripoline cruisers : and the uncertain tenure of peace with fome others of the Barbury powers, may eventually require that torce to be aug- mented. The necefllty of procuring fome fmailer veflels for that service, will raise the estimate : but their differ ence in the maintenance will i'ooll make it a measure of economy. Presuming it will be expedient to ex pend annually a convenient sum to wards providing the naval defence which our (Ituation may require, I cannot but recommend that the firft appropriations for that purpose, may go to the laving what we already poflef*. No cares, no attentions, can preserve veflels from rapid decays, which lay in water,and ex poled to the sum These decay , i ec]uire great portion of the money destined to naval purpose to add to our navy yard here, a Dock with in which our present veflels may be laid up dry, and under cover from the fun. Under the oircum ftances experience proves that works of wood will remain scarcely at all ef feuded by time. Tiie great abundance of running water which this fltuation posiefles, at heights far above the level of the tide, if employed cs is praftlifed for j lock navigation, furniftics the means for I railing and laying up our vessels. on a : dry and flick ered bed. And fliould the measure be found ufefnl here, similar depositories tor laying up, as well as For building and repairing veflels,may here after be undertaken at other Navy yards, offering the fame meanr, the plans and eftimatesof the work, prepared by a person of /kill and experience, will be jprefented to you, without delay, and from these it wi'llbefeen that scarcely more than has been the coil of one veil el is neceflary to lave the whole, and that the annual sum to be employed I towards its completion may beadapted ! to the views of the legiftature as to naval expenditure. To cultivate peace and man tain com merce and navigation in all their lawfal enterprises ; to fofter our fifheries as nurseries of navigation, and for the nurture of: man, and protect the manu taCtures adapted to our circumstances ; to prelerve the faith of the nation by an exaCt difeharge of its debts and con trails, expend the public money with the fame care and economy we would prac tice with our own, and impose on our citizens no unireceflary burthens ; to keep a// things within the pale cr our conftitUiionul powers, and cherilh the federal union, as the only” rock of fafety —these, fellow citizens, are the land marks by which we are to guide ourselves in all our proceedings, I3y continuing to make these our rule of action, we shall render to our countrymen the true principles of their constitution, and promote an union of len tiro exits and of action, equally auspicious to their happiness and fafety. On my part you may count on a cordial concurrence in every measure for the public good ; and and on all the information I pofiefs which may enable you to difeharge to advantage the high functions with which you are invested by your country. TH: JEFFERSON. December 15 1033. LG VIS' \TLLE, December 22, xSo 2, WE are credibly informed, that, when Judge Moore , arrived in Columbia* Scuth- Camlina, to attend the Circuit Court of the United States there, he found the Didri£t fudge had adjourned the Court, and, being informed there, that no Jurors were drawn for the Circnic Court of thisState* the Judge returned to North Carolina. This event, is very much regretted, as Jurors were drawn for this Term, when Judge Halt preiided in Savannah in May lad. Presentments of the Grand Jury for the Uifiricl of Georgia , in the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States , at a Court begun and held at Louifvnle , before the Honorable William Stephens, one of the Judges of fc.id court , on the 14th of December j 1802. WE the Grand Jury for the Federal Circuit Court for rhe Didrict of Georgia, meeting for the firfl time under the prefer,t Judicial Svflem, do congratulate our fellow citizens Ik. •* At,. on the alterations of the for,ner---b/ one Judge is enabled to distribute rhe abfrnce of his colleague, which a uH| Tient we confi ler as a great the organization of this Courr. . B We also take the opportunity to our unfit a ken confidence in the the present ad.r.iniftration, viewing in the highest degree patriotic and to the real, lolid and conllitutional inßH| the United States- -and we are happy ticipating the harmony which we exist between the LegifUtive, Executive fl Judicial Departments of the Union, eftS of rhe greatest magnitude to the happinds B and good order of the Government, and whß only flow from the increase of correct I\ V u| can principles in these now happy states. ,1 Weturnour thanks to the prefidmg Jutß for his attention to business, and requefl: cl these our presentments be publilhed. J Solomon Wood, foreman.— Mirael S:1 man, Francis Boyakin, Willis Braze*!, Georl Sugar, Robert Shaw, Hezekiah Jones, Jel Sanders, Archibald Hatcher, Barrett Brew. Arthur Fort, William Melton, Zachari Lamar, Jaoaes Stallings, David Blacklhcj William Barron. Briggs Holpon. ExiraH from the We cords , 1 ‘loth Dece)nber 1 802. ] RICHARD M. STITES,” Clerk Geo . D'jlrUl. j Latcjl foreign intelligence. WKm Basle, Oftober 9. H The members of the Helvetic Diet affem-B bled at Schwitz, have agreed ° plan of con ft. tu: ion which they have aMreflei to allH the Cantons, and of which the following aicßl the articles : Art. I. Switzerland forms one federal re- H public under the denomination of the Helves:- JB jc Confederation, H 2. It is divided into Cantons. H 3. Each Canton to govern itfelf according ■ to iis own will, and to exercise in its own ter-■ ritory all the rights of sovereignty which it ex - B; ercifed under antient regime. V 4> The towns lhall not er.joy any preroga- j rive over the country, both one and the other m ro participate in the administration of justice, B of the police, and in the internal government B of the Canton. M 5. The government of one Canton cannot publish ordinances prejudical to another Can-'® ton : tliofe who break through this regulation to be denounced to the Diet. J 6. The government of each canton to name V a deputy to the Helvetic Die:. The deputies I remain in office until their constituents think ] proper to recal them. They art indemnified by the canton, 7. The Diet is permanent, it deliberates on war and peace*, and on the uouuluflon of luch treaties ofallianc.es and commerce as the gen eral intereftof the confederation may call for. It is authorifed to repeal and annul the ordi nances of the cantonal governmenr, which are prejudicial to the Helvetic confederation, or to any of its cantons. 8. Every deputy, member of the Diet, i* obliged to conduft himfclf upon the difcufli on of an important objeft, particularly of treaties of peace, commerce, and alliance, ac cording to the inftru&ions of his constituents. 9. The Diet chooses from among its mem bers, a president and a secretary, who continue in their fun&ions for three months, and we alvvavs re-eligible. 10. The president of the DkT receives the envoys of foreign poy/ers, and signs the de iiberati ons of the Dier, which are counter-sign ed by the secretary. The protocol ftiall be fumed by every member. °ii. The Diet appoints the Helvetic en voys to foreign powers, and recalls them. 1 ), [n the cale of war, or a rhreat of attack, the Diet settles the contingent of troops, and the amount of the sums wnich each canton is obliged to furnifh. The arsenals of the can tons” are at the difjofal of the diet. 1c ap- poi nts the general and removes them, as also the ir.fpe&ors of the militia in time of peace. Each canton is obliged to exercile in arms and militia evolutions, a contingent of the militia, which, however, is not to perform any ’ effective service, in times of peace, and re ceives no pay. I 13. Ad! the Swiss are soldiers. None Cart jexercife the right of-citizenfhip, nor be re-, i ceived in. o the corporations of art if!? ants tradesmen, norexerriiea profeffion, nr /f marry unless he has a mmket, a Iword and a pouchy The government supplies the arms* In extraordinary cases the govern ment may order the diiarmb of the citizens. The expenccs of war are charged upon all the cantons in proportion to their refpe&ive means. A private letter dates, that fignais have been established. ‘from Loufanne, as far as Vcr foix, for the purpote of giving immediate no tice to a French corps of 4000 men, stationed :at Verfoix, to enter Switzerland in case the* diet of Schwitz (houid refufe to obey the sum— mons of the firlf conlgl.