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consul Eaton, and their fuccefsful
enterprize on the city of Derne,
contributed doubtlds to the im
pression which produced peace, and
the concluflon of this prevented
opportunities of which the officers
and men ol our squadron destined
for Tripoli, would have availed
themleives, to emulate the a£ts of
valor exhibited by their brethren
in the attack of the lad year. Re
flecting with high fatisfa&ion on
the diftinguilhed bravery displayed
whenever occasion permitted in the
late Mediterranean service, I think
it would be aufeful encouragement,
as well as a just reward, to make
an opening for feme present pro- 1
motion by enkirging our peace eft>
abiifhment of Captains and Lieute
nants.
With Tunis fome mifander- j
standings have arisen not vet fuffi- ;
ciently explained, but friendly dis
cussions with their ambassador re- ;
cently arrived, and a mutual dispo
sition to do whatever is just and
reasonable cannot fail of dissipating
these. So thawVe may confider
our peace on that coast, generally, ;
to be on as found a footing as it has ;
been at any preceding time. Still
it will not be expedient to withdraw ;
immediately the whole of our force
from that lea.
The law providing for a naval \
peace eftabiiftnnent fixes the num- !
ber of frigates which shall be kept
in cor.ftant service inlimeof peace;
and preferibes that they shall be
manned by not more than two
thirds of their complement of men
and ordinary seamen. Whether a
frigate may be truded to two
thirds only of her proper,comple
ment of men mild depend on the
nature? of the service on which fh<? .
is ordered. That may loinetimes
for her fafety, as well as to ensure
her objed, require her fulled com
plement. In adverting to this fub
jeft Congress will perhaps consi
der whether the bed limitation on
the Executive diferetion in this case
would not be by the number of sea
men which may be employed in
the whole service, rather than by
the number of vessels. Occasions
oftener arise for the employment
of final 1, than of large vessels:
and it would lessen risk as well
as expense, to be authorifed to
employ them of preference. The
limitation suggested by the num
ber of seamen would admit a selec
tion of vessels bed adapted to the
service.
Our Indian neighbours are ad
vancing, many of them with spirit,
and others beginning to engage
in the pursuits of agriculture and
household inanufa&ure. They are
becoming sensible that the earth
yields fubftftence with less labour
than the sored, and find it their in
terest from time to time to dispose
of parts .of their fur pi us and wade j
lands for the means of improving !
those they occupy, and of fub'fifl
ing their families while they
preparing their farms. Since your
lad session, the northern tribes have
fold to us “he lands between the and
Connecticut reserve and the form
er Indian boundary, and those on
the Ohio, from the fame bounda
ry to the rapids, and for a consid
erable depth inland. The Cnick
afaws and Cherokees have fold us
the country between and adjacent
to the two district of Tenneflee,
and the Creeks the residue of their
lands in the fork of Ocmulgee up
to the Ulcofauhatche. The three
former purchases are important, in
| as mu*;h as they ccnfolidate dlsjoln-
I ed parts of our felt ed country, and
render theiif phtercoutfe secure ;
and the feaend particularly so as,
with the final 1 point on the river
which we expert is by this time
I ceded by the Piankefhaws, it com.
pleats our poffcflion of the whole
of both banks of the Ohio, from
its source to near its mouth, and
the navigation of that river is there
by rendered forever fafe to our ci
tizens fettled and fettling on irs ex
tend ve Waters. The pure ha fe from
the Creeks too for feme
time particularly mterefting to the
date of Georgia.
The several treaties which have
been mentioned will be lubmitted
to both Houses of Congress for the
exercise ol their refpeaive functions
Deputations, now on their way
to the feat of government from va
rious nations of Indians inhabiting
the Miffjuri and other parts be
yond the Mississippi, come charged
with assurances of their fatisfadlion
with the new relations in which
they are placed with us, of their
dispositions to cultivate our.-paaee
and friendffiip7 arid their desire to.
enter into commercial intercourse
with us. A (late of our progress
in exp o lag the principal rivers in
that country, and of the informa
tion refpt&ing them hitherto ob
tained, will be communicated so
soon as we Avail receive feme fur
ther relations which we have rea
son fhortlv to expefl.
The receipts at the treafurydur- j
ing the year ending on the 30th
day of September lad have exceed
ed the sum of thirteen millions of
dollars, which, with not quite five
millions in the trcafury at the be
ginning of the year, have enabled
us, after meeting other demand*,
to pay nearly two millions of the
debt contra&ed under the British
treaty and convention, upwards of
four millions of principal of the
public debt, and four millions of
interest. These payments, with,
those which had been made in
three years and a half proceeding,
have extinguished of the funded
debt nearly eighteen millions of
principal.
Congress, by their aft of No
vember io, 1803, authorifed us to
borrow one million, seven hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars to
wards meeting the claims of our
citizens affamed by the convention
with France. We have not how
ever made use of this authority :
because the sum of four millions
and a half, which remained in the
treafnry on the fame 30th day ol
September last, with the receipts
which we may calculate on for the
ensuing year* betides paying die
annual furif of eight millions of
dollars appropriated to the funded
debt, and meeting all the current
demands which may be expected,
will enable us to nav the whole* 88m
k J ~ •,'C*— —
of three millions seven hundred
and fifty thonfand dollars, affamed
by the French convention, and fti’l
leave us a surplus of nearly a rnil- \
lion of doliari, at our free difpcfal.
Should you concur in the provrfi
ons of arms and armed vessels re
commended by the circumffances
of the times, this lurpffis will fur
nifti the mv?ans of doing so.
On this firff occasion of address
ing Congress flnee, by the choice
of my conflituents, I have entered
cn a second term of adminillration,
I embrace the opportunity to give
this public affuranee that I will
exert my buff endeavors to ad*nin
jfter faithfully the Executive De
partment, and will zealeufly co
operate with yen in any rueyfqre
which may tend to secure the lib
erty, property, and perl.Mud lafety
of our fellow-citizens, end to eon
folidate the republican Iqrms and
principles of our Government.
‘ J In the cpunff of yourfeffion you
ffiall receive, all the aid which I can
gNe for the dhpatch of the public
bufiuefe, and all the information;
hee-effary for your deidheration& oL
which the inter efts of our own
country, and the confidence repos
ed in us by others, will admit a
communication.
TH : JEFFERSON.
December 3d, 1805.
ff • •% ; \ /■ ••’ • r u ~+ ■ f-. ffs, IV”- ■
FOREIGN.
(via NEW-dyORK.)
GREENOCK, OCTOBER 23.
The Hamburgh mail due on
Wednesday last arrived on Friday.
Hie following is the iuhftance of
thc~ very ititerefting intelligence
communicated by it.
The French troops under Ber*
nadotte and Marmonf, with the
Bavarion auxiliaries marching ap
parently towards Bohemia, had
turned fudder.ly round, and pro
ceeded in three columns towards
Nienberg, IJonawert and Ingolftad,
with a view to turn the flank of
the Aulirians. To reach his de
flination with the greater celerity,
general Bernadotte, acting by pre
vious inftru&ions proceeded on his
march through the Prussian territo
ry of Anfpael!—The Prussian com
mandant protefled, but in vain—
Bernadotte alledged his poffitlve or
ders —and the Pi-uffians v/ere forc
ed to retire before a superior force.
This outrage was next day renew
ed by the passage of 20,000 Bava
rians through the fame territory,
in a parallel line. Against this vi*
olation of nentraliiy, the Prussian
minister at Aufpatehes aifo protail
ed, and his difpatdvls, narrating
the tran lacl ion, e>:l;tcwhe 1r r o n-; -
est sensation at the ecu? v of Berlin.
The difembarcruion of 20,000
Ruffians at Srralfbnd is fully con
firmed. They are to be joined in
Pomerania by 14,000 Swedes, and
the junftioh of our German Lemon
will render them an eftective force
of more than 40,000 men.
( VIA N EW---Y ORS.)
WURTZBURG, SHPT .-2 jf.
Letters from Berlin ftatc, that a
Ruffian Courier, who had arrived
from Wiina, brought his majesty
a letter from the emperor Alexan
der. His majesty immediately af*
fembled a council, epnfifting of the
P n fe- of M. Mollen.
dorf, Sehulemburg, Harden berg,
Havig vVttjft, R mmmi Kockrety.
They read, with afteniffiment/a
letter in which the emperor infilled
upon a passage for the columns of
his troops through SSlefia, Old
Prussia, and Southern Pniffia, and
fixed the day for their arrival.
he council was indignant and e
every one cried out that the army
ihould be put upon the war eftab
liflimeirt. Orders were given in
consequence, and the whole army
is in motion*
FRANKFORT. OCT. 5. / ; „;
Concerning the Ruffian arnjy we
have now been informed, that ,56
000 Ruffians, under the contiuand
of general Kutuibw, passed tlircugh
i ;
Lemberg tciween the Gr.,;, t
inaft and the 7rii of f’.*,
The generals Prince Ivt’-w 1
Von r.ffert, Von \ jiff'’
heptlow, and Dckow, a rc ‘
under C"eneial]-rutufovr. “
t’n'ce tirti ccknn.iis c -.„. •
ninety-two pieces cf
them, and the two following t‘"l
r.!fo a good deal of heavy a-T
The% troops obfei ve / e
difcipHne v/bcreVer tbev go
I.Stn-lorry oh
to the efilft Gs t
piOAiing ii.tehgence Ly lonrc of
very contrary nature 1 am just ia
formed, that a considerable bo"’"-
of French troops are-.now on
march from Holland to Kariov
: to . r^ tcu Py the latter co j
ft is laid, that the landing of
Ruffians on the island of R u
has given rife to this movent,,
and that the French will mfift a,! i
passage of a Ruffian army fr c ., i
Pomerania, thro’ Meclenbum aril
Hanover. The King of
it is feared has contented to ftij I
return of the French. •in c -;':.
*i lle ri£. e 0 the rEmotiftrancc r-rX I
by Duroc.
The joint amount of the R-ff l
flan force at Rffgen, and the Sw { . |
diffi in Pomerania is now notb>|
than SO,O*X) men.
The aSivity of the Ruffians \A
afford assistance td the
lias increased with the c.ccaffan |
it. All the latter bodies of tfej
Ruffian troops proceed by forced 1
marches, and their main Ixffff
was cxpdlcd to join “the
in Bavaria, vti ihe -IGth nnffml
The Emperor Alexander himftifl
is on his route for Vienna,
the moil magnificent preparstiorff
..making for his
♦The waiter had deferibed tle||
of the inhabitants of IlanoitJ
on the diffppearanee cf tfefi
French.
charleston, dec. it.
The brig W i 111 am and MaijJ
captain arrived iaft eyc-rJ
ing, in 46 days from Amffefal
Cnpt. K. failed on the 2 Oct
% "hkt hr papers, only to
ext rafts of ha -
r.caaSE refpeSable mercar
houses. ia this city, funiilh irnpo;v;
tant information :
Bremen, Off. 1
cc We have just fecered i'nfonr
ation that the Great Bank in ft®
has stopped its difedunts arid gfi
ments in specie. The fesraiye-|
money ih Paris is vj?rv great,
exchange from Iff. •."•.? \ % ;h onff*
ris has in • .coafeqaence -
bly fiille-h.
Off.
cc Twenty thnffmJ ffyj
foops have I - : *i . .
merania.
The French have tSken
loners the archduke p -'-
14,000 Austrian troops-'’
< £ AMSTERDAM, OCT’ |
£C C* *1 () f L fl'ii
l c Since the 3* a ma. i*
been several hard ioegk
dy battles between the * rcri i
Auftrhn armies ; the Frenr t nf
taken the cities
fiadit and Augfbm g ; an£ *jJ/‘ g /
day reported, that thcV ‘** $
taken Uim, but this *\
t a- i xi. ‘
. k/ if
“ The French ‘pm ®A>_
ferent actions lately W 1”
reads 20 s cc pnfßers*