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Volume V.] LOUIS,ILLE, (GEORGIA) Pubhllied every Wtduefday, by AMBROSE DAY & | AMES IIEI ,Y, State /V-,v?v a, 3 o ars ptr a.in. ’W here I'.flays, Articles of Intelligence, Advertifemems, &c. 6cc. are thanklully received, ant 1 HNG in ail its variety, is executed with ncatnefs and difpatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. THIS BAT At 12 c'dcck , the follow in* M !■ c - sage was delivered to each Houfe ly Mr. Lewis, Secretary to the Pref:dent. M E sir A G E. To tbs Senate and Hoxtse or Representatives of the United States. WHEN wc a fife ruble toge ther fallow citizens, to confider the (late of our beloved coun try, our juft attentions are fir ft drawn to thofe pleafmg circum ftances which mark the goodncTs of that being from whole favor they flow, and the large mea sure of thankfulnefs we owe for ids bounty. Another year has come around, and finds us ftlll bicflfed with peace and friend fhip abroad, law, order and rel'gion at home, good affec tion and harmony with our In dian neighbors, cur burthens lightened ; yet our income fuf fleent for the public wants, and the produce of the year great beyond example. Thefe, fellow citizens, are the circumftances under which we meet ■, and we remark with fpecial fatisfadlion thofe which, under the fmiles of providence, refulc from the induftry and order of our citizens, managing their own af fairs in their own way, and for their own ufe, unembarraffed by too much regulation, unop preffed by flfcal exadlions. On the reftoration of peace in Europe that portion of carry ing trade, which had fallen to our lhare during the war, was abridged by the returning com petition of the belligerent pow ers. This w 7 as to be expedted and was juft. But, in addition, we find, in fome parts of Eu rope, monopolizing diferimina tions, which in the form of duties, tend effectually to pro hibit the carrying thither our own produce in our own veffels. From exifting amities and a fpiritof juftice, it is hop ed that friendly difcuffion will produce a fair and adequate re ciprocity. But fhould falfe cal culations of intereft defeat cur hope, it refts with the legifla ture to decide whether they will meet inequalities abroad with countervailing inequalities a: home, or provide for the evil in any other way. it is with fatisfa&lon I lay be fore you an aft of the Biitifh parliament anticipating this fuh jeft, fo far as to author iff a mu tual abolition of the duties ana countervailing duties, permuted under the treaty of 1 up. 4,. It THE LOUISVILLE GAZETTE; REPUBLICAN TRUMPET. -.V EDNES D A T, AKu , * Y f> tBo ,. use arris cut v irro — Jnd ijurru oux aaw& ffrws on their part a (pint of juftice and friendly accemmo oation, whic h it is rur duty and our interdt to cultivate with all nations. Whether this would produce a due equality in the navigation between the two countries, is a lubjtdl for your confederation. Another ciraimftar.ee which claims attention, as direddly af fedlirg the very fource of our navigation, v the defeft or the evaflon of the law providing for (he return of lea men, and particularly of thofe belonging to veftels fold abroad. Num bers of them, difeharged in fo reign ports, have been thrown on the hands of our Confuls, who to refcue them from r!ie dangers into which their dlftrcff es m ght plunge them, and five them to their country, have found it ncceffary, in fome cafes, to return them at the public charge. Ihe ccftion of the Spanifh province of Louifiana to France, which took place in the courle of the late war, will, if carried into effed, make n charge in the afped of our foreign rela tions, which will doubrlefs have juft weight in any deliberations of the legiflature conntdcd with that fubjeeft. There was reafon, not long fmee, to apprehend that the warfaie in winch v;c were en gaged with Tripoli, might be taken up by fome other of the Barbary powers. A reinforce ment, therefore, v/as immedi ately ordered to the vcffcls al ready there. Subftquent in formation however has removed thefe apprehensions for the p re- Tent. 1 o fecure our commerce 1 in that fea, with the Imalleft force competent, we have fup poftd it beft to watch fiddly the harbour of Tripoli. Still, however, the fhajjownefs of their coaft, and the v;ant of fmaiier vcflels on our part, has permitted fome cruikrs, to el cape unobferved * and to one of thefe an American veiled un fortunately fell a prey. Ihe captain, one American fcaman, and two others of colour, re main prif ners vvbh them ; urj left exchanged under an agree ment formerly made with the Lafbaw, to whom, on the faith of that, fome ot Ins captive f Sleets had been reft red. The convention with the f atr of Georgia las been ratified by tiieir legiLatuic, and a re purchafe Horn the Creeks has been confeouentiv iriu?, of a yart of the H ail?.flee county, in iis purchafe has been sifo cointreh’-d'd 'bolands within the fork of Cmnee and Oakmulgee rivers. 'The par ticulars of the contract will be laid brere Congrefs fo focn as they fhall be in a Rate for com munlcaticn. In order to remove every ground of difference pofllblc with our Indian neighbours, I have proceeded in the work of fettling with them, and marking tlie boundaries between us. That with tire Chcdlaw nation is fixed in one part, and will be through the whole in a fhort time. The country to which their title had been extinguifbed before th.e r. volution, is fuffi cienr to receive a very relpec tahle population, which con grefs will probably fee the ex pediency of encouraging, Jo loon as the limits ftiali be de clared. We are to view tins politico as an out-poft of the United Stares, Jurroundrd by ftrons neighbours, and dillanc O O ' from its fuppert. And how far that monopoly, which prevents population, fhould here be pi;a: ded againft, and aftual ha bication made a condition of the continuance of tide, will be for your confidcrarion. —A prompt iettlement too of all exiftjrg rights and claims within this territory, prefents itfelf as a preliminary operation. In that part of the Indiana territory which includes Vincen nes, the lines fettled with the neighbouring tribes fix the ex tinction of their title,at a breadth or twenty-four leagues from eaft to weft, and about the fame length parallel with and includ ing the Wabaftu They have alio ceded a trad of four miles fquarc, including the falr-fprings near the mouth of that river. In the department of finance it is with plcafure I inform you, that the receipts of external du ties for th.e laft twelve months, have exceeded thofe of any for mer year, and that the ratio of incrcnfc has b» en alio greater than ufual. This lias enabled us to anfwer all the regular ex igencies of government, to pay from the treaiury, within ore vear, upwards of eight millions of dollars, principal and intereft, of the public debt, excluflve of upwards of one million paid by the fale of bank flock, and mak ing in the whole a reduction ot nearly five millions and an half of principal, and to have now' in the rrcafury four millions and an half of dollars, which are. in a ccurfeof application to the further difeharge of debt, and current demands. Expedience too, fo far, author!fes us to be lieves if no extraordinary event fupervpnps, nnd the cxpcncc B which will be aftually incurred frail not be greater than were contemplated hv congrcfs at their laft fiflion, that we fhall n r t be dilappointed in the ex pectations then formed. Put ncvcrthelefs, as the drift of peace on the amount of duties is not yet fully afeertained, it is the more ncceflary to prafticr every nleful ccronomy, and to incur no expence which may be avoided without prejudice. The collection of the inter nal taxes having been completed in fame of the Rates, the officers employed in it arc of coiirfe out of commifllon. In others they will be fo fiiortly. But in a few, where the .arrangements for the direft tax had been re tarded, it will flill be Tone time before the fyftem is clofed. ft has not yet been thought ne re/F ry to employ thc° agent authorifed by an aft of the jjff: feffion, for rranfaftirg bufinefi; in Europe relative to debts and loans. Nor have we ufed the power confided by the fame aft, of prolonging the foreign debt by rdoans, and of redeeming inflead thereof, an equal f;im of the do me flic debt. Should how ever t!ie difficulties of remittance? on fo large a jVale, render it: nccedary at any time, the pow er Dial! be executed, and the money thus employed abroad in conformity with that; law’, be faithfully applied here in an equivalent cxrinftion of domdlic debt. When efilCls lo falutary rcfult from the plans you have already fanftioned, when merely by avoiding fall-- objefts of ex pence, we are able without a direct f ix, without in ternal taxes, and without bor rowing, to make large and ef fectual payments towards the dll charge of our public debt, and the emancipation cf our poflcrity fiom that mortal can ker, it is an encouragement, ft How citizens, of the higheft order, to proceed as we have begun in fubflituting ceconomy for taxation, and in pudding what isufefulfor a nation placed as we arc, rather than what is prac ticed by others under different circumftances. And whenfoe ver v/e are cTf(lined to meet events which fhall call forth all the t nergies of our countrymen, we have the firmed: reliance on thole energies, and the com fort ofleaving foi calls Idee theft? the extraordinary refources of loans and internal taxes. In the mean time, by payments of the principal of our debt, we arc liberating annually, portions of the external taxes, and forming [No. i SC.