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THE FRIEND AND MONITOR. Three dollars per annum.) V OLUME I.j DOMESTIC. From the Al xamlria Herald. THE NATIONAL DEBT. Several of our friends having expressed a wish to fee a correft statement of the national debt, to gether with its increase since the declaration of war we addressed a letter to a friend at Washington, who has politely favored us with the information ; we rejoice there fore that we have an opportunity of correcting so many falfe afler tions which have lately been made in the neighboring diftrifts by the opponents of the government, where it has unblushingly been told .to the people that it exceeded one hundred and forty millions. Extra'cl of a letter from a gentleman in ‘Vashington, to the editors , * dated March 7, 1815. “ Ihe pressure of business has thus long delayed an answer to your enquires touching the nation al debt, the navy, and the internal improvements occasioned or accel rated by the war. The fame cause will necefiariiy prevent drift accu racy in my statements ; but there will be no material inaccuracy in them. The comments on the fafts, you muff yourfelf supply. On the lst of J any 1790, shortly after the com mencement of gen. Washington’s admin istration, the national debt was Dollars 72,137,301 At the commencement of Mr Adams* ad thiniflration. in *97, the pub'ic debt, hav ing increased up wards of eight mil lions was 1). 80,634,028 Atthecommencemcntof Mr. Jefferfon’sadmin iftration, in 1801, the debt amounted to D 80,000,107 At the commencement of Mr. Madison’s ad ministration, iq 180 ft, the debt having been diminished or paid off by the republicans to the amount of near 30miilions,was only 63,732,000 During Mr. Madison’s administration, about 12 millions more of the debt have been paid off and the old * national debt at this time amounts 0n1yt039,905,183 It thus appears, that while the federal adminillration increased the public debt, the republicans have extinguished more than forty two mil lions of it, besides having purchased Louisiana, the brilliant theatre of Ameaican glory, and destined to be the great emporium of the wes tern commerce and wealth. The debt created by the war, as afeertamed at the treasury amounts to 68,733,112 But this has happened in a moft momentous and extensive war, of nearly three years* duration, against all the power of the British empire, PUBLISHED (weekly) BY JOHN K. M. CHARLTON. WASHINGTON, (Geo.) FRIDAY, JULY 21, 18 15. a great part of the time. It is a faft, too, worthy of remark, and which (hews the ceconomy of re publicans, that the expenses of G. Britain in the year 1813a solitary 12 months, were 415 millions of dollars, more that fix times the a mount of the whole expenses of our three years* war ! But this is not all. When the war commenced, we had a navy of only 20 vessels, of all sizes, below 60 gun (hips ; we had none of that class, nor any 74’s. Now we have a navy ofßl (hips; among them are three 74*s, nearly ready for sea; two 90 gun ships at Sackett’s Har bor : one 60 gun ship there ; one frigate and fourteen other ships ; 10 fine frigates and 31 corvettes, sloops, brigs and ketches, ready for sea; besides 19 vessels on Lakes Erie and Champlain a g r eat part of them the splendid naval aiftories on thole Lakes It is to be observed, that the Lake fleets in the poflinle event of anew war being provok ed by England, will be of as much importance as the i'quadrons of the ocean. It is possible juftiy to appreciate improvments occasioned or accele rated by the war. In the single article of doinelfic manufactures alone, the war has added, ip solid wealth to the nation, tea times the the amount of the expenses which that war produced to the treasury. We can now supply ourselves if we had a mind to flop importations, with all the necessaries and many of the comforts and luxuries of life, ( from our domestic manufactories. In addition to all this, we have gained in Europe a name in arms and valor, which will be our great est security againlt future aggress ions, and command the admiration of posterity to the latest period of time. We have had our national character flrengthened and eleva ted :—our union and republican in stitutions consolidated and confirm ed. Fhefe advantages, that wealth, this character and reputation have been gained under the aufpicies of a Jefferlon and a Madison. Extrad of a letter from a gentleman on St Simon’s Island to another in this city , dated 18 th June , 1815 “ Since I wrote you this morn ing, I have, by a fortunate acci dent become possessed of the “ Lon don Times,** of the 25th April last, containing an advertisement offer ing a reward for the apprehension of the villain Woodbine, on a charge of felony He passed St. Simon’s a few days ago, on his way to Savannah, by water. A com plete defeription of him is to be found in one of the Edinburgh Re views of 1812, (his person &c) He has left in Weft Florida three hundred ■ - - well organized, with eight pieces of cannon. I’he source from which 1 have my infor mation I pledge myfelf to you to be authentic—l am not warranted to mention names. In the name of our abuled and insulted country, I call on you to use all means in VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND SCIENCE. your power to cause this scoundrel to be arrested and sent to his own country in irons—in this case I think that “ vigor beyond the law” ought to be exercised. Our south ern property will not be worth holding, unless moft energetic steps are taken to repress the insidious attempt of our inveterate enemies, the British ” Savannah Republican. 4 From the “ London Limes,” April African institution SLAVE TRaDE, PERJURY, OULLAWRY.— Oh hundred Guineas Reward. WHEREAS, at the Assizes, & General Seflion of Oyer and Ter itviuer, h olden at the Castle of Ex eter, the 18th of July, 1812, a Bill of Indictment for PERJURY, committed in a certain proceeding, instituted in the High Court of Ad miralty, touching the employment of a certain Ship or vessel, called the Gallicia, in the Slave Trade, - was, at the instance of the Direft ors of the African Institution. pre ferred, and found against GEO. WOODBINE, otherwise called Jorge Madersilva, who acted as Super Cargo on board the said ship or vessel at the time of her capture, by H.s Majesty’s ship Amelia, off me coast ot Africa, in the year 1811; and the said George Woodbine, otherv.ife Jorge Maderfilva, not having appeared to the said indiftment, lie hath since been Out-lawed by due courie of law. Notice is therefore, hereby given, That whoever fliall appre hend the laid George Woodbine, otherwise called Jorge Maderfilva, and cause him to be lodged in the Cattle of Exeter, or any other of His Majelfy’s Gaols in England, shall receive a REWARD of ONE HUNDRED G UINEAS from the Directors of the laid institution. Per order, THO. HRRISON, Secy. African Institution , Sujfok street , Charing cross , March 21, 1815. Good.—' ldle Legislature of Mas sachusetts, have counted the votes for Governor, given at the late eleftion. The result is, that the federal votes are FIVE THOU SAND FOUR HUNDRED and FIFTY TREE LESS THAN LAST YEAR ! So much for the violent attempts of Massachusetts federalifm, to create confufion, and flop the wheels of government, in an awful and momentous crisis. Under the old, corrupt, profligate ■ and immoral tyrannies of Europe, there is a point of fufferance, be yond which the people wilL not bear, as we have seen in France; and under the free Republic of the United States, there is un point of : violence in opposition, beyond which we rejoice to believe the people will not go. We need not fear, but our republican institutions will yet (land for ages, supported by a free enlightened yeoman ry- ‘ ; Albany Register* (Payable half yearly. The American Soldier. —ln the battle of Niagara, colonel Jeffup fufpefting that his troops had ex pended nearly all their cartriges passed along the rear of the line to make enquiry as to the faft. Sev eral folcjiers who lay mortally wounded, fome of them actually in the agonies of death, hearing the inquiry, forgot for a moment, in their devotion to their country, both the pain they endured and the approach of death, and called out each one for himfelf. “Here are cartridges in my box, take and distribute them among my com panions. ’* A soldier in the line exclaimed to his commander, “ my musket i3 to pieces.”—His comrade, who lay expiring with his wounds, at the distance of a few feet, re plied in a voice scarcely audible, “ my musket is in excellent order —take and use her.” It is no extravagance to assert, that an army, of such men com manded by officers of correspond ing merit, is literally invincible. United States* Revenue. —The re ceipts at the custom house in New- York, we nnderftand, will amount to two millions of dollars for the months of May and June, and pro bably continue at a million a month throughout the year. At this pro portion, the whole receipt of the United States within the yea. tnuft be thirty or forty millions. . Columbian . tt pj- ee Trade and Sailor’s Rights/* From New Orleans, June 3. On Tuesday fifty four lqure rig ged vessels came into our port. —* The river was aftually covered with canvass. Let Europeans carry on their deftruftive wars, but be it our duty to cultivate peace without par tiality for or against any of the bel ligerents. All Europe with great sangfroid looked on and permitted us to fight England single handed. Now in* turn, let us look on and fee them cut one another’s throats, while we can snugly eat the apple pic. ■•an <*>• mm in■—l 1 ■ One Blue Blown Out! New Hampshire Lcgslature. Wednesday, June 21. The committee appointed to take into consideration the papers transmitted by his Excellency the Governor re lative to the Hartford convention, reported— “ I hat it is unnecessary for this Legislature to take any or der concerning them ” Which report was concurred in by the House and Senate.-—Both Federal. Yankee. A private letter mentions, as one of the reports in circulation in Europe, that the allied powers had requested Bonaparte to return to Elba within ten days; and that Bo naparte, in answer, said, “ he des tined that retreat for the refiJenco of the king of Pruftia.” Baltimore Federal Gazette [Number 29.