As no payment has been made on that account during last year, besides the first instalment of eight hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars, due to Great Britain, nor any other extraordinary expenses been dis charged than the advance of 350,000 dollars, in anticipation of the Mediterranean fund, the balance remaining in the treasury on the 30th of Sept. 1804, still amounted to 4,882,225 dollars and 11 cents. That sum, together with the estimated surplus of revenue, for the year 1805, the sum advanced from the ordinary revenue to the Mediterranean fund, and the arrears of direct tax and interal revenues, may still be considered as sufficient to discharge the balance of 1,776,000 dollars due to Great Britain, the loan of 200,000 dollars, due to Maryland, and two millions of dollars, on account of the American claims assumed by the French convention. As the greater part of these demands will be paid in the course of the year 1805, the balance will not probably at the end of that year exceed the sum which it is always expedient to retain in the trea sury. PUBLIC DEBT. It appears by the estimate (D) that the payments on account of the principal of the public debt have, during the year ending on the 30th of Sept. last, amounted to 3,052,887 15 And during the three years and an half, commencing on the 1st day of April, 1801, and ending on the 30th September 1804, to 13,576,891 89 During the same period a new debt of thirteen millions of dollars has been created by the purchase of Louisiana, viz. Six per cent stuck issued in conformity with the convention, Amount of American claims assumed by the convention, and for the payment of which, authority has been given to obtain a loan; two millions thereof being already provided for, out of the surplus specie in the treasury, Another view of the subject may be given in the following manner; the balance in the treasury amounted, on the 1st day of April, 1801, to Dollars. 11,250,000 a difference of more than twelve hundred thousand dollars in favour of the United States.--It may be added that if the revenue shall, during the ensuing year, prove, as is not improbable, more productive than has been estimated, the surplus will be applied towards the payment of the above mentioned sum of 1,750,000 dollars, yet unprovided for, on account of the American claims, and will so far diminish the amount of the loan authorised for that object.--From the preceding statements and estimates, it results that the United States have, during the period of three years and an half, ending on the 30th of September last, dis13,000,000 charged a larger amount of the principal of their old debt, than the whole amount of the new debt, which has been or may be created in consequence of the purchase of Louisiana; and that their existing and growing resources will, during the ensuing year, be sufficient, after defraying the cur 1,750,000 1,794,044 85 rent expenses of the year, and paying more than 3,750,000 dollars on account of the engagements resulting from the French and British conventions, to discharge a further sum of near three millions and seven hundred thousand dollars of the principal of the public debt.-All which is respectfully submitted,ALBERT GALLATIN. AMERICAN FINANCE. Report of the secretary of the trea ury of the United States, relative to the supplies for the year 1805. -Dated Washington city, 17th November, 1804. FOR THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT, viz. For the expenses of six frigates, two brigs, and three schooners in actual service, 743,688 64. For the crew of the frigate Philadelphia, 71,340 76. For the expenses of two gun-boats in actual service 12,078 92 For the repairs and expenses of the vessels in ordinary, including the half pay of the officers not in actual service 228,957 10 For the support of the marine corps, 110 110,434 58. For improving navy yards, docks, and wharfs, 60.000. For completing the marine barracks, 3,500. In all : 1,240,000. -TOTAL 3,875,435 22.--The funds out of which appropriations may be made for the purposes before-mentioned, are,First, The sum of six hundred thousand dollars of the proceeds of duties on imposis and tonnage which will accrue in the year 1805 which sum is by law annually received for the support of government. Secondly, The surplus of the proceeds of the additional duty of two and a half per cent. ad valorem laid on certain descriptions of imported merchandize, by the act" fur"ther to protect the commerce and seamen "of the United States against the Barbary 66 powers." which may accrue to the end of the year 1805, after satisfying the expenses already incurred on the credit of that fund. That for the service of the year 1805, the following appropriations, as detailed in the estimates herewith transmitted, appear to be necessary. FOR THE CIVIL LIST, for the support of government including the contingent expenses of the several departments and offices, sundry expenses incident to the assesment of the direct tax, and the civil expenses of the territory of Orleans, dollars, 611,911, cents, 50.- FOR MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES, VIZ. For the payment of grants and annuities, 1,500. For military pensions, 98,000. For the support of the mint establishment, 9,400. For the support of the light houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and other establishments for the security of navigation, including six months-Thirdly, The surplus of the revenue additional supply of oil to the several lighthouses, 126,776 53 For defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands in the territories of Indiana and Mississippi, 40,000. For defraying the expenses of the second census, 14,162 77. For the purchase and erection of wharfs and stores under the quarantine law, 17,143, 01. The two last sams being the unexpended balances of former appropriations. For satisfying miscellaneous claims, 4,000. In the whole, 310,982 38. FOR THE EXPENSES OF INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS, VİZ. For the diplomatic department, 77,050. For the expenses incident to the intercourse with the Barbary powers, 113,500. For the payment of awards under the 7th article of the British treaty, 70,000. For aid to distressed seamen in foreign countries, 5,000. For prosecuting claims in relation to captares, 4,000. In all: 269,550. and income of the United States which may accrue to the end of the year 1805, after satisfying the objects for which appropriations have been heretofore made.--The secretary also transmits a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year prior to the first of October last, being the latest period to which an account can be prepared.--All which is respectfully submitted.--ALBERT GAL· LATIN. GUADALOUPE Copy of Orders of the It is forbidden to all American captains, G. ROBERT. SAINT DOMINGO.-Liberty or Death.-Imperial Decree. Jacques, Emperor of Hayti, directs the SAINT DOMINGO.--Liberty or Death. Decree. Jacques the 1st, Emperor of Hayti. following ordinance to be carried into effect throughout his dominion.-All vessels to whatever nation belonging that shall intro-Taking into view, the protection and good duce spirituous liquors into this I land, shall be liable to pay a duty of two dollars per gallon on the liquor thus imported.-The General, Minister of the Finances, is specially charged with the execution of this decree, and the Generals and other military authorities are directed to aid and assist in carrying the same into effect.-Done at the Imperial Palace of Dessalines, the 22d day of September, in the first year of independence and of our reign. DESSALINES. By order of the Emperor, BOIS ROND TONNERE. SAINT DOMINGO.-Liberty or Death.- Decres.-Jacques the First Emperor of Hayti. Being informed that the captains of Ame rican vessels, that arrive in the different ports of our Empire, make a practice of sel hing their cargoes, wholesale or retail to small dealers. Considering that the above practice is prejudicial to commerce, and favours the exportation of all the specie from the Island, we determine to put a stop to it.We therefore, Decree and ordain the following to be executed in its utmost extent. -ARTICLE 1st. We forbid promptly every captain of a foreign vessel arriving in the ports of our Empire, to sell their cargoes by retail to small dealers, or private persons. ARTICLE 2d. The merchants established by virtue of our Letters Patent, shall have the sole power to treat for the cargoes either separately or jointly.-ARTICLE 3d.-Every merchant, foreign or domestic, who shall receive directly, consignments of vessels, shall not sell the merchandise by retail, and shall conform according to Article 2d, with respect to the sale of their cargoes.—ARTICLE 4th.-The merchants established by our Letters Patent, shall not treat with the Consignees of Foreign vessels, until the administration shall have made choice of such articles as are necessary for the army. ARTICLE 5th-Any person or persons.contravening the present decree, shall be fined three hundred dollars for the first offence, and five hundred for the second.-We give notice to, and order, the Minister General of Finances, the General of Division, and Brigade, the Principal and Private Administrators, to keep under guard, all who shall contravene the above Decree.-Done at our Imperial Palace, at the Cape, the 15th October, 1804, first year of our Independence, and of our Reign the first.-(Signed) JAQUES, the First. By the Emperor, will, that we show to foreigners, who transact commercial concerns with us; and who, instead of occupying themselves with their commerce, and respecting the laws of the country with which they deal, are pursuing the most extraordinary conduct, in facilitating the escape of men and women of colour, natives of the country ——-We therefore, ordain and decree the following, to be executed to the utmost of its rigor: --Article 1st.-Every captain of a foreign vessel, armed or not, on board of which, one or more persons, natives, shall be found, to be carried to a foreign country; such captains shall be arrested and thrown into prison, there to lay ten months, and after that time, to be sent to his own country, with express orders not to return to the Empire of Hayti, at his peril. The vessel and cargo shall be confiscated for the benefit of the empire. - -Article 2d.-Every native taken on board such a foreign vessel, shall immediately be shot in the Public Square.The generals of division and brigades, and the different commanders, are charged with the execution of the present decree. Done at our Imperial Palace, at the Cape, the 22d October, 1804, first year of our independence, and of our reign the first. (Signed) JACQUES. By the Emperor. CABRONNE Gen. of Horse, near his Imperial Majesty. DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPERS. PARISH ARMY FINES.-Circular Letter from Lord Hawkesbury, Secretary of State, to the Lord Lieutenants of Counties.-Dated Whitehall, Feb. 18, 1805. MY LORD, The Inspector-General having transmitted to the Magistrates assembled at the last General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, a Certificate of the Deficiencies and Vacan cies, then remaining to be filled up in the Additional Force in the county of , pursuant to the Act of the 44th George III. cap. 56. sect. 33. I have to request that your Lordship will obtain from the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, or the Clerk of the Peace, a statement, shewing, whether the penalties for the men so certified to be deficient have been duly as sessed upon the parishes in default, or in what instances, if any, the same has been omitted to be done, and that you will be so good as to furnish me therewith. It may be proper to apprise your Lordship, for the better information of the parties concerned, and in order to prevent any delay in the levying or payment of the penalty grounded on an expectation of its being hereafter remitted or not required of them, that the above Act, sect. 37, imposes a fine of double the amount of the penalty in case the same is not assessed, levied, or paid, within the times limited therein; which provision it will be the duty of His Majesty's Government to enforce, in order to ensure the complete execution of the measure adopted by Parliament. SUMMARY OF POLITICS. FRENCH FLEETS.- -There are, it seems, two French fleets, or rather squadrons, at sea. The Toulon squadron we hear nothing of; and, if it be gone to Egypt, its sailing may certainly be regarded as a fortunate circumstance for this country; because there it can do us no harm, notwithstanding all the opinions of Mr. Pitt and Lord Melville; for, if India really be in danger from such an expedition, India is a burthen not to be borne by this kingdom. If we are to defend all the coasts of Africa and Asia, in the Mediterranean, for the sake of India, there can, I think, be no doubt, except amongst those who roll in the riches procured by India jobs, that the sooner we are rid of India the better.--Prom the Rochefort squadron, if bound for the West Indies, there is much to be apprehended. They will get into Guadaloupe without any difficulty, and thence they may do us much mischief.--Whatever be the consequences of the escape of these squadrons, it cannot but be remarked, that they have effected that during the ad ministration of Lord Melville, which they could not, or, at least, which they did not, effect during the administration of Lord St. Vincent. It is possible, that there may be no fault on the part of the Admiralty; but, iris right to notice the circumstance. The Sailing of the French squadrons proves to us, that, with all our thousand vessels of war, the sea is yet too wide for us. Those who rely solely on our fleets for defence may now perceive, that their reliance is not well founded. It is now proved also, that the French navy was not in that beggarly and inefficient state in which it has so repeatedly been represented to be. Part of the plan of Napofeon was to repair his fleet, while his flotilla kept our fleet buffeting and wearing out in the Channel. The ministerial writers have often told us, that it was impossible, absolutely impossible, for him to obtain wherewith to refit his ships of the line. He has, however, succeeded in it; and we shall,'therefore, do weil not to place so full a confidence in those writers, for the future. To say the truth; while his present plans and our present plans, or rather, our no plans, be pur sued, a very small naval force will enable him to give us most terrible annoyance. If the newspaper statements be true, he has, however, forty ships of the line, at least, in good repair. Spain has some, and so has Holland; and, though all this, as matched against the British fleet would be nothing, were not the system of France changed, it is a good, when considered as merely sub. sidiary to the flotilla, to watch which alone occupies more of the British marine than ever was before required to watch the fleets of France. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-When we read, in the ministerial papers, passages like the following. A report has reached this "country from Holland, the truth of which "it would give us the sincerest satisfaction "to be enabled to confirm.-The report to "which we allude states, that upon the ap pearance of a British force off the Cape of "Good Hope, an insurrection had taken "place in that colony, and that the insurgents had succeeded in compelling the governor to surrender to the British. It has "been known for some time that a very great degree of discontent has prevailed among the Dutch troops at the Cape, "which gives some appearance of probabi"lity to the story, but until we receive some more authentic information, we cannot "give it any credit."--When we read such passages, it is quite impossible not to recollect, that those who made the peace of Amiens rejoiced, that we were rid of the Cape of Good Hope, which they scrupled not to represent as an enormous load upon the country, and as having, by the possession of Ceylon, been rendered entirely useless to. Great Britain. Nay, the very print, from which this extract is taken, was amongst the most forward to maintain that opinion, and to accuse of ignorance, factiousness, and almost with disaffection, those who dissented therefrom. If the report above stated be true, here is more war for India! More India jobs; more millions to be extracted from our labour, in order that we may be reduced down to a temper that may fit us for the domination of the nabobs, who draw from us the produce of that labour through the means of India. There is no good ground for blaming these nabobs. The fault is not theirs. They have an undoubted right to obtain riches as soon as they can, and with as little labour, provided they are guilty of no breach of the law in obtaining them. But, if we blame them not, either individually or collectively, we are fully justified in falling upon the system, out of which they have sprung, and are springing faster than ever. CLIMBING IN THE ATTITUDE OF CRAWLING.--The Pitt newspaper, the SUN, has endeavoured to give a new turn to the sentiments of its readers, relative to the silence of Mr. Pitt, on the evening of Mr. Windham's motion. The following is the passage alluded to, extracted from that print of the 25th ultimo. "Mr. Pitt can"not please the Opposition writers by speaking or by silenc. They seem to "be very much offended indeed because "he did not answer Mr. Windham last "week, though the subject was so backney"ed that nothing new could be said upon "it, and though it is evident that the sys"tem which Mr. Windham condemned is yet but on its trial. The truth is, that Mr. Windham is too apt to indulge bis "imagination, or to deviate into refine "ments which admit of no solid reasoning, "and, therefore, though he may amuse, "he does not excite conviction. Mr. Can. "ning said all in reply to him that the subject demanded, and any further ob "servation from Mr. Pitt would have been 66 mere superogation.". It must be confessed that the "young friends" know very well how to dissemble. They are in tortures for the humiliation of their chief, and in still greater tortures for the approaching loss of their own borrowed consequence; yet they affect to be at ease. Hacknied and whimsical and amusing and unconvincing, however, as the speech of Mr. Windham was, and bitter as must have been the soul of Mr. Canning, when set up to answer it, that gentleman did not venture to begin what is called his answer, until he had expressed his wish (a very sincere one, without doubt), that Mr. Windham were in office, that the government night have his assistance in carrying his plans into execution. No; though the public be in a palsied state; though it be like the weed that rots on "Lethe's pool," still it will no longer believe representations like that above quo ted from the SUN. People are fully persuaded, and the persuasion is general, that Mr. Pitt is a miserable war-minister; they care very little about him or his ma jorities; nor indeed, do they care much about any public matter, but they have, one and all, the utmost contempt for him as a minister of war. They hope nothing from him or from his plans. When put into a good fright about Buonaparté and his flotilla, they cling to the first thing they see and can get hold of; but they entertain, at this moment, nothing that is worthy of the name of confidence. They feel that there is no real military force sufficient to protect them they have a sort of vague hope that they shall not absolutely be conquered and yoked, and no further does even their hope extend. What joy peace, upon any terins, would give them, may easily be guessed at by the sensations that were so visible when Buonaparte's letter arrived. They see no object in the war; they rely upon none of the persons or the means by which the war is prosecuted; but they would to-morrow approve of any peace, and of any set of persons by whom that peace should be made. What nonsense is it, then, to talk about the approbation of the people of any measure, or of any man! Yet, as far as such a people can be said to feel or to express themselves relative to any matter of public concern, the people certainly have felt, and have expressed themselves, in favour of the military system proposed by Mr. Windham.--As to Mr. Pitt's silence, there is, besides the utter inability which he must have felt to obtain any approbation worth having in answer to a speech such as that of Mr. Windham; besides this reason there is one, of which, as the writers in the SUN seem to have quite forgotten it, it may not be amiss to remind them. The foundation of Mr. Windham's motion, as a thing in which Mr. Pitt must acquiesce, was the conduct of Mr. Pitt himself, upon an occasion exactly similar last year He supported Mr. Fox's motion of the 23d of April, upon the ground, that, as the then ministers had proved themselves to be weak and incapable men, the House of Commons ought not to trust them to provide for the defence of the country; but, ought to go into a committee, in order there not only to revise the several bills that had been passed for the national defence, but to devise such further means as might, upon examination, appear necessary to be adopted for that important purpose. In the course of his speech there was scarcely a term or epithet expressive of ministerial "incapacity and imbecility," which he did not make use of over and over again. At the close of that evermemorable speech he thus expressed his reasons for voting for the motion for the House to go into the committee. "Mi"nisters have been equally injudicious in every other project of defence. The fact "is, that ministers, so far from having spontaneously taken any vigorous measures for the defence of the country, I "state boldly, that no part of the increase "of the military establishment of the coun"try has originated with them. Any benefit 66 66 66 |