PORTUGAL. the United States obtain legal possession of thediate jurisdiction, the governors and generals must whole of East and West Florida; but we are unable afford whatever he may require for the knowledge to state how the questions relating to the validity of of the state, discipline, and economy of the corps, the duke d'Alagon's grants of land, and the Loui-or of the state of the fortifications existing, or nesiana boundaries, have been disposed of, or whether cessary to be corrected or increased. And I com any additional articles have been affixed to the ori-mand all the authorities, both civil or military, and all ginal treaty.-London Morning Chronicle. my subjects of all classes, as far as it lies in their power, to obey and to assist the aforesaid marshal The British ship Vengeur, of 74 guns, captain general, attached to my royal person, in discharge Maitland, arrived at Lisbon on the 10th Oct. bring.of the obligations and authorities which, by these ing marshal Berresford from Rio Janeiro, invested letters patent, I impose upon him, or with which I by the king, as it was understood, with very ex- invest him. tensive powers; but he most unexpectedly found that the state of things was essentially changed, The new government would not permit him to land, under pretence that he might disturb the peace of the capital, and adopted measures to cause his The marquis de campo major, marshal in chief speedy departure, and he sailed for England in a of the armies of the united kingdoms of Portugal, packet on the 17th, after vainly attempting to sub- Brazil, and Algarves, near the kings person, was stantiate his claims to rule Portugal. Captain Mait. inexpressibly astonished at the communication he land was called upon to deliver up some money, received from the new government established in which it was found out had been forwarded to coun-Lisbon, in which the latter refuses to receive the teract the revolutionists, and he did so-the amount marshal in chief, and acknowledge him as such, 106,952 hard piastres. as it is bound to do, since he has recently received, Signed and countersigned as usual.} Given, July 29, Rio Janeiro. Official correspondence between lord Berresford and the supreme junta. The whole kingdom was perfectly tranquil, wait- through the favor of his most faithful majesty, hoing patiently for the meeting of the cortes, and re-nors which he alone can grant; and if the govern solved to have a liberal constitution. "In the pub-ment proclaims him as the head of the nation, it in no lic squares, theatres, jand other places, no other than the countenances of gladness and satisfaction were to be seen." It seems that Berresford was very unwilling to retire, but he was told he should be forced away. All persons that came from the ship were taken into custody, and lieut. generals Blunt and A. Campbell, Sir J. Campbell and Sir Victor Arentschild, who visited Berresford, were shipped off with him. The following is a copy of marshal Berresford's commission, and the correspondence between him and the Supreme Junta: way can or ought to alter the precepts of the mo narch, and in this case the nation does, or does not acknowledge him. If it does acknowledge him, it ought to preserve to him his undeniable authority, and if it does not acknowledge him, the whole of Europe will feel this offence, but more especially England, and insist on the observance of her treaties, as sincere as they are ancient.-On board the Venguer, &c. Answer. The supreme government of the kingdom, in acknowledging his most faithful majesty as the head and chief of the nation, declares to lord Berresford, that the nation has at present reassumed all the rights belonging to it, in order to recover its happiness.-Lisbon, Palace of Government, &c. Many of the Portuguese nobility made and sub. scribed to the following oath, before the junta, at Lisbon: "I swear on the Holy Evangelists obedience to the provisional junta of the supreme government of the kingdom, which is now installed, and which is to govern, in the name of the king, our sove. reign, king don John VI, till the installation of the cortes, which are to be convoked to organize the Portuguese constitution: I swear obedience to said king don John VI, to those cortes and to the constitution which they shall establish, maintaining the Roman Catholic religion, and the dynasty of the most serene house of Braganza. TWO SICILIES. Marshal Berresford.—I don John, by the grace of God, make known, by these presents, that the great and signal services which the marques of campo major, marshal general and commander in chief of my army of Portugal, has done me, having been considered worthy of my royal regard, and seeking to give him a new public testimony of the particu lar esteem in which I hold them; and of the honor and confidence which he merits, I have raised him to the eminent post of marshal general, attached to my person. I determine, in consequence, to place under his immediate authority all the military of the three services; and all the objects which belong to the discipline, equipment and recruiting of the army-the state of the garrisons, and any fortifications to be made for the defence of the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves-the royal arsenals of the army, the foundries, the public mi. litary works, the authorities and civil jurisdiction of the army, the military college, and every thing that relates to the execution of the regulations, laws, and commissions which military law has determined, or may afterwards determine, regarding all or any of the above objects, referring immedi Advices from Naples are to October 10. There ately to me all his plans or propositions, of what- was a contest at Palermo on the 25th of September ever nature, that I may sanction them by my royal at which time gen. Pepe, commander of the Neapo will through the competent minister; and when the litan army, advanced and occupied the suburbs of proposals for promotion are made out of the king-the city, after killing and putting to flight all who dom, where I have fixed my residence, he will have defended them. On the 26th a flag of truce was the power to grant the exercise of their commis-sent in, but, not returning, the troops attacked the sions to ensigns, lieutenants, and captains, till I is-city and burnt several houses, Negociations were sue my royal sanction for that purpose. Finally, I again commenced, but, on a sudden, in the after. ordain that, in whatever part of my united king-noon of the 28th, the gates, were shut, and the Padom, the said marshal general, attached to my royal lermitans recommenced hostilities. On the 2d of person, shall be, beyond the district of my imme-! October, general Pepe threw in bombs; on the 5th A new minister, from the king of the Two Sicilies to the king of England, had arrived at Paris, on his way to London. It was supposed that he would not, immediately, "assume the diplomatic charaċter." new negociations were commenced; and, on the long exchanged at 48 and 49d." but sometimes, ac24 10th, a telegraphic dispatch was received at Naples, (cording to the state of trade, at 54. dated Palermo, October 6, announcing that all was nearly terminated. The city had surrendered and ☐ the troops of gen. Pepe entered and occupied the forts. BARBART POWERS. An Algerine squadron has been observed in the bay of Tangiers, with a Spanish polacca, nine mer. chantmen, and several European captives. Spain has in consequence sent out a 74 and a frigate, of 36 guns, towards the African coast. Large orders have been received in Germany from Spain, for supplies of linen goods. It is be- Hamburg, Oct. 20. The dey of Algiers having lieved that the Austrian army in Italy will not dis- liberated a ship belonging to this port, captured last turb the general peace, by attacking Naples. Field year by one of his privateers, the insurers have marshal, prince Charles, of Schwartzenberg, died determined to manifest their gratitude by sending at Leipsic, on the 15th October. him a valuable cup, made of silver and gold, weighAccording to accounts recently published, Wur-ing six pounds, and richly ornamented with bastemberg contained, in 1818, 1,397,364 inhabitants; reliefs. One of our most skilful artists has been males, 679,174; females, 716,390; families, 231,869; employed in the fabrication, and it is to be deLutherans, 951,340; Calvinists, 2,475; Catholics,spatched in a few days to its destination. $433,448, Sectaries, 499; Jews, 8,436; nobles, 26; 124 princes; 23 counts. Stutgardt, the capital, contains 26,306 inhabitants; the military amounts to 22,804; civil servants of government, 10,559; of the property of the crown, 1,874; of the communes, 23,345; peo. ple who live on the interest of their money, 9,480; artists, manufacturers and tradesmen of all kinds, 107,009; peasants and vignerons, 100,708; day-laborers, 41,431; paupers, 22,804. The number of productive laborers, therefore, including the artists, peasants and day-laborers, is 249,148. The number altogether in the service, and paid by the state, amount to 35,213 CONGRESS. POSTPONED ARTICLES, The following letter was received and read in the house of representatives on the 14th inst. The resolution to which it refers is inserted in page 254. War department, 14th December, 1820. SIR-In answer to that part of the resolution of the house of representatives of the 9th instant requiring this department to show whether the order given by col. King, of the 4th infantry, for shooting deserters taken in the fact, was approved by any or was known to, and passed over in silence by him, as stated in the defence of said colonel King, I have to enclose an extract of the letter of major general Jackson, on that subject, which was transmitted to the house of representatives with the copy of the trial of col. King, and which is published in the appendix of that trial. This extract contains all the information within the knowledge of this department on that subject. Bonaparte's son. Sometime back it was men-general officer in the service of the United States, tioned in the public papers, that it was intended to bring up the young Napoleon as an ecclesiastic. A letter from Paris says "this is so far from being the case, that I have seen, in a letter from Vienna, an account of the young prince Reichstadt (this is his title) being raised to the rank of a corporal in a regiment which forms a part of the garrison of Vienna, and into which regiment he entered as a private soldier. He appears on parade with the regiment in his uniform, goes through his military exercise with great precision, and is a very great favorite with the soldiers." RUSSIA. In relation to that part of the resolution which requires any information this department may possess shewing that corporal punishment has been inflicted on any soldier, whereby he came to his The emperor of Russia closed the diet of Poland death, I have the honor to state, that the only reat Warsaw, on the 13th of October, with a speech, port of that kind, which has reached this departin which his majesty evinces a feeling of displea-ment, was the case of a soldier at Fort Preble, near sure at the general conduct of the members dur- Portland, in Maine. Major Brooks, a correct and ing their session. "Examine your own conscien- intelligent officer commanding that post, in Septem ces," says the emperor, “and you will know if, in ber last, reported that the death of a soldier, an the course of your discussions, you have rendered habitual drunkard, who had been on a fatigue party, to Poland the services which she had expected under lieut. Hobart, and had been confined by him, from your wisdom; or if, on the contrary, misled had caused much excitement among the citizens, by the seductions too common in our day, and sa- who attributed the death of the man to the concrificing & hope which might have realised an ex-duct of lieut. Hobart-that the civil authority had pectant confidence, you have not retarded in its progress the work of the restoration of your country!" The army assembled at Warsaw, during the emperor's stay, amounted to 30,000 men. taken up the affair for investigation, to which lieut. Hobart had readily submitted himself. The report was accompanied with the enclosed certificate of the jury of inquest as to the correct conduct of major Brooks and the other officers of the post, in Russia has negociated a loan with Baring, Bro. relation to the transaction. It thus appearing that thers, Hope, & Co. for 45,000,000 silver rubles, or the affair would undergo an investigation in the about 6,750,000 sterling, bearing an interest of district court of the United States, the department nearly 7 per cent. The object is said to be to re-did not think it proper to order a military investiga tire some of the paper money. tion. J. C. CALHOUN, The total of the "national obligations" is I have the honor to be, with perfect respect, 700,000,000 of roubles. The value of a rouble (pa- your obedient servant, per money), is ascertained, generally, by the exchange on London! and varies from 10 to 12d sterling: the amount, therefore, is 30 or 35 millions of pounds sterling-the interest is at the rate of 7 per cent. The common rate of discount at St. Petersburg is 12 per cent. «The silver rouble has a nominal value of about 49d. sterling, and was To the speaker of the house of representatives. Extract of a letter from major general Jackson to the secretary of war, dated at NASHVILLE, December 28, 1819. "The proceedings of the general court-martial, in the case of col. King, of the United States' 4th | which are defined by law, and form a large item in regiment of infantry, have been presented to me the expenses of collection. by the judge advocate of division; but they are herewith submitted to your consideration for approval, or disapproval. It is ascertained, that for these services there was paid during the year 1819, the sum of $116,42671. It is also ascertained, that in one of the principal ports, these services are performed exclusively by the inspectors, who receive three dollars a day, throughout the year, for their services as inspectors. The law, regulating the compensation of the inspectors of the customs, authorises the allowance of three dollars a day for the days that they are acas actually employed as inspectors every day in the year, when during the same time, they are employed as weighers, measurers, guagers, and markers, and actually receive for such services about $2,400 a year. "The enclosed document, marked No. 1, is a copy of the letters from colonel King, the receipt of which is acknowledged in my letter to that officer, bearing date the 13th of April, 1819, a copy of which accompanies the proceedings of the court. In that letter, I expressed my entire approbation of the conduct of colonel King, during his com-tually employed. But they cannot be considered mand in Florida; in doing so, I had reference only to those circumstances mentioned in his letters, and such other official acts as were then within my knowledge. "But, however unwilling I am to detract from the merit of this officer, who I have ever considered one of the most superior of his rank and profession, it is a duty which I owe myself, here to state, that, at the date of his letter, I was entirely ignorant of the order given by colonel King for shooting deserters taken within the province of Florida, and not until a short time previous to the arrest of colonel King did I become acquainted with these facts. "I have the honor to be, &c. &c. "ANDREW JACKSON. "The hon. J. C. Calhoun.” Major Alexander S. Brooks: SIR-The gentlemen composing the late jury of inquest at Fort Preble, sensible of the obligations they are under to you, and of the other officers of the garrison, request you to accept of their unfeigned thanks for the facilities rendered them, and the very gentlemanly and respectful conduct you were pleased to manifest towards them while engaged in the discharge of an arduous, most unpleasant, and painful duty. For and in behalf of the jury of inquest, Portland, August 28, 1820.. In several of the ports, the inspectors have voluntarily offered to perform, without compensation, such services, It is confidently believed, that the inspectors employed in the several districts of the United States, at this time, are entirely competent to discharge these duties, in addition to those now required of them. The abolition of the fees for weighing, measuring, guaging, and marking, will reduce the expences of collection at least $1,000,000 a year, whilst the abolition of the offices presented in the list annexed to this report, will not reduce it more than about $8000. It is therefore respectfully submitted, that it is expedient to repeal so much of the second section of the act to establish the compensation of the officers employed in the collection of the duties on imports and tonnage, and for other purposes, passed March the 2d, 1799— and of all other acts which allow fees for weighing, measuring, guaging, and marking of merchandise or packages imported into the United States, and that these services be rendered by the inspectors of the customs. I remain, with respect, your ob't servant, WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD. The hon. JoHN W. TAYLOR, Speaker of the house of representatives. By the report of the senate, in the case of Mat- The National Intelligencer of December 16, says: thew Lyon, seeking redress for a fine imposed upon-Among the strangers within the bar of the house him under the old sedition law, it appears that the a- of representatives yesterday, was commodore Samount of that fine, though paid by him, never reach-muel Tucker, from the state of Maine, who was one ed the treasury of the United States. of the electors for that state, and was sent on to this city with the votes for president and vice-preOn the 13th inst. the speaker laid before the [sident, being between 70 and 80 years of age, and house of representatives the following letter:- having performed a journey of more than 600 miles TREASURY DEPARTMENT, in less than five days. This gentleman was in the 9th December, 1820. naval service of the United States during the whole SIR-In obedience to a resolution of the house of the revolutionary war, and carried the late preof representatives of the 15th of May, 1820, di-sident Adams to Europe in the Boston frigate, on recting the secretary of the treasury to report to the house, at the next session of congress, such of fices of the customs as may be properly suppressed on account of their inutility, or from any other cause," I have the honor to report a list of offices which it is believed will be abolished without detriment to the public interest. The information upon which this report is founded, was submitted to the senate of the U. States on the 2d day of December, 1818, with the list hereto annexed, in conformity with a resolution of that honorable house, and may be referred to in No. 27, of the report of the 2d session of the 15th congress. In the collection of the revenue, persons are employed to weigh, measure, guage, and mark, all merchandise imported into the United States; sus ceptible of these different operations, the fees for his first embassy thither. In point of bravery and patriotism, captain Tucker is said to have been se; cond to none in the nation; for he took from the enemy 62 sail of vessels, having on board upwards of 600 pieces of cannon, and more than 3000 men, Mr. Hill, of Maine, we are informed, was about to submit a resolution to admit him within the house of representatives, but upon examination, he found that congress, after the close of the war, passed an unanimous vote of thanks to com. Tucker, for the services he had rendered his country, which brought him within the standing rule of the house, so that a special order was unnecessary. SENATE. December 18. A number of petitions were this morning presented and referred among them one by Mr. Pleasants, from the Petersburg United Agricultural Society, against the late proposed increase of duties on imports. The report of the committee of claims, unfavorable to the petition of the daughters of the late general Sinclair, was taken up and concurred in by the senate. A message was received from the house of representatives, announcing the decease of Nathaniel Hazard, a member of that house, from the state of Rhode Island: when, Mr. Hunter, of Rhode Island, submitted the following resolution: Resolved, That the senate will attend the funeral of the honorable Nathaniel Hazard, late a member of the house of representatives, from the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, this day at 2 o'clock, and, as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, they will go into mourn. ing, and wear a black crape round the left arm for thirty days. The resolution being read, was unanimously agreed to; and The senate adjourned. to the officers of the respective houses of congress; and also reducing the allowances made by law to the principal and other officers in each of the ex ecutive departments; and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise. Mr. Roberts required a division of the question; and it being accordingly first taken on striking out, it was determined in the affirmative-ayes 23. Considerable debate followed on the relative merits of this amendment and the original resolution, in which the amendment was advocated by Messrs. Dana, Johnson, of Ky. and Chandler, and it was opposed by Messrs. Burrill and Roberts, in the course of which Mr. Burrill moved to strike out of the amendment so much as relates to the salaries of the executive officers, not wishing to encumber, and therefore endanger, the main object as little as possible, This motion, after considerable discussion, was decided in the negative, as follows: YEAS-Messrs. Burrill, Dickerson, Eaton, Hunter, Johnson, of Lou. King, of N. York, Lowrie, Mills, Roberts, Ruggles, Sanford, Smith, Thomas, Wilson-14. NAYS-Messrs. Chandler, Dana, Edwards, Elliott, Gaillard, December 19. After other business, not needful Holmes, of Maine, Holmes of Mississippi, Johnson, of Kentucky, to mention just now— The senate, agreeably to the order of the day, proceeded to the consideration of the following resolution, introduced by Mr. Burrill, of R. I. on the 16th ult. Resolved, That the act, entitled "An act allowing compensation to the members of the senate, members of the house of representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of the territories, and repealing all other laws on the subject," passed at the first session of the fifteenth congress, ought to be so altered and amended that the compensation to the members and delegates aforesaid shall here. after be six dollars for each day's attendance, and six dollars for every twenty miles travel, instead of the compensation now allowed by the said act; and that it be referred to a committee to prepare and report a bill for altering and amending said act accordingly. King, of Alabama, Macon, Morril, Noble, Palmer, Parrott, Plea sants, Talbot, Taylor, ichenor, Trimble, Walker, of Alabama, Walker, of Georgia, Williams, of Tennessee,-22. The question being taken on the amendment of Mr. Dana, it was agreed to; and The resolution, as amended, was then agreed to by the following vote: YEAS-Messrs. Burrill, Chandler, Dana, Dickerson, Edwards, Messrs. Dana, Burrill, Johnson, of Ky. Roberts, and Smith, were appointed the committee; and The senate adjourned. December 20. Mr. Sanford, from the committee on finance, to which was referred the petition of the president and directors of the bank of the United States, reported the following bill; which Upon the merits of the proposition, and the se-received the first reading: veral motions made in the course of its considera. tion, a spirited, good tempered, and interesting debate took place, occupying more than three hours. The following embraces a statement simply of the proceedings and of the names of those gentlemen who took part therein: Be it enacted, &c. That it shall be lawful for the directors of the bank of the United States to appoint an agent and a register, and that all bills and notes of the said corporation, issued after the first appointment of such agent and register, shall be signed by the agent and countersigned by the register; and that such bills and notes shall have the like force and effect as the bills and notes of the said corporation which are now signed by the president, and countersigned by the cashier thereof; and that, as often as an agent or a register of the The postponement was supported by the said corporation shall be appointed, no note or bill, and was opposed by Messrs. Macon, Dana, and Bur- signed by an agent, or countersigned by a register, rill; and negatived by yeas and nays. The resolution was supported by Messrs. Burrill and Roberts, and was opposed by Messrs. Johnson, of Ky. and Dana; and Mr. J. concluded his remarks by moving to postpone the resolution to the second Monday of Janitary next. For the postponement 16 20 mover, Mr. Morrill moved to postpone the resolution to Monday next, for reasons which he stated; and it shall be issued, until public notice of the appoint. ment of such agent or register shall have been previously given, for ten days, in two gazettes, printed in the city of Washington. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, if any prewas opposed by Mr. Wilson. The motion was ne-sident, director, cashier, or other officer, or servant, gatived, without a division. Mr. Dana moved to amend the resolution by striking out all after the word resolved, and inserting the following substitute: That a committee be appointed to enquire into the propriety of reducing the allowances authorized by the act entitled "An act allowing compensation to the members of the senate, the members of the house of representatives of the United States, and to the delegates of the territories, and repealing all other laws on the subject," with the allowances of the bank of the United States, or of any of its offices, shall fraudulently convert to his own use any money, bill, note, security for money, evidence of debt, or other effects whatever, belonging to the said bank, such person shall, upon due convic tion, be punished by imprisonment, not exceeding three years, and by standing in a pillory not more than three times, in open day, in some public place, during one hour at a time, which standing in a pil lory, when inflicted more than once, shall be on di ferent days. Mr. Holmes, of Mississippi, from the committee into the union upon an equal footing with the ori on that subject, reported a bill for the better regu-ginal states, in all respects whatsoever: Provided, lation of the trade with the Indian tribes; which was that so much of the 26th section of the 3d article read the first timę. HOUSE OF REPRÉSENTATIVES. Friday, Dec. 15. Among the petitions presented to day, was one, by Mr. Wendover, from the New York county agricultural society, praying that such protection may be extended to the national industry as is demanded by the best interests of the country; which was ordered to be printed. The house on motion of Mr. Tyler, of Virginia, proceeded to the consideration of the report of the committee of manufactures on the memorials of sundry citizens of Belfast, Maine, and Richmond, Virginia, relative to drawbacks. On this subject some debate took place. The report, and resolutions with which it concludes, were in the end laid on the table. The engrossed bill to enable soldiers to devise their bounty lands, was read the third time. A debate arose on the merits of this bill, uccupying more than an hour, in which it was opposed by Messrs. Little, Smith, of Md. Anderson, Ma Coy, and Foot, and was supported by Messrs. Gross of New York, and Cocke. The question being taken on the passage of the bill, it was decided in the negative by a decided majority. in the constitution of said state, presented to congress at the present session, as makes it the duty of the legislature to pass such laws as shall be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this state, under any pretext whatsoever," shall, on or before that day, have been expunged therefrom. The resolution was read twice, and was then on motion of Mr. Eustis, ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Baldwin submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, by the senate and house of representativer ofthe United States of America, in congress assembled, That the president of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives shall be authorized to adjourn the respective houses from Friday the 22d day of December, 1820, to Tuesday, the 2d of January, 1821. The resolution was read twice, and, on motion of Mr. B. ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Mercer submitted for consideration the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee on the public buildings be instructed to enquire into the practicabilitity of making such alterations in the present structure of the hall of the house of represents The rest of the day was chiefly occupied on pri-tives, as shall better adapt it to the purposes of a vate bills, &c. deliberative assembly, and if no such alteration Monday, Dec. 18. The journal of the preced-can be effected, to ascertain whether it be practi cable to provide a suitable hall in the centre building sitting having been reading of the capitol. Mr. Eddy, of Rhode Island, rose, and briefly announced to the house the decease, on yesterday, of NATHANIEL HAZARD, esq. a member of this house from the state of Rhode Island. Whereupon, on motion of Mr. Eddy, resolutions were unanimously adopted, expressive of the feelings of the house on this occasion, resolving to attend the funeral, this day, at two o'clock; appoint ing a committee to superintend the same; and resolving, also, as a testimony of respect for the memory of the deceased, to go into mourning, and wear a black crape round the left arm for thirty days. Messrs. Eddy, Morton, Russ, Shaw, Mallary, Archer, of Md. and Cocke, were appointed a committee accordingly; and The house adjourned. [Mr. Mercer briefly stated why he proposed the inquiry-one half of the members could not be heard, without a change of seats. The shape of the hall was unfavorable--and a much less room would accommodate the members, &c. The resolve of an inquiry was adopted, but not without opposing voices.] Mr. Tucker submitted for consideration the following resolutions, which, also, from their nature, lie on the table one day of course: Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be instructed to state to this house, so far as he has information, the number and tonnage of the French ships which have arrived, and are expected to arTuesday, Dec. 19. The speaker laid before the rive in the course of the present year, in the river house a letter from the secretary of the treasury, St. Mary's, since the 1st July last: whether their transmitting an account of the receipts and expen-cargoes are intended for the consumption of the ditures of the United States for the year 1819; United States, and to be introduced within the terand, also, a letter from the secretary of war, trans-ritories of the same, in evasion of the revenue laws, mitting, in obedience of a resolution of the house of representatives of the 13th inst. information in relation to the horses furnished by the mounted men engaged in the Seminole war; also of the rule adopted for compensating said troops, not applicable to all other troops of the same descrip tion. On motion of Mr. Cocke, certain statements presented at a former session, from the third auditor of the treasury, respecting allowance to officers of the army for transportation, &c. were ordered to be printed, as containing some facts of particular interest at this moment. Mr. Eustis submitted for consideration the following resolution: and what further provision he deems necessary to be made by law for the more effectual collection of the revenue on the southern frontier. Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be instructed to prepare and lay before this house, a statement, shewing the number and tonnage of American and British vessels which have cleared from the ports of the United States, for any port in the West Indies, the Bahama Islands, and Bermuda, in the years 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819, and 1820; dis tinguishing those in the last year which have cleared before the 30th day of September, and those which have cleared since that date. On motion of Mr. Floyd, it was Resolved, That a committee be appointed to en quire into the situation of the settlements upon the Pacific Ocean, and the expediency of occupying the -Columbia river. Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, and it is hereby declared, that, on the day ofnext ensuing, the state of Missouri shall be admitted Mr. Floyd submitted for consideration the follow |